The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 175
Seeing that it was time to try it out, no one expected such a big joke to happen in the capital!

The Zhang Mansion did not know where to find nearly a hundred big fat pigs, and rushed to the Longkodo Mansion. The Tong family is a noble family from Manchuria. A dozen or so big fat pigs have been painted like this, what red mouth and red silk, there is no saying that something is painted on the pig's mouth even for weddings!
Others thought that there was another big happy event in Tong's family, and they all rushed to watch the excitement.

Longkodo didn't want to go out to watch at all, and sat alone in the room holding his breath.

Unexpectedly, the old man Tong Guowei had just returned from court, and when he saw someone delivering a pig at the gate of the mansion, he asked if it was from the mansion of Zhang Tingyu, the president of the current science and technology examination.

The old man loves to eat meat. Thinking about Zhang Tingyu suddenly showing his affection to our family, although pigs are a bit vulgar, they are still meat after all.

Zhang Tingyu is brilliant!

If it is not acceptable to send money, the emperor will investigate; if it is not acceptable to use valuable things, we are all upright officials, especially Zhang Tingyu is a clean stream!
What should I give?
Pig!

It is low-key and practical, although it is not lamb, but pork is enough!

Tong Guowei thought, Zhang Tingyu also took the trouble to inquire about his own preferences. Although this young man had a lot of quarrels with his family in the early years, such as the matter between Longkodo and his concubine.But that's not a big deal, it was originally the concubine who was rampant and dared to jump in front of his wife, if Longkodo hadn't been protecting the concubine, Tong Guowei couldn't bear his son's bad heart, so he endured Li Si'er's words .

Now that Zhang Tingyu took the initiative to show his favor, it seems that it is not very good, and the influence is not good, but Tong Guowei just likes it!

He passed by the gate of the mansion and saw that the fat pigs were all hung red, which was also festive, but he also felt happy when he saw the rows of pigs.

Tong Guowei waved his hand: "Since it was sent by Mr. Zhang's house, then accept it quickly. What are you still doing?"

The servants in the mansion were in trouble, and they only said: "The sixth master said, I can't accept it..."

Tong Guowei stared, only thinking that his son was short-sighted!

"When is this now? Still worrying about the old debts of the past! What a blind thing! Master, am I the head of the family, or is that kid the head of the family? Don't bother with him, I will accept them all. Then put The sheep raised in our backyard were brought to Zhang Tingyu’s house, but we couldn’t find so many sheep, so let’s do our best. His yard is not big, so there are too many sheep to fit in..."

As he said that, Tong Guowei also cared about returning the gift.

He flicked his sleeves and was still thinking before entering the door, no wonder Zhang Tingyu is still seconding himself on the issue of impeachment against the Ministry of Rites today, so this is to show his favor.

Tong Guowei is a man of war, and he doesn't really understand the minds of civil servants. Although there are many twists and turns in his stomach, more things are considered by the advisers.

What he likes most is to go straight to the point.

The upright Tong Guowei saw that he had already entered the door, and suddenly said: "Remember to tell Zhang Tingyu, my old Tong welcomes him to visit our house at any time!"

The servants outside were crying, and they didn't dare to tell Tong Guowei what happened. At that time, the sixth master would come out and beat people.

Ugh……

Master Liu, what did this cause?

The crowd drove the pigs outside into the mansion through the corner gate, and they worked busily for a long time.

Long Kedo was sitting in the room, only wondering why it was so noisy outside, when he asked, the slaves outside came to report, crying: "Just now when the master came in, he was happy to see more than a hundred big fat pigs. I came here, very happy, and asked us to send a few sheep to Mr. Zhang's house... Lord, look at this..."

When Longkodo heard this, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground almost immediately.

He pressed his forehead weakly, and said weakly: "Don't tell the old man about it, just... If he asks, just say that Zhang Tingyu sent it... It has nothing to do with his wife... Remember not to mention it... Ouch , how could you meet such a thing?"

Look what this blunder has become, a big misunderstanding!
According to Tong Guowei's wishes, Longkodo's mansion led a few beautiful sheep with bright coats all the way to Zhang's mansion, and only respectfully handed over the greeting card: "Our master asked your mansion to return the salute. Courtesy is light and affection is heavy, and I hope that your family will not dislike it."

Seeing the five or six sheep following behind, the servants looked at each other in blank dismay, and ran in to report Ade.

Ade was still helping Zhang Tingyu find things in the house just now, now he heard the little people outside, so he went out, and he was stunned: "What is this?"

Zhang Tingyu has gone to his wife's side now, it's not a small matter, the Tong family is honorable!
Ade hurriedly went to report to Zhang Tingyu, and bowed outside the curtain: "Second master, madam, there are slaves from the Tong family outside bringing a few sheep, saying that they are paying back the gift to the second master."

"puff……"

Gu Huaixiu took a sip of tea without hesitation, and almost choked to death on the spot. He was so bombarded by the news that he didn't know what his image was!

"Isn't this old man Tong Guowei confused?!"

Zhang Tingyu heard about Gu Huaishu and Long Kedo's concubine Li Si'er, and Li Si'er deserved to be beaten.

No matter how much Long Ke gave her a lot of love, he would not dare to offend his wife, let alone Gu Huaixiu who is now in full swing?
Back then, this was a public case before the emperor. Now the emperor cannot overturn his imperial decree. No matter how many grievances you Longke have, you can only swallow blood in your stomach if you break your teeth.

This Longkodo is also quite unruly. Not only does he take his wife as a concubine, he also forced his wife to death with his concubine. Now Longkodo is not reuniting, because no one dares to report on Tong's family affairs, Longkodo In a grand manner, he gave Li Si'er all the robes and clothes that belonged to the wife of the official wife, and let Li Si'er also communicate among the officials' wives.

This matter is no longer a secret in the officialdom.

"I still remember that in Jiangning, there were a few literati wearing scholarly clothes by the lake. They were seen by passing officials. They went up and took them back to the county government and locked them up. They were punished with forty sticks..."

Zhang Tingyu rolled his sleeves, pressed his hands into the copper basin, and washed away the cinnabar color of the imperial brush and the ink stains left by the edict on his fingertips.

He said, just said: "Longkodo, you are doing it casually... When you went to court today, a servant of the household department of your fourth master came out and said that he wanted Chalongkodo. I think the fourth master He didn't make a sound. Where is Longkodo from?"

"It must be Si Ye's." Gu Huaixiu sighed, and said, "But I'm afraid I won't like Si Ye very much, this person is frivolous, has no rules, and his hands and feet are not clean..."

What Xu Zhen hates the most is people accepting bribes and corruption, right?

Seeing that it has been the 45th year of Kangxi, the deficit of the Ministry of Finance, the Treasury, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is getting bigger and bigger. Yinzhen is in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Accounts, and asks for debts every day. It's almost the same as hating Longkodo.

He is also very hard-working.

Zhang Tingyu looked back at Ade: "Since the old man of Tong's family is kind, let's take a few sheep, don't talk about Longkodo and Li Si'er, give money to those errands, don't look like our family is shabby .”

"Yes."

Ade went to wipe off his cold sweat.

When he got outside, he really brought the sheep in and gave him a reward, so he came back.

Zhang's house and Tong's house gave one pig and the other sheep, which instantly became a strange story in the whole capital.

What's going on.
Tong Guowei likes to eat pork and mutton, and he likes meat. Everyone knows that, but why did Zhang Tingyu suddenly give away so many pigs?

I can't understand it!

What's even more strange is that Tong Guowei, who has always been stingy, even gave Zhang's house a few sheep in return!

Strange, strange, strange, strange things happen every year, especially this year!

I don't know where it came out first that Mr. Zhang Tingyu, who is likely to be the chief executive officer of this science examination, likes to eat mutton!
With a clatter, all the people in the capital were moved. All of a sudden, there were sheep at the front door of Zhang's mansion, and sheep at the back door. The little fat man didn't dare to go out...

Gu Huaishu let out a long sigh at this moment: Ginger is still old and spicy!Tong Guowei is a ruthless person!

When the scholars tried to come up to hand the papers to Zhang Tingyu, they must hand in "Shuxiu" to Zhang Tingyu...

In previous years, the examiners were all Feng Yinzi, and for Zhang Tingyu...

Hehe, don't you like to eat sheep?

Buy a sheep!

Everyone went to buy sheep one after another, and sheep were so expensive in the capital all of a sudden, that there was no sign of the head sheep in the livestock market!

Zhang Tingyu was in a state of desperation, and correspondingly Tong Guowei didn't expect the incident to be such a big deal, and it was just a gift of the leader. Why is everyone excited?
What's more, some poor scholars came from peasant families to "take the sheep by hand" and wanted to give it to Zhang Tingyu, but they were caught by the government instead.

For a while, seeing that he was a Juren, an official like Shuntian Fu Yin didn't dare to do anything to a Juren, he didn't dare to beat him, he didn't have money to punish him, so he could only comfort the stolen sheep with nice words. The peasants gave some comfort money out of their own pockets, and then sent them back with delicious food and drinks, and this was considered to be a public case.

This matter immediately became the biggest joke in this imperial examination, and the whole capital city was already boiling before the examination started.

Three days later, besides Zhang Tingyu, the other chief executives and the eighteenth room officials still have to pass the exam. The closer the exam is, the more things to do.

The court hall was still bustling with activity. Zhang Tingyu, adhering to the habit of refraining from speaking, listened to the officials' verbal exchanges, thinking about how to reduce the matter of "sheep".

Who would have expected that Kangxi would think of a joke that has been widely circulated in the capital recently when he saw that Ming Daqi had said almost the same thing today.

"Tong Guowei, I see that you are getting fatter and fatter as you get older. You should eat less of this meat."

Tong Guowei's heart skipped a beat, ouch, does the emperor know that the slave has taken Zhang Tingyu's hundred pigs?
He hurriedly kowtowed on the ground: "Master Zhang Tingyu's hundred pigs, I have no selfishness in accepting Mr. Zhang Tingyu's one hundred pigs! This... Wasn't it hurting the spleen and stomach to eat bran and swallow vegetables when I was fighting the world? ? The doctor said that the slaves should eat meat well, so you can’t tell the slaves not to eat meat!”

This was purely pretending to be stupid, but Tong Guowei's words were so truthful that everyone laughed.

Everyone could see that Kangxi was having fun, and he was strict when he should be strict in his speech, and let go when he should let go.

Tong Guowei is also an old fox!

Zhang Tingyu listened, almost blacked out.

Sure enough, Kangxi immediately said: "Zhang Tingyu gave you a hundred pigs, what a generous offer! Tong Guowei, our two monarchs and ministers, have not rewarded you with anything good. After a while, I really asked someone to give you a hundred...not two hundred ! Go back and eat well!"

"Hey, slave, thank you Lord Ron!"

Tong Guowei began to break out in a cold sweat, and he had to pretend to be happy.

Then it will be Zhang Tingyu's turn next, and Zhang Tingyu has already straightened his back as expected.

Kangxi said: "Zhang Tingyu, I heard that you recently accepted a lot of sheep from candidates?"

"Returning to the emperor, I was sent sheep by many scholars, but I dare not accept sheep for the emperor's work... Besides, I... don't like to eat this kind of fish with a strong smell."

Zhang Tingyu was also crying and laughing.

He doesn't like to eat sheep at all, it's just because Tong Guowei sent sheep, which made others misunderstand.

Thinking about it now, it was a bitter tear.

It's rare for Kangxi old man to hear such a happy thing. When Li Guangdi told him this as a joke, he burst into tears and even said Mrs. Zhang Tingyu was a narrow-minded ghost.Although he punished Gu Huaishu in his early years, every time he knew that she had made such noises, he couldn't help but laugh heartily at it.

Alas, maybe this is the reason why Zhang Tingyu lived alone with her for so many years.

Looking at their husbands and wives, Kangxi couldn't help but think of his Queen Yuan back then...

Now, he is only pointing at Zhang Tingyu, and the emperor Jinkouyu said: "Tong Guowei has a good heart, you can't waste it, go back and eat! You must eat! When you come to the South Study Room every day on duty, remember to report to me how much you eat. Tong Guowei You too, with three hundred pigs at home, you will have to eat for a while..."

All the civil and military officials in the court laughed so hard that they saw Zhang Tingyu and Tong Guowei thanking each other with livid faces, while Li Guangdi looked up at the sky with bony eyes, with the appearance of "I'm not the kind of person who makes small reports". Be calm and innocent!

When the court was over, Kangxi put together several of his confidants and left with a cheerful smile, looking up to the sky, and he was so relieved.

When the ministers saw that Lord Kangxi had left, they burst out laughing without image. Many people went to Tong Guowei and Zhang Tingyu and clapped their hands together: "Congratulations, congratulations! The discord in the early years has finally been resolved today. Le, the ministers love each other and the family, pigs and sheep, eat vigorously!"

The old god Li Guangdi was there, as if he hadn't heard everyone's jokes, he went down the steps of the Hall of Preserving Harmony.

Looking at it from a distance, Zhang Tingyu knew who was blowing a little wind in the emperor's ears. For a moment, he was helpless, thinking about it, he should get rid of the rumor that he likes to eat mutton as soon as possible.

Without changing his face, he thanked the ministers for their congratulations, and rode out of the Forbidden City directly.

Except for some officials of the first rank and second rank who had been granted by the emperor, only the Hanlin of the South Study Room were allowed to ride horses in the Forbidden City. This was the first time Zhang Tingyu used this privilege.

When he returned home, he threw the reins away, and when he entered the house, he wrote a notice and asked someone to paste it on the door of his house.

Today, many people came to deliver sheep, and suddenly they looked up and saw the notice at the gate of the mansion, and there was an impressive article "Ode to Do Not Eat Mutton"!
this.Counting down the things that I don’t eat mutton, and saying when and what day is the best time to eat mutton, I see the big from the small. Starting with my experience of being given away by almost all the people in the capital, I denounced the opportunistic and crooked behaviors of all people.It is also said that scholars of my generation, if they have no strength of character, if they do not believe in their ten years of hard work, why bother to enter the examination room?The behavior of sending sheep for speculation, even if it is a trick, is also ashamed of my decades of hard work.People can't stand without faith, and they can't stand without self-confidence!

Mutton, mutton, is it mutton?
It's not mutton, it's what people vote for me.

If you accept the sheep today, it will hurt my virtue and love; if you reject the sheep today, it will hurt my righteousness!
Difficult, difficult!
When everyone sees this Fu, how dare they make mistakes after reading it carefully?

Look at Mr. Zhang's literary talents, his ideological realm, his awareness and his integrity!
Who said earlier that Zhang Tingyu was not talented enough to be the CEO?

Pooh!
What nonsense you!

It is indeed the champion of the year!
As soon as this Fu came out, it became popular in the capital, and was spread by all ages.

Countless candidates were deeply impressed by Zhang Tingyu's talent, and on the other hand were ashamed of their speculative behavior. The speculative style of raising people in the capital was so awe-inspiring, it really shocked countless people's jaws.

When Gu Huaixiu heard about this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Whoever comes to give a gift, is slapped in the face by such a notice like you, I'm afraid that the nose will be blue and face swollen, and on the other hand, I'm afraid that you will embarrass them when the time comes. On the other hand, I feel that I was satirized by your article "Don't Eat Mutton", who would dare to come? I think you will be disgusted by the other two presidents and eighteen house officials. Yes! It really makes me laugh!"

Zhang Tingyu let out a long sigh: "My lord, what evil did you do to marry such a troublemaker like you..."

I'm afraid Tong Guowei's side will be even more difficult to deal with.

Three hundred big fat pigs, this will have to eat until the Year of the Monkey!

Longkodo is afraid that he won't be able to cry now, right?
Should!
It's all right!
(End of this chapter)