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

Chapter 249

He never expected that when he saw Shen Qi again, it would be like this.

There are seats in the garden, which were originally different seats for officials and businessmen, but after all, they have known each other for half a lifetime, and it is difficult to distinguish between gratitude and resentment, and they are not so restrained.

Shen Qi's hair is already gray, and for some reason these years, he has been plagued by illnesses, and taking medicine is as common as drinking water. Some people say that he is a retribution for the world. So ill-fated.

But he himself didn't pay much attention to it, when he came in, he had a small gourd hooked on his finger, he looked a little old, his clothes were still the beautiful Ai Ziqing, his face was very weathered, and his hair was much whiter than Zhang Tingyu's.But looking at the expression on his face, he was still the same as before, his eyes were the same as before, even the tone of his voice didn't change much.

"Are you all right?"

Zhang Tingyu and Gu Huaishu were in front of the hall, seeing Shen Qi walking in slowly with Zhong Heng and Shen Qu beside him, he just smiled and said: "Shen Tie's abacus is here, isn't there something wrong?"

Shen Yang's name is sick, and he is naturally sick.

He was also happy when he heard the words, so he bowed his hands to Zhang Tingyu and his wife: "Then Shen shouldn't have come."

Huafa has been born, but the smile remains the same.

Shen Chao's eyes looked a little old and far away, and he glanced at Gu Huaishu as if nothing had happened, as if all the past events in the world of mortals had been lost in the torrent of time, he was just a passerby, now he was tired, he just found a place to rest.

What should come or not?
All have come.

Gu Huaixiu secretly thought it was a little funny, but he didn't say anything else, just looked at Shen Qu behind.

Shen Qi didn't speak, but he seemed to be getting better in recent years. Although he looked thin, he was full of energy. Now that he sat down with Shen Qi, he felt gentle, and there was a shrewdness in his brows and eyes. smell.

No matter from Shen Chong's face or Shen Xue's face, he never saw that kind of businessman's philistine.

Shen Chao himself is a Confucian businessman, and his means are vicious, but in Tongcheng in the past, he saw them talking with tea farmers, after all, there is still a way of doing business in it.

As for the "Reporter of the World", Gu Huaixiu didn't think too much about it for a while. After lunch, he went to the back of the garden to chat.

Shen Che helped her to walk to the side pavilion, and said in a very soft voice, "When I came up from Tongling, I heard that you were ill a while ago, isn't it a big deal?"

They have always been well informed, and Gu Huaishu didn't know what to say, "What kind of illness is my illness? It's just a sudden cold. It's you who wants to ask if it's serious."

"He's taking good care of me..." Shen Qu hesitated for a moment, and he couldn't continue, "It's just that he...is not in good health recently."

This "he" naturally refers to Shen Qi, but Shen Che is also very sensible.

Gu Huaishu resented Shen Yang for stealing her flesh and blood, but also felt grateful for him raising the child so much, it was difficult to distinguish between grievances and grievances, Gu Huaishu never saw Shen Yang as complicated.Seeing Shen Yang like that today, he was a little startled.

Shen Chi, he's getting old too fast.

In the blink of an eye, the high spirits turned into dying years.

But think about who is not like this?
Turning his eyes down, Gu Huaishu took a look at Zhong Heng, who was doing nothing, and said, "Qing Dai, tell Mr. Zhong to come in and sit down, let me see what Brother Ruoailin and Sister Xiang are doing right now, let them come over to eat too." Some tea fruit."

"Yes."

Qing Dai responded, first called Zhong Heng outside, then called Zhang Ruoai and Zhang Ruolin who were still in the school.

Zhong Heng recognized Qing Dai, but now that he thought about it, he still owed five cents and forgot to pay it back. He turned his head and glanced at Zhang Tingyu and Shen Chao over there, not knowing what these two people were talking about, so he really came in.

Gu Huaishu was still talking to Shen Qu: "It depends on the sky, karma...he has been so poor in the second half of his life, how can he know that he did too much evil in the first half of his life?"

"...Heaven forces people to do evil, and then punishes people for doing evil. How unfair is Heaven?"

Shen Qu helped Gu Huaishu to sit down, Zhong Heng also came in, he just said this and sat down by himself.

Zhong Heng came in to greet him, and Gu Huaishu also invited him to sit down.

"I haven't seen him for many years, but Mr. Zhong still looks the same."

"Madam made fun of me, the villain is not as good as you."

Zhong Heng knew that Gu Huaixiu was something to be trifled with now, and he also knew that she was on top of Master Shen's heart. Although he had never liked Gu Huaixiu, it was difficult for others to like her.Now that he sat down, Zhong Heng acted like a gourd with his mouth sawn, and didn't say a word of nonsense.

Back then Shi Fang said, why is the Son of Heaven the Son of Heaven, but now Shen Qu said, why is the sky so unfair?

One said that the emperor was wrong, and the other said that God was unfair.

Gu Huaixiu thought about it, but still felt that everyone has their own destiny, maybe it means that fate should be fatal?
However, thinking about the Shen family's grievances, she felt that she was being frivolous again, so she sighed: "I didn't pay attention to what I said just now, so don't take it to heart."

"It's gossip, it never catches my ears, so how can I take it to my heart?" Shen Qu didn't seem to care, "He has survived the ups and downs of the past many years, even when the gate of hell is closed. He looks at Qingning a lot, but he is still the same in his bones."

The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

But if he hadn't acted casually like this, he wouldn't be Shen Xie.

Thinking of the scenery that Ai Ziqing, Shen Qi, saw in Kuixia Garden and Shen Garden, the time spent, and the decisiveness of Shen Qi, that iron abacus, when he raised the knife and dropped it, no one in the whole Jiangnan can compare In case of his demeanor?

He deserves it.

Whether the scenery is good or the doom.

Gu Huaishu took a closer look at his palm and said: "He is not young anymore. He has fought for most of his life, and I don't bother to pursue the past. You persuade him, now that the dynasty has changed, although he is a good bridge, a Liang Gong, but it is inevitable that he will no longer cross bridges and fly birds... It is not what it used to be..."

In the past, Yinzhen needed Shen Chao, but now Shen Chao has become his confidant's serious trouble. Even Gu Huaishu, who has contributed so much, has to worry about his usefulness in the future. I'm afraid Shen Chao should restrain himself.

Although it does not mean that the moon can always be full, at least it should not be covered by dark clouds.

She didn't know if what she said was still useful.

Because some things cannot be changed by words.

What part of Shen Qi's current possessions was not earned by himself?
However, the reality is so cruel.

At this time, not only Shen Qu, but also Zhong Heng didn't hold back, got up and took a look at Gu Huaishu, only to see that this beauty who was famous all over the world in the past, now looks more restrained and pure like ancient jade that has been beautifully wrapped by someone.The dark light in her eyes turned upside down, just like a graceful fleeting time.

Words are like water, clear and clear.

Zhong Heng didn't know why, he couldn't sit still, but he opened his mouth: "When you said this, I'm afraid you were thinking about it, so it's useless to say it?"

"..."

Gu Huaixiu was speechless.

She looked up at Zhong Heng: "So, he still hasn't given up?"

"Where is Master Shen as powerful as the two of you? Changing dynasties is just a matter of day and night." Zhong Heng thought about the situation that Shen Chao had set up before, and only sneered, "The sun and the moon change to a new sky, and the officialdom is reshuffled. It was a well-planned game, but now it is useless... I can only say that the world is tricking people?"

This is interesting.

It took only a blink of an eye for Gu Huaishu to understand.

It seems that when Kangxi died, Shen Qi already had a solution?But at that time, if he did not seize the throne immediately, it would be a disaster for Yinzhen, Longkodo, and even Zhang Tingyu...

Occasionally, by coincidence, not on purpose.

"Everyone has their own last resort, and we can't help ourselves."

"Master Shen, how many times have you let yourself go?"

Zhong Heng served the tea, took a sip, and said something with downcast eyes.

Qing Dai came back at this moment, but frowned: "Mr. Zhong's words are not pleasant, on the three thousand miles of Weiyang in the south of the Yangtze River, who doesn't know that Master Shen is a first-class and easy-going person? What is he going to do? Just do it, who can force him not to do what he doesn't want to do? It's been said all day long that Master Shen has always been generous, and you haven't looked back to see what's going on when you speak? "

As soon as he raised his eyes, Zhong Heng heard these sharp words, and only sneered: "If you have shallow eyelids, you can see this."

"I don't know who is the one with shallow eyelids? The most excuses."

It's not that Qing Dai doesn't know the reason why she can't help herself, but for Shen Chao, which one is not his own choice?

Now that I have chosen the road, what's the point of shouting for injustice?
Shen Tie Suan himself hadn't shouted yet, but the subordinates who were doing business around him shouted for him.

"Qing Dai is back, stand still and shut your mouth."

Seeing that the New Year is coming, Gu Huaishu didn't intend to make the relationship stiff, so he frowned and scolded Qing Dai.

As a result, Qing Dai came back resentfully and stopped.

After a while, Zhang Ruoai came back, three brothers and one younger sister, Zhang Buxiang was the youngest, but she was also the most handsome, now she saw Shen Qu and knew his identity, but she didn't dare to go forward.

Shen Qu didn't mean to get too close, just smiled at them shallowly.

Zhang Ruoai has already discussed marriage with sister Lin, a girl from the Qianming family, and she only waits to marry in two years. After having such a great reputation and then getting married, it will be regarded as the first part of the Zhang family.

He was more sensible, and he knew what to say when he came up to talk to Shen Qu, but Brother Lin yawned, sat next to Zhong Heng, and fell asleep after a while.

Looking at the current scene, Gu Huaishu felt his eyes heat up, and he couldn't help it, so he hurriedly buried his head and drank tea.

Qing Dai handed the hand stove over to her, but didn't say a word.

Gu Huaixiu took it, smiled slowly, looked at Shen Qi and Zhang Tingyu who were still talking in the front yard, sighed silently, and finally said nothing.

Shen Chao said that he passed by here on the way, and he was going to go to Sichuan, only Shen Qu was left in Tongcheng, and he led his people up the Yangtze River, saying that something happened to Yanjing in Sichuan, and the year was not going well.

As a businessman, he travels around all year round, Shen Qi has long been used to it.

It was not until the beginning of the next year that Zhang Tingyu had three months to build the ancestral temple here, and then he set off to return to Beijing.

At that time, Shen Qi was about to come back, everyone had a meeting, and then ran away separately.

On the way, Yongzheng made two reminders to tell Zhang Tingyu to come back quickly to handle errands when he was free, presumably because the government affairs are busy, so how many people are missing?

Just after returning to the capital, things really piled up like a mountain.

In the early years, Lord Kangxi made six tours to the south, and in his later years he loved to be lively and spent a lot of extravagance. Although he was asked to check the treasury several times, it was always in charge of Yinzhen or Prince Yunxiang, but after all, Kangxi did not investigate to the end and left all kinds of things behind. Cons down.

What a holy emperor Zuren, he left his son a big mess, and Yinzhen was devastated when he cleaned it up. At this time, he happened to meet a few brothers who were acting as ghosts, so he scolded them severely, and left him with no brothers. The cold-blooded name of love.

Gu Huaixiu doesn't know what Master Yongzheng thinks, so come to her and think about it, what kind of brotherhood does the royal family have?Looking at the methods used by the Eighth Master and others when they seized the concubine, they were not much cleaner than the Fourth Master, and they were labeled for nothing. Although it was true, Gu Huaixiu still felt that Yinzhen was a little bit aggrieved.

But, who called him the emperor?
It's his fault.

Gu Huaixiu's greatest joy now is to listen to the news from everywhere, who is scolded by the emperor today, who will be scolded by the emperor tomorrow, what will be investigated today, and what will be investigated tomorrow...

Seeing that the domineering master in the past was forced to jump by the subordinates, Gu Huaishou almost applauded.

The wicked have their own grind.

It is said that the emperor is powerful, but he is the only one who can train others?

Big mistake!

The emperor, he is being torn by the world.

At this time in the second year of Yongzheng, the war in Qinghai was relatively peaceful, but the military affairs were still busy. On the one hand, Yongzheng was worried about Nian Gengyao, and on the other hand, he had to keep an eye on the old Ministry of the Fourteenth Lord Yunti, so he was very concerned about the affairs there.

Zhang Tingyu gave him an idea, to build a military supply room, and send someone to serve. Today's affairs will be dealt with today, and there will be no backlog. Only deal with military affairs, so it will be much faster.

He is the emperor's think tank. He has a secret report in front of him, and he came out to make a lot of rules and regulations. He also led the Hanlin Academy of the National History Museum in his hand, and asked people to compile books, and he compiled laws. He was busy... Now, he really has vaguely looked like a prime minister, and Ma Qi wants to let him go, let alone others?

Zhang Tingyu was extremely busy, and he was also happy to see the emperor busy when he was in power.

He was the one who came up with the idea, and the people below were the ones who were unlucky, so I didn't bother to care about it.

However, after the death of Xia Yi last year, Nian Gengyao, a feudal official under Yongzheng, had already gone to Qinghai to supervise the war.

At the beginning of this year, not long after Zhang Tingyu returned to court, Nian Gengyao brought his military achievements to Beijing to meet him.Qian Mingshi, who had an old relationship with him back then, wrote poems for him, saying "Zhou Zhaobo divides the Shaanxi flag, general Han from Tiangujiao", "Zhong Ding Ming Le Mountain and River Oath, Fan Zangyi publishes the second stele", and it was also in the limelight for a while. No two.

But when he heard the news, Gu Huaixiu frowned, and suddenly began to think about Brother Ai's marriage.

Zhang Ruoai's love life has no ups and downs, she has been with sister Lin for a long time, and Qian Mingshi is also a young woman, and the two families are very similar.

It's a pity that Qian Mingshi doesn't understand Yongzheng too well.

Gu Huaixiu thought about it, he didn't know how to tell Zhang Ruoai about this matter, it's better to wait and see...

She asked Zhang Tingyu, and Zhang Tingyu also thought the same, and just said to wait.

Nian Gengyao's arrogance was getting stronger and stronger, and he didn't know when something would happen.

In the second year of Yongzheng's reign, there was also a general examination, which was Jiachenke. Zhang Tingyu and Zhu Shi were the main examiners, and there were two other deputy examiners. In the same year, the "Records of Emperor Sheng Zuren" came out, and Zhang Tingyu was changed from the Minister of Rites to the Minister of Households.

This time, it was Gu Huaishu's turn to be depressed.

The household department is in charge of money and food. Master Yongzheng is uncomfortable for himself and makes others uncomfortable with him. On the one hand, he values ​​Zhang Tingyu, but he may not have the intention of pulling others to be uncomfortable.

What did Yongzheng hate most?The most corrupt officials.

Once he started to check the deficit of the government treasury, the whole court began to panic, and the household department was short of money. He even asked the previous officials of the household department to make up for the deficit according to the size of the official position and the length of time in office.

In short, how much is the deficit here in the treasury of the household department, and the officials of the household transfer department will make up for it, whether you are wronged or have no money?
have to.

Copy home.

Just to steal the house!
Few officials in the household department are clean, and there are indeed some clean people who have never been greedy for money, but after all, there are too few, and the regulations can't take care of so much.

The silver deficit is as high as more than 250 million taels, and Lord Kangxi's books are not so bad. How can Yinzhen spare these people?
Injustice is inevitable, but it is a minority after all, and the most important thing is the deficit of the treasury.

All the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, big and small, were all caught up in a short time. Zhang Tingyu threw out more than 1 silver. How can ordinary people be spared?
Up to the Shangshu, down to the master book, if you pay enough money, it’s none of your business, it’s safe; if you don’t pay enough money, or if you’re too corrupt and refuse to pay, Yongzheng will directly delegate power to Zhang Tingyu. One word: copy!

In this year alone, nearly a hundred officials, big and small, had their homes ransacked, implicating many people.

At any rate, after busy work, the treasury deficit was finally filled, and a large amount of corruption was indeed copied.

I don't know if it's because they didn't have enough time to search the house. Zhang Tingyu wrote in the booklet and said that since the treasury has been checked, and the central government is like this, I'm afraid the provinces below will not be clean.

Yongzheng had this intention, and issued an imperial edict following Zhang Tingyu's book. The Ministry of Household Affairs checked it, and all provinces also checked it.There was a lot of movement at the head of the household department to check the bank. At this moment, officials of all sizes from all provinces heard the news that they were going to come down to check, and they were all in a hurry. He carried it hard, but when someone checked it out, he was in bad luck again!

The emperor has the power to ransack the house!

You can either be dismissed and investigated, or ransack your home, or beheaded. You have to pick the same thing. If you don’t pick the same thing, you have to be obedient.

Yinzhen's affairs were practical, and he beheaded seven local officials in a row, so that the affairs of the provinces were smooth. As a result, the administration of officials was also clear, but there were more officials, big and small, who felt that the Emperor Yongzheng was immoral.

Zhang Tingyu, who worked with Yongzheng, naturally offended both civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Everyone said that not only did Yongzheng have no brotherhood, but now he was dubbed "like to copy others", I don't know what he thinks, anyway, Gu Huaixiu is laughing so hard.

What's more interesting is that Zhang Tingyu has done practical things for the court anyway, but this job really made him a king of hell. After all, he knows why the fourth master and the thirteenth master were so unpopular back then, why don't you worry about it? With an errand in the household department, Yinzhen will not become a villain.

Nowadays, whoever does things is despised by others, and Zhang Tingyu is no exception.

When the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty saw Zhang Tingyu, they had one reaction——

Ouch, my old lady, isn't this old Mr. Zhang, a professional family copycat!

Woohoo, alas!
(End of this chapter)