In the second hall of the county government, Zhang Shou made an excuse that it was none of his business and hung up the number high, Ge Yong was so angry that he slapped the handrail and scolded, however, when his old man also wanted to slip away, it would not be so cheap, not to mention that Lu Chan would never let go of this old lady who could make a final decision in front of the Son of Heaven, and even Zhu Tingfang would not let anyone go.

has already let Zhang Shou go, if he lets go of Ge Yong again, won't he have to face Lu Chan alone?

However, Lu Chan's request was very big, but it was put forward straightforwardly, and his attitude was sincere and sincere, although Zhu Tingfang and Ge Yong would not easily agree or make promises, but they would not refuse like those civil officials who strictly guarded the eunuchs. After a period of back and forth, the two of them finally just promised Lu Chan that they would consider this matter carefully.

But when the gift was sent away, Zhu Tingfang's indifferent but at least polite face just now suddenly became cold: "Mr. Ge, my dynasty has limited the number of eunuchs since Taizu, and even more restricted eunuchs from going out to supervise military tax supervisors, etc., which has been passed down as an ancestral system. Now Lu Chan's actions should not represent him alone, there are Chu Kuan behind him, and other eunuchs. ”

Seeing that the old god Ge Yong was silent, he paused and continued: "In the years that the emperor has been on the throne, because the queen mother has been strictly guarded, there are few female officials around him, and there are many eunuchs, so that now most of the female officials' powers are usurped by eunuchs, and the hands of the celebrant and the foreign officials are getting longer and longer, and this is really from the emperor's instructions?" And what Lu Chan just proposed, is it considered to be figuring out the holy will and trying to interfere in politics? ”

"Taizu's ancestral system is more, and the people who know best are still Yingying, who often goes to the ancient and modern Tongji library to turn over Taizu's handscroll, you ask her, how many are there that are really strictly enforced?"

Ge Yong asked Zhu Tingfang rhetorically, smiled, and then drank two sips of tea to moisten his throat, without looking at Zhu Tingfang's gloomy face, and said to himself: "Ancestral system is such a thing, others don't know, you still don't know?" That's fart, throw it when you need it, pick it up when you want to, pick it up when you want to, what is the ancestor of the heavens, only the interests that have been passed down for dozens or hundreds of years can really not be moved. ”

"For example, the emperor, ten years ago, do you think that even if he grabbed the handle of the Taizu plaque and was shelved in the cabinet, could he reopen the Jiuzhang Hall? It's impossible, let alone Zhang Shou, even if I personally appeal in the court. Why wasn't it then, but now? It's very simple, he has been cultivating for twenty years, and the guys who hope to be able to sweep away the old man Jiang have risen. ”

"So, even if some people criticize it, there are people who will support it, which is why it will be so easy to reopen the Jiuzhang Hall last year."

"But even if Old Man Jiang really falls this time, and the new batch of people appear on the stage, do you think this is the place where the emperor says anything? No way. Some will continue to be his mouthpiece, while others already have a large number of people under their own command and cannot ignore the interests of the party. Those who can share afflictions with others have parted ways with those who are rich and rich. ”

Ge Yong, who has been up and down in the sea for half his life, said this, and casually put the tea cup on the high table next to him, and then said word by word: "In Lu Chan's eyes, only they are the people who hold the Taizu ancestor as a golden rule, and in their opinion, they are the staunch supporters of the Taizu ancestral system, the most loyal eagle dog of the royal family, and not like the foreign ministers. ”

It was rare for Mrs. Ge to say so much in one breath, and he felt a little tired at this time, so he stood up and stretched comfortably. But before the old man dusted off his clothes and prepared to go out, he suddenly heard Zhu Tingfang ask a question that he didn't expect.

"This three-point analysis, did Mr. Ge say anything to Zhang Shou?"

"That lazy boy, I told him this, he dared to cover his ears and slip away, believe it or not?"

Ge Yong blew his beard angrily and glared: "It's not that you don't know that my closed disciple, your future brother-in-law, although he has a lot of ghost ideas and good means, but he is the character of someone who will only slap him when he provokes him, and he has no ambition to be promoted and make a fortune." So Chu Kuan has known him for a day or two, do you see that he has any additional interactions with people? ”

Zhu Tingfang was dumbfounded, and Ge Yong's muttering made him a little embarrassed.

"So something happened in Cangzhou, the emperor asked him, but he recommended you to come, thinking that you could clean up the situation if you were decisive. If you hadn't dragged him into the water, he wouldn't have come. But since he came, he still did a lot of things for the people here wholeheartedly. But that's not because he thinks he'll be rewarded when he goes back well, it's because he's a soft-hearted kid and feels guilty. ”

"Do you believe that he just dared to leave us and go straight away, maybe he has already written a letter to ask to return to Beijing? Oh, I should say, under the banner of sending my old man back to Beijing? ”

Without waiting for Zhu Tingfang to say whether he believed it or not, the old man yawned lazily again.

"I came down this time to carry the black cauldron for him, a disciple who closed the door, lest his thin arms and legs not be able to carry this sin of favoring the chaotic people. Now that the matter is cleaned up, of course I plan to go back, there is no old man Chu and old man Qi in Cangzhou, and it is not a place to do learning. I guess he wants to ask to return to Beijing, and it will definitely succeed. ”

"As for you...... Before Xian Yunhe's few people left for Qiongzhou Mansion, the court would not send people to the post of Changlu County Commander, you have to sit here all the time, and I will go back to talk to the emperor after the sky, and send you a few subordinate officials to help. Who can guarantee that you won't overthrow your old government? ”

"Some people in the court, the most dissatisfied with Emperor Taizu is that he does not establish a successor, and some people believe that this is the reason for the turmoil that often occurs in the succession to the throne later. Therefore, no matter how bad the eldest prince is, there is still a group of people who support him with dead rules. Do you believe it or not, once the county is not properly elected, it is possible for Xian Yunhe and several others to die without punishment? ”

"In addition, the emperor wants to build a port in Cangzhou, which moves the interests of a bunch of people. Anyway, whether it is the Changlu County Order, the Cangzhou Governor, or the Cangzhou Governor as Lu Chan said, all in all, it is difficult for this candidate to come out. Not to mention those people in the court, even the emperor and your father must be looking for talents who can come over and take over for you. ”

Seeing Ge Yong put down his words, he shook his head and sighed, and then walked out slowly with his hands in his hands, Zhu Tingfang couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with some annoyance. Since Du Heng heard the news that Cangzhou was expected to build a port, the commander of Du, who had tried to show himself, immediately settled down, and quietly gave him a lot of ideas for training the navy, all of which were sent to the emperor by him.

And Cangzhou is really handy, and even the word lawsuit that was originally just a simple and rude solution can now be easily resolved. Otherwise, if it was really just by virtue of his qualifications, he could deter this place for a while, but it could not last long.

But if he leaves, even if Zhang Shou leaves Zhang Chen and Zhu Er behind, will he really not be killed? Even if the DPRK and China can select the right candidate, can continue his and Zhang Shou's measures, govern Cangzhou well, and really build a port in the future, can that one withstand the pressure from all sides?

Especially once Lu Chan's pursuit is really successful, and the eunuch successfully breaks through the previous ban and serves as a military supervisor or even a tax supervisor, can this local magistrate of Cangzhou suppress him?

Speaking of which, if Cangzhou is upgraded to a government, the Cangzhou prefect will be a four-grade official...... Even if it is not upgraded to a government, it is also a five-grade state. Zhang Chuandu, the Duke of Qin, can still serve as the Yin of Shuntian Mansion as a nobleman, but it is not difficult for him to use martial arts to convert literature to find a five-rank prefect or even a four-pin prefect. But is it worth it?

Moreover, if he wants to stay, Zhu Er probably can't stay here, otherwise the eldest brother is the main director, but the second brother is entangled in a group of cotton farmers to gather what kind of society, what is that like? In this way, Zhu Er's hard work under the scorching sun these days has been in vain.

So...... What a tricky puzzle!

Zhu Tingfang narrowed his eyes slightly, and then sighed silently. It would be good if Zhang Shou could stay. It's a pity that Zhang Shou doesn't seem to be interested in local governance, and his qualifications are not enough.

If Zhang Shou knew that the future eldest brother was considering the possibility of which of the two would stay in Cangzhou, he would definitely feel that people were full of food and worried.

He has never been unfounded, feeling that there are no top talents in this world, only himself - in the later generations of the era when the school bully is flying all over the sky and the dogs are walking all over the ground, if you think too highly of yourself, there will be a strong man who will crush your self-confidence every minute. As for today's era, he is more interested in discovering talents and learning things for students, rather than doing everything himself.

Therefore, when he returned to his room and took Ah Liu to pack his bags, he suddenly heard a heavy cold snort, he didn't want to get up and greet him with a smile. Sure enough, Ah Liu walked out quickly, and after a while, respectfully carried his teacher in. And Ge Yong scolded as he walked: "You are not a good disciple, every time I let my old man carry the black pot for you!" ”

Zhang Shou didn't even want to open his mouth to come: "Who made the teacher extremely talented, unparalleled in arithmetic, famous all over the world, wise and martial ......"

didn't wait for Zhang Shou's messy four-character idioms...... It can't even be said that it is the flattery of the idiom, and Ge Yong can't stand it. He glared at the person angrily and interrupted: "Your future uncle wants to carry everything by himself, seeing you so idle is full of discomfort, I am more worried that Jiuzhangtang will not be able to look like you without you, seeing you like this, this is planning to start at any time?" ”

"That's right." Zhang Shou smiled, and when he saw Teacher Ge glaring at him again, he said sincerely, "I'm also worried about those students in Jiuzhangtang. And, counting the days, I think it's time to recruit the second batch of students. In the future, the enrollment will be held once a year and the graduation will be completed in four years, which should be a permanent system, so that the Jiuzhangtang will continue to open for a long time, and the teacher will no longer have to worry about having no successor. ”

Ge Yong's original lesson was immediately choked back—even though his lesson was meant to be a façade. For Zhang Shou, who is excellent in all aspects, but is a proud disciple who has a temper that people can't say, he doesn't know how to educate him for a long time, and he didn't educate him like this.

So, he could only step forward, and angrily took out the same set of treating children, and directly played Zhang Shou's head, and when he saw that people did not dodge or dodge, he said with a tiger face: "Okay, I don't know you yet?" You have lost four students in Cangzhou and Xingtai, if there is anything you can solve even in the capital, you really don't have to stay in Cangzhou. ”

Knowing that Mr. Ge came over to vent his resentment, Zhang Shou also consciously and voluntarily took a beating, until he sent the old man away, seeing that he had just packed up the two boxes, he suddenly touched his chin and asked: "When I came, I followed Du Heng on horseback, and almost my thighs were worn out, it seems that I didn't bring such two big boxes, right?" ”

Ah Liu had long been accustomed to Zhang Shou's strange attention—because in some ways, he was similar to Zhang Shou. At this time, he really thought about Zhang Shou's words for a while, and then his face became extremely subtle.

"The last time the eldest lady came, she brought a big box of clothes with the car, and I didn't think much about it after I received it, and I changed it for you every day. She also took your size and asked people to make four sets in Cangzhou, so there should be a total of twelve sets of clothes in this box, all of which are all kinds of cyan. ”

"......" Zhang Shou patted his head, embarrassed beyond measure.

No wonder he clearly remembered that he was in a hurry to leave, and he was forced to set off with only two sets of clothes, and it wasn't until this moment that Ah Liu reminded him that after Zhu Ying came, he didn't seem to have broken his clothes......

Otherwise, the clothes of this year have not been washed, and they will fade and shrink after washing, and his two sets of summer clothes will be changed back and forth, and I am afraid that the sleeves and hems will be shortened by a lot!

And because he didn't care about the outfit on his body at all, anyway, Lianqing, Shi Qing, and Tianqing...... All kinds of blue, firstly, the color is not eye-catching, and secondly, the color shape is almost the same, and he didn't even notice how many sets of clothes he had changed!

"Do you want to take these two boxes of clothes back with you?" Ah Liu saw Zhang Shou talking with a crying and laughing face, so he added, "Anyway, the eldest lady must have prepared ten sets of eight sets of clothes for you in the capital, and it is just right that these old ones are directly donated to the local poor scholars in Cangzhou, and they can also reduce the burden of the carriage." ”

Zhang Shou couldn't help but squint at this serious young man. Throwing clothes in order to lighten the load, this prodigal son doesn't seem to have the habit of being in Rongshui Village, right? It is impossible for more than a dozen sets of clothes to fade and shrink, and there are always ones that can still be worn...... Before he, the envoy left Cangzhou, he gave away people's clothes like giving welfare, what did he say like when he passed it out?

But think about it, Ah Liu never thinks about things outside of his body. But before he could train people, he heard the voice of Little Peanut outside: "Sixth brother, don't waste things!" Change it and you can wear it for me! ”

With this voice, Little Peanut hurriedly rushed in, seeing Ah Liu looking at him with a strange expression, he also mistakenly thought that people were unwilling, and wanted to quickly explain one or two, but he didn't want Ah Liu to step forward and compare his body with him, and then patted his head directly: "I forgot, several of them have shrunk and faded, and even I can't wear them, Little Peanut is just right, and I don't need to change it." ”

Zhang Shou smiled: "You don't have to give it away." Moreover, those scholars in Cangzhou do not need a few old clothes. That Xu Weng's Wendao School seems to be recruiting poor students, right? Let Zhu Er, Zhang Chen and Jiang Dashao join forces to donate a sum of money, I will also donate one hundred and eighty yuan, and the most important thing is that while I haven't left yet, I will pick out whether there are good seedlings of arithmetic and bring a few to Beijing! ”