Chapter 570: Temptation

However, after Yan Zhengsu and Fang Dunru were transferred to the capital, the news suddenly became wrong. Thinking of these two people, Zhang Jun panicked. When they were transferred to the capital, Zhang Jun also visited them in person, and gave them some so-called advice as an old man in the officialdom of the capital, which was very popular. However, in the end, they still burned this fire to their own Sansi Yamen.

When the incident happened, Zhang Jun remembered that at the beginning of the year, he took his wife and concubine to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense, and the abbot Yuantong monk said to him in the retreat. It needs to be resolved in a timely manner.

Zhang Jun didn't believe in Buddhism, and went to burn incense completely because he still had no children, so he took his wives and concubines to worship Buddha and ask for children. For the words of the abbot of Yuantong, he will be skeptical. When he asked how to dissolve it, the abbot of Yuantong said that it is necessary to make good connections, help the world, and benefit more karma. Abbot Yuantong also said that the Houzen temple of Daxiangguo Temple is raising funds to renovate the pagoda, and if the donation funds are made to build the pagoda, the Buddha will protect him to spend the year safely.

As soon as Zhang Jun heard this, he immediately didn't even believe half a word in the mouth of the abbot of Yuantong. This abbot is just scaring himself into donating money to the temple, and playing this set in front of him is too inappropriate for himself. So he laughed it off and never thought about it again. It wasn't until Fang Dunru impeached the chief officials of the three divisions and yamen in the court, and even arrested all his three deputy envoys and put them in prison, that Zhang Jun suddenly woke up, and the words of the abbot of Yuantong came true.

The offender is too old, and the villain is troubled, and I am afraid that a big disaster is coming. This year is a fierce hurdle, if you can't get over it, you'll be finished. So, Zhang Jun secretly went to Daxiangguo Temple to find the abbot of Yuantong to remedy, but the abbot of Yuantong told him that the pagoda of the Houzen Temple had already raised all the funds for charity, and there was no need for him to contribute. Zhang Jun couldn't wait to slap himself a few times. Under his hard work, the abbot of Yuantong told him that the way to solve the problem was to ask the nobles to save him, or to avoid this calamity, and to let him scatter all his wealth in order to win the hearts of the people, or he could be spared.

Zhang Jun came back and thought about it all night, it was impossible for him to scatter all his family wealth, and it was possible to find a noble person to rescue and protect him, so Zhang Jun went to see Yang Jun. Zhang Jun thinks that he is still good to Yang Jun, and the three divisions of the yamen have never cut off military food and salary, and he has not offended Yang Jun. Moreover, Yang Jun's eldest son Yang Ying also served in the Sansi Yamen for a short time, and Zhang Jun also took good care of him. During the qualification assessment, Yang Ying was given a very high evaluation, and in the end, Yang Ying was successfully transferred to the Privy Council, and was the deputy privy councillor of the third level of the privy council. For this reason, Yang Jun also expressed his gratitude, intentionally or unintentionally.

When he met Yang Jun, Zhang Jun described himself as a poor man who was deceived by his subordinates, and the three deputies joined forces to deceive him, resulting in his current situation. He pointed to the heavens and the earth and said that he was innocent and would never do anything to commit adultery.

Yang Jun had just returned from the border town, and the court was negotiating with the Liao, and the emperor was going to break with the Liao, and Yang Jun was worried about military salaries, rations, and ordnance. If there is really going to be a war and it is defeated, it is the responsibility of his privy envoy. As for Zhang Jun's affairs, Yang Jun didn't have much to worry about. But this person is the third envoy, and he has money in his hands, so Yang Jun hinted at it. Zhang Jun immediately said that he would immediately find a way to raise a military salary of one million taels of silver to support the soldiers and horses in the border towns. In exchange, Yang Jun just said a few good words to him in front of the emperor. But it was these kind words that made a difference. The emperor did not allow Fang Dunru to arrest Zhang Jun for a long time, and Yang Jun's words played a great role.

Although the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty had supreme authority, the emperors of all dynasties respected the opinions of the important ministers in the Yu Dynasty. To put it bluntly, the emperor relied on important ministers to govern the government, and he himself could not run this huge country, and sometimes he had to consider their opinions. What's more, Emperor Guo Chong had no intention of letting this matter make a storm in the city, let alone allowing the three envoys to be detained without evidence, which would cause a dramatic shock to the government and the opposition.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because of insufficient evidence. Yang Jun's words are actually not decisive. In fact, this is also Zhang Jun's confidence to dare to seek protection. When doing those dog skin pours in the Sansi Yamen, Zhang Jun paid great attention to self-protection. Zhang Jun was basically not involved in all things, he only expressed his opinions verbally, and only spoke to one of the three deputy envoys alone at a time, and then they conveyed it themselves. The advantage of this is that no matter what they say or what they are instructed to do, they will end up with no witnesses, let alone physical evidence.

However, there is only one thing that has not been done well, and it has become a hidden worry in Zhang Jun's heart, and that is a deal with the Lin family in Hangzhou. It was not long after he took office as the third envoy ten years ago, and his subordinate Lin Bonian secretly came to his house one night. As the new official, it is also a good thing to get closer to his subordinates in the Yamen of the Third Division, so Zhang Jun warmly received Lin Bonian.

That night, Lin Bonian explained some of the affairs in the Sansi Yamen and the closing of the door for the holidays, which made Zhang Jun quite fruitful. The topic of the two gradually became private, Lin Bonian mentioned that his Lin family opened a ship in Hangzhou, but he was only struggling to support it because of the lack of business, and he hinted that Zhang Jun could hand over the matter of Cao Yun to the Lin family. Of course, Zhang Jun would not agree immediately, because he didn't know the details of the Lin family.

The next night, Lin Bonian came again. This time, he brought a list of the number of ships owned by the Lin family shipping company and their transportation capacity, as well as evidence of their past participation in large-scale transportation activities in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. Along with this list, Zhang Jun's study was sent several boxes of books by Lin Bonian, who said that these were the latest books printed by movable type engraving in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The handwriting is clear and tidy, so I sent a few boxes of movable type versions of the subset of the classics and histories to Mr. Zhang for collection. This thing is not worth much silver, and it is not a bribe, and Zhang Jun didn't want to embarrass Lin Bonian, so he let his people carry a few bookcases into the study.

Lin Bonian didn't stay too much this time, and only said a few words of greeting before leaving, and he didn't stalk him.

Zhang Jun was not interested in this list of the Lin family's boat company, although the Lin family had more than a dozen large ships and more than 20 small boats at that time, and the scale was not small. But compared to such a major event as Caoyun, this scale is still smaller. So Zhang Jun threw this list of family backgrounds aside. When he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered the boxes of books, so Zhang Jun ordered someone to open the bookbox.

When he opened the box, Zhang Jun was dumbfounded. A little maid who was waiting for him in the study was also so shocked that she almost fainted. In the big box of three mouths, there are books of a subset of scriptures and histories engraved with movable type, but silver ingots full of ingots and white flowers. The silver ingots of ten taels and one ingots are neatly stacked layer by layer, and there are thirty-five ingots in one layer, and each box has three layers, which is more than 10,000 taels. There were more than 30,000 taels of silver in the three large wooden boxes. Dazzling in the candlelight.

In one of the boxes was a duplicate agreement, a private agreement drawn up by Lin Bonian. There is also a letterhead written by Lin Bonian. The letterhead said that as long as Mr. Zhang was willing to hand over the affairs of the two Zhejiang roads to the Lin family, then 20% of the net profit of the annual transportation income would go to Zhang Jun. The Lin family guarantees that they will never miss the big event. God knows this matter, and no one will know about it, and it is also within the authority of Lord Zhang. If Lord Zhang is unwilling, he doesn't care, just burn the agreement and letterhead, and the matter will be over.

At this time, Zhang Jun was still a good and ambitious official with a clean sleeve, he was born in poverty, and after entering the office, he traveled to various places outside Beijing as an official, and he has been an official without regrets for more than 20 years, and has also made a lot of achievements. Three years ago, when he was appointed as the governor of Tianfu Mansion, he only carried with him the belongings of a green mule cart, as well as a wife and a concubine and two daughters in cloth clothes. That's all he has. Therefore, when he entered Ying Tianfu to take office, he obviously felt the sarcasm in the eyes of those nobles and rich people in Ying Tianfu. Although Zhang Jun sighed, he laughed at poverty and prostitution these days, and the world is declining. But there is actually some muttering in my heart.

Thirty thousand taels of white silver filled the open space of the study, and the halo made people's eyes dazzle and panic. Zhang Jun gritted his teeth and looked at the silver, thinking: I have been an official for so many years, and I have less than two thousand taels of savings. And an official like Lin Bonian actually paid more than 30,000 taels of silver as soon as he made a move, which was simply an insult to his previous efforts. And that agreement, two in a year, that's ...... Twenty thousand taels of silver can't be moved. And every year. It's a huge temptation.

Think about it after I came to the capital, although I became an important position as the third envoy, I actually didn't even have a place to live in the capital. The house I live in now is still rented, and the monthly rent of 180 taels is just a small house with two entrances. I also thought about buying a house in the capital, but after just asking a few times, I was speechless. Even in a place like the left and right compartments of the outer city, it costs more than 10,000 taels of silver to buy a house that the whole family can live in. There is also a younger brother who is an official in other places who wants to help, so he broke off this idea at all.

But now, the 30,000 taels of silver in vain are in front of him, and there is a fixed income of 20,000 taels of silver every year waiting for him, which makes Zhang Jun, who has always comforted himself that 'the gentleman is poor' and 'does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice', hesitate. As long as he nodded, the silver would be his own, and then he could not only buy a decent house, but also let his wife and concubine live a comfortable life. The concubine has recently become pregnant again, and if she moves to a new house, isn't it double happiness? I also saved myself from looking at the faces of my wives and concubines every day, and listened to their nagging complaints about not having a good life with me.

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