Chapter 373: A Dead End
In the blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve again, and it had just snowed heavily in Kaifeng Province, and the already poor road conditions had become worse. The snow clears quickly, but many potholes are now icy and can slip if you're not careful.
However, even such bad road conditions can't stop people from taking to the streets to shop for shopping as the New Year approaches.
On the streets and alleys in Kaifeng City, there are all crowded scenes, and the sound of selling is one after another. There are also a variety of food stalls, and business is particularly thriving today, and the streets are filled with enticing aromas.
Ji Yi walked alone on the bustling and unsightly Panlou Street, but he couldn't feel even a trace of the festive atmosphere of Chinese New Year's Eve. On the contrary, there was a feeling of walking on thin ice, as if what he was stepping on was not solid ground, but a thin layer of ice above the Yellow River. If you are not careful, you will step on the thin ice, fall into the icy water, and never climb again.
No, he wasn't walking on ice that could break at any moment, but on an ice that didn't know when it would break.
Moreover, there is no turning back! Moreover, the sound of the ice breaking can already be heard......
Speaking of which, today's predicament is all caused by Ji Yi. Who made him want to be an official like that, who made him sharpen his head and climb up, and who made him go to great lengths to get the prime minister Zhang Dun?
Well, it should be a good thing to be an official and be able to become the prime minister...... Quan Da Song doesn't know how many officials want to stammer. If it weren't for Ji Yi's ability to do things and sycophants, and the moral articles were also first-class, Zhang Dian wouldn't look down on him at all, let alone marry his own granddaughter to him.
This is the grandson-in-law of a high-ranking official! Whoever wants to step into officialdom has such an opportunity, it is simply the halo of the protagonist.
But who knew that Zhang Dian and Ji Yi, who were in the middle of the day, and Ji Yi, who had the halo of the protagonist, would suddenly be put on the frozen river that would crack at any time by the official Zhao Xu?
This is a battle for storage space!
There is nothing more sinister and cruel in politics than this!
Although the Great Song Dynasty has the ancestral motto of not killing scholars and doctors, how much difference is there between being relegated to the ends of the earth for a lifetime and killing heads?
What made Ji Yi cry even more was that he was completely forced to get involved in this dispute, and he also had to stand on the opposite side of Zhao Ji, the king of Duan, who valued him very much.
In order to tie up with Zhao Ji, the money he spent could be piled up. How good it is to let Zhao Ji be the emperor! As long as Zhang Duan says a word, there is a hero who has made a decision. Although the Empress Dowager Xiang doesn't like Zhang Dan, but there is a policy to protect, the most ugly thing about Zhang Duan is "please the county" - this is the "please county" who can come back at any time and become the prime minister again, the popular henchmen in the officialdom will not disperse, and they can still promote themselves, plus the new emperor Zhao Ji's attention, most of them will be able to be the prime minister in the future.
Can ...... now The sycophant is also the risk of ruining oneself!
Zhang Dian is obviously determined to fulfill the "last wish" of the official Zhao Xu, and it is also certain that the Empress Dowager will support King Duan. If there is no Concubine Zhu, it would be easy to say, but now Concubine Zhu is still in Shengduan Palace! If her two sons become emperors one after another, won't the concubine be replaced by the queen mother? When the time comes, the Queen Mother will even have to share the status of the first emperor's main room with others, so won't it blow up?
That's the Queen Mother! If the emperor is gone, she will be the biggest, and the entire Kaifeng Mansion will support her old man, and the prime minister of Zhang Dian looks majestic on the surface, but in fact, the emperor lent him the power to make him majestic. He didn't have a single soldier in Kaifeng Mansion......
If the Queen Mother tears her face and hardens herself, even if she tricks King Duan out of the house, won't there be King Shen, King Yan, and King Mu and their brothers? Can't the Queen Mother just pick one of them to be the emperor?
At that time, Empress Dowager Xiang may not be too strict with Zhang Dan, but her own lackey must be unlucky...... Chasing down the text since his birth, arranging Danzhou (Hainan Island), and never using the punishment will not be able to run.
In this life, I have to live at the ends of the earth where birds don't.
So is it okay to sell Zhang Dian and take refuge in Duanwang?
When Ji Yi thought of this, tears were about to fall.
The Emperor is not dead yet!
As long as the emperor's breath is not broken, everything in Kaifeng Mansion will be under control. If he knew that he had betrayed Zhang Dun, would he still want to take the Jinshi in the imperial examination? I'm afraid that I will be arrested and taken to Wutai Prison (Yushitai Prison) immediately, and if I can't pass the New Year, I will have to "chase down the writing since I was born, compile and manage Danzhou (Hainan Island), and never use it"...... This is all light, maybe you can get some Heding red directly in Wutai Prison for tasting!
If you don't kill the doctor, you can't kill or assassinate in the open...... Who knows?
Moreover, as long as Ji Yi betrays, he will definitely leak the soup.
Because this matter is only known outside the palace, Zhang Dan, Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi. And in the palace, the people who listened to it were all the officials and Queen Liu's henchmen. If the Empress Dowager Xiang suddenly became vigilant, there was no doubt that the traitor was Ji Yi. was immediately arrested and killed, even the Queen Mother Xiang couldn't save him.
That is to say, with Zhang Dungan, seven or eight times out of ten will go to Danzhou for the rest of his life.
In the event of a mutiny...... Seven or eight times out of ten, he was killed in the Imperial Prison.
Anyway, it's over!
After studying hard in the cold window, racking his brains and patting on the back, he was not afraid of hardships and dangers to go to the Great Liao Kingdom, why did he end up like this?
Da Mingzun, why don't you bless me?
Ji Yi, who was a little disillusioned, turned into a slightly secluded alley at this time, and Mo Niangzi's new home was in this alley.
Mo Niangzi, who followed Wu Hao and mixed up, didn't know what was going on, and suddenly made a fortune, and actually bought a house in the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion...... Ji Yi, who was studying hard at home, was also taken aback when he heard about this. Because what Mo Niangzi bought was not a dilapidated house, but a rather exquisite mansion with a courtyard, just near East Cross Street. As far as Ji Yi knows, such a house can't be taken down without forty or fifty thousand yuan......
How long has this woman been following Wu Haogu? Just bought such a house, this Wu Haogu is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, right?
Oh, no, no. Ji Yixin said: I believe in Mingzun, so I don't believe in reincarnation, and there is no God of Wealth, only two gods, Da Mingzun and the Dark Lord......
When he was thinking wildly, the door of the small courtyard where the Mo Lady lived was suddenly opened, and I saw the Mo Lady wearing a fur cloak coming out of it with a shoulder bag, looking like she was about to go out.
"Hey, why are the big officials here?"
Lady Mo obviously didn't expect Ji Yi to come to her house on Chinese New Year's Eve. Oh, if it's good to say in previous years, this year is different, and it looks like it's going to be a big competition in the spring in another twenty days - the Song Dynasty Rite Department test is on the twentieth day of the first month - at this time, Ji Yi should be at home with a cone on the head, why did he come out to play?
"Ouch, official, what's wrong with you? Isn't it an old lady ......"
When Mo Niangzi saw Ji Yi's face at this time, she looked like she was dead to her parents, and immediately thought if something happened to the old lady of the Ji family who lived in Pingjiangjun. If Ji Yi's mother is gone, then he will have to worry about it, and naturally he won't be able to take the imperial examination......
Ji Yi hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's okay, she's a good old man." ”
In fact, the old lady of the Ji family is not old at all, Ji Yi, who was born at the age of fifteen, is only in her early forties this year, and she has always been pampered, she looks like she is thirty years old, and she stands with Ji Yi as if she is his sister, so Ji Daguan is still early away from Ding Wei.
"Then you are ......"
Ji Yi smiled bitterly and didn't answer, just asked, "Mo Niangzi, where are you going?" ”
"Go to the samurai mansion." Mo Niangzi said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, slaves go to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet." ”
By the way, now Mo Niangzi is in charge of Christie's for Wu Haogu. Ji Yi remembered, he sighed: "I have something to discuss with you, let's talk about it while we go." ”
"Okay."
Mo Niangzi answered, and went out with Ji Yi.
"Do you remember that "Pen Array Diagram" post?"
"Remember, that's your family heirloom." Mo Niangzi smiled, "I just don't know the authenticity, do you want to invite the father and son of the Mi family to see?" Then you have to be careful not to let them change their bags. ”
"I want to sell the Pen Array."
"What's the hell?" When Mo Niangzi heard this, she immediately stopped, and looked at Ji Yi with wide eyes, "Is there something wrong with your family's business?" ”
That's Mrs. Wei's "Pen Array"!
Mrs. Wei is a master of calligraphy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy was learned from her! You can imagine how valuable her real handwriting is.
And what Mo Niangzi said about "I don't know the authenticity" means that I don't know whether the "Pen Array" hidden in the Ji family is the authentic handwriting of Mrs. Wei or written by Wang Xizhi in the name of Mrs. Wei.
In short, this calligraphy is either Mrs. Wei or Wang Xizhi's, it is definitely a priceless treasure!
This is to be sold by Christie's and sung for hundreds of thousands, there is no doubt about it!
Ji Yiken took out such a treasure and sold it, there is no doubt that he is in urgent need of money, and he is in urgent need of a huge amount of money turnover.
If it wasn't for the Ji family's business being smashed, what else could it be?
Ji Yigang wanted to deny it, but suddenly thought that he couldn't seem to be able to talk to Mo Niangzi. Mo Niangzi is now Wu Haogu's person, and the relationship between Wu Haogu and Zhao Ji is too good. If you want to know that you are calculating Zhao Ji, why don't you report it immediately? At that time, I will have to spend the Yuan Festival with the red of the crane......
"yes!" Ji Yi said, "My family's fleet encountered wind and waves, and all of them sank, losing millions of ......."
"All sinking?" Mo Niangzi looked at Ji Yi with a look of disbelief. The Ji family has been a maritime merchant for hundreds of years, and it has always been a "detachment voyage", and it operates more than one route, how can it all sink?
"You Modo asked." Ji Yi, who was a little upset, said, "I'll tell you about this first, don't reveal that the "Pen Array Diagram" is mine, do you know?" ”