Chapter 845: Sludge Appears After the Snow

After a night of heavy snowfall, the sky in Kyoshi finally ushered in a sunny day. Only the snow is cold, and the snow is even colder, and the white and flawless snowflakes that float down finally fade their smooth appearance under the sunlight, and are mixed with the dust and cinder messy debris all over the street, and are trampled by a pair of noble or lowly feet, so that there is no trace of true color.

Only the snow has stopped, but there are still a lot of delayed things that need to be dealt with, such as the collapse of the houses in Dongcheng, and the passers-by who took shelter from the snow in the Chenghuang Temple froze to death, and for example, the Beijing camp and Jingwei in the New Year are paid as usual, and the salaries of officials at all levels have also reached the time to be issued...... It is not a year of disaster and famine, although the government does not have the obligation to repair the house and set up a porridge shop, but it has the responsibility to maintain a good New Year's Festival, so the abacus of the old scribes in the household department is crackling, and the rest of the yamen are not only dealing with daily affairs, but also thinking about how to celebrate the New Year this year.

The world is still peaceful, the treasury of the household department has been much richer in the past two years, and it is expected that the Sumu pepper will not be taken out again to fold the color, although the amount of money is still being folded a few days ago, but the Son of Heaven has issued an edict from Daning, and everything is as usual for the time being. That is to say, even if it can't be added as the cabinet Du Ge Lao intended, it will not be subtracted by twenty guan as requested by Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, at least it will be the same as in previous years, and this year can be passed.

It is not easy to live in Beijing Normal University, not only for small people, but also for Beijing officials from poor families. Those who can maintain dignity regardless of their fortunes are only a handful of people.

And though it was still early in the morning, one of the few people was sitting in the room frowning at something. After a long time, he took his eyes off the thing and turned to the man standing in front of him. Then he stood up, picked up the thin piece of paper in one hand and walked it out from behind the table, and flicked it lightly with his fingers.

"This time, you've checked it all?"

"Yes, sir. Originally, he only got a secret report from the insider, but he had only handled a limited number of things, but he only knew a rough idea, but on the way back, he happened to meet this coolie who had just loaded grain in the Tongji warehouse, and the two confirmed that this thing was at least ninety percent. I would never dare to make the same mistake as before. ”

"Well, after you go back, you will send someone to heal the person who ran out of Tongjicang. It's just that I can't just send your news up, and after I confirm it, I will send someone to you, and you will send the news of this coolie to Jinyiwei, and you will naturally have the credit for committing adultery, and as for the rest, let it be better for others, after all, it is harmful and unprofitable to take it all on you. By the way, don't forget to heal that person with all your heart, you go first. ”

Hu Qi said yes and went out, and Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh when he saw the thick curtain lowered. The accumulation of disadvantages and disadvantages is the accumulation, and what the disadvantages are is not so important. Over the years, many things have been piled up like a powder keg, which can explode at a moment. If it weren't for a greater reputation, it would be difficult to detonate a powder keg without harming one's body. It's like the previous investigation of hereditary officers who were impostors, as well as fraud in military elections, and if they were found from the beginning, things would be much easier.

Fortunately, it is only more than 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in another 60 years, I don't know what the situation will become. Having said that, if it was really cotton armor, not only would he have to go to the Arsenal Division first to check it out, but he couldn't wait for the brocade guard to remove the lid - if it was revealed in the end and it was returned to the Arsenal Division, it would be to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

After a long conversation with Cui Fanzhi, who had been in charge of the Langzhong since he went, and made sure that there was no major disadvantage in the issuance of weapons, Zhang Yue returned to the house. Just as he was thinking, a voice came from outside the door curtain.

"My lord, the stagecoach galloped to report, the group of people from Jiaolu will be able to reach Tongzhou tonight. He was accompanied by Governor Fang and more than 500 people under his command, in addition to the more than 2,000 people who were ordered to stay in Nanjing and resettled along the road, there were more than 300 people in this line. Governor Fang sent a message, saying that he invited the adults to come over, after all, these people were found by the adults before, don't sift through them again and again in Nanjing, but they omitted the important ones. Fang Dudu also said that on this last section of the road, the Tongzhou Ding Border Guards would accompany him. ”

This is one of Zhang Yue's biggest achievements in Jiaoluan, so I was not surprised to hear it at this time. If you want to send someone to contact and arrange, it is naturally the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, but since Fang Zheng invited him to go, although it was a cold day, he didn't care about making a special trip, so he just agreed at first, and he didn't go to his heart, but when he heard that Tongzhou Ding was a border guard, his mind immediately flashed the incident that Hu Qixuan had just reported.

So, he changed his mind in an instant, and called the soap in a loud voice, and asked a few more details. Knowing that Fang Zheng's entourage was outside the yamen, he picked up the big coat on the back of the chair and draped it on his body, and ordered to invite people to the front yaya hall to wait. Tongzhou, Tongjicang, Dingbianwei...... The faint threads seem to be strung together.

At the beginning, the Zhang family lived in a three-room house, since the two-room Yang Wubo Mansion was the most gorgeous and magnificent, Zhang Xin did not want to be compared, although he could not exceed the regulations, so he made a fuss about the layout in the interior, if it were not for the depth of each alley in the Beijing Division, and the mansion over there was sandwiched between the Wu'an Hou Mansion and the Yang Wubo Mansion, I was afraid that Zhang Xin would be able to copy the old Kaifeng mansion in the same way as the gourd in the Beijing Division.

A few years ago, because Zhu Gaochi posthumously crowned Zhang Yu, the Duke of Rongguo, the king of Hejian, and gave three generations of ancestors, these three are Zhang Xin's ancestors, great-grandfathers and grandfathers, so after discussing with Zhang Xin and Zhang Zhuo, the British Gong Zhang Fu built the ancestral hall in the British Mansion. Now that Zhang Xin has gone to Sichuan to take office, the mansion of Zhang's family has gradually become bleak.

Zhang You, the owner of Yangwubo Mansion, was accompanied by his eldest son Zhang Chao to recuperate in Yunnan, and there were only his wife Dongfang and two daughters-in-law at home. Zhang You started from Jiaolu, and he didn't have too many bosses and colleagues in the capital, so although he couldn't be said to be cold in front of the door, he also had few visitors.

As a result, only Zhang Yue was in hot demand, and after he was appointed as the squire of the military department, the population of the family increased a lot, and several houses were built behind the main house and in the west, and the work was completed before the end of the year. On weekdays, colleagues come and go in the same year, and the autumn breeze climbs and entrusts people, and the housekeeper Gao Quan often can't cope with it alone, and Du Juan can't do without it.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the moon, and it was almost time to worship the ancestors, and the Sun family often went to the British government to help. And Du Juan added something important here, Zhang Yue Shao couldn't help but salivate and told Sun and Mrs. Wang that he had something important to entrust to his wife, so he still stayed at home for the past few days. Although she was at home, she almost left Zhang Jing with all the housework, and asked Amber and Qiu Zhen to help more by her side, while she spent all day watching the things sent from outside in the warm pavilion of the main house.

The collection of intelligence is easier than the sorting of intelligence, and the judgment of intelligence is more difficult than the sorting of intelligence, not to mention that now Yuan Fang is not only gradually letting go, but also letting the younger generation at the bottom pick up, and the old people are all accepted into the industry one by one, so there are a few or more than a dozen pieces in the day, and Du Juan is in a hurry to judge the trend from these clues.

There is no need for Zhang Yue's instructions, and she doesn't dare to use others, but when she looks at these things, except for the illiterate Cui's mother, the rest are not allowed to enter the house. At this moment, she added a few more names to the picture she had already drawn, and she couldn't help but hold her chin and ponder. In a daze, Cui's mother on the side gently handed over a bowl of tea and put it on the kang table.

Cui's mother watched Du Juan work hard all day long, and she couldn't help it: "Young grandma is really tired these days. There are so many accounts every day, how can you read them all? You might as well say to the old man and the young master and hire two more account rooms. It's the young master, it's too hard now, why don't you find two wingmen? I've heard that there are self-recommended articles on the door every day, and if you sift through it carefully, there are always reliable people. ”

Now it is not the era when the master of Shaoxing was popular in later generations, and the Qing guests were crowded with the curtain hall, more of them were civil and military, and most of the people who were willing to hand over the nobles were the ones who had no merit and fame, at most they were supervisors, and even the people were still looking forward to the selection of officials and the appointment of a real position. However, there are more friends with civil officials, most of whom only talk about articles and poems, and do not mention serious government affairs. So, hearing this, Du Juan shook his head.

"Those who are really talented are all thinking about being officials, and now they are also climbing for the sake of a different day; As for those who don't have the talent to want to be vassals, their conduct is poor first. Moreover, the scholar is different from the hundred craftsmen who are familiar with various skills, and they are always proud in their bones. ”

"Isn't there still two students in that young master? Can't these things sharpen and sharpen them? ”

Du Juan only smiled and didn't speak again, and Cui's mother didn't persuade again, just quit the house and sat on the kang outside to do needlework, and the room was extremely quiet for a while. Du Juan looked at those things again, and smiled bitterly in her heart - she could see these things because she was Zhang Yue's trusted wife, except for people who were close to her parents, wives and children, who else could she show such things? If it weren't for the fact that someone would have to intercept and cover it up, and Cui's mother was an old man in the family and illiterate, she wouldn't even dare to keep Cui's mother.

After Zhang Yue sent someone to throw back the gifts from those families, after a few days of honesty, they saw that Zhang Yue did not seem to react further, but there was a movement. One family is the hometown of the old mother, who is seriously ill and begs for leave to return to the province; One family happened to be released from the foreign post; The family was in a trance and made a mistake in official business, and was demoted by Shen Yu and sent to Liaodong...... As for those who didn't have time to send the gifts, most of them sent their daughters here to complain, which was nothing more than saying some soft words openly or secretly, and they all said that they were listening to the gossip of outsiders, and they did something wrong recklessly for a while.

Zhang Yue asked her to pay attention to this first, but she felt that most of the gift-giving related to her father was just a means of her colleagues, and there were probably others who were counting on entering the cabinet. On the contrary, it was fraud in the previous election, Zhang Yue was assassinated again, and the assassin could not kill people, and this thing smelled of rain from within. Using the method of impostor to install officers in the Beijing Guard, it is even possible to take advantage of the opportunity to send eunuchs to the palace to stuff people inside, if it is not said to be a rebellion, who can believe it!

Thinking about it, she circled the paper she had sorted out with only a few lines of words.

Wuding Marquis Guo Xuan was specially instructed by Zhang Yue, this family seems to have visited relatives and friends too much recently, after Guo Guifei's funeral, the family's position in Xungui suddenly leaned back a lot, far less than the Queen Mother's brother Peng Chenghou. And Mrs. Wudinghou almost saw Zhang Jing and sent someone to propose marriage, which was already very strange. Now on the occasion of the British Mansion to worship the ancestors, Mrs. Wudinghou is clearly not friends with the Zhang family, and she has to go to join in the fun every day, which is too strong.

Recently, it is said that some people have seen two or three dead people brought out of the mansion on the side of the Ten Princes' Mansion, and they were all sent directly to the Eastern Suburbs Humanization Field. If you want to say that you haven't heard of any relatives or princes entering Beijing this year, there is no master in this mansion, why kill slaves and maids, and secretly send them out of Chaoyang Gate immediately in the early morning?

While thinking about it, Du Juan suddenly heard a voice from outside, and it didn't take long for Cui's mother outside to stand up, as if she was going out. She immediately put the paper in her hand into the box next to her, closed the lid and turned the key twice, and then took out another account book on the side and put it on the kang table to make a look, before she lifted the pen, and Cui's mother's voice came from outside.

"Young grandma, the third lady is here, ask if you are free?"

"Please let her in."

Du Juan secretly wondered, thinking that he kept Cui's mother in the outhouse, just to prevent this well-read, literate and smart aunt and grandmother, who liked not to say hello and rampage, how could Zhang Jing be so well-behaved at this time, and when she came to find herself, she knew that she would ask Cui's mother to report first? After a while, the door curtain opened a crack, and Zhang Jing poked her head out to look at it first, and then slipped in.

"Sister-in-law is really free?"

"You're all here, so I'm naturally free. By the way, when did my sister Jing become so formal? ”

Zhang Jing walked closer, glanced at the account book on the kang table, and then sat down next to Du Juan. Seeing Du Juan looking at herself with a smile, her face turned red, and then she snorted angrily and said: "It's all the third brother, you brought me over two days ago and taught me a lesson, what are you helping him do important things, I'll say hello in and out, don't disturb you to do business...... Don't talk about this, sister-in-law, just now the fourth sister-in-law came back from the eldest aunt and came to talk to me. ”

Only then did Du Juan learn that Zheng Fangfei had come, and hurriedly asked, "The fourth brother and sister are here, why don't you bring her over?" ”

"Who doesn't know that you're busy, and she's afraid that no one at home will make any trouble, so she hurriedly went back." Zhang Jing ignored these, grabbed Du Juan's hand and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know that Mrs. Wuding Hou asked for a kiss from the eldest aunt today." ”