If Chen Yichen could know what Duke Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong was thinking at this moment, he would definitely feel extremely sad.

I still remember that after the family dinner, I once said: "Is a name in the genealogy so important? Father."

Zhu Yong was unmoved by the father at that time. He always considered the glory and wealth, rather than the so-called father-son family affection.

I can only say that the remaining expectation for his father in Chen Yichen's heart has been wiped out by Zhu Yong himself.

You chose this, Cheng Guogong.

“Okay, very good.”

Duke Cheng Guo, Zhu Yong, said a few good words with a deep face, and then he regained the duke's aura.

So what if you feel a sense of crisis? Will you be afraid of the ambition of a maid giving birth to a son once you are a dignified person?

And has a young man with a stinky and stinky young man ever seen the real cruelty of the officialdom? Can he understand what he is carrying?

It seems that he is the most powerful minister, but the higher he stands, the easier it is to become the target of public criticism. Once he falls down, dozens of people in the Chengguo Duke's Mansion and hundreds of people in the other party will be implicated and hit.

Only by abandoning unnecessary emotions can you maintain rational decisions, even as an emperor, must do so.

The father-son family affection of one person is not as good as the honor and disgrace of the hundreds of people in the Duke of Chengguo’s mansion.

"I will not help you with the examiner of the provincial examination, as this will provide a handle for others."

"But I can recommend the chief examiner of the provincial examination for you. As for whether they can be valued in the end, it depends on your own ability."

Chen Yichen didn't expect Zhu Yong to be favored for himself. After all, the surface fairness of the imperial examination in the orthodox dynasty must be maintained. Before that, even the shame pants were taken off in later generations.

It is enough to be able to recommend the chief examiner of the provincial examination for yourself.

Today, when you enter the Duke of Chengguo's mansion and are blocked by the concierge, you can know that it is impossible to privately visit the examiner with his scholar's reputation.

Opportunities can be provided by others, but you still have to walk the road yourself.

"Mr. Xie introduced Lord Zhou Xu."

Chen Yichen bowed and thanked him, and directly said the name of the examiner he learned from the guild hall. This is his goal.

"It seems you are prepared."

“Only you have preparedness can you be free of trouble.”

"Okay, I will help you introduce Lord Hanlin Zhou."

"Mr. Xie, if there is nothing important, I will surrender."

What should be said is almost the same. Chen Yichen and Duke Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong never had the foundation for chatting, so it was time to leave.

I thought the Chengguo Guild nodded directly and let him go, but Zhu Yong suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

"You can have a place to stay in the capital. If not, you can live in the Duke's Mansion."

Hearing this, Chen Yichen looked up at Zhu Yong with some surprise, and actually asked himself to live in Duke Cheng's Mansion. Is this his value or a bribe?

To be honest, Chen Yichen really has no place to stay at the moment. Living in Yingtian Guild Hall for a short time is OK, but it may not be good for a long time.

The main reason is that there is not enough money...

When I first took the three-yuan case for the junior high school entrance examination, I almost received two hundred taels of silver from the money I spent on red silver and gifts from all parties.

In theory, this is a lot of money, but my family is not a landlord class. The scholar's fame is not enough to rely on the ten or two subsidies given by the court every year, and it is equivalent to eating up the whole country.

Before leaving, Chen Yichen paid the ship's fee and left dozens of taels of silver for his mother. In addition, he had eaten and drunk the whole way, but in fact he had less than 100 taels of silver deposit.

If nothing unexpected happens, I will be in the capital for a long time in the future. Living in Yingtian Guild Hall for a long time is equivalent to staying in a hotel in later generations. This less than a hundred taels of silver is really not enough for me and A Niu to spend.

It is even more impossible to ask for money from the family, Chen Yichen cannot open this call, so it is even more impossible to borrow money from Duke Chengguo.

Zhu Yong just mentioned it now, which is equivalent to helping Chen Yichen solve a long-term worry. However, if there will be many inconveniences in living in the public residence like this, I still have no idea.

I can only say that Chen Yichen didn’t care much before, but now he can only understand what it means to stump a hero by one cent.

Perhaps seeing Chen Yichen's concerns in his heart, Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Yong said, "There is a small courtyard to the west of the central hall. It was Jing'er's residence before. She was vacant after she got married. It is relatively secluded and not easy to disturb."

The Jing'er mentioned by Duke Cheng Guo was his third daughter Zhu Jing, who can also be called Chen Yichen's third sister. In the seventh year of Zhengtong, he married Zhang Jin, the Boss of Pengcheng, so the room and the courtyard were vacant, just so that Chen Yichen could live in.

It may be not good to see a daughter's room after she gets married from a modern concept, but it is clearly described in the ancient "The West Chamber" that the West Chamber is the daughter's room in a normal courtyard, and it is mostly used to stay in guests after getting married. In the ancient concept, it belongs to other people's wives.

As for this Pengcheng Boss Zhang Jin, although his reputation was not obvious, the first Pengcheng Boss Zhang Qi gave birth to a very powerful daughter, who was the Yuanpin of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty, Empress Chengxiao Zhang.

Empress Zhang has gone through three dynasties and is the grandmother of the current emperor, Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty, and the first Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty.

When Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne, he was actually the rule of government by Empress Zhang and the "Three Yangs" of the cabinet, which made great contributions to the stability of the government in the early orthodox dynasty and suppressed eunuchs such as Wang Zhen interfering in politics.

It’s a pity that Empress Zhang died in the seventh year of Zhengtong. The regent "Three Yangs" were old and died. The court had no power to suppress eunuchs. In the end, Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty started to make waves and slammed into Mongolia in a wave of flat style, and he was reduced to prison.

Chen Yichen has never been a pretentious person. Since he has a need now, and Duke Cheng Guozhu Yong took the initiative to ask for help, he bowed very simply: "Mr. Xie."

"You go down."

"yes."

Chen Yichen bowed and walked out of the main hall, butler Wu, who had been waiting outside the door, also came up to meet him.

"Young Master Chen, this is the token of the Duke's Mansion. You can enter and exit at will in the future."

After saying that, Butler Wu handed over a wooden sign engraved with the word "王" and had the mark of the Duke of Cheng's family.

After taking this token of the Duke Mansion, Chen Yichen held it in his hand for a few seconds. Even when he was a child, he had never obtained this real Duke Mansion "pass" for Duke Mansion, but he didn't expect to have it now.

Looking at Chen Yichen looking at the token of the Gong Mansion, Butler Wu showed a deep smile on his lips, and then continued, "Mr. Chen, I will ask the servants to clean the west wing courtyard immediately. If you need any other items, you can purchase them together."

"Butler Wu is welcome, there is no need to be such a trouble."

"No trouble, this is what I should do."

The two of them walked to the side room. A Niu was bored at this moment. Seeing Chen Yichen coming out, he immediately met him.

"Brother Chen, how about it? What did the Duke tell you?"

"It's nothing, I just encourage you to prepare for the provincial examination. In addition, we may have to live in the Duke Chengguo Mansion in the future."

When he heard this, he would live in the Duke Chengguo Mansion. A Niu seemed to realize something, and approached Chen Yichen with an excited look on his face and said, "Brother Chen, does moving into the Duke Chengguo Mansion mean that the Duke Chengguo Mansion will let you enter the genealogy? Now it is considered to be a recognition of your ancestors?"

The matter of Chen Yichen entering the genealogy is not only the expectation of his mother Shen, but also the neighbors are paying attention to it.

After all, in the thinking of these ancient people, there is a family destination for entering the genealogy, which can be called a first-class event in life, not to mention that Chen Yichen entered the genealogy of the Duke of Chengguo.

"I won't talk about this anymore, go back to the guild hall to pack up your things."

Chen Yichen didn't want to talk deeply about the genealogy with A Niu, and he didn't want to say this in front of Butler Wu.

"Okay, Brother Chen."

In this way, Chen Yichen and A Niu walked out of the Duke Chengguo Mansion and prepared to return to Yingtian Guild Hall to get their luggage and other things.

Butler Wu was sent to the door all the way and waved his hand to say goodbye. He looked at Chen Yichen and finally couldn't help saying: "Young Master Chen, in fact, your husband valued you more than you imagined. At least the second son Zhu Ji's imperial examination road has never been so concerned about it."

Chen Yichen didn't understand why Butler Wu suddenly said this, but as the butler of the Duke's Mansion, the other party must know Zhu Yong very well.

So Chen Yichen replied: "Is that because I now show greater potential than Zhu Ji?"

“Yes, but not exactly.”

"What else is it?"

"I don't know, only the master himself knows it."

"Thank you, butler Wu, and say goodbye."

Chen Yichen didn't have the energy to explore what Zhu Yong thought, and he still needed to do a lot.

"Go slowly."

When he returned to the hall, Chen Yichen saw Xu Fengyuan sitting listlessly in the hall, without the slightest vitality of the familiarity she had last night.

Holding the mentality of leaving soon, Chen Yichen walked over and said hello, saying goodbye to the other side.

"Brother Xu, did you not sober up last night's hangover?"

Seeing Chen Yichen coming, Xu Fengyuan's eyes lit up, but he quickly sighed and shook his head and replied, "It's because of my father's business."

"Oh, then Brother Xu will tell you one or two more?"

If Chen Yichen is a little naive in politics, his economic level is ahead of most people in this era. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, the most basic germs of capitalism had not even begun, and later generations began to talk about communism.

"My father is a Jiangxi vendor, mainly using porcelain and mulberry silkworms to make a living. This year, Zhejiang and Fujian have flooded the country, and the area is not peaceful, so the harvest and sales volume are not very high."

"Now I plan to go all the goods through the canal north, hoping to open up sales in the capital, but without the support of the forces, it is not easy to sell them in large quantities?"

Now that the south is suffering from disaster, business is not easy to do, Xu Fengyuan's father is planning to send it all to the north for sale, hoping that his son can find a way to open up sales, so Xu Fengyuan was depressed and worried.

Business in the Ming Dynasty was not as convenient as modern times. Even the most basic convenience of business introduction was only unblocked by the previous emperor, Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, and the market had long been solidified.

Especially in a powerful place like the capital, there is no one or a background behind you, and it is okay to sell it in small batches. Don’t think about seizing the market on a large scale.

Hearing this situation, Chen Yichen had no better way. This has nothing to do with commercial means, it is purely caused by political factors.

However, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and suddenly he thought of a way out, but he was a little hesitant when he spoke. Because this trade route was not suitable for ordinary people, and the other party had to be very reliable.

I met Xu Fengyuancai for only one day and had no such foundation for cooperation.
Chapter completed!