On the morning of the fifth day of October, Shen Rui left the house early in a carriage. He first visited several prestigious dim sum shops in the capital, selected a few signature dim sums, and got rid of the people who were following him with ulterior motives.

After a round trip, we came to Huanxi Sha, a teahouse outside the Hanlin Academy.

Zhang Hui originally made an appointment with him on September 26th, but in the afternoon of the 240,000th Birthday Festival, Zhang Hui sent another message saying that he had been busy with trivial matters these days, so the appointment was changed to October 5th.

Shen Rui also confirmed from this that it was Brother Shou who really wanted to see him - and he also heard about the incident that hindered Brother Shou from Mrs. Xu.

When the Yang family's mother and daughter came back from the palace, the Yang family sent their confidants to explain what had happened.

When Yang Tian gets into a fight with the daughter of his uncle's family, it is better to let the Shen family know the reason. Otherwise, who knows what gossip will happen outside, and the Shen family will be confused and it will be difficult to deal with it.

When Mrs. Xu mentioned it to Shen Rui, although she praised her: "After all, we are from a scholarly family, we have our own pride." But she also sighed: "She is still young and does not think carefully enough. But in that situation, it is difficult for her."

Shen Rui also understood that if Princess Chun'an had not been there that day, with Empress Dowager Zhang's temper and the Zhang family being so domineering, Yang Tian would have suffered a loss.

But then again, if the so-called "overall interests" were tolerated at that time, it would not only lose face, but also affect Yang Tinghe's reputation in the imperial party and even among the scholars.

An upright and upright imperial lady who is not afraid of the powerful is much better than a cowardly and cowardly official daughter who succumbs to her relatives!

This not only reflects the Yang family’s upbringing and heritage, but also reflects Yang Tinghe’s stance.

Although it is a bit risky now, it is still very beneficial in the end.

As for Shen Rui, he originally thought that his little fiancée was cute and sweet, and he had never thought about doting on his wife like a daughter in the future. However, due to the influence of his previous life, he also had his biological mother Sun, his adopted mother Xu, and his aunt Guo around him.

As a positive example, there is also a typical negative example of Shen Zhou's wife Qiao. Comparing the two, he actually prefers independent, strong, smart and generous women in his heart.

So now that he was looking at Yang Tian with admiration, Shen Rui was a little surprised.

Then, another sweet worry emerged - facing Yang Tian who is no longer a "little girl", probably, from now on, he can no longer give children things like Afu dolls, but what does the big girl like?

?Shen Rui couldn't help but wonder if he should use Brother Bao's rouge set...

On the Longevity Festival, the conflict in the East Nuan Pavilion of Kunning Palace began to ferment from the next day.

There were many people present at the time of the conflict, so news inevitably leaked out and speculations were made by all parties. The fact that Mrs. Jin left the palace with the Zhang family and was subsequently received by the Empress Dowager Jun, also confirmed the conflict from the side.

As the married women returned home, this incident also spread in the capital.

In the early morning of the next day, a royal official suddenly accused the eldest princess of Chun'an of allowing slaves to seize people's fields by force.

The consort Cai Zhen has always been cautious, and the eldest princess of Chun'an is also very strict in running the family, and Chun'an was in Chenghua. During the Hongzhi and Hongzhi dynasties, he was repeatedly granted land, and the family property was abundant. This invasion of people's land was a joke. Everyone in the court regarded it as a joke.

It was Zhang Heling's counterattack against the eldest princess of Chun'an.

The Prince Consort of Chun'an did not accept the move. The imperial censor could indeed "tell something based on rumors", but there was no proof in the end for talking nonsense. It would be a loss of face to mention this kind of thing. The Prince Consort of Chun'an ignored them, which was the greatest contempt for them.

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Fortunately, the emperor also knew what was going on, so he kept it to himself.

As the Zhang family who never felt that they were at fault, they were actually annoyed by the "Ms. Yang family's meddling". However, despite such domineering logic, Zhang Heling, the head of the family, still had a sense of proportion and knew that this matter was not his own.

He also didn't dare to confront Zhan Shifu rashly, especially now that Brother Shou's attitude was unclear, he would not take action against the Yang family.

There are many people in the court who are looking forward to the Yang family and the Zhang family facing each other again, and it is not that no one wants to persuade Yang Tinghe.

However, Yang Tinghe only expressed his position with the words "taboo for the sake of the venerable".

As the emperor's master, Yang Tinghe wanted to be a secret of the venerable emperor and not have any problems with the empress dowager's family. No one could find fault with him.

The Yang family did not take action, but there were many civil servants who looked down upon the Zhang family.

On September 27, Liu Yu, the supervisory censor, reported disasters and reported six things, dealt with the root cause, cleared the original source, favored ministers, encouraged common officials, selected internal servants, and fought against foreign barbarians.

Except for the article on resisting foreign barbarians, which talks about the promotion of great military affairs, the other articles propose that it is advisable to be close to Confucian ministers, to trust cabinet ministers, to choose concubines carefully, and to choose internal servants carefully. It is self-evident who is targeted.

Speaking of which, Liu Yu Liu Yushi is also a legendary figure with great achievements in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his biggest feature is that he specially keeps an eye on the Zhang family.

Just in June of this year, he had just impeached and dismissed Zhang Heling's in-law Hu Zhen from his position as the commander of the Tongzhou Department for corruption and lawlessness.

At the beginning, Hu Zhen also followed Zhang Heling's path and was promoted to the throne by Emperor Hongzhi's internal approval. Liu Yu tried to impeach him several times, but finally caught the evidence and brought down Hu Zhen in one fell swoop.

Pushing forward another half a year, in the 17th year of Hongzhi, he also impeached Jin Qi, the nephew of Mrs. Jin Tai, and took him from the Jinyiwei Qianhu to Xiaoqi...

This is not the most powerful thing. The most powerful thing is that in the memorial to impeach Hu Zhen, Liu Yu not only included all the old relatives of the Zhang family, but also brought along a person that most censors dare not mention -

"Once the lucky door is opened, the group will advance in vain... In recent years, the lucky door has been reopened. Sun Bojian and others have been promoted to the rank of civil servants; Jin Qi and others have been promoted to military positions..."

This Sun Bojian is the former fiancé of Empress Dowager Zhang.

Yes, Empress Dowager Zhang had an engagement before choosing her concubine, but just before she chose her concubine, her fiancé suddenly fell seriously ill. At that time, the Zhang family wanted to send their daughter to be selected, but the Sun family did not hesitate and readily used the excuse that their son was seriously ill.

break off an engagement.

The Zhang family girl with an impeccable reputation entered the palace like this, and went from being the Crown Princess to the Queen, and later to the Queen Mother.

Not long after the Zhang family girl entered the palace, her fiancé Sun Bojian miraculously recovered from his illness...

The Sun family's vigorous cooperation with the Zhang family was naturally rewarded. After Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, the Sun family obtained three officials through Hou Ning's party.

The chief minister is the Secretary Bin, and Boqiang is the chief minister and the chief minister.

At that time, the officials thought it was impossible and begged to take the order back, but Emperor Hongzhi refused.

When Shen Rui heard this piece of gossip, he was extremely shocked. His first reaction was the modern joke, thanking him for not marrying back then...

At that time, there was an uproar inside and outside the imperial court, but because the officials had not tried to defeat Emperor Hongzhi, no one could figure out the emperor's mentality, and since the queen's privacy was involved, no one dared to criticize it anymore, or even mention it again.

this matter.

Only Liu Yu was brave enough to mention it. Although Emperor Pian Hongzhi didn't agree to his request, he didn't punish him for his words.

For such a tough censor, the Zhang family naturally wanted to lay waste to his bones.

But behind this man are the shadows of Liu Jian and Xie Qian, two pavilion elders. He himself is also upright and honest, and there is no way to catch him. Moreover, the emperor also needs such a stupid figure to beat his relatives, so the Zhang family has taken action several times.

If it doesn't work, I can only hold my nose and admit it.

This time Liu Yu folded again, without naming anyone, but sweeping the crowd with a stick, and the little emperor's reaction was also thought-provoking.

Regarding Liu Yu's leak, he also ignored it. However, on the same day, Hu Ke reported to Xue Jin that the officials in Guanglu Temple were redundant and wasted money. However, the young emperor quickly approved and issued an order to revoke the newly added wine brewing house in Guanglu Temple.

Officials Yang Jun and Guo Wen asked him to return to the supervisor to serve.

Foreign ministers may not know the reason, but internal officials all know that the two people who were dismissed are the grandsons of Liang Gong, the eunuch beside the Queen Mother.

As the news leaks out, all parties can't help but have their own thoughts.

Immediately afterwards, on September 30th, the young emperor approved the request of the Ministry of Rites and instead gave the imperial edict to Yang Ting, the young master of Zhan Shifu and a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and his parents.

Originally Yang Tinghe's father, Yang Chun, became an official from the Huguang Chasi Qianshi and received the imperial edict of the fifth rank. Generally, parents receive imperial edicts from their children with high official positions. Therefore, he now followed Yang Tinghe and changed his rank to the fourth rank.

There are a lot of procedures involved in applying for a benefaction, and the request for a benevolence should not be handed over to the Ministry of Rites every day or two. The Ministry of Rites suddenly chooses to submit it at this time, which is naturally not the ideal for peace in the world.

Sure enough, after the emperor's approval, on the first day of October, Ke Daojiao Zhang Heling, Shouning Hou, earnestly offered salt, and the original price was slightly flat, while Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou and businessmen Tan Jingqing, Ma Heng and others proposed to the buyer.

No cutting leather was seen.

The civil servants almost cheered to celebrate the victory. Immediately after, the Ministry of Revenue took advantage of the victory and immediately responded, saying that Tan Jingqing and others used the power of the emperor's family to invade the main courses for the sake of buying subsidies, which was a real loss to the national interest. Wanting to do it in one go, please ask the emperor to seize salt everywhere.

No need.

Unexpectedly, the young emperor greatly disappointed the civil servants this time. He said that the salt was given to him as per the previous decree, and he could gradually buy the salt. However, he ordered the salt inspection censor to strictly prohibit the contract and not to rely on the influence of the emperor's relatives.

Violators will be punished.

Afterwards, I heard that both the Zhou family and the Zhang family went to the palace to express their gratitude, but it took a long time for them to leave the palace.

The Zhang family's relatives and ladies did not leave the palace, but the Zhou family sent relatives and ladies into the palace, the purpose of which was to accompany the Empress Dowager to relieve her boredom...

Turning his hands to cover the clouds and covering the rain, and slapping sweet dates. Although the new emperor is young, he has already mastered this set of imperial tricks.

After receiving this series of news, Shen Rui has begun to consider changing his attitude towards Brother Shou. Born in the Tian family, there are no simple children.

Thinking about the court situation and the case of passing on the feudal vassal, Shen Rui entered the Huanxi Sand Teahouse somewhat absent-mindedly.

The hall on the first floor was quite deserted, with only a few people sitting sparsely, all dressed as poor scholars, and there were only the cheapest tea and snacks on the table. But as soon as Shen Rui walked in, a few eyes came to him, but they were very strange.

Turn away quickly.

It was at this moment of gaze that Shen Rui suddenly came back to his senses and quickly gathered his mind to prepare for the upcoming meeting.

The shopkeeper hurriedly came out from behind the counter, greeted the second master with a cup of his hands, and came closer to report back: "A few of the masters have booked two private rooms upstairs. I asked if I wanted to clear out the irrelevant people.

, the young master at the head said no. Look at the people sitting over there..."

Shen Rui nodded. There were probably not many real tea customers, most of them were Jin Yiwei or Dongchang spies. He waved his hand to the shopkeeper not to worry about it, and then ordered to get the snacks from the car, put them on fine porcelain plates and serve them.

Shen Rui was raising his feet to go upstairs when the sound of footsteps suddenly came from the wooden stairs, as if a giant had descended. Then as expected, a tall and strong man quickly came downstairs.

"Brother Shen!" The man grabbed Shen Rui's arm and said in a loud voice, "I haven't seen you for a long time. I look like I've lost weight. How are you doing?"

Shen Rui patted the man's strong arm and laughed, "Wen Hu! You've grown taller again! I almost don't dare to recognize you when you walk on the street like this!"

The person who came was none other than Gao Wenhu. He had already reached the height of an adult when he was a boy. After two years of training in the Jinyi Guards, he had become stronger and stronger, and now he was as big as half an iron tower.

It's just that his temper hasn't changed at all, he's still as honest as ever.

Gao Wenhu laughed innocently and touched the back of his head, "My mother also complained that I grew up too fast and my clothes were too clothy. It's good that I was given big clothes in the guardhouse, otherwise my salary would not be enough to buy official uniforms." He was joking.

He pulled Shen Rui upstairs again and said: "Go upstairs quickly, everyone is thinking about you. Brother Zhang and the others are here, and..." He paused and said in a slightly unnatural and vague manner:

"And...Brother Shou is here."
To be continued...