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Chapter 26

"Mr. Lin, it's been a long time since I was gone!"

When Ye Xiaotian saw Lin Siyan, he smiled and bowed to him. His etiquette was very thoughtful and his attitude was very kind, but his behavior was a bit casual, unlike an ordinary subordinate who saw his superior, which meant, "I am very close to you."

The relationship between the two is indeed quite close. Putting aside the meeting in Nanjing, the two of them were also acclaimed when they were in Huxian. In addition, the last time Ye Xiaotian arrived in the capital, he gave Mr. Lin a generous gift before leaving, and the relationship between the two became even more subtle.

Lin Siyan pointed at Ye Xiaotian and said, "You can really cause trouble. In Jinling, you made trouble all over the three ministries of officials, judicial and rituals, and left Li Guojiu. In Huxian, changing customs and matters has turned into a big mess! Last time you came to Beijing, you were in prison because of the nightmare case. This was even better, and you came to Beijing just to be guilty."

Ye Xiaotian smiled with a saliva and said, "Young officials don't like to cause trouble. Isn't there always someone to find you to worry about you? This time, you are not going to be a crime in Beijing. At least it's not a big deal that you have caused in Beijing. You shouldn't be a big deal?"

Minister Lin snorted coldly and said, "Isn't it caused trouble in Beijing? Is it a small matter to kill four chieftains in a row?"

Ye Xiaotian sat down on the chair next to him and corrected: "It's three, not four, and the other one is Tushe."

Minister Lin glared at him and said, "Where is the Yang family? Didn't Yang Xianmin die at your hands?"

Ye Xiaotian was a little surprised: "The adults were in the Ministry of Rites, and he actually knew the affairs of the subordinates so well. It's really..."

Mr. Lin snorted and said, "What's the matter? Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles away. Do you think only I know what you did in Guizhou?"

Mr. Lin glanced at Ye Xiaotian and said in a more intense tone: "It is absolutely impossible for you to have such a big disaster to be safe and sound. The court must teach you some lessons. This is also for your own good, so as to avoid you from being ignorant of the world and causing even greater trouble sooner or later!"

Ye Xiaotian felt relieved when he heard this. In fact, as soon as he came in, he felt relieved when Mr. Lin scolded him. If Mr. Lin didn't want to get close to him, he wouldn't bother to scold him. Since he scolded him, he would at least treat him as half of his own.

Now Mr. Lin said again, "The court will definitely teach him some lessons, and it is also for his own good." No matter how you hear such words, it is like a father scolding his son, what other serious consequences can there be? Scolding a few words, endure it! Slapping your butts a few times, you still endure it. Anyway, there will be no severe sanctions.

The two of them laughed and laughed. The communication about the serious matter was over. Ye Xiaotian was about to achieve the result he wanted, and Mr. Lin also successfully gave him a reassurance.

The servant gave Ye Xiaotian a tea. Mr. Lin glanced at him and said, "I am in Beijing. I heard about you, but I don't know much about the details. What happened? Why did you cause several murders one after another when you returned to Guizhou?"

Ye Xiaotian was furious when he heard this and snorted coldly: "Sir, you also understand Xiaotian's temper. He has always been a person who will not offend me, and I will not offend others! Why did such a big deal happen this time? It's not because someone deliberately provoked me!"

Ye Xiaotian became more and more angry as he spoke, and said, "All the kings under the world are the kings! The shores of the earth are the kings! But those grass-headed kings are not in the court, so how can they take our emperor seriously! The lower officials are the chief officials of Woniuling whom the emperor granted the imperial seal, but the chieftains do not recognize the emperor's account! They provoked the lower officials in every possible way and sent a large group of killers. If they wanted to kill the lower officials, the lower officials had to force them..."

When you see someone, what you say. Now there is a court official in front of you, and the same thing is still the same. After slightly modifying the reasons, it will be different, which will cause this court official to share the same hatred.

Ye Xiaotian, who was a prison guard in Tianzhu, was quite clever at this point. Through his introduction, the conflict between him and the chieftains of all parties became a dispute between the central government and the local government, a dispute between unification and autonomy, and a dispute between the court and the local officials. Even though Mr. Lin knew more than Ye Xiaotian thought, the emotional Libra still couldn't help but lean towards Ye Xiaotian.

"Some chieftains are not in the court and do not know that they are kind to each other, so they are indeed a bit domineering..."

Minister Lin stroked his beard and said, he wanted to test Ye Xiaotian's opinion of the group of chieftains, but he swallowed it back when he said that. In any case, Ye Xiaotian was also a hereditary local official. He wanted to pull him into his camp and let him fight to completely eliminate the system of hereditary local official. Ye Xiaotian probably might not agree.

If Ye Xiaotian was born as a scholar, there might be some possibility, but he was originally just a prison guard. In his heart, he probably wouldn't think that only the emperor's family was hereditary and the descendants of the heroes and relatives and heroes were hereditary.

Anyway, it is difficult for Ye Xiaotian to integrate into the toast group. Objectively, it can help their plans. There is no need to tell the hawkish plan to him and completely win him over.

Otherwise, it would be one thing for the chieftains in Guizhou to know that the court had been seeing them unhappy, and it would be another matter that a group of ministers in the court were deliberately trying to find ways to deal with them.

Minister Lin told Ye Xiaotian: "The memorial about you will be handed over to the imperial court in the next three or two days. If the emperor summons you, you will say as before. I believe the emperor will understand your difficulties and will deal with it as appropriate when punishing."

This was once again telling him that there would be no serious consequences. Ye Xiaotian quickly bowed and said, "Thank you, sir."

Mr. Lin nodded and said, "You are still waiting for sin now. You should not walk around. Go back to the inn and wait. Don't see too many people until the court has a result of the handling."

As Mr. Lin said, he moved the file and picked up his pen. Mr. Lin looked at two lines of words, but before he could hear Ye Xiaotian say "The official is leaving", he couldn't help but look up in surprise and saw Ye Xiaotian standing in front of the desk, looking like he was about to say something but stopped.

Mr. Lin frowned slightly and said, "What else is there?"

"Uh...this..."

Ye Xiaotian laughed twice and said shyly: "There is another thing that the minister wants to trouble the minister, uh...a small thing, just a small thing..."

Mr. Lin put down his pen and said, "What's the matter?"

Ye Xiaotian said: "This... the official wants to ask about the residence of the third lady of the Mongolian Kedun, I wonder where she was placed by the court?"

When Mr. Lin heard this, he became nervous. Ye Xiaotian was a troublemaker. He asked what the third lady was doing. If he had a conflict with the third lady, he would not have to kill anyone and would only cause a big mess, and the court would have to "kill Ma Su in tears."

Mr. Lin said alertly: "What did you ask the third lady in her residence? Do you have any conflicts with the third lady?"

Ye Xiaotian quickly said, "Sir, I misunderstood! That's right, the wife of Xia, the chieftain of Hongfeng Lake in Guiyang, was granted the title of imperial edict and went to Beijing to thank her. The daughter of the Xia family, Miss Yingying, was in love with the lower officials... and had an alliance with the lower officials.

Xiaguan went to Beijing this time and thought he could visit Mrs. Xia and Miss Yingying, but he just found out that the mother and daughter were invited by the third lady to visit, but Xiaguan didn't know where the third lady lived, so..."

Minister Lin breathed a sigh of relief. Since this is the case, there should be no trouble. Minister Lin said, "The third lady lives in the inn, don't you live there too?"

Only then did Ye Xiaotian realize that after searching for a while, Yingying actually went to where she lived, and said happily: "Thank you sir!"

Ye Xiaotian said, and took out a brocade box from his arms. Without waiting for Mr. Lin to refuse, he put it on the table and bowed: "This is a toy given by a friend. How can the servant be so calm and play with these things? Let's give it to the adults. It's not worth much money, and a little care."

Ye Xiaotian said, and had already taken two steps back and said, "Secretary of the Lord!" Then he turned around and walked out. The last time Ye Xiaotian gave a pair of red jade walnuts to Mr. Lin was priceless. What was the gift this time?

Mr. Lin felt deeply uneasy and he liked good things, but the last time it was Ye Xiaotian's crime had been removed. Before he was about to turn back to Guizhou, this time he was waiting for the crime to be punished and had not been dealt with. He was suspected of accepting his generous gift.

But Ye Xiaotian gave gifts, put things quickly and said goodbye quickly. Mr. Lin had no time to stop him, so he couldn't shout loudly, and he was tugging. When he wanted to stop him, Ye Xiaotian had already withdrawn from the signing room.

Minister Lin hesitated for a moment and had to open the box. He wanted to see what it was first. If it was too expensive, it would never be needed. As an official, he had a very control over material desires and understood what he could take, what he could take, what he could take, what he could not take, and what he could not take under what circumstances.

Open the sandalwood box, with the red velvet at the bottom, inside it was an eel-yellow copper stove, which was round and small, exuding a luster of luster. Mr. Lin's eyes radiated and blurted out: "Xuande stove!"

What is the number one favorite cultural and play objects that gentry in the Ming Dynasty likes? It is a copper furnace! It is difficult for people to imagine playing with copper furnaces today, but it was a trend at that time. Among the copper furnaces, the Xuande furnaces were the most exquisite ones produced during the Xuande period.

In the third year of Xuande, the envoy of Siam brought tens of thousands of kilograms of wind-milled copper to the copper-poor Ming Dynasty. At that time, the copper mine in Yunnan had not yet been mined, and the golden brass made Zhu Zhanji extremely happy. He ordered people to turn these tens of thousands of kilograms of wind-milled copper into copper water and cast more than 18,000 ritual vessels, including three thousand incense burners. These three thousand incense burners were Xuande furnaces that were longed for later collectors.

Before the Ming Dynasty, bronze ware was all bronze and easy to rust, while Xuande furnace was brass, which were mixed with precious metals such as gold and silver during smelting, so the weight, color and texture were very different from those of the previous copper furnaces.

This thing is indeed a favorite object for the people of the Wanli Dynasty, but it is not worth a lot of money. In Ye Xiaotian's current situation, this is the best gift he can give without being sensitively rejected by officials.

Minister Lin smiled and stroked his beard and said, "He's a smart person!"
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