By the time Xu He and the other three returned to Tongpan Yamen, Li Zhijie had already returned.
When two old friends met, they both burst into tears.
At the most critical moment of Zhejiang's anti-Japanese war, if it weren't for the food and grass provided by Li Zhijie of Yangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang's situation would have deteriorated long ago. How could he have waited until Li Zhijie went north to ask for food.
But Li Zhijie felt that he had not done enough. He held Xie Kun's arm and said with red eyes: "If the prince had not worshiped his ancestors and the flood had passed, I could have raised more food and grass, Lu Budang would not have committed suicide, and you would not have succeeded. This is what it looks like today!”
The two grown men crying like this made all the juniors present uncomfortable standing still.
Xu He stepped forward and said: "Teacher, uncle, how can you two be responsible for this kind of thing?"
Qi Jiguang also said: "Yes, Teacher and Mr. Li have tried their best. Lu Butang's regret is really, really..."
Xu He knew that the next thing he wanted to say was the word [imperial court], but he was a cautious man and did not want to talk about the imperial court in front of so many people, so he couldn't continue talking in the middle of the sentence.
Fortunately, Li Zhijie and Xie Kun quickly adjusted their moods and stopped talking about this sad incident.
Li Zhijie had already prepared a luncheon, and asked his wife to meet Xie Kun. During the dinner, everyone picked up some happy things to talk about, but not a word was said about the Japanese pirates.
"Lingsheng, the Grand Master has already read your papers and will probably promote you to be a junior student!" Li Zhijie said.
Hearing this, Xie Kun said with rare joy: "Liang Sheng's knowledge is getting better and better! The candidates who have passed the exam are already junior students!"
The state provides Lin students with Lin rice every month, and they are exempted from corvee labor for two people at home. It can be said that being a high school student is nothing.
Only the junior students among the students are the truly privileged class in this country, although they are still at the bottom.
But even the small privileges at the lowest level are something that many people cannot even imagine in their lifetime.
Qi Jiguang looked at Xu He with envious eyes and said: "Because the son of a hundred families in our health center has passed the examination as a scholar, those hundred families now see the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief is polite to him. Say you loudly." awesome!"
Xie Kun asked Xu He: "I remember that Yang Yinqiu seemed to be at odds with your family, but I didn't expect him to be fair!"
Li Zhijie smiled: "Ziyu, what year is this from the old calendar? Now the scholar in Nanzhili is no longer Yang Yinqiu!"
Xie Kun suddenly said: "Xia Yangqiu fell, and he was also stepped on? Who is Ti Xue now?"
"Wang Liangchen!" Li Zhijie said.
Hearing this name, Xie Kun frowned and asked, "Are you talking about Wang Rulin?"
Seeing Li Zhijie nodding, Xie Kun snorted coldly: "Wang Liangchen is a good person, but it is true that the Shen family's in-laws have no one left in the country!"
When Xu He heard this, he was surprised and said: "Uncle, although the Grand Master is an in-law of the Shen family, he is still quite upright!"
Xie Kun shook his head and said: "As long as there is anything to do with the Songjiang Shen family, there is no good person!"
Seeing Xie Kun rejecting the Shen family so much, Xu He thought it was because he also knew some inside stories about the Shen family. Unexpectedly, his teacher Li Zhijie said: "When Shen Han was the elder of the Shen family, he wrote a book to impeach your uncle's sister, that is, Today, Her Royal Highness the Queen is interfering in politics in the harem! That’s why the two families have never dealt with each other!”
Seeing that Xie Kun had no intention of stopping him, Li Zhijie continued: "Speaking of this, the Xie family also wants to thank Xiao Shigong!"
Hearing this, Xu He said in surprise: "What does this have to do with my uncle?"
It turns out that Emperor Zhengzheng had four queens in total.
The first queen was Queen Chen, who was born in a small family and had a beautiful appearance. She was selected in the palace draft when Emperor Zhengzheng first ascended the throne. Queen Chen was favored, but in the end she died of hemorrhage due to dystocia during pregnancy.
The second one was Empress Lu. Shortly after the death of Empress Chen, Empress Lu was canonized, but she was deposed in the twelfth year of Zhizheng. It is said that her mother's family was pampered and domineering, which angered Emperor Zhizheng, so she was found by him. The excuse is gone.
But Empress Lu had two sons, the later crown prince Zhang Yan and the king of Qi Zhang Can.
Empress Lu was later relegated to the cold palace, and the two princes were also adopted by the third empress Fang. It is probably because the two brothers were not raised by their biological mother when they were young, so when they grew up, they had no brothers or sisters, and they looked like enemies when they met. of.
Speaking of Emperor Zhizheng's third queen, Fang, she was really a ruthless character.
Because she had nothing to do, whenever she heard any movement in the belly of a concubine in the palace, she would become extremely nervous, wishing that the other party would die immediately.
Finally, in the twenty-fourth year of Zhizheng, a big event happened.
It is said that Concubine Gong was pregnant at that time, and she was already pregnant before Empress Fang knew about it. Empress Fang knew that later in life, she aborted Concubine Gong's already-formed fetus with a child-preventing soup, causing Concubine Gong to bleed to death.
The incident spread outside the palace, and the courtiers were furious. On the same day, some people knelt outside the Meridian Gate and demanded that the emperor depose the queen.
However, Emperor Zhengzheng was very fond of Fang at that time, so he dismissed this rumor. Instead, he thought that the ministers who knelt down to supplicate took advantage of the wind and made false accusations against Fang.
Among the courtiers kneeling outside the Meridian Gate at that time, Xu Song, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was headed, and most of them were officials from Jiangnan.
Later, the Fang family was deposed, and no one else remembered him until Emperor Zheng, but the leader Xu Song was remembered.
Xu He suddenly realized: "No wonder the uncle always says that he doesn't have the Sacred Heart. That's it!"
But he was confused and asked: "Then what does this have to do with Her Majesty the Queen? Why does the teacher say that my uncle still wants to thank my uncle?"
Xie Kun sighed and said: "The Fang family was deposed. At that time, my sister was still a minor servant in the palace. Because she was favored by His Majesty, she soon became pregnant and was promoted to concubine. At that time, there were A talented man named Gong was pregnant with your majesty's prince at the same time as his sister. At that time, the throne was vacant, and the court was arguing endlessly about who should be appointed as the main palace!"
Li Zhijie said: "The Shen family supports Gong Cairen, who is making trouble in the court. Originally, there was little chance of becoming the queen, but Xiao Shigong impeached Gong Cairen's father for bullying men and women in the countryside, and colluding with the government to annex people's fields. Oh. , By the way, at that time Xiao Shigong had been sent out, and the right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was rectifying Jizhou and other departments and was also the governor of Shuntian. That Gongcai family was from Ninghe, Shuntian Prefecture! "
"Because of this incident, Gong Cai was frightened day and night, leading to miscarriage..."
When Xu He heard this, he realized that the current queen, his uncle's eldest sister, came to the throne, and it turned out that it was related to his uncle.
"That's wrong!" Xu He frowned, "I remember that when my uncle came, he didn't treat our Xu family..."
Xie Kun smiled and said: "Isn't he nice to your Xu family? And he didn't come to see Little Shigong?"
Xu He nodded.
Xie Kun said: "After that incident, my sister asked me to go to the Xu Mansion to pay my respects. Unexpectedly, Xiao Shigong turned me away and said that he impeached the Gong family for the sake of the country and His Majesty, not for our Xie family. ! And tell me not to come to your door again!"
It's strange. Before the uncle set off, he wanted Xie Kun to help him make suggestions. Isn't this a slap in the face?
No, time has changed, and the queen has long since secured her position. Xu Song is now just a bare-bones pavilion elder, and Xie Kun is more familiar with the Japanese chaos in the southeast. If Xie Kun is invited to step in at this time, the emperor will probably have nothing to do with it. Afraid.
