Half a month later, near Donghua Gate, Dongchang Yamen.
The East Factory supervises Jin Yiwei. Jinyiwei only handles imperial cases.
The function of Dongchang is much greater than that of Jinyiwei. When the imperial court examines major cases, Dongchang has to send people to hear the trial; the Ministry of War's side newspapers and Tang newspapers, and the General Affairs Department's Dijing newspaper, Dongchang must review them from time to time.
Even the living conditions of ordinary people and the prices of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, Dongchang had to check and record them one by one.
Chang Feng led Liu Jin to the gate of Dongchang.
Liu Jin raised his head and glanced at the four-character hot-gold plaque that read "Dongjishi Factory".
Chang Feng said: "I work part-time in Dongchang. If Li Guang wants to touch you again, he will have to think twice."
Liu Jin looked at Chang Feng with grateful eyes: "Master Chang."
Chang Feng patted Liu Jin on the shoulder and interrupted him: "Don't say anything to outsiders."
"We all belong to Mr. Wynn. With Mr. Wynn gone, we have to help each other."
Chang Feng led Liu Jin to the Governor's duty room.
Qian Neng was sitting in the check-in room drinking a small drink. The dish to go with the wine is very simple, a plate of preserved eggs.
Chang Feng held up his hands and said, "My boss, I have brought Liu Jin here. From now on, my old nephew will be solely taken care of by you!"
People in Jinyiwei all call Qian Neng "boss" to show their closeness.
Liu Jin was able to kneel down and kowtow after giving him money: "My subordinate, Liu Jin, pays homage to the Governor."
Qian Neng smiled and said: "Please get up quickly. We are all family members."
After some pleasantries, Qian Neng pointed to the preserved eggs on the plate: "Chang Feng, sit down and try the preserved eggs that old bastard Wang Shu asked someone to bring me."
"Wang Shu is really rude. He said in the letter that I had no eggs, so he sent me preserved eggs to make up for my loss."
"Haha, it's a joke. I want to reshape my body, and I eat tiger eggs and bear eggs. Do I need to eat preserved eggs?"
Chang Feng is unrestrained when it comes to money. He was not polite, sat down, reached for a piece of preserved egg, put it in his mouth, and chewed it: "Well, it's really delicious."
Qian Neng asked: "Liu Jin, is the injury on your back fully healed?"
Liu Jin replied: "Thank you very much, Lord Governor, for your concern. I'm feeling better now."
Qian Neng said: "Eunuch Li was too ruthless. If Princess Wanping hadn't stopped him in time, you might have died."
The relationship between Qian Neng and Li Guang is similar to that between Shang Ming and Liang Fang. The two sides have always been in harmony with each other.
Chang Feng interjected: "From now on, Liu Jin will have a big backer like you, so no one else dares to touch him at all."
"Who doesn't know that my boss's seniority in the palace is second only to Eunuch Xiao?"
Qian Neng smiled and said: "You are the only one who can talk. Liu Jin, from now on you will be the right foreman in the East Factory."
"In total, you are sitting in the fifth position in Dongchang!"
Liu Jin expressed his gratitude again.
Chang Feng stood up: "The emperor gave me a thousand acres of land in Huangzhuang in the western suburbs. I have to go over and hand over the land."
Qian Neng praised: "Look. In the entire court, who is more favored than you? The emperor gave his slaves the emperor's farmland, which is amazing."
The wind often comes out of Dongchang. Twenty guards in royal robes followed on horseback.
A large group of people arrived at Huangzhuang in the western suburbs in a majestic and mighty manner.
The steward of Huangzhuang is a young prisoner in his fifties named Qiu Ju.
Qiu Ju raised his hand towards Chang Feng and said, "Chang Tongzhi, I have prepared the land booklet for you."
Chang Feng returned the courtesy: "Thank you, Eunuch Qiu."
Qiu Ju took out the land booklet. Chang Feng took it, signed his name on it, and pressed his fingerprints. One thousand acres of imperial land was obtained.
The land in Huangzhuang is all high-quality mature land with fertile soil. One thousand acres is worth at least two to three thousand taels of silver.
Chang Feng was very proud of this recognition.
Emperor Hongzhi was a frugal emperor. When rewarding ministers, most of them use symbolic gifts (except for relatives).
Real rewards like a thousand acres of land are extremely rare.
Qiu Ju took Chang Feng to see the thousand acres of land again. Patiently explain what crops to plant at what time.
Chang Feng discovered that there were about one hundred acres of gourds planted next to his own land.
The gourds are covered with molds. A group of farmers are picking gourds. After taking the gourd, if you are not satisfied with the shape, just crush it with your foot.
Chang Feng asked Qiu Ju: "Whose land belongs to that land? Why do you plant so many gourds?"
Qiu Ju replied: "It belongs to the two uncles of the Zhang family. Since last year, the two uncles have been interested in playing gourds."
"The servants of the Zhang family set aside a hundred acres of land to grow gourds. Each gourd is covered with a mold."
"It doesn't matter how much you plant. After one season, one hundred acres of land can produce at most two or three Mepikin-shaped gourds."
Chang Feng asked: "Where are the rest?"
Qiu Ju replied: "Just crush them all."
Chang Feng sighed: "For two or three gourds, we have to carve out a hundred acres of gourd land. It is really extravagant."
"If we grow wheat and millet, we can feed at least twenty families."
Qiu Ju smiled and said, "That's right. The two uncles are known to love playing and don't hesitate to spend money."
Chang Feng rode back to his house. There is a mule tied to the horse-tying stone at the door.
Chang Feng recognized that it was his brother-in-law Huang Yuan's mule.
After entering the mansion, Chang Feng asked Liu Xiaoyan, who was embroidering red flowers under the pomegranate tree in the front yard: "Is Huang Yuan here?"
Liu Xiaoyan replied: "Yes, here we are. I'm fishing with Tangtang at the pond in the back garden."
Chang Feng frowned: "We're not alone together, are we? We haven't even been together yet, so we'll suffer a loss again."
Liu Xiaoyan replied: "Don't worry. Sister Ninth has brought a little maid and is watching them from across the pond."
Changfeng comes to the pond.
Huang Yuan was always a scholar and valued etiquette. He was not right next to Chang Tian, but three feet apart. Holding a fishing rod in his hand.
Chang Feng patted Huang Yuan on the shoulder, making Huang Yuan tremble with fright: "Ah! It's Brother Chang."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "You have nothing wrong with you, what are you afraid of?"
Chang Tian rolled her eyes at Chang Feng: "I'm afraid you'll scare away the bastard who's about to bite the hook."
As he was talking, Chang Tian twitched his fishing rod and caught a tortoise weighing one pound.
Chang Tian happily picked up the hook for the bastard: "I caught three today, and you caught two. You lose."
Huang Yuandao: "The princess is very skilled in skills. The students are willing to be inferior."
Chang Tian held his head high like a victorious general and threw the tortoise back into the pond to release him.
If the tortoise could talk, he would definitely sing a few lines to Chang Tian: Listen to me and thank you, because of you
Chang Feng sat next to Huang Yuan: "You will take the Beizhili Township Examination in five months. How are you preparing?"
Huang Yuan said modestly: "I don't have any confidence in my heart."
Chang Feng said with a smile: "It's okay if you don't have a bottom line. You have to take the provincial examination and be on the apricot list and the gold list next spring. Only if you have the title of Jinshi can you marry Tangtang."
When the eldest brother talked about marriage, Chang Tian blushed shyly. She stood up and said, "I'm going to the kitchen to see if the old hen is ready to stew. My sister-in-law said that the hen soup will be stewed tonight to replenish your health."
After Chang Tian left, Chang Feng said to Huang Yuan: "The emperor just gave me a thousand acres of land. The land cannot be transferred to others."
"But you can do whatever you want with the annual harvest. When you two get married, the annual harvest will be given to you."
"It's all part of my dowry for Tangtang."
Huang Yuandao: "Thank you, brother."
Chang Feng said: "I said it's a dowry. It's not your turn to thank her. You just need to be nice to her."
"If she suffers the slightest injustice after marrying you, be careful and I will skin you."
Huang Yuan smiled bitterly: "Brother, you are not the only one who said he wanted to skin me."
Chang Feng asked: "Oh? Who else?"
Huang Yuan replied: "Of course it's the two uncles. The two uncles went to the Imperial Academy the day before yesterday and dragged me to drink."
"As soon as I raised my glass, they threatened me that if I treated the princess badly, they would skin me. Not only would they skin me, they would also squeeze out my yolks and feed them to flies."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "These two living kings of hell."
At night, the family had dinner, and Chang Feng and Huang Yuan discussed craftsmanship for a while.
Chang Feng found that his understanding of the meaning of the scriptures and the gorgeous and accurate wording in the articles were far inferior to those of his would-be brother-in-law.
The success of Huang Yuan should be like searching a bag to retrieve something.
If nothing unexpected happens. In the spring of next year, Chang Feng and his brother-in-law-to-be Huang Yuan will step into the gate of Gongyuan to participate in the Spring Examination.
He sighed: "It seems that next spring, I will be your foil."
Huang Yuan said humbly: "Brother Chang is overly praised. It is still unknown whether he can be named in the Guangbang list this autumn. How dare I expect spring?"
At the moment of Haishi, Changfeng sent Huang Yuan out of the house.
He sat on the lounge chair under the pomegranate tree in the front yard and looked up at the stars in the spring night sky.
Chang Feng’s birthday is in autumn. After this autumn, he will have entered his thirties.
Compared with the vast galaxy, ten years may be just a blink of an eye.
For people, ten years is a long time.
In the past ten years, Chang Feng has experienced many official battles and palace intrigues.
He has done good things, and he has also done bad things. He has been cruel and he has been kind.
After going through so many things, he rose from being a general in charge of confiscating the family to Zuo Tongzhi, becoming the actual controller of Jinyiwei.
Chang Feng thought to himself: I didn’t know that my father had a spirit in heaven and knew my current identity. Would you be proud of me or worried.
Day and night alternate, and the pomegranate trees in Changfu bloom, fall, bear fruit, and bear fruit.
In the blink of an eye, in the autumn of the eighth year of Hongzhi's reign, the pomegranate fruit has opened its mouth, revealing a belly full of red descendants.
Changfeng finished attending the morning court. He did not go to Jinyiwei, but returned home. He hurriedly asked Madam Ninth to change him into casual clothes.
Chang Feng urged Mrs. Ninth: "Quickly fasten your belt for me. I have to go to Qingsong Coffin Shop quickly. Today is the day when the provincial examination results are released."
Turning around, he saw Chang Tian standing at the door.
Chang Feng asked: "Tangtang. I'm going to Huang Yuan's house to wait for the wedding invitation with him. Aren't you coming?"
Chang Tian said shyly: "I won't go. Brother, go ahead. If he gets hit, remember to come back early and tell me."
Chang Feng came to Qingsong Coffin Shop. On that autumn night ten years ago, after he executed the old cripple at Qingsong Coffin Shop, he began his journey to higher levels.
Ten years later, the old cripple has become his in-laws. Things in this world are really elusive.
Huang Yuan and Lao Laizi were already waiting at the door.
When the results of the rural examination are released, if the new candidates live in the capital, the newspaper will come before noon.
The three of them waited from early in the morning until midnight.
The old cripple said: "Let's go back to the house and wait."
The three of them returned to the coffin shop. A tea table was set up among a pile of coffins and paper bundles.
Huang Yuan was uneasy. When I went to get the teapot, I accidentally hit my head on a large nanmu coffin.
When he felt the pain, he accidentally dropped the teapot and smashed it into pieces.
Huang Yuan cursed: "Bad luck."
Chang Feng said: "Wrong. This is a good omen, a coffin, a promotion and a fortune. It also adds a piece of peace!"
The old cripple swept away the teapot fragments all over the floor. After making a pot of tea, the three of them drank tea and continued to wait.
From three strokes after sunrise to almost noon, no news came to my door.
Chang Feng had no choice but to comfort Huang Yuan: "You are still young. It is not a bad thing to fail the first provincial examination. You will definitely pass in three years."
Huang Yuan asked cautiously: "Will the marriage between the student and the princess also have to be postponed until three years later?"
Chang Feng smiled and said: "So you are worried about this. Keep your heart in your stomach. Regardless of whether you win or not, I will arrange your marriage next spring."
The old cripple said: "That's all. It seems that the newspaper will not come today. Mr. Chang, I will make lunch."
"Don't blame me for the wine and the food here. It's so easy to come here and have lunch before leaving."
Chang Feng rolled up his arms and sleeves: "I'll cook with you. I haven't been in the kitchen for ten years."
The three of them were washing rice and choosing vegetables in the kitchen. Huang Yuan could not hide his disappointed expression.
Changfeng picked up the bucket and poured water into the pot. Suddenly he seemed to hear the sound of gongs and drums.
Chang Feng put down the bucket: "Listen, what is the sound?"
Huang Yuan's eyes lit up: "It sounds like the sound of gongs and drums."
The sound of gongs and drums is getting closer and closer. The three of them arrived at the door of the coffin shop.
I saw two newspapers, one fat and one thin, walking over happily. Followed by a dozen servants playing gongs and drums.
People all over the street gathered around and stopped to watch the excitement.
The fat newspaper man walked to the door of the coffin shop and shouted: "Is this the treasured house of Mr. Huang Yuanhuang?"
Huang Yuan hurriedly said: "That's it!"
The fat newspaperman held up a wedding invitation: "Congratulations to Mr. Huang Yuan Huang, who ranked tenth in the high school Beizhili Township Examination."
Huang Yuan took the wedding invitation. He stroked the wedding sticker as if he were stroking Chang Tian's tender hands in Chang's mansion with Chang Feng behind his back.
After a moment, he laughed loudly: "Oh, okay, I got it!"
It's too late, but it's soon. Before he finished speaking, Fat Baozi rounded his arms and said, "Pah!" He gave Huang Yuan a big blow!
Huang Yuan was stunned.
Chang Feng and Lao Laizi were also confused. I have never heard of the custom in the examination hall that after winning the examination, the newspaper will slap the newly elected candidate and force him to fight.
Fat Baozi slapped Huang Yuan, not counting it. His forehead was furrowed into a "well" shape, with a ferocious expression on his face.
Then he held back his breath and roared: "Beast, what did you hit!"
Huang Yuan was shocked: "Huh?"
The fat newspaper man rounded his arms again: "Your name is Huang Yuan, right?" Before he finished speaking, "Pah!" Another big fight.
Two consecutive big fights knocked Huang Yuan silly.
Chang Feng reacted and grabbed the fat reporter by the neck: "You're just late in announcing the good news, but you're also beating up the new imperial examiner?"
"I'll deal with you! I'm Jin Yiwei Zuo Tong Zhi Chang Feng!"
Chang Feng pinched Fat Baozi until he was speechless.
The skinny newspaperman on the side couldn't laugh or cry: "Are you Mr. Chang of the Imperial Guard? Mr. Chang, you have misunderstood!"
"Today we two brothers were responsible for delivering good news to five households. Two of the newly elected people were extremely happy and sad, and were obsessed by the happy phlegm."
"That's why we delayed reporting the good news to Mr. Huang."
"I slapped Mr. Huang in the face, called him a beast, and asked him what he was hit with. I was afraid that he would also like phlegm and attack his heart."
"We really mean well!"
Chang Feng couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this explanation: "What else is there to say?"
After saying that, he let go of the fat newspaper.
Fat Baozi and Skinny Baozi knelt down: "Master Chang, we really don't have any ill intentions."
Chang Feng said quickly: "I misunderstood you. Get up quickly."
Fat Baozi was so courageous that he actually extended his hand to ask for a reward in front of the boss of Jinyiwei.
Chang Feng now has a wealthy family, so he poured out four golden beans from his purse and gave two newspaper men two to each of them.
The fat newspaper man shouted: "Thank you for the reward, Master Xi! I wish Mr. Huang to be on the apricot list for consecutive examinations, and go straight to the gold list for the palace examination!"
Huang Yuan smiled and said, "I'd like to lend you some good words."
After sending away the newspaper, a group of neighbors on Fulu Street who specialized in the business of dead people sent wine, food, and congratulatory money one after another.
Fulu Street was filled with joy. Finally, among these low-class neighbors, there is a master of Juren.
(End of chapter)
