Chapter 659: A sad person has no embrace (Part 1)

Zhang Yue lived in Nanjing for more than a year, and then he had come to visit the granary inspection and was very familiar with this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Among the people who accompanied him, except for the two boys Li Guoxiu and Rui Yixiang who were born in the north, he saw everything fresh. For the first time, Niu Gan Zhang Bu and the four of them also looked around the way. Most of the rest had lived in this prosperous capital for a while, and the reaction after entering the city was naturally ordinary. Now, the residents of Nanjing have dropped sharply by one third compared to that year, and the streets are a little empty.

The group entered the city from Jiangdong Gate. Zhang Yue asked Du Wan to take the others to settle down first, and he and Sun Han went to the yamen separately. He took Niu Gan and Zhang Bu and walked straight along Jiangdong Gate Street. Through several longitudinal alleys, he saw a wooden archway with the words Zhonglian from afar. He immediately rushed over and jumped off the horse with an arrow.

Yingtian Mansion is located in the middle section of the West Tower Archway, next to the East Street of Fu, with archways on both sides. Zhang Yue had just passed by the West Tower. When he entered the main entrance of the Mansion, there was a three-meter-long large screen wall with the patterns of Jiangya and lotus flowers engraved on it. Now it is the end of the year and the lobby is idle, so the yamen runners leading the way directly took Zhang Yue to the Second Hall. Along the way, Zhang Buniu dared to look around, and saw that the government office was in a strict atmosphere and countless houses, he couldn't help but smack his tongue secretly. He thought that even the War Department and the Rites Department of the Capital were not as good as this scene. When he heard that there were more than 200 rooms inside and outside, the two were even more surprised.

"In the 18th year of Yongle, the late emperor moved the capital and transferred nearly 30,000 civilians from Nanjing to enrich Beijing. Now Nanjing is much deserted, and our government office is not as busy as before."

Now the prefect Zhang Xu, the prefect of Yingtian, was once Zhang Zhuo's boss. Therefore, after Zhang Yue met, he smiled and summoned other officials to meet each other, and personally led people to go around the government office. Since Zhang Zhuo was once the magistrate of Jiangning for a while, and was later promoted to the position of Yingtian Prefecture, Zhang Yue has come here to serve, which gives people a feeling of father leaving the son.

When Zhang Zhuo was in office, he did not take on power or fight for power. He was calm and his superiors and colleagues got along well. However, Yingtian Mansion had never changed much. Now the officials from the upper and lower levels had almost no change from the beginning. Therefore, everyone was polite to this son of his former colleague. Even the oldest officials would not rely on their seniority at this time.

The prefect is second only to the prefect, and is higher than the prefect magistrate of Zhizhonghe. Even if Zhang Yue is young, he is still the boss!

When he arrived at the official house behind the second hall, Zhang Xu turned around and smiled, "Brother Yuanjie, behind this is the official house of the government office. In addition to me, He Zhizhong Luo Tongzong and others also live in it. I have asked someone to move a few rooms..."

After hearing the word "official house", Zhang Yue quickly glanced at the colleagues next to him. Seeing that everyone had a strange look on his face, he naturally understood what was going on. Although there were many houses in the government office, there were many officials, especially the Yingtian Mansion. The official seal official occupied the most and best houses. With just a few remaining officials, the remaining houses were naturally tight. Now, although the vacant minister was vacant, he might have taken over the house after leaving.

Therefore, before Zhang Xu finished speaking, he smiled and said, "How can I make people spend the New Year? My father also had a house outside, which was very close to the government office, so I still lived there conveniently. However, the court has a system, so I would like to help you to make peace and not let me be impeached for this matter."

When they heard that Zhang Yue did not occupy the official house in the mansion, everyone from Zhang Xu was relieved. After all, not every official has a wealthy family. If they had to rent a house outside, they would really have to go to drink the northwest wind. So, after a simple reception banquet, Zhang Xu personally sent Zhang Yue to the second gate, and when the person left, he nodded to the officials.

"The father must have his son. Zhang Zhuo was humble and gentle in the past. His son now seems to be a little bit like this and does not have the arrogance of being young and successful. However, today, when the yamen seals today, you must be more cautious when opening the office in the future. He is no better than Zhang Zhuo. He has to be trusted for his reputation. Don't make fun of young people! Besides, don't talk about things like losing power. It's not our turn to comment on how the court employs people!"

Zhang Yue naturally didn't know that he had come to make the Yingtian Prefecture's family be careful. After arriving at home, he saw Sun Han who also rushed back. Because the Sun family's house had already been sold out and there were close relatives on both sides, they discussed living together when they left Beijing. Although the huge British Duke's Mansion was still empty, Zhang Yue didn't want to be so arrogant, so he moved into the house where the father and son had lived in Nanjing, and later Zhang Zhuo stayed for a while.

This house was originally a small courtyard, but it was not only when Zhang Zhuo lived in Nanjing a few years ago, but it was expanded several times. Because Zhang Fu spoke, he specially brought in two courtyards of the Duke of England's Mansion together. It was naturally more than enough for the two families to live in. Although it has been empty for more than a year, it started to sort out the news a while ago, and now it has been cleaned up.

Nanjing has the Governor's Office and six ministries. Even the Jinyiwei and many garrison offices are available, just like a small court, but the emperor and the crown prince are not here, and there is nothing important here to deal with government affairs. Therefore, the main management of the entire Nanjing is Jiangnan's wealth, just like a nursing home with a huge area, only Yingtian Mansion is still busy. Even so, it is already the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. When Zhang Yue handles the matters for taking office, the yamen seals it, and he suddenly gets off for several days.

In the past, I wanted to have a few days off but couldn't get it, but now I'm on vacation as soon as I come. Zhang Yue, who is idle, naturally felt uncomfortable with this idle day. He originally wanted to go out for a walk, but Du Wan said that he was half a patient, and said that after waiting for the New Year, he went out to pay a visit, and kept the person at home.

Seeing everyone busy packing things to prepare for the New Year, he simply sent people out to find out the news and went to the study to think about writing couplets. This is an old rule that has been circulated among the people during the Hongwu period. In addition, the funeral is now in line with the old Hongwu system. After the 27th day, there are not many taboos, so red paper is sold on the street very early. Not only do households need to paste Spring Festival couplets at the gates, but even screen wall furniture windows and doors, etc., also have to paste the word "Fu" of different sizes just to get a good reputation during the New Year.

"Young Master, Mr. Li and Mr. Rui are here."

Zhang Yue, who was lowering his head to write the word "Fu", ordered people to come in without raising his head. When he saw the two of them coming into the house to salute, he casually said. After writing the last vertical line of the word "Fu", he put down his pen, picked up the dou square and blew it gently, nodding to the two: "This should be the first time you went out far away, and it was the first time you were spending the Spring Festival outside. Are you still used to eating, working and resting?"

Li Guoxiu quickly replied: "Report to my master, my family has also moved to Beijing from the south, so there is nothing wrong with it."

Although Rui Yixiang was smart, he was honest: "There are warm kangs in the capital, but Nanjing often uses charcoal stoves and soup kids to keep warm. I often feel cold when I slept until half a night. I mentioned it to Uncle Zhang in the morning, and he didn't say anything and asked someone to add a new quilt to me. There was fish every meal, and I really felt sorry for it. The adults treated us too well."

Seeing Li Guoxiu nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, Zhang Yue couldn't help laughing and immediately asked, "You should know that the people in the Class A of the Clan are led by Master Chen, so we have already traveled to Jiangnan. I only ask you, do you know that I asked them to go to Jiangnan this time and chose you two young ones to follow you, why?"

The two teenagers discussed this issue countless times along the way. They settled down last night and thought about it for a while. They always felt that the statements of the masters in the clan were unreliable. At this moment, the two looked at each other, and it was Li Guoxiu who spoke first.

"There are most students from the north in the clan, and there are very few southerners. Let's not talk about the provincial examinations for the time being. In the past, there were always many students from the southern high school than in the north. Adults should want to take advantage of the opportunity to go to Jiangnan to let us see the talents of Jiangnan, so that everyone can be complacent and not be complacent because of their excellent grades in the clan."

Seeing that Zhang Yue was not right, Rui Yixiang gritted his teeth and said, "Along the way, adults often took the exam to compare with us during rest, and gave a lot of advice. Do you... do you want to put us under your own jurisdiction?"

Seeing Li Guoxiu's face change drastically and he winked at his companions, Zhang Yue finally couldn't help laughing, and felt that these two teenagers were really interesting. Because Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were both very taboo in both dynasties, scholars with great talent in the folk often had a lot of brains to become disciples, but those literary leaders rarely easily accepted students. Although there were many people like Yang Shiqi, there were not a real disciple, but many disciples were more presiding over the exams. He had never been to Hanlin in this life, and he could not preside over the exams. He had naturally no hope of having disciples all over the world, but he also wanted to cultivate some useful talents.

"You two have won more than half of them. I really want to warn the students in the clan to not be complacent and learn endlessly. If you look at the sky from a well, even if you are on the list, your future will be limited. As for the latter article... My articles and knowledge are not the best. Teaching and educating people is just a misleading child. Being an official does not only look at knowledge. Letting a well-educated scholar preside over water conservancy may not be as good as an official who is a minor official who is proficient in water conservancy. People have specialties and officials have specialties. Do you understand this meaning?"

The two teenagers were already confused by Zhang Yue's words. After hearing the last sentence, Li Guoxiu suddenly woke up and hurriedly fell down. Rui Yixiang's movements were only half a beat slower than him. Seeing this situation, Zhang Yue couldn't help laughing, and then shook his head and said, "Get up. I'm only in my early twenties. What kind of students should I accept? I just want to teach you some things through this trip, not for the status of teachers and students. My palace chief is in charge of Yingtian Prefecture School. You can stay there for a month in the future. Then follow me to study for a month later. I will say anything later."

After sending the two confused little guys down, Zhang Yue looked at the Spring Festival couplets on the table, and couldn't help but think of the three people who were still waiting for the exam in the capital. Gu Bin is one year older than him, and he has accumulated strength over the years and is at least nine points in the exam. Zhang Ran was defeated many times, and his temperament became more and more calm, which is also very promising; only Fang Jing... The little guy passed the exam with the breath he was holding in his chest. Now he is studying hard at home all day long, and he has no time to give him away. If he wants to say that the exam is worrying.

The path of imperial examinations cannot be achieved by holding one breath and working hard. Opportunities are more important than anything else.

The first time he celebrated New Year's Eve in Nanjing, Zhang Fu and Mrs. Wang were there. The reunion dinner was still eaten with Zhang and Zhang Fu. The atmosphere was not much colder than the ice. The second time he was in Nanjing, he hugged his newlywed wife and watched the fireworks all night, and had a warm and pleasant Spring Festival with his parents. Now this third time, Zhang Yue drank a lot of wine, but he actually fell asleep with his son Jingguan while staying in the fireplace. When he woke up tomorrow, he didn't remember what he did last night.

However, he had no regrets. The first three days of the first lunar month were exactly the time when relatives and friends walked the most throughout the year, and it was also a great opportunity for him to take this opportunity to visit people. Therefore, early in the morning, he and Du Wan dressed up and both went out - but rushed to different places. The female members of the imperial decree on the other side of the government office were naturally Du Wan to meet, while those people Zhang Fu mentioned were forced to meet by himself.

After the great funeral of Emperor Yongle Zhu Di, Zheng He was ordered to go to Nanjing and has been living in an imperially-given mansion on Mafu Street these days. If he was in Beijing, there would be banquets from the main dynasty, etc., but now he is in Nanjing, he is very idle on the first day of the first lunar month. He has no complaints about leading the lower army to guard Nanjing, but when he heard the comments outside, he felt discouraged.

He has been wandering on the sea for many years, and he naturally has a lot of feelings for such an official army. These are all brave men who drive ships and fight. Now some people say that these people are inevitably inadvertent to have something to do when they are idle and want to send them to build the Nanjing palace!

"Father, Father!"

Seeing his adopted son Zheng Enming knocking open the curtain and entering, Zheng He scolded him angrily: "What's so reckless?"

"Someone sent a lot of gifts outside the door, saying that it was brought by Eunuch Zhang in the palace." Zheng Enming smiled and handed the gift list over with both hands, then rubbed his hands and said, "After you arrived in Nanjing, almost no one has come to see you. Unexpectedly, Eunuch Zhang is still thinking about it. All day today, except for those businessmen, this is the first festive gift..."

"Eunuch Zhang? Zhang Qian?"

Zheng He opened the gift list with confusion, looked at it at a glance, and immediately felt a sudden heart. There were both ordinary local products and precious medicinal materials in the middle of the things, but if it weren't for someone who was very familiar with him, he would definitely not be able to give such gifts, which shows that it was indeed what Zhang Qian did. However, the signature on the lower end clearly stated that Zhang Yue was written by the dragon and phoenix. This Lord Zhang, who was promoted and demoted to Zhang Qian, actually agreed to bring something to him?
Chapter completed!