Chapter 76: The Wrath of the Son of Heaven
Zhang Jingyi felt that Lu Xiangsheng was cheating because this guy was a ruthless man who could dance a big knife of two hundred pounds!
Is it the same thing that your 10 kilogram tie is tied to three or five kilogram tied to others?
Zhang Jing didn't point it out, just nodded and said, "I know, I know, but... this exercise needs to be stepped up. I expected... Maybe something happened to our hundred households in the first lunar month."
"What happened? What happened?" Lu Xiangsheng was puzzled, but he looked very cautious.
Zhang Jingyi said seriously: "I suspect someone wants to harm us, but I am afraid that our hundred households will be attacked."
To be honest, who are the people in Dongchang? Will you be able to swallow this?
As for Wei Zhongxian, he is definitely not a person who is easily slapped. Of course, Wei Zhongxian is rational. Given Zhang Jingyi's particularity, he will definitely not fight back immediately, but will choose a favorable time, find a high-sounding excuse, and then start a scheming.
However, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly relaxed his expression, smiled, stroked his beard, and shook his head and said, "Zhang Baihu is worried too much. Who is full and full of food during the New Year? Students know that Zhang Baihu hopes that the students can practice diligently, but they don't have to use these to scare them."
When Zhang Jing saw that he didn't believe it, he stared at him and said, "What about you? If I lose, I will definitely find a way to restore Mr. Lu's position."
When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but laugh again!
He was dismissed from office because of the Beijing Prefecture, and the cabinet regarded him as a mediocre official. He was among the worst in the merit examination books of the Ministry of Personnel. He could not get along with the relationship between Qingliu. Even if the emperor personally issued an order to restore him to an official, I am afraid that he would find it difficult to gain a foothold in the officialdom, so why should he talk about reinstatement?
In fact, Lu Xiangsheng, who lost his official position, has always regarded dismissal as a great humiliation. Zhang Jingyi's words deeply hurt him, as if he had exposed his old scars.
So he pulled his face down and said coldly: "Okay, then wait and see. You have to bet. If the student loses, he will be your Zhang family servant."
The servants here are not the servants in the later film and television dramas. In the Ming Dynasty, military officers had servants around them. They formed a certain personal dependence relationship with military officers. They were considered family members. The servants worked for military officers all their lives, and military officers would also give the servants the best treatment. This relationship is similar to the knights and knight entourages in the Middle Ages in the West.
This is of course Lu Xiangsheng's speech.
But Lu Xiangsheng's words fell.
But Zhang Jing started to slim her sleeves.
Lu Xiangsheng felt strange and couldn't help but say, "What is Zhang Baihu doing?"
Zhang Jingyi said seriously: "I'm looking for paper and pen. Hey, I clearly remember bringing a charcoal pen."
As he said that, Zhang Jing finished flipping through her sleeves and searched for the purse at her waist.
Lu Xiangsheng: "..."
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The Zhang family is particularly deserted this year for the Chinese New Year.
Neither Deng Jian nor Wang Cheng came, and several of the hired servants let them go home to reunite with their families.
Only Zhang Tianlun, Zhang Jingyi and Zhang Suhua were the only ones. Zhang Tianlun arranged a table of delicious dishes, and the three of them sat down to have dinner together.
Although Zhang Suhua is not Zhang Tianlun's biological daughter, feelings are made up. Now the two are as close as father and daughter. Zhang Tianlun is always more spoiled than the other three rough sons. He added soft rice to Zhang Suhua and drizzled with chicken juice.
This made Zhang Jingyi a little jealous. After all... the soft rice was exclusive to him in the past, although he chose to eat dry rice in the end,... it was obvious that his father had transferred this spoiling to Zhang Suhua.
Zhang Tianlun’s mood is another matter. On the one hand, he has his son and adopted son, and Zhang Suhua is his first adopted daughter. On the other hand, Zhang Suhua is pregnant and should take care of her more.
He even thought that Zhang Suhua would never mention her husband's affairs. Hey... I don't know what the girl suffered. Before the child was born, she lost a man and had to be a widow.
When he thought of this, he thought of Zhang Jingyi's deceased mother. When he went to Liaodong to spy on military affairs, he had a life of death and had no news for several years. This was how Zhang Jingyi was raised when his mother was alive.
People always have the same joys and sorrows.
Zhang Suhua blinked and looked at her adoptive father and younger brother. Both of them lowered their heads to make rice, each with their own worries, but they even got their worries.
As he ate, Zhang Tianlun's eyes turned red.
Zhang Suhua was a delicate woman, so she said carefully: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Tianlun quickly wiped his tears, trying his best to hide his emotions, but he still said in a lost voice: "I want to be quiet for my father."
When Zhang Jing heard this, he couldn't help but feel moved. He quickly comforted him: "Dad, don't be afraid. In a few days, when your son becomes rich, I will find you a few more marriages. Then my son will have many more mothers."
Zhang Tianlun: “…”
As a father, he was stunned for a long time, his face was twitching faintly and his hands were trembling. After a long time, he suppressed the urge to suck this turtle hard.
Zhang Suhua actually burst into tears.
Zhang Jing said: "Girl, why are you crying?"
Zhang Suhua sniffed and said, "I have been lonely and helpless all these years. Now I have a father and brothers. The whole family is happy and I don't know how happy it is."
fine……
He cried with joy.
Zhang Jingyi relaxed. He knew that Zhang Suhua had a miserable fate and had encountered too many unexpected problems. Now that he is so peaceful, he is inevitably moved when he thinks of the sad things he had in the past.
In the first month of the year, Zhang Tianlun became busy. In fact, his deputy Qianhu, the deputy of Jinyiwei, was actually a idle job, and he had a false reputation. If a thousand Qianhu had a deputy, it would not be good to fart.
However, when the New Year is over, when he is walking around, he will draw out a piece of yellow paper with his name all over his name, and then visit him one by one according to his name to maintain the relationship between Weili and relatives.
At this time, Zhang Jingyi stayed at home and stayed with Zhang Suhua, and he was afraid that Zhang Suhua would make any mistakes at home alone.
The situation is very different from Zhang Jingyi's is Emperor Aoki.
Emperor Tianqi was very bored at this time and the year was very uneasy. As usual, he wanted to visit all the concubines, but the concubines were polite when they saw him, but Emperor Tianqi always felt that there was something in his words.
Not that you can’t have children?
Therefore, Emperor Tianqi stayed in the West Garden most of the time.
At this time, he was thinking more about Zhang Jingyi. It was a very strange thing that Zhang Jingyi had not entered the palace for a month. Others wished that they would have the opportunity to wander in front of him, the emperor all day long, but Zhang Jingyi rarely took the initiative.
It is now the thirteenth day of the first lunar month.
It's still snowing heavily at this time.
It took four or five days of continuous snow. The first month is the beginning of spring. Logically speaking, it should be the time for the snow to melt. However, since the Hongzhi period, the weather has become increasingly harsh every year, which has become increasingly worrying.
People at this time naturally don’t know what the Little Ice Age is.
I don’t know what the normal year and how many degrees the global temperature drops now mean.
This is not just a few degrees of temperature drop, but a violent fluctuation in the weather and a large-scale reduction in grain production.
In a few days, the year will be over, so Emperor Tianqi is focused on summoning Zhang Jingyi into the palace after the New Year. He thinks that Zhang Jingyi is young after all and is in charge of a hundred households. He may be in a hurry, so I can point him in the direction.
At this moment, Wei Zhongxian tiptoed in.
Emperor Tianqi was in a bad mood, so he pretended not to see him come in and deliberately looked down at Ji Xiaoxin's book left by Qi Jiguang.
Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "Your Majesty is reading military books again."
"Well..." Emperor Tianqi responded coldly: "General Qi is really a rare talent in the national dynasty. This military book is becoming more and more admirable the more you read it."
Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "I am full of talents in the Ming Dynasty..."
"Saying less of this, it sounds boring! By the way, isn't the East Factory going to exercise? Is the date set?" Emperor Tianqi asked lightly.
Wei Zhongxian said: "It seems like I decided earlier, it's today."
"Today..." Emperor Tianqi opened his eyes and couldn't help but say with a little anger: "Why don't you come to report in advance?"
"This..." Wei Zhongxian said: "After all, this is a trivial matter. Since Your Majesty has made it clear, I have assigned it to Wang Tiqian, the eunuch in the East Factory."
Emperor Apocalypse pulled down his face and said, "The exercise has begun?"
"In another half an hour, it will start." Wei Zhongxian looked innocent.
Emperor Tianqi said: "It's good that this is the case. I'm very bored today and I can just wait for the reply. Is there a charter for this exercise?"
Wei Zhongxian said: "There are regulations, but the East Factory has fewer staff after all, and most of them are on duty. They really can't draw out their personnel, so Wang Tiqian came up with an idea, saying that he would draw 150 people from the Warriors Camp..."
Emperor Apocalypse: “…”
"Hundred and fifty people are drawn..."
"Slow down!" Emperor Tianqi stood up in an uproar, staring at Wei Zhongxian with wide eyes, and his tone suddenly increased: "Warrior Camp? Why is it a Warrior Camp?"
"This..." Wei Zhongxian immediately bowed to the ground: "It's the first month of the year, and many people are resting... I really can't find anyone, so the Warriors camp was transferred."
Emperor Apocalypse's face turned dark: "A hundred households, less than a hundred people, why did the Warriors camp draw 150 people?"
Wei Zhongxian said tremblingly: "Actually, I don't know much. Isn't this the first month? I'm busy with the affairs of the palace and have to give it to the concubines... So... So... all this was done by Wang Tiqian. He is the eunuch in charge of the seal."
Emperor Tianqi shivered, and his face became solemn: "Isn't this explicit revenge on personal gain and bullying people?"
What is the Warriors Camp? The Warriors Camp is an imperial guard affiliated to the inner guards and is a military horse that is completely controlled in the palace. This military horse is different from an ordinary personal army and can be called the elite of the Ming Dynasty.
To some extent, although the Jinyiwei is also a personal army, it is actually more like a police force. To put it bluntly, it is already awesome to see that the combat effectiveness is stronger than the officers in Shuntian Mansion.
Chapter completed!