Pei Gonggui

After Jiang Yue left, Pei Jun didn't see Qian Haiqing coming back until the afternoon. After asking, he found out that his Jiangnan family had sent some things to Qingyun Prison for his next year's expenses and his relationship with the prison. He was just going to count them. Brought it to the residence of the Zhongyihou Mansion.

There are some new clothes and trousers in the bag, all of Jiangnan style, and there are many precious medicinal materials that his father, a drug dealer, scavenged everywhere. Among them is a piece of spring recuperation prescription written by his grandfather Qian Shenyi, and asked him to pick it up accordingly. While drinking the medicine, Mo was overworked by his studies.Qian Haiqing brought all the precious medicinal materials to Pei Jun, saying that he thanked Mr. Pei for taking them in, but Pei Jun told him to keep them for himself, after all, they are not going to be put in the coffin, who can eat so much? Ginseng?

"You just tell me what the whole house named Tang wants to do." Pei Jun finally had time to ask about Ning Wuhou's mansion, so he told him not to pack the medicine, "Come and sit down."

Qian Haiqing sat down with him at the stone table in the backyard, and first said that the reason why Ningwuhou's mansion was terrified that he would join Pei Jun's family was because he knew where Ningwuhou was. The Admiral's Mansion wanted to leave Jing Zhaosi behind to monopolize the matter of water transportation, saying that there were complicated relationships in it. If Pei Jun were to know about this, the two would fight each other, and it was unknown who was left behind or even capsized. It wasn't that Tang Yuming poked the basket and asked Qian Haiqing to help with the banquet, and he might not have been able to see this matter, "After all, it was done very secretly."

"It's something that idiot Tang Yuming can do." Pei Jun nodded, "But if that's the case, now that you've come out, why doesn't the Tang family stop chasing you?"

"This is the joint." Qian Haiqing's expression gradually became serious, "Master Pei, the student knows that Marquis Ning Wu wants to leave Jingzhaosi to monopolize the water transportation. Even if the Tang family can expect it, they should not expect the student I also know another thing. You said that the New Deal is about to start. Jing Zhaosi and Jiumen Admiral are also in charge of water transport. They should both want to monopolize the power, but why is Ning Wuhou alone anxious to be in charge before the seal? Just act, but you don't?"

Pei Jun tilted his head and thought for a while, then smiled: "You mean - I'm not in a hurry to eat money, but Ning Wuhou is in a hurry?" But this is weird.Ning Wuhou's old mother is Princess Shoukang, who has a fief and a food town, and there is a wealthy Cai family behind her. Even if the water transport is a big piece of fat, he shouldn't rush to bite it. After all, the Tang family will not—

Thinking of this, he looked at Qian Haiqing and laughed abruptly: "You mean the Tang family is short of money?"

Qian Haiqing nodded with clear eyes: "The student didn't want to believe it at first, but it was only possible after thinking about it. Think about it, once the water transportation is monopolized, it is a plan to break the law and corrupt ink. The Tang family has a rich family business, and it is not easy to be short of money. Even if they are short of money, they can ask the Princess Mansion and the Cai family to help them, but why do they want to jump over the wall and drink poison to quench their thirst? The students think that it must be because they dare not ask the Princess Mansion and the Cai family to take money, or that The two families had a place to send their money, so they couldn't help him, but the deficit was really too big. Therefore, the student first checked the account book of the mansion, and then flipped through the letters in the study... Only then did he know that it was Tang The family relatives have embezzled the sand, gravel and logs from the government's disaster relief stockpile in Lingnan year after year to build houses. As a result, there was a flood in Lingnan when autumn came. It was the Tang family who committed crimes and came to the door - but all the things were used to repair the house, and they could not be dismantled and used to fill the embankment. Ning Wuhou knew that it was the crime of beheading the whole family. The most important thing is to make up for the shortfall of embezzlement to settle the matter, so I fill in all my family assets, and I have to stop the mouth of the state official—the Chana state official had a useless son who killed someone years ago and was arrested by the Ministry of Punishment After he went, the state official said that as long as Marquis Ning Wu helped him get the man out, he would bring the misappropriation into the coffin."

"Wait," Pei Jun suddenly thought of something, "This murderer..."

"His name is Li Si, and he was imprisoned in the death row of the Ministry of Criminal Justice with his students before. I heard that he is about to be executed. Now he only owes Cui Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to sign the document after it is opened and printed, and he will submit it to the imperial court for approval. , so the only thing the Tang family can do is to let Cui Shangshu reprint it." Qian Haiqing analyzed layer by layer, "But Mr. Cui is on the front line with Mr. Pei. If you know that they want someone, you will never let go. So the Tang family looked for—"

"Cao Luan." Pei Jun raised his hand and clapped his palms, finally connecting the past and the future, "They asked Cao Luan to come to my six important people, so that I would not be noticed." So before Cao Luan asked him Cui Yu's Likes, it turns out that he received an entrustment from the Tang family, and even a business deal that the Tang family entrusted someone to discuss. If Qian Haiqing hadn't told him about the other side today, he would have helped the Tang family for no apparent reason. up.

After Cao Luan's family became criminals, his parents died early. He was in the street at a very young age, robbing when he had no money to spend, and stealing when he was not eating. Brother, I often went home with Pei Jun and Mei Linyu to study, and I finally learned how to read. After 21 and [-], I saw that the lawyer was very prestigious in helping people in a lawsuit, so I pestered people to worship the master , learned to write complaints for others, and didn't care about being scolded as a stickler and scoundrel. In the past ten years, he had tossed a lot of cases involving wealthy businessmen and officials. Mr. Cao, who is now well-known among the crowd, can be said to be sharp-eyed and good at dancing. If ten years later, when the four words "hands and eyes reach the sky" are mentioned in Beijing, the first thing that comes up is His name.

Cao Luan is a friend who has always been with him, but his way of life is a "middleman".As far as official affairs are concerned, for example, if Pei and Tang are at odds, it will not work for the Tang family to recruit people in Liubu at this time. It is impossible to recover the seized goods in the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion, and a middleman is also needed.Cao Luan is such a middleman. He pulls strings and builds bridges, regardless of the reason, and uses other people's money to eliminate disasters for others.

Pei Jun had a close relationship with Cao Luan in his previous life, and he didn't remember that Li Si's incident had happened for a long time. Now he presumes that this happened, and Li Si was also released from prison, because the Tang family in his previous life really did. Has not been reported by any state officials.In addition, in his previous life, he did not have a vote in the New Deal, so he had no right to take power in the existing decrees of the New Deal, so he was really rescued by the Tang family and monopolized the water transportation, and he was busy with a seat in the cabinet and no longer cared about it, so The Tang family in the previous life should have filled the shortfall embezzled by Lingnan by transporting corrupt money by water, and gradually became richer than before...

Pei Jun took a deep breath, lamenting the karma of fate in his heart - in the end, he let the big fish of the Tang family go away because of a Deng Zhun in his previous life.

At the side, Qian Haiqing fell into deep thought after seeing him say Cao Luan, thinking that Pei Jun would tell him as soon as he thought of something, but he didn't expect Pei Jun to ask suddenly: "How do you plan to get rid of the Tang family?"

Qian Haiqing scratched his head, and said, "This is the student's own business. If Mr. Pei knows the way, he should do it first. Wouldn't it mean that I will not be able to learn from a teacher? The student just wants to ask Mr. Pei to help the student first." First favor."

Pei Jun also remembered that he had promised to do three things for this student, so he smiled and said calmly, "Tell me."

Qian Haiqing cautiously said, "The student wants... to meet Mr. Cao first."

"Oh." Pei Jun saw right through him: "So you want to start with Li Si, and first shake off the Tang family to protect the criminal."

When Qian Haiqing was hit by his words, his face burned immediately: "Master Pei!"

"Tsk, it's true." Pei Junxin said that this student was really young, and he was not cruel, and he was too inconsiderate, but he only said these things in his heart and would not say them out, because Qian Haiqing was not his student yet.He just looked down at his nails and said two words: "No."

Qian Haiqing was taken aback for a moment: "You clearly promised—"

"You want to get Li Sibao out, and then use Li Si to tie the Tang family out, then I'll ask you," Pei Jun raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "The one who punishes the Tang family will be the court in the end, and the court will ask: Li Si How did it get out? When you ask this question, do you think Cui Shangshu from the Ministry of Punishment can still be saved?"

As soon as Qian Haiqing woke up, "...I can't."

"But old Cui is a good man, I don't want anything to happen to him." Pei Jun stood up and smiled, raised his hand and patted Qian Haiqing's shoulder, "So, you should think of a new way." After finishing speaking, he turned to Qian Haiqing He clenched his fist as if to cheer up.

Qian Haiqing suddenly cried: "Pei—"

"I only said that there is no way to do it, and I didn't say that you can't see Mr. Cao." Pei Jun walked to the backyard without looking back: "Whenever you want to go, just take the greeting card and say that you are my mansion." Mr. Cao will meet you."

Qian Haiqing almost jumped for joy when he heard the words, and hurriedly chased after him and winked at him: "The student can say that you are my master?"

Pei Jun was full of smiles: "Is this the second favor you want me to do?"

"...No." Qian Haiqing muttered with drooping eyelashes.

Pei Jun raised his hand and teased his face: "That won't work."

Qian Haiqing's face turned red instantly, and he staggered and ran away: "...Okay, students will go to Mr. Cao tomorrow!"

Pei Jun wrapped his hands in a fur robe, stood on the porch and smiled at him: "Well, remember to buy candy for Xuanxuan." After speaking, he hummed a little song and went to the backyard, leaving Qian Haiqing in a daze Standing in the yard: "Who is Xuanxuan?"

From the corner of the corridor in the backyard, there was only Pei Jun's expected laughter: "Is this a second favor?"

"No!" Qian Haiqing roared angrily, and hurried to find Uncle Dong with his robe in hand.

Pei Jun only felt that every day in the past few years was a good time.

King Jin was cheated enough by him, and the imperial city was flying like dogs, which made Jiang Zhan also annoyed; the nephew was not dead, the Tang family would be in chaos, and even the Cai family's proud days would not be long—everything was so satisfying , This made him whistle and hum when he went in and out of the mansion every day. When he went to the theater to see two pieces of Tsing Yi, he rewarded the troupe master with a lot of money.

happy.happy.As it should be.You shouldn't be bothered by human feelings.

In this way, the day changes to black, and the flying stars follow the moon, and soon it will be the day of winter hunting.The mist rose early in the morning, and Pei Jun had finished his morning exercises before dawn, bathed and dressed freshly, and stood on the porch watching Uncle Dong instruct his servant to carry his clothes into his carriage.

Qian Haiqing was a child from the south of the Yangtze River. He had never seen a big yak or set up a tent in the snow. Standing on the edge, he asked Pei Jun enviously: "My lord, what is the paddock like? Do civil servants also go hunting? Have you ever hunted?" What?"

Pei Juncai didn't bother to answer him, and before getting into the car, he only said: "When you take the exam, become an official and get promoted to the fourth rank, then open your eyes and see for yourself."

After finishing speaking and taking his seat, Uncle Dong lifted the curtain and told him to be careful not to catch a cold.He patiently complied, instead of leaving the family behind closed curtains to set off, and after a while, he arrived at the junction of the city and joined the carriages of the royal relatives and officials. laugh.When the emperor Luan finally arrived, everyone knelt down and kowtowed again and again. At this moment, Pei Jun raised his eyes and looked north, and saw that the closest to the young emperor's chariot and horses were the princes.

Among them, King Rui Jiang Xi was in the middle, behind him was Pei Yan, and Pei Yan was holding Xiaoshizi in her hand, it was true that the mother and child were well.To the left of them are a group of nephews and nephews, the royal family and their family members, all of whom are still young, talking and laughing, and to the right are the princes and uncles, who are probably very old, and their faces are slightly condensed to talk about business.

Pei Jun turned his head to look around, frowned, looked around again, but still didn't see Jiang Yue.The next moment he moved his eyes to look at Honglu Temple and his party, but saw that Jiang Yue arrived at some time, and he was standing with Qiu Yuanzhi, the second prince of Taiping Kingdom, talking in a low voice, his expression was normal, and he didn't know what he was talking about. What.At the end, Qiu Yuanzhi also took out a scroll and handed it to Jiang Yue, smiled, patted Jiang Yue's forearm, and nodded, looking very happy.

Pei Jun frowned slightly when he saw it, thinking that Jiang Yue, the traitor leader, asked him to come and help Latuo and kiss the mud, and at the same time chatted and laughed with his cousin and brother-in-law who made the mud... What does this mean? ?Left and right?Advance, attack, retreat, or defend?

But Prince Jin's art of war is really nimble and proficient, and he couldn't see through it for a while.

And when he was looking at Jiang Yue inscrutably, Jiang Yue over there happened to meet his eyes, and the smile on Jiang Yue's face stopped slightly for a moment, and he couldn't help but look at Qiu Yuanzhi beside him, and then look back at Pei Jun , probably guessed what Pei Jun was guessing, and could only shake his head slightly at this moment, as if he was saying that he would explain later.But this caused Pei Jun to think more carefully.

The crowd at the confluence went about their own business, and the brigade finally set off after Qin Tianjian finished reciting He Shou's long words to pray for the safety of the party.To get to the royal paddock, you have to go northward for half a day to reach the bank of the Beijiang River, and then travel westward against the river for a day and night to get there. You have to stay in the paddock for a long time, so you have to bring a lot of luggage with you, and the horses and carts dragged it Along the way, there are more officers, soldiers and sergeants around to protect the road, which makes it even more majestic.

Pei Jun first put the carriage and Honglu Temple together, mainly to take Feng Jiru and other officials to the carriage to discuss some official affairs of the alliance ministries, and they dispersed in the afternoon when they had almost finished talking.At this time, just after finishing the accompanying simple meal, Pei Jun remembered Jiang Yue and Qiu Yuanzhi handing over the scroll, and was still worried that Jiang Yue was trying to trick him into beating mandarin ducks and making a fuss, so he ordered the driver to go The prince's convoy leaned over, and when he recognized the colorful silk face of the Jin Palace's carriage, he raised his finger and said, "Drive there, and pass by."

While the carriage was moving forward, Jiang Yue's carriage had just sent away the king of Thailand who was looking for him to persuade him about the marriage, but he lost his appetite for some cakes.He was opening the scroll he got from Qiu Yuanzhi and looked at it for a while, when suddenly he heard a knock on the wall on the right side of the car. He opened the curtain and saw Pei Jun sitting half an arm away from the window. One of the car windows opened the curtain and smiled at him with eyebrows bent: "My Lord Jin is blessed with longevity and well-being."

Jiang Yue couldn't help laughing, "Master Pei is polite."

Pei Jun simply tied the car curtain in a knot and hung it aside, folded his arms by the window, looked at Jiang Yue with a smile, shook his head and said, "Lord Jin is really rosy today, full of complexion, especially handsome, and extraordinary in style, according to Zhouyi Qiankun— —Come on, I will make a divination for you."

Jiang Yue raised his eyebrows and watched him pretend to pinch his fingers to calculate, but when he heard his next sentence, he said in a strange way: "Ah, my lord, your wedding is coming soon!"

"..." Jiang Yue immediately let go and put down the curtains of the car, lowered his head and continued to look at the scroll in his hand.

The next moment, the curtain that was put down by him was suddenly pulled away by a hand stretched out, and Pei Jun's laughter came from outside the window again: "My lord, my lord, don't be angry, I just made trouble because I was afraid that my lord's journey would be boring. A joke to amuse you."

Jiang Yue couldn't help but turned his head again, and saw that it was Pei Jun who had leaned out of the car window on his side, and was able to reach for his driving curtain, and even if he was doing such presumptuous and dangerous things, At this moment, Pei Junying's smiling face under the bright winter sun was still warm and handsome, full of the same leisure and pleasure as in the past.

This is still the same as Pei Jun every time he sees him, whether he is teased by him, talks about business, or just flatters him, Pei Jun's steadfastness and ease seem to never change because of anything, it seems like forever It will continue like this, just like those three sentences that mentioned Pei Jun's frequently used comments behind his back:

The bones of the officers enter the marrow, the smile is like a muscle, there is skin but no heart.

"What's Prince Jin looking at?" Pei Jun's narrow eyebrows quickly noticed Jiang Yue's hand, "Taiping marriage letter? Dowry gift list?"

Jiang Yue looked at him amusedly for a moment: "Master Pei wants to know?"

Pei Jun nodded, and saw Jiang Yue raised his slender index finger on his right hand again, and gave him a continuous hook.

"..."

Pei Jun lamented and resigned himself to his fate and told the driver to stop, wrapped himself in fox fur and copied a box for pastries, got out of the car breathing white gas in the ice and snow, stepped to the side of Jiang Yue's car in two steps, lifted the curtain and bent over , Seeing that the carriage is spacious and comfortable, Jiang Yue is sitting on the wall facing the curtain, with scrolls spread out on his knees, and a small square table with cups on the empty seat on the right, as if drinking tea.

He saluted Jiang Yue first, then picked up the empty seat on the left wall and sat down, then took out the pastry box hidden under the fur robe and handed it to Jiang Yue: "Half-cooked plum blossom cakes, my lord, please try taste."

Jiang Yue gave him a hesitant look before taking the wooden box.When Pei Jun's hands were free, he picked up the small teapot in Jiang Yue's hand and poured him a cup of tea: "Come on, the prince will drink tea."

Jiang Yue lowered his eyes and opened the wooden box in his hand, only to see that the middle was padded with thick gauze to prevent tremors, and six exquisite water-red shortbreads were neatly stacked on it, as if it had never been opened, so it has not been opened until now There is still a lingering warmth.

Seeing that Jiang Yue had been staring at the box and refused to eat, Pei Jun on the side tilted his head and sighed: "The prince has no appetite, or is he afraid that the minister will be poisoned?"

Jiang Yue broke his smile for a moment, and shook his head: "I just have to look around a bit more, Mr. Pei is not such a person who spares no expense." He picked up the scroll on his lap and handed it to Pei Jun, and at Pei Jun's He raised his finger while watching and took out a piece of pastry to eat - the size of the pastry was just one bite, not oily or greasy, it was crunchy and soft when bitten down, and the flower filling was so fresh that it was as if he could smell plum fragrance in his nose.

"Master Pei chooses food wisely, but I'm just getting rich again." After eating, Jiang Yue said after taking a sip of tea.

"No, it's not true, the prince is not full of light." Pei Jun smiled politely as he unfolded the scroll, "I don't like light food very much, and this cake is specially prepared for you. You can do it if you like it, my lord." , in the future, I will send half-cooked food to you often."

Jiang Yue was about to take out the next crispy fingertip and stopped, but before he could speak, he heard Pei Jun staring at the newly opened scroll and said amusedly: "My lord, this scroll is all in Taiping dialect, I can't understand why?" .”

Hearing this, Jiang Yue put down the shortbread box in his hand, "It's strange that I forgot." He wiped his hand with a silk and said, "Actually, Mr. Pei should have heard about the things recorded in this volume...these are all about Taiping. The details of the "Teiko House" incident in the country."

Speaking of this, he seemed to smile because he remembered the past: "At the beginning of the year, Mr. Pei argued against Mr. Zhang's new policy of centralizing official learning. Cultivate folk studies, improve private schools, so that folk schools not only teach brush and ink, but also teach skills, so that all people in the world can have their own jobs..."

——The world's folk studies, brush and ink skills... When Pei Jun heard this, the hand holding the scroll stopped.

That's right, Jiang Yue said all these things before.At that time, he was still a young Shang Shulang who was really high-spirited, standing alone in the main hall, talking about all the people in the world, saying that if all the people have their own jobs, the country will be more peaceful and peaceful, so the court needs to allocate money to the Ministry of Rites Rectify and educate, instead of running more official schools in line with the New Deal-that's just giving corrupt officials more ways to get money.

However, the officials and even the cabinet at that time probably only listened to the last sentence, and the next day, Yushitai began to criticize his proposal as unconscionable. They all fell to the side of the New Deal, and Jiang Zhan didn't know what to do with the papers he had proposed. After several rounds of court meetings, his method would be lost and nothing could be done.

But he didn't expect that Jiang Yue, the later rebel, would actually listen to his crazy words that were ignored in his previous life, and he even started to borrow real cases from neighboring countries...

"...This method has been practiced in Taiping for more than ten years. In Taiping, the Siziwu is similar to a private school, but the difference is that the Siziwu teaches students practical skills." When Jiang Yue said this, seeing Pei Jun lower his head and frown, He locked his eyes on the incomprehensible scroll in his hand, and laughed, "It seems that Mr. Pei really found this method interesting, so he copied this scroll soon and sent it to Mr. Pei's residence for reference."

"But Prince Jin..." Pei Jun tightened his fingers holding the scroll slightly, and finally spoke, "This remonstrance has already been voted down, and the court will start building official schools next year."

Jiang Yue nodded, lowered his head and raised his hand to pour himself a cup of tea, "I know."

Hearing the words, Pei Jun raised his head to look at him, for a moment, his eyes were full of unwillingness and resentment, which seemed numb and pathetic, and even more sharp but had nowhere to pierce the absolute loss, but he was watching Jiang Yue's brief moment of drinking tea Within a few breaths, it finally turned into a smile that was neither deep nor shallow, and only asked Jiang Yue lightly: "The court didn't approve this policy, so why did Prince Jin bother to find such a good policy for his ministers to check and study? Isn't this calling me Are both of you wasting your time?"

Jiang Yue quenched his thirst, and then he looked up at Pei Jun, only to see Pei Jun's smiling face.

He thought for a while, but didn't answer Pei Jun's words, but asked Pei Jun again: "Master Pei thinks, do all the people in the world need a moon?"

— This is the question again.Pei Jun looked at Jiang Yue inexplicably, and Jiang Yue looked back at him calmly as always, causing him to ask: "What does Prince Jin think?"

Jiang Yue smiled and said nothing, then raised his hand and poured a cup of tea.

Pei Jun turned his head to look at him, feeling that this person is too cunning: "It's just a question of yes or no, the minister has already given the answer, why does the prince keep his secrets?"

"I'm not hiding my secrets." Jiang Yue held up the teacup calmly, "I didn't think about it."

"..."

Just when Pei Jun scolded the traitor in his heart for teasing him with a question that he didn't even understand, Jiang Yue sighed again:

"However, Mr. Pei has cracked this question ten years ago. Gu Zhen is flattering the horse, and it is beyond the reach of the dust..."

"Ten years ago?" Pei Jun was really surprised. "At that time, it was only sixteen or seventeen. If you asked me about the life of the people and the month, I might not understand it. What else can I answer?"

Jiang Yue slightly raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile, then shook his head inscrutablely: "Master Pei didn't say anything at that time."

Puzzled in Pei Jun's eyes: "...how did you solve this question without saying anything?" How could he be so mysterious back then!

Jiang Yue lowered his eyes to look at the tea, as if he didn't want to talk about it, but the horses and chariots that were going forward also stopped to take a rest at this moment, so Pei Jun retreated in a daze, and was about to ask Yan Yuliang With Fang Mingjue, did he ever show off in front of Jiang Yue when he was a great fairy?

But as soon as he got off the carriage frame of King Jin's Mansion, he felt a pair of cold little hands pinch his right finger within two steps. He looked down slightly in shock, and saw that his own nephew Jiang Xuan was holding him tightly. Seriously said:

"Uncle, please save mother and concubine."