The predecessor who was scumbag by me was the emperor

After the winter solstice, there was a happy event. Shen Jia's cousin was getting married. Since her grandfather's family didn't have a house in Chang'an, the bride was in a sedan chair in Shen's residence.

On both sides are the high-ranking figures in the imperial court. Naturally, this wedding is also full of guests, and the whole Yujingfang has a lively three-day wedding banquet.

In the eldest princess' mansion, the people who went out to inquire about the news came back one after another, and reported to the eldest princess one by one what Shen Jia had done in the past few years and the people she had befriended. He fell in love with this young servant lord.

Gao Xun came to pay a visit, the eldest princess dressed up carefully and waited for him to enter. The beautiful and noble peony flowers in the past were withering day by day due to lack of moisture. Compared with the young uncle, the eldest princess felt that her face was no longer smooth and tender when she was young. His skin was lost in thought.

"Sister-in-law Ankang." Gao Xun was dressed in white, and even the shoes on his feet were spotless, blending in with the heavy snow outside, looking pure and pure.

The eldest princess withdrew her inferiority complex and said calmly: "Sit down, I won't see you in a few days, are you doing well in the yamen?"

"Everything is fine. Sister-in-law doesn't have to worry about it. The household department has taken good care of her subordinates, and there are capable subordinates left behind by Mr. Shen. Everything is going well."

When mentioning Shen Jia, the eldest princess looked a little ugly, and reminded: "It's because you belong to him that you should be more cautious. Who knows what these people think in their hearts, so don't secretly trip you up."

"No, everyone is for the court. The transfer of officials is a common thing."

"You have dealt with Shen Jia, what do you think of this person?"

Gao Xun raised his head and glanced at the eldest princess, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, then lowered his head and commented in a complex tone: "Naturally, he is a young talent."

In the early years, he went to Beijing with his elder brother and lived in the palace for a while. At that time, the late emperor was dying of illness, and the palace was a bit chaotic. He grew up well, but he was coveted by the third prince at that time and even secretly drugged him. It was Zhao Zhang who arrived in time to save him. he.

Although Zhao Zhang later said it was just a coincidence, the word "coincidental" could not end the life-saving grace, so he deliberately pestered Zhao Zhang, only to find that he was talented and his writing was excellent, which is the real truth. The number one scholar is not as good as him.

He later found out that Zhao Zhang had traveled to the palace to study and worshiped the great Confucian Mr. Huai'an as his teacher, but for some reason, he didn't want others to mention this past.

Soon afterwards, several princes fought fiercely. Since the Gao family married the eldest princess, they naturally belonged to the queen's faction. When the prince died unexpectedly, Zhao Zhang became a sweet bun in the eyes of others, and he was indeed capable. With force, he pulled down all the adult princes.

His outstanding demeanor, his resourcefulness, and his aloofness all attracted Gao Xun. Unfortunately, at that time, his position was stable and his elder brother had a strange disease, so he had to return to his hometown in Hexi.

He originally wanted to pass the imperial examination to stand in the court hall in a legitimate way, so that he could see and admire himself, but he didn't expect that after several years of delay in family affairs, Zhao Zhang already had someone by his side.

He deliberately checked Shen Jia's background, and when he knew that he was about to be transferred to the Ministry of Industry, he asked the eldest princess to recommend him to Beijing. The position and official rank were suitable for him, so the emperor would naturally not refuse.

Originally, he wanted to play steadily and gradually, but the reality did not allow him to be slow. He was confident that he was better than Shen Jia in every aspect. Given time, Zhao Zhang would definitely accept him.

"Before going to Beijing, your father and mother entrusted me with your marriage. I don't know what kind of girl you like, so I can find out for you." The eldest princess asked sadly.

She is a person who loves beauty, and she fell in love with Gao Yi at a glance back then, but that man was an embroidered pillow, which was useless and wasted her years of youth for nothing, but she was willing to stay in the Gao family, because the Gao family still had There is Gao Xun, this handsome man who is better than his brother.

Didn't she never think that it would be impossible for the two of them to be together no matter their age or status, but so what?As long as their relationship is still uncle and sister-in-law, then she will have the opportunity to get close to him.

Gao Xun resisted the pressure to not get married, and he knew best why, but up to now, he couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he said: "We just entered Beijing, and we are not familiar with each other, so it's better to talk about it in a while." This matter."

"I have been away from Beijing for a few years, so you can just ask, Mei Lan Juzhu, you can find whatever you like in Chang'an City. With your status, it is more than enough to be a princess."

Gao Xun was afraid that she would really favor the princess for him, so he hurriedly said: "My Gao family has been fortunate enough to marry a golden branch and jade leaf, so I dare not ask for extravagance. My sister-in-law really doesn't need to be too anxious. My brother just died of illness, and the family can't hold a happy event for a while. "

"What's the matter, let's make sure it's settled first. It will take a year or two for the three media and six hires."

Gao Xun insisted on refusing, but the eldest princess said words of consolation, but she was relieved in her heart, as long as he didn't get married for a day, the princess mansion would be able to invite him to come to the door openly.

After Shen Jia sent his grandfather's family away, the entire Shen residence became quiet. It happened that he was supposed to take up a post in the Ministry of Industry, and he just wanted to concentrate on his work.

The news of Tatar's defeat and surrender spread all over the country. The court has been jubilant recently. Even the people in Chang'an are setting off firecrackers everywhere as if celebrating the new year. The Yang family's cloth shop has greatly increased its popularity because of the first celebration. The Shu Brocade and Yun Brocade in the store are of high quality, and there are several skilled embroiderers in the store. They are skilled in Shu embroidery. Since they made a few pieces of exquisitely embroidered and exquisitely patterned garments, there have been a lot of wives and ladies who have come to make custom garments. .

Then they are always attracted by the fresh and comfortable decoration in the store, and the considerate service. The black tea and small cakes are very delicious, and many people even come for the snacks.

Other shops followed suit and celebrated together. The common people must be happy to buy cheap goods. There are people coming and going on the street, and good news from the Northwest comes from time to time, and people's mood is also very relaxed.

The yamen of the Ministry of Industry is a little further away from the imperial palace. It is a half-old and not new house. It looks a bit plain from the outside. As soon as the carriage arrived at the yamen gate, He Yan was stunned to see the unicorn missing a leg. Is the Ministry so poor?"

Shen Jia has never looked at the accounts of the Ministry of Industry, so she doesn't know that the Ministry of Industry is poor, but cases of corruption of ink occur every year in a government office like the Ministry of Industry, but it is true that many jobs cannot even be paid for, and they have to work hard.

Shen Jia led He Yan into the door, but the guard at the door disappeared. He didn't meet a man who was walking hurriedly with a stack of blueprints in his hand until he entered the door.

The collision scattered the blueprints all over the floor, and the other party jumped up with a groan, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to pick up the paper, "Why don't you walk without eyesight? Do you know how important these blueprints are?"

Shen Jia squatted down to help him pick it up, took a casual look, and found that it was a design drawing of a palace, but he hadn't heard Zhao Zhang say that a new palace was going to be built.

He handed over the paper and said with a smile, "Sorry, where is this drawing from?"

The other party looked up, saw Shen Jia's face, he was stunned, and then moved to the official uniform on his body, the third-rank peacock uniform, the only people in the entire Ministry of Industry who could wear such official uniforms were the left and right servants.

He slapped himself with a "slap", knelt straight, held the drawing and kowtowed to Shen Jia, "Master Shen, forgive me, the villain has eyes but doesn't know Taishan, so I didn't mean to insult you."

Shen Jia was not angry, and handed him the last piece of paper, saying, "Get up, you haven't answered my question yet, where is this drawing from? Also, which department are you from?"

"The villain is not a member of the Ministry of Industry, but an apprentice of Master Qu. These drawings...these drawings...are..." The man hesitated and refused to say, Shen Jia was just asking casually, but he didn't expect inside story.

He took out one and looked at it carefully. At that moment, he could only see that it was a large palace, but this one was a specific design drawing of a small garden. It was very elegant, and it could be expected that it would cost a lot of money.

If it was Zhao Zhang who wanted to build a palace, he probably didn't know about it, but apart from the emperor and the masters of the harem, who could order the Ministry of Industry to build a house?

Unexpectedly, I would encounter something tricky on the first day of work. Shen Jia asked with a straight face, majestic: "You think about it, should you tell me now or wait for me to ask your master to interrogate you."

The man was startled. He looked around. It was still early. The time for the Ministry of Industry to go to the yamen was different from other yamen. Most people were running outside, so the time was more casual. At this time, only Several of them.

He hurriedly said: "The villain said that this drawing was drawn by the master in private. The king of Beichen wanted to build a house in the suburbs, and he needed it urgently. The master, the old man, was busy for three months before he drew it. draft."

"Did you ask for instructions from the booklet?"

"This... You don't know something, that, everyone will do some private work in private, and you don't need to ask for instructions."

Shen Jia understands that this is probably the same as the designer taking on private work in private, it's not a big deal, as long as it doesn't delay the serious work.

"Okay, I understand, you can go to work."

"Thank you, Lord Shen."

The man ran away with the blueprint in his arms, He Yan smashed his mouth and said, "Talented people will never have to worry about food, master, do you think it's too late for me to learn from a teacher?" ?”

"There's still time, if you really want to, I'll match you up, but you have to learn the skills, otherwise you'll lose face." Shen Jia replied solemnly.

"Hehe, I was joking."

The two of them entered the lobby, and it was so empty that Shen Jia almost suspected that she had misremembered the working hours.

He deliberately didn't go to court today, just to come to the Ministry of Industry to recognize people earlier, and when the high-level officials come back, they won't be able to get any useful news.

He Yan turned around and shouted loudly: "Come on! Is anyone here?"

"What's the noise? Who's there this early in the morning?" An old man came in from the outside with a kettle in his hand. He was wearing a gray-blue short-brown with patches, a pair of straw sandals on his feet with bare toes, and gray hair. , not at all like an official serving in the six ministries, but to say that he is a servant, he is too confident.

"Who are you?" He Yan asked confidently. Now that Shen Jia is a third-rank servant, he can almost walk sideways in this Ministry of Industry, so his status will naturally rise.

"Who are you?" The other party asked back.

He Yan was too lazy to talk to a bad old man, and said arrogantly: "Go and call your manager here, you are not qualified to talk to my master."

"Hey, in this Ministry of Industry, the Shangshu and the gatekeepers are not here at this time. If you want to find someone, you can't find them. There is no one else except me."

"What? Where did they go? What time is it now, can't they still be here?"

The old man found a place to sit down, poured himself a glass of water with a water bottle, and said, "Some people were borrowed by the Ministry of Rites. They said they were going to build some kind of platform. The construction period was tight, and they didn't come back for many days. Some people went to the streets to patrol, and I don’t know which one was full and said that there were treasures hidden under the roads of Chang’an City. Someone from Shuntian Mansion said that many people secretly dug the ground and dug up the streets, and the officials were not allowed to see it. See? Some people have gone to the city gate, and the emperor issued an order to strengthen the eight-way city wall, which is currently the most important task of the Ministry of Industry."

Shen Jia walked over to him and bowed to him, "I'm Shen Jia, may I ask you, Master Qiao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry?"

He Yan's eyes widened, pointing at the sloppy old man, speechless.

But Shen Jia was sure that he would not admit his mistake. Although he rarely saw Minister of the Ministry of Industry at the court meeting, what he saw was Mrs. Qiao who was well-groomed. He was very different from the ruined old man in front of him, but his temperament could not be changed. of.

"Haha, Mr. Shen has good eyes. You can recognize the old man like this. He is indeed a young man praised by everyone."

Shen Jia asked him helplessly: "Master Qiao, why is he dressed like this?"

Lord Qiao smiled, patted the mud on his trouser legs and said, "I went underground to hunt for treasure last night, so I can't wear an official uniform, can I? My old lady insists on letting me wear this. There's no way, you're poor."

Shen Jia didn't know that he was poor, but was the underground tunnel really discovered? "You mean there is a secret passage underground in Chang'an City?"

Master Qiao shrugged, "It's a secret road, but it's been a long time ago, and many places are blocked. It's just right for you to come. Write a note and report it to the emperor, but I think Jinyiwei passed the news in earlier."

Shen Jia's heart beat faster, and she was deeply afraid that the secret path of his house would also be discovered. Although she knew that taking the secret path was not a long-term solution, she still hoped to persist until they found a way out before abandoning it.

"How is your lord going to deal with those secret passages?"

Master Qiao sipped his tea, "Check everywhere first. There are still bones hidden in many secret passages. It has been a long time or a short time. Recently, Shuntian Mansion and Dali Temple have been busy."

"Then what will our Ministry of Industry do?"

"Cooperate with them to find the secret passage and draw the blueprints. We have to make up the secret passage afterwards." Master Qiao took a breath, put down his teacup and stood up, "The old man has to continue digging. Hehe, we dug out the secret passage yesterday. I bought a set of treasures, maybe I can gain something today, so let’s go.”

Master Qiao waved his hand and walked away with a hoe in the corner. Seeing that Shen Jia's master and servant were stunned, He Yan asked in surprise: "This is really the Minister of the Ministry of Industry? Isn't it a counterfeit?"

"Of course not, but I forgot to ask, sir, which is my office?" Shen Jia walked around the yamen, and finally saw a sign "You Servant" hanging outside a room, so she opened the door and walked in.

The former right servant was Chen Mian, and now he has been transferred to the left servant, so this room should have belonged to Chen Mian, and it seems that the things inside have not been taken away, Shen Jia didn't know whether to sit down or not.

"Forget it, go outside and find an empty table, prepare the pen and ink for me, and write the notebook first." Shen Jia sat down in the yard and wrote the notebook for the previous play, and finally a call came from the door after finishing writing. people.

The one at the beginning was Chen Mian, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry. He was startled when he saw Shen Jia sitting in the courtyard, strode in, and bowed his hands to him: "Master Shen is here today?"

Shen Jia returned the gift, seeing Chen Mian's embarrassment, knowing that he was remembering his refusal of the Chen family's marriage proposal, and said with a smile: "Did Mr. Chen just come down to court?"

"Yes, we came back together when we met Mr. Wu on the road." Chen Mian turned around and introduced Shen Jia to the officials of the Ministry of Industry. Everyone had heard of Shen Jia's name, and came forward to salute.

After everyone recognized their familiar faces, Chen Mian personally took Shen Jia to check the door, and his face became even more embarrassed when he saw that there were still his own things inside. "Sorry, there are too many things recently, and I haven't had time to sort them out here." He was busy Invite the attendants to move the things out, and then ask people to go to the House of Internal Affairs to get a new set of furniture.

Chen Mian drank tea with Shen Jia, and told him what happened in the court today. The letter of surrender from the Tatars had been delivered, and it was agreed to hold a sacrifice ceremony in Chang'an City on the last day of the end of this month.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan captured the Tatar prince's uncle-in-law alive, who was also a former general. The Tatar prince could not give up this man, and he would redeem him with real money in the end.

Then Shen Jia told him that Qiao Shangshu had gone to dig a tunnel, and Chen Mian sighed with an expression of "I knew it would be like this", "The older Qiao Shangshu is, the more playful he is, and he seldom cares about serious things. It's great that Mr. Shen can come to the Ministry of Industry, otherwise, this official will really be overwhelmed."

There are many and complicated affairs in the Ministry of Industry, and many dignitaries will force private tasks to come, and they can't refuse even if they want to refuse, but there are not many people in charge, and those who are capable are sent to other places to supervise the project. He is under a lot of pressure alone. too big.

Shen Jia complimented him a few words, and the two of them were still very friendly on the surface, and nothing happened to put him off. They were much more harmonious than when he went to the household department to take office.

But now all the ministers in the court know that Shen Jia is the emperor's confidant, and he must represent the emperor wherever he goes, ordinary people really dare not embarrass him, isn't embarrassing him the same as embarrassing the emperor?

And before Shen Jia came, the whole Ministry of Industry was angry, and all the messy accounts in the past had to be cleaned up, and the dirty hands had to be reined in, otherwise there would be no sympathy for being caught by him, and he knew it. It means that the emperor knows, and looking at the case he went to the north to handle back then, those fiery eyes frightened everyone.

Shen Jia didn't do much on the first day, she found the previous official documents to familiarize herself with the duties of the post, invited her colleagues to dinner at noon, the restaurant delivered the noodles directly, and even Qiao Shangshu who was busy outside rushed back.

"Good wine and good food. Today, Shen Shilang first took office, and I made an exception once. You should eat and drink, but after today, you will not be allowed to drink during the office."

Everyone agreed happily. The adults in the Ministry of Industry were poor and poor, and the dinners for guests were just ordinary meals, but they couldn't eat such high-quality noodles.

And they saw it just now, it was the meal delivered by the shopkeeper himself, and he nodded and bowed to Mr. Shen's entourage. He originally said that he would keep the account, but the entourage said that now that Mr. Shen was transferred to the Ministry of Industry, he could no longer keep the account. However, the shopkeeper directly said that the order was free, and it was his congratulatory gift to Mr. Shen for his promotion.

This is really a big gift. They also gave congratulatory gifts to Shen Jia, but most of them were less than 100 taels, and the table of this level probably cost hundreds of taels, what a hero.

After a big meal, everyone was not in the mood to do anything in the afternoon, and they got together to talk about the world, and the most talked about were two things, one was the great victory in the Northwest, and the other was the secret road discovered under Chang'an City.

A professional person went down to see it, and said: "The secret path must have been left by the previous dynasty, or even earlier, and there are many bones buried in it. I don't know when it was. A secret room was found below, and the corpses inside were still fresh, because of this, the people were panicked, and they didn’t dare to dig into the ground anymore.”

"No, if the body is dug up in my own land, then I really can't tell who is responsible for it. One thing more is worse than one thing less."

"Isn't it because someone dug up the treasure before, so many people wanted to try their luck. Unexpectedly, luck is sometimes bad luck." The speaking official looked at Qiao Shangshu who was snoring with his eyes closed, obviously digging He is the one who gave out the treasure.

Shen Jia asked curiously: "What did you find out?" Something that can make even a minister like it is definitely not ordinary stuff.

"Hey, we only took a look at it. It seems to be a treasured sword. It's been a few years. We don't dare to touch such a thing, maybe it will bring evil spirits."

Chen Mian also nodded in agreement: "No matter what, a sword is a murder weapon. We civil servants should not touch such things."

Qiao Shangshu's snoring stopped, and he closed his eyes and said, "The old man is so old, why should he be afraid of evil spirits? That thing was at least 1000 years ago, so you don't wonder why it was abandoned in the secret passage. ? The secret path is no more than 500 years old."

"Someone must have brought it in, maybe it fell when fleeing."

"This statement is unreasonable. What kind of person would drop his life-saving weapon while fleeing for his life? Most likely, the owner of the sword was killed."

"But no bones were found near the sword."

"It's also possible that the sword owner was seriously injured and died after insisting on running for a while."

Everyone is always very interested in such stories, and many people even urged Qiao Shangshu to take out the sword to test it, maybe it is a famous weapon in history?

Qiao Shangshu snorted again, and everyone "Cut..." in unison, obviously getting used to the old man's coquettish operations.

Shen Jia sat on the chair with a relaxed body, listening to everyone talking freely regardless of their superiority or inferiority, it was like having a tea party, this kind of feeling is impossible in the household department.

The officials of the household department maintain a state of nervous tension all the time. They are quick in action, shrewd in mind, and slick in character. It is impossible to chat like this.

Nice, he thought.

?Author's gossip: I put the article published yesterday in the draft box and forgot to post it. I am so depressed. I will post two chapters in one today.