The husband's son-in-law

In the lobby of the main courtyard of Li Mansion, a family is sitting together and reading a letter.

"...Little tree is born, and the second child is called Xiao Hei."

Li Dalue was envious, and asked: "Boy?" The name Xiao Hei is not like the name of a girl or a brother.

Li Zhouzhou hummed, and Gu Zhao joked, "Liu Fulang always thought about the child Bai before, why did he change his name to this when he came to the second child?"

"He said that Xiao Hei was mischievous, and he was restless in his stomach, which made him uncomfortable, so he wanted to take a deep breath." So he named the child Xiao Hei.Li Zhouzhou laughed, it was really a small tree, it hadn't changed.

Fu Bao was curious, "Is Brother Dabai very white? Is Brother Xiaohei very dark?"

"You'll know when you have a chance to see him later."

Li Zhouzhou continued reading, talking about moving, the house is huge, busy all the time, and some messy things are all solved by him, the letters are full of compliments of "I'm also very good now Brother Zhou Zhou" , Li Zhouzhou laughed, and said to Xiaotao: "Your brother is in charge of the house now, if you arrest him, everyone will listen to him."

Liu Tao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the letter, as long as elder brother wasn't troubled by her affairs, she didn't know what her little nephew looked like, and whether he was black or not.

Only Xiaoshu's letter can be read together by the big guys, and other letters from Beijing are fine.After reading the letter, they ate. Li Zhouzhou specially called Xiaotao over to eat coconut chicken pot and some cold dishes from Zhaozhou.

Coconut chicken is eaten in season. Now that September is more, coconuts are getting less and less. It is really impossible to eat a few more meals.After eating, everyone went to their own business, Fu Bao was going to take Wang Wang for a walk, and Xiao Tao was going back to the courtyard.

As soon as the person left, only the husband and wife were left, so I opened it and read other letters.

Gu Zhaoxian opened the elder brother's letter. As always, the elder brother's letter contained only a few words, everything is fine, and I miss him very much. Sometimes I think I might as well be transferred to another place like you that day.

The eldest brother is unsuccessful in officialdom, so he always brings some in his letters.As for family affairs, I don't mention it much.Naturally, Gu Zhao couldn't be curious, and asked more about the trivial daily life of his eldest brother, wife and daughter.

At the earliest time, Tang Rou wrote a letter to Li Zhouzhou, thanking him for the gift and expressing his concern.After a long time, Tang Rou and Li Zhouzhou were not friends after all, and they were women and husbands. Tang Rou was conservative and did not write another letter to Li Zhouzhou privately like Liu Shu.

If you have anything to say, let Xianggong write one sentence for you, don't bother to write two letters, it will be bad if you lose it.

But in ordinary life, what earth-shattering events can happen throughout the year?Of course there is not, and even if there is, it has nothing to do with Li Zhouzhou. When Zheng Hui asked, Tang Rou thought that it was not appropriate to talk about her natal family's troubles, so she gave up.

Gradually, Zhaozhou knew less about Tang Rou and Yingniang. Sometimes Liu Shu would mention something in his letters, such as Yingniang's birthday, and Dabai gave him a small portrait.

Without trivial daily routines, Zheng Hui's letters are also simple, and they are all safe and sound.

Gu Zhao opened the second brother's letter, and when he saw it, the good guy had three pages in it. The style was not like the second brother, but more like Liu Fulang, so he couldn't help showing it to Zhou Zhou, and joked: "Yan Er Brother, what you wrote is more and more like Liu Fulang, why are you still a mother-in-law?"

"Don't you have something to do?" Li Zhouzhou asked his father-in-law to take a look.

Gu Zhao thought for a while and said: "Maybe it's really something, but with the temperament of the second brother, it is absolutely impossible to write freely on the letter paper. I am afraid that after thinking about it several times, I can't write what I really want to write in the end. Write a letter." Pile others."

Sure enough, he guessed right.

"It's okay to take this letter and read it with the big guys." Gu Zhao said after reading it, and showed it to Zhou Zhou.

Li Zhou looked at it on Monday, and it was really like what the gentleman said, "If it weren't for the wrong handwriting and different ways of saying it, it really looked like Xiaoshu's writing."

The rigorous letter in the letter first stated that he had been promoted, and now he is a third-rank senior elder. His Majesty gave him a six-admission mansion with great love. The mansion is very beautiful. It is possible to live.

"Obviously I've been promoted, but why do I feel—"

Gu Zhao answered: "Is it a feeling that the official career is here?" He also saw that the second brother's letter was different from the eldest brother's. The eldest brother wanted to do it, but he had no choice but to nest there, looking a little frustrated .

The second brother's letter is not like before, and he feels a little frustrated.

"The elder of the third rank is even more leisurely than the senior scholar of the Zichen Palace. The Holy Majesty is rewarding the mansion and promoting him. He is obviously very important to the outside world, and it looks like a bunch of flowers, but in reality, I think the Holy Majesty does not value the second brother. While pulling it outward, it has no real power internally."

Gu Zhao can actually guess a little from the comparison of the second brother's before and after. If others may not know it, after all, no one is like him. It was replaced by the sixth prince.

Among the checkpoints, will the second brother watch and participate in it, and do something against his will, which is why he has a bit of anger towards the officialdom.

"Second brother is stubborn. He feels that he has done something wrong. He must punish himself for a period of time. I can't even persuade him. I can only wait for him to figure it out." Gu Zhao said.

Later, I didn't persuade him in reply, but also wrote a lot about his daily work in Zhaozhou. For example, the county magistrate of Minzhangfu County in Zhaozhou had a dog's tooth mark on his buttocks. He was locked outside the city gate and deliberately made his subordinates yell Yes, who told him that when he first arrived in Minzhang to talk about building roads, the county magistrate deliberately scolded him loudly in vernacular!

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For example, recently, he was going to build roads for several cities near Zhaozhou. He was really taken advantage of. He felt sorry for the money, but he couldn't fix it first. If he built a main road, he would withdraw and let them try good things. He cried for them!

For example, his house has also been rebuilt, and now it is much bigger, and he even built a vegetable field for his father. Fubao has a small wooded hillside, which is very convenient for running horses and walking dogs. If your family is bored in Beijing, come Zhaozhou asked us to play, and we can live there.

Such a small matter, I wrote three pages eloquently.It's just that Gu Zhao didn't expect that within a few months after he sent the letter, he would receive good news—a news that was both painful and joyful.

Finally, I opened the letter to read Brother Liang's letter.

"It's good news again. Senior brother has also been promoted. What did I say at the beginning? The promotion will happen sooner or later." Although Gu Zhao said so, he thought at the time that senior brother must be in the fifth-rank position of the household department department for a third time. Upgrade again in four years.

It was already fast to be promoted in three or four years, but I didn't expect to be promoted in just over a year.

"From the department of the household department, he was directly promoted to the portal department of the headquarters, the servant, and the fourth grade."

"It's a good thing, so I'll prepare some. If we deliver goods this fall, I'll prepare some gifts for everyone." Li Zhouzhou said.

Although only two people have been promoted, it's not good to favor one over another, Li Zhouzhou also prepared for the Zheng family.

Gu Zhao read halfway, stopped, and said, "...Brother asked me to back up the ceremony."

"I'll prepare, there are three."

"That's not what it means. Senior brother didn't want us to salute. He congratulated the new emperor in the name of Zhaozhou." Gu Zhao really didn't think about this point before. After he arrived in Zhaozhou, his mind became straight. He also knows how to make dragon farts and write "Bathing in the Holy Grace".

"If senior brother didn't mention it, I really forgot."

This year is the first year of Tianshun, the first New Year of the Sixth Prince's ascension to the throne, and it is definitely a great effort, not to mention the war. There were so many refugees in the snow disaster back then, and countless casualties.

The people at the bottom and the powerful are two classes, and there is still a gap that is difficult to bridge, let alone the people and the royal family.

"Let's go with the flow and get ready. Our local products in Zhaozhou are canned coconut soap, etc. These are packaged more gorgeously - burn some glass bottles and put them in cans."

Nowadays, colored glass is fried to a thousand gold, and canned lychees are packed in colored glass bottles, which is a luxury with a luxury.

Enough!

"Ask the merchants in Zhaozhou what they are going to do. If you want to show your face, give it a chance." Gu Zhao said.

For the New Year's gift for the Holy One, it is natural to use the power of the entire state to choose the best, least error-prone, and safest things to give. For a small Zhaozhou, no one is willing to spend a lot of trouble.

Besides, whether the new emperor can see these things is another matter.

"Those merchants will be happy." Li Zhouzhou said.

This is natural, now that the imperial power is supreme, the merchants at the bottom must cry bitterly when they hear that they can give gifts to the Holy Majesty, and go to the ancestral grave to burn incense first.

Rare treasures, and no money - I dare not even think about asking for money, and the meat buns never return, the merchants are also willing to do so, and kneel down to thank God.

Sure enough, Gu Zhao later chose the opportunity and invited several merchants to come to the meeting, and Li Zhouzhou was naturally there.

When these merchants heard that they were giving congratulatory gifts to the new emperor, they were so frightened that their legs went limp. They all knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Mr. Gu in thanks, their hands were shaking as if they were dementia, their noses were in tears——

He was obviously the gift giver, but now he seems to have taken advantage of the sky.

It's useless for Gu Zhao to scream, these merchants can't get up, their legs are weak, and they can't bear it if they don't give Mr. Gu a few knocks, so it's like a competition, bang bang bang.

"It's very easy to prepare when you go back. You don't need to eat, and you have to have things that are auspicious. Don't make any taboos. Prepare everything else first. Boss Li will read it later." Gu Zhao sent people out.

Stop knocking, you will have a concussion in a while, and you will be silly.

The merchants supported each other to get up, their mouths parted with tears and shaking hands, murmuring the blessings of their ancestors, did you see that our ancestral grave is smoking...

Gu Zhao saw that these merchants were not meant to be a joke, on the contrary, they felt a little sad, but the current values ​​are like this, and anyone who has anything to do with the royal family is the supreme honor and favor.

"No wonder everyone wants to..." Sit on that seat.Gu Zhao didn't tell the whole story.

Li Zhouzhou said: "I'm going back first, and I'm afraid I won't be able to handle this matter. Fortunately, you are still here."

Gu Zhao sent Zhou Zhou out of the yamen, and walking turned into sending Zhou Zhou home. Li Zhouzhou didn't mention it when he saw it, and walked with his husband to the mansion. Gu Zhaoyi saw it and walked for a while. Yes, the people on the street outside shouted and hawked, and the fireworks of living hard, the sadness and emotion in my heart just now disappeared.

If you can't change something, do it right now.

Just live their lives well.

The days after September became busy. Both husband and wife were busy, but they were both in Zhaozhou City.Gu Zhao has to take care of the harvest, and there is also the problem of road construction in Xinzhou and Rongzhou. There is another matter. Wuzhou took the initiative to write a letter, meaning that you will pay for road construction in the other two states, and Rongzhou is not our chief secretary. Yes, why didn't you think of me as the big brother?

For Zhaozhou, Namozhou is indeed the big brother.

Gu Zhao was so angry when he saw the letter from Tongzhi Zhizhou that he cursed at the content of the letter.

"You said he was shameless! Who is the big brother thinking about the pocket wallet of the little brother who just got along? Zhaozhou was poor at the beginning, and the people of Zhaozhou went to Mozhou to sell goods. It was because of the toll. Layer upon layer, layer upon layer of exploitation, and being scolded and ridiculed for being a poor man, now thinking about us paying for road construction, and paying for it one by one, what do you mean? Zhaozhou is the chief secretary's state city, what do you mean? I want Zhaozhou to honor this big brother Mozhou?"

Pooh!

Gu Zhao cursed.

Li Zhouzhou poured some tea for my husband and said, "Then I won't repair it, I refused. I'm just afraid that they will wear small shoes for you. After all, it's the city where the Chief Secretary is located."

"What am I afraid of? It seems like no one in Beijing has thighs. My second elder brother is the third rank, and my senior brother is the fourth rank, and they are all officials in the capital." Xiao Gu finished cursing and began to compare his thighs.

Li Zhouzhou smiled, knowing that Mr. Xiang was speaking in anger, it was definitely impossible to trouble the people in Beijing with this.

Sure enough, Gu Zhao vented his anger after cursing, turned around and sat behind the desk, and began to think about replying to the letter. He wished he could take the letter to slap the Tongzhi in the face, but the reply had to be 'considerate', not to offend anyone, and he felt aggrieved immediately. Say to Zhou Zhou: "I'm so pissed off!"

"Don't be angry, Mr. Li, don't be angry." Li Zhouzhou coaxed Mr. Fu in the same tone as he was coaxing Fu Bao.

Gu Zhao felt a lot better, and it really took Zhou Zhou to coax him to do it, so he answered the letter with a twisted face, stopped writing two pens, and then started to write again. The last reply made him lose all anger, and Zhou Zhou Said: "I found that people can't be too talkative. This Zhaozhou real power leader has been in power for a long time. I really can't stand it and don't like to deal with people and build relationships."

"If I was in Beijing before, although I didn't want to do it, I could still write some flattering and splendid articles if I was brave enough, and I could also make tricks in official circles. Now I am used to it. The main reason is that such letter routines are too time-consuming and not efficient. , but I can control Zhaozhou, but I can't control other states..."

Mr. Gu reflected for a moment, he was sublimated and peaceful.

"It's better for us in Zhaozhou. Fortunately, it's just this one time." Li Zhouzhou said.

Gu Zhao said yes, and Mozhou asked him to pay half of the money to repair the cement road, so he is not beautiful!Of course Master Xiao Gu disagreed, so he wrote a miserable content, extreme dragging, back and forth, to see if he could bargain, and if the first letter came with a request, they agreed to it, and they had to ask for benefits, naturally It's not good to go out without repairing, and you can't offend the Shangguan.

After finishing writing, in order to comfort his little husband-in-law, Li Zhouzhou specially stewed sweet soup, so Master Xiao Gu lit the lamp for the first time and dragged the reply letter for the first time, and drank the sweet soup with his wife happily.

... happy.

Half a month later, a second letter came from Mozhou, this time it was coercive, and it brought out the reputation of the chief secretary and the magistrate——

Gu Zhao was very angry, but he swallowed the swear words back, and didn't say it to Zhou Zhou, just complained for the first time, and if he talked too much, Zhou Zhou would get angry and worry about him.

He originally wanted to go back with the first letter. He said it was pitiful, but his tone was tactful, and he didn't say no or fix it. A discerning person would know what it meant at a glance. The reply letter naturally promised some benefits—like Xinzhou Like Rongzhou.

But I didn't expect that people planned to use the routine of "the first-level official crushes people to death" to deal with him.

If you don't cultivate, you have to cultivate. It gives you face. If you don't like to speak well, do you still want to be promoted?

Gu Zhao's face was cold. The letter hung out for a few days, and finally he bit his cheek and returned it, saying that he had no money to repair it, and the money was spent in Rongzhou, Xinzhou. Later, the first time he wrote it was naturally not sent, but It was changed and used more euphemistically, meaning that this year will not be successful, there will be no money, and besides, it will be cold for the New Year soon.

Drag word tactics.

Later, it took a long time for Wuzhou to send a letter, saying that the assessment at the end of next year, Zhaozhou has been a little unsatisfactory in the past few years, so Gu Zhao was asked to go to Wuzhou to report on his work in person during the Chinese New Year.

Gu Zhao didn't go back after reading it, so what if he didn't like it?Can the Chief Secretary transfer him to another place?The chief secretary doesn't have this right, if he wants to transfer him, he has to report to the official department in Beijing, and pay him money and connections to get him, a corner associate?

Besides, Zhaozhou is the worst in the eyes of those officials, what else could be worse?Send him to fight on the front lines of the battlefield?He is a civil servant, as long as the military officer is not dead, it will be his turn.

These words of Gu Zhao are also the anger accumulated in the past two months. Later, he decided to ignore them. Let’s talk about it next year. Suffering from the cold, it will be bad if you get sick from Shangfeng during the New Year's Eve...

In the second half of the year, Mr. Gu was full of anger by arguing with Mozhou for a few months. He was busy with other field work and the grain harvest. From time to time, he asked Bolin Annan how the villages bordering Nanyi were doing. Everything was safe.And Li Zhouzhou was also busy, busy with sending congratulatory gifts to the new emperor.

Jade's Chen family also wanted to ask brother Lin to go over and advise on the pattern.

Li Zhouzhou refused, not because he didn't borrow people, but because he said: "To make an offering to the Holy One, you only want to be safe, with excellent texture and excellent carving skills. The patterns and patterns should not be too novel and easy to make mistakes. Can you imagine the consequences?"

It's not like sending jewelry to Liang's house, even if it doesn't meet the wishes of the wives, even if there is no relationship like Li Zhouzhou, it is impossible for the Liang family to trip you up because of a piece of jewelry, or make your whole family suffer.

But it's different for the holy one, who knows the taboos and preferences of today's emperor?

When the emperor was angry, the people couldn't afford it.

So it's best to follow the rules.

The Chen family got Boss Li's words, and the more they thought about the consequences, they broke out in cold sweat. They only thought about the happiness of Emperor Bo, and never thought of making a mistake and causing disaster.

It is already a great gift to be able to send congratulatory gifts to the Holy One.

By mid-November, everything is ready, and I dare not delay any longer. If I delay it, I will not be able to make it in time for the New Year's gift, and it will be too late.Li Zhouzhou took the gift list and the real objects to show his husband.

In fact, when he was doing it, Gu Zhao had listened to Zhou Zhou's gossip.

[-] jars of lychees in glass jars, [-] pieces of coconut soap in a high-quality carved sandalwood gift box. The edge is made of gold and jade carvings.

Anyway, it looks exquisite and rich.

Gu Zhao felt that there was nothing wrong with relying on wealth and honor. The Holy One didn't like it anymore. That was the aesthetics of nouveau riche. He would never say that the things the people gave me were too expensive and vulgar, and I would chop them up—of course, I was just joking.

The sixth prince is only in power, so he won't be violent immediately.

The east and the west traveled by water, followed the goods sent by Zhaozhou in autumn, Wang Jian took the goods from Zhaozhou, Su Shiyi and Meng Jianyun led a team to escort them, and ten government servants from Zhaozhou went together, from Jiting to Liangzhe, and then Changing land and going all the way to Beijing, with a full budget, he should be rich when he arrives in Beijing.

I don't care about this matter.

Gu Zhao put it to the back of his mind, there are so many prefectures in the whole Dali calendar that have paid attention to them, and what they have in Zhaozhou, I am afraid that the Holy Majesty may not even see it.

The main roads in Xinzhou are poorly repaired, and Rongzhou is a little far away, and there is still some distance.

In autumn, some scattered goods from Zhaozhou were sent to Xinzhou. In November, we got some news. I heard that Rongzhou and Fanguo had fought several battles this year, and they were all defeated, but the number of people was not many.

"I heard that the battles of [-] to [-] people were all in Rongzhou, and the Fan Kingdom fought a lot."

"Is Nanyi not moving?"

"Also, just twice, it was the Fan Kingdom who beat them, but every time they reached the border, they yelled and retreated. I heard that it was the order of the king of Nanyi."

"The fourteenth prince is the first to deal with Nanyi."

"The king of Nanyi dedicated it to our daughter Wang in Dali? Could it be that the king of Nanyi still has some kinship, he misses his grandson, and doesn't want to hurt his life? If so, that's fine, don't fight, and retreat quickly."

"Isn't it? It's such a good day in peace. It's really worrying to call back and forth."

Gu Zhao listened to the chatter of merchants, but felt that something was wrong. If the king of Nanyi really cared about his grandson, what kind of family relationship, then he shouldn't even think about sending troops to attack. It's better to send a letter to express his stand A team, wouldn't it be better to make Concubine Yi and the Fourteenth Prince in the Dali Palace and Rongzhou feel better.

If he remembered correctly, the King of Nanyi was a few years younger than Emperor Kang Jing, and he would be in his sixties now.

Nanyi is probably in a situation of civil strife and struggle for the throne.

Gu Zhao listened for a while, and when Zhou Zhou entered the hall, the merchants stopped talking and began to report the transaction books, but Gu Zhao didn't show up and didn't listen any more.

This year's Chinese New Year is still the same, as usual, but Li Mansion has invited a theater troupe to have fun.This is the fourth year in Zhaozhou, from the 61st year of Kangjing to the first year of Tianshun.

Experienced two emperors.

Gu Zhao is still the same as usual, Li Zhouzhou has been flattered by the big guys this year, and it is still the same old story, men, children, business, Wang Jian moved out of the Wang family a month ago, and Mrs. Wang smiled a lot this year during the Chinese New Year, saying Good news.

Both Liu Niang and Qiniang found marriages and got engaged.

"I'm a aunt, so the two children are naturally worrying about it. Liu Niang dare not delay her age. In the fourth month of the year, the weather is not too cold or hot. My husband's family is the third son of the old man Huang's family. Good-looking, and diligent in doing things..." Mrs. Wang praised and praised Master Huang's third concubine, which meant that although Liu Niang was a concubine, she took great pains to find a good marriage as a aunt.

Naturally, Mrs. Wang exaggerated what she said, and even said: "Hey, Liu Niang enjoys the blessings before her sister in such a good marriage."

The ladies present here are talking cheerfully with smiles on their faces, but they naturally have their own thoughts in their hearts.

If the youngest of the Huang family is really as good as Mrs. Wang said, surpassing Qiniang, then it is better to let Qiniang take the lead in Liuniang's good marriage, and Mrs. Wang will be the first to jump up and turn his face.

They are all serious wives, who can be more than their own to a concubine?It is considered generous not to be harsh.Everyone knows it well, but they just can't understand Mrs. Wang's pretentiousness and boasting of herself to put money on her face.

Someone asked about Qiniang.

"Xiao Qi will be born in October next year. She is destined to be the sixth child of the Chen family. She is two years older than Xiao Qi, which is a perfect match."

Wang Qiniang is fifteen this year, and Liu Niang is sixteen.

"That's good, but why didn't the elder brother in the front find his husband's family, and the sister in the back got married first, isn't that bad?" Someone asked.

Mrs. Wang twitched her lips, forced a smile, and said, "Fourth brother, he has big ideas—"

Li Zhouzhou answered, "I regard Wang Jian as my nephew and nephew. Tuo Da asked Mr. and Mrs. Wang for a word. I took care of Wang Jian's marriage. It was the two who trusted me and entrusted the child to me."

"Yes, yes, Madam loves Jian'er, and Jian'er has the ability to make great achievements, so I don't want to delay." Madam Wang followed her words and changed her name from calling her fourth brother.

Everyone naturally praised Mrs. Gu for her generosity and kindness, and flattery again.In fact, behind the scenes, Li Zhouzhou also knew that he had no rules in doing this. How could an outsider take advantage of his power to control the marriage of other people's children, and let the children work for him before he got married.

I'm afraid there are many people who scold him behind his back.

Li Zhouzhou didn't care, if he didn't come over, the pressure would be on Wang Jian, and he said that no one dared to say it in front of him, so he smiled and asked everyone to drink tea and watch the show.

Wang Jian found out later that Liu Niang learned from him and said: "...Brother, you should talk to Mrs. Gu more, and choose a good husband as soon as possible. If he delays your marriage like this, even if he is a colleague Mrs. Zhi, but how can it be done, how can it delay your whole life."

"Shut up, don't say that about the boss in the future." Wang Jian said seriously about his sister.

Liu Niang couldn't hold back her face, stomped her feet angrily, and said, "I was worrying about you for nothing, and I was kind enough to be a donkey, all because of you, but you said that about me because of an outsider." Then she ran away with red eyes.

Wang Jian didn't coax Liu Niang, but told Liu Niang's back when he ran out, saying that the boss was not an outsider.

It's not that the boss doesn't care about his marriage, it's that the boss thought of it for him, so he couldn't help but find someone to marry, and it will save the boss from taking the blame for him and being criticized by others.

Li Zhouzhou didn't know what had happened, but when the wives talked about their marriage, he couldn't help but think of Brother Yu. Brother Yu is seventeen years old, so it's time to visit his in-laws. His family entrusted him to look after him, which is not good. Delay, I have to ask Brother Yu what kind of one he likes.

There are also unmarried men of upright marriage age who take concubines in Zhaozhou City.

When the weather gets better in spring, Li Zhouzhou intends to use the excuse of spring to take Yu Geer out for a walk, and ask a few wives to have a chat, it is best to bring the boy at home with him.

It turned out that the new year was over and the weather had just cleared up. Li Zhouzhou found out the marriageable men in Zhaozhou, and was writing a post to invite his mother to go out. An official letter came from Beijing——

The Prime Minister has been promoted.

Gu Zhao received the official letter and read it: ...

He was promoted to one of the adjutants of the Chief Secretary of Nanjun, Zuo Zhengsi, the fourth rank.