Ch. 133 - The Wind and Waves are Rising, the Deer is Crowing and the Waves are Calming, and the Letters from Home are Dark and Suspicious
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However, Sun Shaozong hurried to the front hall and exchanged greetings with others. Before he could get down to business, Cheng Rixing, Lin Delu, Zhou Da, and other subordinates came outside.
These people were not on the same level. Sun Shaozong had to arrange them into two groups to take care of them, respectively.
It was not long before Xu Shouye and others of his same year of the martial arts examination arrived.
Sun Shaozong became even more reluctant to come.
Fortunately, people just came to visit him and did not want to hold him up to talk in detail. After a few words of concern, they dispersed one after another.
But Xue Pan was the only one who didn't hesitate to stay there. He insisted that Sun Shaozong visit his house on the eleventh day, this afternoon.
It was said that they would make up for the housewarming banquet on the sixth day of the lunar month. It seemed that Sun Shaozong could be bothered in the Mansion without going there.
Sun Shaozong could not refuse several times, so he had to nod his head and promise. Xue Pan returned to his nest happily.
When the hall was empty, Sun Shaozong suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to give Jia Lian's construction price list for the garden.
Fortunately, according to Jia Lian, the Provincial Courtyard of the Rongguo Mansion was about to be completed. At that time, they would definitely invite relatives and friends to visit. He would then find an excuse to leave it at Jia's house.
Sun Shaozong thought like this and was ready to go back to the backyard.
Unexpectedly, just arriving at the entrance of the hall, Cheng Rixing hurriedly turned back under the guidance of the servants.
The two were employers. Sun Shaozong would not be polite to them, so he asked in front of the door, "Why did you come back? What happened to the Yamen?"
Cheng Rixing pointed in and said, "Let's go in and talk, Master."
Sun Shaozong had to lead him back to the living room.
After the guest and host took their seats, Cheng Rixing said with a little worry, "The trend of events in the Yamen is not right these days, Master. Suddenly, a lot of bad news came out for you. It seems that..."
"It seems what?"
"It seems that someone has set his sights on the position of the Minister!"
Someone has set sights on the position of Minister?
Sun Shaozong frowned, but he was not surprised. Although he was the best candidate to succeed in this position according to common sense, the best candidate was not the only one!
Apart from that, the Ministry of Punishment alone has more than a dozen members [from the fifth rank] and principals [from the sixth rank] who were qualified to be promoted to this position.
Although these people were not as capable as Sun Shaozong, they couldn’t stand the seniority of others.
However, if these people wanted to incite trouble and create confusion in the Central Judicial Office, it was beyond their grasp.
The one who was capable of making trouble in the Central Judicial Office and who was qualified to succeed in the Minister position would only be him.
Zhao Liben, the Assistant Prefectural Magistrate of salt and iron?!
But Han Anbang, the backer of this guy, was about to fall. How could he be confident and dare to compete with himself for the position?
Could it be that this guy also betrayed Han Anbang secretly, so he was supported by Jia Yucun?
Something’s not right.
Jia Yucun has been stuck in the place for the Imperial Examination for more than half a month, and this kind of officialdom strife cannot be delivered through the gate.
After pondering for a while, Sun Shaozong still didn't understand. He had to listen again and said, "Who did Zhao Liben get closer to recently?"
Cheng Rixing said without hesitation, "The Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Fu, and County Magistrate Wang of Daxing County!"
Tch!
Fu Shi took the name of Jia Zheng’s disciple and was always arrogant in the government office, and Wang Qian was a master who had no spare.
Sun Shaozong would not be surprised to say that these two dared to encourage Zhao Liben to usurp power and seize the position!
However, as long as it was not Jia Yucun's action, there was nothing to worry about.
So Sun Shaozong smiled unconcernedly and said, "Don't worry, it's just a few clowns who want to compete for the position with me, but they still lack the method!"
After that, seeing that Cheng Rixing was still a little nervous, he smiled again and said, "His Majesty ordered me to attend this year's party to celebrate the success in the local examination because Eunuch Dai's Godson was revealed to me this morning!"
The next day after the announcement of the provincial examination, the local government would prepare a banquet for invigilators and new candidates called the party celebrating success in the local examination.
The successful candidates of the Provincial Imperial Examination obviously cannot be at the main table.
And there were twenty or thirty invigilators, even if only the same examiners who read the papers. It was impossible for so many people to sit on the main.
Therefore, in addition to the Chief Examiners and Deputy Examiners, only three or five of the examiners can be selected to sit on the main, and only these examiners who sit on the main seat can be regarded as recognized ”subject teachers.”
It was unprecedented that Inspectors were placed on the table, but they were all powerful people. It was the first time that a young official with not more than six-graded rank was assigned to the main.
In addition, the Emperor himself gave the order, which was very impressive!
Cheng Rixing was also an old candidate in the Imperial Examination. Naturally, he knew the meaning of being at the top of the table. He just scratched his head for a moment and praises "Your Majesty is wise.”
When he left steadily, Sun Shaozong was free to go back to the backyard and open the letter with Ruan Rong to see what his father-in-law had written.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Rong could not wait to open the letter with him and read it again and again.
Fortunately, she looked happy. There should be nothing inappropriate in the letter.
"My Master."
Seeing Sun Shaozong enter the door, Ruan Rong smiled and said, "My father has changed his temper since he was promoted to an official position. In the letter, he talked about many official trivia."
A lot of official trivia?
Sun Shaozong took it up curiously and looked at it. He found that his father-in-law was indeed promoted to an official position, and it was the position of the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
In this letter, about half of them are talking about his thoughts on his daughter, and the other half were writing about a lot of trivial things, complaining that he has been busy with his business recently and has no time to rest.
But…
If he put these trivial things together, he would find that it was not just complaints!
According to Sun Shaozong's original inference, the Qian Xiang Kingdom should be ready to attack the State of Zhen, so they hope to get the full support of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
However, it was revealed in this letter that the materials of the Qian Xiang Kingdom were being mobilized to the surrounding areas, but the supply to the State of Zhen was much less.
Was it possible that the Qian Xiang Kingdom has been so daring that they want to take advantage of the battle of the Great Zhou Dynasty and launch a counterattack?!
And looking at this meaning, Country Zhen has been involved in it!
If this was true, the southwest border would be in chaos.
But why did his father-in-law disclose this information to himself?
Was he the legendary ”traitor” and ”leading party?!”
He looked at it carefully several times. Sun Shaozong was full of thoughts, but he said with a smile, "Since father-in-law has been promoted to an official position, we have to celebrate even more. Tomorrow, let's go to Xuanzhen Taoist Temple. I heard that there are many chrysanthemums nearby, and the mountain road is also well-built, so you won’t be bumped on the way."