Chapter 25 – Talented

Zhu nodded: “The last treasure money, I really did not expect, the emperor’s decree, but not only the monks and lay people did not comply, but everything backward, this is really surprising.”

“As a matter of fact, if the emperor is in the deep palace, do not understand the actual situation, but that cabinet, and the six ministries of ministers, ministers? Hey …… who would have thought, nonetheless the edict did not have an effect, but let the city panic.”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Looks like dude didn’t lose much money.”

Chu: “……”

“The dynasty in the gun in the thought of what, in fact, I do not understand, but many ministers are the science of origin, very little contact with the actual affairs, in fact, is also excusable.”

Zhu nodded his head, and the two of them finally came to an agreement.

Zhu Di said: “The emperor in the army, and still know the first soldier, and soldiers share the pain, so the military horse every setback, the soldiers also still follow the emperor refused to break up. I think the military and governance is the same reason, full of courtiers, most of the self-importance of the noble, do not know the plight of the people, how can we expect them to rule the world? I think this civilian ministers ah, mostly useless.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Buddy don’t be so paranoid.”

Zhu Di glared at him, “What, is it possible that your family is from a civil court?”

“Not really, I just think there’s always talent.”

Zhu Di became interested and looked at Zhang Anshi with a smile, “Then tell me which one is talented.”

“This …… this ……” Zhu Di asked for a moment, Zhang Anshi was unable to answer for a moment.

However, in Zhang Anshi’s view, he and the man in front of him, now doing the keyboard warrior’s hook, and the city of those who drank a few sips of wine, and then began to point out the mountains and rivers.

It’s just that even blowing water has to have some dry stuff in it.

Fiercely, Zhang Anshi said, “There is a man named Yang Shiqi who is very talented; such a man must be a genius in ruling the world.”

Zhu Di was confused: “Who is Yang Shiqi?”

The reason why Zhang Anshi remembered Yang Shiqi, on the one hand, was that his brother-in-law of the crown prince was going to ask someone to teach him lectures, and it seemed that he had asked one of the Hanlin’s scholars of the Eastern Palace, a man named Yang Shiqi.

Of course …… this name, in the later world Zhang Anshi has also heard of it, at least in various novels and TV dramas have appeared, saying that what has been through the five dynasties, the main state policies of the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty have his shadow.

And this man, because he came from a poor background, knew the plight of the people.

Look at …… Isn’t that right?

Zhang Anshi said, “Well, let’s not talk about this, what are we doing worrying about this!”

Zhu Di nodded, but muttered in his heart, this guy …… is just a letter to say?

After three rounds of wine, Zhang Anshi has been somewhat eaten drunk, at this time Zhu Di also seems to be ready to leave, he touched Zhang Anshi’s back, sighing: “You this little doll is good, the future must be promising.”

Zhang Anshi said cheerfully, “Then I wish you a bright future as well.”

Zhu smiled, “Damn it, nagging with you here is delaying my business, so leave it at that and get lost.”

“You this person ……” Zhang Anshi gritted his teeth, and then glanced at one of Zhu Di’s side of the elite guards, had to show a smile, “Farewell.”

Although the relationship is close, the procedure still needs to be followed, for example, Zhang Anshi happily got into the sack.

There is a saying that life is like xx, if you can’t fight it, then just learn to enjoy it.

The holey guard carried Zhang Anshi on his back, and shortly afterward appeared in an alley, where Zhang Anshi drilled out.

The guard gazed at Zhang Anshi and suddenly said, “Don’t chew the fat in front of him in the future, there are some people that you can’t afford to mess with.”

Zhang Anshi patted the dust on his body, “We don’t know who can’t afford to mess with who yet!”

Slap your ass and just walk away.

Leaving the guard, winded.

…………

Zhang Anshi was on his way home, but by this time, the Zhang family was already in a mess.

Zhang Anshi is slipped out, Deng Jian was excited to run to intend to teach Zhang Anshi how to use meals in the court, but the result is that people disappeared.

And that Hanlin preacher Yang Shiqi, just today also rushed to, prepared some homework on the Four Books and Five Classics, intends to give Zhang Anshi a good make up.

As a result, after the people arrived …… they found that the young master of that Zhang family was not even a ghost shadow.

Yang Shiqi sat in the hall, while Deng Jian was embarrassed and said to Yang Shiqi again and again, “After a while, Mr. Zhang will come back, be at ease, be at ease, come on, Squire Yang, have a sip of tea, have a sip of tea.”

And so, after Yang Shiqi tactically disguised his embarrassment by drinking tea numerous times while running to the latrine seven or eight times, Zhang Anshi returned with the smell of alcohol all over him.

Yang Shiqi’s face is very bad, before coming, originally got the Prince’s authorization, he is still quite pleasant, after all, he is a district of a service preacher, can get the Prince’s favor, is really three lifetimes of good fortune.

Of course, this actually has something to do with Yancey’s origins.

Yang Shiqi’s family was poor when he was young, his father died early, his mother remarried, and his stepfather was good to him, but he died soon afterward.

So the orphans and widows were dependent on each other, and he earned his living by giving lessons.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the court needed a lot of talents, so under the recommendation of a nobleman, Yang Shiqi was able to join the court as an official.

That is to say, Yang Shiqi is not a proper examination into the official, this point in the time of Emperor Taizu high emperor, it is nothing, but the Ming state has been decades later, this has become a huge weakness.

Yang Shiqi’s career as a eunuch is not good, those who are the right way out of the scholar look down on him, and he is from a poor background, although occasionally someone valued him, but after all, there is no real court officials favored, not to mention the same township, the same year and so on the relationship.

Thus, he was nothing more than a transparent man in the early years of the Yongle dynasty.

At this moment, it occurred to him that no wonder the Crown Prince had asked him to teach this Duke Zhang, dare he say that it was a good thing that he couldn’t take a turn, but a bad thing that he had to take the blame for.

Yang Shiqi and Zhang Anshi met in salute.

When Zhang Anshi heard that Yang Shiqi had come, he was actually very enthusiastic: “Come, come, Minister Yang, I’ve heard a lot about you, let’s sit down, has Minister Yang eaten?”

When Yang Shiqi heard Zhang Anshi say the four words “I have heard your name”, he smiled helplessly and bitterly in his heart.

If other people long to admire it is not bad, you come to long to admire …… hey …… go bad luck ah.

Yang Shiqi had a business-like face, “Gongzi, let’s start reading.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Well, well, well, I’ve always enjoyed reading.”

Thus, a copy of the Shangshu was placed before Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi began to be dumbfounded, in good conscience, every word in it, he recognized, the only combination, Zhang Anshi became open-eyed blind.

The most terrible thing was that when Yang Shiqi began to read, Zhang Anshi began to doze off and get sleepy, and his eyes kept fighting.

Several times …… Yang Shiqi saw Zhang Anshi s wooden look, so he desperately coughed and reminded Zhang Anshi to cheer up.

Zhang Anshi was jolted and blankly opened his eyes to look around, at first thinking with a confused face who am I and where am I.

The next moment the eyes began to droop again.

After a few times like this, Yancey felt like he was going to break down.

He wanted to rage, to pick up a ruler and beat the hateful fellow as he had done when he had been a teacher in the folklore.

But he held back, admonishing himself to only hold his tongue for the sake of his future.

“Mr. Zhang, can you understand the piece of the Book of Zhou that I spoke of just now?”

Zhang Anshi: “……”

“There’s no rush, take your time, I’ll interpret the gist of the Book of Zhou for you.”

“Alright, I think Mr. Zhang has a grasp of this.”

Zhang Anshi stared, his eyes occasionally blinking, at Yang Shiqi, his face rigid.

Yang Shiqi took a deep breath, struggled to maintain a professional smile, said, “Then I will say it again, this time listen carefully, there is no hurry, there is no hurry, many people are also like this at first, and so on mastered the trick …… can be water to the drain.”

This was repeated and comforting for days.

At the end of the day, Yancey wanted to cry.

Because this guy is not enlightened.

You say he’s got a bad attitude, but he’s treating you with respect.

But if you want to say he’s well-behaved, you’ve preached so much about the Four Books and Five Classics, and the guy is still blind with his eyes open.

You can’t hit him and scold him, after all, they are the wife and brother of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seems to value this wife and brother extremely highly, and in the future, it will be the loud and clear uncle of the state, a proper royal relative.

Thus, a few days later, Yang Shiqi went to Zhang’s house, and became largely in the mood to visit the grave.

On several occasions when he was close to breaking down and breaking his defenses, he used his strong willpower to pull his sanity back again and again.