Dong Xiaowan felt desolate inside. The gentle and understanding Mr. Mao in the past was gone. He was suspicious, mean, narrow-minded, and hideous like a stranger.

Dong Xiaowan's maid felt distressed when she saw it, but she didn't dare to say a word.

Seeing that Dong Xiaowan was reluctant to tell the truth in the end, Mao Pijiang looked full of pain and waved his hand and walked away with big strides.

The maid wanted to chase after him, but she didn't dare, so she quickly helped Dong Xiaowan up.

Dong Xiaowan cried like tears, sitting by the bed, still crying.

The maid wiped Dong Xiaowan's tears and said softly: "Girl, stop crying. Miss Liu is coming tomorrow, so we can't do this."

The maid's "Miss Liu" also refers to Liu Rushi, a famous prostitute from Qinhuai River. She was very close to Qian Qianyi. The two often communicated, and they were already "friends who forgot their ages". Qian Qianyi intended to marry Liu Rushi. This time he entered the capital, Liu Rushi was invited by Qian Qianyi to attend the Peony Flower Club.

Dong Xiaowan quickly wiped her tears and said, "Sister Liu may arrive in advance. You can prepare some things. Also, don't tell Sister Liu about what happened today."

The maid pursed her lips and nodded slightly with a distressed look on her face.

After Dong Xiaowan said this, she thought of Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi who was over fifty years old, and couldn't help but feel sad again and cried, "Why are we women fighting so much..."

The maid held her and comforted her repeatedly, but there was no good idea.

Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang are in love and are already talking about marriage. Although they are just taking concubines, for a woman in the vast world, joining a family of officials and being a man who is in love with each other, what other extravagant desires do you have?

Even so, there are still many twists and turns, which is difficult to achieve.

Mao Pijiang left Dong Xiaowan's beautiful building and headed straight to a familiar brothel. Others didn't care about it when they asked, just drank and occasionally laughed loudly.

However, at noon the next day, it was circulated in the capital, and Mao Pijiang and a famous prostitute in a capital were in love with each other.

Literary and poets are not surprised, but instead they pass on the story.

However, when Dong Xiaowan heard this, she burst into tears again and fell ill all of a sudden.

Liu Rushi arrived in Beijing at noon and was furious when he heard about this, but he had no other choice but to write a poem that satirized Mao Pijiang. Although he did not name the name, all the scholars from Jiangnan knew that they were just for Mao Pijiang.

One of the sentences is: "The passionate and beautiful girl from a foreign land, the widowed new Jinshiro".

Mao Pijiang felt that he had trouble saying that he did not know anything like a little girl, and hid in a brothel and did not leave.

This seemed to have made Mao Pijiang's "start and end up abandoning" and "no affectionateness" spread throughout the capital for a time.

The day before the list was announced, Zhou Yanru, Zhou Zheng, Qian Qianyi and Li Banghua discussed and confirmed the specific rankings in the small meeting hall.

Before ranking, Zhou Yanru took the lead in attacking, picked up the pen, ticked the names of some people, and pushed them to Zhou Zheng, saying, "I want to ticke these, you all take a look."

Zhou Zheng looked surprised. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yanru took action so simply. He glanced at the right time and found that some of the names of the backbone of Fushe such as Mao Pijiang, Hou Fangyu and others had been hooked up. Fang Yizhi, Chen Zhenhui and others kept it.

Zhou Zheng looked at it for a while, thought for a while, and also hooked up several active people who were determined to oppose the reform, and then pushed it to Qian Qianyi, and said with a smile: "Gemaster Qian also see."

Qian Qianyi took it over and frowned slightly. Almost half of the Fushe people on the list were hooked away, and hesitated.

He really felt that the end of Fushe was too big. He wanted to suppress it, but he didn't want to worry about Fushe and could not do anything for him.

Before Qian Qianyi could speak, Zhou Yanru said lightly: "Did Mr. Qian know about Mao Pijiang?"

What they are talking about Mao Pijiang and Dong Xiaowan is actually referring to bald donkey scolding monks. No one in the Ming Dynasty did not know about Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi, and it was said to be a "beautiful talk", but when it comes to the first level of the court, it is not so beautiful when it comes to talk between big people.

First, who is inferior to prostitutes? Not only does it not mean that they are not famous, but they are even more disgusting. Second, the ancestral system does not allow officials to marry a woman with a noble family, let alone a cabinet minister.

Qian Qianyi clearly heard Zhou Yanru's warning, and his expression froze and he didn't speak.

Zhou Zheng smiled with his eyes and said in a plain tone: "I won't talk about these erotic things about Mao Pijiang. In his question, he pointed to the whole article of scolding and whipping the court's reforms. It was like slapping us in the face. What's the use of it?"

Zhou Zhengyi spoke completely cut off Qian Qianyi's hope of struggling.

Qian Qianyi silently pushed the list to Li Banghua.

Li Banghua seemed to have not heard of the words "Er Zhou". He took it and looked at him. Seeing that the person who did not touch him, he said, "The official has no objection."

Zhou Yanru nodded and said, "Then let's record the three-level players."

When the emperor was young, they naturally decided to take Yijia.

The so-called first-class candidate is the top scorer, the second-tier and the Tanhua, and is the top three in the imperial examination.

In fact, before the Hanlin Academy was delivered, it had already ranked, but it only needed the final confirmation of the cabinet. Naturally, the cabinet also has the right to change and delete it.

After discussing the four people, the final one was determined to be: Wei Zaode, Ge Shizhen and Gao Eryan, all of whom were not from Fushe.

Then there were the second-class people, fifty-eight people, seventeen people were selected for the resummons, twenty people in the south, and the rest were from the north.

Three of the three, two hundred and eighty-seven people, and ninety-six people in the remnants of the society, and nearly two hundred people in the south!

This is the result of the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet deliberately balancing the north and south, otherwise there will be more in the south!

When we reach the level of the cabinet, unless we are in the top three, there is no need to compete for the rest. Hundreds of places are enough for them to divide.

Seeing that Zhou Yanru decided, he took up the first assistant's airs and said, "Seal well, and I will post the list tomorrow."

The so-called "listing" means posting the person who is ranked first in the three-tier cities on the wall of the imperial city and making it public.

Zhou Zheng, Qian Qianyi, and Li Banghua had no objection and nodded in agreement.

The four of them left the small living room, Li Banghua and Qian Qianyi left, Zhou Zheng and Zhou Yanru walked side by side, and were still talking about things.

Zhou Yanru held his hands behind his back, hunched over, and said with a smile: "I have given up Sanjia. I should give it to me the ones I want, right?"

Zhou Zheng also smiled and said, "I have no objection to the four ministers of the six ministries, Fengyang Mansion, Anqing Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion and other thirteen prefects."

Zhou Yanru's expression moved slightly and said, "So many?"

Zhou Zhengdao: "About Nanzhili, Yuan Fu can't argue with me."

Nanzhili was a heavy land for money and grain in the Ming Dynasty, which was more important than the capital!

Zhou Yanru hesitated for a while and smiled and said, "Well, I don't interfere in the officials of Nanzhili, but you can let me have some money and food."

"800,000, 800,000 a year." Zhou Zheng said casually.

The total amount of money and grain from Nanzhili to Beijing every year is about 1.8 million, and the fire consumption and various losses are about 150.

Eight hundred thousand is equivalent to half.

Although Zhou Yanru was not satisfied, Zhou Zheng did have many benefits. He immediately smiled and said, "800,000 is only 800,000, which is enough for me."

Zhou Zheng was walking, glanced at Zhou Yanru and said, "Yuan Fu, have you decided to take action against Fushe?"

Zhou Yanru's smile was slightly condensed, his expression was plain, and his eyes were cold: "Fushe is too unreasonable, I have to give him a warning."

Zhou Zheng didn't care about this. Zhou Yanru and Qian Qianyi generally said that it was still the backer behind Fushe, which could be considered as a dog biting a dog.
Chapter completed!