ps. OK OK, I'll give you Zhao Hao back, but you are not allowed to play that meme again in the future~

Zhao Liben ate three bowls of porridge in a row, and finally sat on the threshold with satisfaction, holding his belly, and no longer getting angry at his eldest son.

Zhao Shouzheng then raised his courage and asked in a tentative voice: "Dad, they said you were evil Gao Gong, are you also cheating us?"

"That's not. I did offend Gao's surname very badly." Zhao Liben smiled and said with a loneliness in his tone: "Who would have thought that even his stinky temper could climb to the position of the second assistant in the cabinet!"

Zhao Hao was so scared that he shivered... Gao Gong was an almost invincible figure in the Longqing Dynasty! It was February of the first year of Longqing, so where would the old man have a day to make a comeback?

"But this time, it's nothing to do with Gao's surname. This is just an excuse for them to use me as a scapegoat!" Zhao Liben spat fiercely and said, "Otherwise, why would you grit your teeth and not pay the money, and they would pay the money and let me go?"

"Ah, they put the 50,000 together?" Zhao Shouye was shocked when he heard this.

"Of course! They will be in trouble together if they don't bleed!" Zhao Liben sighed depressedly and said, "In the past, most of the capital inspections have been going through the motions. This time, Nanjing was originally intended to follow the rules. However, the capital changed suddenly and had unprecedented strength. More than 100 officials above the seventh rank were dismissed in the first month of the year..."

Zhao Hao is a professional from the Ming Dynasty history, so he can naturally understand Zhao Liben's words.

The so-called Beijing Preceptor is the assessment of Beijing officials once in six years. The deposed officials in Beijing Preceptor will never be used, so they are like a gate of hell for every Beijing Preceptor. However, for this reason, the big men who presided over Beijing Preceptor generally do not take ruthless measures. This is even more so in Nanjing. After all, everyone is sitting on the bench, so why bother with each other?

According to convention, the two Beijings and two groups in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing officials' inspection of the Beijing officials was reviewed by the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate. The results were only reported to the capital and accepted the relic. This time, the same was true at first, but who would have thought that there was a bloody storm in Beijing, and how could Nanjing dare to be perfunctory?

"How can the bad debt of the Southern Ministry of Revenue be withstand careful investigation? The first time I checked carefully in these years, I found a deficit of 100,000 taels in just a few ounces. This is not a small amount. If I really get stuck in Beijing, not only will the Southern Ministry of Revenue be unlucky, but the Southern Censorate will also follow me!" Zhao Liben smiled self-deprecatingly and finally said:

"The hole must be filled, and someone has to take the blame to make most people pass the test safely. At this time, I don't know which bastard exposes the grudge between me and Gao Gong that year. Those people decided that I was in trouble, so they thought of such a sinister trick to trap me in the South Courtyard and come to cheat you two idiots!"

Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly defended himself: "Dad, I don't know anything..."

"Shut up!" Zhao Liben glared at him, but he lost the strength to get angry and sighed: "I was planning to cheat as much as I could. Alas, it's also my fault for our father and son's deep love..."

When Zhao Hao heard this, he glanced at his uncle and said to himself, he mainly thought that you could restore your post...

Sure enough, seeing that my uncle was about to faint from feeling distressed, he murmured: "That's 20,000 taels, where can I earn it..."

When Zhao Shouzheng heard this, he came to anger and patted his elder brother's shoulder hard and said, "Just just have fun. If my son hadn't persuaded him wisely, we would still be carrying a huge debt of 50,000 taels..."

"You're so happy!" Zhao Shouye was so painful that he blocked his brother's hand.

"Oh? Good grandson, you don't even know a lot of big words, but you actually have such insights?" Zhao Liben looked at Zhao Hao in surprise when he heard this. Unexpectedly, this incompetent grandson could see through the truth.

"Oh, people always have to grow up..." Zhao Hao said in his heart!

These days, he has been making a full set of rhetorics, and fortunately he fooled it when it caused doubt.

As a result, my father and uncle didn't notice any abnormalities at all. But Zhao Liben is worthy of being a mature person, and obviously he can't easily get away with it.

Zhao Hao raised his heart to his throat and was ready to deal with Zhao Liben's cross-examination.

"Oh, this is also a little lucky in my old Zhao family." Unexpectedly, Zhao Liben didn't care about this, but instead said with relief: "In the future, our family will depend on you boy."

Seeing that he passed the test easily, Zhao Hao was so glad that he felt a sense of loss of being defeated with one punch.

Zhao Xian, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke up and said, "Grandpa, are you saying... you have no official position to be restored?"

"It's a big deal to restore the position! This time I have such a big mess. I can make a job for the people without placing my descendants, so I'll burn incense." Seeing that my grandson didn't open any pots, Zhao Liben was angry again. It took a while to calm down and asked the children and grandchildren beside him and said:

"I must leave Beijing within three days. Do you think about whether to leave or stay?"

The two brothers Shouye and Shouzheng looked at each other, and the eldest brother said first: "Father, the court has not stopped my official position, I am afraid I can't go back to your hometown with you."

"I took it seriously because I had a broken official, and I wouldn't leave if I didn't leave!" Zhao Liben curled his lips, and thought that he had become a commoner, he couldn't help but feel sour.

Zhao Shouzheng was a little confused. He looked at his son. Seeing that Zhao Hao didn't speak, he whispered: "It's not a night, and I will make a decision with Zhao Hao when I look back."

"Yes." Zhao Liben nodded, but did not hit him.

When the five members of the Old Zhao family finished speaking, they had already beaten the drums outside.

"It's better to go to bed early, otherwise be careful to wake up hungry in the middle of the night." Zhao Shouye reminded with great experience.

"I'm just sleeping here?" Zhao Liben stood up, pointed to the kitchen where the stove was still inactive and said, "It's warm here."

"Uh, okay..." Zhao Shouye's mouth twitched. This was the place where his father and son sleep.

"I'll get a bed for my father." Zhao Shouzheng took his quilt from the cottage not far away to his father, helped him settle it, and then went back to the house to sleep.

At night, Zhao Hao and his son were wearing a quilt and laying on the broken wooden bed left by the servant.

The two tossed and turned, and the bed squeaked and it became more and more difficult to sleep.

Zhao Shouzheng stayed until the third day of the day. He listened to the snoring next door, then sat up and whispered to Zhao Hao, who was wide open:

"Son, I'm not full, right?"

"Yeah." Zhao Hao nodded with a wry smile. There was not much supper, and he even asked the old man to cook three bowls. Of course, he was not full.

"Hehe, look at what this is?"

He saw Zhao Shouzheng taking out a bag of oil paper from his arms like a magic trick, gently unfolding the oil paper, and a yellow roast duck leg appeared in front of Zhao Hao.

"Where did it come from?" Zhao Hao was shocked.

"Shh! Eat quickly..." Zhao Shouzheng quickly made a gesture of silence and whispered: "I went out to buy it secretly after noon. Eat quickly, don't let your uncle smell it, his nose is sharp..."

"Eat together." Zhao Hao swallowed hard. He drank green vegetable porridge every day.

"You are growing up, I've been wasting my food." Zhao Shouzheng also swallowed his saliva, but he stuffed the duck legs into his son's hand without hesitation.
Chapter completed!