The Fuguo Mansion is going to move to Yanjing.
This time I have to live in Yanjing for a long time, and this house in Nanjing can only be taken care of by a few family members, and I can only live here when I come to the south to tour in the future, so the maids and slaves in the Guogong Mansion must follow the north.
Some of the servants who were originally hired locally were reluctant to leave their homeland, so they were dismissed and recruited separately in Yanjing.
Like those who have been degraded by the family of the official or who have signed a deed of sale, they have to go with them.
There are more than 1,000 people up and down the Fuguo Mansion, plus their families, there are five or six thousand people, these people have their bags, the team is mighty, and they are full of eight big boats.
Yanziji, Xia Xun and his family are about to board the ship, Nanjing's imperial relatives and powerful heroes have moved the capital to Nanjing, and the officials who have not had time to move are 108,000 miles away from the status of the auxiliary princes, and they are not even qualified to see them off, and only Liu Yujue is the only one who sees them off.
"Take care, brother" Xia Xun arched his hand to Liu Yujue, Liu Yujue returned the salute, and said with some loss: "The eldest brother has been gone for two years, and this time he has come back, and the younger brother is really angry, and there is a lot of etiquette." ” Xia Xun laughed: "Haha, it's not strange that people say that there are many people, you think I'm polite, okay, then the big brother won't say much, I'll leave, you" As soon as he said this, as soon as he rode over, he called from afar: "Grandpa Fuguo, Grandpa Fuguo" Xia Xun and Liu Yujue looked at each other in surprise, and saw a person dressed as a wealthy family galloping over on a black horse, because Xia Xun was wearing civilian clothes, he didn't dare to admit it, and hurriedly got off the horse and said, "I don't know which one is the grandfather of Fuguo" Liu Yujue said: "This is the Duke of Fuguo, who are you in the house, what's the matter?"
When the family heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to kneel down for Xia Xun and said, "Grandpa Guo, the younger one is the Shangjia Ding of the Cao Guogong Mansion, Cao Guogong will be here soon, please wait for a while." ” "Oh Li Jinglong" Xia Xun was a little surprised, he hadn't dealt with Li Jinglong for a long time, and he didn't expect that this grandfather who had been idle at home would come to see him off.
Xia Xun whispered to Liu Yujue: "Hasn't Cao Guogong moved to Yanjing yet?"
Liu Yujue stayed in Nanjing to deal with the aftermath, the so-called aftermath is actually to urge all the powerful and powerful ministers and ministers of civil and military affairs who should move to Yanjing not to be reluctant and procrastinating, so although Li Jinglong has long faded out of the political arena, his movements Liu Yujue is clear, so he said: "Cao Guogong was sick a few days ago, so he did not move north in time" After Liu Yujue said this, he immediately lowered his voice and whispered: "As far as I know, the illness is fake, because he is reluctant to let his fields and many shops be abandoned here, except for a few places that are kept to be taken care of by his henchmen, he personally disposed of other fields, houses, and shops, sold them one by one, and exchanged them for gold and silver. ” Xia Xun couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this.
At the beginning, Li Jinglong was accused by Chen Ying and others of "sitting at home and being subdued by the cabinet people like a monarch and a minister, which is a big deal; His younger brother increased the branches and set up more fields, and there were thousands of children and servants, and he was unpredictable.
Asked by Emperor Yongle, Jinglong was terrified, went on a hunger strike, and was immortal, and then left Xia Xun's relationship and asked him for an idea, which saved himself.
In the original history, Li Jinglong would be cut down because of this catastrophe, and Cao Guogong ended up in the third lineage, because of Xia Xun's intervention, his title was actually retained, but after this catastrophe, Li Jinglong's frivolous surname changed a lot, often restraining his family members, and gradually faded out of the officialdom and the circle of honorable relatives.
Since then, Li Jinglong has lost his enthusiasm for power, but his interest in money has increased greatly.
Since Li Jinglong was going to see him off, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue had to wait at the dock, and after waiting for about a quarter of an hour, a team of people appeared in the distance, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue were a little surprised when they saw it, the convoy was constantly circling, I was afraid that there were not hundreds of cars, and there were a large number of entourages around the convoy.
Just in surprise, several horses galloped first, and when they arrived in front of Xia Xun, they all turned over and dismounted, and the next person wore a brocade robe and a cloak, stepped forward quickly, and hugged his fist to Xia Xun and said: "Wenxuan, I am ashamed to be ashamed for a long time, I am ashamed to be busy with family affairs for my brother, until Wenxuan is leaving, I didn't hear the news, fortunately, it was still in time." ” This person is Li Jinglong, Xia Xun thought that he was pampered at home, and he should be much fatter than back then, but he didn't want to look at it at a glance, his face was clear, but he was thinner than back then.
This Li Jinglong is already dignified, and his temperament at this moment is less frivolous and lazy than when he was young, and he is more talented, and he has a spiritual energy in his bones, it seems that after leaving the officialdom, Li Jinglong's self-cultivation skills have increased greatly.
Xia Xun hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother Jiujiang, it's been a long time, it's been a long time."
You are" Xia Xun pointed to the long convoy behind him, and Li Jinglong suddenly laughed: "Haha, blame me, blame me, I know that Xun'er is late, for fear that Wen Xuan will leave and won't be able to catch up, so he asked people to chase Guogong without explaining the reason." ” Li Jinglong said: "Brother is not here to see you off, but to go north with you" Xia Xun was stunned, seemed to be a little stunned, blinked his eyes, and then said, "You go north with me" Li Jinglong said with a smile: "Yes, I didn't catch up with the princes and ministers who moved north before, and if it drags on any longer, I won't be able to catch up with the emperor to pay New Year's greetings."
But I dragged so many people with my family, it was too difficult to take the land route, and the water route was full of wind and waves, and occasionally there were small groups of pirates.
Li Jinglong said as he tapped his boots with a horse sheath, and was very leisurely: "I heard that Wenxuan is going north, it's very good, let's have a companion." ” "Uh-uh-uh" "Hmm" Li Jinglong was a little unhappy: "Wenxuan, don't you want to rush with me Li Jinglong" "No, no, no, where did Brother Jiujiang come from, I mean, oh, my boat, the people are full, Brother Jiujiang, who drags the family, men, women and children, this" "Hahahaha, you, you, you Yang Wenxuan, hahaha, you also have times when you are confused, you say that I am so many people, can I take your boat I just want to go with you, oh, look, my boat is here."
Li Jinglong raised his whip and pointed, Xia Xun turned his head to look, only to see two big boats in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River sailing down very swaggeringly, stopping by the river, Li Jinglong turned around and ordered: "Hurry up, hurry up, move things on the boat first, let's go with Fuguo Gong." ” "Hulala" came over a group of women and children first, it was Li Jinglong's wife and concubines, and they went to the big boat, and a beautiful young woman in her thirties also bowed to Xia Xun Yingying, and called in a coquettish voice: "Fuguo Gong" Xia Xun Dingqing looked at it, but it was Li Jinglong's beloved concubine.
Immediately, the subordinate of the family, the maid of the ring, moved things to the boat, and Xia Xun was dumbfounded.
Li Jinglong glanced at Xia Xun, leaned closer and said in a low voice: "Wen Xuan, I still have a good friend of yours here, and I also want to go to Yanjing with me."
Originally, he wanted to take my hitchhiker, but now I want to go with you, but I have to tell you. ” Xia Xun hadn't woken up from the shock yet, and when he heard Li Jinglong say, he was shocked and said, "Which one else?"
Li Jinglong turned his head and smiled, and a person flashed out of his guards, hugged his fist at Xia Xun, and called out: "Guogong" burst into tears.
Xia Xun looked at it and couldn't help but stand dumb on the spot.
It turned out that this person was Xie Jin, Xie Jin was put into the edict by Ji Gang, after Ji Gang was ambushed, Xie Jin was naturally released, but Emperor Yongle refused to reinstate his official position, Xie Jin is an official fan, he is only in his forties, unwilling to go home to support the elderly, so he has stayed in Jinling to dredge relations.
However, his popularity was not very good, and only a few colleagues in the cabinet had a good relationship, but he was originally the head of the cabinet, and if he was invited back, all the cabinet ministers had to take a step back and make way for him, who could be selfless to that extent As a result, Xie Jin has been active in Beijing for a long time and has achieved nothing.
Xie Jin was helpless, so he wanted to go to Yanjing to find another opportunity, he was developed by relying on a Yongle Yuji enthronement edict, and when he arrived in Yanjing, he may not have the opportunity to enter another article and get the emperor's appreciation.
But when he was in prison, in order to make him suffer less, the family worked up and down, and the family had already scattered all the wealth, and now the family is so poor that there are only books left, Xie Jin's books are not good, not to mention the collection of 100,000 volumes, but he loves books as much as his life, and he is reluctant to sell them; As a result, he couldn't even get together, so he wanted to take his family on a hitchhiker.
Ordinary officials really don't dare to take him, this kind of unlucky character in the officialdom is a broom star, who wants to have a relationship with him with his in-laws, and now Hu Guang, the first assistant of the cabinet, is the first batch of Yanjing to go, so he can't help.
As a result, Xie Jin found Li Jinglong, the two were also knowledgeable in their early years, not to mention, probably because they were both fallen people at the end of the world, or Li Jinglong had already given up the idea of re-entering the officialdom, and he didn't mind taking such an unlucky moment, so he agreed.
However, Li Jinglong delayed dealing with those pots and jars at home for a long time, and Li Jinglong also missed the best opportunity to go north, until today he learned that Xia Xun was going north, so he rushed to walk with him.
Xie Jin knew that he had repeatedly ignored Xia Xun's advice, which made Xia Xun very disappointed, he had been active in Nanjing for so long, and many officials had no one willing to help, a big reason was because Xia Xun had given up on him, because of this consideration, the officials were too lazy to help.
Xie Jin himself was also a little ashamed to see the old man, and at this time Li Jinglong pointed out that he was coming, Xie Jin was ashamed, so he had to step forward to meet him, Xia Xun couldn't help but be even more stunned when he saw it.
Xie Jin's face was full of shame, and he didn't dare to raise his head, but just waved his head and called: "Guogong" Xia Xun looked at this talented official fan, and smiled bitterly for a while: "Brother Gentleman" Xie Jin said: "Xie Jin doesn't dare to be called the prince of the country anymore."
Xie Jin has disappointed the high expectations of the country, and he is extremely ashamed.
Originally, Xie Jin had no shame to see Guogong again, so he asked Cao Guogong for help and took his boat to Yanjing, not wanting to inevitably see Guogong after all."
Speaking of this, Xie Jin couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.
Xia Xun looked up to the sky and sighed, thinking only in his heart: "These two living treasures, this is the will of heaven" To be continued: