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Chapter 177 Wu——Time comes and turns

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    After a night of silence, Wu Kangyuan came to the door early in the morning as expected the next day.

    At this moment, Zhao Hao was still sleeping in bed, rubbing his sleepy eyes and asked, "Why are you here so early?"

    "Send an invitation to my uncle. Didn't he agree with your father yesterday that he would treat you to dinner today?" Wu Kangyuan handed an invitation with green leather and a red note to Zhao Hao.

    Zhao Hao reached out to take it, opened it, and saw the words:

    "I wanted to have lunch on the 15th, and the money was generous, but I was lucky, but he was too late to make the meal."

    ————I would like to present this to you. Dr. Zhongshun and Wu Shi, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, came to Zhazi.  ’

    After seeing the words Wu Shilai, Zhao Hao's lips showed an undetectable look of amusement.  He had already guessed that Wu Kangyuan's uncle was one of the "Three Sons of Wuwu", and the famous Wu Shi was here.

    The "Three Sons of Wu Wu" are as famous as the "Four Admonitions in Yuezhong" where Zhao Jin was located. They were all remonstrating ministers who spoke out and dared to remonstrate during the Jiajing Dynasty and were brutally imprisoned.  Naturally, Wu Shilai's name was on the list of the first emperor of Longqing, and he was ranked before Zhao Jin.

    Now Zhao Jindu has been promoted seven levels in a few months and has become the third-rank minister of Guanglu Temple.  Wu Shilai, as Xu Jie's favorite disciple, would naturally not be left behind.  Shuntian Fu Cheng, who was promoted from a seventh-grade engineering major to a fourth-grade official, also rose seven levels in a row.

    And Zhao Hao knew that, like Zhao Jin, Shuntian Prefecture was just a stepping stone for his transfer. Soon after the New Year, he would be promoted to Nanjing Youqiandu Yushi and Admiral Cao Jiang.

    By then, the defense of the entire Yangtze River would be in his hands, not to mention that he would later return his official post to Zuodu Censor, and Zhao Hao would have to get on the line with him no matter what.

    Of course, he would never admit that giving Wu Kangyuan a long-term private room in Weijixian was to seduce this Yanei It was obviously out of gratitude for his righteousness.

    ??~~

    "What's ten today?" Zhao Hao put the invitation on the bedside and retreated into the warm quilt.

    "Fifteen." Wu Shilai replied.

    "Ah, isn't that today?" Zhao Hao sat up immediately, dumbfounded: "You didn't tell me earlier."

    "I only found out last night that my uncle took a day off and invited you to come home for dinner."

    "Stop saying anything. Let's go quickly." Zhao Hao became more and more sure that Wu Shilai should be looking for him for something, but he couldn't figure it out even if he tried hard to figure out that the other party, a dignified fourth-grade official, was looking for him.  What is a fourteen-year-old or a fifteen-year-old kid doing?  Should he allow himself to tutor his son in his homework?

    After all, he knew it when he got to the place, so he stopped making random guesses and asked his two apprentices to dress and wash him.

    After some advice, an unkempt and unkempt boy turned into a handsome young man.

    "Master seems to be a little more handsome." Hua Shuyang smiled while holding the mirror.

    "What are you talking about? Master has always been the most handsome!" Wang Wuyang rolled his eyes at him and corrected him.

    "Yes, yes, master is always the most handsome." Hua Shuyang quickly changed his mind.

    "You two can become eunuchs after shaving your beards." Zhao Hao laughed and scolded: "These little mouths are so sweet. In the future, you will become officials and teachers and you will have nothing to worry about."

    ??~~

    After breakfast, he took the gifts he had prepared and got into the carriage with Wu Kangyuan hanging the lantern of "Shuntian Fu Cheng".

    The carriage left Chunsong Hutong, headed north along the street, and exited the inner city through Chongwen Gate.

    Arriving at the outer city, the carriage suddenly slowed down.  Zhao Hao pulled back the curtain and saw several beggars on the street wearing tattered cotton-padded jackets and tied with rotten straw ropes, begging for food with their families around the passing carriage.

    "Are you all blind? You even dare to stop Shuntian Mansion's carriage!" The coachman waved his whip angrily to drive away the beggars who were surrounding him.

    Those beggars were indeed frightened, so they moved out of the way and started to entangle other cars.

    Scenes of begging are not uncommon in Jinling, but Zhao Hao has never seen so many beggars on the street.  Looking towards both sides of the street, I saw a dense number of broken shacks and thatched houses erected under the walls facing the street. Each shack was inhabited by a nest of unkempt, sallow and skinny refugees, who seemed to want to stay there permanently.

    "The last time I went to Beijing to take the exam, there were not so many beggars in Beijing. I heard that it was because the Tatars invaded the mainland this autumn, and the people all fled into the capital in order to take refuge."

    Then I heard Wu Kangyuan explain in a deep voice from the side: "At the end of last month, the Tatars withdrew from the pass. The martial law in the capital had been lifted long ago, but the people refused to go back. My uncle is worried about this matter."

    "Why don't you want to go back?" Zhao Hao asked softly.

    "The food at home has been robbed by the Tatars. What will we eat when we go back?"??If you stay in Beijing, at least the imperial court has a porridge factory, and wealthy families will also give alms.  Even begging for food is much easier than elsewhere.  "

    "That's true." Zhao Hao nodded, believing that with Mr. Xu Ge's current attitude of cherishing his reputation, he would not let too many people starve to death under his nose.

    "Besides, after all, there are only a few beggars, and most people still want to lose face." I heard Wu Kangyuan continue: "They are staying here because it is easy to find work in Beijing. Even if they don't have any skills, they can still go to Xishan to dig  It's coal. Under the emperor's feet, as long as you work hard, you will never die of hunger."

    "Digging coal in Xishan?" Zhao Hao's heart moved.

    "Yes, it is in the Mentougou area to the west of the capital. There are countless high-quality coals there. People have been mining coal there since the Liao and Jin Dynasties. Until now, most of the heating in Beijing relies on coal transported from the Western Mountains.  "Wu Kang is far-sighted and knowledgeable, and no matter what he talks about, he always talks clearly.

    "How many miners are there in Xishan?" Zhao Hao asked.

    "I'm not sure, but there are at least 20,000 or 30,000 people." Wu Kangyuan replied, "This is the result of the imperial government's restrictions and the mine owners are not allowed to recruit refugees, otherwise there will be more."

    "Yeah." Zhao Hao nodded and said with a smile, "I'll go take a look another day."

    "What's so good about that? Think about how dirty the mine is." Wu Kangyuan didn't know why Zhao Hao was interested in the coal mine, so he just thought he was just talking casually and didn't take it seriously.

    While talking, the carriage stopped in an alley next to the Temple of Heaven, and Wu Kangyuan led Zhao Hao into a five-entry official residence.

    ??~~

    Zhao Hao came when he saw Wu Shi in the back house of Wu Mansion, which meant that the other party treated him as his nephew, which flattered Zhao Hao.

    "My nephew Zhao Hao pays homage to Uncle Wu Shi."

    Zhao Hao was busy greeting him as a junior. Wu Shilai supported him and said with a hearty smile:

    "Hahaha, I've heard about my nephew for a long time, and today I finally met him! No need to be polite, no need to be polite"

    Zhao Hao didn’t really want to worship, so he stood up and looked at Wu Shilai.  But I saw that he had a thin figure and a straight waist. His face was full of the weather of the years, but his eyes had not changed from the sharpness he had when he impeached Yan Song.

    He is upright and has a very standard image of an upright official.

    He was looking at Wu Shilai, and Wu Shilai was also looking at Zhao Hao. He saw that the young man had red lips, white teeth, and a face like a powder.  Coupled with a well-tailored fine blue brocade robe and a pure white cloak with a white fox on it, he looked like a young man from nowhere, full of orchids and musk deer.

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