Tong Yangjia left the Gongyuan, and it was already afternoon. He was really skinned after staying here for three days. Tong Fu came to wait early outside the Gongyuan. Seeing his master coming out, he quickly stepped forward to greet him.

"Master, you are out, hurry up and get into the sedan chair. Lord Gong and Young Master Chou are back!"

Tong Yangjia nodded and got into the sedan chair and went home.

As soon as I arrived at home, I saw Gong Dacheng and his nephew Tong Tuchang waiting for him at the door.

Gong Dacheng stepped forward and said, "Son-in-law, congratulations on high school!"

"There is now the exam, and it will take more than twenty days to come out!"

Tong Tuchang came over to congratulate him.

"My uncle must be fine. Didn't the Feng family agree?"

When Tong Yangjia heard his unlucky nephew say this, he changed his expression and cursed: "What are you talking nonsense? Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!"

Tong Tuchang also knew that he had a mistake in his tongue, so he quickly helped Tong Yangjia in.

After entering the house and waiting for the idle man to retreat, Tong Yangjia cursed at Tong Tuchang: "You evil, do you hate your uncle for not dying?"

When Tong Tuchang saw Tong Yangjia getting angry, he quickly knelt down and shouted: "Uncle, please spare my life, my nephew had a mistake just now!"

"Get out of here and kneel outside the door. I feel upset when I see you!"

Tong Tuchang didn't dare to speak, so he hurried out to the yard and knelt down.

Gong Dacheng looked at Tong Yangjia repairing his nephew and said nothing, and asked, "Mr. Tong, the exam is going well!"

"Everything is fine, except when Ma Jiyuan's second son was ugly when he entered the door!"

So that's it. It seems that Tong Yangjia is angry in his heart, and Tong Tuchang happened to be in trouble.

Gong Dacheng is also a good person, and he didn't ask what was going on, but just asked how the exam process was.

"Everything went well. Feng Ziyong used all the code words he gave me. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be fine!"

"Haha, then I'll wish Lord Tong the first to pass the imperial examination!"

In this era, the Juren was essentially different from the scholar. If the scholar was a temporary worker or a non-staff member, then the Juren was a person within the system. The scholar had to take exams every three years. If he failed several exams in a row, he would have to be eliminated. However, the Juren was different. Fame and fortune were lifelong, and there was no need to be humble against the Jinshi. Therefore, Tong Yangjia was determined to win the fame of this Juren.

Tong Yangjia looked at Tong Tuchang kneeling in the yard and cursed: "Don't this evil man know that the King of Chu has reorganized the factory guards? He still dares to talk nonsense. Now we are in the same situation as the Ma family. Isn't this handing the knife to Ma Mingyuan?"

"Didn't the Jinyiwei hand over to the Ministry of War for management? The East Factory is also very low-key now!"

"Hey! My father-in-law, you don't know. The Jinyiwei is only in the Ministry of War. Because the information about the exchanges involves military affairs, it is because the Ministry of War is not very good at talking about the people, money and property of the Jinyiwei. Qian Lide is the confidant of the King of Chu. He has followed the King of Chu since he was a child, so he can listen to me! There is also the Dongchang, which was restored last year, but Cao Fang is very low-key and is even more irresistible to the ministers, and it is difficult to deal with!"

Gong Dacheng said, "But the King of Chu is kind to the literati. You see, even the Silijian has been withdrawn. I think these eunuchs can't make trouble, right?"

Although Tong Yangjia and Ma Mingyuan fought hard, they wanted to fight each other when they met, but they were both literary officials and had a natural opposition with these dead eunuchs and were not in a relationship. Therefore, the two were unexpectedly consistent in restricting the rights of eunuchs.

When Tong Yangjia heard Gong Dacheng say that King Chu is kind-hearted, he cursed in his heart, "You didn't see the King of Chu do anything wrong. Now you are kind-hearted to us literati and officials. You want to use us to work for him. If the Northern Expedition is successful in the future, everything will be hard to say. However, Tong Yangjia dared to say these words to Gong Dacheng. These words are only rotten in his stomach and cannot be said even when he talks in his sleep. If they fall into Zhu Hongsan's ears, it would be a disaster.

Tong Yangjia couldn't make any comments on this matter, and laughed and said, "I hope you're right!" Then he said to Tong Tuchang outside the door, "Get up, come in!"

Tong Tuchang got up obediently and entered the house, but he didn't dare to sit on the chair, and stood at Tong Yangjia's lower head.

"Didn't you say you, do you know that disaster comes from the mouth? Uncle and I are irreconcilable now. You still make such a mistake. Are you afraid that your uncle will die too late?"

"Uncle, my nephew is wrong, and I will never be able to speak without any cover up again!"

Gong Dacheng next to him also advised: "Mr. Tong, he is young after all, and I believe he will pay attention next time!"

Tong Yangjia sighed and said to Tong Tuchang: "We are careful to manage our business to achieve today. Don't be careless, do you know?"

"Yes, uncle!"

"Okay, sit down! What are you doing when you come back? How about Changhua?"

"When I say uncle, I want to find my uncle to change my place when I come back. Changhua is really hard. My nephew has been there for two years and is still only a seventh-grade rank. Look at him, Ma Shaoguang is already a fifth-grade magistrate, and my nephew is not convinced!"

It turned out that he was coming back to ask for an official position. Tong Yangjia scolded: "Look at you, I asked you to study hard, you don't listen. If you are a juren now, would it take so much trouble? If we men have a Jinshi, we can be suppressed by the Ma family like this!"

Tong Yangjia now has three or two kittens, and the only ones who can be counted as high-ranking officials are Tong Yangjia and Gong Dacheng. When other Jinshi heard that Tong Yangjia was just a scholar, he didn't have to put on his eyelids. This is one of the reasons why Tong Yangjia insisted on taking the exam for the juren this time. His identity is incomparable to the Ma family.

On the other hand, in addition to the Ma brothers who are Jinshi, Ma Jiyuan's two sons are also Juren. There is no imperial examination. If the imperial examination is held, the two kids may not be as good as that. In addition, the Ma family and the Donglin Party are mixed together. Now the Ma family has a lot of talents, and there are more than a dozen Jinshis.

In fact, Tong Yangjia didn't know that the support of Zhu Hongsan, King of Chu, was really useless. Tong Yangjia was a scholar and actually entered the cabinet directly. Gong Dacheng, a juren, could also be promoted to three levels in a row to the fourth-rank Guangzhou Tongzhi. This was Zhu Hongsan's discovery that the Ma family was too powerful, so powerful that it had threatened his own safety, so he fully supported Tong Yangjia and the Ma family to confront him.

Tong Yangjia felt very distressed when he saw his nephew's death. After all, his nephew and he had been wandering in the world for twenty years, relying on each other for life, almost like his son.

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "I'll go and ask the King of Chu to see it tomorrow!"

Tong Tuchang was very happy to see his uncle agreeing to act for him.

Tong Yangjia's concerns are not unreasonable. Although Dongchang and Jinyiwei are very low-key, their effectiveness has not been weakened at all. On the contrary, after Zhu Hongsan, a later generation, the surveillance intelligence work is a bit out of the blue. Just three days after the Tong family's negotiations, all the words Tong Yangjia said were placed on Zhu Hongsan's desk.

Of course, not only Tong Yangjia's surveillance situation, but also officials above the fourth rank in the court have surveillance reports.

Zhu Hongsan casually flipped through the reports and asked, "Is there anything special?"

Cao Fang said on the side: "Report to my master, Lord Tong has gone to Feng's mansion three times, all for the purpose of Juren. Old Master Feng and Mr. Xiao Feng also told him to let Mr. Xiao Feng contact Mr. Tong and stay away from the Ma family. Lord Tong has made a secret speech with Mr. Xiao Feng to ensure that he can win the Juren."

After hearing this, Zhu Hongsan nodded. He was originally planning to give Tong Yangjia a juren, but it was not good for Tong Yangjia and Feng Ziyong to have private contact. For the sake of kindness, I will give you any benefits.

Zhu Hongsan pulled out the records of the negotiation between Tong Yangjia and Feng Ziyong, picked up the pen and wrote a few words on it, and said, "Take this to Tong Yangjia." Cao Fang took it carefully and saw the four words "Not to be an example" written on the piece of paper.

"Is there any movement in the Ma family?"

"The big trend is nothing, but the Ma family organized several literary meetings during the Chinese New Year, and many literati from Guangzhou went there."

"Hmph! Did Feng Ziyi go?"

"Mr. Feng did not go, and there is another report to his master. Ma Jiyuan's second son Ma Shaoji has returned and has arranged his experience in studying in Guangdong for the fifth grade of government."

The transfer of a fifth-rank small official does not need to pass by Zhu Hongsan, and even the cabinet does not need to pass by. It is just a decision made by the Ministry of Personnel. Zhu Hongsan heard that he had been arranged to go to the school to be political, and he still came back before the New Year. He sneered: "Did you see that a provincial examination has all kinds of monsters and monsters come out, but this is great, and they all jump out and show off to see that they are all from that group of people."

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and asked, "Is Tong Yangjia's nephew Tong Tuchang still in Changhua?"

"Yes, I also serve as the Promotion Officer of Qiongzhou Prefecture!"

"You go to the cabinet to pass an order. Tong Tuchang is brave and capable, promoted to Zhaoqing Prefecture Tongzhi and take office immediately!"

Cao Fang quickly wrote down the will of the King of Chu on the side, then showed it to the King of Chu, and went to the cabinet to pass the order.

Zhu Hongsan tapped the table with his fingers and thought to himself that the Ma family is too powerful and should be weakened.

Cao Fang came to the cabinet and handed over the will of the King of Chu to Chen Zizhuang. Seeing Tong Yangjia also beside him, he said, "Is Lord Tong free? Your Highness the Regent has a few words to say to Lord Tong!"

Of course, when I was free, I saw that the King of Chu had something to say to him. Tong Yangjia quickly led Cao Fang to his house and asked, "Eunuch Cao, please sit down, what do you mean by the supervisor?"

Cao Fang took out the record from his arms and handed it to Tong Yangjia, saying, "Sir, please read it yourself!"

Tong Yangjia was not sure at first, but when he took it, it was like five thunders thunder. It turned out that he and Feng Ziyong discussed how to leave a code word, and he used 5,000 taels of silver for Feng Ziyong, etc., which he remembered clearly above.

Tong Yangjia was so scared that he knelt on the ground, hugged Cao Fang's legs and said, "Mr. Cao, you want to save me!"

Cao Fang helped Tong Yangjia up and said, "Mr. Tong, fortunately you didn't say anything wrong. Otherwise, I can't be the one who comes, but the Dongchang man. But Mr. Tong, don't worry, look at the criticism of the governor behind!"

Tong Yangjia just looked at the first few sentences, but didn't see the back at all. After Cao Fang reminded him, he saw the four words "Not as an example" in Zhu Hongsan's group. Zhu Hongsan's words were very ugly, but in Tong Yangjia's eyes, these four words revealed murderous aura.
Chapter completed!