My father is Jiajing

Chapter 341 Where does the confidence come from?

After talking about Hu Zongxian, Zhao Wenhua felt much more relaxed.

Zhao Wenhua looked at Yan Shifan again and asked, "Brother Donglou, the palace you suggested to His Majesty is very controversial now. Although His Majesty is also very interested, I always feel that there may be unexpected events."

After hearing Zhao Wenhua's reminder, Yan Shifan snorted, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, nothing will happen. And the silver from the salt tax will not be distributed to the outer city of the capital. I want to see what else Wang Youzhao can do. I let you get away with it last time, this time I will make sure he is dead without a burial place!"

Yan Shifan is very vengeful. He is still thinking about the last "frozen sheep" incident. That incident made him lose face so much that even his most capable assistant Luo Longwen was forced to flee.

So now, whenever he thought of these things, Yan Shifan became furious and vowed to bring Wang Youzhao down.

As for the black-faced Hai Rui, if Prince Yu didn't have him behind him, Yan Shifan would never have let him go.

But unfortunately, Hai Rui now not only has Prince Yu behind him, but he is also given the title of Censor-in-Chief by the imperial decree of Emperor Jiajing.

Although in the official system of the Ming Dynasty, the Censor was a minor official of the seventh rank.

But no one would really regard the seventh-rank censor as a small official.

Because if the position of censor was well managed, he would often be given the title of imperial envoy and appointed as an inspector of a place, ranking above the generals of local prefectures.

And because of its special nature, a seventh-rank censor can easily transform into a high-ranking official in the imperial court like a rocket!

For example, Hu Zongxian, who is recommended by Zhao Wenhua now, is a typical example.

Originally, Hu Zongxian was just an ordinary Jinshi who had not even entered the Hanlin Academy. He was directly sent to a local area to serve as a county magistrate.

However, Hu Zongxian was a capable man, and his achievements and abilities in local affairs were obvious to all.

In addition, he comes from a prominent family, so he will naturally be looked up to.

Therefore, after serving as a county magistrate for two terms, Hu Zongxian returned home to observe mourning for three years and suddenly became an imperial censor.

Moreover, Hu Zongxian, who had just become an imperial censor, was appointed as the inspector of Xuanda, and began to display his extraordinary talents in important border battles such as Xuanda, rectify military discipline, strengthen border defense, and even quell a camp mutiny at a critical moment, which attracted more attention.

Therefore, after Xuan Daxun's term of office ended, he was appointed to Huguang and participated in quelling the local Miao rebellion.

If Hu Zongxian had not been worried that no one would give him help in his next step and he might fall into the ranks of local officials, he would not have been so humble to ask Zhao Wenhua for help.

Therefore, an imperial censor with a backer can never be viewed in a normal light.

God knows where their luck came from, they suddenly became so popular that they jumped several levels!
Therefore, even if Yan Shifan was unhappy with Hai Rui now, he had to endure it. After all, he could not afford to offend Prince Yu behind Hai Rui.

Zhao Wenhua looked at Yan Shifan who was so confident and couldn't help but feel curious.

Where does Yan Shifan get his confidence from?

Is it just relying on Yan Song?

It seems that simply relying on his father is not enough to make the emperor determined to renovate the palace. After all, this matter is now a hot topic, and many people have united to petition Emperor Jiajing, hoping that he can withdraw his order and stop the construction.

But looking at Yan Shifan now, he seems to be really fearless.

Is he really that confident?

Are you confident that your ideas will not be upheld by His Majesty the Emperor?

Zhao Wenhua wondered, "What if Xu Jie and others jointly petitioned to stop this? After all, people's words are scary, and Your Majesty sometimes has to consider the world."

Yan Shifan said: "You don't have to worry about it. I know what's going on. The emperor will definitely not be influenced by Xu Jie and his people. Besides, Xu Jie is such a coward, I don't think he would dare to go against me!"

Yan Shifan was quite experienced in manipulating Xu Jie's psychology.

He always felt that although Xu Jie was sometimes not very obedient, he was generally a timid and cowardly man.

But such a coward is actually the so-called leader of the Qingliu group. I really don’t know if these Qingliu people are sick in their brains to follow such a spineless and irresponsible leader.

Don’t they know that the most capable person in the court today is Yan Shifan?
What a shame!

But the more this happened, the more interesting Yan Shifan found it.

Because he also wanted to see what other abilities these upright people had besides crying, making a fuss and threatening to hang themselves?
Therefore, deep down in Yan Shifan's heart, he also looked down on those upright people who could only yell about great principles and the so-called righteous path.

Thinking of this, Yan Shifan couldn't help but snorted, "These clean people are just like the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. They are all useless, but they all think of themselves as heroes. I really don't know what they are thinking."

When Zhao Wenhua heard Yan Shifan talking about the stories in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, he couldn't help but smile, "Brother Donglou's analogy is very accurate. These so-called upright people are actually just like the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan. They all like to preach great principles, but they are all useless. If Guo Jing hadn't been lucky and had a good character, he would have been taught a lesson by these people. I wonder which character in the book is your favorite, Brother Donglou?"

At the end, Zhao Wenhua asked Yan Shifan this question again. Apparently, after talking about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Zhao Wenhua also became interested in talking.

After "The Glory of the Ming Dynasty" serialized three issues of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", 500 copies of the complete hardcover edition were suddenly put on the shelves.

This hardcover copy of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" costs three taels of silver, which is not a recreational reading material that most people can afford. But for people like Yan Shifan and Zhao Wenhua, three taels of silver is just the price of a cup of tea.

So naturally, both of them could afford the 500 hardcover copies of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and naturally they were able to read the stories first.

Yan Shifan laughed and said, "Of course I like Dong Xie. Look, my nickname is Dong Lou, and one of the four great masters in the book is also called Dong Xie. And Dong Xie and I have similar personalities. We are both the kind of people who act spontaneously and don't care about worldly eyes. How similar we are!"

When Zhao Wenhua heard Yan Shifan comparing himself to the East Evil, he smiled awkwardly. In Zhao Wenhua's mind, Yan Shifan was at most Qiu Qianzhang, who pretended to be his younger brother and took advantage of the power of others. His personality was at most that of the little poisonous creature Ouyang Ke.

Therefore, when Yan Shifan compared himself to one of the four great masters in the book, Zhao Wenhua really wanted to help but complain.

But who made Yan Shifan’s father the prime minister of the cabinet?

Therefore, since he says he is the East Evil, then he is the East Evil. I hope he won’t be slapped to death by the real East Evil in the future!

(End of this chapter)