Qian Yiai has been very busy for the past half month. It is not because of work, but because his old father Qian Qianyi has retired and returned home. Qian Yiai wants to accompany his old father back home.

When he returned to Changshu and handed his father over to his elder brother at home, Qian Yiai had to rush back to Nanjing because the work of Shangyuan County was inseparable from him. As a magistrate of Fuguo County who was full of evil deeds, Shangyuan County welcomed many reception tasks every day. Any local governor was higher than a sixth-rank magistrate. It was not much to take care of his father Qian Qianyi before, but now his big tree is gone, Qian Yiai should be more careful.

Today, Qian Yiai had just finished handling government affairs. A small official outside the door came in and reported: "Grandmaster, a cabinet clerk at the door is coming to ask for a meeting with the Grandmaster!"

The Cabinet Literature Office? What are you doing? The Cabinet and the magistrate are the two poles of the officialdom, one is the highest and the other is the grassroots, and there is no possibility of intersection at all.

"Come in now!"

Qian Yiai now knows that her father is gone, so it is better not to provoke these cabinet clerks. Although the cabinet clerks are not of any rank and are all clerks, their dog pee moss grows in the Golden Palace, which is not the same as others.

The bookkeeper was in his thirties and walked in and saw Qian Yiai greeting him at the door. He laughed and said, "Miss Qian is really polite to greet him at the door!"

Although the book office said politely, it was not polite at all. After entering the house, Qian Yiai gave up his seat and sat directly in the main seat.

Qian Yiai can't help seeing this guy so rude. Of course, these guys didn't dare to be rude when his father was there, but now there is no way for people to leave.

"This Shangguan, I wonder what happened to come to Shangyuan County?"

Qian Yiai's respectful attitude made the clerk very satisfied. What's wrong with you being the son of the elder? Your father is retired now, and your Qian family has no power in the court anymore. Where do you, a small magistrate, want to jump around?

"Congratulations to Magistrate Qian, the Prime Minister has sent a letter to me to submit it! It seems that Magistrate Qian is just around the corner!"

Qian Yiai laughed dryly with her, then opened Ma Mingyuan's letter, and saw that she wanted to invite her to go to his house tonight, saying that she would leave it to her if she had something to do.

The bookkeeper did not dare to peek at Ma Mingyuan's letter. After seeing Qian Yiai reading it, he thought to himself and asked quickly: "Magistrate Qian, what's the matter?"

Qian Yiai knew that these books and offices were all the peers of the cabinet masters. If you could tell him about this kind of thing, you folded the letter and said with a smile: "It's nothing, but the father of the Xiaguan just returned to his hometown. The Chief Aunt was very concerned about it. Ask me how it is!"

The bookkeeper knew that what Qian Yiai said was fake, but he couldn't find out in detail. He laughed and said goodbye and went back to report his life.

After the book office left, Qian Yiai sat in the room in a daze. What did Ma Mingyuan do for him? Does he want to implement the new policy and make his family look like he did?

Qian Yiai remembered what I said to him at home. Ma Mingyuan took office and represented the emperor's determination to implement the new policy. It was only a matter of time when it was implemented. The Qian family was a big landlord in Changshu, and there were 30,000 mu of fertile land. If the new policy was implemented, it would definitely become the first target of attack. Therefore, Qian Qianyi told his son that if it did not work, he would give up part of the land. Never make a fuss with the emperor, and don't be unhappy with the emperor, don't take the opportunity to see if it was released from a noble concubine.

Qian Qianyi served the emperor Zhu Hongsan for six or seven years and knew very well who this emperor was. As long as he was happy, anything would be fine. If he made him unhappy, the king of heaven would not give him face.

Qian Yiai was helpless when she remembered her father's words. Now that her father has retired, she is the only official in the Qian family, and the livelihoods of dozens of people in the family are on her. This task is really too heavy.

Qian Yiai also thought so when he surrendered to the prince. His father could not be an official for the rest of his life. What should the Qian family do if he didn’t choose a backer?

After receiving Ma Mingyuan's letter, Qian Yiai made up his mind that if Ma Mingyuan wanted to set an example, he would donate 5,000 acres of land, which was already the bottom line of the Qian family.

After dark, Qian Yiai returned to the back house and changed into a cloth clothes. He said to his wife Chen, "No family has been brought out of the back door of the county government office, and hired a sedan chair on the street to rush to Ma Mingyuan's mansion.

Ma Mingyuan's original mansion was burned, but it only burned a corner. Now it has been renovated and is even better than before. Qian Yiai came to the Ma Mansion and looked at the plaque of the Ma Mansion given by the emperor, and sneered in his heart: Hum, Ma Mingyuan asked me to be an example of the Qian family. I want to see how much your Ma family donated. Your family has much more land than my Qian family.

The Ma Mansion is extraordinary now. As the first-rank tutor, chief minister, and marquis, this is only comparable to Zhang Juzheng in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the door of the Ma Mansion is brightly lit, and there are twelve servants standing at the door, looking majestic.

On the left side of the gate, there is a row of dental rooms. This is where all the officials who come to visit the Prime Minister to rest. Although it is dark now, there are still more than a dozen officials waiting here to wait for the Prime Minister to summon him. Of course, the servants who followed these officials carried boxes of big and small, which seemed to be different gifts.

As the princeling, Qian Yiai naturally doesn't have to wait with these officials. The Ma Mansion servants came to greet him.

"Young Master Qian, you are here! But are you going to pay homage to my master?"

Qian Yiai nodded and took out Ma Mingyuan's envelope for the servant to look at it. The servant quickly took Qian Yiai into the Ma Mansion.

Some officials who had been waiting around for a long time looked at the low-level official wearing green robe who didn't have to queue up, and they were so angry that they were all so angry.

An official from the fifth rank scolded in a low voice: "Who is this guy? Why don't you have to queue up?"

An official next to him looked at Qian Yiai and said, "Brother, the young official you don't recognize? He is the second son of Qian Qianyi, the retired cabinet master. He is now the magistrate of Shangyuan County in the capital! He has a big root and a deep tree, so he is naturally different from me!"

After hearing this, the fifth-rank official scolded: "Qian Qianyi? Didn't he retire? Could it be that guy was so arrogant because he had a concubine?"

The Ming Dynasty was different from the Qing Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty did not respect the emperor's harem very much, and Zhu Yuanzhang also left the imperial imperial ethics of the imperial Ming Dynasty that concubines in the harem were not allowed to interfere in politics, so the relatives of the Ming Dynasty did not have much power.

An official heard the fifth-rank official say this and smiled and said, "My brother is obviously from another province! If he were a local official, he would not have known that Qian Yiai was the chief clerk of the Eastern Palace back then!"

The fifth-rank official from another province stopped talking after hearing this. The chief clerk of the East Palace was the one around the prince. Now everyone in the court knows that the Prime Minister is the prince's father-in-law, so it is understandable that Qian Yiai is queuing up in different queues.

Qian Yiai was taken into Qian's mansion by the servant, and after passing through several floors of yards, he entered a study room. The servant bowed and said, "Mr. Qian, please wait here. My master will come in a while!"

Qian Yiai nodded, found a chair and sat down at the bottom, waiting for Ma Mingyuan. But he knew that this was only two hours, and Ma Mingyuan didn't even have a shadow.

In order to see Ma Mingyuan not having dinner at home, Qian Yiai is now croaking in her hungry stomach, and a cup of tea has been replenished several times, which is like boiled water.

Seeing the sky was dark, Qian Yiai stood up and asked, "Why haven't your master come yet?"

The servant at the door had been replaced by a maid. The little maid was only fourteen years old. When Qian Yiai said badly, he was at a loss and hurried into the house and knelt down and said, "I'm so sorry, I don't know when the master will come. The elder brother of the servant just asked me to serve the young master here, but the other servants don't know!"

Qian Yiai is now twenty-four years old and has been in the officialdom for a few years. She has become much more calm. Seeing the maid trembled all over when she is frightened, she knows that it is useless to get angry at her, so she has to say, "You go and find some snacks for me, but I haven't had a meal yet?"

The maid nodded and stood up. Just as she was about to go out, she saw that the door opened and Ma Mingyuan, wearing a dark blue silk gown, walked in.

Ma Mingyuan saw Qian Yiai standing in the middle of the room at the door, frowned and asked, "Zigao, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

Qian Yiai didn't dare to show off in front of Ma Mingyuan, so he bowed and bowed: "Xiaguan has met the Chief Auxiliary! In this way, Xiaguan has been waiting for a long time just now, and he is a little hungry in his stomach. I want to ask this sister to make some snacks!"

Qian Yiai is also a noble young man and a close friend of the prince. She is still a little proud inside. This passage reveals some dissatisfaction!

Ma Mingyuan frowned and said to the maid: "You go, you don't have to serve you here!"

Ma Mingyuan walked into the house and sat up. Qian Yiai saw the maid being driven away by Ma Mingyuan. He knew that he was only hungry today, so he had no choice but to sit down and wait for Ma Mingyuan to ask questions.

"Zi Gao, there is something you need to do when you come here today! You will take the time to go to the imperial prison tomorrow, meet Qu Shisi and Zhang Tongchang, and convince them to come out and become officials!"

When Qian Yiai heard that this was a arduous task. These two masters and apprentices had been detained in Nanjing for three years, and they had no intention of being loose at all. It might not be possible to go by yourself!

"The Chief Auxiliary, the lower official said something lightly, I'm afraid..."

Before Qian Yiai finished speaking, Ma Mingyuan continued: "This matter must be done. I decided to start measuring the land in Jiangsu Province first. This work is just right for Zhang Tongchang to go. You tell him that I have recommended him as the governor of Jiangsu in front of the emperor, and his teacher, Emperor Qu Shisi, also promises to use it!"

Qian Yiai heard Ma Mingyuan say that he wanted to start measuring the land, and that was to prepare a new policy! Qian Yiai had 30,000 mu of grain fields in his home, and he was worried at this time, so he asked quickly: "Sir, should you measure the land? But is the new policy going to start?"

"The new policy is not suitable for implementation now, but preparations must be made in advance! The emperor has agreed to start with Jiangsu first!"
Chapter completed!