Chapter 25 Is that so?
When the actors on the stage saw that the master of the prefect had arrived, they stopped and stood there blankly. They didn't know whether to step down or continue singing... Zhang Yi smiled and said, "Continue, change to a more festive one and sing "Journey to the West."
The actors on the stage quickly stepped down and put on their faces and changed their makeup. After a while, Sun Wukong jumped onto the stage, and the sound of gongs and drums started to ring again.
This drama was a drama that was found in the Yuan Dynasty. The layout and the description of characters were rough, but the details of the story were similar to the "Journey to the West" that Ye Xiaotian had heard. Wu Chengen's book is a collection of creations of predecessors, and he didn't feel unfamiliar when he looked.
After watching the show for a while, Zhang Yi smiled and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Two days ago, a man named Xu Boyi passed by Tongren Mansion and came to visit me specially."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Ah! It's him, he is the new Huxian County Magistrate. It is said that he has a close relationship with the Tian Mansion. You are also from the Tian family. Since you have passed by Tongren, it is a matter of course for him to visit his teacher."
Zhang Yi smiled and said, "Yes, I can ignore him, but the Tian family has to give him face, so he met him. When he asked him about the imperial examination today, he also mentioned you specifically, haha, I think he and you seem to have a holiday."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Students and Xu Boyi do have some holidays."
Ye Xiaotian told him about how he had a grudge against Xu Boyi when he was in Huxian, and said: "He was originally a very decent scholar, but he was ruined by me. How could he not hate him? So after meeting me in Guiyang, he repeatedly wanted to design and harm me."
Ye Xiaotian turned to Zhang Yi and smiled and said, "I guess Xu Boyi didn't know the relationship between me and my mentor, so he dared to slander me unscrupulously in front of his mentor, right?"
Zhang Yi looked at Sun Wukong on the stage with somersaults, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he smiled and said, "Some people say that the person who knows you the best is often the person who wants to plot against you. This is true. Xu Boyi is very clear about you."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Oh?"
Zhang Yi said: "He knew very well that you were the scholar I recorded in person, so he not only did not slander you in front of me, but also praised you very much. However... he was unwilling to do so. Can't I see it?"
Ye Xiaotian was a little surprised when he heard this. He was surprised that Xu Boyi had learned so much about him, and he was also surprised that Zhang Yi was smart.
Zhang Yi's body is obsessed with fat, but who stipulates that a person who looks so fat must even be filled with fat? He is a sensual and elegant poem. He even thinks he is smart. These are all right, but he is not a fool.
Zhang Yi frowned and said, "This person is too scheming and has a strong desire for power. I don't like him very much. Alas! The Tian family was plotted by Emperor Taizu and was greatly damaged. They have been thinking about restoring the glory of their ancestors over the years. I think I am so eager to choose good and bad."
Ye Xiaotian said in a deep sense: "Students think so too. Xu Boyi, who has breasts, is a mother, and has no moral integrity. Today he can join the Tian family. If someone promises him more benefits in the future, he can still betray the Tian family."
Zhang Yi tapped his fat fingers gently on the handrail and smiled and said, "No, right! Lian Xieji asked him to go to Huxian, which should be a test for him. It is a test of whether this person is useful. If it is available, he will do his best to cultivate him. So, this is your last chance to deal with it!"
Ye Xiaotian humbly asked for advice: "What does the teacher mean?"
Zhang Yi said: "You may not be able to resolve the holidays between you. Once he gets the full support of the Tian family, how can you still fight him? Now that it is a test for the Tian family to do his best, you will not interfere too much. You might as well do your best. As long as he falls, it will be useless and the Tian family will naturally abandon him."
Although Ye Xiaotian called out "teacher" one by one, he didn't believe that just because Zhang Yi called him a scholar, the two really established a deep master-apprentice friendship. Zhang Yi was also a member of the Tian family, but he planned it wholeheartedly, hoping that he would destroy a person the Tian family wanted to reuse?
Ye Xiaotian said tentatively: "The student went to Huxian because he was Ren Dianshi. Xu Boyi was the student's immediate boss. It's hard to fight the enemy! Another thing is to be honest with his mentor. When Xiaotian was in Guiyang, he met a woman. When they fell in love, they realized that she was the eldest lady of the Xia family in Hongfeng Lake.
Although the student fought with Xu Boyi because of his personal grudges, would the Tian family mistakenly think that the student was standing up for the Xia family? The Tian family is much more powerful than the Xia family. If the Tian family intervened, the student would have no chance of winning."
Fatty Zhang smiled and said, "I said that this is a test of Xu Boyi by the Tian family. It tests his ability. Since it is for such a purpose, the Tian family will not interfere. You don't have to worry that the Tian family will come forward to take on Xu Boyi's shoulder."
Ye Xiaotian said half-jokingly: "If this is the case, the students will be relieved. However, in the eyes of outsiders, the students are from the Xia family, but the mentor you are from the Tian family. The mentor is so supportive of the disciples, the Tian family will not be mistaken for you to surrender to the Xia family, which will cause inconvenience to you, right?"
Fatty Zhang suddenly laughed and shook his fat hand and said, "No, no, hundreds of chieftains from all over Guizhou have their own territory and power. This pattern has been like this for thousands of years and has been unbreakable.
I, the Tongren Mansion, are surrounded by forces loyal to the Tian family. I want to join the Xia family. Not to mention that the surrounding field forces do not agree, even many of my subordinates will not agree. Over the past thousand years, the chieftains in our field have been married and integrated, and their relationship has long been mixed and cannot be cut open with a knife. Unless I am crazy, the Tian family will not believe that I will betray me."
Fatty Zhang picked up the tea, took a sip with a smile, and said, "The chieftains should fight, that is, they will compete for who is stronger and higher, so they will not have any big moves that will hurt each other. Oh! This is what I mean by those big chieftains. After all, a big tree attracts wind and cannot act rashly. As for the small chieftains, it is not the case, such as the two chieftains in Huling..."
Fatty Zhang took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, shook his head and sighed: "Since the opening of the post road, Huxian has become the northern gate of our Guizhou, but there are two hereditary little toasts there, so no big toast has ever had an idea there. Why do you think it is?
Because no matter how young he is, he is still a toast. The situation in Guizhou has remained unchanged for thousands of years because the toasts of all sizes have long formed a very stable relationship, just like the stage in front of us..."
Fatty Zhang pointed to the stage and said, "The four beams and eight pillars are the four heavenly kings, the eight Vajras, and other toasts of all sizes are the cornerstones below. If anyone wants to take away two bricks from it, the entire stage will collapse if it fails.
So... no chieftain dares to take advantage of the taboos and break the rules. Whoever breaks the rules is the public enemy of the chieftains. But the court is different. The imperial behemoth has always wanted to tear down our stage since Emperor Taizu and build a small pavilion for the emperor and his family to see the scenery here.
The two chieftains fought for land, and the court took advantage of the situation and deposed the two chieftains and set up county to send officials. What would happen if the court succeeded? It would be like taking out two bricks under the stage and another wedge was smashed!
If this wedge is willing to stay there, it can play the role of those two bricks before it rots, but there is still a strong man from the imperial court standing next to the stage. He kept smashing the wedge with a sledgehammer, and he wanted to use this wedge to pry the stage down. So the toasts all turned their eyes here, but... who pulled out the wedge and built two more bricks, but it was not very important to use it, do you understand?"
Ye Xiaotian understood. The court had always wanted to change the political landscape of Guizhou and put it under its direct control. Although there were various problems among more than a hundred chieftains from all over Guizhou, they competed internally, only who had stronger strength, higher rankings, greater influence, and more resources for their family.
But no one has the strength to destroy other chieftains. Even if they have this strength, they dare not act rashly. They set off the "Warring States Period" in Guizhou, using the big to swallow the small to fight each other until the only king is decided.
Because there is a stronger force on their heads, that is, the court. For thousands of years, despite the changes of dynasties in the Central Plains, there has always been a powerful centralization. For thousands of years, there have been many outstanding people among the chieftains in Guizhou, who are determined to destroy all chieftains, but because of the lion of the court, the power structure here has never changed.
Now the imperial court has accelerated its infiltration into Guizhou, and all the chieftains feel in crisis. They are both competitors and partners, wanting to take this enclave into their own hands, and wanting to work together to push the court's hands into it.
Therefore, before no one can control Huxian, they will rush to attack, but once someone does it first, they will turn from competitors to support this person, and do their best to protect him and not let the court have any chance to take advantage of it.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaotian nodded slowly and said, "Student understands, thank you for your guidance."
Zhang Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's good to understand, so, when you go to Huxian, you can do it well and do it boldly. Huxian is the northern gate of Guizhou, and it is also the front gate of my Tongren. I don't like Xu Boyi very much, I like you to be there."
Ye Xiaotian stood up and bowed to the ground.
Zhang Yi said, "You go, go and talk to Li Zhongyin first. Hehe, I stole his favorite student. If this old guy doesn't say it, he must be very resentful in his heart. I will go there later."
Ye Xiaotian said respectfully: "Yes! The student left."
A little maid walked next to him, leading Ye Xiaotian to the living room. Zhang Yi turned to the stage and watched the show with relish. After a while, a woman wearing a shallow head and a white dress, with an extremely graceful figure walked out from behind the stage.
Fatty Zhang tried hard to pull out his body, and sat down deflatedly. Just as he was about to ask someone to pull him out of the chair, the woman wearing lightly dew had already chuckled and said, "Uncle Zhang, just sit down. In front of her niece, why are you polite?"
As the woman said, Niao walked over gracefully, a maid stepped forward, wiped the chair Ye Xiaotian had just sat with a handkerchief, and then turned to the back of the chair and stood there. The woman sat down.
Zhang Yi, with a big belly like a meaty mountain, said to the woman: "Miaowen, Xu Boyi is the person you want to use, why did you ask me to encourage Ye Xiaotian to fight with Xu Boyi? It's not...he is the person you really want to use, right?"
The woman raised her head slightly, revealing her pointed, fair, delicate and very attractive jaw, and chuckled, "How is that possible? Ye Xiaotian is about to become the son-in-law of the Xia family. It is impossible for me to use it. I just want to use him to try whether Xu Boyi is a piece of material that can be made. If it is not enough, it will be fine."
Zhang Yi said: "Touchstone? If he tried Xu Boyi was just a piece of scrap iron but he controlled Huxian, it would be a waste of rice."
Tian Miaowen was wearing Qianlu, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but the drooping curtains on Qianlu made people clearly feel that an extremely charming smile appeared on her face.
She smiled at Zhang Yi, turned to look at the stage, and said lightly: "What does it matter? As long as it is not in the hands of the court."
Fatty Zhang stroked his fat three-layer chin and thought to himself: "Is this really the case? Then why are you here to do? Alas! This girl no longer hugged someone else's neck, twisted like a trick, and pestered the little girl who was looking for candy when she wanted to eat. She has grown up..."
: I sincerely ask for a guaranteed monthly ticket, and I would like to recommend tickets on Monday!
Chapter completed!