There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 429 Meeting the Emperor: Debriefing

Wu Youwei's visit to Mr. Peng Ge didn't attract any attention. After all, a small county magistrate is too young. He was fine in Shanghai County, but now he's not here, and he's returning to Beijing to report on his duties. Pay attention to him?

When he came back, he told Wantong that Peng Ge was always like a child.

And he remembered that Peng Shi had passed away a long time ago in that time and space, but now he was in a healthy and vigorous posture. He and Shang Ren overwhelmed the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and none of them dared to be too presumptuous.

"Old Peng Ge was very serious before, but he is going to retire, so he is not so serious now." Wan Tong said, "He is a very funny old man."

"Well, it's time to leave, so I let myself go." Wu Youwei expressed his understanding.

The old man has worked hard all his life, and is finally about to retire. If it were him, he would probably be more able to let himself go than Mr. Peng Ge.

After visiting Mr. Peng Ge, Wu Youwei still wanted to go back to see Moring Villa. After he came back, he stayed at home for two or three days before leaving.

I still have my daughter's business to do.

As a result, the next day, before he could tell Wantong that he was going back to Mo Ling Villa, someone blocked the door: "The emperor ordered you to have an audience.

The visitor was quite familiar, it turned out to be a small bamboo!

"Come on, why don't you say something?" Wu Youwei is used to meeting old friends these days, and he is even more happy to see Xiaozhuzi. Xiaozhuzi has grown up, and he has become a classy messenger The eunuch is the eighth rank.

"Our family has snatched the job of preaching the decree." Xiao Zhuzi was also happy: "Now our younger brother Li Xiang is already the prefect of Guangzhou, and he is the successor of Lord Luo Lun."

"Really? That's great!" In fact, Wu Youwei knew about it a long time ago, and he and Luo Lun never broke the letter.

Li Xiang is the successor cultivated by Luo Lun, let him read and write, the child is smart, and he passed the Jinshi exam, and he doesn't know what he said to Emperor Xianzong, anyway, he is Luo Lun's successor.

Now in Guangzhou, it's like a fish in water.

"It's all thanks to you." Xiao Zhuzi straightened his face and bent his waist ninety degrees: "Thank you!"

He and his righteous brother thought that it would be good to live their lives together, if they hadn't met Wu Youwei, how could they have their current future?

You're welcome. "Wu Youwei accepted his gratitude.

This made Xiao Zhuzi even happier, thank you, we sat down and chatted together, Xiao Zhuzi is not thin now, but he is not fat either, because he has a rank, is Shang Ming’s person, and has a name, He was respectfully called "Grandpa Ji" because Wu Youwei named him "Li Ji", which became the word "auspicious" with his righteous brother Li Xiang.

"I haven't seen Eunuch Shang in the past few days since I came back? What is he busy with?" Eunuch Ji mentioned Shang Ming, and Wu Youwei thought of this.

It's just that he came back not long ago, so it's inappropriate to meet people everywhere, especially eunuchs, because it seems that he is trying to gain a lot of money, and Wantong didn't mention Shang Ming, and he doesn't know where Shang Ming is.

"Eunuch Shang is amazing now." Eunuch Ji whispered: "He is now the factory supervisor of the East Factory. Just after the fall of the Bai family, he returned to the emperor's side and worked with Wang Zhongwang in the company. The supervisor of ceremonies stayed for three years, and then he took office in Dongchang." Wang Zhong, that was the eunuch with the palm seal of the supervisor of ceremonies.Compared with the supervisor of ceremonies, Dongchang obviously has more rights.

Moreover, Dongchang is the military power of the eunuchs, and his friendship with Wantong and Maid Wu means that he is friendly with Wanjia and the cabinet. Who doesn't know that the two new members of the cabinet are related to Maid Wu?

Jinyiwei cooperates with Dongchang for mutual benefit. Wanxi and Wanda are not the kind of thorny people looking for trouble, and Wantong has cooperated even more since they came back.

But just because he is now the factory supervisor of the East Factory, Wu Youwei, as a small official returning to Beijing to report on his work, is even less likely to come to the door.

After all, Dongchang is also an eunuch organization of the imperial court, and usually even the elders of the cabinet are not provoked.

"I know this. He wrote a letter saying that the rules of the East Factory are not good, so we can clean it up." Wu Youwei remembered that Shang Ming's letter was a person, and he was quite curious about the East Factory.

This is the only espionage agency that keeps pace with Jinyiwei. Even though its principals are eunuchs, the fans are indeed transferred from Jinyi's pro-army. Speaking of it, it's just that the managers are different, and they are all Jinyiwei.This is Jin Yiwei's confidence.

According to historical records, Xichang was a smash hit, and Shang Ren and Xiang Zhong, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, teamed up to give it up.

Although it was less than a month, it was restored again.

Moreover, Shang Ren was forced to become a scholar, and Xiang Zhong lost his cap and was demoted to a commoner.

But it is enough to explain one thing, that is, the foundation of Xichang is too shallow.

Look at Jinyiwei and Dongchang again?

With deep roots, who in the court would dare to abolish the establishment lightly?

The East Factory has existed for only a little less than the Jinyiwei. In addition, the Jinyiwei is a pro-military, while the person in charge of the East Factory is an eunuch, and it is easier to enter and leave the court, so no one can shake its status.

However, due to the age, there were a lot of problems. After Shang Ming took over, he really dealt with it ruthlessly. Now that Dongchang is in his hands, it is already very good.

"But Eunuch Shang asked our family to tell you..." Eunuch Ji whispered: "The emperor is very angry now that everyone is staring at the harem, so please avoid it."

Wu Youwei nodded: "Actually, I think the harem is the emperor's family business. What are the courtiers involved in? The cow does not drink water and forcefully presses the head. It is really hard to explain."

Mr. Ji gave a thumbs up: "You are so right! You don't know that those show girls are not keeping their duty, they are all delicate and delicate, but they want to go to the Imperial Garden all day. It's not because of the emperor. Do you go to Kunning Palace to visit Princess Fengyang every time you go to court? Our family knows what their plans are."

"Really?" Wu Youwei became interested: "Have you encountered that before?"

The real version of Harem Fighting?

"They are so naive." Eunuch Ji laughed loudly: "When the emperor goes to the harem, someone will lead the way in front of him. Either let them kneel and kowtow with their backs to the emperor and not allow them to raise their heads, or send them back to their residence quickly and find their aunt. Taught them to be polite, honest and shameful, they were arrested several times, and sent home more than a dozen, and it stopped, and no one was going to block the way of the emperor anymore."

Wu Youwei couldn't laugh or cry after listening to it. He thought he could hear something romantic, but this was the only one?

Think about it too, if the emperor is in the palace, he can be blocked by women casually, then he is too useless.

The two talked about the old days together, and after the gossip, Eunuch Ji offered to leave, and Wu Youwei asked him to bring back some special products from Shanghai County.

When Wantong came back to see Wu Youwei at night, the first thing he said was: "The emperor will summon you tomorrow.

Well, Mr. Ji has already said it. Wu Youwei was worried: "Why are you in such a hurry?" "

"It's good that the emperor can bear it until now." Wantong said with a smile: "When I saw me, I told you a lot about you, as well as your glass, telescope and so on. If it weren't for the fact that someone else Bringing up the old story again, I have summoned you a long time ago. Emperor Xianzong really misses Wu Youwei, especially after knowing the amount of tax money Wu Youwei brought back, he is crazy! He wants Wu Youwei to send all counties in the world , All turned into Shanghai County!

Wu Youwei laughed out loud after hearing Wan Tong's words, "Your Majesty really dares to think about it."

"The emperor also wants to reproduce the glory of Emperor Yongle at that time." At that time, all nations really came to court, what about now?Three or five vassal states come here every year, and some of them have not paid tribute for ten years. Are they still vassal states of Ming Dynasty?

Even Mancijia, who is far away, has come to pay tribute.

So why are there no movements in those not-too-distant vassal states?

This is worth pondering.

Therefore, the arrival of the southern vassal state made Emperor Xianzong feel that the country's prestige needed to be revived.

It's just that Wu Youwei came back before he could figure out how to boost his prestige.

He felt that it would be better to talk to Wu Youwei about this matter, and he just handed over Jin Yiwei to him with Wantong, and asked Yuan Bin to go through the retirement procedures by the way. Although he retired, Yuan Bin is still a person with a title. Smoother than ever.Wantong respects the elderly, and will still come to Yuan Bin for advice on occasional matters. It is not the kind of personality that is used and thrown away.That's why Wantong took over Jin Yiwei in a very short period of time.Both Nanzhen Fusi and Beizhen Fusi admired him very much.

Wanxi is still the head of Nanzhen Fusi, while Wanda was sent directly to the north by Emperor Xianzong. Although it was a bit hard, there were many wars in the north, and the military merits were accumulated.

In the next few days, we will take advantage of the good weather to go on the road, but not all the family members are with us, the children stay here and go to school, only the wife and the servants follow to take care of them.

"Hehe, Daming..." Wu Youwei thought for a while, but didn't say anything.

The next day, the two of them packed up, and since they didn't have to go to court, they went out when it was almost time, and arrived at the gate of the palace in a quarter, Wu Youwei went to see him, and Wantong went to work.

When it was time, Wu Youwei was led to Dong Nuange, the imperial study room, to wait for Emperor Xianzong.

He didn't know the little eunuch who led him here, but he still gave him a generous purse... a small purse containing 100 taels of silver: "Thank you, you have worked hard."

"You're being polite." The little eunuch was very flattered.

Those who are eunuchs love talents, and they all have a skill, that is, when they touch their purses, they can tell whether it is gold or silver, and how much it is?

This purse is light and fluttering, and it is obviously not real money inside.

Then it can only be a silver ticket!

A silver ticket is just a piece of paper with no weight, but a silver ticket can get real gold and silver!

The minimum face value has to be 50 taels, if it is less, it will not be justified, and the banks that issue bank notes will not issue too little face value, because that is not enough to bother you.

Besides, when he came, many people had told him, including the governor of the East Factory, Eunuch Ji, etc., that he should take good care of him, especially Eunuch Wynn.

Thousands of exhortations and ten thousand exhortations, we must take good care of this one.

"The great eunuchs have already given their orders, and the servants don't dare to reward them..." Although he was greedy, he was even more afraid of being settled after the fact.

It is very important who can take the reward and whose money cannot be taken.

It is very common for people who violate taboos to disappear without a trace.

"I'll take it for you." Wu Youwei said, "It's just a little thing."

100 taels of silver, usually Wu Youwei would not reward people so lavishly, but this is the imperial palace, the imperial study room, the so-called "the king of hell is so easy to deal with little ghosts", he doesn't want people to give him a look in front of Emperor Xianzong medicine.

To say that the biggest feature of Ming Dynasty is the eunuch system.

Seeing that he could not shirk, the little eunuch happily accepted it, and personally guarded it, because Emperor Xianzong hadn't come yet, so Wu Youwei could only stand there and wait boredly.

Because Emperor Xianzong hadn't come yet, logically, he should kneel and wait there, but the little eunuch took advantage of Wu Youwei and didn't ask him to kneel and wait, but stood and waited.

And no one served tea and refreshments.

But after waiting for too long, the little eunuch reminded him in a low voice at the door: "The emperor is here."

Then he knelt at the door.

Wu Youwei also quickly knelt aside.

A bright yellow hem was swept away, and then Emperor Xianzong roared: "I'm so full of food, there are so many beautiful girls in the harem, are they satisfied if I go to bed one by one? Don't be afraid." My body can't take it!" Emperor Xianzong was angry that these courtiers had been sorted out by him, and now he was in power, but they didn't bother him with big things, but with him everywhere in trivial matters. If you can't make it through, there are still reasons. He has no reason to refute it even if he wants to.

It's really annoying!

When Wu Youwei heard this, why is this beautiful girl so unpopular?