Chapter 374: The Queen Mother summoned
Q: What is the best job for an official?
Answer: Raid the house
Why?
Isn't it because you can take the opportunity to fill your pockets?
This kind of statement, if it had been placed in the past, Tang Jin would have scoffed. The master is not short of money, and he is not interested in filling his own pockets or anything.
However, after he actually led the team to raid his home, he said...... Well, that's fragrant.
"You, you, you! Hurry up, move that box out of my house and send it to my house, and Lord Ben will check it carefully. As he spoke, he pointed sharply at another official, "And you, does it take so long to clean up a painting?" Hurry up and bundle it up and send it to me, maybe there is a secret letter in it, and it will delay the big thing, I only ask you. ”
With Tang Jin's seemingly righteous orders, the little officials who were stuffed with bulging clothes struggled to move boxes of antiques, calligraphy and paintings outside the warehouse.
Yes, Tang Jin is rich...... But having money doesn't mean buying a good collection. And when he entered the secret treasury of the Wang family, he understood what it meant to be "rich".
Vases of the previous dynasty, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, and furs of cherished animals...... It really dazzled Tang Jin's eyes. If these things were exchanged for money, Tang Jin could take them out, but he couldn't buy these good things with the same amount of money. Money is both the most useful and the most useless.
So what should I do if I can't buy it in the right way, but I like it very much? Quite simply, it is. Anyway, how many things were found in the end, and how many things were handed in, they had to be summarized and reported by themselves, and he couldn't even make a splash if he swallowed one or two hundred thousand taels by himself when he copied out tens of millions of taels.
Of course, in order to ensure that things went smoothly, Tang Jin did not take care of himself alone, but directly ordered everyone in Dali Temple, as long as you can pretend, you can take as much as you want. For a while, everyone regretted not bringing a pocket.
Moreover, Tang Jin did not hide all this from Wang Haizhuan, and even blatantly moved things in front of him. And Wang Haikun not only did not feel embarrassed and distressed, but also actively introduced those antique calligraphy and paintings to Tang Jin as the most valuable, and even sent someone to deposit five large boxes of silver in the money bank, and exchanged them for silver tickets to be sent to the people of Dali Temple one by one.
Of course, it's not that he's slutty, or crazy. However, in a sense, he is indeed a little abnormal, after all, the reason why he did this was completely out of hatred for Wang Gan. You old thing abandoned Lao Tzu and ran for his life,
Lao Tzu will ruin your family property and let your years of hard work go to waste.
"Dali Temple Shaoqing Tang Jin takes the order!"
Just as Tang Jin was moving, a shrill voice came from outside the palace. Tang Jin was slightly stunned, this voice was obviously a eunuch, and he was still a eunuch, but wasn't it Gonggong Li who had always given him a decree? Why does this sound like a change?
However, he was puzzled, and his feet kept rushing to the door. It doesn't matter if the eunuch is changed, the holy decree is the core, as for the false decree...... Hehe, the holy decree is falsely preached in the capital, why don't you pull the rebel army in the palace?
"Chen Tang Jin takes the order!"
As soon as he arrived at the door, Tang Jin didn't even see what the chief eunuch looked like, so he fell directly to his knees.
Seeing this, the eunuch didn't say much and directly unfolded the holy decree in his hand and said: "The Empress Dowager's decree: Tang Jin, the son of King Dongxian, has been in Beijing for more than half a year, just because the old man has never seen it when he entered the Buddhist hall to escape the world, and today's merits are complete, and I miss my Tang Jin's grandson very much, so I specially recruited him to enter the palace." ”
"Grandson's order!"
I said how to change the person who passed the decree, the feeling is not the emperor's holy decree, it is the queen mother's decree, presumably this should be the chief eunuch next to the queen mother, right?
Speaking of her grandmother, she was originally one of the people in Tang Jin's plan who had to meet besides Tang Yu. Whether it is because of her status or the blood relationship on her body, Tang Jin should go to see this old man as soon as possible after meeting the emperor.
Na Cheng thought, this old man entered the Buddhist hall to practice not long before he arrived in the capital, and it is said that he couldn't come out for a year and a half, and no one was allowed to disturb him during the period, so Tang Jin could only put this matter on hold for the time being, and wait for her old man to go out of the customs that day, and then visit. Thinking about it, her old man directly shouted to herself.
"Li Ruhai, I'll leave it to you here, I have to go to the palace first."
With a casual order, Tang Jin followed the father-in-law and went straight to the palace. Halfway through, he also asked if he wanted to go back to the house to change his clothes, after all, wearing an official uniform to meet the Queen Mother was a bit unreasonable.
"The Queen Mother specifically said that if you are at home, Mu will definitely let you change into official clothes and go again. What she likes most most is to watch her children and grandchildren look promising. ”
With all that said, what else can Tang Jin say? But it's understandable to think about it, that parents don't want their children and grandchildren to be able
has a promising, can soar, Rao is royal, and it is inevitable that it will be vulgar. Although because of their background, they can be regarded as "soaring" at the moment of birth, but for the elderly, those who only know how to eat and wait for death and the descendants who rely on their own ability to go out to work hard, they prefer the latter, even if the latter is just an inconspicuous petty official. Not to mention Tang Jin, the first powerful minister today.
Just when Tang Jin was thinking nonsense, the group was already like the palace gate, and went straight to the Empress Dowager's Cishou Palace in a carriage. It stands to reason that you can't drive in the palace, but ...... Who calls someone the queen mother? The emperor has to be obediently trained, rules or something...... Hehe.
As soon as Fang entered the gate of Cishou Palace, the first thing that caught his eye was a rather large garden, and if you just looked at the area, I was afraid that it would be the sleeping palace of five or six great princes. And in the garden, there was a small river, and by the river was a pavilion, in which an old man of ordinary appearance sat by the fire in a cotton robe.
As soon as Tang Jin wanted to step forward, the old eunuch who delivered the decree stopped him, "Please also ask Your Highness to hand over the weapons on your body......"
"Say what? Can my grandson still harm me? Eventful, still not retreating? You are not allowed to enter this courtyard without my orders. ”
"Yes!"
The old eunuch hurriedly retreated.
Tang Jin looked at the back of the old eunuch, and then at the old man in the pavilion, and suddenly ten thousand grass and mud horses rushed over in his heart.
"Tang Duo, you are cheating on me again, you say that a good grandmother is very easy to talk to, with my character, I will definitely be able to get along? Why do I think it's so fierce? ”
Of course, no matter how fierce he felt, Tang Jin would not show it on the surface, but walked to the pavilion with a slight stiffness, and just wanted to salute when he heard the old man let out an exclamation and threw something out violently.
Tang Jin immediately made a decision, with his right hand, Qi Ye in his hand, and a dodge blocked in front of the old man, and at the same time, the long sword in his hand accurately stabbed at the thing that was thrown out.
Well, soft, fiery, sticky...... It's a baked sweet potato!
Looking at the soft and glutinous piece of roasted sweet potato on his pitch-black sword body, with a layer of syrup flowing on the surface, Tang Jin's brain completely crashed for a while. Instinctively looking down, I saw that there were large and small sweet potatoes on the stove, roasted with oil, and the aroma came to my nose.
"Affection...... Did your old man get roasted sweet potatoes burned? ”
(To be continued)