Chapter 184: The Cheap Emperor
I'm sorry, I was greedy for a cup yesterday, so today the 10,000-word guarantee update.
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If you are afraid, do not go with me.
It's a simple sentence, but it's invisibly full of compulsion.
Brave and fearless.
Just like that sentence, if you die now, you will die, and if you make a big plan, you will die, and the country will die?
Wei Liangchen sat on the horse and calmly looked at the brocade-clothed little flag Li Wei. From the time the other party was brought by Jin Zhong until now, he noticed that this Li Xiaoqi always had a worried look on his face, so he had to solve this problem.
He can't bring a guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death, that will drag him back, and even, will leak his hole cards.
Li Yongzhen also stopped, holding the reins of the horse, and looked at Wei Liangchen thoughtfully.
Tian Gang looked at his companion silently, and no one knew Li Wei's timidity better than him.
"I..."
Li Wei was stunned, he didn't expect Wei Liangchen to say such a thing to him, he hesitated, and said with a wry smile: "What the head of the small case said, if I don't go, it will be disobedience, and the result is not much better than going." ”
What Levi said was the truth, no matter how scared he was, he couldn't help it, otherwise it would be disobedience.
Liangchen nodded and said, "In that case, you don't need to think about it so much, we just go and take a look." There are some things that Liangchen can't say too bluntly, and he hopes that Levi himself can understand.
"Don't worry, I won't make a mistake." Levi muffled in response. Although he was timid and afraid to go to Shanhaiguan, where the mutiny, had no way out now, and he would not be stupid enough to mess with his own life.
"Okay."
Liangchen nodded, pulled the reins of the horse, raised the whip is a flick, and beat the horse and galloped out.
Liangchen has never been a person who pushes himself into the fire pit by himself, if it is really a life of nine deaths, he will never say that he will let me go and see.
He has confidence and confidence, because Shanhaiguan will not kill him.
In the end, I didn't hear of the rebellion of the border army.
So as long as it is not a rebellion, then he has no worries about his life.
The reason is that although he is nothing, he has a tiger skin on his body, because he came to see it for the emperor.
That's enough.
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Liangchen did not go directly to Shanhaiguan, but decided to go to Yongping first to find Gao Huai, the party involved in the incident.
Before that, he had to figure out the details of Gao Huai.
Tian Gang and Li Wei, the two Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi, are not dry food, from their mouths, Liangchen learned that this Gao Gonggong is not only the mine supervisor and tax envoy of Liaodong, but also the eunuch of the Si Li Suitang, and it is rumored that he won the competition with the Tianjin tax envoy Ma Tang for the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and he is already the appointed eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and he will be able to enter Beijing in a few days.
However, now that there has been a mutiny in Liaodong, it is uncertain whether this Gao Gonggong can be promoted to Si Li Bingbi as he wishes.
Liangchen was not too satisfied with the information provided by Tian Gang and Li Wei, from Wanli's attitude towards Gao Huai in the palace just now, Liangchen felt that Wanli had the intention of protecting Gao Huai, otherwise he would not agree to let him take a look first, but quickly summoned Shoufu Ye Xianggao. In that case, regardless of whether Gao Huai handled the incident properly or not, his position as mine supervisor would have to be removed.
Gao Huai fled from Shanhaiguan to Yongping, and was so frightened that he didn't dare to enter Beijing, but Wanli still wanted to protect him, which shows Gao Huai's weight in Wanli's mind.
Although Liangchen just went to see what was going on, it didn't mean that he had to bypass Gao Huai, and even tell the truth he saw.
Therefore, for Gao Huai, it is necessary for Liangchen to know more.
lest this opportunity that God finally gave him be wasted.
Before entering Yongping City, Liangchen stopped beating his horse, and he thought of Li Yongzhen.
He also has the attitude of giving it a try, after all, the other party has been in prison for eight years, and he may not know so much about the outside world.
To his surprise, Li Yongzhen, the future Da Jue who had been in prison for eight years, knew Gao Huai well, to be precise, Li Yongzhen knew everything about the personnel of the inner court.
The eight years of living in prison did not isolate Li Yongzhen from the outside world. Thinking that Jin Zhong and other people did not call him, he only raised Li Yongzhen from prison, and Liangchen knew that Li Yongzhen had his own network.
According to Li Yongzhen, Gao Huai is a strange person, and Qi is not only the palace he entered after marrying a wife and having children, but before that, he was the contractor of the Chongwenmen tax department of the Beijing Division.
This experience surprised Liangchen, and being able to contract the Chongwenmen tax tax is obviously not something that ordinary people can do.
This Gao Huai, what kind of background background does it have?
Li Yongzhen made it clear that Gao Huai did not have any backstage before entering the palace, and he was able to contract the Chongwenmen tax tax entirely by his own ability.
It can be said that Gao Huai is self-made, he is unwilling to farm in his hometown, he has been in Beijing for many years, and he has met many people with his brain and mouth, and has become a good person. By chance, he found a contract for the Chongwenmen tax office.
Because of the contract Chongwenmen tax tax, Gao Huai made a lot of money before entering the palace, and after entering the palace, he quickly dredged up the relationship, not only became a long-term attendant, but also successfully became the supervisor of Shangshan Jian a year later.
Shang Shan Jian is a very rich yamen in the palace, this supervisor is responsible for the emperor and the palace food, and the management of the palace banquet. Wang Tiqian is now in Shangshan Prison, but he is only a low-grade eunuch in the prison.
Shangshan Supervisor Cheng is the function of the fifth grade, and there are also eunuchs of the fourth grade and young eunuchs from the fourth grade. Gao Huai tried his best to enter the palace from the palace, obviously a prison was far from satisfying him, so he targeted the hot mine supervisor and tax collector.
In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, a thousand households named Yan Dajing in Beijing said that Liaodong was a vast territory, not only rich in minerals, but also rich in rare earth products, and suggested that the imperial court send a mine tax supervisor to Liaodong to open mines and collect taxes. After seeing the song, Wanli was very happy and immediately approved. So after dredging Da Jue, Gao Huai got the coveted holy decree and took the original official Yan Dajing to Liaodong to open mines and collect taxes.
"The original official Yan Dajing played together, and he fulfilled today's Gao Huai."
Li Yongzhen didn't say it explicitly, but Liangchen guessed from his tone that this Yan Dajing and Gao Huai must have "colluded inside and outside", whether Gao Huai bought Yan Dajing or Yan Dajing dredged Gao Huai, the two must have been in contact before. Perhaps, this is simply their own directing and acting.
"In this way, Gonggong Gao has to thank Yan Dajing."
"Maybe."
Li Yongzhen didn't talk much, what Liangchen asked, what did he reply. Other than that, he just knows something, and he won't say it.
Perhaps, it was they who bought off the emperor, and the good ministers said in their hearts, because on the surface, Gao Huai and Yan Dajing took the initiative to ask for the opening of the mine, so as to soar. In essence, the emperor Wanli needs money very much, and he hit it off, so he achieved a good thing.
This also made Liangchen more sure of his previous thoughts, opening a mine to make money, and then being promoted is definitely a shortcut.
I didn't see Gao Huai through the mining, not only won the emperor's heart, but also became a eunuch with the court, if it wasn't for the Shanhaiguan military mutiny, the ironclad entry into Beijing would be Bingbi.
"Listening to Gonggong Li, Gao Huai is really a capable person, otherwise, there would be no today." Liangchen felt it.
Li Yongzhen glanced at Liangchen, thought about it, and told him such a thing. He said: "In March of the twenty-seventh year of the twenty-seventh year, Gonggong Gao was the tax supervisor of Liaodong Mine, and after only five days in office, he gave the emperor five hundred taels of silver. However, for the five hundred taels of silver, Gonggong Gao put forward a condition to the emperor. ”
Liangchen was stunned: "Offer conditions to Your Majesty?" ”
"Hmm."
Li Yongzhen took the horsewhip, looked at the direction of Yongping City, and said lightly: "Gonggong Gao asked the emperor to name and inscribe the tax shop he opened in Liaodong, and this tax shop is called Fuyang store." ”
"This..."
Liangchen simply opened his eyes, so Gao Huai asked the emperor to name the store he opened with an inscription for five hundred taels of silver?
Awesome!
It's a fucking traverser mode!
However, five hundred taels of silver will buy the emperor, this is really an ancient and modern anecdote, no matter how you look at it, the emperor is inevitably too cheap.
Liangchen was amazed by Gao Huai's means, no matter which line of work, the name of the royal pen, it means that the wealth is rolling.
Aren't many traversers in later generations doing this, could it be that they are all learning from this high father-in-law?
However, thinking about it the other way, maybe this is also the genius of Wanli.
This emperor may be buying horse bones for his money, and through this incident, he encouraged Gao Huai and those mine tax collectors who are outside to do a good job.
Therefore, it is difficult to say whether Gao Huai bought the emperor cheaply, or whether the emperor gave them encouragement without spending a penny.