Chapter Seventy-Eight. A Banquet for Powerful Officials and Corrupt Officials (Part I).

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Huang Yourong invited Zhou Shangjing, Shen Changmao and Zhao Junchen on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and the location was set up in the "Jude Restaurant" in the west of the city. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

On this day, when evening was approaching, when Zhao Junchen came to the door of Jude Restaurant in a carriage, looking at the signboard hanging on the door of the restaurant in front of him, he couldn't help but be weird.

"Young Master, what's wrong?"

Xu Qingyan, who was following behind Zhao Junchen, saw that Zhao Junchen was a little strange, and couldn't help asking.

Zhao Junchen laughed lightly with a little self-deprecation: "It's nothing, I just think that the word 'Jude' is really appropriate today." ”

While speaking, he motioned for Xu Qingyan to wait outside, and Zhao Junchen was already walking towards Jude Restaurant.

As soon as he entered the restaurant, he saw Huang Yourong greeted Zhao Junchen with the support of a large number of people, and the smile on his face was as gentle and friendly as ever, on the surface, it was like Zhao Junchen's own parent.

"As the old man expected, today's banquet, sure enough, Junchen was the first to arrive."

And Zhao Junchen hurriedly greeted him, bowed and saluted: "The lower official is late, let the seniors wait for a long time." ”

Huang Yourong waved his hand and said: "Junchen is too worried, there is still a period of time to leave the banquet, Junchen, you came early, the old man estimated, Zhou Shoufu and Shen Ge are old, I am afraid that it will take a while to come, you and I will go to the private room to wait first, today is just a sī banquet, Junchen, you don't have to be too polite with the old man." ”

Although Huang Yourong was polite and cordial, Zhao Junchen said respectfully: "Huang Ge Lao, you are a senior official and an elder, and I am a subordinate and a junior, so I should be respectful." ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen say this, Huang Yourong laughed: "Junchen, you." It's just too well-behaved, since the old man became an official, he loves his juniors the most, why do you need to be so polite between you and me, it makes people look like they are angry. At a young age, it's better to be free and easy. You can't lose your vigor. ”

That being said, But looking at Huang Yourong's expression, it was obvious that he was very impressed by Zhao Junchen's respectful attitude.

Between talking and laughing, Huang Yourong was already leading Zhao Junchen towards the private room he had booked.

Jude Restaurant occupies a large area, from the door to the depths, it is not a short distance, and for this banquet, Huang Yourong obviously does not intend to cover up the slightest, on the way to the private room. The two met a lot of rich officials who had dinner here, and after these people saw Huang Yourong and Zhao Junchen, they also appeared to greet each other, and their tones were full of flattery.

Ironically, the name of this restaurant is "Jude". But in fact, the food is expensive, and those who are slightly embarrassed by their net worth can't afford it at all. And the really virtuous people between the government and the opposition, since the construction of this restaurant, I am afraid that there have not been a few at all.

Just as Zhao Junchen was thinking secretly, Huang Yourong had already led Zhao Junchen to the private room and sat down.

Because Zhou Shangjing and Shen Changmao hadn't come yet, the guys at the restaurant only brought tea to the two of them.

Between gossiping and tasting tea, Huang Yourong looked at Zhao Junchen with a smile, and suddenly changed the topic and said: "The old man looks at Junchen very leisurely, but the twenty-four yamen of the inner court is now in a hurry, Junchen, you finally repaired the relationship with the people in the inner court, and suddenly did this, aren't you afraid of completely offending them?" ”

Zhao Junchen didn't seem to understand, a trace of doubt flashed between his eyes, put down the teacup in his hand, and asked, "I don't know what the predecessor said?" The younger generation is a foreign minister, although he has to trust the agent of the inner transport library, and there is also some intersection with the inner court, but it is the rule of this dynasty that the foreign minister and the inner eunuch cannot sī communicate, and the younger generation can not interfere in the affairs of the inner court at all. ”

"Isn't it irrelevant?" Huang Yourong smiled meaningfully: "But as far as the old man knows, those eunuchs in power in the inner court have repeatedly sent envoys to find Jun to surrender since the day before yesterday, but Junchen has closed the door to them, although as Junchen said, my dynasty has its own rules, and foreign ministers and eunuchs cannot have sī relations, but they have to spare people and spare people, if things are done absolutely, I am afraid that it will not be good for anyone?" ”

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It turned out that after the Deqing birthday ceremony, Zhao Junchen did not receive the news that Zhou Shangjing was going to accompany him on the southern tour, so he sent people to ask for a "reasonable explanation" from those eunuchs in charge of the inner court, which was just to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger and wanted to find out the relationship between Zhu Hejian and the inner court, but what Zhao Junchen didn't expect was that for the messengers he sent, the eunuchs in power in the inner court were either vague, or avoided it, or took care of him, and did not give Zhao Junchen a satisfactory answer at all.

Although Zhao Junchen felt that there was another reason for it, if he gave up, he would not do it, but it would seem that he was showing weakness. In Zhao Junchen's view, the relationship between him and the inner court is only cooperation, mutual equality, and there is no zài who is up and who is down, or who has a request for whom, in the face of such a situation, in order not to be underestimated, and in order to let the people in the inner court learn some lessons, it is inevitable to take revenge.

And Zhao Junchen's method of revenge was also very simple, just to let the people in the palace pay attention to the news on the market, and after hearing that someone was going to sell a huge quantity and high-quality cloth and satin, he let people buy it. Then he made an excerpt to Emperor Deqing, and built a yì to sell some of the materials that were no longer used after the birthday ceremony to the people, so that the inner treasury could return the silver, so as to save costs.

With Emperor Deqing's approval of Zhao Junchen's plan, the twenty-four yamen of the inner court were immediately in a hurry.

It turned out that on the occasion of Emperor Deqing's birthday, although the silver spent was like flowing water, the inner court did not greed too much ink, not because the eunuchs in charge of the inner court suddenly became incorruptible, but for them, the real harvest season came from after the celebration.

For example, on the occasion of the birthday ceremony of Deqing, the palace is full of cloth and silk to form colorful walls and corridors, but after the end of the birthday ceremony, this huge number of cloth and silk will be used as a consumable thing by the eunuchs of the inner court, and they will sell themselves to the people, and for this alone, the eunuchs of the inner court can make a profit of no less than 100,000 taels of silver!

Zhao Junchen saw this point, and asked the people in the palace to pretend to be silk merchants, buy this batch of silk into their hands, and then ask Emperor Deqing for an order, asking for the accounting of materials and selling, although the plan was simple, but it forced the inner court into a desperate situation.

Such a huge amount of cloth and silk could not be taken out by the inner court in a short period of time, and even if they wanted to buy it from the people, they would not be able to buy it even if they had silver because the quantity was too large. You must know that when they first bought these fabrics and satins, it took more than half a month before and after, and they even went as far as Jiangnan to buy them, but Zhao Junchen only left them five days.

Then, the people in the inner court found the "silk merchant" who had bought the cloth and silk from them, and then found that the so-called "silk merchant" was actually Zhao Junchen's person, and at this time, they understood that this qiē was a trap set by Zhao Junchen for them.

In the face of such a situation, although the inner court may be resentful because of this, but more panic and fear, if Zhao Junchen deliberately retaliates, the batch of cloth and silk in his hand will be pressed, once the incident happens, it will inevitably shock the government and the opposition, with Emperor Deqing's xìngzi, the inner court will not suffer a new round of purge.

And at this time, the only person who could save them was Zhao Junchen, who had enough cloth and silk in his hands.

So the inner court quickly bowed to Zhao Junchen, in the past three days, there will be at least six or seven bō inner court envoys to ask to see Zhao Junchen every day, and the status of the envoys is getting higher and higher, but at such a time, Zhao Junchen instead took a shelf, avoiding these envoys, and looking like he was doing business.

In this way, the inner court is naturally more panicked.

And the reason why Zhao Junchen did this, in addition to establishing his authority and forcing the people in the inner court to be honest about their relationship with Zhu Hejian, was also to deepen his influence on the inner court.

This time, the inner court concealed the news that Zhou Shangjing was going to accompany Zhao Junchen on his southern tour, and it also reminded Zhao Junchen that it was not enough to cooperate with him and the inner court, and he could be betrayed at any time, so deepening his influence on the inner court, and even directly accusing some of the eunuchs of the inner court, was already in the plan for Zhao Junchen.

However, if you want to deepen your influence on the inner court, you need not only to use profit, but also to coerce.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen didn't want to do anything about it, and after the inner court had enough lessons, Zhao Junchen would naturally save them with his own hands.

However, listening to Huang Yourong's words at this time, it is obvious that the inner court is still lucky, and they want to persuade Zhao Junchen to let them go.

After all, Zhao Junchen has a cooperative relationship with the inner court, and he exchanges silver money for news from Emperor Deqing's side, but the people who cooperate with the inner court will never be the only Zhao Junchen family, Huang Yourong is obviously doing the same thing.

………

Thinking about the purpose of Huang Yourong's sudden mention of this matter, Zhao Junchen smiled lightly, and suddenly looked at him left and right, and said: "Senior Huang, you have rich experience, you naturally understand that although some people in this world are useful, they are always unruly, if you want them to help do things, it is not enough to just give them sweet dates, while holding sweet dates in their left hand, they also have to hold a stick in their right hand, they are obedient, of course, they can feed them some sweet dates, but if they are disobedient, the stick they hold cannot be idle, and they must be beaten when it is time to beat, Sometimes, in order to make them learn a lesson, this beating needs to be heavier, what do you think, senior? ”

Huang Yourong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he smiled as always, so that people couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, but said slowly: "What Junchen said is reasonable, but what if you knock it too hard and knock the person to death, or if the person who was beaten is resentful because of this?" ”

Zhao Junchen said lightly: "If it is knocked to death, it will be replaced by another one, and if the person who was beaten has resentment, then it will be directly knocked to death." What's more, the younger generation is also measured. ”

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