There was pressure from the Donglin Party, and they had to unite.

But as soon as the pressure on the Donglin Party is reduced, or it disappears temporarily, then I'm sorry, and it will immediately go downhill.

"Alas, I didn't say anything, didn't I just say that Master Wei was young, let him drink less, so as not to hurt his body? What's the matter, it's all coming at me? Luan Ruping said loudly and unhappily.

Wang De, who has a good relationship with Luan Ruping, said: "Yes, yes, everyone is kind, let Lord Wei drink more, I want to express my congratulations to Lord Wei!" Let Lord Wei drink less for the sake of Lord Wei's body. It's all good intentions, I see, or don't persuade it, everyone is free, right? I would like to toast you with a glass of wine. ”

Zhou Yingqiu smiled: "It's still Lord Wang's beautiful speech, not leaking, admiration and admiration." ”

Wang Dewan heard that there were counterwords and mockery in Zhou Yingqiu's words, so he laughed dryly, and his face was a little embarrassed.

Wei Bao's bystanders are clear, and they can see it clearly, there is a little contradiction between several eunuch ministers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and there is also a bit of contradiction between several eunuch ministers of Dali Temple, but there are still contradictions between the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the eunuch ministers of Dali Temple.

It would be strange if you eunuchs could achieve some kind of big climate, this is full of contradictions.

Although Wei Bao felt that the ministers of the Donglin Party did not seem to be very united, it was really much better than the Eunuch Party.

"There are no women making a fuss, if you drink flower wine, everyone hugs left and right, everyone has no time to discuss the matter of drinking, and it is estimated that the mouth is too busy." Wei Bao quipped with a smile.

Wei Bao resolved the embarrassment just now with a single sentence, and the high-ranking officials at the table laughed, each grinning widely.

Moreover, I think Wei Bao is really good.

Because of this, they would never dare to say it so loudly.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about, and there is no taboo, and Dongchang or Jinyiwei will not report this kind of meat talk everywhere.

It's just that they are all born as scholars, and they want to do one thing, and they do another, and even if they think of it, they won't say it like this.

In particular, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple are both judicial yamen! In this case, it is even more impossible to say it casually.

"Just kidding, amusement." Wei Bao smiled slightly.

"Erotic temperament, as long as it is not too publicistic and does not arouse public anger, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the officials of the Six Departments Corridor have rarely reported the affairs of the officials, and besides, Lord Wei is just joking, so you don't have to care too much." Luan Ruping said: "Our officials are also people. ”

"Well said! Come, Lord Luan, I will toast you. Zhou Yingqiu said.

After pushing Luan Ruping just now, Zhou Yingqiu felt that he was a little too much and wanted to resolve it.

Luan Ruping hurriedly raised his glass: "Lord Zhou, please!" ”

The two of them had a drink and laughed, quite a bit of a laugh and hatred.

Wei Bao knows very well that many of the subtleties of these official affairs are difficult to detect, whether the relationship is good or bad, it seems to be harmonious on the surface, especially people from the same faction.

The various slippery officials, like the one and a half sentences of the argument just now, are actually very serious, at least it shows that Luan Ruping and Zhou Yingqiu are not in harmony with each other, and there is a contradiction!

But Wei Bao doesn't want to take advantage of these contradictions now, to be precise, he doesn't think he has such a level, the most important thing for him at the moment is to accurately get Wei Zhongxian's trust.

Finally dragged to the end of the banquet, Wei Bao did not go back to his mansion directly, but went directly to Wei Zhongxian's secret mansion to see Wei Zhongxian, which was very close to the time he had agreed with Wei Zhongxian.

It was still Wei Bao waiting, and Fu Yingxing was silent.

Although Fu Yingxing still didn't talk to Wei Bao as before, Wei Bao could feel that it was not as cold as before.

This is not because Wei Bao was promoted today and was in a good mood, when he entered the house just now, Fu Yingxing was slow to serve tea, so he took the initiative to go out and urge once.

With just such a detail, Wei Bao knew that at least in Fu Yingxing's place, he was not as indifferent to him as he was in the past, and Fu Yingxing already regarded himself as a more important object.

Wei Zhongxian met Wei Bao a little later than the agreed time.

"Nine thousand years old!" Wei Bao bowed when he entered the house, looking grateful.

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "Okay, stop singing, get up." ”

"Thank you for the grace of nine thousand years of recreation, nine thousand years old is simply my Wei Bao's reborn parents, no matter how much I say, I can't express my inner gratitude!" Wei Bao said emotionally, he admired his shamelessness a little.

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "Okay, get up!" Do you want our family to help you a little monkey cub in person? The mouth is so good, but you don't recognize me as your godfather, just worship in my name, I am actually your lord, but outsiders don't know, my relationship with you is far inferior to Sun Chengzong! ”

Wei Bao stood up and smiled slightly: "Nine thousand years old is the king of the world, how can the king care about false fame?" Besides, how can my teacher, Sun Chengzong, be compared to 9,000 years old? ”

"Okay, you little monkey cub has a mouth, and the dead can say that they are alive, I really don't know, you will often have the opportunity to be by Your Majesty's side in the future, and what words will you say." Wei Zhongxian said casually.

Wei Bao smiled: "I will definitely not say anything that is unfavorable to the nine thousand years old, I will say whatever the nine thousand years old ask me to say!" I, Wei Bao, are fellow villagers with Jiu Chi Tose, and Jiu Chi Tose is my lord, and I am a grasshopper tied to the leg of Jiu Chi Tose. ”

Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but smile again, "If you use this mouth on our family, our family can't stand it, I really don't know if it's used on a woman, which woman can stand it?" And your kid is still handsome and handsome, and he is a good seedling with a little white face. ”

Wei Bao sweated, based on your impression of me, I am a good seedling with a little white face?

"You're in a hurry to see our family, isn't it just to say these sycophants?" Wei Zhongxian took a sip of tea.

"Nine thousand years old, I think without further ado, tomorrow I will start to clean up the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, and all those who are five grades and below will be cleaned up, and no one will be left! After nine thousand years of nodding, people can come back! Then a part of the new science and technology scholars who are loyal to the 9,000-year-old will be inserted. Wei Bao said.

"Have you really figured it out? In the past, I didn't have such a big effort to carry out the Beijing investigation plan! You drove everyone out of the yamen at once, and so many people joined forces to make trouble, have you considered the consequences? Aren't you afraid that they will work against you together? Wei Zhongxian said: "Among these people, they are intertwined! You don't want to say that you move hundreds of people at a time, but move a few people at a time, and you can implicate a large area. ”

"Nine thousand years old, don't worry, I've already thought about these things, if you want to do one thing, where is the reason not to offend people?" Wei Bao said angrily: "Let's drive everyone out, get it back, and reshuffle the cards again, not only can we get silver, but we can also exchange all of them for nine thousand years old, why not?" Besides, if something happens, it's all my business alone, and it has nothing to do with the nine thousand years old! If it is done well in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, it can be immediately promoted to all yamen in Beijing, and when the time comes, all the central officialdom will be 9,000-year-old people, and then slowly expand to the local area, and the entire Ming officialdom will dare to disobey the 9,000-year-old half of the word, that is a dead end! ”

Wei Zhongxian listened to Wei Bao's words, and felt comfortable, if he could really do that scene, then he would be almost the same as the emperor!

"Wei Bao, you tell us the truth, what do you want to gain? Silver? Wei Zhongxian stared at Wei Bao and asked.

Wei Bao nodded sincerely: "Of course, who doesn't want silver?" Not only do I want money, but I also want to be promoted, and I want to be promoted and make a fortune, everyone wants it, and I want to be promoted by 9,000 years old, and with 9,000 years old, there will be anything. ”

"But your actions are so big, the Donglin Party has always said that we will make the court a miasma, I look at your method, then it will not be a miasma, it will be a ruin. Have you ever thought that the Donglin Party has a huge influence in the officialdom of the capital, and its local power is also huge, and they will watch you drive their people out of the yamen one by one without saying a word? Will it sit still? Wei Zhongxian listened to Wei Bao's idea of being promoted and making a fortune, and he felt a lot more relieved, he was not afraid of people being greedy for this, he was afraid of running into those guys who sold their fame and wanted to buy people's hearts.

"Whether we do it to them or not, they'll do it to us! Nine thousand years old, I have not been in business for a long time, I have not learned anything else, I only know one thing, there is no eternal friend, there is no eternal enemy, only to make the enemy a friend, and dare not oppose it, is the right way. Otherwise, we will die down, and the other family will definitely take advantage of the situation to destroy us! Wei Bao looked like a radical.

The reason why Wei Zhongxian values Wei Bao very much is not only because of Wei Bao's fellow countryman, Wei Zhongxian is a native of Cangzhou, and Wei Bao's ancestral home in this life is also Cangzhou, and it was Wei Bao's grandfather's generation who was driven to Liaoxi to replenish the population and settled in Liaoxi.

But how many people are there in Cangzhou? Not to mention hundreds of thousands, not less than 100,000, is it true that Wei Zhongxian has to value these 100,000 people?

It was not only for Wei Bao to have a relationship with Dong Li Niangniang, but he was seen by the emperor.

There are many relatives in the imperial family, and Dongli Niangniang has always been a marginal figure, and she does not deal with Wei Zhongxian and Kebaba.

What Wei Zhongxian values most about Wei Bao is that Wei Bao is radical! Dare to think and dare to do, be bold, and be willing to charge ahead!

Wei Zhongxian has long been dissatisfied with the people below, a bunch of big people, a bunch of generals, but how many people dare to fight against the Donglin Party?

It's just because his subordinates are not united, otherwise, with his big power, he wouldn't have completely controlled the situation in the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

Wei Bao also saw it this way, in fact, Wei Zhongxian did not completely control the officialdom of the Beijing Division, let alone the magistrates, until the death of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse.

But as far as Wei Bao's understanding of history is concerned, although Wei Zhongxian did not completely control the court situation, seventy or eighty percent of it was controlled, and there was no such a big foundation, Wei Zhongxian would not have the heart of usurping the throne later, and he would not think of getting a fake prince from outside the palace to enter as a puppet!

The Chongzhen Dynasty uprooted Wei Zhongxian's forces, which was completed almost overnight, this is the strength of the imperial power in the feudal era, no matter how powerful the eunuchs are, no matter how powerful the ministers are, the emperor kills one person, and the others have to fall apart.

Wei Bao sees these relationships very clearly.

Since he can't stop Wei Zhongxian from controlling the overall situation, it is better to add fuel to the fire! Reap the benefits of it!

It's just that in this process, you have to be careful, try not to let the outside world think that he is too inclined to the eunuch, and think that he is a hardcore eunuch.

This difficulty was originally very great, but the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, was very powerful and gave Wei Bao a bunch of titles, which made people feel that Wei Bao was directly valued by the emperor, and things were a little easier.

"Then you just let it go!" Wei Zhongxian finally relented.

"Nine thousand years old, rest assured, I will definitely do a good job, and I will never live up to the trust of nine thousand years old!" Wei Bao clenched his fists.

"Hehe, by the way, Zhu Yanxi and they helped you get the title of a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, such a favor, do you want to express your gratitude to Zhu Yanxi and them?" Wei Zhongxian said casually.

Wei Zhongxian was most worried about Wei Bao getting together with the Donglin Party.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "It stands to reason that I should go and thank you, but I'm afraid that the nine thousand years old will be unhappy, so I think it's better to be free." I know they want to win me over, but I'm a 9,000-year-old man, and I'm a loyal servant. ”

Loyal ministers don't matter to the two masters, this is usually used to say this to the monarch and the lord, Wei Zhongxian is just a eunuch, so it is obviously inappropriate to say this.

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was overjoyed, and couldn't help but smile, "Okay, our family really didn't see the wrong person!" Even if these guys lose their bait, they won't be able to catch big fish! ”

"Nine thousand years old, compare me to a fish, then I will be a squid for nine thousand years old, and eat all the other fish in the fish pond!" Wei Bao smiled: "However, I still think it's better not to let people think that I am a nine-thousand-year-old person, just think that I am an insatiable person." ”

"Why?" When Wei Zhongxian heard Wei Bao say this, he stared at Wei Bao vigilantly, "Are you afraid that the Donglin Party will know that you are my person and take revenge on you?" ”

"Afraid of the Donglin Party? Afraid of retaliation? Wei Bao smiled indifferently: "Nine thousand years old looks down on me." If you let all the Donglin Party gather at this moment, I will dare to beat them all by myself! I don't want people to put me with the nine thousand years old, stab me to His Majesty, and make it difficult for the nine thousand years old. If something happens to His Majesty, the nine thousand years old can say that he doesn't know, if you want to find Wei Bao, you don't know at all! Also, at the same time as the Donglin Party is moved, it will inevitably implicate the 9,000-year-old people slightly, and when the time comes, the people below the 9,000-year-old will punish me at the 9,000-year-old, and the 9,000-year-old will not be too embarrassed, and the 9,000-year-old will save a lot of trouble! ”

"Okay, you've told our family many times about this! We got it. Wei Bao, tell you the truth, do you want to leave a way back for yourself, and prepare for the day when our family is unlucky, and leave aside the relationship with our family? Wei Zhongxian said casually.

Wei Bao was taken aback, Wei Zhongxian is indeed a very powerful person, his thoughts, Wei Zhongxian can always see clearly, "Nine thousand years old, if I think so, won't I become a fool?" Your Majesty trusts you so much, not anyone with eyes can see it, Your Majesty is just 20 years old this year, young and promising, youthful, not to mention fifty or sixty years like the Wanli Dynasty, at least thirty or forty years old, nine thousand years old body is so healthy, at least thirty years for Your Majesty to share worries will not be able to run away! If I don't follow the 9,000-year-old wholeheartedly, I don't say that I will get benefits in the past 30 years, and it will be good to be able to save my life, will I follow the 9,000-year-old wholeheartedly? What else do you want to think about? I'm now a Beijing official of the fifth grade, and after 30 years, how can I also enter the cabinet? ”

Wei Zhongxian listened to Wei Bao's chatter and nodded funny: "It's right to think so, remember, don't have bad intentions, don't think about what benefits you can get from clinging to those Donglin ministers." Those people say one thing and do another, except for a very small number of Qingliu ministers, the vast majority of them are hypocrites and real villains! ”

"Yes, nine thousand years old, I wrote it down below." Wei Bao bowed respectfully.

"Okay, is there anything else? If it's okay, just step down. Wei Zhongxian said.

Wei Bao took out a few silver tickets from his sleeve pocket, "Nine thousand years old, I really can't make up the silver, here are 100,000 taels of silver tickets!" After the completion of the inventory of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, I will pay another 900,000 taels of silver to the nine thousand years old! If I can't get that much silver, I'll post it myself, and I'll give it to 9,000 years old, and what I said must be counted. ”

Wei Zhongxian was stunned, he didn't expect Wei Bao to be so tough, Wei Bao said that he would let him take power in the Ducha Yuan and Dali Temple, and he would get a sum of silver, but he just said it casually because of Wei Bao.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple are not a rich yamen, and the number of people is small, and together they do not necessarily have more silver from the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry.

Each of the six ministries is in charge of the whole country, and each ministry has a lot of oil and water.

The Ministry of Officials is the organ that manages civil officials, and is in charge of the system of selecting the rank and rank, the method of deposing the rank of the officer, the code of awarding and rewarding, and the law of determining the final system. There are four divisions under the Ministry of Officials: the Department of Wenxuan Officials, the Department of Seal Inspection, the Department of Auditing and the Department of Examination and Merit. The Department of Selecting Officials is in charge of examining the grade of the clerical and listing, awarding, selecting, promoting, and handling monthly selection. The sealing department is in charge of the affairs of knighthood, secular office, grace, difficulty, invitation, and donation. The Department of Auditing and Honors is in charge of civil servants' system, lifelong maintenance, and handling the succession, naturalization, and reinstatement of officials. The Examination Department is in charge of the division and discussion of civil officials, and handles the Beijing inspection and general plans. Similar to the current Organization Department, Discipline Inspection Commission and other departments.

The official department is also known as the Heavenly Official.

It can be seen that there is a lot of oil and water!

In any dynasty, which one can control the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials, which one can't make money?

The household department is in charge of the territory, land, household registration, taxation, salaries, and all financial matters of the country. Its internal government affairs are divided according to the regional division of labor, and the Ming 13 divisions: Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Yunnan, and Guizhou.

In addition to being in charge of the money and food saved, each department is also in charge of some of the general affairs of other yamen, and the responsibilities are often overlapping. In addition to the above divisions, there is also a Eight Banners Salary Office and a Current Trial Office in charge of the affairs of the Eight Banners. The institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Household are: Qian Fatang and Baoquan Bureau, which are in charge of minting money; The three libraries of the household department of the treasury are hidden; The warehouse yamen in charge of warehousing and water affairs.

Similar to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Land Bureau and other departments in later generations.

This is the living God of Wealth Yamen.

The Ministry of Rites is in charge of ceremonial affairs, schools, and imperial examinations. The use of five rites, such as Kaoji, Jia, military, guest, and fierce; Manage the affairs of the national schools, the imperial examinations, and the affairs of the vassal and foreign countries. There are four divisions under the Ministry of Rites, the Department of Ceremonial and Cleansing Officials, which is in charge of the ceremony, military ceremony, management of academic affairs, and imperial examinations; The priest of the ancestral sacrifice is in charge of auspicious and murderous affairs; The host and guest clearance department, in charge of the guest ceremony and the reception of foreign guests; The fine food and cleaning officials are in charge of the affairs of the feast and the sacrifice.

In addition to the four divisions, there is a casting and printing bureau, which is responsible for casting the emperor's treasure seal and the seal of internal and external officials.

In conjunction with the Four Translation Pavilions, he is in charge of receiving vassals, foreign envoys and interpreters.

Similar to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other departments in later generations.

The feudal system was originally based on the imperial examination as the core, so many exams every year, so many county schools and government schools across the country, how much silver a year?

Every year, the fees for scientific research are gone.

The Ministry of War is in charge of the national military guard, the selection and awarding of military attachés, and the concise government decree. In charge of internal and external military officials, the rules of the casting, the system of transportation, postal transmission, screening and concise methods, the number of non-commissioned personnel and military facts. There are four divisions under the Ministry of War: the Department of Military Selection and Clearance, which assesses the grade of military officials, the selection and replacement, promotion, inheritance, and gifts, and manages the Tusi; The car driver is in charge of the national horse administration and post transmission; The Department of Officials is in charge of the military officials' meritorious service, verification, pension, military briefing, inspection, patrol and other matters, and manages the ban and sea ban; The Arsenal Clearance Division is in charge of the nation's military registration, armament and martial arts examinations. In addition, the audit hall was set up to inspect the military officials; The same hall manages the affairs of the Jingshi Post Office; Good news office, palm delivery paperwork.

The Ministry of War is similar to the Ministry of National Defense, the Central Military Commission and its various military organs.

Daming's silver, more than half of the annual use in the military department, this is still the year of no war, the war, all the use of the military department is not enough, but also have to double the tax, in order to fill the military salary.

In Wei Bao's opinion, the fattest of the six is actually the military department!

The Criminal Department is the agency in charge of the national criminal punishment decree and the examination of criminal names, and the final trial and review of major cases with the Inspectorate and the Dali Temple are in charge of the final trial and review. The specific duties of the Criminal Department are to examine and approve various laws, review criminal cases sent to the Ministry in various localities, and work with Jiuqing to hear death sentences and cases that are "awaiting imprisonment" and directly try cases above the level of conviction in the Gyeonggi region. The internal organizational structure of the Criminal Department is set up according to the province, which is clearly called 13 divisions, and the name is the same as that of the household department.

The one that has the greatest relationship with the local yamen is undoubtedly the collection of taxes by the Ministry of Households, the examination of the Ministry of Rites, and the case of the Criminal Department.

The main responsibility of each prefectural ordinance is also to decide cases.

Compared with the usual money obtained from tax collection, for the judgment of cases, it is all pediatrics.

The money comes quickly when the case is decided, and after eating the defendant and the plaintiff, the magistrate's money comes from this!

The Ministry of Industry is the organ that administers the national engineering affairs. He is in charge of the system of civil construction, the use of utensils, the method of ditch and weir dredging, and the mausoleum for 100 million. All civil and water conservancy projects, machine manufacturing projects (including ordnance, munitions, military utensils, etc.), mining, metallurgy, textiles and other government-run industries are all in charge of the country, and are in charge of a part of the financial currency and unified weights and measures.

There are four divisions under the Ministry of Ming Industry: the Department of Camp and Clean-up Officials, and the construction and repair of the palace and the official office; Yu Hengqing is in charge of manufacturing, sending and receiving various official utensils, and is in charge of weights and measures and coinage; The Dushui Qing Officials Department is in charge of estimating the cost of the project, and is in charge of the production of edicts and official documents; Tuntian Qing Officials Division, in charge of the mausoleum repair and write-off costs, materials and part of the tax. In addition to the four divisions, there is a manufacturing warehouse in the Qing Dynasty, which is in charge of manufacturing the emperor's chariots, book boxes, treasure chests, ceremonial guards, sacrificial vessels, etc.; Prudent treasury, in charge of receiving and receiving funds; The material estimation institute is in charge of estimating the number of materials and auditing, supplying and marketing projects such as temples, palaces, city walls, and various ministries and offices in the capital.

Similar to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Urban-Rural Development in later generations.

There is also a lot of money, but it depends on how much the emperor attaches importance to construction, and whether the court is rich or not.

In the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Industry must be worse than the other five ministries. I can't take care of food and clothing, where can I take care of construction.

Get some silver, but also on the basis of cooperating with the Ministry of War.

So Wei Zhongxian would feel strange, if you want to say which of the six departments can get millions of taels of silver, this is about the same, but I didn't expect that Wei Bao would give himself such a generous amount of silver to rectify the yamen like the Duchayuan and Dali Temple?

Wei Bao's intention to make such a generous move is actually very simple, that is, to let the nine thousand years old see what silver is!

Wei Bao knew that he didn't want to stand with Wei Zhongxian openly, so he could only use silver to envelop the old man.

With the money to collect, Wei Zhongxian was happy and said decisively: "Okay! Do whatever you want! We'll have your back! ”

"Thank you Nine Thousand Years Old!" Wei Bao smiled. Wei Zhongxian's last promise was much firmer than just now.

Only by fully obtaining the support of Wei Zhongxian can we be invincible.