Chapter 120
Wang An felt that the emperor must have a deep meaning in giving him a jar of wine. But he doesn't want the celebrant to mess up now, in his heart, stability is overriding everything, although the current situation is not very good, but it can't get worse, and he must warn Li Lianxiong and Li Jie through a suitable party not to continue to make mistakes. Now the situation in the palace is not as good as before, the emperor and the ministers are holding their breath, some time ago, the celebrant had nothing to do in the world, and he must not participate in them, and it will not be easy to offend that side. The celebrant was originally a bellows rat, angry at both ends, and after Liu Jin's incident, he never returned to his former glory, and the eyes of the officials were wide, waiting for the celebrant to make something wrong.
He thought about it and decided to invite the two of them to a meal.
The three of them sat down at the table, Wang An first filled the two of them with wine and picked up the cup: "The emperor is very satisfied these days, and our family is also very satisfied." The celebrant is in this situation thanks to the cooperation of the two of them. Let's just do our thing, the key is to serve the emperor well. ”
Li Lianxiong raised his head and drank the wine in the cup and said: "What did the prince say, if it wasn't for your old man who sent me to the celebrant and was careful, how could our family have today?" In fact, we are the most special people in the palace, his civil official body is embroidered with birds, and the military attache is embroidered with beasts, but we are embroidered with pythons! Besides the emperor, who else can we serve? Who else dare to serve? He suddenly remembered that when he first entered the inner division, all the officials saw him cover his nose and leave, because the underside of the excision was not clean, so it was inevitable that there would be problems with urination, it could not be clean, and there would be a peculiar smell from time to time, but only a high-powered eunuch was qualified and powerful to use spices. But only the big eunuchs will be treated squarely by the officials, and the other little eunuchs often get white eyes.
Li Jie couldn't help but think of some things from the past, but he just took a sip lightly and said, "This is the imperial wine in the palace, and the prince has a heart." We have been able to get to this point in the company, and we still rely on your mutual help. If you don't help, you can't do it! Over the years, those ministers have become more and more ...... The emperor's life is sad, and even our life is not easy. I was scared every time I tried my staff, afraid that those who died with the rod would come to me for their lives! However, the holy decree is difficult to do, and I can only pray before going to bed at night, what is the grievance, and the people are fair! He was telling the truth, the court staff was often executed by the fans of the East Factory, but every time the families of those officials did not hold a grudge against the emperor, they stared at the stall that went to supervise the work. None of his predecessors were well-borne. When he was asked to serve as the chief eunuch of Dongchang, he was very reluctant. Once the emperor is changed, he is the first to be eliminated! Even if he changes to the first assistant, he will pick his nose and eyes at himself, speaking of which, he is only responsible for the emperor, and he doesn't care what other people think, but from another point of view, Li Jie has to walk down steadily if he walks in this position steadily?
Wang An looked at the expressions of the two people, and sneered in his heart, this will be quite similar, what did he do when he smuggled grain? Why didn't anyone think about it at that time? However, he didn't show it, but encouraged the two of them to work together to do things well, and face the trouble together. Li Lianxiong's eyes flashed and he looked at Li Jie. Li Jie had already noticed his gaze, but he raised the cup in his hand with a blank expression. For Li Jie, he is 5 years old this year, no longer counting on promotion, no longer counting on how much favor he can get, he just hopes to be able to retire peacefully, go back to his hometown to buy a big mansion, and spend the rest of his life in peace.
In fact, nothing was eaten from this meal, but Li Lianxiong smelled a hint of taste. Wang An, this old guy, may already know something, the matter can't be delayed any longer, that Zhu Yidao, it must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more troublesome it will be. By the time he returned to his phone to visit the XOM Palace, it was too late. You must know that until now, Wanli still maintains enough favor for him, and he only needs a chance to come back again, and at that time, no one can touch him.
So it happened that Dongchang Fanzi attacked Shunhe's old store. Li Jie basically doesn't care about this matter, since you Li Lianxiong want to toss, then toss, this Dongchang Admiral and the Great Eunuch doesn't do it, anyway, our family doesn't know anything! Li Lianxiong, with Li Jie's tacit approval, ordered in the name of the celebrant that all the people in the East Factory were looking forward: Li Jie wanted to retreat, too many people wanted to, and they couldn't take care of him at this time!
After sending Zhu Yidao to the main hall, Wanli looked up at the top of the main hall, and a nameless fire suddenly appeared in his heart. He knew about Li Lianxiong's instruction of Dongchang to attack Shunhe's old shop, but he didn't want to care, because he knew that Zhu Yidao was not so dead and not so easy to control. Li Lianxiong will have bad luck sooner or later, but it can't be now, the government and the opposition are now very dissatisfied with his favoritism to the third prince, and he flies to the cabinet like rain at every turn, and the celebrant must have someone who can accept them! So Li Lianxiong still has to use it now!
But this Li Lianxiong is too arrogant and domineering, and many people are already beating his small report. But now not only can't you touch him, but you have to protect him. In order to use him to suppress his ministers, Wanli did not hesitate to order the loyal Wang An to take a vacation. I hope Wang An can also understand me, this is not harming him, but protecting him! Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and Wang An is no exception. He took the wine I gave him and went to a banquet for Li Lianxiong and Li Jie? It's just muddle! Doesn't he know the story of Song Taizu's release of military power with a cup of wine? Did he think that with this wine, he could let Li Lianxiong control himself?
The golden cup is for you to drink, and the white blade is not spared! This wine is also something that you Wang An can invite?!
Out of various considerations, Wanli simply let Wang An rest. How could such an old man not understand what he had done wrong? But now I can only do so much, the ministers are not willing to fail, they are already preparing for the next time, whether they can win the next war is the focus of Wanli's consideration!
Zhu Yidao returned to the right office of the Beijing Division and read Wanli's message to the generals, Ma was going to Shandong to quell the rebellion, but he could only bring a hundred people, so he needed to select the most elite officers and soldiers. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a large-scale military training activity, and then conduct a competition, and the top 100 will have the opportunity to go to Shandong with him! Not only that, but the qualified soldiers will enjoy twice the salary and treatment than usual!
Before leaving, he begged for 300,000 taels of silver from Wanli, saying that this was the military expenses for this trip to Shandong. Wanli was very painful, and he never wanted to take out the silver when he entered the inner pocket, but no, Zhu Yidao said, if you don't give the silver, you can do it, and Shandong will go, but whether you can pacify the rebels is a big problem. For such a bargain, Wanli's neck and face were flushed, just like an aunt selling vegetables in the vegetable market, and resolutely asked Zhu Yidao to reduce the silver to 100,000 taels. Lao Zhu is resolutely opposed!
What are you kidding, Lao Tzu is just a thousand households in brocade clothes, and he didn't have the help of the local army and government to go to Shandong, so he wanted to suppress the rebellion with just a hundred people? It's an impossible task! Always to buy the leader of the rebels? He can't be bought, his subordinates can always be bought? These 100 people eat, drink, and sleep for silver? It's a big deal to get the traitor's silver taels, and then send it back to the emperor!
It was this last condition that impressed Wanli: the rebels claimed to be hundreds of thousands, and if they wanted to raise so many soldiers, how much grain and silver would they get? They have copied so many big officials, and there must be at least one million taels of silver in the treasury! It's worth it! Besides, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and a simple military attack may not be effective, but if it is bought with silver, it is difficult to say. What is the rebellion for? Silver, woman and seat! I give them all three things, and it will not be over? But I can't negotiate with them myself, so I still have to go with Zhu Yidao! With such an idea, Wanli finally took out 300,000 taels from the inner money with a heartache, and warned Zhu Yidao that he must save some flowers, and there is not much silver in the inner money! Destroy the rebels and escort the silver back to the capital first!
How could Lao Zhu not know that there were at least millions of taels in the house, so how could he care about this mere 300,000 taels? He was extremely angry at Wanli's greed for money, the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to your Zhu family, you still need silver?!
So the crowd was aroused again. Since the return of the Jingshi disaster, everyone has never had the opportunity to experience actual combat. Serving as a soldier is for war, although it is easy to die, but wealth is in danger! It's safest to sit at home and do nothing, but who can give you money? You still have to fight, only by fighting can you have a chance to be in a position and have a chance to get rich! The vigorous and vigorous training of the right army of the Beijing Division began. The huge momentum even alarmed the Jinwu avant-garde of the Jingshi, that Jinwu avant-garde Qianhu Ma Cheng, who has always been grateful to Zhu Yidao for saving his family, and always wants to repay him for something, but unfortunately he has never had the opportunity. Now I heard that he was going to lead troops to Shandong to quell the rebellion, and the opportunity came all of a sudden! He took the initiative to propose to Zhu Yidao that there were many Shandong people under his command, and if Zhu Yidao was willing, he could exchange twenty Shandong sergeants for five right sergeants!
Lao Zhu was amazed, who said that a soldier would not do business? Twenty Shandong sergeants who are familiar with geography, in exchange for five elite right sergeants, he Ma Cheng only earns and does not lose! No matter how deep the friendship is, there is still no silver! This world is really the way of the world, and the hearts of the people are not ancient! Jiang Fei, who couldn't stand it for a long time, said coldly: These twenty sergeants have helped us a lot, and in exchange for five right sergeants, we haven't suffered a loss, okay!