Early the next morning, Suning, who was excited all night and couldn't sleep, took people out and circled around Luoyang City. When Liu Hong asked him for the specific reason, his answer made the other party collapse.

This guy actually went to investigate the residence of Bi Lan's eunuch.

What is there to inquire about the residence of a eunuch, even if he has to deliver letters there in the future, it is too big, and he can inquire about it temporarily when the time comes, after all, he is a high-ranking official in the inner government like the Zhongchang Servant, how can no one know where he lives?

But Suning is still used to not fighting unprepared battles. There is nothing going on today, and even packing is too early. Although the case that happened in Langya County was finally closed, there were still many trivial things left for them.

For example, Mrs. Zhuge still needs more time to recuperate. For example, the resignation of the goalkeeper Liu Hong still needs time to be approved by the imperial court. For another example, Wang Yue and his apprentice Shi A have not yet finalized their decision to go to Liangzhou for development. Especially Shi A, he has a restaurant with a good business in Luoyang, which has been operated by him for many years, so it is naturally impossible to give up easily.

Of these three things, the third is the first to be resolved. Suning once again showed his not very good cooking skills in Shi A's restaurant, but the new technique of stir-frying still made the chefs there look new.

Suning took this opportunity to discuss cooperation with Shi A, although the offer of both sides was outrageous, but after all, they needed each other, so in the end they reached an agreement under the mediation of Wang Yue.

The specific content is that Suning alone funded the establishment of another restaurant in Luoyang City. The personnel already hired by Shi A Machinery are responsible for the daily operation, and at the same time, some of the chefs who opened the restaurant will follow Suning back to Liangzhou together to learn the cooking skills such as stir-fry that Suning has mastered.

After the agreement was reached, Suning could imagine that stir-frying, a cooking method that gradually spread in the Northern Song Dynasty, could now be popularized on a large scale in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the same time, even if Shi A didn't go to Liangzhou, he had already been tied to his commercial chariot. As for Wang Yue, he was originally an existence like an idler in the mountains. Liangzhou happened to be a good retreat for him, not to mention that it was possible to see Tong Yuan there.

The next thing to solve is the second matter, the imperial court did not approve the resignation of the goalkeeper Liu Hong. But the emperor finally issued a holy decree and transferred him to serve as the county commander of Ji County, Liangzhou. Cao Cao was transferred from Yilang to Liangzhou, and Zhong Miao returned from illness and served as the lieutenant of Beidi County in Liangzhou.

At the same time, there was also news in the palace that His Majesty intended to appoint Suning as the lieutenant of Wuwei County, but because of age and seniority, he was blocked by the selection of the Ministry of Shangshu.

In this way, there is no need for everyone to resign from their existing official positions and go to Liangzhou. His Majesty the Emperor can be said to have opened the door for Suning in this matter. All forces inside and outside the court are speculating about the reason for this drastic change in Liangzhou officialdom.

The first to figure out the trick was naturally the eunuch group closest to the emperor.

Although the Great Changqiu Cao Festival is terminally ill, he is still at the helm of the eunuch power. After hearing the rumors from the government and the opposition and Zhao Zhong's report, he immediately made a decision and immediately ordered Zhao Zhong to steal out Liang Hu's private letter to Liu Hong.

Zhao Zhong once peeked into the content of the first half of this letter, but he didn't have time to read the second half. However, based on what happened later, he speculated that the lyrical content in the second half must include clues about Suning's whereabouts.

His suspicion was soon confirmed. When the letter was stolen and many eunuchs gathered around to discuss it, they found that in the second half of the content, Liang Hu mainly introduced Suning's recent deployment and plans to the emperor, including recruiting talents in various places in the Han Dynasty. Among them, there is the name of Saint Liu Hong.

Based on this, the surrounding eunuchs guessed that the original purpose of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, was just to go to the emperor's uncle's house and ask if he had already made contact with Suning, but he didn't expect Suning to appear there by chance.

Their speculations are largely true, and this should be a case worth celebrating. However, the rest of the letter made their nerves tense.

Liang Hu said in the letter that Suning wants to open a university in Yangzhou, and the reason why it has gathered all kinds of talents on a large scale this time is to enrich the faculty of this university. The main purpose of this university and its affiliated Mongolian schools is to impart knowledge to the common people, so that His Majesty will have more children of ordinary people to appoint in the selection of talents in the future.

The reason why the eunuchs were nervous, rather than calmly dealing with these contents, was because the word university was mentioned in the letter. Although there is only one difference between the university and Taixue, in their opinion, wherever the so-called knowledge is disseminated, it is possible to become the public opinion position of the family. And they, as the emperor's minions against the family, how could they turn a blind eye to this?

But the eunuchs' nerves only tensed, and they didn't fry the pot on the spot, and then hysterically shouted to get rid of Suning. There's a reason for that. Because the old lady made it clear in her letter that Suning's university was founded to teach ordinary children. There is a faint taste of cultivating commoner children to fight against the family.

From this point of view, these eunuchs and Suning turned out to be allies.

The existence of such friends and foes made the eunuchs a little restless.

In the end, Zhang Rang stood up and said: "Let's go talk to him, while he is still in Luoyang City, if we wait for him to return to Liangzhou, we will be a little passive." ”

Zhao Zhong immediately seconded Zhang Rang's opinion, and at the same time he suggested: "Your Majesty intends to let Bi Lan be in charge of the contact with Suning, although I can't figure out the tricks, we might as well let Bi Lan go now." ”

"I agree!" Zhang Rang said, "I heard that the guy used to inquire about Bi Lan's residence early in the morning. With that alone, I feel like a deal is possible. ”

Bi Lan then received orders from the two Cao Jie's successors, and he did not dare to slack off, and immediately began to collect materials about Suning and prepare to start negotiations.

At the same time, Cao Cao also inquired about this decision within the eunuch group through the relationship left by his father, and he immediately ran to see Suning, and conveyed these contents to him, and finally said: "This time is likely to be just a temptation, I suggest that you better be false and wronged, after all, the eunuchs are very strong now, and they are not easy to offend." ”

Suning consulted with everyone, and most of them supported Cao Cao's opinion. Suning didn't say anything when he saw this, he didn't want to disobey everyone's intentions in this matter, after all, they haven't arrived in Liangzhou yet, anyone can choose to leave at this time, then everything he did before may be wasted because of this.

As for his personal opinion, it may surprise everyone to say it. This group of eunuchs who were attached to the imperial power simply did not have enough ability to interfere in Liangzhou, which was thousands of miles away. Therefore, whether to be bad or friendly with them is simply a matter of indispensability.

However, since they had decided to maintain a temporary friendship with them, he would go and talk to each other, and he would have little contempt for the eunuchs.

So two days later, Bi Lan and Suning met at Liu Hong's house.

As soon as the conversation began, Suning immediately seized the initiative, and he pointed out sharply: "The power of your father-in-law is established by relying on the rights of Your Majesty, and I believe that the wise father-in-law must have realized this a long time ago." ”

"Of course, this is the truth that must be understood as a eunuch. In this regard, we people still don't need outsiders to teach. ”

Suning listened to his self-deprecation with a bit of toughness, and knew that he was a good communicator. He didn't flip the table because he was angry, nor did he become weak because of threats, and on these two things alone, the label of a qualified diplomat could be put on his head.

So Suning also changed his tone and continued: "Since my father-in-law knows this, then it is your duty to make Your Majesty happy and comfortable." But now, the big families are in violation of many policies, which makes His Majesty the Emperor very annoyed, and I believe you are also clear about this. At the same time, I am aware of Your Majesty's purpose in reusing you. But it's a pity that you can only fight against the family, but you can't completely replace the family, after all, many official positions are not suitable for eunuchs. This will allow the other party to keep their own survival soil forever, and you will never be able to win this war. ”

Bi Lan had been listening to Suning's monologue without interjecting a word, and he knew that Suning would gradually lead out the core content he wanted to say bit by bit. There was no need for him to say anything in a hurry.

Suning glanced at the other party approvingly, and said in his heart, this is really a powerful person who has been buried, so he continued: "And we have a way to completely defeat the family, help you eunuchs, and win this war, I mean a complete victory." ”

Hearing this, Bi Lan already knew that Suning's basic strategy was cooperation. That's enough to put them at ease for a while.

I heard Suning continue: "I represent the interests of the poor family, and I can tell you this sentence clearly." Our common enemies are the great families. You and I have a clear understanding of this. As for the university problems that you may be worried about, I will also give you a clear answer, he is obviously different from Taixue, so please don't use the strategy of the party to deal with it. ”

Hearing this, Bi Lan's expression finally changed somewhat. He furrowed his eyebrows slightly and said, "On the issue of universities, I'm afraid that this guarantee of yours alone will not reassure most people. ”

Suning nodded to indicate that he agreed with this statement, and then he had to change to a more convincing reason: "First, as I said just now, there is a difference between university and Taixue. They have at least one difference in strokes, father-in-law, you might as well think about it, when you lie in bed and sleep, is it more like a big character, or like a Taizi. ”

Hearing this, Bi Lan smiled in confusion. Because some parts of the eunuch are missing, when lying on the bed, it is naturally more like a big character than a Taizi.

"So." Suning lightly gave the final blow, "This university belongs to your father-in-law, and it is a university that stands on the side of your eunuchs." In the past, the Taixue always used public opinion to target you, but in the future, this university will use public opinion to support you and praise you. This is a piece of public opinion for nothing! ”

Bi Lan was obviously quite satisfied with this answer. At the same time, he also thought that this answer was enough for him to make a difference.

So the next meeting went into garbage time, and Suning and Bi Lan exchanged experience and technology about building a waterwheel. You must know that this great eunuch also made a kind of overturned car in history to sweep the road. His creative ability in technology can still be recognized by Suning.

At the end of the meeting, Suning invited him to take a stake in the restaurant he was about to open in Luoyang City, because of his future development plan, the big pig to be realized in Liangzhou, so there was no time to take care of the industry here, in order to prevent the management of Shi A from stealing - although the probability is not large, but it must also be prevented - he must also introduce third-party shareholders to perform the basic supervision mechanism.

Bi Lan agreed without hesitation.

Then, he left with a lot of gain. Suning could guess where he was going, it must be the mansion of the Great Changqiu Cao Festival.

The content of this conversation will naturally be completely relayed by him to the eunuchs, and as for what judgment they will make, Suning has no way of knowing.

In fact, they only have two judgments. The first group chose to believe Suning, believing that their eunuch group should indeed ally with Hanmen. There are many people who hold this view, including Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

But there is also a group of people who hold the opposite view, who doubt Suning's true intentions, but can't say what his plot is. I just vaguely felt uneasy in my heart.

This part of the population only accounts for a minority of the total, and as soon as they expressed their opinions, they encountered Zhao Zhong's cynicism.

"What are you worried about, it is impossible for him Suning to swing his sword from the palace and enter the palace to be a eunuch. He also made it clear that the main enemies of the Hanmen were the great families who refused to teach them their knowledge...... It's not our ......."

There was a violent thud, breaking Zhao Zhong's statement. Everyone saw that their supreme spiritual leader, the Great Changqiu Cao Festival, actually kicked his legs, and he didn't wake up.

This group of disciples and grandchildren immediately panicked, some people stepped forward to check the situation, and some people hurriedly went out to look for Lang Zhong. But no one could understand Cao Jie's last thoughts.

The reason why he got sick was because he was too excited, and he was excited because he discovered Suning's true intentions. And the discovery of this plot was thanks to Zhao Zhong's unintentional words just now.

It is impossible for Suning to enter the palace to be a eunuch.

This statement is very true. It is true that he could not enter the palace to be a eunuch, but they could replace the eunuch's function in front of the emperor. Just as he said that they can completely replace the family family, they can also completely become the emperor's minions against the family family, at that time, what use will the eunuchs have?

Cao Jie didn't know that before he died, he actually discovered the development route planned by Huangfu Song for Suning. I'm afraid this can only be done by an experienced him. Unfortunately, the accumulation of experience comes at a cost, and if you want to become smart, you have to spend time and life, and your lifespan is limited after all.

Therefore, even with this major discovery, Cao Jie could only take him to hell. He didn't have time to say, he didn't have time to tell his disciples about this plan that threatened the eunuch's survival enough.

He died, and an era ended. The soul who snatched the power from his relatives Dou family and snatched it into the hands of the eunuchs passed away suddenly. And his disciples and grandchildren, do they have the ability to hold on to the power he has beaten down? Let's wait and see.