Chapter Twenty-Four: The Salt Pond

"Mr. Hua, what can you do?"

Tian Lingzi heard Huaning say that he had a way, and he was quite looking forward to it. If Wang Chongrong's salt pond can be seized and used to support the forbidden army, it would be great, the financial problem will be solved, and other problems will not be a problem.

Thinking of this, Tian Lingzi was in a good mood: "Mr. Hua, do you have any way to make Wang Chongrong's thief obediently hand over the salt pond?" ”

"There is a way, but I don't think Wang Chongrong will sit still, so I have to be prepared."

This time, Hua Ning learned to be obedient, and did not once say full of words, and said in his heart: "There is a way, but I was too full of words on the issue of taxes and tribute last time, although Tian Lingzi did not pursue himself, but it does not mean that he can avoid it next time, eunuchs are unpredictable after all!" ”

In fact, Huaning was originally a scholar, and his household registration was from Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangnan Province, and his family was well-off, and he was also a large gentry family in the local area. Huaning's family is a partial house of Hua's family in Suzhou Prefecture, and he has repeatedly failed in the imperial examination, and he is unwilling to make profits for the clan's business, so he was ridiculed by the elders and nephews of the same clan, and he joined a county to make a reference in a county. Later, by chance, he coincidentally threw himself under the eunuch Tian Lingzi and served as his adviser to the government.

The pride in the heart of the scholar still made Hua Ning look down on Tian Lingzi a little, but he took people's money and people to eliminate disasters, so he had to try his best to help Tian Lingzi solve problems.

"Oh, sir, please."

"Wang Chongrong wants to posthumously seal his parents, and hopes that His Majesty will add an official to him, which is a good thing, and we can satisfy him."

"Sir, this is still a good thing, if this kind of request is met, then the ministers are all posthumously sealed, what kind of good thing is it?"

Tian Lingzi scoffed at the posthumous sealing of Wang Chongrong's parents, and when he heard Hua Ning say that he met his requirements, he felt: "How can this kind of thing be cheap for that grandson, how good it is to leave it to his own people, and the fat water will not flow to outsiders." ”

Seeing that his words were a little unacceptable to Tian Lingzi, Hua Ning was not angry, and continued: "It's a good thing, we can reseal it to other state roads, so that it can leave Hezhong Road and send a person trusted by his father-in-law to serve in Hezhong, so won't Yanchi be in hand?" What does my father-in-law think? ”

"Hahaha, Mr. Hua is Mr. Hua, what a stealing beam for pillar, wonderful."

Tian Lingzi was very satisfied with what Hua Ning said later, this idea can successfully solve Wang Chongrong, let him eat Coptis chinensis dumbly, and you can swallow it if you have suffering.

"However, in my expectation, Wang Chongrong is a thoughtful person, and he will not obediently let go of the benefits of the two salt ponds and go to other feudal towns for the sake of fame."

"Well, that's right, so what should I do?"

Tian Lingzi almost didn't use his mind to think about the problem now, and only used his energy on how to satisfy Tang Xizong, as long as he controlled Tang Xizong, and left the rest to his subordinates to deal with, he could solve all the problems, and he was happy.

"We can first ask Your Majesty to issue an edict to reward Wang Chongrong, and posthumously crown his parents. If Wang Chongrong obeys the edict, it is the best, if he does not obey the holy decree, it is a crime of rebellion and deception. We possess morality, we can organize a conquest army and crusade against him, and the princes of the world will not say anything, right? ”

Hua Ning told Tian Lingzi about his subsequent moves, in fact, Hua Ning had already considered that Wang Chongrong would definitely not obey the edict, after all, now that Li Tang is weak, most of the princes have already disobeyed the yang and the yin.

"Okay, I'll go to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu to discuss what to reward Wang Chongrong's family, and by the way, discuss with the Ministry of Officials where to reward it."

After speaking, Tian Lingzi got up and walked out, and Huaning got up to see him off.

Outside the door, Hua Ning looked at the carriage where Tian Lingzi was leaving, and turned around to enter the door. When he saw his scholar waiting for him, he asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Young master, my lord asked me to come to you to talk to you."

"Dad asked me to talk, does Dad know that Grandpa Tian has come to our house?"

"Young master, I don't know."

Huaning's father has always kept himself away from the government and the eunuchs. His father was also a scholar and knew that troubled times were mostly eunuchs and man-made disasters. Now Li Tang's world is chaotic, most of which is caused by eunuchs controlling the government, which makes Huaning's father even more disgusted with eunuchs.

"Father, what do you want me to command?"

Huaning's father has bad legs and feet. In the last Huangchao rebellion, Huaning fled west with his family, and the carriage his father was riding overturned into a ravine on the road, so his legs and feet were injured, and he sought medical advice for four years, but he was not cured. First, he was a little older, and secondly, he was seriously injured, and his condition worsened due to the fatigue of the journey.

Hua Ning sat on the stool next to his father's couch, picked up the citrus next to him, and began to peel it.

"Ning'er, my father dreamed of your mother again last night, and she was waiting for her father to go to the reunion."

Hearing this, Hua Ning stopped peeling oranges and looked up at his old father on the couch. My father's hair was much grayer and his body was getting thinner.

Father's words made Hua Ning feel sad, but he still hurriedly comforted: "Father, don't think nonsense, mother definitely hopes that you will live a long life and prolong your life." ”

"Ning'er, you are not too young, and it is time to marry a wife and have children, don't worry about the daughter of the Qi family, we can't afford to climb that high branch."

"Father, I know. It's just that I was busy some time ago, and I didn't think about marrying a wife. After a while, I'll go to the matchmaker to help find a girl to settle a family affair, and when I go back, you will wait to hold your grandson. ”

"Okay, hahaha, as a father, I'm waiting to hold my grandson."

Father Hua couldn't close his mouth happily when he heard that he was hugging his grandson, this is his biggest wish now, to have children and grandchildren around his knees, and to have an explanation to his ancestors and ancestors.

Hua Ning saw that his father did not mention the eunuch Tian Lingzi, but mentioned his mother who died at an early age, and knew that his father did not know that Tian Lingzi had come, so he said words of relief.

The two fathers and sons chatted for a long time.

"Ning'er, you go and get busy, for your father, you are tired, and you want to sleep."

"Okay, father, you rest more."

Hua Ning tucked his father's feet and left his father's bedroom. Hua Ning went back to his house to get some silver and prepared to go out.

"Uncle Hu, I'll go out, you and my aunt will take care of my dad for dinner, I won't eat at home, come back later, and leave the door for me."

Hua Ning told his concierge Hu Bo that he went out, and this Hu Bo family was also an old man who followed the Hua family to the north and south, hiding and fleeing.

"Okay, don't worry, young master."

……

Here, Tian Lingzi rushed to the Ministry of Rites and sent someone to find the secretary of the ministry. In the three-person room, they directly discussed the posthumous title for Wang Chongrong's parents, as well as what title to add to Wang Chongrong, and which state to send Wang Chongrong to be a county king. Later, Tian Lingzi went to Zhongshu Province and asked people to draw up a negotiated edict on sealing.

After Tian Lingzi got the edict of rewarding Wang Chongrong's family, he hurriedly went to the Feishuang Hall of the Inner Palace to find Tang Xizong and report to him about the seal.

Although Tian Lingzi usually controls the government, when encountering this kind of reward, he still has to report to Tang Xizong and "solicit" Tang Xizong's opinion.

"The old slave participates in Your Majesty."

"Ah, it's Father, please get up." Tang Xizong sat on the chair, holding a half-dressed beauty in his arms, holding the soft mountains of the beauty in his left hand, pinching it from time to time, causing the beauty to moan. With his right hand, he touched the beauty's exposed long white legs, feeling the slippery and greasy coming from his hands.

"I don't know what Father is looking for me, I'm still discussing Qin Feng Yale with the beauties."

Tian Lingzi thought to himself: "The Mei Dai that Lin Tang found is really good, to bewitch Your Majesty like this, I have to be careful that Your Majesty is bewitched by these people, and I have to arrange a few eunuchs to come here to serve, and by the way, monitor this group of women." ”

"Your Majesty, the Hezhong Festival has made Wang Chongrong a meritorious person in quelling the rebellion, and I hope that the imperial court can posthumously seal his parents."

"Wang Chongrong? This group of festival envoys all give themselves titles like this? How can this be reasonable, and still take me, the emperor, in his eyes! ”

Tang Xizong said, and slapped his right hand hard, thinking that he was slapping the table, but in fact he slapped the thigh of the beauty in his arms.

"Smack"

"Ah~"

The beauty in the arms was startled, and the two mountains and mountains were beating.

A slap and an exclamation. pulled the angry Tang Xizong back, only to find that he slapped the beauty, startling the beauty, and the beating mountains in front of him directly made Tang Xizong happy.

Tang Xizong smiled and stretched out his hand to pull the beauty back into his arms, and comforted: "Beauty, it's all weird, I hurt you." ”

"Your Majesty, you see it's all red, it hurts, Your Majesty~"

The charming voice hooked Tang Xizong's soul by seven or eight points. Tang Xizong smiled and stretched out his left hand to touch the delicate mountains of the beauty again, and pinched it gently, causing the beauty to be beaten with a fist.

"Beauty, tonight, I will reward you well and compensate you well."

"Your Majesty, you are bad."

Tian Lingzi looked at all this, he was dissatisfied, and he didn't say anything, so he could only hang his head and wait for Tang Xizong to speak, seeing that Tang Xizong ignored him, he had to ask: "Your Majesty, this reward?" ”

Tang Xizong: "Just do what my father wants, I don't bother to pay attention to this group of festival envoys." After going back and discussing it, you don't need to tell me. ”

"In accordance with His Majesty's will."