Chapter 645: Death with a Cane

Wei Zhongxian poured a lot of bitterness, and the Hakka family was also angry, and then the Hakka family went to the Qianqing Palace to explain the matter, Wei Zhongxian was ready to go again, and after a while, the Hakka family returned with a smile, and saw Wei Zhongxian's depressed face, the Hakka said: "Blessing in disguise, congratulations." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"What's the joy of talking about at this time?" Wei Zhongxian warned the Hakka family: "You have to be careful when you speak. ”

The Ke family is this kind of big temper, and he didn't take it to heart when he was warned, and said casually: "Do you really have a happy event, the emperor was furious when he heard about this, and he has made you take charge of the East Factory, so I want to congratulate you, the eunuch and the commander of the East Factory, and you can be called a 'factory minister' from now on." ”

What a joy!

Although Wei Zhongxian was cautious and cautious, he was still overjoyed when he encountered such a thing.

As the Hakka said, the eunuch of the East Factory has always been called the factory minister, and he is one of the several powerful figures in the inner court. The first real power figure is, of course, the eunuch in charge of the seal, known as the Yin Gong in the inner court, and the outer court is also very respectful to the eunuch Bingbi, and the first assistant of the cabinet, if he does not maintain considerable contact and good personal friendship with the chief minister, it is difficult to stay in the position of the first assistant. Generally speaking, the eunuchs of the celebrant are all born in the inner study hall, and they have been taught by Hanlin since childhood, and the imperial court also considers the need to maintain a certain cooperative relationship between the celebrant and the cabinet, and if they blindly confront, it will only delay the government.

The second is the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, the eunuch of the imperial horse has the direct force controlled by the inner court, that is, the famous imperial horse eunuch four guard battalion, Fang Jinjing camp is corrupt, has been directly controlled by the eunuch, which is equivalent to the military backing of the eunuch, so the Beijing camp collapsed again, and the four guard battalions still maintained a fairly complete system, at least in terms of numbers and arsenal reserves, the four guard battalions are relatively intact in the Beijing camp A Beijing battalion soldiers and horses.

Zhou Fengji, the chief soldier of Chongzhen, and Huang Degong were all born in the Beijing camp of the four guards, and the admiral eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, the most famous is Wang Zhi in the Chenghua period, who was the power of the imperial horse eunuch and led the army many times.

In recent years, due to the plummeting combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp soldiers, coupled with the improvement of the nine-sided town, the imperial court has not been as easy as the Beijing camp to go out in the early years of the country to the Chenghua period, so the status of the imperial horse eunuch has declined, and the status of the Dongchang Admiral has always been not low because of his monitoring of the inner court and the relationship between the Jinyi Wei and the entire outer court, Wei Zhongxian is the most trusted eunuch of the Apocalypse, and he did not enter the ceremonial eunuch without the systematic training of the inner study hall, which is also a rare outlier in the inner court of the Ming Dynasty.

"This position," Wei Zhongxian sighed: "We have indeed thought about it for a long time, with it, we will be more sure to deal with the Donglin Party, but to be honest, if they are not always aggressive and refuse to get along with our family, why should our family bother to toss these things!" ”

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Three days later, King Xin entered the palace again, this time he met the Apocalypse smoothly, the two brothers talked for a while, King Xin of course was relieved to the emperor, Apocalypse felt comforted in his heart, and also encouraged King Xin to read more books when he was in the palace, not to waste time, King Xin agreed to come down with a promise.

Neither of the brothers touched on sensitive topics, because Apocalypse was still very young after all, and King Shin was only a teenager.

If the Apocalypse never gave birth to a prince and grew up to a relatively safe age, such as after two or three years old, then King Xin would have no way to become a vassal, because of this, those officials of the Ministry of Rites never mentioned that they wanted to believe in the king and become a vassal...... The officials of the Ming Dynasty are eager for the prince with a knighthood to get out of the capital quickly, and staying is an unstable factor, and civil officials hate unknown and uncontrollable variables the most.

King Xin can not go, nor can he prepare to go to the fiefdom of many matters, such as the construction of the fiefdom of the palace, the property given to King Xin and many other matters need to be discussed by the emperor and the foreign dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's pro-vassal is becoming more and more lush, the problem is that the financial support can not be reached, the Wanli period has been cut by half, and the government and the opposition can find their own way out gradually have the intention of letting go, but with the procrastination of the Ming civil officials, it was not really opened until the Chongzhen period, and there were also several clan talents, But by that time, it was too much to return.

Because of all kinds of embarrassment, when it came to the topic of the death of the prince, the two brothers really couldn't get along, and the process of talking was more like being polite, and in less than half an hour, King Xin resigned, and the apocalypse did not keep this brother as usual.

No matter how generous the apocalypse is, it is always a heart disease that he does not have a prince, and the royal brother of King Xin is now equal to half a prince, and the brother is the last brother, which is not a pleasant option.

When King Xin went to the Qianqing Gate to get on the sedan chair, he saw several eunuchs dragging away a young eunuch who had been killed, the ground was covered with bloodstains, and several other people were carrying buckets and splashing water to sweep up.

Xinwang Yizheng said to the people around him: "Ask what's going on." ”

The palace is not as far as the outside thinks, you can execute the palace maid or eunuch at will, of course, there are also things to be executed, generally only if you commit a serious mistake will be executed, and it is a very rare situation to be executed in Qianqingmen.

A eunuch passed by King Xin's side, and without saying a few words, the eunuch who was in charge of the prison came over and said: "His Royal Highness King Qixin, the slave maid was ordered by Gonggong Wei to kill this slave who was bewitching the public in the palace. ”

King Xin was startled, and tried to make a silent appearance on his face, and pretended to be casual: "What kind of lie?" ”

The eunuch bowed down and said: "It's about the death of the prince, there are a lot of fallacies, and Gonggong Wei ordered that anyone who talks nonsense and fabricates gossip will be killed immediately once it is verified." ”

A trace of anger flashed on King Xin's childish face, of course he had heard that the death of the prince was related to Wei Zhongxian, it was Wei Zhongxian who colluded with the Hakka family to kill the prince in order to achieve their goal of covering the sky in the palace.

However, King Xin also knew that this matter must be the approval of the imperial brother, with the imperial brother's trust in Wei Zhongxian, even if he spoke himself, it would be useless, and King Xin thought of one thing, since Wei Zhongxian even dared to murder the prince, he may not dare to attack his own prince, thinking of this, this once very familiar palace inside, suddenly became very strange and terrifying, King Xin didn't want to stay here for a minute, and immediately said: "Let's go back to the palace." ”

After King Xin returned to the palace and breathed a sigh of relief, he said to a palace eunuch beside him seriously: "Inquire about Wei Zhongxian's preferences, and we will give him a generous gift." ”

"Yes, but the palace is new, and the cost is quite large...... The slave maid went to figure it out. "The eunuchs of the palace feel that there is no need to do such a thing, and it is taboo to befriend the ministers, not to mention the eunuchs in power in the palace, but he knows the temperament of the king of Xin, if he dissuades him, he will definitely make the king of Xin angry, and at this time, if he does not stop anything, in the future, the king of Xin will regret it, and he will definitely use himself as a scapegoat, serving such a master, he can only be extremely careful, and dare not make a slight mistake.

"Oh......" King Xin is indeed a little embarrassed, since the Liao affair together, the Ming Dynasty's expenses have become more and more tight, and the assets given to him by the imperial brother of the Apocalypse are not much, and he is barely supporting the shelf of the palace, but the palace is newly established, and all kinds of expenses are indeed very large, and now he has no country, and there is no way to have his own industry, such as when Wang Shu Fu Wang's country, the Wanli Emperor gave hundreds of thousands of gold and silver, not to mention, but also asked for a large amount of land for the Fu King as the official village of the palace, and the country of the Fu King unscrupulously forcibly annexed the local fields, Robbing all kinds of industries that come with money, opening money bank official stores, etc., he has accumulated a lot of wealth in a short period of time. It is rumored that King Fu is much richer than those princes who have been in the domain for hundreds of years, and King Xin has always felt that King Fu is a little too greedy, but at this time he understands a little.

"You can do it." King Xin said a little embarrassed: "No matter what, we must do it well." ”

Since the king said so, it will not be good to blame himself for the matter in the future, and the eunuch of the palace said happily: "Your Highness, rest assured, the slave and maid will definitely do this well." ”

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The next day, the eunuch of the palace inquired about Wei Zhongxian's preferences, and he decided to spend a lot of money to buy a good night pearl. On the same day, the eunuch of the palace sent a little eunuch to find a shop at the entrance of the lamp market to inquire, and a high-quality night pearl cost 3,000 silver, which surprised him, of course the palace could not take out this silver, not even half of it.

"Just find a merchant to borrow." Feng Yu Cao Huachun came up with an idea and said: "With the identity of our palace and His Royal Highness King Xin, there will be no money that cannot be borrowed." ”

"That's just as well." The eunuch of the palace said: "To make it clear, in the future, the salt will be returned, or our Royal Highness will pay it back after the country, and they will be given interest, and it will not be many years." ”

Cao Huachun nodded yes and volunteered: "Leave this matter to me to handle it, and it will be done properly." ”

The eunuch of the palace glanced at him with a smile and said, "Then leave it to you, take care of it, Your Highness appreciates you very much." ”

Cao Huachun is a line of Wang An, since King Xin knew that Wang An was poisoned by Wei Zhongxian, he trusted Wang An himself and the eunuchs of Wang An's lineage, Cao Huachun was elected to the palace of the king of Xin or the requirements of King Xin himself, after entering the palace, he was very trusted by King Xin, and his temperament was quite loyal, he believed in it, he was old, and he would not be out of proportion.

After dark, Li Guobin, Liu Ji and Wang Faxiang still got together, and the faces of the three were not bad.

Recently, because the copper mining has been smooth, the business war in Zhangjiakou has also been won, the local exchange has returned to normal, the military division's support for the Beijing division has increased, and there are vehicles escorting copper coins into Beijing for many days, of course, the number of a time is not very much, in a place like the Beijing division, the military division adheres to Zhang Han's intentions, is to be low-key as low as possible, make money first, reputation second, and in Zhangjiakou and other places The purpose is completely different.

In this way, the exchange of the Beijing division is still mainly in small amounts, fortunately, the copper money of the Beijing division because of the Jin merchants after the purchase of a large number of outflows, the copper price of the Beijing division is rising, although there is a foreign copper money inflow, the quantity is not enough to stabilize the copper price, now it is still a high price of 1 to 708, and Yusheng listed price of 1 to 900, which is called the store every day There are a large number of merchants to exchange, virtually and the overall image of Yusheng is still rising, in the northern merchants with Beijing as the core, The image of He Yusheng has changed from an ordinary shop to the head of the iron industry, and then to today's top business, which can be described as a step by step, and it is not easy to walk.