Since he is stationed in Jiaozhou, and he is the most lucrative errand, the Zhizhou Yamen has to be counted up, which is a must for the newcomers to meet him, Li Meng said with a smile:

"The adult is new to Jiaozhou, Li didn't come to say hello, this is Li's fault, wait for the adult to bring some local specialties, it can be regarded as reparation."

This is all official clichés, everyone knows that this local product is gold and silver goods, and after hearing the word "local product", sure enough, the smile on his face is even bigger, Li Meng said a few words in his stomach, and thought, he really came to ask for money. But I heard the same acquaintance smile and said:

"Contemptible Wu Wensong, forty-two years old this year, I will call you a virtuous brother, this time I came to the virtuous brother's house to meet him, and I brought a letter to the virtuous brother from Beijing."

The letter was placed on the coffee table on the side, Li Menggang was about to take it, that Wu Tongzhi picked it up first, held it with both hands and sent it to Li Meng, this respectful behavior made Li Mengyu confused, or politely took the letterhead, looked at the letter cover, it said "respectfully received", and the payment was Liu Fulai, the master of ceremonies.

This name Li Meng is completely unfamiliar, but Li Meng, the famous name of the celebrant supervisor, is clear, don't look at Li Meng's current confusion about how many officials a prefect is and how many officials there are in a province, but the name of this celebrant is in modern times, Li Mengke knows.

In the film and television dramas of the Ming Dynasty, the big conspirators, the big villains, the big perverts and the big masters are basically eunuchs, and these eunuchs are generally from the celebrant eunuchs, and they are coaxing. Of course, in the end, they all died at the hands of righteous people, after coming to the Ming Dynasty. Li Meng also knew from the mouth of his master and the secretary that the most powerful institution in the Ming Dynasty was the cabinet. Entering the cabinet is the culmination of a civil servant's promotion.

However, the cabinet is not the only highest body, there are also institutions in the palace that are comparable to the cabinet, and even have some institutions - the celebrant supervisor, the cabinet assistant is generally considered by everyone to be the actual prime minister, and the eunuch Xi of the celebrant is called the "inner minister", and the eunuch of the inner court enters the celebrant and is equivalent to the literati into the cabinet. The high status is scary. Besides, there is a famous generation. The eunuchs are dictatorial, and there are really few famous people in history, from Wang Zhen. Liu Jin, Feng Bao and Wei Zhongxian, who were nine thousand years old who had been dead for less than eight years, were all celebrant supervisors.

Of course, the supreme owner and decision-maker is the emperor.

Now Chongzhen ascended the throne, and it was also said that it was to prevent the eunuchs from exercising power. Reuse Wenchen. But within three years, everyone knew the great eunuch Wang Chengen. It can be seen that the status of the eunuchs has not been reduced, and this Wu Wensong and the eunuchs who know how to pass the message for the eunuchs are similar to sending a message to the scholars, no wonder they are so frightened.

But I don't know it at all, Li Meng is very puzzled to open the letterhead, the head is the word "Engong", the font is neat and beautiful, if it is not in ancient times, Li Meng almost thought that this was a printed out of the small letters, think about it, the people of the highest institution in ancient times, the cultural literacy is definitely extremely high.

Because the font is neat, so for Li Meng, although there is no segmentation and punctuation, he can probably understand the content of the letter, the eunuch who wrote the letter himself really knows, that is, the old eunuch who jumped into the river in Jining last year, the content of the letter is not complicated, it is nothing more than to thank Li Meng for his help, saying that it took a lot of effort to arrange the person who saved people in Jining Prefecture after returning to Beijing. The rest are all righteous and thin clouds, and finally said that he would give a thousand taels of silver with his faith, and he would express his gratitude, hoping that Li Meng would have the opportunity to enter Beijing and be a good hospitality.

Shaking the envelope, a silver ticket fell out of it, it was a silver ticket of a certain money bank, Li Meng shook his head and smiled, he really didn't expect that there would be this day when he helped, and besides, the two boats of refined salt were counted in the porcelain jar, and it was two hundred taels of silver to die, which used so much.

However, this "Uncle Liu", who is now the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, has been so prominent in less than half a year since he was down, I really don't know what the chance is.

Li Meng asked casually, but he didn't expect Wu Wensong, who was sitting opposite, to really know about it, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, all kinds of gossip and gossip are widely circulated, Liu Fulai went from an old eunuch with no grade and no rank, and suddenly became a master of ceremonies.

When Liu Fulai had not returned to Beijing, the so-called canned old green salt had already been rumored among the magnates in the capital, and the green salt in the palace was not in stock, and the eunuchs were all using the refined salt outside to say that it was green salt to deal with, but most of Emperor Chongzhen's concubines were born outside the palace, and there was something going on outside, and the palace soon knew.

The eunuchs in charge of these want to go to the market to buy, but the number of canned old green salt that came over in Jining is very small, and it has long been kept for their own use, these noble relatives can't afford to offend, they can't be requisitioned, they can't die, and there is no anti-counterfeiting seal, it is difficult to counterfeit, and the concubines in the palace are asking for it, and the eunuchs who bought it have no choice but to ask for Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and Wang Chengen is also useless.

Although it is a trivial matter, it is also a lot of anxiety, at this time, Liu Fulai returned to Beijing with green salt, this is the original porcelain jar old green salt, originally this Liu Fulai went out of Beijing to buy purely for this old eunuch to arrange an errand casually, there is no hope, who would have thought that he would buy back so many beautiful goods.

The concubines in the palace were happy, and some nobles begged for a share, and the things that were originally anxious turned out to be a happy situation.

This Liu Fulai also left an impression in Wang Chengen's mind, I heard that Liu Fulai also went to the inner school, so he simply arranged a book job.

The eunuchs of the Ming court because they had the errands of the various supervision bureaus and yamen, and they had to have cultural and administrative knowledge, so they began to open an inner school from the Xuande period, and the knowledge and homework were taught by Hanlin and senior scholars, and the education level was quite not low.

The secretary office is equivalent to the assistant of the eunuchs, sorting out documents, and providing counselors, which can be regarded as the edge of the power group in the inner court, and is generally held by eunuchs around the age of thirty, and Liu Fulai, who is fifty years old, is also rare.

There are a lot of affairs in the inner court, and it is really exhausting and difficult to do at the age of fifty, but there is also a benefit to him doing it, he is older, and he has survived from the most difficult place, and he is meticulous in doing things, and he has no intention of fighting for merit, and all aspects are taken into account. To be a man is to be gentle and polite, round and humble.

From the beginning of Chongzhen's seven years, the officers and troops of Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Sichuan provinces and the eight battalions of the army fought fiercely.

Under such a high-intensity busy official business, the eunuch Bingbi assisted by Liu Fulai fell ill and could not be a director, Chongzhen, the emperor, was particularly difficult to serve, and Wang Chengen was also inseparable.

Wang Chengen didn't have to bother too much to find out the reason, Liu Fulai, the secretary of the office, had the courage to do things, went early and returned late in the past few months, was not afraid of hard work, and did a lot of things.

Originally, in the matter of Qingyan, Wang Chengen already remembered Liu Fulai's name, and this time he had such a good performance, and the inner court had a good impression of this mild old eunuch, after Wei Zhongxian arrived in Taiwan, the eunuchs of the inner court experienced a big purge, and there was a shortage of people. But it's still a book!

What happened next, Li Meng and Wu Wensong didn't know, Liu Fulai in less than a year, from the person seeking death to enter the power core of the inner court to become the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, this kind of change of blessing and misfortune is really the difference between cloud and mud, after thinking about it, all the turning point is that Jining Prefecture met the young man who was warm in the ancient way.

After becoming a eunuch of Bingbi, even if it is a first- or second-class official, he must respectfully call his father-in-law in person, and there are countless powerful relatives and nobles who come to curry favor with him, which shows the preciousness of the young man who did not leave his name that day. The "father-in-law" called by these people in Jingshi is not as good as the "old man" called that day.

Liu Fulai asked people to look for the person who saved people that day in Jining, although Li Meng did not leave his name, but the two ships that sent Eunuch Liu back to the palace can still be found, not to mention that the matter of Li Meng's sale of old green salt in Jining City is just tacit, and there must be many clues to investigate, the river yamen and the salt transportation envoy yamen, the Zhizhou yamen of Jining Prefecture, and the news network and relationship network of several imperial merchants are all passively used.

It didn't take a few months, and soon found out that the salt administration was stationed in Jiaozhou to inspect Li Meng, Liu Fulai wanted to send someone to thank him, who would have thought that the Dongyu Jurchen Tartars would enter the Kou, and the soldiers would be close to Beizhili, and for a time there was a lot of noise near the Beijing Division, and the traffic was cut off, and they couldn't get out of the capital.