If Neiku was really so rich, how could he wait until Cao Hao bid for money last year to repair the Rehe Palace and build the Tangquan Palace?

Since the Ministry of Internal Affairs exchanged gold a few years ago, Cao Hao has known that there are twists and turns. If it weren't for the coincidence, Fang Chonggong brought back Wang Ying, even if Cao Hao knew that the wind and grass were blowing, he would not have thought of "robbing the tomb".

100,000 taels of gold, equivalent to more than a million taels of silver.

Cao Hao remembered the map that Wang Ying took out, and hurriedly shook his head, reining in his greed.

Since years ago, he has been pondering the "way to make money", after all, this is not a thousand eight hundred taels of business, where can he say that he can think of it?

Cao Hao was thinking about it, when he heard someone tell him from the door that the official document from the household department had arrived...... Outside, Jiang Jian was in a trance, raised his head, and looked at the door panel of the inner room.

When did the adults find out? Or don't you know at all? When there was a shortage of silver before, Wei Hei's help was just a coincidence? The filial piety outside the year ago was extraordinarily rich.

It's not unusual. A few years ago, they caught up with Cao Yin's resignation and Cao Hao's demotion, and the number of people who came and went to give gifts decreased a lot, which was completely different from the grand occasion when Cao Hao was promoted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs last year.

Jiang Jian is the person behind the scenes, and he usually plays scheming, so he can see that something is wrong.

This is not to blame Cao Hao for being careless, when he instructed Wei Hei, there was no follow-up; After that, there were a lot of things to worry about, so I forgot about this stubble and accidentally exposed my feet.

I thought that the imperial court would not start to pay donations until after the Wanshou Festival, but I didn't expect that the lack of a circle in this place came out, and all parts of the capital were already moved.

Jiang Jian was anxious, because in the eyes of everyone in Cao Mansion, Li Wei was still in Xuzhou and not in the capital. Unexpectedly, Cao Hao had already made someone come forward, hid the Cao Mansion, and got it done for Li Wei.

spent more than 30,000 taels of silver to make up for the actual shortage of soldiers from the fifth grade. Cao Hao also made a special trip to ask Jiang Jian, but he was determined that he had no intention of becoming a leader, so he did not make a name for him.

If it is only from the official rank of the fifth rank of the foreign officer, it is only 8,000 taels of silver, and it is expensive to fill the vacancy. You must know that this year, the title of the first official is easy to buy, but the real shortage is waiting to be grabbed by ability. Otherwise, he can only be a "candidate" for the rest of his life, seventy or eighty, and he is incomparably compensated.

Jiang Jian was first a friend of Li Wei, and then entered the Cao family as a curtain, so he also knew very well the relationship between the Cao family and Li Wei. From Cao Hao's acceptance of Hanlin's invitation to help Li Wei, to the later accommodating Li Wei, he knew it all.

Now, in Li Wei's absence, Cao Hao has taken care of his donation to the official, which is not a small kindness.

Jiang Jian touched the letter in his sleeve, and faintly felt a little guilty. Cao Hao treats people as "righteous", but how do they do it?

Thinking of this, Jiang Jian only felt like sitting on pins and needles, busy looking at his nose, nose and mouth, and asking his heart to calm himself down.

finally survived until Luoya, Cao Hao was going to visit the thirteenth elder brother and asked Jiang Jian to go back to the house first. This is exactly what Jiang Jian thought, he found a reason, didn't even bring the little guy, went out of the front door, and went to see Li Wei.

That letter was written by Cao Hao himself.

There are only a few strokes, which are nothing more than greetings to his respect for his relatives and health, and then he mentions the matter of donations, and asks him if he can return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Li Wei has been recuperating from illness for a few months, and he has lost a lot of weight. He has always been informal, and Jiang Jian is a good friend, so he put on a coat and sat by the kang to watch.

"Wailang, a member of the military department, I, Li Wei, am an official?" Li Wei's eyes widened, a little incredulous.

"How can this be fake? Congratulations again, finally got what you wanted. Jiang Jian smiled and nodded, but he sincerely blessed his old friend.

"Mother, father, I'm an official......" Li Wei took the letter, suddenly jumped down from the kang, and said dancingly.

Seeing this, Jiang Jian sighed in his heart. Li Wei stayed in the capital for several years, if there was no Cao family, it would be easy to make his wishes come true. It seems that Cao Hao is really Li Wei's nobleman.

Supplementing it in the military department, not the household department, I am afraid that it is also intentional.

Li Wei has his own family in the military department, and he can also take care of him. did not use the Cao family to come forward to donate officials for Li Wei, and he did not want Li Wei to be involved in the Cao family. After all, the Cao family's situation is very delicate now, and they only feel that there is a lot of fog, and they can't see whether the road ahead is smooth or dangerous.

Actually, he took this for granted.

Cao Hao did not make up Li Wei in the household department, which was purely accidental. Because of the large oil and water in the household, the lack of big guys in the household is squeezed out of their heads. I didn't grab the errand, that's the truth.

Because of this, even Cao Hao sighed, not knowing when the fourth elder brother and Li Wei, the two famous monarchs and ministers in history, would meet.

The three model governors of the Yongzheng Dynasty, Li Wei, Tian Wenjing, and Yin Jishan. Yin Jishan has not yet been seen, Tian Wenjing was the inspector of salt imperial history, and Li Weicai did not enter the office.

Li Wei is just a cheerful surname, not a dull person. After he was happy, he also felt that something was wrong, so he went back to the kang side and said, "Brother Fei, isn't Cao Ye having a good time in the household department now?" ”

Jiang Jian frowned and said, "It's not good, it's not bad, I can't see anything at the moment." Looking at the adults, they were not shocked by honor and disgrace, and they were in contact with the sixteenth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother and others. ”

When Li Wei heard this, he flipped through Cao Hao's handwriting and read it over and over again, and said, "Then Cao Ye is tired of me?" Why don't you go to the military department? This bit of ink in my stomach, others don't know, Cao Ye should be clear, where is the material for being an official? I also want to learn from Cao Ye and Fei Phosphorus. ”

When he said it, he didn't believe it himself. If Cao Hao really hated him, where would he bother to make up for him.

Jiang Jian also heard that Li Wei just said it casually, didn't take it to heart, glanced at Li Wei, and said, "Youju, do you still want to hide it?" Then count the effort of this letter to and from Xuzhou, and you can still raise it for more than half a month. ”

Li Wei listened, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Brother Fei, in the past few months, they have all been high-grade medicinal materials, and they have spent a lot of money, right?" ”

The money he donated to the official has not yet arrived in Beijing, and he has squandered his savings almost as much as he ate flowers and wine before. The cost of this illness was mostly Jiang Jian's help.

Jiang Jian hesitated for a moment and said: "I spent more than two thousand taels of silver, of which I have saved a few hundred taels around me, and the rest is mostly because of my filial piety outside the position of the adult's staff." ”

"There will be more non-phosphorus, and when some of the silver in the house arrives, I will return the silver to the non-phosphorus." Li Wei hugged his fists and thanked him.

Jiang Jian frowned and said, "Youji, perhaps, the adults already know......"

"Huh?" Li Wei listened to it and was surprised.

I heard Jiang Jian continue: "Think about it in the past few months, you can also find some clues. Take Tongrentang's medicinal materials as an example, every time we go to buy them, they are all the best, and some of them are not sold on the counter at all. Let's just say that this ginseng is in the official eunuch's house, and there may not be those who are more superior. But it was a steady stream of buying for us, about to use it here, and sending a little guy to ask. Besides, when I didn't have any money a few years ago, I always felt that something was wrong......

Next, he told Li Wei about the Cao family's current predicament.

Li Wei only knew that Cao Hao was dragged down by the Li family and demoted to the household department, and he didn't know that something happened to the Cao family Zhuangzi and Cao Yin resigned due to impeachment.

After listening to Jiang Jian's story, Li Wei's face showed a bit of positive color, and he thought that he could see the strangeness in it.

"Non-phosphorus, let's go, let's go see Cao Ye." Li Wei couldn't sit still.

Jiang Jian grabbed him and said, "Again, don't be impatient." Xu is an adult who is scruples and shameful, so he pretends not to know. Is it not to live up to the kindness of adults when you are so impulsive? ”

Li Wei raised his eyebrows and said, "Face?" There is no impermeable wall in things, and even if you lose face, you will get this disease. If you continue to pretend, you will only deceive yourself. Although I, Li Wei, am a small person, I also know morality. Cao Ye treats me Li Wei like this, if I can't be honest, wouldn't it be better to be a beast than ......"

* Goldfish Alley, Thirteen Elder Brothers' Mansion.

Wang Quantai was ordered, and when he came to the front hall, he saw the thirteenth elder brother and Cao Hao sitting down and talking happily.

"The slave has seen the master and the master, and he has seen the Cao master." Wang Quantai took two steps forward and hit a thousand ways.

Seeing this, the thirteenth elder brother waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let's get up." ”

Cao Hao's side, he returned the half-salute. The thirteenth elder brother glanced at him and said, "You have done him a great favor, not to mention accepting his greetings, you deserve to receive a great gift from him." ”

Cao Hao said: "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just entrusted by the Thirteenth Master to do his best." ”

Wang Quantai got up and stood aside, listening to the two of them, still a little confused. However, since the New Year, this is the first time he has seen Cao Hao, and he can't help but look at it twice, remembering last year's bidding.

Didn't Cao Hao know that he, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, would not be able to do it for a long time, so he had the foresight to introduce his uncle to the Thirteenth Elder Brother?

The thirteenth elder brother looked at Wang Quantai and said, "Quantai, after Master Cao's planning, I made up for your martial arts shortage from the third grade, you have to thank him well." ”

From the third grade, the Beijing official military shortage is limited, but it is only the leader of the Baoyi Guard, the Baoyi Xiaocai Cavalry and the first-class guard of the palace.

Wang Quantai remembered his wife's admonitions, and recently the powerful people in the capital have been busy paying donations.

There are several kinds of donations, one for white and one for officials, and one for low-level officials to be promoted. Wang Quantai was also moved before, thinking about whether to take this opportunity to fill the vacancy, but was persuaded by his wife.

According to Zheng's statement, now that their husband and wife are attached to the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion, they must know how to measure their proportions, and it is not easy to be self-focused. Although he said that he had made up for the military attache before, he was still staying at the end of the Elder Brother's Mansion to teach a few little elder brothers martial arts.

Not only can he not donate his own officials, even if the thirteenth elder brother has grace, he must remember the word "loyalty", otherwise he will lose his foundation.

If it's okay to be a leader of the Baoyi Guards and a Baoyi Xiaocai, if it's a first-class guard of the palace, wouldn't it be a betrayal of the master? Wang Quantai hesitated for a moment and asked, "Thirteenth Master......"

"Guerrilla warfare is a rich land in Hangzhou." The thirteenth elder brother said with a smile.

Wang Quantai was stunned for a moment, then picked the placket, knelt down on his knees, and said: "It stands to reason that it is the grace of the master, and the slave should obey his orders; It's just that there are few people in the house now, and a few little brothers still have to learn kung fu. ”

Hearing these words, the thirteenth elder brother couldn't help but be a little moved.

"Quantai, after this village, there will be no such shop, you have to think about it." The thirteenth elder brother's expression was a little complicated: "What is the future of being detained in the master's mansion." Only when you go out, is the sky high for the birds to fly, and the sea to leap with the fish. ”

Wang Quantaishan looked firm, and said: "The slave only wants to be an errand by the side of the master, and he is really reluctant to ...... a few little brothers" Speaking of the future, it was the true feelings.

This is not a fake, he is already in his first year, because he got married late, he has not had a son and a half daughter so far, and he has a deep relationship with several little brothers in the house.

The thirteenth elder brother looked at Wang Quantai for a while, waved his hand, and said, "I know, you go down first......"

Wang Quantai answered, got up and said to Cao Hao again, before turning around.

Straight through the courtyard, around the shadow wall, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. A clever wife and a clumsy husband, listening to a daughter-in-law, it should be right, right?

It's just that the guerrilla from the third grade is really eye-catching, if you can change into that official uniform and return to the front of your old colleagues, how spirited you should be.

That's it, I took the worship silver in the house here, and I didn't miss the one hundred and ten taels of silver, so I shouldn't do it...... * In the living room, the thirteenth elder brother waited for Wang Quantai to go out, and then turned his head and said to Cao Hao: "Qilu man, but he has a bit of loyalty." I should thank you for sending such a good doorman to me. ”

Cao Hao is good at making merit, and said: "Being able to vote for the fate of the thirteenth master is the blessing of their husband and wife." ”

The thirteenth elder brother shook his head with a smile and said, "If I obey you, I can't be cheeky and thank you." You have taken all this humility and courtesy, and what do you want others to do? ”

When Cao Hao heard this, he also laughed and said, "Thirteenth Master, how can people live and do everything as they please?" If you don't pretend to be honest, you will hit a big bag on your head when you can't keep it. If I could be more comfortable, I would just like to eat and drink and be a carefree man. ”

The thirteenth master worked hard this time, but he put away the smile on his face, showed a little solemnity, looked at Cao Hao, and said: "Cao Hao, I don't want to eat and drink anymore, I don't want to continue to 'be at ease', I want to go out of the mountain, are you willing to help me?" ”

"Thirteenth Master?" Cao Hao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.

Could it be that there is any deviation in history, didn't the thirteenth elder brother be silent for the entire last year of Kangxi, and did not appear in front of people until the fourth elder brother ascended the throne?

"Cao Hao, you are now in charge of the six departments, and you have the right to recommend, can you help me this time?" Seeing Cao Hao's surprise, the thirteenth elder brother repeated and said, "I know that mentioning this is to embarrass you, after all, Huang Ama treats me...... If the world was peaceful and the court was fine, I would not have been born this year. But now the smoke of gunpowder in the northwest has not dissipated, the court officials are governed [***], and the people's livelihood is difficult...... Huang Ama is old again......"

The thirteenth master reappeared, which is a big deal.

Now is the critical moment when the eighth elder brother dies and the storage position is unresolved. Is the thirteenth elder brother out of the mountain, a blessing or a curse?

"The Thirteenth Master commanded, and Cao Hao obeyed, but the Thirteenth Master thought that the Fourth Master didn't ......" Cao Hao struggled in his heart, but still said what he was worried about.

The fourth elder brother has always been able to show a deep brotherhood with the thirteenth elder brother, because of a good relationship, and because the thirteenth elder brother has no hope of winning the heir and is attached to the fourth elder brother.

If the thirteenth elder brother goes out of the mountain ahead of schedule, will there be a resurgence of turmoil in the last years of Kangxi?

If the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother turn against each other, wouldn't Cao Hao's hard work over the years be in vain......

(To be continued)