Chapter 11: The Mirror
Out of the prefect's yamen, the two bodyguards followed behind again, and Shen Jia was used to these two shadows. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info the treatment that only leaders and big stars enjoyed in their previous lives, but I didn't expect to be able to experience it myself. Seeing Shen Jia pondering all the way, the two bodyguards were also silent all the way. When he turned the corner, Shen Jia was looking down and thinking about things, but he didn't expect a fat man standing in front of him, and he bumped into it without noticing.
"Ouch, two military masters, I didn't mean to."
When Shen Jia woke up, he saw that the two Jinyi guards who were stretched out their hands had already grabbed the two arms of the fat man and were about to torture him. Shen Jia looked at Wei Liangyu with an inquiring gaze, and Wei Liangyu said: "Lord Shen, this person has been watching you on the street corner before, he has ill intentions, I will take him to the yamen for questioning." “
"Spare your life, two military masters, spare your life, my lord, I am the fat man at the door of Wu's shopkeeper's house yesterday." After listening to Wang Fatzi's self-introduction, Shen Jia remembered that it seemed that there was such a number one person at the door of Wu Shihan's house yesterday.
"What are you looking at me for?" After Shen Jia finished saying this, he was full of anticipation and wanted to hear this fat man say "I'll look at you", this is the typical rhythm of fighting in the Northeast in the previous life.
It's a pity that it backfired, Wang Fatzi howled in his throat and cried and said: "My lord, the day before yesterday I was watching the excitement outside the city gate, and I saw Lord He with a mirror to look through, this mirror is ingenious, smooth as jade, and the villain liked it very much at that time." It's just that Lord He accepts it, and the villain doesn't dare to take people's love. Yesterday at the door of Wu's shopkeeper's house, I saw an adult with a square mirror, and the villain was itching, so I wanted to make friends with adults and see if I could sell a mirror and villain to leave a family biography. “
"Bold, you are a copper-smelling businessman, and you actually made friends with Lord Shen, so let's go with my yamen."
"Wei Liangyu!" Shen Jia said in his heart I haven't spoken yet, but there is no trace of dissatisfaction on my face. From the process of Wei Liangyu's transformation of his title just now, they may already know that they have a position on their own. Since this is the case, Shen Jia did not hesitate to stop Wei Liangyu.
Shen Jia picked up Wang Fatzi and patted him with soil, Wang Fatzi was flattered and hurriedly knelt down. Shen Jia, who was angry, scolded with a smile: "If you kneel like this again, don't you have to talk about the mirror." “
Wang Fatzi thought that it would be good to escape today, but he didn't expect this master to say that there was still a mirror, so he was overjoyed, and quickly got up and followed him all the way to Shen Jia's residence.
The two bodyguards remained consciously outside the gate. Shen Jia took Wang Fatzi to the hall and ordered the maid to serve tea.
Shen Jia came to the Ming Dynasty, except for some daily necessities, he was really penniless. There are still a lot of things to do with money in the future, and it's really not okay to have no money. Shen Jia wanted to sell some mirrors to replace the silver taels, but there was no way. Unexpectedly, when he went out today, he bumped into the God of Wealth, and Shen Jia suddenly had some confidence in his shit luck. Perhaps, I was an orphan in my previous life, and I would live a better life in this world.
Thinking of this, Shen Jia coughed lightly and said, "Don't hide it from the king's shopkeeper, I still have hundreds of mirrors, but I don't know how much mirrors are worth, so I want to wait." “
When Shen Jia was carrying the goods, he only opened one box of mirrors, and the other boxes of mirrors were all said to be clothes and shoes, after all, it is not a good thing to have a huge treasure.
Chen Fuke and Chen Ce naturally knew it, but at that time, they accepted Shen Jia's benefits and confirmed that these were not weapons used for rebellion, so they simply turned a blind eye and passed over.
Wang Fatzi was really a smart man, and immediately followed the conversation and said, "Since Lord Shen has this intention, how about the villain pay two thousand taels?"
Shen Jia closed his eyes and remained silent, as if the Manchu officials in the TV series were all like this.
Sure enough, I heard the fat man Wang say again: "Three thousand taels." “
Shen Jia felt that this game was good, so he picked up the cup and continued to drink tea.
"Four thousand taels."
With a pop, Shen Jia squirted out a mouthful of tea. Wang Fatzi glanced at Shen Jia in surprise, and then cried again: "Lord Shen, I will pay five thousand taels, I am old and young, I really can't take out too much money to spare, please Lord Shen..."
"Get up, it's none of your business, it's just a new maid at home, there are too many tea leaves, this tea is too bitter"
Wang Fatzi's face twitched, but he didn't dare to get angry, and his stomach was depressed, so he had to sit upright again and wait for Shen Jia's orders.
"Fat Wang, what's your real name?"
Wang Fatzi heard that Shen Jia was interested in accommodating, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The villain Wang Gaocheng, the south is directly affiliated with the Songjiang Mansion people's clan, and he runs some grain on weekdays. ”
"Oh, what is the price of grain these days? Is there a price hike? ”
"How dare the villain, it's just the first price, and the villain can only second, this is really not something that the villain can control"
Seeing this, Shen Jia no longer asked him about the grain, but turned his head, and after a little contemplation, he said: "Two thousand taels, I should give you a favor, he still needs the king's shopkeeper to help me do something in the future." ”
"As long as it is not a matter of violating the law of the Ming Dynasty and killing the head, how dare the villain disobey."
Shen Jia went to the back hall and took a mirror to Wang Fatzi. Wang Fatzi didn't bring a silver ticket, and hurriedly said that he would ask someone to send it to the house before sunset.
Shen Jia is not worried about Wang Fatzi's remorse, in this moral society of the Ming Dynasty that emphasizes integrity, once the appointment is broken, even for an ordinary person, it will make Wang Fatzi's life worse than death, not to mention that he is still an idle official. This fat man is very shrewd, and he won't not understand this.
Back in the backyard, a group of maids and horse boys were tidying up the house under Wen Qing's scolding. The sun was fine today, and Wen Qing took out all the quilts to dry. These quilts and pillows taken out of the cabin seem to be a little damp after being left for a long time. Shen Jia walked over and said to Wen Qing: "Don't bully other little girls, they are so young, are you really ruthless?" ”
"Hmph, just your good old man, you gave them some compressed biscuits when you left, and they boiled into the porridge and made a sticky paste, and brought them in for me to eat, I almost didn't throw up."
Shen Jia looked at Wen Qing like the eldest lady speechlessly, and said in his heart You don't know how to cook yourself, let alone these little maids. It seems that you have to find someone to train and train, otherwise you really don't know what to do. It seems that Wu Shihan's maid Xiaotao is not bad, and there should be someone in his family who can do this.
Thinking of Wu Shihan, Shen Jia suddenly remembered that this little girl was raising silver taels, and she didn't know how this calm little girl was doing now. Shen Jia's mentality doesn't seem to have changed, and he is still stuck at the age of twenty-five, but he doesn't know that he and Wu Shihan are not much different in age at this time.
"You're thinking about which girl again, you look like you're underwhelmed." Wen Qing always looks like a big grin, but her observation is very careful.
Shen Jia naturally knew, and hurriedly put away his thoughts, diverted the topic and said: "Since the maids are not delicious, at most punish them for eating them, why are they still so fierce, the girl's family is always angry, and it is easy to grow old quickly." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Qingjiao rushed over with a snort, and the frightened Shen Jia hurriedly begged for mercy. The yard was full of maids, watching the male owner being chased and killed by the hostess, they all covered their mouths and secretly smiled. The compressed biscuits and rice porridge were delicious, and there were oil flowers floating in them, and there was some meaty smell in them, and it would be a good thing if the hostess really punished them for eating them.
After playing around for a while, Shen Jia thought that he might as well make dinner himself.
Beijing, in the third lunar month, the wind is whining, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and it is almost dark. Although it was already spring, there was a chilly cold air in the wind, which penetrated people's bone marrow. In the past two days, the haze continued, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse made an exception to invite his ministers to study and study.
In Wuying Palace, a eunuch ran fast in small steps, and as soon as he entered the door, he knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty, Liaodong is a great victory!" Liaodong victory! ”
Sitting in the center was the sixteen-year-old Emperor of the Apocalypse, who was a young man at this time, and said to Wei Zhongxian in a hurry: "Father-in-law Wei, quickly read it to me." ”
Wei Zhongxian took the recital, listened to the little eunuch next to him quickly narrate, and then read aloud in his unique voice: "Chen Fuke, on March 19, Jiannu invaded Shenyang in a big way, and on the 20th, the deputy chief soldier You Shigong went out of the city and beheaded the seventeenth level. On the morning of the 21st, the general soldier He Shixian, led his family to 200, went out of the city to fight with the enemy to half a heart, there were overseas strangers, drove chickens, crushed Jiannu for more than several miles, He Shixian and You Shigong, took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, Jiannu was defeated, and more than 1,200 were killed. ”
There was a sudden silence in the hall, followed by an uproar among the ministers.
"In the main hall, you must not make loud noises, if there is a disrespectful person, you will be served with a cane" Wei Zhongxian looked at everyone with a smile and said loudly.
"Minister Liu Yixian, since the forty-seventh year of Wanli, this is the first major victory of the dynasty in Liaodong, the minister thinks that the general soldier He Shixian and You Shigong can be commended, as for this overseas stranger, you may as well be recruited to the capital by Jinyiwei, treat it with courtesy, explore its reality, and then make a decision."
"The minister seconded the proposal." Han Kuang, a cabinet scholar, followed and said.
"Liu Yixiu, Liaodong has never had a big victory for many years, and today, in order to win a big victory, he actually used this demon law to confuse the imperial court, and this Shenyang prefect Chen Fuke should be beheaded."
Liu Yixiao turned his head to look at it, it turned out to be an activist in the party, and the military department gave Zhen Shu in the matter. Liu Yixian was angry, these grandchildren are really used to having big mouths, and they will spray everyone when they see it.
In the past, Wanli attacked the cabinet, because of Zhang Juzheng's strong suppression, most of the six branches were Donglin Party members, so they fought back. Unexpectedly, since then, this has become a habit of low-level officials in the Donglin Party, and they all take pleasure in criticizing Shoufu. In the past, the cabinets of the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, and the Chu Party were sprayed, but now the leaders of the Donglin Party are controlling the situation, and these grandchildren are still the same, and they have to get along with their own first assistant.
Liu Yixian was about to come out to refute it, but was quietly pulled by Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the Ministry next to him, and only listened to one sentence: "Chen Fuke is Fang Congzhe's person." ”
Liu Yixian suddenly remembered that from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, during the purge of officialdom, there seemed to be a Shenyang prefect Chen Fuke on the list.
Liu Yixiao hesitated, the Donglin Party worked together, and finally drove away Fang Congzhe, the head of the cabinet and the leader of the Zhejiang Party. Liu Yixiao suddenly hesitated.
Minister Yang Lian didn't dare to agree, since the prefect of Shenyang was conclusive, then he could send someone to inspect the head, so why doubt and make a decision here. As for this overseas stranger, if he really made a great contribution, the imperial court naturally needs to be rewarded, otherwise it will chill the folk masters. ”
The one who spoke was Yang Lian, who was a rising star in the Donglin Party, and also the minister appointed by Emperor Taichang, although his position was very low, no one would take his words as a deaf ear. Yang Lian has always been above board and unwilling to flatter the powerful, and he has a decisive contribution to Emperor Tianqi in the palace transfer case, so what he said has a certain influence in the imperial court.
Seeing that there were different voices in the party, Liu Yixie's mouth opened slightly, pondered for a moment, and then said to Emperor Tianqi: "What Yang said in the matter is very true, if you don't choose someone from the imperial court and go to Shenyang with a reward." ”
Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly and glanced at Wei Zhongxian next to him.
Zhu Youxiao studied late, did not read much, and was almost semi-literate, and he was not long on the throne, so he was very unfamiliar with the details of the imperial court's rewards, and many times he needed to ask Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian bowed his head and said: "You can add Chen Fuke's right deputy governor Yushi, He Shixian is the second-grade dragon and tiger general, You Shigong is the second-grade Dingguo general, and each will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver. ”
Looking at Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao bowing their heads and whispering from a distance, the eyes of some Donglin Party officials flashed with anger. Since the beginning of the year, after Sun Ruyou impeached the Ke clan and was forced to resign, this attempt against Wei Zhongxian finally ended in failure. This made the young officials in Donglin angry, and scolded the head of the cabinet one after another. Now that he saw that the emperor was confused by the evil words of this dead eunuch, a buzzing whisper suddenly sounded in the court.
Wei Zhongxian could also sense the dissatisfaction of some people with him. Previously, he intended to befriend Donglin officials, and even praised Zhao Nanxing in front of the emperor. Unexpectedly, Zhao Nanxing solemnly warned him a few days ago: "The Lord is rushing to the New Year, and the courtiers inside and outside work hard to be good." Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian felt annoyed in his heart.
But today is an opportunity, Chen Fuke, the prefect of Shenyang, is a person from the Zhejiang Party. Chen Fuke was dismissed from his post at the beginning of the year and dismissed, but the resignation has not yet been completed. Coincidentally, Chen Fuke caught up with the Battle of Shenyang and made a contribution. It's just that today's fold, there is no signature of Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, which shows that Chen Fuke also has a lot of complaints about Donglin.
The Donglin Party has already controlled the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Cabinet, and the Six Sections are the traditional birthplace of Donglin, and Donglin has even begun to win over the General Army of the Nine Sides to stand in line. During the Wanli period, the scene of the Donglin Party controlling the court and coercing Wanli has just passed.
If the Emperor of the Apocalypse fell into such a situation, Wei Zhongxian's actions of translating various places into the vernacular and telling the emperor would probably be used by the Donglin Party as evidence to confuse the saints. Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian felt a little cool.
However, Wei Zhongxian is good at seizing opportunities, and he feels that Chen Fuke's twists and turns are a good opportunity to add sand to the military and political affairs of Liaodong controlled by Donglin.
After listening to the discussion of the ministers, Zhu Youxiao made a decision, so he told the courtiers again according to Wei Zhongxian's proposal. Liu Yixiao saw that the holy will had been decided, and the emperor looked impatient, so he had to retreat with the courtiers.
After leaving the Wuying Palace, Zhu Youxiao paced back and forth, suddenly turned around and asked, "Why haven't you seen Wang Gonggong (Wang An) come to see me recently?" ”
Wei Zhongxian was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The prince occasionally felt a cold a few days ago and has been bedridden, and the slave is afraid of passing it on to the emperor, so he has been recuperating. I didn't expect that yesterday, he actually went, I was afraid that the emperor would be sad, so I didn't dare to tell you, slaves are guilty, slaves are guilty"
Zhu Youxiao was a little puzzled, then sighed again, and said: "The prince and I have a great favor, since he is gone, you can help me take care of the future, and you must not treat it lightly." ”