Chapter 9: The Storm Rises
Wei Zhongxian has never been a person who likes to wait for opportunities, he likes to take the initiative. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info For the clock business of the royal workshop, he has already taken a fancy to it, and as soon as his subordinates calculate that this is a business of tens of millions of taels, Wei Zhongxian was instantly moved, tens of millions of taels are not a small amount at any time, this is the tax of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, even if it is an increase in Liao salary in the past few years, it is worth a few years of income. No one who put such a large amount of money there is not moved, and sharing it with others, if it was the previous Wei Zhongxian, he might have compromised. But now, he's 9,000 years old! It is the eunuch who is the celebrant and the eunuch, the person who is above 10,000 people under one person, and shares it with others, even if it is the emperor.
Of course, the current Duke of Wei's high position is important to scruple about eating a face, so it is impossible for him to make a direct move, this wife is not in line with his identity, he wants to make everyone speechless.
Zhao Deli is an ordinary imperial history of the Imperial History Observatory, but he is not ordinary, in recent years, he has repeatedly impeached the eunuchs, and even been assassinated several times. was evaded by him, and his reputation in the Donglin Party became higher and higher.
On this day, he once again became the focus.
Wang Tao, a very unfamiliar name, was suddenly known by many officials in the capital.
Kit Kat lewd skills, bewitching the saints, living in the palace with a sound body, and having no inch of land to seal the five grades......
One by one, it is said that there is a nose and an eye, and this piece of music has just arrived in the palace for less than half an hour, and it has reached Wang Tao's ears. The messenger was Wang Tiqian's personal little eunuch, and the news was that there was no problem with it.
This made Wang Tao stunned, he came to the Ming Dynasty for only ten days, it stands to reason that he will not offend anyone, and the people he contacts are all people in the palace. Although the eunuchs in the palace are all physiologically unsound, they are all human spirits, how can anyone dare to offend Master Wang without opening their eyes.
Eunuchs are different from ordinary officials, and the relationship between officials and the emperor is more like that of a part-time worker and a boss. It's not that there are fatal things, but after all, they are a few, and ordinary emperors will not kill officials at every turn. Even if he wants to, the officials below are unwilling, you will kill your head if you don't agree with each other, how can you let us help you?
The eunuch is different, the eunuch is just the emperor's domestic slave, don't say a word, the emperor will die in vain if he is angry. Officials outside generally don't take the matter of killing eunuchs to the emperor seriously, and people discipline domestic slaves, so let's talk less.
For this reason, Wang Tao didn't think that the people he came into contact with would dare to give him eye medicine. At least ordinary eunuchs don't dare, except for ordinary eunuchs, they are big eunuchs. But there is not much intersection between him and the big eunuch, one Wang Tiqian, and the other Zhang Quan, both of whom are now his partners, and they will not do such a stupid thing in the honeymoon period. Then all that's left is Wei Zhongxian......
Wang Tao is not an angry youth, not in his previous life, but later experienced the Dragon Teng Continent for more than ten years, which is equivalent to living for more than forty years. It's impossible to be angry in your forties, people say that you are not confused in your forties, and if you live in your forties, it's not interesting if you can't see through these things.
Wei Zhongxian is good or bad, and it has nothing to do with him, not to mention that the two have no grudges, he has no reason to attack himself.
Just as he was thinking, Zhang Quan walked in with a little eunuch.
"Master Wang, congratulations, we heard that your experiment was very successful yesterday." As soon as Zhang Quan entered the house, he smiled and said hello to Wang Tao.
"Mr. Zhang is polite, happy and happy." Wang Tao naturally put on a smiling face, but although he has lived for more than forty years, he was an otaku in his previous life, and Longteng Continent is not the master of acting according to people's faces, so this smile is really a little reluctant.
"Master Wang, what's so difficult about it? Useful miscellaneous place despite opening. Zhang Quan, as the human spirit of the human spirit, how could he not see Wang Tao's forced smile, so he restrained his smile and asked.
"It's not a big deal, you see." Wang Tao didn't seem to be hiding anything from this Zhang Quan, he didn't add up to as much as Zhang Quan's life, plus he had struggled in the palace all his life, Zhang Quan was definitely much stronger than him, he just wanted to see Zhang Quan's opinion.
"Zhao Deli." After reading the recital, Zhang Quan didn't say anything about what was said in the recital, but talked about this imperial history, "If our family is not mistaken, this Zhao Deli is a jinshi in the Wanli period, and later went to the local area to do a term of imperial history, and later came to the capital and has been doing imperial history, counting the rising star of the Donglin Party, he has always liked to chase the wind and catch the shadow to impeach the civil and military." It's just that Master Wang's matter shouldn't have spread so quickly. ”
His voice was not high, and he felt like he was talking to himself, but Wang Tao could hear it clearly.
The Donglin Party has a good reputation in history, but Wang Tao doesn't like these literati who have changed in the later period. Moreover, later history proved that these guys all like to shoot empty cannons, and they have no ability to govern the country, and they have to bear a lot of responsibility for the destruction of the country in the Ming Dynasty.
But as Zhang Quan said, his affairs should not spread so quickly, or that sentence, there is no love and hate in the world for no reason, and it makes no sense for him to be a target. The emperor likes carpenter work not for a day or two, and this is not something he brings to the worst. Besides, the current court is obedient to Wei Zhongxian, and the general imperial history will not be blind.
Thinking of this, Wang Tao suddenly had a goal in his heart, and this Wei Zhongxian seemed to have appeared again.
"Grandpa Wei hasn't asked about the Royal Workshop in the past few days." Wang Tao is in the workshop, and many high-level things can't be touched, so he can only ask Zhang Quan.
"You're right. Yesterday, Father-in-law Wei and the emperor came to the workshop, just as our clock imitation was successful, Father-in-law Wei asked about the cost, you also know that this matter can not be hidden, our family will tell the truth. Zhang Quan was also thinking about who it was just now, and when he heard Wang Tao mention Wei Zhongxian, he also thought that he was the most motivated person at the moment.
"Grandpa Wei has taken a fancy to our business?" Wang Tao couldn't believe it, although this watch business was very profitable, but as the actual ruler of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian should not be able to look down on this money.
"Hmph, since ancient times, wealth has moved people's hearts, and the high power of Duke Wei is not exempt from vulgarity, but our family originally thought that he wanted some dry stocks, but I didn't expect him to want to eat alone. What Zhao Deli said is not a big deal, it is easy to solve, as long as Master Wang no longer takes care of this royal workshop and moves out of the palace, it will naturally be over. In this way, the things of this royal workshop will become his father-in-law Wei's. Zhang Quan snorted coldly, and then said a little grimly.
For Zhang Quan, moving his money is tantamount to touching his lifeline, he originally thought that he would be able to handle this matter by giving some benefits to Wei Zhongxian, but he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian to strike first, and even used people from the Donglin Party.
Only then did Wang Tao understand the real intention of this letter, it was indeed like what Zhang Quan said, it was not suitable for him to live and work as a normal man, so he naturally had nothing to say when he left the palace. It is nothing for the emperor to give this errand of the royal workshop to others, and it is a big deal to give Wang Tao a false title and let him continue to engage in these things. The emperor did not see the economic benefits contained in the clock, but he thought that this thing was rare, and it was not so important whether it was money or not.
It is also for this reason that Wei Zhongxian dared to take this move. As for whether Wang Tao is an immortal, the transaction of tens of millions of taels of silver, what can the immortals do, he is nine thousand years old and he has not seen those so-called immortals.
"If that's the case, it's going to be a bit tricky." Wang Tao didn't have a clue for a while.
"It's not that hard." Zhang Quan said with some disapproval.