Chapter 0102 Hooking Up with Cixi (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Passes, Asking for Hooking Up)
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Old Summer Palace, the East Warm Pavilion of the Palace of Nourishing Heart.
Several young palace maids poured tea and water, and the pu fan was lightly fanned, and they were carefully serving a beautiful woman who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old.
This woman's name is Yehenala Xingzhen, her name is Lan'er, she entered the palace at the age of fourteen, because she was born beautiful like a flower, smart and clever, and was very favored by Emperor Xianfeng, and Gu was named a nobleman. Because she writes well with a brush, Xianfeng often dictates the edict, and she writes and reviews the folds.
At this time, a little eunuch came in and saluted Lan Guiren and said, "Master Qiqi, Master Li Weiguo, the commander of Su Songtai's soldiers, has sent someone to personally send a congratulatory gift to you, master!" ”
Hearing this, Lan Guiren immediately opened his beautiful eyes, chuckled, and said, "This Li Weiguo gave me gifts for three days and two ends, but he really has a heart!" ”
Saying that, Lan Guiren sat up lazily, and her own palace maid hurriedly stepped forward to tidy up her clothes and make her upright.
"What name is Li Weiguo giving me a gift this time?"
Hearing Lan Guiren's question, the little eunuch hurriedly said, "Back to the master's words, the slave is still not clear!" It's just that the person who came was a teenage girl, and she said that she was ordered by Master Li to give a birthday gift to the master, and wished the master a happy birthday! ”
As soon as he heard that it was a birthday gift, Lan Guiren's face suddenly changed greatly, and he stood up suddenly, and shouted: "How did Li Weiguo know that today is my birthday?" ”
The eunuchs and palace maids were suddenly startled, and at this time, Xiao Yu, the personal palace maid beside Lan Guiren, also changed her expression, she entered the palace with Lan Guiren, she was very clever, and hurriedly said: "The master must be too tired to help the emperor approve the folding, and he actually remembered the day wrong, today is not the master's birthday, and the master's birthday is still a few months away!" ”
Hearing Xiao Yu say this, Lan Guiren realized that he had said the wrong thing. suddenly smiled: "Look at my memory, I actually made a mistake about the day." This Li Weiguo is really, he came to give a birthday gift so early! Let people in, I want to see what birthday gift he gives me, if it doesn't suit my heart, see how I clean up this Li Weiguo! ”
The little eunuch who reported the incident was also relieved, hurriedly withdrew, and soon brought in a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl.
"On the order of my family, the slave and maid Cailian brought birthday gifts to Lan Guiren, wishing Lan Guiren a happy birthday. Auspicious and healthy! ”
Lan Guiren glanced at Cai Lian and asked lightly: "Your family is really good, you can even know my birthday?" ”
Seeing that Lan Guiren's tone was cold, Cai Lian thought she was unhappy, and hurriedly explained: "My family said that today is the day when the fairy goes down to earth, and the Lan Guiren must be the reincarnation of the fairy, so I dare to let the maid send a congratulatory gift to the Lan Guiren in this name." ”
"I see?" When Lan Guiren heard Cailian's explanation, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned his anger into joy, and said: "This Li Weiguo is really good at making a name." In order to give me a gift, I was really shocked to rack my brains to come up with such a gift-giving method! ”
Xiaoyu next to him suddenly smiled and said: "This Lord Li gives gifts to his master twice in three days, so naturally he has to come up with a lot of names." It's really hard for him! ”
Lan Guiren nodded slightly, suddenly relaxed, showed an impatient expression, and asked Xiang Cailian, "I don't know what gift your family will give me this time?" ”
Cai Lian smiled slightly. Hurriedly took out the congratulatory gift, handed it to the palace maid next to him, and handed it to Lan Guiren, and at the same time said: "My family specially presented a beauty mask for Lan Guiren. This thing is made of hundreds of precious materials such as Tianshan Snow Lotus, and it is said that ordinary women will have delicate skin after using this thing, whitening and snow, and be as beautiful as a fairy. Lan Guiren is the reincarnation of a fairy, and after using this thing, he will be a hundred times more beautiful than a fairy. ”
Women are so beautiful, for the women in the palace, in order to win the emperor's attention, they racked their brains to beautify their faces, Lan Guiren was immediately overjoyed after hearing this, and couldn't wait to take out the mask to watch, and asked how to use Cailian.
The mask was carefully designed by Li Weiguo and ordered someone to make it, personally taught Cailian how to use it, and ordered her to bring ten masks to meet Lan Guiren in person to please Lan Guiren.
Of course, Li Weiguo naturally had his intentions in spending so much effort to please Lan Guiren. He knew very well that in another five or six years, Lan Guiren would become the Empress Dowager Cixi and ascend to the peak of power in the Qing court.
Li Weiguo didn't know if he had enough strength to directly confront the Qing court at that time, so for the sake of safety, he sent people to give gifts to Lan Guiren under various pretexts for three days and two days to curry favor with Lan Guiren in case of future needs.
Recently, Li Weiguo privately sent troops across the river into the Anhui territory, although in the name of chasing and suppressing the Taiping army, Wu Yong also sent a fold to the imperial court in advance and also obtained approval, but the ministers of the court are not fools, Li Weiguo sent troops first and then asked for the order was soon known to them. What's more, under the banner of chasing and suppressing the Taiping Army, Li Weiguo actually went to Buyang, Anhui Province to rob his daughter-in-law, and he offended Hu Xueyan, a Huizhou business tycoon, and Pang Jingsong, the governor of Anhui.
Soon Pang Jingsong's impeachment was handed over to Xianfeng by Su Shun, and Hu Xueyan spent a lot of money on the officials in the capital, and helped Su Shun to speak ill of Li Weiguo at the court, which caused Xianfeng to be very annoyed.
If it weren't for Prince Gong Yixin's full protection of Li Weiguo, and if it weren't for Li Weiguo's Shanghai army playing a pivotal role in the front line of encircling and suppressing the Taiping Army, Xianfeng would have ordered Li Weiguo to be severely punished as soon as possible.
Although Xianfeng had not yet decided how to deal with Li Weiguo's crossing of the border with his troops to rob his relatives, Li Weiguo still decided to ask Lan Guiren to help say good things, so he specially made a mask for beautification and sent someone to send it in person.
However, Li Weiguo also has a hidden purpose this time, that is, he wants to test the details of the Lan nobles.
The true life experience of the Empress Dowager Cixi in history has always been a mystery, and people from all walks of life in later generations have gone through many researches, saying that Cixi is indeed a banner person, and that Cixi is a woman of the Han family, the evidence on both sides is very sufficient, and it has been argued so far that it is impossible to distinguish the winner or loser.
Li Weiguo also had some gossip, he also wanted to know the true life experience of Lan Guiren, so he sent people to inquire around, after all, Lan Guiren was only sixteen or seventeen years old at this time, and most of the people who knew the details were still alive, which was far easier than re-investigating one or two hundred years later.
Li Weiguo's people accidentally learned from the Yehenala Clan's mansion that Lan Guiren had two consecutive birthdays in a year when he was a child, which attracted Li Weiguo's attention, so he deliberately sent someone to pick lotus to see Lan Guiren in the name of celebrating his birthday on this day, just to test Lan Guiren's reaction.
For Li Weiguo, he hopes that Lan Guiren is a woman of the Han family, because in this way, she will have the handle to fall into the hands of Li Weiguo, and once Lan Guiren becomes the Empress Dowager Cixi in the future, it will benefit Li Weiguo a lot from the future development of strength, and it is a talisman and a token to avoid death.
Of course, this kind of thing needs time to be verified slowly, and Li Weiguo is not in a hurry. The first important task he gave to Cailian was to find a way to stay by Lan Guiren's side, as a nail in the palace, and collect intelligence for Li Weiguo.
Therefore, Li Weiguo came up with a way to give Lan Guiren a mask, this thing is so attractive to women that Lan Guiren absolutely can't refuse, only Cailian knows how to make and use it.
Sure enough, after using it once, Lan Guiren's skin was obviously fairer, so she was very happy, so she left Cailian by her side, and asked Cailian to make a mask for her every day to help her beautify.
"Which palace people did Li Weiguo give this mask to?" Lan Guiren asked suddenly.
"If you go back to the master, Lord Li will only give it to Lan Guiren!" Cai Lian replied truthfully.
Lan Guiren glanced at Xiao Yu, who nodded, obviously investigating.
Lan Guiren suddenly laughed and said: "I'm just a small nobleman, I haven't come out yet, and I can't compare with the queen and other concubines, why did Li Weiguo only give me one." You must know that if this mask is given to the queen or other concubines, they can give Li Weiguo more benefits. ”
Cai Lian smiled slightly and replied: "The master doesn't know, my family said that he only recognizes Lan Guiren, and said that only Lan Guiren will be able to lead the harem in the future." ”
Lan Guiren was very satisfied when he heard this, and said, "Li Weiguo actually pressed the treasure on me alone, this bet is not small!" ”
After a pause, Lan Guiren continued: "Recently, I helped the emperor review the book, but I saw many civil and military officials impeaching Master Li! ”
Cai Lian immediately said: "Please also ask the master to say a few more kind words for my family in front of the emperor, my family will not dare to forget the master's great kindness!" ”
Lan Guiren smiled and said, "Sure enough, it is a short mouth and a short hand!" That's it, for Li Weiguo's sake, I'll help him! ”
Lan Guiren said that he would help, and in the afternoon of the same day, Xianfeng recruited Lan Guiren to help him write and approve the folds. Lan Guiren then skillfully used his words and deliberately avoided the political topic of Li Weiguo privately leading troops to cross the border and rob his relatives, only saying that Li Weiguo was affectionate and righteous, and as long as such a person was kind and favorable, he would do things for the court wholeheartedly.
Sure enough, it was still the person on the side of the pillow who could make Xianfeng listen to it, Xianfeng thought about it, Li Weiguo didn't just rob a woman, this kind of thing is very common for officials, which powerful person has not robbed a woman. So he ordered Lan Guiren to ghostwrite and gave Li Weiguo an edict, the front was severely reprimanded and scared, and the back praised the merit of entering the Taiping Army, and the credit was offset and not investigated.
Lan Guiren was careful and knew that Li Weiguo was from Prince Gong's side of Yixin, so he immediately ordered the eunuch to hand over this edict directly to Yixin, and quickly sent it out through Yixin's hand, so as to avoid Su Shun and others being stopped halfway and prevent further accidents.
Soon after Su Shun and others learned about it, it was too late to stop them, and they came to see Xianfeng to impeach Li Weiguo, but Yi Xin found the bottom of the stairs for Xianfeng on the grounds that the king's order could not be changed to the order of the emperor, and the matter was over. (To be continued......)