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The little eunuch who was sent to pass on the word was called Li Xi'er, and he was an orphan when he was sent to the palace, and no one knew who his father and mother were, and he didn't know who his father and mother were, so he naturally had no surname. According to the rules of the palace, all new people who enter the palace must be brought by the master, and most of the original surnames are not used, but the master's surname is used, so Xi'er changed his master's surname to Li.

The name Xi'er was also given by Eunuch Li, who entered the palace in the early years of Wanli, and never made a name for himself in his life, so he was an ordinary miscellaneous eunuch in Shangbaojian, with no desires and no desires, but he was also safe. Eunuch Li was very good to Xi'er, but unfortunately he died of illness the year before last, and Xi'er took over the errand before his death. Last month, when Wang Qinian selected the eunuchs to serve in the Wei Mansion in the palace, he saw that Xi'er was young, handsome, and quite clever, so he took him to the Wei Mansion.

He has been in the Wei Mansion for a while, so Xi'er knows that usually at this point, the old man of Wei Gonggong must not be resting, and there must be a few fathers-in-law of the celebrant who are there, as for who the outer court is, he doesn't know, after all, he is just a little eunuch who is waiting, and Xi'er can't know many things very clearly.

Sometimes Xi'er thinks about it, Grandpa Wei is actually quite difficult, don't look very majestic, but in fact, life is also hard. It doesn't count as a day of hard work in the palace during the day.,When you go back to the house at night, you have to talk to the people below before you sleep.,If you come to ask to see.,I'll meet with the person who came immediately.,If you don't finish the matter, you won't go to sleep.。

What is Grandpa Wei busy with, Xi'er doesn't know, but he is sure that Grandpa Wei must be sharing his worries for the emperor, otherwise why would his old man be so wronged by himself?

Thinking of the tiredness of Father-in-law Wei sometimes sitting alone in the room, Xi'er couldn't help but feel sorry for him, just ask, who has been a father-in-law throughout the ages who can do his duty for the emperor like Father-in-law Wei?

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After carrying the lantern across the corridor and turning into a garden, Xi'er saw that the study of Gonggong Wei not far away was lit up, and there were faint human voices, vaguely as if it was the voice of Gonggong Liang.

The study is on the east side of the courtyard, the front is the size of two rooms, and it is full of books, because she has never entered the inner study hall, so Xi'er is illiterate, and she doesn't know what books are on the shelves. But he heard that Grandpa Wei was actually illiterate, and the books in his study were just putting on the façade and pretending, but Grandpa Wei had never turned over a copy.

I don't know how to read but put so many books, for the strange hobby of Father-in-law Wei, Xi'er can't figure it out, but Father-in-law is a big man, and a big man must be different...

After checking the sign with the brocade guard on duty in the garden, Xi'er walked cautiously towards the study, not daring to make a little noise. Father-in-law Liang was still talking in the house, so Xi'er didn't dare to come forward and knock on the door, so she could only stand outside the door respectfully and wait. When he was bored, he pricked up his ears to listen to what his father-in-law was saying.

What was talking in the room was the eunuch Bingbi of the celebrant eunuch, Liang Dong who was in charge of the wine and vinegar noodle bureau, he was one of Wei Zhongxian's important helpers in the inner court, and the thing he was talking about at this time was the matter of purchasing wine and vinegar in the next moon palace, which was not a big deal, but because Wei Zhongxian asked them to report everything one by one, so Liang Dong came to report the matter.

In addition to Liang Dong, there are a few people in the house, sitting on Liang Dong is a very fat eunuch, who looks like a rich man, about forty years old, this person's name is Li Yongzhen, is a jade belt with the hall of the master of the ceremony and the palm seal of the internal official supervisor, the status is much higher than Liang Dong, and the status of the master of ceremonies is second only to the palm print eunuch Wang Tiqian.

The two people sitting opposite Liang and Li were not eunuchs, but Sun Yunhe, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Huo Weihua, the squire of the military department.

Sun Yunhe, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, is the leader of Wei Zhongxian's personal guard, and his main errand on weekdays is to protect Wei Zhongxian, which can be said to be inseparable, and he also lives in Wei Mansion at night, so he is often called by Wei Zhongxian to discuss matters. In fact, he couldn't interject anything, he listened most of the time, when Wei Zhongxian asked him for his opinion, the answer was "everything is up to the father-in-law", and over time, people who knew him called him "Mr. Yes" behind his back. Sun Yunhe was not annoyed by this nickname, but thought it was true, and he felt quite comfortable.

Huo Weihua, the squire of the Ministry of War, is a protégé of Ye Xianggao, the first assistant of the cabinet, but at this moment he has left the Donglin Party to serve Wei Zhongxian, which can be regarded as a complete line with the Donglin Party and Ye Xianggao, and since then "the grievances and grievances are clear". This person is very capable of doing things, and he has won Wei Zhongxian's trust. The purpose of his coming to the Wei Mansion was because of one thing, yesterday Sun Chengzong, who was a scholar of the military department and a scholar of Dongge University, went to the imperial court and asked for the formation of Guanning cavalry in Liaodong to deal with the Jurchen Tartars, but Liaodong lacked horses, and Sun Chengzong could not get together the war horses he needed, so he asked the court to allocate the corresponding war horses.

If there is a shortage of horses, it is a matter of course, not to mention that it is related to the border affairs of Liaodong, and it cannot be delayed, but the problem is that there are no horses in the imperial court. During today's court meeting, the cabinet said that the lack of horses in Liaodong should be solved by Sun Chengzong himself, and he could buy it with the Mongols, whether it was silver or grain, in short, the matter of this war horse had to be solved by Sun Chengzong himself, and the court could not help it.

It's okay to buy a horse, but the key is where does the money come from? The war in Liaodong has been eroding for several years, and the salary of Liaodong has been increasing every year, and the treasury has been unable to make ends meet, where is there still excess silver to buy horses!

But without horses, you can't build cavalry, without cavalry, you can't compete with the Tartars, you can't compete with the Tartars, the Ming Dynasty will be beaten everywhere, trapped in a passive situation, so that the annual consumption of Liao has to continue to be allocated, when is this a head?

Huo Weihua was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the Donglin Party to stop collecting commercial taxes and mining taxes after entering the cabinet, because the most direct consequence of this was that the annual salary had to come from the fields! It means that the burden on the people is heavier than before!

What is Tian Fu? That's really pulled out of the mouths of the common people! Since ancient times, the increase in the burden of the people will inevitably lead to civil strife, so for the sake of the Ming Society, Huo Weihua can't let the Donglin Party continue to act like this, otherwise, sooner or later, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed by them! Therefore, he resolutely broke away from the Donglin Party and took refuge under Wei Zhongxian, wanting to use Wei Zhongxian's power to overthrow the Donglin Party, so that he could revitalize the dynasty and save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water.

But in the two years since he took refuge in Wei Zhongxian, although his official position has been promoted, and he has jumped from the engineering department of the fifth grade to the military department of the third grade, but the imperial court is still controlled by the Donglin Party, and the cabinet and the key yamen of the six departments are still controlled by the Donglin Party, and Wei Zhongxian did not clearly express that he wanted to bring down the Donglin Party, so even if Huo Weihua had the heart, he was powerless and could only wait for the day when Wei Zhongxian was "forced" to make a move. Before that, he had to fulfill his duty as a courtier, and as a soldier in the army, it was necessary for him to solve the problem of lack of horses for Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong is the teacher of the emperor today, but he is also the Donglin Party, but this does not affect Huo Weihua's decision to help him, Yu Gong is public, Yu private is private, Huo Weihua will never harm the public with his own privacy, but how to help Sun Chengzong, he has no idea, Liang Dong said this, he has been thinking about this matter in his head, thinking about it, but there is no way at all.