Chapter 156: Private Return
Zhang Wengui's eyes were split, and the eunuch pointed the dagger full of barbs to him, but before the dagger was pierced into his body, he had already begun to twitch involuntarily.
"Don't worry, our people have good craftsmanship." Cao Yu said with a smile on his face: "The blood beads are more round than the other." ”
Cao Yu instructed: "Show him another trick." ”
The eunuch picked up a few horrific torture tools and introduced them to Zhang Wengui, but Zhang Wengui, who was already scared, actually peed his pants in the end.
Cao Yu said disdainfully: "Look at this point. ”
Zhang Wengui was paralyzed on the ground, his face was bloody, his hair was unkempt, and he just entered the East Factory to look like a tiger and a tiger, and there was only fear and despair left in his eyes.
He was afraid, he was really afraid.
"I confessed earlier, and suffered less sin." Cao Alcohol nodded: "Ugly words can be said in the front, don't play tricks here in our house, do you know who you are who you can come to the East Factory?" ”
Zhang Wengui's body stiffened.
Cao Yu chuckled, with indifference in his tone: "The people who can come to our East Factory are not long alive, and the representative of our family here is the emperor." ”
The meaning of his words is very clear, Dongchang represents the emperor, and if you don't tell the truth here, you are deceiving the saint, the emperor wants to engage your Zhang family, you are still stubborn, and you are only left with death.
Zhang Wengui, who had eaten, drunk and had fun in the first half of his life, was not so good at braining, he only heard the first meaning, that is, he couldn't say what Dongchang wanted to hear today, and his life would be confessed here.
"Don't... Don't..."Zhang Wengui snorted and tears on his face, he lay on the ground and knocked his head like a dog: "I... Move, I move! ”
"Recruit what?" Cao Yu's tone changed, and the yin and yang strange qi dao.
The two eunuchs who were holding Zhang Wengui immediately slapped Zhang Wengui in the face, and nosebleeds spurted out instantly.
"I'll teach you." Cao Yu got up and took two steps forward, lifting Zhang Wengui's chin with his foot: "Our family invited you here because we received your denunciation letter, understand?" ”
"Ming... I see. Zhang Wengui's mouth was mixed with blood and said vaguely: "Little.. The little ones get it. ”
"That's very good." Cao Yu sat back on the main seat, and he ordered left and right with a little tiredness: "Go down and train well, adjust and teach, and don't kill people." ”
"It's the Overseer!" Several eunuchs in the hall immediately responded.
The moves of the eunuchs in Dongchang to clean up people under their hands are not a joke, and there are endless moves that make people survive and not die.
There is always a way for someone to change their minds.
Here Cao Yu beat Zhang Wengui Haosheng, and Cao Bo, the master of ceremonies in the palace over there, saw Lu Tang from Suzhou.
"Godfather, son, please godfather's Ann." Lu Tang immediately knelt down when he saw Cao Bo, his eyes were full of admiration: "My son thinks about your godfather every day in Suzhou. ”
Cao Bo hurriedly asked someone to help Lu Tang up, his eyes were full of love, among so many sons, his favorite was Lu Tang and a few of them, and when they met today, they seemed to have endless words.
"You've always had a sweet mouth." Cao Bo asked people to move Xiudun and put it beside him: "Sit down and talk back." ”
Lu Tang sat down stiffly, and he waited for Cao Bo to speak.
"As for your return, our family asked for long live Ming last night." Cao Bo said in a calm tone: "Long live you with a pure heart, and I will not pursue the crime of returning to the palace without permission." ”
"Godfather Ende's son can't be repaid!" Saying that, Lu Tang knelt down again and kowtowed firmly.
Cao Bo frowned and said: "This head is made of King Kong, what kind of kowtow here in our family, and when our family dies, you will kowtow again." ”
"Godfather talks about kindness, but his son can't ignore the rules, he must knock on this head." Lu Tang kowtowed a few more times: "My son has been unable to serve in front of his godfather all these years, and he is really guilty." ”
"Get up." Cao Bo glanced at the little eunuch who was waiting on the side and helped Lu Tang up: "I won't investigate the reason why you returned to the palace without permission, I don't say that you should understand it in your own heart, our family has just opened an opening." ”
Lu Tang smiled awkwardly.
When Emperor Qingwen took over the Daming Dynasty from his father, the whole country was already in shambles, the Chinese officials colluded with each other, there were many parties, one hand reached into the treasury, and all the money earned by the whole country went into the mouths of this group of giant beetles, Emperor Qingwen had no choice, he could only rely on the internal supervisors around him to circle money.
Salt supervisor, mine supervisor, weaving supervisor... He couldn't move any of them, even if he knew that these inner prisoners were insatiable, he had to tolerate them.
Therefore, when Lu Tang returned to the palace privately, Emperor Qingwen turned a blind eye.
He knew that he couldn't move these eunuchs, and he also knew that he was on the same line with these eunuchs, and he needed this group of people to fight against the outer courts, and this group of internal eunuchs also needed to live in his name.
The lack of one of the two is to fish with all your might.
"Don't tell our family when you come back, just to see our family." Cao Bo lifted his eyelids and looked straight at Lu Tang.
He has several promising sons under his hands, and he understands that Lu Tang was able to castrate himself into the palace back then, and he was even more ruthless to himself and others, and now he is running back to the palace without wind and rain, and things are by no means simple.
"My son does have something to say."
Lu Tang's eyes rolled, he actually had only one thing to do when he returned to Beijing this time, and that was to settle Cao Alcohol, but I don't know how the news leaked, and the news of his return spread everywhere, so he had to enter the palace to find Cao Bo as a cover.
Lu Tang went through his current errands in his heart, and picked a few important things to talk about.
It's not a big deal, so Cao Bo also pointed out a few words.
Later, Lu Tang picked the topic and asked: "This year, the Ministry of Officials has sent a large number of prisoners to Houhu to participate in the inventory of the Yellow Book, but what changes will there be in the court?" ”
The Yellow Book is checked once every ten years, but this year's inventory is very sudden, which makes Lu Tang scratch his head.
"It's the same as in previous years." Cao Bo didn't mind revealing some gossip with his son: "However, Banzai intends to add another membership." ”
The Yellow Book is the basis for a country to pay taxes on forced labor, there is a fundamental saying that the world's money and grain, and the basic saying of servitude, the Yellow Book is registered according to households, and the general households are divided into three classes, civilian, military, and craftsman, and there are several kinds of subdivisions.
Lu Tang was shocked: "What does the emperor mean? ”
"Those merchants in Jindi are making too much trouble, long live the intention of adding another merchant membership." Cao Bo said casually: "Long live wants money, as long as they can afford it, this matter can be decided." ”
Merchants have been lowly since ancient times, and their descendants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, and Taizu does not like merchants, and there is no such thing as a merchant in the Great Ming Law.
Now Emperor Qingwen wants to add business citizenship!
This news is like thunder on the ground, adding business status means that these businessmen's children can participate in the imperial examination, and rich businessmen will definitely use their family wealth to fight for this opportunity!
Good thing, that's a good thing.
All Lu Tang thought about was how he would manipulate his own territory and cut a wave of silver from the local gentry when this edict was issued.
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