Chapter 196: Life is better than death
The crown prince was famous and became a student of Wang Fei.
Not only does the emperor like this eunuch who entered the palace halfway, but the crown prince also likes him.
He is not like others, he always likes to educate the prince, only he is responsive to the prince's needs, and he often takes the prince to play games when he is fine.
He taught the prince to read while playing.
Later, he played a word splitting game, wrote the radicals on small pieces of paper, and each person produced one until two could spell one word, and the winner took it.
The prince gradually liked this game, and after the class, he played this game with Wang Fei.
Of course, most of Wang Fei let him so that he could be interested, and Brother Zhen won eight times out of ten.
lost twice, and it was Wang Fei who reminded the prince Zhen with facts that he had to learn to read and write.
In this way, the prince likes to read and write, and in the game, Wang Fei also teaches the prince some words.
At that time, Empress Dowager Zhang was also very relieved to see him teach the prince to read and write, and Lian'er was also very satisfied.
When the prince was older and more literate, he began to form words.
Write the words on the cards, one for each person, until there are two words that can form a word, and the winner takes away the two cards that make up the word, and finally counts whoever has more cards wins.
Later, I wrote the words on the card and started the sentences······
It was under such circumstances that Prince Zhen'er made rapid progress in learning, which was very pleasing to the emperor.
So at that time, the eunuch Wang Fei was still praised by everyone.
It was because Wang Fei was literate that the emperor decided to teach eunuchs to read and write in the third year.
If the emperor wants to play, he will try his best to let the cabinet handle some state affairs, and let the eunuchs take the processed documents to the emperor for review.
At that time, the emperor mainly relied on these eunuchs to handle some personal affairs for him and deal with some private documents.
For example, the emperor wanted to go to the music square to have fun and find some girls to make games, so he asked the eunuch to arrange it.
In this way, the minister can be hidden.
Of course, there are also personal matters such as having no money to spend, asking the eunuch to go out of the palace to get money from Sister Hua, which is all done by the eunuch.
In addition, if the eunuch is educated and can settle accounts, he will go to Sister Hua to calculate how much bonus the emperor should get.
Ma Ya told Sister Hua that the emperor would give as much silver as he wanted.
Why not give it?!
Now Ma Ya is in Sister Hua's place, which is equivalent to setting up a treasury sub-treasury, Ma Ya spends silver, of course, she also has to bring the emperor to spend silver.
In addition to making money, Ma Ya also poured some treasures from the emperor.
For example, once Ma Ya went to the emperor and took a fancy to the vase fired in the official kiln on the emperor's table.
Ma Ya took it to heart.
After some days, the emperor went to the horse mansion to play, and Ma Ya gambled with the emperor to fight crickets.
Ma Ya said that this is a big bet.
The emperor has no concept of silver, and it doesn't matter how old you are, but the emperor forgot that he can't gamble with Ma Ya with the silver from the treasury, he has to gamble with Ma Ya with private money.
So, the emperor lost, Ma Ya immediately asked for silver taels, and the emperor asked his father-in-law next to him to give Ma Ya silver.
Not so much!
Ma Ya proposed to the emperor, saying that the pair of vases in the emperor's study was good, or take the mortgage.
The emperor is not a fool, of course he knows that it is the only one in the world and is priceless, and in the end, after negotiating, Ma Ya gave the emperor three thousand taels of silver, and then asked the eunuch to bring out the pair of vases.
The eunuch is here in Ma Ya, but he has no less benefits from Ma Ya, Ma Ya is three or two hundred and twenty one bribes, Ma Ya is okay anymore, knocking and beating the eunuch, the meaning is like coercion and temptation, so the eunuchs around the emperor, that pair of Ma Ya are obedient.
They also knew Ma Ya's previous methods, and they easily did not provoke this celebrity in the emperor's mind.
They didn't dare to sue Ma Ya in front of the emperor, because there was a precedent.
There was a eunuch who said in front of the emperor that Ma Ya was not, and as a result, the eunuch was transferred to the imperial horse prison to do miscellaneous work, and he was never used.
Wang Fei taught the crown prince Brother Zhen, and there was a jade brother, and the emperor Ji'er asked Ma Ya to find a gentleman to teach him, he was not good at sending people from the Hanlin Academy to teach, that would be tantamount to leaking.
Ma Ya thought.
This has to find a female gentleman, because considering that Wu's character is not very good, if she sits on the same bed with her husband and rolls the sheets, it will be a joke.
I invited a female gentleman and lived in Mahua Mansion.
It is not difficult to find a cultured female gentleman.
Some of the daughters of the families of the fallen officials were confiscated to serve in the palace, and Ma Ya selected a girl with excellent character and learning from among them.
This requires not only people, but also silver, and Ma Ya spent money to buy this girl.
For the girl, she is grateful to Dedemay.
You must know that in the imperial court, you have to work as a coolie, and in Mahua Mansion, she is the Pope's son who is literate, and this job is easy enough, and her life is much higher than that of ordinary subordinates.
For Mr., Ma Ya approved her to eat the same as the prince Yu Ge and the Wu family.
Of course, this expenditure will be counted on the emperor's head.
This is not a small expense, this is a silver from the treasury to feed, this is top secret.
Of course, Ma Ya has to make a big profit.
For example, it only cost 10,000 taels of silver, and Ma Ya lied about 50,000 taels, but after the eunuchs ran errands back and forth and spent a lot of words, they finally got it for 35,000 taels.
Ma Ya said, this is the same as business, you have to let the emperor bargain!
If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, for the emperor, Ma Ya wants this bit of silver is not expensive.
The emperor made a counteroffer, because he also knew that Ma Ya would lie, so he discounted half of it, and then let Ma Ya bargain.
This is an interesting thing, and the emperor is happy to negotiate with Ma Ya.
After Ma Ya took the silver, he still asked for a favor from the emperor: "Your Majesty, you just met my Ma Ya kind-hearted, what if you try someone else?" You said that you spent a flower outside, and spent a prince and put it in my place to hide it, and you have to ask me to run for you, what do I want? I'm just looking at our friendship for many years! ”
Ma Ya's bold words, the emperor Ji'er has long been accustomed to it, and he laughed at it, he knew that Ma Ya was very ghostly!
Well, in order to make the plot compact and not write a running account, let's let the time pass quickly.
The emperor has nothing to say so far, he is his emperor, he still likes to fight crickets, he still likes to go to those girls in the flower building to play games.
Of course, during his reign, the country and the people were safe, and nothing happened.
The battles that should be fought have to be fought, but compared to the Fukang period, they are all small fights and are not worth mentioning.
Emperor Jier and Ma Ya are still good partners as always, and Ma Ya uses the imperial power of Emperor Jier to make a lot of money in the household department and the Ministry of Industry.
By the tenth year of Hongde, Ma Ya had already obtained a lot of treasures from the emperor, commonly known as antique calligraphy and painting, a rare treasure.
In Ma Ya's words: Your Majesty, your baby will play with me for two days.
When the baby arrives at Ma Ya, there will be no return.
What a strange secret.
But to talk about it, the emperor really likes Ma Ya and really regards Ma Ya as a friend, otherwise, Ma Ya's head would have fallen to the ground a long time ago.
Okay, about the emperor's foundation, let's say goodbye to him, because there is nothing more to say about him.
Time moved back to the tenth year of Hongde, and Emperor Ji'er died after being cured of illness at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.
What kind of disease does the emperor Ji'er suffer, don't ask, it is that he is extravagant and has no moderation.
The Taoist priest gave him a pill, and that thing was taken for a long time, so it was strange that he didn't want his life.
Emperor Fu Kang died on this, can he not die?
I think that at the beginning, Ma Ya asked the Taoist priest to refine this pill for the emperor Ji'er to use in order for him to have fewer children and more contact with beautiful women, and Ji'er was in pleasure.
Getting the news of the death of the emperor, Ma Ya still felt a faint pain in her heart.
Although they are enemies, they have been in the situation for so long, and the emperor Ji'er is indeed good to Ma Ya.
However, Ma Ya is not confused, Ma Ya is not a little woman, and she will not care too much about this friendship that can no longer continue, she has to do the right thing!
Ma Ya asked Sister Hua to pass the news of the emperor's death to Feng Qinghui as soon as possible, and let Feng Qinghui's subordinates spread it to Ma Ya's brother, who was thousands of miles away.
Ma Ya told her brother that his son was about to ascend the throne as emperor, and that their branch finally had a bright future.
Brother Ma Ya was crazy that day, and he almost told the concubine married by Hualou this secret after drinking.
Fortunately, there was an old mother by his side to remind him.
And this old mother, she has been with Ma Ya's brother for many years, and she was also good at kung fu when she was young.
Now serving by his side, Ma Ya asked her to remind him often not to get carried away.
Well, the emperor Ji'er died, and there was a last word before his death, asking the crown prince to succeed to the throne, and the state affairs need to listen to his grandmother's opinion, and he must discuss with his grandmother more before making a decision.
Emperor Ji'er passed the decree on his deathbed, after his death, everything was simple, the vassal king adhered to the fiefdom and ensured the safety of the fief, and officials in remote areas such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Fujian, Guizhou and other remote areas did not have to enter the palace to hang filial piety.
The emperor asked officials from all over the country to appease the people, and to focus on production in order to ensure the peace of the country and the people······
Before his death, Emperor Ji'er asked Wu's mother and son in Huafu to move into the palace and give Wu a virtuous concubine.
At this point, Wu has obtained an official title, and she is grateful to Ma Ya back then.
After the crown prince Brother Zhen succeeded to the throne, in February, he named his younger brother Brother Yu, whom he had never met, as the king of Chen, and stayed in the northern capital.
Why did you want to leave Brother Yu in Beidu, because the prince is too young, and he is such a half-brother, he has to have a companion.
Besides, this decision was not made by the emperor Zhenge, but by the Empress Dowager Zhang.
The Zhang family set up a group, which was basically based on the living leadership of the emperor, and let them assist the young emperor.
At the court meeting, the ministers all suggested that the empress dowager listen to the government, but this suggestion was rejected by Zhang.
Of course, the reason for Zhang's refusal was that it violated the ancestral system.
I think Emperor Taizu said when he was on the throne that women in the harem are not allowed to interfere in politics.
Queen Ma, who has such a good relationship with Emperor Taizu, did not interfere in the government affairs.
Of course, she saved several ministers, and when the emperor wanted to attack the richest man in Suzhou that year, it was Empress Ma who pleaded for her in front of Emperor Taizu, and Emperor Taizu gave her a lenient sentence.
The Empress Dowager did not listen to the government, the reason why she did this was because she knew that she was old, and she would die one day.
If after she leaves, the emperor is still young, won't the power of listening to the government fall into the hands of the Queen Mother Lian'er? !
This is dangerous, because Lian'er is young after all, she is only in her thirties.
If she also monopolizes power like Empress Wu, then the court is likely to change her surname.
So Zhang was far-sighted, and she rejected the minister's proposal.
But for the government affairs, the first emperor Jier said that the emperor wanted the emperor to discuss more with the empress dowager Zhang before making a decision.
So in fact, the Zhang family still holds the power of the imperial court.
The original Queen Mother Party finally gained the upper hand.
After the emperor Zhen became the emperor, he naturally wanted to use the people around him, once a son of heaven and a courtier.
In this way, the emperor Zhen Ge used Wang Fei as the eunuch of the master of ceremonies to hold the seal, and Wang Fei came to the front desk.
This promotion is also normal, and the ministers think it is not surprising.
Who doesn't need the person they trust the most?!
Zhang's first consideration was that the emperor was young, and when she took the emperor to a stage, if she kicked her legs one day, at least there would be intimate people around the emperor who often reminded the emperor that the power could not fall into the hands of the young Queen Mother Lian'er.
The Empress Dowager is relieved that Ma Ya was driven away by herself, if Ma Ya does not leave, the Empress Dowager is really anxious.
The Empress Dowager is even afraid that Ma Ya will send her to heaven early, which is not enough for someone like Ma Ya to do!
The Empress Dowager also often beats the people around the emperor.
Especially Wang Fei, he called him to scold him if he was fine.
Wang Feicheng was terrified, sometimes he didn't know why the Empress Dowager called him to scold, he didn't do anything wrong, he has always been conscientious and cautious by the emperor's side.
Wang Fei thought, this empress dowager is also in her fifties, why did she suddenly lose her temper with herself? Didn't she recognize herself before?!
Once, Wang Fei almost peed scared.
That time, the Empress Dowager pointed at Wang Fei's nose and scolded, scolding him for being a dog slave? I'm going to pull him out and cut him down.
After the Empress Dowager finished speaking, the female official knife beside her was on Wang Fei's neck, so frightened that Wang Fei knelt there and wept bitterly, begging the Empress Dowager to spare his life, he was willing to do the dirtiest and most tiring work.
At that time, the little emperor Shangzhen also knelt in front of the queen mother and begged her to give Wang Fei a chance.
Zhang sighed, let go of Wang Fei, and still let him reinstate his position.
What else would you do?! She said to others, she has to give the emperor a son, right?!
In fact, the Empress Dowager is also to scare the king!
Wang Fei has been by the emperor's side since then, and he does not dare to make the slightest mistake, he uploads and distributes, and he is also respectful and respectful to the cabinet scholars, which makes people seem to think that he is okay and very modest.
But in Wang Fei's heart, the hidden heart has never settled.
It's just that there is a queen mother in front of him to stop him, in his words, this old immortal······
The old immortal Zhang has never forgotten the biggest eunuch leader in the palace, and he has never been kind to him.
In the words of the little eunuch, when Lord Wang saw the Empress Dowager, his legs shook involuntarily, which is probably the sequelae of being scared by the female official next to the Empress Dowager with a knife on her neck last time.
The point is that Wang Fei never knew what he had done wrong, and he was often called to be scolded by Zhang.
For this reason, he didn't know how many times he slapped himself in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang.
Wang Zhu's heart is bitter.
The emperor Zhen brother was also unhappy in his heart.
Once, he said to Wang Fei: "Alas, if you follow me, you will be considered unlucky!" ”
Wang Fei bowed in front of the emperor and said: "The slave is willing to smear the emperor's liver and brain, and the slave's heart is blood-red!" ”
Wang Fei didn't know how many times he said this.
Sometimes he cautiously went to the emperor, saying that his life would be gone at some point.
Because Wang Fei was always scolded by the Zhang family in the palace, I don't know when Lafayette got angry, his head fell to the ground.
It is no secret that Wang Fei was scolded, and everyone in the palace knew it.
The cabinet ministers all felt that the Empress Dowager had gone too far with the king.
Once, the Empress Dowager summoned members of the cabinet, and when she chatted with them, she mentioned the ancestral system and that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in internal affairs.
The Empress Dowager hoped that she would stop talking, and the cabinet ministers would restrain these eunuchs.
When they came out of the Empress Dowager, they understood why Wang Fei was always scolded.
The Queen Mother, this is the thief who captures the king first!
She took down the most powerful eunuch Wang Fei, and called him to scold him if he had nothing to do, because she wanted him to be afraid in his heart and not dare to do anything wrong.
When the rest of the eunuchs saw that Wang Fei was like this, they didn't dare to have the slightest power.
During the period when the Empress Dowager assisted the emperor Zhenge, she also killed several eunuchs and used capital punishment on them, which also shocked those eunuchs.
However, there is one thing that the former emperor Ji'er did not expect, that is, during his reign, he let the eunuchs learn culture, which is not a good thing for the imperial court.
Culture is a double-edged sword, and it mainly depends on who uses it.
A person like Wang Fei, he is not willing to be mediocre.
Since you are not willing to be mediocre, you have to make a career.
If you want to do something in the palace, you have to be in power.
But now, Wang Fei is in power, but he seems to be walking on the tip of a knife every day, and he doesn't know when he was called by the Queen Mother to scold him again.
In those five or six years, what he was most afraid of was that a eunuch would pass on him: Lord Wang, Lafayette will pass you on to meet him.
Whenever he heard this, his heart was cold, his legs and stomach were shaking involuntarily, and on his way to the palace of the Empress Dowager, he thought about what he had done in recent days, and whether he had done anything lacking in virtue.
Every time he always felt that his things were right, but every time he went, he had to be scolded, inexplicably scolded.
Even if the emperor did something wrong, the empress dowager blamed the king for this in addition to correcting the emperor's mistakes.
At that time, Wang Fei, if he allowed it, he really wanted to go back to teaching.
It is said that where there is oppression, there is resistance. And Wang Fei's heart is cold.
Does he dare to rebel against the Empress Dowager? Even if he had ten heads, it wouldn't be enough to cut off!
It is said that a companion is like a tiger, he is not accompanied by the Queen Mother, and this tigress will turn him upside down if he is fine.
He is like the prey of the tigress, the tigress will nag him with her paws, Wang Fei really has a feeling that life is worse than death!
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