Chapter 954: Picking Thorns
Several eunuchs in this place received the edict of the Empress Dowager Yang and went to the camp at the mouth of the Sand Valley as angels.
The leader is called Wang Conghui, which is one of the yellow doors that the Empress Dowager Yang is accustomed to, and he rarely has this good opportunity, which is to study in detail, visit around, and then go back to the palace to talk, and do a beautiful trip, so that the Empress Dowager Yang knows that although she is an old person, she may not be as good as the new Cui Yongchen, Zhu Baoshi and others, and they can generally be of great use.
His people have the intention to do this errand brilliantly, and they have made serious preparations before departure, because they are counting the work handed over by the water supervisor of Nadu, and here in Shagukou, there are still ten days of construction, although they are also in a hurry, they do not feel that they are in a hurry, but they just go according to the itinerary.
Everyone seemed to think that after arriving, there should be a lot of effort to inquire - after all, they had already inquired about other eunuchs in the palace who had gone out on errands, and said that generally speaking, unless Huang Xianggong, Fan Dashen and others were personally in charge, no matter whether it was a big work or a small matter, the construction period would be three or two points slower than originally expected, and it would be delayed for several days, or even more than a dozen people, which was the norm, and it was not uncommon to delay it for one or two months.
Who knew that when the group waited for the place, it was evening, and it was actually a group banquet before leaving.
When the king came to the camp, he heard an earth-shattering cry, and thought that it was a new means for everyone, and that it was used to welcome him. He was still thinking in his heart, although his party was an angel and deserved courtesy, but this scale was a bit too big, and he was waiting to give an explanation, so he wouldn't want to work like this in the future.
Who knew that before everyone entered the door, the officials of the capital water supervisor came out to greet them, and only then did they know that they were a step too late, and the matter of guiding Luo Tongbian had been completed.
It was obviously a little surprising to see them in the camp, but taking advantage of the situation, he invited the angels to give bounties to the people, so as to show the importance of the palace on this matter.
After running around for a few days, and tired all night, he returned to the banquet, and after returning to the room, Wang Conghui was already sore.
But the pain in the body is still secondary, how to dissolve the pain in the heart?
When the errand is done like this, the rest of the people don't think there's anything, but when they see something, they go back and say anything.
But Wang Conghui was not.
He is the leader, and he should first go back to the Empress Dowager Yang, if he can't say anything powerful, the plain will pass, how can he appear to be powerful? Isn't this opportunity a wasted one?
Lying on the hard bunk, Wang Conghui tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
It is important to know that it is not as good as it was now.
Since the Empress Dowager Yang lowered the curtain, the situation in the palace can be called a change in a few days.
As the Yellow Gate in the Tsinghua Palace, he has always served by the side of the Empress Dowager Yang, and he really jumped up, but since overnight, he has become hot.
However, before the good days had passed, Wang Conghui noticed that something was wrong.
Whether it is the Yellow Gate or the palace people around the Empress Dowager Yang, it was originally picked by the former Emperor Zhao Rui.
Zhao Rui was looking for someone to serve his queen, so naturally he couldn't find a powerful one. He knew that Empress Dowager Yang's intelligence was not outstanding, and if she met a human spirit and was a big bully, she was afraid that it would take a long time for her to figure it out.
Wang Conghui is a typical example.
He is ordinary regardless of qualifications and ability, and has been with the Empress Dowager Yang for many years, at first he was serving food and daily life, and later helping to take care of chores.
After Empress Dowager Yang gained power, she first got Cui Yongchen, and then Zhu Baoshi and others, everyone was very powerful, whether it was government or personnel, and even the old rules, laws, and household registration, all of them could be handled.
However, Wang Conghui took care of chores as usual, and he couldn't intervene in one of the others, and over time, he was naturally excluded.
He was already holding his breath, and was about to look for an opportunity to run an errand, but who knew that he met Xu Jizong, the inner attendant, and returned to Beijing.
Zhu Baoshi and Cui Yongchen are all old people who have followed the emperor and the empress dowager for many years, but that Xu Jizong is clearly still a tender bird who has not shaken the smell of urine, not to mention entering the palace later than him, when it comes to seniority, it is too little to respectfully call him a grandfather, but after returning to the palace, he became a celebrity next to the Empress Dowager Yang.
Wang Conghui naturally didn't dare to blame Empress Dowager Yang for not remembering the old feelings, and forgetting the old people when there were newcomers, but it was really difficult for him to control his dissatisfaction with Xu Jizong.
Zhu Baoshi is in charge of the Imperial City Division, and he has to go out on business trips every day. Cui Yongchen was old, and Empress Dowager Yang was sympathetic to him, and when he was over, he asked him to go back to rest. But this Xu Jizong, for some reason, is so shameless, obviously he is already a workshop envoy and an attendant, and he actually went to Ciming Palace to serve the Queen Mother day and night.
Although as soon as he entered the palace and made the Yellow Gate, he had already given up his ancestors and had no face, but he was so bad, this surnamed Xu was also a regimental training envoy, and he was still shameless? !
And Empress Dowager Yang didn't even refuse!
Seeing that his errand was robbed and his seat was occupied, how could he not make Wang Conghui grit his teeth?
He easily got this one outing, and he wanted to take advantage of it to get credit, but it was too late, he couldn't see anything, the canal had been opened, the project had been completed, and he could only ask some subtleties, how could he show his ability?
Tossing and turning all night, the next morning, Wang Conghui stared at a pair of bloodshot eyes, called the officials in the camp early in the morning, and followed the other party to visit the camp here, the place where the Luoshui flows into the river, the water shortage built on the south embankment of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and many other places.
Along the way, Wang Conghui became more and more panicked.
Water conservancy is different from the rest, there are many difficulties in it, he thinks he has made a lot of preparations, but he still doesn't know everything when he goes down. He could only listen to whatever the accompanying officials told him, and even if he asked some questions, they were all inconsequential, and they were not at all serious.
The more he listened, the more terrifying he felt.
This time, I really can't fault it.
It was completed ahead of schedule, and the water entry went smoothly, although two water shortages are still under construction, but they are also according to the original plan.
He even felt it was an eye-opener.
It turned out that this was the way things were done, and it turned out that they could act like this, so thoughtfully, that they couldn't complain that this major water conservancy project of nearly 100,000 workers was completed in only 45 days!
However, the better Shagukou did here, the more Wang Conghui's heart sank.
If you want to show your ability in front of Empress Dowager Yang, in his opinion, the fastest and best way is to pick more thorns and praise less after you go back.
The more thorns you pick, the more you can show that you are doing everything with your heart this time, and you are working hard to study everything - only if you are familiar with it, you can find the fault, if you are not familiar, you can only praise it?