Wei Zhongxian ran out excitedly holding Zhu Youxiao's imperial edict. He really didn't expect that one day he would become the chief of etiquette, eunuch Bingbi and admiral of the East Factory so soon.
what does that mean.
This means that he is already the top eunuch of the Ming Dynasty's inner court, and glory and wealth are undoubtedly within his reach.
But the Wei Dynasty was extremely disappointed at this time.
After he left Wang An, he still found it difficult to accept the reality that he was no longer the factory owner of Dongchang.
However, Wei Chao did not expect that Wang An would ask him to withdraw from the competition with Wei Zhongxian, and also ask him to take the initiative to please Wei Zhongxian.
This made the Wei Dynasty very unwilling.
When Wei Chao thought that he was also a royal eunuch and the emperor's first companion, he shouldn't have to fawn over Wei Zhongxian, who had just come to power.
In fact, Wei Chao hated Wei Zhongxian even more because of this incident. He felt that it was Wei Zhongxian who caused his current failure because of this villain who loved to work hard and flattered the Hakka family.
"Wei Zhongxian, you despicable villain!"
When he thought of this, Wei Chao gritted his teeth and cursed.
Unfortunately.
Wei Zhongxian happened to come out of Qianqing Palace at this time and met him.
When Wei Zhongxian first came to power, he had not yet reached the point where he became arrogant because he had been in power for a long time. At this time, he still habitually wanted to have a good relationship with everyone who was powerful.
So, Wei Zhongxian smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Eunuch Wei, are you going to see the emperor?"
This is a survival skill that Wei Zhongxian has learned since entering the palace. As long as he is worth making friends with, even if he is dissatisfied and disgusted with this person in his heart, he will greet him with a smile.
Just like most people who want to climb up in the workplace.
Wei Zhongxian is no exception.
There were hundreds of thousands of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and there were only twenty-four inner court offices. It took a lot of skills to step from a handyman to a powerful eunuch.
Wei Zhongxian now has these skills, otherwise he would not have become the eunuch of the Xixin Division, and now he has become the eunuch of the Bureau of Rites and Bingbi.
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian did not become arrogant as soon as he took power. Instead, he politely chatted with the eunuch Wei Chao who had bullied him not long ago.
After all, the Wei Dynasty is still the imperial eunuch and eunuch beside the emperor. No one can say that the emperor will reuse the Wei Dynasty again when he is happy.
The Wei Dynasty may not have a deep city, or it may not have changed its role. It still thinks that it is the most favored eunuch around the emperor, so it snorted: "Why, who should we meet like this?" Do you report it?"
As Wei Chao spoke, he scolded Wei Zhongxian: "Shameless villain!"
Then, Wei Chao swaggered past Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian gradually stopped smiling, and his eyes gradually showed a fierce look.
Although Wei Zhongxian was habitually polite to the powerful people in the inner court, he never thought about being a good person and being tolerant to anyone.
After Wei Chao left, Wei Zhongxian kept standing there, turned around and stared at Wei Chao for a while, his fists gradually clenched.
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"Your Majesty, let your servant come!"
When Wei Chao saw Zhu Youxiao polishing ink, he immediately ran over and offered his hand to polish Zhu Youxiao's ink.
Zhu Youxiao put down his hand and let him come.
"Your Majesty! I have thought it over clearly. I should not have been disrespectful to my mother, nor should I be so cruel in front of Eunuch Wei. I have disgraced you! You can punish me however you want! I will only ask your Majesty not to do it in the future. No slaves!"
Wei Chao pretended to be pitiful and spoke, and consciously changed the title of Wei Zhongxian to Eunuch Wei.
Zhu Youxiao just said "hmm".
"Actually, I didn't mean to be arrogant in front of the guest mother. I was also worried about the dignity of the guest mother. I was worried that Eunuch Wei would use the public property as a favor. I was afraid that he would hurt the dignity of the guest mother and the emperor. Your dignity, but after thinking about it, I thought that Eunuch Wei has always been a decent man and would not misappropriate the things belonging to him and give them away to others. He must have done this out of filial piety."
Wei Chao continued talking and glanced at Zhu Youxiao from time to time.
Zhu Youxiao did not respond. He even laughed secretly. He knew that Wei Chao was obviously trying to defend himself but was actually slandering Wei Zhongxian, reminding himself that Wei Zhongxian might be greedy for Mo Gong's property and give it to the Hakka family.
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Wei Zhongxian came directly to Dongchang.
Wei Zhongxian naturally did not dare to neglect the task that Zhu Youxiao had just given him. After receiving Zhu Youxiao's edict, he understood what Zhu Youxiao meant and knew that the emperor wanted to deal with Feng Sanyuan, not just let Dongchang investigate. Cha Feng Sanyuan.
Therefore, as soon as Wei Zhongxian arrived at Dongchang, he called the Dongchang official school such as Xu Xianchun, who was responsible for the punishment of thousands of households in Dongchang, to him, and read out the emperor's edict asking him to supervise Dongchang.
Therefore, Xu Xianchun and others began to salute Wei Zhongxian: "I have seen the factory master!"
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly asked everyone to get up, and personally helped Xu Xianchun up, pulled him to the side and sat down, and said with a smile: "When we were in charge of the Xinxi Bureau next to the emperor, we heard that Xu Qianhu from Dongchang is a capable man. The reason is that no matter how big the case is, it can be handled properly. Even though our family has become the owner of the factory, we still don’t know how to manage this factory. We will have to rely on thousands of households in the future."
Xu Xianchun was a little worried at first when he heard that Wei Zhongxian had become the owner of Dongchang Factory, worried that Wei Zhongxian would not be able to tolerate him.
After all, he has a good relationship with the Wei Dynasty, otherwise he would not be able to sit in the position of being in charge of thousands of households in the East Factory. Therefore, in Xu Xianchun's view, the new factory boss will inevitably kick out those who have connections with the Wei Dynasty when he takes office.
But Xu Xianchun didn't expect that the new factory manager in front of him would be so polite to him when he arrived. He didn't have the slightest arrogance of a superior person. He even praised himself and held himself up high. This made Xu Xianchun feel that the new factory manager was so polite to him. The Duke is more worthy of currying favor than the Wei Dynasty.
Because of this, Xu Xianchun became more respectful, stood up in a humble manner, and said with a flattering smile: "The factory owner is ridiculous! I am just doing my best for the emperor!"
"That's right. We in Dongchang want to serve the emperor wholeheartedly. There are not many people in the inner court who have such a consciousness! Xu Qianhu is someone who does big things at first glance."
Wei Zhongxian continued to give Xu Xianchun a high hat, without any of the arrogance that he had when he first took power. It wasn't that he didn't want to be arrogant, but he knew that he didn't have a deep foundation when he first came to Dongchang, and although Xu Xianchun and other Jinyiwei officers working in Dongchang were his own However, his subordinates are all local snakes in the capital and have very deep relationship backgrounds.
As far as Wei Zhongxian knew, Xu Xianchun was the grandson of Xu Congcheng, the consort of the commander-in-chief. He was a relative of the emperor and a legitimate son of a powerful person.
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian did not criticize Xu Xianchun just because he was the factory owner. Instead, he seemed approachable.
Of course, Wei Zhongxian didn't just show favor to Xu Xianchun, he also began to test Xu Xianchun.
"The Emperor has an oral order, asking our Dongchang to carefully investigate Feng Sanyuan, the censor! Our family has long heard that Feng Sanyuan is dishonest, and he has friends with his ministers, and even has his spy on the Emperor. Xu Qianhu, what do you think? Is this the case?"
Wei Zhongxian asked.
When Xu Xianchun heard Wei Zhongxian ask this, the smile on his face suddenly froze.
