Wang Wenyan anxiously held the tea cup brought by a maid in front of Wang An: "Dongchang has really changed people?"
Wang An took the tea cup, placed it on the high table beside him, and nodded slightly.
Wang Wenyan swallowed after hearing this and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "How could this be? Isn't Wei Chao the eunuch accompanying His Majesty? And he is the one you have been training?!"
Wang Anze sighed and said: "Our family and the Wei Dynasty are all slaves of the emperor, and our power was given by the emperor. Of course, the emperor can take it back if he can give it to us."
"It's just that I got Feng Sanyuan in this exchange! What is the emperor going to do? Is he going to attack you?"
Wang Wenyan continued.
Wang An was stunned for a while, touched his face that had been beaten by Zhu Youxiao, then glanced at Wang Wenyan and said: "If the emperor really wants to attack our family, our family has nothing to do, but you can't Likewise, you are scholar-bureaucrats who rule the world with the emperor, not the emperor's slaves. If you really don't like any of the emperor's slaves, you can impeach one of the emperor's slaves!"
Wang Wenyan nodded after hearing this: "Wang understands what my father-in-law means. However, disciple, I dare to ask, why did Wei Zhongxian suddenly become the master of Dongchangchang? Does your father-in-law know the depth of this person?"
Wang An glanced at Wang Wenyan and didn't answer. He just dipped his tea in the tea and wrote the word "客" on the table.
Wang Wenyan suddenly realized after reading this.
Then, Wang Wenyan held up his hands and said, "Disciple, let's do it now. We will do our best to get rid of these two people for my father-in-law!"
Wang Anze continued to nod and said: "Our family has asked for sick leave. If you cannot win, our family will not be able to protect you. Whether you die or be sent to Fengyang is also the emperor's decision."
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"Your Majesty, Wang An has sent me a memorial saying that he is ill, so please allow him to rest at home!"
Liu Shimin, the eunuch in charge of documents in the direct room of the Li Jian, sent Wang An's memorial to Zhu Youxiao.
After reading this, Zhu Youxiao began to ponder secretly, thinking: "Wang An's sudden illness may be due to his dissatisfaction with his change to the Wei Dynasty, but how can I, as an emperor, allow you, a domestic slave, to plant an informant to monitor me! But! , Wang An's strategy of slowing down the troops was not conducive to the imperial court, because if the imperial court wanted to develop in an orderly manner, Wang An and Wei Zhongxian should check and balance each other. However, Wang An took the initiative to give in to Wei Zhongxian, making it clear that Wei Zhongxian should be solely responsible for the civil service group. The artillery fire will allow Wei Zhongxian to be defeated by the civil servant group. The Wei Dynasty wanted to rely on me to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, while Wang An wanted to rely on the civil servants to get rid of Wei Zhongxian. This Wang An is undoubtedly more hateful. He has put himself in the eyes of the civil servants. Put your reputation before your loyalty to me!”
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao said to Liu Shimin: "Allow him to ask for leave!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Shimin: "What's your name?"
Liu Shimin hurriedly replied: "My name is Liu Shimin."
Liu Ruoyu who wrote "Ziuzhongzhi"?
Zhu Youxiao remembered that in the Ming Dynasty, an eunuch whose original name was Liu Shimin but later changed his name to Liu Ruoyu was imprisoned in the Chongzhen Dynasty because he was implicated in Wei Zhongxian's case.
Then, the eunuch Liu Ruoyu may have been relatively clean in office and not very corrupt, so he could not afford to bribe civil servants. This made other Wei Party eunuchs pay their lives with gold, but he was still imprisoned. In the end, he had to imitate Tai Shigong. The method is to prove one's innocence by writing history books.
The history book written is the famous "Ziuzhongzhi" in history, which records the secrets of the Ming Dynasty court.
Perhaps the civil officials knew how powerful the pen was, so they interceded for him and made Chongzhen spare Liu Ruoyu's death penalty.
Liu Ruoyu saved his life by relying on this skill.
But now Zhu Youxiao has to admit that this eunuch who loved to write books in history was not a simple figure. He was very good at seizing opportunities that could make him stand out. It is no wonder that he thought of using a pen to save himself in history.
And when Zhu Youxiao thought that he now had Wei Zhongxian who could hold a knife and fetch people for him, he still lacked someone to write a composition for him.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to promote Liu Ruoyu and let Liu Ruoyu replace Wang An in the future.
Zhu Youxiao said: "You are a diligent officer. You didn't put off such an important matter until tomorrow morning to report to me. In the future, you can join the Clerk of Ceremonies as a pen-holder! Wang An is old and frail and can't bear too many documents. You will share the suffering with others from now on. In addition, I will also give you a name. You will be called Liu Ruoyu from now on. You should hide your foolishness and be humble in everything. Don't be smart, remember?"
"There were so many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and there were even more people who wanted to be the ceremonial supervisors, including Wang An! Wang An wanted to use the civil service group to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, but even if the civil service group could really get rid of Wei Zhongxian, the peach pickers would not It’s you, Wang An! You want to play tricks on me? Don’t even look to see if you have the capital!”
After Zhu Youxiao said this, he sneered secretly.
Liu Ruoyu raised his lips happily and kowtowed: "Thank you for your grace! I will remember your instructions!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao said again: "I remember that the Supervisor of Ceremonies has his own printing house. You can draft an edict for me. In the future, there will be a Huangming Newspaper Agency under the Supervisor of Ceremonies, which will be responsible for publishing the Huangming Newspaper to the outside world. You took charge of it, merged the printing factory into it, and established an editorial bureau. Now the Di newspaper can only be regarded as an official briefing, which is not detailed enough, and it is easy for people with bad intentions to misinterpret my intention and even the imperial court's intention. Shilin's publication contains many biased and extreme remarks. From now on, Huangming Newspaper will give an official explanation for my decision in order to correct the rumors in the world! Therefore, you should know the importance of your responsibilities. If you don't do well, don't blame me for replacing you in the future!"
Liu Ruoyu didn't expect that the emperor would directly ask him to do such a thing. He thought that this would allow people in the inner court to compete with the civil servants in terms of current affairs!
But Liu Ruoyu also knew that this was a good thing. After all, his inner court could strive to seize the right to speak from the civil servants, and it would also help improve the reputation of his own inner court eunuchs, and they no longer had to rely on civil servants to gain a good reputation.
Therefore, Liu Ruoyu hurriedly replied: "I will do my best to do what the emperor ordered me to do!"
"Well, the first thing you have to do now is to immediately write about Dongchang's investigation of Feng Sanyuan's dealing with servants and accepting bribes. However, the content of the article should make the officials believe that it was caused by Wei Zhongxian and the Wei Dynasty because of the Hakka family. In addition, it is necessary to explain the point of view that confiscation of houses is not a long-term solution, but it can also meet the temporary needs of the national treasury, so that officials who are loyal to the country know that if they do not come up with ways to open up financial resources, confiscation of houses may be It won’t stop!”
Proofreader Zhu You gave instructions to Liu Ruoyu.
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"Seizing homes is not a long-term solution, but it is also a helpless move for Your Majesty now. Brother Zhisheng, have you come up with a way to open up financial resources? You can't let Your Majesty continue to rely on confiscation of homes to accumulate money to strengthen the army, right? Now it is to raid the inner court. Da Xun, next will be the civil servants of the foreign dynasty!"
Xu Guangqi started talking to Sun Chengzong at a teahouse near the Jingying Campus.
Sun Chengzong opened his mouth to speak.
