When Huang Yuntai took office last year, the Tianjin Guard was also greatly affected by the earthquake in Luanzhou, the capital, and the Acropolis was greatly damaged. Now he discussed with Huo Weihua and Wei Zhongxian and used this as a reason to report to the emperor and request one million taels of silver to repair the Guard. Therefore, the three of them have already agreed on this money!
Who knew the emperor would actually ask.
Wei Zhongxian said: "Gu Shoufu has already approved it. Is there something wrong with your Majesty?"
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Now that the situation in Liaodong is in crisis, Master Sun has also submitted a letter asking for payment. Let this money be allocated to Master Sun!"
Wei Zhongxian was unwilling to do so, but as soon as the emperor opened his mouth, there was nothing he could do.
"I will go and inform the chief assistant now. Tianjin Guards can only wait any longer."
Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said: "How can we wait for such an important guard post? I decree that Huo Weihua, the right minister of the Ministry of War, be removed from his post and appointed as the commander of the Tianjin Guards. He will command the three guards of Tianjin and assist Huang Yuntai in repairing the guard city of Tianjin! There are 100,000 households in the guardhouse and tens of thousands of people in the fields, and the money and grain they produce is enough!"
"Let the two of you work hard and complete the work within two months. I will send the censor to check!"
Wei Zhongxian was dumbfounded! How could he not know about the situation in the Ming Dynasty's guardhouse? The emperor has known it for a long time!
This clearly meant that the emperor wanted to punish Huo Weihua, and Wei Zhongxian could not argue with the emperor from the point of view of the guard station. However, Huo Weihua was in the Ministry of War, and all the military pay and food that flowed to the country every year passed through his hands. Most of the profit and water went to Wei Zhongxian.
Moreover, Huo Weihua is also one of his generals, so it won't work if he doesn't protect him, and Huang Yuntai also deserves credit...
"Your Majesty, Minister Huo is a civil servant, so asking him to go to the guard station may cause court controversy..."
Before Wei Zhongxian finished speaking, Zhu Youxiao interrupted: "There is no need to say anything, my dear friend. I have already made up my mind. Minister Huo is capable of both literary and military skills, and he also knows magical prescriptions. Such things will definitely not be difficult for him! You Go down and declare the decree!"
Wei Zhongxian immediately understood that there must be something wrong with the spiritual drink presented by Huo Weihua. His Majesty did not check it at first and even praised Huo Weihua, but it is not convenient to say it clearly now.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel lucky. Fortunately, Huo Weihua didn't give the secret recipe to him. Otherwise, if the emperor is angry now, he must be one of the unlucky ones!
Wei Zhongxian resigned and took over the cabinet to convey the emperor's will.
Huo Weihua, a third-rank member of the eunuch party, was demoted! Moreover, he was demoted to a lowly rank as the commander of the guard station.
The news immediately spread throughout the six departments, and people in the Eunuch Party were uneasy. The main reason was that Huo Weihua's identity was too special. He was an important member of the Eunuch Party. He couldn't help but wonder if the emperor had suppressed the Donglin Party because of the recent persecution of the Donglin Party by the Eunuch Party. ?
Especially Gu Bingqian, the first assistant, who has been asking the emperor to stop and show mercy to the eunuchs who killed Donglin. At the moment, he felt a little at ease, but he was afraid of angering Wei Zhongxian, and he was really restless.
The members of the Donglin Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, etc. all celebrated with their crowns, shouting that His Majesty is wise!
These comments made Wei Zhongxian's nose twist with anger.
When Huo Weihua heard the news, he immediately went to find Wei Zhongxian as if struck by lightning.
However, he was told that Wei Zhongxian was meeting Cui Chengxiu and Xu Xianchun, so he had to wait outside the hall.
In the inner room, Wei Zhongxian told Xu Xianchun the emperor's will and was fined for one year. This punishment made Xu Xianchun relieved, but Huang Xiao did not tell the emperor about Ji Le Wan, which made Xu Xianchun and Cui Chengxiu relieved.
"Only our family knew about His Majesty's private visit in disguise. Now you two know about it. If anyone else knows about it, His Majesty will be furious and our family will not be able to protect you!
Our family and Commander Xu know about this, and His Majesty knows it. But Cui Shilang, you know about this matter, but His Majesty does not, so you have to keep it secret! "
Cui Chengxiu nodded in agreement, thinking to himself, this matter is rotten in my stomach, and I rarely go to the Chaoyangmen area of Huang Xiao's house, so of course it will be fine. My son is a careless idiot, and we can't let him know about this!
"Duke, is Minister Huo's demotion related to Wang Wenyan's death? Or is His Majesty dissatisfied with us?" Xu Xianchun asked.
Wei Zhongxian shook his head and said: "This matter is just a matter of conjecture by the Donglin Party and others. Your Majesty has no such intention! He, this matter is too clever. This matter is caused by the spirit drink dew. Although your Majesty did not say it clearly, our family wants to Come on, this spiritual drink must be very harmful!"
Xu Xianchun thought for a while and said: "That must be what Huang Xiao said, otherwise His Majesty would not have known it so quickly."
Wei Zhongxian nodded, "His Majesty is very fond of Huang Xiao. We are warning you, put your little thoughts aside and never offend this person again! Why is he so favored by Your Majesty? We will explore these slowly. You can go ahead."
The two resigned, and Wei Zhongxian let Huo Weihua in.
As soon as he entered the door, Huo Weihua immediately knelt down, took out a piece of paper and raised it above his head, shouting: "Master Du, please save me! This is the secret recipe of Lingyin Dew, please accept it!"
Huo Weihua was really panicked and was demoted to a point of confusion. What's even more terrible was that he had to repair the Acropolis within a time limit, and the court didn't give him a penny. This was really a fatal job.
He had just been waiting outside, but he had a suspicion in his mind. He thought that Wei Zhongxian was causing trouble in this matter, because he did not dedicate the secret method of drinking spiritual dew to Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian took the secret recipe and threw it to the little eunuch next to him.
The little eunuch then recited aloud...
Huo Weihua felt relieved, wiped his sweat, and wanted to stand up, but Wei Zhongxian didn't speak, so he had to kneel on the ground.
Wei Zhongxian sneered, grabbed the piece of paper from the young eunuch's hand, and threw it towards Huo Weihua.
"Shilang Huo thought our family was trying to punish you? Haha! Your secret recipe turned out to be this kind of stuff! You are too courageous! Your Majesty is angry because of this! You wish yourself a better life!"
"Ah..." Huo Weihua was dumbfounded, and the beads of sweat that he had just wiped off suddenly appeared on his forehead again.
"Over the years, you have also accumulated a lot of wealth from your position in the Ministry of War. You can save money and avoid disasters. Our last advice is to you, don't take His Majesty's words at heart!"
Huo Weihua took office devastated.
Huang Xiao didn't know that just because he treated Zhu Youxiao once, he would change the fate of many people.
He replied to Xu Na with a message, and Xu Na quickly called.
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"Brother Xiao, I thought you were missing? Why have you turned off your phone these days? I can't call you, and you haven't even said a word to me!"
Huang Xiao smiled and said, "I'm really sorry. Do you have time? I'll treat you to afternoon tea."
"I have four days off today. I'm at work. I'll squeeze in some time. I'll go to Shuiyunju Teahouse on Wenhua Road. See you in an hour!"
Huang Xiao really didn't notice that today was Thursday, and this was not popular in Ming Dynasty.
Huang Xiao packed up her gear, drove to the city.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, there were fewer cars on the road. Huang Xiao drove all the way. In less than forty minutes, he had already stopped at the teahouse parking lot. Xu Na's white BMW was also parked not far away.
Huang Xiao got out of the car.
