Chapter 80 Life experiences are always inconsistent

Since I am stationed in Jiaozhou, I am the most well-paid errand. The magistrate's office has to handle everything. This Tongzhi is new and the money he takes to take over is necessary. Li Meng smiled and said:

"My new arrival in Jiaozhou, Li did not come to say hello. This is Li's fault. I'll bring some local specialties to the adult later, which is also considered apologies."

These are all official words. Everyone knows this local product, which is gold, silver and wealth. After Tongzhi heard the word "local product", he smiled even more vigorously. Li Meng whispered a few words in his stomach and thought to himself that he was indeed here to ask for money. But he heard Tongzhi say with a smile:

"I am Wu Wensong, forty-two years old this year, so I'll call you a good brother. This time I came to my house to pay my respects, and I sent a letter to you from the capital."

The letter was placed on the coffee table next to it. Li Meng was about to get it, but Wu Tongzhi picked it up first, held it in his hands and delivered it to Li Meng. This respectful behavior made Li Meng even more confused. He took the letter politely. When he saw the letter skin, it said "Respectfully Accept" and the signature was Liu Fulai, the secretary of the Silishu.

This name is completely unfamiliar, but Li Meng, the famous name of Silijian, is clear. Although Li Meng is now in the prefect, the officials of a province are still confused, but Li Meng knew the name of Silijian in modern times.

In the film and television dramas of the Ming Dynasty, the great conspirators, bad guys, perverts and masters were basically eunuchs. These eunuchs were usually from the Sili Prison, which was awesome. Of course, they died in the hands of just people in the end. After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Li Meng also knew from the master and the clerk that the most powerful organization in the Ming Dynasty was the cabinet, and entering the cabinet was the pinnacle of the promotion of a civil servant.

However, the cabinet is not the only highest institution. There are also institutions that are comparable to the cabinet in the palace and even surpass them - Silijian. The cabinet chief minister is generally regarded as the actual prime minister. The chief eunuch of the Silijian is called "Inner Prime Minister". The eunuchs in the inner court entered the Silijian and were equated with the literati to enter the cabinet. They have a very high status. Moreover, there are a famous generation, eunuchs are tyrannical, and there are very few people in history who are famous, from Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Feng Bao, and then to the nine thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian who was less than eight years old, who died, are all the chiefs of Silijian.

Of course, all the people and decision makers of the highest power are the emperor.

Now Chongzhen ascended the throne, and it was said that he wanted to prevent eunuchs from being dictatorial and value civil officials. However, within three years, everyone knew about the eunuch Wang Chengen, which shows that the status of eunuchs had not been reduced. Wu Wensong, the eunuchs, was sent to the eunuchs who were sent to the Silijian, which was similar to sending to the Grand Secretary. No wonder he was so panic.

But he didn't know him at all. Li Meng was puzzled and opened the letter. He looked up and said the words "Mr. Benefactor". The fonts of the whole article were neat and beautiful. If he were not in ancient times, Li Meng almost thought that this was a printed small calligraphy. Think about it, it was true that people from the highest institutions in ancient times must have extremely high cultural literacy.

Because the font is neat, for Li Meng, although there is no segmentation or punctuation, he can probably understand the content of the letter. The eunuch who wrote the letter is really aware of the old eunuch who jumped into the river in Jining in the twelfth month of last year. The content in the letter is not complicated, but it is nothing more than thanking Li Meng for his kindness and help. He said that after returning to Beijing, he spent a lot of effort to arrange the talent in Jiningzhou to find out that Li Meng was the one who saved the people. Because the Donglu soldiers approached the capital, they did not send anyone to thank Yunyun for a while. The rest were some clichés of Yuntian. Finally, he said that he would pay 1,000 taels of silver to express his gratitude. He hoped that Li Meng would have the opportunity to enter Beijing and would be a good hospitality.

A silver note fell out of the envelope, which was a silver note worth 1,000 taels from a certain bank. Li Meng shook his head and smiled. He didn't expect that this day would happen when he helped. Besides, the two ships of fine salt included porcelain jars, and it would cost only 200 taels of silver to die. That was used so much.

However, this "Lao Lao Liu" is the eunuch who is now the Silijian. He has been so prominent since he was in a downturn and out for less than half a year. I really don't know what happens.

Li Meng asked casually, but he didn't expect that Wu Wensong, who was sitting opposite, knew about this. At the foot of the emperor of the capital, all kinds of gossip and rumors were circulated very widely. Liu Fulai went from a rankless and levelless eunuch to join the Silijian as a pen. Although the ranking was not high, it was also a confidential position. Anyone who was interested was willing to inquire about it.

Before Liu Fulai returned to Beijing, the so-called canned old green salt was already popular among the powerful people in the capital. The green salt in the palace had no inventory. The eunuchs used the outside salt to say it was green salt to deal with it. However, most of the concubines of Emperor Chongzhen were from nobles outside the palace. If there were any movement outside, the palace soon knew. After the news of canned old green salt spread, someone noticed the mouth rinsing salt used in the palace.

The eunuchs in charge wanted to go to the market to buy them, but the amount of canned old green salt that came from Jining was very small, and they had been kept for their own use for a long time. These nobles could not afford to offend and could not be levied. If they were not dead, there was still any anti-counterfeiting seal. It was difficult to make a fraud. The concubines in the palace were asking for it again. The eunuchs who bought them had no choice but to ask Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the Sili Prison, who had no choice but to ask Wang Chengen, the eunuch who was the Sili Prison, to have no choice but to ask Wang Chengen.

Although it was a trivial matter, it was also a big deal. At this moment, Liu Fulai returned to the capital with Qingyan. This was the original porcelain jar of old green salt. Originally, Liu Fulai went out of Beijing to buy it to arrange an errand for the old eunuch, and there was no hope. Who would have thought that he would buy so many pretty goods back?

The concubines in the palace were happy, and some nobles were asking for some points. The originally suffocated matter turned out to be a happy situation.

Liu Fulai also left an impression in Wang Chengen's mind. He heard that Liu Fulai had also entered an internal school, so he simply arranged a bookkeeping job for him.

Because the eunuchs in the Ming court had responsibilities in various supervisory offices, they had to have cultural and administrative knowledge, they started to open an internal school since the Xuande period, with Hanlin and senior civil officials teaching knowledge and homework. The education level was quite low. Only after entering an internal school can they have the capital to hold various internal office positions in the future. Of course, many who entered an internal school and had no future, just like many unknown people at Peking University and Tsinghua University, Liu Fulai was one of them.

The Book Office is equivalent to the assistant of the eunuchs who are Bingbi. They organize documents and provide counselors. They are considered to be the edge of the power groups in the inner court. They are usually held by eunuchs in their thirties. It is rare for Liu Fulai to be held by fifty years old.

The inner court has a lot of business. It is really exhausted and difficult to do it at the age of fifty. However, he has a benefit. He is older and has endured the most difficult point. He does things in detail and does not miss it. He does not want to make a contribution. He considers everything. He is gentle, polite, mature and humble.

After a month, his colleagues and superiors had a great impression of him. From the beginning of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the officials and soldiers from Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Sichuan fought fiercely and the eight camps of the rebels. They asked for instructions from all over the country, asked for payment and military reports, and flew in like snow, and the cabinet and the ranks of the ranks of the ranks of the ranks were busy.

With such high-intensity official busyness, the eunuch Bingbi assisted by Liu Fulai fell ill and could not be in charge of the director. Emperor Chongzhen was particularly difficult to serve, and Wang Chengen couldn't separate himself. When he noticed this place in April, he found that the official documents and affairs had not been delayed, and they had been dealt with.

Wang Chengen found out the reason without much trouble. Liu Fulai, the clerk, was brave enough to take charge. He went early and late in the past few months, and did not fear hard work, and did a lot of more things.

Originally, Wang Chengen had already remembered Liu Fulai's name in the Qingyan incident, and this time he had such good performance. Moreover, the inner court had a good impression of this old eunuch who was gentle in his work. After Wei Zhongxian arrived in Taiwan, the eunuchs in the inner court experienced a major purge, and they were short of people. Since he had made contributions and was a good person, he simply promoted and promoted him directly from the Literary Office to the position of eunuch Bingbi of the Silijian. Although he was the one with the lowest ranking, this was also a great thing. The one with the six ministers ranked last, but he was still the Secretary of the Shangshu!

Li Meng and Wu Wensong didn't know what happened next. In less than a year, Liu Fulai went from the core of power to the inner court to become the eunuch of the Silijian. Such changes in fortune and fortune were really different. After thinking about it, all the turning point was that Jiningzhou met the warm-hearted young man in the ancient road.

After becoming a eunuch on the pen, even a first- and second-rank official would respectfully call him father-in-law in person. He would come over to please countless people, and he would show the value of the young man who did not leave his name on that day. The call of "father-in-law" by these people in the capital was no less than the "old man" he called that day.

Liu Fulai asked someone to find the person who saved the person that day in Jining. Although Li Meng did not leave his name, the two ships that sent Eunuch Liu back to the palace could still be found. Moreover, the city of Jining was just tacit about Li Meng's selling of old green salt. If you want to investigate, there must be many clues. The river yamen and the salt transportation yamen, the prefectural yamen in Jining Prefecture, and several royal merchants were all used passively.
Chapter completed!