Yang Zheng touched the thirty taels of silver in his arms, a little reluctant, but thinking that this guy was a celebrity next to the prince, if he could make friends, he would be able to do something in the future, thinking of this, he didn't feel that the thirty taels of silver were heavy, he gently pinched it in his arms, walked forward and quietly pulled Chen Wu's palm, and the silver in his hand slipped into Chen Wu's hand without a trace.

Chen Wuzheng complained a little that Yang Zheng was not sensible, but when his palm touched the ingot of silver, his heart moved, his eyes narrowed, he glanced at Yang Zheng, and said in his heart: "I didn't expect this person to be so young and know how to be a man, no wonder people like Yang Shiqi are also full of praise for him, and now it seems that this Yang Shiqi's vision is not bad?"

Chen Wu retracted his palm into his sleeve without moving, and the ingot of silver fell into his sleeve silently, pinched it in his palm, and then sent it into his arms in the night, smiled at Yang Zheng, and said, "Lord Yang, don't forget it, you will enter the palace at noon tomorrow, and our family will leave?"

Yang Zheng couldn't help but be a little nervous when he gave a gift for the first time, but seeing that Chen Wu didn't change his face and put his thirty taels of silver into his arms, he couldn't help but secretly laugh that he was useless, and he was not as good as a eunuch, so he breathed a sigh of relief, hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, father-in-law, the lower officials must keep it in mind?"

After receiving the silver, Yang Zheng was respectful to his etiquette, unlike those officials in the outer court, who pretended to read poetry and books, and learned the words of sages, so he didn't look at these eunuchs in his eyes, and scolded him for being a stinky eunuch openly and secretly on weekdays, so that he didn't have a good impression of the literati.

Yang Zheng was slightly stunned, and hurriedly added another salute.

Chen Wu nodded, said no more, and then turned to leave.

Yang Zheng looked at Chen Wu, and only felt that this eunuch was not bad, he had already met two big eunuchs when he came to Nanjing, and he didn't have the face he saw in the film and television dramas of his previous life, in fact, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were not as morally corrupt as depicted in the film and television dramas of his previous life, in addition to the authoritarian eunuchs like Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian, Zheng He, Huai En, Zhang Min is such a good eunuch with merit and social service, but the overall image of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, after Ming Renzong, the civil official group had great power, and the emperor often couldn't help himself. For example, Jiaqing wanted to posthumously recognize his biological father as the emperor, and it took three years and civil and official struggles to get it done. And Wanli wanted to abolish the queen and change the crown prince, but it took more than 20 years until his death and did not succeed, and he was depressed and no longer paid attention to the government and did not cooperate with the civil officials. Therefore, the emperor had to rely on the eunuch group to fight against the civil official group, so that the eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty stepped into the center of power, and in the later period, the eunuchs even gradually became powerful, and even divided the court into the inner court and the outer court. The inner court is headed by the eunuch who holds the seal of the eunuch, and the outer court is headed by the civil official group headed by the cabinet chief assistant, and restricts each other.

The cabinet led by the first assistant of the outer court has the right to build a house, the six ministries are responsible for the administrative power, and the decision-making power falls into the hands of the emperor, but the emperors of the Ming Dynasty except for the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and later Zhu Di, the rest of the emperors are indeed not diligent, to Jiaqing, Wanli Emperor basically does not go to the court, these things, almost fell into the hands of the inner court, so that the eunuchs of the inner court replaced the emperor to obtain the decision-making power, forming the most strange pattern of the Ming court, the instructions of the imperial court must be signed by the inner court, and these construction and administration can take effect.

The civil official group is naturally unaccustomed to the eunuchs in power, and inevitably counts some crimes on their heads, plus these eunuchs are also in charge of the Dongchang that terrified the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. The function of the East Factory is to "visit and conspire against the evil and evil, and equalize the power with Jinyiwei". One person is in charge, entrusted with the power of visiting and spying, and they are ordered to monitor all kinds of forces that are unfavorable to the imperial court, such as civil and military officials, celebrities, scholars, etc., and any disturbance can be reported directly to the emperor. According to the information obtained by surveillance, the emperor suppressed those forces that were unfavorable to the imperial court one by one, and the detection scope of Dongchang in the late Ming Dynasty was very wide. The information obtained by Dongchang can be reported directly to the emperor, which is much more convenient than Jinyiwei, which must be reported in the form of a chapter. In this way, the literati inevitably had to scold, and over time, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were as domineering as in the movies and television in their previous lives, and in their eyes, these people who are not men are really hateful.

Seeing that Chen Wu was about to leave, Yang Zheng's heart suddenly moved, and he said in his heart: "This Chen Wu followed Zhu Gaoxi to fight everywhere and achieved great military exploits, and was highly valued by Zhu Zhanji, and in his later years, Zhu Zhanji not only gave him a lot of money, but later gave him two palace maids as his wife, and also gave his adopted son Wang Chun an official. In the ten years of Xuande, his status was extremely prominent, but Zheng He couldn't compare to him! How could such a eunuch be considered a celebrity, and it didn't seem to be a big deal to inscribe a word to the Drunken Immortal Residence, right?" Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Gonggong Chen, please stay?"

Chen Wuzheng turned to leave, and when he heard this, he turned around again, glanced at him, and said strangely: "Is there anything else with Lord Yang?"

Yang Zheng smiled, looking a little embarrassed, and said, "There is indeed something else, I want to ask Grandpa Chen to help?"

Chen Wu has a prominent status, and he asks for help a lot on weekdays, but there is really no such directness, and he can't help but be a little curious for a while, and said, "I don't know what Lord Yang wants our family to help you?"

Yang Zheng looked a little embarrassed, and said: "Xia Guan has heard of his father-in-law's name, and he was able to see his true face today, so he has a reluctant request?

"Inscription?" Chen Wu paused slightly, he didn't expect Yang Zheng to be this request, and he couldn't help but look at him more unexpectedly, and said in his heart: "This Lord Yang is really a kind person?"

The eunuch inscription is not nothing, but in the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang was very strict with the eunuchs, not allowed to interfere in politics, many eunuchs were illiterate, was said to hold the pen to write, to Yongle, the eunuchs were able to help Zhu Di Jing difficult to make a lot of meritorious deeds, Zhu Di regarded them as cronies, set up the East Factory, presided over by the eunuchs. The eunuchs began to obtain the power of envoys, special expeditions, and towns, especially Zheng He went to the West six times in Yongle Dynasty, and established great military exploits, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were unmatched, and the eunuchs who were suppressed by the civil officials for a while finally had a bad breath, and some eunuchs took Zheng He as an example and began to practice culture and make contributions to the country.

Chen Wu was originally illiterate, but when Zhu Zhanji was still the emperor's grandson, he followed him, Zhu Zhanji was taught by a famous teacher since he was a child, and his literary and martial arts were extremely high, in addition, he also liked hunting, food, fighting and weaving (cricket), Chen Wu followed him, and he also learned a lot of things, especially the calligraphy of Zhu Zhanji.

It's just that he is a royal eunuch, and there are not many people who can write on weekdays, not to mention that in the eyes of those literati, a eunuch's words are beautiful and lose a bit of manliness, and he has always despised the calligraphy of eunuchs, and Tai Fake also knows that compared with those literati and ink writers, the words of the sage, that is self-deception and humiliation, so in the entire Ming Dynasty, the calligraphy that eunuchs can get their hands on is pitiful.

Chen Wu said happily: "Does Lord Yang really want me to write an inscription?"

Thanks to the novels and TV in the previous life, what Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Feng Bao, Wei Zhongxian are famous eunuchs, Yang Zheng also knows something, these eunuchs are not unlearned and unskilled, especially since Zhu Zhanji, he began to set up a special eunuch school, the specific name is "Neishutang". Eunuchs began to learn culture, some eunuchs' cultural Cheng dù is still very high, later the great eunuch Feng Bao cultural literacy is very high, he carved the "Enlightenment Collection", "Emperor Jiangu Said", "Four Books" and many other books in the Si Li Supervisor, to the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period is also widely spread, not only that, his calligraphy is quite good, through music theory, good at playing the piano, and made a lot of piano, "the world Xianbao loves". The most famous is that in the sixth year of Wanli, he inscribed on the collection of "Qingming Riverside Map", and called himself "the governor of Qincha, the official school of Dongchang, and the eunuch in charge of the royal celebrants". It is said that he saw this painting when he was waiting for the emperor in front of the emperor. He praised the painting of "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" and regarded it as "something more precious than Sui Zhu and Bi". These are not things that ordinary people can do, Yang Zheng dared to let Chen Wu inscribe, and he was not blindly flattering, most likely because he saw Chen Wu's bearing, and he was undoubtedly a knowledgeable person.

Yang Zheng nodded and said, "It's a great blessing in life to be able to get my father-in-law's Mobao?"

Chen Wu saw that his expression did not seem to be fake, and said happily in his heart: "Lord Yang said that he laughed, when our family served the prince, the prince also let our family read some books, read some words, and calligraphy together with a small success, but the Manchu Dynasty civil and military did not know that our family would be able to write a good hand, I didn't expect Lord Yang to see it, hehe, people say that Xiucai does not go out, he knows the world, I didn't believe it in the past, but today I believe it!"

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Feng Bao and "Qingming Riverside Map": "Yu Shiyu's time, taste the picture books, see Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Map" in the Song Dynasty, look at the essence of his character paintings, the wonder of trees and boats, the city bridge village Guo, out of the gods, like the real scene in the eyes, do not feel the mind is refreshing, although the Sui Zhu is combined, not enough Yungui, the treasure of the Cheng Xi world! In the sixth year of Wanli, he was in the Jiqin Poor of Wuyin Mid-Autumn Period, the Governor of Dongchang and the Imperial Supervisor, the Celebrant Eunuch, Zhenyang Shuanglin, and Feng Bao".

Translation: In my spare time serving the emperor, I once looked at the ancient books of famous paintings in the royal collection. I saw the "Qingming Riverside Picture" painted by Zhang Zeduan in the Song Dynasty, the characters are finely depicted, the trees, boats, and cars, and the market wall are very wonderful, just like seeing the real environment and feeling comfortable. Even if you measure those jewels and jade, they are not as valuable as the painting, and they are indeed treasures in the world and should be treasured. In the sixth year of Wanli, it was the auspicious time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Cha, the governor of Dongchang, the part-time emperor supplies management, and the head of the ceremonial supervisor, Feng Bao.