Chapter 959: A Few Worries
Imperial City Root, in the deep courtyard of a wealthy family, the candlelight in the hall swayed and the three sighed at the drink, but it was the three of the national abbot Zhou Kui and his son.
"The gelding dog is now in the middle of the sky, and no one dares to mess with it, and the queen's snub of Daddy is not a secret thing in Beijing, my eldest brother and I have run a few mansions to talk about it, but it is clear that I don't want to wade into this troubled water," the second child of the Zhou family said dejectedly.
"If it weren't for the dead girl being so unfilial, how could my father fall to this step and suffer the grievances of the gelding" Zhou Kui gritted his teeth angrily and couldn't help but slap the table, and the two sons panicked: "Daddy, be cautious, if you are heard by outsiders, it will be a big trouble!" ”
The queen's mother is in the world, that is, her biological parents want to salute when they see it, whether it is in the official face or in private, she will also be honored by the queen, Zhou Kui is a dead girl at this time, it is a big taboo!
"There are only three people here, you, my father and son, how can outsiders" Zhou Kui said this, and couldn't help but glance outside the hall.
"Daddy, the wall has ears" The boss of the Zhou family sighed: "Daddy, if you want to get back the 100,000 taels of silver now, you have to find the queen, the dog eunuch is now powerful, we can't defeat him!" ”
"Nonsense, if Daddy can talk to the queen, how can he be hacked by 100,000 taels of silver for that gelding dog" The more Zhou Kui thought about it, the more angry he became: "Until now, Daddy doesn't know where to provoke the queen, and suddenly he is so ruthless."
"Daddy, if you don't run away from the prince, I heard that the prince has occasionally left the palace in micro-suits in the past few days......" Zhou Laoer's proposal was interrupted by Zhou Kui shaking his head: "The prince has a lot to do with that gelding...... I'm afraid that his heart is more ruthless than the queen."
"But there is no way to try it now, two sons, you have to say a word" Zhou Kui was finally moved: "Then ask if he leaves the palace in the next few days, Daddy will stop him to try, at least to find out why the queen treats his father and mother like this, and what symptoms are good to take medicine."
said and rolled his eyes: "There are also 100,000 taels of silver that the gelding dog went to black, Daddy must take it back, he must get it back!" Your brother will try extraordinary means again, at all costs."
Zhou Kui is famous for his greed by nature and love money like life, in history, he was tortured by the thief army, and the thief army killed his eldest son and daughter-in-law and said that he did not, and killed his wife He was not alive, until he was beaten to death, he woke up to the fact that he was dead and how much money could he have, so he recruited more than 500,000 taels of silver.
It is conceivable that such a person who loves money like his life and is extremely stingy will be cheated by someone for 100,000 taels, how can he give up.
There is a big house in the bowstring alley at the root of the east wall of the imperial city, the owner's house is deep and simple, and he rarely shows up, and the neighbors know very little about it, only that he is a rich old man in his sixties, who has five or six cats and dogs, and there are four or five handmaidens and handmaidens in the house, and he is also very low-key and silent on weekdays.
Some neighbors who have seen the rich old man say that he is not a simple character. The reason is that it seems that Yin Crane is a ruthless horn.
I have to say that this neighbor is very discerning, this old man is indeed a character, from the palace.
That's right, it's a eunuch, but it's not an ordinary eunuch, and he used to be the leader of the East Factory.
After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, Dongchang was shelved by Emperor Chongzhen and did not promote any new factory governors, but after all, this yamen is ancestral and serves the emperor, and Emperor Chongzhen could not close it, but he just dealt with it in a low-key manner and found a eunuch to manage, although he was not formally appointed, he was also the actual person in charge.
This eunuch is the owner of this mansion, the heart of the eunuch king.
Although Wang Zhixin is a eunuch, he has a title, and he is a hundred households of his nephew. During his reign, although his name was not known, he did a lot of evil deeds, and the history books used four words for him, and he was unjustly arrested, which means that he committed a lot of unjust cases.
In addition, Wang Zhixin also has the nickname of the richest man, who is the richest man among eunuchs.
Whether it is the flood of unjust cases or the excessive accumulation of wealth, Emperor Chongzhen is turning a blind eye, not because he doesn't want to care, but because he doesn't have so much energy, at that time, the Ming Dynasty is on the verge of collapse, and the foreign war is endless, and the bad news is several a day, how can he have the time to deal with these sesame things.
Until one day, Chang Yu, who was in charge of the silver charge, pretended to be a eunuch of Dongchang in Datong and killed Jiang Jiu, and then swaggered over there to deceive and fool the king to donate silver When the news reached the ears of Emperor Chongzhen, he suddenly had a spirit who didn't know whether his head was hot or how to drop, and he had been talking about it after doing one thing.
This king's heart is also an old fritter, seeing that he was seized of power, he also did no less than a good thing to accept the resignation of the elder, Emperor Chongzhen is looking at him upset, and he pushes the boat down the river to get rid of the people's anger, and the king's heart carries a lot of pots out of the palace, and it is a good result to live in a simple and plain book.
Even if the new eunuch became more and more famous, he couldn't arouse a little ripple in his heart, so he just raised flowers and plants at home to tease cats and dogs, and his life was very comfortable.
Until one day, the wind blew through the door of the house.
The imperial court launched an anti-corruption storm and strictly investigated all kinds of corruption and bribery of Beijing officials, and people were panicked for a while. In fact, as early as when Chang Yu came to power, he blew the wind for a while against the nobles, on the grounds of privately using the soldiers of the Beijing camp, how many nobles were implicated, and fined a lot of money, at that time, Wang Zhixin shook his head after hearing about it, and the ignorant child had not yet stood firm on his heels to offend so many nobles, and he was only afraid of death and no place to bury him in the future.
How do you know that the little eunuch is becoming more and more courageous, not only is he a good hand at making money, but he is also making great achievements in turning the tide and killing thieves and quelling chaos, and he is in the limelight for a while, not to mention that those nobles dare not move him now, and they can't move him.
Moving or not, Wang Zhixin is just watching in the dark for fun, but who would have thought that one day suddenly there will be news that Dongchang has found out on his head!
Once the richest eunuch, how could Chang Yu miss it!
At this time, the king's heart panicked, and hurriedly entered the palace to ask to see Emperor Chongzhen, who knew that Emperor Chongzhen had no time to see him at all, so he had to let people pass a message to Wang Chengen, hoping to come to the house to reminisce about the past.
Wang Chenen had an old relationship with him, so he came to visit him without excuse, but he also poured cold water on him: It's not that he doesn't help, he really can't help, and even the emperor can't help, because it's not a yamen to investigate, it's a joint investigation by the three departments of Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate!
Wang Zhixin became more and more panicked, and begged Wang Chenen to show him the way by remembering the feelings of the past.
Wang Chenen knew that Wang Zhixin was greedy for a lot of silver during his reign, and he also did a lot of dirty things, but some of them were for Emperor Chongzhen.
But this made it difficult for Wang Zhixin, Chang Yu took over the East Factory and made drastic rectifications, promoted newcomers to be confidants, and his old subordinates are now just doing chores and can't speak at all, and the little eunuch and Chunxiang are all on business outside Beijing and can't go online.
"Go find Wu Mengming," Wang Chenen said before leaving.
Wu Mengming is the commander of Jinyiwei, another sword of the emperor, but he has been secretly attached to Chang Yu of Dongchang, and this person is the actual commander of the current anti-corruption and anti-corruption storm.
Spending money to eliminate disasters, Wang Zhixin's heart was in severe pain, he knew that Wu Mengming was a greedy guy, and he would bleed when he was looking for him to do things!
The court let a greedy guy check the greed repeatedly, it's really ironic, what kind of world is this! Wang Zhixin couldn't help but scold, but asked people to invite Wu Mengming to come to the mansion as a guest.