Chapter 140: Give Bullfighting, Five Coins
He dared not speak loudly, and asked for a subscriber to the imperial officers and soldiers who wanted to challenge the outside world.
Whether it is the warning or good news in the southeast, the first thing to send to Nanjing’s Ministry of War will be reported, and then the horse will be sent to Beijing quickly.
On the one hand, this procedure is to ensure Nanjing's political status, and on the other hand, it plays a role of "choose the heavy and eliminate the light". If the matter is small, the Nanjing Ministry of War can decide. If the matter is big, the Beijing will know. Otherwise, if the big and small things are sent to Beijing, the Nandu Ministry of War will be like a waste of time, and invisibly it will also increase the "workload" of the Beijing Ministry of War.
The six ministries in Nanjing, namely the Ministry of Rites, are really a clean yamen. They have no good or powerful power, and the other ministries still have very heavy power.
For example, the Nanjing Ministry of Justice is responsible for the criminal names of the Nanjing departments, Gonghou Bo Mansion, and Jingwei Office, and the judicial power is extremely high; the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel is responsible for the six-year Beijing inspection and examination of officials in Nanjing, and the Beijing Ministry of Personnel is not allowed to interfere; the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue is responsible for collecting taxes and grains from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Huguang provinces (the taxes paid in these four places account for almost half of the empire), and is also responsible for the transportation of grain and the national salt induction and integration, so most of the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing serves as the Prime Minister’s Grain Storage.
As the head of the six ministries, the Minister of War and the Inner Guard and the Concubine, together with the garrison and the garrison ministers, the Nanjing Ministry of War is called the three carriages in the Nandu, and the power is no less than that of the cabinet ministers.
However, the Secretary of the Ministry of War in Nanjing did not actually handle matters in the department, and most of the affairs such as Tangxun of various provinces were responsible for the Left Minister.
The left minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War was Lord Cui Zhijia. After seeing the good news presented by the Fujian Governor, he realized why his left eye kept twitching for the past few days.
It turns out that I want to make a fortune!
Who is Mr. Cui?
He dared to seize food from the tiger's mouth and forcibly show his power and show his might. He was arrogant and arrogant. The admiral Wei, who was in Nanjing, took away ten thousand taels of silver from the hands of the ruthless admiral!
How can such a powerful person let the opportunity given by God slip away from his hands in vain?
So, Mr. Cui threw the good news from Fujian on the table and talked about other matters with the officials and the clerks of the people, without mentioning the good news from Fujian on the word.
If you don’t ask or report, this good news is undoubtedly stuck in the Nanjing Ministry of War.
Logically speaking, this is completely unruly. Perhaps anyone who is an official in the ministry is not a human being, a steward or a doctor, seems to have collectively lost his memory, and has "forgot" this great victory in Fujian.
But they can forget, while some people cannot.
Wei Guangwei, the assistant minister who had been sitting on the bench in the Nanjing Ministry of Rites for more than two years, sat in the duty room until the sun set, hurried to the street outside the Ministry of War to stop Mr. Cui who was about to get on the carriage and go home.
"Which gust of wind blows Lord Wei over?"
Wei Guangwei's appearance surprised Mr. Cui. Although the two of them were both officials in Nanjing, they had no friendship with each other.
"If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble, will Lord Cui have time now? Why not find a quiet place to drink a pot?" Wei Guang said with a smile.
"Is there something wrong with Lord Wei?" Mr. Cui was puzzled. His Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites could not get together. What could Wei Guangwei have to do with him?
Wei Guang smiled and said, "I'm fine. I'm just entrusted by someone to ask Lord Cui for a little help, but I wonder if Lord can give Guangwei some thin face?"
When the other party said this, Mr. Cui would give face no matter what. He knew that Wei Guangwei was demoted to Nanjing's Ministry of Rites because he offended the Donglin Party's elder Zhao Nanxing, but he was a Shujishi and was already a Minister of Rites in Nanjing in his early thirties. Once the political dispute between the court changes, the Donglin Party will lose its power, and Wei Guangwei will have a bright future, so it is not without any benefit to have a good relationship with him. He immediately gave up and went to a famous restaurant on the Qinhuai River with Wei Guangwei.
After three rounds of drinking, Wei Guangwei signaled the singer to withdraw, then took out a silver note of 3,000 taels and handed it to Mr. Cui, saying, "This is the firewood and charcoal money that someone asked me to give to the adults."
"Friends and charcoal money?"
Mr. Cui's expression was first surprised, then he became understanding. He calmly accepted the silver notes and asked casually: "But that person who made a big fuss in Nandu?"
Wei Guang smiled and said, "As a matter of fact cannot be hidden from Lord Cui's Battle of Dongsha. Eunuch Wei personally went to fight to kill the enemy regardless of danger. After hearing about it in Nandu, I was impressed. If this victory could not be known to the court, Eunuch Wei would be wronged."
"Just just to make the court know, I gave up these three thousand taels. Eunuch Wei is not worth it." Mr. Cui smiled.
"Eunuch Wei is not for himself, but for the officers and soldiers who bravely fight the enemy. If the court does not reward him, the soldiers will inevitably feel disappointed."
Wei Guangwei said this, but he still disagreed with this matter. He has always been to repay merits to get rewards and make money, but your little brother-in-law Wei has made money in it. He is a little stupid no matter how he looks at it. But he can't control this matter, so Xiao Wei asked him to come forward and get things done.
Wei Guangwei felt guilty when his groom gave Xiao Wei a hat.
"Yes, no matter how hard it is, the soldiers cannot suffer. It would be better to ask Beijing Zhong to know about the victory in Dongsha."
Mr. Cui also looked solemn. One of the advantages of this person is that he will do things absolutely when collecting money and is efficient. The next day, the good news from Fujian was sent to the Tongzhengsi of Beijing by Kuaima.
When Tongzhengshi saw that he was reporting the documents of the victory, he did not dare to neglect it and quickly sent it to the palace city. Soon, the victory was brought to the Qianqing Palace by the eunuch Li Yongzhen, who was on duty in the Silijianwen study room.
But the emperor is still with the concubine. Li Yongzhen originally wanted to go directly to the imperial concubine's palace to report the victory, but she thought that the concubine was very angry recently, and was afraid that she would disturb the concubine's tranquility, so she patiently waited.
After about half an hour of touching, the emperor returned to the Qianqing Palace. Seeing that Li Yongzhen was there, he was holding a question book in his hand, he asked what was wrong.
"Go back to the emperor, Fujian will report victory, Dongsha will win, kill more than a thousand Japanese people!" Li Yongzhen said loudly and excitedly.
"oh?!"
When the emperor heard that it was a good news, he was also happy. He hurriedly asked Li Yongzhen to present the good news. When he opened it, his face was full of excitement at first, but then his smile gradually solidified.
Li Yongzhen kept looking at it secretly, and seeing this, his heart suddenly raised: Could it be that the emperor saw something wrong? When he was worried, he heard the emperor say, "Is it a decree."
Li Yongzhen hurriedly bowed and listened, and only heard the emperor say, "The victory in Dongsha has killed more than a thousand Japanese people. It is a rare victory in maritime affairs since I ascended the throne. I feel very relieved. The Ministry of War will follow the merits and excellence."
After saying that, he said: "Fujian Governor Huang Chengxuan is in good command, and he is given a title of Prince's Young Guardian, and is given a silver 50 taels. The maritime eunuch Wei is in good condition in governing the army. He personally set an example in front of the formation. He is very brave. He is particularly sure to make an exception in bullfighting uniforms. He is awarded ten taels of silver for the fourth rank of Jin."
After saying that, Wanli waved his hand and ordered Li Yongzhen to leave the decree, and walked to the imperial table with the Fujian newspaper. After thinking about it, he picked up his pen and wrote a sentence at the bottom of the notice. Then he ordered the eunuch to seal the notice and send it to Fujian together with the imperial edict.
When this good news "replaced" and returned to Fujian, Eunuch Wei had already landed on Zhuluo Mountain in Taiwan.
Zhuluo Mountain is a local language. My father-in-law remembered that this place would belong to Chiayi in later generations, so he planned to change Zhuluo Mountain to Chiayi. When he was discussing the name change with his left and right, the emperor's imperial edict was sent by the Clippers of the Zhongzuo.
The eunuch who came to pass the imperial edict did not immediately announce the imperial edict, but asked Eunuch Wei to retreat and then hand over the good news approved by the emperor to Eunuch Wei first.
Seeing the eunuch looking flattering to him, my father-in-law thought that there must be a surprise. Maybe the emperor agreed to his quest for the sun, so he opened it happily, and the old face turned green on the spot.
The emperor didn't say anything else, he just wrote a line of big words at the bottom of the good news. Do you think I am as stupid as you?
Chapter completed!