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Chapter 184: The Cheap Emperor

Sorry, I was so greedy yesterday, so I’m updated with 10,000 words today.

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If you are afraid, don't follow me.

A simple sentence, but invisibly full of style.

A brave, fearless stature.

Just like that, if you die now, you will die, and if you make a big plan, you will die. Is it okay to die in the country?

Wei Liangchen sat on the horse and looked at Li Wei, the brocade-clothed little flag. Since the other party was brought to him by Jin Zhong, he has noticed that Li Xiaoqi always had a look of worry on his face, so he had to solve this problem.

He cannot bring a guy who is afraid of death, as it will drag him down and even reveal his trump card.

Li Yongzhen also stopped, held the horse's reins with his hands, and looked at Wei Liangchen thoughtfully.

Tian Gang looked at his companion silently, and no one knew Li Wei's timidity and fear better than him.

"I…"

Li Wei was stunned, not expecting Wei Liangchen to say this to him. He hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly: "What the chief of the small case said, if I don't go, I will disobey my order, and the result will be much better than going."

Li Wei was talking about the truth. No matter how scared he was, he had to go, otherwise he would be disobeying.

Liangchen nodded and said, "Since that's the case, you don't need to think so much, we just go and take a look." Liangchen couldn't say some of the words too straightforward. He hoped that Li Wei could understand them himself.

"Don't worry, I won't miss the situation." Li Wei replied in a muffled voice. Although he was timid and afraid of going to Shanhaiguan, he had no way out now, and he would not be so stupid that he would have done his life.

"good."

Liangchen nodded, pulled the reins of the horse, whipped it and ran out.

Liangchen has never been a person who pushes himself into the fire pit. If he really dies, he will never let me go and see it.

He has the confidence and confidence, because Shanhaiguan cannot kill him.

In the Wanli period, I never heard of the rebellion of the border troops.

So as long as it is not a rebellion, he will have no worries about his life.

The reason is that although he is nothing, he has tiger skin on his body because he came to see it for the emperor.

This is enough.

………

Liangchen did not go directly to Shanhaiguan, but decided to go to Yongping to find Gao Huai, the person involved in the incident.

Before this, he had to figure out Gao Huai's background.

Tian Gang and Li Wei, the two Jinyiwei banners, were not just for a good meal. From them, Liangchen learned that this Eunuch Gao was not only a mining tax envoy in Liaodong, but also a eunuch in the Sili Hall. It was also rumored that he won the competition with the Tianjin tax envoy Ma Tang for the Sili Bingbi eunuch. He was already the imperial eunuch appointed by Sili Bingbi, and would be able to enter Beijing soon.

However, there is a mutiny in Liaodong. It is now impossible to determine whether this Eunuch Gao can be promoted to Si Libing as he wishes.

Liangchen was not very satisfied with the information provided by Tian Gang and Li Wei. From Wanli's attitude towards Gao Huai just now, Liangchen felt that Wanli was covering up Gao Huai, otherwise he would not agree to let him take a look first, but quickly summoned the chief assistant Ye Xianggao. In that case, no matter whether Gao Huai handled the incident properly, his position in mining supervision would have to be dismissed.

Gao Huai fled from Shanhaiguan to Yongping, and was so scared that he dared not enter Beijing, but Wanli still wanted to shelter him. This shows how much Gao Huai was in Wanli's mind.

Although Liangchen just went to see what happened, it didn't mean he had to bypass Gao Huai and even talked about the truth he saw.

Therefore, it is necessary for Liangchen to know more about Gao Huai.

So that God would not waste this opportunity that God finally gave him in vain.

Before entering Yongping City, Liangchen stopped beating the horse, and he thought of Li Yongzhen.

He also took a try attitude. After all, the other party has been in prison for eight years and may not have much knowledge of the outside world.

What surprised him was that Li Yongzhen, the future of being in prison for eight years, knew Gao Huai well. To be precise, Li Yongzhen knew everything about the inner court.

During these eight years of life in prison, Li Yongzhen did not isolate Li Yongzhen from the outside world. Thinking that Jin Zhong was not calling someone else, he just brought Li Yongzhen out of prison. Liangchen knew that Li Yongzhen had his own network of relationships.

According to Li Yongzhen, Gao Huai was a strange man. Qi was not only a palace where he entered after marrying a wife and having children. Before that, he was the contractor of the Chongwen Tax Division of the Capital.

This experience surprised Liangchen. It was obviously not something that ordinary people could do.

Could this Gao Huai have any amazing background background?

Li Yongzhen understood that Gao Huai had no background before entering the palace. He was able to contract Chongwen tax departments entirely because of his own ability.

It can be said that Gao Huai started from scratch. He was unwilling to farm in his hometown and spent many years in the capital. He met many people with his brain and mouth and became popular. By chance, he found a good deal of contracting Chongwen tax department.

Because of the Chongwen tax department, Gao Huai made a lot of money before entering the palace. After entering the palace, he quickly cleared up his relationship. Not only did he become Changsui, but he successfully became the supervisor of Shangshen Supervisor a year later.

Shangshenjian is a very rich yamen in the palace. This prison is responsible for the emperor and the food in the palace, and organizes banquets in the palace. Wang Tiqian is now in Shangshenjian, but he is just a low-ranking eunuch in the prison.

Shangshen Supervisor was a fifth-rank official, with a fourth-rank eunuch and a fourth-rank young supervisor. Gao Huai tried his best to castrate himself into the palace. Obviously, a supervisor was far from satisfying him, so he set his sights on the hot mine supervisor.

In the 27th year of Wanli, a thousand households in the capital named Yan Dajing submitted a memorial saying that Liaodong was vast and not only had minerals but also rare earth products. They suggested that the court send a mining supervision commissioner to Liaodong to collect taxes. After seeing the memorial, Wanli was very happy and approved it immediately. So Gao Huai, who had cleared the Great Deeds, got the dream imperial edict, and took the original memorial official Yan Dajing to Liaodong to collect taxes.

"The original commentator Yan Dajing can fulfill Gao Huai today."

Li Yongzhen did not say it clearly, but Liangchen guessed from his tone that Yan Dajing and Gao Huai must have "colluded internally and externally". Whether Gao Huai bribed Yan Dajing or Yan Dajing cleared Gao Huai, the two of them must have had contact with each other before. Perhaps, this was their own directing and acting.

"So, Eunuch Gao has to thank Yan Dajing."

"Maybe."

Li Yongzhen didn't talk much, and Liangchen asked what he replied. Apart from that, he even knew what he wouldn't say.

Perhaps, they bribed the emperor, and the good ministers thought, because on the surface, this matter was Gao Huai and Yan Dajing who took the initiative to ask for the mining, which made it a success. In fact, it was the emperor Wanli who needed money very much and hit it off, and he achieved good things only after hitting it off.

This also made Liangchen more convinced of his previous thoughts. It is definitely a shortcut to start a mine and get money and get promoted again.

Not seeing Gao Huai through mining, he not only won the emperor's heart, but also became a eunuch in the hall of the Sili family. If it weren't for the Shanhaiguan army's transformation, would it be a decisive way to go to Beijing to write?

"Listen to Eunuch Li, Gao Huai is really a capable man. Otherwise, how could he be today?" The good minister was inspired.

Li Yongzhen glanced at Liangchen, thought for a while, and told him something. He said, "In March of the 27th year, Eunuch Gao was the Liaodong Mining Supervisor. After only five days of taking office, he gave the emperor five hundred taels of silver. However, Eunuch Gao made a condition for the emperor."

Liangchen was stunned: "Provide conditions for Your Majesty?"

"Um."

Li Yongzhen held the horse whip, looked at the direction of Yongping City, and said lightly: "Eunuch Gao asked the emperor to name and inscription the tax store he opened in Liaodong. This tax store is called Fuyang Store."

"this…"

Liangchen was so open that Gao Huai used 500 taels of silver to ask the emperor to name the shop he opened?

Awesome!

This is simply a time traveler mode!

However, it is really a strange story about bribing the emperor for 500 taels of silver. No matter how you look at it, the emperor is too cheap.

The good minister was amazed by Gao Huai's methods, no matter where he was, or how he was named, it meant that he was rich.

Isn’t this how many time travelers in later generations do it? Could it be that they all learned from this eunuch Gao?

However, on the other hand, perhaps this is also the cleverness of Wanli.

This emperor may have bought horse bones for a fortune, and through this incident, Gao Huai and those outside mining taxes were encouraged to do their best.
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