As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

I have to say that because of ethnic habits, ideology and other issues, when Fanbang came to the DPRK to congratulate and ask for seals, various strange incidents happened from time to time, but when Da Zhao dealt with such matters, he was mostly indifferent or ignored Ordinary people can only consider themselves unlucky when encountering such a thing, which is why Prince Zhiren and Teru Wakamaru didn't take what happened before them seriously at all.

From the point of view of most civil servants who have lost their brains, the country is a state of etiquette, and the barbarians do not understand etiquette, so it is natural to treat international friends with courtesy, and occasional incidents like this can be seen as big if they are not pursued. It is a good place to convince people with virtue, and then more barbarians can come to congratulate them.

But can Hua Manlou let this group of people get used to this problem?

"Remember, this is the land of Da Zhao, and you are only representatives of the vassal state of Da Zhao. In Da Zhao, you have no privileges."

Hua Manlou cast a glance at Prince Zhiren, who was kneeling on the ground trembling, and glanced at the envoys from other countries who had heard the news. Habits, what kind of rules are there, but in Dazhao, you have to follow Dazhao's rules."

"You come to Dazhao as a guest, and Dazhao treats you with courtesy." After a pause, Hua Manlou continued: "But there is an old saying in the Tian Dynasty that the guests do as they please, which means, Guests who are polite and knowledgeable generally act according to the convenience or arrangement of their hosts, rather than acting recklessly and unscrupulously, do you think so?"

As soon as these words were said, not only Teruwakamaru and Prince Zhiren, who were kneeling on the ground, agreed repeatedly, but also the envoys from Bangzi, Siam, Ryukyu, Champa, Oala and other countries in the distance also nodded in agreement, and immediately made up their minds to go back. To regulate the behavior of his subordinates - not for anything else, just because Huamanlou is too scary...

"All in all, go buy some "Law of the Great Zhao" and put it in the house. Read it in your free time and learn some rules. If you don't understand it, talk to your neighbors next door or the officials of Honglu Temple. It's really impossible. It is also possible to ask the Ministry of Punishment to send a few people to explain to you."

Having said that, Hua Manlou glanced over, and a group of envoys all lowered their heads.And in this somewhat depressing atmosphere, Hua Manlou dropped the last sentence: "My lord, I really don't want to hear about your bad manners anymore."

Although Huamanlou didn't say what will happen next time someone breaks the rules, but no one dares to take his words as a deaf ear, and what...

Since then, any envoys who came to pay tribute to Da Zhao would buy a few copies of "Laws of Da Zhao" and study them carefully, and tried their best to restrain their subordinates from running wild on Da Zhao's land. The unspoken rules of Lu Temple have even become the rules of the Celestial Dynasty, and have not changed for hundreds of years.

……

After coming out of Honglu Temple, Song Jie, who was standing next to Huamanlou, was a little puzzled: "Uncle, let's go out today... Isn't it because of the political affairs?"

Hua Manlou nodded: "Yes."

Song Jie was completely puzzled: "Then shouldn't we find out the person who is messing with this matter? Why did you come to Honglu Temple?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Because I'm not feeling well."

"Not feeling well?"

"Ang, according to my identity, the one who dares to trick me behind my back must be a big shot, right?"

"Uh, that's the truth."

"Then since it's a big shot, it won't be easy for me to find out or counterattack, right?"

"That's true, but why did you come to Honglu Temple to seek bad luck from the Japanese?"

Hua Manlou blinked: "Didn't I say that, I'm not in a good mood. People come to bully me, and I can't go back for a while, so I can only find a soft persimmon and squeeze it out first." Take a deep breath, and then slowly talk to the other party? Otherwise, when will I get out of this tone?"

Song Jie: "...Uncle, are you kidding me?"

"Yo, did you see it?" Hua Manlou kicked him: "Don't ask if you shouldn't, just walk."

"where to?"

"Inspector of Rituals!"

458. Pain

Inside the Prison of Rituals, there was light smoke.

Because the eunuchs were cut off, there was no such sphincter, so that there would be tick-tock leaks from time to time, so most of them would use some strong fragrance to cover up the smell on their bodies - after all, they had to serve the master, so they always You can't let the master smell that smell, can you?

Therefore, it is often like smoking bacon in the Prison of Rituals, and the incense can't be stopped at all, so that Hua Manlou almost suffocates after walking in.

After driving out the idlers, Xu Dacheng made tea himself, and holding it in front of Hua Manlou who was almost rolling his eyes with a smile: "Taste this tea, it was given by His Majesty..."

Hua Manlou looked up at him, but said nothing.

Xu Dacheng was stunned, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed: as Huamanlou, the rewards in the palace are only a lot more than him, not to mention tribute tea, even some items for the imperial use, there are only a lot more in Huamanlou. Few - from Emperor Guangxing, from the crown prince, from the two-time Gongdou champion, all kinds of things add up...

Well, if it can be sold, it is estimated that it can be exchanged for several large houses in a place like the capital where land is expensive.

"Cough, why did you think of our place today?" Xu Dacheng skipped the habitual showing off step and got to the point without embarrassment.

Hua Manlou stared at him without saying a word.

Xu Dacheng looked at Huamanlou innocently, and felt a little hairy after a while: "Uncle, you..."

"Who is behind the scenes?"

"what?"

Hearing Hua Manlou's sudden question without beginning or end, Xu Dacheng was stunned for a while: "What is behind the scenes?"

Hua Manlou looked at him with contempt: "Pretend, keep pretending!"

"What can we install in our house? Our house..."

"I have to make it clear, don't I?" Hua Manlou looked disgusted: "Anyone in the circle can see that someone wants to kill me this time, and even messed with the political affairs, I don't believe you Xu Ban Does your partner know anything about this?"

Xu Dacheng smiled awkwardly when he heard the words: "It's also... It's not that there are countless, it's just..."

"It's just lazy, isn't it?" Hua Manlou was even more contemptuous: "Now that the Japanese pirates have been suppressed by me, the air routes have opened up, and the envoys from the Japanese and Ryukyu countries have also arrived in the capital, so you think it's the same to do business with me anyway. , the money you should take is not short, so you don't bother to make false claims with me, do you?"

Xu Dacheng blushed, and argued: "Uncle, how can you look at our family like this? Others don't know, but our family doesn't know? At this time, the sea transportation has just started, and the money has not yet arrived. If something happens to Uncle at this moment All of our family's money has been wasted, so..."

Hua Manlou sneered and said, "Oh, you still know that nothing will happen to me? Since you know, why are you still standing here and doing nothing, waiting for me to be tricked and bullied?"

Without waiting for Xu Dacheng to continue to quibble, Hua Manlou glanced at him: "For the cabinet, right? Don't deny it, if you want to deny it, I will turn around and leave now, and then maybe the companions will return to His Majesty for no reason. Sometimes you don't talk about the contract."

Xu Dacheng was taken aback for a moment, and then said angrily: "Our family... Our family actually has no bad intentions. If the uncle is in power, we will watch each other inside and outside the court. At that time, where will the court get those sour little ones? People talk? Uncle, this is the real truth!"

It has to be said that Xu Dacheng's mind is actually easy to guess.

He is happy to see the success of Huamanlou's position, and he wants to go further: do everything possible to put Huamanlou on top of the cabinet, use Huamanlou to suppress the cabinet, and reduce the number of other people. Influence on the court.

The contradiction between the inner court and the outer court is here, so as far as Xu Dacheng is concerned, how can a cabinet with too much power bring more benefits than a well-connected Huamanlou?

In addition, if Huamanlou fails to suppress the two parties in the cabinet, then no matter which side has the upper hand, it will be beneficial to the chief inspector. profit?

Therefore, it is not only the black hand behind the scenes who pushed Huamanlou to the position this time, but also the inner court represented by Xu Da, but the former wanted to create hatred for Huamanlou, let him fight with some civil servants and the cabinet, and then The latter really wanted Huamanlou to be promoted.

So, the Chaotang is such a complex situation with many factions on the top of a hill, it is like this in any era, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests-this is even beyond the expectations of the creators, because in their imagination, Huamanlou will fight with the cabinet and the chief inspector at the same time...

Thousands of calculations were made, but Xu Dacheng's psychological shadow on Huamanlou was not considered.

And when Huamanlou heard about this before, he thought that Xu Dacheng would contribute to it. He knew the importance of Hua Manlou in Emperor Guangxing's heart, so he became an honest person in front of him, and he got out of it with such a trick.

"Xu Banban, let me tell you something about you?" Hua Manlou remained calm, rubbing his brows with a fake headache: "People don't know, don't you know that the Great Zhao Navy is in my hands now?"

"This...but I know."

"Then since you know that I have such great military power, why do you still want to put me in a position where I can control the court? Do you think my life is too long?"

"No, our family... Based on His Majesty's trust in the uncle, generally it will not..."

"Trust? Are you crazy?" Hua Manlou sighed and said, "If I accept this political participation, then I must hand over the navy, no matter how much your Majesty trusts me, I have to hand it over, otherwise I will die. Minister Don't you know the result of excessive power?"

"Then after handing over the navy, my companion thinks who will care about the rules I set with the navy? If the rules are broken, the shipping shelf I put up with great difficulty will collapse, and a large sum of money will be paid by then. But it was taken away by someone else, so what does Banban mean, is he really going to give up the harvest of shipping for the benefit of the DPRK? Or is it that Banban thinks it’s fun to pinch me and the cabinet, so I just give up every year to watch the excitement? An income of tens of millions of taels of silver? If that’s the case, Banban can push me up.”

After listening to Hua Manlou's words, Xu Dacheng immediately stood up and saluted Hua Manlou and smiled apologetically, "Don't blame uncle, our family...isn't our family lost in love? Our family will go to His Majesty to blow some air and express our pain." Interesting, is it okay to say that the navy cannot do without Uncle? Speaking of which, it seems that His Majesty also intends to let Uncle take over."

"Huh?" Hua Manlou was taken aback.

Xu Dacheng apologized and said with a smile: "Your Majesty even specifically asked our family about this matter. It can be seen that His Majesty regards Uncle as the most important thing in the dynasty..."

Hua Manlou really felt speechless: Why is her godfather becoming more and more unreliable?

"Okay, don't do unnecessary things!" Hua Manlou sighed, "Just tell me, who is going to trick me this time?"

459. Don't Care About This

The name that Xu Dacheng revealed was exactly the same as what Hua Manlou had guessed.

In fact, whether it is from the theory of interests or the theory of goals, there are only a few people or groups who want to cheat Huamanlou and have the energy to cheat him. It can be seen pretty well.

"Shanxi merchants...? It's really troublesome."

When leaving the palace, Hua Manlou stood at the gate of the palace and muttered to himself as if he had suffered from a second-year illness.

To be honest, it is reasonable for the Jinshang Group to be unable to hold back, after all, Huamanlou offended them a bit ruthlessly.

After the fight against Wala before, Huamanlou took over other transactions except for the apparent tribute matters. However, he did not choose to cooperate with Shanxi merchants, but chose to cooperate with wealthy Jiangnan merchants represented by Gu Xinghuai , and the Tatars, who have been torn apart since then, are doing the same.

In other words, Huamanlou has already taken food from other people's mouths, and Jinshang Group can't bear this kind of thing.

But helplessly, Huamanlou was very honest before he came out of the Jingping Japanese pirates, and he repeatedly hit the morale of the censors, and was adopted by Emperor Guangxing as his adopted son, so from the opportunity, at that time It was not the time to attack Huamanlou.

After the Battle of Fenghua, Huamanlou was suddenly impeached in the court, and the prince was impeached for the second time when he left Beijing Huamanlou for no reason. These two attacks were more or less fueled by the Shanxi Merchants Group, but obviously they did not He succeeded, but Huamanlou lived a life without illness and disaster. After returning to Beijing, he took a second-rank prince and young master to play happily with the little goblin without even going to the court to report his achievements. Jinshang Group is angry and helpless.

What's even more helpless is that the seaborne trade is such a big cake, the big bosses of the capital have a share, the relatives of Xun have a share, the gentry of the six southeastern provinces have a share, and the rich merchants of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Min and Guangdong have a share, but the Shanxi merchants are missing. Can you bear it?

Therefore, in the eyes of this group of people, as long as Huamanlou is carried on, they will definitely profit from it and divide a part of the seaborne trade.

however……

In the beginning, they wanted to play rumor tactics and force Huamanlou to go to the wild, but this trick was wiped out by his fiancee before it worked. Now, no one believes the rumors about Huamanlou, even if they are true. No matter how good the nose and eyes are, no one will believe it—a few days ago, a certain censor from the Shanxi Merchants line wanted to talk about this at the instigation of the upper echelon, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he looked at him with eyes that looked like a pen, that Miserable...

Then this group of people finally realized that it was no longer possible to take down Hua Manlou by relying on conventional methods, and it was even impossible to cause him any harm at all.

Ever since, the strategy of killing is freshly released.

So, who is the head of the agents of the Shanxi merchants in the court?

Na Zhenghao, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

……

"Tsk, people's hearts are not ancient." In Wen Ge's old mansion, Hua Manlou held the young lady's little hand in the garden openly and complained while walking in the garden: "Since I became an official, I have brought a lot to the court even if I say nothing." After several years of financial income, it stands to reason that Na Shangshu, who is in charge of money and food, should not mess with me, the God of Wealth, right? But look at what dirty things he has done? He can do such despicable things Come out... tsk, it's shaking and cold!"

Wen Liang looked at Hua Manlou with a smile: "Then what are you going to do?"

"Hmm..." Hua Manlou paused, "What do you think I threw his son into the well? Isn't that a bit too vicious?"

"Yes, very vicious."

"Then what should I do? How about I go to the household department to look for him and beg him to forgive me?" Hua Manlou said nonsense seriously: "Or see if he has a beautiful granddaughter or something, and hook up with him... ...Hiss...how did you learn to pinch people?"

The expression on Wen Liang's face did not change, and he said with a smile: "Again, who do you want to hook up with?"

"...I want to hook up with Elder Wen Ge's daughter. It is said that this girl is the most beautiful woman in the capital. If she can marry her back home and become a daughter-in-law, it will be a waste of time in this world. Don't you think so?"

Wen Liang rolled his eyes at him, but soon smiled embarrassedly: "You say yes."

After arranging her hair, Wen Liang said indifferently: "Actually, you don't have to pay attention to this matter, as long as you go back to Xishan."

Hua Manlou shrugged: "Although I think so too, who can guarantee whether they will dig holes for me again?"

Huamanlou understood Wen Liang's meaning.

Today's Xishan is busy, not to mention the expansion of Xishanwei's enrollment and training, the Royal Institute of Technology alone has endless things to do, and there are a series of research and development matters waiting for Huamanlou to make a decision.

It's not that the affairs of Xishan are completely more important than the affairs of the court, it's just that doing so is to send a clear signal to Emperor Guangxing: Uncle Hua is very busy and has no intention of getting involved in the battle of the court.

after all……

Xu Dacheng said that Emperor Guangxing was only interested in letting Huamanlou participate in politics, not because he had to, but Xishan cannot do without Huamanlou.

Don't you see, after Huamanlou left the capital, does Xishan's research and development seem to have stagnated?

Hua Manlou is happy to believe that his godfather is having a brain twitch, not a constant one. With his meek nature, it is a ghost that he can immediately make a decision to destroy the court structure.

So the essence of the problem is not how to avoid this incident, but how to deal with the person or group that caused this incident-there will be endless troubles if you don't die if you beat a snake. superior?

And what...

"My father seems to have made some moves." Hua Manlou looked at Wen Liang and sighed, "Nie Wenbing was very angry when he was tossing around last year, and he said before that sometimes he can't just keep a low profile And forbearance, so... don't avoid it."

Wen Liang nodded: "That's right, with your current status, it's not normal if you can't fight back."

Hua Manlou smiled, led Wen Liang into the flower hall, and wrapped her hands around her small waist, bowed her head and said, "Then, resourceful lady, how about some guiding advice for my husband?"

Consciously or unconsciously, Wen Liang put his arms around Hua Manlou's neck. Although his face was flushed, he said, "Do you want someone to give you advice, or do you want to tease him?"

Hua Manlou slightly leaned over and pressed his forehead against hers, and said in a low voice, "Is there... a contradiction?"

"You...what do you think?" Wen Liang's eyes were fascinated, but his body froze in an instant: "Be careful!"

"I've already said that the material is too slippery... Anyway, don't worry about it, what should I teach my husband?" Hua Manlou laughed viciously.

"The court's methods are nothing more than a few... um..."

There was no clarity in Wen Liang's eyes.