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

Xu Dacheng blinked his eyes: "Master Hou, what you mean is that they...Falang Jiren are looking for gold?"

"That's right!" Hua Manlou said firmly, "This is not just a speck of gold, but a boatload of gold!"

"A boat..." Xu Dacheng was completely stunned.

As for that, how can an eunuch not love money?So he is not interested in rectifying officials, but he is not interested in gold...

If other people say that there is gold, then Xu Dacheng will probably sneer: If there is gold, you will not find it yourself?

Can it be full of flowers...

Huamanlou said that there is a mountain of silver in the Japanese country, so he really found the silver mountain; Huamanlou said that there were corn and potatoes overseas, so he really found corn and potatoes; most importantly, Huamanlou said that he would lead him to Xu Dacheng. As a result, he really made a lot of money—not to mention, He Qing brought back a large portion of the souvenirs he brought back this time.

So now that Huamanlou said that there is gold overseas, Xu Dacheng believed it immediately, his eyes shone with a mysterious brilliance: "What do you need our family to do, Lord Hou just say it!"

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663. Flickering

As the Prime Minister of Great Zhao, Xu Dacheng is really in charge of many things.

Although Emperor Guangxing was diligent, he took most of the right to wear red as the supervisor of ceremonies, but Xu Dacheng was still able to decide many things. Otherwise, the magistrate of Tianjin back then...

Cough, anyway, after hearing Huamanlou's words, Xu Dacheng's first reaction was that Huamanlou had something dirty that he needed to deal with.

It's normal. Although Lord Hou is already one of the big bosses, he has the shallowest foundation among all the big bosses—the foundation of the direct line. There is only one Xishanwei, and most of them have gone to recover Xihai. After some incidents, Master Hou can't copy the knife himself, can he?

Therefore, Xu Dacheng is the best person to deal with these dirty things-this is the position Xu Dacheng found for himself here in Huamanlou, because, well, ordinary people look for him because they want to take the upper-level route, but in Huamanlou The upper-level line of the people here is harder than his, so there is only dirty work left.

Thinking about it a little more, the things related to going to sea are generally opening the sea, so Xu Dacheng's small eyes began to flicker fiercely: Could it be that some blind man dared to open the sea at this juncture?Tired of life!

Just when Xu Dacheng was thinking, he heard Hua Manlou say: "Okay, if you have a heart, then you can go back and pack up, and go to sea with the Tianjin Navy."

Xu Dacheng nodded: "Okay, our family will...wait a while, go to sea?"

Hua Manlou said: "Ang, go to sea."

Xu Dacheng was stunned, and said after a long while: "Master Hou, don't you agree to entertain our family?"

"Pastime?" Hua Manlou said in astonishment, "How is this a pastime?"

Xu Dacheng smacked his lips, then stood up and walked out: "It's getting late, our family should go back to the palace."

This time Huamanlou didn't even stop him, and when Xu Dacheng walked to the door, he said slowly, "Gold."

Xu Dacheng stopped immediately, turned around and yelled: "Master Hou, you... just tell us what you want our family to do, why bother?"

"Should I stop talking, I want to accompany the fleet to sail to the West." Hua Manlou held a tea bowl and said with a matter-of-fact expression: "You don't believe me if I tell you the truth, who can I ask for reasoning?"

Xu Dacheng came back and sat down, took up the tea bowl and drank it for a while before saying: "Master Hou, let's be honest and honest, is it necessary for our family to go to the West?"

Hua Manlou glanced at him, and said helplessly, "Is Banban really stupid or just pretending to be stupid?"

Xu Dacheng quickly jumped his feet: "How did you say that?"

Hua Manlou sighed, then rubbed his forehead: "Banban, that's gold, it's a ship of gold, and Banban thinks that after getting the gold, the officers and soldiers of the Navy will honestly bring it back How about finding a place to live happily?"

"This……"

"My partner now knows that there is not only the country of Zhao in this world, there are countless countries in the far west, and everyone likes gold and recognizes the value of gold." Hua Manlou took a sip of tea and continued to fool: " In other words, the gold can even be bought directly from those small countries, so do you think they will come back?"

Xu Dacheng said in astonishment: "But...but their home is in Dazhao, and their family members are also...in Dazhao..."

Speaking of the second half of the sentence, he himself was not confident anymore.

In fact, if you were an ordinary person, you would definitely not believe Huamanlou's nonsense, because the sense of clan and family is very strong these days, and those who abandon their wives, children, and parents will be stabbed in the back, and the mainstream ideology cannot tolerate that. This kind of behavior of forgetting the ancestors, so most people still have the idea of ​​returning to the root of the fallen leaves-even Xu Dacheng himself, he has been digging and searching for countless inks in the court, but he is extremely rich in his hometown, and he is building bridges and paving roads. It's helping the poor again, so that they can enter the ancestral grave after death, after all...

Eunuchs are usually buried in mass graves.

Moreover, the overlord of Chu has said that not returning to his hometown is like traveling at night in brocade clothes. This represents the mentality of many people after they have developed-that is to say, going home will make others look jealous and make those who have looked down on them regret it. Most people still look forward to returning home.

But Xu Dacheng immediately believed Huamanlou's nonsense, not because he was stupid, but because in this era, the eunuchs are the least aware of the concept of "home". People are completely cut off from the past - they are not even allowed to enter the graves of their ancestors, and there is no home or family. How can you make them feel affection for home?

As far as Xu Dacheng himself is concerned, he spends money in his hometown to buy fame rather than a real sense of identity. He also has some vague resentment towards his parents—it was because of poverty that his parents sent him away in the past. He was sent to the palace.

How can those people come back after getting enough gold to buy a title?

Hua Manlou couldn't help laughing at Xu Dacheng's sometimes resentful and sometimes melancholy expression, so he continued to flicker: "So I need someone who definitely wants to come back to lead the team, or even more than one, otherwise, how can I ensure that those people are honest? Really come back? I can trust Geng Tiancheng, but I don't know the people under his command, so if Banban has someone he trusts and has some weight, it's fine to go there, but if he doesn't, then he can only trouble Banan Going for a run."

Who can a eunuch trust?

Those people in the palace follow the jungle law of the jungle, and there are too many self-motivated people. Even if someone calls Xu Dacheng his father, he can't believe it easily, because there are many cheating eunuchs in history. The one who killed his father...

After a long while, Xu Dacheng said with a bitter face: "Master Hou, why is it our family? It's not just our family who partnered in shipping, right?"

Hua Manlou sighed and said: "Yes, there are the Duke of the State, the elder of the pavilion, several Marquises, and some ministers, His Majesty and the Crown Prince are also among them, so who do you think should go?"

"But our family's weight is not low!" Xu Dacheng said frantically, "Our family is also highly valued by His Majesty in the palace..."

Hua Manlou interrupted him: "It is because Father trusts you that you are the best candidate."

"Isn't His Majesty the most trusted Lord Hou?"

"Well, I'm leaving. Are you going to handle the affairs here?" Hua Manlou sneered, "The development of the navy, the layout of the sea, the cultivation and promotion of corn and potatoes, the improvement of ships and naval guns, all these Is there something going on? There is also the shipping to the southeast. Without me, I’m afraid that it will be scattered tomorrow. Who will lose it? And to be honest, I can ensure that the navy will go to sea if I stay in Dazhao. The chances of coming back may increase by at least [-]%, don't you understand this truth?"

This Xu Dacheng understands, because if Huamanlou is here, dare not come back and say that maybe one day a fleet with stronger combat power and more experience will find them and deal with them in the same way as dealing with traitors. Deterrence in the division.

But if you understand it, you can go to the West...

Xu Dacheng said with a gloomy face, "Our house...can't go."

664. Have you enlightened yet?

"What are you worried about, companion?"

Looking at Xu Dacheng with a gloomy face, Hua Manlou asked with a smile: "Are you worried about the dangers you will encounter on the road, or are you worried about... losing your holy favor?"

Xu Dacheng suddenly raised his head and looked at Huamanlou: "Master Hou, you...success, let's talk about it. Our family can't leave the palace, and we can't leave your majesty, otherwise our family will be nothing."

Eunuch survival rule: the closer to the emperor the better, the more favor the better, after all they all come from the emperor, and if they are forgotten by the emperor, then they are not far from death.

For example, this was the case of Wang Zhi, the first Xichang factory official in the Ming Dynasty. At his peak, he was the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse, the eunuch of the Xichang factory, and the commander-in-chief of the [-]th Regiment Battalion of the Jingbing elite. It was powerful and powerful, but in the end, because of the estrangement between Jiuzhen Liaodong and Emperor Xianzong, he was impeached by Dongchang Changgong and demoted to Nanjing to guard the imperial mausoleum.

Therefore, compared with gold, Xu Dacheng is more worried about this - in case he is stabbed in the back by some bastard after leaving the capital, will he still live?

Hua Manlou laughed, very heartily.

Xu Dacheng suddenly became angry: "Why is Hou Ye laughing? What did our family say wrong?"

Hua Manlou shook his head and said, "Scheme, companion, is that all you have?"

Xu Dacheng said rude words for the first time: "What the fuck does this have to do with the pattern?"

"Yes, and it has a lot to do with it." Hua Manlou chuckled, and then said seriously: "What kind of emperor do you think Father is?"

"This..." Xu Dacheng hesitated: "Of course it is the master of Zhongxing, the master of hard work..."

"Do you really think so?"

"Could it be that Lord Hou is trying to set something up for our family? Then our family will also put the words here, and our family will say the same when the king of heaven comes!"

Hua Manlou nodded: "Since father is the master of hard work, it's fine if he didn't know before, but now he knows that there is such a vast territory overseas, what do you think father will think?"

Xu Dacheng opened his mouth: "Of course it is..."

"Wherever the sun and moon shine, they are all Han soil, and wherever the rivers and rivers go, they are all Han subjects." Hua Manlou said solemnly again: "Banban, do you know where these words come from? Oh, if you don't read enough, you may not know this. It is engraved on the Dinghu stele of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. Do you hear blood?"

Xu Dacheng remained silent with a sullen face.

Hua Manlou continued: "Look at our big Zhao. Originally, some of the small countries in the surrounding area were a bit obedient to big Zhao. Do you know this? It was because there were too many troubles around big Zhao that were hard to solve. For example, the grasslands in the north, such as the Japanese pirates on the sea, and the court is so virtuous, so Dazhao even has a taste of sunset in the west, and even a small country like Wala dares to shout at Dazhao. But now?"

"Now the Tatars are in a mess, Oala began to pay tribute, and the Japanese pirates were wiped out by me. After that, Ryukyu, Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Siam, Mancijia, Sulu, Maralang, and finally even the Sangha far away in the sky Luo Du came to pay tribute to Great Zhao, and the four directions came to congratulate the eight directions, this is the kingdom of heaven, right?"

"Father was quite happy at first, but when He Qing came back with the map, Father took a look: Huo, good guy, there are so many barbarians out there? How dare these barbarians not pay tribute to Great Zhao?"

"The companion said, is Father happy in his heart now, or unhappy?"

Xu Dacheng's lips twitched a few times, and he said silently: "It must be...somewhat unpleasant."

"Really? You also know that Father is not happy, right?" Hua Manlou slapped his thigh: "The Lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the death of the Lord, companion! Father is very worried now, do you feel ashamed?" ?”

Xu Dacheng wiped the sweat from his forehead: "This...of course there is."

To be honest, in today's Great Zhao, only Hua Manlou dares to arrange Emperor Guangxing like this, and only Hua Manlou dares to speculate on Shangyi so openly, but you can't conclude that what he said is wrong—including Emperor Guangxing After knowing it, I reckoned 'Eh?Do I still have this ambition?Now that you have said it all, I must have had this kind of reaction, after all...

All reliable emperors' pursuits in their life are generally based on the achievements of the three emperors, Dechao and five emperors Taishan Fengchan. It is also possible to surpass Qinhuang and Hanwu. Now, the Dinghu stele of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty is pulled out...

Well, we can't compare the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Qin Huang and Han Wu are probably too bad, but Han Xuandi, why are you?

Moreover, Xu Dacheng knew that Emperor Guangxing was a little restless recently—of course, this was not because the sun and the moon were shining and there were not so many Han soils, but because he deeply felt that he was in an unprecedented situation. In the changing situation, there is a little panic.

After all, China has been since ancient times... Well, apart from the Shan Hai Jing, who has really seen overseas things?

So Emperor Guangxing was excited on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was also a little worried that he would be stigmatized if he didn't make a good decision--Huamanlou had some fears about the small countries in the West that he didn't realize, but How could Emperor Guangxing fail to see it?

But Xu Dacheng didn't know that he was in this mood, so after Hua Manlou's interpretation, Xu Dacheng understood: So His Majesty is worried!

"Understood, Xu Banban?" Hua Manlou sighed and said, "Your Majesty's ambition is already overseas, but how many people can share His Majesty's worries? Civil servants? Honorable ones? Banban thinks that those civil servants in the court are going to the West Is this viscera? As for Xungui... hey, Duke Rong and Duke Ning have sent a few grandchildren aboard, can the companion fail to see their intentions?"

"Banban is worried that if he stays away from His Majesty, he will lose the favor, but now that His Majesty's ambition is overseas, going to sea with companion means that Banban is with His Majesty's ambition, so how can he lose the favor? Didn't Companion find out? He Qing was penniless before, even if he followed me to defeat the Japanese pirates, he was just an ordinary general, but now he can ride in the same car with the emperor after pulling back half a ship of gems at a time! Is this considered holy? Pet?"

Speaking of this, Hua Manlou put the teacup on the table with a bang, as if he wanted to make a final decision: "So, following His Majesty's ambition will have grace, and following His Majesty's ambition will have a future! Companion, do you understand? ?”

I have to say that Xu Dacheng was really moved when he said this.

Although there are still many worries, he has no doubts about Emperor Guangxing's ambitions, and he vaguely feels that what Hua Manlou said is the long-term solution-for example, this time about the civil servants, they made a fuss and suffered for nothing He was beaten up, but Emperor Guangxing did not really seek justice for him in a fair and just manner. This...

When he goes out, he is an envoy, a representative of Da Zhao, and the will of His Majesty, while in Beijing, he is always a domestic slave.

"Master Hou, you... you let our family think... think again."

Xu Dacheng left after leaving a word. When he left, Hua Manlou even felt that he was limping a little...

665. Exile for Three Thousand Miles

On Xu Dacheng's side, the seeds have been planted, just like the seeds of corn are planted, all they need to do is wait for the harvest.

Huamanlou was certain that as long as Xu Dacheng was sure that Emperor Guangxing was really changing, then he would definitely go to the West without hesitation—the reason was exactly as Huamanlou said: Holy Family.

This dead eunuch is so easy to cheat, that Hua Manlou is a little reluctant to really let him go to the West. In the future, if he has nothing to do, he can be called to fool around, let him do some stupid things to adjust his mood, and everyone can watch it. right?

What a pity, such a good tool man.

In fact, Xu Dacheng was even more anxious than Hua Manlou thought.

In the past, Xu Dacheng was a qualified assistant, because he was familiar with the affairs of the palace and the courtiers of the outer court, and he could be regarded as his duty in the past dynasties, as long as he did not make mistakes in his life. If you make a big mistake and don't commit a big death, then you can definitely live until you die.

Because at that time, although Emperor Guangxing was called the Lord of Zhongxing, he could only be regarded as conservative in a strict sense, and Da Zhao was still inevitably weakening.

The reason is very simple, flowing water is immortal, and the hinges are not beetles. If you want to really revitalize the Great Zhao, then in addition to solving some big problems, you need to carry out some relatively large reforms—for example, the old Zhangtou’s One whip is fine.

So before Huamanlou started to toss, Big Zhao was like a pool of stagnant water, and the stock price of the Zhao Group fell steadily, so it was okay for people like Xu Dacheng to mix in it.

But now the times have changed, Zhao's "muscle disease" was cured by spending a lot of medicine, and then the military system was reformed, and he secretly engaged in shipping. There are different colors overseas, so in this way, the pattern of Da Zhao will definitely change.

Therefore, it is obviously impossible for a person like Xu Dacheng to continue messing around as he used to, and he himself is aware of it occasionally, because he doesn't understand some things that Emperor Guangxing is thinking now.

But Xu Dacheng was of course unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history, but he was also unwilling to go down the Western path, so after returning to the palace, he went to see Emperor Guangxing immediately, wanting to confirm again.

"His Majesty."

"Well, you're back?" Emperor Guangxing, who was reviewing the memorial, looked up at him and asked, "What's up with Huamanlou's Shuzi recently?"

Xu Dacheng said: "Return to Your Majesty, Lord Hou said he was farming."

This was the mission given to him by Emperor Guangxing. Although he went to find Huamanlou by himself, the people he took with him were not idle, and they all asked around in the name of the palace.

"Farming?" Emperor Guangxing put down his pen, and said with a half-smile: "With his lazy nature, is he willing to go down to the fields?"

Xu Dacheng apologized and said with a smile: "The slaves don't believe it either, but after asking a few people everywhere, they all said that Lord Hou has been busy working in his agricultural college recently, and he really did it himself. Now the corn and potatoes have been planted. Let people record it every day, and fiddle with some procedures, so the slaves believe it."

Emperor Guangxing asked with interest: "Process? What process?"

"This... I don't understand." Xu Dacheng was a little embarrassed.

Emperor Guangxing suddenly felt dull: "You, I didn't ask you to go just to watch the excitement. You should find out what he did, so I won't be surprised when he comes to report later. no?"