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

Seeing her running out of the door, Hua Manlou calmed down and said: "You run, if you run out of my yard, I won't take you back to Xishan."

The footsteps outside stopped, and Qin'er's shameful and angry voice came after a while: "If you don't go, you don't go, you deserve to live in the kennel without anyone to serve you!"

Hua Manlou laughed and said, "Xiaonan and Xiaobei are still in Xishan, do you really think I have no one to take care of you, Master?"

There was a stomping sound from outside, and it sounded like the little girl was regretting.

Hua Manlou went on to provoke her: "Speaking of which, no one has warmed the bed at night... Oh no, no one is robbing me of the quilt, well, it's better not to bring you..."

Before she finished speaking, Qin'er rushed in, and she eagerly shouted: "No!"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Why not?"

Qin'er was angry and impatient, stomped her feet and didn't know what to say, but in the end...

Cried out again.

Hua Manlou hurriedly pulled her over and held her in his arms for a while, before finally saying: "Remember, even if you just stay here without doing anything, the young master will not want you, you know?"

"... Suck... Got it..."

"Don't cry next time, you know?"

"... Suck... Got it..."

"I will give birth to a son for the young master in the future, do you know?"

"I know... I don't know!"

Sure enough, fighting radish is a lot of fun!

155. It's him again?

Qin'er's heart was too sincere, Hua Manlou felt that it was necessary to bully this little girl a little bit from time to time, so that she could at least know some flexibility, so that she would not entangle herself to death.

Today's matter is nothing more than Qiaoqiao washing her clothes for her with some unknown intentions. If someone else came, she might be happy at leisure, but she can actually cry...

Who taught her this?

But then again, if Qiaoqiao doesn't study her elementary school mathematics, what's the point of grabbing the little girl's job?

After comforting Qin'er, Hua Manlou went to the West Wing to look for Qiaoqiao.

I came back late yesterday, and Huamanlou didn't bother to ask her about her homework today, so I just happened to check on her progress.

"Ah...young master!" When Hua Manlou opened the door and entered the room, Qiaoqiao was sitting at the table with her chin in her hand and seemed to be in a daze. She got up and saluted hastily when she realized who was coming.

Hua Manlou nodded, and said with a smile, "Why... it feels like you're idling and panicking?"

Qiaoqiao smiled embarrassedly: "I used to be busy all day long, but the young master hasn't arranged any work since I came to the house, so..."

In fact, Qiaoqiao is not sure what Huamanlou is thinking at this time.

Ordinarily speaking, a girl of her status should be treated as a concubine if she is sent into the mansion, so the servants in the mansion don't dare to neglect her these days, but Huamanlou doesn't say anything about letting her be a concubine. She was still a servant girl, but she just threw a bunch of math problems at her. No matter how smart she was, she couldn't figure out what Hua Manlou was thinking, so she couldn't help feeling a little bored.

Therefore, when Hua Manlou asked, she still couldn't hold back her nod, but Hua Manlou didn't realize what she meant, and just smiled, "Why didn't you arrange it? Have you finished those exercises?"

Qiaoqiao nodded, and somewhat depressed picked up a stack of papers from the table and handed them to Huamanlou: "Master, please have a look."

Hua Manlou took it casually, glanced at it for a while, then smiled and said, "Well, it looks like you have no problem with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, so it's time for you to do something more difficult."

Qiaoqiao hesitated for a moment, and asked cautiously: "Young master asked me to learn this...is there any use?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "You think these are useless?"

Qiaoqiao bit her lips: "I...I don't know..."

She said so, but she was slandering in her heart: Is this person smart or stupid?Why can't you figure it out?

Hua Manlou patted the exercise in his hand, and said with a smile, "If you change these things in another way, you probably know what I mean. For example...there is 3000 taels of silver in the warehouse, and I will earn it back this month." 3 taels, the expenditure of the mansion is 200 taels, each of the servants rewards two taels, how much is left?"

Qiaoqiao looked at Huamanlou in astonishment: "So the young master means that you want me to be the house's accountant?"

"What's there to do with the accountant at the mansion?" Hua Manlou smiled and said, "The accounts on the other side of the Western Hills are even more complicated. In addition, the artisans in the Western Hills will also need some mathematical support in the future. I can't do it alone. .So what I mean is, you will follow me to Xishan in a few days. On the one hand, you will take care of Xishan’s accounts for me, and on the other hand, you will help the artisans calculate some things. You will even need to bring some apprentices out later... …Well, anyway, let’s talk about it later, let me ask you now, are you happy to do this?”

Qiaoqiao stared blankly at Huamanlou: "It's good..."

"That's fine, I'm fine today anyway, I'll teach you something new."

At this moment, Qiaoqiao felt that there must be something wrong with Huamanlou.

In the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, the education Qiaoqiao received was not only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also some messy skills to please men. After all, this is the main business of the brothel, right?

Therefore, most of the things that women in brothels hope for are like this: to be redeemed by high-ranking officials and nobles and take them back to be concubines.

Therefore, when Qiaoqiao got into trouble and was sent to the Huai'an uncle's mansion, she felt a little lucky, at least she would not be a lonely red lady in the future, or be bought home by a dignitary in her [-]s and [-]s to suffer. Moreover, Huamanlou had a promising future visible to the naked eye, so many people envied her at the time, but...

Although Qiaoqiao doesn't mean to compete for favor and become a regular wife, she already regards herself as Huamanlou's concubine in her heart, but Huamanlou suddenly throws another way, which makes her a little at a loss: to be Xishan's accountant What the hell?See what he means to let yourself do things for him?But it's not good for a woman to get involved in official affairs, right?

"What are you doing in a daze? Sit down!" Hua Manlou pointed to the stool beside him: "The things I'm going to teach you today are quite important, so be serious!"

"Ah... oh."

"Come on, look, let's take the case of the accountant just now as an example. It's a very typical word problem. You need to extract all the numbers, and then make a calculation..."

In a trance, Qiaoqiao suddenly felt that this is not bad, after all...

Any pretty girl in the concubine's room can do it, but it's hard to replace an assistant, right?

……

When Huamanlou was teaching mathematics, Ying Guogong's mansion.

After receiving the news of Huamanlou, Duke Ying immediately ordered: "Prepare the car and go to Baixiangyuan! Take my post and invite Mr. Wen Ge to the banquet!"

Huamanlou's plan would not work without the cooperation of the cabinet. Although the current cabinet is headed by Mr. Zeng Ge, Mr. Zeng Ge has suffered from a cold and is currently on sick leave. Second assistant Wen Xuelin has this viscera. After all, he tends to be determined to reform rather than stick to the rules in terms of governance. In addition, Ying Guogong has a good relationship with him, so the old Qi pointed his target at him.

So what is the role of the cabinet?

In fact, the establishment of the Dazhao cabinet is basically similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. In short, it is to assist the country.

Obviously, such a huge empire cannot rely solely on the emperor to handle state affairs, not even the most energetic emperor.Therefore, since ancient times, the emperor has always had the position of prime minister, and under certain circumstances, the prime minister can be regarded as half of the emperor or the entire emperor, such as the one who refers to the deer as a horse, the one who takes the emperor to order the princes, and so on.

And precisely because the prime minister's power will affect the monarchy, so at the beginning of the cabinet, it is basically equivalent to the emperor finding a few secretaries to replace the prime minister, so as to weaken the power of the prime minister, so so far the cabinet scholars are all regular. The official position of the fifth grade is the same as that of Huamanlou, although...

Occasionally, people would work part-time as a minister, or hold an official title such as a prince and grand teacher.

Of course, the cabinet at the beginning was just an assistant, and did not use important ministers, but the main duty of the cabinet was drafting, that is, posting a small note on the memorial book to state its own opinion on the matter of the memorial for the emperor to provide reference Opinion - This is the position that can directly affect the emperor, and its rights and responsibilities are not insignificant, so the influence of the cabinet is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it has to be held by an influential veteran, so it becomes The unique cabinet system of the Celestial Dynasty is fundamentally different from the cabinet of a constitutional monarchy.

In order to check and balance the cabinet, the emperor had to set up a supervisor of etiquette to let a group of uneducated eunuchs come to fight against the cabinet. This is another lawsuit.

After all, the cabinet is essentially a weakened version of Zaifu, so they are the heads of the six civil servants, but occasionally they will play the role of fighting against the six departments. It has come to an end, so there is an essential difference between the pursuit of elders and ordinary civil servants, such as the birth of Jin Taishi and death of posthumous title Wenzheng, or the realization of one's own ambitions, so...

After Mr. Ying finished explaining the function of the mutual market and the method of opening it to Mr. Wen Ge in detail, Mr. Wen couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Ying, a loyal old man, knows about it, but he never thought he would have such knowledge? "

"Elder Wen Ge sees that this is not my idea, so why bother to make fun of me?" Duke Ying was not angry, and said with a smile, "To tell you the truth, this crazy idea was the idea of ​​that brat Hua Manlou."

Wen Xuelin paused for a hand stroking his beard: "It's him again?"

Duke Ying sighed: "That's right, it's him again. This kid may not have been so good before, but since he opened his eyes as if he had seen a ghost a few months ago, let alone us old guys, it is His Majesty." Everyone praises him a lot, and he can really come up with some crooked ideas for His Majesty, so who can I ask for reasoning?"

Wen Ge said with a smile: "Correct ideas? The old man thinks that he might as well have more crooked ideas, so that the cabinet can save a little more trouble, and save the old man from being exhausted in front of the copybook!"

Ying Guogong raised his eyebrows: "Ge Lao thinks this can be done?"

Mr. Wen Ge stroked his beard and said: "If you can, you have to be able to, because if this is done, Da Zhao will have another way to influence and restrict the grassland people, and more money will be added to the treasury, and even a little more money will be paid to them." Other things have some influence... Hua Manlou is a good planner, no wonder His Majesty would talk to him from time to time, even this old man wants to talk to him now!"

Ying Guogong sneered: "When the court elder asked Ji Yuxiaoer, aren't you afraid of losing your face if you spread the word?"

Old Wen Ge said cheerfully: "Confucius is the master of Xiang Lian, how can I lose face if I seek advice from Huamanlou?"

Ying Guogong said contemptuously: "It's because you literati are right, I don't bother to argue. Anyway, today the Wala people have asked to pay tribute to Dazhao, and the elder Ge will receive the news tomorrow, when..."

Wen Ge said: "I understand."

After all, Lao Wen is Ge Lao. Although he didn't realize the importance of this matter before, Ying Guogong had already figured it out before he finished his three sentences, so even if this matter is still a bit troublesome, but Mr. Wen Ge will take care of some details and try to make this matter as trouble-free as possible - after decades of ups and downs in the officialdom, what has Lao Wen not seen?

Moreover, although Hua Manlou proposed this matter, once the method against the grassland people is noticed by the world, a large part of the credit and reputation will fall on Mr. Wen Ge, so why does this matter go to Mr. Wen? will refuse?

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156. Is there going to be a spear in the sky tomorrow?

When the cabinet minister passed the proposal of Huamanlou, many things became much simpler.

The next day, in the playbook sent to the cabinet by the Secretary of General Administration, there was indeed a playbook written by the Minister of Rites, about the Oara people's request to pay tribute to Da Zhao according to the tribute ceremony.It’s just that the tribute of the Wala people is a little different. They asked Da Zhao to change the silk and coins given by Da Zhao into food, cloth, salt, ironware, etc., otherwise they would not agree to the tribute, so the Ministry of Rites did not dare to make decisions without authorization. forwarded to the cabinet for decision.

It has to be said that Huamanlou is well aware of the urine behavior of civil servants-so many historical materials are not for nothing, right?

After all, you see, if you only talk about the mutual market, this group of people will never agree. Even if you hit him at the door and put a knife on his neck, he will choose to refuse for the sake of reputation, but when Er Situm put this matter Another way to say it is to pay tribute, even if the things to be discussed are exactly the same, the attitude of the civil servants immediately becomes that they can talk about it.

Of course, the current situation can only be discussed. After all, it is obviously not in line with Da Zhao Chaotang's values ​​to 'give' ironware and food to Wala.However, the matter of paying tribute is too fragrant, and this matter is extremely in line with the value of the civil servants that the celestial kingdom must "congratulate from all directions, and come to court from all directions", so the Ministry of Rites discussed and discussed, and finally decided to kick the ball to the cabinet. Cabinet makes decisions.

Note that the key point here is still that 'selling ironware and grain to grassland people is suspected of being an enemy'. If the Oirats rise again because of this matter, and then continue to pose a threat to Dazhao, wouldn't the person who made the decision be judged by public opinion? submerged?

Don't think that there was no public opinion violence in ancient times, and the public opinion violence is even worse these days. Maybe several generations will be unable to hold their heads up because of this. Otherwise, why do civil servants cherish their feathers so much?

Therefore, the Ministry of Rites certainly does not want to and dare not bear this infamy, so they will not make a final decision—isn’t there a cabinet of decision-makers anyway?

Elder Wen Ge was specially waiting in the cabinet today. After getting the memorial, he pretended to discuss it with Sanfu Fan Ge. In the end, the two of them drafted together and asked His Majesty to make a decision on the matter——Ministry of Rites I don't want to bear the blame, the people in the cabinet are not stupid, how could they not know the risks involved?

So this playbook was naturally forwarded to the Supervisor of Rituals, and the Supervisor of Rituals...

The eunuch, the chief inspector of ceremonies, has basically always been the most trusted eunuch of the emperor, so Xu Dacheng was of course informed of this matter, and he quickly sent the memorial to Emperor Guangxing of the Nuange Pavilion without even reading it. .

So how would Emperor Guangxing give instructions?

It's very simple, just four words, delivered to the court.

What is the court meeting?It is a meeting of courtiers, where tens to more than 100 courtiers related to the matter are convened, and everyone sits together to discuss this matter. If the opinions of the court disagree, the emperor should make a ruling or follow the opinions of the majority.

So Mr. Wen Ge held a court meeting according to the order. Guess how many people he brought here?

More than a hundred, almost half of the court was pulled here.

First of all, the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, which deal with foreign affairs, can't get away. Don't you all have to come and discuss it?Immediately afterwards, the household department can't run away, who let your household department hold the money and food?Not to mention the Ministry of War. Over the years, most of the money spent by the Ministry of War has been in border towns. After the Oala Tribute, the pressure on the frontier army will not be so great. How dare you say that it has nothing to do with you?

People from the Ministry of Punishments and Dali Temple should not even think about running away. After Wala started to pay tribute, more people came to the grasslands of the capital. If it involves criminals, do you care about it?Whether to deal with it in the way of grassland people or according to the law of Dazhao, you have to have a number, right?

In the same way, the factory guards who have the right to arrest and interrogate, as well as the Shuntian Mansion and Wucheng Bingmasi also have to come and talk about your views, right?Although Lu Kun, the commander of Xuanwuwei, and Zhou Han, the head of Dongchang, sat aside, they were a little confused: When did we take care of this matter?

As for the Ministry of Industry...isn't the Ministry of Industry in charge of the repairs and ordnance of the border town?When the time comes, there will be no more wars, and you can mobilize more resources for river control, isn't it good?

In the end, five of the six departments came. Do you have to come and see the officials?How lonely are you otherwise?There are also the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Division, don't you guys like to express your opinions the most?Why don't you come and talk about it?

It has to be said that the court meetings generally discuss political affairs that are "of great interest", such as titles, sacrifices, official systems, personnel, finance, military affairs, etc., and it was only five days ago when discussing military preparations. There were ten or so people, but for a single tribute today, Mr. Wen Ge drew more than a hundred people for various reasons. This matter was a bit...

Well, it’s a bit less solemn. After all, there are a lot of people talking, and there were quite a few people who fought together a few days ago, so today’s court discussion is full of gunpowder. Anyone who expresses an opinion will be refuted. The noisy heads of people in the entire hall It hurts.

Elder Wen Ge didn't say much the whole time, just sat on the chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. If he hadn't stroked his beard or drank saliva from time to time, everyone would have thought he was asleep...

The court discussion lasted for three full hours, and at the end of the quarrel, Elder Wen Ge stood up and said, "Why don't you vote?"

Voting is the fairest way to vote, and it has always been done anyway.

Elder Wen Ge didn't even use too many black-box operations. After he casually agreed with several different ideas during the voting, the Oarat tribute matter...

It's a tie, it's half the price, and no one can do anything to the other.

Wen Ge solemnly reported the voting results to Emperor Guangxing, and Emperor Guangxing immediately issued an order: the cabinet must come up with a charter for decision-making!

And the cabinet responded immediately: agree!

So far, the matter has been perfectly resolved. In the process, the ministers did not express their views, the emperor did not express their views, and the cabinet was finally forced to express their views. No one needs to recite their names, anyone can accept it.

Of course, this is true on the surface, but in fact, this group of people performed a big play according to Hua Manlou's script, and they performed with all their heart, or with stern voices, or with tears...

Then again, why did Hua Manlou think that this would be successful?

It’s very simple, there is an example. When the Wanli Dynasty was in business with the grassland people, Gao Gong did this. The way of rhythm is exactly the same: first let the courtiers quarrel, then start to practice Tai Chi, and finally the cabinet is forced to make a decision , the core is also a tribute for the table and the market for the inside...

So, it is still very useful to be familiar with history books. You can find standard answers and optimal answers to many things, saving time and effort.

If there is a fly in the ointment...

"The old man really can't see through this scorpion. His method looks like an old fox who has been immersed in the court for decades. He has counted all the reactions of all parties, and even the old man's cooperation in acting is included. But in the end he never showed up, and the world didn't know that he was in charge of this matter..." Mr. Wen Ge sat by the stove in his study with a complicated expression on his face: "What do you think he is planning?"

Opposite the stove was Miss Wen, she said with a smile: "A person with lofty ambitions cannot be judged by common sense, and... what if he is only for the sake of strengthening the country?"

Elder Wen Ge looked at his youngest daughter in surprise: "Oh? You think so highly of him? It's strange today, my girl with high eyesight actually praised this brat, is there going to be a spear in the sky tomorrow? ?”