Chapter 60: Being Powerful and Powerful
"What should Eunuch Zou do?"
Zou Yi smiled and raised his hand to greet:
"Xiao Cai, take our post and go to Shuntian Prefecture Office. He said there was a case on the South Street. The constables came to investigate and left without saying anything. It made people wonder if there was something wrong with it. Go and go back!"
One of his two entourages hurried over, took Zou Yi's famous post, turned around and went out. When the case was found to be so serious, Wang Tong had no way to proceed.
They simply took out a ingot of silver and gave it to Sun Dahai, and asked them to distribute it themselves. When they went home for the New Year, Sun Dahai and his group were very happy. They came to pay New Year's greetings once, but they even took the New Year's money. They got closer to the adults. They both stood up and thanked Wang Tong for leaving South Street.
He instructed another person to come tomorrow, but Wang Tong missed Zhang Shiqiang a little. Zhang Shiqiang left the city on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month and said he wanted to go to Tongzhou to worship his ancestors and clean up, and it was estimated that he would not be able to return on the seventh day of the lunar month.
It’s not that Sun Dahai and his group of people are not doing things or taking care of themselves, but Wang Tong is not as skilled as Zhang Shiqiang when he is used.
"Sir, are you here? Li Wenyuan is here to greet you with Hutou!"
Just as the people left here, someone shouted outside the delicacies restaurant. Wang Tong hurriedly called in, but it was Li Wenyuan and his son, who were polite again.
After all, Li Wenyuan and Zou Yi were not familiar with each other, so it was not appropriate to sit here. After a few greetings, Wang Tong arranged for Ma Sanbiao to take the person to his house to entertain and have dinner together in the evening.
There were only Wang Tong, Zou Yi and his entourage in the delicacy restaurant. Zou Yi's entourage boiled with water, brewed tea, and then hid out again.
"Brother Wang, it's the right way to do things, but don't do it too stingy."
After someone left, Zou Yi picked up the tea and blew it. He made a deep voice to suggest. Wang Tong was stunned and quickly stood up with his fists and asked politely:
"Brother Zou, I do have many things I don't understand. Please give me some advice!"
"In the imperial city and the capital, we know that there are only a hundred people close to you and the emperor. If you go out and use this relationship to show off, it is indeed inappropriate and the palace will be unhappy. But if you are too careful and do everything according to the identity of the general flag, the palace will be unhappy!"
Wang Tong was stunned for a moment. Zou Yi put down the teacup, pointed to the narrow line hanging in the store with a smile, and said loudly:
"With this calligraphy by Eunuch Feng, if you are not rampant in the capital, you will lose Eunuch Feng's face. Eunuch Feng is an internal official, and you will lose the face of the royal family."
Although there are similarities between the business workplace and this official politics, there are also great differences. Wang Tong listened solemnly, and Zou Yi said lightly after saying this:
"For brother, I guess, Brother Wang doesn't want to be a jester here, but he also has to do something to show his inside and outside. This is a good plan, but I also remember one thing. Seeing you doing things, I will only ask you how you do it, I won't ask you how you do it, and I'll relax and boldly do it!"
After saying this, Wang Tong stood there and was stunned for a while. After reacting, he clasped his fists and bowed deeply, and said gratefully:
"Thanks to Brother Zou's advice, I really don't know how to repay my brother's kindness!"
Zou Yi's words actually broke a dead end in Wang Tong's heart, making him understand that this era has its own laws, and he must do things according to the laws of this era in this era, and not be trapped by previous experience and be restrained in his actions.
"Eunuch Zhang and our family have placed a heavy bet on Brother Wang. We will naturally have to wait for Brother Wang to repay you in the future. We will be polite to you when the time comes!"
This was said directly, but Wang Tong understood more clearly that Zhang Cheng and Zou Yi helped him so unruly and pointed out that he was just to win him better.
The more people who do not follow the rules help, the more they know about urgent and taboo things they are, the closer they will be to Zhang Cheng and Zou Yi, and now they are on the same boat.
Wang Tong didn't say much, but just bowed solemnly.
The day of the Shuntian Prefecture Office in Dongcheng was extremely deserted. Except for a few people on duty, the rest of the people went home for the New Year.
The head of the government office, Chen Zhizhong, was drinking wine in the second hall, with two charcoal braziers beside him, which was very warm and comfortable. The sauce-sauce strips made in the second bedroom of the house were very delicious, and the wine was sorghum cooked from Baoding, which was really pleasant.
Ordinary prefects are only in the fourth and fifth ranks, but because of the capital, the prefects are called prefects, and they are in the third rank.
Seeing the high-grade grade, it was the most irritating. Who would take such a third-rank official seriously at the feet of the emperor, inside and outside the palace, and the six departments of the cabinet?
But this capital is different from other places. Putting it in another place has become a huge trouble in this capital. All parties have to pick you up, and they also have to bow and kowtow and listen with a smile on their faces. There is no such thing as a rumor in the officialdom, called:
"If you do not do good deeds for three lifetimes, you will be punished to come to Shuntian Mansion."
But the third-rank prefect is angry, and the second-rank prefect, the fourth-rank prefect, is different. First, there is no need to deal with the outsiders, but second, it is responsible for the common affairs of Shuntian Prefecture, and all those who are big or small have to interfere.
The eunuchs in the palace of officials and nobles naturally cannot afford to offend them, but there are still hundreds of thousands or millions of ordinary people in the capital, and the people in and out of the world, and how many merchants are buying and selling, the oil and water here is really rich.
The government officials took the biggest advantage of these oil and water distributions. The government officials did not do the job. Every one of them was worried and they had to be transferred from each other. They didn't care about the bottom.
On the contrary, the lower-level prefect, the governor of the Central Committee, had been serving as the governor of the Central Committee for a long time. Chen Zhizhong had been in charge of the government for eight years. The natives who had a little knowledge of the capital knew that Chen Zhizhong was the manager of Shuntian Prefecture and were useful in speaking.
The sorghum roast in Tongzhou is a strong wine. Chen Zhizhong was already drunk and his thoughts gradually became floating. In the four years of Wanli, he earned a lot of money. He married the red card of Chunfenglou to be his fourth room, or bought a farm in Hejian Mansion. His wife's younger brother wrote several times, saying that now he has bought a silk or cotton workshop in Suzhou or Songjiang, and the annual dividends of a loom can be worth several acres of irrigated land.
However, this brother-in-law cannot believe it. The capital and Jiangnan are thousands of miles apart. It is impossible to guarantee that this unauthentic bastard will swallow the money to his own pocket, but how can he spend so much money?
The steam is hot, the wine and meat are good, and Chen Zhizhong's eyelids are fighting, so he has to lie on the table and take a nap.
"The mansion respects the master, the mansion respects the master!!!"
Suddenly, the yamen runner shouted from the front. Chen Zhizhong slapped suddenly, knocking his head heavily on the table. He was immediately awakened halfway, touched his forehead and shouted angrily:
"What are you shouting about during the Chinese New Year? Howling!!!"
"The Lord of the House, the Lord of the House, and the Left Young Superintendent of the Inner Official Supervision Eunuch Zou Yi and Zou sent someone to hand over the post..."
With a "pop", Shuntian Prefecture Chief Chen Zhizhong fell directly from the chair.
Chapter completed!