Chapter 770 The confused British Duke

Zhang Fugui brought Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter back from Japan, and this girl still has some research on tea art.

Zhang Shize and his son sat on the Grand Master's chair and were watching a tea show enjoying Tokugawa Daji.

Suddenly a servant came to report:

"Report to the Duke of the State, the imperial edict has arrived!"

"What? Go and receive the order..."

Zhang Shize and his son were shocked and hurriedly got up to receive the order.

After running to the front yard, I found Cao Zhengchun, the governor of the Ming East Factory, standing there with a smile.

Zhang Shize hurriedly bowed and said:

"Welcome to the Supervisor, please come inside!"

Cao Zhengchun shook his head and then curled his smile:

"The imperial edict has arrived, and British Duke Zhang Shize received the edict!"

Zhang Shize and Zhang Fugui hurriedly fell to the ground:

"Zhang Shize receives the order"

"The Emperor Fengtian Chengyun, and the imperial edict said that Zhang Min, the daughter of the British Duke, is very talented and virtuous. I have decided to give the marriage to the crown princess and choose a date to finish the marriage. I admire this!"

"What?"

Zhang Shize and Zhang Fugui were surprised, and they looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.

Zhang Min has been away from home for two years and has not come back in one trip. Why was she suddenly given a marriage by the emperor?

Zhang Fugui reacted quickly, and he suddenly thought of seeing the expressions of his sister and Zhu Cilang when he came back from Japan.

The boy suddenly wanted to laugh. He actually left Zhu Cixuan's brother-in-law and became his uncle.

After Zhang Shize reacted, he felt very happy.

The Zhang family used to be a two-president, and was always loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Now they are a little declining and become the Grand Tutor again.

The most important thing is that my daughter found a good family. When she ran away from the Duke's Mansion, Zhang Shize was worried that the Duke's daughter would show up in public, and no senior official would marry her!

Unexpectedly, this girl turned into a crown princess. Zhu Cilang was not only upright, but also talented and talented. This was the best family in the Ming Dynasty.

But the Ming Dynasty’s ancestor teaching is not like this. Oh my God! The emperor is challenging the ancestor teaching again...

Seeing that the British Duke Zhang Shize and his son didn't know how to accept the order, Cao Zhengchun knew that they were too accidental, so he smiled and said:

"Congratulations to the Duke of England, please accept the order!"

"Bang bang, Zhang Shize thanks His Majesty for his kindness!"

At Cao Zhengchun's reminder, Zhang Shize finally reacted, kowtowed three times, and then reached out to take over the imperial edict!

"Superior, please come in and have a cup of tea!"

Cao Zhengchun smiled and shook his head:

"No need, great things happened to the Duke's family. I should give our family some rewards!"

"Oh, yes, Fugui goes to get five taels of gold for the Supervisor."

"yes"

Zhang Fugui hurried to the warehouse to get five taels of gold and one thousand dragon coins back.

Just kidding, the supervisor of the East Factory took the initiative to reach out, and of course the reward must not be reduced, after all, the daughter married into a good family.

"A little thought, please accept it."

Eunuchs have a long history in our country, and he is mainly a deformed product in feudal society.

Eunuchs have always been looked down upon by the world because they want to be cleansed. Most of the children who are willing to be eunuchs are desperate children.

These people were sent to the palace without enough food and clothing.

Most eunuchs lived a miserable life in the palace.

But there are also a small number of eunuchs who are not like this.

In ancient times, many eunuchs were able to take power, and these eunuchs sometimes had even greater power than those of the emperor.

For example, Wei Zhongxian, Wang Zhen, Liu Jin during the dynasty, and Li Lianying of the Qing Dynasty, all major events must be seen through him first.

However, there are still a few eunuchs, and there are only a handful of them who can do this.

The eunuch's life is very good, including food, accommodation, and five insurances and one fund. When you are fine, you can travel with the emperor.

In addition, there are also wages every month. For example, eunuchs were divided into 20 levels during the Qing Dynasty, and they were basically eunuchs in charge, eunuchs in charge, eunuchs in charge, and eunuchs in charge.

Their monthly salary is paid according to different grades. The fourth-rank general manager costs 8 taels of silver and 8 dou of rice per month. The eunuch with the lowest grade is 2 taels of silver and 2 dou of rice per month.

In addition, eunuchs have some other businesses, such as stealing cultural relics from the palace and selling them, and they will exchange them for a large amount of property.

They took out the money to buy a manor or spend money on the money.

However, it is very serious to be arrested and punished. If the emperor doesn’t kill you, the nine clans will be tolerant of you.

There is another way for eunuchs to appear, which is to read the imperial edict.

Only a few ancient imperial edicts were read by ministers, but most of them were read by eunuchs around the emperor.

At this time, the officials who received the imperial edict should treat these "eunuchs", ranging from dozens of taels of silver to hundreds of taels of silver.

If you don't give it, you will say a few bad things to the emperor, and it will not be solved by these few hundred taels of silver.

This money is enough for an ordinary person to live a lifetime.

Eunuchs had great power in ancient times, after all, "the prime minister's slave seventh rank official". Then the emperor's slave could even reach the first rank and two rank official.

Cao Zhengchun is different from ordinary eunuchs. He is the eunuch in charge of the East Factory.

He would not see a few hundred taels of silver, and it would be a great thing for Zhang Min to marry the crown prince.

So the British Duke took action to five taels of gold plus one thousand dragon coins, and one thousand dragon coins were equivalent to one thousand taels of silver.

Zhang Fugui asked someone to bring a box and put all the golden dragon coins in it.

British Duke Zhang Shize clasped his fists and said with a smile:

"Supermaster, please accept a little bit of something."

Cao Zhengchun only glanced at it and guessed the approximate number of huge rewards given by the British Duke. He smiled:

"Okay, you British Duke, you will be the Grand Tutor soon, and you are still so stingy."

Cao Zhengchun almost choked Zhang Shize to death with one sentence. This is quite stingy!

But he was embarrassed to refute and waved to Zhang Shize:

"Go, I'm getting a thousand dragon coins for the Supervisor."

As a nobleman from the Ming Dynasty for several generations, the British Duke still took out ten thousand taels of silver.

Just as Zhang Fugui turned around, Cao Zhengchun suddenly laughed:

"Okay, Duke of England, we are just kidding you. I will read an imperial edict and ask for so many dragon coins. The emperor will cut off the guys we are having. Just make a point!"

Cao Zhengchun said, reaching out to pick up the five dragon coins:

"This is enough for our family to buy wedding wine and say goodbye!"

Before the British Duke Zhang Shize and his son could react, Cao Zhengchun had already left with two young eunuchs.

It took Zhang Fugui to react for a long time. He shook the British Duke who was still in a daze and said:

"Father, is the Ming Dynasty so popular now? The eunuch who is greedy for money actually doesn't want to... "

Zhang Shize then realized, and he clasped his fists into the direction of the palace and said:

"It's all my emperor's wise! If such a ming dynasty is not prosperous and strong, it would be God's eyesless!"

After Zhang Shize finished speaking, he thought of the daughter who didn't listen to him:

"This girl doesn't even listen to me. Will she be willing to marry the crown prince? Don't implicate the Duke's Mansion!"

Zhang Fugui smiled:

"Don't worry, my father, my sister and His Highness the Crown Prince seem to have had such an affair, so there is no big problem..."

"Bang..."

Before Zhang Fugui finished speaking, Zhang Shize raised his leg and kicked him:

"You little brat, you can speak people's words, that's your real sister and His Royal Highness the Prince of Ming!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!