Chapter 49: Qiu Ju's Uprising
Chapter 49: Qiu Ju's Uprising
After the people from Baiyu Temple left, Sun Keding politely stood up and said goodbye, leaving the remaining matters to Manager Sun.
Pei Yuan stared at Sun Keding's back in a trance. Chen Toutie beside him asked in confusion, "He's just a former county magistrate. Your Excellency seems to think highly of him?"
Pei Yuan took a long while before he said unhappily, "Of course, he is a Jinshi."
No matter how poor a scholar is, as long as he passes the imperial examination, he has basically stepped into the officialdom.
For these Jinshi, there is no one who cannot become an official, only those who do not want to be one.
For example, as long as Sun Keding is willing to humble himself and join Gu Dayong, Gu Dayong will definitely regard him as a treasure.
What happened to the eunuch?
Didn't Yang Yiqing and Zhang Yong talk and talk like brothers?
Seeing that Pei Yuan was in a bad mood, Chen Toutie consoled him, "It's a pity that this guy doesn't know how to appreciate it."
Pei Yuan shook his head and said, "He is a smart man, but he doesn't think highly of Gu Dayong, nor does he think highly of me."
Since Sun Keding was willing to be Liu Jin's dog, he was definitely not a scholar with integrity.
The fact that he was unwilling to take the springboard handed to him by Pei Yuan only showed that he had no regard for Gu Dayong's prospects.
Pei Yuan was also full of resentment.
——Gu Dayong is such a useless guy, he is not worthy of being my creditor.
If Pei Yuan remembered correctly, next year the rebellious head of the East Factory, Gongqiu Ju, would launch a rebellion against the eunuch Zhang Yong, who was in charge of the imperial seal, and successfully overthrow Zhang Yong.
However, because Gu Dayong was too incompetent and was completely unable to fill Zhang Yong's military functions, Zhu Houzhao, who was determined to control the military power, had to re-employ Zhang Yong two years later.
From Pei Yuan's tricky perspective, Qiu Ju's counterattack could actually be regarded as an extremely important power reshuffle in the Zhengde Dynasty.
Its importance can even be compared to the overthrow of Liu Jin.
because.
When Liu Jin was in power, he had two powerful officials, Grand Secretary Jiao Fang and the Minister of Personnel, as his cronies.
When Zhang Yong was in power, Yang Yiqing was in contact with him and gave him advice.
When Qiu Ju was in power...
Apart from the dirty jokes that everyone knows about, Qiu Ju has nothing else to offer!
Even this dirty joke was made for him by Uncle Pei Yuan.
It can be said that from the seventh year to the ninth year of Zhengde, a rare and brief vacuum occurred in the power connection between the inner and outer courts.
According to the theory of power channel, when the inner court and the outer court lose good communication and cannot borrow each other's power well, they will try to directly possess that power.
This will also lead to serious conflicts.
As long as Pei Yuan can seize this opportunity, he might be able to gain great benefits.
Apart from anything else, after Zhang Yong stepped down, Zhang Rong, the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, would have to move away. At that time, even if Pei Yuan did not lick Han Qianhu, his situation would be greatly improved.
If Pei Yuan wants to gain enough benefits from next year's chaos and make good use of this time window, he must make preparations early.
Unfortunately, even Sun Keding, a former eunuch of Liu Jin's party who was dismissed and sent home, was unwilling to easily board Pei Yuan's pirate ship.
Pei Yuan looked at the misty Qinhuai River and couldn't help but confide his thoughts to the two gangs, "It seems that we still have to train our own prime minister."
Cheng Leixiang, Chen Touti, "???"
Both of them suspected that they had heard something wrong, but they didn't dare to ask.
Pei Yuan could not help but open the "Debt Settlement System" again and looked at the only remaining debt receivable. ——Debt receivable (1/1): Zhang Cong owes you a favor, and he promised to accept your advice in his spare time. You can also force yourself to ask for advice once, but this promise will become invalid.
Then, Pei Yuan opened the debt collection map to check where the future Prime Minister Zhang was at the moment.
Then he was surprised to find that Zhang Cong actually appeared in Yangzhou.
He quickly looked up at the map and found that Prime Minister Zhang was also heading south.
Remembering that Zhang Cong was from Yongjia, Wenzhou Prefecture, Pei Yuan roughly understood that Zhang Cong must have met with Li Dongyang, but there was no good result, so he simply returned home.
Pei Yuan hesitated for a moment, but finally gave up the idea of interfering.
This is a potential prime minister. If I get involved, I will only make things worse.
According to history, the next ten years or so can be regarded as the most turbulent era in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Yong stepped down, the emperor went to war, Prince Ning rebelled, then the Dharma King Daqing died mysteriously, and Emperor Xuandu Jing Wanshou entered the capital...
With so many great opportunities to reap profits, whether Pei Yuan can make the most of it all depends on Prime Minister Zhang to back him up.
Pei Yuan’s biggest problem now is that his team is too small to handle all this wealth.
Since Sun Keding refused to give him face, Pei Yuan could only look for opportunities to slowly search for those unsuccessful and useful people.
Then, Pei Yuan went to search for Song Chunniang out of habit.
It turned out that Song Chunniang had entered the territory of Southern Zhili, and judging from her route, she was most likely heading straight for Yingtian Prefecture.
Pei Yuan felt inexplicably happy.
Pei Yuan came back to his senses and asked Manager Sun, "Is there a place in Yingtian Prefecture that sells antiques?"
After facing the evil spirit that night, Pei Yuan is now eager to strengthen his strength.
The "Bazhou Sword" that Liu Qi gave him last time played a key role, so Pei Yuan focused his energy on it.
Pei Yuan's thinking was still very flexible. Since he didn't have the ability to deal with those evil spirits, he could make up for it with equipment.
The "Bazhou Sword" can help deal with evil spirits, so are there other things that can have a similar effect?
Pei Yuan now thought of the green-glazed porcelain vase containing the "money-carrying little devil", and he already understood in his heart that the thing that could restrain the "money-carrying little devil" must not be an ordinary thing.
I must think about it carefully after I get back.
Manager Sun thought for a moment and replied, "There are some teahouses on Pingshi Street that do this business. However, the customers there are only familiar customers, so even if there are good items, they will not easily flow into the hands of outsiders. Some people who come to ask for something because of its reputation will usually leave a note in the teahouse, and naturally someone will contact them, but the price will be very high, and the authenticity of the items cannot be guaranteed."
Pei Yuan frowned.
He was an outsider and of course didn't want to be taken advantage of.
Moreover, he had no idea what kind of things could be effective in dealing with evil spirits. Looking for such things would be more of a matter of luck.
Pei Yuan then asked, "Is this the only place?"
Manager Sun hesitated for a moment and said, "There is a Tangzi Street in the northwest of Chaotian Palace. Some families who are in trouble will take out their old things from home to sell at dusk. There are many antiques, old furniture, and books. Later, Tangzi Street gradually became famous, and some things of shady origin would be mixed in and sold outside."
"The goods there are even less secure, and there are often swindlers who try to defraud buyers."
Pei Yuan became interested as soon as he heard it.
Isn’t this the place where time travelers are destined to pick up bargains?
(End of this chapter)