Chapter 63 My fate is up to me.

Chapter 63 My fate is up to me.

Chapter 63 My fate is up to me.

Pei Yuan looked at Han Qianhu silently for a while, and as soon as Han Qianhu stopped tapping the table, Pei Yuan immediately politely looked away.

Han Qianhu opened his eyes, and for a moment he felt a bit fierce.

Pei Yuan was already feeling a little guilty, and when he saw Han Qianhu's cold eyes, he subconsciously bent down slightly.

Then Captain Han said murderously, "Don't worry, leave this matter to me. If they plot against us in Suzhou, I will just turn the table over and stop playing with them."

Pei Yuan felt uneasy when he saw that Han Qianhu was being blinded by money.

He quickly advised, "Your Excellency, there is no need to do this. This matter is ultimately a conflict between the imperial court and the scholars in Jiangnan. We are just a thousand households, there is no need to involve ourselves in such a big dispute."

Thinking that both parties had even explained the matter of using tax silver to purchase goods, Pei Yuan boldly pointed out the matter directly, "If it really doesn't work, we can just let it go and let them draw the line first, and then we can get involved."

This is how it is.

There must be reason when the palace asks its subordinates to work hard for them.

This is such an obvious trap, we can't just ignore the lives of the people below us.

Upon hearing this, Han Qianhu looked at Pei Yuan with a very strange look, and then smiled at Pei Yuan.

She had a kind of heroic beauty that Pei Yuan admired, and with this smile, she looked even more like a divine face.

Soon, Han Qianhu put away his smile, leaving only a faint smile on his face.

She leaned towards Pei Yuan, then lowered her voice and asked softly, "Do you know why the palace likes to use us Jinyiwei?"

Her voice was originally very clear and pleasant, but she deliberately lowered it to make it sound hoarse.

Instead, it made Pei Yuan's ears numb.

Pei Yuan is not someone who has never seen big scenes.

But when his female boss, who was a fifth-rank official, spoke to him so skillfully, he still felt aroused.

Pei Yuan didn't know how to respond for a moment, and spoke nervously and dryly.

"I don't understand."

Han Qianhu's smile disappeared quickly. She sat back and looked at Pei Yuan with an expression of arrogance and contempt. "The palace uses Jinyiwei because we don't follow the rules. If you can't even figure this out, how are you going to work with me in the future?"

Pei Yuan was stunned for a moment, and felt as if he had been enlightened. He said sincerely, "I am grateful for your advice."

Captain Han said "hmm", then said calmly, "When you take your men to Suzhou, I will have people spread the word that we, the Captain of the Suppression of Evils, have discovered traces of Japanese pirates in Suzhou. If there is a civil uprising in Suzhou at that time and the situation is critical, the Jinyiwei will have no choice but to ask the Nanjing Imperial Horse Administration to go to Suzhou to assist in this matter."

"The Imperial Stables?" Pei Yuan was puzzled.

The elite troops of the Nanjing Imperial Stables have almost been emptied out by the Beijing Imperial Stables. It is no exaggeration to say that it is just an empty shell.

You have to know that the eunuch system is completely different from the civil servant system.

Although the civil servants of the six ministries in Nanjing were far away from the imperial court and rarely sat at the table for meetings, their actual power was still as high as ever.

The six ministries in the south were still running smoothly, exercising their responsibilities in managing the southern prefectures. But the eunuchs were different. They were parasitic on the imperial power. If they were away from the court, their power would be greatly reduced.

It was only in the past two years that the "capable ministers who govern the country" greatly increased the status and power of the eunuchs guarding various places, and their political treatment was made equal to that of local governors.

In addition, the "capable ministers who govern the country" also let eunuchs stationed in various places to supervise local civil affairs, military affairs, and judicial affairs, thus forming a check on the civil government.

Among them, the eunuch in charge of Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving had the highest status, and his political status was equivalent to that of the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, which is at the vice-state level.

Then there are the eunuchs guarding Nanjing.

There is an unwritten rule for eunuchs guarding Nanjing, which is that they must come from the Silijian. Even if they are transferred to Nanjing from other palace eunuchs, they must be affiliated with the Silijian.

There were usually two eunuchs garrisoning Nanjing, the chief and deputy garrison eunuchs. During the Zhengde period, the number expanded to four.

Although the status is not low, the actual power is very small.

He was mainly responsible for the affairs of the Nanjing Imperial Household Department and the Xiaoling Guard, as well as the management of the Houhu reclamation and castration of soldiers who were exiled to grow vegetables, as well as the punishment and imprisonment of guilty eunuchs sent to Nanjing from all over the country.

The Nanjing Neifu Yamen is a mini version of the Twenty-Four Yamen in Beijing. Because it does not need to serve the emperor and his concubines, it has basically become an idle department.

The chief eunuch in charge of Nanjing garrison is now called Liu Lang, who is the brother of Liu Jin who burns yellow paper.

There is no need to explain how sincere the brotherhood among the eunuchs in the palace is.

When Liu Jin fell from power in the middle of the year, Zhang Yong didn't even bother with Liu Lang.

Liu Lang was also very sensible. He ignored the struggles in Beijing and lived a peaceful life alone in the south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, Liu Lang is different from other eunuchs. Most other eunuchs believe in Buddhism because they feel that there is no hope in this life and hope to be reborn into a good family in the next life.

But Liu Lang was very tenacious. He firmly believed that his fate was in his own hands and he was determined to bring Kun Kun back in this life.

So Liu Lang abandoned Buddhism and converted to Taoism. He also kept Taoist priests at home and spent a lot of money to build a Jade Emperor Pavilion.

The reason why Liu Lang wanted to fight for this was not to prove how great he was, but to tell others that he must get back what he had lost!
Later, a sorcerer who had practiced for more than two years and had extraordinary skills came along. With one move, he frightened Liu Lang.

Liu Lang thought he had met a master, so he spent a lot of money to have him make elixirs. However, the sorcerer took a fancy to a jade ring worth a hundred taels of silver from Liu Lang, and lied to him that he should offer the jade ring to the Jade Emperor, and he would be blessed in the future.

So Liu Lang placed the jade ring on the Jade Emperor's altar, but the sorcerer stole it and ran away that night.

Later, people made fun of this by writing a poem, "Gold and jade are piled up like mountains, and yet you are learning to make elixirs from the immortals. You get it from nowhere and you go back to nowhere. The Jade Emperor never wears a belt."

Now, not to mention that the Nanjing Imperial Stables is an empty shell, even Liu Lang, the eunuch garrisoning Nanjing, has only a few skills to grow vegetables and clean the troops.

Instead of dealing with the Nanjing Imperial Stables, it would be better to ask the eunuch in charge of the Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving Factory, who is at least a vice-ministerial level official in charge of a printing factory.

Han Qianhu seemed to understand the confusion in Pei Yuan's eyes. She said slowly, "There is an old eunuch about fifty years old in the Nanjing Imperial Horse Administration. He is now a sixth-rank imperial eunuch. I just need to get him out and take him for a stroll outside Suzhou City. I think the scholars in Jiangnan will give Qianhu's office face."

Pei Yuan's hand trembled slightly, and he suddenly thought of a possibility that was not quite real, yet extremely terrifying.

His throat was a little tight, and he even subconsciously sat up straight in his seat, and asked carefully, "I dare to ask the name of the sixth-rank imperial official."

(End of this chapter)