After hearing Wang An's answer, Xu De nodded and said with a smile: "Nine years have passed, but it's not too short!" Speaking of this, Xu De also fell into memories: "Our family remembers that you didn't really have a big time when you entered the palace, and you also belonged to Eunuch Feng."

"Godfather, yes." Wang An said with a smile: "It's just that Eunuch Feng left early."

Xu De was not willing to talk about Feng Bao's death at all, so he directly changed the topic: "Later you followed our family. He served us so hard and never made any mistakes over the years. This is great!"

Wang An quickly said, "It is a blessing for the child to be able to serve his godfather."

Xu De himself said this, it is hard to say if it is really false. However, cultivating a small eunuch to support her elderly care is something that every eunuch will do, and it is also a inheritance between eunuchs. This inheritance cannot be broken.

The eunuch is old, and it is completely different if someone takes care of him or no one takes care of him.

Xu De was very optimistic about Wang An and had the intention to cultivate him.

"Godfather will teach you today." Speaking of this, Xu De smiled and sat upright, then said, "When are we slaves and servants doing what? When we were young, we should be able to do things and know how to be a human being."

"This is how to do things means that you are wise, know how to do things, and don't make any mistakes."

"Only in this way can you be reused. When the little eunuch first entered the palace, how many people could do the trouble for the emperor? It's better to follow the eldest grandfather and do the things that the eldest grandfather gave, that's enough."

"You've done a good job of not fighting or robbing, just do things and talk less."

Wang An stood aside with his hands down, listening carefully, not daring to miss a word. These are all life experiences and their future wealth. Hearing Xu De say this, Wang An smiled and said, "It's all good at teaching my godfather."

Xu De smiled faintly: "After this step, you will have a chance to do something for the emperor. This is what we teach you."

"This is for the emperor. Remember, the first thing is to do is to do the errands well. If the errands are not done well, it is useless to say that everything else is useless. After doing the errands well, the rest is to repay the merits! Compete for favor! These things."

"Just just now, remember to show off and don't let the old man think you are arrogant and you are competing for merit and power."

"Although our family protects you in the palace, if anyone wants to harm you, no one knows what you will fall into. This credit should be divided into the money, and the credit that is distributed to the money will also be distributed to the risks."

Wang An's heart moved. Could it be that my godfather is just trying to share the risks this time?

"After waiting for a while to return to Beijing, our family will recommend you to the emperor and give you a chance to stand alone." Xu De said with a smile: "Remember our family's words today and don't be in the limelight."

Seeing Wang An nodding, Xu De continued, "As for why our family is doing this this time, don't think so much now, follow and see first!"

"Yes, godfather!" Wang An nodded and said respectfully.

For Xu De, how did he make the contribution this time? Can he take another step forward? Of course not, he has no choice but to rise. That old guy Zhang Hong will not be able to move anyone if he doesn't die.

It’s enough to do the errands, there’s no need to show off. This time the case is too big, and it’s better for someone to push the jar.

Forbidden City, Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Yijun looked through the secret fold in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, reached out to hit the memorial, and a smile appeared on his face: "This Zhao Lian is a little interesting!"

Although the degree of opium purification in this era is not high, it is not so easy to quit once it becomes addicted. He can actually resist by his will. This is a ruthless person! Some people in later generations have said that men who can quit smoking are too ruthless to themselves, but Zhao Lian, who can borrow opium, is even more ruthless to himself.

In the memorial, Wang Yongji wrote in detail about the process of Zhao Lian's resistance, which was also confirmed by Xu De's secret memorial.

The only difference is that Wang Yongji recommended Zhao Lian in the memorial. Wang Yongji believed that Zhao Lian was also a victim and was not aware of the toxicity of Fushou Paste. Wang Yongji believed that Zhao Lian was a talented person and could make meritorious contributions.

Zhu Yijun didn't care. In fact, he didn't even have much hope for banning smoking.

Compared to people of this era, Zhu Yijun has a deeper understanding of the big smoke, which flows from overseas. If he cannot be cut off from the source, it is impossible to ban it in China.

The reason why Zhu Yijun asked to investigate this matter was, on the one hand, to prepare for the future, and on the other hand, to investigate smuggling and sea trade.

Although opium is very harmful, in this era of trade, the status of this thing will become higher and higher, and its price remains high, which can be said to be a very, very expensive marine trade commodity.

If you can get opium with channels and sell it in the Ming Dynasty, your strength should not be underestimated, and you are definitely a big businessman.

Zhu Yijun was originally thinking about how to deal with these guys, but it was difficult to investigate the evidence of smuggling. These people were deeply rooted in the Ming Dynasty and had a great fortune. If they really started to catch people, they would be very troublesome. Opium gave him a chance.

Giving poison to the emperor is too big, or the hat is too big, so big that no one can lead him to it.

Taking advantage of this incident, he cut off the mess and directly rolled the smuggling merchants in the southeast to round and flatten them. Although there were many merchants in the Ming Dynasty and it was common to be an official and do business, there were not so many merchants in real big merchants who could control the general trend.

The famous Shanxi merchants were naturally the ones. These people started their business with the salt administration and traded with foreign trade with them. Later, they smuggled and reselled military supplies. There was nothing they dared not to trade or sell.

Next is Hui merchants. In this era, Hui merchants have very strong strength.

If Shanxi merchants were the business gangs that were most involved with the court, and many families had produced high-ranking officials, then Hui merchants were "businessmen and good officials". The private schools in rural areas were basically run by themselves, all by private ones, and they were all done by merchants donated money.

Unlike Shanxi merchants and Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants are much simpler, most of them are simple merchants.

In addition to Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants, there are Fujian merchants, Guangdong merchants, etc.

Zhu Yijun knew very clearly that at this time these merchants had already started to join forces, and large business groups were forming. The representative event was the establishment of the guild hall. The guild hall first appeared as the Wuhu guild hall in Beijing, which was built during the Yongle period, but now, there are more such guild halls.

Merchants invested in establishing, bribed scholars from fellow villagers, and made them join forces to form officials and business parties, and then dragged the Ming Dynasty into the abyss.

Zhu Yijun was very clear about this. With the purging of salt in Yangzhou, he beat Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants hard. The border trade in the northwest also mobilized Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants, forcing them to surrender to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Next, I will target Zhejiang businessmen and Fujian businessmen. They also have a more representative title: Fujian-Zhejiang Maritime Businessmen!

Zhu Yijun supports sea trade. Of course, he knows what sea trade means. He also needs sea trade, and even needs to colonize sea trade, but what he needs is not the existing sea traders, and these people are unqualified.

Their conscience has long been broken. For the sake of money, they can connect with Japanese pirates, and they dare to do anything.

If you don’t kill a group or defeat a group, your own maritime trade plan will make them ruined.

Originally, Zhu Yijun was thinking about what reason to deal with them, but he didn't expect that they would run into him. If Tianyu didn't take it, he would be blamed. How could Zhu Yijun let such a good opportunity go?

But Zhu Yijun was originally planning to let Xu De do this, but unexpectedly someone jumped out now.

What Zhang Jing did in Yangzhou made the Dongchang factory notorious. In fact, if it were not impossible, Zhu Yijun would not want to use eunuchs to do something, and his influence would be bad.

Once the eunuch takes action, many people will look with tinted glasses.

No matter what the truth of the matter looks like, conspiracy theories will inevitably appear, just like some industries that have lost credibility in later generations. The same is true for eunuchs. In this era, eunuchs do not represent justice.

But no one is willing to do this kind of thing. If you ask him to go, he will fish for three days and dry the net for two days, and he will never do it.

This Zhao Lian made Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up. This was a ruthless person. As for his pursuit of Zhu Yijun, he didn't know. However, it was nothing more than money, power, beauty or reputation. Judging from Wang Yongjibao, this Zhao Lian should not be a person who is greedy for money, beauty and sex.

Then the rest is simple, whether you like power or reputation, you can give it to yourself.

Being an official is addicted. Zhu Yijun is very clear about this. For an official position, he can do anything without a limit. Chen, Xu, Zhang Siwei are all like this, but when they use it for Zhu Yijun, they are too selfish.

If they simply pursue power and official positions, Zhu Yijun would still support them.

Zhao Lian can be trained!

Anyway, Xu De was present in Nanjing, so no problem could occur. Thinking of this, Zhu Yijun raised his head and looked at Zhang Jing, then said, "Let the cabinet draft an order, add Zhao Lian, the assistant minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Works, as the left censor of the Nanjing Censorate, and thoroughly investigate the case of Fushou Paste."

In fact, Zhu Yijun has not made this matter public before, but now Zhu Yijun is preparing to make it public and investigate it with great fanfare.

Zhang Jing bowed and said, "I will go to the cabinet to pass the imperial edict now!" After that, he quickly walked out.

When the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet saw Zhang Jing coming, his heart sank. In fact, Zhang Jing has a bad reputation now, which is secondly. The key is that every time Zhang Jing comes, there will be no good things.

After seeing Zhang Jing, Shen Shixing asked with a smile: "Eunuch Zhang comes to the cabinet, but does Your Majesty have the order?"

Zhang Jing nodded and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty ordered the cabinet to issue an order to add Zhao Lian, the Minister of the Ministry of Works of Nanjing, as the Left Censor of the Nanjing Censorate, to thoroughly investigate the case of Fushou Paste."

After hearing Zhang Jing's words, Shen Shixing was stunned and gave a minister of the Ministry of Works and the title of Zuodu Censor. This was very strange. To thoroughly investigate the case of Fushou Paste? What is the case of Fushou Paste? I don't understand at all!

"Eunuch Zhang, what is the case of Fushou Paste?" Shen Shixing looked at Zhang Jing and asked in confusion.

Zhang Jing did not hide it, and directly told Shen Shixing about the matter, from Cui Fujin's offering of Fu Shou Paste to finding that Fu Shou Paste was poisonous. Zhang Jing knew very well about Zhu Yijun's thoughts. Since the emperor asked someone to come to pass the imperial edict, he was naturally ready to make it public.

After hearing Zhang Jing's words, Shen Shixing's face became very ugly.

No matter when, it is a big case to poison the emperor. The only thing that makes Shen Shixing glad is that the eunuch who does this is a eunuch. Even so, Shen Shixing dares not neglect, and who knows who will involve him.

The case of the Shandong White Lotus Sect has just passed, and now another assassination case has occurred. This is a big deal!

If someone is planning to do something wrong, I'm afraid someone is causing trouble!

But now he doesn't know anything, and Shen Shixing can't make accurate judgments. He has no idea what the matter is and how the follow-up person will develop. He can only wait for the future. But why did he let a minister of the Ministry of Works in Nanjing investigate this case?

Shen Shixing didn't know, but he was not going to ask. This matter did not involve the cabinet, so he simply let it go.

Now I go to find Your Majesty, that's definitely a bad thing, and I'm going to be an assassination case!

"Please report to Your Majesty, the cabinet will immediately draft an order, and then send it to Nanjing for 600 miles."

Shen Shixing naturally knows what to do at this time.

Zhang Jing returned to the palace, and the news spread throughout the capital instantly, and the whole capital was in an uproar.

Some people want to assassinate the emperor. This is a big case, but it has nothing to do with most people and they don’t care. However, some people can’t sit still, especially some officials in Jiangnan, because they also used Fushou Paste.

The Imperial Hospital soon announced the medicinal properties of the poison Fushou Paste and how to test whether it was poisoned.

So that night, many people in the capital did not take Fushou cream, and many people were instantly terrified to find that they were poisoned. The case caused an instant sensation, and this time it was really a big deal.

Countless people began to submit memorials and demanded a thorough investigation of the case, and public opinion was raging for a moment.

The Imperial Hospital also gave a way to detoxify, which is to stop taking Fushou cream and tie yourself up when you want to. Of course, it is unknown whether anyone can follow this.

The 600-mile-rush imperial edict was quickly sent to Nanjing, and the person who sent the imperial eunuch was a small eunuch.

There was nothing to say about the process. The arrival of the imperial edict made Zhao Lian feel as if he had received a surge of heartburn. His body, which was originally very weak, has improved a lot in the past two days. Although he committed it a few more times later, it was far less intense than the first time.

But every time it was torture, and after each time, Zhao Lian's body was a little weaker.

After a few times, Zhao Lian's addiction had not been violated, and Zhao Lian's body finally began to recover, which made Zhao Lian very excited. When the imperial edict arrived, Zhao Lian became even more motivated.
Chapter completed!