Lin'an City, the most prosperous western city.
The deputy chief eunuch, dressed in casual clothes, sat next to a stall, ordered a bowl of bean curd, and drank it.
After two drinks, a man sat opposite him.
The stall owner immediately came over and asked, "my guest, what would you like?"
"Just like him." The man pointed to the tofu brain that the eunuch was drinking and replied.
Soon the stall owner brought a bowl of steaming bean curd for him.
The man picked up the spoon, took a drink and said, "this bean curd is really delicious!"
"If you like, I'll treat you to this bowl of bean curd." Deputy director eunuch road.
The man said to the deputy chief eunuch, "you are a kind-hearted man. You will be rewarded."
"Have you brought anything?" Then he asked.
The deputy chief eunuch took out a pile of thick banknotes from his pocket, handed them over from under the table, and said, "count, there will be no less."
"Don't count." This is humane.
Then he finished the bean curd in the bowl in front of him and left the stall.
The eunuch, the deputy head of the eunuch, relaxed a lot after finishing this task, and still drank the bean curd one by one, leisurely.
He is a eunuch in the harem. On days like this, there are not many opportunities for him.
Today, taking this opportunity to do business, he can just relax outside for a while. Anyway, all the things he should do have been done, and there is nothing to worry about.
After leaving the stall, I didn't immediately return to the palace. Instead, I wandered on the street alone ..。
The deputy chief eunuch thought that he was wearing casual clothes and doing things secretly, but he didn't know that behind him, someone was following him all the time.
It's just that he doesn't know himself.
After seeing the deputy manager trading with a man who drinks bean curd, the stalker wanders around. It's estimated that if he keeps tracking, there won't be any new discoveries. So he leaves and goes to another place.
After crossing several streets in Lin'an City, he came to the residence of Ding Daquan, the former prime minister.
It turns out that this man who was with the former Prime Minister actually made the eunuch Dong songchen, the head of the imperial palace.
He and Ding Daquan are the closest allies. They used to come to Ding Daquan's residence frequently, so naturally they don't need any notice.
The guard at the gate of the mansion saw him and immediately took him in.
At this time, Ding Daquan was having lunch with his wife in the small living room of the mansion. Seeing that the eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial College, came suddenly, he was stunned and asked him what he was doing.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, looked at Ding Daquan's wife sitting next to him. Ding Daquan understood and immediately asked his wife to withdraw.
"Manager Dong, have you eaten? If not, just sit down and use it together, OK?" Ding Daquan asked.
The eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial College, answered, "well, I'm a little hungry now."
"I'll let the kitchen cook a few more dishes." Ding Daquan.
With that, he would call the servants waiting at the door to inform the kitchen.
After hearing this, eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial College, stopped him in a hurry and said, "Mr. Ding, we are all our own people. You're welcome. We'll eat the ready-made ones on the table. They're very good."
"It's a bit unfair to you, manager Dong." Ding Daquan.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, said, "what's wrong? Although I'm still in charge of the imperial palace now, my position in the imperial palace is not as good as before."
"What do you mean by that?" After hearing this, Ding Daquan asked unexpectedly.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, told Ding Daquan in detail about the recent closure of a deputy Eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace and his tracking of the Deputy eunuch today when he saw that he was trading with an unidentified person in private.
"So many banknotes from him?" Ding Daquan asked.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, replied: "it is said that this boy has drawn a large amount of silver from the internal Treasury."
"If it's a small amount of silver, he can put forward it directly. If he doesn't have the imperial edict, he won't be able to put forward such a large sum of silver." Ding Daquan.
The eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial Palace, asked, "do you mean that the officials asked him to go out of the palace to do something secret?"
"Isn't that possible?" Ding Daquan asked.
Without waiting for him to answer, Ding Daquan said: "recently, there is a story in Lin'an City."
"What's the matter?" Asked Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the University.
"Ding Daquan replied:" it is said that the emperor has recently fallen in love with a brothel woman and has been having fun there day and night
"It must be a rumor." The eunuch Dong Song Chen Dao, the general manager of Inner Mongolia.
Ding Daquan asked, "how can you be so sure?""The officials have been in the imperial study recently. But the old slave and the empress also broke into the imperial study and saw the officials in the imperial study with their own eyes." The eunuch Dong Song Chen Dao, the general manager of Inner Mongolia.
He asked again, "how can the officials go to the brothel?"
"There is no fire without wind. I told you that there is evidence." Ding Daquan replied.
Ding Daquan, like Zheng Huchen, the deputy commander of the Imperial Army, also learned from others that the landlady of the brothel was showing off the imperial gifts from emperor LiZong.
"Since the disaster of the two saints and the southward migration of the Song Dynasty, many imperial objects in the palace have been scattered among the people and collected by some rich people. They have given them to the girls who are good friends in the brothel, and there are also some." Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial College, did not agree with this.
Ding Daquan said: "the situation you said does exist."
"But Mr. Dong, if you think about the three things in a row, namely, the emperor's recent abnormal behavior, the secret transaction of the deputy chief eunuch out of the palace, and the rumors in the brothel, maybe you won't think like that." He added.
After hearing this, Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, bowed his head and pondered for a while. He said, "if that's the case, it must be the newly promoted vice Eunuch in charge of the imperial palace. In order to please the officials, he encouraged the emperor. Otherwise, the emperor would be in the deep palace all day, where he would know that there is such a woman in the brothel."
"But a deputy Eunuch in charge can't lift such a storm." Ding Daquan.
"Who else is involved in this?" asked Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the University
"If I guess correctly, the mastermind behind this incident should be our old opponent." Ding Daquan replied.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, asked, "do you mean the old thief Jia Sidao?"
"Not him, who else?" Ding Daquan asked.
When Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, heard this, he laughed to himself and said, "this Ding Daquan has been fighting with Prime Minister Jia Sidao for decades. He is a mortal enemy, but he is also a confidant. With such a thing, he will soon think of prime minister Jia Sidao."
Seeing that she did not speak, Ding Daquan asked, "why, Mr. Dong, don't you believe my judgment?"
"Look at what you said, Mr. Ding. When did the manager not believe what you said?" The eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial Palace, asked.
Ding Daquan said: "Mr. Dong, I have been pardoned by the emperor, but I am not the prime minister after all. I have no real power to investigate this matter."
"You go to investigate seriously, maybe you will find out a shocking conspiracy of Jia Sidao." He added.
chief executive eunuch Dong Song Chen Road: "according to this general manager, at the very end, after the death of Jia Wei Fei, Jia's road was greatly reduced in the harem, so she wanted to insert a woman into the harem as her own eye. As for the plot you said, it should not be possible."
"With respect, you've been fighting with Prime Minister Jia Sidao for so many years, and you should not look down on him. You know, with his status today, he will never do anything small." Ding Daquan.
Empress Dong asked, "did you report this to him?"
"You don't know the empress's character. Although it's good for you and me at the moment, I'm not a person in the trench after all. I can't tell the empress about such important things without discussing with you." Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the University, replied.
In the back palace, since the death of Princess Jia, Queen Xie Daoqing has become the only one. There is no one to check and balance her.
Thinking of this, Ding Daquan said: "if Jia Sidao just wants to get a woman to be the imperial concubine in the harem, it's not a bad thing for us."
"If Jia Si's family becomes powerful, how can it be said that it will be bad for us?" After hearing this, the eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial Palace, quickly retorted.
Ding Daquan said, "don't worry, Mr. Dong. I will tell you."
He said his idea to the eunuch Dong songchen.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial College, said: "Mr. Ding, according to what you said, it's good for us. But if the situation gets out of control, I'm afraid it will help Jia Sidao a lot."
"Mr. Dong, we have cooperated for so many years. What we have done is not risky?" Ding Daquan asked.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, nodded and replied, "Mr. Ding, you're right."
"It's just that this deputy Eunuch in charge of the palace needs to report to the queen Xie Daoqing?" He asked again.
Ding Daquan replied without hesitation: "of course I will go."
"Let's have a fight between the old thief Jia Sidao and the queen Xie Daoqing first. It's very pleasant for us to watch their jokes." He added.
Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, said, "I'll report this to the empress when I go there for a while.""You'd better go to the brothel I told you about first." Ding Daquan suggested.
Dong song, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial College, was a little embarrassed and said, "I'm a eunuch. Isn't it good to go to that place?"
"Mr. Dong, if you don't say it yourself, the people in the brothel don't know that you are the one who serves the saint in the palace!" Ding Daquan.
He added: "in a place like that, you only need to bring enough money, and someone will greet you warmly. As for your true identity, you don't say, they are not interested."
"Listen to your voice, you are quite familiar with this brothel?" After listening to him, Ding Daquan asked.
Ding Daquan was born as a scholar and a prime minister. Naturally, he would not say that he had been to the brothel in front of the eunuch Dong songchen.
He explained: "Mr. Dong, you haven't eaten pork. You haven't seen a pig run. What kind of things have you never heard of in my communication?"
"Mr. Ding, the manager has already eaten." After hearing this, the eunuch, the head of the Imperial Palace, did not argue with Ding Daquan, so he went on.
Ding Daquan said: "Mr. Dong, it's still early at this time. Let's have some tea first, and then you can go to the brothel."
"No, I'm not thirsty now." The eunuch Dong Song Chen Dao, the general manager of Inner Mongolia.
Then he got up, took leave of Ding Daquan and left his mansion.
Now the prime minister Jia Sidao has lost his power. In order to avoid suspicion, he didn't send out the eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the imperial palace. Instead, he bid farewell to him in his mansion and asked his servants to send out the eunuch Dong songchen, the general manager of the Imperial Palace.
"Master, you don't have any official positions now. It happens that we can spend a few days in the mansion. How can you get in touch with the people in the palace again?" After Dong songchen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Palace, left, Ding Daquan's wife came out of the room and asked.
Ding Daquan replied: "manager Dong is my good friend. It's normal to come to see me."
His wife said that she was in the inner room just now. She heard the conversation clearly.
"You are a woman, what do you know?" After hearing this, Ding Daquan said unhappily.
He also said: "I've been playing tricks in the court for decades. If I go on in obscurity, I might as well die now. What I'm planning today is for our Ding family to reproduce the glory of the past in Lin'an City."
"Sir, at the beginning, you were the Prime Minister of the great song dynasty. In the court, you and that Jia Sidao stood side by side, but as a result, our children still didn't exist. What's the point of fighting? Now our hair is white." Tintin is humane.
Ding Daquan said: "what's the point of having white hair? As long as I'm not dead, I will fight with that old thief Jia Sidao to the end."
"Master, after this man died, he couldn't take anything away." Mrs. Ding said to him sincerely,
she asked again: "what's the meaning of your persistence?"
"I have nothing in common with you now. I'm lazy." Ding Daquan said angrily.
With that, he shook his hand and left here.