Lin Gao Qiming

Thanks to the blessing of cheats for more than a year, Wang Yehao has now successfully taken the top spot in the Department of General Affairs, and is one of the six ministers.The Tongzheng Envoy is in charge of matters related to internal and external chapters, releases and refutations. Whether it is the cashier's order, understanding the situation, or the official documents of the various companies, and the advice of the four parties, they all gather here. It can be said that it is the most well-informed yamen among the various departments of the imperial court. Therefore, the three festivals, two respects and human relations of officials from all over the country must be indispensable.

When the eunuch party gained power, the authority of the Secretary of General Administration was greatly reduced, and the Office of the Secretary of Rites and Supervisors actually took its place.Since his ascension to the throne today, the Secretary of General Administration has resumed his former status.Wang Yehao's status also rose accordingly.

However, the "small gift" sent to the mansion by Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, made Wang Yehao feel a little bit embarrassed.It's not that Wang Yehao dared not reach out, but because the items listed on the gift list are "Australian Treasures".

He remembered Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi returning from Guangzhou, talking about the strange reaction of the Hearthstone Immortal after they saw the "Australian products", and also said that the Immortal told Master Gao that he was also an Australian, and tried to find these overseas merchants.

From this point of view, even if this Immortal Zhou is not an "Australian", at least he has a great relationship with this group of overseas merchants.

"Go and call Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi. Avoid Mr. Zhou." After thinking about it, Wang Yehao was still a little uncertain, so he ordered Wang Liang to find someone to confirm, "Wait, call Liu Jia here too." .”

Because Liu Zhao was the most familiar with Mr. Zhou, after returning to Beijing, he was arranged to continue to listen to him at Zhou's house. He was obviously a guard, but in fact he was a personal surveillance.In addition to the student Zhou Lezhi, the attendant Wang Zhi, and the housemaid Yuyi, Mr. Wang is inside and out, and Daoist Hearthstone has arranged undercover agents under the bed and under the bed.Basically, it is a 24-hour all-round monitoring without dead ends.

Not only did Mr. Zhou not know about it, but he was quite satisfied with this arrangement. After all, in this time and space that lacks modern entertainment activities, it is better to have two people who are relatively able to talk to each other than to face each other every day. A housemaid must be strong.At present, he has successfully reproduced such epoch-making pastimes as Dou Dizhu, UNO, and Flying Chess, and is starting to develop high-tech card games such as Three Kingdoms Kill.

That night, Liu Zhao, Zhou Lezhi, and Liu Wei gathered in the study as scheduled, and Wang Yehao gave priority to ensuring the confidentiality of the matter: "You guys came out so late, does Mr. Zhou have any suspicions?"

"Don't worry, my lord, everyone in the whole house is ours, so we must keep it a secret." Liu Zhao replied with a smile, "Mr. Zhou should be tossing Yuyi at the moment. After the tossing, he fell asleep and fell asleep. I can't wake up at three poles in the sun."

"What if he doesn't sleep?"

"The little one put some medicine in his tea to enhance his enjoyment—it just makes him more tired afterward."

"You really have some tricks," Wang Yehao stroked his beard in satisfaction, and suddenly thought of a question, "Speaking of which, why is Yui's stomach still not moving? Go back and remind her. If you don't see Xi again, the doctor will not her."

"Okay, this subordinate knows what to do." Liu Zhao nodded in agreement, looking at Wang Yehao and waiting for further instructions.

"I came to you today to identify something." Wang Yehao opened the gift box on the desk and asked, "Are these Australian objects?"

With the light in the house, several crystal clear glass fruit plates appeared in front of everyone.Liu Zhao looked at it carefully for a long time, and still said uncertainly: "My lord, I have never seen such glazed wares in the Gao's shop before. But I have only been there once, and Zhou Lezhi should have seen more. "

"Master, I haven't seen the little one." Zhou Lezhi followed Liu Zhao's words and continued, "There are a lot of rare goods in the Gao's shop, but it is true that they have never sold such ones. But it is not certain, there is no guarantee that they did not hide them. Good ones are not sold loose. But..." He hesitated for a moment and then said, "It really looks like the ones in Gao's shop!"

Everyone was at a loss, Liu Zhao suddenly frowned and said, "No, this is not from Gao's shop. Look, there is a word on the bottom of this plate, 'Zizhenzhai'!"

Wang Yehao hurriedly took out several other utensils to check, and they all had such stamps without exception.

"Have you ever seen this shop in Guangfu?" Wang Yehao asked, rubbing the stamp on the bottom of the plate.

"My subordinates have never seen it before. The whole city of Guangzhou knows that Australian goods are only sold exclusively by Gao's shop, and there is no branch." Liu Zhao said very firmly.

"Since Australian goods are only sold in Gao's shop, and the stamp is not from Gao's shop, then these are not Australian items?" Liu Wei, who was on the side, listened to the talk for a long time, and asked a little confused.

"My lord, I'm sorry for the small talk, these things are really strange." Liu Zhao expressed his disagreement, "Although my subordinates are humble, I have seen good things when I was on duty in the Zhenfu Division. Dare I ask you?" Have you ever seen such a transparent glazed cup before?"

"I haven't seen it."

"Not to mention that the patterns and sizes of these glazed cups are not bad at all, just looking at the stamps on the bottom, it is not something ordinary craftsmen can do." Liu Zhao paused, and said in a deep voice, "In my humble opinion, these glazed cups There is no doubt that it is a foreign product.”

"Even ordinary foreign glazed wares are not like this." Zhou Lezhi lived in the outskirts of Guangzhou since he was a child, and has been to Guangzhou City, and he has seen all foreign goods.

"So, maybe the Australian maritime merchant is back?" Wang Yehao agreed with Liu Zhao's analysis, and besides, Wang Zunde was just sending some daily favors, so there was no need to lie about his origin to himself.

"Subordinates dare not speak nonsense. Should I ask Mr. Zhou, maybe he has seen it before." Liu Zhao tentatively suggested.

"No, if he knows about this, he must go to Guangzhou to look for someone again. Now he can't be allowed to escape." Wang Yehao resolutely rebuffed, "Don't tell him what happened today."

"I understand!" The two were about to leave when Wang Yehao said, "Brother Zhou stay here for a while."

Because Zhou Lezhi was regarded as a disciple of Taoist Hearthstone, Wang Yehao was very polite to him on the surface.

"How have you learned from Mr. Zhou?"

Almost every time Zhou Lezhi saw Wang Yehao, he would urge him to do his homework, which was a commonplace.

He hurriedly said: "The little one studies hard every day, as long as the master can teach him, no matter whether he knows it or not, the little one will memorize it first, and then ask him for advice when he is free."

"It doesn't matter if you learn anything," he asked. "You've been studying for a year. Do you know a thing or two about him?"

"Mr.'s skills are as vast as the ocean, and the young ones can only learn the surface."

"Well, most of what he teaches you is arithmetic and physics, which is useful but useless—it seems that he refuses to teach you the real skills." Wang Yehao sighed.

Zhou Le's neck felt cold afterwards, and the meaning in these words seemed to be very dissatisfied with himself.

What would happen if it was useless, he thought with his toes.

He quickly argued: "Master doesn't know something. Mr. Zhou taught me all the secrets he learned from overseas, and I learned the ability to know the world. It's just that there are three foundations for this secret. Learn this secret..."

"Oh? And this?" Wang Yehao was dubious, "What are the three foundations?"

"One is arithmetic, the other is studying things, and the third is logic..."

Wang Yehao didn't know what "logic" was, and he was skeptical of Zhou Lezhi's words.Because I don't understand, I can't question it, I can only sneer and say "everything is under control".

Seeing the master's smile, Zhou Lezhi became more and more frightened, and hurriedly said: "Mr. also taught me many advantages and disadvantages of governance in the past dynasties, and also said..." At this point, he felt that it seemed inappropriate, so he kept silent.

"What did you say?" Wang Yehao asked.

"The gains and losses of this dynasty..." Zhou Lezhi stammered, "There are so many crazy words, I dare not tell them if they are small."

In fact, this was not beyond Master Wang's expectations. With his accurate prediction of the government situation, it was only natural for him to make critical comments on the government.

"What did he say?" Wang Yehao slowed down his tone, "Just say it, there are only you and me here!"

"He said, he said: Although the Taizu expelled the Tartars and restored China in this dynasty, in fact, except for the clothes and characters, all the old systems of the Tang and Song Dynasties have been forgotten, but they have inherited many evil policies from the Jin and Yuan Dynasties..."

Wang Yehao was secretly surprised when he heard his rambling words.Although most of these remarks are incoherent and can only be regarded as fragments, and some are even biased or nonsense, many of the accusations are thought of or heard from others when I was studying in the past.

"Although it's crazy, it still has some insight." Wang Yehao said, "When you go back, write down all these and give them to me every month."

"Yes."

"You are good to learn, his mantle will be yours in the future."

"Thank you, master, for cultivating it!" Zhou Le was surprised, but also overjoyed.

After sending Zhou Lezhi away, Wang Yehao told Liu Bao, "Go to Guangfu as soon as possible, and check the details of this 'Zizhenzhai' and the Australians."

"My subordinates will leave tomorrow." After Liu Wei agreed to the matter, he said with some doubts, "It's just why doesn't my lord let Liu Zhao Zhou Lezhi go? After all, he and I know each other better."

"The two of them have to stare at Hearthstone, and we can't make him suspicious."

"My lord, the subordinates don't ask if they know they shouldn't ask, but how capable is Mr. Zhou this time, so he needs to be so vigilant?"

"Is the Daoist envious looking at his house?" Wang Yehao smiled slightly, but Liu Yan's back felt cold when he said it.

"My subordinates dare not." Liu Wei hastily denied it.

"Have the Taoist priest read "Shi Shuo Xin Yu"?"

"Forgive me for my ignorance, I haven't read it."

Wang Yehao got up and went to the bookshelf, groped for a while, took out one of them, opened it, and read it unhurriedly: "Wei Wu has a prostitute with the clearest voice, but with a cruel temperament. If you want to kill, you love talent." If you want to put it down, it will be unbearable. So choose a hundred people to teach at once. When you are young, if there is one person who speaks to it, kill the vicious one."

After reading this paragraph, Wang Yehao took out a page from the belly of the table and handed it to Liu Xiao, "You can go to Guangli, and you can find experts along the way. If you can solve this spell, I don't need that one." It's rough."