Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 862 Great Eunuch

In April of 1631, even in the Little Ice Age, spring finally came outside the capital city. The willows on the banks of the Tudi River were newly green, and the peaches and apricots bloomed one after another. The delicate flowers swayed in the slightly cold spring breeze.The land turns green, and the peasants who survived the war and famine, despite their disheveled faces and quail clothes, are still busy in the fields.

The Qing army's first entry into the fortress, or the "Sisi Change", had ended last year. In October of the third year of Chongzhen, all the Jin troops who entered the customs returned to Shenyang.The four cities including Zunhua, which were guarded by soldiers in the pass, were also recovered by the Ming army one after another.The burned houses have not been rebuilt, and the bones left by the war can be seen from time to time on the roadside.However, the prefectures and counties in Beizhili, which were in a state of panic because of the entry of the late Jin Dynasty, finally breathed a sigh of relief—it seemed that Daming was about to usher in another spring just like this land.

However, many bureaucrats in the capital, regardless of their political stance, as long as they have a little insight, they know that Daming is already sick, and the illness is not serious.But at this time, no one can predict that Daming's time is running out.

Officials and scholars in the capital talked the most about Houjin, who had gradually become a serious problem for the court. As for the rogue bandits in Shaanxi, She'an in Guizhou, and the thieves in Qiongzhou... some people mentioned a few words, but everyone didn't agree. I care very much.Although He Rubin's entire army was annihilated in Qiongzhou and suffered heavy losses, it did not cause much sensation. Will.So far no counties have been lost.

Spring in Beijing is very windy. The wind from the Mongolian plateau is mixed with wind and sand, which makes people's skin cracked and the streets are full of yellow sand.It had just rained in spring and the streets were muddy.In this mud, a small sedan chair carried by two people is staggering, and the two bearers are covered with spots of yellow mud.

Behind the sedan chair, there are a dozen or so porters carrying loads, all tightly wrapped with reed mats.

A gap was quietly opened in the car curtain. Someone glanced at the street outside through the gap. If someone could get close enough, he could hear a sneer of contempt that was almost imperceptible.

The person in the sedan chair is the condensation cloud who was sent to the capital to carry out work.

Ning Yun has been engaged in finance and trust work in the old time and space, and is familiar with financial history, IPO and derivatives.Has a bachelor's degree in management.Proficient in English, able to communicate in simple Japanese, and a few words in French.The financial department of the Trans-Travel Group has a large number of people, but the work that the financial department can do is too simple-a large number of financial industry professionals can only be accountants.

Ning Yunxian was extremely bored, so he thought of stationing abroad.After signing up for training at the Foreign Intelligence Service, his financial background attracted the attention of Jiang Shan and others. In the end, he was sent to Beijing to serve as the head of the Beijing station and the president of the Beijing branch of Delong Bank.

Unlike other stations stationed abroad, the Jingshi Station does not require local commercial or industrial activities. The main content of its activities is to collect intelligence and absorb the eunuchs of the Jingshi bureaucrats.Therefore, Beijing Railway Station is mainly based on financial activities.It is perfect to let a professional financial person take charge.

It is easy to enter Beijing, but it is not easy to carry out activities in Beijing.In particular, Ning Ningyun's main task is to absorb deposits - how can Delong, who has no foundation in Beijing, gain the trust of corrupt officials and boldly deposit money in Delong Bank, this is a very test for Ning Ningyun.

What Ning Yun wanted to meet at this time was a key person after he arrived in Beijing——Eunuch Yang.

Eunuch Yang is a great backer held high in the capital. When Wei Zhongxian was in charge, he once planned to build a shrine in Guangzhou to commemorate the [-]-year-old Afu.After Wei Zhongxian's downfall, Eunuch Yang got a blessing in disguise and was not implicated.He hastened to curry favor with Wang Dehua again, and spent tens of thousands of silver and many "Australian products" sent by high-ranking officials, and was able to play the bell and drum division.It can be regarded as a rebirth of salted fish.

Eunuch Yang, who came back to power, was much more careful than before. After all, he was not an old man from Xin Wang’s mansion, and he didn’t have a “resolute attitude and a clear stand” when he was doing things at nine thousand years old. He was at best a fencer.So now he rarely asks too many things in the palace, and never speaks a word except for his own duties.

Although it is spring, it is still cold.Ning Yun shrank his neck, thinking about what to say after seeing this great eunuch.

Except when watching movies and TVs in the old time and space, Ning Yun has never seen the image of a eunuch—of course, the eunuchs in movies and TVs are also fake.What a real eunuch looks like, what kind of heart, this is an elusive thing.However, the great eunuchs who can make a name for themselves in the palace, needless to say, are all human beings, so I have to work hard to deal with them.After all, the attitude of the great eunuch has a great relationship with the future development of Beijing Railway Station.

He had already found out the location of Eunuch Yang's private house in advance, and he knew that the master would come back from the palace to rest tonight.At the gate, the servant sent in the greeting card and the eight lines held high.Not long after, the little eunuch who answered the door sent a message asking him to come in and meet him.

If you want to visit a eunuch, you have to flatter him.Condensing clouds are of course reluctant.In his thinking, eunuchs are a group of sinister, cunning and greedy people, and there is a kind of contempt and disgust in his heart.

However, Ning Yun understood very well that the help of the great eunuch was indispensable in the competition on the intelligence and commercial fronts in Beijing.

When he saw the little eunuch who answered the door coming out with a greeting card, Ning Yunyun gave a signal, and his servant immediately took out a tael of silver from his pocket and stuffed it, and at the same time took back the card.Only then did he regain his composure, and walked inward.

According to the system of the imperial court, eunuchs, as the emperor's close servants, generally had to live in the palace city except for those who were sent to other places to perform missions.However, rich and powerful eunuchs like Eunuch Yang have private houses outside.It is said that Wei Zhongxian's private residence in Beijing was extremely luxurious and rich, comparable to the imperial palace.Of course, Eunuch Yang's house is far from being comparable to Wei Zhongxian's.However, just relying on the glimpses along the way, Ning Yun already felt that the house was not only tall, but also must be quite deep, and the architecture and layout were also very elegant.It can be seen that it took a lot of money to build it.

As the meeting was approaching, he instinctively became tense.He became more focused on his mission and developed a new sense of unease and anticipation.

The little eunuch led him into a hall, and after waiting in the hall for a while, Eunuch Yang came out from behind the screen with the sound of steady and calm footsteps.According to the rules of etiquette, Ning Yun got up to greet the prince in a dignified manner, making a respectful appearance.

Looking out from the corner of his eyes, the eunuch is a strong man in his fifties, his hair on the sideburns is clearly white, his bald chin does not have a beard as usual, and his pampered wide face is flushed. Although Guang Guang's big and thick lips were smiling as usual, doubts and inquiries clearly appeared in his squinted and slender eyes.

The two sides saluted each other.As a measure to protect the intelligence personnel's personal safety, and also for the convenience of their activities, Li Yan assumed Guangdong household registration for every intelligence agent who went to the Daming-controlled area, and tried to give them a certain degree of fame, some of them were serious. Some of the lin students in the Eight Classics are epiphytes and hypertrophies, and some are so-called Guozijian supervisors.Anyway, it is all spent money from the Guangdong and Guangxi government campaigns.

Since he felt that his purpose of coming could not be explained clearly in a few words, and since they were strangers to each other, in order to reduce the trouble of relaying, Ning Yun took out a secret letter prepared in advance from his arms without exchanging pleasantries. Following the gift list, he handed it over with both hands: "This is the high-ranking official who ordered the students to forward it to the left and right, please have a look at it, Mr. Yang."

"Oh." Eunuch Yang was not surprised - he had learned about Ning Yun's visit from Gao Ju's letter a few days ago.He glanced at the guest, and then took the letter: "Sir, please sit down!"
While giving in, he sat down on the chair and began to open the letter.
The content of this secret letter is very simple.Gao Ju told in the letter that Ning Yun was Dongzhu Guo's man, and that he came to the capital to open a bank and plan for business.

What is Guo Yi's background, Gao Ju has never told Yang Gonggongming.It's not that Gao Ju intends to deceive him, but that Eunuch Yang doesn't want to know so clearly.Although he somewhat understood that Guo Yi had an unusual relationship with the Kun thief or the Australian.Maybe it's a gangster.But he didn't intend to expose this point - the business with the thieves brought him a lot of benefits every year, and he would rather pretend to be deaf and dumb and not know.

In the event that the Kun thief has something "shouldn't" be pursued by the court, he can also shirk it completely.

Needless to say, the Condensed Cloud in front of him is also a character under Kun Bandit.Eunuch Yang thought about it, and was surprised that the visitor was a young man—for a scholar, he was not young, but for a businessman who wanted to stand alone, the visitor was really too young.

He then opened the gift list, and the gifts were very expensive: they were all Australian treasures that were in high demand in the market.One of the half-length glass mirrors is very valuable.Obviously the other party is quite knowledgeable.

Out of caution, Gao Ju's letter was written very briefly, and only mentioned the incident. As for the specific statement and plan, Ning Yun himself was responsible for the explanation.So from the very beginning, Ning Yun paid attention to his master's expression and reaction, hoping to get a thorough understanding of the other party's mind as much as possible before the formal conversation, especially to understand the other party's basic character.

(End of this chapter)