There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 213 Kindness.

Bingshen, Funing Hou Shuyong was General Pinghu, who served as the commander-in-chief, and met Yang Xin to discuss Maoli children.

The imperial court began to fight against rebellion in the first month. As soon as the soldiers moved, the food and grass went first, and the household department in the court began to tighten up again.

It was at this time that Shang Ming got another sum of money for the emperor. This money was the deposit given to him by the relatives of the emperor. What is the deposit?

Deposit for Strawberry Seeds!

There are tens of thousands of taels...

Although Emperor Xianzong loved money, he also knew that the treasury was the most important thing, so he put all the tens of thousands of taels of gold in the household department and asked them to do a good job in the logistics of food and grass.

Because of this, Shang Ming was favored even more, and even Eunuch Wynn became friends with him.

I don't know what Wu Youwei is like in history, but Shang Ming's reputation is so good now!

Even the soldiers at the frontier knew that there was a father-in-law Shang Ming who was very profitable, and even the military expenses were earned by him. For this reason, Emperor Xianzong gave him a grace and asked him to find an apprentice to teach him. He was in his class, and he was allowed to find a child in his hometown to be his adopted son, so that he could provide for him in the future.

When Shang Ming knew about this, he ran to Wu Youwei and cried.

But Wu Youwei has a different opinion: "Find someone to take over your business, aren't you afraid that the apprentice will starve to death after teaching the master?"

"What are you afraid of?" Shang Ming wiped tears: "It's not a craft. They are all eunuchs. It is better to have a good apprentice than a competitor. Our family has already thought about it. We will not give it to others." Don't worry, just teach Xiao Zhuzi. The little Zhuzi standing on one side was stunned for a moment, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Shang Ming: "Little Zhuzi pays homage to Master! "Wu Youwei was also taken aback, didn't expect Shang Ming to come for real?

"Hey, learn from Master Wu well in the future. You see, your godbrother has gone to the south, and he writes to you every time." Shang Ming sighed, beckoned Xiao Zhuzi to come forward, and touched his The head: "You have caught up with the good times. With a master like ours, you will not suffer in the future. It is much better than ours."

"Apprentice, Xiao Zhuzi, thank Master for his cultivation!" Xiao Zhuzi kowtowed to him twice, and kowtowed to Wu Youwei once more.

Wu Youwei couldn't take it any longer: "Get up, get up, your brother-in-law is doing well in the south, and he has already started to read and write. In two years, when he gets older, let him take the imperial examination.

There is a champion master who is always around to give some advice, can this knowledge be bad?

Don't expect to be the number one scholar like Luo Lun, at least there is no problem in winning the first place.

"Okay, in the future you will also have a brother who is a scholar." Shang Ming is all envious. Scholars are lofty and self-reliant, and ordinary people can't get along with them.

Especially eunuchs like them, they all dislike them very much. Even the owner of Dongchang doesn't have many friends who are scholars.

It's not bad that Xiao Zhuzi has a foster brother who is a scholar.

Xiao Zhuzi grinned silly.

Wu Youwei also said: "The imperial examination doesn't check if you have sworn brothers, that doesn't count.

The imperial examination examines the eight generations of your ancestors. As early as when Li Xiang was granted a good record, he had already given him the details of the three and eight generations of his ancestors.

They have been farmers for generations. During the Yuan Dynasty, they were persecuted by qi. They didn’t get better until the Ming Dynasty. Neighbors helped each other to raise them, and they did part-time jobs to earn money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones for reading. The "person" here refers to Luo Lun.

The little bamboo is happier.

After enjoying himself, Wu Youwei said, "Do you have any relatives in your hometown?"

Shang Ming was silent for a while: "My hometown is gone...

It was only then that Wu Youwei realized that Shang Ming was involved in a flood when he didn't remember much, and fled famine with others. His memories were of his hungry, skinny parents, and himself crying.

Later, he ate all the food, and his parents starved to death, and he himself entered the palace for no reason and became a eunuch.

It was hard when I was a child, but the eunuchs in the palace were very united. Although it was hard, life was not difficult. At least one benefit was that I could eat enough.

Gradually growing up, he was one of the young eunuchs who served in Nangong. After the restoration of the late emperor, the emperor became the prince again, and the number of those who served them also increased.

After the emperor ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, they got rich jobs with enough money, such as the eunuch in charge of Huangzhuang, basically he was the one who had the final say in Huangzhuang.

Other families may come to Zhuangzi for a short stay, check accounts, and so on.

What about royal?

It's impossible for the emperor to come to Huangzhuang to look at the account book, okay?

Isn't it just how much they say they will produce?

The tenants in the whole village don't say that they are in charge of life and death, and it's almost the same.

So Shang Ming had a good life in the past, but there was one disadvantage, that is, he was a little far away from the emperor, and he couldn't show his face in the mirror all the time.

Now it's all right, with all kinds of fruits and vegetables, strawberries and other overseas items, every month he will pay more than a dozen carts of things, and report to the emperor when he enters the palace, and he can get an audience every time.

It was already perfect, and then the emperor asked him to pick a successor, in fact, he meant to promote him, maybe he could return to the emperor's side.

As for his family, he has no relatives anymore.

"Since that's the case, why don't you...adopt some abandoned babies?" Wu Youwei said, "Look, you don't even remember where your hometown is, so where can you find babies who are related to you by blood?"

Hmm..." Shang Ming felt that what he said was quite reasonable.

"If you adopt a child of the same race, they have biological parents after all. You can't kill the parents for the sake of a child, right? When you grow up and know about it, why don't you hate you to death? What if you raise a child? The white-eyed wolf is different, and it’s not worth adopting an abandoned baby." Wu Youwei said: "Abandoned babies are abandoned by others, do you dare to come to ask for children in the future? I’m afraid they dare not recognize each other! Also, now the Yangshengtang It was quite difficult, I donated things, food, cloth, etc. every year, the children are very good, you can also think about it! Some are orphans of military martyrs.

When Shang Ming heard this, his eyes lit up. This is much more reliable than finding a half-baked child as an adopted child!

These days there is no family planning, let alone emergency contraceptives. Children are born one after another, and they may not all be able to support them. Some people are particularly extreme. They throw away girls after they are born, and only keep them when they give birth to boys.

Moreover, they were kept and raised, and when they couldn’t afford it, they sold the older ones and made them slaves or something, and asked the children to take money from home, and the family continued to have children.

If a family does not have more than a dozen members, it is hardly considered prosperous.

In ancient times, there were no effective measures, so there were a lot of people who abandoned their children, but they couldn't be controlled if the officials didn't raise the people and didn't correct them.

"How is it?" Wu Youwei said: "This can be regarded as a kind deed. For you, there must be no shortage of money to support the older children. When they grow up, they know that they are abandoned, and you pick them up." How can they not be grateful to you when they come back to raise them? Even if their biological parents find them, you can ask their biological parents for alimony, and let them pay as much as they have spent on the children over the years, otherwise the children will definitely Will not return!"

Besides, Shang Ming will be the master of Dongchang in the future, who dares to challenge him?

Not to mention ordinary people, even officials are afraid to do it.

Less than three days after finishing speaking, Shang Ming invited the emperor, saying that he didn't even remember where his hometown was, and that he was a eunuch, so he didn't ask for blood relationship or anything, he just picked up children to support him.

Emperor Xianzong didn't know what "picking up children" was, so he said that when some families couldn't afford to support their children, they would discard some thinner or girls to feed healthy and strong children.

And he went to pick up unwanted children from other people's homes and raise them. He is the eunuch in charge of the emperor, and he is in charge of such a huge Huangzhuang. A few children can still afford to support them. This is also a kind deed.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Xianzong was very moved after hearing this, and gave him a big house with three courtyards and 100 taels of gold: "Banban can do this, which shows that he has a kind heart. I will give you money every year in the future." One hundred taels of gold to raise those children who were picked up.

When he returned to the harem, he mentioned this matter to Concubine Wan.

Wan Zhen'er sighed: "Back then, the family was in a difficult situation. Someone advised the concubine's father to give the concubine to someone as a child bride. The father was reluctant, so he had to send it to the palace. The father said that there are always people who stutter in the palace...

Emperor Xianzong didn't want to make Wan Zhen'er sad, so he quickly started another topic, but later, Concubine Wan still rewarded Shang Ming with 100 taels of silver.

Concubine Bai knew about this and rewarded him with 100 taels. Shang Ming took the 100 taels and came to Wu Youwei in fear: "Our family is not familiar with Concubine Bai!"

But don't get me wrong, Concubine Bai and Concubine Wan are the only concubines in the palace. Concubine Wan also has a favorite princess. Concubine Bai insists on her beauty and affection. The maids and eunuchs of the imperial concubine's palace are still squatting in the prison!

Who dares to talk to Concubine Bai?

It is said that the palace maids and eunuchs who were sent there were all from the emperor's family. Concubine Bai has been much quieter lately...

"Oh." Wu Youwei nodded.

"Our family has never even met Concubine Bai, so we were rewarded with silver, but it was said to be for my unclaimed children..." Eunuch Shang said to Wu Youwei One pass expresses the mind.

Wu Youwei nodded quickly: "I see, I will tell Zhong Ming when I have time, and Concubine Wan is not that unreasonable person, besides, Concubine Bai is also kind, ha, don't worry."

He knew that Eunuch Shang Ming and Shang were so talkative with him. In fact, he wanted him to be a sounding board, to show Wantong that he was not in the same league as the concubine Bai in the palace!

It's just that he couldn't find Wantong, and he didn't dare to go to Fusi, Jinyiwei North Town, where most people wouldn't go there...

So when Wan Tong came to spend the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wu Youwei told him.

"He is sensible." Wantong said without any emotion: "Although Concubine Bai in the palace has calmed down, she is still determined. Originally, this matter was just a small matter between the emperor and the eldest sister. She intervened like this." What's the matter with going in? Although the emperor didn't say anything, he seemed quite satisfied with her behavior.

Originally, there was only Concubine Wan, so she was unique. Didn't even Wang and Empress say anything?The empress dowagers of the two palaces lived behind closed doors.

But with Concubine Bai making such a fuss, almost all the palace people knew about Shang Ming's father-in-law's benevolent deeds. If others didn't mention it, the eunuchs who had a higher status than Shang Ming in the palace were the first to think that Shang Ming's act of inviting favor!

Fortunately, the eunuch Wynn next to the emperor is very good at talking, so he suppressed the matter. Otherwise, all the father-in-laws below would do this, wouldn't the emperor have to give money to everyone?

The emperor gave the money, how could the imperial concubine not follow?

Isn't this a good start, but a bad end?

Concubine Bai is uneasy and kind!

Bai Zhen also encouraged the censor to impeach the matter in the previous dynasty.

Fortunately, the emperor said that this is a matter of the harem, the queen didn't say anything, what did the previous court say?

"Then Concubine Bai didn't go to the queen?" Wu Youwei felt that Concubine Bai would definitely not give up.

"Go, the empress punished her for half a year." Wan Tong's eyes were tinged with a smile: "Bai Concubine just went to bed twice, and this time she will be closed for another half a year.

Wu Youwei was also speechless: "How long has it been since you came out? She was locked up again, why is she bothering?"

"Not long after I came out, I made a few concubines in the harem aborted. Miscarriage, miscarriage, it's amazing!" Wantong snorted coldly: "The matter of Queen Wang is quite in line with the emperor's wishes. Grandpa has been to her place several times."

In the first lunar month of the new year, the emperor frequently went to the Queen's Kunning Palace. It was the Empress's Harmony, and no one dared to say anything. Even Bai Zhen, although she knew that the Queen was not favored, she still dared not say anything about the Empress. , I am afraid that the queen will deal with his daughter L with the Dafa of the middle palace.