Thanks to the blessing of plug-ins for more than a year, Wang Yehao has now successfully occupied the top spot in the General Affairs Department, ranking among the six ministers and nine ministers. The General Affairs Department is in charge of internal and external chapters, documents, reports, and refutations.
All matters, whether it is cashiering the emperor's orders, communicating with subordinates, official documents from various companies, and suggestions from all directions, are all gathered here. It can be said that it is the most well-informed yamen among all the departments in the imperial court. Therefore, officials from all over the country must respect each other and communicate with each other.
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When the Eunuch Party gained power, the authority of the General Affairs Department was greatly reduced, and its position was actually replaced by the Secretary's Office of Liturgical Affairs. Since Jin Shang ascended the throne, the General Affairs Department has resumed its previous status. Wang Yehao's status has also risen accordingly.
However, a "small gift" sent to the government by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi today, Wang Zunde, made Wang Yehao a little embarrassed. It was not that Wang Yehao dared not reach out, but because the items listed on the gift list were "Australian treasures".
He remembered that Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi came back from Guangzhou and talked about Hearthstone Immortal's strange reaction after they saw "Australian goods". He also said that the Immortal told Mr. Gao that he was also Australian and tried to find these overseas merchants.
From this point of view, even if this Zhou Xianren is not an "Australian", at least he has a close relationship with this group of overseas merchants.
"Go and call Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi. You have to avoid Mr. Zhou." Wang Yehao thought about it, but he was still a little unsure, so he asked Wang Liang to find someone to confirm, "Wait a minute, call Liu Zhi too.
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Because Liu Zhao was the most familiar with Mr. Zhou, he was arranged to continue to serve at Zhou's house after returning to Beijing. He was obviously a guard, but in fact he was under close surveillance. In addition, his student Zhou Lezhi, his follower Wang Zhi, and his wife were all in the same room.
Maid Yui and Mr. Wang have arranged undercover agents for Hearthstone Director both inside and outside the bed and under the bed. Basically, there is 24-hour all-round surveillance with no blind spots.
Not only was Mr. Zhou unaware of this, but he was quite satisfied with this arrangement. After all, in this time and space lacking modern entertainment activities, it is better to have two people who can relatively talk to each other than to face people who can't even read Chinese characters every day.
The Tongfang Maid is stronger. At present, he has successfully reproduced epoch-making pastimes such as Landlords, UNO, and Ludo, and is working on the development of high-tech card games such as Three Kingdoms.
That night, Liu Zhao, Zhou Lezhi and Liu Zheng gathered in the study as scheduled. Wang Yehao prioritized the confidentiality of the matter: "You came out so late, did Mr. Zhou become suspicious?"
"Don't worry, sir. The whole family is ours, so we can keep it a secret." Liu Zhao replied with a smile, "Mr. Zhou should be tossing Yui at the moment. After the tossing, he fell down and went to sleep.
I can't wake up even three times a day."
"What if he doesn't sleep?"
"The younger one added some fun medicine to his tea - but he will be even more tired afterwards."
"You really have some tricks up your sleeve," Wang Yehao stroked his beard with satisfaction, and suddenly thought of a question, "Speaking of which, why is Yui's stomach still not moving? Go back and remind her. If she doesn't see you again, she won't be a doctor.
She got it."
"Okay, I know what to do." Liu Zhao nodded in agreement, looking at Wang Yehao and waiting for further instructions.
"I came to you today to identify some things." Wang Yehao opened the gift box on the desk and asked, "Are these Australian items?"
With the light in the room, several crystal-clear glass fruit plates appeared in front of everyone. Liu Zhao looked at them carefully for a long time, and still said with some uncertainty: "Sir, I have never seen such glass in the Gao family shop before.
But my subordinate has only been there once, Zhou Lezhi should have seen more."
"Sir, I've never seen it before." Zhou Lezhi continued Liu Zhao's words, "The Gao family shop has a lot of strange products, but it is true that they have never sold anything like this. But I can't say for sure. I can't guarantee that they didn't hide it.
Good goods are not sold in bulk. But..." He hesitated for a moment and then said, "It does look like the goods in Gao's shop!"
Everyone was at a loss when 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 quickly took out several other artifacts to check, and all of them had such stamps.
"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. The whole city of Guangzhou knows that Australian goods are only sold exclusively by Gaojia Shop and there are no branches." Liu Zhao said very firmly.
"Since Australian goods are only sold in Gao's shop, and the stamps are not from Gao's shop, then these are not Australian items?" Liu Wei, who was standing by, listened to what several people said for a long time, and asked with some confusion.
"Sir, I'm sorry for my talk, but there is something really surprising about these things." Liu Zhao expressed different opinions, "Although I have a humble position, I have seen good things when I was on duty in the Zhenfu Division. Dare I ask, sir?"
Have you ever seen such a transparent glass lamp before?"
"I've never seen it before."
"Not to mention that the pattern size of these glazed lamps is not bad at all, just look at the stamps underneath, which is beyond the capabilities of ordinary craftsmen." Liu Zhao paused and said in a deep voice, "In my humble opinion, these glazed lamps
It is undoubtedly a foreign product."
"Even ordinary foreign glaze ware is not like this." Zhou Lezhi has lived in the outskirts of Guangzhou since he was a child. He has also been to Guangzhou City and has seen foreign and foreign goods.
"So, maybe the Australian maritime merchant is back?" Wang Yehao agreed with Liu Zhao's analysis. Besides, Wang Zunde was just sending some daily favors, and there was no need to lie about his origins.
"I don't dare to lie. Ask Mr. Zhou, maybe he has seen it before." Liu Zhao suggested tentatively.
"No, if he knows about this, he will definitely go to Guangzhou to look for someone again. We can't let him run away now." Wang Yehao flatly refused, "Don't talk to him about today's matter."
"Young man, I understand!" The two were about to leave when Wang Yehao said, "Brother Zhou, stay here for a while."
Because Zhou Lezhi was considered a disciple of Master Hearthstone, Wang Yehao was quite polite to him on the surface.
"How did you learn from Mr. Zhou?"
Almost every time Zhou Lezhi saw Wang Yehao, he would supervise his homework, which is considered a cliché.
He hurriedly said: "The little one studies diligently every day. As long as the teacher can teach me, no matter whether he knows it or not, the little one will memorize it first, and then ask the teacher for advice when he is free."
"It doesn't matter if you learn anything," he asked, "You have been studying for a year, do you know a thing or two about his skills?"
"The master's abilities are as vast as the ocean, while the younger ones have only scratched the surface."
"Well, most of what he taught you was arithmetic and studying things, which seemed useful but not very useful - it seems that he is unwilling to teach you his real skills." Wang Yehao sighed.
Zhou Le felt a chill on his neck afterwards, as if he was very dissatisfied with himself.
What would happen if it was useless, he could only think about it with his toes.
He quickly defended: "I don't know something, Mr. Zhou. What he taught me was the esoteric science learned from overseas. After learning it, I have the ability to understand the world. However, this esoteric science has three basic foundations. You must learn it first."
Learn this secret…”
"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Wang Yehao was doubtful, "What are the three foundations?"
"The first is arithmetic, the second is investigation of things, and the third is logic..."
Wang Yehao didn't know what "logic" meant, and was doubtful about Zhou Lezhi's words. Because he didn't understand, he couldn't question it, so he could only sneer and say, "Everything is under control."
Zhou Lezhi became more and more frightened when he saw the master's smile, and hurriedly said: "Sir, you have also taught me a lot about the pros and cons of governance in past dynasties, and also said..." At this point, he felt that it seemed inappropriate and kept silent.
"What did you say?" Wang Yehao asked.
"The gains and losses of this dynasty..." Zhou Lezhi hesitated, "The words are too wild and outrageous, and I dare not repeat them."
This is actually not beyond Mr. Wang's expectations. With his accurate prediction of the political situation, it is natural for him to comment critically on the political affairs.
"What did he say?" Wang Yehao slowed down his tone, "Just say, there are only you and me here!"
"He said, he said: Although the Taizu of this dynasty expelled the Tartars and restored China, in fact, except for the clothes and inscriptions, all the old systems of the Tang and Song Dynasties were forgotten. Instead, they inherited many bad policies of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties..."
Wang Yehao was secretly surprised when he heard his ramble. Although most of these words were not coherent and could only be regarded as fragments of words, and some were even biased or nonsense, many of the accusations came from what he had thought of when he was studying in the past or what he had heard from others.
Mentioned before.
"Although it is crazy, it still has some real knowledge and insights." Wang Yehao said, "When you go back, write down all these and give them to me every month."
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"If you learn from it, his mantle will be yours in the future."
"Thank you, Master!" Zhou Le was surprised and happy.
After sending Zhou Lezhi away, Wang Yehao ordered Liu Zheng: "Go to Guangfu quickly and check the details of this 'Zizhenzhai' and the Australians."
"My subordinates will set off tomorrow." After Liu Zhao agreed to the matter, he said with some doubts, "Why don't you let Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi go? After all, they are more familiar with each other."
"The two of them have to keep an eye on the hearthstone and not make him suspicious."
"Sir, my subordinates know that they shouldn't ask questions and don't ask them. But how capable is Mr. Zhou that he needs to be so vigilant?"
"The Taoist Master is looking at his house with envy?" Wang Yehao had a smile on his lips, but his words made Liu Wei's back shiver.
"I don't dare." Liu Wei quickly denied.
"Has Taoist Master read "Shishuoxinyu"?"
"I'm sorry for my humbleness, but I haven't read it."
Wang Yehao stood up and walked to the bookshelf. After groping for a while, he took out one of the books, opened it and read it slowly: "There was a prostitute in Wei Wu who had the most noble voice, but also had a cruel temperament. If she wanted to kill, she would love her talents.
, it was too much to deal with. So I selected a hundred people to teach them all at once. After a while, if there was one person who mentioned it, I killed the evil one."
After reading this paragraph, Wang Yehao took out a page of paper he had copied from the table and handed it to Liu Zhen, "When you go to Guangli, you can look for experts along the way. If you can solve this spell, I won't need that."