Chapter 62: Mountains of gold and silver come into my shirt
After drinking for a while, everyone's conversation turned to officialdom. This Li Lei was a bachelor of Han Dynasty, with a first-grade title. He had the highest position among the people sitting here, and everyone seemed to take him as the leader.
Everyone complained to him that Han officials were quite marginalized in the court and were not as powerful as the Manchus, but Li Lei did not comment. After everyone had finished talking, he said: "Don't worry too much about the case of Ao Bai. The court heard the case of Ao Bai a while ago.
Many high-ranking Manchu officials were killed, and some who were implicated lost their power in the court. Obai was the one who most excluded Han officials among the original four ministers, and his head was beheaded by our new king and Mr. Wei.
"As he said this, he glanced at me and then said: "Now the four ministers are the only one left, Ye Bilong. This person has no talent. The emperor has never been able to count on him when encountering major events. The current situation is that Manguan and King Kang
The leader does not have much strength yet. However, our emperor seems to have a tendency to reuse Han officials."
Everyone was overjoyed after hearing this and hurriedly asked what happened. I also heard that what he said made sense, so I kept my ears open and waited for the next sentence.
Ignoring everyone's urging, Li Lei slowly took a sip of wine, and then said: "Master Wei's high promotion can explain the truth." I screamed, why did I get involved. Everyone was also confused,
They all looked at me.
Li Lei continued: "Since the new emperor came to the throne, we have not made any achievements. The government has been controlled by the four ministers. Now the emperor is in charge and has severely weakened the power of the Manchu ministers. However, Mr. Wei has been imprisoned because of the Ao Bai case."
He has made great achievements and was promoted to the position of minister by the emperor. This is because the emperor is using Mr. Wei to balance the power in the court."
At this time, all the officials were waking up from a dream, with smiles on their faces. Li Lei hugged me and said, "Master Wei, your future is unlimited. We Han officials are all counting on you." There was a table of officials.
The attitude now was very different from when I first walked in. Everyone toasted to me happily.
I just feel that my scalp is numb. When did I become the savior of the Han officials? I have no interest in their kind of Manchu-Han conflict, and I don’t agree with the officials’ Man-Han distinctions. I just want to be early.
I ran away from here. I saw a group of people vying to toast me, but I didn’t know how to avoid them.
Li Lei was also smart. It seemed that I didn't want to drink more, so he said, "Mr. Wei will be drunk after drinking like this. How about we make a drinking order?" I seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, so I hurriedly said: "Li
As soon as the Master said something, we will make a drinking order and let the loser drink." Suddenly he remembered something and said again: "Then please ask Mr. Li to come up with a question." This time I learned a good lesson and let others come up with the question.
This way I won't be embarrassed.
The others had no choice but to accept the proposal and looked at Li Lei.
When it was time for Li Lei to show off his knowledge, he closed his eyes slightly, shook his head twice, and said: "Each of us will write a poem. There must be an ancient person in the first sentence, and there must be an ancient person in the second sentence.
An allusion, the name of Huafeng Tower is added to the third sentence, and the last sentence describes the drunken state of this ancient man. Whoever can't tell the story will be punished with three drinks of wine, how about that?"
Everyone applauded, but I was dumbfounded. I only knew that I couldn't ask questions, but now I realized that I didn't know a lot of questions. This Li Lei was really tricky, and everyone couldn't do it. Otherwise, guess the tiger.
Damn it, I can still deal with it, so what kind of poetry do you want to make? I have no choice but to listen to how other people do it first, and try to compare, it shouldn’t be too embarrassing.
Li Lei said with a smile: "I have asked the question, who should come first?" He looked at me with a smile. I was startled, and everyone shouted in unison: "Of course Mr. Wei invites you first."
I jumped up and shouted: "It's serious, I'm going to have diarrhea. I'll go ahead and take my leave." I rushed out without looking back. I heard faint laughter from behind.
This Li Lei is really evil. He knows that I have no knowledge, but he still chooses such a difficult question to shame me. If there is a chance, I will clean the toilet and let him write a poem on shit. This is called two poems and one shit.
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As soon as I got out of the house, Prince Kang came back excitedly. When he saw me, he asked: "Why don't you drink in the back room and what are you doing outside?" I shook my head and sighed: "I'm writing poetry inside, but I can't do it.
I will be fined with alcohol because I can only poop and cannot write poetry." Prince Kang laughed loudly and said, "What's so difficult about this? Look at how I will avenge you. I will get them drunk one by one." I
He smiled and said: "Don't be too easy on Mr. Li Lei, Mr. Li, it doesn't matter if you don't win over him." Prince Kang said: "Don't worry, brother, you just need to find someone to carry him later."
After bidding farewell to Prince Kang, I went to the lobby on the first floor. Li Yapeng came up to greet me and said very excitedly: "Master, someone has already come to book our banquet." I was overjoyed and asked: "Who came to book?
"Li Yapeng said: "There are more than one family. Yesterday, people came to inquire. Today, nine families came to place reservations for the next two days. They are all famous rich men, and there is also Lord Baylor.
You are very obedient, and the least one table has is 1,700 taels of silver. I have asked the kitchen to start preparing food." I smiled and said: "Okay, well done, remember, you must wait well."
In the days that followed, I had nothing to do except go to the study to serve Kangxi. I occasionally went to the restaurant, and since Li Yapeng was there, I didn’t have to worry about anything. The restaurant’s business was getting better and better day by day.
I don’t know who spread the news, but it probably has something to do with the Han official who was drinking that day. It said that the emperor went to Huafeng Tower on the opening day, and Huafeng Tower reserved a room specifically for the emperor. The emperor would often go there to eat. Suddenly the capital
It seemed like a house was exploding. People were talking about this topic in the streets and alleys, and it seemed to have become a good story. Officials and gentry of all sizes in the capital were proud to have a meal at Huafeng Tower, and those Shanxi big businessmen, local rich people, and nouveau riche were even more proud.
They flock to it and spend money when they get the chance. What's more, there are some official ladies and rich widows whose husbands have died. They book a room and eat for the whole day. According to Old Man Li, these ladies take money with them.
Hu Hua came here with her family's money just for the emperor, hoping that one day she would meet the True Dragon Emperor, and accidentally fell in love with the emperor, and from then on she took the throne of the empress.
Li Yapeng is now very big, and the rooms are fully booked all day long. People often ask him for help if they can't get a reservation. The little old man's temper is a bit bad, and he doesn't even look at those wealthy locals with no status.
. Moreover, the two rooms next to Long Qiu also had a minimum fee set by this old man. Anyone with a meal of less than 5,000 taels was not allowed to enter. Later, I heard from him that it was raised to 6,000 taels, but they were still crowded.
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On the tenth day after the restaurant opened for business, Li Yapeng excitedly told me that the restaurant had made three hundred thousand taels of silver in the past ten days. I was so shocked that my tongue stuck out. "Old boy, three hundred thousand taels in ten days, one person."
Won't I have an income of nearly one million taels of silver by the end of the month? If this continues for a few years, all the money in the capital will not be put into my pocket. Li Yapeng said with a smile: "People from the capital are not the only ones who come to eat here.
People, some young people from wealthy families in Tianjin and Hebei also came here because of their reputation. Most of them failed to pass the Jinshi exam and wanted to jump into the Dragon Gate through a chance encounter." I laughed loudly and said: "I'm afraid that in a few months, the giants in the two rivers will
Jia also wants to bring money to give us flowers." Li Yapeng said: "This is not a guarantee, maybe someone will come over. Who doesn't want to see the emperor? Even selling the house and land is worth it.
I didn't know that on the opening day, but if I had known that the young man with you was the emperor, I would have kowtowed to him no matter what."
Li Lei said with a smile: "Even Xiaobao's two brushes dare to show off in front of me, without even looking at what we chewed when we were growing up. I wrote more poems than he pooped, and he just pulled them out of his mouth at will.
Two sentences are enough to hold him back for a long time. By the way, Ninth Brother, how do you write the word "Shit"? It was on my lips just now, but now I can't remember it."