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Chapter 160: Loyal Minister, Traitorous Minister? (3rd Watch)


In the imperial study, although it was already March, it was still cold and cold, it seemed that the spring breeze had forgotten here, and the inferior tea leaves on the bookcase were already like cold water, which could not bring a little heat to Chongzhen, put down a book, rubbed his numb face with his cold hands, picked up the tea, and wanted to summon the little eunuch to replace himself with some hot ones, but think about it, forget it, and then look at the mountains of folds in front of him, shook his head helplessly, and picked up another one.

There are too many twists and turns, since he opened the way of speech and allowed officials above the fifth grade to write and say things, not only in the capital, but even a local five-grade official has also written a book, among which there are serious things, but most of them are trivial things, according to Lu Hanqiang, it is purely to brush up on the sense of existence, and there is bullshit, and there are endless articles, and I don't know what to do when I see it in the end.

But these must also be seen, in case there are serious things in these and omissions, it will not delay the big things Patiently read a few more, I was really thirsty, I reached out and picked up the teacup not far away, and brought it to my mouth to take a sip, it turned out to be hot, and when I raised my head, I saw Wang Chengen standing in front of him with a teapot, and I don't know when, the lamp had been turned on in the study, and Wang Chengen's old face was as dry as orange peel, and it was flashing a touch of crimson in the candlelight.

Put down the pen, stand up, move your numb waist and legs, and casually ask, "I'm back" "The old slave is back."

Wang Chengen bowed down with a smile and replied, then put down the teapot and simply cleaned up the scattered pieces on the bookcase.

"How did the meeting go smoothly?"

Chongzhen stretched his numb waist and legs, and asked casually. didn't stop the work in hand, Wang Chengen said with a smile: "It's going well, Lu Hanqiang deserves to be an operator." ” "How" knew that Lu Hanqiang was a capable person, but it was definitely very rare to be praised by Wang Chengen, so Chongzhen was interested.

At this time, Wang Chengen, who had finished sorting out the scattered pieces on the table, smiled and took out a stack of manuscripts in his sleeve and handed them to Chongzhen with both hands: "Today, the old slave presided over this business meeting, but the old slave obeyed the emperor's orders, just listened with his ears, looked with his eyes, and pondered the will with his heart, observed the whole process of the meeting, and also looked at the words and deeds of the entire meeting presided over by Lu Hanqiang. ” "Is it possible for a cadre to be" Chongzhen frowned, his suspicious temperament flared up again, and looked at Wang Chengen, who had obviously drunk and had not drunk less, with a somewhat unhappy face, and blamed him for drinking and making mistakes, and now speaking for Lu Hanqiang like this, could it be that a few glasses of wine would buy him, and there was no loyal person by his side Lu Hanqiang asked for instructions to convene a preparatory meeting for the existing staff in Beijing of the Huitong Pavilion, Chongzhen approved, but still sent Wang Chengen's most intimate person to keep an eye on it, which is also reasonable, after all, Wang Chengen is the general manager of this huge commercial bank in the future, more than 100,000 people, not in his own hands, it is really not at ease.

And if Wang Chengen was dragged into the water by Lu Hanqiang, what would it be The result Thinking of this, a chill rushed up Chongzhen's spine.

Wang Chengen seemed to have drunk too much, and he didn't feel Chongzhen's displeasure at all, holding the stack of documents with both hands, and whispered with a smile: "The minutes of the meeting are all here, there is no omission, of course, the old slave is still not at ease, so he proposed that everyone let go of the drink, so he also told our inner line to specially toast a few more glasses of wine for Lu Ban to read, as the so-called drunken spit out the truth, the old slave hopes that at this banquet, he can touch Lu Banyu's true mind again." ” Chongzhen sighed, and didn't say anything, but took the stack of documents in Wang Chengen's hand, and didn't look at it, just held it in his hand and continued to listen to Wang Chengen's report. explained the reason for his drinking in disguise, Wang Chengen peeked at Chongzhen and didn't say anything, so he continued to report: "Today's meeting was very successful, the people who should come and those who shouldn't come in the Beijing Hall have arrived, and the old slave didn't expect that there were so many people in charge of the Hall."

Thinking of the identities of those principals, I couldn't help but smile lightly.

"How did Lu Hanqiang arrange the operation of the firm" Chongzhen didn't have time to listen to him babble about what he didn't have, so he asked the main content directly.

Wang Chengen hurriedly closed the topic and cautiously reported: "Lu Hanqiang divided the firm into five pieces, or acted according to your permission before, one is an inn, one is a carriage and horse shop, another is postal affairs, and there is an intelligence department. ” Chongzhen nodded, Lu Hanqiang had already told him about this matter, and it was not new.

Looking at Chongzhen's noncommittal appearance, Wang Chengen smiled again: "But two more institutions have been added temporarily. ” Chongzhen frowned, and without reporting to himself, he set up a new institution without permission, which was a sign of arrogance.

And Wang Chengen, the old guy, said that it was temporary, whether he was covering it up for him Thinking of this, he glanced at Wang Chengen without missing a trace, then turned around, walked to the window, pushed open the heavy wooden window, and a wind with the spring cold rushed into the study, blowing the stack of papers in his hand with a soft sound.

It was dark outside, there was no moon, the shadows of the trees all over the courtyard filled the space gloomily, and by the door, a few little eunuchs shrunk their necks like cats, shivering in the spring cold.

Chongzhen frowned and said to them, "Go, I don't need you to wait here." ” The little eunuchs had already heard the sound of the wooden window opening, but no one dared to look here, at this time they heard the emperor let them go away, and immediately knelt down together to thank him, and then caged his hands, and walked out of the courtyard gate quietly with broken steps, but none of them dared to really go away, and stood outside the courtyard gate again, pricked up his ears, and waited for the emperor's summons at any time.

Seeing that there was no one around, Chongzhen asked softly: "What kind of institutions are they, are they really temporarily added by Lu Hanqiang?"

The addition of the agency will add the supervision of these two institutions, so that Lu Hanqiang will be given more opportunities to arrange his own people, and this time he is agreed with Lu Hanqiang, in addition to the intelligence department to put a loyal and reliable eunuch to go back and forth to deliver news, in the main departments will no longer appoint eunuchs, according to him, this is a commercial house, not a power agency, is to see the benefits of making money, and eunuchs are not a group of people who do not know how to operate, laymen guide insiders, can only be more and more messy, and finally lose money, close Zhang Daji.

Therefore, this time, we must choose a knowledgeable shopkeeper to be the supervisor of each department.

Regarding this, although Chongzhen didn't like Lu Hanqiang's move to exclude his henchmen, he came out of the people, and he also knew that the evil consequences of his father and brother who had made the eunuchs in the world not only did not play a role, but made people angry, so he dismissed the eunuchs in various places after he ascended the throne, and this time, he could only listen to Lu Hanqiang.

However, if Lu Hanqiang takes this opportunity to grasp all the power of the operation of the firm in his own hands and places his own people in all key departments, will he lose his real control over the firm and be hollowed out, and this firm is different from others, this is hundreds of thousands of strong, no matter who controls these hundreds of thousands of strong, the consequences are simply terrible.

Wang Chengen hurriedly stepped forward and reported with a smile: "First, it is to set up a supervision department at the headquarters and branch offices in each province. ” "What kind of thing is this from the Supervision and Supervision Division" As soon as the word Supervision and Supervision was mentioned, Chongzhen turned around sensitively and stared at Wang Chengen and asked. t1706231537: