I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 124: Life can be so wonderful, how wonderful! How wonderful! ( words, very wonderful)

Inside the bedroom, Lin Shisan held Biyun's hand.

Biyun shook off his hand: "What?"

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "My dear lady. Haven't you heard that there are three urgent things that people should not hold back? If you hold them back, you will get sick."

Biyun asked: "Which three urgent matters?"

Lin Shisan laughed and said, "Shit is urgent, pee is urgent, monkey is urgent."

Biyun sneered, "Come on. Are you still impatient? The wife of Doctor Lai of the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Revenue has long told me that the imperial envoys who go out of the capital can't lack women."

"Local officials are eager to send women. Imperial envoys are bridegrooms every day, changing brides every day."

"Last time, her master was ordered to go out of the capital on business. He slept with a woman and plucked out a hair. In the end, he made a human hair brush out of it."

Lin Shisan smiled awkwardly and lied, "I have been a virgin all the way."

Biyun glared at him and said, "You keep saying you're a virgin? Do you believe that?"

Biyun has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. As soon as Lin Shisan gets close to her, she becomes soft. Needless to say, the couple enjoys the feast together.

Two moments later, Lin Shisan said, "During the time I was away, it was all thanks to you for taking care of the household affairs."

Biyun said: "You are a hands-off manager. When you are at home, I am the one who takes care of the household affairs."

"During your absence, Eunuch Lu and Eunuch Huang have taken good care of our family."

"I said I wanted to find a female teacher for Xiaochuan to teach her some etiquette. Eunuch Huang directly sent an old palace maid who had married out."

"Doctor Luo also takes good care of our family. Whenever he gets any rare food in his house, he always sends servants to share some with our family."

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

It was late at night when Lin Shisan suddenly heard a bird chirping, followed by noisy footsteps.

He put on his clothes and walked out of the bedroom to see what was going on. He saw more than thirty officers in the uniform of the Ministry of Justice entering the yard carrying various bird cages and many summer insect pots.

Luo Longwen, dressed in cloth, followed in.

Lin Shisan bowed and said, "My benefactor, why are you here at my humble abode so late at night?"

Luo Longwen smiled and said, "I came to congratulate Master on your promotion, wealth and the favor of the Emperor. You stood out at the White Deer Entering the City Ceremony and took the top spot."

Lin Shisan said quickly, "Stop making fun of me, benefactor. I am planning to visit you at your residence tomorrow."

Luo Longwen sighed, "Alas. To tell you the truth, I am leaving Beijing. I will leave early tomorrow morning. I don't know if I can come back alive."

Lin Shisan saw that Luo Longwen had a sad face and didn't seem to be joking.

Lin Shisan said, "There's no living room in my old house. Can we go out and find a place to sit?"

Luo Longwen said, "No need. It's hot, we can just chat in your yard."

He turned to look at the officers and ordered them to step back twenty steps.

Lin Shisan asked, "My benefactor, what's going on? What is your mission out of Beijing? Why did you talk about life and death?"

Luo Longwen asked in return: "Did you hear of a Japanese pirate leader named Xu Hai when you went to Jiangnan this time?"

Lin Shisan said, "Xu Hai, that bastard. I even fought a battle with his ship and nearly died in the sea."

"That guy is a traitor who brought the Japanese invaders. He is the most loyal lackey of the Shimazu family, the lord of the Osumi domain of Japan."

Luo Longwen asked: "Do you know how Xu Hai became famous?"

Lin Shisan shook his head slightly.

Luo Longwen said: "Well. If you want to talk about this matter, it's all my fault!"

Luo Longwen told a story from the past.

About fifteen years ago, Luo Longwen was just a big ink merchant and had not yet curryed favor with Yan Shifan to enter the official career.

At that time, he was rich and young, and he loved to travel to various beautiful places in the south of the Yangtze River and to look for prostitutes.

While in Jiaxing, Luo Longwen met a monk named Pu Jing.

Although Pu Jing was a monk, he was a playboy and loved to visit brothels. He and Luo Longwen were both from She County. When fellow villagers met in a brothel, their eyes were filled with tears.

The two of them got along quite well and eventually became close friends.

At that time, Wang Cuiqiao, a famous prostitute from Jiangnan, came to Jiaxing. She was used to seeing wealthy businessmen and arrogant officials, but it was her first time to see a romantic monk.

Monk Pujing and Wang Cuiqiao were in love with each other, and after a few interactions, they secretly decided to spend their lives together.

But Wang Cuiqiao was the most famous prostitute in Jiangnan. To redeem her, the money would be hundreds of thousands. Where did Monk Pujing get so much money?

As a result, Monk Pujing became sick with lovesickness and refused to eat or drink for two days. When his close friend Luo Longwen learned about this, he felt sorry for this infatuated monk.

One hundred thousand taels is not a small sum. Although Luo Longwen is a master of She ink and the number one ink merchant in Jiangnan, no one's money comes from the wind.

Luo Longwen came up with a plan. He gave Monk Pujing five thousand taels of silver and asked him to order Wang Cuiqiao's guest card.

The so-called guest card refers to a famous prostitute who receives a large sum of money and accepts the invitation of a patron to visit the patron's hometown.

To put it bluntly, it is a high-end airborne attack in the Ming Dynasty.

On the way to She County, Luo Longwen asked his servants to pretend to be bandits and hijack the carriage, thus making Wang Cuiqiao and Pu Jing a pair of mandarin ducks.

The government would definitely investigate the kidnapping of a famous prostitute. Luo Longwen suggested that Pu Jing elope with Wang Cuiqiao and live the rest of his life in anonymity.

The three broke up in She County.

Unexpectedly, Pu Jing actually had an uncle named Xu Weixue, who was engaged in smuggling trade at sea. And Pu Jing's real name was - Xu Hai!
Xu Hai and his wife followed their uncle to Japan. There were many Buddhist believers in Japan. Seeing that Xu Hai was a monk from the East, they mistook him for a great monk. Many people donated money to him.

After a while, Xu Hai used the money from incense offerings to buy an eight-ship, hired dozens of men, and started a robbery business on the sea.

Every invasion by the Japanese pirates has a cost. If the cost is greater than the profit, the major shareholders will pursue it.

Xu Hai's uncle Xu Weixue instigated Shimazu, the lord of Osumi Domain, to launch a large-scale invasion with considerable capital.

This uncle was not polite. He took his nephew and niece-in-law as hostages and sent them to the Shimazu family.

During this invasion, Xu Weixue was extremely unlucky as he encountered Yu Dayou, who commanded the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers and Shaolin monks. This group of Japanese pirates was almost completely wiped out and lost everything.

Xu Weixue did not dare to return to Japan to meet with Shimazu, the major shareholder. Shimazu was furious and wanted to kill the hostage Xu Hai and give Wang Cuiqiao to Yaxi.

Xu Hai told Shimazu: "If you kill me, you will only get a woman. Keep me and don't bully my woman. I can earn hundreds of thousands of taels of Ming silver for you."

Shimazu thought about it and it made sense. So Xu Hai became the number one traitor in the Shimazu family.

Xu Hai, this bastard, is not worthy of being beaten. He led the Japanese pirates to land and committed all kinds of evil, slaughtering everyone and humiliating every woman. To say that he and the Japanese pirates are living beasts is an insult to beasts.

However, Xu Hai also fulfilled his promise to the Shimazu family and recovered countless "hundreds of thousands of taels" from them.

The Shimazu family did not treat Xu Hai badly and gave him weapons.

In just five or six years, Xu Hai had become the second largest Japanese leader after Wang Zhi, with tens of thousands of pirates under his command.

However, there are many factions within Xu Hai. Chen Dong and Ma Ye, who are under him, are not so much his subordinates as they are shareholders who cooperate with him.

Luo Longwen finished telling all this. Lin Shisan was surprised and said, "I didn't expect there was such a story."

Luo Longwen said: "Hu Zongxian sent me a letter. He asked me to send someone to Osumi Domain to go deep into Xu Hai's Japanese nest to carry out a counter-espionage plan, to stir up trouble inside and outside, and to sow discord between Xu Hai and Chen Dong and Ma Ye."

"After much thought, I think it's better for me to go myself than to send anyone else. Mr. and Mrs. Xu and I are old acquaintances, and I owe them a favor."

"Besides, I am not good at other things, but I am very good at sowing discord."

Lin Shisan tried to dissuade him: "Xuhai Japanese Nest is a den of dragons and tigers. If you go there in person, you might run into trouble. You are the officer of the Supervision and Arrest Division, why do you need to do it yourself?"

Luo Longwen's face no longer had the mercenary, shrewdness, and cruelty of the past. Only the awe-inspiring sense of justice remained.

Luo Longwen said seriously: "I went to Osumi Domain in person for two reasons."

"First, if I hadn't helped Xu Hai and Wang Cuiqiao, how could there be a murderous and heinous Japanese pirate on the sea now?"

"I have sown the seeds of evil, so I must personally take action to end the evil consequences."

"Secondly, the Supervisory and Arresting Division is a small Jinyiwei under Lord Yan. As the leader of the small Jinyiwei, I have gained too many benefits. For example, status, money, and women."

"We have received favors from Lord Yan and the court. We must share the worries of Lord Yan and the court."

"You have to stand up when you need to. Only then can you be a real man."

Lin Shisan cupped his hands: "You are so kind."

Luo Longwen said, "It's not about righteousness. The pen is in the hands of those upright people. Hundreds of years later, the history books will definitely say that Lord Yan was the leader of the treacherous party, and I, Luo Longwen, was the lackey of the treacherous party."

"But this lackey might do one good thing. At least when he does that good thing, he is a good person."

"In one's lifetime, one must do something great that will make one look up to oneself."

"Provoking internal strife between Xu Kou and destroying Xu Kou is perhaps the most important event in my life."

Lin Shisan noticed that when Luo Longwen said this, his eyes turned red, as if there were tears in them.

Luo Longwen added: "These birds and summer insects of mine are my dearest treasures. Life and death are unpredictable in Japan. I entrust them all to you." "If I die for my country, these dearest treasures will have a good home."

"If I return safely, you can return them to me."

After that, Luo Longwen actually sang "Song of Jing Ke": "The wind is whistling and the Yi River is cold, the warrior will never come back once he leaves."

"Explore the tiger's den and enter the dragon's palace, look up to the sky and exhale to create a white rainbow."

The tone was particularly sad and tragic.

Lin Shisan stood up and bowed deeply to Luo Longwen: "Don't worry, benefactor, I will take good care of them and wait for you to make great contributions to the court, the elders, and the people of the southeast, and return safely."

"We should have wine by now. I'll go get it from the kitchen."

Lin Shisan took out a jar of aged girl's red wine that he brought back from Hangzhou and drank it with Luo Longwen.

Luo Longwen drank a few glasses of wine and laughed, "Fuck that stinky Boyi. Those son-of-a-bitch righteous people always like to say, 'Life is what I want, and justice is what I want. I can't have both, so I'd rather sacrifice my life for justice.'"

"How many people in the world can live up to the four words 'sacrifice their lives for justice'?"

"I can!"

"My life has been worth it! I have become the best ink maker and ink merchant in Ming Dynasty."

"As an official, I became the number one dog paw under Lord Yan."

"This time I am crossing to Japan to help fight against the Japanese. If I become a martyr, I will be worthy of the word righteousness."

"In my life, I have had money, power, done great evil, and done great good."

"Life can be lived so wonderfully, how happy! How happy!"

Lin Shisan filled Luo Longwen's glass with wine: "Having said this, everything should be clear!"

Luo Longwen picked up the wine bowl, drank it all in one gulp, and then smashed the bowl to pieces with a "crack".

Luo Longwen laughed loudly, seeming to be proud of his wonderful life in the past fifty years.

Lin Shisan drank too much with Luo Longwen and started to make dirty jokes: "Hey, benefactor. You sent these birds and insects to me to take care of. Why don't you send those dozen beautiful concubines and twenty or so seductive concubines in your house to me to take care of as well?"

"It seems that our relationship is still not deep enough."

Luo Longwen laughed and scolded, "I gave them to you. Our relationship is deep. They are probably deep too. How can I use them when I come back?"

"Besides, if I dare to give them to you, would you dare to accept them? Wouldn't your Biyun chop you up and send you to the Silijian to be the number one eunuch under your uncle?"

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "That's right. I just wanted to satisfy my craving for words."

Luo Longwen held Lin Shisan's hand and said, "Shisan, I will give you three words before you leave. First, accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. I have said this to you before."

"Secondly, no one in the court can be trusted. The only one you can trust is yourself."

"Third, never hang yourself on one mountain. A wise bird chooses the tree to roost in. You must know how to move with the situation and change your allegiance when it is time to do so."

When Lin Shisan heard this, his heart moved.

When a man is about to die, his words are kind; when a bird is about to die, its cry is sad. Although Luo Longwen was not going to die, he also said three words from his heart to Lin Shisan, and each word was a golden piece of advice.

These three sentences benefited Lin Shisan throughout his life.

Luo Longwen bowed to Lin Shisan and said, "Master, the mountains are high and the rivers are long. We will meet again if we are destined to do so! Goodbye!"

Lin Shisan returned the greeting with a rather sad bow: "We will see each other again. I will wait for your return in the capital. Goodbye!"

Luo Longwen turned and left, and the servants filled the yard with bird cages and insect pots.

When walking out of the Lin family courtyard, Luo Longwen looked up at the sky and hummed "Song of Jing Ke" again.

The sad and tragic song soared into the sky.

"The wind is shaky and the water is cold, and once the strong man goes, he will never return."

"Explore the tiger's den and enter the dragon's palace, look up to the sky and exhale to create a white rainbow."

Luo Longwen is a villain and a treacherous man, but at the critical moment, he is generous and righteous, fearless of life and death.

This is true for all the people who have their names recorded in history books; few are portrayed as black or white.

Humans are the most complex creatures in the world.

Good people do bad things, and bad people do good things.

But Luo Longwen said something very right - it is a great pleasure to live such a wonderful life!
The next morning, Lin Shisan rode a fast horse to Luo's house to see Luo Longwen off, but was told that Luo Longwen had already left half an hour ago.

Lin Shisan had no choice but to go to the new house on Fushou Street.

There were so many people in front of his new house! Too many old acquaintances, new friends, and people who were completely unrelated came to give him gifts.

At the ceremony of the white deer entering the city, Lin Shisan stole the limelight. The court and the people believed that although Lin Shisan's status was not high, he would become the new favorite of Emperor Jiajing in the future.

If you don't curry favor now, when will you?

Lin Shisan was unequivocal. He asked his servant Chun Ge'er to hang a stinky salted fish at the door.

This is an allusion to the story of "Xuanyu Taishou", which means that he will not accept gifts from anyone.

Lin Shisan was smart enough. When he went out of the capital on business, he could accept beautiful women with great ceremony. But that was outside the capital, the emperor was far away, and it was harmless.

But as soon as he came to power, he unscrupulously accepted gifts and showed off at the feet of the emperor. Wouldn't that make him a frivolous person who couldn't keep two ounces of oil in his dog's stomach?
But there is one person's gift that he must accept.

Feng Bao, the young Junior Supervisor of General Affairs of Prince Yu's Mansion, entered the Lin Mansion.

Feng Bao was in his twenties and was the second-ranking eunuch in Prince Yu's palace. He was deeply trusted by Prince Yu and Concubine Li.

He has another identity, Lu Fang's godson.

This was Lu Fang's advance planning.

When Prince Yu succeeds to the throne, Feng Bao will be in power. By then, Lü Fang will not have a miserable end.

Lin Shisan welcomed Feng Bao into the living room: "Oh, it turns out to be Eunuch Feng. I have heard of your great name for a long time. It is well-known."

Feng Bao smiled and said, "I have long wanted to make friends with Lin Chuanfeng. My adoptive father often praises you in front of us disciples, saying that you are young, promising, smart and capable."

Feng Bao mentioned Lu Fang in order to get closer to Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan may not be good at anything else, but when it comes to building relationships, hey, he is an expert at it.

Lin Shisan started his shameless attempt to establish a relationship with your father: "Oh! My uncle is your master. Then we are half brothers!"

"I am twenty-one, I don't know you"

Feng Bao said: "I am 22 years old."

Lin Shisan bowed: "Ah, big brother!"

Feng Bao bowed in return: "Ah, dear brother!"

The two of them burst into laughter at the same time: "Hahaha!"

Lin Shisan asked, "Brother, why did you come to my humble room?"

Feng Bao smiled and said, "Prince Yu and Concubine Li sent me to give you a gift."

Lin Shisan was dumbfounded: "How could I have deserved such a reward from Prince Yu?"

Feng Bao said meaningfully: "How can any son in the world not hope that his father is happy? This is true for ordinary people and for the emperor."

"You brought back the white deer, which made the emperor very happy. It is a pity that the prince could not see the white deer at Anding Gate because of the taboo that two dragons cannot meet each other."

"But the prince praised you highly. He said you are the most loyal minister of the Zhu family. So he sent me here to give you some gifts."

Lin Shisan suddenly thought of what Luo Longwen said last night: "You must know how to adapt to the situation and change your allegiance when it is time to do so."

Prince Jing was banished to the south, and Prince Yu became the only crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Prince Yu was suppressed by the Yan Party at this time and had little real power, he was still the future emperor.

Since my uncle can send Feng Bao to Prince Yu's Mansion to place a bet in advance, why can't I flatter Prince Yu's Mansion a little more?

Thinking of this, Lin Shisan's face was filled with tears of gratitude. What was even more exaggerated was that he actually urinated two lines of donkey urine: "Woo woo woo, oooo oo."

Feng Bao was surprised: "Second brother, why are you crying?"

Lin Shisan said, "Wow, wow, Lord Yu has been so kind to me, a lowly imperial guard. I have no way to repay you! My nose is sore and I can't stop it."

Feng Bao quickly handed Lin Shisan a handkerchief and said, "Oh, second brother, there is no need to do this. You should find more opportunities to serve Prince Yu in the future, and you will be worthy of the generous reward."

Lin Shisan nodded his head like a praying mantis: "Yes, yes, yes. If Prince Yu needs me, I will definitely do it for him, even if it means smearing my excrement on the wall!"

Feng Bao smiled and said, "You are indeed the loyal and righteous Lin Chuanfeng. Prince Yu and Concubine Li will be pleased with your words."

Feng Bao turned around and shouted to the eunuch outside, "Bring up the prince's rewards!"

　New Year is coming soon. I wish all my readers all the best in the new year. May all officials get promoted; all businessmen get rich; all workers sleep with their boss’s wife; all married people have children; all unmarried people become bridegrooms every night; all students pass every exam; old friends are still strong and strong; young friends are full of vigor and vitality and achieve success at a young age. In 2025, everything will go well for everyone!

　　
　
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