The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 41 The Rise of Embroidered Yiwei

After Li He left, Mu Xu asked Feng Ziying, "Is this Li He's identity verified?"

Feng Ziying nodded and said, "It should be possible. I received him today and sent someone to Fangshan to verify his identity."

Hearing that Feng Ziying had arranged for someone to do it, Mu Xu nodded in satisfaction, "You did a good job, and you have to check that Wang Bin in detail. You must keep in mind that you must not be negligent when engaging in intelligence, otherwise It could lead to a total loss.”

Feng Ziying said seriously, "My subordinates will keep it in mind."

When Feng Ziying left, Mu Xu didn't care that the palace gate was about to be locked, so he told Mei Jian and rode to the imperial city.When they arrived at the gate of the palace, their own guards blocked the way and came to check.

Mu Xu handed over his waist badge and explained his intention.The leader of the guards looked at Mu Xu's badge and knew his identity, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect him.

After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, a middle-aged eunuch came to the gate of the palace. He came to Mu Xu and bowed, "But the prince of Dongping County is in person?"

The eunuch saw Mu Xu nodding, and immediately said, "Your Majesty Xuan Shizi enters the palace to meet you."

Mu Xu followed him into the palace, walked for a while and realized something was wrong, so he couldn't help asking, "This father-in-law invited me, this seems to be the way to the harem?"

The father-in-law responded with a smile, "The house is Xia Shouzhong who is serving the empress in Zhongcui Palace. Don't worry about it, your majesty will rest at the empress's place tonight."

"Your Majesty said that the son is not an outsider, so it's okay to enter the harem at night."

When Mu Xu heard that it was another character who had appeared in the original novel of the Red Chamber, he didn't feel it at all. After all, he had seen the protagonist in the original novel, let alone an eunuch who had shown his face several times.

However, there were still some polite words on the face, "I have admired my father-in-law's name for a long time." After thinking about the little devil's trouble, he took out a bank note from his bosom and handed it to him, "Your father-in-law has worked hard serving your mother, take it to drink tea."

Xia Shouzhong quickly refused. In the original book, he went to Rongguo Mansion every three days to fight the autumn wind. It was because he knew that Rongguo Mansion was going to die, and he didn't dare to take it in front of Mu Xu.

Mu Xu said a few more good words, and Xia Shouzhong accepted it with a happy expression on his face.

Arriving at the gate of Zhongcui Palace, Xia Shouzhong went in to announce, and he came out after a while, "Your Majesty Xuanshizi has an audience." When Mu Xu walked by him, he whispered, "Your Majesty is in a good mood tonight."

Mu Xu nodded his head lightly, and then strode in.When he arrived in the palace, he saw Emperor Jiading standing in front of a desk writing something, accompanied by a woman dressed in palace clothes.Mu Xu stepped forward to salute, "I have seen Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

Emperor Jiading said casually, "Okay, there are no outsiders, so there is no need to be too polite." Then he said to the woman dressed in court next to him, "Zi Tong, you haven't seen Sanmei's son yet, have you?"

The woman was indeed the Empress Chen, and she looked at Mu Xu with a smile, "It's indeed the first time I've seen you, but during dinner today, Zhen'er kept talking about his cousin in my ear Woolen cloth."

Emperor Jiading couldn't help being curious, "When did Zhen'er meet Mu's nephew?" Empress Chen pursed her lips and said with a smile, "It wasn't this morning when the seventh brother brought Rui'er to pay his respects to the emperor, and the two elder brothers ran away secretly. Go out of the palace and go to the city with Mu's nephew to play."

Emperor Jiading smiled and shook his head. Empress Chen knew that Mu Xu entered the palace so late, she must have something important to do, so she immediately said to Emperor Jiading, "The concubine is going to the back hall first." Then she said to Mu Xu, "Yes. Kong remember to come to the palace to play with Zhen'er."

Mu Xu nodded in agreement.Only then did Empress Chen order the maids beside her, "Yuan Chun help me go to the apse."

Hearing the queen call the palace lady Yuanchun, Mu Xu's heart moved, and he looked at her calmly. Sure enough, he looked a little like Yingchun and Tanchun, but with a slightly plump figure and a more mature person.

After Empress Chen stepped back, Emperor Jiading asked, "Why did you come to see me so late?"

Mu Xu immediately explained the matter of Li He, the son of Li Meng, in detail.After listening to Mu Xu's narration, Emperor Jiading frowned, "What do you think, are his words credible?"

Mu Xu directly stated his own opinion, "In my opinion, this matter is somewhat believable. Moreover, this kind of matter would rather be believed in its existence than in its non-existence."

Emperor Jiading nodded in agreement, "Yes, what you said is very true. Then how do you think this matter should be handled now?"

Mu Xu naturally knew that it was impossible for Emperor Jiading not to pay attention, it was just a test for him.Without being hypocritical, I said what I thought, "I want to send someone to verify Li He's identity first, and get back the account book by the way. If Li He's identity is correct, then we can get the account book, and we will know what happened. How serious is it?"

Emperor Jiading listened to his opinion and thought for a moment, "Well, but we still have to plan for the worst. How about this, I promise you to go to the Longxiang Army to recruit embroidered clothing guards, and first recruit three thousand households. It’s not enough, let’s tie our hands and feet.”

Mu Xu was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked him. He knew that the Longxiang Army was one of the few troops that could be mobilized today, so he was also in a hurry.Afterwards, the monarch and his ministers discussed again, and then Mu Xu left the palace.

Early the next morning, after Mu Xu approached Li He to ask about the exact location of the account book, he immediately rushed to Beizhen Fusi and arranged for someone to go to Fangshan.

Then he promoted Liu Xianglian to Qianhu, Wei Ruolan and Han Qi as deputy Qianhu on the grounds that Liu Xianglian and the others had made great achievements in military training, and asked the three to go to the Longxiang Army to pick people and each lead a Qianhu Office.

In just two months, the development of the Embroidery Guard's power has greatly exceeded Mu Xu'er's expectations. He originally thought that the Embroidery Guard would not be able to rebuild in a year or so.Unexpectedly, in just over two months, the Xiuyiwei's forces expanded to the Jiangnan area.

In fact, Mu Xu was wrong. Although the Embroidery Guard had been abolished for more than ten years, it had existed for a longer time and had its own set of operating rules.Embroidery Guards Zhang Cheng and Li Ping recruited back some former Embroidery Guards personnel, plus Feng Ziying and others were newborn calves who were not afraid of tigers and wanted to prove themselves, so the Embroidery Guards were like snowballs in just two months. The same rolls bigger and bigger.

There was no other way, without manpower available, Mu Xu could only readjust the Embroidered Yiwei.

After thinking twice, he decided to send Liu Xianglian to Jinling to temporarily control and develop the embroidery guards in the southern region with the power of a thousand households to know each other.

In recent days, among those who have made great contributions to rebuilding the Embroidery Guards, and among the noble children introduced by Feng Ziying and others, I investigated the appointment of these people as officials at all levels.In the past two months, the person who surprised him the most was Jia Lian.

Recently, Jia Lian has not only made a lot of money for Xiuyiwei by using the Xuejia trade route, but also has established relationships with some big merchants.

It has to be said that in the original book, Jia Lian, who manages the internal affairs of the entire Rongguo Mansion, is indeed a good businessman.Under the introduction of Xue Pan, he met with the owners of the largest car and horse dealers and boat dealers.

Jia Lian set out conditions for them, and our embroidered clothing guards will support you and deliver the goods with you.If your profit this month is lower than before, we will not charge you a penny at Embroidery Guard. If it is higher than before, then we will share [-]-[-] of the money you earn.

After only a month of trial, not only those who cooperated, but also many more people rushed to sign a five-year contract with the Embroidery Guard represented by Jia Lian, just because their profits after cooperating with the Embroidery Guard in the past month It more than doubled.Because of cooperating with Xiuyiwei, they only need to pay the normal taxes of the imperial court, and they don't have to worry about some local exploitation.

Those businessmen are not fools. At this time, they will naturally see the benefits of cooperating with Xiuyiwei. Up to now, there are still people coming here every day, making the once frightening statue of Fusi in North Town of Xiuyiwei. The vegetable market is so-so, which makes the nearby people look at it with surprise, and the staff who work in Xiuyiwei every day are also annoyed.

There was no other way, Mu Xu could only order Jia Lian to buy a house nearby, as a place for Embroidery Guards to cooperate with those merchants.

As a reward, Mu Xu even promoted Jia Lian to do a good job, and even Xue Pan was promoted by him to be the Deputy Qianhu.This made Feng Ziying and others' eyes turn red with envy. Many people who used to look down on Jia Lian now began to admire him.Because they also knew in their hearts that Jia Lian owed a lot to the embroidered clothes guard being able to rebuild so quickly this time.

Now Jia Lian and Xue Pan have not only become the celebrities of Xiuyiwei, but their status in the family has also risen rapidly.Just like Wang Xifeng, who always wanted to control Jia Lian in the past, but now he doesn't say everything is obedient in front of him, but he doesn't dare to stab him casually.Even Jia's mother now treats Jia Lian very differently.

The Xue family also took advantage of Xue Pan's promotion to move out from the Rongguo Mansion, even though Mrs. Wang used Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai's marriage to keep them.Of course, there was also a small episode. After Xue Pan was promoted, he came to the palace to thank him and gave Xiang Ling to Mu Xu.

(End of this chapter)