"Godfather, is that the end of it?" Eunuch Qian was completely discouraged and looked haggard after being scolded by Chen Hong.
His answer was another slap in the face.
"You're a waste! You don't even dare to have the heart for revenge. You don't deserve to be the adopted son of this family!" Chen Hong cursed in frustration.
That means revenge! Eunuch Qian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Godfather, I want to settle accounts with Zhu Ping'an in my dreams. I will return the pain and humiliation I have received from Zhu Ping'an a hundred times, a thousand times, and ten thousand times to Zhu Ping'an. I will make Zhu Ping'an unable to live or die!"
"Hehehe... This looks a bit like a bear..." Chen Hong laughed and finally did not slap Eunuch Qian again.
"Godfather, even though I was beaten with sixty sticks by Zhu Ping'an, I can still fight for you even with crutches. Godfather, please give us your orders. Where should we start to deal with this damn Zhu Ping'an?!"
Qianxu was praised and immediately became radiant. He straightened himself up by holding on to the pillar and took the initiative to ask for the order.
Bang!
He was responded with another slap!
"I just praised you once, and you don't know the directions anymore! Zhu Ping'an has just made a great contribution. I guess the reward documents are on the way. It's the time for him to be in the limelight. Why are you charging into battle at this time? I think you were not spanked on the butt, but on the head?! You don't even use your brain to think, is now the time for revenge?! It is said that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge! Ten years in the east, ten years in the west! He has offended Prime Minister Yan and is standing opposite King Jing. He will have bad luck sooner or later. Wait until he is in trouble, and then you add insult to injury. Wouldn't that be twice the result with half the effort!" Chen Hong said sinisterly after slapping Qianxu in the face.
"Godfather taught me that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. I will always keep my eyes on him. When he falls into the well, I will smash his head and make his brains bleed out!"
Qianxu crawled at Chen Hong's feet like a dog, gritting his teeth and speaking, his hatred for Zhu Ping'an was evident in his words.
"Get up." Chen Hong patted Qianxu on the head and nodded slowly, "Use your brain when doing things in the future."
"Yes, I will definitely keep my godfather's teachings in mind." He nodded modestly.
After Qianxu left, Chen Hong walked slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, his expression becoming more and more sinister. "Zhu Ping'an, Zhu Ping'an, we both come from humble backgrounds. We originally had the chance to join hands... Unfortunately, you are so ignorant of the current situation! You actually gave advice to that brat Feng Bao! You ruined our good fortune!"
Closing his eyes, Chen Hong’s thoughts couldn’t help but drift to the past.
That was when I was a child. My family lived in a village in Lingnan. The village was very poor, and my family was even poorer. We were famous in the village. As far as I can remember, I have never had a full stomach. I have worked very hard. Since I was old enough to understand, I have chopped wood and fetched water. From time to time, I would steal chickens and dogs in nearby villages and cheat people in town. Even if I was beaten and bleeding, I still insisted on working hard, but life became poorer and poorer. Until I was twenty years old, the situation of my family had not improved at all. It was still the poorest in the village. People of my age had already started families and careers, and they had three children. The older one could drink, but I was still a bachelor. I kowtowed and knelt to ask the matchmaker to help me get married, but the next day, the other party, who had found out the situation, came to my door and humiliated me and canceled the marriage on the spot. I became a laughing stock in the village.
Unwilling!
anger!
It is better to bully an old man with an old beard than to bully a young man who is poor. One day, a dragon will marry a phoenix. I don’t believe that you will have holes in your pants all your life!
I, Chen Hong, was born between heaven and earth. My life should not be like this! It cannot be like this! I want to climb up, I want to stand out! I want to be the best! I want to make those who laugh at me, humiliate me, and look down on me pay the price with blood! I want to take revenge on them, take revenge on them severely!
I want to be strong! I want to change my destiny!
After being rejected, I stayed at home for three days without eating, drinking or sleeping, thinking hard about how to rise up! The road to the imperial examination... ... is not feasible, because I can't read; the road to business... ... is also not feasible, because I don't have the capital; the road to joining the army... ... is also not feasible, because I have no martial arts and no connections. Besides, the northern barbarians are fierce and brutal, and the Japanese pirates are cruel. With my frail body, I can only become cannon fodder!
Among the 360 professions, is there no way for me, Chen Hong, to rise to prominence? !
The marriage has been called off, what use is there for me to have a second child! I might as well... Oh, yes, I can be castrated and enter the palace!
God bless everyone with a way out. Finally, I have thought of such a way to rise to prominence and success!
It's decided! I want to become a powerful eunuch like Sanbao Eunuch, and I want everyone in the world to look up to me!
However, it was not easy to enter the palace after being castrated. Upon inquiry, I found out that the imperial court had already stipulated that anyone who voluntarily castrated himself to become a eunuch must obtain approval from the government in advance. The condition for approval from the government was that if a family had more than four children and was willing to castrate one of them to enter the palace, they had to register as a candidate in advance. Only after being listed as a candidate could they be castrated by the officials and enter the palace. Anyone who castrated himself privately would be severely punished once discovered!
Fortunately, this law was not strictly enforced, and the government often turned a blind eye to self-castration.
However, castration is not easy, it is a professional craft. I asked around and found that only the "One Knife King" in Fucheng in Lingnan has the best skills, the highest success rate and survival rate, but the fee is also expensive, at least ten taels of silver, and other cheaper craftsmen at least seven taels of silver. But, let alone seven taels of silver, I don't even have one tael of silver!
No money! No money can't stop me from entering the palace! If I don't have money to castrate my body, then I will castrate myself.
It was an evening. I took a knife and resolutely went into the back mountain. That evening was bloody and extremely painful. That evening lasted for three days, and I woke up on the third night!
I am very excited that I succeeded!
I begged all the way to the capital! I didn't expect that entering the palace would be even more difficult. Without connections, I couldn't enter the palace at all. I begged and wandered in the capital for two years, and finally I was recommended by an old eunuch who sold night incense to enter the palace.
After entering the palace, she realized how naive her original thoughts were. There were too many eunuchs in the palace, like a swarm of fish crossing a river. The competition among the eunuchs was too fierce. It was extremely difficult to become a powerful eunuch!
After entering the palace, I rinsed chamber pots and commodes for ten years. Ten years, I was accompanied by chamber pots and commodes all day long!
Not only was he despised and looked down upon by officials in the outer court, he was also ostracized and despised by the eunuchs! What a disgrace for a twenty-something man to castrate himself and enter the palace, what a rough wound that was not presentable, what a stinking smell from emptying the chamber pot, what a poor, illiterate, lowly dog... ... The scorn and humiliation he suffered in the palace were too numerous to count. I don't know how many nights he cried silently in the dark, and then gritted his teeth and held on until dawn.
Don’t give up any opportunity!
Finally, ten years later, he became the head of the chamber pot. Five years later, he entered the Imperial Stables and became a middle-level officer there.
Three years ago, I got a chance to enter the inner school to learn to read. I didn't mind being laughed at by others, so I gave up my position as a middle-level supervisor of the Imperial Horse Administration and entered the school at the age of over 40, learning to read among a group of eunuchs in their teens.
A bunch of short-sighted idiots!
If you want to become a traitor, you must be in charge of the Imperial Household Department. To be in charge of the Imperial Household Department, you must enter the Office of the Secretaries. To enter the Office of the Secretaries, you must enter the Inner Book Hall! Entering the Inner Book Hall is not just about learning to read and write, but also about a background! A bloodline! The bloodline of a traitor. With this background and bloodline, the road to becoming a traitor will be twice as easy with half the effort.
Things went smoothly as he had thought. He successfully entered the Office of the Imperial Clerk from the Inner Study Hall, the Hanlin Academy of the Inner Court, the cradle of the eunuchs who held the seal of the Imperial Clerk. He calculated step by step, and was getting closer and closer to the Imperial Clerk. In the third year of the Office of the Imperial Clerk, he met Feng Bao, who was a potential threat and had to be eliminated. It happened that he got a message in advance, and there was a good opportunity to eliminate Feng Bao and use it as a stepping stone to enter the Imperial Clerk. So, he approached him as an elder and calculated him. When he was about to succeed, he never expected that Zhu Ping'an would intervene and give Feng Bao a good plan to turn the card. Not only did Feng Bao escape the inevitable death, but he also allowed Feng Bao to successfully gain a foothold in the harem. Not only did he become famous, but he also gained the favor and reliance of countless concubines, and also caught the eye of the emperor! He was given the impression that he was capable of great use!
Hateful, infuriating, and annoying!
Although he had opportunities later, when sorting out old abandoned documents and archives, he accidentally found the eunuch Sanbao's martial arts secret book - the Sunflower Manual, and proudly practiced kung fu, and risked his life to save the emperor's Dragon and Tiger General - the tabby fat cat from the burning cat house, and finally successfully became the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Stables!
However, every time I think of this, I can't help but grit my teeth in hatred towards Zhu Ping'an!
Although the eunuchs in charge of the Imperial Stables were also very powerful, how could they compare to the eunuchs in charge of the Imperial Household Department? The eunuchs in charge of the Imperial Household Department could manage the imperial factories and guards. This was the power to stomp the civil and military officials of the world. If they stomped their feet, the entire Ming Dynasty would tremble. This was the real power eunuch, second only to the emperor and above everyone else.
Zhu Ping'an disrupted Zajia's plan. If he had followed Zajia's plan, gotten rid of Feng Bao and entered the Silijian, he could have served as a high-level eunuch in the Silijian. After three to five years, it would not be difficult for him to become the Silijian's writing eunuch. After a few more years, becoming the Silijian's seal-holding eunuch would have been a piece of cake.
This is the real power supervisor!
Now that I am the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Stables, it will be difficult for me to become the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department!
It was all Zhu Ping'an's fault! He had ruined Zajia's chances and added an almost insurmountable stumbling block to Zajia's path to power and supervision!