Liu Ruoyu did not stay in the East Palace that night.

He returned to the doghouse with the one hundred taels of Neiku silver rewarded by the prince. His niece fell in front of him and kept slapping his mouth, which soon became swollen like a pig's head. The man squatted in a corner of the room, smoking cigarettes, feeling sorry for his wife, and not daring to offend his cousin's face.

Liu Ruoyu was wearing a python robe, and was regulated as if the eunuch of the fourth rank was given by the prince himself. There were two tall and strong firemen guarding the door. This was specially arranged by Wang Ping and other eunuchs who were afraid that Tian Cunshan would jump over the wall and were not good for Eunuch Liu. This situation was enough to scare the young people who had never seen the world and locked the doors and closed the windows.

"Get up." Liu Ruoyu finally raised his hand: "After all, you are my Liu family's wife, and our family doesn't care about you. You dare not to be vicious and bully the head of the family in the future. Don't blame our family for being cruel and forced to divorce."

"The bride dared not, I really realized that she was wrong this time!" The woman knelt on the ground, even her voice changed.

The reason why she was strong at home was that she had to suppress her husband was mainly because she felt guilty. I thought that after three years, she had no movement in her stomach. How could she not be rude? It was also thanks to the Liu family that was so poor that they could not afford to ask for their concubines, and they did not dare to divorce their wives. Otherwise, how could her mistress be so steadily!

The woman looked at the neatly tired pile of silver ingots on the table, and was like a drum beat in her heart. She never thought that she would be able to possess so much money one day.

It is accompanied by an incomparable fear.

Now the wood in the family has climbed up to a high branch. With this eunuch cousin, he might be adopted as a son one day. If he can't give birth to a son, how can he survive?

Liu Ruoyu looked at the silver on the table with his light, and felt reluctant to leave.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court strictly prohibited the use of silver for the people. The ban was not relaxed until the Hongzhi Dynasty. It was true that large-scale silver and money were used for the Wanli Dynasty. It was also because of the rise of Spain and a large amount of high-quality silver was transported from South America to purchase Chinese tea, porcelain and silk. Otherwise, China would not have enough precious metals to meet the increasingly developed commodity economy needs.

Even so, the real silver circulation is still not large. One hundred taels of silver is definitely an astronomical figure for ordinary people. You can spend fifty taels to buy a big house with two or three rooms in a prosperous area in Beijing. The remaining money can be used to buy a storefront shop and then hire a accountant. If you are ordinary daily necessities, you will have enough money to purchase goods.

It can be said that the Liu family can leap from the bottom of the poor to enter the middle class with this hundred taels of silver.

Liu Ruoyu is the best among eunuchs. He is neither greedy nor lustful, but he still feels a little painful after throwing out so much money.

However, it is not OK to not give it out, because there is no secret in the eunuch circle. Many people have already learned from Wang Ping that Liu Ruoyu’s previous hard life. If Liu Ruoyu doesn’t repay his cousin who took in his cousin, he will inevitably be said to be mean and merciless. Who will work hard for him in the future?

After all, a wealthy man has to do when buying bones. At least the meat is rotten in the pot, and the money is still the only one with the surname Liu.

Liu Ruoyu immediately advised the couple to take care of them to change to a better house and find a way to make a living by himself. At the moment, he is in a hidden residence and cannot be ostentatious, but it is possible to help him secretly and not be disturbed by the black and white.

Seeing that his cousin was timid and looked like a wooden look, Liu Ruoyu had no interest in sitting down and slowly walked out of the broken house. When he looked up, he saw that the sun had already sunset outside and a dark red glow was shining in the sky. The smoke of firewood and firewood was floating in the air. It was the man who was a coolie who had just made meals.

"Uncle," the man chased out of the room, "I'll order two dishes and have a drink with you?"

"Living a good life, no matter how you say you are a man, my Liu family is still pointing at you to continue the incense!" Liu Ruoyu refused his nephew's invitation without a trace. He could tell at a glance that this was the niece-in-law showing goodwill, and he didn't want the evil woman to be too at ease now.

"Let's go to Coal Mountain." Liu Ruoyu said to the two firemen waiting outside.

The hand towel and the fireman are the lowest eunuchs, and they don’t even have the power to speak, so naturally they will not have any objections.

Liu Ruoyu rolled over the horse, gently stretched the reins, and headed west to the Coal Mountain. The two firemen quickly trotted and tried to keep up with the horse's stance.

There are too many eunuchs in the Ming Palace, and any eunuch who has some conditions is willing to live outside the palace. This can not only improve the living environment, but also facilitate personal affairs so that people will not be stared at. The eunuchs with status live in Gongjian Hutong outside the Forbidden City, and those with slightly lower status mostly buy houses in the west of Coal Mountain.

Compared with Tian Cunshan, Liu Ruoyu's connections among old eunuchs were the greatest advantage. The eunuchs had the following leaders and eunuchs, including "Shaojian", "Supervisor", "Manager", "Manager", "Superior", "Superior", "Listen", "Admit", "Chang Sui", etc. The twenty-four yamen also have different differences in thickness, weight, wealth, and poverty, and the personnel dependents were also different. The eunuch society in the entire Forbidden City was no less than a small country. If you want to fully understand the rules and be at ease, only Liu Ruoyu, who had been immersed in the palace for decades.

And he is not an ordinary old man.

Liu Ruoyu was selected for castration at the age of 16. He was under the name of Eunuch Chen of Sili. He had a high starting point. Because he was born in an official family, he studied and read from a young age and was selected to study in Nei Shutang. After leaving Nei Shutang, he was equivalent to becoming a civil servant. Later, he was selected to be a civil servant, responsible for submitting memorials from the Transportation Administration and writing copywriting. He was a subordinate institution of the Sili Shutang. Later, because of his knowledge and knowledge, he was selected by Wei Zhongxian into the Nei Shutang, which was equivalent to a civil servant entering the Hanlin Academy.

If he had not been implicated in the case of rebellion, he would have been to join the Silijian. Even the eunuch in the Silijian would have been like a cabinet assistant in the outer court. Compared with Tian Cunshan and Liu Ruoyu, he was like a new Jinshi and a Minister of Rites. How could the difference be determined by Taoism?

That night, Liu Ruoyu became Wang Chengen's guest through his past relationship.

Among the old ministers in the fief residence, Wang Chengen was not the highest position, or even the most favored by Emperor Chongzhen. According to Liu Ruoyu's intention, with the tiger flag of the Prince of the East Palace, you can directly find the real inner minister, King Xin, to form an alliance. However, the prince's favor for Wang Chengen was beyond words, which made Liu Ruoyu dare not make any suggestions easily. Who knows what kind of trivial matters that King Xin had made the prince unhappy?

Furthermore, the matters that the prince’s explanations do not have to be sealed. As a big eunuch like Bingbi, Wang Chengen can do it very well as the eunuch in charge. However, the price of the two is very different. Perhaps this is also the side of the prince’s careful calculation.

The reason why Zhu Cilang chose Wang Chengen to form an alliance was that during the Jiashen Heavenly Changes, Wang Chengen was the only one who hanged Coal Mountain with Emperor Chongzhen.

Following this result, Liu Ruoyu found that Wang Chengen was indeed the best ally. First of all, the price for buying him was not high. Secondly, Wang Chengen was in his prime, and if he wanted to spend the post-Chongzhen era safely, he still needed the care of the prince.
Chapter completed!