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

Chapter 58 Lin Shisan, help me steal Sun Wukong (seeking follow-up reading)

On the eve of the 34th year of the Jiajing reign, the Lin family happily ate dumplings and set off firecrackers. The entire capital was enveloped in the sound of festive firecrackers, and red confetti and flying snowflakes complemented each other.

Lin Shisan played dominoes with his father and wife amid the sound of firecrackers and lost five taels and three cents of silver.

Before he knew it, Wang Xiaochuan was riding his family's yellow dog and having fun in the snow in the yard.

If a child rides on a dog, his pants will get torn. How could this be tolerated? Needless to say, he was beaten again.

At 5 p.m., Lin Shisan was about to go back to his room with his wife to sleep when his fat apprentice Sun Yue came in in a hurry.

Sun Yue bowed his head and said, "I, the disciple, wish you a happy new year to the master, the mistress, and the master."

Lin Shisan said with a smile, "Who would come to pay New Year's greetings in the middle of the night? Get up quickly, it's cold in the snow. Be careful not to freeze your balls. Your tigress will have to punish you."

Biyun rolled her eyes at Lin Shisan and said, "You are so frivolous, and you are still a master."

Sun Yue stood up and said, "Master, I came here to pay my respects to you and to pass on a message for our Captain Chang. Captain Chang asked you to come to his house, saying that he has an important errand for you to do."

Biyun was a little confused: "Didn't the elephant training center take a year-end holiday yesterday? Why are there errands again?"

The elephant training center is different from other departments within the Embroidered Uniform Guard in that it has very long vacations.

One hundred and sixty-nine years ago, the Ming Dynasty was founded. Emperor Taizu was a diligent emperor who believed that all officials should be as diligent as he was. Therefore, he made a rule that the capital and local government offices only had three days off a year. They were New Year's Day, Winter Solstice, and the emperor's birthday.

After Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne, in order to show his favor to his subjects, he extended the New Year's Day holiday to five days, the Winter Solstice holiday to three days, and the Lantern Festival holiday to ten days. Together with the Emperor's birthday, the total holiday was nineteen days.

After Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he added ten days of holiday for Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival. He also granted many days of holiday. For example, he granted the idle government offices in and outside Beijing a New Year's Day holiday on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month.

The Nanjing Garrison, the Yamen, and the Elephant Training Center in the Jinyiwei are all idle Yamen. They started their holiday yesterday.

Let's get back to the topic. Lin Shisan and Sun Yue came to the residence of their immediate superior Chang Qingyun in North City.

This mansion far exceeds the regulations for a fifth-grade thousand households.

The gate pillars of the regular government offices were one square and one round. There were no more than five official residences with one square and one round gate pillars in Beijing.

There are thirteen curly bumps on the lion's head, which is in accordance with the first-class regulations.

This was originally the residence of Marquis Jin'an, and was passed down from Chang Qingyun's grandfather. Because his grandfather submitted a memorial before his death and passed the title to a nephew, it was changed from a Marquis's residence to a Qianhu's residence.

When other families celebrate the Little New Year, they decorate their houses with lights and colors inside and outside.

The Chang Mansion was hung with plain white silk and satin.

The servant of the Chang family led Master Lin Shisan and his apprentice into the mansion, explaining as they walked: "Today is the anniversary of our old master's death."

The three of them came to the main hall of the mansion, and saw Chang Qingyun kneeling in front of a tablet.

The tablet was inscribed with "Marquis of Jin'an of the Ming Dynasty, Pillar of the State, Grand Master of Imperial Households, Prince's Guardian, Left Governor, Minister of Military Affairs, Military Commander of the Beijing Camp, Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, a second-class Jinshi, and a regular position."

There are so many titles of nobility, honors, bestowed titles, and official titles that even the huge tablet cannot hold them all.

Just by looking at the tablet, you can tell how prominent Chang Qingyun's grandfather was during his lifetime.

Lin Shisan and his apprentice knelt down: "Captain Chang."

Chang Qingyun stood up from the mat: "Oh, you are here. Sit down and wait for a while, someone will come to tell you about the task."

After a while, an important figure came to the main hall of Qianhu Mansion.

The servants of the Chang family spread the message: "The Chief Pen of the Imperial Household Department, the Seal of the Imperial Horse Department, and the Manager of the Yongshou Palace, Eunuch Huang Jinhuang, is here to pay his respects!"

This eunuch Huang was a well-known "little Maitreya" in the palace. He was in his forties, white and plump, and had a kind heart. Unlike the other cunning people in the palace, he was upright in his conduct and words.

Emperor Jiajing once described him in two words: "stupid and straightforward." Sometimes he even acted in a childish way.

It was precisely because of his kindness and honesty that Emperor Jiajing favored him and made him the second in command among tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace, and he was also in charge of the military power of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Huang Jin entered the hall and knelt down in front of the tablet of Lord Chang without saying a word. He kowtowed and burned incense.

After paying respects to the old marquis, Huang Jin turned to Chang Qingyun and said, "Brother Chang. Eunuch Lu is on duty beside the emperor tonight and cannot come to pay respects to the old marquis. He asked me to do it on his behalf. Please don't be offended."

Lin Shisan was extremely surprised: the head of the Imperial Household Department actually called a Jinyi Qianhu "Big Brother"? No wonder the comrades in the Elephant Training Institute privately discussed that Qianhu Chang had a deep background in the court.

Chang Qingyun said: "It's hard for you to come to my house every year to pay tribute to my grandfather on the New Year's Eve."

Huang Jin said, "If it weren't for the old Marquis Chang who sent me, Eunuch Mai Fu and Eunuch Lu Fang to the Anlu Xing Palace, how could we be where we are today? Alas, before Eunuch Mai passed away, he told me to come here every year to pay tribute to the old Marquis."

Chang Qingyun greeted Huang Jin: "How are you feeling lately?"

Huang Jin replied: "It's still the same. I need to drink four liters of water a day. Diabetes is a long-term disease. It won't get better, and it won't kill me in a short time."

Chang Qingyun pointed at Lin Shisan and his apprentice: "This is the person you asked me to find for you."

Master and disciple Lin Shisan kowtowed and said in unison: "This subordinate greets Eunuch Huang."

Huang Jin said: "You are Lin Shisan? It was you who found the Ye Wulong in Gao Gonggong's house this autumn?"

Lin Shisan replied: "It is me."

Huang Jin sat on the chair: "You are good at seeking favors. Let me ask you, how about stealing favors? Is it possible?"

Lin Shisan was stunned: "Stealing favor?"

Huang Jin nodded: "Yes. I think searching and stealing are actually the same thing. If you can search, you can steal."

What could Lin Shisan say? In front of the second-in-command of the Imperial Household Department, he could only nod and say yes.

After a moment, Lin Shisan asked tentatively, "I wonder what kind of pet did Eunuch Huang ask me to steal? Whose pet did I steal?"

Huang Jin laughed and said, "Stealing is stealing. It's not elegant to say stealing! I'll let you steal a monkey! His name is Sun Wukong!"

Lin Shisan was stunned: "Sun Wukong? But the Sun Wukong in Journey to the West?"

The Jiajing Dynasty was actually a culturally open, tolerant and prosperous dynasty, but it was portrayed as a dark dynasty by the Ming Dynasty officials who wrote history books and the Qing Dynasty historians who wrote later history books.

The book "Journey to the West", which implicitly satirizes Emperor Jiajing's obsession with Taoism, has been published publicly in recent years and has become popular in the Ming Dynasty. Even "Water Margin", which was listed as a banned book by Emperor Taizu, can be semi-publicly distributed.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" reached an unprecedented height of cultural output and was used as a military textbook by village and township-level feudal lords in Japan.

Huang Jin nodded: "That's it!"

Lin Shisan was puzzled: "That's the divine monkey in the book. I have nowhere to steal it."

Huang Jin said: "The divine monkey in the book has come to Beijing in the past few days!"

If history were a two-dimensional animation, Lin Shisan would have a lot of vertical black bars on his face at this moment. He wondered in his heart: Did Eunuch Huang drink too much?

Huang Jin saw through Lin Shisan's confusion: "There is an old student named Wu Chengen in the Imperial College of Nanjing. After completing his studies, he was selected as a tribute student and went to the Ministry of Personnel in Beijing to wait for the 'big selection' in the spring of next year. He raised a monkey named Sun Wukong."

Lin Shisan was stunned again: "Wu Cheng'en? May I ask, Eunuch Huang, is it the Mr. Wu who wrote Journey to the West?"

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