Grandpa Qian quickly suppressed the urge to yawn. He managed to suppress the yawn, but tears still welled up in his eyes, making him look incredibly pitiful!
"Little Pearl, do you think Grandpa Qian didn't sleep well last night? He was so sleepy his eyes were watering!"
Qian Gui: Why are these two ancestors bringing him up again? Last time, His Majesty even granted him a day off because of this.
If he comes again this time, will His Majesty think he's too old and useless? He's only thirty-five years old this year, strong and healthy, and can serve His Majesty for many more years to come!
Old Qian probably didn't sleep well because he was so happy his nephew came to visit.
"His nephew has arrived in the capital? This place isn't close to Eunuch Qian's hometown. Is he here to deliver New Year's gifts to Eunuch Qian during the Lunar New Year?"
【Sending New Year's gifts? Master, they're already being kind by asking Eunuch Qian for less money each year, let alone sending him New Year's gifts!】
"Ah... does Grandpa Qian's family still depend on him for support?"
"That's right! Look at Eunuch Qian, serving the emperor, he must have had a good salary. After all these years, guess how much silver he has in his pocket now?"
Yue Fuguang knew the system was asking this because the amount of silver couldn't be much, but as a grown man, he must have at least a few hundred thousand taels of silver, so he guessed, "Ten thousand taels of silver?"
Less than a thousand taels!
"Ah... so little? He's been in the palace for quite a few years now, how come he hasn't saved any money?"
Emperor Mingxi was also surprised, as Eunuch Qian had served him since he was a child, rising from a junior eunuch to the current senior eunuch.
He served these people with great care and loyalty. Not to mention their monthly allowances, the rewards he received from the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and the ladies of the palace must have amounted to at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Moreover, his chief eunuch and other discerning ministers would surely have showered him with gifts, so how come he couldn't even come up with a thousand taels?
So you see, the emperor was poor, and his personal eunuch wasn't wealthy either; they were truly a poor master and a poor servant!
The impoverished Emperor Mingxi: I'll let you say it one more time, but I'll soon become rich. Those corrupt officials have all been arrested, and the silver mine has been located. As for the gold mine... we'll find it!
His national treasury and private treasury will soon be filled with flowing silver!
Poor servant Qian Gui: It was this servant who implicated His Majesty and was then used as a target of ridicule by the divine artifact.
As for the silver... my nephew's visit this time means we'll soon lose even the less than a thousand taels of silver!
"Where did Eunuch Qian spend all his money? There probably isn't any eunuch in the palace who's poorer than him!"
"That's right. The eunuchs Fu and Wei, who serve the Empress and Empress Dowager, are richer than Old Qian by even a hair on their head."
He didn't spend his money on himself; he was poor because his so-called relatives from his hometown took it all.
"I didn't realize that Eunuch Qian was supporting a whole family of vampires?"
The emperor and his ministers didn't know what a vampire was, but they could guess from the context.
They never expected that Qian Gonggong, the emperor's favorite eunuch, was such a loyal and affectionate person to his family.
That family is nothing but vampires! It's just a pity for Old Qian; all that money he spent has turned into a pack of hungry wolves.
They ate his food and drank his water, and in the end, they almost got him killed!
"You mean Eunuch Qian's family will harm him? Little Pearl, tell me more. Eunuch Qian prepares food and drinks for me every day and he's very good to me. Let's see if we can help him."
Qian Guixian's heart sank when he heard what the Divine Artifact said. He did not doubt the truth of the words; the Divine Artifact had never been wrong.
To his horror, the family members he had treated with the utmost sincerity and love would actually betray him!
This was somewhat unacceptable to Qian Gui, who valued family ties extremely highly.
Hearing Xiao Xianjun's words again, he felt a warmth in his heart. The person he had treated like family for many years wanted to harm him. He had only been following orders to take care of Xiao Xianjun, whom he had only known for a short time, but because of this care, Xiao Xianjun wanted to save him!
[Master, the destruction of the Great Yan Empire was not simply due to a foreign invasion.]
Yue Fuguang had already learned to answer quickly. She said, "I know, it's also because of internal problems, such as economic factors, like land annexation issues."
Political factors, such as an incompetent monarch and factional strife;
Social factors, such as natural disasters at the end of a dynasty and military weakness, also played a role.
But what does all this have to do with Qian Gonggong's relatives wanting to harm him? Could they possibly influence the fate of the Dayan Kingdom?
Qian Gui's forehead veins throbbed as he listened. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, and regardless of whether it was true or not, he would have already knelt down and begged the emperor for forgiveness.
Emperor Mingxi and his court officials listened intently, knowing that the Dayan dynasty had been destroyed by the combined forces of the surrounding armies.
They also knew that the decline of the nation and the opportunities for foreign tribes to take advantage of it were inseparable from the major problems that had arisen within their own borders, one of which was the land issue.
The loss of 70% of the elite troops can be considered as one factor, and the continuous peasant uprisings in the later period can be considered together with the land issue.
The emperor who succeeded them after their death was incompetent. They... they were busy fighting for power and profit, and what else was there?
The Dayan Dynasty is now like a person who is seriously ill and waiting to die. They urgently need to find all the root causes of the disease and treat them one by one.
There is indeed a connection. Before answering this question, let me ask the owner a question first.
What do you think will happen to the Xie family if the Dayan Kingdom is destroyed?
Upon hearing this, the second, third, fifth, and sixth princes immediately pricked up their ears, listening nervously to what their fate would be. A chill ran down their spines, and they had a feeling that things were not going to be good.
As for Crown Prince Xie Zhiyan, sorry, he died young and never suffered that hardship!
After thinking for a moment, Yue Fuguang said, "For the royal family, the loss of the country means the loss of their family. Their status has fallen from the clouds to the mortal world, or even to hell."
All they could do was gather a group of people under the banner of restoring the country and make a last-ditch effort, or be killed or kept captive by the new successor.
If all else fails, they will run away, change their identity, change their name, forge their household registration, and flee to a new area far from the political center.
They kept a low profile and lived a quiet life, never mentioning their origins, burying their family secrets deep in their hearts, passing them down orally from generation to generation, or simply forgetting them completely.
To reiterate, what does this have to do with Grandpa Qian and the Qian family?
"Master, what you've described, the royal family of the previous dynasty also did. Many members of the Tong family from the previous dynasty still live in Dayan."
Moreover, some of them have not forgotten their former royal status and hope to one day restore their kingdom.
Can you guess what the Qian family's original surname was?
"Tong? A member of the former royal family? Eunuch Qian?"
Grandpa Qian stared wide-eyed in disbelief. He, Qian Gui, was a descendant of the former imperial family.
His family was so poor that they fled to the south. Later, they couldn't afford to raise him, so they sent him to the palace. What royal family could be so poor? His parents?
If his family were truly the former royal family, even if they were genuinely poor, they wouldn't send their children into the palace to serve the successor who overthrew their dynasty, would they?
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