After a day, the water tank in the patio began to freeze.

But for Mr. Zhao who is 'bed in bed', it is a good thing to be cold. Xishan Coal Industry can sell more coal lotus roots. The longer the cold winter, the higher the stock price will rise.

At this time, he was wearing a nightgown with a hidden blue lake silk, lying on his back on the warm kang. In the red velvet box, the red velvet base liner was neatly placed with razors, combs and grates, small scissors, ear-digging spoons, and many more, and a dozen exquisite trimming tools.

Sister Ma is cutting his hair.

Later generations took it for granted that because the body and hair should not be damaged by their parents, people before the Qing Dynasty did not get a haircut and just tied up their long and beautiful black hair. But if you ask the girls around you, how uncomfortable is it to have thick and dense hair?

And do you know how difficult it is to do with long hair? In this era, medical conditions were too poor, and people might die if they caught a cold, so before the hair dryer was invented, poor families rarely shampooed their hair. If they didn’t get their hair cut, their heads wouldn’t become lice nests? How could people stand it?

So don’t think too rigidly about the ancients. People always cut hair, but there is a cover-up saying, “clean hair”. People who pay attention to it need to trim it once a few months. After watching the days, ask Master Jinghai to come and trim the hair. The most common hairstyle is to trim the back of the temples, thin the hair, and cut it short to the point where you can just hold the bun.

Because adult men tie all their hair into a bun in a uniform manner, and no strands can be dispersed. If the amount of hair is too much, it is really impossible to tie it so smoothly. In fact, hair tie is also a hairstyle that must be constantly trimmed to keep it neat.

Of course, as a solution, the cut hair must be collected and cannot be thrown away. The trimmed nails will also be preserved. After death, they will be taken into the coffin and will be considered as the body and skin, which will be caused by the parents and dare not damage.

The Ming Dynasty also has a special hair cleaning club, which provides haircuts and facial cleansing services for the people, and can also clean their ears, nose hair, eyes, head, neck and shoulder massage, and even hair dyeing... And like in the future, hair dyeing income is the most abundant, because women and officials are loyal users of this service.

As an invincible secretary who can warm the bed all day, Sister Ma has been taking care of Mr. Zhao’s hair cleaning for years. She is skillful and skillful, and has become a pleasure to cut hair.

At this time, Zhao Hao's hair had been trimmed. He always asked Sister Ma to cut her hair to the shortest, as long as she could hold the bun. He even considered wearing a wig, but that thing could cover the prickly heat when pressed on the top of his head, which was not as good as his own hair. Mr. Zhao had no choice but to keep her medium-length hair.

Sister Ma put down the scraper and carefully put the cut hair into a special jade box.

At this moment, Qiaoqiao sister brought warm water with a copper basin, placed it on the short skeleton under the edge of the kang, and began to wash and massage Zhao Hao's hair. Not to mention, Qiaoqiao's hands that knead dough were more powerful than Sister Ma, and it was so powerful that it felt so good and painful!

After a long time of silence, Mr. Zhao's hair was washed and he entered the next step, which was the most troublesome stage of drying hair. When he moved into Caijia Lane, Zhao Hao just shook it and wiped it directly with a cloth, but it was too slow and it was difficult to dry it.

Now the sisters will first use their hands to wrung out the moisture in his hair as much as possible, then absorb water with a cotton cloth, then spread his hair and wipe it dry with special suede strands. The heating in the house will dry it to ensure that his hair will not catch a cold.

Then it takes a long time to comb your hair, and it takes less than an hour to put it all together. Only rich people can afford it.

Even if he didn't have to do it, Zhao Hao thought it was troublesome, so he only washed himself a day in summer. When winter came, he changed to wash his hair every three days.

Mr. Zhao sat in the mirror, Qiao Qiao stood behind him to comb his hair, while Secretary Ma began to report to him about the movements of yesterday in the capital.

"Cao Daye's bullet stamp was returned by the cabinet on the grounds that the procedure was illegal. Taking advantage of this, Zhang Siwei's memorial to apologize to the cabinet first, saying that the content of the letter mentioned the pledge was a rumor he heard from his servant, and he did not know whether it was true or false. He used to tell his uncle and asked him to tell him by himself."

"Haha." Zhao Hao couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's really my temper. It's not my fault if I live or die."

"The bigger the person, the less willing he is to admit his mistakes, of course, the exception is the young master." Secretary Ma smiled.

"That means I'm not big enough." Zhao Hao smiled evilly and said, "It's still necessary to continue growing."

Secretary Ma pretended not to understand and then reported: "In addition, Eunuch Chen, the chief minister of the Sili, also apologized to the emperor earlier, admitting that he was not strict in his ruling power, and asked the eunuch to reveal his decree in advance."

"How does Your Majesty react?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Of course I chose to forgive him, but he still firmly wanted to leave the Silijian and hoped to stay in the Zhongdu Department." Ma Xianglan replied: "Your Majesty was deeply moved, so he agreed to him and gave him a heavy reward."

"Our Majesty is so kind." Mr. Zhao sighed and asked, "Have you decided to be the next eunuch of Sili?"

"It has not been decided yet, but the rumors in the palace are all Eunuch Feng." Sister Ma said.

"I'll look at it." Zhao Hao shook his head and said, "Feng Bao is too impatient. He shouldn't have searched the palace immediately. This way, even if he cuts the mess quickly and drives Chen Hong out of the palace. But the question is, will it be him who will go after Chen Hong left? I don't think so."

"Young Master means..." Secretary Ma's supporting role is naturally first-class. As an excellent secretary, no matter whether it is a topic that interests you or not, as long as the boss is interested, he will be very interested and has a desire to learn to satisfy his boss's desire to perform.

"His movements are too fast, which will make Gao Ge Lao suspicious - even if he had been waiting for this day, it took less than half a day to complete the entire process of getting news from Yue... Zhang Ge Lao, to persuading the Empress to search the palace, and even arresting everyone, the pace is really too fast." Zhao Hao sighed:

"It will even involve Mr. Zhang, making Mr. Gao suspicious. Could this be a trap for them to collude with them?"

"It's very likely." Secretary Ma nodded with consent. After all, the idea was made by Zhang Juzheng, and Feng Bao handled it. In the end, the scapegoat was Gao Gong's two major helps inside and outside. It would be strange if Gao Gong didn't doubt it.

"Why don't the young master remind Eunuch Feng to take action again and again?" she asked softly.

"I don't know the situation in the palace and can't make judgments for others. Maybe the opportunity is fleeting, and it may be possible to pass this village without this store. Sometimes there is no way to take the two powers to the least." Zhao Hao said lightly: "Besides, it seems too smart, and there is no benefit at all. Especially, I'm not really smart."

"Young Master is joking, how can there be someone smarter than you?" Sister Ma offered admiration at the right time: "You can disrupt the cabinet with just one hand, and the people who are the magistrates of the Si Li."

"Just making a cheat is nothing to be a skill." Zhao Hao said the truth.

But when these words fell into the ears of the two sisters, the young master was so modest... but he thought he was really powerful.

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The direction of the next thing was not unlikely to go against Zhao Hao's expectations.

Under Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng's powerful control, this serious leak incident was voluntarily impeached by Zhang Siwei and Chen Hong. The former resigned and returned to his hometown, while the latter changed to office as eunuchs in the Zhongdu, and raised high and gently put them down.

Although Zhao Zhenji and a group of censors questioned that the two of them took the initiative to self-destruct, they were covering up the higher-level figures, but they could no longer cause any waves.

Because the resignation of a promising leader of the Jin Party and a eunuch of the Sili family was enough to satisfy the psychological expectations of the court to punish the "negative" of the court - this is also the reason why one should surrender first. If the Censorate is formally ordered to investigate, it will be afraid that it will not be as simple as "negative".

No one followed him to make a fuss, and the voices of Zhao Zhenji and others became murmurs that had nothing to do with the overall situation.

In the end, this storm only delayed the second court discussion to the first day of the winter moon.

This also forced Zhao Hao's "sickness" to last another half month. However, the advantage of this is that he can have more time to complete the task of his father-in-law - helping Gaoge get four support tickets.

In fact, during the court meeting, there were four officials in Jiangnan who abstained from the vote. Zhao Hao could convince them to change their positions. But considering that this would make Jiangnan too monolithic, which would aggravate the suspicion of the old man.

So Zhao Hao decided to convince the Beijing nobles with great fanfare. Because everyone knows that the boss of the nobles is the emperor, they will never be loyal to the second person. So Mr. Zhao's vote for them can only mean that he is a good lobbyist, and he will not be considered as his person...

Alas, in this Beijing city, under the tall bearded eyes, I have to be careful every step, it’s unhappy, it’s unhappy!

In the end, Zhao Hao won two votes from Duke Ding and Duke Cheng through the two directors of Xishan Group, Xu Wenbi and Zhu Shimao.

As for the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Xishan Group, British Duke Zhang Rong is actually very willing to rebel. After all, the young master gave too much. Unfortunately, he had taken the lead and opposed Feng Gong before, and jumped up and down too hard. If he turned against the water, he would be scolded to death.

Although the British Duke didn't care, Xishan Group had to worry about its image. In the end, the son-in-law Xu Congcheng and the newly-jian Bo Wang Zhengyi got the advantage...

After learning that Zhao Hao had spent a huge amount of money and finally got the four vital votes, Zhang Juzheng finally informed Gao Gong with confidence that he would not have to delay any more and he could discuss it again.

Finally, in the second court meeting on the first day of the winter lunar month, forty-five voting ministers finally voted twenty votes in favor, twenty votes against, and five abstentions.

According to the rules, the two sides were in stalemate and should ask for a ruling, and the emperor decided who to listen to or discuss it again. Of course, he chose to listen to Master Gao, so according to Gao Gong's intention, he approved Wang Chonggu's peace proposal, issued an order to appoint Altan as King Shunyi, and allowed to trade with his troops. Since then, there has been no war with the right-wing Mongolia, which has basically eliminated the long-term threat from Mongolia!
Chapter completed!