Jin Ying, in the fifth year of Yongle, Zhang Fu's army, who had returned from the conquest of Annam, brought some castrated, intelligent and handsome boys to China and sent them to the palace, and Jin Ying was one of them, who was about thirteen or fourteen years old at the time. When he was about thirty years old, he was promoted to the right supervisor of ceremonies. After Renzong ascended the throne, the population and family wealth under the name of Zhang Ding, who was about to be confiscated by the army, including real estate and trees, and the population and land of his son-in-law Tian Gou'er, were rewarded to him.

Wang Zhen has always had a lot of ambitions, he even thought that one day, he could also step on a war horse, wear war armor, lead hundreds of thousands of troops, to the Han Zhiwei Qinghuo to go to the sick, divide the wolf and live in Xu, establish immortal feats, and be admired by 10,000 people, and to do this, you need the right in your hands, when your own rights are left and right, it is not so difficult to make meritorious achievements.

Anxious for this understanding, after being stabbed into the palace, he has been looking for opportunities, through guò continuous understanding, he understands, a eunuch wants to make meritorious contributions, get ahead, must find a strong backstage as a backer, Zheng He seven to the West, far Zhen Guowei, even the Manchu Dynasty civil and military generals can not do, in the final analysis, it is not because of the strong support of the Yongle Emperor, otherwise how to go to the West feat, for this he paid attention everywhere, and finally was discovered by him, a eunuch wants to grasp the power, there are still many ways, except for the emperorIn addition to the prince's trust, that is to master the celebrant and the celebrant.

This ceremonial supervisor was set up by Zhu Yuanzhang in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, and his authority was to take charge of court etiquette. By the time of the second comprehensive adjustment in the 28th year of Hongwu, the functions and powers of the celebrant were changed to take charge of the wedding and funeral ceremonies, reward pen, ink and calligraphy, and supervise the Guanglu Division to supply the palace banquet and other affairs.

Although the celebrant is still ranked after the inner supervisor, the newly added confidential work such as the investigation in front of the emperor and the horse card of the internal envoy has undoubtedly greatly improved its status.

In the Yongle period, most of the eunuchs were reused, and the authority of the celebrant was greatly improved.

And the reason why Wang Zhen took a fancy to the celebrant was because he heard a good news from Chen Wu.

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When Chen Wu drank too much at one time, he said that he leaked his mouth, saying that the current saint was not enough to deal with state affairs because of his weak body, so he asked people to submit the documents of civil and military officials to the celebrant for classification, and then selected them to be submitted to the emperor for personal approval, but what he didn't expect was that the emperor actually asked the eunuch next to him to "approve the red" on his behalf, and sent it back to the cabinet and various ministries to write a formal edict for implementation according to the approval of red. It is said that for some reason, this matter was known to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, which caused a lot of commotion, and finally the emperor had to change the eunuch next to him.

This news may sound like an interesting thing to others, but Wang Zhen, who is literate and hyphenated and familiar with history books, knows what it means, that is, power, once the eunuch has this power, the left and right civil and military officials will not be a problem, so his eyes are locked on the eunuch who is the emperor's side.

With such a goal, Wang Zhen began to act, he learned that the current prince, although he is the lord of benevolence, but also the prince who likes to have fun, not only likes the art of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also likes to fight crickets, so he began to learn the four treasures of the study, and even the fighting crickets have dabbled, in order to climb this backer.

It's a pity that although Zhu Zhanji is quite appreciative of his literacy and hyphenation, and can appreciate calligraphy, painting and calligraphy, but that's all, on the contrary, he has great trust in Chen Wu and Jin Ying, how can this not make him jealous, especially this Jin Ying, not only is he a big official, he is trusted by the prince, but even today's saints also trust him, and the scenery is unparalleled for a while.

Although Wang Zhen was dissatisfied, he didn't dare to come out, he just glanced at it hurriedly, then lowered his head, and didn't dare to look more.

At this time, the black-headed general in the jar was teased by Zhu Zhanji a few times, and he was not moved, but Wang Zhen's coffin cricket became more and more powerful, and the continuous biting of the black-headed general made Zhu Zhanji very annoyed. "Your Highness, can you try the tentacles of the black-headed general?" Jin Ying said in a low voice.

Zhu Zhanji had great trust in the eunuch who accompanied the emperor's grandfather and his father, and listened to what he said, and really used a small stick to tease the tentacles of the black-headed general, but unfortunately, the black-headed general was unmoved.

This time, Wang Zhen was a little funny, and quickly glanced at Jin Ying, looking gloating.

Jin Ying was not impatient, and continued: "Your Highness can you tease a few more times?"

Zhu Zhanji actually has this intention, he knows better than anyone else about his black-headed general's temperament, pushing and not moving, dragging and not leaving, but once he moves, it is also very fierce, and he can often turn defeat into victory, so he listened to Jin Ying's words and continued to tease, so this teased several times, the black-headed general finally gave some face and reacted, first raised his head and looked at Zhu Zhanji, and then pounced on the coffin cricket, so they fought with each other, raised their feet, wrestled with each other, and flapped their wings and called.

After all, the black-headed general was extraordinary, and after a short time, he reversed the situation and made Zhu Zhanji on the side call more than good.

And Wang Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his expression relaxed a lot, glanced at Zhu Zhanji, and pretended to call.

The two crickets fought like this for a while, and the black-headed general suddenly jumped away, opened his tail, erected his beard, yelled at the coffin cricket a few times, opened his bloody mouth, pounced again, and bit the neck of the coffin cricket, and did not let go.

Zhu Zhanji's face was excited, and he kept shouting, and the little eunuch on the side, Gong E, also echoed loudly, and the study was very lively for a while.

After a while, although the coffin-headed cricket was powerful, it was not inferior to Zhu Zhanji's black-headed general after all, lying motionless on the ground, while the black-headed general raised his head and flapped his wings and chirped proudly, as if to report the success of the master, which made Zhu Zhanji laugh more than once.

Wang Zhen was also very happy, it was not an easy thing to make the prince happy, although he didn't expect to make Zhu Zhanji look at him differently once or twice, but if there were too many times, it might be a good idea.

Zhu Zhanji ordered someone to put the black-headed general away, wiped his hands, took a sip of ginseng tea, and was about to practice his daily calligraphy, when Jin Yinghu stepped forward and called softly: "Your Highness——?"

Jin Ying has followed Zhu Zhanji for many years, except for his personal eunuch Chen Wu, no one can compare to him, Zhu Zhanji saw him like this, and he knew that something was wrong.

"En" sounded, waved his hand to the left and right, and everyone retreated in a conscious way.

"What happened?" Zhu Zhanji put down the pen he had just grabbed and asked softly.

Jin Ying reached into his arms, took out a letter from his arms, and said, "Your Highness, this is a letter sent by Chen Fu, the prefect of Hangzhou, and asked the servant to transfer it to His Highness?"

As soon as I heard the letter from the prefect of Hangzhou, I didn't know what a big thing happened in Hangzhou, and I sent someone to send the letter, I was puzzled, I took the letter, hurriedly opened the seal, only glanced at two lines, my body trembled slightly, and then scolded: "Maitreya taught such a big courage to dare to kill people in the Jiangnan Canal and obstruct the major affairs of the imperial court, is it unreasonable!"

Jin Ying didn't know what was going on, but when she heard Zhu Zhanji scolding, she couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Zhu Zhanji was so angry that he still kept scolding, and he said after a while: "The Maitreya Sect killed 300 migrant workers cleaning up the Jiangnan Canal, and also attacked the Hangzhou prefect's government at night?"

When Jin Ying heard this, he was killed again, and he attacked the yamen of the prefect of Hangzhou at night, and he was taken aback, and said: "This, this Maitreya religion is so rampant, what should I do?"

Zhu Zhanji raised his eyebrows, snorted, and said: "The Maitreya Sect does not take the imperial court in its eyes, and dares to openly kill people and obstruct the dredging of the Jiangnan Canal, how can Lone spare them?" After a pause, he said: "Pass the order, let Jinyiwei and Yang Shiqi come to see Lone, and Lone has important matters to discuss!"

Seeing that things were strict, Jin Ying didn't dare to say anything, so she answered and hurriedly went.

Not long after, the commanders of the Jinyi Guard, Saihazhi and Yang Shiqi, as well as the chief officers of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites, received an urgent report and hurried into the palace. The imperial court is about to move the capital, and the Maitreya sect openly kills people and obstructs the dredging of the Jiangnan Canal, which is a blatant opposition to the imperial court.

After everyone sat down, they saw Zhu Zhanji's brows tightly locked, as if he was thinking about something, and no one dared to speak.

After about a cup of tea, Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth and said: "The Maitreya Sect openly kills people in the canal, obstructs and dredges the canal, and does not take the imperial court seriously.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was taken aback, but Yang Shiqi nodded with his long beard: "This prince has a bit of the demeanor of the ancestor back then!"

"By no means, the Maitreya Sect is mostly vicious, how can His Highness be in danger with his golden body?" said Hu Hui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly. "Hu Aiqing said the difference, when the emperor's grandfather sent troops to Mongolia five times, that time was not personal, as a royal descendant, how can he blindly hide in the palace, and dare not go out, Maitreya is fierce, can it be compared to the Mongolian Tartars, I followed the emperor's grandfather to sneak into Mongolia several times, I was never afraid, is it a mere Maitreya to be afraid?"

Hu Hu was stunned for a moment, and forgot about this prince for a while, but he followed Emperor Chengzu to send troops to Mongolia several times, and led soldiers and horses deep into the depths of Mongolia, the courage is not comparable to ordinary people, although Maitreya is powerful, it is indeed not enough to compete with Mongolia, but at this time and that time, the prince of a dignified country, just because Maitreya obstructed the canal and killed innocent people, he disregarded his personal safety, and rushed to Hangzhou in person, which is somewhat hasty in Hu Hui's opinion?"