The expansion of the number of eunuch yamen and the improvement of rank exposed the potential consciousness of the Ming Taizu to try to strengthen the status of the inner court through guò to achieve mutual checks and balances between the inner and outer courts, and laid the foundation for the development of the Ming Dynasty's political system towards a dual-track system in the future. The abolition of the exclusive status of the internal officials and supervisors and the equality of the eleven eunuchs also reflects the implementation of the overall design idea of the Ming Taizu in the inner court system of "fighting each other and not daring to press each other", and also makes the mutual checks and balances between the internal officials and eunuchs, the celebrant supervisors, and the imperial horse eunuchs after Yongle have a legal basis.

Throughout the Hongwu Dynasty, the duties of the imperial horse supervisor were also expanded from "holding the horses in the imperial stables" to "taking charge of the horses and the affairs of the tribute and the collection of horses and mules by the shepherds", and then derived from the two major functions of military and finance.

Since the Imperial Horse Supervisor is in charge of the Imperial Horse, there are naturally horse breeders and horse trainers, and thus a forbidden army led by the Imperial Horse Supervisor - Tengxiang Four Guards and Four Guards and Warrior Battalion. In October of the tenth year of Hongzhi, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, reviewed the setting of the forbidden army in the Ming Dynasty in a note, which mentioned the forbidden army under the command of the Imperial Horse Prison: I Tai Zu Gao Emperor has the world, the law is ancient, and the law of the army is extremely thorough. Therefore, the command of the Sixteen Guards pro-army is not subordinate to the five prefectures, and it is a forbidden army. …… In Yongle, the pro-army command envoy 12 guards were reinstated. He also selected the officers and soldiers of the World Guard Station who were young and strong and walked back to the men, and accepted them as warriors, often thousands, all of whom belonged to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and were more upright, and entrusted to the inner and outer officials of the confidants, whose armor and equipment were different from other armies, and since then the Imperial Horse Supervisor has been under the jurisdiction of the horse breeders and then the command of the forbidden soldiers began in Yongle; The original source of this forbidden army was the elite men selected from the local guards, as well as young men who had fled from the Mongolian region; This forbidden army does not belong to the upper twelve guards (later the twenty-two guards) under the jurisdiction of the pro-army command envoy, but its status is obviously higher than that of the upper twelve guards, and it is the forbidden soldier among the forbidden soldiers; The duty of this forbidden army is to "go up and down" and serve as a guard. The position is not important, if these are not counted, these days, after he and Yang Rong, Yang Pu and others are proficient, when they are fine, they always come to the cabinet to see, help clean and clean, and even sometimes, he simply tells some jokes with these ministers, he is literate, and he also recited a lot of books in the early years, mixing three religions and nine streams, among which there are a lot of good jokes, one and two, Yang Rong and others feel that this new eunuch is indeed good, well-behaved, director, rare and good writing, and talking is also funny, Even Yang Pu, who has always been extremely disgusted with eunuchs, also feels that this eunuch is a little different compared to other eunuchs, and has a little more affection for him, which is where Wang Zhen feels comfortable these days.

He is extremely clever, the family recited a lot of history books in the early years, from which I also understand a lot of mysteries of being an official in the palace, a eunuch wants to mix in the palace, in addition to gaining the trust of the emperor, but also need to gain the favor of those ministers, the great eunuch Zhao Gao of the year, is not both the emperor's trust, and the prime minister Li Simei to win, only to proudly grasp the power of the court, even the later Gao Lishi is not blindly good with Li Longji, and the civil and military ministers of the current dynasty have no less dealings, based on the example of the above people, He began to deliberately have a good relationship with Yang Rong, Yang Pu, Xia Yuanji and other ministers of civil and military affairs, and finally paid off, although the current situation is not very good, but it is better to be familiar with each other, and there is no bad feeling towards each other, he believes that it will not be long before he and these ministers must get along very happily.

Haitao glanced at him and said, "What the emperor personally ordered, I should go there in person." After a pause, he said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Wang Zhen smiled and said, "Come and clean up the cabinet for a few cabinet ministers?" ”

Haitao said: "You are very idle? As soon as the words fell, he said: "There can't be a shortage of people around Your Majesty, you can go in and serve." ”

Wang Zhen's heart moved, this was another good opportunity to deepen his relationship with the emperor, and when he heard this, he immediately said with a happy face: "Yes, let's go to the humble post!" As he spoke, he glanced down at the red python robe on his body, divided it by two, and removed it cleanly, revealing a small green coat hat inside, and turned around and left.

Haitao looked strange and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Wang Zhendao: "Didn't you go to serve the emperor, you can't show off in official uniforms, why are you working, or is this kind of green coat and hat real?" ”

Haitao smiled and said, "Where did you come from!" After saying that, he waved his hand.

Wang Zhen bowed and bowed, and hurriedly entered the palace.

Haitao glanced at Wang Zhen's back as he walked away, his eyes were slightly slight, he didn't know what to think, and he turned around for a while and walked towards the cabinet.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Zhanji had already let the eunuchs who were reading the folds leave, leaving him alone to sit next to the dragon case, looking at the twists and turns in front of him and thinking, it was obvious that the taxes in Suzhou were not too high, but the court could not collect them, maybe people bullied him, the new monarch had just ascended the throne, and deliberately showed him his face. Although he was set up as the emperor's grandson since childhood, he is not a flower that grows in the palace, on the contrary, he followed Zhu Di in the early years of the southern expedition to the north, and has already seen most of the Ming Dynasty, where do not know the cat greasy, Suzhou since Zhu Yuanzhang raised troops to recruit Zhang Shicheng, because of the anger when Zhang Shicheng was attacked, the people of Suzhou strongly supported Zhang Shicheng, and after his death, Suzhou still retains a strange custom, every year on the 30th night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there will be dotted incense candles in the streets and alleys of the ancient city on the ground, commonly known as "burning long thinking incense", It is said that that day is the birthday of the king of Jizo, Zhang Shicheng claimed to be the reincarnation of the king of Jizo when he raised the army, and "Jiusi" is the homonym of his nickname "Jiusi", this incense is burned to him by the people of Suzhou, the open sacrifice "Zao Wang", the secret sacrifice "Zhang Wang". It is designed to repay Zhang Shicheng's merits, and this custom has continued since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Shicheng, who has been in Suzhou for more than ten years, has done a lot of good things for the people by protecting the territory and the people. Burning "Jiusi incense" is the nostalgia of the people of Wudi for Zhang Shicheng. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious because of this, and ordered the magistrate to inquire, and the folk called it a sacrifice to the "King of the Earth Bodhisattva". Suzhou people, remembering Zhang Shicheng's benevolence, burn incense for Zhang Shicheng on the 30th day of the seventh lunar month every year, and burn incense under the name of "Dizang Bodhisattva", which is actually burning "Jiusi incense" (Jiusi incense). But this matter, after all, can not be hidden from Zhu Yuanzhang, after the furious, thanks to his meritorious son Zhuangtian, and then eradicate the local Haoqiang, confiscated his land and called it "Guantian". According to the family lease levy taxes, so Suzhou is heavier than other provinces, the land rent is a total of 2.77 million stones, and the "official field" tax is 2.62 million stones, so Suzhou tax has always been the heaviest in the Ming Dynasty, but this is only for the people of Suzhou, for those businessmen, big households, bureaucrats in Suzhou, this tax is nothing, Suzhou has been a prosperous place since ancient times, in terms of agriculture, the south is more suitable for planting crops than the north, Suzhou and Huzhou in the Taihu Lake basin are important granaries, and the folk spread " Suhu is ripe, the world is full" proverb. The cultivation of cotton and tea trees in the south of the Yangtze River has also developed greatly, the hilly areas of the south of the Yangtze River have opened up many tea gardens, the tea tax of the Ming Dynasty is in accordance with the rules set by the Hongwu Dynasty, the merchants buy tea in the place where the tea is produced, pay the money to clear the introduction, each hundred catties of tea, lose 200 Wen, not enough for a citation, called the abnormal zero, give the sticker. Later, it was determined that every time tea was introduced, the money was lost, and the tea could be sold for 100 catties; Tea consists of a piece, losing 600 Wen, and can sell 60 catties of tea; Later, it was changed to order that every quotation of a banknote is consistent, and 100 catties of tea can be sold by citation. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the system of official tea and commercial tea was determined. It is not heavy, and the amount of tea required by the whole Ming Dynasty is so large, especially after Yongle, Zheng He sold a large number of Western tea, silk and porcelain overseas, and Suzhou is the center of the silk weaving industry; The silver earned by the silk weaving industry every year can be imagined, not to mention that the porcelain industry in the south of the Yangtze River is also extremely developed; The ice crack porcelain fired by Zhejiang Ge kiln gives people a unique beauty; Jingdezhen has become the national porcelain center, the blue and white porcelain produced is diverse, the pattern is beautiful, best-selling at home and abroad, this is enough for them to earn a lot of silver, so calculated, when Hong Wuye set the tax is not too heavy, but from the late Yongle period, Suzhou's tax has been in deficit, to Hong Xi, Suzhou is in arrears to 3.92 million stone, this is only a few months, it has exceeded this number, how has changed, how he can't see, just see that it's one thing, How to solve it is another matter, in the past, with his grandfather and father in front of him, he didn't think that when it was his turn to be the master of the house, he still couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

was thinking about it, Wang Zhen bowed and walked in, I don't know if it was the footsteps that alarmed Zhu Zhanji, or Zhu Zhanji was about to rest at this time, in short, his eyes happened to see Wang Zhen who walked in.

"Mr. Wang—?" Zhu Zhanji's eyes lit up, at this time he was trying to listen to the opinions of others, it was said that it would be better to find Yang Rong or Xia Yuanji for such a thing, but they were ministers after all, and it was inconvenient to use them, and he had just ascended the throne, and he didn't want to ask Yang Rong and others all the time, he was trying to do one thing independently, where to let the cabinet participate in it, Wang Zhen knew the words and hyphens, and when the two returned to the capital all the way, they didn't hear him talk about Jiangnan affairs, maybe there were some other opinions.

Having made up his mind, Zhu Zhanji said: "Mr. Wang, you came just in time, I have something I need to hear your opinion?" ”

Wang Zhen walked over quickly, glanced at the hourglass hanging on the wall, has been poured back two times, obviously the emperor has been reviewing the folds since the early dynasty, now it has been more than four hours, hurriedly walked to the tea table, poured a cup of tea soup and sent it to Zhu Zhanji, and then brought a Beijing enema, this enema is divided into two kinds: one is a large enema, washed with pig fat intestines, with high-quality flour, red yeast water, cloves, cardamom and other more than ten kinds of raw materials and seasonings to make a paste, poured into the intestines, after cooking cut into small pieces, Fried in lard and poured with salted garlic juice, the taste is crispy, salty and spicy. The other is called small enema, which is made into a thick paste with starch and red yeast water and tofu residue, cut into small pieces after steaming, fried in lard, and poured with salt water and garlic juice to eat. The enema is scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, and it is eaten with a bamboo skewer, which is quite distinctive. When Zhu Zhanji was the crown prince, he once ate it once when he was slightly served, and he never forgot the taste of the enema, and after returning to the palace, people were more prepared.

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