If you don't want to be a dog, and you don't want to take off your official hat, then you can only think of other ways.

As the saying goes, what is lacking is what is made up.

In Luo Sigong's opinion, what he lacks is to have someone who can speak for him in front of the emperor.

Then, if you make up for this shortcoming, you will be able to compete head-on with Wei Zhongxian.

Since he can't speak in front of the emperor, he simply finds a partner.

In Luo Sigong's opinion, the most suitable person is Chen Hong.

Now everyone inside and outside the government and the opposition knows that the two eunuchs most favored by the emperor are Wei Zhongxian, the prince of Dongchang Factory, and Chen Hong, the eunuch of Bingbi.

He and Wei Zhongxian are in competition, and Chen Hong, Chen Gonggong and Wei Zhongxian are also in competition. Both of them are in competition with Wei Zhongxian, so there is a natural basis for cooperation.

As the so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, in such a situation, Luo Sigong feels that the two will hit it off.

If the two of them reach a cooperation, then they have Chen Hong in front of the emperor, outside the palace. Chen Hong can have his own. The two sides worked together to definitely suppress Wei Zhongxian.

"Father-in-law Chen," Luo Sigong walked up to Chen Hong and said with a smile: "Seeing that father-in-law has a good complexion, I think there is something good." If there is any happy event in the family, you must tell the lower official, and the lower official will definitely give a congratulatory gift. ”

Looking at Luo Sigong with a smile, Chen Hong said: "There is nothing happy about our family, but there should be happy things for adults." However, our family sometimes has some things outside the palace, and if you ask Lord Luo here, I hope that Lord Luo will not refuse. ”

After listening to Chen Hong's words, Luo Sigong understood in seconds, and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Chen, rest assured, the lower officials will do their best." ”

The two men looked at each other and smiled, and neither of them continued to say anything.

Just look at each other, and it's all in plain sight.

"Lord Luo, let's not delay for too long. Your Majesty is waiting to summon you. Chen Hong shook the dust whisk in his hand, smiled and made a gesture of please.

Luo Sigong hugged Chen Hong, and then said with a smile: "Thank you Gonggong Chen." ”

The two of them walked into the Qianqing Palace together.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Luo Sigong who walked in, waved his hand to signal him to be polite, and asked directly: "But the errand I explained has a result?" ”

Luo Sigong didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, it's indeed done." The minister has found Chen Kedao, and the people have been brought to the capital. ”

Hearing his words, Zhu Youxiao suddenly looked happy.

The man has finally arrived.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhu Youxiao said directly: "Bring people into the palace." ”

Luo Sigong was stunned for a moment.

He didn't expect His Majesty to summon this Chen Kedao.

Originally, he thought that His Majesty would hand over this person to himself, but now it seems that this is not the case. Although he wanted to ask, he knew that it was not his right to ask.

"Yes, the minister will arrange it immediately." Respectfully agreed, and Luo Sigong withdrew.

Looking at the back of him leaving, Zhu Youxiao sighed helplessly.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know what to say about what he was going to do next.

Playing with power is sad for an emperor, but he just has to play with power.

Among these emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the best player in power is Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing entered Beijing to inherit the throne as a vassal king, and it can be said that the situation at that time was very complicated.

Emperor Zhengde's death is unknown, and the courtiers in the court are not Emperor Jiajing's own people; No one supported him, not to mention that the relatives left behind by the first emperor were still there.

It can be said that in the entire palace, or in the entire court, it cannot be said that the former wolf and the latter tiger.

In such a situation, Emperor Jiajing did not have many options. But it was in such a situation that he forcibly killed a wide imperial road.

Isn't that the case for me now?

ascended the throne at a young age, and the dictatorship of the Donglin Party promoted by his father, who listens to his own words?

Maybe the Donglin Party wants to do things, but what they want to do is definitely different from what they want to do.

If you use them yourself, then who do you listen to?

What can you do if they don't do what they are asked to do?

Whether it is the Xiong Tingbi case this time, or the Chen Kedao he found, there is actually only one purpose, that is, to collect power.

In Zhu Youxiao's eyes, there is no difference between the Donglin Party, the Eunuch Party, or the Qizhejiang Chu Party.

The reason why they attacked the Donglin Party is simple, that is, because they are now in power.

If he travels a few years later and is in power by Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs, then he will definitely do something to the eunuchs.

On the one hand, there is a case that the DPRK and China are investigating, and on the other hand, there is a dispute over Taoism, but in fact, Zhu Youxiao is not interested in either of them.

Zhu Youxiao was only interested in taking power, just like the original Emperor Jiajing.

Soon after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, there was a controversy and struggle between Emperor Jiajing and the former ministers of Ming Wuzong led by Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng over who should be the emperor of Sejong (patriarchal in the sense of patriarchal father) and the issue of Sejong's father's honorific title.

The "heirs" headed by Yang Tinghe, the first assistant to the cabinet, asked Sejong to change his parents.

At that time, Zhang Xuan, a scholar of the Guanzheng Jinshi, neglected the courtiers and put forward the theory of "succession".

On the surface, it's a battle for fame, but it's not.

Hidden in the depths is actually about the struggle for power.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the courtiers who welcomed Emperor Jiajing to the capital wanted to control Emperor Jiajing. And Emperor Jiajing was unwilling, so he naturally wanted to fight back.

The counterattack he chose was the Great Etiquette, which was also the Emperor's usual practice.

If there is a contention over the government, new problems will usually arise, which will make it impossible for the government to operate normally, thus affecting the stability of the country. This was unacceptable to the emperor.

Usually, the emperor would choose to depose the empress or replace the crown prince as a battlefield. On the one hand, disobedient courtiers are excluded, and on the other hand, obedient courtiers are selected.

The same is true of Emperor Jiajing's great etiquette. This is not a question of the emperor's name, but a real question of standing in line.

Zhu Youxiao did the same thing this time. The purpose of Chen Kedao's Li Zhen theory is to make officials fight with them.

If you want to use Li Zhen's doctrine, if there are officials who oppose it, you will be deposed; Obedient officials, stay.

The Donglin Party's case of forming a party and running a private business can directly put some officials into it, and there is no need to investigate anything, nor do they need to bother to charge them with any crimes.

In this way, you can take back the power into your own hands.

As for whether it was the Donglin Party, the Eunuch Party, or other parties, Zhu Youxiao didn't care at all.

As the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, these people in the court are willing to follow them, so they stay; Otherwise, fuck off.

This is not a partisan dispute, nor is it a dispute of Taoism, but a clear attack on dissidents.

If I had to say, it was a battle of routes.