Chapter 471: Wei Zhongxian (1)

However, although the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne ahead of schedule, there is still a problem that has not been solved, Li Xuanzhi dominates the Qianqing Palace and refuses to move out, and the Qianqing Palace is the emperor's exclusive bedroom, and the body of Emperor Taichang is still in the Qianqing Palace, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse must go back to the Qianqing Palace, so Li Xuanzhi must be allowed to move out of the Qianqing Palace, so as to avoid the situation that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is controlled by Li Xuanzhi again, and the situation of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the ministers to appear.

But it is obvious that Li Xuanzhi must be unwilling to move out of the Qianqing Palace, and it is not good to use force against her, because Li Xuanzhi is the woman of Emperor Taichang after all, and she can't make it too ugly, and there are also forces among the courtiers who support Li Xuanshi, after all, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is still young, if he can control the Emperor of the Apocalypse through Li Xuanshi, the government. The rewards are also very large!

The courtiers who supported Li Xuanzhi also had a very strong reason, because Emperor Taichang had appointed Li Xuanzhi to take care of Zhu Youxiao before his death, and also asked Zhu Youxiao to treat Li Xuanxiao like his biological mother, and forcing Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace was disrespectful to the dead Taichang Emperor, and this kind of remarks were still very marketable in the Ming Dynasty, which emphasized loyalty and filial piety.

So the courtiers argued and argued and didn't come up with a good solution, and finally Guo Zhiyuan stood up and said you don't fight, leave this matter to me, I promise to let Li Xuanzhi take the initiative to move out of the Qianqing Palace!

The ministers looked at Guo Zhiyuan dumbfounded, I don't know where he got such confidence, Yang Lian directly said impossible, don't mess around, you can't afford to destroy our plan, Guo Zhiyuan wants this effect, looked at Yang Lian with a smile and said: "Lord Yang, or we make a bet, if I can't do it, I will let you deal with it, but what if I do it?" ……”

Yang Lian's personality was the most unprovoked, and he immediately said: "If you do it, I will also let you deal with it!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan shook his head and said: "I have no grudge against Lord Yang, what are you doing, so let's do it, if I do it, you can call me a teacher, and when you see me in the future, I will perform the gift of teacher and student......"

Yang Lian hesitated at this time, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the status of teachers and students, and it was more uncomfortable to let him call Guo Zhiyuan, who was much younger than him and had a bad reputation, as a teacher!

Guo Zhiyuan continued to agitate: "What? Lord Yang is not afraid of death, is he still afraid to call me a teacher? ……”

Yang Lian, who had a tendon, was really fooled, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" Deal! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan laughed and left, leaving the stunned ministers looking at each other, and Guo Zhiyuan and Yang Lian's gambling contract also aroused great interest among the ministers, and they all talked about it, so they almost didn't directly open the bet to see who could win.

Why is Guo Zhiyuan so confident to say that he can let Li Xuanzhi take the initiative to move out of the Qianqing Palace? On the one hand, of course, because he has the advantage of traversing, he knows that Li Xuanzhi will definitely move out of the Qianqing Palace in the end, and more importantly, he thinks of a key person--- Wei Zhongxian!

At this point, I think it is necessary to digress and talk about Wei Zhongxian, because the historical figures in the history books are all face-painted, and only a comprehensive understanding of historical figures can allow us to understand the historical truth more accurately.

I remember when I was in junior high school, there was a story in the Chinese textbook "Consecutive Promotions", which was about a stupid son of a big landlord named Zhang Haogu, who didn't learn and didn't know how to write, and couldn't even write his own name. Zhang Haogu was a dumbfounder, and he didn't know Wei Zhongxian, so he collided directly with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian saw that this Zhang Haogu was so angry, and said that he would hit the three yuan, not only did he not get angry, but he also asked his entourage to take his own post and send Zhang Haogu into the examination room. As a result, the examiner saw that Zhang Haogu was a person sent by Wei Zhongxian, thinking that he was a relative of Wei Zhongxian, and in order to tie up with Wei Zhongxian, Zhang Haogu, who couldn't read a few big characters, won the second place, and also let Zhang Haogu enter the Hanlin Academy. Zhang Haogu's colleagues saw that Zhang Haogu was illiterate, and deliberately wrote a couplet scolding Wei Zhongxian for Zhang Haogu to give Wei Zhongxian as a birthday gift, Wei Zhongxian was too busy to let people hang it up without even looking at it. Later, Wei Zhongxian fell, and Zhang Haogu was originally liquidated as Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, but some ministers remembered Zhang Haogu's couplet scolding Wei Zhongxian, saying that he was not Wei Zhongxian's person, but a loyal minister, and as a result, Zhang Haogu was not only fine, but also promoted three levels in a row!

Of course, this story satirizes Wei Zhongxian and the corrupt Ming court at that time, combined with the introduction of Wei Zhongxian in history textbooks, my impression of Wei Zhongxian at that time was that he was a heinous and brutal villain! However, with the growth of age and experience, I have a new interpretation and thinking about this story, although this story is satirical to Wei Zhongxian, but from another point of view, it also shows that Wei Zhongxian attaches great importance to excavating talents, and is not completely useless as written in history textbooks.

So I began to collect historical materials to see what kind of person Wei Zhongxian was in history. In recent years, I have also seen a lot of articles on the Internet that whitewash Wei Zhongxian, saying that Wei Zhongxian was a hero of the Ming Dynasty, and some people even said that if Emperor Chongzhen did not kill Wei Zhongxian, the Ming Dynasty might not have perished.

According to historical records, Chongzhen did regret the killing of Wei Zhongxian before his death, and ordered the burial of Wei Zhongxian's remains and buried in Biyun Temple in Xiangshan. According to Feng Menglong's "Yandu Diary", when Li Zicheng's peasant army arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was embattled and helpless, and asked the eunuch Cao Huachun beside him, and Cao Huachun said: If Zhongxian is here, current affairs will not come to this. On the mercy, the herald was sent to bury the bones of the loyal and virtuous.

So what kind of person is Wei Zhongxian? What kind of merits and demerits did he have for the Ming Dynasty? To truly understand a person, we must first understand his character and life trajectory. Wei Zhongxian was born in a poor peasant family in Suning, Hebei Province, his parents didn't even name him, people called him Wei Si according to the ranking, he was not doing his job, he was addicted to gambling, and he was a local scoundrel. In a gamble, he lost his meager family property and owed a lot of gambling debts, and Wei Si, who was forced to a dead end, made a life-changing decision: to enter the palace as a eunuch!

But at that time, it was not easy to enter the palace as a eunuch, in the Ming Dynasty, where the medical conditions were backward, the net body was a gamble, and the net body may not be able to enter the palace as a eunuch, it had to rely on luck, but Wei Si made up his mind to be a eunuch, persuaded his family to sell a donkey, and made up enough money for the clean, he was lucky, and finally entered the palace as a eunuch after several tribulations!