Wei Bao nodded, he naturally understands the rules of officialdom, he has been in the office for two or three months, isn't it stupid not to understand? Don't ask what you shouldn't!

Liu Ruoyu has indeed revealed a lot of information to himself that eunuchs should not disclose casually.

"Thank you, Grandpa Liu." Wei Bao smiled and arched his hand.

"Tanhualang is polite, let's go, shall we? The palace is urgent. Liu Ruoyu said.

"Well, please!" Wei Bao said stiffly.

The palace came to recruit, and I had to go, and I had to go when the sky fell, unless I didn't plan to mix in the officialdom, and I didn't plan to mix under the Ming court.

Wei Bao originally thought that Wei Zhongxian would be the first to find trouble for himself, but now it seems that it is the emperor who is the first to trouble himself.

Although in his impression, Wei Bao was not afraid of Zhu Youxiao.

But the strong monarchy of the feudal country decided that even if the emperor was a three-year-old child, what he said had unlimited power, and the emperor said to kill you, and he would kill you at that time.

This still can't help but make Wei Bao feel nervous.

Wei Bao arrived at the platform, but before the emperor arrived, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji and Feng Quan had already arrived.

Wei Bao met with several eunuch ministers, and when he saw that they all ignored him, he felt that the atmosphere was very wrong.

Especially Feng Quan, who is among the four, seems to have a particularly strange attitude towards himself.

Feng Quan is just thirty years old this year, and he joined the cabinet at the age of thirty, which can be said to have a promising future.

Wei Bao can probably guess Feng Quan's thoughts, he is only 15 years old now, Feng Quan is 30 years old, and the other ministers are all people in their sixties, and they will have to return to their hometowns in a few years, and only the two of them will have to be in contact for a long time.

Therefore, Wei Bao estimated that Feng Quan probably had a lot of hostility and a certain desire to make friends, after all, he had to deal with him for a long time.

However, Wei Bao didn't pay much attention to Feng Quan, because Wei Bao knew that as soon as Zhu Youxiao died in two years, the eunuch party would have to fall collectively! Although Feng Quan was not killed, he was dismissed from office.

Although Wei Bao doesn't know these historical things in detail, he probably knows a little, plus the intelligence system of his Tiandihui Statistics Office is becoming more and more perfect, and he doesn't dare to say that all the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty are monitored, anyway, the officials in Beijing are monitored at the level of five grades or above, and the monitoring network of officials above the five grades has also been established in the nearby places of Liaoxi, Shanxi, Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong.

This is mainly because the Heaven and Earth Society is not only politically infiltrated, but also the Heaven and Earth Society's external banner is the Heaven and Earth Firm, and it is also easy to trade and buy and sell to extend its tentacles to various places.

The trading of Tiandi firms was mainly concentrated in the nearby places of western Liaoning, Shanxi, Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong, and then in the coastal provinces.

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, Feng Quan was born in Zhuozhou, Shuntian Prefecture.

In the forty-first year of Wanli, Feng Quanzhong Jinshi, at the age of nineteen, was selected as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and was awarded the review of the Hanlin Academy in the forty-fourth year of Wanli.

He was an official in the same dynasty as his father Feng Shengming, and was known as "Xiao Feng" or "Xiao Feng Hanlin".

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Feng Shengming, who was in charge of the Henan Zuobu government, was impeached and punished by Henan Governor Zhang I because he left office without authorization when the Later Jin invaded Liao Shen, Feng Quan wrote to avenge his father, saying that his father begged for leave before hearing the Liao police, Feng Shengming was sentenced to cane, and Feng Quan also returned home with his father.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian went to Zhuozhou to offer incense, and Feng Quan knelt beside the road, crying about his father's impeachment and loss of office. At that time, Wei Zhongxian was searching for henchmen, and immediately ordered Feng Quan to remain as a former official. Since then, he has been grateful to Wei Zhongxian.

At the height of the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, he swept through the process, attacking the Donglin Party members and other courtiers.

Yang Lian was guilty of robbing Wei Zhongxian of the twenty-four major crimes, and Wei Zhongxian hated him to the core, and thought of contacting the ministers of the outer court to help.

Feng Quan sent a letter to Wei Liangqing, Wei Zhongxian's nephew, telling Wei Zhongxian that his power in the outer court could be guaranteed, and instigated Wei Zhongxian to "run the court staff and build a prison" to establish his authority.

In July of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Feng Quan used his edict to review the promotion of young Zhan and supplemented the scriptures to lecture on the banquet. At that time, there was an embroidered image "Liaodong Biography" published, the forty-eighth chapter was dedicated to Feng Shengming's father and son's escape, Feng Quan held a grudge, and took the opportunity to lie that this book was written by Xiong Tingbi to praise his merits, and presented it on the occasion of the Ming Xizong banquet, and framed Xiong Tingbi.

This is not only in line with Wei Zhongxian's intention to connect the Donglin party, but also vents his personal hatred for Xiong Tingbi.

Wei Zhongxian attached great importance to Feng Quan, so he told Ming Xizong the story of Gan Luo's visit to the prime minister at the age of twelve, so as to gag others' mouths, lest others say that Feng Quan was too young and not qualified to enter the cabinet and grant Feng Quan an official position.

So Feng Quan was promoted to the cabinet, and served as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the East Pavilion, and later promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the Wenyuan Pavilion.

In just one year, Feng Quan, who was thirty years old, was promoted to an auxiliary minister of the imperial court and became a hot figure in the eunuch party, known as "the black-headed prince" and "the black-headed minister".

In the original history.

In May of the first year of Shunzhi, the Qing army entered the customs, and the regent of the Qing Dynasty, Dolgon, summoned Feng Quan to the court by letter, and he arrived immediately after receiving the letter.

Dolgon gave him court clothes, hats, saddle horses, and silver coins, and ordered him to enter the inner three courts to manage the machine with his original title. Half a month later, Feng Quan and others led the civil and military ministers to congratulate Dolgon in the Wuying Palace. Like other Han officials, he speculated on the wishes of the rulers in order to pander to Dorgon.

On June 3 of the second year of Shunzhi, Dolgon ordered to find out and support the widows of the kings of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Quan and others hurriedly kowtowed to thanksgiving, Dolgon said that they did not forget the old master, Feng Quan replied: "One heart can be loyal to two monarchs, but one monarch can not be two-hearted!" ”

In order to make it clear that he is loyal. On the twelfth day of the sixth month of the same year, Feng Quan replied to Dolgon's discussion of the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty and said: "What the ministers have done cannot be hidden from you, Lord Wang! ”

Dorgon was deeply pleased with this. In this year, he was awarded a bachelor's degree in the Hanlin Hongwen Academy of Letters.

In July, he was impeached by the Imperial Historian Wu Da, triggering a political turmoil.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, he added the young master and the prince and the prince.

In December of the 7th year of Shunzhi, after the death of Dolgon, the political climate within the ruling class in the early Qing Dynasty changed abruptly. After Emperor Shunzhi came to power, the anti-Dolgon forces of the Manchurian aristocracy took charge.

In February of the eighth year of Shunzhi, the Qing Dynasty began to examine and approve Han officials in various ministries of the central government, some of whom were severely punished, and some continued to serve. In this "screening", the first person to be pointed out by Emperor Shunzhi was Feng Quan. Emperor Shunzhi listed his crimes of being neglected by Wu Da and others and his actions within seven years, and severely reprimanded him for "losing the body of a minister" and "writing orders to officials".

On March 21, the tenth year of Shunzhi, Emperor Shunzhi ordered the Ministry of Officials to notify Feng Quan to go to Beijing quickly on the grounds that "Feng Quan had no original appearance, and he was knowledgeable about the classics, proficient in political affairs, and he sought to govern the country, and was specially appointed to use it, and he was able to observe self-renewal". On March 27, Emperor Shunzhi summoned Feng Quan to the inner courtyard and expressed his concern for him. In the evening of the same day, Feng Quan and other scholars were summoned to the palace, and when talking about whether the Hanlin officials were virtuous or not, Emperor Shunzhi thought that as long as he personally assessed and saw the merits of the text, he could determine his superiority. Chen Mingxia was also present at that time, but Feng Quan had a different plan and said: "The emperor should not just read his articles when appointing talented people." Most of the Nanren Han officials write good articles but can't do things, and Manchu people can't write good articles but do things efficiently. Nowadays, in the imperial examination, it is not possible to hire just by looking at the good articles, and only if the articles are good can they be appointed. ”

Degrading the Han officials of the southerners is exactly Feng Quan's true intention. And Chen Mingxia and Chen Zhixuan, who were impeached before, are both from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Emperor Shunzhi immediately agreed with Feng Quan's opinion. The next day, Feng Quanguan was reinstated and appointed as a scholar of Hongwen Academy. This shows that Feng Quan was aware of the internal situation of the imperial court during the resignation. Since then, the Nanren Han officials have been repeatedly attacked, mostly related to Feng Quan.

In the twelfth year of Shunzhi, he added a young master and a prince. Feng Quan and the university scholar Hong Chengchou once asked for the restoration of the old system of Ming Dynasty tickets, and agreed with the university scholar Xie Sheng and others to discuss the movement of the suburban society and the temple. He was repeatedly impeached by the officials, during which he was dismissed from office and later returned.

In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, Feng Quan was old and added Taibao, but remained in the Qing court as an advisor, and then asked the emperor for permission to return to his hometown.

In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, the three inner courts were changed to the cabinet, and the Qing court ordered him to serve as a scholar of Zhonghe Temple University with the original title.

On the second day of November in the 11th year of Kangxi, Feng Quan died at home at the age of 78.

In the first month of the twelfth year of Kangxi, he gave Wenmin. The Qianlong Dynasty included it in the second part of the "Biography of Erchen" and pursued it.

Feng Quan was ambitious as a young man, entered the Hanlin Dynasty, and was handsome, and had a male-to-male relationship with many ministers led by Miao Changqi.

However, when his father Feng Shengming was impeached, Feng Quan begged Miao Changqi and others for help, and became more intimate, but Miao Changqi not only did not save him, but humiliated Feng Quan in public. Feng Quan thus formed a bond with Miao Changqi and the Donglin Party to which he belonged, and later took refuge in Wei Zhongxian and tried his best to take revenge.

His "charming" even Wei Zhongxian pitied him, and he was the most intimate with Jinyi Wei Tian Ergeng during Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, and Tian Ergeng also behaved like a "delicate son-in-law" in front of Feng Quan's mother.

Feng Quan is keen on dressing up, every time he enters the court on duty, he will carry two or three pairs of boots and several bright clothes in his suitcase, and when he walks on the road, he will frequently brush the dust under his boots, and he will take care of himself many times, and the mirror does not leave his body, and the official hat is extremely luxurious. He also loves to collect antiques, and his apartment is full of antiques, good plays, strange books, rare jade, and many concubines and friends. The countryside he placed is a place of ointment, and the strangeness of flowers and trees far exceeds that of the Forbidden City, hiding a lot of treasures, which can be called "the first in Jidian".

Zhang Shenyan, the imperial historian of the Tianqi Dynasty, also called Feng Shengming, Feng Quan and his son "transporting materials Bauhinia, cutting down Shifang Mountain, pastoral Jiadi, rich Jianangi, and resentment is very vicious to people".

After entering the Qing Dynasty, Feng Quan's extravagance has not changed at all, and the Ming relics Tan Qian once witnessed Feng Quan's mansion located in the north of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

After waiting for two incense sticks, the emperor arrived at the platform accompanied by Wei Zhongxian.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." Wei Bao knelt down with several ministers and saluted.

"Excuse me, get up." Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was still sickly, supported by Wei Zhongxian, and sat down on the dragon chair.

Wei Bao stood up with several ministers and stood respectfully with his hands down.

"Wei Bao, I heard that you are out of the limelight today, and the officers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple actually beat all the people of Jinyiwei? And he beat hundreds of brocade guards, or did he block the door of the Fusi Ya in Beizhen? Zhu Youxiao asked.

Wei Bao was taken aback, secretly wondering how quickly the emperor's news was obtained? This should have been reported directly by Wei Zhongxian to the emperor, right?

This time, Wei Zhongxian was also offended miserably, I wonder if Wei Zhongxian will deal with himself because of this? Wei Bao knew that when he returned to Liaoxi, he would protect himself, but outside of Liaoxi and Liaonan, it was not difficult for Wei Zhongxian to kill him.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has made amends, it was really forced by the situation at the time, and it was the second assistant Lord Zhu Yanxi who ordered my people to move, and it was not Weichen's intention. Moreover, it was also the first hand of the Jinyi Guard. They really don't have the right to arbitrarily detain the relatives of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other officials, which will make many officials in Beijing even more panicked. Wei Bao excused. It's not that Wei Bao dares to do it, it's true, there is no need for him to be in the limelight.

Wei Bao's words were not only for the emperor, but also for Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Bao glanced at Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian's face was cold, and there was no expression at all.

Wei Bao found that in front of the emperor, Wei Zhongxian actually rarely spoke.

In front of the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was very much like a respectful and well-behaved old eunuch, even a little inconspicuous.

But once he was not with the emperor, Wei Zhongxian began to become majestic.

"Now it's not about right and wrong, it's about saying now, the dignified Jinyiwei is my pro-army, and people are beaten, how can Jinyiwei hold his head up in the future? I know you're smart, and I want to hear what you have to say. Zhu Youxiao continued.

Zhu Youxiao's meaning is actually to give Wei Bao a 'notice of criticism' or something, not only to punish Wei Bao, but also to punish the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple by the way, and help Jinyiwei get his face back.

Since Zhu Youxiao reuses Wei Zhongxian, he naturally attaches great importance to institutions like Dongchang and Jinyiwei, which he directly controls and cannot tolerate anyone to tarnish.

In the emperor's view, the Duchayuan and Dali Temple belonged to the normal institutions of the imperial court, and they were definitely not as close to the imperial power as institutions like Dongchang Jinyiwei.

Feng Quan understood what the emperor meant, and wanted to speak next to him, but his mouth pursed, and he forcibly endured it, first to see what Wei Bao said.

Wei Zhongxian, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji and others were also waiting for Wei Bao to speak.

"Your Majesty, Jinyiwei is His Majesty's pro-army, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple Inspector Hundred Officials, in charge of the world's criminal name justice, its role and status are no less than Jinyiwei. Compared with betting on His Majesty's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple are the first to bear the brunt, how many major cases, involving high-ranking officials and magnates, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple must maintain impartiality, fairness and integrity, in order to maintain Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple are the mouthpiece of Your Majesty, is Your Majesty's fist, the weight of this fist, determines the entire Ming officialdom, the entire Ming Dynasty folk law. Wei Bao said: "So, in this matter, Weichen thinks that it is better to go over like this, there is no need to ask again, as His Majesty said, there is no need to ask who is right and who is wrong." ”

Everyone admired Wei Bao's eloquence when they heard this, such a big thing, he was able to seize the loophole in the emperor's words and prevaricate?

However, such a big thing should not be erased with a few words from Wei Bao.

"Master Wei, you're not comprehensive, are you?" Feng Quan saw that the emperor was resisted by Wei Bao's words, and hurriedly spoke out: "As a military institution of His Majesty's pro-army guards, the main functions of Jinyi Wei are to drive the guards, inspect and arrest, and engage in reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation. He also participated in the collection of military information and plotted against enemy generals, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard was served by His Majesty's trusted generals, who were directly responsible to His Majesty. Anyone, including relatives of the Imperial Family, can be arrested and interrogated in camera. No matter how Jin Yiwei said, he was closer to His Majesty than the Duchayuan and Dali Temple. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "What Feng Aiqing said is extremely true, I am exactly what I mean. ”

"Your Majesty, it is true that Jinyiwei is under the direct jurisdiction of His Majesty, and other officials in the court cannot interfere with them at all, so that Jinyiwei can handle major cases involving court officials and submit them directly to Your Majesty. Therefore, the officials of the DPRK and China are afraid of Jinyiwei. However, the scope of Jinyiwei's torture was only for officials and doctors, so they generally did not interrogate and arrest ordinary people. Ordinary people's criminal and civil cases are handled only through the normal administration of justice. During the period of Hong Wuye, because Jinyiwei had illegally humiliated and abused prisoners, the ancestors issued an edict to burn Jinyiwei's torture instruments and abolished their function. After Grandpa Cheng ascended the throne, he restored all the power of Jinyiwei and strengthened it. He set up the Beizhen Fu Division, which was in charge of the "edict prison", which could directly arrest and torture prisoners, and the judicial organs such as the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had no right to interrogate. During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong, the seal of the Beizhen Fusi was added, and all the prisons were presented to the emperor without the need to convey them through the command, so that the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division became a judicial institution directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and the power reached the extreme. The Jinyi Guard Officer School responsible for reconnaissance and arrest is called "Ti Cai". Due to the lack of restrictions on their powers, they fabricated charges in order to solicit merit and rewards, unscrupulously expanded the scope of involvement, and created numerous unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. In addition, the Jinyi guards have privileges, which invisibly allow them to act arbitrarily and bend the law for bribes, causing chaos in society. Therefore, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, as the highest judicial yamen of the Ming Dynasty, will properly supervise the Jinyi Guard, which will not only not damage the majesty of His Majesty, but will also make the people praise His Majesty's wisdom. Wei Bao said.

"Hehe, according to Wei Aiqing's meaning, the messengers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple beat the Jinyi Guard, right? Well played? They have lost face now, and if they investigate the officials in the future, who will agree with Jinyiwei and Dongchang? Can't the Ming Dynasty only have the Ducha Yuan and Dali Temple in the future, right? Zhu Youxiao said unhappily.

"Your Majesty, as long as Jinyiwei shows up less and earnestly fulfills the duties that His Majesty's pro-army should do, no one dares to underestimate Jinyiwei. In all dynasties, only our dynasty has a Jinyi Guard, and the Jinyi Guard itself is part of the Imperial Forest Army, who dares to underestimate the Imperial Forest Army? Also, Weichen feels that if you want to be looked down upon, you don't rely on fighting, killing, whether it is the Jinyi Guard, or the Royal Forest Army, Your Majesty's personal pro-army guards, and Your Majesty's image are all together, which is true. If you want to raise the image of Your Majesty, you can't just rely on heavy punishment to punish a few ministers, Weichen believes that this is far from enough! Wei Bao directly bypassed the topic, and he didn't plan to talk to the emperor about whether it was right or wrong to beat Jinyiwei, and if he kept talking about this issue, he would definitely say that he would not win the emperor.

The semi-literate emperor was confused by waiting for Zaiben.

"Oh? What can you do to increase my prestige? Zhu Youxiao asked.

Wei Bao can see that the reason why Zhu Youxiao did not call several cabinet ministers of the Donglin Party today is because Zhu Youxiao regarded the ministers of Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the Eunuch Party as his own people, and Chongzhen rejected the Donglin Party in his heart.

Seeing through this, it also made Wei Bao dare to speak, "Your Majesty, then Weichen has the courage to admonish, Weichen has a way to make a repair for the maladministration and shortcomings of our dynasty." And, it's easy to do. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. Zhu Youxiao was interested, he felt that it was very easy to talk about state affairs and government affairs with Wei Bao, Wei Bao would not quote scriptures like those Donglin Party ministers, and he didn't know what to say for a long time, nor would he only know blind flattery like the ministers promoted by Wei Zhongxian, and couldn't say anything.

"It's very simple, all I want to say is four words, public opinion control! The main role of Jinyi Weidong Factory is to deal with the rebellion of the ministers, that is, it was set up against people like Hu Weiyong and Lanyu, and later it did play the role of cutting off the ministers. The factory guards dealt with the powerful ministers of the capital, not the control of public opinion. Taizu set up Jinyiwei, the whole is a proud soldier who has made great contributions, and Grandpa Cheng set up the East Factory to monitor Jianwen's old ministers because he doubted the loyalty of Jinyiwei. Later, because of the dominance of civil officials, the emperor used factory guards to spy on civil officials, causing factory guards to be slandered among the literati. In this way, in order to suppress the civil clique, the imperial power has constantly created more and more huge intelligence agencies, and the civil officials and literati have not been cured, but have become more and more fierce and continue to form parties! This is exactly the case with the people of Donglin. If this situation is not eradicated, if you engage Donglin people today, you will emerge from Xilin tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow from Nanlin and Beilin, and it will never stop. But for public opinion, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have never realized the lethality of wild history rumors after the change of dynasty. Your Majesty, the reason why I say that the Imperial Court and the Dali Temple are the restrictors of the civil and official group, the real relatives of the emperor. I have a point. Your Majesty should always maintain a sense of vigilance against the civilian clique and the civilian clique that follows it, so that the civilian clique cannot dominate. From a smart macro point of view, my Ming Dynasty inherited the Tang and Song dynasties, and took generosity as the virtue, so the literati were arrogant, and officials could catch the wind and say that the emperor was not good, and the emperor could only endure it. Take my Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wei Chen looked through a lot of previous books, they advised His Majesty that most of the things were false, and even which concubine His Majesty was more close to, and which concubine was less close, His Majesty loved to do manual work in his spare time, and these Majesty's leisure things had to be crossed, it was simply unreasonable, did they live with Your Majesty? Knowing so much detail, even Grandpa Wei may not be so clear, right? Wei Bao said.

Zhu Youxiao was said by Wei Bao to the heart, "Yes, yes, that's it, Aiqing said it well!" They can talk nonsense about me, they are all speculation, they use ambiguous words, I can't accuse them yet, accusing them of being not generous enough, I don't have virtue! You go on to say, how can this be changed? ”

Zhu Youxiao also asked Wei Zhongxian: "Father-in-law Wei, do you say that's the case?" ”

"That's true, what Master Wei said is very true." Wei Zhongxian had to say.

"Tell me, isn't that so?" Zhu Youxiao nodded, as if he was still unsatisfied, and asked a few more ministers.

Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji and Feng Quan also answered like this.

Zhu Youxiao laughed, "Go on, Wei Bao, I like to listen to you, you can learn a lot, your official title of being in charge of the cabinet and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is indeed good, you can come to the palace to talk to me more in the future." ”

Wei Zhongxian, Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji and Feng Quan were all stunned, originally the emperor wanted to punish Wei Bao, wanted to punish the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, but now it has become a very speculative conversation between the emperor and Wei Bao?

"Wechen thanked Your Majesty." Wei Bao said: "Your Majesty, it is because many civil officials and literati can arbitrarily talk nonsense and slander the imperial court, so the majesty of Your Majesty and the imperial court has been damaged. I understand why Your Majesty attaches so much importance to the dignity of Jinyiwei, because Jinyiwei can make secret visits, and it can be said that Your Majesty, those who say that the court is right and wrong are arrested, interrogated, or tortured, which is frightening. In order to gag people's mouths, in order to elevate the majesty of His Majesty and the royal family. Isn't it? ”

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