Why did Xia Yan help Chen Hong clean up Liu Shuxiang, didn't he get Jiajing's will to clean up the Huangzhuang, and he was still vigorous at that time, and almost all the land occupied by the eunuchs in the palace was returned to the people, and now he helped the eunuchs in the palace to occupy the land, isn't this contradictory?

Actually, there is no contradiction at all.

Jiajing asked him to clean up the Huangzhuang in order to clean up those big eunuchs left by the Zhengde Dynasty, these people are Zhengde's cronies and not Jiajing's cronies, Jiajing naturally has to clean it up, otherwise the entire palace will be supervised by the big eunuchs promoted by the Zhengde Dynasty, how can Jiajing rest assured.

Jiajing asked Xia Yan to be responsible for the dismissal of the palace guards and the Beijing camp guards for this purpose, because these people were all arrogant soldiers left by Emperor Zhengde, and he was not at ease, if he did not dismiss people, he felt that the palace was not safe.

To put it bluntly, at the beginning, Xia Yan was a knife in Jiajing's hand, specially used to clean up the old forces of the Zhengde Dynasty.

Xia Yan also understood what Jiajing wanted him to do, so he didn't have any mercy when he picked up those eunuchs and arrogant soldiers in the future, no matter who it was, even Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, he didn't hesitate to chop it down.

These people's power is not small, if Jiajing is not behind him, he dares to fuck up like this in the middle of a small seven-grade thing, and there is no bones and scum left that have been cleaned up a long time ago.

It is precisely because it is Jiajing's meaning, so whether it is the prince Xungui or the big eunuch in the palace, they are all planted in his hands in this small matter.

However, Jiajing didn't think about letting him enter the cabinet or even replace Zhang Xuan as the first assistant of the cabinet at that time, at the beginning, Jiajing purely used Xia Yan as a knife, so he only promoted a small level after cleaning up so many powerful people and became the capital of the matter.

As for his later climb to the high position of the Ministry of Rites, and even become a cabinet scholar, it was because he showed enough ability and was recognized by Jiajing.

Jiajing is like this, if you give him a heart, help him clean up people, and show enough ability, he will promote you vigorously, whether you are a nine-grade sesame official or a seven-grade minister, or even a political practitioner like Zhang Xuan, he can be promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet within a few years.

Xia Yan has figured out this point that he has become brilliant.

The reason why he helped Chen Hong was also because of this.

So, what is the relationship between him and Chen Hong?

Quite simply, Chen Hong is his partner.

Jiajing is the emperor after all, it is impossible to do everything himself, and it is impossible to know everything that happens in the court, he is in the palace all the year round, and he can't see what is happening outside at all, if no one tells him, he doesn't know how powerful Xia Yan is.

In these years, the eunuch is the eyes and ears of the emperor, and many things the emperor knows through the eunuchs around him, and even the folds are controlled in the hands of the eunuchs, because the general administration department first transmits the folds to the eunuchs, and the eunuchs will be sent to the cabinet or to the emperor after they are registered.

To put it mildly, sometimes the eunuch is the emperor, and even, sometimes the eunuch is better than the emperor!

To give an obvious example, during the Apocalypse Dynasty, the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian embezzled the silver taels in the palace to repair his own mausoleum, just at that time, the mausoleum of his father Mingguangzong was also being repaired, Wei Zhongxian was all good in his own mausoleum, and the silver was also used in his own mausoleum first, as a result, his mausoleum cost more than three million taels, and it was repaired in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and the mausoleum of Mingguangzong was given more than one million taels until the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

If you want to talk about such a thing as repairing the mausoleum, Tianqi naturally came first with his father, no matter how good Wei Zhongxian's relationship with him is, it can't be more important than his father Mingguangzong, but Wei Zhongxian just did it, but Tianqi didn't react at all, why?

It's very simple, because the apocalypse doesn't know at all.

At that time, Wan Liao, who was responsible for the construction of the Ming Guangzong mausoleum, was specially made a twist for this matter, scolding Wei Zhongxian for being lawless and bullying the king, but as a result, Tianqi did not see the twist, and Wan Liao was killed by Wei Zhongxian in the name of Tianqi!

This incident is enough to prove how terrifying the power of the eunuchs is, to put it mildly, as long as they are powerful, the emperor is a puppet in their hands.

This is also a disadvantage in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, because the power of eunuchs is too great, and many times the power of eunuchs even exceeds that of the cabinet, so the Ming Dynasty is also a dynasty with the most eunuchs and eunuchs, such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Feng Bao, Wei Zhongxian and so on.

At this time, the cabinet scholars generally did not dare to offend the eunuch Bingbi, and the cooperation between the cabinet scholar and the eunuch Bingbi to control the power of the court was also a common phenomenon in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, such as the famous Zhang Juzheng in history, he cooperated with the eunuch Feng Bao to control the power of the court.

Of course, at this time, Feng Bao and Lu Fang were just little eunuchs in the palace, and the most powerful eunuchs in the palace were Huang Jin and Chen Hong, and Xia Yan wanted to cooperate with Chen Hong to control the power of the court.

Now that Yin Liu Shuxiang of Shuntian Mansion has offended Chen Hong, Xia Yan naturally wants to help Chen Hong clean him up.

This has nothing to do with honesty and integrity, Xia Yan didn't help Chen Hong because Chen Hong stuffed him with money, to put it bluntly, Xia Yan just wanted to control the power of the court, as for whether Liu Shuxiang was a corrupt official or a good official, this is not the point.

The power struggle above the court is often not divided into right and wrong, only whether you are an enemy or your own person, this is clear to Zhang Xuan and Xia Yan, and Yang Cong is also clear.

Is Yang Tinghe a good official, if you say it in the general direction, he is, he is a veteran of the Four Dynasties, Zhengde died, no one inherited the throne, he is supporting the entire court, and he welcomed Jiajing into the palace to succeed to the throne, but Zhang Xuan has to clean him up, not for anything else, just for power.

Is Zhang Xuan a good official, if you say it in the general direction, he is too, the Zhengde Dynasty is full of maladministration, it is he who has made drastic moves to eliminate maladministration, and there were signs of Zhongxing in the early days of Jiajing, but Xia Yan has to clean him up, not for anything else, but also for power.

Is Xia Yan a good official, if you look at it in the general direction, he is too, in the early days of Jiajing, he also made a lot of efforts, but Yang Cong also had to clean him up.

Why?

It's very simple, learn it!

Xia Yan thinks that if he can control the power of the court, Daming will definitely become better, and Yang Cong also thinks that if he can control the power of the court, Daming will definitely become better, both of them think so, it is a matter of time before there is a conflict, so Yang Cong became interested as soon as he heard that Xia Yan was going to clean up Liu Shuxiang.

However, he is not like Xia Yan, in order to control the power of the court, anyone dares to use it.

After he took the exam, he found that Liu Shuxiang was indeed a good official and decided to help others, if Liu Shuxiang was a corrupt official, he would not care about other people's lives or deaths, anyway, the future will be long, why rush at this time.

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