Chapter 97: The Imperial Bureau
The market is still peaceful, the people's livelihood is slowly recovering, and Mao Yulong's heroic image gradually disappears with the end of the year, and it is gradually forgotten by the people. In the end, no one remembered this person anymore, the reason why this suffering disaster was quelled, and the final credit was remembered by the people, of course, it was not Mao Yulong who remembered, but the wise and martial emperor.
Of course, the current Mao Yulong is not a superior person, and he doesn't know the procedures of officialdom at all, so he thinks about some things simply, which is understandable, after all, in his previous life, Mao Yulong's place of work was still a private group company, not officialdom.
Officialdom has the rules of officialdom, especially at the end of this intricate Ming Dynasty, the emperor, the cabinet, the eunuch party, Donglin, the Chu party, the Zhejiang party, large and small, all kinds of ideas, all kinds of forces, intertwined with each other, plus a lady of the inner palace, making trouble left and right in the middle, the entire Ming court, it is simply a miasma.
On the eighteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, the 800-mile emergency report of the Hangzhou Mutiny first arrived at the mansion of the 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian.
The current Wei Zhongxian, as the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, is the capital of the East Factory, with a high position and power, and can be said to be the second person in the world. Although there is still some fear of the ministers of the cabinet, as the feathers gradually plump, they can also compete with the cabinet supported by the Wenchen group.
Therefore, he no longer works in the small courtyard of the Jingshan Master of Ceremonies in the imperial city, and has built a luxurious official residence close to the imperial city. Except for the daily routine meeting with the emperor, everything was handled in his luxurious mansion.
Of course, this arrangement is also to make it more convenient for local officials to give gifts to themselves. After all, not all officials in the imperial city can enter.
But the current situation is that the eunuch party and Donglin are only fighting each other, and their forces are equal, but they have not yet been separated.
If you want to break this situation, it is not enough to rely on the favoritism of the emperor alone, because in the late Ming Dynasty, it was the cabinet that really controlled the situation. And the cabinet is the base of the Donglin Party, and Ye Xianggao is one of the leaders of the Donglin Party.
And at this stalemate, for Wei Zhongxian, he felt a kind of disaster coming. That is, the emperor, who had always supported him with all his might, suddenly withdrew his strength, and from the original sparing no effort to support himself, he became hesitant and swayed again.
This is not a good sign, although Wei Zhongxian was born as a peasant, but the peasant's little cunning and cleverness let him know that the reason why the emperor fully supported him was to use himself to fight against the cabinet and Donglin who had overthrown the imperial power. But now I'm slowing down myself again, and there's a reason.
In fact, Wei Zhongxian also understands that it is understandable for the emperor to do this, after all, he is a dog of the emperor's family, and he is released to take care of the master, but if he bites all the guests and friends around the emperor, his master will be very faceless, and it will eventually become a delicacy for the emperor's banquet guests.
Wei Zhongxian knew that now his dog was a little crazy, and he really caught who bit whom. But is it your own fault? If you want to blame, you can only blame the little emperor.
The highest realm of the emperor is to play the balance of power, and he can let the dog out and bite those enemies who make the emperor have no power, but once the balance is reached, the rabbit dies and the dog cooks, which is his final fate.
Although he understands this truth, it also shows that he and his eunuchs have reached the point where it is difficult to ride a tiger.
Maintaining this balance, although it is the goal that the emperor wants to achieve, is definitely not something that his eunuch group can bear.
Donglin Shizi Group is inherently formed for thousands of years, and it is deliberately supported by the emperors of the previous generations of the Ming Dynasty, and they have a deep heritage and a solid foundation.
And his own eunuch clique was only temporarily supported on the whim of the emperor in order to compete for imperial power.
The lessons of several great eunuchs in the Zhengde period are clearly placed there, that is, what happened after they lost the use value of the emperor.
And once the emperor's support is lost, this balance is broken, and the time has come for these people to die without a place to bury.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian and his comrades finally understood one thing, although he was now in a moment's glory, as if he was in power, but his power and glory were just pavilions built on the beach, a small sea