Chapter 490 Checks and Balances

Pang Tianshou, a person from Shuntianfu, successively served as the great eunuch of the Chongzhen, Hongguang, and Longwu dynasties, and served as the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, etc., and it can be said that he has achieved the ultimate eunuch.

It's just that he, the eunuch, is more miserable than the great eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty emperor and the Wenchen group are opposed, so the emperor needs to rely on the eunuch power to form a balance in the officialdom, so the eunuchs became bigger in the later period, but when it came to Emperor Yizong, the politically naïve Emperor Yizong broke this balance, and the eunuchs lost power.

As a great eunuch, Pang Tianshou naturally hoped to do something to revive the majesty of the inner court, so as early as when he was in Fujing, he revealed that he wanted to take power, but he was disliked by Longwu, and sent him to Macau to understand the Francophone and deal with the recruitment of Francophone talents.

Soon after he arrived in Macao, Zheng Zhilong sold Fujian, and the life and death of Emperor Longwu were unknown, and he was originally going to Zhaoqing, but at this time, the Tang King was in Guangzhou to supervise the country to resist the Qing Dynasty, and he could not see the situation clearly, so he stayed in Macao to study the doctrine of Christianity while watching the current situation.

After that, the Longwu court came back to life, although it lost Fujian, but the land of Jiangxi was fully recovered, the Ming army Yanping a bloody battle, and successfully besieged Wei to save Zhao, forced the Qing soldiers who attacked Guangzhou to withdraw back to the division, so that the Canton land could be saved, and so that Longwu moved to Guangzhou, the court also regained a foothold, opened the situation, and he got the news in Macau, so he gave up and defected to King Gui, with three hundred francs of machine gunners, rushed to Guangzhou to continue to serve.

Most of the palace maids and eunuchs of the Longwu court in Fujian were separated, and Pang Tianshou naturally re-became the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch.

When he was in Fujian, the entire court was suppressed by Zheng Zhilong, and he had no chance to gain any rights, so after the Longwu court got rid of Zheng Zhilong, he was still very happy and ready to do a big job, but he soon found that the civil officials of the Longwu court immediately merged with Wang Yan, the prince of Chu, who was also a literati, and it seemed that there was a merger of civil and military forces and the intention of taking charge of the government together.

For the emperor, how to make the imperial power unchallenged, the best means is to cultivate two forces to check and balance each other under the imperial power, and the people below fight, which faction is strong, which faction will be suppressed, so that the following fight endlessly, then the emperor will always be safe.

This hand, the most slippery player is Emperor Jiajing, he used Yan Song to engage in Xia Yan, and then used Xu Jie to engage in Yan Song, more than 20 years have not been in the court, but he can turn his courtiers around, which shows his political skills.

Of course, the emperor's country is stable, but it is not of much benefit to the world.

The checks and balances within the Ming court were broken during the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the civil official group finally developed into that state, which had a lot to do with Emperor Chongzhen himself.

After Jiashen, in order to fight against the civil official group led by Donglin, King Fu could only re-find a balance in the world. At this time, the eunuch party was abolished, and when he looked around, he could only introduce military generals into the court, and the four towns in Jiangbei immediately became bigger with the work of making decisions.

Ma Ruan, with Xunzhen as the backing, began to fight for power with civilian officials, but Xunzhen's side of the force is almost a difficult force to control, and once it is released, there will be endless disasters.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, relatives and eunuchs fought, killing and killing, but the world was basically able to maintain balance, but once Dong Zhuo, who was Xunzhen, joined, the world immediately collapsed.

In Chinese history, there are only a total of only those who can influence the political situation, such as relatives, eunuchs, scholars, Xunzhen, and imperial power.

After thousands of years of struggle in China, the lessons of the two Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty cannot be used by relatives and eunuchs, and Xunzhen, that is, the military generals, must also be locked in cages and restricted, otherwise there has been chaos for hundreds of years since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

It is said that the Zhao and Song dynasties reached the extreme of ancient China, because he basically solved the problems of relatives, eunuchs, and Xunzhen, and the scholar class, compared with other classes, had the least threat to the imperial power, and at the same time could restrain the imperial power.

In ancient times, although it was known as the world, it seemed that the entire country belonged to the emperor, and the emperor should love the whole world and lead the entire dynasty forward, but in fact, the first consideration of a mature emperor is how to sit firmly in the world, loyal ministers, traitorous ministers, and the dawn people, these are not important to him, traitorous ministers are useful, they will also use them, and loyal ministers threaten him, and they will still be killed.

The class of scholars, although attached to the imperial power, is opposed to the imperial power, the imperial power is to the world, the scholars believe that the world is not the emperor alone, the emperor wants to mess up, and the scholars have the responsibility to restrain it, so the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers ruled together, and the life of the gentry and the common people was also the happiest in the past dynasties.

Later generations may feel that the Song Dynasty was more humiliated, so what are the feelings of the Song people themselves? In the first battle of Yashan, more than 100,000 people threw themselves into the sea and died, if they didn't love this dynasty, why would so many people be willing to be buried?

The development of imperial power to the extreme, for the world is not beneficial, this point in the early Ming Dynasty to implement the eight shares, ban Mencius, has already shown clues, but the emergence of the cabinet, there is still the idea of the scholars and scholars to rule the world together, but when the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chinese history has been restricting the imperial power of the taxi class, in the Manchu Dynasty after the massacre and the unprecedented literary prison, its ideas can no longer be called scholars, basically become cynics, is no longer the traditional Confucianism that can restrain the imperial power, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty imperial power developed to the extreme, The Manchu rulers wanted to "rather give away friends than domestic slaves", and even if there were people in the world who opposed it, they could not restrain it.

At present, within the Ming court, with the eunuch forces out, the government is controlled by the Wenchen and Xunzhen forces, and the relationship between Xunzhen and Wenchen is actually an antagonistic and fighting relationship.

The same is true of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, with endless battles between Xunzhen and civil officials, and between Xunzhen and Xunzhen, all because after the originally stable system was broken, the various forces could not find a balance.

At this time, there was no kind of chaos in history within the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was because of the existence of Wang Yan's special identity, he was first of all the head of Xunzhen, and the generals were suppressed by him, and secondly, he was a real person, recognized by civilian officials, and had a long-term strategic vision.

In this way, the entire imperial court has reached a balance, and the two sides can compromise with each other through Wang Yan, and there is such an existence to regulate contradictions, but this is only the internal situation of the Longwu Imperial Court, and there are many external forces, which have not yet been counted.

However, since the balance has been reached within the court, no matter which side does not want a third force to come in and stir up the situation, the inner court master of ceremonies will definitely be the target of suppression.

The institution of the celebrant was set up in the Xuanzong period, in order to contain the cabinet, but as soon as he appeared, he was destined to be above the cabinet.

After Pang Tianshou became the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, he naturally wanted to seize power with full expectations, but he found that the power of the imperial court had been firmly in the hands of Xunzhen headed by Wang Yan and the civil servants of the outer court, and the military and political power had already been divided, and he could not move anyone's interests, and the emperor did not support him, so the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch basically became a vacant position.

Originally, Pang Tianshou saw that he had no chance, so he stopped thinking about it and served the emperor honestly, but as the situation in the court became better and better, a large number of officials began to come to Guangjing, and they were all high-grade officials, but at this time, the main positions of real power in the Longwu court were basically controlled.

Among these newcomers, some capable people were appointed, and some did not get good positions, these people are not good at fighting, and they are not good at doing practical things, but they are good at internal fighting, and people like Zuo Maodi and Su Guansheng are naturally not used by them, and these people will inevitably be dissatisfied.

Pang Tianshou saw that there was a sense of division and struggle within the Wenchen group, and felt that the opportunity had come, so he pulled up a group of people after a little retraction.

At this time, the news of Wang Yan's eastern expedition spread to Guilin, which was a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but in the eyes of King Gui's regime, it was different.

Originally, the Longwu regime was thriving day by day, but the Guiwang regime had never done anything, and if Wang Yan's eastern expedition was victorious, wouldn't the Guiwang regime be even more hopeless.

This kind of worry made King Gui derive the intention of separating the Longwu monarch and ministers, so he sent people to Guangjing to try to win over the ministers within the Longwu court.

Although Pang Tianshou gathered some Wenchen, his power was not enough to challenge the outer court, and at this time, his Wenchen Ding Shikui, Jin Bao and others, because they were familiar with Yuan Pengnian sent by King Gui, were quickly co-opted, and then introduced Yuan Pengnian to Pang Tianshou.

At this time, Emperor Longwu, because of overwork, his body was getting thinner and thinner, and time was running out, Pang Tianshou thought that according to the previous agreement between Tang, Gui, and Lu, the last successor to the throne was very likely to be King Gui, the heir of the Ming Dynasty, so he immediately hit it off with Yuan Pengnian.

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