Chapter 614: Seizure of Power

The Forbidden City of Beijing, the temperature here is lower than outside the city, at least the people in the palace feel like this, although it is already past May, and the weather is gradually getting hotter.

However, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace all felt trembling, the chill was pressing, this chill was completely brought by terror, since knowing that the soldiers and horses of Jizhen had failed in Guangning, Emperor Jiajing's temper began to become irritable, and he lost his temper in the inner study and the court every day.

And the number of times to take the pill is increasing, even those Taoist priests who are alchemizing are a little scared, at this time the so-called golden pill, after people eat it, there will always be a short period of mental excitement, and the mental state seems to be very good, but then people always become more and more anxious, and there is a state of fire in the so-called Chinese medicine. At this time, the human body becomes very unstable, and it is not known when the abnormality will appear.

Emperor Jiajing is like this at present, he began to summon concubines frequently every night, and sometimes the palace maids with similar appearances were seen by him, and they were also called to sleep. As the person weakens a little bit, the eunuchs and palace maids below do something wrong, and the end is miserable, and they will be killed by the rod immediately.

Since the second half of April, more than a dozen small eunuchs have been killed in the palace, although after Emperor Jiajing regained power, he relied on the internal officials around him, but if you want to have the prestige and power of Wang Zhen and Liu Jin back then, it is impossible, Rui Xiaosan has no qualifications and accumulation.

Although he is now in control of Dongchang and the celebrant eunuch, he is still absolutely weak, watching the eunuchs in the palace being tortured and killed one by one, but he can't say anything, and he doesn't dare to say anything.

The loss of Liaozhen and the news of the army's retreat have already made Emperor Jiajing full of frustration, he has been thinking about what he is doing wrong, he reviews what he has done since he ascended the throne, compared to his predecessors, he does not feel that he has done a bad job, and in some ways even surpasses.

But why is there so much chaos under their own governance, and there will even be forces with no precedent in "Huazhou".

After taking the pill, people who take it will have a period of psychedelic period, in this short period of time, people's thinking is particularly divergent, and it has become particularly sensitive, Emperor Jiajing recalled over and over again his performance after ascending the throne as emperor and what happened below.

The beginning of everything, no matter what Emperor Jiajing thought, began with the so-called Jingshi merchant group starting to carry out reclamation manor outside the side wall, and the reclamation manor and Jingshi merchant group, led by Huang Jin and Lu Bing, when people reached this kind of panic and anger, their brains were a little unclear.

Emperor Jiajing thinks like this every day, and thinks more and more that Lu Bing and Huang Jin are the source of the chaos of the Ming Dynasty today, if there is no them, there will be no situation like today, Huazhou's base and military sources are outside the border wall, if there is no reclamation of Huang Jin and Lu Bing, what foundation and population will there be.

The culprits are Huang Jin and Lu Bing, the emperor ponders it every day, and he is more and more convinced of what he thinks, Huang Jin has been ambushed, Lu Bing is now the hottest minister at present, and many things in military and political affairs are controlled by Lu Bing.

The emperor also knew that no matter what, he could sit in this position again, Lu Bing contributed a lot, and he was also handling these things every day, if he killed this person, I am afraid that before the foreign enemy came, his court would be in chaos first, and Emperor Jiajing was not the kind of character with a confused head, when he was conscious, he also knew that no matter what Lu Bing had done in the past, he was currently in the same boat as himself.

But he also knew that after such a cumulative bad feeling, it was difficult to guarantee that he would not move his murderous intentions, and he would regret it at that time.

On May 10 of the 23rd year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing issued an order, the mighty Marquis, the crown prince Shaobao, and the Jinyi Wei all commanded Lu Bing to go out of Beijing to supervise the mighty battalion, take charge of the soldiers and horses north of the Beijing Division, and supervise the war with Huazhou. Deng Hua returned to Beijing to lead the Imperial Horse Supervisor Battalion and garrison the Beijing camp outside the city, and also transferred Xuanhua and Datong soldiers and horses to the east to supplement the defense of the Beijing Division and Tongzhou.

Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi soldiers and horses in addition to the soldiers and horses left behind in the province, must be prepared to reinforce the north Zhili, and the soldiers and horses of South Zhili, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong are stationed in the local area and strictly abide by their duties, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong support Fujian, so that the chaotic army in Zhangzhou City will no longer spread.

One by one, the will was sent out from the Beijing Division, and the civil servants in the court did not have any opinion on the emperor's will, at present, one-third of the soldiers and horses in the north of the Beijing Division were concentrated in the hands of the military generals, although it was already so critical at this time, the principle of the Wen in the military still had to be adhered to.

Although Lu Bing was a military attache of the internal guard, he had a good reputation among the literati of the Western Party, and there were allusions to participating in the imperial examination and achieving outstanding results back then, and the literati did not reject him too much.

Lu Bing knows about military affairs and is a deep person, and he is relieved to go; in fact, the current civil and military system insisted on by the bigwigs of the DPRK and China is better to say that they hope to have someone from their own faction to take charge of the army.

When the Western Party came to power, the various positions of the Beijing Division were only received in their hands, and the local authorities had not had time to rotate, and the army was even more uneasy, and the Eastern Party used silver and benefits to make many generals have a good impression of them, and Emperor Jiajing came to power in the second mutiny, and took power, and the civil officials of the Western Party, the internal security military attache represented by Lu Bing and the eunuchs represented by Rui Xiaosan, and the Shaanxi border army represented by Zhou Lin were already tied together. Lu Bing is his own person, and it is a good thing for him to be in charge of the army.

This time, some quick-witted people discovered a problem, that is, unconsciously, Rui Xiaosan was originally the imperial horse supervisor battalion directly led by Rui Xiaosan instead of the emperor, but now it has been handed over to Deng Hua of the Western Army, I don't know what this change symbolizes, does it mean that the emperor has something uneasy about the eunuchs.

The transfer of the emperor, this generation of ceremonial eunuch Rui Xiaosan, silently accepted, many of the functions of the ceremonial eunuch have been replaced by the inner study, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty ancestor Zhu Di, there has never been a time when the power of the leader of the eunuchs has weakened to such a point.

When Rui Xiaosan was on an errand in the palace back then, he also saw how foreign officials flattered those big eunuchs with grades, and the ceremonial eunuch Huang Jin naturally didn't need to say it, and the rest of the eunuchs with grades in the Yamen, and those who were above the third grade in the outer court, after seeing it, they all shook their heads and tails as if they were pugs, lest they not please enough.

At that time, the eunuch could really be called a call for wind and rain, even if it was a small eunuch with no grade below, as long as he had a little power, it was all fragrant and spicy, and his life was nourishing, this situation continued until the fall of Huang Jin, and when the Eastern Party Wenchen controlled the government, he began to impose many restrictions on internal officials, and began to liquidate the past things, and many eunuchs' family property was confiscated into the palace.

The use of the palace has also been subject to many restrictions, and many eunuchs have no opportunity to get up and down, and during the period when the Eastern Party was in power, the lower-level eunuchs actually died of poverty, disease, and starvation.

This is also because the eunuchs were defeated because Emperor Jiajing got rid of Huang Jin, but they still supported Emperor Jiajing to regain power. After the elimination of the Eastern Party, the eunuchs' life suddenly became better, and the civil officials of the Western Party came to power and regarded the internal officials as their own Olympic aid, which was also close to them, and the eunuchs thought that the opportunity for them to turn over and become masters was coming, and the matter of the tax supervisors made them feel that the scenery was infinite.

I didn't expect the policy of the tax supervisor, in the three northern provinces of the riot was too ruthless, causing a monstrous civil unrest, in the end, the chaos subsided, the eunuchs had no reason to continue to stay in the place, they could only return to Beijing in a gray way, but what they didn't expect was that the Jiajing Emperor and the civil officials in the name of the common people's anger, those who served as tax supervisors were ruthless, all of them cut off their heads, confiscated their family property, some time ago were still very affectionate Western Party civil officials, quickly drew a clear line with the eunuchs, and those people in the past criticized the eunuchs, Wanton attacks.

Fortunately, the tax supervisors who can be sent out are a minority after all, and cutting off their heads will not affect the interests of the majority of people, and the next thing is to slowly recover.

But at this time, it was found that no matter how they tossed, their power would never be restored to the same extent as before, originally the celebrant and the cabinet were called the internal and external centers, deciding the major affairs of the world, and the army was stationed in battle, and it was necessary to have eunuchs and eunuchs to supervise the army, but these powers were taken back one by one.

Combined with the cabinet, the civil and military system, the inner study under the direct leadership of the emperor gradually divided the power of the celebrant and the eunuch, and the eunuchs of the supervising army gradually withdrew. Dongchang has been squeezed by the Jinyi Guard led by Lu Bing, and now it is a job similar to that of the Shuntian Mansion.

The power of the eunuchs comes from the emperor, although the power that finally returned to their hands was withdrawn step by step, they still tolerated it, hoping that there would be a recurrence in the future, because the imperial horse eunuch camp was always in their hands, and the power of the guards was in their hands, which still showed that they were trusted.

But at this time, the military power of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was also withdrawn, and the eunuchs in the capital finally felt a trace of despair......