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Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, made a concert, asking Wei Zhongxian to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian not far from the Yue Fei Temple on the shore of the West Lake, in recognition of Wei Zhongxian's various achievements since the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne.

As soon as Pan Ruzhen's recital was announced, it immediately shocked the government and the opposition, and no one thought that he, a dignified governor, would do such a servile thing, and use the ancestral hall to slap Wei Zhongxian's ass, which is simply sweeping the floor.

In ancient times, whether it was a dignitary or a peddler, it was an overstepping thing to build an ancestral hall for others to worship while he was alive, and it would be regarded as ill-intentioned and rebellious.

Therefore, Pan Ruzhen will give this chapter to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, as long as the Emperor of the Apocalypse is willing, then there will be no problem in building the ancestral hall again.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Pan Ruzhen is obviously patting Wei Zhongxian's sycophants, and he is actually currying favor with the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

The reason is very simple, Wei Zhongxian is the house slave of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, if he does a good job, it is naturally the master of the Emperor of the Apocalypse who is well adjusted.

In the discussion of the ministers, the Emperor of the Apocalypse approved Pan Ruzhen's recital after some deliberation, and gave Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall the name "Pude".

The Emperor of the Apocalypse did this not only out of favor to Wei Zhongxian, but also to establish his prestige, and Wei Zhongxian was just a pawn in his hand after all.

Perhaps, even the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not expect that his move would cause officials all over the world to misunderstand it as a benchmark to measure the loyalty of local yamen to the imperial court.

Therefore, officials in various places moved when they heard the wind and followed suit, for fear of falling behind, and followed in the footsteps of Zhou Qiyuan, the governor of Susong.

Don't look at the many officials of the Ming Dynasty who look impassioned and righteous in the court on weekdays, that is, they believe that Emperor Ming will not take their lives, at most they will be beaten up, but they can win the reputation of not being afraid of power and being loyal and courageous.

For example, today, Emperor Qi first killed six people, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, and then killed seven people, including Zhou Qiyuan and Gao Panlong, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty realized that the young son of heaven was not an easily offended master, so who still had enough to touch the mold of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

There is an old saying that is good, thousands of miles of officials are only for money, and the reason why the scholars of the Ming Dynasty study hard is not to get ahead in the future and be promoted to official wealth, and a few of them are sincerely considered for the people.

Take the Donglin Party as an example, although they are under the banner of serving the country and the people, which family does not have thousands of family wealth, and which one is willing to lose their own interests? A single commercial tax reflects the various states of the world!

It is worth mentioning that after the Emperor of the Apocalypse approved Pan Ruzhen's recital, not only the officials of the Ming Dynasty were busy building shrines for Wei Zhongxian, but the peasants in the countryside also built shrines for Wei Zhongxian to worship.

The nature of the peasants is the most simple, who is good to them, they will naturally be good to whom, Wei Zhongxian vigorously reduced and exempted the increasing field tax during the Wanli years, and the biggest benefit is the farmers who make a living by cultivating the fields, so they are naturally grateful to Wei Zhongxian.

This is indeed an irony, who would have thought that Wei Zhongxian, who was deeply hated by the Donglin Party and described as a person who committed the most heinous crimes, could win the hearts of the peasants.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival of the seventh year of the Apocalypse came quietly.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Hongyu spent time with the students who stayed in the Western College, because many of the students in the college were outsiders and the ancient road was not smooth, so the students from other places stayed in the school.

The Western Institute held a grand New Year's dinner for this purpose, in order to enhance the relationship and affection between the people, Li Hongyu has been in the Western Academy for two consecutive years, which shows that he attaches great importance to the Western College.

After the banquet, Li Hongyu and Yamashita Sakurako returned to their residence by car, and the holiday of the Western Academy has been put on the Lantern Festival, so Yamashita Sakurako naturally wants to be with Li Hongyu, usually she is busy with her studies and lives in the dormitory of the Western College, so she has not much time to be with Li Hongyu at all.

On the moving carriage, Li Hongyu leaned on the wall of the carriage and closed the door to recuperate, with a strong smell of alcohol on his body, he drank a lot of wine tonight.

"Xianggong, have you heard, Liu Zhao, the governor of Jizhou, built a golden statue of Wei Zhongxian, wearing a crown on his head and holding a wat in his hand, just like an emperor!"

Sakurako Yamashita, who had also drunk a lot of wine and had a ruddy face, rested on Li Hongyu's lap, quietly enjoying this rare world of two, suddenly, she remembered something, and couldn't help but open her eyes and look at Li Hongyu curiously and said, "Is Liu Zhao a little too much to do this?" ”

"Wei Zhongxian is a eunuch, and he is not young, so the emperor will not mind such a trivial matter, and the more he fears Wei Zhongxian, the more he will not dare to disobey the emperor's will." Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, reached out and stroked the Xiuhou on the head of the cherry blossom under the mountain and replied with his eyes closed.

He naturally heard about this matter, and I am afraid that Liu Zhao's move was to stand out from the many magistrates who built a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, attract Wei Zhongxian's attention, and then soar in his career.

"Xianggong, listening to folk rumors, Liu Zhao greeted the statue of Wei Zhongxian five times and three times, calling 'nine thousand years old', which was a sensation."

Yamashita Sakurako frowned slightly when she heard this, and then her big beautiful eyes flashed and asked, "Is Wei Zhongxian's current power really so great?" ”

"Nine thousand years old?"

Li Hongyu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and explained to Sakurako Yamashita, "The only people who can call 'Chitose' in the Ming Dynasty are the queen, the crown prince and the princes, and the rest of the people who call 'Chitose' are regarded as rebellion, how can Liu Zhao be a smart person to make such a ridiculous mistake, even if Wei Zhongxian is powerful, he will not dare to do it in public." ”

"It seems that Wei Zhongxian is now hated to death by the people of the Donglin Party."

Yamashita Sakurako suddenly smiled when she heard this, she felt strange, how could this "nine thousand years old" be said casually, it was just called like this in private, and shouting it in public was clearly looking for death!

Obviously, the reason why there are such rumors on the market must come from the Donglin Party, which hates Wei Zhongxian to the core.

This is also a counter-plot, if the matter of "nine thousand years old" reaches the ears of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he may suspect Wei Zhongxian of plotting rebellion, and then kill Wei Zhongxian.

It's a pity that Wei Zhongxian is not only a servant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse but also a eunuch without a queen, plus he is not too young, the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not doubt Wei Zhongxian's loyalty to him at all.

What is particularly critical is that Wei Zhongxian is impossible to rebel at all, although he is in charge of the East Factory and controls the Jinyi Guard, he can only mobilize the personnel of these two places to act, not to mention the Jingwei and the personal guard, and even the people of the Imperial Horse Supervisor cannot be dispatched.

Although Wei Zhongxian is now the hottest eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, he has also been checked and balanced by other eunuchs, first the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant eunuch, and then the eunuch who is the imperial horse eunuch, the three of them are in full swing in the inner court, and they are all favored by the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

It's just that because the eunuch in charge of the celebrant seal and the eunuch of the imperial horse did not come out to fight with the civil official group, they appeared to be unknown, but the power in their hands was no less than Wei Zhongxian.

At that time, when the young Emperor Xuande reused the eunuchs to deal with the civil and military elders in the court, he took into account the harm of the eunuchs' centralized power, so he set a three-legged pattern of eunuchs.

Don't look at Wei Zhongxian's power now, but he is only the second-in-command of the celebrant eunuch, serving as the eunuch of the celebrant Xi Bingbi, and the number one of the celebrant eunuchs is the eunuch of the celebrant palm seal.

As for the eunuchs of the imperial horses, they were not the ones who were the celebrants, so that the three of them could check and balance each other and ensure the stability of the inner court.

This is also where the Emperor of the Apocalypse is clever, although he trusts Wei Zhongxian the most, but still checks and balances him, only in this way will Wei Zhongxian do things for him wholeheartedly, and the friendship between the two can last for a long time.

In fact, in order to cater to Wei Zhongxian, some officials of the Ming Dynasty were even more outrageous when they set up a shrine for him.

In order to highlight the dignity of Wei Zhongxian's statue, some officials even used expensive agarwood to give his statue, carved it lifelike, the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands and feet are like living people, and the abdomen, lungs and intestines are all made of gold and jade jewelry, and there is a hole in the bun to insert flowers of the four seasons.

Li Hongyu was quite speechless about this, if that magistrate put his mind on the national economy and people's livelihood, then why did Daming fall into such a field as he is now?

"Xianggong, will someone give the emperor a chapter, and I want to build a shrine for you, you have fought for the Ming Dynasty in the south and the north all these years, and your contribution is much greater than that of Wei Zhongxian!"

After listening to Li Hongyu's explanation to Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall, Yamashita Sakurako understood that there were so many articles in it, and then she thought of one more thing, and couldn't help giggling, and said to Li Hongyu with flashing eyes.

"Whoever plays such a piece of music is trying to murder Xianggong!"

Li Hongyu suddenly opened his closed eyes when he heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said to Sakurako under the mountain in a deep voice, "Xianggong is different from Wei Zhongxian, he is a royal slave and Xianggong is a retainer, if someone gives Xianggong a shrine, how do you think the emperor will feel in his heart?" ”

"The emperor will definitely think that Xianggong may have two hearts, and then take action to eradicate Xianggong."

Hearing this, Yamashita Sakurako also realized that the situation was serious, which would make the Emperor of the Apocalypse regard Li Hongyu as a threat to the imperial power, so he suppressed his smile and looked at Li Hongyu with a concerned expression and asked, "Will anyone do this?" ”

"Probably not, our Ming officials are very shrewd, of course they know how powerful they are, not only will they be disgusted by the emperor, but they will also attract the anger of the minister."

Li Hongyu shook his head when he heard this, eunuchs can establish a shrine, but if civil officials and military generals are undoubtedly complicit in the ancestral hall, the person who speaks first will be unlucky, I am afraid that none of those officials in the officialdom will be so blind and do such a stupid thing that destroys their future.

Sakurako Yamashita breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help patting her heart with her hand a little nervous, she was just a joke and an unintentional remark, but unexpectedly it involved such a big thing, it seems that this officialdom is indeed killing step by step, and if you are not careful, it will lead to destruction.

Li Hongyu smiled when he saw this, and sighed helplessly in his heart, don't look at him now, but he is cautious in officialdom, and he doesn't dare to make a mistake by half a step, and he doesn't know when this kind of day will be a head.

(End of chapter)