Chapter 205: The Big Case
After explaining the matter of investigating this "witch case", and arranging a thing for Lin Yi to do, Xiao Mu was also in a good mood at this time, after all, Lin Ye had something to do, so he wouldn't be idle and bored to torture and harass himself, right?
I don't know why, Xiao Mu's mind naturally appeared in the image of a faint monarch who did not do his job properly and handed over everything to the harem and eunuchs. www.biquge.info Xiao Mu probably recalled those dynasties in history when the harem interfered in politics, or the eunuchs interfered in politics very seriously, presumably at the beginning, the emperors of those dynasties were also like themselves, and they felt that they were troublesome and gave the harem and eunuchs the opportunity to interfere in politics, right?
Then Xiao Mu's heart came up with the aphorisms and aphorisms of "a thousand miles of embankment destroyed in an anthill", "freezing three feet is not a day's cold", and "don't take evil as a small thing", thinking of the harem and eunuchs who learned to deceive Shengcong driven by selfish interests, and then gradually emptied the emperor's power and corrupted the governance of the country......
Of course, Xiao Mu quickly threw away these unrealistic thoughts, because of course the specific problems have to be analyzed in detail, Lin Ye is also a traverser, and now he has become the queen of the Ming Dynasty, living a life of worry-free food and clothing, obviously there is no self-interest to pursue, as for the original owner of Lin Ye's body, that is, Queen Zhou's maiden relatives? Naturally, it has nothing to do with Lin Ye, and of course Lin Ye will not be full enough to support her cheap relatives for some benefit.
Xiao Mu knew very well that for Lin Yi, the biggest pursuit in Daming was to have something to do, not to become the kind of traditional ancient woman who didn't go out of the door, that's all. Other than that, Ringo clearly had no other ambitions or ideas.
Excluding Lin Yi, the master of the harem, Xiao Mu thought of Cao Huachun, who he arranged to assist in the trial of this "witch case", this person can be said to be one of the most powerful eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty at the moment, and Wang Chengen, who follows him every day, is Cao Huachun's subordinate if strictly counted. But Xiao Mu is also not worried about Cao Huachun, because he knows that Cao Huachun should not have the courage of eunuchs to interfere in politics, after all, the once powerful "nine thousand years old" Wei Zhongxian was just cleaned up by the original owner of his body, that is, Emperor Chongzhen, and now it has only been about half a year, and the memory of the eunuchs in the palace has not been bad to that extent, and they want to challenge the authority of the imperial power again. Xiao Mu estimated in his heart that even if he took the initiative to give Cao Huachun the power and opportunity to interfere in political affairs, Cao Huachun might not have the courage to accept it.
Of course, the most important point is that this so-called "witch case" was originally a trivial matter in his harem - although it might have implicated the life of the palace maid Xiaohong, so it was normal to leave this small matter of the harem to the queen of the harem master, and then arrange a eunuch to assist. If this kind of trivial matter has to be left to the ministers of the DPRK and the central government to worry about, then the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty led by Zongdao will definitely be busy every day.
But there is still one thing that Xiao Mu is worried about, that is, whether Lin Yi will magnify this originally simple case. In fact, after traveling to the Ming Dynasty for so long, Xiao Mu consciously or unintentionally also briefly learned about his cheap brother Zhu Youxiao, his cheap father Zhu Changluo, and some things about his cheap grandfather Emperor Wanli, and he also heard about the famous "three major cases" at the end of the Ming Dynasty - the attack case, the red pill case, and the palace removal case. In fact, the so-called "three major cases" do not seem to be a major military matter, and the causes often do not seem to be a big deal, even as a listener, Xiao Mu also feels that there are some inexplicable small things, but it is this kind of small matter, but the result has had a very serious impact, implicated a lot of people, and has become the main topic and battlefield of mutual tilting, attack, and accusation between various parties in the DPRK and China, and quite a lot of officials have been implicated, which has had a very serious impact on the political situation of the Ming Dynasty.
And this so-called "witch case" has similar potential to the previous "three major cases", although it seems to be an inconspicuous triviality, but it is directly related to himself, the emperor. And everyone, including Xiao Mu, knew that the two eunuchs asking for bribes were obviously commonplace in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the fact that the emperor, who was not mainstream, who was full of food and was idle, and who was very interested in witch Gu, would not have thought that there was anything wrong, and the two eunuchs surnamed Li and Zhao did not expect that this kind of trivial matter would alarm their emperor.
Therefore, these two eunuchs are just a typical example of bad luck in a sense, if Lin Yi is too serious in his investigation, or only needs to be a little more serious, he can find more places in the palace that hide dirt and dirt, and it is easy to implicate many people. For example, the bosses of these two eunuchs are probably not honest and honest lords, and they followed this boss, and then continued to check his boss, checked and checked, touched the big network of human relations in the Ming Dynasty, and then implicated the officials of the court and China who had friendships with the eunuchs, and then implicated their teacher, the same year...... At that point, it's clear that things won't end so easily.
Therefore, of course, Xiao Mu does not want the so-called "witch case" to continue to repeat the mistakes of the past and evolve into the "fourth major case" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because even if he is a shopkeeper, Xiao Mu is also very clear that the current political situation in the Ming Dynasty can no longer withstand large-scale purges and stirring - since returning to the palace, Xiao Mu has been working hard in this regard, trying his best to maintain the stability of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty, for example, the reason why Zongdao, the position of the head of the cabinet, is now so stable, of course, is that Xiao Mu has the greatest credit.
For this most concerned issue, Xiao Mu felt that it was necessary for him to remind Lin Yi, so after the end of this "witch identification" activity, Xiao Mu hinted euphemistically to Lin Ye when there was no one, expressing his worries about this matter.
However, Xiao Mu soon found that he was worried in vain, and after listening to Xiao Mu's hint, Lin Yi said very clearly: "How can I not notice the problem that you political idiot can see?" I have my own sense of proportion in this matter, and I will definitely not implicate many people, and I will not even let those officials outside the palace know, so you can sit back and relax and don't have any worries at all. ”