Liu Jin, a native of Xingping, Shaanxi, the head of the Eight Tigers, from the first year of Zhengde to the fifth year of Zhengde, he used the trust of Emperor Zhengde to manipulate the government, known as "nine thousand years old", and also known as the "Emperor of the Standing Land", throughout the Ming Dynasty, he was one of the most powerful eunuchs.

Whether it was at that time or in later generations, Liu Jin's reputation was not very good, and it could even be said to be very bad, and the Shilin at that time summarized two major crimes for him.

The most obvious evidence is that as soon as he ascended to power, he immediately squeezed out Xie Qian and Liu Jian, as well as a large number of courtiers, among the three virtuous ministers, and also encircled a group of minions such as Jiao Fang and Liu Yu to take over the power of the court.

However, in Zhou Chong's view, this crime is really a bit wronged Liu Jin, after all, once a son of heaven and a courtier, Zhengde had just succeeded to the throne at that time, but Xie Qian and Liu Jian, these old ministers, have always wanted to suppress the monarchy, and even still treat Zhengde as a child, and they have to fight against it from time to time. As a result, Zhengde had to rely on the eunuchs around him to seize power, so there was a confrontation between the eunuchs led by Liu Jin and the ministers of the DPRK and China, and the final end ended with Liu Jin's victory.

Liu Jin's second major crime is greed for money, which is not wronged at all, as eunuchs can't do things like men and women, so they have an unusual love for yellow and white things, which is even more prominent in Liu Jin. After he took power, he tried his best to collect money for himself, asking for bribes, accepting bribes, and embezzlement, all of which were common methods, and in order to collect money, he even geniused to invent many names that had never been done before, or carried forward some of the original etiquette, such as congratulatory money, such as greeting ceremonies, and so on.

And Liu Jin is different from ordinary corrupt officials. He was particularly bold. Because there is only one emperor above him. And this emperor is still a guy who likes to play around, and he has never been very careful, which also gives him the opportunity to make a lot of money. In addition, Liu Jin is very domineering, in his opinion, he wants others to ask for money because he can afford the other party, so others have to give if they want to, and they have to give if they don't want to give, otherwise they will offend him. The consequences, of course, are also severe.

It is also this unique way of accumulating wealth, so that Liu Jin in just a few years, has accumulated a huge amount of wealth, in the later generations of Zhou Chong, the world's financial center Wall Street has made an authoritative statistics, the result of Liu Jin listed Liu Jin as one of the richest fifty people in human history, which shows how amazing the wealth he has accumulated.

However, although Liu Jin was greedy for money and extremely greedy for power, he was able to stand out among the Eight Tigers and control the government alone. Naturally, he is not an incompetent person, even while satisfying his own pursuit of wealth. He began to have a higher pursuit of life, and this pursuit is to go down in history.

After Liu Jin gained power, he did not do nothing, on the contrary, he made a lot of changes to the political system in response to some of the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and implemented some new laws, that is, the so-called "Liu Jin changed the law".

There are a lot of entries in Liu Jin's reforms, there is no need to describe them one by one, in these changes in the entries, some of them are indeed very targeted, solving some problems in the politics of the Ming Dynasty at that time, of course, some reforms did not achieve the expected goals, and even some entries are out of Liu Jin's selfishness, serving their own interests, so the content of Liu Jin's changes is good and bad, and cannot be generalized.

However, among these items of change, one of them finally took Liu Jin's life, and this entry was to sort out the military tun. The so-called military tun, a military system developed by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning, to put it bluntly, is to let the soldiers farm their own land to support themselves, and train soldiers during the slack time, and these soldiers are called military households.

Originally, the military cantonment system was still good, firstly, a large number of soldiers could be self-sufficient, and even the grain produced could support the national treasury, and secondly, the soldiers had their own land, and they would not be easily instigated to rebel. Of course, the combat effectiveness of these military households is certainly not as good as that of the professional army, but it is still good as a security force.

But later, with the development of the times, some of the systems formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang began to collapse, including the military cantonment system, mainly because some high-level officials in the army began to encroach on the land of the military households, and as a result, the military households lost their land step by step, and finally became the tenants of the officers, and their lives were extremely miserable.

The collapse of the military cantonment system made the vast majority of the army of the Ming Dynasty have no combat power, after all, those military households can't even eat, let alone go to war. This situation is fine in other places, but in border areas such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo, it is undoubtedly fatal. Therefore, under such circumstances, Liu Jin proposed to sort out the military cantonments and re-measure the land and distribute it to the military households, hoping to restore the military cantonment system and achieve the goal of improving the army's combat effectiveness.

But Liu Jin only cared about his greed for money, but he didn't think that Juntun had already become the private land of the middle and upper echelons of the army, and now he wanted to measure the redivision of land in an important way, which was undoubtedly cutting meat from those officers. Therefore, as soon as this reform of reorganizing the military cantonment came out, it was immediately opposed by the military system, especially those generals who held real power.

In this case, a person finally jumped out, this person is Zhu Ningyao, the king of Anhua, this person has always been ambitious, especially when he saw that Zhengde was not doing his job, staying in the leopard room all day long and frolicking, and the power of the court was actually controlled by Liu Jin, a eunuch, which made him even more ambitious and ready to do a big career.

At the beginning of April of the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the opportunity that Zhu Ningxiao had been waiting for finally came, and Liu Jin's tidying up of the army caused the dissatisfaction of most of the generals of the army, and the morale of the army was also very unstable. Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhu Ningxia persuaded a group of generals such as Shi Zhouang, the commander of Ningxia, to kill the eunuch Li Zeng, the chief soldier Jiang Han, and a group of civil and military officials in Ningxia at a banquet, and officially rebelled, and in order to publicize the justice of his rebellion, Zhu Ningxiao published an article against Liu Jin, putting all the fault on Liu Jin, and then raising troops with the slogan of killing Liu Jin and eliminating harm for the people, hoping to get a response from all over the country.

But Zhu Ningxiao really overestimated his influence, he thought that as long as he raised his arms and shouted, he would immediately get a response from all over the country, but the fact was that his message was sent everywhere, but no one responded, but someone sent his message to the imperial court, which made the government and the opposition shake for a while, and even Zhu Houzhao, who was playing in the leopard room, was also alarmed, and took the initiative to convene several important ministers for the first time.

In the Wuying Palace, the young Emperor Zhengde sat on the dragon chair with a frown, showing a rare serious expression. In front of him, Liu Jin, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and other important ministers were all listed.

"Your Majesty, the king of Anhua has bad intentions, and he actually rebelled at this time, and the old slave thought that he should immediately send troops to suppress it to set an example!" Liu Jin, who had gray hair and a rickety waist, stood in the main hall, suggesting to Zhengde that he send troops to suppress the rebellion of King Anhua.

Seeing that Liu Jin was so active, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and others next to him were all smiling secretly in their hearts, the text of King Anhua's rebellion had been transmitted to the capital, and every sentence in the text was aimed at Liu Jin, no wonder he was so anxious.

"The minister seconded the proposal, as a descendant of the royal family, King Anhua did not know how to educate the people, but instigated the border military households to rebel, which is really a heinous crime, and troops must be sent as soon as possible to pacify!" Although Li Dongyang smiled secretly in his heart, he still had to stand with Liu Jin in this kind of national affairs, after all, King Anhua's rebellion was a heinous crime, and he naturally had to send troops to suppress it.

Liu Jin saw that Li Dongyang supported him, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, some time ago, as a confidant of Jiao Fang, the first assistant of the cabinet, secretly allegiance to him, and also told him some of the words that Jiao Fang secretly said to slander himself, which made Liu Jin furious, I wanted to rectify Jiao Fang, but I didn't expect the other party to be very slippery, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately asked him to resign, and he approved it after the worst, so now most of the affairs in the cabinet are temporarily replaced by Li Dongyang, and the performance of the other party also makes him very satisfied.

Emperor Zhengde, who was sitting on the dragon chair, saw that Liu Jin and Li Dongyang had agreed to send troops, so he said lazily: "What the two Aiqing said is very true, but what I am worried about now is who to send to lead the army to quell the rebellion, what kind of candidates do you have?" ”

Hearing Zhengde ask about the general of the counterinsurgency, Liu Jin and the others all showed a little distressed expression. Speaking of which, in addition to the early reuse of military generals for a period of time, the Ming Dynasty once again exerted Yangwen and suppressed military force to the extreme, and even many of the people who commanded the troops at the border were from civilian backgrounds, no matter how high the official position of a military general was, but sometimes when he saw a civilian official who was a few levels lower than him, he would feel a head shorter.

This is especially the case in the Zhengde Dynasty, there are almost no generals in the entire imperial court, and if you want to quell the rebellion now, you must not only send a person who knows how to fight, but also this person must be trusted by the imperial court, but throughout the entire imperial court, there are almost no military generals who meet this condition.

"Your Majesty, there is one person from the old minister who recommends it, and I hope that Your Majesty will give you permission!" At this time, Li Dongyang suddenly stood up and said with a smile on his face, and there seemed to be some inexplicable meaning in his smile.

"Oh, who does Master Li want to recommend?" Zhengde asked happily when he saw that someone finally spoke. Li Dongyang was the crown prince and was responsible for teaching Zhengde to read, so Zhengde has always been commensurate with him as a master, which is also one of the reasons why Liu Jin did not dare to deal with Li Dongyang without permission before.

"His Majesty, the old minister recommended the former trilateral commander-in-chief Yang Yiqing, he has been an official in the court for many years, and has led the army in Ningxia and Gansu, and his prestige in the frontier is extremely strong, if the court can use him again, then maybe there will not be a single soldier, only Yang Yiqing needs to arrive in Ningxia, and the rebels over there will definitely surrender without a fight!" Li Dongyang finally said the choice in his heart, but when he said these words, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Liu Jin, thinking that maybe the opportunity he had been waiting for for many years had finally come! (To be continued......)