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"Teacher, student, here is a letter written by Master Lu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Master Lu instructed the students to hand over the letters to their teachers. ”

"Oh?"

Chen Fangyin was obviously a little interested, Chen Fangyin took out the letter paper and looked at it unhurriedly, and after reading it, he smiled again and again: "Okay, good!" ”

"Xie Shen, do you know what Lord Lu said in the letter?"

Xie Shen secretly slandered in his heart, how do I know what the content of the letter you opened and read the old man reads.

"Please also ask the teacher to make it clear."

"Father-in-law Liu is coming to Hangzhou to take up his post."

Father-in-law Liu?

Which Father-in-law Liu?

Xie Shen's first reaction was that this person should not be very famous, and he had the impression that there was no eunuch surnamed Liu who was too famous in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

"It's Liu Wen and Liu Gonggong! He was the one who came to Hangzhou to serve as a eunuch this time! ”

Xie Shen was slightly stunned, this Chen Fangyin and Master Chen don't treat him as an outsider, right?

However, it is not difficult to understand, after all, it was Lu Yuan who asked him to deliver the letter, Chen Fangyin must have thought that Lu Yuan had told him everything about the matter.

But the problem is that Xie Shen didn't know what was written in the letter at all, and it was really a mistake to be handed over by the great grandmaster like this.

If you talk about the ability to care about people's hearts, Xie Shen can be regarded as middle-class. But he racked his brains and couldn't understand why the Great Grandmaster wanted to give him an explanation. You must know that the eunuch guarding the town is the existence of the governor among the eunuchs, and it is the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven who is placed in various places to monitor the ministers.

The situation that the Son of Heaven was most worried about was that the courtiers had ill intentions and disobeyed the orders of the imperial court.

The eunuchs don't see much real power, but in fact, they are all acting in secret, and they will kill people as soon as they make a move.

If the eunuch of the town guard found that an official was corrupt and solicited bribes, or disobeyed the yang and yin of the court, he would immediately write a note and order someone to send it to the capital to be sent to the emperor urgently.

From the perspective of logic, the original intention of the Son of Heaven to set up the town guard eunuchs was to check and balance local officials, and to put it bluntly, it was to decentralize power.

The setting of the governor is also the same, but the governor is a foreign minister, the eunuch is a retainer, and even the Hongzhi Emperor, who dislikes eunuchs the most, has to admit that eunuchs are more reliable. Otherwise, he would not have been so pampered by the official Li Guang.

Of course, in the later period, the governor had too much power, and the governor was set up to check and balance. Therefore, officials such as political envoys in the middle and later Ming Dynasty are really chicken. But at least in the Hongzhi Dynasty, the political envoys still had some power.

From this point of view, it seems that the eunuch Liu Gonggong is in the middle and upper ranks among the eunuchs.

Based on Xie Shen's inference, this Gonggong Liu should belong to the second echelon of eunuchs.

The first echelon must be the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, these people accompany him, and he must be deeply trusted by the Son of Heaven.

Like Gonggong Liu, it should also be optimistic about the Son of Heaven, just because the inner court is also a radish and a pit, if you want to reuse this Gonggong Liu, you can only put it in Hangzhou.

Compared with the Beijing officials in the circle of foreign ministers who reject the local officials, the celebrant eunuchs in the circle of eunuchs do not exclude these eunuchs too much.

After all, they are all slaves of the Son of Heaven, maybe the emperor will be relegated to Nanjing or go to guard the mausoleum.

The dignitaries of the eunuchs were more dependent on the Son of Heaven than the ministers, so they were also more loyal to the Son of Heaven, which was also in line with human nature.

But the question is, how did Lu Yuan get this news?

What was Lu Yuan asking him to bring the news to Master Chen?

A series of questions made Xie Shen's brain swell, and without waiting for Chen Fangyin to ask, he arched his hand and said, "Since this is the case, congratulations to the teacher." ”

After hearing this, Chen Fangyin frowned and said: "What are you talking about, what is the old man happy about, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"That's what the teacher taught."

Xie Shen searched desperately in his mind, but he didn't have much impression of Chen Fangyin's glorious deeds.

It's no wonder that there are so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he also knows a little about the old Shangshu of various courts, how can he know everyone well, isn't that the aura of the protagonist in the online novel.

Xie Shen secretly thought to himself, people will have selfishness, and those who are not selfish are saints.

Thinking of the previous time when Mr. Chen and Lu Yuan visited Cuihu Lake together in Shaoxing Mansion, they had a very happy conversation, and now I think that it should not be as simple as catching up with the old in the same year.

Lu Yuan's personality is quite calm, even if he gets Gonggong Liu to take the position of Hangzhou town guard eunuch, there is no reason to spread the news immediately.

Then there is only one explanation, he wants to use this news to send a signal to Mr. Chen.

As for what the signal was, Xie Shen was difficult to figure out for a while.

Alas, people in officialdom like to talk half-talking, and it's really annoying for people to understand it themselves.

"Lord Lu is really painstaking."

Old Master Chen shook his head and sighed, then turned to Xie Shen and said, "This letter says that Gonggong Liu set off ten days ago, and the old man pinched his fingers, he should be in Hangzhou soon." ”

It is far more convenient to travel from Beijing to Hangzhou by boat than by land, and it will be faster if you don't need to change ships at the level of a eunuch who is a town guard, unless he is delayed on the road for pleasure.

"You also happen to be in Hangzhou these days, so go with the old man to meet Grandpa Liu outside the city."

After Lord Chen said this, Xie Shenzhi was dumbfounded. No matter what Gonggong Liu says, he is also a eunuch, and Mr. Chen is a provincial scholar and a teacher of the province's scholars. Even if other officials in Hangzhou City wanted to flatter Eunuch Liu and go out of the city to greet him, Old Man Chen couldn't do so.

What's more, the scholar is also a dignified fourth-grade official, and his grade is not low, so he went out of the city to meet a eunuch called Hangzhou Shilin Circle regardless of his identity, what do you think, isn't Old Master Chen afraid of being poked in the back?

Seeing Xie Shen like this, Chen Fangyin snorted coldly and said, "What, do you think that the old man decided to go out of the city to greet him in order to flatter that Gonggong Liu?" ”

After a pause, Chen Fangyin flicked his sleeves and said: "The old man will tell you that not only the old man is going, but also the governor Lord Liu, according to the judge Lord Lu, and a group of officials from Hangzhou will go out of the city to greet him that day!" ”

What the? Even the governor of a province, the political envoy, and the deputy envoy of the judicial department have to go out of the city to meet a eunuch?

Elder Chen's words completely left Xie Shen speechless.

"Although the eunuch is a eunuch, he represents His Majesty. When the eunuch went to Hangzhou to take up his post, shouldn't the courtiers go to pay a visit? ”

Elder Chen's explanation sounded a little reasonable, but Xie Shen always felt that something was wrong.

Perhaps this is the disadvantage of the Ming Dynasty's use of eunuchs to balance civil officials.

If a literati loses their backbone and flatters a eunuch, it is no different from the walking dead.

Xie Shen was hesitant now. Do you want to follow the great master Chen Lao to greet the new Hangzhou town guard eunuch outside the city of Hangzhou?

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