Chapter 13: Immortals Fight

"The Son of the Prosperous Age of Danger".

"Hearing the words of the son, the concubine knows that the son is a fellow believer. The father of the little girl is the big shopkeeper of Dehuifang, if the son wants to achieve his own ambition, he can come to my Dehuifang at any time, and his father will be a guest. "The payment is a private seal, and it is printed with "Xiangxuan Xiaozhu".

Looking at the letter in his hand, Ye Guan didn't think much about it, he decided to treat it coldly first.

He was not in a hurry to find the person who kept the book, firstly, he did not know what the purpose of this person was, and secondly, the word sea ban was like "harmony" in later generations, which could be regarded as a sensitive word. Usually it's nothing, if you play it seriously, not to mention that the laws of the imperial court don't allow it, even those wealthy families who are prosperous on the coast by smuggling will not let him go. He is just a little master, even if he is mixed in, he is just a little soldier waving a flag and shouting, or even cannon fodder, so he doesn't want to go to Dehuifang now.

"Whatever, what's the matter of the sea ban, let's talk about it later." Ye Guan still decided to do his master well, the matter of the sea ban is not something that a person like him can promote, yesterday it was just the rise of drinking and drinking that he was talking nonsense in the restaurant, really asked him to participate in any political acts, he really didn't think much about it.

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When Ye was looking at the letter in his hand, the matter of Huating County's great victory over the Japanese Kou was also handed to the cabinet of the imperial court, the emperor's imperial case, the yamen of the Dongji Factory and the yamen of the Fusi of Beizhen through the excerpts of all parties.

In the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Hongzhi sat behind the bookcase in vermilion clothes and looked at the excerpts written in the text of the Huating County Order, his face did not move, only occasionally when he coughed slightly, the little eunuchs beside Hongzhi hurriedly brought a cup of ginseng tea to the emperor to moisten his mouth.

Emperor Hongzhi was a gentle and industrious emperor, often after the court meeting to convene the courtiers in the Wenhua Hall to discuss political affairs, after everyone's unanimous discussion, brainstorming, he himself in the correction of the award.

He was different from his grandfather, every time he summoned courtiers, he could only say three or two sentences, and then decided the matter, and he was dictatorial and centralized in power. is also different from his great-nephew Wanli, who can not go to court for more than 20 years, and will only silently count the silver in the dark while secretly manipulating the court situation. Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, once suggested to the emperor that there were too many excerpts handed to the cabinet from all over the country, so that sometimes they could not be dealt with in time, and important matters would be delayed. For the sake of state affairs, Hongzhi not only inevitably arrived in the early and late dynasties every day after the eight years of Hongzhi, but also swept away the agreement of the previous emperors that "there are no more than five things", and convened important ministers to discuss matters in the Wenhua Hall twice in one day.

Emperor Hongzhi had a gentle personality and was tolerant. Beijing is extremely cold in winter, and the place where the emperor listens to the government is in Fengtianmen. The weather is cold, the courtiers are easy to slip and fall, and the recital to the emperor is defaced and ink typos, which are all disrespectful and disrespectful in front of the king, and the punishment is possible from punishment and demotion to exile, but the Hongzhi Emperor does not attach importance to these crimes, and the excerpts of the impeachment of the imperial historian are often left behind. Sometimes the end of the dynasty is late, and the courtiers want to go home in the dark, and he also understands that some courtiers are old and frail or do not bring lanterns, and in the future, regardless of the size of the official position, he specially sends soldiers to carry lanterns to send those officials away.

Hongzhi Zhongxing still has its reason, after Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system, the clarity and stupidity of the government lie entirely in the emperor alone, the emperor is diligent, then the government is clear, and the incorruptible officials in the court are endless. If the emperor is lazy and nepotistic, then the court and the central government will be a miasma, the east and west factories will compete for power and profit, and the parties inside and outside the court will fight endlessly.

Jin Yiwei commanded Mu Bin to stand behind the emperor without squinting and not saying a word. He had already seen the excerpts on this Huating County order, including the excerpts given to him by Jinyiwei's secret guards who stayed in Huating County and Jinshanwei. And he believed that not only did he know earlier than the emperor, but also the three elders of the cabinet and the factory governor of Dongchang, the eunuch Wang Yue, and the eunuch Xiao Jing, the eunuch who held the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, knew earlier than the emperor. Then the matter becomes very delicate.

After Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, he was worried about the stinking reputation of the previous Jinyiwei and Dongchang among the people and scholars, and deliberately suppressed the secret service agencies like the factory guard. As the emperor's eagle dog, without the rabbit, these two dogs would be useless, so Jinyiwei and Dongchang set their eyes on each other, hoping to find some bad behavior in each other's body to show that their dog is relatively clean and useful. The factory and health institutions that were originally out of the same door became the same thing.

Mu Bin was just promoted by Huai En, the former eunuch of the master of ceremonies, from the ordinary Jinyi captain, and the stewards of the East Factory were all eunuchs, and they could accompany the emperor day and night, so compared to it, the status of the Jinyi Guard was very embarrassing. It is said that the emperor is pro-army, but the responsibilities of Dongchang are duplicated with Jinyiwei, so Dongchang must be more powerful because of the lack of two taels of flesh on his body.

Therefore, for the sake of his status as a Jinyi guard, Mu Bin has to work harder and be more careful than those eunuchs.

Emperor Hongzhi took a sip of ginseng soup, waved his hand to stop the palace maid who was in charge of fanning the fan behind him, and asked the little eunuch next to him to take out a few pots of ice cubes in the Wenhua Palace, and only after feeling that his body was not too cold did he ask: "Who is this Ye Guan?" Why is he mentioned in the excerpts of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army and the Huating County Order? "Emperor Hongzhi is not a stupid person, he doesn't believe that these courtiers who like to compete for merit will mention a little master.

"Your Majesty, according to the report of the Huating County Order, this Ye Guan is a native of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, and was admitted to the student three years ago, and was supposed to participate in the township examination of Songjiang Prefecture this year, but due to the heavy rain delayed the trip, he stayed in Huating County, and happened to encounter the attack of the Japanese invaders. This son was resourceful, decisive and resolute, and together with the Huating County Order, he led the garrison that was about to collapse and worked together to protect the city from the hands of the Japanese Kou. After thinking about it for a while, Liu Jian, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the young master of the crown prince, decided to change the previous evaluation in his heart and temporarily promoted Ye Guan's merits, so he wiped the sweat on his head and replied to the emperor's question.

Liu Jian is a Jinshi in Tianshun for four years, and he has come from the deceitful officialdom step by step, he just looked at the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi and the Jinyiwei commander Mu Bin next to him and the actions of Wang Yue, the commander of Dongchang, and knew that it was not only His Majesty the Emperor who had seen the evaluation of Ye Guan by all parties, and he was interested in this young man, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang were also ready to share the credit.

In the past few years, under the suppression of His Majesty the Emperor, the increasingly fierce power of the factory guards has been suppressed, and the civil official group has been given unprecedented opportunities, so he must find every opportunity to suppress these factory guards who are out of the civil power, so he must hold this young man named Ye Guan in his hands, and not let the factory guards find a little chance, because he can feel that the body of this holy son of heaven is getting heavier and heavier. In this hot August, His Majesty actually asked the palace maid not to fan the fan, and moved half of the ice basin in the palace. Except for His Majesty who felt cold, including the eunuchs, palace maids and other officials, everyone was sweating profusely. Then he must seize the opportunity and seize the emperor's intention of promoting young people to save the team for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so as to ensure that the new emperor still reuses the civil official group, so as to avoid the recurrence of Emperor Chengzu's reuse of Jinyiwei and Yingzong's reuse of eunuchs and military generals.

"He's a showman?" Emperor Hongzhi's left hand unconsciously tapped lightly on the dragon book case, as if he was thinking about something.

Wang Yue, the commander of Dongchang, and Mu Bin, the commander of Jinyiwei, saw that Liu Jian had secretly damaged the military general group through the cunning of Liu Jian, and implicitly implied that the emperor was a young man from his civil official group through the matter of Yu Yunwen, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. They all scolded in their hearts: "Old fox, being old and not dying is a thief." ”

"Your Majesty, the old slave (Weichen) has something to do." Wang Yue and Mu Bin hurriedly went out of class to start playing, the two saw that each other had the same thoughts, and they wanted to strangle each other in their hearts, and after the two sides looked at each other, they quickly lowered their heads again, showing their respect and tameness to the emperor.

"Well, Wang Yue, you can say it first." Emperor Hongzhi looked at the two people under the jade steps, thought for a while in his heart, and then decided to let Wang Yue speak first.

When Wang Yue heard Emperor Hongzhi say this, he was secretly happy in his heart, it seems that the favor of our family is still heavier than that of Mu Bin, so he quickly restrained his expression and said seriously: "Your Majesty, this Ye Guan is the head of the 100 households and secret agents in my East Investigation Factory, and is responsible for listening to the "sitting notes" of officials in the Songjiang Mansion. ”

Mu Bin saw that His Majesty finally asked Wang Yue, the dead eunuch, to say it first, and he also sighed in his heart, it seems that there are still benefits to missing two taels of meat on his body, and the emperor trusts the people around him more, so he can only let Wang Yue snatch another share of the benefits.

Just as Wang Yue was speaking, Ye Guan, who was thousands of miles away, happened to be in the toilet when he suddenly felt a chill in his crotch, and his heart was excited: "Damn, why did you suddenly shiver." ”