Chapter 888: Follow the Trend

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Spread rumors and incite, demagogue, and affect people's judgment, but some things are not made up by you to make up lies, others will believe them, such as the quarrel between several fathers-in-law in the palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In Beijing, as long as it is an official figure, the news of the palace can be heard, and the palace eunuchs come in and out, "Who doesn't know a few people, not to mention that the big people are still talking about the quarrel between the celebrants and the eunuchs."

What Li Sancai heard was true, and the reason why he deliberately passed it on to him was just to let him know earlier and make him pay more attention.

In the Ming Dynasty, and even in the officialdom, the understanding of the institution of the celebrant is the pivotal place in the world, and the status is higher than that of the cabinet, because this is the place where the real decision is made.

If you want to be an errand supervisor in the celebrant office, the experience of "writing kung fu" can't be bad, compared to the cabinet of those well-educated people who are from the scholars, they are not inferior at all.

is not only the celebrant supervisor "Twelve Supervisors of the Inner Court, Four Divisions, Eight Bureaus and Twenty-four Yamen, if you want to get ahead", if you want to be a steward, you must read and write, which is no different from the officialdom outside.

Therefore, there is also an inner study hall in the palace, where smart little eunuchs enter to study, and then come out to be writing eunuchs who do internships, and then run errands step by step.

According to the rules of the palace, the gentlemen who teach in the inner study hall are all cabinet scholars or bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and these people are Confucian scholars, and the students they teach are naturally in this way.

Because of this, the eunuchs in the upper echelons of the inner court were actually scholars, but they were eunuchs, "considering things to judge right and wrong, their thinking is no different from that of the officials of the outer court."

Some people have been practicing for decades, and they are used to doing errands step by step from below, and they are naturally smart and sleek when they see the wind and rain, but some are reading letters and books, and they are still the same temperament after several years.

Zhang Cheng is the kind of person who can see through the world, but this Zhang Hong is a standard scholar, "The so-called eldest and youngest are divided, and the eldest son of the emperor should be the crown prince, he didn't dare to say this idea clearly, but he already had an attitude in his heart."

Now in the capital, and even today there is a lot of excitement about this matter, and the reports of the various intelligence agencies below have converged on the side of the celebrant supervisor, if there is anything that is mentioned, the celebrant can't be left alone here, and there must be some discussions.

The most important thing is that Emperor Wanli's attitude has not been clear: "Although he has a tendency, he has never expressed his attitude in public, and even in private, everyone has heard rumors."

Since there is no clear statement, it means that there is still room for struggle, and people outside think so, "The judgment of the people in the palace can be discussed and discussed."

How to quarrel, the cause and process, everyone can guess that Zhang Cheng means that he can do what he wants, and Zhang Hong means to do it according to the rules of his ancestors, and he didn't explain the words, the same "Everyone understands the meaning behind these words, and people who have a heart will think a lot when the news spreads."

Outside, it is almost one-sided that the eldest son of the emperor is the prince of the prince, and in the palace, Zhang Cheng is also in the minority, and most of the people are inclined to the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo.

In any case, Concubine Wang Gong is the person of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, so many yamen in the inner court, most of the eunuchs are around fifty years old, and the "head of the department is also around forty years old" was promoted because of the kindness of the Empress Dowager Li, and before Emperor Wanli did not express his position, everyone naturally knew how to express miserliness.

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Song Chanchan is a smart woman, when she was the proprietress of the Qin Pavilion, she was just a long-sleeved dancer, but after being attached to Wang Tong and making the Qin Pavilion into an intelligence collection agency, her ability to plan and calculate has been greatly improved.

There are several kinds of things that the big guys in Beijing do, Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Siwei are both from wealthy families, and their black and white envoys are countless "calling for wind and rain, needless to say."

Since he arrived at Shen Shixing's side, except for Wang Xijue, who is a wealthy family in Jiangnan, the rest of the bigwigs, whether it is the cabinet or the six ministries, are almost all scholarly families, and there are a lot of dirty things in the scholarly family, but there are not many people who can rely on them to do errands, nothing more than protégés, relatives and friends, and the like.

In the officialdom, it is natural to find someone with an official body, and it is easy for such people to be targeted, because the number is already limited" and they are all people who have come up on the right path of the imperial examination, and they are not wary of some things at all, so it is not difficult to put a small maid in it, or get news from the people in their house.

But if you want to incite the clear stream, it is not enough to rely on these protégés, the tandem agitation of Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai is the most important, Gu Xiancheng is already the confidant of Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, this kind of thing does not need to be promoted too much, but Li Sancai, who has more energy, may not be too easy to do.

What Song Chanchan did here was to stuff him with all kinds of news that could encourage Li Sancai, so that he could make a judgment on the situation that Song Chanchan was willing to see.

Ideas are the most arbitrary, and it's already thankful that this kind of thing can be 50% sure" but the general trend of Jingshi is like this, even if Song Chanchan doesn't do anything, what should happen will happen, and what Song Chanchan wants to do is just to add some firewood to it.

It was also Wu Zuolai and others who were incompetent, they elected the key person Yao Bo, and the news about this Yao Bo quickly leaked out, what Song Chanchan had to do here was to ensure that this thing was done, Yao Bo wanted to roll up the silver and run away, and the people on Song Chanchan's side naturally blocked him back.

............, the turbulent agitation on the surface "The undercurrent is surging in the dark, and the public opinion of the Kyoshi is like a big powder keg, and I don't know when it will explode."

This kind of truth is shocking, but it is also expected, the emperor is the lord of the world, but it is the people who govern the world, and in recent years, the Wanli Emperor has grasped the power in his own hands through one thing after another, and the voice is getting louder and louder, and there are more and more places to meddle to make money.

The emperor has more power, the less power the officials have, the more money the emperor makes, the less money the officials make, and this naturally has to be fought for.

What's more, the proposal of the prince "This has always been the focus of attention, no matter how great a person has the ability to make great achievements, it is not as great as the merit of supporting the establishment, don't look at the current emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo is less than three years old" and Zhu Changxun is less than six months old, but their elders will remember this matter, and their mothers will remember that when it comes to the day of accession to the throne, it is the time to pay for merit, and then it is needless to say that glory and wealth are not to mention.

The prince must make a stand to fight, and the eldest and youngest are orderly, this is the conclusion of the great ceremony, "The eldest son of the emperor should be the crown prince, and the Wanli Emperor did not express his position for a long time, and he looked more at the son of Zheng Guifei, which has a reason to fight, having said that, the current situation also needs an entry point that is contrary to the Wanli Emperor."

If it was put a year ago, no one would dare to be so connected, even if there was such an opportunity, everyone would not dare to jump up and down so agitated, and even the quarrel in the palace would not happen, the reason why it is so chaotic now is that the timing is right, of course, there is Song Chanchan in its instigation "More importantly, Wang Tong is no longer by the side of Emperor Wanli, without the existence of Wang Tong, without this unreasonable internal guard general, many things are a lot less scruples.

In the second half of March of the thirteenth year of Wanli, Yao Bo had already written about the imperial history of Shanxi Province of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and it had been read by a special person, just waiting for it to be played.

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"More than 30 carts, trafficking cotton cloth and groceries" to collect felt and livestock back, such a caravan has the greatest benefits when it goes out, and this return trip actually provokes such a large number of horse thieves? ”

The grassland is not a flat river, Wang Tong and the others can also find a place to cover their bodies to observe, although they only arrived here six days after the incident, they can rely on carts and firearms, and they can actually support it.

Use large carts to circle up as a barrier, relying on firearms to defend "Under such a car formation, there are actually not many horse thieves and cavalry on the periphery, and there are more than 30 carts" that also requires nearly 200 people, which is also very difficult for horse thieves.

However, there was no fierce fighting on this battlefield, and the horse thieves even set up simple tents, and they were quite particular when attacking the chariot formation.

They mixed the cattle and sheep together, and drove towards the carts, and then the men hid themselves among the animals, and when they came to them, they suddenly jumped up and rushed up to fight.

For such a method of warfare, the caravan guards of the car have also been prepared, and some people hide under the car with spears, and when they get close, they will start to block, and if someone is ready to use bows and arrows, they will use fire here.

The shouting of killing was scattered, and the sound of fire blunt sounded sporadically, "But there are always more than 100 horse thieves riding on horses here, and as soon as there is a movement in the car formation, they immediately move."

"Don't tell the adult, this cart and firearms are now the first-class valuable things on the grassland, they don't want goods, they can eat the cart and firearms, that's enough."

Hearing Wang Tong's question, a guide who followed him whispered, Wang Tong nodded, "turned around and instructed a few guides: "Go around and take a look to see if there is an ambush, whether it is a nai"

Since it has arrived, it is not in a hurry" Wang Tong returned to the brigade and waited for a while, and the horses that were scattered came back to report that in a nest in the northwest, there was a tribe of more than 2,000 people staying there, and looking at the traces of action, it seemed that these horse thieves were people from the tribe.

"It must be that after doing business, the people of this tribe are intent on swallowing this batch of people and goods," so they followed. ”

Everyone is not stupid, this kind of thing can be easily judged, hearing the return of the horse, Wang Tong pondered for a moment, raised his head and said: "Take a break for a stick of incense, and then go to save people and kill thieves." ”

Whispering orders, people don't care about resting, they are all there to feed the horses to eat hard materials, prepare weapons, Wang Tong said to Ma Sanbiao beside him: "When you save people, you will go to wash the tribe and teach the Tartars on the grassland a lesson."