Chapter 157: A helpless move, the Jingshi secretly discussed
Looking at the officials present who opened their mouths wide and wanted to speak, but they didn't know where to start, as well as those eunuchs such as Ruan Lang who knelt on the ground with a shocked and inexplicable expression, Zhu Qizhen knew very well in his heart what these guys were thinking in their hearts.
Zhu Qizhen bowed slightly towards Ruan Lang and the others: "I know that this news makes you feel too shocked, but it doesn't matter, I just tell you this news now, and I will give you a lot of time to think about it, how to be a town guard eunuch and a garrison eunuch." Okay, you guys stand down......"
The head was still buzzing, and after Ruan Lang, who had no eyes in his eyes, got up, he almost stumbled back to the ground, and finally said goodbye to Zhu Qizhen with a group of eunuchs, and left the main hall of the palace, on the way back to his residence, Ruan Lang seemed to be slightly sober, but he still asked the eunuchs beside him in disbelief: "Your Majesty, what is he going to do?" ”
"Who knows, anyway, it's a good thing for us." The eunuch beside him said with a twinkle in his eyes. However, Wang Yao came from behind him, and a word came to extinguish the fire of greed that was about to be extinguished by all of them. "His Majesty the Emperor said today that we will go to watch the killing ceremony, and then take a thick position to caress him, do you fathers-in-law think that the Emperor will let us come nonsense?"
"It's better to be able to do something serious than to waste the years, our family is nearly seventy years old, and when we are old, we can get the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, do some good things for the country and the people, and this is also to accumulate virtue for ...... behind him" Ruan Lang stroked his long eyebrows like frost and snow, not only was he not disappointed, but he looked glorious.
Hearing his words, the originally gloomy expressions of these eunuchs couldn't help but look forward to it a little more.
"Your Majesty, you know the disadvantages of eunuchs going out of town. Today, it is said that Fang punished the Xuanfu town guard and the town guard eunuch to appease the hearts of the army and the people, but now, is it inappropriate to do this again? After Luo Hengxin saw those eunuchs leaving, he cleared his throat and stood up and asked in a low voice.
"I know that the ministers are out of town, it is a bad government, but I am the emperor, not today." Zhu Qizhen seemed to be a fluttering sentence, but pointed out the reason why he did it.
-------------------- the smiles on the faces of Luo Hengxin and the others gradually disappeared, replaced by an indescribable depression and faint disappointment. Yes, the words of the Emperor Taishang are indeed true. The Emperor Taishang trained the government, this is a precedent to check, but now that the Ming Dynasty is like the Emperor Taishang supervising the civil and military affairs of a certain place, and the way the Son of Heaven is in charge of the affairs of the world, I am afraid that it is not the last, at least unprecedented.
This is nothing, in fact, the grievances and grievances between Banzai and the Emperor Taishang have long been seen and remembered by all the ministers in the world. Today, Banzai is strictly guarding the emperor, and the martial arts of the world also know it, but there is no way to squeak, because this is a matter of heaven. There is not much that can be done for a courtier.
The ministers went out of the town and the border towns, this is the maladministration that began in Yongle, and after several generations of emperors, this government has still been implemented, and no one of the emperors has decreed that it has been abolished. As soon as Zhu Qiyu came to power, he sent a large number of eunuchs out of the town one after another, hoping to use the land of the ministers to appease the place.
The wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Most of the eunuchs who went out of the town had never done anything serious, but the problem was that few civil and military officials in various places, even important ministers in the court, dared to jump out and criticize this maladministration.
Why? It is not because the eunuch group is now so powerful that it can almost compete with the Chinese military force of the DPRK. During the Wang Zhen period, the power was overwhelming, and the three or four officials, he dared to lock up and take him to prison if he was accused of a crime, let me ask, from ancient times to the present, how many ministers can be admonished to death without bending the knee or bending down?
Even if you have the heart to be a minister, you must have an audience, and you must have a goal, but when Xuanzong was in power, he was provoked by those civil and military ministers, which increased the power of the eunuchs and used them to balance. Then Zhu Qizhen was the emperor when he was young, he didn't understand anything, and he had a good impression of those eunuchs who had been with him since he was a child.
Even Li Shimian, a world-famous and loyal minister, was in danger of dying outside the palace without the knowledge of the Son of Heaven.
There are hot-blooded young people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also hot-blooded old young people, and there are many people who are generous and sad, but everyone is human and afraid of death. Everyone wants to leave a name in history, but the problem is that not everyone is willing to put their lives into it for the sake of leaving a name in history.
What's more, even if they want to write to His Majesty and criticize the eunuchs for their disorderly government, I'm sorry, these twists and turns will be sent to those eunuchs first, aren't you looking for death yourself? I'm afraid that as soon as you handed it over, you were sent to prison in a blink of an eye.
Moreover, your recital is folded into the hands of the eunuchs, how likely do you think it can be sent to the hands of the Son of Heaven, the eunuchs are not stupid, the notebook that is still too hard when toilet paper is still too hard, maybe it will turn into ash smoke in the brazier, and the hot-blooded young man or the hot-blooded old man who wants to leave a name in history may be killed on various charges.
Therefore, the ministers are not stupid, for the drawbacks of eunuchs going out of town, occasionally shout, look at the attitude of the Son of Heaven, if the Son of Heaven ignores it, yes, we are too lazy to find hardships for ourselves, anyway, there is no shortage of brothers.
It is precisely for this reason that the maladministration of eunuchs out of the town is still being implemented, and although Zhu Qizhen knows the harm of this maladministration, but now he is the emperor who is abdicated, and the relationship between him and the new emperor can be said to be regarded as an enemy. His words, if only he could listen to them today, there would be ghosts.
Besides, when Zhu Qizhen was in power, Wang Zhen controlled the government for nearly ten years, leaving a disaster to the world. Today, when you stepped down from power, you jumped out to accuse the eunuchs of the malpractices and Zhu Qiyu, wouldn't that be tantamount to making things bigger and bigger?
And now Xuanfu slaughtered five high-powered eunuchs from other towns in one go, this news alone is enough to shake the world, although it has won the hearts of the Xuanfu army and the people, and also gained the prestige of the government and the opposition, but this move naturally offended the Ming eunuch group to the end.
Although it is said that the eunuchs are just the servants of the heavenly family, these eunuchs who are in power are not good birds, if Zhu Qizhen is in power, then he will definitely be able to have absolute suppression and control over the eunuchs.
But the problem is that now it is his younger brother, and it is his good brother Zhu Qiyu, who is full of defensiveness and vigilance against him, will he follow Zhu Qizhen's steps or rhythm? If you don't go against your brother, you're already very worthy of the audience.
Luo Hengxin, who figured out this truth, felt very depressed in his heart, but he had to admit that Zhu Qizhen was helpless to do this, so he could only say nothing more.
"Luo Lao Aiqing doesn't have to worry so much, in fact, the reason why I want to use Ruan Lang and others, and not wait for the Son of Heaven to send eunuchs from inside and outside the ban, is because I know how much Ruan Lang and others are kind of people. There are many filthy people in the palace, but there are also people who know the righteousness and the general situation, and there are also people who are not afraid of power, do not flatter, and do things solidly. Zhu Qizhen slowly explained the reason.
-------------------- "Your Majesty the Emperor, this is a problem for the Lord of Long Life...... Really, I didn't expect that the emperor had only been in the Xuan Mansion for only two months, and so many things had happened. The helpless emotion made Yu Qian feel that his head was now one with two big.
"Could it be that Brother Fei Ting Yixian thinks that the emperor has done too much?" Lao Wang sat on the stool, sipped fragrant tea, enjoyed the astringency and fragrant fragrance of the entrance, and said with a smile.
"The emperor's move is exactly what Yu is thinking, when he high-fives to congratulate, how can he think that His Majesty is excessive?" Yu Qian hit the case with his hand, and his face was stupid. "Lao Shangshu, Yu Mou didn't say that, in fact, from the heart, Yu Mou can't wait to kill all the eunuchs in the world, in order to return my Lang Lang Qiankun in China, and to castrate the country and the people with absolute power, but unfortunately, I can't catch it."
"All dynasties and generations have the right to castrate the country, when Taizu, Zeng Leshi was a monument, and he wanted to stop the eunuchs from messing with the country, who would have ......" The clouds on Yu Qian's brows couldn't help but thicken a few points. I say that the weight of eunuchs is still better than that of previous generations. However, the heavenly family is happy, and we are helpless. ”
"Yes, since the Taizu, there has been an endless stream of eunuchs going out to lead the army and supervise the generals, and there are even more serious things so far, and the governors everywhere are angry in their hearts, but they are helpless, they can only be held by them." Lao Wang Zhiyi also bowed his head and said, he was in the court during the Yongle period, and naturally the world was more clear than that of Yu Qian.
"Not to mention anything else, the old man suffers from it, if it weren't for the old man selling the old, I'm afraid it would be Xuanfu, just like him." Yang Hong, who had not spoken for a long time, couldn't help but sigh lightly, among the people here, only he had been in charge of the military in a place, and he knew best about the filth of the eunuchs and the eunuchs guarding the guards, but even if he was such a famous general of the Ming Dynasty who made the tile spur frightened and called King Yang with respect, he also had to be controlled by the eunuchs who did not understand military affairs and only knew how to do evil.
The depression in his heart overflowed, and Yang Hong was shocked at first when he heard the news from the border town of Xuanfu, but his second reaction was to laugh heartily. In his heart, he admired Zhu Qizhen, the emperor, more and more, and in the same way, in his heart, he regarded this emperor as a person on the same front.
After all, he has led the army to guard Xuanfu for more than ten years, and Xuanfu can be called his second hometown, so he naturally doesn't want to let those eunuchs treat it as a piece of fat, gnaw it raw, and stink.
"I just don't know what the palace will do with the good news that the emperor has eliminated harm for the people." Lao Wang narrowed his eyes and whispered while stroking his long gray beard. "What's more, the emperor's edict ordered Ruan Lang, Wang Yao and other attendant eunuchs to guard the eunuchs and garrison eunuchs for Xuanfu, and I don't know how Banzai will react to such a big event."
(To be continued)