674 Their Respective Opponents (Part I)
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Zhou Qian and the others withdrew from the palace after their majesty's meeting, while the emperor remained in the Wuying Palace, sitting on a circle chair reviewing the conversation just now, and from time to time picking up Zhou Yanru's recital and reading it carefully. Cao Huachun didn't let the other little eunuchs come in to serve, leaving only himself present - usually traitors would choose this time to slander the Son of Heaven. However, Cao Huachun did not move at all, still standing at the door as he had just done, holding the Buddha dust as a backdrop, as if he was a tool with no thoughts and no distractions at all - this is exactly what the royal family requires of them.
But in fact, in his heart, he is turning over the river and the sea at this time - the old money is really interesting, and he suddenly threw out such a big gift package, whether he can catch it or not depends on his own ability. The emperor's suspicions were not wrong, and of course the reports of the civil officials in front of the Son of Heaven were greatly shrunk - they did not dare to say big things in front of the Son of Heaven, and if they could not do it, the miserable end was demonstrated by the unlucky bastards. Therefore, since the second year of Chongzhen, everyone is cautious and cautious in front of the Son of Heaven, and they only dare to say five points even if they can do ten things, which is really no wonder to be a civil official.
But for his political allies in the inner palace, Qian Qianyi still gave the bottom when he had a secret meeting before-the number promised by the short-haired side was actually at least 300,000 taels in the first year! In the future, it will increase by 60,000 a year - at least that. Even according to their inference, within three or four years, as long as the people sent by the Ming side do not mess around, and still do what they do, it is possible for the income to reach more than one million!
Shorthair's words have always been reliable, since they dare to release such news at the formal negotiating table. It must be sufficiently certain. And when it comes to such a large sum of money, even if the ministers oppose it at that time, the emperor will definitely send internal officials to intervene. Besides, today, Lao Qian himself gave the Son of Heaven a perfect reason: even the inside of other people's short hairs is like this...... Tut-tut, "fiscal supervision", what a righteous and bright word. Don't read the books of the sages or sages of the short-haired gang, the words they say are more pleasing to the ears than the "Zhihu also" of the Great Ming Master!
This kind of business related to craftsmen and money. In the past, the emperor usually handed it over to Zhang Yixian, and the latter became invincible because of this. When the Son of Heaven ordered him to hook the second department of household workers in and out, that is, to check the account books of the household department and the ministry of industry, this guy actually called himself "the prime minister of household workers", and before he ran to the lobby of the house to sit in the position of the scholar, he forced all the officials below the middle school level of the second department to visit him one by one, which made those scholars and officials jump and jumped, and many people would even rather resign than suffer this humiliation.
In Cao Huachun's opinion, this is purely full of support, and our people who are still in prison are still the emperor's servants when they reach the sky. Back then, Gonggong Wei was so majestic, and he didn't give the emperor a word to extinguish it. Why do you have to earn this kind of false face? The civil servants will give them a good face. Literati and ghosts have a lot of ideas, and it is a thought to help you harm you, isn't this - Lao Qian only said a word lightly and skillfully, and a big gift package in the sky will be smashed in front of him!
Cao Huachun and Zhang Yixian had no contradictions in the past -- that was because there was no conflict of interest, but it is difficult to say in the future. Matters related to the interests of millions of gold and silver, even the mother and son can't give in! Since Lao Qian specially picked this opportunity to throw out the topic today, except for the emperor, he is the only one in the palace who knows about it. It was impossible to let this errand fall into the hands of others—if he didn't even have this ability, he wouldn't be able to do the palm print of the celebrant priest. I had already squeezed people into the mixed hall to boil the bath water.
…… Well, first of all, we must try to get the qualification to go to the Ministry of Rites to observe. This is not difficult - the Ministry of Rites is a clear water yamen, there is no oil and water to fish, and there is no eunuch to sit in the hall to supervise before, so Zhang Yixian has no advantage compared with him in this regard. And the Ministry of Rites is the territory of his ally Qian Qianyi, and he is the palm seal of the Master of Ceremonies, so he can't write two words of "Li" in one stroke. There's a lot to be done here......
While thinking about his thoughts, Cao Huachun glanced at the emperor's movements from the corner of his eye, and saw that the latter was still frowning, carefully studying the twists and turns left by Zhou Shoufu, and it seemed that he was still a little difficult to understand the content - indeed. The things brought by the short hairs have not been touched by anyone in the entire Ming Dynasty before. Even with Zhou Shoufu, Qian Ge's old talent, with the help of many staff, in the face-to-face conversation with the short hair, if any questions can be answered positively by the other party, the hard work is still unusual. The emperor is alone in the palace, and it is too difficult to understand these new things in order not to be deceived by foreign ministers.
Cao Huachun secretly sighed in his heart with some sympathy, when today's son is actually not the lord of wisdom - six or seven years after Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the people below, including Cao Huachun, finally began to gradually realize this. When he first came to power, the clean and tidy action to solve Wei Zhongxian can only be regarded as a general outbreak after many years of enduring in the palace of King Xin-at that time, Zhu Youzhen, as the only brother of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, must have realized that one day he might ascend to the supreme position when the Emperor of the Apocalypse had no children and he stayed in Beijing for a long time, instead of being sent to the local government as an adult prince as usual.
During the long night in the palace of King Xin, the young future Emperor Chongzhen must have thought about many measures of governance after coming to power, and under the circumstances of that time, the most thoughtful and thoughtful thing was undoubtedly how to get rid of Wei Zhongxian—it was not difficult to do so. The power of the eunuchs is completely dependent on the imperial power, to put it bluntly, they are only the emperor's spokesmen, when the master is not satisfied with them, casually write a small note two fingers wide can ask for their lives - this was the case with Liu Jin, the "emperor" back then, and Wei Zhongxian just proved this with his life again.
Therefore, it may be difficult for others to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, but for the emperor, even if it is a new emperor, it is actually very simple, as easy as using the right key to open a lock. However, at that time, the whole world was intimidated by Wei Zhongxian's monstrous power in the previous years, and the new emperor who easily solved it suddenly placed too much and too much expectation, and touted him as an immortal hero. And even worse - the emperor himself was convinced of this.
Therefore, when the Jianzhou army suddenly entered the city of Chongzhen, and the soldiers were directly under the city of Beijing, the emperor's face was lost at once - in the history of the Ming Dynasty, the last time it was beaten by foreign enemies to Beijing was nearly two hundred years ago. In the next two hundred years, even with the absurdity of the Martial Sect and the neglect of the Divine Sect, no one has ever been beaten to the doorstep. The temple name of "Yingzong" is clearly praised and depreciated, and he Zhu Youzhen definitely does not want to be crowned with a similar overtitle by future generations.
As a result, he put all the responsibility on Yuan Chonghuan's head, and executed the minister who was personally promoted by himself after he took power with the most cruel punishment. The emperor was unmoved, Cao Huachun didn't understand it before, but now he understands - this is actually a young man in his twenties, after being touted to the point of fluttering, but he was ruthlessly slapped in the face by the cruel reality, so he found someone to vent his anger in anger. Of course, the emperor himself would never admit this, but the anger of the Son of Heaven was resolved by the courtiers with their lives - this emperor was nothing more than a middle-class man.
If Cao Huachun had changed to the past, he would never have such an understanding, but now, the benefits of having a godson who is a "vegetable supervisor" in Shorthair are here. The short-haired gang treated Cao Ruyi very well, and this kind of "goodness" was not different from the flattery, collusion, etc., which were caused by fear or interest needs for eunuchs in other places, but a real equality and respect in personality - they regarded Cao Ruyi as a person like themselves, a man, but with a disability. He is not taboo in his usual life, and even occasionally bumps into him when he brags and chats, but will chat with him by the way - so Cao Ruyi intermittently heard some remarks that are absolutely "rebellious" for the people of the Ming Dynasty, including the evaluation of the current son himself.
In terms of Zang Wei's characters, Shorthair is definitely worthy of their former identity as anti-thieves, and until now they have not accepted the consciousness of Da Ming Zhao'an. However, corresponding to its arrogance and unscrupulousness, these comments have an unparalleled degree of reasonableness and accuracy - Cao Ruyi is a little eunuch who does not understand, and when he hears these words, he only thinks that they are simple and rebellious words. still quietly wrote it into the secret report, and it can be regarded as a loyal duty.
Cao Huachun was different, when he first saw these contents from the secret report sent by his godson, he was really scared to pee his pants - as a eunuch in the inner palace who has served the emperor for half his life and usually spends most of his wisdom and spirit on figuring out the emperor's thoughts, he has always thought that no one today should know the emperor's temperament and temperament better than himself, and he can also see some clues about the emperor's style of acting. It is precisely because he can often do things in line with the will of the Son of Heaven that he climbed all the way to the high position of the palm print of the celebrant all the way.
So after seeing the words forwarded by Cao Ruyi, he immediately realized that although those short hairs were from the future of Jingshi, their analysis and judgment of the emperor's personality were extremely accurate, including the prediction of the emperor's recent deeds, which was like the coffin of the ancestors by future generations. In many places, it has even reached heights that even he could not imagine, or dare not imagine.
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