To manage such a huge country as China, and under the condition of low level of productivity and extremely backward science and technology, such work is really extremely hard. 【Reading.com】;.

Of course, if you take on the job of being at the helm of China during the rise of the country, because the officials are generally upward, with the help of a relatively complete bureaucratic system and a relatively sophisticated team of assistants, this work is heavy but not hopeless.

Obviously, Wei Zhongxian did not catch up with such a good time, and when the burden of the Ming Dynasty was pressed on him by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he was basically in a state of decline. At the beginning of Emperor Tianqi's pro-government, in order to reward the efforts of the Donglin Party for his ascension, Emperor Tianqi still gave them some key positions and important work.

A person who can do carpentry work very well must definitely be a person with clear ears and eyes and a flexible mind. It is true that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is obsessed with carpenters, but he is definitely a relatively smart guy among the more than a dozen emperors of the Ming Dynasty in the past two hundred years.

In less than a year after being in power, he was very sensitive to discovering that the Donglin Party civilian-official clique was by no means the kind of loyal and righteous person they advertised as serving the country and the people. All their actions, their various shows, their various political moves and policies are carried out around the interests of the gentry clique.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse may not know what a zero-sum game is. However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was born out of the instinct of a feudal emperor, and although he was very young, he was able to understand the way of governing the country of his ancestors, Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli. For him, governing the country is nothing more than two things, one is money and the other is soldiers. And between the two, money is more important than soldiers. After all, for him, an emperor, with money, there will be enough soldiers.

In the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, there is only so much money in the world, the emperor gets more, and the gentry get less. The gentry got more, and the emperor got less.

Emperor Tianqi keenly discovered that behind the "Holy Lord Mingjun" and "the way of the sage" of the Donglin Party, it was the gentry group that plundered their own national financial revenue, and he resolutely sacrificed the magic weapon of his two outstanding ancestors (Jiajing and Wanli), "eunuchs". He immediately pushed Wei Zhongxian, who was obsessed with authority, to the forefront. Use him to fight those civil and official groups who persuade him all day long to "not compete with the people" but only have the selfish interests of the family in his bones.

If the Ming Dynasty also had the Internet, if the Ming Dynasty also had a certain network, if the powerful eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty also went online, Internet users such as Liu Jin, Feng Bao, and Wei Zhongxian might also ask such a question: "What is the experience of being a black pot professional?" ”

Yes, the great eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be extremely powerful. But all the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was Zheng He who went to the West or Wang Chengen, who accompanied Chongzhen to hang the coal mountain, all the great eunuchs who called for wind and rain in the political field of the Ming Dynasty knew that they were suffering in their hearts.

Don't look at them in front of people, many guys with ulterior motives or don't know the truth, and they also give them a lot of nice nicknames such as "Emperor Li" and "Nine Thousand Years Old". But they knew very well in their hearts that everything they did had to be done with the emperor's permission. Even, many of the things they said and did were directly or indirectly instructed by the emperor himself.

If they can also see "Journey to the West" in the Ming Dynasty, they are likely to think that "send you to death, I will carry the black cauldron." "OnlyYou" is the theme song of their life. It's just that the lyrics should be changed to "Send you to death, and you will also carry the black pot." ”

For example, Wei Zhongxian, who is now in control of the helm of the giant ship of the Ming Dynasty, which has begun to leak, often mutters in the style of Xianglin's sister-in-law such as "his life is really bad" and "why was he so active in authority in the first place" in no one's place.

In the Ming Dynasty, various things in the two capitals and thirteen provinces emerged one after another. There are many disasters and famines in various places, not to mention the turmoil in various places. In the northeast, there were troubles in the east, in the southwest, there were Tusi rebellions, and in the southeast, there were pirates and Hongmaoyi people to make trouble. Wei Zhongxian can be said to have used all his strength, and with the help of a group of dogs who are not successful enough to fail, and are not very useful, and often bite back, they can barely support the state affairs.

Although Wei Zhongxian is a hooligan and scoundrel, he has a lot of stinking problems in his temperament that are flamboyant, love face, and like pomp, but he still understands a truth. That is, in his heart, he knew very well that the real owner of the Ming Dynasty was the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and he, who seemed to be able to call the wind and rain, was actually a shopkeeper. And his position as the shopkeeper is not very stable. The civil officials of the outer court, the eunuchs of the inner court, countless people are waiting to take his place.

Wei Zhongxian sometimes felt that whether it was outside or inside, he had reached a very dangerous situation. The example of Feng Bao, the great eunuch of the previous dynasty, is there, and it is doubtful whether he can mix with Nanjing for the elderly in the future.

However, since he came to the position of the helmsman of the Ming Dynasty, he felt that it was not that he was going in the direction of bad luck, but that whether it was his political opponent, or his dog's legs, or even the emperor Lao'er who hid in the deep palace and worked as a carpenter all day long, all kinds of people and things were pushing him to a dead end.

There were a few times when he wanted to quit. But every time he wanted to make this decision, the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse full of connotation, the attitude of the civil officials full of hatred, and the smiling expressions of the great eunuchs of the inner court all reminded him that there was no way back for him now. Or go on and walk towards the abyss of destruction. Either it will be immediately torn to pieces as a trophy by all forces.

With the growth of time and experience, Wei Zhongxian found more and more that the emperor who had always talked about "the affairs of the court and government are in charge of the affairs of the court" actually did not trust him very much. Otherwise, how could he have been entrusted with the power of the country, but the position of the eunuch who symbolizes the highest status of the inner court has never been given to him. The position of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Eunuch who is in charge of the highest armed forces of the Beijing Division has always been controlled by the eunuchs of other factions who have a bad relationship with him.

In any case, don't care how high and powerful your position seems to be as a eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the East Factory, but after all, your name is not right.

Although Wei Zhongxian is not a Confucian believer, and he is very dismissive of scholars, he also knows what Confucius said in the Analects about the unjustification of his name. In "The Analects of the Confessions", it is very clear, "If the name is not right, the word is not good; If you don't go your way, you won't get it. ”

Without the position of the eunuch in charge of the seal eunuch, Wei Zhongxian's affairs of the foreign dynasty could only be completed through those dogs in the cabinet. Unable to grasp the candidates for the imperial horse eunuch, Wei Zhongxian could only rely on the Dongchang fans composed of those scoundrels in the market to clean up the political enemies.

Originally, there were many things in the Ming Dynasty that were difficult to do, and all kinds of constraints in the system made Wei Zhongxian have to deal with all kinds of things that are difficult to do every day, even more, and even more difficult to do