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On the third day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Wanli, Guo Weixian, the imperial historian of Henan Province of the Metropolitan Inspection Institute, recommended Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, Ai Mu, Shen Sixiao, and Zou Yuanbiao as officials. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The names of these five people are very unfamiliar among the common people, but they are famous in the Shilin officialdom and are known as the Five Gentlemen.

Of course, whether the people who call them the "Five Gentlemen" are sincere admiration or sarcasm, this outsider does not know, when Zhang Juzheng's father died of illness and should go home to worry about the system, the result is that the Son of Heaven won the love, hundreds of officials in the court, and the scholars in the wilderness, jumped out and said that Zhang Juzheng did not conform to the righteousness of the sage, and should return to his hometown to guard filial piety.

This statement is indeed heroic and righteous, but no one knows how much of the five people who said this were reading books and bad heads, whether they were standing up for other bigwigs, or pretending to be amazing to gain prestige for themselves.

However, these five people were extremely unlucky, their official positions and fame were stripped away, and then they were exiled and completely disappeared from everyone's sight.

It is also the will of God, Zhang Juzheng died of a violent illness in his prime, the so-called people go to tea and cool, the so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, Zhang Juzheng, who belittled these five people, died, Zhang Siwei took office, and there are all kinds of rumors that Zhang Siwei will help the right path and turn things around in the Beijing division, and it is not surprising that there is such a recital.

When everyone just knew that Guo Weixian was on this note, there was already a disposal in the palace, and Emperor Wanli directly approved the "party and private business", and demoted the official to Jiangshan County.

The official of the Taoist is a Qingliu Beijing official, there is the possibility of soaring, Jiangshan County is a local petty official, and the eight products are not even said to be in the stream, there is no hope in this life, for the lack of oil and water benefits, the officials who are eagerly looking forward to being promoted all day long are being sent to the local county Cheng, which can be said to be the harshest punishment.

As soon as this disposition came out, the officials who were originally in a bit of a commotion suddenly quieted down, and everyone did not know what Guo Weixian's original intention was, but in the eyes of onlookers, this was a signal, a temptation, to see what the situation of the court after Zhang Juzheng's death was tending, and now the palace has given the answer.

Any denial of Zhang Juzheng at the moment would touch the nerves of the Empress Dowager Li and the eunuch Feng Bao, who was in charge of the seal, and even the Wanli Emperor was angry at the speculation of such aftersight, so naturally there would be nothing good to deal with.

Despite such a strict treatment, a large part of the high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China are still terrified, and Guo Weixian's incident is a signal that there are still people who want to target Zhang Juzheng's followers.

Zhang Juzheng's in-laws, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials Wang Zhan, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Zeng Shengwu, who was promoted in the ninth year of Wanli, these two people are Zhang Juzheng's cronies, and they are also the leaders of Zhang Juzheng's party.

No matter in terms of qualifications or position, or even in terms of affinity with Zhang Juzheng, today's cabinet assistant Zhang Siwei is far more than the cabinet assistant Shen Shixing, but Zhang Juzheng and his party all go to Shen Shixing to get ideas.

To achieve this position, there is no fool, everyone can see that Zhang Siwei was not quite right in the month before Zhang Juzheng died.

And tracing back to the source, everyone still remembers that Zhang Siwei was the door valve of the high arch back then, and it was because of the promotion of the front auxiliary high arch that he got a high position and entered the center step by step.

Gao Gong suppressed Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, but was later defeated by Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, and died of fear in his hometown.

But now, when I think about it carefully, and then look at the public opinion of the current Jingshi Sergeant Ziqingliu, I can't help but be wary, on the other hand, Shen Shixing, who has always been calm and self-controlled, has won everyone's trust.

Although Shen Shixing is low-key, he has always been sitting in the cabinet, and his position has never wavered, and he is presiding over the wedding of the Son of Heaven, and his relationship with the palace is also close, so such a person is naturally supported.

In July of the tenth year of Wanli, after Zhang Siwei, the cabinet assistant, blocked the will of the Son of Heaven to appoint Wang Tong as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and promoted Wang Chun and Luo Xiucao to the commanders of the Jinyi Guard.

It is the consensus of the civil officials to prevent Wang Tong from ascending to the throne, and everyone naturally agrees with it, and it is not a big deal to promote two thousand households to be commanders.

However, on July 27, Zhang Siwei recommended Wang Xun as the left squire of the military department, assistant to the Beijing camp military administration, the key point of the Beijing camp, and the internal officials, honorable nobles, and civil officials were in charge of it, but in fact, the status of the honorable military generals was very low, and the eunuchs and civil ministers who really held the power were eunuchs and civil ministers.

Got this position, it can be regarded as grasping most of the military strength of the Beijing Division, this action Wenchen will not wait to ignore it, on the second day of the first month of August, the palace has a will to come down, and the king is promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, there are also six departments in Nanjing, but except for the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, who commands the soldiers and horses in Nanjing, who has real power, the rest are standard idle officials.

The squire was promoted to Shangshu, which seemed to be promoted, but in fact, he was kicked into an idle position from the position of real power that controlled the military power of the Beijing Division.

Why should the cabinet assistant be in a hurry to seize the garrison power of the Beijing Division, thinking of Guo Weixian's dismissal some time ago, everyone was nervous, Zhang Siwei's appointment will naturally not be as desired, but this incident also proves one thing, Zhang Siwei's assistant is still in name only.

After Wanli ascended the throne, Feng Bao was the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of the commander of Dongchang, and also the seal of the imperial supervisor, and the Empress Dowager Li, and the cabinet assistant Zhang Juzheng became the iron triangle, controlling the government, and the Wanli Emperor saw Feng Bao in order to respect the "big companion" instead of calling him by his name, and the power was overwhelming.

Zhang Juzheng fell ill and died, the Iron Triangle naturally ceased to exist, Feng Bao did not have the help of the powerful ministers of the foreign court, and his position in the inner court was not so stable.

However, at this time, Zhang Siwei appeared, he was not only able to become an assistant, but also willing to reconstruct the structure of the year, the Queen Mother, Feng Bao and the cabinet assistant relied on each other, this iron triangle was not back then, how could Zhang Siwei's qualifications and prestige be compared with Zhang Juzheng back then.

With this iron triangle structured, it is conceivable that the power and influence of the Queen Mother and Feng Bao will be far greater than when Zhang Juzheng was an assistant to the cabinet.

For a long time in a high position, people often lose their self-reflection, Feng Bao has been the master of ceremonies and the first person in the inner court for ten years, and it will take a long time to see Zhang Siwei in the position of cabinet assistant, Feng Bao, the first person in the inner court, will also continue to do it, and his mentality has gradually changed.

Today's Feng Bao has reached the pinnacle that a eunuch in the Ming Dynasty can achieve, and his power is extremely great, he has everything he should have, and he even got what he shouldn't.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of the palm seal shall not concurrently serve as the eunuch of the commander of the East Factory, because both of them are extremely powerful, and it is easy to lose balance by one person, and the clerical room and the ceremonial room in the master of ceremonies cannot be directly managed by the eunuch of the palm print, because the clerical room is uploaded and distributed, and the ceremonial room is in charge of rewards and punishments. He has already passed the infamous eunuch Liu Jin of the Zhengde Dynasty, but because Zhang Juzheng of the Foreign Dynasty is more authoritative, the eyes of the people of the world are focused on it, so it has not caused any criticism.

People will not be satisfied, they have done this, they always want to go further, the inner court has reached this point, there is no place on it, Feng Bao wants to be knighted.

The addition of the title is naturally the supreme glory, but in the eyes of the civil officials and scholars, the eunuch knighthood is a great treacherous evil, a traitor who brings disaster to the country and the society, and several eunuchs who have been knighted in history are the so-called eunuch power traitors in the history books, and they have been criticized by the literati.

It is said that Feng Bao and others will not repeat the mistakes of the past, but Feng Bao can't take care of it, he is very confident in himself, Feng Bao feels that he has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty and the society, and it is natural to get such a title, and the people of the world will not have any objections.

The matter of knighthood is usually proposed by the cabinet and decided by the Son of Heaven, and the Empress Dowager Li will naturally not prevent Feng Bao from doing so, as long as the cabinet is willing to raise the matter.

Feng Bao contacted Zhang Siwei and asked Zhang Siwei to do this, but the struggle between the foreign dynasties had already appeared, and Zhang Siwei could not give others such a handle.

Zhang Siwei has also been in the center for many years, so he naturally understands that if he mentions Count Feng Baofeng's recitals, he will immediately be seized by political enemies, and the impeachment recitals of the officials and Qingliu will immediately fly to the center like snowflakes, and the world will also be comprehensively targeted at him, and he will become a traitor and eunuch.

Since he thought of this, although Feng Bao was his support in the palace, Zhang Siwei did not dare to agree, but politely refused and gave a generous gift to make amends.

Zhang Siwei's family is a giant in Shanxi, rich and rivaling the country, every time Zhang Siwei's promotion is related to his giving heavy gifts, but this refusal offended Feng Bao.

There are no secrets in the palace, in the middle of August, there were rumors everywhere in the capital, saying that the gift that Zhang Siwei sent to Feng Bao was a glass lamp bought from Tianjin Weicai, worth three thousand taels, which was extremely precious, and the person who gave the gift was wrapped in a brocade box alone, but Feng Bao took it out and smashed it directly on the ground, and scolded angrily:

"If there was no family, how could he Zhang Siwei be where he is today, but he didn't expect to be so ungrateful"

The change in the attitude of the eunuch Feng Bao in charge of the seal of the celebrant was immediately grasped by Zhang Siwei's opponents, and Wang Zhen, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Zeng Xingwu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, immediately prepared a generous gift and came to the door to ask to see Feng Bao.

On August 21 of the 10th year of Wanli, Yang Yinqiu, the imperial historian of Yunnan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeached Liang Menglong, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and impeached him for crimes such as greed for ink, exceeding the rules, and lewdness.

Although Liang Menglong, the secretary of the ministry, is also a member of Zhang Juzheng's party, he has fully cooperated with Zhang Siwei's promotion of officials several times after taking office, and he has long been regarded as a traitor in Zhang Juzheng's party......

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