Wei Zhongxian is a person with a low level of education, scarce knowledge reserves, and relatively shallow understanding.

The first is that Wei Zhongxian is from the people, so he looks at things and does things more realistically than those civil officials. The second is that although Wei Zhongxian is not smart, he is good at using his brain to figure out problems. Moreover, he does have a relatively high sensitivity in politics.

Saying that he is seeking truth from facts, this can be seen from the fact that he knows that he will definitely be like his famous predecessors, and eventually become a victim of the emperor's black cauldron.

This matter was affirmed by him through a temptation of the emperor. In order to test whether the emperor regarded himself as a sacrifice, he used the things commonly used by eunuchs to build a shrine for himself to test the emperor. As a result, the emperor not only agreed to his request, but also clearly requested that his nickname "Nine Thousand Years Old" be added to the ancestral hall.

At that time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who had just finished an official hat chair, excitedly said to him: "Long live me." You will live to be nine thousand years old. In this way, my Ming Dynasty can always be handed over to my companion to manage. ”

From then on, Wei Zhongxian knew that his fate would definitely not be much better.

It is said that Wei Zhongxian is good at pondering and grasping the sensitivity of politics because after being pushed by the emperor and affirming that the emperor regarded himself as a victim of a black cauldron, Wei Zhongxian did not become depressed. Instead, after careful consideration, he turned the matter of Jiansheng Temple into a black pot promotion activity of "everyone with a black pot to carry together".

In his opinion, such a thing as the Jiansheng Ancestral Hall can test the loyalty of local officials to him on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can drag down those dirty and filthy civil officials in the interior who appear to be sanctimonious.

Judging from Wei Zhongxian's roguelike values, since everyone is a thief, everyone eats together when they eat meat, and when they are beaten, everyone must be beaten together.

In this way, this Jiansheng Temple activity, which was originally intended to test the emperor's true attitude towards himself, became a means for Wei Zhongxian to examine the loyalty of his lackeys and to attack and repel political opponents.

At the beginning, he found that he was still a little nervous when he found that he was his hardcore dog's leg for the matter of Jiansheng Temple, including Huguang Governor Yao Zongwen and other guys who didn't support him very much.

It wasn't until the celebrant received "Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, praised Wei Zhongxian's merits, and asked Yu Ning to build an ancestral hall." After the recital, Wei Zhongxian completely strengthened his determination to implement the plan of "Jiansheng Ancestral Hall to Investigate Loyalty and Traitor".

("Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, was the secretary of the Father's Meritorious Wing, and was ordered by the Holy Order: This book said that the factory ministers were dedicated to raising prisoners, aiding dangerous Xinjiang, setting up dangerous equipment, and standing tall in Jintang. "Records of the Imperial Court of the Ming Xi Dynasty" page)

After the Jiansheng Temple project began to be promoted, Wei Zhongxian found that Huguang, who originally thought that he was the most hardcore and must be the most supportive of himself, had become more and more ambiguous towards him.

Lao Liu of Zhijiang Wangfu is still more realistic to himself. He had already said to himself that as a local vassal king, neither the Zhijiang King nor the Zhijiang King's son-in-law, Huguang General Wang Shuhui, was not very good at promoting the matter of building a shrine in the local area.

Wei Zhongxian still understands such a thing. No matter how much he had political ambitions, he didn't dare to use the method of building a temple to seek the support of the vassal kings of the old Zhu family. Not to mention that Wei Zhongxian himself has no intention of rebelling at all, that is, he really has the intention of rebellion, and he has to keep his distance from the vassal kings first. Otherwise, with the personality of the son of heaven of the Zhu family, without waiting for what he did, the hat of colluding with the vassal king to plot misdeeds would be taken off first.

However, the ambiguity of Huguang officialdom made Wei Zhongxian feel very confused. In his heart, something like Yao Zongwen was originally okay to be a biting dog in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He simply did not believe that a civil official like him really had the ability to do practical things and do real things. Moreover, even in his own dogleg group, Yao Zongwen's status is not very high.

Someone that Wei Zhongxian didn't expect. After Yao Zongwen took office as the governor of Huguang, he did a really good job. Wei Zhongxian didn't believe that a "gentleman's son" like Wang Shuhui, who relied on the relationship of his father-in-law, really had the ability to quell the rebellion. He also thought that the pacification of the Wuchang military rebellion, which was a big trouble, was done by Yao Zongwen, the governor in charge of the military and political affairs of Huguang, because of the close relationship between the Zhijiang palace and himself, so he put gold on Wang Shuhui's face.

Wei Zhongxian's basic view on the Wuchang Rebellion is that Yao Zongwen has real skills. Zhang Hong, the prefect of Jingzhou, is very capable. Wang Shuhui was the son-in-law of Zhu Shuzhen, the king of Zhijiang, who had a close relationship with the two generations of emperors and the inner court, and more importantly, because he had a good relationship with himself, a nine-thousand-year-old man, so he was promoted by Yao Zongwen and Zhang Hong, two more sensible civil officials.

Wei Zhongxian's idea cannot be said to be wrong. After all, since Emperor Xuanzong, the Ming Dynasty has always been able to understand military affairs. Yu Qian of the Orthodox Dynasty, Wang Shouren of the Zhengde Dynasty, Hu Zongxian of the Jiajing Dynasty, Ling Yunyi, Yin Zhengmao and Li Hualong of the Wanli Dynasty, almost all of the people who had the ability to quell the rebellion and pacify the barbarians were civil officials.

At the beginning, wasn't Wei Zhongxian himself ready to let Zhu Xieyuan do the matter of pacifying the Wuchang military rebellion? It's not that Wei Zhongxian, a guy from a eunuch background, also values literature over military force like civil officials, but reality is reality. This Ming Dynasty has reached today, but it is not as star-studded as it was when Taizu became an ancestor. The nobles are not proficient in anything other than eating, drinking, and having fun, and the generals don't have that ability in the first place.

Wei Zhongxian attaches great importance to Yao Zongwen, a guy who is extremely rare under his command and can actually be proficient in military affairs to quell the rebellion.

What's more important is that since Yao Zongwen took charge of Huguang, under the situation of constant ups and downs and various troubles, and the sharp shrinkage and decline of the tribute taxes in various provinces, the Huguang Province under the command of Yao Zongwen under his command has been able to achieve a little red in all kinds of green, and after three or four consecutive years of hard work, all the taxes in Huguang Province have been paid to the imperial court on time and in quantity.

To be honest, Yao Zongwen was able to know how to put down the rebellion, which was enough to surprise Wei Zhongxian. Now that Yao Zongwen is not only able to know the army to quell the rebellion, but this guy is also so good at governing the place, Wei Zhongxian is even more happy.

Of course, Huguang is not calm. The local gentry in Huguang used many channels to let the officials of the Beijing Division pour a lot of sewage on Wang Shuhui's guy. What kind of cruelty and tyranny, what kind of plundering people and swallowing land, what kind of massacre of gentry and so on, even Wei Zhongxian listened to it with a full ear.

But this matter came and went quickly, and I don't know how Wang Shuhui appeased that group of people in the local area.

A gentleman like Wang Shuhui knows how to grab money and get land, which is not surprising. It was Yao Zongwen's wine bag and rice bag that governed Huguang so well, which made Wei Zhongxian happy and puzzled at the same time.

After all, when he was in Beijing, Yao Zongwen's performance was only at the level of the middle and lower reaches of that group of lackeys and civil officials