Dongchang, that is, the Dongji Factory, was established in the eighteenth year of Yongle, headed by a close eunuch of the Yongle Emperor, and was a privileged supervision agency, secret service and secret police agency of the Ming Dynasty. Pro, eye & fast, a large number of novels to read for free.

The leader of the East Factory is called the Eunuch of the East Factory, also known as the Governor of the Factory or the Governor, and is the second person in the eunuch after the Eunuch of the Celebrant Seal of the Eunuch, usually held by the Eunuch of the Celebrant Bingbi, and his official title is "Eunuch of the Official School of the Governor of the East Factory", referred to as "Admiral of the East Factory".

Emperor Yongle felt that the Jinyi Wei set up outside the palace was not suitable for control, and its power was too great to breed many drawbacks, so he set up the East Factory to check and balance, and the Jinyi Wei was equally powerful.

At the beginning of the establishment of Dongchang, there was only the right to investigate and arrest people, and there was no right to interrogate, and there was no prison, so the people who were caught were all imprisoned in the edict of Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town.

The scope of investigation in Dongchang is very wide, not only the imperial court will try major cases, and the Beizhen Fusi tortures the felons in Dongchang, but also all yamen of the imperial court have Dongchang personnel on duty to monitor the words and deeds of officials.

Due to the fact that the East Factory was established not long ago, and the Yongle Emperor monopolized the power, the eunuchs of the East Factory did not fly as high as they did in the future.

Now no one would have expected that the East Factory, like Jinyiwei, has become an inseparable part of the history of the Ming Dynasty, and Jinyiwei is called "Factory Guard".

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu took history as a mirror, in order to prevent the internal servants from messing with the government, not only did not let the internal servants study, but also set up an iron plaque in the palace, clearly stipulating, "The temple people are only allowed to serve and sweep, and are not allowed to interfere in political affairs."

Therefore, even if the eunuch of the Qiandi who came out of the Yanwang Mansion, once he violated the law, Ming Taizu should be killed.

After Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, he gradually began to reuse eunuchs, firstly, because the eunuchs had sent him a message during the Jingjing, telling him that the defense of Nanjing City was empty, so he avoided the checkpoints along the way and went straight to Nanjing City and seized the world in one fell swoop.

Second, the Wenchen of the Jianwen period thought that Emperor Yongle was not the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and there were criticisms in their hearts, which made Emperor Yongle vigilant and used eunuchs to supervise civil and military officials.

It is worth mentioning that the biggest difference between the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty and the eunuchs of previous dynasties is that the Ming Emperor trained them according to the model of civil officials, and they all had a certain culture, so the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were very high and were able to compete with the Wenchen group.

"Xianggong, will the chamberlain really be so powerful in the future?" After a while, Zhou Yuting came back to her senses and asked with a surprised expression.

"It's not that they are powerful, but that the saint wants to use them to control the court and form a constraint with the civil and military officials." Li Yuntian nodded, and then explained, "This is the royal way. ”

"Xianggong, can the fourth child of that family help you in the future?" Zhou Yuting vaguely understood what Li Yuntian meant, and asked suspiciously after a deep sigh.

"I don't know, Xianggong is just planting a seed now, whether it will grow into a weed or a towering tree in the future, that is up to the will of God."

Li Yuntian laughed, he didn't even know what the fourth child of the family was doing in the palace, if he could know if the other party could help him in the future, "No matter what, one more friend is better than one more enemy, besides, this is a good deed, and he shouldn't ask for anything in return." ”

"Xianggong, you think about the long term." Zhou Yuting leaned her cheek on Li Yuntian's chest when she heard this, and she didn't know why, she felt extremely safe and warm at this moment.

Li Yuntian smiled and gently stroked the hair on Zhou Yuting's head, his eyes were a little fluttering: In a few years, I don't know what Xungui, Wenchen and the inner court will be like, and now he can make a move.

A few days later, Li Yuntian left the capital and set off for Hukou County, taking a boat from the dock outside the capital to the north along the canal.

When passing through Yangzhou, Li Yuntian stayed for two days, and Zheng Boxin had already found out that there was really a salt merchant named Lu Dezhong in the Salt Merchants Association, and he was also the vice president of the Salt Merchants Association.

Li Yuntian naturally couldn't be idle to find Lu Dezhong, he was an official, Lu Dezhong was a citizen, could it be that he was going to visit because of these 20,000 taels of silver? Wouldn't that be a loss of decency?

Besides, whether the 20,000 taels of silver tickets were given by Lu Dezhong, and what his purpose was for doing so Li Yuntian is still unclear, so he should not know about this matter.

As long as he hangs Lu Dezhong like this, Lu Dezhong will jump out by himself sooner or later, and then he will know what his intentions are.

When I returned to Hukou County, it was already March, and when the grass grew and the warbler flew, the affairs of Hukou County were well organized under the auspices of Wang Yu and Zhao Lang, and the new wharf and trading market were also in full swing, striving to be used in May.

Zhou Yuting definitely can't continue to live in the Chen Mansion this time, the main courtyard of the county government's mansion has been cleaned up for her, and the green calyx has moved to the side courtyard next door.

Although she has become the lady of the county, Zhou Yuting does not have the consciousness of the lady of the county, and often wanders around the county seat or in the town of Bai Chase, and when she encounters those petty thefts and bullying of men and women, she has to step forward to discipline them.

As a result, the security of the county seat and Baishui Town has improved unprecedentedly, no one dares to go wild anymore, and the gangsters and ruffians on the street can no longer get along, so they simply settle down to find a job in Baishui Town to make a living.

Due to the construction of the trading market and wharf, many businessmen in Jiujiang Prefecture and even the surrounding prefectures and counties have taken a fancy to the business opportunities in it and have come to do business, which makes Baishui Town now a thriving scene.

Moreover, when recruiting people for the newly built industries in Baishui Town, people from Hukou County must be selected first, which undoubtedly provides a good employment opportunity for the people of Hukou County.

With the increasing number of businesses in Baishui Town, the Baishui Town Inspection Department is facing more and more pressure on public security, and it has to patrol the waters of Baishui Town and patrol the town, and the troops seem to be a little stretched.

Li Yuntian also felt this problem, so he simply solved this problem once and for all, and with a stroke of the pen, he asked Zhao Hua, the inspector of the Baishui Town Inspection Division, to recruit another three hundred sergeants.

The more merchants in Whitewater, the more taxes they receive, so the Inspectorate's military pay is not a problem.

Since Li Yuntian came back, he has basically dealt with businessmen from other places who came to Hukou County to inquire about the truth and did the work of attracting investment.

In order to make those businessmen believe that the trading market in Baishui Town could be held up after he left, Li Yuntian had no choice but to show his mentor Yang Shiqi and his father-in-law Zhongyong Hou Zhou Zheng, with these two great gods in the capital to "support" him, then even if he served from Hukou County, no one dared to touch the trading market in Baishui Town.

Everyone knows that Chen Bozhao, the president of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, and Zheng Gui, the deacon, are Li Yuntian's father-in-law, and the Baishui Town Trading Market is the industry of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, under Li Yuntian's incorruptible tongue and coaxing, those businessmen who came to Baishui Town to check on the news booked a place in the Baishui Town trading market.

We have been in business for many years, and we naturally know that once this trading market is established, after all, it will become a freight collection and transfer station in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the future is unlimited.

Wang Yu and Zhao Lang didn't expect that Li Yuntian, who was born in the two lists, would be able to deal with those businessmen who were extremely treacherous in the eyes of the two of them, and they were more and more impressed with him.

Although the affairs of Hukou County are carried out in an orderly manner, there is one thing that is pressing on Li Yuntian's heart, if he wants the Baishui Town trading market to run smoothly, this matter must be solved, that is, the water bandits.

Since Li Yuntian destroyed Wang San and severely injured Wu Dao Scar, the water bandits on Poyang Lake have changed from a three-legged shape to a dominant family.

"Long Ye", one of the three major water bandits in Poyang Lake, took the opportunity to annex the forces of other water bandits on Poyang Lake and unified the water bandits in Poyang Lake, and even Wu Dao Scar took refuge in him.

According to the report, Long Ye has gathered nearly 2,000 men to run rampant on Poyang Lake, and several times after the year, he even sent people into the waters of Hukou County to test, but after encountering the inspection department of the inspection department, he retreated.

Once the business of the Baishui Town trading market is on the right track, then the gang of water bandits will undoubtedly become a big hidden danger, if they rob the cargo ships that come to the dock of Baishui Town, and extort businessmen who do business, then the Baishui Town trading market will inevitably be greatly affected.

To tell the truth, Li Yuntian did not pin his hopes for exterminating the water bandits of Long Ye on the official government, if the prefectures and counties along Poyang Lake had the ability, they would not have made the water bandits in Poyang Lake so far.

Therefore, he had already made up his mind, no matter what, he had to find a way to destroy the water bandit Long Ye before leaving, so that Poyang Lake would not only be much cleaner, but also sweep away the worries of the trading market in Baishui Town.

Therefore, the Baishui Town Inspection Division must increase its troops, and he will transfer more than 200 people from the county town at that time, which is enough to defeat Long Ye's water bandits.

Don't look at the number of people in Master Long, just like the last time Wu Scar attacked Baishui Town, those bandits who had to cling to him would definitely not really work for him, maybe they could buy the people inside to join them inside.

Li Yuntian knew that he couldn't be in a hurry to deal with Long Ye, so he had already inserted eyeliner into the water bandit a few years ago, to find out the movements and internal situation of Long Ye, the water bandit, knowing that he was able to survive a hundred battles, and only when the time came, he would attack him.

At the end of May, the White Water Town Trading Market and the White Water Town Wharf were completed two days apart, and on the first day of June, the opening ceremony of the White Water Town Wharf and the Trading Market.

Yang Demin, the prefect of Jiujiang Prefecture, Han Anyu, the governor of Jiujiang Prefecture, and other officials of the government, the commander of Jiujiangwei and other military attachés, as well as the magistrates of the other four counties under Jiujiang Prefecture, were all invited to come over to build momentum for the opening ceremony.

Yang Demin and others are more concerned about the trading market than the wharf, which has four wide streets, and on both sides of the street are rows of two-story buildings, and many businesses have settled in and opened for business.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the trading market has only completed the first phase of the project, and the second phase of the project will start in mid-June, and four more such streets will be built to meet the scale of future transactions.

As for the other supporting facilities, they need to be gradually improved little by little.

Yang Demin was greatly surprised by this, he never thought that Li Yuntian would have such a big blueprint, and he could also make those merchants of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce obediently give out money, if this trading market is really popular, then it will be a great achievement for him in Jiujiang Mansion.

Li Yuntian invited all the military and political officials of Jiujiang Mansion this time, which can be regarded as paying a visit to the wharf, and he will ask everyone to take care of the affairs of Baishui Town in the future.

Of course, if anyone is interested in doing business in the trading market, then Li Yuntian will definitely ask the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to give them a large discount: eating alone will undoubtedly attract jealousy, and rain and dew are the king's way to act, and everyone will naturally carry everything together. One