This year, the Central Plains was full of ups and downs, bloody storms, and the prince was wreaking havoc in the Central Plains - "only" in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Gyeonggi is stable and stable, and the country is peaceful and peaceful.

The emperor has always been biased towards the prince, and the inner court did not want to provoke the emperor, so the outer court fell to the prince and the emperor, so the emperor fell to the outer court.

Regarding the emperor's preference for foreign courts, this is easy to see, because the emperor is slowly replacing the imperial officials who were born in the Wenju people and changing them to those who are born in the noble family. Maybe it was the emperor who changed it, or maybe it was the prince and the foreign dynasty who changed, who knows.

The honeymoon period of the inner court and the outer court is over.

Everyone in the inner court was in a hurry, and some people suggested that the head of the inner court should strike first and bring down a group of arrogant foreign courts; Some suggested that the governor should have a good relationship with the emperor and be more loyal to the emperor.

Liu Xingchao said: "Don't play conspiracy, everything depends on strength." There are two kinds of strength: soft power and hard power. Soft power is: we make the world a country and a people's peace. Hard power is the forbidden army. There is a forbidden army, what are you afraid of? ”

The Royal Arsenal worked day and night, and guns, ammunition, tanks, artillery, and even airplanes were constantly transported through the basement of the palace to the forbidden army garrison in Chang'an, and the forbidden army became even stronger.

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At the beginning, the Manchu officials accused the prince of perverse behavior in the Central Plains, and then everyone was annoyed and said no more, only Lin Jiaxiang, the leader of the Jiangnan Party, was still impeached.

The Jiangnan Party is too small, he is neither a person from the inner court, nor a person from the outer court, nor is he a religious faction, no one pays attention to him, although he represents two billion Jiangnan people.

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During this year, I have done a lot of things, and the people in the harem have a lot of fun, as far as I can see:

A certain imperial concubine was killed by a palace maid, and the result was: the palace maid became the new imperial concubine because the emperor liked her very much.

A certain imperial concubine was also killed by the palace maid, and the result was: the palace maid was executed by Ling Chi, and her entire family was also executed by Ling Chi because the emperor did not like her.

When a certain palace girl gave birth to a prince, and people celebrated happily, the chief imperial physician identified the child through some technique and was not the emperor's! I rummaged through the palace and couldn't find the reason.

Some people say that this is divine will, and it must be conceived by the divine sense. The result: the entire department in which he was in was thrown into the Royal Prison. I guess the emperor doesn't like people to cuckold him either, even if it's "heavenly".

As for the palace maids and eunuchs fighting in groups, digging each other's walls, which princess is favored, etc., I know all of this, but I don't bother to say it, because they don't mean anything. It's like if you go to lunch, you eat abalone, then bear's paw, then shark fin, and so on, and you eat a hundred dishes, and then you pat your belly to sleep, and a few hours later you're hungry again. These are all meaningless things.

Emperor Zhu Honghua is a freewheeling guy, today I saw an imperial concubine, a nobleman or even a palace maid, and thought she was very beautiful, so I pampered her, and even promoted directly to a concubine, but I may enter the cold palace tomorrow and never see her for the rest of my life; Today, if a eunuch dresses him well, or walks his dog well, he will be directly promoted to the head of a certain department, but tomorrow the eunuch will sneeze and go directly to the royal prison. Among these bumpy passers-by, only the concubines from the Dashi clan and the eunuchs from the inner court were stable, although they were not conspicuous.

Among so many bad things in the harem, the only thing that can be said is probably the "witch case", because this matter is related to the head of the inner court and the senate behind him.

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One evening in the middle of summer, Emperor Zhu Honghua was idle and idle, and decided to pamper an imperial concubine (the name was forgotten because she would die soon). When the emperor arrived at the concubine's room, he found that the woman had a cauldron on her head (a vulgar way to make a small report), so the emperor asked her strangely (what a stupid, people just let you ask, you really ask), why did she do this?

The princess cried and said that it was because the princess next door (whose name she also forgot because she was also about to die) wanted to cast a "witch trick" on her, and she had to protect herself.

The emperor was suspicious, and sent his imperial eunuch with guards to raid the house of the imperial concubine next door, and sure enough, he found all kinds of strange devices. Later, it was learned that one of the eunuchs of the imperial concubine next door had learned some witchcraft from the royal witch department and was about to cast a spell on the first imperial concubine.

The emperor was furious: someone dared to pretend to be a ghost in the palace!

As a result, the second imperial concubine and her witchcraft eunuch were killed, and all her maids and maids were thrown into the royal prison. The emperor decided to disband the royal witch ministry and sent Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, to deal with it, and Liu Xingchao went to do it when he heard the order.

Originally, this matter was so commonplace, the palace doesn't know how many times a year - the problem was later: a certain department that could not be said did not agree to do so, and they even opposed the disposal of any one from the Umno Ministry.

The Witch Ministry is a very old department, and legend has it that can destroy the world, just like the department that can't be said.

All right! I'm going to say it - that department is the Senate! No one can sue me anyway, because when he does, he doesn't just say it—he's dead!

Although everyone doesn't mention it, everyone knows the high-ranking imperial officials:

The Senate was the supreme knowledge and power of the Ming Dynasty, and they passed it down from generation to generation—their knowledge gave them power, and their power kept them in possession of knowledge.

The Senate has always been very powerful, and the Witch Ministry has not had the legendary ability to destroy the world for a long, long time.

The current Umbu is a joke, the worst and dumbest Bunju people are thrown into the Witch Ministry, and these new people follow the old ones to learn all kinds of pretentious spells.

For example, they raise a wooden sword and shout "kill", as if they can kill everything in front of them - they call this "mind".

They put their hands on a ritual instrument and shouted "move" as if they were flying an airplane – they called it "remote control."

From time to time, they meditate, staring at a sheep as if they could kill it – they call it "staring at the sheep."

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In short, this is a declining garbage department, a ministry that should have been canceled a long time ago but was not canceled, a ministry that left behind primitive obscurantism - so people call them "cecal departments".

- However, the Senate just did not agree to dissolve.

Liu Xingchao, the governor of the Inner Court, clashed violently with the Senate (he himself said that only a few people in the Inner Court could go to the Senate), and his reason was that the Witch Ministry was useless and that it was an order of the emperor. But the Senate made it clear to him that the Witch Ministry was established with the Senate and must not be abandoned.

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court and the commander of the forbidden army, felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger, and after complaining to us, he went to explain to the emperor.

Emperor Zhu Honghua was even more furious.

But the emperor couldn't help it, he couldn't afford to provoke the senate, so he killed all the harem people who knew about it, including the first imperial concubine and her palace maids and eunuchs.

This is Gong Dou.

The meaning of Gong Dou is the same as dog fighting and cockfighting, but it is to be fought, and they only have temporary victories, not eternal victories.

The fate is the same for all: death.

Because, no one knows what - power.