Once the flame of curiosity is ignited, it is very difficult to extinguish.

Now Zhao Yuyang and the Senate are very close—maybe he will know these things.

I asked him, "How much do you know about the north and west of the Ming Dynasty?" How did the Patriarchal Library write about the Western Regions and Mongolia? What is a white ghost? ”

He stared me in the eye and said, "Do you know why you jump up and down every day, toss and turn, and are too busy to sleep, and you are lower than me?" Because you're doing things that don't work. It's okay to pat yourself on the back, you are familiar with your face in the inner court, and when it's time to promote, someone will naturally say good things about you. Don't run around Chang'an and Gyeonggi all day long. Now Gyeonggi is full of soldiers and bandits, the Central Plains, Hebei, Liaodong, and Lingnan have all rebelled, and you are actually studying white ghosts, you are a big-headed ghost! ”

This vulgar, short-sighted guy!

So I went and asked the women from the two big places.

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I asked Rui'er, "The goddess—"

Her: "Please call me Rui'er." ”

Me: "Rui'er...... Have you ever heard of the 'White Ghost' in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty? ”

She: "It is mentioned in the holy books and the divine books, as if they were mentioning the great flood and the great flame. But we did not believe in the Holy Land, so we fled from the Holy Land to the City of Abundance. We don't care, so we just stay in our kingdom of abundance and don't come out. Frankly, I don't know and don't care. However, I don't think anything is groundless, and even if it's not a 'white ghost', there will be other reasons to explain it. ”

She may represent the attitude of the Sichuan people and the Sichuan Senate to life.

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I asked Li Yuyao: "Holy Maiden-"

She: "The saint is eloping!" Call me 'Xiao Yao'! ”

Me: "Oh, little ...... Yao. Have you ever heard of the 'White Ghost' in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Xiao Yao: "Of course I know, it is said to be true, it is said that there are 'red ghosts' in the south and 'sea ghosts' in the east." You see, the mission of the Senate is to destroy these ghosts. Do you think that the senators will be 'this is not allowed' and 'that is not allowed'? ”

Me: "What do you mean by 'supposedly'?" ”

She: "'Supposedly' means that I am not responsible for what I said just now. It has love, and if it doesn't, it doesn't, and it doesn't care about me. There are many places in the world, and there are many places that have not been discovered. ”

Me: "I thought the Ming Dynasty had already ruled the world!" ”

She: "Da Ming's fart! Before I came to Chang'an, I didn't know what dynasty you were. Hey, do you really think that there is something 'under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, isn't it the king's thing? Are there 4 billion people in your mainland? Sichuan beats you like a dog. Is Sichuan awesome? The Holy Land beats Sichuan like beating a dog. But the Holy Land is cautious of outsiders. Their original words were, 'If you can't mess with it, you won't mess with it'. ”

I was stunned: "Someone outside? What is it? ”

Her: "How do I know! I'm not a senator. Some say that there may be other senatorial churches out there. There's a lot of weird stuff out there. As for the 'white ghosts', there may be, but I don't believe we can meet them. ”

The problem was not solved, but I became more puzzled, and a stable world began to crumble.

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And the real melee is about to begin.

I remember very clearly, it was at the end of the summer, the summer of the fourth year of Daming Honghua, it was still in the court, and the contradictions really broke out.

Prime Minister Li Guozhong said to Zhu Honghua, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty on the dragon chair: "Your Majesty, the leadership of Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang has been formed, and we are waiting for Your Majesty to write a sign and compile it." ”

Everyone was shocked.

Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, was stunned for a moment and said, "Wait a minute, what the hell is Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory?" ”

Li Guozhong: "Jinyiwei is responsible for the intelligence of hundreds of officials in the imperial court, Dongchang is responsible for the affairs of Gyeonggi, and the Xichang is responsible for the affairs of other provinces. ”

Liu Xingchao was furious: "I know this, it is written very clearly in the history books!" But they've been canceled for hundreds of thousands of years, so what are you going to rebuild these things for? ”

Li Guozhong: "In extraordinary times, there must be extraordinary actions. Now the situation is urgent, and changes must be made. ”

Liu Xingchao: "Now there is the Royal Intelligence Department, which is responsible for intelligence, and the Royal Secret Service, which is responsible for operations. They are well done, and there is no need to rebuild the factory guard. Four words for you: I disagree. ”

Li Guozhong: "The Senate will agree." ”

Liu Xingchao's eyelids moved fiercely: "You say it again?" ”

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At this time, Ma Jiahui, the former eunuch on the right side of the dragon chair, walked down.

This person was also from Wenju and the inner court, and came to the palace a few years earlier than Liu Xingchao. He has been Zhu Honghua's teacher and served as the head of the crown prince's ministry for fifteen years. After Zhu Honghua ascended the throne, he was the emperor's imperial eunuch, and he was inseparable from the early dynasty when he ate, sleeped, bathed, and bathed.

He stood by the dragon chair for more than four years, and his words every day were "Something to play, nothing to retreat from the court", everyone almost stopped paying attention to him, forgetting that he was also an official to the second rank, ranking third in the inner court, second only to Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court and the commander of the forbidden army, and Zheng Xuangong, the supervisor of the forbidden army.

People were looking at him. People used to look at the emperor next to him, but now they finally focused their eyes on him.

Ma Jiahui: "The Senate has agreed. ”

Then there was no word, still so low-key.

Liu Xingchao's eyes met Ma Jiahui's eyes and asked, "What do they mean?" Why do we need factory guards when we have the Intelligence Department and the Secret Service? ”

Ma Jiahui: "The patriarchs will say that authoritarianism is too dangerous and will make people unmotivated. If you give the intelligence department and the secret service, even if only one to the prime minister. ”

Liu Xingchao: "Authoritarian? Isn't the Senate also in autocracy? Impetus? Do you want to see us fight? I don't give a single department, you build a factory from scratch. ”

Ma Jiahui: "The patriarch will let me pick people from the inner court." ”

Liu Xingchao clenched his fists and did not speak.

Prime Minister Li Guozhong stepped forward and said: "I will first appoint myself as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the East Factory Factory, and the West Factory Factory, and the personnel establishment will be self-determined, and the financial budget will be raised by itself. ”

Emperor Zhu Honghua of the Ming Dynasty on the dragon chair: "Okay, I don't need to spend money, it's accurate." ”

The main hall was silent for a moment.

Ma Jiahui waited for a while and said, "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

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Although the general manager has always opposed and secretly resisted, Jinyiwei, East Factory, and West Factory have been rebuilt, and they are in their prime from birth.

Their head is Lu Chengzhi! Head of the Department of Intelligence of the Imperial University! Lu Chengzhi tried to infiltrate the intelligence department last time, but he was kicked out, and this time he will do it alone!

The chiefs of the Secret Division and the Intelligence Department (hereinafter referred to as the "two departments") are all eunuchs in the inner court, and they are nothing more than grabbing some merit and embezzling some for their own use, and they are few in number, and there are only a few hundred Wenju people every year.

And Jinyiwei, East Factory, West Factory (hereinafter referred to as "Factory Guard") were seven aunts and eight aunts at the beginning, one person can pull a hundred brothers and sons and villagers in, and then those 100 people each pull a hundred brothers and sons and villagers in.

The two places are the institutions of the inner court, and naturally the officials are all from the Wenju people. The secret department is responsible for commanding the work, and is responsible for analyzing and commanding, while the intelligence department is responsible for infiltration, espionage, exploration, and murder. Although they sometimes turn against each other, they are all henchmen of the inner court after all, and they were purged by Liu Xingchao four years ago.

The powers of the two divisions are so great that they are in charge of everything from legislation, arrests, trials, and enforcement, to intelligence, policy, and the selection and promotion of officials.

They can change the world as much as they want – by changing people.

For example, four years ago, Liu Xingchao bombarded Hanzhong County and blew up a million people to ashes. It's hard to hide, isn't it? But it did it in two places. The whole world thought that there was an 11-magnitude earthquake in Hanzhong. The imperial court even mobilized its subjects to donate money to the reconstruction of Hanzhong, and various examples of loyalty emerged, including the emperor who saved money to donate to the victims without breakfast, the empress who wore old clothes all day and saved rouge money to the victims, the Forbidden Army and the Royal Army who did not care to save people, the widow widower who respected and loved himself without marriage (but was executed by the Ministry of Survival four years later because they did not marry), the scholar who donated all his property, the courtiers who wrote poems, and so on.

I don't mean to look down on the emperor, the empress, the army, the victims, the ministers, the nobles, and the commoners when I say this, because they act from the heart, and they are moved by others, for themselves, and for the world. I even consulted the banned books of the past few years, as well as the random books of cults and traitors, all of which said that "the earthquake was a heavenly punishment caused by the perverse actions of the emperor or the imperial court."

Even if these traitors try their best to say bad things about the court, they can't say anything bad, because there is no bottom line for the bad of the court, and there is a bottom line for their imagination.

The reason why I say so much nonsense and say that there is no bottom line in two places is that I want to say that the factory guard has no bottom line.

I remember that the prime minister and his ministers repeatedly argued that the reason for the establishment of the factory guard was that "competition can produce fairness and motivation". I understand this reason, it seems that although the Ming Dynasty adopted a monopoly system, for example, rice is only allowed to be sold by the imperial court, but if it is sold in one department, then the rice is sold very high, more expensive than abalone, but if rice can be sold in two departments, such as the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce at the same time, then the price will fall a lot, and people will be able to live.

However, there is a difference between the two places, the factory and the Ministry of Labor, and the Ministry of Commerce, which sell rice. The people who sell rice are responsible for the common people, and if you are expensive, I will not buy yours, I will buy someone else's, so the price of rice has been falling.

The two departments and the factory guards are responsible for the emperor, and whichever department harms the people greatly, which department has merit, will be rewarded by the emperor. So, if you collect 50 percent of the tax, I will collect 100 percent of the tax, and if you collect the tax this year and next year, I will collect the tax for 10 years a year...... In short, which department is better for civilians will appear weak and unnecessary to exist, so the good guys have been eliminated repeatedly, the bad guys have been reused again and again, and the bottom line has been lowered by them again and again, and even people like me can't stand it.

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At the inner court assembly, Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, angrily scolded Ma Jiahui.

While scolding, Zhao Yuyang ran in - I didn't even notice that he wasn't there just now.

He said to Liu Xingchao: "Your Excellency, just now the Senate suddenly called me over and asked me to forward this letter to you. ”

He handed over a letter stamped with a fire mark.

Liu Xingchao frowned and took it, glanced at it, and immediately threw it on the ground: "This is a list, the patriarch will let people from the secret department and the intelligence department be transferred into the factory guard." Damn, these people are all traitors, all of them are arrested and killed! ”

Lu Ziluo picked up the paper with the dense name written on it, looked at it, and said, "Maybe it's a separation between us." ”

Liu Xingchao thought for a while and said, "Don't reveal the news, let them choose by themselves." Those who don't want to go are counted as our people; If you want to go to the factory guard, you will throw it directly at the Royal Prison, and then say to the Prime Minister: 'I'm sorry, he just had a stomachache yesterday and died. ’”

Liu Xingchao said to Zhao Yuyang: "Why are you staring at the Senate? How dare they plot against me! Forget about dealing with me, you still hook up with the foreign court! ”

Zhao Yuyang: "I'll tell you everything I know." It is normal for the senators to summon the prime minister occasionally. The Senate summoned four times last year, once a month this year, and three times this month! And every time I put the personnel apart, I don't know what is said inside. I've told you all this. Oh yes, I think of another thing when I say that. ”

Zhao Yuyang paused, looked at the more than two dozen people in the room, and said, "Speaking of the special situation in the past few months, I still have one thing in mind. Zheng Xuangong, the superintendent of the forbidden army, used to go to see the senators once every few months, but now he sees them several times a month. I used to think it was nothing, but now I realize that it's a little weird. ”

Liu Xingchao touched his head: "Zheng Xuangong? This guy is from Jiangnan, he has always been unbiased and impartial, does this stuffy gourd have to do against me? ”

Li Feiyu: "The senators have always liked to strike a balance, who comes out to fight whom, and plays people like monkeys. ”

Liu Xingchao: "I have always done things for the inner court, is the Senate not the inner court?" I thought the Senate would be my people, I was a member of the Senate, and I thought about going to the Senate to retire to retire, but they were so wary of me! ”

He gritted his teeth and said, ", these guys with their elbows twisted out!" If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. Li Feiyu, you replace all the forbidden troops upstairs with our people. Zhao Yuyang, you find someone to secretly copy the books from the Patriarch's Library. Be careful not to let people know. Dongfang Ju, you also go to help. ”