While Qin Tai was studying the relationship between Zhang Jing and this group of dead officials, something happened in the capital far north of the country. Of course, this incident is not full of turmoil, in fact, there are not too many people who know the outcome of this matter after the fact, and even fewer people know the ins and outs of this matter. To put it simply, Zhang Jing, who was about to enter the inner palace to serve as the master of ceremonies to "walk", had an accident. This matter was only known to some key personnel of the cabinet and the inner palace, and of course, some well-informed people in the inner palace also knew about it afterwards.

The cause of the incident was that Zhang Jing, the imperial eunuch, was serving the current emperor Jiajingye. The imperial eunuch is a relatively important yamen in the inner palace, managing the daily cleaning and utensils placement. Just like a modern property company, it belongs to the logistics service category. The royal eunuch, like other yamen, has a chief eunuch, also known as the chief eunuch. There are two deputies of equal status under the chief eunuch, one is the "promotion" of the imperial supervisor, and the other is Zhang Jing, the young eunuch of the imperial prison. Both of them are assistants to the chief eunuch and the two powerful figures in charge of the imperial eunuch. The so-called chief eunuch is also the chief administrator, but in fact, he just received a title, and he usually does not care about the daily affairs of the royal eunuch. The "promotion" of the imperial superintendent is in charge of the deployment of the personnel of the imperial superintendent, and the management of the young superintendent is assigned to the work. In the **24 Yamen of the Ming Dynasty, the status of the imperial prison is in the middle and upper, and there are not many minions under him, but there are also a lot. In particular, Zhang Jing, the young eunuch of the imperial prison, has already set up a way, and will soon go to the celebrant to report. So everyone began to talk about this future celebrity, even the royal supervisor who was on an equal footing with Zhang Jing was also inferior in front of Zhang Jing.

Zhang Jing was originally also an "old fritter", but it has been a bit too much over the years. Since he entered the palace at the age of seven, he has been in the palace for so many years, and he has not experienced anything and has not seen anything. Therefore, he is not only cautious, but also never grudges with outsiders and his own people. Later, after the "ancestor" Lu Fang became the youngest son of Lu Fang, he was also very careful in front of Lu Fang and many senior brothers. His change lies in the fact that during the years of his release, through the relationship of his godfather Lu Fang, he asked for an errand to go to the Kunshan military camp in Nanzhili, Jiangnan to serve as a supervisor. When the Kunshan military camp is a supervisor, the level is not high, but the power is not small, and it is also a necessary step for the eunuch to move from a small foot to a big man. The border guards may have a higher status, or they may have more oil and water, but it is not safe there, and war may break out at any time. The "old ancestor" Lu Fang was also good enough for this godson Zhang Jing, and he was reluctant to send Zhang Jing to death, so he arranged for him to go to the Kunshan military camp in the south where there were relatively few wars to serve as a supervisor. Although there was also chaos in the south, the Kunshan military camp belonged to the independent military camp that guarded Nanjing, and as long as Nanjing City was fine, they did not need to send troops. Therefore, in the few years that Zhang Jing was a supervisor in the Kunshan military camp, nothing major happened at all. In the past few years, Zhang Jing learned to "drink the blood of soldiers", deduct military salaries, "occupy vacancies" and other means, and began to learn to embezzle and make money. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was strict enough with the army, and the soldiers were not well fed and clothed, and almost one by one they were hungry and became soldiers. At that time, there was a strange saying that soldiers and warriors would be difficult to control when they were full of food and drink, and that they would either fight and cause trouble. Therefore, the cabinet of literati came up with a non-human solution, so that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty survived in a state of semi-starvation for a long time, and food and supplies were distributed once a month, and they were never enough. In the entire Ming Dynasty, no army was able to get enough food, and no soldier had enough to eat during his service.

As the supervisor of the Kunshan military camp, Zhang Jing's first task was to take charge of logistics, that is, to distribute food and wages. According to the practice at that time, the Kunshan military camp belonged to the local army of Nanzhili, and their food and salary were paid by the Nanjing Military Department. The army of the Ming Dynasty was divided into the "original army", which is now the "central army", which was directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor; The local army, also known as the "main army", belongs to the local training and training to ensure local security; "Regimental training," also known as "guest troops," belongs to foreign troops that should be temporarily dispatched in a timely manner. As the emperor's direct army, the "original army" was relatively well treated, and the grain was four taels a day for each soldier, and the military salary was paid for ten months a year. Four taels of grain a day can also allow soldiers to eat one meal a day dry and drink a thin meal; Each soldier of the "main army" is 2 taels of fine grain and 2 taels of coarse grain a day according to regulations, and military salaries are paid for eight months every year; The "guest army" was the worst treated, and each soldier was given one tael of fine grain and two taels of coarse grain per day, and a quota of six months a year. This is set by the imperial court, and there will be less and not more. After arriving at the barracks, the supervising army was routinely divided into a part, and the officers at all levels were asked for a part, and very few were assigned to the soldiers. Zhang Jing is a "vampire" who almost swallowed all the life money of the soldiers in the Kunshan military camp.

The previous supervisor of the Kunshan military camp stipulated that the soldiers in the Kunshan military camp had a dry meal and a thin meal every day. The dry is half the thick and half grains, and the thin is the mixed grain porridge mixed with wild vegetables. The soldiers were paid once every three months, and each time they were paid a fixed salary of one and a half months, and at the end of the year, each soldier could receive six months, that is, half of the military salary. But after Zhang Jing came, everything changed, the soldiers drank two thin meals a day, and the porridge could be used as a mirror to see themselves. Someone secretly estimated that each soldier's daily grain was less than two taels of coarse grain, and there was no fine grain at all. The soldiers lived on a little coarse grain and most of the wild vegetables. Zhang Jing was paid only twice a year, with a two-month quota each time, and the soldiers could only get one-third of the fixed salary in a year. When Zhang Jing supervised the army in Kunshan, there were mutinies almost every year, and the soldiers "made trouble" and wanted to eat. Zhang Jing ignored it and asked the officers of the Kunshan military camp to suppress the troublesome soldiers. And Zhang Jing made no less than tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. Some of them were sent to the palace by Zhang Jing to honor his godfather "ancestor" Lu Fang, and part of it was used as funds for Zhang Jing's activities, and more than half of them became Zhang Jing's private property. It is said that eunuchs love money, and they can be shameless and dignified for money, Zhang Jing confirmed this.

Through activities, after Zhang Jing became the supervisor of the Kunshan military camp, he did not stay in his post or transferred back to the capital, but went to Nanjing. He went to serve as a deputy to Daniel Zhang, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, and became the deputy envoy of the town guard. At that time, Lü Fang's plan was to let Zhang Jing stay in Nanjing and succeed Daniel Zhang in the future as the next Nanjing town guard. The Nanjing town guard is the largest position in the eunuch pile, although he can't call the wind and rain like the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, but he is also an important person. Zhang Jing also hopes that he can gain a firm foothold in Nanjing, after all, "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", in the palace of the capital, even if Zhang Jing is a celebrant and a eunuch with a seal, he is just a slave, and he has to serve the emperor all day long. But in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, it is different, the vassal king in Nanjing has not yet "become a vassal", that is, there is no prince in the city of Nanjing. At this time, in addition to the town guard Daniel Zhang, Zhang Jing was actually a top figure. In addition to being careful of the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department and the garrison of Nanjing, Grandpa Xu, who has been guarding Nanjing for generations, Zhang Jing can almost walk sideways in Nanjing City, and no one dares to offend Zhang Jing.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jing only stayed in Nanjing City for half a year, and Daniel Zhang, the envoy of Nanjing Town, was arrested by Emperor Jiajing by Emperor Jiajing because his political enemies reported that he had sold treasures from the Nanjing Imperial Palace. Zhang Jing was also transferred back to the capital because of this, but he was not implicated and became the young eunuch of the imperial prison. Although he returned to the capital and returned to the palace, Zhang Jing, who was already used to spending a lot of money, did not improve much. If Zhang Jing hadn't scattered money everywhere and had Lu Fang, his godfather, behind him to fully support him, Zhang Jing would have been brought down by several other brothers and sisters.

Zhang Jing is also very strange, he obviously didn't offend others, but he just put on a big show, did he also hinder others? First, the people of the Qianqing Palace reprimanded Zhang Jing on behalf of Emperor Jiajing, but Zhang Jing had not yet come back to his senses, and the people from the Jingshi room came again. The Worship Room is a department directly under the celebrant that manages and punishes eunuchs who commit crimes. When the people in the worship room come, it means that they are going to beat someone.

There are a lot of particularities in beating people in the Jingshifang, although Zhang Jing has not been in the Jingshifang, in fact, he knows the rules quite well. To beat people in the respectful room, the emperor needs to personally give an order, that is, Emperor Jiajing personally ordered to "hit the board". According to Emperor Jiajing's attitude, "playing the board" is divided into several types, gently calling "play carefully", and it will not take half a day to move freely after playing, and there will be no sequelae on the body; The general call is "real fighting", and you can get out of bed after one day after the beating, and it takes three days to recover. The eunuchs who are accustomed to the board will not have sequelae; Hit hard and shout "hit seriously". It takes three days to get out of bed after the beating, and it takes half a month to move around freely, and there will be sequelae. In the future, when the sky changes, back pain is inevitable; Fighting to the death and shouting "really serious fighting" can make the eunuch who committed the crime die under the board, or be crippled. The eunuchs in the worship room all have a hand, and their kung fu has been practiced at home. If you hit the same board, the weight will look the same, but the effect will be different. They can beat a plate of tofu to make sure that nothing happens to the tofu. You can also beat on the sack with bricks, and silently slap all the bricks in the sack into flour, and the sack will not be visible at all. It can also be beaten through a quilt, the quilt is intact, and the stone slabs below are all cracked. This is the eating ability of the Jingshifang, and it is also the reason why all the eunuchs dare not offend the eunuchs of the Jingshifang.