Chapter 27: Fallen Angel Twenty-Seven

After Meng Chong learned about Meng He, he once tried to arrange for Meng He to enter the palace. But at that time, the eunuch in charge of the seal was Chen Hong, a person who was very wrong with Meng Chong. He used Meng He's background to say that Meng He couldn't enter the palace directly, because he had killed people and been an officer, so even if Meng He entered the palace, he could only be a miscellaneous eunuch forever. Meng Chong had no choice but to let Meng He continue to stay in Jinyiwei, but the people in Jinyiwei knew about Meng He, and everyone not only laughed at Meng He, but also someone deliberately made Meng He look foreign. Meng He's life in Jinyiwei was not easy, so he asked Meng Chong for help to transfer to other places. Meng Chong had no choice but to arrange for Meng He to go to Tongzhou near the capital to get a brocade cloth and guard 100 households, and temporarily avoid this limelight.

I don't know if it's Meng He's luck or Meng Chong's luck, the new emperor Emperor Longqing wants to send someone to supervise King Jing and needs a reliable candidate. Meng Chong immediately thought of Meng He, not only is Meng He's level not high and suitable for being a supervisor and executor, but everyone knows that Meng He and King Jing have a bad relationship, and Meng He's injury should be caused by King Jing, so Meng He is the best candidate. After listening to Meng Chong's introduction, Emperor Longqing was very interested in this Meng River. Secretly summoned Meng He back and personally inquired about some things about Meng He. Meng He was a real general, with real military exploits, and he had an enmity with King Jing, so Emperor Longqing immediately decided to reuse Meng He. Meng He was a hundred households of Jinyiwei at that time, but it was not good to send Jinyiwei to supervise the vassal king, and there were too few people under one hundred households. Therefore, Meng He was appointed as a thousand households and led a team of men and horses to protect King Jing nearby, which was actually to supervise and watch King Jing's every move. The 1000 households of Jinyiwei who were transferred to the local army, although they were promoted, they were actually demoted, and the rights of Jinyiwei were more than those of ordinary local military camps. Meng He was nominally demoted, but in fact he became a reasonable and legal overseer. The military power in his hands is not only concentrated, but also the elites selected from the four major battalions in the capital. It can be said that he is a tiger general, and his strength is not ordinarily high.

Whether it was King Jing or others, they all knew the true intentions of Meng He's army. At this time, King Jing remembered that this Meng He was the Jinyi Wei Baihu that he had humiliated not long ago, and King Jing really regretted it. But he didn't know that there was another festival between Meng He and him, that is, his subordinates injured Meng He and turned him into a eunuch. King Jing once privately sent someone to see Meng He, trying to bribe Meng He and win over Meng He to become his person. Unexpectedly, Meng He not only did not accept it, but also arrested the person who came and sent it to Emperor Longqing. Emperor Longqing deliberately regarded this person as a robber and divided the corpse of five horses in the capital in public, just to warn King Jing not to make trouble.

King Jing saw that Meng He was not cooperative, so he wanted to use his power to deal with Meng He. However, Meng He has the support of Meng Chong and Emperor Longqing behind him, ordinary people can't deal with Meng He, and those who can deal with Meng He are unwilling to easily offend Meng Chong and Emperor Longqing. King Jing had to endure it, but Meng He didn't want to endure it, so he disturbed King Jing twice for three days, and troubled King Jing almost every day. King Jing had no choice but to use Jingli's relationship to carefully inquire about Meng He's origin, and then he knew the reason why Meng He couldn't get along with himself. Meng He was not only humiliated by King Jing, but also became a eunuch by King Jing's subordinates, what a grievance.

King Jing deserves to be King Jing, on the one hand, he went to Meng He to apologize in person, and on the other hand, he tried to deal with Meng He through other means. Meng He didn't care too much about King Jing's arrival, and of course he wouldn't be grateful to Dade. King Jing's superficial kung fu has no effect at all, which King Jing has known for a long time. But King Jing's attitude should be known to Meng He, otherwise Meng He would keep making trouble for King Jing. Meng He's unceremonious attitude to King Jing was immediately known to Emperor Longqing in the capital, and Emperor Longqing privately praised Meng He, and Emperor Longqing trusted Meng He even more. Meng Chong wrote a letter to praise Meng He, and at the same time sent a helper to Meng He, who was Meng Chong's confidant Ma Kui.

Ma Kui's arrival was not to supervise Meng He, both Emperor Longqing and Meng Chong were very relieved of Meng He, but it was a rule that the army needed to be equipped with a eunuch to supervise the army. In order to let Meng He be unrestrained, in order to let Meng He better supervise King Jing, they decided to send Ma Kui, their own person, as the supervisor. Ma Kui also knew that his supervisor was different from other army supervisors, and he was not looking for trouble, but to cooperate with Meng He. So the two of them are the most compatible and best partners in the world.

King Jing just had no way to have a good relationship with Meng He, but the arrival of this Ma Kui gave King Jing hope. King Jing was a prince who was once about to be made a crown prince, and he knew something about the eunuchs in the palace. Although it is difficult for him to control a big eunuch like Meng Chong, it is easy to deal with an inconspicuous little eunuch like Ma Kui. Ma Kui also had a loyal allegiance to King Jing, but the relationship between the two was average, so he was not implicated. Almost all of the eunuchs who had a good relationship with King Jing were executed by Emperor Longqing, so King Jing didn't have much eyeliner in the palace. Even Meng Chong is not very clear about the matter between Ma Kui and King Jing, otherwise Meng Chong would not have sent Ma Kui to help Meng He.

The reason why Ma Kui became King Jing was because Ma Kui was greedy for money. Ma Kui, like most other eunuchs, became eunuchs because his family was too poor. As soon as I have a small achievement, I want to go home and make my family happy. According to the rules of the palace at that time, a little eunuch like Ma Kui not only could not go home, but also could not be too ostentatious when he went back. However, the local officials were very good to Ma Kui, and Ma Kui also felt that he had nothing to fear with Meng Chong covering him. Ma Kui's father was accustomed to a hard life, thinking that his son would be able to raise cattle when he returned, so he seized the big house of a local landlord. After the local officials and Ma Kui found out, Ma Kui did not want to disappoint his old father, so the officials ignored Ma Kui in order to curry favor with him. After Ma Kui learned that the house could be sold for seven or eight thousand taels of silver, he simply let his old father occupy it. Of course, the landlord's family did not agree, and the Yamen did not accept the lawsuit, and the landlord's family was a scholar in his life, so he simply sued the matter to the capital. It just so happened that King Jing knew about it, and as soon as he remembered that he needed some people in the palace, he simply solved the matter privately. This house can be regarded as a meeting gift from King Jing to Ma Kui, and from then on, Ma Kui and King Jing are their own people.

Since King Jing was kicked out of the capital, Ma Kui has not had any contact with King Jing, and even Ma Kui doesn't want that house. He thought that even if he had nothing to do with King Jing, he didn't know that King Jing would not let Ma Kui go. Ma Kui's father was reluctant to build the house, so he moved back soon after, which Ma Kui did not know. King Jing took advantage of Ma Kui's old father's love of food and bragging, and made Ma Kui's father owe a lot of debts, and the creditor was King Jing's person. King Jing sent someone to find Ma Kui and gave Ma Kui two ways to go. First, Ma Kui and King Jing broke off their relationship, and they had to pay off all their debts immediately, and tell Emperor Longqing about collusion with King Jing. How Emperor Longqing disposed of Ma Kui had nothing to do with King Jing at all. Second, Ma Kui continued to be loyal to King Jing. King Jing not only didn't have to pay off the debts of Ma Kui's family, but also promised to give Ma Kui a large sum of money to help Ma Kui gain a firm foothold in the palace. Ma Kui didn't pay the money, and he was also worried that Emperor Longqing would kill him if he found out, so he had to cooperate with King Jing. The first task given to Ma Kui by King Jing was to win over Meng He and make Meng He King Jing's man.

Ma Kui once tested Meng He in private and found that Meng He had a very bad impression of King Jing. It's no wonder that Meng He, because King Jing has gone too far. At the beginning, Meng He was ordered to arrange for King Jing to go out of Beijing on behalf of the emperor, this was the task given by the above, not Meng He himself wanted to do this, and Meng He did not mean to embarrass King Jing. But King Jing not only did not cooperate, but also humiliated Meng He in public, making Meng He a big laughing stock in the capital. This matter was already excessive, and King Jing's men injured Meng He's lower body, making Meng He a eunuch from then on. This blow to Meng He was simply too big, no wonder Meng He regarded King Jing as a mortal enemy.

Seeing that persuasion had no effect, Ma Kui wanted to tempt Meng He with money. But Meng He didn't like gold, silver and jewelry, and besides, Emperor Longqing also gave Meng He some treasures in order to win over Meng He, and Meng He was not short of money. Meng He's status and position can't make Meng He too famous, so Meng He doesn't care about reputation. The problem of Meng River has become a big problem for Ma Kui.

King Jing's subordinate master inadvertently found the letter of nomination written by Meng He himself, and wanted King Jing to use this letter of nomination to threaten Meng He. King Jing felt that he was not sure, so he did not use it immediately. King Jing wanted to use this letter of nomination to separate Emperor Longqing and Meng He, but this idea was dissuaded by Ma Kui. Ma Kui knows Meng He's temper very well, and Meng He will always stand on the opposite side of King Jing after knowing it, which is not a good thing for King Jing. Even if this statement of nomination is true, this is also what happened after Meng He first arrived in the capital, and after a series of things happened, Meng He's position changed, and Emperor Longqing would believe it. Whether it is Emperor Longqing or Meng He, once the matter is explained, it will not be easy to separate them, and then Meng He will hate King Jing even more.