Chapter 15: The Mystery of the Lotus 15
When Boss Chen was beating this officer in a rage, Qin Tai was also secretly paying attention to the reactions of everyone around him.
After watching it for a while, Qin Tai made a lot of discoveries, and felt that this fight, no, it should be said that Boss Chen's special performance was really worth it.
If it weren't for this performance, Qin Tai would really not have been able to see the situation so quickly, and it would have been impossible for him to grasp everyone's character and position so quickly.
First, among the thirty-one Jinyi guards who came with Qin Tai, in addition to Boss Chen and Qin Tai and his wife, there were twenty-eight people.
It is divided into at least three small groups, that is, forces representing at least three factions. Fan Lao Er is not really the second child, nor is he the second in the family, but a nickname that often participates in actions as a deputy.
Fan Lao Er looks easy to talk, but he is actually an authentic smiling tiger. If you believe him, if you trust him, you will definitely be killed by him.
He belongs to the kind of person who hides a knife in his smile, and when he hurts you, he thinks he is a good person to help him count the money. Zhan Xiaoxiao recognized this one almost at a glance
"The Old Man". Maybe Fan Lao Er has forgotten, or Fan Lao Er doesn't remember Zhan Xiaoxiao at all.
Back then, Jin Yiwei cooperated with the local government to arrest a criminal, and Zhan Xiaoxiao also helped out of a sense of justice. In fact, this criminal was caught alive by Zhan Xiaoxiao and a person in the rivers and lakes, and for this reason, the helper was injured and became a disability.
Zhan Xiaoxiao asked the imperial court to give a little more pension, at least to take care of the future life of this helper.
The official ignored it, and Zhan Xiaoxiao had no choice but to find Fan Laoer, who looked good at talking. Unexpectedly, Fan Lao Er was very talkative, not only agreed, but also asked the disabled helper's family to come forward to write a certificate.
Fan Lao Er patted his chest and promised that he would help the family do this well. Soon after, Zhan Xiaoxiao met this helper again, and saw him pulling young children on the street to beg for food.
After inquiring, I found out that this Fan Lao Er not only swallowed all the bonuses and pensions, but also bullied the helper's wife.
The helper's wife went to Fan Lao Er to theorize, but Fan Lao Er not only did not admit it, but also humiliated the helper's wife in public.
Afterwards, everyone pointed fingers at the family, and the helper's wife couldn't stand the blow and committed suicide at home.
In order to cure the illness and do the funeral for his wife, the helper spent all the money and sold the house, so he had to beg on the street.
Zhan Xiaoxiao took out all the money on his body, and gave it all to this helper who was not very familiar, and also remembered this Fan Lao Er with a beast heart.
This Fan Lao Er and a group of seven or eight people are the most powerful group in the small group of people. not only monitored Qin Tai, but also supervised Boss Chen.
When they saw Boss Chen being bullied by the officers, not only did they not help, but they also looked like they were gloating.
After seeing Officer Chen, he didn't come up to persuade him, he watched the play on the side and didn't say anything, and he seemed to be discussing something.
Qin Tai estimated that this Fan Lao Er wanted to use this opportunity to frame Boss Chen or himself, but Qin Tai was not afraid of this person's conspiracy.
Because Qin Tai guessed that their backer should be the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, as long as Liu Shouyou was there for a day, he would definitely not let their forces grow.
The other two forces should not be underestimated, and they should have backers and backers. However, Qin Tai always felt that there was a force that didn't seem to be aimed at him, at least they were usually very polite to him.
Qin Tai immediately thought of an explanation, these people were polite to themselves not because Qin Tai was the commander of this operation, but because of Qin Tai himself.
Although Qin Tai has offended many people in Jinyiwei and the imperial court, there are also many people who care about and protect Qin Tai.
Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun are both good friends of Qin Tai, and now Feng Bao is also on his side. This group of people is so polite to themselves, could it be Tan Lun or Feng Bao's people from Dongchang?
No, Qin Tai immediately overturned his opinion. It is impossible for Tan Lun to have the ability to insert his own forces into the Jinyi Guard, because the Jinyi Guard is a descendant army under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor.
Even if Tan Lun had this ability, he didn't dare to blatantly develop his power within Jinyiwei. Dongchang Feng Bao's people are not like it, because Dongchang and Jinyiwei have been incompatible for a long time, if it is someone from Dongchang, it is impossible to please Qin Tai so obviously.
Doing so is tantamount to revealing his identity, and the real Dongchang secret agent does not dare and will not do this. Who are these people?
Qin Tai finally had a guess, could it be that this group of people was from the New Party? At the beginning, Yan Song controlled the government, and everyone called the people who were attached to Yan Song Yan Dang.
In addition to these strict parties, there are also clear streams who claim to be the teachers of justice. But after Yan Song fell, after Qingliu's leader came to power and became the head of the cabinet, Qingliu's alliance collapsed.
The forces led by Xu Jie are called the old party by outsiders because they are conservative and old-fashioned. The hostile forces led by Gao Gong, who did not deal with Xu Jie, were called the New Party because they advocated reform of the law.
When Yan Song was in power, the Yan Party and the Eunuch Party controlled the government, and Qingliu could only compete on one side. At that time, the Yan Party accounted for 40 percent, the Eunuch Party accounted for 3 percent, the Qing Stream was only 20 percent at most, and the rest were some wall grass.
After Xu Jie came to power, he annexed the original Yan Party forces and allowed and acquiesced in some centrists, which led to the break between Gao Gong and Xu Jie.
At this time, the eunuchs not only did not suffer a blow, but also took advantage of this opportunity to grow a lot. At that time, the situation was that the old party headed by Xu Jie accounted for two-and-a-half of all forces, the new party headed by Gao Gong accounted for about two-and-a-half, the eunuch party accounted for three-and-a-half, and the others were centrists or wall-to-wall grass.
Xu Jie's resignation was inevitable, so everyone thought that when Gao Gong was going to preside over the overall situation, a Zhang Juzheng was born.
Zhang Ju is a disciple of Xu Jie, and he is also the representative of the backbone of the old party. However, Zhang Juzheng is more enlightened than the average old party, and more stable than the people of the new party.
His appearance hindered Gao Gong's plan to grow up the new party, and also gave hope to the people of the old party.
The most important thing is that Emperor Longqing is optimistic about Zhang Juzheng and wants to leave this Zhang Juzheng to his son as the future emperor.
In this way, Zhang Juzheng is more promising than Gao Gong, and everyone has bet on Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng has several advantages compared with the high arch, first, Zhang Juzheng is younger than the high arch. Gao Gong will work for five or six years at most, and he will go home to retire, and Zhang Juzheng can control the situation for at least fifteen to twenty years.
Since the incident of Yan Song, the emperor and the people of the imperial family have paid special attention to the age of the cabinet ministers.
There is an unwritten rule that you cannot be a cabinet minister over the age of 70. can't be like Yan Song, who is over eighty years old and still occupies the position of the first assistant of the cabinet and does not let go.
For this reason, Gao Gong suffered more than Zhang Juzheng in terms of age. Second, Zhang Juzheng's proposition is relatively stable, not as fierce as the proposition of the high arch.
The imperial court needs to be transformed slowly, not drastically reformed. Some people and some things involve forces from all sides, and it is impossible to do them well at once.
Zhang Juzheng's proposition is to come step by step, not to be in place as Gao Gong said. In terms of advocacy alone, the royal family and all forces are on Zhang Juzheng's side.
Third, Zhang Juzheng is in order to be chic, and he is from a big landlord's family, and he doesn't want Gao Gong to be a child of a poor family.
In essence, everyone is also optimistic about Zhang Juzheng, who has status and status, and does not like Gao Gong, who is poor and a little hated for the rich.
Fourth, Zhang Juzheng is relatively stable and will not get angry easily. Unlike Gao Gong, an old man, he loses his temper and scolds people at every turn.
Gao Gong relied on the fact that he used to be the teacher of Emperor Longqing, relying on his age and status, he often scolded his son, and even did not give Emperor Longqing face.
In the face of this bad-tempered arch, everyone would rather choose the gentle Zhang Juzheng. Even if everyone is optimistic about Zhang Juzheng, even if Emperor Longqing has determined the ranking of cabinet ministers, Gao Gong's power is still not to be underestimated.
Gao Gong has been in business for many years, and he is nominally the head of the cabinet, that is, the head of the hundred officials, so Zhang Juzheng does not dare to really fall out with Gao Gong head-on.
It is not at all unusual that he has the possibility of having influence within Jinyiwei. Tan Lun, as Gao Gong's proud disciple and the most optimistic future leader of the New Party, should take care of Tan Lun's friend Qin Tai.
Could it be that they are really the people of Gao Gong, and Gao Gong has also begun to pay attention to this treasure? Second, this group of Jinyiwei who came here earlier may really be the helpers of Jinyiwei, and they are newcomers who have not been trained well.
Not only do these people not look like soldiers, but they also deceive the good and fear the evil, they are simply a group of ruffians.
Jin Yiwei is also from the army, and it is absolutely impossible to train this kind of soldier. It seems that these people really put together on an ad hoc basis, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.
If they really meet the people of the White Lotus Sect, not only will these people not be able to use them, but they must also prevent them from shaking the morale of the army and even defecting to the enemy.
If you shake the morale of the army on the battlefield or defect to the enemy, the consequences will be very serious. It is no wonder that in order to deter everyone, the ancient generals often punished some people who made small mistakes severely or even directly killed their heads, the purpose was to make everyone dare not mess around easily.
These people have neither military training nor experience in dealing with the enemy, and they will definitely not be able to go to the battlefield. It seems that it is necessary to send Zhan Xiaoxiao to seize the time to train this group of people, otherwise it will look good when the people from the White Lotus Sect come.