Chapter 318: The Man Behind the Scenes

Hearing Yin Die's blurted out words, I was far more surprised than her, looking at the wise and knowledgeable woman opposite, I suddenly felt that she seemed to be really as Ying Chengyuan said, Bo Gutong is only five cars rich today, there is nothing she doesn't know.

This wrench was found by us in the Jieshi Golden Palace, and was later worn on the finger by Xie Tianhui, the size was just right, I have been speculating about Xie Tianhui's identity, I don't know why, I am inexplicably curious about the origin of this person.

"I run a pawnshop, and I received this wrench, and I always wanted to know where it came from." There are too many secrets involved in the wrench to be easily said, so I made up a reason to prevaricate. "You can know that it is the totem of Lingshan by virtue of a broken pattern, which shows that you are indeed omniscient, I don't know if you can tell me about this wrench."

Yin Die's eyes became excited, no longer as calm and indifferent as just now, and she rummaged around the sea of books in the room in a panic, looking a little anxious.

"I searched for and repaid the truth in these books all day long, and when all the mysteries were solved, I gradually lost my initial motivation and excitement, but among the many mysteries, Lei Yingwei of the Ming Dynasty was one of the few things that interested me and did not reveal the truth."

"Is there really an organization like Lei Yingwei in the Ming Dynasty?" Tian Ji also walked back.

"Since the beginning of the Jiajing period in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has accumulated weak national strength and began to decline, but in fact, the reason for the real decline of the Ming Dynasty has not been external troubles from beginning to end, but internal troubles." Yin Die said to us while looking for something.

"What you said was the dictatorship of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, and the monopoly of power in the government eventually led to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty?" Xue Xinrou asked.

"What can a few eunuchs do, no matter how big the power is, it is also royal, and if it can be given, it can be received, and there are few eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty who are familiar with the power of the government and the opposition? Everyone looks like they have one hand to cover the sky, who will have a good end in the end? Yin Die asked rhetorically.

"Why is that?" The palace lord asked eagerly.

"In the later period of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the imperial power has been sidelined, although there is a son of heaven on the temple, it is no longer the emperor who can give orders, and there are other people who really control the Ming Dynasty."

As soon as Yin Die's words came out, we were all shocked.

"Override the emperor at that time and control the Ming Dynasty?" I asked with a frown. "With such a great ability, why do you have to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, isn't it more appropriate to be the emperor yourself."

"What do you get by being an emperor?" Yin Die suddenly turned around and asked me.

"Power, wealth, and the world...... There are too many benefits, up and down for 5,000 years, how many people are competing for this Ninety-Five, the whole world is not the king's land, who doesn't want to control the world. I replied.

"Since these things you said can be obtained by an emperor, have you ever thought that people who can control emperors and dynasties will still take these things seriously?"

……

I was stunned for a moment and suddenly had nothing to say, and Yin Die turned around again and began to search in the sea of books.

"The military system of the Ming Dynasty is the guard and the office, each guard has about 5,000 regular soldiers, and its subordinate offices are divided into 1,000 households and 100 households, and the guards under the jurisdiction of the Praetorian Guard in the capital are 48 places, of which there are 12 pro-military guards, and the most important of them is the Jinyi Guard." Yin Die told the story like a few treasures. "By the Jiajing year, the Jinyi Guard was already the largest organization in the Praetorian Guard, from the small banner of the seventh grade to the commander of the third grade, the hierarchy was clear and well-equipped, and the defense power of Gyeonggi was basically controlled by the Jinyi Guard...... Including every move of the emperor. ”

"Are you saying that Jinyiwei is actually not under the command of the imperial power?!" Ying Yuan was also taken aback.

"Jinyiwei's public identity has always been the guard of honor, that is, the honor guard that the emperor follows wherever he goes, have you ever seen the honor guard that controls the military power of Gyeonggi?" Yin Die asked disapprovingly.

"It is to stay by the emperor's side anytime and anywhere, not to protect, but to monitor and control." I slowly opened my mouth and asked in surprise. "Since they are above the imperial power, who is in charge of the Jinyi Guard?"

"Lei Yingwei." Yin Die didn't look back, raised her hand and pointed to the wrench on the table. "Lei Yingwei appeared in the year of Jiajing, a secret organization affiliated to Jinyiwei, which is not recorded in literature and history, but it is rarely mentioned in some documents left by Yanguan in the Ming Dynasty, which is an extremely elite and mysterious organization that controls the core power of Jinyiwei."

"Since Lei Yingwei really exists, did the imperial court at that time recognize this institution?" Xue Xinrou asked.

"Admit it......" Yin Die smiled disdainfully. The emperor who is surrounded by the sword and axe hand all day long, does he still need to admit it, but there are officials who admonish, saying that Lei Yingwei's power is too great, and the stability of the society is critical, shaking the foundation of the country, and as a result, the documents of the admonition have not been delivered to the emperor, and the officials have been beheaded all over the house, but it is difficult to block the mouths of the people, although Lei Yingwei is secret, but only a very few people know, but from that time on, Lei Yingwei began to use another method to control the imperial power. ”

"What's the solution?" Tian Ji asked.

"Eunuchs, support eunuchs to take power, the Ming Dynasty is from the Jiajing year, eunuchs monopolize the government, which also has the later east and west factories." It dawned on me.

"Yes, there are two advantages to supporting eunuchs, no matter how ambitious the eunuchs are, they are not afraid that the eunuchs can become bigger, and the eunuchs have great power, and they dare not overthrow the imperial power, the second advantage is that the eunuchs are by the emperor's side, and they are justifiable, and the people who control the imperial power are just changing the soup and not changing the medicine, and the eunuchs are replaced by Jinyiwei, and finally the east and west factories are established, in fact, the Ming Dynasty has long existed in name only."

"And who does this wrench belong to?" Gong Jue stepped forward and asked.

"Lei Yingwei's thousands of households are five products, and the appointment of officials above five grades in the Ming Dynasty requires the emperor's edict, although Lei Yingwei is secret, but since it is an army system, the appointment of officials has been recorded."

Yin Die finally found a document from the sea of books, walked back to the table and unfolded it, and continued to say to us: "Lei Yingwei is an elite division, which can mobilize the three major battalions and control the local army, so when appointing, there is a special edict, just like the record in this document, Qianhu needs to hold a wrench token and a waist card, and the two lines match to exercise power, and this wrench engraved with the pattern of the pan mantis beast is awarded to a thousand households called Xie Zheng. ”

"Xie Zheng?!" Gong Jue and Tian Ji and I immediately looked at each other.

It's also surnamed Jie, I don't know what this Xie Zheng has to do with Xie Tianhui, if you guess correctly, it should be the ancestor of Xie Tianhui.

Yin Die found the ink, dipped it with a wrench, and covered it on the paperwork, which was exactly the same as the beetle beast pattern reserved on it.

"Xie Zheng in the Jiajing year, once wrote to the imperial court, asking for the dispatch of three battalions and Lei Yingwei to inspect the coastal defense, and at that time, the problem of the Japanese was quite serious, the content of this document is understandable, but Xie Zheng's book should just go through the motions, and there is no need for the consent of the imperial court at all, but this document reveals the existence of Lei Yingwei, and one of the thousand households Xie Zheng." Yin Die said.

We looked at each other silently, according to the time on the paper, it was the time when the three major battalions and Lei Yingwei appeared in the old dragon's head, it seems that Xie Tianhui was in the Jieshi Golden Palace, telling us everything about Lei Yingwei, it was true and did not make it up.

"But there's one thing in this that I never figured out." Yin Die looked a little regretful.

"What's the matter?" We asked.

"I have been researching and paying attention to the real history of the Ming Dynasty, collecting a lot of documents, and five years after Xie Zheng wrote a letter requesting to inspect Haiphong, I saw his name in another document."

"What's written on it?"

"It is a document of pacification and commendation issued by the Ministry of War, which records that when Xie was inspecting coastal defense, he refused to allow the Japanese to go to coastal defense, took the lead and refused to give up an inch of land, and finally died in battle."

"Xie Zheng is dead?!" I was stunned, puzzled, in the Jieshi Golden Palace, I only saw the remaining set of brocade clothes and guards and a dummy wearing a gold silk mask, I vaguely remember that when I put on a gold silk mask and killed Akai Yoshitaka, I saw some pictures in a trance.

In the end, Akai Nobunari took the remnants of the Japanese to attack the deepest part of the Jieshi Golden Palace, on the stone platform, there were three brocade guards fighting hard, the middle person was wearing a gold silk mask, and he couldn't see the appearance of this person, but the appearance of the other two was very strange, but I am sure that there was absolutely no Xie Tianhui among these two people.

But when we got there, we didn't find the remains of Jinyiwei, if Xie was killed in the battle of the Jieshi Golden Palace, then someone should have taken his body away, which also means that someone finally left the Jieshi Golden Palace alive.

"Lei Yingwei's token is very important, the person is in the token, the token will be invalid after the person dies, Xie Zheng's body was sent back to the capital and was buried, but then I actually found two unbelievable and extremely bizarre things."

"Wait, you just said that Xie Zheng's body was sent back to Jingshi?" Gong Jue suddenly interrupted Yin Die. "Who sent Xie Zheng's body back?"

"A brocade guard with a golden silk mask."

"......" We were stunned for a moment, in fact, we should be able to guess this result, but when it came out of Yin Die's mouth, we were still a little stunned.

"I repeatedly checked the literature and records, and found that it was not Xie Zheng who really led Lei Yingwei, but this mysterious person wearing a golden silk mask, and this person's position in Jinyiwei was not high, but it was just a pacification envoy from the four products, but from the words in the literature, it is not difficult to see that this person actually controls the supreme power of Lei Yingwei."

"Wait a minute, you just said that the appointment of officials above the fifth grade is recorded in the imperial court, since you can find out that one of the thousand households of Lei Yingwei is Xie Zheng, then who is this envoy from the fourth grade?" I asked very nervously.

"No, this is also what has always puzzled me, I have never been able to find a record of this pacification envoy, this person is as if he does not exist, he has not left the slightest clue, as if he is deliberately concealing his identity, so I suspect ......" Yin Die slowly picked up the wrench on the table, hesitated for a long time and said solemnly. It is suspected that it has always been this person who really controls the power of the Ming Dynasty! ”

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