Chapter 6 Factory Guard

At the beginning, neither the Wanquan Prefecture nor the Xuanfu officialdom could accept Deng Changjiang's investigation conclusion that "sporadic Tartar thieves entered the customs to rob and kill people and have now disappeared without a trace". Ma Xing was even more furious, patting the table and greeting all the female elders of Deng Changjiang (including the side members).

That night, someone saw Deng Changjiang sneaking into Ma Xing's camp. The two chatted all night in the big tent. In the middle of the night, the men in the camp were smashed by the commander's own soldiers and sent wine and food to the commander's tent, and the next morning the two generals were so drunk that their eyes were still red and swollen, as if they had cried.

Then, Ma Xing also became convinced that it was the Tartars who did it, and slapped the table again and began to curse the Tartars, swearing that the soldiers would kill the Tartars without leaving ...... Although the Ming Dynasty regarded martial arts as a mustard, after all, it was a heavy place, and Ma Xing, the chief military officer, must have a lot more weight than other places, since his attitude was so resolute, it was not easy for the civil officials to say anything.

Since the local civil and military people are in the mouth, of course, it is better to be more happy than less, and to eat Kana to take a few opera gardens to "visit", and the local fans who are a little famous "night trial" all over, played enough prestige to put enough shelf, five or six days later, the same conclusion that "sporadic Tartar murder and robbery has been pursued by the governor with all his might", the big bag and small bag shouted five and six to go back to Beijing to pay the errand......

After about half a year, Shenmu County, Mizhi County and other places in northern Shaanxi suddenly appeared out of thin air as if they had jumped out of a crack in the stone.

Guan Shengyun's name finally appeared in the imperial court's side newspaper for the first time......

"Factory Guard" is a common name, the factory refers to the East Factory, and Wei refers to Jinyi Guard.

People generally always mention the east factory and the west factory, but it is not rigorous.

Strictly speaking, "Wei" has always been called Jinyi Wei, formerly known as Zhu Yuanzhang's Imperial Forest Army, and the leader is called the commander, which is generally served by the emperor's trusted generals. And there are three "factories": the east factory is Zhenggener, the full name is "East Ji Shi Factory", which was founded by Zhu Di, almost from beginning to end with the entire Ming Dynasty, the full name of the West Factory is "West Ji Shi Factory", only in the Chenghua and Zhengde dynasties intermittently existed three times, with a cumulative life span of ten years and five months. There is also an "insider factory", also called an "insider factory". Not many people know about this, from the first year of Zhengde to the fifth year of Zhengde, it only existed for five years.

When it comes to the East and West Factory, everyone often thinks that they are eunuchs, but it is not right. The leaders of the East and West factories were eunuchs, called "factory owners", "factory dukes" or "admirals". The vast majority of the clerks below were not eunuchs - many of the officials were even selected from the brocade guards.

Everyone is familiar with the East Factory, and we focus on the West Factory today.

In the first month of the twelfth year of Chenghua, Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen led hundreds of officials to sacrifice to heaven and earth, and it was sunny when he set off, but suddenly the wind was strong and the yin was pressing, and someone died because of it! Today, it may be lung inflammation or the like, or it may be that the underlying disease is induced by acute viral respiratory or digestive diseases, but people who do not have modern medical knowledge will not have common sense of hygiene, let alone antibiotics, and will die if they are generally malnourished. Rumors came and went, and some people said that they had been frozen to death. In addition, people at that time were generally superstitious, and everyone, including the emperor himself, firmly believed from the bottom of their hearts: the Son of Heaven was a god and not a mortal - what could make waves in front of the Son of Heaven except demons?

This matter is a knot that can never be bypassed in Zhu Jianshen's heart.

When there is wind, there are waves.

Soon, there were rumors in the palace that someone saw an animal like a fox in the middle of the night, and it hurt people! Whether it was because there were no electric lights, the dim candle flame and the panic of the people who mistook the shadows of the trees for the fox spirits and broke their heads in fright, or the wild animals were scratched in their faces, or they accidentally broke the royal utensils and made up an excuse to escape, it was normal—but only then did not think so! What they think is: The Holy Son of Heaven carries all evils away from heaven, right? Now it's all in the palace - you say this demon is a lot of good things?

As the saying goes, "one after the other", something even more terrifying has appeared.

It is said that there was a businessman surnamed Zhao named Zhao Ling'an - well, rest in peace, look at this unlucky name! On the road, I "picked up" a girl who covered her face with a veil, lifted the veil and looked, oh my mother, that beautiful, it is indescribable! So Lao Zhao "led" her home, wanting to do something indescribable...... As a result, the next day, the whole family surnamed Zhao died, not only all of them died, but the rooster that crowed and the donkey that grinded the donkey...... None of them were spared, but the country and the city were gone-Obviously, this surnamed Zhao didn't tie her up with iron chains.

You can't do it if you don't tie it - later, many people found out about it, and it spread widely, and some people everywhere said that they had seen such a thing as picking up women...... The government kept receiving reports: someone found a lone woman wandering somewhere after dark, and then there was a murder not far away!

Off topic. According to Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West", there are four continents in the world: Luzhou in the north, Zhanbuzhou in the south, Hezhou in the west, and Fengzhou in the east. These things were known to some of the bipedal beasts who had cultivated in Dongxu Fengzhou, so they began to "pick up" women with iron chains, and also pulled out their teeth, these evil beasts were also called ghosts, and they never heard of any of them being captured by ghosts, or destroying the whole nest - although, everyone wanted so.

Straight to the point.

There is a Taoist priest named Li Zilong in Jingshi, who is famous for magic and foolishness. I met two eunuchs, one named Wei Sai and the other surnamed Bao (name forgot). The two of them heard that Li & Master had the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, draw talismans to catch ghosts and chant spells to exorcise demons, and wondered in their hearts, if they could let Li & Master go to Ouchi to catch the fox spirit, wouldn't it be an immortal contribution? This Li Zilong, like today's "masters", has inflated himself under the praise of a group of brainless people, forgetting that he is a liar and forgetting the most important thing - how can the palace be tolerated...... Rampant!

So I went with great ambition.

So it was logical to be caught.

So as a matter of course, I urinated.

If you pee, you will be incoherent - incoherence is equal to having a ghost in your heart, and having a ghost is equal to plotting against you - this logic is simply as irrefutable as one plus one equals two, right?

Two fools and a liar were cut.

After experiencing the above things, the more Zhu Jianshen thought about it, the more afraid he became, and felt that the East Factory was useless, so he recruited the most trusted Bingbi eunuch Wang Zhi to select some smart and clever guys from the Jinyi Guard, disguised as civilians, and went out of the palace to serve - Wang Zhi also "lived up to the holy hopes", and the gossip was endless, so Zhu Jianshen simply appointed Wang Zhi as the admiral, and set up a permanent institution of the West Factory.

The officers of the West Factory were selected from the Jinyi Guard, and then they each recruited their subordinates - there was no fixed post and number, and it was not difficult to imagine the speed and disorder of its expansion. The three legal divisions of the Ming Dynasty: the Criminal Department, the Inspectorate, and the Dali Temple, all had to follow the normal process; And these guys are directly under the jurisdiction of the inner court of the Holy Son of Heaven, and the court law can't control them, plus everyone is earnest, of course, they act recklessly: once you "suspect" someone or official, you don't have to report it, you can catch it first and then say it - oh, it's wrong, catch it first and then fight! Under Miki, why can't you ask for it? By the way, the most familiar one used by the West Factory is "Evil Words", serious and fast, true thing.

For a time, chickens and dogs jumped into the sky, angry people, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

Except for the ruthless Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, who completely inherited the ruthless genes of Lao Zhu, the entire Ming Dynasty, the civil official group has always been playing power games with the Son of Heaven, and the content and excuses can be summed up in two ways:

"Your Majesty, look at who is who, it's too unusual, the minister has summed up the eight deadly sins and ten should be beheaded! Don't hug your mother all day long and ignore the government! In other words, normal people like to change their tastes when they have nothing to do, and you just pet the one that is obviously unreasonable - why is this? According to logical inference, obviously, she is a fox spirit who has bewitched the Son of Heaven! I heard everyone say, your harem is 'filthy'! You can't ignore the government, let go of that vixen and give the order to cut down who! ”

Or: "Your Majesty, don't worry about governing the country and the court, leave it to us!" Hurry back to the palace and press down a few mothers to give birth to a bunch of cubs, that's your own job, don't worry about the rest! ”

All in all, if I lose power, I will pull up the banner of the emperor's governance and let him take care of the opponent, and if I gain power, let the emperor go back to the palace to play, don't care how I toss.

Looking at the lawless tossing and turning of the West Factory, everyone in the civil and official group could not sit still in danger, and a cabinet scholar led a group of people to write a letter: "'The people's hearts are turbulent and each has doubts', which greatly destroys the good situation of stability and unity!" The minister summarized Wang Gelding's ten major sins and three should be beheaded, don't you believe it? You see, there were monsters that hurt people last July, right? Now Wang Zhi wantonly brutalizes Zhongliang, right? This is the fulfillment, the evidence is ironclad! Hurry up and cut him! ”

The smart Zhu Jianshen pondered: "That's right! The appearance of monsters must be a sign that something bad is coming, of course, this is undoubted, and now Wang Zhi and they are tossing, it may really be fulfilled...... "So, the order was ordered to abolish the West Factory - this round, the West Factory only existed for five months.

Not long after—a month, really not a long time—the smart Zhu Jianshen was still afraid, and a man named Dai Jin figured out Xianzong's mind and did what he liked, and wrote: "Wang Zhi is a big drop of loyalty!" I am not a place outside the law anywhere, and the West Factory is an indispensable and important force for maintaining stability and unity...... so the West Factory was restored - this round, the West Factory has existed for five years.

Later, in the dynasty of Xianzong's grandson Wuzong, the eunuch Liu Jin was in power. In order to compete with the civil official group, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde asked Liu Jin to reinstate the West Factory.

After Liu Jin re-established the West Factory, he found a new problem: although the East Factory and the West Factory were under their own control, just like two subsidiaries, they began to fight infighting in order to show their loyalty and performance, and they did not do anything serious, and they dismantled each other! What to do? Simply, register a new company - and then make another "insider factory"!

In the fifth year of Zhengde, Liu Jin was ambushed, and the West Factory and the Insider Factory were then laid off - the West Factory, this time the life span was still five years.

Since then, the West Factory has permanently disappeared from history.

Off topic.

Liu Jin, like many demonized eunuchs, seems to be more stupid than "bad" – sometimes, he should be considered well-intentioned. For example, he ordered all widows to remarry. Its special background is that there are many malicious guys, in order to embezzle the meager property of orphans and widows, and do everything possible to prevent them from remarrying to make a living - when they marry, the family property will belong to others! Don't let the remarriage in order to plot the family property, so the in-laws abused the orphans and widows in different ways: sold the baby, starved to death, and then everyone divided the things!

Of course, the Confucian sticks don't care if you are kind or not, since you are fighting for power, you deserve to die - as the saying goes, "starvation is a small thing, a big loss of moderation", you sabotage the widow's observance and order remarriage? Not only is it heinous, it is simply a challenge to human ethics and destruction of the order of the universe! How is this possible? Let the widow remarry, the world will disappear, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the universe will explode!

If you have nothing to say, join him!

Liu Gonggong was not as ruthless as the later Wei Gonggong, so he never fought the civil official group, and the end was very miserable: in the end, he was deducted from the hat of "rebellion" and chopped.

3357 knives.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are like this, they don't recognize people or reason, they only recognize knives: you carry a knife in your hand, and you will kowtow to you on the ground, and when the knife falls on you in a blink of an eye, they will consciously pay out of their pockets to buy your cut meat.

We will talk about Gonggong Liu in the future.