"Biography" said: "Full of food all day long, no intentions, no gamblers?" Yan Tan's "New Treatise" said: "There is a game of Go in the world, or words are the art of war. The above, far away from its sparseness, placed in the encirclement, thus becoming the victory of the Tao; In the middle, it is necessary to cover up each other, and seek profit by fighting, so the victory or defeat is doubtful, and it must be counted; The lower ones guard the corners of the border and live on their own in the small land. "In the spring and autumn period, there are people from generation to generation, and the way of playing chess has never been the same. —

- "The Rotten Ke Sutra"

Many things, when we first face them, we will feel that they are extremely noble, and then we will do them with respect, and after a while, we will become accustomed to it, and we will become more and more peaceful, and at the end of the day, we will feel that things are unremarkable. The so-called noble is also ordinary. Some people say that this is the manifestation of a person from childishness to maturity.

In our lives, we have to come into contact with many people, from high-ranking officials and dignitaries, relatives of the emperor and the country, even the emperor and the Great Khan, down to the common people, farmers, herdsmen, fishermen, beggars, and outcasts. We are reprimanded, teased, and insulted by those who are stronger than us, while we often retaliate against those who are inferior to us.

That's what we do all the time! We are a group of people who are in the middle of the powerful and the lowly, sometimes they bow down and obey, sometimes they are arrogant, yes, we are the Jinyiwei, a group of people in colorful clothes.

I never thought that I could not be a good person, let alone a qualified brocade guard! said that I am not a good person, because I am a brocade guard, and I don't know how many wrong things I have done with my hands; And I'm not a qualified brocade guard, but because I sometimes have good intentions and want to be a good person!

Fifteen years of Jinyiwei's career, all kinds of circumstances in the world, especially the so-called career. From the ignorance of the beginning of the young age, to the ease of the palm print in middle age, whether it is a low status or a high position, I always do something helpless, and I do cherish this kind of life, although I am tired of it.

When I was young, I felt that I was just an ordinary person, who had no ambitions, and who might be able to gain a foothold in the market by relying on medical skills; When I became a brocade guard, I was agile, decisive, and exquisite, and I did things that the world did not dare to underestimate. So some boast of being the so-called pillars of the country, royal guards.

And I used to be an undercover agent, and a triple undercover agent!

I am male, once the official residence of the Jinyi Wei Governor and the Fusi of Beizhen Fusi, fifteen years, the former Jinyi Wei commander is called Mu Bin, Shi Yi, Qian Cai, and Qian Ning. At the same time, I am also the commander of the East Factory, and I have been in the East Factory for 11 years, and I am the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and the confidant of the father-in-law of Gu Dayong, the governor of the East Factory!

And my other identity is the righteous son of Zhang Yonggong, the eunuch in charge of the master of ceremonies and the chief eunuch of the Shenji Battalion. As for what position, I have never been clear, always doing things, and the pay is good.

Fifteen years ago, I was an ignorant teenager, starting from a small Jinyi Wei lieutenant, the general banner, a thousand households, a pacification envoy, a commander, a governor, I walked through the north and south of the river, personally handled many cases, dealt with the emperor's relatives, the court's important ministers, I can't forget the despair of Zhu Ninghao, the king of Anhua, and the despair of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, and what makes me unforgettable is the despair of those ordinary officials. and Liu Jin, the most powerful eunuch in the Zhengde period, his eagle eyes, even when Ling Chi was young, were always open, even if he fell into the dust, he kept staring at me, as if he was still saying, child, you will regret it in the future...... I have always been puzzled, Zhengde personally ordered Ling Chi Liu Jin, but he was crying in the harem......

As for my more important identity, I am the deputy of Zhu Shou, the chief military officer of the Guogong of Daming Town, a righteous brother, the Duke of Jiaguo, and the surname of the country. We joined hands to defeat the little prince in Yingzhou, and realized the dream of "ambitious hunger and hulu meat, laughing and drinking Hun blood", we went down to the south of the Yangtze River together, spent all day and wine, almost disturbed half of the country, but they are all outlining the beauty of tomorrow, but he is thinking about the tomorrow of the Ming Dynasty, and I am thinking about myself tomorrow!

Forgot to explain, I'm not a eunuch! He is an upright man!

When we are looking forward to the beauty of tomorrow, our great tomorrow, Emperor Zhengde, who is only 31 years old, died in the leopard room on March 14, the sixteenth year of Zhengde, on a sunny afternoon. What this emperor did can be described as deviant, and has always made the world cry and laugh, and his death has made many people breathe a sigh of relief, maybe Daming is about to return to the right path, of course, there are also many people who sigh, maybe worrying about their next fate.

At that time, I had just led Guo Zheng and others back to Beijing from Yangzhou, to be precise, if it weren't for the news that Emperor Zhengde was critically ill, I wouldn't have been able to come back. The identity of the righteous brothers, the same hatred and hatred for many years, and the familiar temperament and temperament are almost the same as a person, so that we forget the boundaries of monarchs and ministers, and even dare to fight with each other, so we naturally have a time to lose our temper.

Originally, Wang Shouren, the governor of southern Gansu, had already quelled the rebellion of King Ning, and the document I wrote was sent to the capital in an urgent manner for 800 miles. Zhengde didn't say anything, Xing Chongchong led a large group of people, in the name of the mighty general Zhu Shou, came to quell the so-called rebellion, and at the same time gave me a secret decree, let King Ning go, let him go back to Nanchang, and the mighty general Zhu Shou wanted to go to quell the rebellion in person. Seeing Di Bao, those of us who had just experienced birth and death were stunned, what kind of emperor is this, taking the peace of the world as a child's play, Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an, has already begun to scold, and I explained embarrassedly that Zhengde was joking with us, and our days of killing and slashing were too nervous, and he came to comfort us. Thanks to Wang Shouren, regardless of personal gains and losses, all the credit was given to General Zhu Shou, so that the army was entrenched in Nanjing and did not go to Jiangxi. Most people hope that Zhengde can return to the capital as soon as possible and sit in the capital, after all, the emperor is away all the year round, and the hearts of the people in Beijing are fluctuating. And Zhengde seems to like Jiangnan, pull me, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, everywhere to cause trouble, straight Jiangnan chickens and dogs jump, Zhengde is still in Qingjiangpu flooded, almost lost his life, I was already scared to the soul, but this guy said to me, he pacified Jiangnan, but also has to pay the price. That's fine, it's worth the name. I finally arrived in Yangzhou, it was the end of the year, but I had to see Qionghua. Qionghua can only bloom in April, if you wait, you need to live in Yangzhou for more than half a year. The Jingjun is a northerner, and the people's hearts are home, and Yangzhou's worship is gradually scarce, and in the long run, it will inevitably cause turmoil.

Many ministers wrote to Zhengde to return to Beijing as soon as possible, but he ignored them all. I was entrusted by Jiang Yao, the Taishou of Yangzhou, and when I was drinking with him, I took the opportunity to persuade him to go back. Maybe it's the words are direct, maybe it's the wine, I also went up, saying that this Qionghua is a bad thing, when Emperor Yang of Sui saw Qionghua, the world was in chaos, so that the Sui Dynasty perished, does Zhengde also want to follow in the footsteps of Emperor Yang of Sui? As soon as these words came out, everyone present was taken aback, and Zhengde was even more angry like a lion, smashing his wine glass, staring at me with big eyes, and ordered me to be removed from all positions, and then threw off his sleeves and left.

I was even more angry, moved out of the residence directly, no longer lived with Zhengde, and returned to Yanbo Villa on the edge of Taihu Lake.

The next day, he woke up, but learned that Zhengde had led the team to leave Yangzhou and returned to the capital. I'm happy and lost, where do I go?

Before I could think about it for long, Zhengde had already sent someone to deliver a decree, ordering me to be reinstated, fined for one year, temporarily living in Yangzhou, and dealing with Jiangnan affairs. Hehe, it seems that this kid can't do without me, and he wants to teach me some lessons, or not, the war in Jiangnan has been raging for more than half a year, and it really needs to be rectified. But I really don't know how to govern, so I entrust the state capitals to restore it on their own, and if necessary, you can report to me. The states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River quickly got busy, and I lazily led a few Jinyiwei brothers to live in Yanbo Villa on the edge of Taihu Lake, wandering around Taihu Lake every day, and some business was taken care of by Jiang Li and Bai Zhi. The affairs of the Jinyiwei in the capital, I put it aside for the time being, and handed it over to the Jinyiwei in the capital to be responsible for Bao Xiaobai, the Jinyiwei in Nanjing and the king of Ning, I thought about it, but I still didn't send someone over to rectify it. Forget it, in the face of major rights and wrongs, how many people can really be sober? After going through too many tests of life and death, I understand that I am still a small person, and I can't change anything at all, and the only thing I can do is to make the people around me live better.

Looking at the winter snow in the south of the Yangtze River, and then the spring flowers blooming, in a blink of an eye, the grass warbler in March is flying. Every day I am not playing in the mountains and rivers, or drinking tea and playing chess, occasionally going to the lake to fish, but for a while my hands are itchy, take out the ability to fly stones and birds, but when I play, I don't want to kill, let the stone hit the trunk, provoke the people around me to laugh, I understand that I am pretending, deliberately in front of everyone to look relaxed, seems to be forgetting the tension of the past. When the rebellion of King Ning was quelled, I collected a lot of books, thinking that I would have time to read them, but unfortunately I had developed the habit of not reading for many years, and I could no longer calm down to read. I have a lot of properties in the state capitals of the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is at home, or I have got it for many years, I always have to send Jiang Li or Bai Zhi to check it from time to time, and the two of them are sensible, and often come back to see me, and see that although my face is much rounder, but my expression is a little depressed, so I try to get some tricks to make me happy, they have followed me since they were thirteen or fourteen years old, and they have taken good care of me, but although I am grateful, my mind is far away, and in the capital.

Yangzhou Taishou Jiang Yao often came to see me, changed his humility and arrogance to Emperor Zhengde a few months ago, and was very polite to me. This Taishou Lord is very remarkable, he dares to face the naughtiness of respecting Zhengde and the blackmail of the domineering general Jiang Bin, I have helped him a few times, so he still looks at me differently, but he often comes to visit, so I have to think more, except for the official things that have been discussed, the rest is to treat each other silently. I have found that the greatest advantage of reading people is that they can read books with a calm mind. Jiang Taishou read almost all of my books here, but talked to me a lot less. I often think that he is pushing me away, some of the words of sending off guests are not easy to say, so I am always courteous in front of you, about a big person like me, Pan Heng is not going to leave in Yangzhou, and the local officials are also under pressure.

And I didn't want to go, my heart kept waiting. Maybe it's waiting for the call of righteousness, maybe it's waiting for someone else's return. I couldn't bear to love the people like a son, Jiang Taishou always came to see me, so I asked Guo Zheng to take out a million taels of silver tickets, saying that it was a reward from Emperor Zhengde to the people of Yangzhou, he made a fuss here for three months, and the people of Yangzhou were miserable.

Jiang Taishou was suspicious, but he was a person with an open heart, and he generously accepted the silver taels, and began to arrange various expenditures, such as repairing roads and bridges, such as relieving the people, etc., I heard him say a bunch of them, and found that the silver taels were not enough, look at him and look at me, I laughed, and asked Guo Zheng to give him another 500,000 taels. Jiang Taishou smiled and thanked him again and again, and I smiled and said, Yangzhou is staying, but I am afraid that I will have to go bankrupt.

Although the joke is easy to say, I don't want to cash it out, and the news that Emperor Zhengde is critically ill finally came. It was a beautiful day, and it was rare that Jiang Taishou didn't come to disturb me, so I led Guo Zheng and others, dressed in casual clothes, out of Yanbo Villa, and went fishing by Taihu Lake. I don't want to have good luck today, I caught a few big fish, I looked at the spring of Taihu Lake, and I didn't feel proud. I don't know when, not far away, there are a few Jiangnan literati who are traveling by the lake, and they may be happy to be happy, and they are dancing and making loud noises. I didn't mind, but after looking up, Guo Zheng asked his subordinates to drive the literati away.

I don't want these literati to collide with the school captain, saying that Taihu Lake belongs to everyone and everyone can visit it. I heard that they were making a lot of noise, and when I was interested, I asked these people to come over, and I saw that they were weak scholars, dressed very ordinary. Guo Zheng reported my name, and the scholars were a little nervous, and they saluted one after another, saying that they were Jiangnan scholars, and because they had nothing to do today, they came here to play, and they didn't want to alarm me. I laughed, so I left them to chat, and asked Guo Zheng to prepare a banquet and leave them to drink. The scholars were flattered and reported their names one after another, no wonder Zhao Qiansun Li said that the imperial court put down the rebellion of King Ning, and there must be Enke this year. If you have the opportunity to win, you must visit me in the capital. After a few glasses of wine, the scholars were a little frivolous, saying that it was not easy to study over the years, and some had already participated, but they failed to make the list. I don't know how many times the Kui Xing of the Nanjing Gongyuan has begged, and in front of Confucius in the Temple of Literature, he also worships and worships. The whole family, old and young, are counting on being able to be lifted, so that they can get ahead, and when they talk about the excitement, they are even teary-eyed. I asked them if they knew Wang Shouren, the original intention was to let them take Wang Shouren as a model, but they only respected Wang Shouren, saying that he put down the rebellion of King Ning, and his words were just respectful, but he praised another person, that is, Yang Shen, the son of Yang Ge Lao of the Dynasty, said that he was born as a champion, a generation of scholars, and he will definitely have great plans in the future. I am somewhat familiar with Yang Tinghe, but his son, it is said that he is very arrogant, he can't get used to what Zhengde does, and he resigned and didn't do it, I once had the opportunity to meet him in Yang's house, but he left without even showing his face, maybe because I was Zhengde's minion! I don't care about this, I just think that Wang Shouren has made such a great contribution, but these literati are thinking about Yang Shen, probably they also want to follow Yang Tinghe's path, I don't feel a chill in my heart, but I still drink with them, I don't want to drink too much, so I go to bed early.

In the middle of the night, I was awakened by the noise outside, and I was shocked. I turned over and went to the ground, carrying a short sword and about to go out, Jiang Li hurriedly dressed me, but pulled me tightly, saying don't go out, there are Guo Zheng and others outside vigil, and it will be fine.

I knew that Jiang Li was afraid that it would be dangerous for me to go out, but the sound of footsteps outside was chaotic. I escorted Jiang Li, and when I heard the footsteps at the door, Guo Zheng had already whispered: "Adult, adult!" ”

"What's the matter?" I heard Guo Zheng's voice a little high-pitched, and I couldn't help but feel nervous, "My lord, Lord Qiao Yu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, is here and is already waiting in the living room." "A few months ago, Zhengde was stationed in Nanjing, and Jiang Bin, the mighty deputy general of Zhengde Yizi and the supervisor of the regiment and battalion, asked for the key to Nanjing's city gate when he saw the Nanjing officials, saying that it was for the safety of Zhengde. The officials of Nanjing looked at each other, how could the things of the Nanjing garrison be easily handed over to others? I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Jiang Bin's gourd, I don't want to give it, and I am afraid of the emperor's righteous son, the famous General Jiang, and Qiao Shangshu is also present, smiled indifferently, and said: "Jinling is the place where Emperor Taizu is the foundation, Emperor Taizong has been in Beijing for a long time to expand the territory, and Emperor Yingzong has been promoted to the capital. If the general takes the key to Nanjing, I don't know whether to warn the people of Nanjing, or to warn others? If you warn the people of Nanjing, you are afraid that it will chill everyone's minds. If you warn others, although the general can rest assured, although the garrison of Nanjing is not as powerful as the general's command, but the whole people are armies, and the emperor's safety is not a problem at all. Jiang Bin was speechless when he said this, so he had to give up.

Because I assisted Wang Shouren to quell the rebellion of King Ning, I had some contact with Qiao Shangshu, and I cooperated well with each other, I only knew that he was very good to the people, but I didn't have a deep relationship, in my heart, I felt that in front of them who were scholars, I was a very rough person, so I rarely spoke, even if it was a banquet specially prepared for me, I said a few words lightly, obviously I was afraid of making a fool of myself. So, I don't have much contact with the officials in Nanjing. I didn't want him to come from Nanjing to see me, so I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurried to the living room.

The living room was brightly lit, and many soldiers came to Nanjing, and they were even brighter in armor, holding torches and hanging waist knives obliquely, lined up on both sides of the door. The more uneasy I felt in my heart, could it be that these people had come to arrest me?