The shapes of the two gray cloth packages are different, one is round and the other is rectangular.

Inside the round package is a human head, which is supported by a yellow belt.

There were many Han people in the capital who had fled back from Liaodong, and naturally many of them had seen Shuo Tuo. With Wen Tiren's power, he could easily find the person who could identify the head.

But by this time, Wen Shangshu actually believed 99% of the truth in his heart, and asked someone to sort out the details.

Another package contained an assault rifle.

Wen Mansion is an old house allocated by the imperial court and is a government property. The characteristic of this kind of government property is that it covers a large area, but the decoration is dilapidated and the repairs are not timely.

So when the bullet passed through the second door and then through the moon hole door in the back garden, it didn't hit anything valuable, just some flowers and plants, and some iron pots and porcelain specially placed on the long table.

The shooting distance of more than 300 meters, as well as the household items that were smashed into pieces, vividly demonstrated to Wen Shangshu how the Tatars were killed.

Although Wen Tiren was a scholar-official who had risen through the Imperial Academy system, as a senior official who aspired to join the cabinet and take control of the overall situation, he had a clear understanding of the basic common sense of war in this era.

So after seeing this lightning-fast volley gun, Lao Wen suddenly had a scene in his mind of thousands of volley guns shooting at the same time.

"With such a sharp weapon, no wonder it can make the Tartars return in defeat!"

Wen Tiren was not only shocked, but also had a strong interest in exploring Mr. Cao: "Is your general invincible in the world?"

"It's difficult." Xue Haiyuan's answer quickly broke Lao Wen's imagination: "This kind of medicine with a copper shell was purchased from overseas merchants for ten taels of silver. Just now, the four hundred taels of silver have turned into ashes.

Already."

Lao Wen: "...".

After this series of events, Wen Tiren lost all doubts and began to seize the time to write the memorial.

Xue Haiyuan tried his best to tell Lao Wen the details of the recent series of battles. At the same time, he took out a draft of General Cao's memorial for Wen Tiren to check, so as to avoid any mistakes in his writing or subsequent memorials.

In short, the content of this memorial cannot be significantly different from Sun Chengzong's memorial, and other aspects can be played as you like.

Due to Wen Tiren's great merits this time, his path to the cabinet has been visible to the naked eye, from a thorny path to a thoroughfare. After all, military merit is the most difficult achievement, and those internal fights and criticisms in the court were like a farce.

They are like floating clouds in front of those Tatar heads.

In this way, when Lao Wen officially joins the cabinet, he will become a strategic ally. He can cooperate with General Cao in many places to help each other. Since ancient times, the so-called power ministers have been to strengthen external ties and strengthen internal ties.

Only those who can reach the standard can reach the standard by being a high official. Wen Tiren is in this plane, and he can still take the path of power.

Therefore, both sides tacitly agreed not to mention any rewards at this time, because the rewards after Lao Wen joined the cabinet were of a long-term nature. This was an auxiliary minister who had the power to control all government affairs of the Ming Empire, and his rights had already reached the level of future generations.

A high official.

It was almost noon, while the Wen Mansion was preparing intensively, Comrade Luo Lishi, a member of the Ministry of Industry and Engineering who was the pioneer of the expedition, was sitting in a courtyard again waiting to meet the owner.

This house is not large in area and is in a secluded location, but the interior decoration is exquisite and gorgeous, including servants, mistresses and other characters.

As for the owner of the house? The owner is still on his way to get off work.

So who is the master? Eunuch Fang Zhenghua.

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The eunuchs of the Chongzhen Dynasty were nothing compared to other famous eunuchs such as Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and others.

The only most famous ones are probably Wang Chengen, who accompanied Chongzhen to hang himself, and Cao Huachun, who opened the city gate.

However, at that time, Cao Huachun had returned to his hometown in the countryside of Tianjin for four years, and it was obvious that the civil servants who had the power to "manufacture" public opinion were blamed for this matter.

In fact, there were several eunuchs who opened the doors at that time. Desheng Gate was opened by Wang Dehua, Fucheng Gate was opened by Wang Xiangyao, Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of War, opened the Zhengyang Gate, and Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, opened the Chaoyang Gate...

..In the end, no one criticized what the civil servants did, and Cao Huachun, a man far away from the capital, took all the blame.

The above is just idle talk. In short, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, due to the emperor's diligence in approving memorials personally, the eunuch group did not steal power easily like many emperors in previous dynasties who could not even approve memorials.

In fact, when Chongzhen first came to power, it could almost be said that he was deceived by the civil servants.

A young man of high school age, who had just shouldered the responsibility of a big empire, didn't understand anything, and wanted to forge ahead and innovate. Naturally, others saw through the shortcomings. So Chongzhen listened to the civil servants, reduced the factory security system, and uprooted it.

The beneficiary of all these actions, including the removal of the eunuchs and the transfer back of the eunuchs stationed all over the country, is undoubtedly the civil servant group.

So what's the result?

Having lost external restraints, civil servants rushed to private offices and began to fight within the court, but no one did anything important.

This time when Hou Jin entered the country, despite successive unfavorable wars and a shortage of food and salary, the civil service system just continued to argue at court and could not offer any advice.

A young man who had been severely beaten by society finally realized it at this moment, so he re-established the eunuch system.

In less than a year after the Jisi Incident, from Shanhaiguan to Xuanfu, from Datong to Shanxi, all the eunuchs and eunuchs from all over the country were sent out by Chongzhen.

As soon as this group of people took office, they began to impeach civil servants from various towns and cities, and they succeeded every time, and many civil servants were taken over.

After this, Chongzhen had an even more intense backlash: Wen Tiren's future ally, the eunuch Zhang Yixian, was sent to assess the civil servants of the Second Ministry of Works. Chongzhen built an official office for him and named him Prime Minister of Household Workers, with the same power as the outside supervisory army.

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Naturally, the civil service system would not give up when the eunuchs took control of the money. However, when a large number of courtiers, including the Minister of Civil Affairs, came together to argue, the emperor said: "If the ministers are dedicated to the country, why should I use internal ministers?"

Everyone was speechless.

In short, after paying a huge price, the young Chongzhen gradually realized the core idea of ​​the emperor that he had not had the opportunity to learn before: checks and balances of power.

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The people who traveled through time contacted the eunuch this time with this intention in mind. The reason is very simple: the triangle is the most stable.

This triangle of central auxiliary ministers, internal officials and external vassals is the best closed-loop system, which can achieve complementary political resources and relieve pressure.

In fact, the power of the past dynasties could not be achieved without the cooperation of the ministers. A powerful person like Zhang Juzheng also had to collude with the eunuch Feng Bao to successfully implement the great government. Everyone in later generations said that Zhang Juzheng and Yi Yibu were actually responsible for it.

The role is equally huge.

The owner of the mansion who Luo Lishi was waiting for today was an important figure in Chongzhen's inner court during this period, the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Fang Zhenghua.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the neglect of many emperors, the ceremonial supervisors who replaced the emperors to "criticize the red" gradually became more powerful.

The procedure is as follows: the cabinet ministers of the outer dynasty initially express their opinions on the solution, and then send them to various places in the palace for memorials. In many cases, only after the chief ceremonial supervisor agrees to this procedure, it becomes an official document of the Ming Empire with legal effect.

executive order.

Most of the time, the emperor was idle because he didn't have the energy to deal with so many memorials.

There are many reasons why the Time Travelers sent people to contact the Grand Eunuch Fang Zhenghua today. The most important one is that Fang Zhenghua is one of the current Chief Eunuchs, and the right to approve the red can just match Wen Tiren's voting power. He is the most powerful among the Time Travelers.

A place that matters.

In addition, it is now the year 163o, and many of the more famous figures in the palace have not yet made their mark more than ten years later.

For example, Wang Chengen was just a younger brother who had just become a eunuch, and Du Xun was still learning how to cook in the imperial kitchen.

Cao Huachun was in good shape, and was presiding over the redress of Wei Zhongxian's injustice.

However, this job clearly involves working closely with the Donglin Party members, so the people who have chosen Wen Tiren naturally cannot approach him. Wen Tiren is sworn incompatible with the Donglin Party. Besides, although Cao Huachun said he accepted

The emperor took a fancy to her, but it was still too early to enter the ceremonial department.

As for the other Gao Qiqi and Zhang Yixian, the reason is the same: these people have not yet sneaked into the Bureau of Ceremonies.

At this point in time, the eunuchs of Si Li are Gao Shiming, and the eunuchs of Bingbi are Li Fengxiang and Fang Zhenghua. The purpose of traveling through the crowd is very clear, and you only need to get on the line with one of them.

This is the reason why Luo Lishi came to Fang Zhenghua today: the relationship between the first two people and the Time Travelers, including the Time Travelers in the capital, was completely incompatible, and it was very troublesome to communicate urgently.

Only Fang Zhenghua was able to establish good relations with him. Since this gentleman had served as a palm seal in Zhidian Supervisor before, and Luo Lishi was in charge of palace repairs, the two sides had a good relationship with each other.

In the past two years, Fang Zhenghua has resigned from the position of Chief Li Supervisor, and Luo Lishi, because he was a dealer in Chuanzhong, once made connections to expand the building materials market, so the relationship between the two parties got better. Including Fang Zhenghua's private residence, it was Luo Lishi's

The construction team renovated it, and because Eunuch Fang was promoted, the glass windows and cement floor were given a 40% discount, which was a personal favor.

So today Luo Lishi was sitting in Fang Zhenghua's private house outside the imperial city, feeling confident about the mission because he knew the other person better.

At noon, the master who received the news came out of the imperial city as expected. Luo Lishi had already gone to the imperial city before and asked the young eunuch to bring a message to Fang Zhenghua.

Fang Zhenghua was from Shandong, and he had climbed up from the bottom eunuch step by step. The age when he had just turned around was a time when he was young and full of energy.

After meeting the owner, Luo Lishi did not delay and quickly explained the cause and effect of the matter clearly.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Fang Zhenghua immediately said that he could help: he was a eunuch, and his role in this matter was just to report to the emperor. Although he did not have much credit, he did not have to bear any responsibility. It was like picking up a wallet for nothing.

"Our family would like to thank Brother Luo. If this happens, there will be consequences!"

"Wen Zongbo and General Cao, please ask Brother Luo to tell you that everyone should move around more in the future."
Chapter completed!