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Chapter 800: Evening Autumn (Middle)
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The front mansion of Duke Cheng Guo’s Mansion was almost carved from the same mold as Duke Ding Guo’s Mansion, but it’s no wonder that the regulations are so that they can only do this, not even one more brick or one less tiles. Then the mansions must have their own advantages, but Duke Cheng Guo and Shen Mo are not familiar with each other, so he didn’t take it into the back garden to take a look.
However, Duke Cheng did not neglect his silence. He asked him to meet in the hall and also invited him to sit down. The silence would not be flattered, but seeing his overly attentive appearance, he vaguely felt that there must be something to ask for.
He didn't say it, he was silent and didn't ask. He took out the memorial and asked him to sign it. Then he was idiotic and unrestrained, and he was not in a hurry to leave.
Zhu Xizhong, Duke Cheng, has entered the age of destiny, but because he is good at maintaining, he looks much younger. Seeing that Chen Si cannot take the initiative to ask questions, he had to speak: "I have a thing, I want to ask Shen Xiang for an explanation."
"Please speak with your words, Master." Chen Si moved his heart and said with concern.
"I have heard that the emperor wants to re-enroll the four guards of the imperial guards." Duke Cheng frowned and said, "I have to send the military supervisor to the three major camps again." This news is simply too bad, especially in the first half, his brother is still in charge of the imperial guards.
"Oh..." said silently: "Who did you hear from the prince? Why don't I know at all?"
"Hi, tell the truth to Chen Xiang," Cheng Guogong said: "It was someone from the palace who came over and asked me to take the initiative to get this memorial."
"Is it the emperor's meaning?" Chen Si narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The Emperor must be aware of it." Cheng Guo said: "You are not unaware. Ours is famous for being soft-hearted. If the people around you talk too much, they might nod their heads."
"Well..." said silently, "What do you think of the prince?"
"Me?" Duke Cheng smiled and said, "To be honest, there are a hundred unwilling things to be left to eunuchs in the world, especially the army... He is going to carry out military reforms, so they must not get involved."
He looked at him silently and said to him, "Why are you involved in me?" He smiled faintly and said, "This is recognized."
"Yes." Duke Cheng said happily: "Please be sure to withstand it, that's a rare good policy for the late emperor."
"Whether the master's memorial is up or not?" said silently.
"Haha..." Duke Cheng asked back: "What does the Shen Xiang mean?"
"Hehe..." Silent smiled and looked at Cheng Guogong and said, "Mr. Master can decide for himself."
"..." Knowing that the silent Tai Chi skills were unbearable, Duke Cheng finally stopped going around in circles: "I don't want to pass this sutra, but I have to obey them. Please give me a way to see if you can achieve both things..." He clasped his fists and said: "I will remember this love in my heart. If there is any order in the future, I will definitely serve with all my strength."
"Drag it." After pondering for a moment, he said softly: "What can they do to you?" His tone became cold and said: "No one wants to return to Zhengde Dynasty, so everyone can only work hard together. If the prince compromises, the civil servant will feel that it is nothing to do with him."
"Could..." Duke Cheng said bitterly: "Is there no other way?"
"On the issue of big trouble," Chen Si shook his head and said, "There is no opportunity to be ambiguity."
"Oh..." Duke Cheng didn't say anything anymore, and he seemed absent-minded until he sent him to silence. It seemed that he was very worried.
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Sitting in the sedan chair back to the cabinet, silently fell into deep thought. In fact, he had noticed the eunuch's intention to regain lost land... As a relevant official with a good relationship with the palace, the eunuchs had already tried his words, but he politely refused. That's why they went back to Zhu Xizhong to try their luck. If they couldn't get a satisfactory answer from Duke Cheng, they would probably lobby the emperor directly and decide on this matter through the imperial edict.
This is speculated that it is very reliable, because Longqing is different from his father. He relies heavily on the eunuchs around him. Since he ascended the throne, he has repeatedly promoted these eunuchs and given them too many honors. During his filial piety, he was eager to "give kindness" eunuchs, who were impatient to be rewarded by more than fifty people in the palace. Among the old people in the palace, more than twenty of them had meritorious ones, all of whom were out of standard and several of them were officials of the Jinyiwei.
For example, the former eunuch Huang Jin, the former eunuch Huang Pu first had his nephew Huang Pu as the commander of the Jinyiwei. When he stepped down as the chief supervisor and went to Nanjing to retire, Longqing also appointed his nephew as the governor and as the deputy general of the Jinyiwei. In June this year, Huang Jin died of illness and approved Huang Pu to request it, and appointed his tribe Huang Bao and six other people as the Jinyiwei officials and guarded the tomb for Huang Jin. The Lijian also requested that Huang Bin and thirty others be appointed as the warriors of the Imperial Horse Supervisor to be polite, and all the emperors agreed to it.
In this way, just for the sake of the eunuch of the Sili Prison, seven officials were added to the Jinyiwei, and thirty warriors of the Imperial Horse Supervisor. They even allowed six tomb guards to be appointed. This kind of kindness and honor were completely above the nine ministers. Even the cabinet ministers were far inferior. It was truly a favor for one person, and all the chickens and dogs were immortals.
Although the rewards of the other Daquan nearby servants were not as good as the rewards, they were not far away. In just one year, nearly a thousand officers had appeared in the Jinyiwei and the Imperial Horse Prison, which had reached the point of being unscrupulous. This certainly made the court and the public angry, but because this reward was always arbitrary by the emperor and did not have to go through the foreign court, the ministers could not care about it. As for advice... Of course, many censors fired fire, but Longqing, who was already full of resentment towards them, believed that 'even they could do something they could do, they would even be too lazy to watch.
Yes, since Gao Gong left, Longqing became increasingly disgusted with foreign ministers, and even believed that except for silence, Zhang Juzheng and other old people in the past, the rest of them were bullying their bad people, and they became increasingly disregarded. They had not been to court for more than half a year and ignored the government. They stayed in the harem all day long, and except for collecting honey and pollinating honey, they were just having fun under the guidance of eunuchs. Teng Xiang and Meng Chong of the Silijian tried to play strange tricks to please the emperor. The most famous one was to reappear the Aoshan lanterns of the previous dynasty... A lamp shed several meters high in Beihaizi, with various lanterns arranged on them and burning tens of thousands of lanterns. Then the emperor sat on a flower boat and feasted all night, as if he was in a fairyland, and was very happy.
The price of happiness was that the treasury was spent. Of course, most of the money was flowed into the eunuch's pockets, and he also coaxed Emperor Longqing to give in and give in to the six ministers. This caused the eunuchs to rapidly expand. Under the banner of the emperor, they collected beauties and sent people to supervise rare tributes in various places. They also plundered the people's wealth and ointment in the capital... Although it was later severely cured by Gao Gong, under the oversight of Emperor Longqing's eunuchs, the eunuchs of all sizes were almost unharmed. When they helped Xu Jie to get Gao Gong away, they were no longer afraid of anyone. They not only opened the imperial shop again, set up tax cards, but even became more and more arrogant and began to reach out to the outside court.
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The first thing to suffer is the Ministry of Revenue, because they have something that eunuchs are most interested in.
The Minister of Revenue Ge Shouli, the Minister of Revenue, checked the input items according to the rules and found that the incense money was paid in Taihe Mountain and other places, and the amount of money transferred to the national treasury was less than one tenth of the previous years. After investigation, it was found that most of the newly sent eunuchs of the tax surveillance were embezzled... Although according to regulations, the local government and eunuchs of the tax surveillance should be jointly managed by the local government, but in fact, the main part of the official was the strong master of the official. So Ge Shouli wrote a letter to request, and compared with the old Jiajing rules, he ordered the tutor to assist the official, and the official elected a member of the commission and the official fee was collected. All the remaining silver was released from the department to provide for the border, and the internal officials were not allowed to intervene.
When he was sent in, the emperor not only refused to listen, but instead ordered him to rebel. Ge Shouli was unable to accept it, so he had to thank him, saying, "I am foolish and cannot obey the orders and prosecutors the power of heaven. He is not allowed to punish him for his crimes. He is only responsible for his duties and has witnessed the difficulties. He secretly did not judge himself, and wanted to save money for the court. In the end, the emperor blamed him for not following the orders and repeatedly disturbing him. He should have dismissed him, but he thought that he had worked hard and made great contributions and had "only" seized his salary for half a year.
This is really incredible. A country's finance minister only needs to hand over the money and silver for the country to make use of the country within its responsibilities. This is a just thing. How can it touch on "abuse the power of heaven and not be punished for the crime"? How could it be criticized for this and take the salary? It is completely unreasonable and regards the national law as nothing.
Since taking office, Ge Shouli has suffered far more cowardly in order to protect the national treasury because he resisted the infringement of eunuchs. Because the emperor's unprincipled protection, the eunuchs became more and more arrogant and tried every means to invade the national treasury. In the most recent time, they thought that the emperor, prince and concubine weaved new clothes, so they used empty letters to send the Ministry of Revenue to withdraw 200,000 taels of money to make up for the shortage of the treasury.
Ge Shouli would never agree. He refused, "The capital treasury was sent heavily, and he took it with a piece of letter, without any seal or name, how can he distinguish the authenticity?", but what he waited for was the emperor's order to the Ministry of Revenue to obtain silver for use, and Shuli refused without such a precedent. However, under the instigation of the eunuch, the emperor not only did not understand the old minister's sincere intention, but instead issued a severe order to reprimand him, and was fined for half a year, and still wanted to obtain silver for use.
Although Ge Shouli has not paid the money yet, he is exhausted and has been sleeping at home for days, just to delay.
The situation of the Minister of Works Lei Li was not much better than that of him. He thought that the construction of palaces and temples would be suspended this year, and the budget of the Ministry of Works should be very abundant, but he was attacked by the eunuch leader Teng Xiang, who invaded his power everywhere, and was in a dangerous manner and was hindered from everything, making him unsustainable and miserable. For example, Teng Xiang was given the name of building cabinets, purchasing paint glue, and repairing seven-ocean musical instruments, and often added himself to the public, and spent a lot of money. In addition, the large wood in the factory, which was surrounded by more than one zhang and four feet long, were all worth ten thousand gold. However, the inner court used the imperial instruments as a way to cut off and use them against his talent. Lei Lili could not fight, but was humiliated by the internal officials, but he was only angry and crying.
Lei Li was resentful and sued the emperor with a piece of complaint, saying, "The official has taken power, and the affairs are contrary to each other. If the ministers are left for one day, there will be more troubles in one day. I would like to stop the reprimand and use the whole country to be incompatible." As long as the emperor is clear-headed, he should strictly control Teng Xiang and ordered him to interfere less in the affairs of the ministry. However, the facts are just the opposite. The superiors are unhappy and immediately ordered to retire. If it were not for Xu Jie's efforts to protect him, the great Sikong would have lost his black veil because of his overwhelming power.
There are many things like this, but in the dispute between ministers and eunuchs, all of them were in the case of eunuchs winning the case, and ministers ended in defeat. There were also many other officials who were surrendered for impeaching eunuchs.
The eunuchs' greed and power were unprecedented in the Jiajing Dynasty. Now they have reached their hands on military and political affairs.
Sitting in the sedan chair, I couldn't help but sneer. It seemed that the tiger was not showing its power. I really thought I was a sick cat
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Sure enough, after a few days, seeing that the Duke Cheng had not yet moved, the eunuchs urged the emperor to send an order to the cabinet.
That day, Chen Si was also in the Pavilion. After Xu Jie finished reading it, he handed him the decree. After Chen Si saw it, he ordered that the four guards of Tengxiang are still under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horses, and sent eunuchs Lu Yong, Gao Xiang, and Tao Jin to sit in the group camp. It turned out that he was very bloody and had a big appetite.
"What should I do?" Xu Jie looked at Chen Si, but his eyes were a little gloating. He always thought that Chen Si had made too big moves recently and finally attracted the wolf. So, young people are not mature yet... But unlike the nature of Zhang Ju's arrangement in the Ministry of Revenue, Xu Jie supported Chen Si in this way. When Gao Gong and Guo Pu's resignation successively and his reputation was seriously damaged, Xu Jie urgently needed some movement to divert public attention.
"I listen to the master's decision on everything." Although Chen Si was mentally prepared, he still felt a burst of fire when he looked at this pen note.
"The imperial guards have always been under the Imperial Horse Supervision, and the Ministry of War is just a custody. The Beijing camp has also had the tradition of eunuchs and military supervision, and it was changed by the late emperor." Xu Jie did not have so many evil things, so he said slowly: "So it is difficult for the emperor to change his order."
"So," Chen Mo frowned and said, "Did the Master agree to let the eunuchs regain power?"
"No..." Xu Jie did not vaguely on the issue of big troubles: "How can the chaos of Zhengde be reappeared?"
"How do you go back?" asked silently.
"You are in charge of military affairs, so let's leave this matter to you." But the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. Xu Jie still said casually: "Your attitude is the attitude of the cabinet."
Silence didn't expect Xu Jie to stand up and speak. Recently, there were obvious cracks in the relationship between the old prime minister and the emperor. Longqing led and retreated like a stubborn bull, which made Xu Ge Lao quite sad. Xu Jie no longer expects to be Yao and Shun. It doesn't matter whether he can attend court or hold a lecture. If the ministers are capable, they will work hard for you.
But this month, the emperor should enjoy the Taimiao as usual. No one can replace the national ceremony for worshiping ancestors. As a result, the emperor ordered the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Xizhong to perform. Zhao Zhenji, the Minister of Rites, invited the emperor to come in person, but Longqing refused. So Xu Jie had to submit a memorial saying: "Sacrificial ceremony, national ceremony. In autumn, the emperor will be respected in all seasons. The emperor will be filial and respectful. The ancestors will also be saints and will be personally opposed by the emperor, and then come to Xin. Moreover, from the palace to the temple, the road is not far away; there are several offerings, but the etiquette is not complicated. Because the temple is so important, even if it is not hard, should not be avoided, let alone the hard work? Ask the emperor to go to the Taimiao to celebrate the ceremony.' The emperor followed it.
Once Xu Jie's commentary was published, the court was ridiculous and ridiculous. This was not a request from the ministers to the emperor. It was clearly a message to Master Meng to persuade the students, reasoning, enlightening the way, and urging them. Emperor Longqing had no choice but to follow it. However, after he reluctantly went there once, he still did not worship the temple, and it was useless to persuade him. He was lazy and careless, and there were other hidden stories, which were beyond ordinary people.
But Xu Jie could understand that this was the emperor's silent protest against himself. His rebellious mentality had reached the point where he could joke about national affairs. Xu Jie was also a little discouraged. His attitude towards the emperor recently, no matter how ridiculous it was, as long as he did not interfere in national affairs, he would let it go.
But how can military and political affairs be a joke? So Xu Jie expressed his attitude as soon as he came up, but he really didn't want to have conflicts with the emperor, so he asked Chen Si to deal with it as much as possible. Of course, in order to make Chen Si feel at ease, he still agreed. When he had no choice, he would exercise the right to refute and return the emperor's decree... But it would be better not to go to this point, otherwise the relationship with the emperor would be completely stalemate.
After clarifying Xu Jie's attitude, he took on this burden. In fact, with his relationship with the emperor, if anything else, he would go directly to the emperor. But it is related to the imperial guards and the control of the Beijing camp, how can those who are ministers speak? If they are familiar with each other, they will definitely cause trouble... Even if Long Qing trusts himself, he can't resist the eunuch's story of the demonic sounds all day long, and the three of them become tigers is not just a joke.
So he had to pay attention to strategies and slowly plan for it. On the second day, Tan Lun, the Minister of War, submitted a report to oppose: "The Beijing military camp was ruled by the late emperor and removed the regiment camp, and the old ones of the two ancestors and three camps were restored. The officials had designated personnel and did not use eunuchs. This is a ritual that will not be published forever, and the remaining instructions are obvious. Once it is changed, it cannot be."
Longqing quickly replied: "I read the "Da Ming Hui Dian" that there is a system of internal officials to supervise the camp, and I still ordered a draft of an imperial edict to give it to me."
At this time, a military department head Shi Xing assisted the boxing and said: "Although the establishment of a central official has not been abandoned since ancient times, he was unable to do so, causing trouble. In recent times, such as Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, Cao Jixiang, Liu Jin, Chen Hong, etc., who were specialized in authority, interfered in the government affairs, opened factories to investigate affairs, killed innocent people, left the military commander, poisoned the border, and even planned to be evil, framed loyal and kind, incited the party to praise the party, and praised the morality, and even failed the state affairs, and defeated each other, which was enough to be a warning. Therefore, the late emperor all sacked the military supervisors, collected military power in the Ministry of War, and ruled that the internal government office and the subordinates were in charge of the law. This is the holy teaching of the late emperor, begging the emperor to clearly understand it."
This was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the eunuchs said to the emperor: "This is clearly a refusal by the foreign court. Of course, the military power of the capital must be at ease in the hands of His Majesty. Now, if you send your close servants as the military supervisor, you will push them three times and four times. What is his intention? You can think about it."
The emperor was indeed deceived when he heard this. In a furious manner, he actually asked the Jinyiwei to arrest Shi Xing and punished eighty-year-old at the Meridian Gate.
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Chapter completed!