Chapter 614: Rights collection

The temperature in the Forbidden City in the capital is lower than outside the city. At least people in the palace feel this way, although it has passed May and the weather is getting hotter.

However, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace felt trembling and cold. This chill was completely caused by horror. Since I learned that the troops in Jizhen failed in Guangning, Emperor Jiajing's temper began to become irritable, and he lost his temper in the inner study and court every day.

Moreover, the number of times they take elixirs is more and more, and even the Taoist priests who refined elixirs are a little scared. At this time, the so-called golden elixir will always be mentally excited for a short time and the mental state will appear very good. However, the person will always become more and more anxious and will appear as the so-called traditional Chinese medicine states. At this time, the person's body becomes very unstable and he doesn't know when abnormalities will occur.

This is how Emperor Jiajing is now. He began to summon concubines frequently every night. Sometimes he saw the palace maids of similar appearance and were also summoned to serve in bed. The people became weak little by little. If the eunuchs and palace maids below did something wrong, they would be miserable and would be killed immediately.

Since the second half of April, more than a dozen eunuchs have been killed in the palace. Although Emperor Jiajing regained power and relied heavily on the inner officials around him, it would be impossible to have the might and power of Wang Zhen and Liu Jin back then. Rui Xiaosan would not have much qualifications or accumulation.

Although he is in charge of Dongchang and Silijian, he is still absolutely weak. Seeing the eunuchs in the palace being tortured one by one, he cannot say anything, nor dare to say anything.

The news of the loss of Liao Town and the army retreating gradually made Emperor Jiajing feel frustrated. He kept thinking about what he was wrong. He reviewed his actions since he ascended the throne. Compared with his predecessors, he did not think that he had done worse, and even surpassed in some aspects.

But why are there so many changes under our own governance, and even forces without any precedents in "Huazhou"?

After taking the pill, the person taking it will have a period of psychedelic period. In this short period of time, people's thinking is particularly divergent and becomes particularly sensitive. Emperor Jiajing recalled his performance after ascending the throne and what happened below.

The beginning of everything, no matter what Emperor Jiajing thought, began to reclaim the manor outside the wall when the so-called capital merchant troupe began. The capital merchant troupe and the capital merchant troupe were Huang Jin and Lu Bing. When people were so anxious and angry, they were a little confused.

Emperor Jiajing thought this every day, increasingly believed that Lu Bing and Huang Jin were the source of chaos in the Ming Dynasty. Without them, there would be no such situation today. The bases and military sources of Huazhou were all outside the pass outside the border wall. If Huang Jin and Lu Bing had not cultivated the land, what foundation and population would there be?

The culprit was Huang Jin and Lu Bing. The emperor thought about it every day and became more and more convinced that what he thought was that Huang Jin had been killed, but Lu Bing is now the hottest minister at present. Many things about military, government and internal affairs are controlled by Lu Bing.

The emperor also knew that no matter what, Lu Bing could sit in this position again, and he was also dealing with these things every day. If he killed this person, he might have been in chaos before the foreign enemy came, and his court would be in chaos first. Emperor Jiajing was not the kind of confused character. When he was sober, he also knew that no matter what Lu Bing had done before, he was on the same boat as him.

But he also knew that after accumulating such bad feelings over time, it was hard to guarantee that he would not have the intention to kill himself, and it was too late to regret at that time.

On May 10, the 23rd year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing issued an order, Marquis of Weiwu, Prince Shaobao, and Commander Lu Bing of the Jinyiwei, went out of Beijing to govern the Weiwu Daying, commanding the troops north of the capital, and supervised the war with Huazhou. General Zhou Lin, Luanzhou, led Jizhen, and Baoding troops. Deng Hua returned to Beijing to lead the Imperial Horse Supervision Camp and the outside of the city to station the Jingying. In addition, the troops and horses of Xuanhua and Datong advanced eastward to supplement the defenses of the capital and Tongzhou.

In addition to the left-behind soldiers in the province, the soldiers in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi must be prepared to reinforce to Zhili in the north. In the south, Zhili, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and the troops stationed locally and strictly abide by their duties. At the same time, the soldiers in Huguang and Jiangxi and Guangdong support Fujian so that the chaos in Zhangzhou City will no longer spread.

One by one, one decree was sent out from the capital, and the civil officials in the court had no objection to the emperor's will. At present, one-third of the world's troops were concentrated in the north of the capital and placed in the hands of military generals. Although it was already so critical at this time, the principle of civil and military affairs had to be adhered to.

Although Lu Bing was an military officer in the inner guard, he was quite famous among the literati of the Western Party. He also had allusions of participating in the imperial examination and outstanding achievements at that time, and the literati were not too repulsive of him.

The civil and military commandership must be done, but we cannot send a civil official who knows nothing to lead the army. Lu Bing at least knows the military affairs and is deeply aware of it, so he can feel at ease when he goes there. In fact, the civil and military commander who is currently insisting on the civil and military commandership is better to say that he hopes that someone from his own faction will take charge of the army.

When the Western Party came to power, all positions in the capital were only received. There was no time to rotate in the local area, and the army was even more uneasy. The Eastern Party used money and benefits to make many generals and officials feel good about them. Emperor Jiajing came to power for the second time and took power. The Western Party civil servants, the military officers of the Inner Guard represented by Lu Bing, the eunuch represented by Rui Xiaosan, and the Shaanxi border army represented by Zhou Lin were all tied together. Lu Bing was his own person, and it was the best thing for him to take charge of the army.

This time, some people with sharp minds discovered a problem, that was, before they knew it, the Imperial Horse Supervision Camp Army, which was originally led by Rui Xiaosan instead of the emperor, was now handed over to Deng Hua of the Western Army. I don’t know what this change symbolizes, and does it mean that the emperor has something to worry about the eunuchs.

Rui Xiaosan, the eunuch of the Silijian, accepted the emperor's dispatch, silently. Many of the functions of the Silijian have been replaced by the inner study room. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the power of the eunuch's chief has never been so weak.

When Rui Xiaosan was working in the palace, he also saw how foreign officials flattered those eunuchs of high rank. It is not necessary to say that the eunuchs of the Sili Priest Huang Jin. There were eunuchs of the other ranks of the prisons and the senior officials of the third rank or above in the outer court. After seeing this, they shook their heads and tails as if they were pugs, for fear that they would not be pleased.

At that time, eunuchs could be called "the wind and rain". Even if a little eunuch with no grade below, as long as he had a little power, he would be very prosperous and his life would be extremely prosperous. This situation continued until Huang Jin fell and when the civil officials of the Eastern Party controlled the government, they began to restrict internal officials and began to settle the past. Many eunuchs' property was confiscated into the palace.

The cost of the palace was also subject to many restrictions, and many eunuchs had no chance to get involved. During the Dong Party’s rule, eunuchs at lower levels actually died of poverty and starvation.

This is also because the eunuchs were defeated because Emperor Jiajing got rid of Huang Jin, but they still supported Emperor Jiajing and regained power. After the eunuchs were eliminated, the eunuchs' lives were immediately better. The civil officials of the Western Party came to power and regarded the internal officials as their own aid. It was also a matter of closeness. The eunuchs thought that their chance to turn over was coming, and the tax affairs made them feel even more glorious.

Unexpectedly, the tax supervision policy was too ruthless in the northern three provinces, causing a huge chaos in the people. In the end, the chaos subsided, and the eunuchs had no reason to stay in the area. They could only return to Beijing in shame. However, they did not expect that Emperor Jiajing and the civil servants cut off the ruthless eunuchs who served as tax supervision in the name of quelling public anger and confiscated their property. The civil servants of the Western Party, who were still intimate a while ago, quickly drew a clear line with the eunuchs, and like those people in the past, they criticized the eunuchs and attacked them on a large scale.

Fortunately, the tax supervisors who can be sent out are a minority after all, and even if they cut off their heads, they will not affect the interests of most people. The next step is to recover slowly.

However, at this time, I found that no matter how hard they were, their power would never be restored to the same level as before. Originally, the Sili Supervisor and the Cabinet were called internal and external centers, and they decided on major affairs in the world and fought. The eunuchs and military officers must be supervised, but these powers were taken back one by one.

Combined with the cabinet and civil and military system, the inner study room directly led by the emperor gradually divided the power of the Sili Supervisor, and the eunuchs in the military supervising also gradually retreated. The East Factory was already squeezed by the Jinyiwei led by Lu Bing, and now it is a responsibilities similar to the yamen runners of Shuntian Prefecture.

The power of the eunuchs comes from the emperor. Although the power that he finally returned to his hands was taken back step by step, they still tolerated it, hoping that there will be recurrences in the future, because the Royal Horse Supervision Camp is always in their hands, and the power of garrison is still the same as trusted.

But at this time, the military power of the Imperial Horse Supervision was also taken back, and the eunuchs in the capital finally felt a hint of despair...
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