Wei Zhongxian happily followed the emperor's order and left the palace. For eunuchs like them who have been with the emperor for a long time, especially such powerful eunuchs, they fear nothing but the emperor's neglect.
As long as the emperor still trusts them and uses them seriously, they will be satisfied.
But what Wei Zhongxian didn't know was that Zhu Youxiao opened his eyes and stared at his back just before he left the inner hall.
The look in his eyes was impossible to see through, and Wei Zhongxian was not aware of it. When he was about to leave the inner hall door, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the steps, suddenly said:
"My companion, be careful!"
Wei Zhongxian cleverly turned around quickly and knelt down to Zhu Youxiao.
Then he stood up and said:
"Long live my lord, don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter beautifully."
Wei Zhongxian didn't think much about it. He just thought that the emperor was worried about him.
Zhu Youxiao waved his hand expressionlessly:
"Go for it!"
Then he looked at the ceiling and began to think deeply. The atmosphere in the hall was extremely subtle.
Wei Zhongxian did not understand the true meaning of this sentence of "walking with caution", and probably only Zhu Youxiao himself knew.
After a long time, Wang Chaofu looked at the emperor lying on the floor and advised:
"Long live Lord, the ground is dirty!"
Zhu Youxiao slowly opened his eyes, stared at the upper beam on the ceiling, and said in a firm tone:
"Daban, I want to reopen the west factory and the inner factory!"
Wang Chaofu almost couldn't breathe. What did Long live the Lord just say?
Reopen the west and inner factories?
As the emperor's personal eunuch, how could it be possible that Wang Chaofu didn't know about these two departments?
He seemed to feel that he had heard wrongly, and asked hesitantly with a hint of doubt:
"Long live my Lord, did you just say that you wanted to reopen the factory in the West Factory?"
Zhu Youxiao sat up suddenly and said without any doubt:
"Am I someone who talks casually?"
To talk about the West Factory and the Inner Factory, we have to look at them from various angles. For the emperor, these are swords and scapegoats that are easier to use than the East Factory and Jinyiwei.
For the eunuchs, it was great news. When these two departments existed, they had one foot firmly under their feet, the two veteran special departments of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
From the perspective of the civil servants and gentry, this is simply a life-threatening act of black and white, and their fear is much greater than that of Zhidongchang and Jinyiwei.
The west factory and the inner factory were established in the Chenghua and Zhengde years respectively. The two emperors Xianzong and Wuzong had a vicious vision. When they first came to the throne, they saw that the senior Dongchang and Jinyiwei were completely corrupt.
They even turned their backs on the emperor and became loyal lackeys of the civil servants. Not long after they took office, they reorganized these two yamen, whose power and scale were much larger than those of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.
The main spy agencies of the Ming Dynasty include Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Xichang and Neichang. Among them, Jinyiwei started from the Hongwu period and Dongchang started from the Yongle period until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the responsibilities and powers of the West Factory and the Inner Factory are much higher than these two, their life span is extremely short.
The West Factory has the shortest life span, only twenty years. It was established by Emperor Xianzong in the 13th year of Chenghua. Xianzong personally set the specifications for this purpose. The West Factory can lead at least twice as many cavalry as the East Factory.
Moreover, Xichang does not need to report to the emperor to handle affairs. They can directly arrest any minister in the court, even if you are the chief minister of the cabinet, they will still arrest you.
The civil servants who enforce the harsh laws of Xichang are always on tenterhooks every day. When they go to court, they will impeach Xichang with a tacit understanding. What unscrupulous thing did they do yesterday? The last time they arrested people indiscriminately and framed loyal ministers and so on.
Among this impeachment army were the commander of the Jinyi Guards and the admiral of Dongchang. From this, we can see how smart Xianzong was, and he could see the important affairs of the government at a glance at a young age.
During the Chenghua period, the first thing the ministers had to do every time they went to court was to impeach Xichang, but Xianzong fought with them in a battle of wits and courage. Seeing that he was weak and weak, I will not be tough with you, but use softness to overcome toughness.
To express it in modern terms, it is fishing and law enforcement. Whenever the emotions of the ministers reach the peak, Xianzong will order the dismantling of Xichang. But after a month or two, he will suddenly order the restoration of Xichang, and so on again and again, Xichang
I don’t know how many times it has been revoked.
The first boss of Xichang was Wang Zhi, the eunuch who was most favored by the emperor. Wang Zhi was not only the admiral of Xichang, but also the first eunuch to supervise the army in the Ming Dynasty. Since then, he has been the eunuch to supervise the army.
And begin.
The military exercises of the Ming Dynasty were established because of his strong advice to Xianzong.
Wang Zhi was a seriously underestimated eunuch, and his life experience was quite legendary. Zhu Youxiao was even willing to call him the most capable eunuch in the feudal dynasty.
When he was less than seventeen years old, he gained the trust of the emperor and took charge of the West Factory. During this period, he repeatedly set up large prisons, guarded eunuchs in Nanjing, and was the great-grandson of the late Crown Prince Shaobao Yang Rong. A series of high-ranking officials and dignitaries were among them.
His prisoner.
Wang Zhi's courage and fearlessness made Emperor Xianzong trust this young eunuch even more. In the 14th year of Chenghua, the Three Guards of Jianzhou once again broke into chaos and repeatedly invaded Liaodong, Ming Dynasty. Emperor Xianzong ordered Wang Zhi to go and deal with it.
Liaodong provided military defense and gave him the power to act expediently.
Since the Liting sweep in the third year of Chenghua, in the fifteenth year of Chenghua, the Ming army, under the command of the great eunuch Wang Zhi, once again launched an attack on the three guards of Jianzhou, and the Ming army won a complete victory.
Only a few of the Jiannu slaves were killed, and they lived in peace for more than a hundred years, but the Mongols made trouble again.
In the 16th year of Chenghua's reign, Dayan Khan, who had not yet unified the Mongolian grasslands, led the Tatars into the Kou Hetao. Xianzong sent Wang Zhi to the northwest, using him as an eunuch to supervise the military affairs of the northwest provinces and deal with the Tatar invaders.
In this battle, the Ming army won a great victory, annihilating tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry and capturing countless others. Dayan Khan fled to the grassland alone, while his wife, Manduhai, whom the Mongols called a legendary heroine, was killed by the Ming army.
Kill with saber!
After this battle, Wang Zhi was appointed by Xianzong as the eunuch guarding Datong. He and Wang Yue managed the military affairs of the border town. They attacked the Tatars many times and won great victories. The Tatars never dared to invade the border again!
Because Wang Zhi was supervising the West Factory and supervising many affairs such as Liaodong and border towns, he offended many civil servants and generals. They jointly launched an attack and seized the pigtail. All officials petitioned Xianzong to kill Wang Zhi.
Although Xianzong wanted to protect Wang Zhi, Huaien, the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial function, hated him. Xianzong had not seen Wang Zhi for a long time. Although Xianzong still trusted Wang Zhi, he could not help but feel resentful, so he sent Wang Zhi to Nanjing.
Retirement, but at this time Wang Zhi was only in his early twenties!
After Wang Zhi left, Xianzong no longer had such a handy sharp knife. He wanted to bring Wang Zhi back to the palace, but the courtiers and ministers opposed it, so Xianzong had to give up.
And Xichang no longer had the glory of Wang Zhi in the past. He was jointly suppressed by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and gradually disappeared from the emperor's sight.
When Concubine Wan Gui died, Emperor Xianzong was deeply saddened and passed away soon after. Wang Zhi withdrew from the stage of history.
The once-prominent Xichang was deposed by the newly succeeded Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youxian.