"Ali, a big shot in Liaodong Town, will be very kind to me when he sees me. Who is he? Is he the legion commander in charge of the Liaodong Army of the Ming Dynasty, or the chief priest in charge of administrative finance and taxation? Huh? Could it be that he oversees military affairs and is directly responsible to the emperor?
Female snake?…”
"That's right! Blessed by the ancestors! The ancestral shaman is the great emperor's 'eunuch snake', the eunuch who guards Liaodong! The great emperor's eunuchs are all just like you, brave and brave, and they don't have beards!
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"!...The heroic eunuch snake?..."
"Yes! The heroic eunuch snake..."
Ali, the chief of Harman, nodded heavily, with a very convinced look on his face. In this era, or from Yongle to Chenghua years, the image of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty was not that of a white-faced, beardless, feminine villain. Instead, they were based on the
At the request of Zhu Di, Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, he selected "people with courage and ability to fight on horseback"
The emperor personally accompanied the emperor, and selected those who were "brave and good at fighting" as the guarding eunuchs of a place. These "eunuchs" were to "supervise a place" on behalf of the emperor, go to the local area to control military affairs and compete for taxation and financial rights. In terms of personal image, they can
The civil servants who did not have control over public opinion described it so badly.
"Witness the Lord God! Emperor Taizong started from the land of Yan, and Jingnan seized power and succeeded to the throne. He believed in the warriors of the northern tribes more than the civil servants of the Han Dynasty, and vigorously relied on the brave eunuchs of all ethnic groups. By his side, surrounded by
with a large number of various
The eunuchs selected by the tribes, especially the Jurchens and Mongolians, are the most numerous. For example, the Duoyan Sanwei, Songhuajiang Jurchen, and Heilongjiang Jurchen tribes are all proud of sending their clan members to become the eunuchs of Emperor Taizong!…
"
"Some eunuchs took fleets to the south and went to sea. Some went north to open up Mongolia and the Northeast... For example, the imperial eunuch Yi Shiha who established the Nurgandu Division and opened up the Heilongjiang Basin was a relative of Emperor Taizong.
Sui, was from the Jurchen tribe. And Taizong's horse supervisor
Eunuch Liu Shun was also from the Jurchen tribe, and he followed Taizong in his five expeditions to Mobei! Not to mention, Wang Yan, the first eunuch who guarded Liaodong, was also from the Jurchen tribe. He guarded Liaodong Town for thirty years, and it was not until the reign of Yingzong that he was
Returning to the capital at the age of seventy..."
"The eunuchs of our Jurchen tribe have always exerted an important influence on the emperor's side! In the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants have always demanded that the Northeast be abandoned, while the eunuchs have been trying to manage and maintain the Northeast. Until Xianzong succeeded
As a result, the civil servants gained power and allowed the imperial court to further abandon the Jilin Shipyard, completely shrink from the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and no longer select eunuchs from various Jurchen ministries...The Jurchen eunuchs became sourceless water and disappeared beside the great emperor..."
Speaking of this, Ali, the chief of Harman, sighed, with regret on his face. In the eyes of the Minvzhen tribe, sending his children into the palace to serve as eunuchs for the emperor was never a scandal, but a great good thing! Only
Only when there are people around the great emperor, the imperial court's policies will be slightly biased towards the northeastern ministries and the interests of each ministries will be taken into consideration.
Similarly, becoming an eunuch was the only chance for the Han-ized northern tribes, from the naturalized Duoyan Sanwei to the Chinese-ized Mature Women and True tribes, to enter the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty! Unfortunately, after Chenghua, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful, and eventually they were completely
Overwhelmed the eunuch
class, taking away the other party's right to decide national policy. And the development and management of the Northeast, which was the basis of the eunuchs, was completely turned into a bad government, completely changed and abandoned! The impact of factional political struggles on the imperial decision-making was
It must not be ignored.
Without the eunuchs as political spokesmen, the Duoyan Sanwei and the Mature Women's True Ministries also lost their voices to speak at the top of the empire, lost the power to distribute interests, and gradually separated from the empire. In the end, under the force of the cold natural disaster, the Duoyan Sanwei
Completely reversed
Mongolia became the vanguard of the Mongolian left-wing invasion of Liaodong and plundered the Han Dynasty. The various tribes of the Mongol Realm fought in chaos, and many rebelled against the empire, even triggering the Chenghua Liting. Behind these changes, there were cold natural disasters
, there are also human factors within the imperial court...
Of course, Harman chief Ali didn't know much about the fierce struggle between civil servants and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and the struggle for political voice behind it. But what he did know was that shortly after the imperial court stopped selecting eunuchs from various Jurchen tribes,
The lower reaches of Heilongjiang gave up, and the Harman Guards were slowly beaten back to their original form and reduced to
After that, the imperial court completely shrunk and completely abandoned the Jilin Shipyard and the entire Heilongjiang River. After that, each tribe became a "wild dog without an owner." From then on, the imperial court no longer controlled the Jurchens outside the border wall.
The various ministries are increasingly cruelly fighting each other to raise evil spirits, not to mention the selection of Jurchen eunuchs...
"The kindness left by our ancestors will fade away in three generations! But our Jurchen clan eunuchs have not left the emperor's side for less than three generations... The first eunuch guarding Liaodong, the Jurchen-born eunuch Wang Yanhou, succeeded him
The second guard eunuch,
It was Wei Lang, the eunuch who took office during the Chenghua period, and was promoted by the eunuch Wang Yan...and after Wei Lang, it was the third eunuch Ren Liang who took office during the Hongzhi period! The one who was in charge of Kaiyuan Guard was the guarding eunuch Ren Liang.
A close confidant, Luo Quan, the official guarding Kaiyuan..."
"Blessed by our ancestors! From the 14th year of Chenghua to the eighth year of Hongzhi, I went to Liaodong Town five times to pay tribute. The first time I went to Liaoyang City, I met with Wei Lang, the eunuch who represented the great emperor. Zu Shaman, Wei Lang
Just like you, the prisoner looks like
Brave and wise! He comforted me and told some old stories about Superintendent Wang Yan. As for the next four times, they were all in Kaiyuan Guards. It was obviously Luo Quan, the minister guarding Kaiyuan, and I bribed him many times.
Bring the iron armor out of the side wall..."
"Ancestor Shaman! With such an ancestral origin, for us Jurchen tribes in the border areas, the eunuchs around the great emperor are comparable to the commanders and envoys in Liaodong and the civil servants in the city who regard us as barbarians.
They are much easier to get close to! As long as there are enough bribes, what the eunuchs promise is far more reliable than the generals or civil servants, and they will definitely be accomplished!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Therefore, the Lord God testifies! Since you can come up with so much gold, then taking the path of an eunuch is much more reliable than taking the path of a military official or a civilian official.
!At least, the eunuchs will not use the army to suppress us as 'barbarians'! Among the big shots in power in Liaodong Town, our Jurchen tribe can only rely on the eunuchs and trust them!"
"As for their abilities, they are very great! As long as this road is open, it is easy to be a shipwright. It is just a matter of the supervisors checking the roster or burning the craftsmen's records..."
"Hmm?! For our tribe, the eunuch female snake next to the great emperor is the most reliable? Can our gold open their way? And they are very capable. As long as they collect enough gold, they will
Don't act like the civil servants, priests and border army officers who are dishonest and greedy and vicious? This does sound reasonable..."
Hearing the "doorway" pointed out by the Harman chief Ali, Zuvalo blinked and nodded slowly. The more he understood about the complex political structure of the Ming Dynasty, the less he felt he knew.
Perhaps, he has to really go to the Ming Dynasty and understand the political logic that is completely different from the Lake Kingdom and the Mexica Alliance, and then he can barely see some clues. At this moment, the "female snake eunuch",
This rare "breakthrough" given by Ali has been remembered in his heart! As a "savage" or "barbarian" in the eyes of Ming Dynasty, he really has no choice...
"God bless you! There is still more than a year to go to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the south. Let's plan and think about it slowly! In addition to the Ming Dynasty in the south, the Heguo in the southeast, and North Korea, which is out of reach...the last one in His Majesty's prophecy
The big forces are Mongolia in the west, the big tribal alliance of the Northern Yuan Dynasty..."
Zuwaro pondered for a moment, and kept in mind his plan to pay tribute to the south and open up trade with the Ming Dynasty. Then, he squinted his eyes and looked towards the upper reaches of the Heilong River, across the Wusuli River estuary, the Songhua River estuary, and finally all the way
Towards
West, that unknown blank land. And in Ali's words, this is the western upper reaches of the Heilong River, a vast mountainous area with mountains, forests and pastures, with cavalry powerful enough to pull out one or two legions of cavalry.
"Union of States"!
"Ali! You said that if you want to buy a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, you can only go to the upper reaches of the river and find this Duoyan Three Kingdoms Alliance?"
"Yes! The ancestors witnessed it! The entire Hun Tong River Basin, the vastest upstream pasture, and tens of thousands of horses, are all in the hands of this group of nomadic Duoyan Sanwei! And they also have frequent intermarriages with our Jurchen tribes, which can be regarded as half
The Mongolian half-Jurchens are our own! At least, as our Jurchen tribe, there is absolutely no problem in buying war horses, cattle and sheep from their small tribes!…”