Zhang Jing is not scary alone, and Liu Shouyou is not scary either, but Zhang Jing and Liu Shouyou together require a little attention.
Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng both became adopted sons of Zhang Hong when they were eunuchs in their early years (young eunuchs had to find a godfather when they first entered the palace). At that time, Zhang Hong himself was serving the late Emperor Longqing, so
They were sent to serve Zhu Yijun, the prince.
If it weren't for Gao Pragmatic's appearance, let alone Zhang Hong, even his two adopted sons Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng would be older than Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju in front of Zhu Yijun.
Even now, their qualifications in front of Zhu Yijun are no worse than those of Huang and Chen. It is just because they did not have highly pragmatic recommendations and failed to exert a positive influence in some previous major events that they were replaced by Huang Mengyu.
Chen Ju and the other two were pressing behind them.
After Chen Hong left, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju were the two giants in the palace. There was no doubt that they were both dependent on Gao Pragmatic. The eunuch under them was Zhang Hong. This eunuch Zhang Hong was
He was already old and had an upright personality, so he did not join Gao Jingshi's command - but fortunately, he felt that Gao Jingshi was a wise minister, and he did not hinder Gao.
Now that Zhang Hong himself went on a hunger strike and died, Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng emerged as the two most successful among his adopted sons, with Zhang Jing being the most successful.
What is Zhang Jing's job and why he is so favored? He is the eunuch of the inner government.
The inner government treasury is responsible for the 24 yamen, mountains and other places in the imperial city. The officials eat rice (four dou per person per month) and royal yellow wax, white wax, agarwood and other incense. The chief official has a palm eunuch, and under him is the prime minister.
There are more than 100 people in management, writing, writing, and supervising work. It has an oil depot, a wax depot, etc.
This is the official statement. In fact, the imperial government supplies more than just "rice and royal yellow wax, white wax, and agarwood"?
It would be better to use a more simple and crude expression: the daily use of the entire palace, the yamen of the inner government and the imperial mausoleums of the past dynasties are basically under his control.
If this position were compared to various government agencies in later generations, it would be roughly equivalent to the office director of that unit.
Who can be the office director? A close confidant of the top leader.
With this comparison, Zhang Jing's status in Zhu Yijun's mind becomes clear.
But just being Zhang Jing and being pragmatic is not a big deal. After all, his status is much more detached than Zhang Jing's, and his importance and irreplaceability to Zhu Yijun cannot be compared to Zhang Jing's. In addition, there is Huang Mengyu.
Even if the chief minister of the inner court, the Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies, Chen Ju, the admiral of the East Factory, and Zhang Jing, the "office director", could not pose any direct threat to Gao pragmatism.
However, if Liu Shouyou is added, the situation will be completely different.
Liu Shouyou is the current Commander-in-Chief of the Jinyiwei. He is a special being who is both an internal minister and a foreign minister. More importantly, the Jinyiwei controls the Tiqi and has the power to supervise and even monitor all officials.
With the development of Jinyiwei, the function of monitoring officials has been greatly weakened. However, it depends on the character and will of the governor. For example, when Zhu Xixiao was the governor of Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei obviously held high the banner of peace towards the civil servants.
Angel, especially after the Duke Chengguo and Gao Pragmatic reached a comprehensive partnership, Jin Yiwei simply became a knife in Gao Pragmatic's hand from the side.
It is a pity that brothers Zhu Xizhong and Zhu Xixiao died a little early, in their sixties. Although Zhu Yingzhen inherited the Dukedom of Chengguo more easily than in history, he failed to get the Commander-in-Chief of Jinyiwei. As a result, in a few years
Later Liu Shouyou sneaked out and became the new governor.
Liu Shouyou's situation has been mentioned in the previous article, so I won't go into details here. To put it simply, he was one of the group of people who came from a family of civil servants and joined the Imperial Guard after the civil servants and Yin officials and military positions became popular. His father and ancestors were among the civil servants.
They are all from the same lineage of Xinxue, so his attitude towards the Gao family is very bad.
It's not bad. In fact, Liu Shouyou didn't dare to think about overthrowing Gao Jingjing at first. He just said some bad things about Gao Jingjing in the spirit of "being as bad as he can" when he could, such as Gao Jingjing.
When Pragmatic was in Annan, Liu Shouyou did this (mentioned above).
It's a pity that Liu Shouyou's actions have never achieved any results - Gao Pragmatic is always cautious in doing things, and occasionally he will explain his excessive actions in front of Zhu Yijun. In addition, everything he does has good "curative effects" in the end, so
Zhu Yijun always felt that Liu Shouyou's secret investigation of Gao Pragmatic was a bit ridiculous. If the ancestral system hadn't been there, he would have ordered Liu Shouyou not to waste so much time.
Since Gao Pragmatic adjusted the internal structure of Jinghua and created a Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jinghua itself also has an intelligence agency, so he was not unaware of Liu Shouyou's little actions. The reason why he did not take countermeasures was because at that time
It seems unnecessary.
Sometimes, it is not a bad thing for a person to say something unfavorable to himself in front of the emperor from time to time, because it can prove that he has no power to cover the sky - of course, the premise is that these bad words are not a big problem, and there must be no real problem found.
Come.
It is precisely for this reason that Gao Pragmatic hesitates to move Liu Shouyou: let him say something bad. Anyway, firstly, it is not a big problem, and secondly, there is no solid evidence. The emperor always gets such unsubstantiated gossip.
, after listening to it for a long time, you will become immune.
In the end, maybe Zhu Yijun will still feel: Even if these are true, they are just some trivial matters. Being pragmatic is not a fairy. He knows everything about Jinghua? Is it weird for the people below to make small mistakes? My hand
There are so many ministers here, how many of them make mistakes every year, is it all my responsibility?
However, Gao Jingshi was willing to deliberately keep Liu Shouyou, but Liu Shouyou seemed unwilling to let go of Gao Jingshi, and actually got involved with Zhang Jing, the eunuch who was about to rise.
Internal and external alliances are a threat and cannot be taken lightly.
After all, Gao Pragmatic himself is the beneficiary of internal and external alliances. How could he not know the power of internal and external alliances?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Aside from how many times they met a month, did you find out anything else?" Gao pragmatically asked.
Huang Mengyu's eyes narrowed and he said: "There is one more thing. I don't know if it has something to do with the cooperation between the two of them."
"What's the matter?"
"After the second meeting between the two of them, Liu Shouyou visited Mr. Yu Ge the next day - in the name of visiting a patient."
Gao Pingshi's heart moved, he pondered for a moment, and asked: "Is Yu Ge always really sick?"
"The illness must be real." Huang Mengyu said with certainty: "Old Chen has checked it out a long time ago. Mr. Yu Ge has been having problems with his bones since last year. He has to take leave from work every now and then. He is really lying in bed at home to recuperate."
"confirmed?"
"I'm sure, I'm very sure, Dongchang has placed two dark cunning figures in the Yu University Scholar's Mansion." Huang Mengyu said with certainty.
Gao pragmatic nodded, thought for a while, and then said helplessly: "Are these two people directly managed by Dongchang, or are they seconded from Jinyiwei?"
"One is a fan of Dongchang, and the other maid is an outsider who gets paid to do things...but her family owes loan sharks and is controlled by us."
Huang Mengyu himself has been the admiral of Dongchang for several years, so he can certainly speak smoothly about things in Dongchang.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while and said: "Let's see, Lao Huang, you and Lao Chen make arrangements to hand over these two people to Wang Zhizhen and Gao Wuben respectively, and also second two people Wang and Gao in the name of Dongchang."
Wang Zhizhen and Gao Wuben, one is Gao Jingshi's cousin and the other is his serious cousin, they are obviously Gao Jingshi's right-hand men in Jinyiwei.
Huang Mengyu knew that Gao Pragmatic was going to personally intervene in the matter, but he did not blame Gao Pragmatic for being meddlesome, but was very happy, because once Gao Pragmatic intervened, it would be equivalent to the direct intervention of the Practical School, no matter what the final development of this matter was.
Whatever it looks like, the entire school of realism has the whole story.
Besides, high pragmatic intervention also means one thing: there will definitely be no shortage of funds, various rewards can be increased a lot, and the people below are definitely very motivated.
"Okay, don't worry, Young Sima. I will talk to Lao Chen when I return to the palace later." Huang Mengyu nodded immediately, and then asked: "However, if it is really Mr. Yu Ge who is behind Liu Shou, this matter..."
Gao pragmatic thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Perhaps Liu Shou will get the support of Mr. Yu Ge, but the support will not be too strong. As for Zhang Jing... Mr. Yu Ge will not talk to him.
What does it have to do with it?"
Huang Mengyu rolled his eyes and asked thoughtfully: "How can Young Sima be sure that Mr. Yu Ge's support for Liu Shouyou will not be too strong?"
"Is Mr. Yu Ge willing to make friends with military ministers on weekdays? If Liu Shouyou hadn't come from a civil servant family, I'm afraid Mr. Yu Ge wouldn't even bother to see him." Gao pragmatically said: "But since Mr. Yu Ge is not very strong anymore, maybe
We are worried that once we are no longer in the cabinet, the heavy responsibility of the Xinxue School will fall entirely on the shoulders of Mr. Shen alone, so we are happy that Liu Shou will cause us some trouble.
However, after all, Mr. Yu Ge is also a well-respected veteran in the country, and his reputation is still important. It may be okay for him to meet Liu Shouyou, who is a civil servant, but he will definitely not be able to meet Zhang Jing.
Willing to defile oneself."
Huang Mengyu thought for a while and said with some confusion: "Although Mr. Yu Ge is not as prudent as Mr. Shen Ge, he is not a reckless person. Isn't he afraid of Yuan Fu's anger? Will it eventually lead to a big war?"
Gao Pingshi chuckled, shook his head and said: "Old Yu Ge knew in his heart that Yuan Fu would not break up with Liu Shou just because of something like this, especially since he picked a good time."
Huang Mengyu suddenly said: "Shao Sima means that during the war in Yunnan, Yuan Fu will not care about this?"
"To be precise, during this period, Yuan Fu must suppress the internal disputes - no matter what kind they are." Gao Pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly: "Now that the emperor attaches great importance to foreign wars, the first thing Yuan Fu needs to do is to fight
Win the war. Only if you win can things in the court be easier to handle."
Huang Mengyu looked a little ugly and said: "In other words, Mr. Yu Ge feels that at this time, even if he goes too far, Yuan Fu can only let him go? Isn't this... isn't this..."
Gao pragmatic smiled: "Isn't this taking state affairs seriously? Lao Huang, after all, you started working as a guard eunuch in Datong. You don't understand the thoughts of these people in the court... They themselves don't think that doing this is not taking state affairs seriously.
Matter."
"Oh, isn't that right?" Huang Mengyu laughed angrily: "When I, Old Huang, was in Datong, if someone in the court delayed the border battle, I would scold him no matter who caused trouble."
Gao pragmatic sighed: "Many people don't see it that way... They think that first of all, they have to replace the 'right person' before other things can be handled easily, and in order to replace the 'right person', they won't suffer a temporary loss."
Take it easy—it doesn’t matter if you suffer a few defeats.”
Huang Mengyu's face turned livid, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't expect that Yu Ge, who came from a dignified background, would actually be such a person."
Gao pragmatic is not as angry as him. There are many such people and such things in history. Mr. Yu Ge is not the first, and he will definitely not be the last. Instead of worrying about why he did this, it is better to
Think about how to respond.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while and said: "Although I judge that Liu Shouyou's support from Mr. Yu Ge will be very limited, but Liu Shouyou himself may not think so, especially once Zhang Jing really takes over as the censor, I will
I doubt his actions will be bolder than he is now."
Huang Mengyu frowned and said, "What will he do?"
Gao pragmatic asked: "What has he done now?"
"Liu Shouyou..." Huang Mengyu thought thoughtfully: "Based on what Lao Chen and I know so far, he is mainly working with Cha Jinghua. At the earliest time, he should have been buying Zha Jinghua during his rise during the Longqing period.
The procedures for downloading mines and sites, prices, etc.;
Later, he went to check some arrangements of Jinghua in Annan, and Lao Chen even suspected that he had secretly reported some situations. However, there was nothing special about the emperor, so Lao Chen could no longer inquire;
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Recently, Liu Shouyou seemed to think that checking Annan was useless, and began to turn his attention back to the capital. If Lao Chen and I are correct in analyzing some clues
If so, he seems to be investigating the interactions between Young Master Sima and the nobles, especially matters related to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance."
Gao Pragmatic did not comment, but asked: "Didn't he check anything related to you two?"
Huang Mengyu was slightly startled, frowned and said: "It seems that this hasn't happened yet..."
"That's not right." Gao Pingshi shook his head and said: "Since Zhang Jing has got involved, Liu Shouyou will definitely find a way to check you and Lao Chen. Otherwise, if Liu Shouyou is just to deal with me, why should Zhang Jing
Want to cooperate with him? What benefits does this have for Zhang Jing? For Zhang Jing, I am pragmatic and it doesn’t matter where I am, because I can never compete with him for position. If he wants to get a higher position, the real obstacle is his old age.
Chen and you."
Huang Mengyu nodded: "Young Sima's words make sense..." He was slightly stunned as he said that.
Gao pragmatic noticed his abnormality and asked: "What's wrong?"
Huang Mengyu thought deeply and said: "There is one thing. I wonder if it may be related to what Shao Sima just mentioned..."
"What's the matter?"
Huang Mengyu's eyes narrowed: "Liu Shou also visited the Wuqinghou Mansion during this period, and if I remember correctly, on the day he went to the Wuqinghou Mansion, Li Wenjin happened to be off duty and also went to the Wuqinghou Mansion.
Promote relatives."
The Wuqing Marquis Mansion is Empress Dowager Li's natal family. It was originally the Wuqing Bo Mansion. The marquis was given by Zhu Yijun in the 10th year of Wanli after Empress Dowager Li returned to power and took the power himself.
Gao pragmatic narrowed his eyes slightly, put down the Yu porcelain cup in his hand, and said in a distant tone, "If you think about it, I haven't been active for a while."
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