Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (18) Wang An, Admiral of Dongchang
Li Wen entered the casino owned by Wang Xijue's family. Although this incident may be just a coincidence, in any case, under the current environment, it must be investigated. Although Gao Pragmatic has his own intelligence system, but in front of Chen Juhe
Liu Ping definitely couldn't tell him directly - although they both knew it in their hearts - so they had to ask about the situation in Dongchang.
"Brother Lingang recommended Wang Factory Supervisor. The current situation is delicate. I wonder if Brother Lingang thinks he can be trusted by us?" Gao Pragmatic asked thoughtfully.
"This..." Chen Ju suddenly hesitated and remained silent for a long time.
Gao Jingshi gradually frowned. Liu Ping was afraid that Gao Jingshi would be angry when he saw it, so he quickly interjected: "I think it's because the noble Marquis forgets things. Although Wang Factory Supervisor has a good character, after all, he is the first companion of the emperor's eldest son. At present,
If the matter is left to him...it would actually be a bit dangerous. The slave thought that was why Chen Zhangyin was silent."
"Oh, that's it." Gao Jingshi then remembered that although Wang An was recommended by Chen Ju as the admiral of Dongchang, he was indeed Zhu Changluo's best friend before admiral of Dongchang.
There are some antecedents to this incident that need to be mentioned, and the earliest cause must be calculated from the downfall of Zhang Cheng. After Zhang Jing was brought down by Gao Pragmatic, Zhang Cheng succeeded him as the Chief Eunuch Bingbi of the Supervisor of Ceremonies and concurrently served as the Admiral of the East Factory as usual.
Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing came from the same sect. They were both godsons of the great eunuch Zhang Hong. However, the personal relationship between Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing was not very good. After all, they were actually in a competitive relationship and could not escape involution.
His life.
Although the relationship was not good, Zhang Cheng gradually came into opposition to Gao Pragmatic after he came to power. For example, he secretly joined forces with Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue many times to encourage the Xin School to confront Gao Pragmatic.
It's a pity that the Xin School was overwhelmed by Gao Jingjing's great achievements one after another. It really didn't dare to be too blatant and only dared to make stumbling blocks behind its back. However, Gao Jingjing's achievements accumulated more and more, and these methods did not work in the end.
What does it do?
If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. Although Shen Shixing has always wanted to control the intensity of the party struggle, unexpectedly, the riots in the Jiangnan Cao Army eventually became a big issue. As a result, Shen and Wang, the two cabinet ministers, were lax because of their lax control.
It was inevitable that he would be responsible for the misdeeds of those below him, so he was forced to take up official positions.
At this point, Zhang Cheng was actually not completely exposed. Gao Pragmatic only knew through reports from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that he secretly visited Shen Shixing several times. Zhang Cheng's real exposure was that he was frightened and ill because of the resignation of Shen and Wang.
In his haste to seek medical treatment, he actually went to establish relations with the Marquis of Wu Qing and formed a marriage, which was only then exposed.
Although Zhang Cheng himself was an eunuch, he was not the only one in his family. He had brothers. So in a hurry, he hooked up with Li Chengming, the son of Li Wenquan, the second generation of Wu Qinghou, for his niece.
Li Chengming is Li Wenquan's eldest son. In theory, as long as he survives his father, he will be the next generation of Wu Qingbo. If he lives long enough, according to Zhu Yijun's style, he might be able to continue to be Wu Qingbo without having to be demoted to inherit the throne.
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The seniority is as follows: Li Wei, the first generation of Wu Qinghou, is the father of Zhu Yijun’s biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, so Li Wenquan is the uncle of the country, and Li Chengming is correspondingly Zhu Yijun’s cousin. Zhu Yijun is famous for being kind to his relatives, so
In Zhang Cheng's opinion, by hugging Wu Qinghoufu's thigh, he should be safe no matter what he did.
His niece is married to the emperor's cousin. Doesn't this mean that he is also a relative of the emperor? If you don't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, even if the emperor knew that he had had evil thoughts towards Mr. Gaoge, he would probably do it online.
Just open it up.
The Marquis of Wuqing is indeed extraordinary. Li Wei was posthumously presented to Duke An Guo, and his family's title was not demoted. This is all mentioned in detail in the previous article, so I won't go into details.
Unfortunately, Zhang Cheng did not understand one thing, that is, Zhu Yijun was not so kind to Wu Qinghoufu because of the "Holy Scroll". He was just because his martial arts was now at its peak, so he needed to do something to show his filial piety.
It's just an embellishment for my own holy emperor.
Then something happened. Gao Pingshi followed the clues and found out that Zhang Cheng had indeed encouraged Shen Shixing many times, and Wang Xijue was against him. Now that Shen and Wang were defeated, how could he still leave Zhang Cheng in such a critical position in Dongchang?
Soon, officials and officials rushed to impeach Zhang Cheng for violating the rules and colluding with others. Some even said that Zhang Cheng was the admiral of the East Factory, and he actually befriended and became an in-law with a nobleman. This was because the nobleman of the Wu Qing Dynasty was interfering in politics, and he was suspected of having evil intentions!
To be honest, Li Wenquan, Marquis of Wuqing, was indeed the nominal Left Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, but now the Fifth Army Governor's Office has become an empty yamen due to the restructuring of the Beijing Camp. He, the Left Governor, has not served in the Production and Construction Corps, which is equivalent to
If you can't move anyone, why should you be "intentionally evil"?
However, the truth of this kind of thing is often not important. What is important is that the rules must not be broken. So the incident became so big that the emperor had to punish Zhang Cheng severely to protect Li Wenquan. In the end, Li Wenquan was only fined three yuan.
After a month, Zhang Cheng got the fate of "being demoted to serving the emperor and sending incense to the Wei Si of Xiaoling Mausoleum" and went to burn incense for Zhu Yuanzhang with his godbrother Zhang Jing.
After Zhang Cheng left, the chief eunuch Bingbi of the Bureau of Ceremonies was vacant, and Chen Ju, as the chief eunuch of the palm seal, had the right to recommend. After thinking about it, Chen Ju recommended Wang An.
Wang An was a native of Xiong County, Baoding (today's Xiong'an New District), and he was considered a heavyweight in the late Ming Dynasty in the original history. In the original history, he was recommended by Chen Ju to become Zhu Changluo's companion in the 22nd year of Wanli, and he rose to prominence from then on.
If evaluated from the perspective of original history, Wang An should be regarded as a relatively active eunuch from the middle to late Wanli period, from Taichang period to the early years of Tianqi period. What makes people remember him most is that Wang An helped Wang An in the "Moving Palace".
Yang Lian and other Donglin Party members rescued Prince Zhu Youxiao (Xizong) from the "hijacking" of Li Xuanshi and helped him successfully ascend the throne.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, in addition to "moving the palace", Wang An has been trying to protect the eldest son Zhu Changluo during the Wanli period. After Guangzong ascended the throne, he participated in a series of government decisions and interacted with
The relatively close relationship between the Donglin Party members was also somewhat impressive to Gao Jingshi. However, what impressed Gao Jingshi the most was that his subordinate Wei Zhongxian turned back on Wang An and took the opportunity to gain momentum.
At this moment, after Gao Pingshi listened to Liu Ping's words, he didn't have much reaction except for a smooth response. In fact, he was carefully recalling the various records of Wang An in the history books in his previous life in order to determine what kind of person he should be.
And whether his protection of Zhu Changluo was simply "loyalty to his duty", or whether he actually developed "loyalty" in the process of being Zhu Changluo's first companion.
This is an issue related to the arrangement of many important things in the future. Gao Pragmatic has to be cautious. To a certain extent, Gao Pragmatic still needs to judge whether the factory supervisor needs to be replaced based on this. After all, the Admiral of the East Factory is a very good person.
In key positions, it was difficult to get rid of Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng one after another, but we couldn't let their successors still be against themselves.
In the original history, Wang An was selected into the inner study hall in the sixth year of Wanli. When the Xiaohuangmen of the Ming Dynasty entered the palace, they would join the sect of a big eunuch, and Wang An, by coincidence, happened to be under the sect of Feng Bao.
In the sixth year of Wanli, Empress Dowager Li basically stopped caring about political affairs after her son's wedding. Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng were in charge of the inner court, and the other controlled the outer court, citing each other. There is no doubt that Feng Bao was extremely powerful at this time.
Of course, after Wang An completed his studies in the Neishu Hall, he entered the Liuke Gallery to write. After that, if everything goes well, Wang An can enter the clerk's room, then the ceremonial supervisor, and if he is lucky, he can go to the ceremonial supervisor.
He challenged the eunuch's position as the eunuch. This was also the orthodox way for eunuchs to rise in the Ming Dynasty.
But in the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng passed away, Feng Bao lost power and was demoted, and Wang An's biggest backer fell. Fortunately, Wang An was not very old at the time - children who entered the inner school were generally around ten years old. Wang An Wanli
He entered the Neishu Hall in the sixth year and was about fourteen or fifteen years old in the tenth year of Wanli.
A young man from the Huang family who was fourteen or fifteen years old was naturally difficult to be regarded as Feng Bao's best friend, and could easily be ignored because he was really insignificant. In this way, Wang An escaped the political upheaval in the court by relying on his young age.
Wang An was very lucky, because the person who succeeded Feng Bao in charge of the ceremonial department was the eunuch Zhang Hong. Zhang Hong should have been very optimistic about Wang An at that time, so Wang An's career as a eunuch was not interrupted. At the same time, Zhang Hong also
Promoted Chen Ju - yes, there was no high pragmatism in the original history, so Chen Ju was promoted by Zhang Hong, and later he became the chief ceremonial officer, eunuch and governor of the East Factory.
Regarding this concurrent position, it was mentioned very early in the book that it is a very rare situation, because the chief minister of rites generally does not hold a concurrent position, and the admiral of the East Factory is usually held concurrently by the eunuch Bingbi who ranks first among the ceremonial inspectors. It can also be seen from this
, Chen Ju is indeed highly trusted by Zhu Yijun.
Going back to Wang An, why did Gao Pragmatic think that Zhang Hong did not make things difficult for Wang An? Because in the 22nd year of Wanli, Chen Ju recommended Wang An to Zhu Yijun to become the companion of the eldest son Zhu Changluo. This proves from the side that the tenth year of Wanli has ended
In the 22nd year of Wanli, Wang An has never left the sight of these powerful officials, and his talent, knowledge and experience have been increasing, so he was recommended by Chen Ju.
Later, Wang An seemed to be involved in some things, but Gao Pragmatic really couldn't remember it at the moment. He thought carefully based on the timeline, and when he searched for Wang An's memories again, he jumped to the famous three major events in the late Ming Dynasty.
One of them: "Strike", and what Gao pragmatically remembered was some of Wang An's detailed performance in this big event.
The incident of "Strike the Eucalyptus" itself is not complicated at all. Basically, a friend took a wooden stick and actually entered Ciqing Palace (the residence of Zhu Changluo, who had become the second prince at that time) to assassinate the prince. The assassin failed.
, but apparently there was an uproar in the court. Then they started to investigate, and they searched again and again, and finally they found the head of Concubine Zheng.
At that time, public opinion overwhelmingly demanded that Zhu Yijun be investigated and dealt with impartially. To put it bluntly, the court officials demanded that Concubine Zheng must be taught a lesson this time.
Of course Zhu Yijun was reluctant to part with it, so everyone turned their attention to the victim Zhu Changluo. At this time, Wang An gave Zhu Changluo an idea, meaning to help the emperor cover up the matter and let Concubine Zheng go.
Zhu Changluo must have been very angry about this assassination. His anger at Emperor Zheng's concubine over the years would not be gone for a while, but Zhu Changluo still followed Wang An's suggestion and ran into the palace in front of Zhu Yijun.
A scene of "deep love between mother and son" was staged with Concubine Zheng. The effect of the play was very good. Zhu Yijun felt that his son was very sensible, and Concubine Zheng was temporarily comforted.
At this point in the story, normal people should think that "the attack on the eucalyptus" is in the past. However, it is not the case. Wang An's next move has been ignored by others. Even Gao Pragmatic is also thinking about this Wang An's move carefully at this time.
It was only then that I thought about whether An was reliable or not.
Wang An helped Zhu Changluo draft an edict from the East Palace. In short, it was an official statement about the "banging of eucalyptus" in the East Palace. The content was basically all kinds of smoothing over, explaining how good the relationship between the prince and Concubine Zheng was, such nonsense that no dog would believe -
-However, Wang An's wording in this edict was very particular.
Wang An is written in the first person of Zhu Changluo. However, it is different from the "sons and ministers" used in the past. Instead, he refers to himself as "beigong" everywhere. The princes of the Ming Dynasty generally refer to themselves in two ways: "beigong"
Or "lone". However, "lone" is not only used by princes, but also by princes.
In this way, he specifically used "this palace" as a title for the prince here, which actually demonstrated and emphasized the unshakable and authoritative status of Zhu Changluo as the prince of the East Palace.
The courtiers understood, and it was not that Zhu Changluo was not angry, but that this matter was insignificant compared to the position of the prince, so the courtiers tacitly agreed not to make a fuss; Zhu Yijun understood, and his son finally began to have the bearing and dignity of an heir to the empire.
Her vision was magnified and her eyes were open to the small, and she had a faint resemblance to a king. Concubine Zheng Huang also understood that Zhu Changluo's position as the crown prince was a fait accompli.
Wang An used an edict to end the political turmoil that may have been caused by the "banging of eucalyptus" and turned the crisis into an opportunity, which actually consolidated Zhu Changluo's position as prince. It can be said that he was extremely resourceful and made great achievements.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic's mind seemed to be activated, and he remembered another thing. However, the timeline also jumped a bit, directly to the later years of Wanli, when King Fu Zhu Changxun finally wanted to conquer Luoyang.
At that time, Zhu Yijun and Concubine Zheng Huang spent almost all their financial resources to reward King Fu in order to ensure that their precious son would not be hungry or cold in the future. The saying at that time was called "exhausting the world's anointing".
At this time, a small thing happened: I don’t know if the prince Zhu Changluo was jealous, but he actually withheld ten boxes of property from the palace that were originally intended to be given to Prince Fu, and ordered them to be moved to his residence without saying a word.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic can understand Zhu Changluo in this matter, just three words: Why?
They are both sons, and I am still the prince. The parents gave all the bottles and jars in the house to the younger son. How can I take care of the house as the eldest? This is a psychological state of anger, grievance, and sadness mixed with various emotions.
Wang An also understood Zhu Changluo's thoughts, but he still persuaded Zhu Changluo. I don't know how he persuaded him so pragmatically, but he finally talked Zhu Changluo through. So Wang An replaced the ten boxes of belongings that were originally placed in the gorgeous boxes with
An ordinary box was sent to King Fu, and ten additional gifts were given in the name of the East Palace.
Then Wang An told the emperor that the prince felt that these boxes were too eye-catching and might cause dissatisfaction among the courtiers, so he deliberately moved them into the palace to replace the boxes. At the same time, in order to show brotherly love, the prince also asked me to present ten exquisite gifts to Prince Fu.
Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with this. Of course, Zhu Yijun was never a fool, so as soon as Wang An left, he turned around and told the people around him that this must be Wang An's idea.
However, just thinking of these two things is of little significance to Gao Wushi at this moment. After all, this can only prove that Wang An is the firefighter beside Zhu Changluo, and what Gao Wushi needs to find out now is Wang An's contribution to Zhu Changluo.
Out of loyalty or just duty.
Fortunately, at this time, he remembered "a little thing" again.
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