It is very normal for the emperor's decree to confuse everyone present.
why?
Anyone with a non-zero political IQ knows that a politician's stance is determined by the group he or she belongs to. The simplest way to see clearly a politician's group is to study his resume.
No matter ancient or modern, this method is very effective.
Let’s take a look at Luo Xiang first. He entered the East Palace in the fifth year of Hongzhi and worked as a hair-combing eunuch. His immediate boss at that time was Liu Jin. Among the Eight Tigers, only he and Gao Feng followed Liu Jin and never left.
It was beyond the control of Duke Liu.
Taking a closer look at the places where he appears, most of them are closely related to Du Gong Liu. It is not an exaggeration to describe his relationship with Du Gong Liu as "the hardest among the iron rods".
In fact, similar to him and Gao Feng, there is Gu Dayong. Do you still remember who persuaded Liu Jin and Zhang Yong to reconcile?
Yes, it is Xichang Governor Gu Dayong.
Gu Dayong has also been following Liu Jin, but since he became the Governor of Xichang, he has not paid much attention to Boss Liu. Governor Gu is different from Zhang Yong. The latter has always been at odds with Boss Liu, but the boss
After all, Gu had worked with Boss Liu before, so he still had to work hard on saving face. It was rare to see him, like Zhang Yong, always trying to throw away Boss Liu's face.
Seeing this, we should understand that two people will definitely be very unhappy if Luo Xiang is elected.
The first one was of course Liu Jin. He thought about the worst: going to Ryukyu as an envoy was not a good job. If he encountered a pirate or something on the way, the general Luo Xiang would be ruined.
Li Dongyang's plan was, to put it bluntly, a conspiracy directed against Luo Xiang.
Who asked Eunuch Luo to be in charge of various departments and bureaus such as palace etiquette in the Si Li Supervisor? He is usually very close to Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Rites and other yamen. If you want to find a leading eunuch of the envoy,
It has to be Luo Bingbi, Eunuch Luo.
Therefore, Li Dongyang didn't mention it. Once he did, Eunuch Luo's sea journey was a definite matter.
Liu Jin is not a fool. On the contrary, he not only has an IQ of 160, but is also proficient in the tricks of the lower classes. Collusion between officials and businessmen along the East China Sea has led to smuggling, and the trinity of officials, soldiers, pirates, and Japanese pirates is often the same.
As long as you are willing, it is very easy to make a small mission disappear on the vast sea. For a big crocodile in the civil service group like Li Dongyang, it is just a small hint, and the coast is rushing to take pictures of Li Shoufu
There are so many sycophant bosses that they can be ranked as far as Ryukyu.
The second one is Zhang Yong. He is thinking from the good side: if Luo Xiang's mission is successful, then Mr. Luo's ranking in the ceremonial prison may rise one or two steps. This is something that Admiral Zhang must not do.
tolerated.
You know, Admiral Zhang and Boss Liu are mortal enemies. If the rival's younger brother climbs up, wouldn't it be more difficult to deal with them?
Therefore, Zhang Yong made up his mind to oppose Eunuch Luo leading the mission. As for who to send? As long as he is not sent, the rest can go to hell.
After watching Luo Xiang, let’s look at Liu Yu.
Similarly, using the resume analysis method: Liu Yu, courtesy name Zhida, was born in Junzhou, Henan, and was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Chenghua (1472).
There is also a very famous guy in this department named Yang Yiqing. But it is not his turn to appear now, because as soon as he came out, he and Zhang Yong killed Liu Jin and Boss Liu.
Therefore, we must remember not to let gangsters and scholars collude together, otherwise the power will be too great, and even the educated gangster Liu Jin will not be able to stop the flying kitchen knives.
Liu Yu is not a good person. The father of Emperor Zhengde, the second wisest Emperor Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, once said: "Liu Yu is just a villain."
Who is the most wise man? Of course it is Zhu Chongba. Is there any doubt about this?
Liu Yu, who was looked down upon by Emperor Hongzhi, decided to join Liu Boss in the early years of Zhengde in order to make a comeback. Last month, he was promoted to Zuodu Yushi...
This guy liked to give away gold, and he would often give thousands of taels of gold to Liu Jin. And he saw that Liu Jin liked to whip the remonstrators who told the truth, so he also beat the censors at every turn.
After seeing this, you should understand that this is a die-hard confidant of the eunuch.
However, all the eunuchs looked down on this guy. Liu Jin simply treated him as a clown, so that a few years later, Boss Liu teased him while drinking: "Do you really want to be the prime minister? Get out of here!"
Liu Yu had no choice but to resign sadly and withdrew from the historical stage of Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Yu was chosen as an envoy, and the eunuchs and the civil service group were all confused. The old boy was just a stinky tofu who could not be mentioned. Even sending him to die was considered to be looking down upon him.
To be more precise, Liu Yu's mission to Ryukyu was nothing to do with him.
The emperor's choice of Luo Xiang can be interpreted in various ways, but the choice of Liu Yu is purely a manifestation of poor political IQ.
But compared with Liang Chu, who appeared last, this is not bad. Hearing the word "Liang Chu" can make the big guys present drop their eyes.
why?
It's very simple. As we said before, Liang Chu was also the emperor's master!
Liu Jin was ruthless enough to punish anyone he wanted. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were frightened by Boss Liu's iron-blooded methods. But even such a ruthless person did not dare to go too far in punishing Liang Chu.
Boss Liu has a very high political IQ. He knows who can be offended and who cannot be offended.
For example, Master Yang, Boss Liu's method of punishing him was to transfer him to Nanjing for retirement and feeding fish. But what about Master Liang?
Boss Liu just lowered his professional title by one level and asked him to revise books.
There is another relationship, that is, Master Liang and Master Yang, they are in the same subject, the Wuxu Section in the 14th year of Chenghua (1478). Master Liang's ranking is still ahead of Master Yang, and he is the first Jinshi in the second class.
In other words, the two masters Liang and Yang went to school together (the same year counts), carried guns together (taught the emperor to read), and shared the spoils together (entered the cabinet one after another and became the chief minister one after another).
These two were the confidants of Emperor Zhengde, and they had a strong relationship with each other. Their influence could affect the entire imperial power group, and even Mr. Liu did not dare to attack it to death.
Seeing this, we know that without even analyzing, a gold medal politician like Master Liang, let alone being a missionary, even leaving the capital, is also a political event, enough to shock the whole Ming Dynasty, just like Yang not long ago.
The master was demoted to Nanjing to fish.
Did the emperor take the wrong medicine today?
The big guys present all had countless question marks and exclamation points in their minds.
Emperor Zhengde did not let the big bosses think too much. Just when Mr. Liu gritted his teeth and was about to show his old face to persuade the emperor, three adults came in.
"Master Liang, I heard that you have been to Annan?" This was the first sentence of Emperor Zhengde.
The emperor spoke, and the audacious Boss Liu had no choice but to shut up and just stand aside and listen to the story.
"When the emperor was copying the Thousand-Character Essay, an old minister was sent to Annan to confer him the title of king." The fifty-four-year-old Master Liang answered honestly.
Liang Chu, courtesy name Shuhou, was born in Shunde County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Chengxuan Government Envoy, Guangdong, and studied under Chen Baisha. In the fourth year of Hongzhi's reign, he entered the Hanlin Academy to serve as a lecturer, and soon changed his position to wash horses and serve Emperor Zhengde in the East Palace.
At that time, classmate Zhu Houzhao had just been born, so Master Liang was regarded as an old minister from the Long family, with roots in the Hong Miao family.
For example, in the sentence just now, "The Emperor copied the Thousand-Character Classic." Only very young children copied the Thousand-Character Classic. This sentence tells the emperor from the side: Master, I have old arms and legs. Don't let me do difficult things.
Okay, if anyone is lying down counting money, please leave it to me.
"I heard that you didn't ask for King Annan's gold and silver jewelry?" Zhu Shou searched out such a piece of information from Zhu Houzhao's memory...
This is Liang Chu's proud work. I think Emperor Hongzhi praised him very much back then. You must know that Annan, the envoy, was in a place where there was no shit and rain was everywhere. For a scholar like Master Liang,
I'm really playing with my head in my head.
If I hadn't catered to the wise nature of the old emperor, do you think I would have been willing to do it, master? Liang Chu thought so, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. He responded with a smile and said, "Young and frivolous, nothing to mention."
"That's enough. I have an earth-shattering event that I leave to Master Liang to handle." Zhu Shou didn't have the consciousness to respect teachers and elders at all. He didn't even have a tone of discussion. He directly made an order and could not be refused.
When the big guys present heard the words "earth-shattering", they were quite disapproving.
Because they all know that according to the emperor's fun-loving nature, if he shoots an arrow and hits the red heart, in the emperor's mouth, it is earth-shattering; to see a beautiful girl is also earth-shattering; to kill a little rabbit for nothing is also called earth-shattering.
Earth-shattering.
Anyway, for Emperor Zhengde, nothing he did was not earth-shattering.
It's no wonder that the psychological state of a person who has been destined to be an emperor since childhood is definitely different from that of ordinary people.
Peasants believed that the emperor's life was to carry a golden hoe every day.
Otakus think that the emperor's life consists of three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines.
The fujoshi thinks that the emperor's life is to ride a white horse and give himself a red oiled paper umbrella.
There are a hundred ways for a hundred ordinary people to rise up and fight.
Therefore, the emperor, whose heart is unpredictable, calls it earth-shattering. Anyway, the whole Ming Dynasty is playing with him, so who calls him the emperor?
It’s really ruined. Aren’t there still ministers like us who hold our hands up to the sky?
But Zhu Shou is not Zhu Houzhao, and what he came up with can really be called earth-shattering.
Because he began to issue an order: "Liang Chu, the right minister of the Ministry of official affairs, Si Zuobu, the political envoy of Jinyi Prefecture, and Qian Shi, the governor of the rear army of the fifth army governor's office."
Yizhou is proclaiming the Administrative Department? All the big guys present were stunned. Where is this? Does our Ming Dynasty have such a place?
Zhu Shou, an otaku, looked at the dumbfounded crowd and felt happy in his heart: Of course you bumpkins have never heard of this place. I remember when I played Age of Discovery, this place was a good place to make money. It was known as the golden zone for the best triangular trade.
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Zhu Shou, who traveled from later generations, started his first real-life game in the Ming Empire.