The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. This nonsense is very suitable for Boss Liu.
Liu Jin, the leader of the Eight Tigers, the crown of the internal ministers, and known as the "established emperor", was unparalleled in the world in his ability to attract hatred from the Zhengde Dynasty. Compared with Mr. Liu, Zhu Shou, who was scolded by the civil servants as the "dissolute emperor",
It's almost laughable.
"The most powerful eunuch throughout the ages", before Wei Zhongxian was born, this title belonged to Liu Jin.
Not only the civil servants hate him, but even the eunuchs hate him to the core. For example, Admiral Zhang Yong. He wants to eat Old Liu's flesh and drink Old Liu's blood all the time. If Zhu Shou is willing to nod, Admiral Zhang will be the next one.
You can eat Boss Liu raw without dipping it in sauce.
However, Boss Liu has Zhu Shou protecting him, so there is nothing Zhang Yong can do. Moreover, Li Dongyang and Boss Liu have been getting closer and closer recently, and there is a tendency of collaborating with each other. This makes Zhang Yong very unhappy.
As mentioned earlier, memorials from various places were divided into red and white copies when they arrived at the central court of the Ming Dynasty. The red copy was given to Mr. Liu to read first, and then the white copy was given to the Secretary of General Affairs.
Li Dongyang half-deferred to the matter. In the end, the major events reported by Lian Liu Bu should have been reported to the cabinet, so he let Liu Jin handle it. At most, he just went through the process and obeyed. Prime Minister Li, the poisonous snake who once dominated the world, became more and more powerful.
Coming lower and lower.
What frightened the civil servants the most was that after Zhu Shou ran away from the capital to fool around, Li Viper actually changed his normal behavior. Except for pursuing Zhu Shou back to the capital, he avoided Boss Liu in everything else.
In May of the third year of Zhengde, there was a great famine in Nanjing, with countless victims. Boss Liu actually transferred 330,000 shi of grain to Fengyang. He Jian, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, who was sitting on the bench, was furious, saying that the status of the capital was far away.
Far greater than Fengyang, the central capital! And the disasters in Nanjing are even greater than those in Huaixi.
Boss Liu's right-hand men, Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, couldn't stand it anymore, so they advised Liu: Stop when it's time to stop! Otherwise, you will be making wedding clothes for others in vain, and your reputation will be ruined.
Old Liu thought about it and realized that it was the same reason. He couldn't be greedy anyway, so he gave the grain to Nanjing. However, if he lost sesame seeds in the east, he had to pick up a watermelon in the west. Old Liu took advantage of Zhu Shou's absence in the capital, so he just gave it to Nanjing.
The dead former Nanjing Youtong Zheng Qiangzhen ransacked his house and robbed his property. He also sent everyone from the Qiang family to the frontier.
In the days when Zhu Shou was away, Lao Liu became more and more domineering, while Li Viper's attitude became lower and lower, almost to the point of being reduced to dust.
Gu Zuo, the Minister of Household Affairs, did not understand this and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Lao Gu and Lao Liu had a deep hatred. After Han Wen was labeled as a reactionary group of fifty-three people, Lao Gu took over Han Wen's team. Liu Jin said: Lao Gu, we are old friends. In this way, you can help me.
Frame Han Wen and kill that kid!
Gu Zuo glanced at Lao Liu and replied with two words: I won't do it!
Old Liu was angry: You are so fucking shameless.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Gu Zuo to be implicated and fined a large sum of money. When Old Gu saw it, since he couldn't afford to offend Old Liu, he should go back to his hometown to take care of himself. Old Liu refused to let him go: I haven't had enough fun yet.
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So several times in a row, Lao Gu was punished until he lost all his money, and finally had to borrow loan sharks at usurious rates in order to complete the heavy fine of losing rice and going outside the Great Wall.
What worries Lao Gu? Isn’t it okay if I don’t become a minister? Isn’t it okay if I hide in my hometown? Is it okay if I shrink my head?
Old Liu glanced at Gu Zuo and replied with two words: No!
After listening to Gu Zuo's question, Li Dongyang pointed to the sky and then to the ground, smiling and saying nothing.
If it were Zhu Shou, he would definitely ask Li Viper: Prime Minister, are you following Buddhism?
However, Gu Zuo is not a guy like Zhu Shou who just studied in political junior high school. Although he can't compete with a master's and doctoral student like Lao Liu, he is also a top student who graduated from two majors in political science. He immediately understood what Li Viper meant. etc.
As soon as Zhu Shou returned to the capital, Lao Gu immediately submitted his resignation and recommended Liu Ji to take over his post of minister...
This Liu Ji is not the Navy Governor Liu Ji. Governor Liu is the son of Liu Zhongfu, who rose from the post of Minister of Rites to become the Pirate King. But this Liu Ji is a general of Liu Jin's eunuch party.
The two of them have the same pronunciation but different words, but they have something very interesting in common. They were both top three Jinshi in the Wuxu Branch in the 14th year of Chenghua (1478), but Liu Ji's ranking was dozens of places higher than Liu Ji's.
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This department also includes the old dead head Zhou Nan who appeared in the previous article, Lin Jun who went to Sichuan to suppress bandits, and Wang Jianzhi, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice who is also the new minister, but the two most famous people are Yang Ting, Master Yang, and Liang Culiang
master.
Liu and Wang, together with Cao Yuan who succeeded Yan Zhongyu, the Minister of War, and Hong Zhong, who succeeded Zeng Jian, the Minister of Industry, and the day after Zhu Shou returned to the capital, the original three new ministers immediately became four.
Except for Zhang Cai, the official minister, and Bai Yue, the rites minister, the six ministers have all changed their ways.
Among the six people, Zhang Cai, Cao Yuan, and Liu Ji are all die-hard Liu Jin eunuchs. Hong Zhong has an ambiguous attitude and is hesitant. Wang Jianzhi is from Li Dongyang, and Bai Yue is the son of Bai Gui. He is a rich and handsome man in the Ming Dynasty.
The representative figure is also a die-hard ally of Li Dongyang.
In other words, Li Dongyang's approach allowed Liu Jin to take control of the entire civil power of the Ming Dynasty at once! Two cabinet ministers and six ministers, the lineup was unparalleled.
Therefore, Admiral Zhang Yongzhang’s dissatisfaction is very reasonable and reasonable. He decided to do something big!
At this time, his good friend Yang Yiqing was still building the Great Wall on three sides and could not conspire with him to get rid of Lao Liu. Therefore, Admiral Zhang's big task was to file a black case against Lao Liu.
There is a list of dozens of people who are complicit with him, such as Li Rong, Superintendent of Ceremonies, Admiral Eunuch Li Rong, Ma Yongcheng Bingbi, Governor Gu Dayong, Admiral Wei Bin, Duke Qiu Juchang, Admiral Gao Feng, Chairman Luo Xiang, etc.
Wait, all of them are so prestigious that they can basically form a "League of Eunuchs and Justices", and those who oppose them are Lao Liu, a Zenith star.
The method they used was very dramatic. When watching "History of the Ming Dynasty", everyone had to smile knowingly, that is, they threw the emergency memorial on the ground. The person who was fully responsible for this was the internal eunuch Huang Wei. As for who personally threw it
In front of Zhu Shou, no one dared to admit it, and there was no record in the history books. They only said: "I got an anonymous document from Dao."
This memorial, which was more than half a month later than the official history, finally came, and the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was destined to usher in another bloody storm.
You can imagine the scene at that time. An urgent memorial was thrown on Zhu Shou's way back to Beijing. Then tens of thousands of people did not step on it. Everyone passed this small memorial carefully without touching it, and then let Zhu Shou pass it.
Shou "accidentally" saw it and said: Wow, long live, there is a memorial here!
From the thousands of troops, I took this small memorial directly at Zhu Shou's feet. It describes Liu Jin's various criminal deeds in great detail. Every one of them is true, and there are lots of blood and tears. It would be impossible if not to chop off hundreds of old Liu's heads.
These blood debts cannot be repaid.
Although Zhu Shou was a political junior high school student, he was not mentally retarded. He wanted to scold his mother on the spot. He looked at the eunuchs around him and couldn't help it. He had to throw the memorial on the Long Case and prepare to return to Beijing to deal with it.
When he arrived at the capital, he saw that three ministers had been replaced, and one old minister was ready to go home. Zhu Shou's anger reached the critical point. He called Lao Liu and threw the memorial to him in front of many eunuchs.
On his face: "You old dog, you've done a great job!"
Old Liu was so frightened that his face turned pale. He shook his hands. When he picked up the book and looked at it, his expression changed like that of later generations. He suddenly smiled and said to Zhu Shou: "Your Majesty, I am so happy! Three shocking joys!"
Zhu Shou kicked down Lao Liu's skinny little body, threw the other two discounts in his face, and said angrily: "Where does happiness come from?"...
Old Liu got up, picked up a piece of paper first, and said with a smile: "Let me talk about this first. Qin Dongyi's entire army was wiped out, and he was defeated by Ouchi Yixing. He only escaped with his body and now takes refuge in Weihaiwei. This is
A joy."
At the beginning of the third year of Shotoku, Ouchi Yoshihiro went to Luo and invaded Kyoto. Miyoshi Nagaki and Hosokawa Sumimoto fled to Shikoku, while General Yoshichen fled to Rokkaku Sadeyori in Omi. Soon, Miyoshi and Rokkaku allied forces counterattacked Kyoto, but were defeated by Yoshihiro.
After a huge defeat, Chang Hui committed suicide, and Qin Dongyi happened to be among the coalition forces at this time!
Qin Xiaoxiong was very capable, but unfortunately he was very unlucky. Mihaoshi and Rokkaku had the upper hand, but they were unable to beat Yixing, a famous literary figure. It was a shame. But just two years later, the Rokkaku family alone
, they defeated Yixing and returned home. Qin Dongyi defected to the Liujia Clan. He really calculated all the traps and cost Qingqing his life!
After losing everything, Qin Xiaoxiong could no longer stand as a pastor in Jeju, North Korea, so he had to flee to Weihaiwei in the Ming Dynasty in his underwear, crying and begging Liu Ji, the naval governor, to help him find his place.
This is why Zhu Shou is so angry. He gave Qin Dongyi money and troops, but he lost them all in less than half a year. Did Lao Qin think he was Liu Bei? He really thought Zhu Shou was Tao Qian and Gongsun Zan.
Seeing that Zhu Shou was getting more and more angry, Liu Jin did not dare to sell out any more and tell an upright conspiracy.
In Lao Liu's view, the Ming Empire is like Mount Tai, while the Japanese country is just a small hill. The foolish and irreverent behavior of Yuan Shizu cannot be learned. Don't we Han people have an old saying "use barbarians to control barbarians"? Will you try it?
I’ve also taken this exam.
Therefore, we continue to provide money, ordnance, and food and fodder! If there are no officers, we will go out! If there is no leader, we will go out! If there is no base for invasion, we will go out! In a word, use the lower-level soldiers of the Japanese to disturb the waters of the Japanese country.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty made a bloody journey.
The worse you play, the more money you can earn. Money in troubled times is much easier to earn than in prosperous times!
When Zhu Shou heard Lao Liu's wonderful remarks, he couldn't help but be stunned and furious: This is not my Japan strategy! Damn it, you old dog, have you forgotten what I said before? You have turned Japan into a quagmire.
Do you want me to drown?
Old Liu smiled slightly: "No, at this moment, at that moment, this is an expedient measure. It is naturally not the same as the great plan of destroying the Japanese that lasted for a hundred years."
Seeing that Zhu Shou still didn't understand, he explained to him: Although the previous plan to destroy the Japanese was a good strategy, the Ming Dynasty's military guard was corrupt and the navy only had a few large ships. In the Ming Dynasty, which was founded on agriculture, it was impossible to maintain dominance for a long time.
Due to the state of the world, it is necessary to cultivate some of the military merits and nobles for consumption and fill them into the quagmire of the Japanese country. The biggest advantage of the Ming Dynasty is that it has a large number of people. Tens of thousands of people died, but it was only a drop in the bucket!
Liu Jin changed his wretched expression and suddenly said seriously: "Given time, I, the Ming Dynasty, will use upright teachers to eliminate these scabies diseases for Japan!"
Zhu Shou was dumbfounded: Such heartless and moral words are so righteous and awe-inspiring. Fortunately, this old boy is a Han. If he was sent to Japan in 1937, the excuse for invading China would not seem so dramatic.
Seeing that Zhu Shou had calmed down, Mr. Liu pointed to the second urgent memorial and said with a smile, "This is the second happy event!"
Of the three memorials, except one to impeach him, he called the remaining two happy events.
Hearing this, Zhu Shou was also a little curious. Everyone pushed against the wall and faced the fire-breathing eyes of the eunuchs. How did Boss Liu survive this dead situation?
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