At this moment, Li Dongyang stood in front of Liu Jin and said with a smile: "Why don't you release him to show justice?"
The topic they were talking about was the more than 300 Beijing officials below the fifth rank who were imprisoned in the Jinyiwei Prison. Liu Jin refused to let them go and imprisoned them for a whole night. They were so hungry that they had to beg for food from the prison guards.
The prison guards looked at it and said, hey, these officials are usually high and mighty, but now they are so downcast. If we don't take advantage of them, how long will it take? So they started selling food at a high price. They usually sold meat and wine for a penny in prison.
A whole tael of silver! It was called "Vend rice" by the people at that time, and those who vend were sold, so it was like a market place and everyone was happy.
When Liu Jin saw Li Dongyang using the reputation of righteousness to seduce him, he couldn't help but spat: "Master Li, what is righteousness? What is benefit?"
Boss Liu's meaning is very clear: Lao Li, don't be a prank. If you want me to release him, you can. They are just shrimps anyway, but you have to show some sincerity.
Seeing that he couldn't deceive Boss Liu, Li Viper had to smile bitterly and said: "What do you want to do?"
He wanted to save these people, but he was just trying to show his goodwill to the various factions in the capital, and by the way, he was showing weakness to Lao Liu. As the saying goes, killing two birds with one stone, he not only won over the bosses of other small factions, but also made Lao Liu feel like "I have the world under my control."
"The illusion.
It has to be said that Li Viper's strategy worked very well.
Old Liu's heart of power, which had long been inflated and unable to extricate himself, confused his judgment. Looking at the sad Prime Minister Li, he smiled and said: "First, idle Li Rong and demote Huang Wei to Nanjing; second,
Two, hand over the Korean language."
Li Rong is the oldest boss in the palace and has countless disciples. Liu Jin doesn't dare to touch him, so leaving him idle is the best way. Huang Wei is just a middle-level eunuch. Old Liu originally planned to kill this kid, but it's a pity that he passed.
Unable to save the remaining tigers, we had to settle for the next best thing and drive him far away from Nanjing, out of sight.
As for Han Wen, he is the leader of the fifty-three reactionary group mentioned above and the igniter of the bloody storm in the first year of Zhengde. He has been rushed to his hometown for retirement. However, Lao Liu's anger has not subsided. Knowing that Han Wen was covered by Li Dongyang, he wanted to
While Li Dongyang was digging a trap to harm himself, he also conveniently cheated Li Dongyang.
These three people are not small roles. Without Li Dongyang's support, Liu Jin would not be able to handle them.
Li Viper didn't think about it at all. Since he had already spent so much money and there were not many Han Wen and others, it was Li Dongyang's biggest wish to push Liu Jin to the highest peak in life and then let him fall freely.
He smiled bitterly, nodded decisively, and sold his former ally to Liu Jin.
Liu Jin summoned Shi Wenyi, the commander of Jinyi Guards, and ordered him to release the people immediately, completed the political deal with Li Dongyang, and then began to count his gains.
A few days later, Han Wen was arrested by Jin Yiwei and taken to the capital. The charge was that during his management, the Guangdong Department of the Ministry of Revenue lost its books, so he was imprisoned in the imperial edict, beaten and interrogated, and was intended to kill him.
At the same time, Zhu Shou was also persuaded by Liu and Li, and ordered Li Rong to hand over his power and retreat to Xi'an Gate in the west of the imperial city to live leisurely. However, the post of Chief of Ceremonies and Admiral of Eunuchs was still held by Li Rong.
The remaining real power was not handed over to Liu Jin's line of eunuchs, but was temporarily replaced by Ma Yongcheng.
Old Liu spat out a mouthful of old blood: Ma Yongcheng, you are just adding insult to injury.
Ma Yongcheng smiled proudly: Lao Liu, in this palace, do you think you can cover the sky with one hand? Playing a one-man show by yourself? We are all watching beside you.
The instigator of the anonymous turmoil was not revealed. Instead, Huang Wei was driven to Nanjing. Before leaving, Zhu Shou gave him a new task: to be the eunuch guarding eastern Zhejiang and stationed in Ningbo.
It has been more than a year since the twenty-kou trade began. The results of Donghai Company’s second auction meeting were not good. The reduction in trade volume made it difficult for first-level agents and diamonds of various colors to raise their prices. Daming Maritime Merchants merged with thieves and merchants
Their interest was limited. Although Donghai Company would not become a joke, the actual results really made Zhu Shou a little depressed...
Luo Xiang is stationed in Fuzhou and can control Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. Liu Ji is stationed in Weihai and can also control Liaodong, Shandong and other places. However, due to limited transportation conditions in Zhejiang and South Zhili, a capable eunuch must be sent to guard them.
The eight tigers all have their own posts, and the three little tigers cannot escape. Among the eunuchs around Zhu Shou, only Huang Wei, who shined in the anonymous storm, can take on this important task.
After hearing the news, Lao Liu spat out a mouthful of blood again: I dug a hole in vain again.
Huang Wei also smiled proudly: Old Liu, the one who laughs at the end is the winner in life.
Zhu Shou, who entered the political junior high school, began to slowly show his political talents. Although there were many things that were not satisfactory, it was still the beginning of his journey.
Zhejiang originally had garrison eunuchs who were stationed in Hangzhou and were mainly responsible for managing and supervising the entire province. The main function of the garrison eunuch in eastern Zhejiang set up by Zhu Shou was to manage coastal port trade. As a senior sailing fan, he has not forgotten that
A small island called Shuangyu.
What are twenty ports? I want to build a Ming Dynasty shipping center and make it the most famous port in the world! And this place is Ningbo. Zhu Shou's sailing ambitions began to slowly reveal its ferocious features.
Why choose Ningbo?
Because there is no port more suitable for the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde period than Ningbo. Although Quanzhou and other places are also famous ports, they are far away from the Yangtze River, the center of wealth in the Ming Dynasty. They are separated by mountains and rivers and have inconvenient transportation.
Ningbo is close to the south of the Yangtze River, facing the sea, with flowers blooming in spring, and its strategic position is very important. In terms of shipping alone, it even surpasses Taicang, Weihai and Quanzhou.
Standing in Ningbo, looking around, Jiangnan, the South China Sea, Japan, and North Korea are all right under your nose. There are countless good harbors along the coast, and the island chain in eastern Zhejiang stretches from Changguowei in the south to Yangshan Mountain and Chenqian Mountain in the north.
It is a natural protective barrier.
Whether it is from a commercial basis or a military strategy, Ningbo is a unique maritime center.
Seeing Huang Wei embark on a job with a lot of money, Old Liu spewed blood and began to take revenge on the civil servants he disliked.
All the faction bosses who had offended Liu Jin, such as Wang Zuo, Zhang Jin, Yang Shousui, He Jian, Du Yushi Xiong Xiu, Sun Need, Ge Xuan, etc., were all indispensable. They were all imprisoned by Liu Jin. As for the charges.
, again, there is almost no official in the Ming Dynasty who cannot detect problems.
Boss Liu's perverse behavior made all the gentry in the world angry: Is the eunuch group trying to get involved?
Li Dongyang saw that Lao Liu had gone too far, so he had to stand up and said to Lao Liu: "There are a lot of discussions in the world. For the sake of clearing the public's reputation, it is better to be loose than tight, and it is not suitable to hurt innocent people."
Li Viper's meaning was obvious: Lao Liu, just have fun, the emperor is still watching, and besides, among the conditions we agreed upon, there is no charter to kill these guys.
Originally, Zhu Shou didn't want to meddle in these nosy matters, so Old Liu slapped the civil servant in the face, which was actually following his will. The louder the slap, the happier Zhu Shou was.
But Empress Dowager Zhang said: Son, can you rely on eunuchs to govern the country? If not, don't offend the civil servants to death.
Therefore, Zhu Shou had no choice but to issue an imperial edict: "If all ministers make minor mistakes, they will be fined two thousand dan and go to Datong to accept them."
Although the death penalty is spared, living crime is unavoidable. Zhu Shou's mind is actually no bigger than Liu Jin. The enemy he fears most, the real ruler of the Ming Dynasty, must be eliminated quickly in Zhu Shou's subconscious mind.
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Seeing that his boss and allies had spoken out, Liu Jin had no choice but to declare the game over and spared the lives of these civil servants, but forced them to borrow loan sharks and transport food to Datong, leaving these people heavily in debt.
An Kui, Pan Xizeng, Yushi Zhang Yu, and Liu Zili were originally officials of Liu Jin's group. In this revenge operation, together with other eunuch colleagues, they were responsible for the frontline combat missions...
However, although these four people defected to the Eunuch Party, they were the inseparable channels for various civil servant factions to break into the Liu Party. When interrogating their former boss, they naturally let go of the water when it was time to do so, and raised their hands when they needed to.
Later, when the incident was revealed, Lao Liu sent these four people to prison, and An Kui and Zhang Yu were beaten to death.
Pan Xizeng had an old relationship with Li Dongyang, and they were joint undercover agents of several factions. In order to save people's hearts, Li Viper had no choice but to come to the rescue. Liu Jin still gave Lao Li a lot of face, beating Pan Xizeng and Liu Zili thirty times with a stick and telling them to go back to their hometown for retirement.
While Zhu Shou and Ning Concubine Li Feng were busy making babies in the palace, Old Liu was having more and more fun in the court, preparing to develop into an actor.
In August of the third year of Zhengde's reign, he actually issued a very absurd order: "Evict all guest servants from the capital, order all widows to be married off, and those who are not buried will be burned."
Servants, mature widows, and those who have no money to bury them. These are the people at the bottom of society. They are either trapped by economic conditions or suffering from the patriarchal system. Their lives are already very miserable. Old Liu doesn't know how to overact.
Well, a good thing turned out to be a bad thing.
In short, he wanted to change the way these people behaved in the world, and sent out factory guards everywhere. Anyone who didn't comply would be thrown into jail.
All over the capital, public dissatisfaction suddenly boiled.
The slaves and servants said: I rely on hard work to earn a living. Is it wrong? You insist that we stay in the capital temporarily so that we can continue to work. Isn't this a clear trap? Are the people in the capital a human being and the outsiders not a human being?
The widows also said: Lao Liu, you don’t know what’s going on with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism? If you ask us to remarry, don’t you mean to force us to hang ourselves? If we don’t die, they will be dragged into a pig-bathing cage, and they will also take away our wealth.
Family property! If it were not controlled by morality and etiquette, do you think we don’t want to find our own happy life? You damn eunuch!
As for those who died without a burial place, they could not speak because they were already dead and could only be burned to ashes.
Xu Tianxi couldn't stand it, so he reported to Zhu Shou: "The world is in chaos!"
After Zhu Shou learned the facts, he first issued an imperial edict and scolded Xu Tianci: Guan Qing is a bird!
If Xu Tianci was talking about other political matters, Zhu Shou might have reprimanded Liu Jin, but Liu Jin's current actions are obviously continuing to act, portraying himself as a classic image of a "powerful traitor through the ages."
Since Boss Liu acted in "The Ming Empire" without getting paid, and his acting skills are so superb, and the image of the traitorous minister is so lifelike, why does Zhu Shou still care about him?
Although Xu Tianci was in trouble, he was very timid. When Zhu Shou scolded him, he panicked and hanged himself!
When Zhu Shou saw that he had forced people to death, he also realized that he had overestimated the mental endurance of some civil servants, so he said to Boss Liu: Okay, stop playing around and hang up the expert factory sign.
The shortest existing factory in the history of the Ming Dynasty, the inner service factory, also known as the expert factory, finally opened for business in August of the third year of Zhengde after more than two years of planning.
This spy agency, known as "De Zhuan's punishment and killing, good at doing power and fortune", has not played a big role in the official history. It is a tool used by Boss Liu to deceive and abduct. But in the hands of Zhu Shou, it has
It played an unexpected role and also changed its political trajectory.
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