Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1985 Inside the Palace and Outside the Palace ([-]) Admiral Wang An of the East Factory
Li Wen went into the casino run by Wang Xijue's house. Although this matter may be just a coincidence, anyway, under the current environment, it must be investigated.Although Gao Yushi had his own intelligence system, he definitely couldn't speak directly in front of Chen Ju and Liu Ping—although they both knew it well—so he had to ask about the situation in Dongchang.

"Wang Factory Superintendent was recommended by you, brother Lingang. The current situation is delicate. I wonder if brother Lingang thinks he can be trusted by us?" Gao Wushi asked thoughtfully.

"This..." Chen Ju suddenly hesitated and remained silent for a while.

Gao Yushi gradually frowned. Liu Ping was afraid of Gao Yushi's anger when he saw it, so he hurriedly interjected: "I think the nobleman is forgetting too much. Although the Wang Factory Superintendent has a good character, he was born as the eldest son's companion after all. If the matter is entrusted to him... it is actually a bit dangerous. This is why Chen's palm print is silent, and this servant thinks it is."

"Oh, that's it." Gao Wushi then remembered that although Wang An was recommended by Chen Ju as the admiral of the East Factory, he was indeed Zhu Changluo's big companion before the admiral of the East Factory.

There are some antecedents to this incident that need to be mentioned, the first cause has to be counted from the downfall of Zhang Cheng.After Zhang Jing was overthrown by Gao Wushi, Zhang Cheng succeeded him as the Chief Bingbi Eunuch of the Rites Supervisor and also served as the Admiral of the East Factory as usual.

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing came from the same school. They were both godsons of the great eunuch Zhang Hong, but the personal relationship between Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing was not very good. life.

Although the relationship is not very good, after Zhang Cheng came to power, he gradually turned against Gao Yushi. For example, he secretly cooperated with Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue many times, and encouraged the School of Mind to oppose Gao Yushi.

It's a pity that the Mind School had been overwhelmed by Gao Pragmatic's successive great achievements at that time. They really didn't dare to be too blatant, and only dared to make trouble behind their backs. what effect.

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, who would have expected that the Caojun riot in the south of the Yangtze River would eventually become a big problem.As a result, the elders Shen and Wang were forced to resign from their posts because they were not strict with their subordinates, so they would inevitably be responsible for the misconduct of the people below.

Up to this point, Zhang Cheng hadn't been fully exposed. Gao Wushi only knew from the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that he had secretly visited Shen Shixing several times.The real exposure of Zhang Cheng was because he was terrified by Shen and Wang's resignation, went to the doctor's office in a hurry, and went to the Wuqing Marquis to establish a relationship, and made a marriage, which was exposed.

Although Zhang Cheng himself is an eunuch, he is not the only seedling in his family, he has brothers.So in a hurry, he attached himself to Li Chengming, the son of Li Wenquan, the second generation Wuqing marquis, for his niece.

Li Chengming is the eldest son of Li Wenquan. In theory, as long as he survives his father, he will be the next generation of Wu Qingbo. .

The seniority is as follows: Li Wei, the first Marquis of Wu Qing, was the father of Zhu Yijun's biological mother, Queen Mother Li, so Li Wenquan was the uncle of the country, and Li Chengming was correspondingly Zhu Yijun's cousin.Zhu Yijun was known to be kind to his relatives, so in Zhang Cheng's view, he should be safe no matter what he did by hugging the thigh of Marquis Wuqing's mansion.

My niece married the emperor's cousin. Doesn't that mean that she is also a relative of the emperor?Don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face, even if the emperor knew that he had had a perverted thought about Mr. Gao Ge, he would definitely forgive him.

The Marquis of Wuqing Mansion is indeed extraordinary. Li Wei was posthumously presented to Duke An, and his family's Xijue was not degraded. This has been mentioned in detail in the previous article, so I won't repeat it here.

It's a pity that Zhang Cheng didn't understand one thing, that is, Zhu Yijun was not so kind to the Marquis of Wuqing because of his "holy family".It's just because his martial arts are at their peak now, so he needs some things to show filial piety as the embellishment of his holy son.

Then something went wrong.Gao Wushi followed the vine and found out that Zhang Cheng had indeed encouraged Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue to fight against him many times in the past. Now that both Shen and Wang have retreated in defeat, how can he keep Zhang Cheng in Dongchang?

Soon, Ke Dao swarmed to impeach Zhang Cheng for violating the rules and collusion. Some people even said that Zhang Cheng was the admiral of the East Factory, and he even befriended and became relatives with Xungui.
To be honest, Li Wenquan, Marquis of the Wu Qing Dynasty, was indeed the nominal governor of the Fifth Army, the Zuo Dudu. If one person can't be adjusted, why should the thing "conspire against the law"?
However, the truth of this kind of thing is often not important, what is important is that the rules should not be broken, so this incident became so big that the emperor had to severely punish Zhang Cheng to protect Li Wenquan.The final result was that Li Wenquan was only fined for three months, but Zhang Cheng got the fate of "relegated to Fengyu, and sent incense to Xiaoling Weisi", and accompanied his god-brother Zhang Jing to burn incense for Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhang Cheng left, the chief eunuch Bingbi was absent, and Chen Ju had the right to recommend as the chief eunuch of palm printing.After thinking about it, Chen Ju recommended Wang An.

Wang An was born in Xiong County, Baoding (now 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 be Zhu Changluo's companion in the 22nd year of Wanli, and he became a great success.

If evaluated from the perspective of the original history, Wang An should be regarded as a great eunuch who was relatively active in the middle and late Wanli period, Li Taichang, and the early years of Tianqi.What makes people remember him most is that Wang An helped Yang Lian and other Donglin party members rescue the prince Zhu Youxiao (Xi Zong) from the "hijacking" of Li Xuanshi in the "moving palace case", and helped him ascend the throne smoothly .

Of course, in addition to the "moving palace case", Wang An has been trying to protect the eldest son Zhu Changluo during the Wanli period, and participated in a series of government affairs decisions after Guangzong ascended the throne, and the relatively close relationship with the Donglin Party members is also highly pragmatic. of.However, what impressed Gao Yushi the most was that his subordinate Wei Zhongxian bit Wang An back and took the opportunity to gain momentum.

At this moment, Gao Wushi listened to Liu Ping's words, and didn't respond much except for a casual response. In fact, he was carefully recalling the various records of Wang An in his previous life in the history books, so as to determine what kind of person he should be. And whether he was simply "loyal to his duty" in protecting Zhu Changluo, or he actually formed "loyalty" in the process of being Zhu Changluo's companion.

This is a matter related to the arrangement of many important matters in the future, and Gao Yushi has to be cautious.Even 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 critical position. Their successors are still the opposite of themselves.

In the original history, Wang An was selected into Neishutang in the sixth year of Wanli.When the little Huangmen of the Ming Dynasty entered the palace, they would be cast under the sect of a great eunuch, and by coincidence, Wang An happened to be cast under Feng Bao's sect.

In the sixth year of Wanli, Empress Dowager Li basically stopped asking 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 is powerful at this time.

As a matter of course, after Wang An completed his studies in Neishutang, he entered the sixth subject gallery to write.After that, if all goes well, Wang An will be able to enter the clerk's office, and then join the supervisor of ceremonies. If he is lucky, he can challenge the supervisor of ceremonies for the position of eunuch in charge of printing.This is 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 collapsed.Fortunately, Wang An was not very old at that time—the children who entered the Neishutang to study were usually around ten years old.Wang An entered the Neishutang in the sixth year of Wanli. When Wanli was ten years old, he should be around fourteen or fifteen years old.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old Xiao Huangmen is naturally difficult to be regarded as Feng Bao's best friend, and it is also easy to be ignored, because it is really insignificant.In this way, Wang An escaped the political upheaval of the imperial court by relying on his young age.

Wang An was lucky, because the eunuch Zhang Hong succeeded Feng Bao in charge of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.Zhang Hong should be 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 eunuch and admiral of the East Factory.

Regarding this concurrent role, as mentioned earlier in this book, it is a very rare situation, because the chief inspector of ceremonies generally does not hold a part-time job, and the admiral of the East Factory is usually held concurrently by the eunuch Bingbi, who ranks first in the chief inspector of rites.It can also be seen from this that Chen Ju is indeed extremely trusted by Zhu Yijun.

Going back to Wang An, why did Gao Wushi think that Zhang Hong didn't embarrass Wang An?Because in the 22nd year of Wanli, Chen Ju recommended Wang An to Zhu Yijun as the companion of the eldest son Zhu Changluo.This proves from the side that from the 22th year of Wanli to the [-]nd year of Wanli, Wang An has never left the vision of these powerful officials, and his talent, learning and experience have been increasing, so he was recommended by Chen Ju.

After that, Wang An seemed to be involved in some things, but Gao Wushi really couldn't remember it at the moment.He thought about it carefully according to the timeline, and when he searched for Wang An's memory again, he jumped to one of the famous three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty: "The stiletto attack case". Some details of Wang An.

The "striking case" itself is not complicated at all. It is roughly that a buddy took a wooden stick and 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 there was obviously an uproar in the court.Then I started to check, checked and checked, anyway, I found the head of Concubine Zheng Huanggui.

At that time, the public opinion was one-sided and asked Zhu Yijun to investigate and deal with it impartially. To put it bluntly, the courtiers demanded that this time, the imperial concubine Zheng Huanggui must be taught a good lesson.

Of course Zhu Yijun was reluctant, 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 this matter and let the imperial concubine Zheng go.

Zhu Changluo must have been very annoyed by this assassination, and the anger he has received from the imperial concubine Zheng for many years will not dissipate for a while, but Zhu Changluo still followed Wang An's suggestion and ran into the palace in front of Zhu Yijun, There was a scene of "mother and child love" with Zheng Huangguifei.The play worked very well, Zhu Yijun felt that his son was very sensible, and Imperial Concubine Zheng was temporarily appeased.

At this point in the story, normal people should think that the "striking case" is over.But no, Wang An's next move has been ignored by others, and even Gao Wushi remembered it because he had to carefully consider whether Wang An is reliable or not.

Wang An helped Zhu Changluo to draft an imperial edict of the Eastern Palace. Simply put, it is the official statement of the Eastern Palace on the "striking case". —However, Wang An's wording in this edict is very elegant.

Wang An wrote it using Zhu Changluo's No.1 title, but unlike the previous use of "sons and ministers", he referred to himself as "my palace" everywhere.There are generally two kinds of official titles for the prince of Ming Dynasty: "Bengong" or "Gu".However, "Gu" is not only used by the prince, but also by the king of Zong.

In this way, he deliberately used "Bengong" as the self-proclaimed name for the prince here, which in fact demonstrated and emphasized the unshakable and authoritative status of Zhu Changluo's status as the prince of the East Palace.

The courtiers understood that Zhu Changluo was not angry, but that this matter was irrelevant compared to the position of the prince, so the courtiers also tacitly stopped making trouble; His eyesight, taking the big and letting go of the small, faintly has the demeanor of a king; Zheng Huangguifei also understands that Zhu Changluo's position as the crown prince is a fait accompli, and it is difficult to be easier, and since then there will be no more radical actions.

Wang An used an imperial edict to end the political turmoil that might be caused by the "striking case", and turned the crisis into an opportunity. In fact, he consolidated Zhu Changluo's position as the prince.

Thinking of this, Gao Yushi seemed to be activated and remembered another thing.It's just that the timeline also jumps a bit, going straight to Wanli's later years, when Fu Wang Zhu Changxun finally wanted to take over Luoyang.

At that time, in order to ensure that this precious son would not be hungry and cold in the future, Zhu Yijun and Zheng Huangguifei almost exhausted their financial resources to reward the King of Fu.

At this time, a small incident happened: I don't know if the prince Zhu Changluo was jealous, but he actually withheld ten boxes of belongings that were originally intended to be given to King Fu in the palace, and ordered them to move to his mansion without saying a word.

In fact, in this matter, Gao Yushi can understand Zhu Changluo, just three words: Why?
They are all sons, and I am still the prince. The parents gave all the bottles and jars in the house to the younger son. How will I manage the house after I become the boss?This is a psychological condition in which anger, grievance, and grief are intertwined.

Wang An also understood Zhu Changluo's thoughts, but he still persuaded Zhu Changluo.Gao Wushi didn't know how to persuade him, but Zhu Changluo finally made sense anyway.So Wang An replaced the ten boxes of belongings that were originally in gorgeous boxes with ordinary boxes, and sent them to King Fu, and also gave ten gifts 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 mansion to replace the boxes.At the same time, in order to show brotherhood, the prince also asked me to present ten exquisite gifts to King 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 remembering these two things is of little significance to Gao Wushi at the moment. After all, it can only prove that Wang An is the firefighter beside Zhu Changluo, and what Gao Wushi needs to find out is Wang An's contributions to Zhu Changluo. Out of loyalty or out of duty.

Fortunately, at this time, he remembered "a little thing".
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