Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 39 The Top of the Forbidden City (1)

Xiyuan, inner teaching ground.

"hurry up!"

"Follow!"

Several eunuchs scolded them from time to time, and the crowd running around the school grounds dispersed. The dozen or so young men left behind were chasing after them in a rather embarrassed manner, breathing heavily and dripping with sweat.

"The emperor said, as the honorable children of Daming, you must think about being loyal to Daming, instead of eating and waiting to die, and not steaming steamed buns to fight for your reputation. Are you willing to be called playboys by the world all the time?"

"The emperor said, from the moment you are elected into the Xunwei, don't imagine the good old days. When you come to Xunwei and enter the palace, all you have to do is obey and endure hardship!"

"Your Majesty said that there are no distinctions between concubines and concubines, and there is no seniority ranking. If you want to be reused and become a good son of the Ming Dynasty, you must show your true ability!"

"Your Majesty said..."

In an area of ​​the inner teaching field, dozens of young eunuchs stood, and every once in a while, they would shout loudly.

Repeatedly.

Never delay.

In such an environment, everyone's spirit is highly tense, and no one knows whether Jinshang will come here on a whim.

"Drilling in the inner teaching field these days, are there any dissatisfied discipline in the guards?" Zhu Youxiao stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the loose and sparse crowd, with no expression of joy or sorrow.

"To the emperor."

The eunuch standing next to him hurriedly lowered his head and bowed, "At first, there were some disobedient people who felt too tired and useless. They didn't pay attention to the exercises, but they got better after a few beatings."

A group of noble children who grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths want to change the habits they have developed in the past, which cannot be achieved in a short time.

"It takes a heavy hammer to beat the drum!"

Zhu Youxiao flicked his robe sleeves, turned around and walked towards the Jiale Hall, "As the noble children of Daming, I allow them to have trash snacks among them, but I never allow any bad ones, Ji Yong, let me keep an eye on the honor guards for training!" , and the errand is done, I will go to the Yuma Supervisor to serve."

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Ji Yong couldn't hide his excitement, he hurriedly saluted.

You can enter the Supervisor of Rituals or the Supervisor of Horses, and the eunuchs or eunuchs in the inner court are all things that you miss day and night.

The situation in the inner court has long since changed.

The group of eunuchs who were once in power died, let alone, and a group of people wandering on the fringes came to power. This series of changes had already made the inner court more and more in awe of the new monarch...

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about what Ji Yong thought. On the way to Jiale Hall, Zhu Youxiao thought about Xun Wei, a team that only the children of Xun nobles can enter.

Zhu Youxiao values ​​Xunwei more.

Even if the success rate of the honorary guards is very low, if you can really train some of them, the rate of return is very high. Most of the nobles who inherit the title, Zhu Youxiao, most of them don't look at them. The only thing worth thinking about is that they hide The wealth of Wan Guan's family is tucked away, which is not a small treasure.

Just for this group of nobles in Beijing, the net worth of each family would probably be equal to the sum of the national treasury and internal funds, or even several times higher.

If this treasure can be harvested, Zhu Youxiao will be able to promote many things, and then form a qualitative change, a tilted vector change, and push Daming to change, to change.

Zhu Youxiao is fishing for big fish with a long line.

Short-term goal returns, let the honored guards act as protons, select plastic talents, make the nobles in the capital have concerns, seek power for the reform of the Beijing camp, and let the civil servants make random guesses...

After that, there are medium-term and long-term target returns. Under the complicated general trend, don't expect absolute black and white.

From the moment power is born, how can there be absolute words in this world?

Has there ever been absolute fairness?

It is nothing more than a tool of political domination for the ignorant people.

"Slaves pay homage to the emperor!"

With a voice of fear and panic, echoing in the Jiale Hall, Zhu Youxiao glanced at the group of kneeling eunuchs in front of him, with no expression of joy or sorrow.

Accompanied by Liu Ruoyu, Wang Tiqian, and Ji Yong, they were watching these eunuchs vigilantly, fearing any unexpected situation.

"You are being detained in the Royal Horse Prison. You probably don't know that the people of the Wei Dynasty who only followed the eunuch's orders have been killed by my staff, right?"

Zhu Youxiao lifted up his robe sleeves, sat on a brocade stool brought by a eunuch, and looked around at the group of eunuchs in front of him, "As for you, what should I do with you?"

Zhu Youxiao's voice was not loud, but it was like thunder, exploding in the ears of these eunuchs who looked frightened and whose heartbeats were racing.

"My lord, please spare me! This servant has never had any evil intentions!"

"The servant is the servant of the Tian family, the servant is loyal!"

"My lord! Slaves..."

Noises resounded in the palace. The eunuchs kept kowtowing, and even some eunuchs' foreheads bled from the knocks. Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly.

"To shut up!"

Seeing the emperor's displeasure, Liu Ruoyu immediately stepped forward and shouted sternly: "Whoever dares to make noise in front of the emperor again or mess up his moral integrity will be killed with a cane!"

Everyone shut up and knelt down like chaff.

"Cao Huachun."

"The servant is here!"

Among the group of trembling eunuchs, I saw a person walking on his knees and walking towards Zhu Youxiao's seat. Seeing this, Wang Tiqian and Ji Yong subconsciously took a few steps forward.

"Slave Cao Huachun, bow down to the emperor!"

Looking at Cao Huachun in front of him, Zhu Youxiao squinted his eyes slightly. The group of eunuchs in front of him were all people who had more or less subtle relationships with Wang An or his henchmen when they first entered the palace, and their foundations were relatively clean.

Just like Cao Huachun, who came from a poor family and entered the palace when he was about twelve or thirteen years old. He was lucky enough to be educated in the inner study hall. He was excellent in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and was appreciated by Wang An, the eunuch who was responsible for the ceremony.

I thought I would be promoted in the future, but unfortunately things are unpredictable. Wang An was killed by Zhu Youxiao, and he was arrested because of this relationship.

It is very common not only in the outer court, but also in the inner court.

Competition in the inner court was fierce and often linked to death.

Zhu Youxiao knew this very well. Things like recognizing godfather and grandson, no matter how hard they suppressed them, they would never disappear. Human nature is like this.

Instead of suppressing these things one by one, it is better to improve the inner court system, clarify various systems, build a new pattern of mutual checks and balances and mutual supervision among multiple teams, and update and iterate after a certain number of years.

"Cao Huachun, if I want you to lead a team to run an errand, do you think you can make me feel at ease?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Cao Huachun indifferently.

"The servant girl is the emperor's servant, as long as it is the emperor's will, even if the servant girl dies, she will definitely be able to handle the errand well!"

Cao Huachun immediately kowtowed and expressed his stance, "If I mess up the errand assigned by the emperor, I am willing to commit suicide to apologize!"

Zhu Youxiao smiled, waved his hands and said, "Take them all down first, and leave Cao Huachun behind."

"The slaves obey the order."

Liu Ruoyu and the others took orders immediately, and then directed the accompanying eunuchs to take all those kneeling eunuchs out of the hall.

(End of this chapter)