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Chapter 370 Unexpected Harvest 3

"..." Wang Cheng'en, who was watching this scene, frowned and thought to himself: Why is this palm print becoming more and more useless as he gets more and more idle? He makes big things so grand. If he really wants to catch up with big things in the future, he will have to use his head. Break it.

"Don't look down on anyone. Zhang Zhangyin is very smart and good at doing things despite being petty. Don't be idle and go find Li Jinzhong's case files." After Zhang Ran disappeared at the gate, Hong Tao said quietly to him. Wang Chengen criticized.

Although compared with his peers, this young eunuch is already very stable and sensible, but compared with the likes of Wang An and Zhang Ran, he is still a bit immature, especially in the aspect of being invisible in emotions and anger, which needs to be strengthened.

"Li Jinzhong, formerly known as Wei Jinzhong, was born in the second year of Longqing. He was from Suning, Beizhili. His father Wei Zhimin and his mother Liu were both artists. In the thirteenth year of Wanli, Li Jinzhong married Feng and gave birth to a daughter the following year. In the same year, his father was He was killed by thieves. Two years later, his mother remarried to the Li family and his name was changed to Li Jinzhong.

He once learned martial arts from his biological father. He had some skills on horseback and was good at riding and shooting. However, he was addicted to gambling and was heavily in debt. He lost all his family property and even sold his daughter. Feng married her to Shandong due to her righteousness. The specific details have not yet been verified.

Later, in order to avoid creditors, Li Jinzhong went to Beijing from the palace and recommended himself as a servant in Sun Siam's mansion. In the 17th year of Wanli, Sun Xian recommended him to the palace as an errand. He was first used as a monitor in the inner palace, and then entered the Jia Ziku and worshiped under the Wei Dynasty. "

The ear room of the back hall of Cining Palace is lined with wooden shelves that are ten feet high, on which are placed some books in alphabetical order of the Chinese pinyin of the surnames. This place is guarded by Cuju teams all year round. No one is allowed to approach without the emperor's personal handwriting, including Wang An and Zhang Ran. Even Wang Chengen must state the time and purpose of his visit before entering.

These three wing rooms were called archives by the emperor, and they stored the files of all the people in the palace. Compared with the ceremonial supervisor and the archives, the personal files in the archives are more detailed, and each file has been investigated item by item by a dedicated person.

The investigation, compilation, and screening work have been carried out secretly since the establishment of the Gekko organization, and it has not been completed to this day. The main reason is that the personnel in the palace are too complex and come from all over the world, so the verification speed is very slow. And not only the internal officials in the Forbidden City in Beijing, but also those in the Imperial City in Nanjing.

Fortunately, Li Jinzhong's place of origin is very close to Beijing, and he was investigated in advance. Even so, there are still some issues in his social relations that have not been fully investigated. For example, his ex-wife Feng remarried somewhere in Shandong, and his daughter Wei To whom was it sold?

"Well, it's probably him..." However, the existing content is enough. Hong Tao can determine with a high probability that Li Jinzhong is the famous 9,000-year-old Ming Dynasty eunuch Wei Zhongxian in history.

"...Inform the gecko in Dongchang to keep an eye on his every move and report him every ten days!" The origin is confirmed, but how to deal with it? Hong Tao really couldn't decide.

According to the records in later historical materials, Wei Zhongxian should be considered to have committed a heinous crime, causing great harm to the country and the people, and even the demise of the Ming Dynasty was closely related to him. Judging from Hong Tao's experience, history books are very unreliable on certain issues, especially the conclusions about historical figures.

Generally speaking, later dynasties compile history for the previous dynasty, which means that the history of the Ming Dynasty was compiled by the Qing Dynasty. Each dynasty will have some official records. Later dynasties just re-edited them, and most of the contents are well documented.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, official records such as daily records have almost disappeared. The Forbidden City was burned and looted by Li Zicheng, and the remaining written records were destroyed again. Even the Yongle Ceremony can no longer be found. Even if the historians of the Qing Dynasty did not want to slander, it would be difficult to truthfully reflect the state of the Ming Dynasty.

There seems to be insufficient evidence to say that Wei Zhongxian controlled the eunuchs of the government and usurped power. The eunuch was nothing more than the emperor's secretary. He did not have any legal power, and his every move was authorized by the emperor. Since ancient times, no official in a dynasty would indulge eunuchs. Without the emperor's protection, eunuchs would be stepped on and rubbed by officials every minute. Not to mention controlling government affairs, even farting must be reported six months in advance, otherwise it would be a serious crime.

Logically speaking, Wei Zhongxian did not reach the level of being able to cover the sky with one hand. He demoted him as soon as he was demoted without even daring to let go. At best, it was just a knife used by the emperor to compete for power with the civil servant group. And he is very conscientious and a sharp knife!

History books rarely delve into the emperor's issues, and even if they do, they are vague and few sentences. Instead, they write about the evil deeds of the eunuchs, regardless of whether they did it or not, and regardless of the underlying reasons, they criticize them all anyway. That's right.

Then after thousands of years of inertial thinking, as soon as eunuchs are mentioned, an idea will immediately appear in people's minds. Eunuchs in power are equal to chaos in government and they are bad guys.

This situation was intentional for the literati and officials of the past dynasties. On the one hand, it could downplay the emperor's mistakes. After all, he was a representative of the literati, and speaking too nonsense would affect the reputation of the scholar group.

On the other hand, it also suppressed the eunuch group in public opinion, thereby restricting the emperor and preventing the sword from being easily unsheathed. To put it bluntly, it is still a struggle for power, but the weapons of public opinion are in the hands of literati. Whoever has the loudest voice has the right.

So should people like Wei Zhongxian be reused, and can they be reused? From the emperor's point of view, Hong Tao felt that it was too appropriate and necessary. If you want to change the existing system and defeat the civilian clique, you must have sharp knives in your hands. The more, the better.

"I will send someone out of the palace immediately to Shandong, and hurry up and find out the whereabouts of the Shen family and the Wei family!" Wang Chengen did not find it strange that the emperor's order had no beginning or end.

He had no idea who Li Jinzhong was before. Suddenly, with the position and rank of Zuo Shaojian, the Royal Horse Supervisor and Stable Supervisor, he suddenly jumped to the position of second-in-command of the East Factory because he didn't know anything.

As long as they were able to get close to the emperor's internal officials, they had to undergo secret investigation by the Gecko Organization. This was a common practice. Although the emperor was unusually lenient towards his internal officials, he would basically not be punished if he made small mistakes in his daily duties, such as accidentally breaking something.

But the emperor was not without vigilance. On the contrary, there were many. In particular, the people who are to be re-employed are investigated very carefully. After promotion, they have to be monitored secretly for a long time. What they say and who they come into contact with in daily life will be recorded.

"Don't be busy now. Go and set up the ladder. I'm here to work again!" But as soon as he got up to leave, the emperor stopped him and gave him a very strange order.

"Long live my lord, let the slaves do these rough jobs from now on. You are a man of ten thousand gold. If you are not careful, I cannot afford to be shattered to pieces." This time Wang Chengen did not immediately obey the order and knelt down to persuade again.

(End of this chapter)