Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 889
Rumors incite, confuse people, and affect people's judgment, but there are some things that are not made up by you, and others will believe them. For example, several father-in-laws in the palace had a quarrel.

In the capital, as long as they were official figures, they could hear news from the palace. There were few acquaintances of the eunuchs who came in and out of the palace, not to mention the quarrels between the chief ministers.

What Li Sancai heard was true, the reason why he specially passed it on to him was just to let him know earlier and make him pay more attention.

Among the people of Ming Dynasty, and even in the official circles, the understanding of the institution of Lijian is the center of the world, and its status is higher than that of the cabinet, because this is where the real decisions are made.

If you want to work in the Supervisor of Rituals, your clerical skills and experience in handling errands can't be bad. Compared with those well-educated scholars in the cabinet who were born as Jinshi, they are not inferior at all.

Not only the Supervisor of Ceremony, but among the 24 yamen of the Twelve Supervisors, Four Divisions and Eight Bureaus of the inner court, if they want to stand out and be a steward, they have to read and write, which is no different from outside official circles.

Therefore, there is also an internal study hall in the palace, where smart little eunuchs study in the palace, and then come out to work as eunuchs who practice writing and practice, and then do errands step by step.

According to the rules of the palace, the teachers who teach in the inner school are all cabinet bachelors or bachelors of the Hanlin Academy. These people are originally Confucian scholars, and the students they teach naturally follow this path.

Because of this, the middle and upper eunuchs in the inner court were actually scholar-bureaucrats, but they were eunuchs, considering things to judge right from wrong, and their thinking was no different from that of civil officials in the outer court.

Some people have worked hard for decades, and came up step by step from the lower level. They are used to the wind and rain, and the world is clear, so they are naturally smart and tactful, but some people read letters and have the same temperament after decades.

Zhang Cheng is the kind of person who sees the world clearly, but Zhang Hong is a standard scholar. The so-called elder and younger are divided, and the eldest son of the emperor should be the crown prince. He dare not express this idea clearly, but he already has an attitude in his heart.

Now the entire capital, and even the whole world, is buzzing about the establishment of the reserve. The memorials and reports from the various intelligence agencies below are all brought together to the Supervisor of Rituals. You can't be alone, and you have to have some discussions.

The most important thing is that Emperor Wanli's attitude has never been clear. Although he has tendencies, he has never expressed his attitude in public, and even in private, everyone has heard rumors.

Since there is no clear statement of position, it means that there is still room to fight for it. People outside think so, and people in the palace judge it, so it can be discussed and discussed.

Everyone can guess the cause and process of the quarrel. Zhang Cheng means that Long Live God can do whatever he wants, and Zhang Hong means to follow the rules of the ancestors. Everyone understands the meaning very well. When the news spreads, those who are interested will think a lot.

Outside, it was almost one-sided that the eldest son of the emperor was the crown prince, but in the palace, Zhang Cheng was also a minority, and most people were also inclined to the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Changluo.

In any case, Concubine Wang Gong is a member of the Empress Dowager Cisheng. With so many yamen in the inner court, most of the eunuchs are around 50 years old, and most of the managers are around 40 years old. Before making a statement, everyone naturally knows how to express it.

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Song Chanchan is a smart woman. When she was the proprietress of the Qin Pavilion, she was just good at dancing and slick, but after being subordinated to Wang Tong and turning the Qin Pavilion into an intelligence-gathering organization, her ability to plan and calculate has been greatly improved.

There are several kinds of things that the masters of the capital do. Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Siwei are both from wealthy families, and there are countless black and white servants under them.

Since I came to Shen Shixing, except for Wang Xijue, who is a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, the other big bosses, whether it is the cabinet or the six ministries, are almost all from a scholarly family, and there are many dirty things in a scholarly family, but they are people who can be relied on when doing things. There are not many, it is nothing more than old disciples, relatives and friends, children and so on.

For official activities, it is natural to find someone with official status. Such people are easy to follow, because the number is limited, and they are all people who have passed the imperial examination. They are not wary of some things at all. It is not difficult for the maids to go in, or to get news from the servants of their house.

But if you want to stir up the Qingliu, it is not enough to rely on these disciples. Gu Xiancheng and Li Sancai are the most important thing. However, Li Sancai, who is more powerful, may not be too easy to do.

What Song Chanchan did here was to give him all kinds of news that could encourage Li Sancai, so that he could make a judgment about the situation that Song Chanchan wanted to see.

Thoughts are the most random, and it is thankful to have a [-]% certainty in such things, but the general situation in the capital is such that even if Song Chanchan does not do anything, what should happen will happen, and what Song Chanchan has to do is just to be among them Add fuel to the flames, just add some firewood.

It was because Wu Zuolai and others were incompetent. They selected the key person Yao Bo. The news about Yao Bo quickly leaked out. What Song Chanchan has to do here is to ensure that this thing will be done. Yao Bo wants to get money. Sneaking away, the people on Song Chanchan's side naturally blocked him back.

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With the turbulence on the surface and the undercurrent surging in the dark, the public opinion in the capital is like a big gunpowder keg, which will explode at some point.

This kind of truth is shocking and shocking, but it is also expected. The emperor is the lord of the world, and the people who govern the world are literati and bureaucrats. In the past few years, Emperor Wanli has grasped power in his own hands through one incident. The voice is getting louder, and there are more and more places to intervene to make money.

The greater the power of the emperor, the less power in the hands of the officials, the more money the emperor makes, and the less money the officials make. Naturally, there is a struggle for this.

What's more, the discussion of establishing a crown prince has always been the focus of attention. No matter how great a person is, no matter how great a person is, no matter how great a feat he has made, it is not as great as the merit of supporting the establishment. Don't look at the current emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, who is dissatisfied Three years old, and Zhu Changxun is less than six months old, but their elders will remember this matter, their mother and concubine will remember it, and when they ascend the throne, it will be the time to pay for their merits, needless to say the glory and wealth.

To establish a crown prince must show his position to fight, and the order of the elders and the young is a great ceremony. The eldest son of the emperor should be the crown prince and the crown prince. However, the Emperor Wanli has not expressed his position for a long time, and he is more interested in the son of Zheng Guifei. This is a dispute After all, the current situation also needs an entry point to sing against Emperor Wanli.

If it was a year ago, no one would have dared to link up like this. Even if there was such an opportunity, everyone would not dare to jump up and down like this. Even quarrels in the palace would not happen. The reason why it is so chaotic now is that Of course it was the right time, of course Song Chanchan was instigating it, and more importantly, Wang Tong was no longer by Emperor Wanli's side, without Wang Tong's existence, without this unreasonable inner guard general, many things were less scruples.

In the second half of March in the 13th year of Wanli, Yao Bo's memorabilia, the censor of Shanxi Province in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, had almost written it, and it was read by a special person, and he was just waiting to play it.

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"Thirty or so large carts, carrying cotton cloth and groceries, and returning felt and livestock. Such a caravan will benefit the most on the way out. How could such a caravan attract such a large number of horse thieves on the way back?"

The grassland is not flat, and Wang Tong and others could find a sheltered place to observe. Although they arrived here six days after the incident, they were able to hold on relying on carts and firearms.

Use carts to surround them as a barrier and rely on firearms to defend them. Under such a formation, the horse bandit cavalry on the outside can't do much. There are more than [-] carts, and there are nearly [-] people. For horse bandits It is also very difficult to chew.

However, there was no fierce battle on this battlefield. The horse thieves even set up simple tents, and they were quite particular about attacking the chariot formation.Mix the cattle and sheep together, and drive towards the car formation, and then hide among the livestock, and then jump up suddenly when they reach the front, rushing to fight.

For this kind of tactics, the caravan guards in the car were already prepared, and some robbers hid in the car with spears, and blocked them when they got close. If someone was going to use a bow and arrow, they would use firecrackers .

There were sporadic shouts of killing, and sporadic sounds of gunfire, but there were always more than a hundred horse thieves on this side, and whenever there was any movement in the chariot formation, they immediately moved.

"To tell you the truth, my lord, the cart and firearms are the most valuable things on the grassland. They don't want goods. If they can eat the cart and firearms, that's enough."

Hearing Wang Tong's question, a guide who followed said in a low voice, Wang Tong nodded, turned around and told the guides:

"Take a look around and see if anyone is ambushing or setting up a trap."

Now that he has arrived, he is not in a hurry. Wang Tong returned to the brigade and waited for a while, and the scout horses who had been scattered came back to report. In a nest in the northwest, there was a tribe of more than 2000 people staying there, and there were signs of movement. , it seems that these horse thieves are people from the tribe.

"It should be that after doing business, the people of this tribe deliberately swallowed up this group of people and goods, so they followed up."

Everyone is not a fool, and such things can be easily judged. Hearing the reward of exploring the horse, Wang Tong pondered for a moment, raised his head and said:
"Take a rest for a stick of incense, and then go save people and kill thieves."

Whispering the order, the people didn't care about rest, they were all there to feed the horses and prepare their weapons. Wang Tong said to Ma Sanbiao beside him:

"After saving people, go wash that tribe and teach the Tartars on the grassland a lesson!!"
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