Feng Bao, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the commander of the East Factory, was in a very bad mood these days, and he felt that everything was already rushing in the worst direction.

First of all, Gao Gong personally went down to the field in the name of Shoufu to talk about things, saying that the celebrant eunuch, as the center of the inner court, had an unshirkable responsibility for the emperor's fainting, not only did not take care of the emperor's dragon body in advance, but also did not make a timely response afterwards.

Generally according to the habits of the civil servants, after such a big hat is buttoned up, what follows is basically a stormy blow, and the purpose is usually to suppress the prestige of the celebrant and reduce the power of the celebrant and celebrant.

This time, though, things are a little different. After Gao Gong scolded the celebrant from top to bottom, he did not propose to cut power, but thought that this was due to the lack of manpower and distraction of the celebrant eunuch, and suggested that the emperor expand the scale of the celebrant and the eunuch, and split the functions and powers of the major ceremonial eunuchs as much as possible.

The most typical is that the chief eunuch has too many and too heavy hands. The chief eunuch Bingbi not only has to participate in the approval of the celebrant eunuch, but also is in charge of the East Factory, and even in the division of the twelve eunuchs of the inner court, he is also in charge of the imperial horse eunuch - this is the last means of the inner court to monitor the Beijing camp, and his status is not unimportant.

Why did you deliberately emphasize that this was the last resort for the inner court to monitor the Beijing camp, because the Beijing camp system of the Ming Dynasty has been constantly changing.

In the early years, of course, it goes without saying that the military ministers and nobles were in charge of the Beijing camp alone, and the three major battalions of the Beijing army were all in the hands of a cadre of noble military ministers.

For a period of time after the civil engineering change, due to the great reduction of the power of the nobles, the civil officials began to infiltrate the Beijing camp and established the 12 regiment battalions, replacing the three major battalions of the river and the sun to become the main force of the Beijing camp.

Later, Yu Qian was killed, and the Jingying became the final say in the inner court, especially in the Xianzong Dynasty, the twelve regiments and battalions of the imperial horse eunuchs and eunuchs, and they were majestic.

Later, Emperor Wuzong Zhengde, although he was also a lord who favored eunuchs, but because he was good at military affairs, he even transferred the elite of the nine sides into Beijing and established it as the "outer four", so it actually became the emperor to personally control the Beijing camp, but this system was troublesome, so that period was more chaotic, and the Beijing camp was ordered to go out of many doors, and there were many bullshit things.

Sejong Jiajing is still more concerned about Jingying, and has always wanted to find a long-term mechanism, but he can't hold on. In the sixth year of Jiajing, the Ming court set up Wenchen to supervise the military affairs of the Beijing camp. At that time, after the recommendation of the courtiers, Li Chengxun was appointed as the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the military affairs of the regimental battalion of the crown prince Shaobao, becoming the first civil official in charge of the Beijing camp. However, it was soon stopped, and the previous practice of part-time civil service was resumed.

In the 20th year of Jiajing, Liu Tianhe also used the military affairs of the military department to supervise the military affairs of the regimental battalion, specializing in the administration of the Beijing battalion, but it was less than a year, and the military affairs of the regimental battalion became a part-time part of the military department again.

In the middle and late Jiajing period, the civilian-official clique also tried to strengthen the cooperation between civilians and military officials to increase the combat capability of the Beijing camp - this was not easy, and there was a reason. The reason is that in the 29th year of Jiajing, the Gengxu Incident occurred, and the army besieged the Beijing division, and the Beijing soldiers were too cowardly to respond to the battle, and they were defeated by the enemy, which fully exposed the corruption of the Beijing soldiers.

Therefore, under the advice of Yan Song, the then chief assistant, Wang Bangrui, the servant of the ministry, and others, the Ming court abolished the regimental camp and the east and west official hall system, and restored the three battalion systems.

In the management of the Beijing camp, the practice of eunuchs serving as commanders and supervisors was also stopped, and the Rong government agency was set up. The governor of the Rong government is called the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, which is served by the military attache and gives the seal of customs defense. The deputy title is Zanli Military Affairs (later renamed Associate Rong Zheng), which is elected by the Ministry of War or the Chief of the Supervision Commission, and is not given the seal of customs defense.

After Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, the control of civil officials over Jingying changed from centralized to decentralized. In the fourth year of Longqing, Zhao Zhenji, a university scholar, played a sparse role, and said that the harm of Rong political officials monopolizing power. After the Ministry of Military Affairs discussed the dismissal of the post of Governor Rong Zheng, each of the three battalions had a chief officer and a deputy general. The seal of the three general soldiers is still selected by the military attaché. The post of assistant Rong Zheng was changed to three civilian officials selected from the Ministry of War and the Supervision Yuan, and he was still called the Admiral.

However, in this way, it is equivalent to the Ming court to prevent the disadvantages of the centralization of power in the Beijing camp to the other extreme, and there is a situation in which six admirals are in charge of the government of the Beijing camp, and the power and responsibility are too scattered, and the mutual inaction has become a prominent dilemma in the management of the Beijing camp.

"After the six admirals were appointed, each had their own opinions, and they were indecisive in case of trouble."

Of course, this can't be done, so Zhao Zhenji and Gao Gong immediately abolished this self-binding system, and still restored the governor and the assistant Rongzheng members.

Unlike in the Sejong period, the governor and the assistant governor each gave the seal of the guard. In the original history, since then, the Rong government system has only changed slightly, but the overall basic continuation has been carried out until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking back like this, it is very clear: the power of the Beijing camp was once all in the inner court, but now, the inner court has been squeezed out of the core power of the Beijing camp by the civil official group and the military ministers and nobles.

It is precisely because the position of the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse eunuch has been greatly reduced, but it still has considerable significance, so it has always been the chief of the celebrant to hold the pen.

However, Gao Gong is now doing it against the chief Bingbi "too many palms".

Gao Gong's suggestion is that the primary task of the chief Bingbi should be to participate in the approval of red, and should not be in charge of other affairs too much, and its current concurrently in charge of such as the East Factory and the Imperial Horse Eunuch is best to give up together, if the emperor is worried about splitting too much and affecting the authority of the chief Bingbi in the inner court, then at least one should be split out and handed over to other Bingbi eunuchs.

This suggestion is actually the core of Gao Gong's sparse text, and other statements, such as "In the past, there were only three or four Bingbi, and each person had to be in charge of three or four important institutions in the inner court, so Bingbi should be added, and in the future, each person should be in charge of two institutions", etc., in fact, they were all done in order not to make "cutting Feng Bao" seem too abrupt.

Feng Bao was very dissatisfied with this, this is for sure, but it is useless for him to be dissatisfied, he belongs to the "direct party" in this matter, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he can't jump out and say, "We are not tired, we can do it".

There was no way, Feng Bao had to go to Zhang Juzheng overnight again to ask for advice to see if this Mr. Zhang had any way to solve it.

On the way to Zhang University's Scholar's Mansion, Feng Bao was ruthless for a while, and stunned for a while.

Needless to say, being forced to do this, not to mention Feng Bao's face seems to be kind, in fact, he looks at the wolf Gu people, even if the mud bodhisattva is only afraid, he will be angry.

The frightened person was really a little panicked, Gao Gong's method this time seemed to be sharp, but it was very measured, not at all like his style of doing other things: he didn't come up directly and asked for the power of the entire celebrant to be cut - that is, he didn't move the overall power of the inner court, he just divided this power from three or four people to five or six people.

Don't look at the same decentralization, the difference is huge.

The former directly cuts the power to the celebrant supervisor, because the ceremonial supervisor is actually a hand of the emperor, and the right to cut the celebrant is equivalent to the right to cut the emperor, even if the trust of Gao Gong is indescribable, but if Gao Gong does this, even if the emperor finally agrees, there will inevitably be some dissatisfaction in his heart.

But the latter is not, the celebrant was originally very powerful, and the big eunuchs in it may have three points each, and according to the round of high arch method of cutting, the big eunuchs have been cut off, and each person may only have two points of power, but the master of ceremonies as a whole still holds ten points of power, and he has not cut it at all.

In this way, the great eunuchs may be dissatisfied, but the emperor does not care - anyway, the power he has at hand has not been cut at all.

Feng Bao panicked here, which means that it is almost impossible for the emperor himself to be disgusted by this suggestion, in view of the emperor's performance that day, it seems that he is also afraid that Gao Gong will continue to ask him why he fainted, so this time there is a chance that he will push the boat down the river, agree to Gao Gong's suggestion, and throw the responsibility for his fainting to the celebrant - that is, you can't take care of it, Mr. Gao's eyes are like a torch!

At this moment, Feng Bao felt that only Zhang Juzheng might be able to redeem himself.