As a celebrant eunuch, there must be a mansion outside the palace, even if Ben Jue does not do it himself, the palace will also give it. This is customary, and is usually given by the emperor himself as a sign of favor.

Of course, not the eunuchs in the palace have the ability to set up a house outside, but the palm prints of those eunuchs and the powerful eunuchs can do the same. But compared with the emperor's house, what he bought is always less halo.

In essence, the emperor did not give a house, but power.

Jin Zhong's mansion is not far from Chongwen Gate, the house was originally purchased by a Guijing Imperial History in the Jiajing period, and then after a few hands, somehow it was bought in the palace, and finally given to Jin Zhong by Wanli.

At that time, Jin Zhong was not a eunuch with a pen, but a eunuch with the court, and he was not given a house according to his qualifications, but because Jin Zhong respected the concubine, obeyed the emperor's words, and repeatedly stood on the emperor's side at critical times, so Wanli made an exception to give him a house. A few months later, he was mentioned as a eunuch with a pen.

These days, Jin Zhong has been busy and has hardly ever returned home. The reason is that the emperor named him to be responsible for the funeral of the eunuch Chen Ju.

Chen Ju died in the inner straight room, before his death he had bought a piece of land in advance in Xiangshan Cigan Nunnery, and asked his family to build a stone pagoda. Therefore, the cemetery is not too worrying about Jinzhong. According to Chen Ju's last words, Jin Zhong used a coffin and buried Chen Ju like a monk.

The emperor felt the merits of Chen Ju over the years, and specially gave nine altars to Jin Zhong to inscribe the shrine of "Qingzhong". Not only that, but the emperor also ordered the court and the central government to come to the capital in Beijing to mourn, so that many officials in front of the Jin Zhong Mansion to send funerals blocked the road, which can be said to be extremely sad.

After Chen Ju was buried yesterday, the emperor specially ordered the inner court to promote Chen Ju's head Chang Yun to the steward of the Qianqing Palace, and also to be in charge of the seal of the needle work bureau. and promoted Chen Ju's retainers, clerks, Ma Jian, Shi Ming, and Miao all to warm the palace.

All of the celebrants and supervisors have no opinions on these arrangements, and even the concubine Niangniang, who has always had some opinions on Chen Ju, has no objection to this. It's just that there is one thing that still makes the celebrants of the celebrant quite criticized.

This matter is that Chen Ju left a letter to the emperor before his death, this letter is mainly to describe his life, and ask the emperor not to make a big funeral after his death, that is, to promote Liu Shimin, the eunuch and clerical office under his name, as the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch.

The emperor knew Liu Shimin and liked his calligraphy very much, so after reading Chen Ju's letter, he did not consult anyone, so he issued an edict to promote Liu Shimin to the eunuch of the court.

After Jin Zhong and Yigan Bingbi Dajue learned about this, they both thought that the emperor's move broke the rules, because Liu Shimin's qualifications were insufficient and too young.

Liu Shimin entered the palace in the 29th year of Wanli and is only 27 years old this year. At his age, even if he is a leader in the inner study, he will be at most a young eunuch in each prison, and it is a once-in-a-century genius to get the palm print. Now the emperor has promoted Liu Shimin to the hall of celebrants because of Chen Ju, and placing it in the outer court is equivalent to directly promoting a county magistrate to the squire of the six departments, which must be a bad rule.

There are some things that just don't suffer from inequality. The emperor promoted Chen Ju's head Chang Yun and others, and the palace had no opinion, because their qualifications had arrived, but what qualifications did Liu Shimin have? Just because of Chen Ju's guarantee, he suddenly entered the celebrant supervisor, what do those supervisors who have enough qualifications and skills think?

Nowadays, how many of the powerful eunuchs and mine supervisors and tax envoys can be the celebrants?

If the rules are broken, things will not be easy to do in the future.

However, the emperor's edict has been issued, and the celebrant is not good at refuting the will like the foreign court, so you can only say a few words about this matter in private. Unknowingly, this Liu Shimin became the public enemy of the celebrant and even the entire inner court. It can be seen that sometimes, it is not a good thing to soar.

After Liu Shimin knew that he was promoted by his ancestor as the celebrant in the court, Xu also knew that this matter was against the rules, so except for the funeral in the Chen Mansion, he stayed alone in the clerical room at other times, and behaved very low-key. This more or less made the Da Jue feel a little less bad for him.

In the past few days, the eunuchs who are close to Jin Zhong in the palace have congratulated Jin Zhong in advance, everyone knows how to read the direction of the wind, and the emperor named Jin Zhong to be responsible for Chen Ju's funeral, what does this mean, it shows that the emperor acquiesces that the next palm seal is Jin Zhong.

In this regard, Jin Zhong also looked at it lightly, and he must be humble before and after him, saying that the candidate for the palm seal is determined by the emperor, and before the end, no one dares to say who the candidate must be. But when they returned to their homes, the servants could still sense the good mood of their masters.

In order to avoid suspicion, Jin Zhong has already greeted the outside world, and no one has been seen in the past few days. The emperor gave him a three-day vacation, Jin Zhong was ready to take a good rest, after all, he was not young, and he personally handled Chen Ju's funeral in the past few days, regardless of the size of the matter, and it was impossible not to be tired.

But there was one person, Jin Zhong still saw it. This person is Li Yongzhen who came back from outside the gate.

Li Yongzhen didn't even go back to the palace, and went directly to Jin Zhong's house.

After showing Shulhaqi's paper to Jin Zhong, Li Yongzhen told Jin Zhong in detail what Wei Liangchen had done outside the customs in the past few days.

Jin Zhong listened very carefully, and asked a few questions from time to time, it seems that Jin Zhong still cares a lot about this Wei Xiaoshe.

In fact, most of what Li Yongzhen said, Jin Zhong has known for a long time. The reason is that after the Wei Xiaoshe person hit the customs, he sent a report to the capital every day. These recitals were presented to the emperor and the noble concubine by the hand of his golden father-in-law.

"Where is that Zasaktu now?"

"Back to my father-in-law, this person is called a slave and maid to be held in the brocade room of Donghua Gate."

Jin Zhong nodded, Donghua Gate Jinyi is a safe place.

"The matter of Li Chengliang and Jianzhou's collusion and rebellion, all the human and material evidence, will it be submitted to the public?" Li Yongzhen didn't dare to make his own decisions, and this matter had to be decided by Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong thought about it, but shook his head and said, "This matter can't be handled by us, the emperor doesn't like the inner court to interfere in the affairs of the nine sides." And Li Chengliang has been favored by the emperor for decades, and it is a bit sensational to say that he colluded with Jianzhou to rebel. After speaking, he paused, "But since Jianzhou has reported him internally, we don't report this matter, and we are also bullying the king." ”

"What does my father-in-law mean?" Li Yongzhen was a little puzzled by what Jin Zhong meant.

"It's better not to go through our hands." Jin Zhong said what he meant.

"The slave maid also means this, so the slave maid is ready to put this matter on..."Li Yongzhen hurriedly expressed his intention to impeach Li Chengliang by the hand of Kedao.

"Kedao?" Jin Zhong pondered for a moment and said slowly: "You can do this, but you can't let those imperial historians know about the existence of the palace. ”

"This..."

Li Yongzhen was in trouble, and after coming out of Jin Zhong's mansion, he repeatedly thought about how to do this matter to alloy his father-in-law's meaning, and finally, he had an idea.

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Li Chengliang would send people to Beijing every year to give gifts to the cabinet ministers, that is, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry and other ministries from the hall officials, the squire to the Lang officials and the chief of the Lang officials all have filial piety, and only the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministries are missing.

On the one hand, this is because Kedao has always been disliked by the emperor, and Li Chengliang does not want to be involved with them. On the other hand, Li Chengliang also thinks that Kedao people are not successful enough and have more than enough failures, so he looks down on them in his heart, so he naturally will not give them gifts.

On this day, a guest came to the house of Zhang Heming, the right of the Imperial Palace, and the guest brought a lot of gifts and gave a red envelope to the concierge of Zhang's house. When the porter saw such a big red envelope, he smiled and respectfully invited in: "My lord will be in the Metropolitan Courtyard, and he must come in the afternoon." If the guest has a sticker, you can put it down, and when my lord comes back, I will be the first to tell you. ”

When the guest heard this, he immediately looked surprised: "Why are you in the Metropolitan Courtyard?" Isn't this the Song Shilang Mansion? ”

Menzi was also stunned, and hurriedly said: "My lord is the right man of the Imperial Palace, and the Song Shilang Mansion is one street away from here!" ”

"I see, excuse me!" After hearing this, the guest turned around and slapped the attendant and scolded, "You bastard! The gifts were all given at the wrong door, if I hadn't asked clearly, wouldn't I have missed Ning Yuanbo's big event! When I go back to the master, I won't dig out your eyes! ”

The attendant covered his cheeks and muttered, "The little one clearly remembers that it's this street, what's wrong?" Stretched out his hand to take back the silver in Menzi's hand, and teased: "You don't know anything about this family, and you dare to accept this big bag of silver?" Presumably, the door respect, who doesn't have a lot of money on weekdays, wants to pretend to be the door of the Shilang Mansion to cheat money! Lifting the gift box and walking away, Menzi was so angry that he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Subsequently, this same scene happened successively in the palace of Zhu Yinghub, the imperial historian, and Ren Yingzheng in the matter. When Zhang Heming returned home, Menzi told him about the humiliation of the day, and the angry Zhang Heming didn't have the heart to eat dinner.

Two days later, Ren Yingzheng was recruited to Zhang's house as a guest and inadvertently talked about it. When Zhang Heming heard this, isn't this the humiliation he suffered two days ago. He didn't expect Li Chengliang to ignore their science and technology, and he became more and more annoyed, and said hatefully: "Li Chengliang is so arrogant, he obviously underestimates our science and technology, and he doesn't want to think about who impeached him and returned to Beijing!" … It's only been so many years, and he doesn't remember the lesson! … In this matter, if I don't give Li Chengliang some color and spread it, how can we establish ourselves in the capital? ”

After hearing this, Ren Yingzheng hesitated and said: "Zhang Gong, the people in important positions in the palace of the central court, are all heavily bribed by Li Chengliang, and they naturally spare no effort to buy merit for him and cover up his evil deeds. If we want to deal with him, we must be safe, and we must look at the seven inches of the snake, and we must not fail to catch the fox and cause a commotion. ”

Zhang Heming said disapprovingly: "Our official is allowed to listen to the wind and play things according to the rules, whether it is true or not, and don't care about him, first go to the fold, find out Li Chengliang's bad luck, and let him know that we are not easy to mess with!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Heming insisted on joining Li Chengliang, and there was a successful precedent back then, Ren Yingzheng did not object, so he proposed that he might as well discuss it with his friend Zhu Yinghub. When he was about to ask someone to invite Zhu Yinghub, Zhu Yinghub came uninvited, and brought a major event that surprised both Zhang and Ren.

"Li Chengliang dared to collude with Jianzhou to rebel!" Zhang Heming slapped the table heavily, gritted his teeth and said, "This is a capital crime!" … No wonder over the years, he Li Chengliang has always said good things for Jianzhou, and asked the imperial court to win over Jianzhou and treat Jianzhou well, but he had already colluded! ”

"Shulhaqi is Nurhachi's own brother, and since this person dares to come forward to sue him, this matter is probably not fake." Ren Yingzheng is gearing up, this matter can definitely give Li Chengliang a fatal blow, and he dares to underestimate whether he can do it.

"Participation must be participated, and it must be participated in to the end, and Li Chengliang must not be allowed to have a chance to breathe. However, this matter is extremely involved, so we have to be cautious. Zhu Yinghub said.

"Yes, be careful. Whoever goes to the book first, who goes to the book later, we have to have a good life to discuss, don't grab pigtails for people, work in vain, and work in vain. In addition, we have to confirm this matter, and we have to go to Jinyiwei's side. For such a big thing, he Jinyiwei dared to detain people? ”

"As long as the matter is true, we will hand over the chapter and participate in the performance, mobilize our colleagues to strengthen the momentum, and wait for the discussion of the Manchu Dynasty to boil, I see who dares to protect him Li Chengliang!"

"If anyone dares to protect Li Chengliang, we will participate in the impeachment together!" Zhang Heming made a final decision, if he didn't pick up Li Chengliang's skin this time, he would have lived in vain for so many years.

………

Liangchen suddenly became bold, and the reason why he wanted to go to Jianzhou to open a copy was not because he had any royal flush in his hand and could be killed by the Jedi, but because of Shang Bozhi.

This good man has been the emperor in Jianzhou for a few years, and the hated Nuerhachi has to add a big hatred in addition to the six hates, and he has not been able to clean up this big hatred, what does it mean, it shows that Shang Bozhi is a capable person.

It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability, just follow the one who has the ability.

Moreover, the matter of the establishment of the state, Liangchen felt that something was wrong when he thought about it. Nurhachi wanted to avenge the murder of his son, so he directly raised troops to kill him, how could he shout without moving.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he is worrying about the sky, the real rebellion of the old slave is ten years later, and these ten years are not only the concept of time, but the concept of strength.

Does the current Jianzhou have the strength to rebel?

Liangchen was suspicious, he didn't doubt Nurhachi's strength, he only believed that the current Ming army was not something that he Nurhachi could fight.

Only 10 years have passed since the Korean War, and there are still many elite soldiers and strong generals who participated in the battle to aid Korea. Nurhachi chose to rebel ten years later, perhaps, this is also waiting for these elite soldiers to die of old age.

If the truth is as he thinks, then Nurhachi will not rebel at all now. This speculation can be seen from the fact that Nurhachi only shouted that he wanted justice from the imperial court, but did not do anything.

As long as Nurhachi does not dare to oppose now, the good ministers will have the courage to go to the state. No matter how small he is, he always represents the imperial court.

Besides, there is also Xiong Cha to visit together, this Xiong Cha is a person from Beijing, and he is also a person from Beijing, so he can't pit himself.

Liangchen gave himself confidence, since he may not die if he goes to Jianzhou, what is he afraid of.

Therefore, if you are brave and merry, what is the matter.

Moreover, Li Chengliang may have caught fire in the backyard now.

As soon as the tide of the DPRK moves, he Wei Liangchen can sit back and watch the wind and clouds rise.

He didn't know that Li Chengliang's backyard had not yet caught fire, and his young Chitose backyard was on fire.

In the East Palace, Xi Li looked at Ke Yinyue hatefully, and his voice was like frost: "Say, why did my hairpin stick on your head!" ”