The last bit of courage that Wei Liangqing had just mustered was suddenly blown away by Chongzhen's reprimand. He was terrified for many days, and suddenly his mood collapsed, and he lay on the ground with tears in his eyes and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty spare your life, the grass people are guilty, and the grass people are willing to cut off their titles, go back to the countryside to farm, and ask Your Majesty for mercy." ”

Wang Chengen stood on the edge of the desk with a blank face, looking down at the ground, as if he was deaf to everything in front of him.

However, he was like a mirror in his heart, knowing that Wei Liangqing had passed the test. If Chongzhen really wanted to deal with Wei Liangqing, he would not have specially called Wei Liangqing over to reprimand him. In this way, Wei Zhongxian may not have fallen like this, His Majesty probably still wants to use Wei Zhongxian.

Wang Chengen immediately made a plan in his heart, no matter how His Majesty used Wei Zhongxian, he would not recall him back to the capital. For this kind of outrageous eunuch who will not compete with him for His Majesty's favor, he can send someone to show favor or two, after all, Wei Zhongxian is in power for a while, and he always has some foreign relations in his hands.

Wang Chengen knew that he was definitely going to enter the celebrant eunuch, but he was sent to King Xin's side from the beginning, and he didn't know anything about the civil officials of the foreign courts. And a celebrant eunuch without the support of a civil official, just like a blind man riding a blind horse, he doesn't know when he fell into the pit dug for him by the civil official.

Although Wang Chengen does not like to take power, he is not noble enough to give up his power to others. To be humble in terms of power is undoubtedly to be irresponsible for one's own life.

Whether Wang Chengen wants to or not, it is necessary for him to establish a channel of communication with foreign courts, so that after he enters the celebrant in the future, he will not be smeared and manipulated by the civil officials of foreign courts.

When Chongzhen first ascended the throne, Wang Chengen thought that Wei Zhongxian would definitely fall, so he was unwilling to have dealings with Wei Zhongxian's people for fear of being implicated.

And today, Chongzhen's throne has stabilized, and the handover of the old and new forces in the DPRK and China has begun to slowly show its eyebrows. Chongzhen exiled Wei Zhongxian, drove Cui Chengxiu home, and agreed to recall several Donglin party members who had been driven out of the capital by Wei Zhongxian, and the situation in the court and China did not change drastically.

At this time, whether it was the eunuchs of the inner dynasty or the civil officials of the outer dynasty, they all agreed that Chongzhen was an emperor who liked to play with the balance of power, and he neither favored the Donglin party nor protected the eunuch party.

In this way, although they expected that after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Donglin Party members who would have great changes in the government were a little disappointed. But most people breathe a sigh of relief, at least in the 5 or 6 years of the Apocalypse, that kind of cruel and fierce party struggle is unlikely to appear, and some people do not have to breathe for fear of being liquidated.

Since Chongzhen did not have a special political preference, the civil power in Wei Zhongxian's hands became the coveted by the cronies and eunuchs around King Xin. Everyone knows that once anyone takes over the power in Wei Zhongxian's hands, it will mark him as the first eunuch in the palace.

According to the unspoken rules of the palace in the past, the name of the first eunuch is naturally Wang Chengen, who is inseparable from Chongzhen's side. However, after Chongzhen ascended the throne and reorganized the capital governor, within a few months, the power of the capital governor had risen rapidly in the palace.

The eunuch Wang Dehua is in charge of the eunuch, and Zhang Xingsheng, who is in the limelight, has faintly overwhelmed the eunuchs who are the celebrants. Although the eunuchs from the palace are from the palace, only Wang Chengen is now studying with the celebrant eunuch, and he is considered half of the celebrant eunuch, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is Chongzhen paving the way for Wang Chengen to take over the celebrant eunuch.

However, in the past, he was in charge of the internal and external courts, and a single master of ceremonies was now challenged by the governor. Although the celebrant can still arrange for the yamen to do things, the deployment and promotion of the official positions of the various yamen are in the hands of the governor, not to mention that the governor has an audit department to assess the effectiveness of the work of each yamen.

Having lost their personnel and supervisory powers, the eunuchs who were the celebrants immediately discovered that these eunuchs of the yamen, who had previously been submissive to their orders, were now talking about regulations and powers and responsibilities at every turn.

Wang Tiqian once complained to Chongzhen angrily, but Chongzhen only summoned the leaders and eunuchs of the yamen and asked them to maintain respect for the ceremonial eunuchs, and did not change anything back, but asked the governor to give each of the ceremonial eunuchs a copy, the guide to the affairs of each yamen in the palace and the code of conduct for the palace personnel.

In this way, everyone in the palace suddenly understood that although the celebrant was still nominally the head of the twenty-four yamen, the management power of the twenty-four yamen in the palace had been transferred to the hands of the governor.

Since then, the celebrant and the superintendent of the outer court, and the pattern of the inner court of the superintendent has gradually taken shape. At the same time as the reputation of the eunuch of the capital was rising, the prestige of the eunuch Wang Dehua of the palm print also rose. This made Wang Chengen, who had not officially entered the celebrant supervisor, a little uneasy, if it weren't for Chongzhen handing over Dongchang to him, Wang Chengen almost thought that he was going to fall out of favor.

Seeing Wang Dehua's smug appearance in the palace, Wang Chengen had to rack his brains and wanted to make some achievements. wanted to let the celebrant regain the power of the governor, after Wang Tiqian tried, Wang Chengen immediately knew that it was impossible.

In this way, he can only work on the body of the celebrant and the celebrant. After sorting out the rights and responsibilities of the 24 yamen, if the celebrant wants to make results, he must look at how well he communicates with the foreign courts.

For Wang Chengen, who has no foundation in the foreign dynasty, what could be more convenient for him to make achievements than taking over the list of civil officials in Wei Zhongxian's hands.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wei Liangqing, who was prostrate on the ground and was crying, and finally slowed down his tone and said: "Stop me, you are a Su Ninghou, what kind of body do you have to cry in front of me." The title is a national artifact, do you think it is a sundries sold in the market? If you want it, if you want it, if you don't? ”

Wei Liangqing finally didn't dare to continue to speak, but just kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen, the floor tiles in the study were high-quality Suzhou-made gold bricks. Wei Liangqing knocked his head very hard these times, and the gold bricks made a crisp sound of bells and drums.

Zhu Youzhen frowned, he still didn't like it, these people looked cowardly in front of him. After coming to the Ming Dynasty for so long, he has also learned a little about his living conditions and his daily schedule as an emperor.

Generally speaking, those who can appear in front of him are basically characters with some status. Those real low-level eunuchs, palace maids, craftsmen, soldiers, and peasants were sent clean long before he appeared.

Although the civil officials and the cronies and eunuchs around him said that they were afraid that these despicable people had collided with the emperor's dragon spirit. In fact, the real intention is, first, to reduce the trouble of security; The second is to prevent the emperor from contacting the people at the bottom, so as to understand the situation of the people, so that the civil officials and eunuchs cannot join forces to deceive the emperor.

There are two different considerations for this reason for blinding the emperor, some ministers who think they are righteous men and gentlemen, they oppose the emperor to understand the situation outside the palace, because they are afraid that after the emperor understands the situation of the people, he will have the idea of visiting the splendid mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty. Since ancient times, the emperor's tour has been a costly project and a very disturbing action. In the eyes of these Wenchen, the emperors who wanted to go out of Beijing to tour were all Emperor Yang of Sui.

The other part is the so-called traitorous ministers, who cut off internal and external communication and blinded the emperor's ears and eyes, in order to manipulate the imperial power.

Therefore, whether it is a so-called gentleman or a traitor in the court, the only thing they will agree on is that the emperor should stay in the imperial city and not come out to disturb the people.

Unlike the real Chongzhen, Su Changqing, who came from later generations, has been in the society for many years, and he knows better than anyone else. No matter how humble and pitiful these people pretend to be in front of him, how arrogant and cruel they will behave when they leave his sight and face the real people at the bottom.

In a word, they are willing to prostrate themselves under the imperial power and make themselves humble as dust, because they can get more compensation in front of others. This is the feudal dynasty, the pyramid-shaped ruling structure.

"That's enough, if you keep knocking like this, your head may not be fine, but my gold bricks will be broken by you. I just want you to reflect on what you do in your daily life, and whether it is right or wrong to take the money and rewards you are getting now. Have you counted? How much land tax do you need to pay in a year? ”

Wei Liangqing was flustered and couldn't say anything. He looked up at Chongzhen pitifully, like a puppy abandoned by his owner.

Looking at Wei Liangqing, who was dripping with blood on his forehead and tears on his face, Zhu Youzhen finally couldn't ask any more. He grabbed a handkerchief on the table and handed it to Wei Liangqing, "Wipe your face, and then reply well." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you..." After feeling the change in Chongzhen's tone, Wei Liangqing hurriedly took the towel, and he couldn't stop thanking him, for fear that Chongzhen would continue to be accountable.

watched Wei Liangqing wipe his face clean, after his mood stabilized a little. Zhu Youzhen tapped his middle finger on the armrest of the chair, and after a while, he said: "It was not right for you, the Marquis of Suning, to come at the beginning, I have already found out from the Jinyi Guard, the so-called credit for you single-handedly catching the Liaodong spy in the Qinglou is just a farce." When you go back, fold it up and down one level.

In any case, you are now a Ming noble, and I don't plan to treat the title of Daming as a child's play, so you have to make some real contributions to Daming, otherwise how can you serve the public? ”

Wei Liangqing gritted his teeth and said with an open face: "Minister, Weichen is willing to go to the front line of Liaodong to replenish the army, fight against the Dongyu, and be loyal to His Majesty." ”

Zhu Youzhen was stunned when he heard this, but he looked at Wei Zhongxian's nephew again. Although there was some fear on his face, he didn't flinch, and it didn't look like he was talking nonsense.

"You want to go to the front? It's not like you've been eating for two years in vain, but I don't want to be tongue-in-cheek, and fighting is not for you. With your title, you can't be a big soldier. But let you lead the troops, do you think you will succeed? ”

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