Chapter 864: Back to the original form

Ten days later, Li Banghua, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou, and others were successively reported to the Military Aircraft Department by Li Banghua, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou, and others on the way to the northwest war, as well as all kinds of cruel incidents that occurred on the way to the westward advance of officers and troops from all walks of life.

The Jinyiwei faction's dispatch agency in the northwest region, that is, the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Division located in Xi'an City, directly reported many details to Emperor Chongzhen through Jinyiwei's own channels.

Even the various experiences during the period when Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, led the thieves to evacuate Pingliang and went west to Lintao, also appeared in the report of the Jinyi Weixi Town Fusi.

The situation in Shaanxi and Gansu after the Northwest Musubarian Rebellion, after being disturbed for more than half a year, began to change in the direction of benefiting the imperial court and the northwest official army, and Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City, knew that the strategy he had set at the beginning had finally seen the effect, and he was very happy in his heart, and issued three decrees in a row:

First, let the Military Aircraft Department directly send an edict to the governors of the border towns in the northwest, and explicitly order Li Banghua, minister of military aircraft, to command and dispatch the officers and troops of all roads in the northwest in a unified manner, and to fight steadily and persistently.

It is necessary not only to expel the northwestern thieves and the rebellious army and people of the Musu Barbarians to the west, but also to solve the problem once and for all, so as not to leave future troubles.

Second, the military department was instructed to continue to purchase and transfer the gun factories and gunpowder factories in Tongzhou Baliqiao and Zunhua Baiye City, as well as gunpowder, projectiles, grenades and other military supplies stored in the armament depots of the two places, and the remaining parts of the Baiye City Mine Camp were escorted to the northwest.

Third, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, was instructed to set up a special post of deputy envoy for regimental training under the trilateral governor's office, and selected and incorporated the Han township brave regimental training team that had formed a village to protect itself due to the Musuman rebellion in the trilateral land, and awarded the leader of the township brave regimental training in the northwest border region according to the scale of the team under his command and the number of men and horses.

However, all the townspeople who have accepted the selection and reorganization will be given half of the money and grain according to the standard of the trilateral officers and soldiers after they have been counted and inspected, so that they can fight with the army and serve as the forerunner.

In the report submitted by Yuan Chonghuan, he mentioned the incorporation of Zhang Tianli and Luo Junjie in Gansu Town to train the Han Township Yong Regiment on Liupan Mountain.

Emperor Chongzhen knew in his heart that among these Han people's township brave group exercises, of course, there were mixed fish and dragons, and some of them were indeed formed to defend themselves in order to resist the pursuit and killing of the Musu barbarian people.

But there are also many of them, who were originally bandits and bandits, but these people took in the Han people who came to flee, so they turned into the so-called village warrior group training.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to let Yuan Chonghuan and others compare this truth.

In the chaos in the northwest today, there are not only a large number of Musu barbarian rebels, but also a large number of thieves in northern Shaanxi under the command of Gao Yingxiang.

Armed Han landlords like Tang Zhongheng, who were originally local wealthy families, were natural allies of the Ming court in the northwest.

They will neither cooperate with Mu Suman, nor will they go to seek refuge with thieves from northern Shaanxi.

However, those bandits and bandits who originally belonged to the displaced class were the natural allies of the thieves from all walks of life in northern Shaanxi under Gao Yingxiang.

If the imperial court did not co-opt, these people would almost certainly go to Gao Yingxiang, who was advancing westward.

Now the imperial court is training arms in the northwest with these bandits-born township warrior regiments, because they have a common enemy, that is, Mu Suman, who is in turmoil in the northwest, so there is still a chance to recruit them.

If there is no common enemy of Mu Suman, then the court will rush to recruit these people, and I am afraid that these people will not accept it.

Now, if you don't take advantage of this opportunity to pull these people to the side of the imperial court, tie them up with the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, fight with Mu Suman, and fight with the thieves under Gao Yingxiang's command together, then once Mu Suman and the thief team continue to be forced to move west, the officials and troops of the imperial court in the northwest may have to turn back and work hard to eliminate these people.

These edicts of Emperor Chongzhen were unanimously supported by the Minister of Military Aircraft, Sun Chengzong, and the Ministry of War, Shangshu Nanjuyi, so it was decreed that some of the people and horses in front of the Jinyi Guard Palace would leave Beijing and go to the northwest to protect the eunuchs of the big and small messengers of the ceremonial eunuchs.

Since Emperor Chongzhen set up the Military Aircraft Department, which specializes in handling important military affairs, the status of the celebrant supervisor, who was originally stuck between the emperor and the cabinet and has an extremely important position, has begun to decline invisibly.

A few months ago, Emperor Chongzhen set up the Internal Affairs Office in the Imperial Palace, and assigned the Internal Carrier Warehouse, which belonged to the emperor's own accounting room, as well as all the royal properties outside the palace, to the Internal Affairs Office.

On the one hand, he continued to manage as many as 20,000 or 30,000 eunuchs on duty in the Forbidden City and various imperial tombs outside the palace, especially supervising the operation of the 24 yamen in the palace, and supervising the duty, cleaning, maintenance and warranty of nearly 10,000 houses in the Forbidden City.

On the other hand, it continues to play the role of running errands related to court official affairs such as uploading and issuing orders and sending letters around the emperor.

When Wei Zhongxian was in power during the Apocalypse, the kind of power that the celebrant held, that is, the great power that he could vote on behalf of the cabinet and even approve the red on behalf of the emperor, was long gone.

Even when Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne, the status formed by the celebrant after taking the lead in purging the palace ban was gradually lost.

Nowadays, in terms of the relationship with the emperor or the royal family, the celebrant is not as good as the internal affairs office, and even inferior to the palace chief who is in charge of the female officials in the palace and takes care of the property outside the palace for the concubines in the palace.

In terms of status by the emperor's side, the celebrant is not as good as the three guards of the pro-army such as Jinyiwei, nor as good as Dongchang, and even inferior to the military attache in front of the emperor.

In the past, the powerful and prestigious celebrant eunuch, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne for three years, he gradually returned to his original position as the head of the twenty-four eunuchs of the inner court.

In this regard, Cao Huachun, as the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and the celebrant of the ceremony, sees it in his eyes and concentrates it in his heart, but there is nothing he can do.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't trust the celebrant and didn't let the celebrant handle really important affairs, and he kept promoting Gao Shiming, Wang Chengen, Fang Zhenghua, Chu Xianxian, and the ministers of the younger generation to take charge of affairs.

Not to mention that the so-called internal exercises controlled by the celebrant during the Apocalypse are gone, that is, the original twelve guards on duty in the Forbidden City, as well as the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions of the imperial horse supervisor, have also been completely revoked at the beginning of the current Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne.

Now the Jinyi Guard, Tiance Guard, and Yulin Guard, who are divided into blocks and are on duty in the palace, as well as the Imperial Attendant Military Attache, Gong Wei Division, and Palace Front Division, who are not the confidants and cronies carefully selected by Emperor Chongzhen in the three years since his accession to the throne? !

Therefore, there is nothing he can do but be more cautious in his words and deeds.

After Wei Zhongxian was killed, he was ordered to clean up the palace ban, and killed thousands of palace eunuchs in more than a month, how many of them were wrongly killed, he himself can't say clearly, but he must know a lot.

After the purge, the tens of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids remaining in the palace, everyone was in awe of him Cao Huachun, and seeing him was like seeing ten halls of Yama.

But he often wondered how many people hated him behind this awe.

Of course, it was the emperor's will to purge the palace ban and purge the twenty-four eunuchs and palace maids of the inner court who were in power in the palace during the Apocalypse.

However, the surviving eunuchs and palace maids in the palace will never be able to put this account on the emperor's head, and if they want to keep the account, they can only record it on him, the person in charge.

Cao Huachun, who was born in the inner study hall, is thoughtful, and of course he knows the truth in this.

Therefore, he did not dare to have the ambition to seize power as the previous celebrant eunuchs, nor did he have the courage and strength to seize power as the previous celebrant eunuchs.

However, it is precisely because of this that Cao Huachun, the eunuch who is now the master of ceremonies, has been able to do it safely and steadily, otherwise, he would not have known where the bones were buried.