In November of the eighth year of orthodoxy, the orthodox emperor ushered in his sixteenth birthday, and the capital was decorated with lights, a joyful scene.

Finally, the orthodox emperor finally ushered in the day of pro-government after eight years on the throne, which was an important joy for the Ming Dynasty.

The pro-government ceremony was held in the Taihe Palace, and the orthodox emperor accepted the civil and military bows of the Manchu Dynasty and a series of processes and officially took over the military and political power of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the custom, the orthodox emperor after the pro-government announced a general amnesty for the world, reduced taxes, and enjoyed with the people.

Subsequently, the orthodox emperor issued three holy decrees in a row, which were related to eunuchs, courtiers and the common people, and were regarded as the three fires after the orthodox emperor took office.

In the first holy decree, the orthodox emperor strictly forbade the eunuchs to privately marry the outer court and entrust them to ask for it.

This move was not a whim of the orthodox emperor, but to beat the rising inner court, since Liu Qiu's death, some civil officials who wanted to take advantage of opportunism have successively taken refuge in Wang Zhen, which greatly increased the power of the inner court.

Holy Decree Cloud: The ancestors of the old system of internal officials were in charge of the affairs of the internal government, and they did not dare to reveal it. Today, there are those who do not abide by the law, have private friendships with various yamen officials abroad, leak things, or because of official business, camp officials have been private, or because of family affection, or use military service to transfer the law of election to the law, enter and exit the criminal name, work heavily on the army and the people, and obstruct justice.

Ignore the past.

From now on, it is advisable to abstain from each other and abide by the law. Those who are plain and safe and observe etiquette should be more cautious, and those who keep the law for a long time and have favoritism will wash their hearts and change their minds; Or if you don't follow the law of your ancestors, you will be guilty!

This is similar to Emperor Xuande's execution of the eunuchs who did evil, and they are all a way to control the eunuchs.

The second is related to the atmosphere of forming parties and deceiving superiors and subordinates in the officialdom, which shows the dissatisfaction of the orthodox emperor with this atmosphere.

Holy Decree Cloud: The imperial court has established hundreds of officials, divided into government affairs, and will be able to abide by the law and have achievements.

Officials inside and outside Beijing communicate with each other, cheat on fate, or fear of power, or bribe, and when they encounter affairs, they entrust each other privately, so that civil and military officials cannot be elected, and the severity of the sentence is improper; The army and the people were forced by it, or the rich and the poor were poor, and the work and rest were uneven; or grain and grass, and there is often a shift.

The Feng Xianguan Party is not silent, and it is intolerable to talk about crimes.

I don't ask. Those who have been observing the law since now should be more cautious and fearful, in order to protect their name and festival; Those who play favoritism should repair the province in order to rehabilitate themselves, not to be co-ordinated by the situation, not to be lured by bribery, not to compare with the party to destroy the public with private interests, not to be attached to things in order to get lucky, not to be soft and deceitful to hinder the right path, and not to tolerate treachery and evil and absenteeism.

Appointed by the deputy court, he will always keep his position, and if he dares to change his teachings, he will be punished for serious crimes.

From these two holy decrees, it is not difficult to see that the orthodox emperor's move has beaten both the inner court and the outer ministers, hoping that they can do their best for the court.

As for the third decree, it is related to the livelihood of the people, and the orthodox emperor issued an order to appease the people who fled the country for various reasons.

Divine Decree Cloud: The fugitives everywhere were embarrassed by food and clothing due to floods and droughts, and because the government was too much, they had to move to other places.

Recently, it has been reported that there are fugitives who are worried about the impermanence of their migration, leaving behind tax servitude, which has affected the civilians and does not allow them to report their registration. Among them, there are those who wish to return to their hometowns, but they have been away from the indigenous people for a long time, have no permanent property, and are entangled between public and private, and cannot tolerate them, so that they have been wandering and have no reason to live in peace.

Within six months, the fugitives who wish to report their registration will listen to their registration, and must be properly placed, and they will still be exempted from military service for three years.

Those who wish to resume their careers will be given a record of their names and sent by the autumn to give them preferential treatment as usual, and the public and private officials will be exempted from the order. Those who are fugitives from military prisoners will be exempted from their crimes first, and those who are guilty of serious crimes will be reduced at the end.

If you wait and see, and those who do not go well with the appeasement, you can send out to fill the army. Those who do not surrender themselves to the prisoners of the military craftsmen will be filled with troops from afar. Those who harbor are not guilty of sin.

Of course, Li Yuntian has a supportive attitude towards these three fires of the orthodox emperor, because it is precisely because of his handwriting, and its purpose is to rectify the rule of officials and appease the people.

With the pro-government of the orthodox emperor, the post of chief of internal affairs of the Forbidden City was also brightened, and the orthodox emperor let Jin Ying step down from his position as chief of internal affairs and chief eunuch of the seal on the grounds of Jin Ying's old age, and promoted Song Dashan to the chief of internal affairs of the Forbidden City, and Jin Ying to be the deputy chief of internal affairs.

As for the position of the eunuch in charge of the seal, it was held by Wang Zhen, the former eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the pen, and Jin Ying retreated to become the chief eunuch of the eunuch of the celebrant and the chief eunuch of the eunuch of the celebrant and the chief eunuch of the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch.

Wang Jin, the former chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the prince of Dongchang Factory, was sent to Nanjing to become the Nanjing garrison eunuch, and the eunuch who replaced Wang Jin was Lu Rong, the chief of internal affairs of the Nanjing court who was transferred from Nanjing, and served as the eunuch Bingbi, the second eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and the deputy chief of internal affairs of the Forbidden City.

This was unexpected by the outside world, and no one could have imagined that the orthodox emperor would transfer eunuchs from Nanjing to take up such an important position.

Lu Rong and Song Dashan and Wang Zhen are also old acquaintances, when Emperor Xuande stayed in Nanjing City as the crown prince, the three of them knew each other, but Lu Rong failed to escort Emperor Xuande to the capital with Song Dashan and Wang Zhen to ascend the throne, so he stayed in Nanjing City, and after some struggle, he sat on the post of chief of internal affairs of the Nanjing court.

It was naturally Li Yuntian's idea to let Lu Rong serve as the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and Li Yuntian suggested to the orthodox emperor that he should balance the power of the inner court like Emperor Xuande, and only in this way could the inner court be firmly controlled in his hands and make the inner court serve the imperial power.

Although the orthodox emperor trusted Wang Zhen and Song Dashan, who grew up with him since childhood, he trusted Li Yuntian, the teacher who taught him since childhood, whether it was Emperor Xuande, the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, and even the current Empress Dowager Sun, they all trusted Li Yuntian incomparably.

Therefore, the orthodox emperor accepted Li Yuntian's proposal and transferred Lu Rong from Nanjing City, injecting a fresh blood into the inner court.

As a result, Lu Rong was able to restrain Wang Zhen's power, so that Wang Zhen could no longer mobilize the people of Dongchang to do things for him as he wanted, so that the inner court formed a three-legged situation, which was the real way to control it.

Until the holy decree of the orthodox emperor came down, Lu Rong, who had just come to the capital and was anxiously waiting for the news, knew that he had been promoted to an official and became the deputy head of internal affairs of the Forbidden City, the second eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of Dongchang Factory, he was stunned, and he never imagined that such a big pie would fall from the sky and smash it on his head.

After coming back to his senses, Lu Rong knelt down excitedly to receive this will of the orthodox emperor, and his excitement was overflowing, and in a blink of an eye, he became the fourth person in the inner court, on an equal footing with Song Dashan, Wang Zhen and Jin Ying.

After collecting the holy decree, Lu Rong slipped into the Forbidden City and went to Kunning Palace to kneel and thank Empress Dowager Sun, thinking that his promotion to the post of deputy head of internal affairs in the Forbidden City was the credit of Empress Dowager Sun.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Rong is a fellow villager of the Empress Dowager Sun, and when he was young, he went to Nanzhili with his family to beg for food, and because he couldn't survive anymore, his family sold him into the palace as a waiter.

When Empress Dowager Sun was still the crown princess's concubine, Lu Rong served her, and twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, in fact, after Emperor Xuande ascended the throne, Lu Rong had the opportunity to go to the capital with Empress Dowager Sun, but Empress Dowager Sun found him at that time and asked him to stay in Nanjing.

After all, the situation of the Empress Dowager Sun was not very good at that time, the Empress Dowager Zhang was very fond of Empress Hu, and the Empress Dowager Sun did not have any power in the palace, so it was better to let Lu Rong stay in Nanjing to develop.

Over the years, Lu Rong has been able to stay up to the position of the head of internal affairs of the Nanjing court, and he is naturally inseparable from the support of the Empress Dowager Sun, who has more say in the affairs of the Nanjing Palace than the Forbidden City.

"You should thank the loyal prince, the loyal prince recommended you to the emperor, so you can come to the capital." Empress Dowager Sun looked at Lu Rong, who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile, "From now on, you must do your best to run errands for the emperor, and don't live up to the expectations of the mourning family and the loyal king." ”

"The slave understands that he will do his best to assist the emperor." Lu Rong couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, he never thought that there was a relationship with Li Yuntian here, he had never had anything to do with Li Yuntian before, and then solemnly replied to the Empress Dowager Sun.

"As long as you have the emperor in your heart, then if you have any grievances in the future, the mourning family will be your master." Empress Dowager Sun was very satisfied with Lu Rong's reaction, and said after a deep sigh.

"The slave thanked the Queen Mother, and in the future, he will bow to the emperor and die!" Lu Rong was suddenly overjoyed in his heart, which meant that Empress Dowager Sun would be his backer in the palace in the future, and hurriedly kowtowed to Empress Dowager Sun to thank him, so that he could compete with Song Dashan and Wang Zhen.

Otherwise, Lu Rong's deputy head of internal affairs in the Forbidden City, the second eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and the prince of Dongchang can only be in vain, and will soon be overshadowed by Song Dashan and Wang Zhen.

The corners of Empress Dowager Sun's mouth showed a smug smile, with Lu Rong as her eyes and ears, then she would be able to know the movements in the court and take a good look at the Ming Dynasty for the orthodox emperor.

"The loyal king deserves to be the loyal king, far-sighted, and the strategy is unfathomable!" Subsequently, Empress Dowager Sun secretly sighed in her heart, the person who asked her to leave Lu Rong in the Nanjing Palace back then was Li Yuntian, otherwise Lu Rong was just a middle-level eunuch in the Forbidden City today, and he was not qualified to serve as the head of the Forbidden City's internal affairs office.

But now it is different, Lu Ronggui is the head of internal affairs of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, not only has enough qualifications to be transferred to the capital as the deputy head of the Forbidden City, but also brings a group of henchmen, which is enough for him to gain a firm foothold in the inner court.

Like Li Yuntian, the Empress Dowager Sun also hopes that the various forces in the inner court will contain each other, otherwise there is a danger of getting out of control, after all, the inner court represents the will of the emperor, if there is no check and balance, then it is likely to act behind the emperor's back, this is a scene that the Empress Dowager Sun does not want to see, in her opinion, the eunuchs in the inner court are the servants of the royal family, how can they overstep their responsibilities?

Lu Rong's unexpected appearance made a huge change in the situation in the inner court, and some eunuchs in the inner court took the opportunity to take refuge in Lu Rong's disciples, so that Lu Rong, who was backed by the Empress Dowager Sun, quickly grew in power and became the fourth largest force in the inner court in addition to Song Dashan, Wang Zhen and Jin Ying.

Although the inner court was controlled by Song Dashan, the head of internal affairs, and the three deputy governors, Wang Zhen, Jin Ying and Lu Rong, because Jin Ying acted in a low-key manner, the power of the inner court was actually divided between Song Dashan, Wang Zhen and Lu Rong, forming a three-legged pattern.

Jin Ying has experienced a lot of ups and downs, and he has long regarded fame, fortune and power very lightly, after all, once a son of heaven and a courtier, although the orthodox emperor still trusts him, he obviously can't compare with Song Dashan, Wang Zhen, who has been with the orthodox emperor since childhood, and Lu Rong, the henchman of the Empress Dowager Sun.

Therefore, Jin Ying chose to stay away from the disputes in the court and cultivate herself, and secretly hibernated, waiting for the opportunity to come back.

Since Song Dashan was not interested in the celebrant eunuch, the contradictions and battles in the inner court were concentrated on Wang Zhen and Lu Rong, and both of them had something to rely on behind them, so they would naturally not give in easily.

The core of the fight between Wang Zhen and Lu Rong is the control of the East Factory, only by controlling the East Factory can he grasp the power to fight against the civil and military officials of the court, in the past, due to Wang Jin's concession, the East Factory was actually controlled by Wang Zhen, and Lu Rong would definitely not sit back and watch Wang Zhen cross the line.

This is exactly what Li Yuntian wants to see, so Wang Zhen will be restrained by Lu Rong and will no longer be able to do whatever he wants as before.