Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 230, Absolutely Not
"My lord is guilty!"

Hearing what Emperor Hongzhi said, Bai Ang quickly lowered his head to the ground, and said in a panic.

"Get up."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Bai Ang coldly, and said very calmly.

"Since Xie Aiqing has no way to continue the investigation, I think this case will be handed over to other people to investigate."

Hearing what Emperor Hongzhi said, Xie Qian felt a little lost, and slightly bowed his hands in salute and returned to his seat. Obviously, Emperor Hongzhi didn't trust him now.

Such a big case was handed over to him, and he didn't find anything out, and it was implicated in the massacre of several grain merchants. It is reasonable for Emperor Hongzhi to choose another person to investigate.

It's just that as a cabinet minister, I lost the trust of the emperor, and life will be difficult in the future.

But he doesn't have time to think about this matter now, because who will be sent by Emperor Hongzhi to continue investigating this case is the big thing right now.

Of course, not only Xie Qian, but also other ministers in the court became nervous. Some ministers were afraid of trouble and didn't want to be involved in this quagmire, afraid of being named by Emperor Hongzhi.

Some ministers are vacillating, this is also a good opportunity to become famous, as long as this matter can be done well, in the future, Jane will not have a chance to rise in the heart of the emperor?
Some ministers trembled secretly, for fear that this matter would be pursued endlessly and dragged on. Once they implicated themselves, it would be over.

"Xiao Jing~"

Emperor Hongzhi read out a name coldly.

As Emperor Hongzhi read out Xiao Jing's name, the officials couldn't help but widen their eyes.

In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were a force to be reckoned with, such as Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures who went to the West seven times, and Xiao Jing now is also considered a good eunuch.

As for eunuchs with bad reputations, there are too many, too many, from Wang Zhen who encouraged Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen to conquest himself during the Tumu Fortress change, to Xichang Wang Zhi (Yu) who made people change his face during the Ming Xianzong period. The prototype of Huatian), each of which is the master of gnashing teeth hated by civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats.

For eunuchs, civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty disliked them very much, especially the former Emperor Xianzong liked to rely heavily on the power of eunuchs and factory guards.

In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, Emperor Xianzong established a West Factory alone. Together with the original East Factory and Jinyiwei, almost the entire Chenghua Dynasty fell under the pressure of the secret service organization. peaceful.

Finally, the Chenghua Dynasty ushered in Emperor Hongzhi. This Emperor Hongzhi was a good man and an emperor who was close to civil servants. So when Emperor Hongzhi came to power, no matter whether it was the eunuchs in the palace or the factory guards, they were all hit hard. , the life of the ministers will be easier.

Everyone went home to drink and talk without worrying about being monitored by the factory guards. Everyone even dared to point at Emperor Hongzhi's nose and spray him with smears on his face. Talking about it is the real good life, this is what Daming should have been like, and it is also what Daming Zhongxing looks like.

But now, Emperor Hongzhi actually pronounced Xiao Jing's name. Who is Xiao Jing? He is the biggest eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, the boss of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and also in charge of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

If such a eunuch was placed in the Chenghua Dynasty, with the personality of Emperor Xianzong, this Xiao Jing would probably be a character that would frighten the officials, but in the Hongzhi Dynasty, this Xiao Jing, like Emperor Hongzhi, belonged to the role of a good old man. There is no sense of presence.

Since Emperor Hongzhi came to power, he has relied heavily on the power of civil servants, and has never used the power of eunuchs and factory guards. This is what the officials like most about Emperor Hongzhi.

Pro-virtuous ministers are far from villains, and civil servants are naturally all virtuous ministers. This villain is these eunuchs and factory guards. If there is another one, military generals and nobles can also be included.

Now that Emperor Hongzhi named Xiao Jing, it was obvious that he wanted the eunuchs and factory guards to thoroughly investigate the matter. This was something that had never happened before, and it was also something that the courtiers were most afraid of.

As for being an official, honest officials like Ximen Bao, Zhao Guanghan, and Xu Yougong are still a minority after all, especially when the salary of an official in the Ming Dynasty is really too low, everyone wants to live a decent life, how much is this ass are not clean.

Eunuchs and factory guards do not intervene in the court, everyone is an official, and they can understand each other naturally, so nothing will happen.

But once the eunuchs and factory guards intervene, everyone will have a bad life, and a random check can make everyone peel off the grass.

It was hard for everyone to fool Emperor Hongzhi, make him trust the officials, and let him not use the power of eunuchs and factory guards. I didn't expect that Emperor Hongzhi would ask Xiao Jing to investigate this matter. At that time, even if it is destroyed again Losing a dozen or dozens of people would not even think about suppressing this case.

What's more, the power of eunuchs and factory guards was used for a while, and it was always good for a while. If Emperor Hongzhi liked the power of relying on eunuchs and factory guards in the future, the terrifying shadow of the Chenghua Dynasty might once again shroud Daming. Sky.

"Your Majesty, absolutely not~"

Before Xiao Jing could reply, a large number of ministers stood up immediately, all of them red-eyed. Now it is not about the theft of food from Dezhou Warehouse and Linqing Warehouse. The major issue of not being able to gain the trust and reliance of Emperor Hongzhi came up, and even Liu Jian and Li Dongyang stood up to stop Emperor Hongzhi.

The only group that didn’t react too much was the military generals and nobles. For them, no matter whether they were civil servants or eunuchs, they would not be in power anyway. For the rice bowl, just live your own life with peace of mind.

However, Zhang Mao still looked at each other with a few familiar people, and there was a look of surprise in their eyes.

Everyone has already figured out Emperor Hongzhi's temperament clearly, and everyone can basically guess what kind of reaction he will have.

If such a thing happened, if it was according to the temperament of Emperor Hongzhi in the past, it would probably be better for another minister to investigate, and nothing would be found in the end, and then it would be nothing.

But who would have thought that now Emperor Hongzhi was going to ask Xiao Jing to investigate this matter, planning to use the power of eunuchs and factory guards to investigate this matter, this is really surprising, no one thought of this.

But if you think about it carefully, the incident this time seems to be too big, and these grain merchants are too greedy. Two hundred yuan a catty of grain is simply unheard of.

The point is that such a big thing happened, these people still want to be so perfunctory to Emperor Hongzhi, and what they did is really too much.

It is estimated that Emperor Hongzhi now has distrust of these civil servants, so he thought about reusing the power of eunuchs and factory guards.

Although the power of the eunuchs and factory guards is huge, in the final analysis, these powers are also the power of the emperor. The key is whether the emperor has thought about using this power, and whether it is necessary to use this power.

In the past, Emperor Hongzhi trusted his ministers and let everyone do everything. Naturally, the eunuchs and factory guards had no sense of existence. Now Emperor Hongzhi doesn't trust them. He feels that he has been deceived, so he naturally thinks of using eunuchs and factory guards The strength of the factory guard is gone.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Hongzhi did not use the power of the eunuchs and factory guards. After his death, Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao quickly rebuilt the West Factory and reused the eunuchs and factory guards again.

Some people even said that if Emperor Chongzhen could use the power of eunuchs and factory guards, maybe the Ming Dynasty could continue.

Without eunuchs and factory guards, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was nothing more than a puppet controlled by civil officials.

　Some book friends keep asking why I didn’t write Jinyiwei, saying that I don’t understand anything and write historical texts, which is a bit unfair to me. The eunuchs of Hongzhi Dynasty and Jinyiwei really don’t have any sense of existence~~
　　
　
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