Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 84 Eunuch Gao Shiming

Xu Yingyuan's incident was too sudden. After Zhu Youjian dealt with him, he immediately blocked the news, screened the people around him, and asked Liu Ruoyu in a low voice:

"Tu Wenfu, the royal horse supervisor's pawprint, is there any bad deeds?"

"After he is transferred, who can take control of the Royal Horse Prison?"

As the nephew under the care of Xu Yingyuan, it is too risky for Tu Wenfu to continue to control the Royal Horse Supervisor. As the emperor, Zhu Youjian did not want to take this risk.

Liu Ruoyu came from a family of guards officers and knew the sensitivity of this matter, so he told the emperor:

"Tu Wenfu forced himself to buy Qi Chen Li Chengen's house and participated in this case."

"The eunuch Bingbi who I served previously, Gao Shiming, is not well-known in the inner court and is enough to take over the position of Royal Horse Supervisor."

Nodding slightly, Zhu Youjian said:
"Then tell Gao Shiming to serve as the Royal Horse Supervisor."

"Li Chengen's house was vacated by Tu Wenfu and he paid for the loss."

"There is no need to investigate the parts involving him. Let him go to Nanjing!"

"After all, he helped me reach the top, so I want to give him a way out."

Li Chengen was the eldest son of Princess Ning'an, the third daughter of Emperor Jiajing. Because Yuanzi was attracted by Wei Zhongxian, he was framed and planned to be executed.

Fortunately, he was imprisoned with Fang Zhenru, Hui Shiyang and others, and was asked to suspend his sentence by the bachelor Zhang Ruitu, and has not yet been executed.

In addition, Li Chengen had some involvement with Liu Duo when he was in prison. He has been retried by Zhu Youjian at Dali Temple and will be released soon.

Considering that no human life was involved, Tu Wenfu was not the main culprit in this case. Zhu Youjian decided to let him make up for the loss and no longer pursue the matter.

He even plans to send him to Nanjing to arrange other tasks.

Tu Wenfu was worried about continuing to control the Royal Horse Prison, but there was nothing to worry about if he was left outside.

After all, he is a eunuch, so he doesn't have to worry about rebellion outside.

What is more worrying is that he will act recklessly and cause anger and resentment.

During the Wanli period, Gaohuai's rebellion against Liao and Gaocai's rebellion against Fujian made Zhu Youjian very wary of eunuchs misbehaving in local areas.

However, Zhu Youjian ignored the proposal of some civil officials to remove the guarding eunuchs. After all, the eunuchs are his eyes and ears, and he cannot destroy his eyes.

It's just that most of the guarding eunuchs in various places are sent out by Wei Zhongxian. If they are called to the capital for review, there may be chaos in the place.

So after thinking about it, Zhu Youjian decided to replace Wei Zhongxian's cronies first, and then gradually replace others.

Liu Ruoyu was very happy when he heard that the emperor ordered Gao Shiming to replace Tu Wenfu, and immediately took the order and went out to convey this decree.

Gao Shiming was very experienced. When Tu Wenfu was first elected to the palace in the first year of Tianqi, he and Wang An and others served as eunuchs. Tu Wenfu, a junior who was attached to Wei Zhongxian and Xu Yingyuan, was not taken seriously by him at all.

After hearing the order from Liu Ruoyu, Gao Shiming directly led a few people and took over the Royal Horse Supervisor with the emperor's order, and then went to Tu Wenfu and asked him to hand over the seal.

Tu Wenfu was puzzled as to why he was suddenly dismissed. Faced with Gao Shiming's request, he still wanted to argue in front of the emperor.

But at this time, Liu Ruoyu told him that Xu Yingyuan had been executed and that he was also involved in Li Chengen's case. If he doesn't go to Nanjing obediently, he will go to prison.

This made him lose the courage and had no choice but to hand over the seal.

Ask about Xu Yingyuan and find out that he was the one who made Concubine Zhuang angry to death. Tu Wenfu sighed, secretly sighing at his bad luck:
"Originally I wanted to follow my old uncle to make a fortune, but I didn't expect that I would be implicated by him. 』

"I've done a lot of stupid things, and I don't know when I'll fall." 』

"My actions were slow and I didn't express my feelings to Your Majesty earlier!" 』

Tu Wenfu is elegant in appearance, scheming, good at calculations, good at literature and science, able to argue, and is good at playing the piano and shooting. He was once invited by the Holy Lady Hakka to teach his son Hou Guoxing, and he became the eunuch Bingbi four years after entering the palace.

Compared to him, Xu Yingyuan, who is as illiterate as Wei Zhongxian, can be described as a complete idiot. He originally planned to rely on Xu Yingyuan to get through this period of time, but he didn't expect to be implicated by Xu Yingyuan so quickly, and even the Royal Horse Supervisor's palm seal was lost.

Now we can only hope that the emperor will remember the merits of ascending to the throne and save his life.

Zhu Youjian did remember the merits of ascending to the pole, and knew the important role of the imperial horse supervisor in ascending to the pole. After learning that Tu Wenfu had obeyed obediently, he felt relieved. I feel that this person is quite useful and can serve as a garrison eunuch in Nanjing.

Today's Nanjing garrison eunuchs Liu Jing and Yang Guorui are both Wei Zhongxian's cronies, and Yang Guorui is under Wei Zhongxian's name, so he will definitely not be able to continue to use them.

Let Tu Wenfu take over as the eunuch of Nanjing, which is worthy of him.

Immediately, Tu Wenfu and Wang Guotai were summoned to prepare to deal with it together.

Wang Guotai had a simple temperament and didn't care much about external affairs. At this time, he didn't know what was going on and was still preparing dinner for the emperor.

Hearing that Xu Yingyuan had disappeared inexplicably and that the emperor wanted to deal with him, he did not dare to resist and went to Qianqing Palace to obey his orders.

Zhu Youjian is actually very optimistic about Wang Guotai. He feels that this person is honest and can do things with confidence.

But this is also Wang Guotai's biggest shortcoming. He is too honest and pays attention to integrity.

Zhu Youjian didn't even know what kind of favor this honest man had received from Xu Yingyuan, and whether he would go to any lengths to repay the favor.

So he didn’t dare to let Wang Guotai continue to cook for him, so he arranged for him and Tu Wenfu to go to the south to calm down for a while:
"You should already know about Xu Yingyuan, so I won't say more. I don't want to mention this person."

"From now on, you will go to Nanjing together. Tu Wenfu will serve as the garrison eunuch, and Wang Guotai will coordinate the garrison and also serve as the weaving eunuch of Suhang."

"You guys pack up and set off on another day!"

He thought he would go to Nanjing to retire, or even be sent to Xiaoling Guard to grow vegetables. Tu Wenfu was really overjoyed when he heard that he was going to be a eunuch in Nanjing. The garrison eunuch in Nanjing is not as powerful as his current position, but in Nanjing, he is the number one figure in the inner court and one of the three giants in Nanjing. It is the best place for eunuchs to be sent abroad.

As for the weaving eunuchs in Suhang, they are even more beautiful. Their rank is the same as that of the eunuchs in Bingbi, and they are more comfortable.

It can be said that Zhu Youjian has been extremely kind to the two of them and arranged the best place for them to go.

This made Tu Wenfu and Wang Guotai burst into tears, crying to thank the emperor for his grace.

Zhu Youjian looked at the two of them and felt very uncomfortable. Because these two people were eunuchs that he planned to use in a big way, but now they had to be released because they were implicated by Xu Yingyuan. He didn't even deal with Wei Zhongxian's cronies, but first dealt with the eunuchs who relied on him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian felt even more sad about the lack of available people, and said to Tu Wenfu and Wang Guotai:

"After going to Nanjing, I will send back Cao Huachun and other ministers who sent Wei Zhongxian to Nanjing. I will deal with it again."

"I have already arranged your tasks, so you can prepare in advance."

With that said, Zhu Youjian told Tu Wenfu:
"After arriving in Nanjing, we will first examine Wei Zhongxian's cronies and report those with lives for disposal."

"There is no life but other misdeeds to review, and illegal income and income from unknown sources are confiscated."

"Those with serious misdeeds will go to Xiaolingwei to grow vegetables, while those with less serious misdeeds will be arranged to retire in Nanjing."

"Use the confiscated money as principal to open Yingtian Bank in Yingtianfu, Nanjing."

"You should know something about Wang Chengen's opening of Sunchon Bank, right?"

Tu Wenfu also held the post of admiral of Taicang Bank and Jieshen Bank, and he also paid some attention to Shuntian Bank. Hearing the emperor's inquiry, he hurriedly nodded in agreement and decided to learn more about it carefully after returning and go to Nanjing to do this well.

Sure enough, the emperor's next words let him know that Yingtian Bank was definitely not a decoration and had great real power:

"In the future, all government offices in Nanjing must open accounts at Yingtian Bank, and all money transactions must go through Yingtian Bank."

"The salaries of distinguished officials in Nanjing are paid in silver and are also issued by Yingtian Bank."

"The gold flowers and silver collected from the south are temporarily stored in Yingtian Bank."

"Yingcheon Bank and Sunchon Bank should cooperate to carry out north-south remittance business, settle directly on the account, and decide how much silver tael to escort every year."

"In the future, I will open banks in various places and set up a eunuch Bingbi to supervise banking business. If you handle this well, you can return to Beijing in the future."

Just a few words outline the bank's prospects. Tu Wenfu was excited, knowing that this was what he expected to do when he returned to Beijing, and he was determined to get it done.

As for Wang Guotai, Zhu Youjian asked him to review the former weaving eunuch Liang Dong, and then make statistics on the weaving situation in Suzhou and Hangzhou, as well as the development of the textile industry in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Songjiang and other places.

After all, it is the industry that first started the industrial revolution, and it cannot be overemphasized. First arrange for someone to go there and understand the situation.

In order to reassure them, Zhu Youjian also ordered Xu Yingyuan's younger brother and nephew to be given a hereditary quota of 1,000 households and a hereditary 100 household quota, and also to build a new 1,000-household institution overseas.

If they have brothers and nephews who want to make a career, they will also give quotas to one hereditary thousand household and one hereditary one hundred household, and they will also go overseas.

As for the commanders and colleagues who had attacked previously, the commanders and envoys, the commanders and colleagues, etc., were naturally cut off.

Although the emperor's behavior was a bit stingy, they did not dare to complain.

It was abnormal for Wei Zhongxian to carry out large-scale attacks when he came to power, but this kind of job with thousands or hundreds of households was more reliable.

What's more, this time the secular government can build a new guard house. As long as some prisoners are assigned to be military households and go through the hard period of building a guard house, their brothers and nephews can become emperors overseas in the future, which is much better than just receiving a salary.

So the two decided to collect prisoners in the south and assign them to military households.

The overseas trend that Zhu Youjian hopes to develop will start from them.

After watching the two people leave, Zhu Youjian arranged their whereabouts and then thought of Wang Yongzuo.

It was originally planned to let this man take over the East Factory together with Xu Yingyuan, but now that Xu Yingyuan has fallen and Wang Yongzuo is also involved with him, he can only continue to use Wang Ti.

However, Wang Yongzuo was different from Tu Wenfu and Wang Guotai. His relationship with Xu Yingyuan was not that close. He also sought refuge with the emperor Zhu Youjian, but he just followed Xu Yingyuan's path.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian did not send him to Nanjing. Instead, he was transferred to Tianshou Mountain garrison eunuch and continued to supervise the expenses of the mausoleum.

He wanted to keep this person in the capital, so that Wang Tiqian would be on guard. If Wang Tiqian failed to handle things in the East Factory, someone would take over.

　"Zi Zhong Zhi":
　　In March of the first year of Tianqi, the mausoleum of Guang Temple was first built, and the seal of the official supervisor was in the hands of the wise man...

　　At the beginning, in May of the first year of Tianqi, eunuch Gao Shiming, eunuch Wang an, and eunuch Lu were all at the same time reporting illness and asking to retire, in order to protect themselves. …

　　Lei Chen (Liu Ruoyu) worked for eunuch Chang in the winter of 1911, fixing the locks on the wrong piers, and then he ascended to the throne in Guangmiao and was promoted to the director of rites to write for the emperor. When the first emperor ascended to the throne, he served as a high eunuch, Shi Ming, and later he was promoted to eunuch cheng. In the winter of the first year of Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian retired from the Si Li Jian to the Royal Horse Jian. He still lived with Gao Gong in his private house on Xizhimen Street and served around him every day. Gao Suo compiled a book on health preservation called "Yi Hua Yuan Zong", and Lei Chen once copied and copied it...

　　There are two golden lions on the left and right outside Qianqing Gate. When he entered the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, Danbi said the four words "reverence to Heaven and the Patriarch of Heaven". On the fourth day of the eighth lunar month of the first year of Chongzhen's reign, he was hanged by the eunuch Gao Mingbi.

　　"Chongzhen Legacy": the first year of Chongzhen:

　　The eunuch Gao Shiming, the eunuch of the Ministry of Rites, was ordered to print a plaque inscribed with respect to Heaven and the Patriarch, and hang it in the main hall of Qianqing Palace. Wei Jing Wei Yi, Yunzhi Jue's sixteen characters are in two couplets.

　　"History of the Ming Dynasty" Volume 266, Biographies 154:

　　(Jingzhong Temple) is said to be dedicated to the internal ministers, including eunuchs Li Fengxiang, Wang Zhixin, Gao Shiming, Chu Xianzhang, Fang Zhenghua and Zhang Guoyuan.

　　(Gao Shiming was already the Eunuch Bingbi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, and served as the eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and later died in the festival)

　　Gao Shiming's tomb is a cultural relic protection unit in Haidian District. "Ziuzhongzhi" records: Gao himself chose the cemetery at Dajuesi Mountain in the southwest of Baijiatan. Its name is "Jiulong Mountain Dianxue"...

　　
　
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