Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 490 Check and Balance
Pang Tianshou, a member of Shuntian Mansion, served as the chief eunuch of the Chongzhen, Hongguang and Longwu dynasties.

It's just that his eunuch was a bit miserable compared with the great eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was opposed to the group of civil servants, which made the emperor need to rely on the power of the eunuchs to form a balance in the officialdom. At the time of the emperor, Emperor Yizong, who was politically naive, broke this balance, and the eunuchs lost power from then on.

As a great eunuch, Pang Tianshou naturally hopes to do something to revive the glory of the inner court, so as early as in Fujing, he showed that he wanted to take power, but Longwu was displeased, and he sent him to the court. Zhi Kai was sent to Macau to learn about Frangji people and deal with the recruitment of Frangji talents.

Not long after he arrived in Macau, Zheng Zhilong sold Fujian. The life and death of Emperor Longwu was unknown. He originally planned to go to Zhaoqing, but at this time Tang Wang was in Guangzhou to supervise the country to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He could not see the situation clearly, so he stayed in Macau while studying Christianity. Doctrine, while watching the current situation.

Afterwards, the Longwu court came back to life. Although Fujian was lost, Jiangxi was completely restored. The Ming army fought a bloody battle in Yanping, and successfully surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao, forcing the Qing soldiers who attacked Guangzhou to withdraw from the siege and return to the division, allowing Guangdong to be preserved until Longwu moved. In Guangzhou, the imperial court has regained its foothold and opened up the situation. He, who was far away in Macau, got the news, so he gave up and went to King Gui, and rushed to Guangzhou to continue serving with three hundred francs machine gunners.

Most of the court ladies and eunuchs of the Longwu court in Fujian were lost, and Pang Tianshou took it for granted that he became the chief eunuch again.

When he was in Fujian, the entire court was suppressed by Zheng Zhilong, and he had no chance to gain any rights, so after the Longwu court got rid of Zheng Zhilong, he was still very happy and prepared to do a big job, but he soon discovered that the civil servants of the Longwu court immediately Joining forces with Wang Yan, the Duke of Chu, who was also a literati, seems to have the meaning of combining civil and military affairs and taking charge of the government together.

For the emperor, how can the imperial power not be challenged? The best way is to cultivate two forces under the imperial power to check and balance each other. When the people below fight, whichever faction is stronger will suppress the other faction. Then the emperor will always be safe.

In this move, Emperor Jiajing played the most slippery game. He used Yan Song to play Xiayan, and then used Xu Jie to play Yan Song. He has not been in court for more than 20 years, but he can play around with his officials, which shows his political skills.

Of course, the emperor's country is secure, but it does not benefit the world much.

The internal checks and balances of the Ming Dynasty were broken during the Chongzhen Dynasty. The civil official group finally developed into that way, which has a lot to do with the Chongzhen Emperor himself. It was he himself who broke the balance and was unable to control it, which made the civil official group disappear. constraint.

After Jiashen, in order to fight against the civil official group headed by Donglin, King Fu had to find a new counterbalancing force in the world.At this time, the eunuch party was abolished, and looking around, they could only introduce military forces into the court, and the four towns in Jiangbei became bigger with the help of determined strategies.

Ma Ruan, who was backed by Xunzhen, began to fight for power with the civil servants, but the power of Xunzhen is almost difficult to control. Once released, it will cause endless disasters.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, relatives and eunuchs fought and fought, but the world was basically able to maintain balance, but once Dong Zhuo, who was the town of Xun, joined, the world immediately collapsed.

In Chinese history, there are only a few major forces that can control the political situation: foreign relatives, eunuchs, gentry, Xunzhen, and imperial power. From the perspective of historical experience, foreign relatives, eunuchs, and Xunzhen are the greatest harm to the dynasty. .

After thousands of years of struggle in China, the lessons of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, foreign relatives and eunuchs cannot be used, and Xunzhen, that is, military generals, must also be locked in a cage and restricted. Otherwise, it has been chaotic for hundreds of years since the end of Tang Dynasty. What is the reason? Isn't it just "the emperor's soldiers are strong and his horses are strong", and the generals have lost their restraint?

It is said that the Zhao Song system reached the acme of ancient China because it basically solved the problems of foreign relatives, eunuchs, and Xunzhen. Compared with the other classes, the scholar class poses the least threat to the imperial power and at the same time can restrain the imperial power. .

In ancient times, although it was said that the whole world belonged to the emperor, the emperor should love the whole world and lead the whole dynasty forward, but in fact, the first thing a mature emperor considers is how to secure the world. These are not important to him, traitors are useful, they will use them, loyal ministers threaten him, they will still kill him.

Although the class of scholar-bureaucrats is attached to the imperial power, it is opposed to the imperial power. The life of the common people is also the happiest among all dynasties.

Later generations may feel that the Song Dynasty was more humiliating, so what do the Song people themselves feel?In the battle of Yashan, more than [-] people threw themselves into the sea and died. If they didn't love this dynasty, why would so many people be willing to be buried?

The development of imperial power to the extreme is not beneficial to the world. In the early Ming Dynasty, stereotyped writing was promoted and Mencius was banned. However, the emergence of the cabinet still had the idea of ​​governing the world with civil servants, scholars and bureaucrats. In the history of China, the class of scholars who have always restricted imperial power, after the massacre of the Qing Dynasty and experienced unprecedented literary inquisition, their thinking can no longer be called scholar-bureaucrats, and they have basically become cynicism, which is no longer the traditional Confucianism that can restrain imperial power. Therefore, during the Qing Dynasty, the imperial power developed to the extreme, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty wanted to "prefer to give gifts to allies rather than slaves." Even if there were people in the world who opposed it, they could not restrain it.

In the current Ming Dynasty, with the eunuch forces out of the game, the civil servants and Xunzhen forces are in control of the government, and the relationship between Xunzhen and Wenchen is actually a rivalry.

The same is true of the Nanming court in history. There were endless battles between Xunzhen and civil officials, and between Xunzhen and Xunzhen. This was all because the various forces could not find a balance after the originally stable system was broken.

At this time, the chaos in history has not yet appeared in the Ming Dynasty. It is actually because of the existence of Wang Yan's special identity. He is the leader of Xunzhen, and all generals are suppressed by him. Secondly, he is a real Juren. Recognized by civil officials, he has a long-term strategic vision.

In this way, the entire imperial court has reached a balance. The two sides can compromise with each other through Wang Yan. There is such a way to adjust the conflict, but this is only the internal situation of the Longwu court, and there are many external forces, which have not been included. .

However, since the imperial court has reached a balance, no matter which side it is, it does not want a third force to come in to disrupt the situation.

The institution of Supervisor of Ceremonies was set up in the period of Emperor Xuanzong to contain the cabinet, but once he appeared, he was destined to be above the cabinet. He once held this position and monopolized military and political power.

After Pang Tianshou took office as the chief eunuch, he was full of expectations and wanted to seize power, but he found that the power of the imperial court was firmly in the hands of Xun Zhen and the outer court civil servants headed by Wang Yan, and the military and political power had already been divided. , he couldn't move anyone's interests, and the emperor didn't support him, so the chief eunuch, the chief eunuch, basically became a vacant post.

Seeing that there was no chance, Pang Tianshou stopped thinking about it and served the emperor honestly, but as the situation in the court got better and better, a large number of officials began to come to Guangjing, and they were all high-ranking officials. The main real power positions in the country have basically been controlled by others.

Among these newcomers, some capable ones were appointed, and some did not get good positions. This group of people is not good at fighting, and they are not good at doing practical things, but they are good at fighting internally. Pai, naturally without them, these people will inevitably feel dissatisfied.

Pang Tianshou saw that the Wenchen Group had the intention of splitting and fighting again, and felt that the opportunity had come, so he gathered a group of people together.

At this moment, the news of Wang Yandong's expedition spread to Guilin. This is a good thing for Ming Dynasty, but it is different from the perspective of King Gui's supervisory regime.

Originally, the Longwu regime was flourishing, but the Guiwang regime had never done anything. If Wang Yandong was successful in his campaign, wouldn't the Guiwang regime be even more hopeless.

This kind of worry made King Gui's faction think of alienating Longwu's monarch and his subjects, so they sent people to Guangjing to try to win over the ministers inside the Longwu court while traveling.

Although Pang Tianshou gathered some civil servants, his influence was not enough to challenge the outer court. At this time, his civil servants Ding Shikui, Jin Bao and others, because they were familiar with Yuan Pengnian sent by King Gui, were quickly dismissed. Win over, and then introduce Yuan Pengnian to Pang Tianshou.

At this time, Emperor Longwu was getting thinner and thinner due to overwork, and time was running out. Pang Tianshou thought that according to the previous agreement between Tang, Gui, and Lu, the last successor to the throne would most likely be King Gui, the heir of the Ming dynasty. , and immediately hit it off with Yuan Pengnian.

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