Chapter 327 Surname Wei or Sun
"Respect the emperor to seek traitor!"
"Nine lives serve the country!"
"Armed Restoration!"
"The era of imperial reform has arrived!"
"First defend His Majesty the Emperor's absolute leadership over the empire!"
"Sweep away all the harming insects and be invincible!"
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At dawn, the palace guards who were nervously guarding the city walls for a night were worried. Looking at the slogans erected around the palace city outside, the guards and soldiers were booing each other.
Going to the north gate east, Neidongchang and Huntangsi areas on the other side of the moat, an officer involved in the reform drew out his command knife and slashed at the guards on the other side. I don’t know if he wanted to show off his own force or to use it to shock the conscientious palace guards.
“There are all!”
In the square in front of Shangshenjian and Dessert Department of the North Gate, hundreds of reform officers and soldiers holding muskets in an orderly manner, led by officers, sang their military songs in unison.
"The opportunity for innovation has come now, and the storm is rising at night to sweep away the Ming Dynasty.
Fame and fortune are nothing but traces in dreams, only sincerity will never be eliminated..."
While the officers and soldiers were singing passionately, Shangshen Supervisor Wang Tigan was taking the officials in the prison with all the staff. The mate sent a tray of hot buns that had just been out of the cage to the restoration officers and soldiers everywhere.
As one of the thirteen yamen who once made it clear that the emperor's personal army was not a rioter, and the governor, eunuch Wei Liangchen, was definitely not one of the thirteen yamen, all members of Shangshenjian were expressing their greatest support for the Wanli Reform with practical actions.
"Please, the reform must be successful!"
"Please, I must rescue the Imperial Concubine!"
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Whenever he saw a reform officer, his father-in-law Wang Tigan would always blurt out the words "please" because the reform officers who came to Shangshen Supervisor to "guid" their work liked to say these three words very much.
Through his own observations, Eunuch Wang believed that "please" should be a common verbal term for the reform officers and soldiers, which is equivalent to the commonly used word "request" among imperial officials.
As the first inner court unit to cooperate with the emperor's personal army, the military battle situation is also trying its best to cooperate with the reform.
The eunuch Wang Dana, the chief eunuch Lu and others not only actively cooperated with the reform officers and soldiers to arrest suspicious elements, but also actively sent 126 "support teams" composed of military combat gangs to participate in the alert work in the Taiyechi area with Curry's weapons that had been covered for many years.
Of course, behind such sincere actions of the military battle, in addition to the close relationship between the military battle and the imperial army, it also originated from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau project that the military battle participated in in the Jiangnan Special Zone four years ago.
The Imperial Army armed upgrade project in this project is very interested in the Military War. According to the project instructions presented by the Admiral Maritime Office at that time, if the project is completely successful, the Military War will make no less than one million taels of profit, and it will be long-term and stable.
This project also means that the military battle will be able to replace the Jinyiwei Nanzhenfu Department, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War, and become the military industry highlight of the Ming Empire.
As Eunuch Wei said in his letter to the military battle situation, Dana, the father-in-law, said: "The reform of the empire is inevitable, and the development of the empire is also inevitable. So, instead of letting outsiders participate, why don't we take the lead first?"
This "self-centered person" obviously refers to the origin of everyone from the inner court.
"In this world, it should be our temple people's turn to show off our skills!"
The old man Wang Dana's father-in-law wanted to take a huge sum of money before retirement, but he didn't want to be liquidated by the people of the Silijian. Therefore, the old man Wang decisively stood on the side of the imperial army. It was the military battle situation he presided over, which led to the integration of the Thirteen Yamen.
The thirteen yamen are the military bureau, Shangshenjian, Baochaoshi, Huntang, Internal Office, Imperial Horse, Imperial Office, Xixin, Bell and Drum, Silver Bureau, Washing Clothes Bureau, Needle Bureau, and Shangyi Bureau.
All of the Thirteen Yamen are long-term strategic partnerships between the Maritime Yamen of Jiangnan Special Administrative Region and the Jiangnan Town Guard Yamen.
As of the 47th year of Wanli, Thirteen Yamen started construction of 15 projects in the Special Administrative Region, with a total investment of more than 340,000 taels.
12 projects have been built, providing more than 7,000 jobs, and basically achieving profitability.
Among them, the Nandu Steel Production Society, which is jointly developed by Xixinsi and the Jiangnan Admiral Maritime Office, is the largest investment project.
Shangyijian and the Needle Industry Bureau almost handled the production of military uniforms, military caps and shoes for the emperor's personal army.
It can be said that the logistics of the emperor's personal army and the development of the Jiangnan Special Administrative Region are closely related to these units that bravely sent people south to the south, and are integrated.
Therefore, whether it is interests or reality, the Thirteenth Yamen must stand clearly on the side of the emperor's personal army and the great Eunuch Wei.
The statement of the Thirteenth Yamen must have made the Silijian very dissatisfied. However, at the critical moment when the imperial army was rushing to the north, in order to stabilize the seal eunuch Sun Xian rejected the proposal of Bingbi Ma Tang and Liang Dong to severely punish eunuchs of the Thirteenth Yamen.
Sun Xian was worried that if a major purge was carried out in the inner court, it would cause the inner court to fall into extreme chaos, which would make the inner court busy with internal and powerless to externally, thus causing the inner court to lose its voice in the incident of the imperial army entering the pass and also lose trust from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Yes, if Eunuch Sun could not even command the inner court effectively, why would he stand together with Fang Congzhe, the foreign court?
From a realistic perspective, the Thirteenth Yamen is responsible for a lot of work in the inner court. Once these Yamen are "shut down", the palace will be paralyzed in an instant.
Take the Huntangshi for example. If the yamen is in chaos, what should I do if the water is used in the palace?
There is also the Shangshenjian, it is going to be messy, what should I eat in the palace?
You should know that Shangshenjian is not only for the emperor and the empresses to provide imperial food, but also for the food of more than 20,000 people in the palace.
Except for a very small number of people in the imperial city, it is forbidden to make fires and cook.
Because, the imperial city has caught fire many times since its founding.
There is no chaos, stability overwhelms everything!
Sun Xian's inaction prompted the Thirteenth Yamen to join forces and be more independent of the leadership system of the Sili and Supervision Commission.
The public "mully" of the Imperial Horse Supervision made the struggle between the two inner courts completely surfaced. When some of the following friends discussed privately, they even used what your surname was Wei or Sun to express their respective positions.
In the end, most of the people surnamed Wei gained the upper hand.
Because, the surname Wei is beneficial.
The Thirteenth Yamen made a lot of money in Jiangnan, and the eunuchs who were in charge of the affairs made a lot of money. Although the people below could not make big money, they would also give some extra allowances every now and then. If you were lucky enough to go to Jiangnan, you would even buy foreign houses in the local area. These real benefits are the most touching.
What are the benefits of being surnamed Sun?
Chapter completed!