"Are you really wrong to say that our family wants to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty?"
The great eunuch Yang Guorui suddenly asked such a sentence.
The little eunuch's hand that had just put down the teacup trembled, and he quickly put the teacup down and retreated.
"If you don't speak, do you think our family has done something wrong and should not form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty?" The senior eunuch Yang Guorui looked at the young eunuch in front of him.
The little eunuch was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "My child doesn't understand this. My child just wants to serve his godfather and doesn't think about anything else."
"Do you think our family will believe you with a few words of flattery? Don't forget, our family came here at the same time as you. At that time, there were a lot more disputes in the capital than in this deserted palace." Yang Guorui, the great eunuch, recalled. It seems that I once spent time in the imperial palace in Beijing.
Although he is now the leading eunuch in the palace, except for the little emperor who is still drinking milk, no one in the entire palace has a higher status than him.
The reason why he came to the palace in Nandu was because he could not stay with the emperor, so he had to retreat to Nandu, a place far away from the battles in the palace.
But who would have thought that through unintentional intervention, his father-in-law, who could not stay with the emperor, would become the most respected eunuch in the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, the few eunuchs who stayed with the emperor did not end up well.
"My child is sincerely willing to serve you, godfather." The little eunuch raised his right hand and said as if he was swearing.
The eunuch Yang Guorui sneered.
He has seen too many people in the palace over the years. Some of these rootless people in the palace are sincere, and they will kiss each other even if they call them "godfathers". At critical moments, those who do the most evil are often those who call them "godfathers". A truly kind-hearted person would have been eaten to the bone in such a dirty place as the palace.
The little eunuch noticed the change in Yang Guorui's face, realized that the other party did not believe him, and immediately wanted to show his loyalty.
But at this moment, the eunuch Yang Guorui said: "Our family doesn't want to hear any words of loyalty. Just tell our family. Is it wrong for our family to want to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty?"
"My child, my child doesn't know either." The little eunuch lowered his head, as if he had made a mistake because he could not answer the other person's words.
But the fact is, how can the young eunuch dare to answer such a fatal question? If he fails to answer the question, he will lose the trust of his godfather.
"Well, since you don't want to talk, we won't force you." The eunuch Yang Guorui gave up looking for the answer from his adopted son.
When the little eunuch saw that Eunuch Yang had let him go, he was relieved and continued to clean up the broken objects in the house.
The house was littered with garbage. I wanted to clean it up, but the little eunuch couldn't do it quickly alone.
"Leave the matter of cleaning up the house to others. You go to Jinyiwei and tell Deputy Xu Qianhu not to arrest the envoy of the Tiger Character Flag. Even if it is a murder case, leave it to Yingtian Mansion to solve." said the eunuch Yang Guorui. .
The little eunuch who was picking up broken porcelain with a dustpan was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand the sudden change of attitude, but out of caution, he asked: "What if the envoys of the Qing Dynasty come to the palace again?"
"No, I really think anyone can enter the palace without purpose!" said the eunuch Yang Guorui.
Before he figured it out, he didn't want to get too close to the Qing Dynasty for the time being.
Looking back now, he may not have wanted to go to the Northern Expedition to bring back the Emperor.
The reason why he supported the alliance with the Qing Dynasty was mainly to dominate the auxiliary ministers and suppress the other auxiliary ministers.
Among the four auxiliary ministers, three were born as lords. He was the only one who was a eunuch in the palace and did not belong to the same family as the lord. Naturally, he was worried that he would be suppressed by the other three auxiliary ministers. , became a yes man among the auxiliary ministers.
The reason why Qian Qianyi, the chief minister of the cabinet, was promoted to be the assistant minister was also to find someone to share the pressure on Wu Xun.
There have always been irreconcilable conflicts between civil servants and Wu Xun.
As an eunuch, he certainly couldn't do what Wei Zhongxian did. He had a strong imperial support behind him, so that the civil servants in the court took the initiative to surrender.
Therefore, we can only take advantage of the contradiction between civil servants and Wu Xun to bring Qian Qianyi, the chief assistant, into the ring.
Thinking about it now, I don’t know why, but I suddenly wanted to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty to expedition to the Northern Expedition with the Tiger Character Banner.
Looking back now, it was because I wanted to make a great contribution to the Northern Expedition so that I could outdo these nobles. Thinking about it carefully, I may not really want to support the Northern Expedition.
Let’s not talk about the little eunuch leaving the palace to send a message to the Jinyi Guards for now.
After Fan Wencheng returned to the post house, he arranged for someone to keep an eye on the courtyard where the envoys of the Tiger Character Banner lived.
With Eunuch Yang in the palace taking action, in his opinion, it is easy to deal with the envoy team of Tiger Character Banner. It is best to kill the envoys in the envoy team. In this way, there will be no peace talks between Ming Dynasty and Tiger Character Banner. Perhaps, the Ming Dynasty could only form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty honestly, and then deal with the Tiger Flag together.
However, as they waited, what was waiting was the officers and soldiers protecting the envoys of the Tiger Flag.
This made him very dissatisfied.
I felt that these officials of the Ming Dynasty were really useless, and they actually arranged officers and soldiers to protect a bandit envoy who had taken away half of his country.
"Is there any result at Yingtian Mansion?" Fan Wencheng asked one of his men.
The subordinates replied: "Yingtian Mansion has not sent any arresters at all, and there has been no movement at all after such a long time. Do you want me to send someone to ask questions?"
"No need, the prefect of Yingtian Mansion seems to have chosen to be wise and protect himself without getting offended. Now it depends on Eunuch Yang. I hope Eunuch Yang can use some, otherwise our people's death will be in vain." Fan Wencheng's face was gloomy. said.
Having been in Nanjing for so long, he knows the situation here well.
The royal guards who went to arrest people in the courtyard of the envoy of the Tiger-Character Banner should have been sent by Eunuch Yang, and the officers and soldiers who later protected the envoy of the Tiger-Character Banner should have been nobles.
Only a noble man can mobilize so many soldiers and horses from the military camp.
From this point of view, he knew that Xungui should support the peace talks between the Ming Dynasty and Huzi Banner, while Eunuch Yang supported the Qing Dynasty.
It is a pity that Qian Qianyi, the chief minister of the cabinet, has an unclear attitude. Otherwise, with the support of civilian officials, he would be 90% sure that Ming Dynasty would give up the peace talks with Hu Ziqi and choose to form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty.
"Prepare the sedan chair and prepare a generous gift. I'm going to the Duke of Wei's mansion." Fan Wencheng ordered his men.
Since Xungui supports peace talks with the Tiger-Character Banner, as long as he can make Xungui change his attitude and not support peace talks with the Tiger-Character Banner, then the Qing Dynasty can also successfully form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty.
He came to Nanjing from Liaodong this time and prepared a lot of specialties from Liaodong. These specialties were specially brought to be eaten in Nanjing.
