Li Wen entered the casino owned by Wang Xijue's family. Although this incident may be just a coincidence, in any case, under the current environment, it must be investigated. Although Gao Jingshi had his own intelligence system, he definitely couldn't tell it directly in front of Chen Ju and Liu Ping - although they knew it in their hearts - so he had to ask about the situation in Dongchang.
"Brother Lingang recommended Wang Factory Supervisor. The current situation is delicate. I wonder if brother Lingang thinks he can be trusted by us?" Gao Pragmatic asked thoughtfully.
"This..." Chen Ju suddenly hesitated and remained silent for a long time.
Gao Jingshi gradually frowned. When Liu Ping saw Gao Jingshi, he was afraid that Gao Jingshi would be angry, so he quickly interjected: "I think it is because the noble Lord Hou forgets things. Although Wang Factory Supervisor has a good character, he is the first companion of the emperor's eldest son after all. At present, If the matter is left to him...it would actually be a bit dangerous. The slave thought that was why Chen Zhangyin was silent."
"Oh, that's it." Gao Pingshi then remembered that although Wang An was recommended by Chen Ju as the admiral of Dongchang, he was indeed Zhu Changluo's best friend before admiral of Dongchang.
There are some antecedents to this matter that need to be mentioned. The first reason must be counted from Zhang Cheng’s downfall. After Zhang Jing was brought down by Gao Pingshi, Zhang Cheng succeeded him as the chief eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremony and concurrently served as the admiral of the East Factory as usual.
Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing came from the same sect and were originally the godsons of the great eunuch Zhang Hong. However, the personal relationship between Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jing was not very good. After all, they were actually in a competitive relationship and could not escape involution. His life.
Although the relationship was not good, Zhang Cheng gradually came into opposition to Gao Pragmatic after he came to power. For example, he secretly joined forces with Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue many times to encourage the Xin School to confront Gao Pragmatic.
It's a pity that the Xin School was overwhelmed by Gao Pragmatic's successive great achievements at that time. It really didn't dare to be too blatant, and only dared to make stumbling blocks behind its back. However, Gao Pragmatic's achievements accumulated more and more, and these methods did not work in the end. What effect.
If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. Although Shen Shixing has always wanted to control the intensity of the party struggle, who would have expected that the Jiangnan Cao Army riot would eventually become a big issue. As a result, Shen and Wang, the two pavilion elders, were inevitably responsible for the misbehavior of the people below because of their lax supervision, so they were forced to take up official positions.
Up to this point, Zhang Cheng was not completely exposed. Gao Pangshi only knew about his several secret visits to Shen Shixing through reports from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The real exposure of Zhang Cheng was that he was so frightened by the resignation of Shen and Wang that he went to seek medical treatment in a hurry and actually went to establish relations with the Marquis of Wu Qing and formed a marriage. This was then exposed.
Although Zhang Cheng himself was an eunuch, he was not the only one in his family. He had brothers. So in a hurry, he hooked up with Li Chengming, the son of Li Wenquan, the second generation of Wu Qinghou, for his niece.
Li Chengming is Li Wenquan's eldest son. In theory, as long as he survives his father, he will be the next generation of Wu Qingbo. If he lives long enough, according to Zhu Yijun's style, he might be able to continue to be Wu Qinghou without having to be demoted to inherit the throne. .
The seniority is as follows: Li Wei, the first generation of Wu Qinghou, is the father of Zhu Yijun's biological mother, Queen Mother Li, so Li Wenquan is the uncle of the country, and Li Chengming is correspondingly Zhu Yijun's cousin. Zhu Yijun was famous for being kind to his relatives, so in Zhang Cheng's opinion, he should be safe no matter what he did if he hugged Wu Qinghoufu's thigh.
His niece married the emperor's cousin. Doesn't this mean that he is also a relative of the emperor? Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face. Even if the emperor knew that he had had evil thoughts towards Mr. Gaoge, he would probably give him a wide berth.
The Marquis of Wuqing is indeed extraordinary. Li Wei was posthumously gifted to Duke An, and his family's title was not demoted. These are all mentioned in detail in the previous article, so I won't go into details.
Unfortunately, Zhang Cheng failed to understand one thing, that is, Zhu Yijun was not so kind to Wu Qinghoufu because of the "Holy Scroll". He just needs some things that show filial piety as an embellishment for his holy son because his martial arts is now at its peak.
Then something happened. Gao Pragmatic followed the clues and found out that Zhang Cheng had indeed encouraged Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue to go against him many times. Now that Shen and Wang were defeated, how could he still leave Zhang Cheng in such a critical position in Dongchang?
Soon, officials and officials rushed to impeach Zhang Cheng for violating the rules and colluding with others. Some even said that Zhang Cheng was the admiral of the East Factory, and he actually befriended and became an in-law with a nobleman. This was because the nobleman of the Wu Qing Dynasty was interfering in politics, and he was suspected of having evil intentions!
To be honest, Li Wenquan, Marquis of Wuqing, was indeed the nominal Left Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, but now the Fifth Army Governor's Office has become an empty yamen due to the restructuring of the Beijing Camp. He, the Left Governor, has not served in the Production and Construction Corps, which is equivalent to If you can't move anyone, why should you be "intentionally evil"?
However, the truth of this kind of thing is often not important. What is important is that the rules must not be broken, so the matter became so big that the emperor had to severely punish Zhang Cheng to protect Li Wenquan. The final result was that Li Wenquan was only fined three months' salary, but Zhang Cheng got the fate of being "relegated to serve the emperor and sent incense to the Xiaoling Wei Si" and accompanied his godbrother Zhang Jing to burn incense for Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Zhang Cheng left, the chief eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremony, Bingbi, became vacant, and Chen Ju, as the chief eunuch of the palm seal, had the right to recommend. After thinking about it, Chen Ju recommended Wang An.
Wang An was a native of Xiong County, Baoding (today's Xiong'an New District), and he was considered a heavyweight in the late Ming Dynasty in original history. In the original history, he was recommended by Chen Ju to become Zhu Changluo's first companion in the 22nd year of Wanli, and he rose to great heights from then on.
If evaluated from the perspective of original history, Wang An should be regarded as a relatively active eunuch from the middle to late Wanli period, from Taichang period to the early Tianqi period. What people remember him most is that Wang An helped Yang Lian and other Donglin Party members rescue Prince Zhu Youxiao (Xizong) from the "hijacking" of Li Xuanshi in "Moving the Palace" and helped him successfully ascend the throne. .
Of course, in addition to "moving the palace", Wang An had been trying to protect the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo during the Wanli period. After Guangzong ascended the throne, he participated in a series of government decisions, and his close relationship with the Donglin Party members was also highly pragmatic. of. However, what impressed Gao Pingjing the most was that his subordinate Wei Zhongxian counterattacked Wang An and took the opportunity to gain momentum.
At this moment, after Gao Pingshi listened to Liu Ping's words, he didn't have much reaction except for a smooth response. In fact, he was carefully recalling the various records of Wang An in his previous life in the history books in order to determine what kind of person he should be. And whether his protection of Zhu Changluo was simply "loyalty to his duty", or whether he actually developed "loyalty" in the process of being Zhu Changluo's first companion.
This is an issue related to the arrangement of many important things in the future, so pragmatism must be cautious. To a certain extent, Gao Pragmatic still needs to judge whether the factory supervisor needs to be replaced based on this. After all, the admiral of the East Factory is a very critical position. It is not easy to get rid of Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng one after another. Their successors are still the opposite of themselves.
In the original history, Wang An was selected into the Neishu Hall in the sixth year of Wanli. When the Ming Dynasty's Xiaohuangmen entered the palace, they would join the family of a great eunuch, and Wang An, by chance, happened to fall under Feng Bao's family.
In the sixth year of Wanli, Empress Dowager Li basically stopped caring about political affairs after her son's wedding. Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng were in charge of the inner court and the outer court, and they cited each other. There is no doubt that Feng Bao was extremely powerful at this time.
Of course, after Wang An completed his studies in Nei Shu Tang, he entered Liu Ke Gallery to write. If everything goes well, Wang An will be able to enter the clerk's room and then the ceremonial supervisor. If he is lucky, he can challenge the ceremonial supervisor for the position of eunuch. This was also the orthodox way for eunuchs to rise in the Ming Dynasty.
But in the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng passed away, Feng Bao lost power and was demoted, and Wang An's biggest backer fell. Fortunately, Wang An was not very young at that time - children who entered the inner school were generally around ten years old. Wang An entered the inner study hall in the sixth year of Wanli. In the tenth year of Wanli, he should have been around fourteen or fifteen years old.
It is naturally difficult for a fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old from the Huang family to be regarded as Feng Bao's best friend, and it is also easy to be ignored because it is really insignificant. In this way, Wang An escaped the political upheaval in the court by relying on his young age.
Wang An was very lucky, because it was the eunuch Zhang Hong who succeeded Feng Bao in charge of the ceremonial department. Zhang Hong should have been very optimistic about Wang An at that time, so Wang An's career as a eunuch was not interrupted. At the same time, Zhang Hong also promoted Chen Ju - yes, there was no high pragmatism in the original history, so Chen Ju was promoted by Zhang Hong, and later he became the chief ceremonial officer, eunuch and admiral of the East Factory.
Regarding this concurrent position, the book said very early on that it is a very rare situation, because the chief minister of rites generally does not hold a concurrent position, and the admiral of the East Factory is usually held concurrently by the eunuch Bingbi who ranks first among the ceremonial inspectors. It can also be seen from this that Chen Ju is indeed highly trusted by Zhu Yijun.
Continuing back to Wang An, why does Gao Pragmatic think Zhang Hong did not embarrass Wang An? Because in the 22nd year of Wanli, Chen Ju recommended Wang An to Zhu Yijun to become the companion of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo. This proves from the side that Wang An has never left the sight of these powerful officials from the tenth year of Wanli to the twenty-second year of Wanli, and his talents and experience have been growing, so he was recommended by Chen Ju.
Wang An seemed to be involved in some things afterwards, but Gao Pragmatic really couldn't remember it at the moment. He thought carefully based on the timeline, and when he searched for Wang An's memories again, he jumped to one of the famous three major events in the late Ming Dynasty: "String Strike", and what Gao Pragmatic remembered was this event. Some details of Wang An's performance in the movie.
The matter of "Strike the Eucalyptus" itself is not complicated at all. Basically, a buddy took a wooden stick and actually entered Ciqing Palace (the residence of Zhu Changluo, who had become the second prince at that time) to assassinate the prince. The assassin failed to succeed, but it was clear that there was an uproar in the court. Then I started to check again and again, and finally found the head of Concubine Zheng.
At that time, public opinion overwhelmingly demanded that Zhu Yijun investigate and deal with justice. To put it bluntly, the courtiers demanded that Concubine Zheng must be taught a lesson this time.
Of course Zhu Yijun was reluctant to let go, so everyone turned their attention to the victim Zhu Changluo. At this time, Wang An gave Zhu Changluo an idea, meaning to help the emperor cover up the matter and let Concubine Zheng go.
Zhu Changluo must have been very angry about this assassination. His anger at Emperor Zheng's concubine over the years would not be gone for a while, but Zhu Changluo still followed Wang An's suggestion and ran into the palace in front of Zhu Yijun. A scene of "deep love between mother and son" was staged with Concubine Zheng. The effect of this play was very good. Zhu Yijun felt that his son was very sensible, and Concubine Zheng was temporarily comforted.
At this point in the story, normal people should think that the "hitting the eucalyptus" is a thing of the past. However, no, Wang An's next move has been ignored by others. Even Gao Pragmatic only remembered it now because he had to carefully consider whether Wang An was reliable.
Wang An helped Zhu Changluo draft an edict from the East Palace. Simply put, it was an official statement about "strike the eucalyptus" in the East Palace. The content was basically all kinds of smoothing over, explaining how good the relationship between the prince and Concubine Zheng was, such nonsense that even dogs wouldn't believe - -However, Wang An's wording in this edict was very sophisticated.
Wang An is written in the first person of Zhu Changluo. However, it is different from the "son and minister" used in the past. Instead, he refers to himself as "this palace" everywhere. The crown prince of Ming Dynasty generally calls himself in two ways: "this palace" or "gu". However, "lone" is not only used by princes, but also by princes.
In this way, he specifically used "this palace" as a title for the prince here, which actually demonstrated and emphasized the unshakable and authoritative status of Zhu Changluo's status as the prince of the East Palace.
The courtiers understood, and it was not that Zhu Changluo was not angry, but that the matter was insignificant compared to the position of the prince, so the courtiers tacitly agreed not to make a fuss; Zhu Yijun understood, and his son finally began to have the bearing and dignity of an heir to the empire. His vision was magnified, and he was vaguely regal. Concubine Zheng Huang also understood that Zhu Changluo's position as the crown prince was a fait accompli.
Wang An used an edict to end the political turmoil that may have been caused by the "banging of eucalyptus" and turned the crisis into an opportunity, which actually consolidated Zhu Changluo's position as prince. It can be said that he was extremely resourceful and made great achievements.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic's mind seemed to be activated and he remembered another thing. However, the timeline also jumps a bit, directly to Wanli's later years, when King Fu Zhu Changxun finally wanted to rule Luoyang.
At that time, Zhu Yijun and Princess Zheng, in order to ensure that their precious son would not starve or freeze in the future, almost exhausted their financial resources to reward King Fu.
At this time, a small thing happened: I don’t know whether the prince Zhu Changluo was jealous, but he actually withheld ten boxes of property that were originally intended to be given to Prince Fu in the palace, and ordered them to be moved to his residence without saying a word.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic can understand Zhu Changluo in this matter, just three words: Why?
They are both sons, and I am still the prince. The parents gave all the bottles and jars in the house to the younger son. How will I, the eldest, take care of the house in the future? This is a psychological state of mixed emotions such as anger, grievance, and sadness.
Wang An also understood Zhu Changluo's thoughts, but he still persuaded Zhu Changluo. I don’t know how Gao Pragmatic persuaded him, but he finally talked Zhu Changluo through. So Wang An replaced the ten boxes of belongings that were originally placed in the gorgeous boxes into ordinary boxes and sent them to King Fu. He also gave ten more gifts in the name of the East Palace.
Then Wang An told the emperor that the prince felt that these boxes were too eye-catching and might cause dissatisfaction among the courtiers, so he deliberately moved them into the palace to replace the boxes. At the same time, in order to show brotherly love, the prince also asked me to present ten exquisite gifts to King Fu.
Zhu Yijun expressed great satisfaction with this. Of course, Zhu Yijun was never a fool, so as soon as Wang An left, he turned around and told the people around him that this must be Wang An's idea.
However, just thinking of these two things is of little significance to Gao Wushi at this moment. After all, this can only prove that Wang An is the firefighter beside Zhu Changluo, and what Gao Wushi needs to find out now is Wang An's contribution to Zhu Changluo. Out of loyalty or just duty.
Fortunately, at this time, he remembered "a little thing" again.
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