What does emperor mean?
He sent Chen Ju away and said so many things to Wang An alone that he shouldn't have said. What could he mean?
Don't say I'm mean and unkind, I'll make sure you die today.
That's all.
Wang An replied, "I know," so Zhu Yijun said no more, just turned around and walked back to the throne. He held on to the armrest of the throne without turning around. He turned his back to Wang An and calmly announced the latter's fate: "You have been in the palace for thirty years and have been working by my side since you were a child. I will give it to you today." To save my dignity, I won’t give you Bai Ling Zhen wine. You can settle it yourself, so that your relatives in your hometown don’t have to worry.”
"Slave... Thank you, Your Majesty, for showing mercy beyond the law." Wang An calmed down after hearing the emperor's verdict. He kowtowed three times respectfully to the emperor who had his back turned to him, stood up and left.
After Wang An left, Zhu Yijun slowly turned around and sat down on the throne. Then someone came out from the inner room, saluted the emperor, and called: "Your Majesty."
The person who came was tall and tall, with a resolute face. He was wearing a bright red silk unicorn robe. Even in front of the emperor, he still had an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist. There is an embroidered spring knife, which shows that he is a member of the Jinyi Guard. He is not wearing a flying fish suit but a suit given by Qilin, which shows that he must be an important person in the Jinyi Guard.
The emperor had his eyes closed at the moment, leaning his head on the back of the chair, and said "hmm" indifferently, but said nothing more.
The visitor hesitated a little, but couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, although more than ten people were taken away from Yikun Palace, I'm afraid there's no time to find out anything yet. If the factory director Wang suddenly commits suicide at this time... the outer court may Discussions are inevitable.”
"If they want to discuss it, let them discuss it. What's the big deal?" Zhu Yijun waved his hands, still closing his eyes, and asked tiredly: "Tell me, can Nanning Marquis see that Wang An's death is mine?" mean?"
"With the wisdom of Marquis Nanning, it should not be difficult to figure out this matter, and..." The visitor paused for a moment and continued: "When I came today, the King and Governor knew about it."
"Wang Zhizhen knows? That's good. He and the Marquis of Nanning are barely distant cousins. Since he knows that you came to the palace today, once the news of Wang An's death comes out, he will definitely inform the Marquis of Nanning." Zhu Yijun snorted. , said: "The next thing is as you said, with Nanning Hou's wisdom, he will be able to guess almost everything."
The visitor seemed to be used to being cautious. After hearing the emperor's words, he simply responded: "Yes, the emperor is wise."
Zhu Yijun was half sitting and half lying on the throne, but his right hand was tapping rhythmically on the armrest. After a while, he said again: "When you were in Yikun Palace yesterday, what did Qian Menggao and Zhong Zhaodou explain? Is it consistent with what Wang An just said?"
"Back to your Majesty, what Factory Supervisor Wang said is basically true, but it's just a little more exaggerated." The visitor replied.
"Haha, it's just as I expected." Zhu Yijun chuckled and asked again: "How did those people do the trial?"
The visitor bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I am in charge of the Southern Division, but the investigation and interrogation of 'Medicated Eucalyptus' is the responsibility of the Northern Division. I don't know the details."
"I don't know the details, but I've heard something about it, right?" Zhu Yijun said calmly: "If Wang Zhizhen, the crystal monkey, doesn't give you some information, then he is not Wang Zhizhen."
"There is no wiser person than my emperor." The visitor lowered his head carefully and said, "When the king met with me today, he said a few words intentionally or unintentionally. It was probably that someone had revealed the channels and methods of transportation, but that person was not He didn't know who he was connecting with, and he didn't know what the purpose of the connection was.
Of course, Governor Wang also said that the matter is now at this point, and as long as we follow the clues, the subsequent investigation should not be difficult. The current plan is to seal off the nine gates, so that those involved will not be frightened and sneak out of the city quietly when they hear the news. "
Zhu Yijun opened his eyes in surprise, looked at the visitor and said, "Luo Sigong, don't forget anything. Did Wang Zhizhen really just say such nonsense?"
It turned out that this person was none other than Luo Sigong, who was quite famous in later generations - of course, his reputation was not a good one, especially because he had a son named Luo Yangxing.
The first generation of the Luo family to hang out with the Jinyi Guards began with Luo An, who served as the commander in the early years of Jiajing. Luo An's life history will not be mentioned here, but there is one relationship that must be mentioned, that is, after his death, Gao Gong, then editor of the Hanlin Academy, was invited to write an epitaph for him.
The reason why this epitaph is important is not only because the author is Gao Gong, but also because it is an important document for later generations to study the Luo family. When combined with other documents, the Luo family's development process can be basically determined.
The Luo family's native place is Ningyuan, but it is not Ningyuan in Liaodong, but Ningyuan in Huguang, and later in Xintian County, Yongzhou, Hunan. However, the Luo family was not originally from Huguang, but their ancestors fought with Emperor Taizu. In the end, they "conquered the city successfully" and were granted a title and settled in Ningyuan. This great ancestor of the Luo family was named Luo Yicheng.
It was very interesting after that. After some complicated adjustments, Luo Yicheng's military guard finally "occupied the Yanshan Central Guard". As Taizu granted Zhu Di the title of King of Yan in the third year of Hongwu, and in the thirteenth year of Hongwu the King of Yan enfeoffed the title of Beiping. King Zhu Di of Yan went northward with "5,770 guardsmen from the middle and left of Yanshan Mountain".
As a result, Luo Yicheng obtained the Beijing household registration so easily without spending a penny. King Yan also rewarded these people with "27,771 ingots" - note that the Ming Dynasty at this time The treasure banknotes are still relatively strong and are by no means useless paper.
There are records of every dynasty after the Luo family, but there is no need to go into detail here. We only talk about Luo An's generation. Because it was the first time he had reached the level of a commander, he actually asked Gao Gong, the Hanlin editor, to write an epitaph for him. It can be seen that The class has been improved.
Of course, as mentioned at the beginning of this book, Gao Gong refused to accept bribes in Beijing and was not allowed to increase his land in the countryside, so his life in the capital was tight for a long time. His main income-generating business was helping people write epitaphs.
According to him, there is no need to betray one's conscience to do this, and it is just to help others show off the achievements of their ancestors. A three-point achievement seems to be seven or eight points, but after all, there is no need to tell lies, and it can be regarded as a clean name. activities. Living in the capital is not easy, there is really no way around it.
However, regardless of whether Gao Gong's attitude towards this was just to collect money and code words, as his status increased day by day, the Luo family seized the opportunity to curry favor with him. It's just that Gao Gong is very wary of Jin Yiwei in nature and is unwilling to get too close to him, so the two sides have always been in a state of aloofness.
Then, high pragmatism appeared.
Let’s not mention some of Gao’s pragmatic and routine operations of building connections. Later, Gao pragmatically used the Luo family’s power in the palace. At that time, the Luo family’s Han general, Jinyiwei, was in charge of a certain palace gate. Luo Bingliang on guard.
Who is Luo Bingliang? It was Luo Sigong's father, the nephew of Luo An, the commander of the Jinyi Guards of the Jiajing Dynasty mentioned earlier.
In the 40th year of Jiajing's reign, Luo An's son Luo Chun died young and left no heirs, so the Luo family made Luo Bingliang Luo An's heir, assuming the position of Luo Chun in the name of "brother". But there is a trouble here, that is, Luo An's rank of commanding officer has been inherited by Luo Chun for a generation, so Luo Bingliang can only downgrade his ancestral position to a full salary of one thousand households.
Therefore, in the early years of Luo Sigong's generation, the Luo family's family economy had fallen into a relatively difficult situation, and Luo Sigong had to pass the Jingwei martial arts examination to gain a way to rise in his early years.
But when Luo Bingliang made contributions to Gao Pragmatism, the Luo family's life suddenly turned around and became more prosperous than before. As someone who knew that the Luo family would become prosperous in the future, Gao Pragmatic also cultivated it carefully. For example, now, Luo Sigong has become the "Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi Qianshi Manager".
The meaning of this position is that his official position is "Jinyiweinan Town Fusi Qian Shi", and the suffix "Steward" means actually managing the affairs of Nanzhen Fusi when there is no one to hold the position. It can be considered that It is the "agent xx" of later generations.
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So the question is, who was the previous envoy of Nanzhen Fusi Town? That's right, it's the fifth brother Gao Wuben who was mentioned in the previous chapter.
Gao Wu originally resigned because Gao Jingshi wanted to withdraw from direct involvement in Jinyiwei. However, after his resignation, Zhu Yijun did not know why, but he still has not appointed a new governor of Nanzhen Fusi Town. He just asked Luo Sigong to serve as a governor. Steward Nan Division. Of course, it is reasonable to speculate that Zhu Yijun wanted to give Gao pragmatic face.
Anyway, Luo Sigong and his family have long had a close relationship with the Gao family, and Gao Wuben has also shown some kindness to Luo Sigong, which is always good. Judging from Zhu Yijun's performance today, he also treats Luo Sigong as a confidant, and the reason why is very intriguing.
As for the Wang Zhizhen they are mentioning at this moment, they have also mentioned it earlier in this book. To prevent readers from forgetting, let me briefly introduce it: Wang Zhizhen is the grandson of Wang Chonggu, Wang Chonggu is the uncle of Zhang Siwei, and Zhang Siwei is a highly pragmatic uncle... Therefore, the emperor It is said that Wang Zhizhen and Gao Pragmatic are distant cousins.
You see, the reason why Yuan Shao was mentioned as "the Four Generations and Three Dukes" in the Three Kingdoms is the same reason for today's Ming Dynasty. Things like connections, accumulated over generations, are so intricate and play a role all the time.
Of course, there are many great things about Gao Pragmatic, but the fact that he is the successor of Gao Wenzhenggong has always been ignored in recent years. In fact, it is more than this, he is also "the legacy of the third generation of chief ministers"! How strong is the political energy in this?
Why does he dare to carry out so many reforms that others dare not do?
Just by doing well in the exam? Just by having many meritorious deeds? Just rely on the Holy Scroll? Of course not. Although the shadow of these three generations of chief assistants is usually invisible and intangible, it does exist and plays a huge role all the time.
After a chief assistant has been in office for a few years, his disciples and former officials will be all over the world. If three generations of chief assistants serve for more than ten years, how many disciples and former officials will they have? These days, it is also important that one cannot betray the master. The final result is naturally that Gao Pingshi responds to everything in the court, forcing Xu Guo and others who were ranked before him to have no resistance.
Among the real school, there used to be a separate term called "Gao Dang", but now, the two have actually been merged into one. The pragmatic school is Gao Dang, and the high party is the pragmatic school!
When Luo Sigong heard the emperor's question, he felt something bad in his heart. However, he recalled it carefully and still could not think of any other hints from Wang Zhizhen. He had to smile bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, although I am stupid, in the end it was just morning." What happened was less than an hour ago, and I will never forget it.”
"Hiss..." Zhu Yijun gasped, with a thoughtful look on his face, touching his chin and saying to himself: "That's all you said?"
"In fact, that's all." Luo Sigong expressed his stance again.
"Okay, okay, that's all." Zhu Yijun frowned and suddenly asked: "So, did he mention anything about Nanning? It doesn't matter, but if there is anything, you can tell it."
Luo Sigong seemed to have remembered something, and said quickly: "Your Majesty, if you want to talk about the Marquis of Nanning, it is true. Governor Wang said that the Marquis of Nanning sent his eldest son Gao Yuan to Siam a few days ago, and not only Gao Yuan I, most of the three thousand servants who were waiting in Nanning in the suburbs of Beijing were taken away, and now only about five hundred people are left."
A flash of light suddenly flashed in Zhu Yijun's eyes, and he said suddenly: "I see, that's it. Pragmatic people are smart people after all, and dealing with smart people saves trouble. Well, but his purpose of doing this seems to be more than that, I have to think about it carefully …”
Zhu Yijun said that dealing with smart people saves trouble, while Luo Sigong complained in his heart: Dealing with smart people saves trouble, isn't it? You two have no idea what kind of riddles you are playing. You have been going back and forth for quite some time. I am stuck in the middle and my meals are all tasteless every day. I am afraid of saying half a sentence wrong.
Is it a big problem to say the wrong thing? It’s big! Look at Wang An, this unlucky guy. He obviously didn't understand the relationship between you two. As a result, the dignified Admiral of the East Factory, his life is in danger today! He is the admiral of Dongchang, and I, Mr. Luo, are just a minister of Nansi. I am afraid that if one of them fails to deal with it well, it will not only be my own life that is involved!
Your Majesty, my Lord, I beg you, please stop playing riddles with Marquis Gao like this, okay? You two had a great time. We people with small arms and legs cannot withstand such torture!
However, thinking about it, Luo Sigong just kept bending and obeying orders. He didn't even dare to speak out, let alone speak.
I don’t know how long it took, but Zhu Yijun suddenly slapped the armrest and said with a red face: "Ah, I know, I know, pragmatically, I don’t have any other ideas. I just want to tell me that he accepted my proposal, so he just He sent his son to southern Xinjiang, and even transferred most of the personal guards around him, deliberately leaving only five hundred people - five hundred people, which is the maximum number of people that a foreign minister can follow when he comes to Beijing."
Zhu Yijun said excitedly: "He wants to tell me...well, forget it, if I keep talking, you may not dare to leave the palace alive."
"Your Majesty!" Luo Sigong said loudly, but after speaking he immediately swallowed nervously and thought to himself: It was a good chance to save his life.
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ps: Sorry for the late update. The main reason is that I didn’t expect that the information on the Luo family was delayed. The key is that there is no free information that can explain it in detail. In the end, I spent money...
