When Zhao Changge saw that Zhu Jianshen was bowing his head and saying nothing, he knew that it would be difficult for Zhu Jianshen to let go of his love for Concubine Wan Guifei. Compared with the relationship between Zhu Zhanji and Sun, Zhao Changge felt that the relationship between Zhu Jianshen and Concubine Wan Guifei might be deeper.
"In the 13th year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen set up the West Factory to strengthen the secret service agency. It can be said that this West Factory was at its peak when it debuted, with eunuch Wang Zhi as its commander. The newly established West Factory set off a bloody storm in a short period of time In just five months, the great scholar Shang Ren and Shangshu Xiang Zhong wrote to Zhu Jianshen requesting the abolition of the West Factory. Zhu Jianshen agreed at the time, and dismissed Xiang Zhong the next month. Xichang was reestablished, and Shang Ren also resigned soon after."
"Although the West Factory was not established as long as the East Factory, it has left profound traces in many film and television works of later generations. I still remember one of the lines that says: You asked me what the West Factory is. , let me tell you now, I will solve the cases that the East Factory cannot solve, I will kill the people that the East Factory does not dare to kill, and I will take care of the things that the East Factory does not dare to take care of. In a word, I will take care of the things that the East Factory can handle, and the West Factory will take care of them. What the East Factory can't control, I, the West Factory, have to control even more. In a word, kill first and then report. It's the imperial power's permission! This is the West Factory."
Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Zhanji expressed admiration: "What a majestic Xichang!"
Kill first and show later, imperial authority, what a domineering statement.
"Nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think there was anything prestigious about this West Factory at all, and he even got angry.
Zhu Yunwen and the others saw the scenery of Xichang, but Zhu Yuanzhang saw the eunuch's dictatorial power. Although Xichang and Jinyiwei have many similarities, Jinyiwei's power seems to be great, but it is tightly controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang, and this Xichang The factory dared to claim to kill first and then report later. A person like Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew that with such power, there were too many places that the West Factory could operate. This was definitely not a good thing.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was angry, Zhu Jianshen shrank his neck angrily, and then immediately realized that this was wrong. He had only been in Chenghua for three years, and he hadn't established the West Factory yet. What was he afraid of?
Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhu Di fiercely, because before the West Factory, there had been the East Factory. It was precisely because of the establishment of the East Factory that the eunuchs began to take power. This was a bad start for Zhu Di.
"I have to say that Zhu Jianshen did a lot of things after he came to the throne. It's a pity that he committed a common problem among emperors. In his later years, Zhu Jianshen did not summon ministers for a long time and handled government affairs through eunuchs. Fortunately, he relied on the two eunuchs Huaien and Qin Ji. Both of them are quite capable. Huaien dares to remonstrate with others, and Qin Ji is decisive in doing things. The two eunuchs still have a good reputation in the court."
"Because Zhu Jianshen loved Concubine Wan Guifei the most, most of the Wan family's nephews were arrogant and greedy. Concubine Wan Guifei's younger brother Wan Xi once served as the commander of the capital, and collaborated with eunuchs Liang Fang and others to seek rewards and profits in the name of tribute, which earned him a bad reputation."
This kind of thing is not uncommon in the past dynasties. After many families got the favor of the emperor because of their daughters, their chickens and dogs ascended to heaven. Most of these families did not have any background. The result of getting rich overnight was that the younger generation became arrogant and domineering.
"We knew something like this would happen!" Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of wine angrily, but he was also helpless about such a thing. Although he was Taizu, he couldn't do much about such things, and he was favored by the emperor. If you meet someone who is measured and knows how to warn his nephews at home, but if you meet someone who is not well-educated, it is easy to breed a bunch of moths.
The emperor is also a human being, and it is impossible for every emperor to fully understand justice. Sometimes he knows that the things these people do are disgusting, but for the sake of his beloved concubine, he can only turn a blind eye. In the final analysis The emperor also had his own selfish motives.
Zhao Changge was unwilling to comment too much on such a thing. He continued: "Zhu Jianshen was the emperor for a total of twenty-three years. In the twenty-third year of Chenghua, Concubine Wan Guifei died of illness. Zhu Jianshen lamented after hearing this. People around him said, "Servant Wan has gone, and I will go too. Zhu Jianshen passed away soon after, and later the prince Zhu Youtang became the emperor."
Zhu Yuanzhang originally had a good impression of Zhu Jianshen, so he vindicated Yu Qian and restored Zhu Qiyu's imperial title to him, which was enough to satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang.
But I didn’t expect that this guy was also wise in the early stage and then started to become mediocre. Although it doesn’t sound good to favor the wet nurse, it is still a private matter after all. Zhu Yuanzhang doesn’t like it but he doesn’t want to say much about it. However, Zhu Yuanzhang doesn’t care about indulging Concubine Wan Gui’s nephew. It seems like such a jerk.
He, Zhu Yuanzhang, must also have a lot of love for his own girls, but our girls are so sensible. Even if we don’t say it, we know to warn our relatives. In this way, our own girls will be even more outstanding.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang was very dissatisfied that Zhu Jianshen did not summon ministers for a long time and left everything to the eunuchs.
But before Zhu Yuanzhang could say anything, Yongle Zhu Di took the lead in educating him.
"As the king of a country, you are going to make me angry if you leave all the government affairs of the country to the hands of the eunuchs. When I and Taizu were in power, we were very cautious about our careers, just so that future generations can have less hard work. , You are good, you really think that you can enjoy it as an emperor. You don’t even bother to summon the ministers, and you leave state affairs to others. Then what are you doing as an emperor? Zhanji, this is your descendant, you still have the nerve to Laughing over there!”
Why did he end up eating a melon on his own head? Zhu Zhanji's face suddenly fell, but Zhu Di was right, this was indeed his descendant of Zhu Zhanji.
But Zhu Zhanji is not very old now, so he does feel a little embarrassed to ask him to educate Zhu Jianshen as his grandfather.
"This...that...Zhu Jianshen! Why don't you apologize to Taizu Taizong quickly? Look at what you have done. Before you came, Taizu had been praising you. Fortunately, now It’s not too late, now that Ming Dynasty has a national advisor, we should naturally avoid the tragedy in the original history. As the king of a country, you must not be greedy for pleasure, and you must work hard to govern. I and Taizu Taizong will supervise you."
Zhu Jianshen looked at the young Zhu Zhanji and held it in for a long time before uttering the word "good".
"I forgot to mention one thing just now. When we talk about Zhu Jianshen, we have to talk about the system of ministerial officials created by Zhu Jianshen."
"Passenger official? What is this? We have never heard of it." Zhu Yuanzhang muttered, and then waited for Zhao Changge to explain to him.
"The so-called ministerial officials are officials appointed directly by the emperor without going through the official selection process, such as selection, court recommendation, and ministry meetings."
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di said loudly at the same time: "How is this possible? If the promotion of officials depends entirely on the emperor's preference, wouldn't there be many flatterers who can easily get the job!"
