You should know that the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were not only staying in the palace, but could only embezzle and deduct the cost of the palace. The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty could leave the palace. They could also leave the capital. There were eunuchs in various prefectures and prefectures, and there were eunuchs in the army. More importantly, there was an Eastern Factory.

Therefore, these eunuchs were able to plunder the people's wealth and money, and use the power of the East Factory to bully the market.

Not no one knows about these things, but they are all suppressed by Gao Gong.

It's definitely the butt that determines the head.

If this happened when Xu Jie was the chief minister of the cabinet and Gao Gong was the second assistant of the cabinet, Gao Gong would definitely make the matter a big deal and dealt with these eunuchs hard.

However, Gao Gong sat in the position of the chief minister of the cabinet. All he thought about was his grand ideals. Emperor Longqing could not go to court and ignore the government. This was simply the best environment for him to show his ambitions. Therefore, he turned a blind eye to the eunuchs' affairs.

Yan Na has completely let himself go now. He just wants to be a good old man who is as good as water and safely survives until retirement. So he turned a blind eye.

Ma Fang and Zhang Juzheng are now busy with a whip, with heels hitting the back of their heads and hair turned a few white, and they didn't notice this at all.

As for the old people of Xu Jie, such as Ge Shouli, Zhao Zhenji and others, they all kept Xu Jie's words in mind and tried to keep a low profile now to create a chance of conflict with Luo Xin and Gao Gong. They thought this was an opportunity, so they all watched coldly.

Luo Xin, it’s not that Luo Xin didn’t know these things. He had Wang Cuiqiao under his command. How could he not know about these things? And with Liu Shouyou, Liu Shouyou has looked for Luo Xin many times. Now the Jinyiwei has been suppressed by the East Factory, which made Liu Shouyou very unhappy. He caught many real-time and energy from the East Factory and hoped that Luo Xin would stand up. However, Luo Xin did not have the time and energy, and now Gao Gong suppressed him a lot and was looking for his mistakes. Luo Xin thought about it and finally avoided it. He was very busy now, busy with the reform of the Ministry of Works.

Zhou Yu has already taken office in the Ministry of Works, but the two of them have never found a breakthrough in the reform of the Ministry of Works.

There are two main reasons for this.

One is that he has no money, and Gao Gong does not approve money at all. The other is that he has no one. The scholars in the Ming Dynasty regard the technology of the Ministry of Industry, or the technology mentioned by Luo Xin as a strange skill, and no one is willing to study these things.

And both aspects are undoubtedly the basis of reform.

No money or no one, what a big deal to reform!

Therefore, Luo Xin and Zhou Yu are looking for solutions every day.

In this way, no one cared about these eunuchs. The eunuch who was cautious at first gradually magnified his courage and began to reach into the court.

From the initial greed to the public request later, they have become more and more arrogant.

Which department is in charge of money in Daming?

Ministry of Revenue!

Therefore, the first one to be affected was the Ministry of Revenue. Feng Bao and others have begun to make a clever name and publicly ask for money from the Ministry of Revenue.

For example, for example, for the reasons of making clothes for the emperor, the imperial concubine, the prince, etc., the Ministry of Revenue asked for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

There are too many such things, but can Ge Shouli, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, agree?

This absolutely cannot be done!

Not to mention that Ge Shouli was originally a very old-fashioned person, he looked down on these eggless goods very much. Even if he was afraid of Gao Gong, he would not dare to agree.

Once he allocates the money to the treasury, Gao Gong can impeach and remove him.

So, he refused. As he had too many times, Ge Shouli had no choice but to hide at home and pretend to be sick.

Lin Yuntong, the Minister of Works, is also very troubled now. He was originally the imperial envoy of the Inspectorate. By chance, he and Xu Jie tacitly matched it with Xu Jie, and finally got the position of Minister of Works.

He was originally a magistrate, noble and arrogant. Now he has encountered two things that he annoyed the most.

One is that Luo Xin and Zhou Yu want to reform the Ministry of Works. They want to improve the treatment of craftsmen in the Ministry of Works. This treatment is not only an increase in salary, but also an improvement in official qualities.

This kind of strange trick is something that Lin Yuntong most despises. How could he agree?

But he was caught between Luo Xin and Zhou Yu, and it was really hard to fight back. And at this moment, he met those greedy eunuchs again.

The palace is repaired every year, and this year is no exception. The eunuchs have now become greedy and have made clever names, such as repairing the roof of trees, repairing furniture, etc., blatantly expanding their budgets, and even go to the Ministry of Works to see what they like and what they are valuable in the warehouse, so they want to leave under various names.

Lin Yuntong was originally a hot-hearted person and was a magistrate. How could he bear it? He immediately wrote a letter to sue Emperor Longqing. The letter bluntly stated that the eunuchs took power and destroyed the court's principles. If they did not stop reprimanding, I would beg for the bones.

This is to show off with Emperor Longqing. You are so believing in eunuchs, so I won’t serve you anymore.

In his opinion, even if Emperor Longqing did not give up the eunuchs, he would try his best to keep an old minister like him. But he did not expect that Emperor Longqing would agree to his retirement. Gao Gong finally couldn't stand it anymore, and he also thought that this was the best time to recruit Lin Yuntong, so he tried his best to protect and finally saved Lin Yuntong.

However, this also exposed the contradiction between the inner court and the outer court. In the intensification of this contradiction, Emperor Longqing protected the eunuchs very much. Basically, the eunuchs won the victory. Many officials were demoted because of their conflicts with eunuchs.

The eunuchs were also suppressed by Emperor Jiajing in the Jiajing Dynasty, and now they let themselves go with Emperor Longqing. Once the people are inflated, they will no longer be afraid. They finally began to put their hands into the military and political affairs.

cabinet.

When he fell in the position of the second auxiliary, he frowned and thought about the money and personnel issues of the Ministry of Works. Ma Fang, Yan Na and Zhang Juzheng were also sitting there without saying a word. Gao Gong glanced at everyone and took out an edict and handed it to Luo Xin. Luo Xin saw that Emperor Longqing wanted to take a photo of the eunuch Lu Yong, and Gao Xiang left the five military camps to supervise the army.

Luo Xin was shocked in his heart, and then handed the decree to Yan Na. After everyone finished reading it, Gao Gong said in a voice:

"What suggestions do you have? Lord Luo, let's talk about it first."

Luo Xin said slowly: "This is the matter of the Ministry of War, and everything is decided by Lord Gao."

At this time, a stream of anger surged in Luo Xin's heart. These eunuchs were so greedy. Are they trying to restore the power of Liu Jin and the Eight Tigers during the Zhengde period?

Gao Gong looked at Ma Fang and said, "Sir Ma, you are in charge of the Ministry of War. What suggestions do you have?"

Ma Fang smiled bitterly and said, "The army has always had eunuchs and military supervision, so there is nothing wrong with His Majesty's decree."

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