Chapter 22 The Iron-clad Guards, Six Tigers and Eighteen Dogs
In Liu Neng's memory, the martial arts cultivation system in this world is a very important information for Liu Yuanfeng. This world is a world where martial arts are the most respected and martial arts style is very prosperous, so the memories of Liu Neng's memory surrounding this martial arts cultivation system can almost give Liu Yuanfeng a basic understanding of the world.
In addition, there is another important information in Liu Neng's memory, which is about the Liu Mansion. Specifically, it is the owner of this Liu Mansion, the original cheap father Liu Polu.
Although Liu Polu called such a righteous name, and started with military merits, he really went to the battlefield to kill foreign enemy Hulu, and he looked handsome, with a national face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked very righteous and powerful without anger.
According to the very limited memory of the fool in the original body, Liu Yuanfeng originally thought that this guy was an officer, general, or something. But after checking the memories of Liu Neng that were copied, he could not help but immediately changed his impression and was shocked.
Liu Polu's current identity in the Daxue Dynasty is indeed an officer. But what he didn't expect was that a guy with a righteous name, Liu Polu, who had a strong eyebrows and big eyes, and seemed righteous, was actually a shameful eunuch party who was despised and shameful.
The so-called eunuch party refers to a political faction formed by eunuchs. This eunuch is a eunuch, a man who has lost the following words. Or, if he loses his masculine characteristics, he cannot be considered a man at all.
Of course, Liu Polu himself is not a eunuch. He has a wife and a child, and his son is definitely his own birth and his own seed.
However, although he was not a eunuch, he surrendered to a great lieutenant in power in the dynasty and was highly valued, so he was naturally classified as a member of the eunuch party.
The Daxue Kingdom has been established for more than 300 years. It has been passed down to this day. It is the fourth emperor who succeeded to the throne and rule. The emperor's reign was Yongning. When the founding of the Daxue Dynasty, a rule was established. From him, every Daxue emperor who succeeded to the throne can only establish one year name, changing the chaos of the arbitrary changes of the year name in the past few dynasties. With this rule, each emperor only has one year name, so the people often call him the emperor by the year name.
Today, Emperor Xue is called Emperor Yongning among the people. Now it is July of the summer of the 23rd year of Yongning. In other words, the Emperor Yongning has only ascended the throne for twenty-three years. However, the emperor is not old, and this year is only twenty-five, and he was pushed to the throne as the emperor when he was two years old. When he succeeded, he was a standard child emperor. He was not yet an adult, and he couldn't speak completely, so he naturally could not and could not take charge of the rule and lost power. At that time, the empress dowager was in charge of the government and several auxiliary ministers assisted him.
The emperor was pushed onto the dragon throne at the age of two, which was the final compromise of a palace struggle and a change of power. He was not the crown prince appointed by the former emperor, nor was he a powerful prince's choice to fight for the throne.
The entire court struggle from the past was still very different from the court, and few people knew the specific facts. No one among the people dared to openly discuss it because it was explicitly prohibited by the court, but the more it was prohibited, it often became more and more uncontrollable. Therefore, there were many versions of it privately. However, it is unknown whether there is real or not in these versions. It seems that they have a nose and eyes, but no one can confirm whether it is true or not.
After Emperor Yongning became an adult, he began to take charge of power. However, the Empress Dowager and several ministers of the regent were greedy for power and refused to hand over all power. Sui Xinhuang started a power battle with the Empress Dowager and the regent. The final result was that the Emperor Yongning had quite a means to regain his power as the emperor himself.
However, Emperor Yongning was promoted to the throne at the age of two, and the government has always been controlled by the Empress Dowager and the Minister of the Respondent. These people thought that he was young and easy to bully and was not the orthodox heir of the past, so their attitude and behavior towards the new emperor were sometimes too much.
Therefore, after the Yongning Emperor regained his power, he refused to trust the court officials anymore, because there were many other ministers of the auxiliary ministers. They could neither clean up in a short time nor beat them all to death. Otherwise, a large number of officials were dismissed and the court would be almost empty. No matter how capable Emperor Yongning had, he could not rely on himself to manage and govern the huge dynasty alone.
Therefore, among these court officials, who were not closely related to several major regents, Emperor Yongning turned a blind eye and did not pursue the matter. However, he would never trust these people easily. However, he always had to use people to govern the country, so the emperor promoted and reused the eunuchs who were close ministers in the palace. Because he grew up in the deep palace, he had a good relationship with these eunuchs. Moreover, when he defeated the empress dowager and those regents, several of the eunuchs also played a great role and had made a lot of efforts. Once he was in power, he naturally had to reus and promoted these.
There are six eunuchs who are most favored and valued around Emperor Yongning. The people call these six eunuchs Liuhu. Some of them have ulterior motives to incite public opinion and people's sentiments. What's more, it is said that the Emperor Yongning valued eunuchs, which led to the eunuch party rampant, the administration is unclear, and the people are living in poverty, and they call the emperor a fool in private.
Moreover, the emperor's private character is quite worthy of criticism. This is the emperor's romantic nature and is very lustful. It is said that he also asked eunuchs and maids to pretend to be brothels in the palace, but he acted as a guest and went to the "bringing house" to sleep in the willows.
In Liu Yuanfeng's opinion, he felt that this was nothing, and he felt that the role-playing of Emperor Yongning was very exciting. Is it said that "a young man is not romantic or not"? The young man's spirit and romantic or not is nothing.
However, judging from the memories of the Yongning Emperor that Liu Neng knew about Liu Yuanfeng originally thought that the emperor's greed and lust were deliberately used to show his greed and lust for the empress dowager and the ministers of the regent before. It was a means of showing weakness and deception, so that they could relax their vigilance, believing that the emperor would be lustful, arrogant, extravagant, and have no ability or do nothing. This was the only way to make a secret arrangement and regain power after taking power in one fell swoop.
But, after regaining power, the emperor remained unchanged at all. He was still always romantic and lustful, and seemed to have become more serious than before. From this point of view, this guy may have used this method to deceive his opponents before, but lustful and romantic seem to be true of his nature.
The Daxue Dynasty had three major secret institutions, called the Two Guards and One Factory. The two Guards were the Empression Guard and the Iron-Iron Guard, both of which were the Emperor's personal army. The factory was a secret anti-smuggling factory, referred to as the Secret Factory. The Empression Guard and the Iron-Iron Guard were founded by one when Emperor Taizu, but this secret factory was established by Emperor Ziyongning today. The purpose was to supervise all officials and better investigate and punish those ministers of the regents.
Of course, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Iron Uniform Guard also had this kind of responsibility, but Emperor Yongning felt that it was not enough, and he always felt that what he established was more trustworthy. The secret factory he founded was handed over to the eunuch Tan Silang, whom he trusted the most. The two personal secret institutions, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Iron Uniform Guard, also sent a eunuch he trusted to take charge.
Among them, the eunuch in charge of the embroidered yarn guards was named Cao Rui, and the one in charge of the Iron Guards was named Wan Gang. Both of them were also one of the Six Tigers.
Liu Yuanfeng's cheap father Liu Polu was surrendered to Wan Gang's disciple. In fact, he was promoted and appreciated by noble people in the army, and this noble person was also Wan Gang. At that time, Wan Gang was ordered by the court to inspect the border army. He saw with his own eyes that Liu Polu had outstanding martial arts and was quite tactful, so he liked it and promoted him. Liu Polu later surrendered to Wan Gang, but he took the old path, and the two had a long history.
Liu Yuanfeng didn't know what the dispute between the eunuch party and the court officials in the Daxue Dynasty was, and who was right and who was wrong. Anyway, after Liu Polu surrendered to Wan Gang, the eunuch party's name did not escape, and many people often curse him secretly in private.
The six eunuchs in power in the dynasty also had the title of Six Tigers and Eighteen Dogs. Six Tigers refer to these six eunuchs, and Eighteen Dogs refer to the eighteen followers who are accomplices of tigers. Because of the eighteen of them, they are collectively called Six Tigers and Eighteen Dogs. Liu Polu is one of these eighteen dogs and can be regarded as famous all over the world.
Chapter completed!