Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch in Nanjing

Sun Chengzhong, Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of War

Xu Guangqi, left minister of the Ministry of Works and bachelor of the school

Wei Guangwei, the Grand Secretary of the Jinshen Palace

Minister of Works Ho Weihua

Cui Chengxiu, Minister of Personnel

Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the seal and the admiral of the East Factory,

Xu Xianchun, commander of the Jinyiwei

Zuo Zhongyun Li Mingrui

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Zhu Youxiao looked at the list of royalists in his hand, which had already recorded more than a dozen officials in the court, and couldn't help but smile. His purpose was to gradually grow stronger and then squeeze out the Donglin Party, and finally control national resources through the emerging military and political group of the Royalist Party, so that the Ming Dynasty would move towards Zhongsheng.

The rise of any regime has a powerful group. Liu Xiu had the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, Li Shimin had his Tiance Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi children, and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, the success of the Whampoa Military Academy is a model.

Since the Donglin Party represented the interests of merchants, i.e., the great gentry, in the late Ming Dynasty, the royalist Party represented the interests of the vast majority of middle and lower-class landlords and most people.

The political proposition of the Donglin Party is to oppose eunuchs and mine taxes.

The political proposition of the Royalist Party is to impose commercial taxes, develop maritime trade, and revitalize the Ming Dynasty. This is contrary to the proposition of the Donglin Party, and it also completely shows that these two parties will only be incompatible in the future.

However, the Donglin Party has no clear political beliefs. Strictly speaking, the Donglin Party is not a well-organized political organization.

But the royalist party is not the case. It has its own clear political belief, which is the loyalty to the king and revitalize the Ming Dynasty proposed by Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

At the same time, the royalist party established by Zhu Youxiao itself had a strict central organization, that is, the Xihunting Pavilion set up by Zhu Youxiao in the Qianqing Palace.

This Western Warehouse is a bit like the Secretariat or the President's Office, but its responsibilities are indeed to lead the work of the Royalist Party.

Zhu Youxiao's penman Li Mingrui wrote the 30,000-word "Draft Program of the Royalist Party" according to Zhu Youxiao's wishes, which included these so-called political beliefs, propositions and leadership bodies.

As soon as the "Draft Program of the Royalist Party" was written, Zhu Youxiao sent it to the ministers of the Royalist Party and encouraged the ministers to put forward their own opinions.

It was a bit difficult for these traditional feudal literati to understand Zhu Youxiao's thinking, but these people were not stupid. After carefully reading the auxiliary materials sent by Zhu Youxiao at the same time, they all understood the purpose of His Majesty the Emperor's efforts.

Most of these ministers were from traditional gentry families and were originally opposed to business, so they imposed commercial taxes to crack down on the combination of officials and businessmen. They agreed.

Zhu Youxiao specially proposed the concept of the country "Ming Dynasty". The purpose is naturally to let everyone have a common ideal, which is consistent with traditional Confucianism and no one objected.

However, the development of maritime trade made the ministers a little confused. Why did His Majesty emphasize this? Fortunately, these ministers are almost all from the mainland and have little understanding of maritime commerce, so no one objected.

In this way, Zhu Youxiao finally united a group of practical officials who were mainly responsible for officials around him.

Most of these officials who were eunuchs also opened up their hearts. From today on, they are no longer eunuchs. They do not go against their ideas. They do not seek refuge with eunuchs, but are more loyal to the emperor than others.

From today on, whoever does not join them is the unfaithful and unrighteous people. They have the obligation to punish these traitors who have no intention of being loyal to the emperor!

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that the political belief of this group would develop into the core idea of ​​"loyalty to the emperor" in the later stage, of course this is a later story.

Since Wei Zhongxian was demoted to the garrison of Nanjing, Zhu Youxiao has deliberately separated the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei Prime Minister. From then on, the two secret agencies were independent agencies, and the Jinyiwei was no longer under the control of the Dongchang.

Moreover, after confiscating the money from Zheng Sanjun's family into the treasury, Zhu Youxiao immediately allocated 100,000 taels each to the Jinyiwei and the East Factory, ordering Wang Chengen and Xu Xianchun to strengthen their spy team and establish a series of service systems such as training, staff, and logistics.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also clarified the functions of these two major spy agencies. The East Factory was mainly responsible for the collection, supervision, inspection and arrest of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the gentry officials.

From then on, the Jinyiwei only collected intelligence on military and foreign wars.

In this way, with the encouragement and financial support of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, these two major spy agencies have tried their best to expand their scale. For a time, Dongchang's fans were spread across the eighteen inland provinces, teahouses, restaurants, Qinlou Chu Pavilion, water and land wharf, and cities and villages. Some were slaves from a wealthy family, some were workers working in textile workshops, some were still in Qing. The ******s who were singing in the building were sedan chairmen of an official, and even some concubines might be Dongchang's fans.

In short, as long as Zhu Youxiao wants to know what big things have happened in a certain place recently, and who said what they said when and where, Wang Chengen will be able to report the news to him the next day.

Xu Xianchun's Jinyiwei was naturally not willing to fall behind. After the eunuchs in the nine border towns were successively sent to Jiangnan or important commercial distribution centers in various places to collect taxes, Jinyiwei immediately entered the major military towns.

From above, generals and above to generals to generals to governors and governors, civil and military officials at all levels in border towns will be accompanied by Jinyiwei.

Of course, this is only on the surface. The Jinyiwei has already secretly sneaked into the Jurchens, Mongolia, North Korea and other places as undercover agents. For a time, Zhu Youxiao's intelligence network further expanded on the original basis.

Sometimes, he could know the information that Wang Zaijin, the governor of Liaodong, could not know in advance.

This history was recorded in the notes of the Donglin Party. For a time, the Tiqiqi was everywhere and the Dongchang Manzi arrested people everywhere. No one dared to talk about state affairs. Otherwise, they would be imprisoned for slandering the king. Some juren were arrested in the middle of the night, and dozens of county student members were arrested in prison. For a while, the people all complained that there was no peace in the world. This was the darkest time of the Ming Dynasty in two hundred years.

But it was in such a darkest era, where no one revolts or rebels.

Ding Yikui, a new top student in the 26th year of the Tianqi family, once recorded in his personal notes that although disasters occurred frequently during the Tianqi period, the people were the most happy, because the court received timely reports and disaster relief was timely.

Two flowers bloomed, each with one branch. In order to strengthen the royal party, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Dongchang to join the royal party. The introduction materials and various materials were sent to several important figures in the late Ming Dynasty whom he was familiar with.

For example, Lu Xiangsheng, who is still serving as the prefect of Daming Prefecture.

Ma Shiying, Cao Wenzhao, Huang Degong, Yan Yingyuan and others who were also serving as the prefect of Datong.

These heroes from all over the Ming Dynasty and who had not yet become famous were connected by Zhu Youxiao.
Chapter completed!