Chapter 353: New Officer Takes Owned

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, when the Beijing officials who returned to Beijing from outside the capital arrived at their respective yamen, they saw two things published by the imperial court. One was that the former Liaodong governor, Sun Chengzong, returned to the capital from Liaodong because he was old and served as the Minister of the Central Military Department of the Six Ministry of Beijing; the other was that the young official named Tang Feng would serve as the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei, in charge of all the investigation and criminal affairs in Beijing.

Sun Chengzong's name is well known throughout the Ming Dynasty. Although he is over 60 years old, he is still stronger and stronger. He is the border general whom the people trust most. Unexpectedly, even such seniors of the three dynasties have been squeezed back to the capital. This is the reaction made by ordinary people and people who know very little about the situation in the court after they know this. In general, it is a resentment for the court and the fact that good generals like Lord Sun cannot serve the country.

But those who were doing well in the court did not see this. They were also surprised and unbelievable when they saw this appointment. Because before they left Beijing, they believed that Sun Chengzong would completely lose power. Even if they could still be an official, they would probably be sent to the six ministries in Nanjing to be a leisurely minister. But who would have thought that although he retired from the important position of Liaodong Ruler, he still held the position of a senior official of the six ministries. This made the eunuchsmen unable to understand it, and they did not know whether Nine Thousand Sui completely defeated Sun Chengzong.

Compared to this matter, the fact that Tang Feng was appointed as the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei was not very eye-catching, but this does not mean that no one paid attention to this matter, especially those backbones of the eunuch party, who also valued this matter very much. Although these people were not in the capital during this period, they had already learned about the changes in the capital over the past few days through their own channels and knew about Xu Xianchun being demoted to Qianhu. Now Tang Feng has become the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei, which seems to be announcing that a new era of the Jinyiwei is about to begin. You must know that the current commander Tian Ergeng has long lost control of the Jinyiwei. Everything was originally under the control of the assistant Xu Xianchun. Now that he has not only been demoted, he has also changed to a higher position as Tongzhi than him, which is enough to show everything.

Of course, for these officials in the court, the internal mobilization of the Jinyiwei this time was not a matter of personal relationship with him. After all, the nine thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian is in charge of everything, and they are all Eunuch Wei, so naturally they are not afraid that the Jinyiwei will not be able to get along with him after the change of the person in charge. However, for the internal personnel of the Jinyiwei, the situation is very different.

After the conflict between the Jinyiwei and the East Factory a few months ago, Xu Xianchun took charge of everything and handled the internal affairs of the Jinyiwei to a certain extent. Some people who participated in the previous affairs were excluded, while Xu Xianchun's own confidants were all placed in important positions. Now that people have changed their hands, these people obviously feel threatened. Except for people like Luo Yangxing, the others know little about Tang Feng, and they are still full of anxiety.

Under such circumstances, Tang Feng brought only Lu An and two personal soldiers to the yamen of the Beizhen Fushi on the morning of the 16th day of the first lunar month.

Today he wore a bright red flying fish robe that he had never worn before, a pair of cowhide boots under his feet, and an embroidered spring sword specially used by the Jinyiwei at his waist. Coupled with his awe-inspiring look, it was enough to make people feel awe.

At this time, the middle and senior personnel from the Jinyiwei, including the Qianhu, Baihu and other Jinyiwei, were already waiting there, waiting for the newly appointed Tongzhi to give a lecture.

Tang Feng came to the top of the command lobby and looked back at the people below, feeling ups and downs. From today on, even if he controlled this pervasive spy force, this was also the beginning of a happy round of struggle between him and the eunuch party.

After seeing that Lord Tang had already sat down, everyone knelt down on one knee and said, "I have met Lord Tongzhi, I wish you good luck!" Tang Feng turned out that the matter of the Jinyiwei Qianhu was not a big secret among these people.

Tang Feng smiled kindly and said, "Don't be too polite for everyone, please get up. Now the Japanese official promotion to the Jinyi Tongzhi is the grace of the emperor and Eunuch Wei. We must do more attentively in the future!" Then he said some encouragement words, and he was a newcomer, and he still had a very little knowledge of the Jinyiwei organization. I hope everyone can cooperate more, etc.

Seeing that Lord Tongzhi was so kind, everyone let go of his concerns. What made the old people Xu Xianchun, who had been in charge of everything, was even more happy that Lord Tang did not arrange his confidants to take on important positions, and all positions did not change. He just said some scenes and allowed them to go back to their own thousand and hundreds of households.

"It seems that Lord Tang is a kind-hearted master. If you work with such a Tongzhi subordinate, there should be no difficulty!" This is the thought that most people have in their hearts, but some people are very dissatisfied with it. It turns out that when Xu and Tian subordinates were always suppressed by Dongchang when they were working. Now if they change to a more kind person, wouldn't they be completely suppressed by Dongchang? Everything they did before was in vain.

But what they didn't know was that Tang Feng didn't want to be a hand-off manager. After sending everyone away, he called Luo Yangxing to his public housing. At this time, the two were sitting opposite each other and talking. Tang Feng said a little guiltily: "It turned out that he wanted you to sit in Xu Xianchun's position, but who would have thought that he would change me in the end. It's really unpredictable."

"Sir, this matter is not something you can control, so you don't have to take it seriously. To be honest, if I really take it as a rank of assistant, I don't know what to do." Luo Yangxing didn't look a little disappointed, but was a little relaxed: "I got a position of a thousand households just because of family traditions. This is a great blessing for me. If I were to lead these people now, I'm afraid they would be very unwilling to accept it. At that time, it would be very difficult to let them be enemies with Wei Yan and Dongchang."

Tang Feng smiled bitterly and said, "But isn't it the same if I change it? Although some Qianhu has some friendships with me, it is not so easy to really take them for yourself. Moreover, I have limited knowledge of the internal situation of the Jinyiwei. I will leave you today just to hear you talk about your views on the current Jinyiwei."

Luo Yangxing said: "Although sir was a thousand households of the Jinyiwei before, he mostly worked outside, so he didn't know much about the internal affairs of the Jinyiwei. In fact, the internal affairs of the Jinyiwei was not as united as imagined. Otherwise, with the strength of our Jinyiwei, even if Eunuch Wei personally presided over the East Factory, it might not be possible to suppress us within two years."

"Oh? So, there are many factions among the Jinyiwei?" Tang Feng immediately became interested, and asked after taking a sip of tea. Luo Yangxing nodded and said, "Yes, the Jinyiwei who is here will not talk about him. The Qianqian households in the capital alone are divided into several groups. There are those who rely on Wei Zhongxian or Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng to take over. They are all determined to protect some of the power in their hands and seek personal gain. Such people are led by Liu Zhijian, the Qianqian household, and are the worst-in-class. In addition, Bai Liangfeng, Bai Qianqian, who was once a close confidant of the Donglin Party, still have considerable strength because of the foundation laid two years ago."

Tang Feng had a question as soon as he heard this: "Why are there any people related to the Donglin Party in the Jinyiwei? How could Wei Zhongxian let these people be under his nose?"

"This is because they have too many secrets in their hands, and Bai Liangfeng was once appreciated by the current emperor. He was a Qianhu, a royal family. As long as he didn't cause trouble, Eunuch Wei would not attack him. However, it is unknown whether Bai Liangfeng has done anything for the Donglin Party that is already in the opposition." Luo Yangxing explained. After a moment of pause, he pointed to himself again: "The next thing is me and a few good friends. We don't offend anyone. We rely on the remaining power of our father to form a group, but our strength is not strong."

Tang Feng nodded and said, "In this way, your Jinyiwei will be divided into three parts. No wonder he can't compete with the East Factory."

"No, it's Wufen!" Luo Yangxing smiled bitterly again, "None of our three families can do much, we just look around. What really makes our Jinyiwei fuck is the other two forces. One is Xu Xianchun's subordinates. Most of them are good at using torture from the imperial prison, and their martial arts are not bad. The representative of them is Xu Sanlun who has been taken down. The other force is some newcomers who have only joined in with their father's Yin in the past two years. They are all young men with strong energy and do not take the original commander seriously. It is precisely because of their powerful power that they can really have such a big conflict with the Dongchang before."

When Tang Feng heard this, his head became a little big. He never thought that there would be so many different forces in the Jinyiwei. After a while, he said: "So many forces mixed in, the Jinyiwei's ability will be greatly reduced. Why would Wei Zhongxian leave it alone?"

"Because this was all caused by him and his men, what he wanted was the constant internal disputes between the Jinyiwei. Only in this way would it not pose too much threat to him. Only in this way could this supervisory agency with amazing energy be completely used by him and become a powerful tool for him to suppress dissidents. Tian Ergeng was also deliberately placed in the position of commander, because he knew that this person was not brave enough, but Xu Xianchun was better than Tian in terms of ability."

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Then he didn't like me to subdue this complicated Jinyiwei this time? I won't let him succeed. Tell me, if I want to completely control all this, where should I start?"
Chapter completed!