Chapter 334 This is definitely not a coincidence, some people will say that there are seventy-two wells in the Forbidden City, and there are unjust souls in the wells.This is actually.Each of the seventy-two wells has a very narrow mouth, and it is not easy to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the well, but of course, thin people can also throw themselves into it.However, the place that devoured the most lives was neither the Imperial Garden nor the seventy-two wells, but the crematorium near the corner of the West Gate.A fire burned clean, leaving nothing but some ashes.At first, Cao Huachun didn't think that corruption and bribery were a major problem, after all, the inner dynasty was the same as the outer court, and the eunuchs were also human beings.Cao Huachun doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, just like Lu Xiangsheng thinks that Quanxu Heavy Industry and Heavy Business belong to putting the cart before the horse, just the inherent three views.Until, the layout and plan of Quanxu Huayang Club told Cao Huachun that he suddenly woke up, as Quan Xu said, Huayang Club has been digging the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and what they are asking for is not wealth, nor official positions, but for the life of the Ming Dynasty.Three days ago, when Cao Huachun was chatting with Emperor Chongzhen, he inadvertently said that he used one or two silver to buy eight catties of fine mutton.This attracted the attention of Emperor Chongzhen, he was very frugal in his life, and he was reluctant to drink a bowl of mutton soup when he was hungry, because a pound of mutton in the palace was as high as fifteen taels.After learning from Cao Huachun that one or two pieces of silver could buy eight catties of mutton, Emperor Chongzhen's glass heart was broken: "Together, I was deceived by this group of minions for a long time!"
”Cao Huachun got the highest approval from Emperor Chongzhen, and the palace began to rectify, of course, this is only in name, his purpose is to cleanse the tentacles of all forces.As the high-level of the Huayang Society in the palace, Cao Huachun naturally knew that some of the personnel of the Huayang Society's development were in charge of the tickets that Quan Xu said.Batch after batch, twelve prisons, four divisions, eight bureaus, within three days, Cao Huachun burned nearly 500 people, these eunuchs, not eunuchs without names and surnames, more or less real power, such as holding the emperor's imperial food, purchasing, walking in and out of the palace, and managing the imperial village in various places, etc."
Three, two, one......"
"Grandpa Cao!"
Just when Cao Huachun was about to throw another batch of twelve eunuchs into the crematorium and burn them alive, a leading eunuch stiffened his neck and said: "Father-in-law Cao, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, the slave maid is Gonggong's person!"
”"Father-in-law's people?""
Just by your words, you deserve to die!"
Cao Huachun's face turned cold: "Twelve prisons, four divisions and eight bureaus, you rabbit cubs, which one is not the emperor's person?"
Our family hates to eat inside and out, come on, let it be hung on the flagpole, ordered!
”Behind Cao Huachun, there were the leaders of the twenty-four yamen, they didn't know the purpose of Cao Huachun's doing, and everyone exchanged glances."
Cao Huachun, you are enough, you want to seize power, our family will not stop you, but you can't force all of us to death!""
yes, what are you!""
Be a man and leave a line, and see you in the future!""
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing your parents, our family will never die with you!"
Cao Huachun nodded slightly towards the martial eunuchs of the warrior camp, and the heads of the twenty-four yamen, who were the most fierce, fell to the ground.In fact, the 24 yamen, not all of them are yamen with oil and water, and there are many clear water yamen, such as the Huanyi Bureau, which is responsible for the washing of clothes.All the people in the palace who are old and those who have been dismissed and abolished will be sent to live in this bureau.Of course, relative to the master, the Huanyi Bureau is not considered the Qingshui Yamen, once it is the eunuchs and palace ladies who are in decline, they still have a lot of silver in their hands, which can be further squeezed out, a little oil and water.The Salary Division is to manage the charcoal in the palace, which belongs to the charcoal-burning institutions, and there are also institutions like the direct palace supervisors, who are equivalent to the sanitation brigade in the palace, responsible for the environmental sanitation work inside and outside the palace, sweeping the floor and sprinkling water.What Cao Huachun needs is an absolutely safe inner palace, and he needs a palace where outside forces will never interfere with it, so the object of his action this time is a eunuch who has the opportunity to contact the outside.After this round of bloodbath, Cao Huachun became the real first person in the inner court of the palace, and the eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen palm seals were either killed or dragged to refine corpse oil.Between them, there may be wrongs, and they may not have anything to do with Huayang Society, which is not important, the important thing is that Cao Huachun does not want to repeat the mistakes of Wei Zhongxian.Wei Zhongxian definitely didn't have any accidents like the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but under his nose, the Emperor of the Apocalypse had an accident, which shows that the people around Wei Zhongxian were also infiltrated by the Huayang Society.Thinking of this, Cao Huachun's cold sweat flowed down.He has now cleaned the twenty-four yamen, who goes up and who comes down, all by his words, his relatives around him, once the cronies take the throne?
Will it be like Wei Zhongxian?
Got put on the table?
Thinking of this, he looked at the twenty or thirty cronies around him, and they smiled, because they knew that the time that belonged to them had come.Cao Huachun looked at his henchman Lu Jiude beside him, according to the original idea, Lu Jiude needed to serve as the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, the imperial horse supervisor is the second most powerful institution after the celebrant eunuch, the imperial horse supervisor was originally responsible for the management of the imperial horse, and then he was responsible for managing part of the forbidden army (Tengxiang four guards and four guards, warrior battalion).At its peak, the army numbered more than 40,000 men."
Lu Jiude, the eunuch of the celebrant and the pen!""
Xie Cao's father-in-law is carrying!""
Jiude, I need you to go to Nanjing, serve as the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, and hold the imperial camp soldiers and horses in Nanjing, I don't worry about the others!"
Cao Huachun said it well, and the treatment he gave to Lu Jiude was also good, he was regarded as the third leader of the ceremonial supervisor, but if he went to Nanjing, he would cheat people.Lu Jiude had a smile on his face, but he had a look of resentment in his heart.It was exiled.The Nanjing garrison eunuch was the outman of the ceremonial eunuch in Beijing.Then, Cao Huachun directly promoted eight of his henchmen to serve as the eunuchs of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, eight people as the eunuchs of the court, and the others also ascended and descended secretly, controlling the power in their own hands.Then, with his secret henchman Wang Jixiang, pretending to be dissatisfied, complaining, and saying bad things about Cao Huachun, finally, Wang Jixiang gained a large number of supporters, and they discussed plotting to form an anti-Cao alliance.Of course, Cao Huachun didn't wait for them to launch and swept them away.At this time, Cao Huachun finally completed the cleaning of the eunuchs and palace ladies in the palace, and obtained absolute control of the inner palace.The dictatorship of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty is the most familiar thing for everyone.Film and television dramas are constantly broadcast, and everyone keeps watching them, which has long formed a deep-rooted concept.The reason for this is that the eunuchs lack the influence of Confucianism, and only know how to seek personal immediate benefits, regardless of the long-term peace and stability of the country; They were the emperor's minions, unsupervised, and they were often worse than the bureaucrats.Actually, this is dirty water.To say that eunuchs have no culture, just like eunuchs like Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, who were born in the wilderness, are indeed uneducated, eunuchs like Wang An and Cao Huachun who were born in the inner study hall, since they were teenagers, have been studying with Hanlin bachelors, and the official eunuchs they have cultivated have not necessarily been worse than ordinary Jinshi in terms of knowledge.Just like the current Cao Huachun, in terms of ability, power and strategy, means, and scheming, he is much stronger than ordinary Jinshi, at least Cao Huachun made Huayang Club suffer a big loss.…… The Imperial City of Beijing, South Street Award Hutong, this mansion is Jiadingbo, the biological father of Empress Zhou, Chongzhen's father-in-law, and the mansion of Zhou Kui, the reign of the emperor.Zhou Kui is stingy, this mansion is a courtyard with seven courtyards before and after, and there are eight courtyards of different sizes on the left and right sides of the central axis, but he rented out his mansion and two courtyards in the backyard for money, including a total of six courtyards on the left and right.The other party is very generous, the annual rent is as much as 30,000 taels of silver, and it is more than enough to buy a three-entry house at such a price, but Zhou Kui is very happy.In the backyard of Jiadingbo, it is the intersection of Dajiangfang Hutong, and it is also the only way for civil and military officials to go to the last dynasty.This house has been changed to a half-covered door (secret prostitute) since the beginning of the first month, as long as the red lantern is hung, it means that there are no guests at night, and there are often civil and military officials, who come to kiss Fangze.It is said that this is a very embarrassing thing, but Zhou Kui was not ashamed, but picked up a big bargain.Located in the courtyard of Tianzi on the right side, it is the lotus pond of the original Jiading Bo Mansion, there is a pond covering an area of three or four acres, in the middle of the pond, an isolated island, and a hall is built on it.The hall with an area of only more than 100 square meters is not only magnificent.Tables and chairs and a few stools, in addition to the gloomy wood is rosewood, hollow carved windows, at a glance you know that the cost is expensive.In front of the piano table in the central hall, sat a woman in white with a light veil, gently plucking the strings and singing a babbling tune in a low voice.A man in a loose robe, with his back to the door, pressed his hand on the desk, tapping lightly on the desk, looking very intoxicated.He is none other than the former military department Shangshu Wang Zaijin.Footsteps rang out."
Sir!""
Lord Liang Yandong asks to see you!""
Let him in!"
When Liang Yandong came in: "Yandong meets Da Sima!"
”Wang Zaijin looked at Liang Yandong and said, "You came to see me, what happened?"
”"There is a change in the palace!""
Isn't it just a dead person?"
Wang Zaijin smiled a little disapprecantly: "When will there be no dead people in the palace?"
”Liang Yandong said with a solemn face: "What if all of our people are dead?"
”"All dead?"
Wang Zaijin shook his head and said, "Impossible!
”"Cao Huachun didn't know what wind was pumping in his brain, and in one breath, he executed more than 500 servants through corruption!"
Liang Yandong said with a wry smile: "The twelve prisons, the four divisions and eight bureaus, the palm prints, and the admirals have all been killed!"
”"So coincidentally?""
Xia Guan thinks that this is definitely not a coincidence!"