0254 eunuch

Longevity Palace.

In the middle, the carved Phoenix screen is embroidered with short feet, and the backrest is full of pillows. There is an extremely exquisite, painted gold table on the end of the bed, on which there are tea hangings, tea bowls, washbas, silk scarves and other royal objects.

In the corner of the room, on a mahogany tea table inlaid with emerald and agate, there is an incense burner, a wisp of light smoke, curling up, and the room is full of strange fragrance, which is refreshing.

Xia Zhanmei, the noble empress dowager, sat leisurely on the embroidered couch in the middle, while Princess Gu and Princess Yuan sat sideways on the embroidered couch next to her.

Outside the low-hanging bamboo curtain, Zhu Yi, the eunuch of Si Lijian, Zheng Liu, the eunuch of the Jianjian, Duan Qi, the eunuch holding the sword, etc. waited breathily, and recited the memorials presented by the provinces of the cabinet.

The memorials of these foreign ministers will naturally not be presented to the Empress Dowager Xia and others, but to Pope Mu Feng for review. However, in just more than 20 days when Andongye left the "Huadu" and went out to hunt, in this seemingly ordinary late autumn, the Shaman Holy See was full of clouds and surging undercurrents.

Pope Baiye Mufeng, who has always been in a state of health, suddenly became "confused" and unable to govern normally. After a few days of rest, he seemed to have recovered on the surface. There was nothing unusual, but something unusual was still noticed by some interested people. In particular, several well-informed eunuchs in the inner court clearly knew that the supreme authority of the Holy Court had quietly changed hands when the ministers and workers outside the court were confused and ignorant.

A series of changes like antelope hanging horns and fragrant elephant crossing the river, although silent, there is almost no trace. Fortunately, the girl, who indulged excessively and was confused, rested in the church for a period of time. Somehow, she was firmly controlled by the three concubines and hid in the church like pigs and dogs, with fresh and tender ceremonious girls*. All foreign court memorials were submitted to the imperial concubines. Decide, and then the supervisor will approve Zhu.

** The general manager first noticed this abnormality. According to the old system of the Baiye Dynasty, the harem is not allowed to do politics. Even when the Pope himself is suddenly unable to take power, all political affairs should be selected by the cabinet ministers of each province to elect one or two royal princes and princes to take charge and decide the master. It's okay. It's very strange to suddenly break the routine and let the concubines hang down the curtain and govern.

In the eyes of several important eunuchs in the inner court, Pope Mufeng's "strange disease" is so strange that it really makes them mutter; but in any case, these powerful eunuchs are very reluctant to share the power they have already held with the court officials in the eight provinces of the cabinet. They I would rather form an alliance with the concubines. After all, the concubines always rely on them, the eunuchs, to run around, while the cabinet officials can do their own things without relying on the eunuchs.

You should know that which of those cabinet ministers is not have old officials all over the world. They exaggerate that one person spits and together can definitely drown these eunuchs, and local officials will definitely support the cabinet and will not support the guards. On the other hand, eunuchs, if they leave the palace, they will not The pope's supreme power is behind, or without the pope's signboard, the shallow eunuchs will not be supported by anyone, and the power they hold may be taken away by cabinet ministers one by one at any time.

These powerful eunuchs may even have life-threatening after losing power, which is also unbearable for the powerful eunuchs.

Previously, as soon as Baiye Mufeng arrived at the church, the matter of criticizing the cabinet minister's memorial would fall into the hands of Si Lijian. After a long time, how could the eunuchs of Si Lijian not take the opportunity to play with their hands and feet? Receiving gifts and seeking bribes, turning black and white upside down, making trouble, and getting up and down his hands is arrogant.

The eunuchs are already heavily powerful, and then take such an opportunity to accumulate their own power, cultivate their own private groups, and recruit some people who are eager to move to the situation. Almost every powerful eunuch is surrounded by a large group of adopted sons, righteous daughters, nephews, disciples, disciples, hugging and patting horses, and pretending to be powerful tigers. Many of them are as high as one or two thousand people, and the momentum is even more difficult to contain. Naturally, they are also hated and attacked by the cabinet minister group.

How can people who have tasted the taste of power easily share their power with others? What's more, in the eyes of these eunuchs, those lingering and paper-like bosses in the cabinet, and those clay-like ministers in the eight provinces are masters who fight for power as officials, and governing the country is ordinary and ordinary.

In the current situation, even these eunuchs who are used to play with power and are domineering and domineering domineering, do not regard these cabinet officials at all. Among the civil and military ministers of the dynasty, those who can make the eunuchs restrain and know what they are afraid of are nothing but Nalan Ruochu and Yuanbei Gu.

The eunuchs of the Eight Prisons and the 24 Guards naturally also have factions and are even incompatible with each other, but their positions are extremely consistent on the issue of defending the power and interests of the eunuchs. Therefore, compared with the intrigues and open and secret struggles of cabinet officials, these incomplete people are also relatively grouped with each other.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Xia Zhanmei's mastery of the inner court was revealed. She skillfully took advantage of the relationships and contradictions of the eunuchs, and used various means to win people's hearts, so that most of the eunuchs in the eunuchs and the female officials in the palace were willing to obey her orders, even the ceremonial supervisor and palm prints. The three theories of prison and sword prison are above the black father-in-law, and the eunuch of the inner court who has real power but is under the black father-in-law is no exception.

The plump Xia Zhanmei has become a general trend in the inner court. Although Zhu Yi, Zheng Liu and Duan Qi have held real power and a solid foundation for many years, they consider their own interests and naturally refuse to do stupid deeds against the trend. They can only bow down and obey orders. In this way, all the eunuchs are under the control of the "Queen Concubine Party".

The three imperial concubines led by Xia Zhanmei, together with several eunuchs in the inner court, such as Zhu Yi, Zheng Liu, Duan Qi, Hei Ba, Xuanwu, etc., quickly formed an unknown interest alliance in just half a month and held the highest authority of the Holy See.

Although eunuchs such as Bingbi Da eunuch Hei Ba rank the lowest among the eight internal court eunuchs, they are popular and close attendants around the empress dowager, and are also key figures in communicating between the harem and the cabinet. Therefore, the real power in this small group is higher than the eunuch Zhu Yi of Sili. He has always had no need to look at the palm seal and holding the sword. The face of the supervisor.

The black father-in-law himself is also secretly trying to gain power, but on the one hand, he doesn't have much ambition. On the other hand, the Empress Dowager Xia is closely guarded against his subordinates. Although he dares to seize power, he still knows a little about power.

Over the years, like the power skills of the royal aristocracy and those sinister and dirty power schemes in the officialdom, how many hundreds of people have they have witnessed? However, no matter how good these powers or schemes are, there are always traces, and the wrists of his master, Empress Dowager Xia, make him feel unpredictable and even difficult to understand them in detail, which makes him wonder whether there are think tanks and people around Xia Zhanmei or behind him, but in a hurry, he really can't see any name. Hall.

The three imperial concubines, led by Xia Zhanmei, made clear decisions and quick dealing with things. They were not sluggish at all about political decisions, especially the cool old Pope Baiye Changqing, which also surprised the old black father-in-law and put away his eyes.

The best way for a heroine with such a clear and iron fist is to do her best and never have two hearts; so the black prince is now ordered to obey in front of the Empress Dowager Xia, be careful, all in front of the old pope, and dare not act carelessly at all.