The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 186 The meaning of the drunkard
The Eunuch Party is actually an imperial party, and they represent the interests of the imperial power, while the Donglin Party represents the interests of the Ming feudal landlord class.

Of course there is no party of any kind here representing the interests of the working masses.

In the last years of the apocalypse, the eunuch party controlled the court, and the state affairs were actually stable, and there was a possibility of gradually changing for the better.

Later, the Chongzhen children foolishly killed the eagle dogs raised by the royal family and reused the Donglin Party members. In the end, the state affairs went from bad to worse.

In the last years of Chongzhen, the emperor actually wanted to rehabilitate Wei Zhongxian. In the end, he had no one to trust and no soldiers to use, so he had to train a group of eunuchs in the court as internal control, and prepared to rely on them to fight.

The internal struggle between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party really makes it hard to tell who is good and who is bad.
Huang Sheng's judgment that Wei Zhongxian was demonized by the Donglin Party, which controls public opinion and pens, and some of them are purely a crime of desire is untenable.

Therefore, Huang Sheng's understanding of the eunuch party fighting the Donglin party is that the dog bites the dog. The Donglin party has good men like Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, etc., and the eunuch party also has good officials who serve the country and the people .

However, no matter what eunuch party, Donglin party, Zhejiang party, Chu party, etc., they are all for their own interests, and they can't get around the circle of party formation and selfishness.

The party struggle led to the subjugation of the Ming Dynasty and the trampling of the Han civilization. The Donglin Party has an inescapable responsibility.

Wei Zhongxian has never met Huang Sheng, but the reputation of this young hero who has risen to fame has already been heard like thunder.After listening to Cui Chengxiu read the memorial, he set the tone and said:

"Master Cui, the chief general Huang Sheng, our family has the impression that Mr. Sun Ge didn't show his face last time because of his reward. Now it seems that our family has misunderstood. Mr. Sun Ge is indeed a virtuous person for the country!"

"Nine thousand years old, that's true. This talented man is good at fighting. He has a deep hatred with Jiannu, and he is willing to fight those savages with his life."

"That's right! If all the members of our family died at the hands of Jiannu, he would dare to push the explosive cart to fight with them." After all, Wei Zhongxian was born as a gangster, and he still has some chivalrous spirit in the city, and he is definitely not a soft guy.

Just because he refused to be humiliated and chose to hang himself after losing power can explain the problem. Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen who forced him to hang himself also learned from him 17 years later.

"Nine thousand years old, do you mean to follow the scriptures of Lord Gaodi?" Cui Chengxiu, as the Minister of the Ministry of War, behaved like a slave of the old eunuch, a servant who asked for instructions early and reported late.

"Don't worry, let's wait and see, let everyone quarrel again, just see what the Donglin Party does."

His Excellency Huang Shengxiao didn't know about the deeds of the court bigwigs, and he didn't have to know. He wouldn't join the eunuchs, because doing so would cause endless troubles.

Even more, he would not join the Donglin Party. Those who are good at party struggle and do not do business cannot be trusted. He can try to develop a maverick force outside the system.

Huang Sheng looked at the newly recruited four hundred 15-year-old teenagers, and saw that all of them had pale faces. It was obvious that the canal trackers were suffering from hunger and cold this winter.

Those teenagers were extremely excited. Everyone knew the situation of the Huang family well. Some of them participated in the selection of the Huang family last year, but unfortunately they were not chosen.

In the past year, the most talked-about topic in the trackers' shack was how the hundred-year-old boy went to work as an errand in the Huang's house to live a good life. Those parents and brothers who followed him now look like officials when they come out.

Today, the children of canal trackers living in Tongzhou finally met the brothers who joined the Huang family. Now these children are full of energy and clean, and their mouths are full of new words that they don't understand. Everyone can write and count. Some of them are real officials.

After fierce competition, they got their wish to become servants of the Huang family, and of course they were very happy.Although they were still in tattered clothes and their toes were exposed in the worn-out shoes, they had already raised their heads proudly.

Because they are the lucky ones, they will no longer suffer from stretching. They will become scholars, musketeers who can kill enemies a hundred steps away while talking and laughing.

The Huang family was fully prepared this time. They didn't dare to bring a single armored combat vehicle. They brought [-] troop carriers, which were full of supplies. They arranged for all the children to take a bath and change clothes when they camped at night.

The four hundred trackers who looked like beggars changed into uniform clothes, and they were quite different, and their mental outlook was completely new.The head of the family still gave them the first lesson, of course they still learned three characters, Han, Min, and ethnic.

Over the past 800 years, a total of a thousand people have rushed to the manor of the British government. Zhang Zhiji received a letter sent by Huang Sheng, and he has already arranged everything, and he is still waiting here in person.

Duke Ying's suburban manor is only three miles away from Guangqumen, next to the official road. A battalion of the Ming army was also trained here before. There is a large field and a barracks left over.

These barracks are enough for a battalion of soldiers to live in. If 4000 people come to live in the Huang family, they will not feel crowded. Now there are only more than [-] people.

The place here is big enough, the transportation is convenient, and there are so many houses, it is more than enough to hold trade fairs.

The two reunited after a long absence, of course there are thousands of words, Zhang Zhiji looked at Huang Sheng surrounded by young people and really thought that the Huang family suffered a fierce battle, and the old family Ding suffered a lot of casualties, and he was sobbing for a while.

"Brother Yu! Brother Yu admires you so much! You don't look like a person who treats death like home, how can you do this earth-shattering feat?"

"What's earth-shattering? My little brother made up stories to deceive people. There are only a few hundred slaves in the area. There is no need to work so hard."

"Ah? Brother, didn't you use gunpowder to blow up Jiannu?"

"Yes! But instead of pushing the cart to crash into the enemy's formation, I hid far away and ignited it with a long gunpowder twister. My family, Ma Jinggui, is here. How could they let them go to death."

"Ah? It's so simple? It made brother Yu worry about you for nothing."

"Brother, so the little brother needs a lot of gunpowder to make meritorious deeds. Sometimes he is unlucky, and it takes a few thousand catties to blow up one or two unlucky ghosts."

"That's right, Jianu is not stupid. If you are well behaved after being bombed, it shouldn't be easy to be fooled again. No wonder you used [-] catties of gunpowder all at once. With so much gunpowder, a small mountain might be flattened."

"Brother, can you help my brother get some more gunpowder? With this thing, there are almost no casualties in the head of Jiannu under my command."

"It's possible to do some, but it's tens of thousands of catties at once. Brother Yu doesn't have that ability."

"Don't let the elder brother help in vain, how about the elder brother giving a thousand catties of gunpowder, and the younger brother promises to hand over the head of the first-level slave vest to the elder brother?"

Zhang Zhiji was attracted by such conditions, and hurriedly asked: "Is this really true? Brother, don't lie to Brother Yu!"

"Brother, this is the price for you. You can take the lead and ask Brother Xungui for help. As for how much gunpowder you promise them in exchange for a first-level slave, I don't care about it."

"Ah? Is there such a good thing? Brother Yu asked those brothers to exchange two thousand catties of gunpowder for a real slave, and they would be willing!"

Gunpowder has become popular in Ming Dynasty, and the market price is between one tael of silver and five to ten catties.

The key point is that Jiannu is not made of mud, and it is even more difficult to obtain it. Even if you have money, you can't buy Jiannu vests and infantry heads that can be reported as military exploits.

(End of this chapter)