Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 8
Dare to castrate themselves, and they are mature men, how ruthless should they be?Ordinary people, can you cut yourself a knife?How strong is their desire for power?

The first eunuch who made a fortune by self-castration was Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen was a native of Weizhou in the early Ming Dynasty, who is now Yuxian County, Hebei. Among the countless cases of eunuchs becoming rich in the world, they have found a shortcut to act on behalf of the heavens and become rich in the world, that is, self-castration.

In order to embark on the road of wealth and honor, Wang Zhen also worked hard. He really put his body and personality as a bet, and entered the palace at the price of self-castration.

After Wang Zhen, how many people decided that this was a shortcut to rise, and began to self-castrate and enter the palace, not for survival, but for a fortune, for this fortune, they dared to do anything.They are not loyal to the emperor, and they only want to please the emperor for their own wealth. For this, they dare to do things that lie to others.

Liu Jin also self-castrates after becoming an adult, and his idol is Wang Zhen. He feels that he can achieve Wang Zhen's level, but he will not fall into Wang Zhen's end.

Sometimes people feel that others are not good enough. When they hear something, their evaluation is: If this is me, then me, in fact, no matter who it is, the result is already doomed.

It's just that when everyone is in the middle of the matter, it is difficult for him to understand these problems, but Zhu Houzhao's concern is not this problem, but Liu Jin, how should he deal with Liu Jin.From the examples of Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian, it can be seen that the powerful Ming Quan eunuchs were basically self-castrated into the palace after adulthood, and they were ruthless to themselves and even more ruthless to others.

They don't have any concept of good and evil or right and wrong in their hearts, they just want to stand out, unlike the eunuchs who grew up in the palace, they are so loyal and pure, but many times, many things, you just need these people to do.

Over the past few days, Zhu Houzhao has actually felt the tension of Liu Jin and others. Obviously, Zhu Houzhao's closeness to the civil servants and the eradication of the zoo made them feel that their status was threatened, and they would naturally have ideas.Of course, the idea is definitely not to kill Zhu Houzhao, but to find other ways to make Zhu Houzhao happy and regain Zhu Houzhao's favor.

Of course, women are out of play. Zhu Houzhao is only ten years old. Although Daming has no taboos on this aspect, it is normal for a man to have a son at the age of fourteen or fifteen, but if anyone dares to put a woman next to Zhu Houzhao when he is ten years old, then The result is very simple, sure to die.If the direction of the woman can't go, then I can only go the other way, the prince doesn't like the zoo anymore, isn't there a martial arts arena?

These eunuchs are very concerned about the Martial Arts Field these days. They are always watching when the Martial Arts Field is being built, and they can't be dissatisfied at all.

The mace that Zhu Houzhao asked to build was also carefully crafted. At the same time, the eunuchs Zhu Houzhao was looking for as sparring partners were also very attentive.You must know that arranging people to compete for favor with the prince is not only the matter of Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao's personal eunuch Liu Jin and the others, but the matter of the entire eunuch group.

As for the strength of the Four Guards Battalion under the control of the Yumajian, it has been proved by actual combat. This army starts from the Yumajian. .Later, the Imperial Horse Supervisor expanded from controlling the horses in the stables to "controlling the horses and all the tribute and collecting horses and mules in the animal husbandry", and then derived into two major functions of military and finance.

Since the imperial horse supervisor was in charge of the imperial horse, there were naturally horse breeders and horse trainers, and thus a forbidden army led by the imperial horse supervisor-Tengxiang Four Guards was born.

The original source of the banned soldiers of Tengxiang Four Guards was the strong men selected from various guards, as well as young and middle-aged men who fled back from Mongolia.This forbidden army does not belong to the upper twelve guards (later 22 guards) under the jurisdiction of the commander of the pro-army, but its status is obviously higher than that of the upper twelve guards. It is the forbidden army among the forbidden soldiers. "Genban Shangzhi" served as the guard.

In the sixth year of Xuande, there were 100 forbidden soldiers, and they took a formal name: "Three Thousand Households in Habayashi".Two years later, on this basis, the Beijing army's horse-raising sergeants and the original Shenwu avant-garde officers were enriched and organized into the left and right guards of Tengxiang and the left and right guards of Wuxiang, collectively referred to as "four guards", also known as "four guards" Four Guards".If according to the establishment at that time, 600 people were one guard, then the Four Guards should have more than [-] sergeants.

During Jingtai and Chenghua, the three major battalions of the Beijing Army were reorganized into regiment battalions.The warriors of Tengxiang's four guards and the strong banner army were transferred, and a warrior battalion and a four guards battalion were formed separately, and the battalion officers were selected from the commanders of the four guards.

From this time on, the forbidden army under the jurisdiction of the Yumajian included the Tengxiang Four Guards, the Four Guards Battalion, and the Warriors Battalion. Concerned, but after 14 years of orthodox civil engineering changes.

At that time, the Oirat cavalry went straight to the capital, and the defense of Beijing was organized by Yu Qian for five days. The most intense battles took place at Xizhimen and Zhangyimen.Since the three major battalions of the Beijing Army, the main force of the Ming army, were trapped, the guards at Xizhimen were Liu Ju, the nephew of the eunuch Liu Yongcheng, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Liu Ju, the governor of the Right Army, and the four guards who stayed behind in Beijing, the admiral of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, took the initiative to attack the Oala Army at Zhangyimen. Warriors, bannermen.

The combat effectiveness of this army is visible to the naked eye. In the last years of Chongzhen, it was the warrior battalion that guarded King Fu, who later became Emperor Hongguang, and fled to Nanjing.

In the ninth year of Zhengde, Wu Zong selected elites from the 4th regiment battalion of the Beijing Army, organized them into the front and rear battalions, and practiced together with the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions in the Xiguanting, as "selected front".This army has also been expanded to more than [-] people. This is also the army that Emperor Zhengde demonstrated his martial arts.

Eunuchs hold the power of the monarch, but the right to execute eunuchs is still a matter of the emperor's words. I have to say that this kind of thing was in Daming. If it was placed in the late Tang Dynasty, it would be that the eunuchs were abolished left and right. During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was the same Being hacked and killed, it can be seen that Ming's civil servant and gentry group is also very powerful.

In Xianyang Palace, Zhu Houzhao was sitting in the room to rest after a busy day, while Liu Jin was diligently directing people to lift things up.

It is a mace about 1.5 meters, but it is different from the regular mace in shape. Although it is a normal short-handled mace, it is very thick, especially the big head above the handle. , which looks more like a hammer shape.The entire mace weighed eighty catties, and it was carried by three people on a wooden frame, and it was still very difficult to walk.

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