Who is Wang Zhi?

Whether in later generations or in this era, Wang Zhi was a name that everyone knew and knew. He was a member of the Yao people in Datengxia, Guangxi, one of the powerful officials of the Ming Dynasty. He entered the palace since he was a child and served as the Concubine Wan of Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty. He served as the eunuch in charge of the imperial horses and the admiral of the Xichang. Because of his contribution to the Liaodong army, he was the general leader of the elite "Twelve Regiment Battalion" of the Beijing soldiers, and opened up the imperial guards in the Ming Dynasty as the precedent for the internal ministers.

However, Ge Dan was not thinking of these things, but Chen Kun, who was handsome in the later generations, and his sentence "I will kill those who cannot be killed in the East Factory, and I will manage those who cannot be managed by the East Factory. In a word, I will manage those who can be managed by the East Factory, and I will manage those who cannot be managed by the East Factory, and I will manage even more. Decide first and then report, and the imperial power licensing is the West Factory!

Ge Dan had thought he would meet Wang Zhi before, but in fact he had seen him when he was in the capital, but Ge Dan had never thought he would meet Wang Zhi so early. The key was to see Wang Zhi in Danyang County. What did Wang Zhi run to Danyang for doing? Ge Dan looked at Ge Lin who was walking over and asked hesitantly: "Uncle Lin, Wang Zhi is here? How could he come to our Danyang?"

"It is said that when we went to the south to investigate, we heard that our Danyang was hit by the disaster, and then we came here!" Ge Lin sighed and said, "It's a troublesome!"

"It's not only that, right?" Ge Dan thought for a while and said, "This disaster-stricken place in Zhenjiang Prefecture is not only our Danyang County, but also our Danyang County is not the most serious. No matter how you say it, you won't come to our Danyang County. I guess there are people here, and the person who is doing it should be from the prefect's office, and of course it's just about the Jiuqu River embankment. Ge Dan glanced at the letter in his hand, hesitated for a moment, but still didn't send it out.

After hearing Ge Dan's words, Ge Lin nodded gently, and then said, "This should be the case, but what should we do now?"

"The soldiers come and the generals block the water and the soil, so they must be unable to hide." Ge Dan thought for a while and said, "By the way, where have the people arrived?"

"I'm here to pass the message. I'll probably come to our Danyang at that time." Ge Lin replied.

It was about ten o'clock in the morning. Ge Dan nodded and said, "Ten yamen runners are drawn, and then we will welcome them out. Well, let's go out to welcome three miles!"

Although civil officials look down on eunuchs and curse them all, there are so many people. The envoys of the Censorate are responsible for making a name for themselves. In order to make them famous, they even scold the emperor. The officials of the Hanlin Academy were noble officials, and scolding eunuchs was politically correct. Then they were important officials in the court. It was not a big problem to scold them. Basically, few of them were beaten to death, and most of them were demoted and returned home.

Of course, this is actually a political need. If your eunuch is not against the ministers, then who are you against? Do you still want to join the officials and have a good conversation in detail? That is something the emperor absolutely does not want to see.

There were indeed eunuchs and ministers having a great time and had a good time in the Ming Dynasty, that was Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao. What ended up happening to these two people was absolutely not allowed by the emperor. Letting the eunuchs go out is just biting people, and fighting with civil servants. If you don’t fight with civil servants, what’s the use of you? Civil servants will also regard eunuchs as political correctness, and behind it is the struggle between the monarch’s power and the power of the ministers.

This kind of struggle was not only found in the Ming Dynasty. This is the main tone of the feudal dynasty. Before the Han Dynasty, it was a struggle between imperial power and feudal states.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial power was a struggle between aristocratic families, and the vassal states rose and the world fell apart. In the Song Dynasty, the aristocratic families disappeared, and civil officials completely defeated the military officials. In the Song Dynasty, the power of ministers completely overwhelmed the power of ministers. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to alleviate this decline, the power of monarchs and ministers entered a new round of struggle. After the Tumubao Incident, the power of the Ming Dynasty was greatly damaged, and the struggle between civil officials and eunuchs entered the mainstream.

Although there are various statements, it is actually a process of continuous strengthening of the monarchy. Before the Han Dynasty, the vassal states were so powerful, and the aristocratic families during the Sui and Tang Dynasties were already weaker than those of the vassal states.

After the scholars and officials took to the historical stage, their strength was still very strong, but they were not like the vassal states and clans. This was the case with the entire political ecology.

Under such a political ecology, both sides have been fighting but not breaking most of the time, but when an inappropriate person appears, this situation will tilt towards a certain aspect, such as Quan Yin, such as Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and of course, Yan Song. However, no matter which direction is tilted in, the overall direction of strengthening the monarch will not change.

County magistrates like Ge Dan are practical officials, and they are not qualified or capable of participating in such battles and competitions.

Therefore, you must also give Wang Zhi enough respect, otherwise you will be despised by the imperial power and will kill you if you turn around. Although the other party was tricked by Zhenjiang Mansion, Ge Dan still needs to maintain enough respect.

After breakfast, Ge Dan took Ge Lin and Ge Wu and ten yamen runners to set off. Originally, Ge Dan wanted to sit in a sedan, but was stopped by Ge Lin: "Young Master, you should go on a carriage!" Seeing Ge Dan looking at him, Ge Lin smiled and explained, "Wang Zhi wrote a letter to His Majesty last year, saying that no ministers in Hongwu and Yongle dared to ride in a sedan, and that civil servants who were old in orthodox times could ride in a sedan."

"Since Jingtai, all those with five ranks and above in the two capitals are required to ride in sedan chairs. Yan Ding's civil servants are allowed to ride in sedan chairs at the age of 60, and no military officials are allowed to do so."

"Your Majesty has approved what Wang Zhi said!" As he said that, Ge Lin looked at Ge Dan, and then said: "This incident was a big deal at that time. Now Wang has come down. If the young master is the magistrate of the county magistrate and takes a sedan chair to pick up Wang Zhi, he will probably scold him. If he had listened to the instigation of the prefect's office to find fault, then the young master might have been punished."

After hearing Ge Lin's words, Ge Dan was a little dumbfounded. What happened? Ge Dan thought everyone was sitting in a sedan chair, but he didn't expect that he would not allow it!

After looking at the yamen runners around him, Ge Dan said in a deep voice: "Since there is this rule, I will take a carriage when I go out. I will remove some things in the sedan and sell them." As he said that, Ge Dan waved his hand and said, "Prepare the car!"

People are used to ride in sedan chairs, which is the words of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty did not allow him to ride in sedan chairs before. Later, in order to sympathize with the elderly civil officials, it gradually became the saying that civil officials could ride in sedan chairs. Of course, this is also the reason why civil officials took back some power. In the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, the status of civil officials was really not very good.

Later, the famous cabinet minister was really the fifth rank at that time, rather than the later prime minister without crown.
Chapter completed!