Chapter 1474: Jurchen Eunuchs, the "Eunuch Party" Zuwaro
"Ali, a big shot in Liaodong Town, will be very kind to me when he sees me? Who is he? Is he the legion commander in charge of the Liaodong Army of the Ming Dynasty, or the chief priest in charge of administrative finance and taxation? Huh? Could it be that he oversees military affairs and is directly responsible to the emperor? Female snake?…”
"That's right! Blessed by the ancestors! The ancestral shaman is the great emperor's 'eunuch snake', the eunuch who guards Liaodong! The great emperor's eunuchs are all just like you, brave and brave, and they don't have beards! …”
"!...The heroic eunuch snake?..."
"Yes! The heroic eunuch snake..."
Harman Chief Ali nodded heavily, his face very convinced. In this era, or from the Yongle period to the Chenghua period, the image of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty was not that of a white-faced, beardless, feminine villain. Instead, in accordance with the requirements of Zhu Di, Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, he selected the emperor's personal followers who were "brave and capable of riding horses and fighting", and selected those who were "brave and good at fighting" as the guarding eunuchs of a place. These "eunuchs" "supervise a place" on behalf of the emperor, go to the local area to control military affairs and compete for taxation and financial rights. In terms of personal image, it is not as bad as described by the civil servants who control public opinion.
"Witness the Lord God! Emperor Taizong started his career in the Yan region, and Jingnan seized power and succeeded to the throne. He trusted the warriors from all tribes in the north more than the civil servants from the Han region, and vigorously reused the heroic eunuchs of all ethnic groups. Around him, surrounded by with a large number of various The eunuchs selected by the tribes, especially the Jurchen and Mongolian tribes, such as the Duoyan Sanwei, Songhuajiang Jurchen, and Heilongjiang Jurchen tribes, are all proud of sending their descendants to become the eunuchs of Emperor Taizong! "
"Some eunuchs took fleets to the south and went to sea. Some went north to open up Mongolia and the Northeast... For example, the imperial eunuch Yi Shiha who established the Nurgandu Division and opened up the Heilongjiang Basin was a relative of Emperor Taizong. Sui, was born in the Jurchen tribe and was Taizong's horse supervisor. Eunuch Liu Shun was also from the Jurchen tribe, and he followed Taizong in his five expeditions to Mobei! Not to mention, Wang Yan, the first eunuch who guarded Liaodong, was also from the Jurchen tribe. He guarded Liaodong Town for thirty years until the reign of Yingzong. Returning to the capital at the age of seventy..."
"The eunuchs of our Jurchen tribe have always exerted an important influence on the emperor's side! In the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants have always demanded that the Northeast be abandoned, while the eunuchs have been trying to manage and maintain the Northeast. Until Xianzong succeeded As a result, the civil servants gained power and allowed the imperial court to further abandon the Jilin Shipyard, completely shrink from the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and no longer select eunuchs from various Jurchen ministries...The Jurchen eunuchs became sourceless water and disappeared beside the great emperor..."
Speaking of this, Harman Chief Ali sighed, with regret on his face. In the eyes of the Mature Women's True Ministries, sending children into the palace to serve as eunuchs for the great emperor is never a scandal, but a great good thing! Only when there are people around the emperor, the court's policies will be slightly biased towards the northeastern ministries and the interests of each ministries will be taken into consideration.
Similarly, becoming an eunuch is the only chance for the Han-style Northern tribes, from the naturalized Duoyan Sanwei to the Chinese-style Mature Women and True tribes, to enter the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty! Unfortunately, after Chenghua, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful, and finally completely overwhelmed the eunuch class and took away the other party's right to decide national policy. As for the development and management of the Northeast, which was the base of the eunuchs, it was completely turned into a bad government and completely abandoned! The influence of factional political struggles on the empire's decision-making cannot be ignored.
Without the eunuchs as political spokesmen, the Duoyan Sanwei and Mature Women's True Ministries also lost their voices to speak at the top of the empire, lost the power to distribute interests, and gradually became separated from the empire. In the end, forced by the cold and natural disasters, the Three Duoyan Guards completely defected to Mongolia and became the vanguard of the Mongolian left wing to invade Liaodong and plunder the Han Dynasty. The various tribes of the Mature Women fought in chaos, and many rebelled against the empire, even triggering the Chenghua Liting. Behind these changes, there are both cold natural disasters and human factors within the imperial court...
Of course, Harman chief Ali didn't actually know much about the fierce struggle between civil servants and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and the struggle for political voice behind it. But what he knew was that shortly after the imperial court stopped selecting eunuchs from various Jurchen tribes, the lower reaches of Heilongjiang gave up, and the Harbarian Guards were slowly beaten back to their original form and reduced to a miserable tribe of savages. Then, the imperial court completely shrunk and completely abandoned the Jilin Shipyard and the entire Heilongjiang River. After that, the ministries became "wild dogs without masters." Since then, the imperial court no longer cares about the Jurchen tribes that are increasingly cruelly fighting each other outside the border, not to mention the selection of Jurchen eunuchs...
"The kindness left by our ancestors will fade away in three generations! But it has not been three generations since our Jurchen eunuchs left the great emperor... The first eunuch guarding Liaodong, the Jurchen-born eunuch Wang Yanhou, succeeded him The second guard eunuch, It was Wei Lang, the eunuch who took office during the Chenghua period, and was promoted by the eunuch Wang Yan... and after Wei Lang, it was the third eunuch Ren Liang who took office during the Hongzhi period! The person who was in charge of Kaiyuan Guard was the guarding eunuch Ren Liang. Confidant, Luo Quan, the official guarding Kaiyuan..."
"Blessed by our ancestors! From the 14th year of Chenghua to the eighth year of Hongzhi, I went to Liaodong Town five times to pay tribute. The first time I went to Liaoyang City, I met with Wei Lang, the eunuch who represented the great emperor. Zu Shaman, Wei Lang Just like you, the prisoner looks like Brave and wise! He comforted me and told some old stories about Superintendent Wang Yan. As for the next four times, they were all in Kaiyuan Guards. It was obvious that Kaiyuan guarded the minister Luo Quan, and I bribed him many times. Bring the iron armor out of the side wall..."
"Ancestor Shaman! With such an ancestral origin, for us Jurchen tribes in the border areas, the eunuchs around the great emperor are comparable to the commanders and envoys in Liaodong, and compared to the civil servants in the city who regard us as barbarians. It’s much easier to get close to them! As long as there are enough bribes, what the eunuchs promise is far more reliable than that of the generals or civil servants, and they will definitely do it!”
"Therefore, the Lord God witnesses! Since you can come up with so much gold, then taking the path of eunuchs and eunuchs is much more reliable than taking the path of border soldiers or civil servants! At least, the eunuchs will not use the army to destroy us They are being suppressed as 'barbarians'! Among all the powerful people in Liaodong Town, we, the Jurchen tribe, can only rely on the eunuchs and trust them!"
"As for their abilities, they are very great! As long as this road is open, it is easy to be a shipwright. It is just a matter of the supervisors checking the roster or burning the craftsmen's records..."
"Huh?! For our tribe, the eunuch female snake next to the great emperor is the most reliable? Can our gold open their way? And they are very capable. As long as they collect enough gold, they will Don't act like the civil priests and border army officers who are dishonest and greedy? This does sound reasonable..."
Hearing the "doorway" pointed out by the Harman chief Ali, Zuvalo blinked and nodded slowly. The more he learned about the complex political structure of the Ming Dynasty, the more he felt that he knew too little.
Perhaps, he had to actually go to the Ming Dynasty and understand the political logic that was completely different from the Kingdom of the Lake and the Mexica Alliance, and then he could barely discern some clues. At this moment, the "female snake eunuch", this rare "breakthrough" given by Ali, has been remembered in his heart! As a "savage" or "barbarian" in the eyes of Ming Dynasty, he really had no choice...
"God bless you! There is still more than a year to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty in the south. Let's plan and think about it slowly! In addition to the Ming Dynasty in the south, the Heguo in the southeast, and North Korea, which is out of reach...the last one in His Majesty's prophecy The big forces are Mongolia in the west, the big tribal alliance of the Northern Yuan Dynasty..."
Zuvalo pondered for a moment, and kept in mind his plan to pay tribute to the south and open up trade with the Ming Dynasty. Then, he squinted his eyes and looked towards the upper reaches of the Heilong River, towards the unknown blank land beyond the mouth of the Wusuli River, the mouth of the Songhua River, and finally all the way to the west. In Ali's words, this is the western upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River. It is an open terrain of mountains, forests and pastures. There are powerful enough to pull out one or two legions of cavalry. What kind of "Duoyan Three Kingdoms Alliance"!
"Ali! You said that if you want to buy a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, you can only go to the upper reaches of the river and find this Duoyan Three Kingdoms Alliance?"
"Yes! Witness our ancestors! The vastest upstream grassland in the entire Hun Tong River Basin, and tens of thousands of horses, are in the hands of this group of nomadic Duoyan Sanwei! And they also have frequent intermarriages with our Jurchen tribes, which can be regarded as half The Mongolian Jurchens are our own! At least as a Jurchen tribe, we have absolutely no problem buying war horses, cattle and sheep from their small tribes..."
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