Chapter 36 4. Eunuchs are the real driving force of historical development

Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu, he has been waiting for this moment to repeat the battle of Jingnan in Zhu Di's era. In Zhu Di's era, it happened to be the nephew, emperor and uncle. The young and immature Zhu Yunwen was Emperor Jianwen, while the experienced Zhu Di was just a vassal.However, in a small place like Beiping, there are no more than 10,000 soldiers, and on the day when Zhu Di raised his troops, he faced the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of troops from the imperial court several times. However, it was Zhu Di's great talent and perseverance that led the battle , coupled with the unpredictable and unpredictable factors on the battlefield played a role, after a narrow escape, Zhu Di, the vassal king, attacked the city of Nanjing inconceivably, and Emperor Jianwen had all the soldiers in the world and could not use them. This is the glorious history before.

Zhu Gaoxu personally participated in this battle. He was willing to fight countless times, went through life and death, and witnessed his father Zhu Di transforming from a rebel who was forced to run around to become the lord of the world.This profound memory was branded into his life, and led him to advance the situation to this familiar state. Most people spend their lives repeating themselves over and over again.The memories and patterns that were once successful have shaped him into a solid person.No matter what kind of situation they face, they always involuntarily use the old concept to recognize and use the old model to regulate - they know how they succeeded, but they will never know how they failed. Because he is indifferent to the laws of human nature.

Zhu Gaoxu is exactly such a person.Now he starts. First wrote a provocative letter, accusing the new emperor Zhu Zhanji of being young and immature, so that he could have a sufficient reason when raising troops in the future tense. Seeing that Zhu Zhanji had indeed adjusted the government affairs according to his request, Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed, and then wrote a letter requesting to go to Beijing to present lanterns. He sent more than twice as many people to send lanterns than other vassal kings.These people are actually spies sent by him to collect military intelligence about Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji was overjoyed. Not only did he not take precautions, he even generously rewarded the three hundred and sixty spies sent by Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed, history has once again eloquently proved that a nephew is not as good as an uncle - Zhu Yunwen can't compare with Zhu Di, and Zhu Zhanji can't compare with Zhu Gaoxu.Wisdom in life is accumulated bit by bit. Young people are obviously at a disadvantage in this respect, so no wonder he is Zhu Gaoxu. Still follow Zhu Di's old method back then, first build an underground arsenal, build weapons day and night, and then raise the banner to recruit soldiers widely.The expanded army is divided into five columns - this is the power only the emperor has. Zhu Gaoxu doesn't want to hide too much about himself, after all, he is an aboveboard person.

The commander Wang Bin was appointed as the grand master, and Jin Rong, the commander of the capital of Shandong, was appointed as the assistant. He planned to take Jinan first and then attack Beijing by force.Then contact the internal response in the palace...Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu discovered a problem.What's the problem? The problem is that as early as Zhu Yuanzhang's period, eunuchs were severely cracked down on their enthusiasm for participating in and discussing state affairs, and the eunuchs were deprived of their political power.For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang even set up a sign in the palace: Eunuchs who interfere with politics die... and so on.

However, where there is oppression, there is resistance.In order to have the ambition of sacrifice, Wanghu Tower went down to meet the sky.The beheading is just like the wind blowing the hat, and the eunuchs are everywhere...Because the eunuchs' political power was brutally deprived, it aroused the eunuchs' class hatred and national hatred.Therefore, during Zhu Di's period, a large number of eunuchs either fled Zhu Yunwen and went to the liberated areas of Beiping, or secretly operated in the palace, constantly creating various troubles, intentionally adding chaos to Emperor Jianwen and disturbing Zhu Yunwen's thinking, which became Zhu Di's capture. The most powerful arm in the world.

Since then, Zhu Di has deeply realized the power of eunuchs.He said affectionately: "Eunuchs, only eunuchs, are the real driving force of historical development..." But at the same time, Zhu Di also pointed out from a high-level perspective: "The serious problem is educating eunuchs." Yes, eunuchs don't read and can't read Although they have simple proletarian feelings, they still lack a piece of meat between their legs, which also reduces their ability to participate in and discuss state affairs.How to solve this problem?Zhu Di thought of a wonderful idea. Suddenly one day, Zhu Di widely posted a recruitment list, found a large number of young scholars, and issued a warm call to these people: "Young intellectuals go to the harem, the vast world, and great achievements."

Harem?That's right, it's a paradise full of beautiful concubines. Can you resist such a temptation? Those young scholars at that time were all excited and bit their fingers to write blood books.In order to express their determination to respond firmly to the call and take root in the harem.But Zhu Di reminded them: "That's not right...then what, you bit your fingers, wrong...you should have bitten the piece of meat between your legs..." All the scholars were horrified. It turns out that if you want to enter the palace, you must first go to the palace. If you don't go to the palace, you will never succeed.

Some weak-willed speculators retreated because of this, but there were still some passionate young people who willingly accepted the knife. Since then, they have taken root in the harem, formally entered the leadership team, and managed the country's government affairs. When the fat boy Zhu Gaochi came to power, he also reused eunuchs, strengthened the cultural education of eunuchs, and endowed eunuchs with the power of life and death.This made the vast number of eunuchs in the harem become vested interests, and they were no longer like Zhu Yuanzhang, who was deeply oppressed in the Zhu Yunwen era.

Therefore, the current eunuchs are all loyal and loyal to the new emperor Zhu Zhanji.If Zhu Gaoxu wants to secretly build a fifth column from among them, this... is not easy. Without the support of the eunuchs, the decisive victory in the Jingnan battle would have been impossible. What should I do?Zhu Gaoxu was in trouble.