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Chapter 834 West Factory

"Mr. Tong, although Tong Guonai is familiar with the situation in Fujian, he is an old man from the Qing Dynasty. What should I do if those Fujian local officials let him be this imperial envoy?"

Zhu Hongsan has a very good reason. Yuan Pengnian was a Fujian scholar and Tong Dafang was just a county magistrate of Min County, Fuzhou. Now he asked his former boss to command them. How can he do this job?

Tong Yangjia thought about it and the same thing happened. After all, Yuan Pengnian and Tong Dafang were Tong Guonai's subordinates, so it was indeed unsuitable to let Tong Guonai be the imperial envoy.

"Your Majesty, who should I take this imperial envoy?"

Zhu Hongsan thought about these close friends around him. Yao Qisheng from the Military Affairs Department has been by his side for four years and should have been released. This guy is very unscrupulous and should be able to suppress those old guys when he goes to Fujian.

"Let's do this, this imperial envoy is served by Yao Qisheng, a military aircraft of the Military Affairs Office. Your grandson, Tong Guonai, go to Fujian to be the general of the navy!"

A few years after Zhu Hongsan occupied the entire China, the military system of the new army had not been implemented throughout the country. Because Zhu Yuanzhang's military system had been implemented for more than 200 years, forming a powerful vested interest group. These guys are different from literati and doctors. At most, literati and doctors scold you behind their backs, and then describe Zhu Hongsan as a fool in various novels and operas. However, the old soldiers of these military personnel in their hands had troops and weapons, and one of them could easily lead to mutiny.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan did not use any major force to the old soldiers in the local area, but just put his own people in some key locations. However, the ward system has seriously dragged down the economic development of various places. It is impossible to remain unmoved, but it is not now.

When Tong Yangjia heard that the general was okay. Although the military position was not as important as the civil service, it would be nice if Tong Guonai, a surrendered official, could give you a second-rank general.

"Your Majesty, Tong Guonai has several old subordinates who were in Fujian back then. If you want to bring them together, please let me know!"

"Okay, just make sure you arrange this, don't ask me for instructions!"

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed. As long as these people could get into the officialdom, the rest would be easier. With his own status as a secondary assistant, isn’t it easy to promote several local generals?

When Zhu Hongsan saw Tong Yangjia retreat, he asked Li Chengen beside him: "Old Li, where is Princess Gui escorted?"

Li Chengen replied respectfully: "The Emperor, Princess Gui is a royal family, so she was taken away by Eunuch Han from the West Factory!" Originally, the East Factory and the Jinyiwei were responsible for the monitoring of all civil and military officials, but the suspicious Zhu Hongsan did not believe his son. After the establishment of the Western Factory, he handed over the tasks of monitoring the royal family, prince, and princes to the Western Factory. Wang was Zhu Youlang's empress. The primary task of the Western Factory was to find out the murder case of Zhu Youlang, so Wang was detained by the Western Factory.

When Zhu Hongsan heard that Wang was taken to the West Factory, he nodded and said, "Okay, go to the West Factory to have a look!"

The Xichang was established by Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty in the 13th year of Chenghua. The Xichang was originally just to spy on the emperor's news, but in order to get promoted and make money, Wang Zhi, the first factory supervisor, desperately organized major cases. The number of cases handled by the big and fast speeds, and the number of people involved far exceeded that of the East Factory and the Jinyiwei. The Xichang set up a nationwide investigation network, and the main targets of attack were officials inside and outside Beijing. Once someone suspected, they would be arrested immediately without the emperor's consent in advance. Of course, they would torture confessions and try to make the case bigger, the better. For ordinary people, if they were not very serious, they would be dealt with severely for evil words by the Xichang for crimes of evil words.

Just five months after the establishment of the West Factory, the people in the court and the country were panicked. The auxiliary ministers, led by the Grand Secretary Shang Lu, wrote a letter to Emperor Xianzong to complain about the harm of the West Factory and reported the illegal matters handled by Wang Zhi one by one. After receiving the memorial, Xianzong was shocked and revoked the West Factory and dismissed the staff of the West Factory.

But the days without the West Factory always made Xianzong feel insecure. After learning about the emperor's thoughts, a treacherous minister, Dai Jin, took the initiative to write a letter and praising Wang Zhi. Xianzong was overjoyed and immediately restored the West Factory. It was only a month apart between abolishing and opening. After Wang Zhi returned, he handled the case more severely, and Dai Jin was also promoted. In the following five years, Wang Zhi led the West Factory to handle countless "big cases", excluding court officials such as Shang Lu and Xiang Zhong, who opposed him, and his power reached the extreme. But as the saying goes, "Everything will turn against you." Wang Zhi's extremely inflated power must arouse the emperor's vigilance. In the subsequent power competition, Wang Zhi failed and was transferred out of the capital, and the West Factory was disbanded.

After Emperor Xianzong's grandson Wuzong Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, the eunuch Liu Jin took power, and the eunuch power rose again. In the first year of Zhengde, the Xichang reopened and was led by eunuch Gu Dayong. What's funny is that although the Xichang and the East Factory were both under the command of Liu Jin, the two did not cooperate with each other, but competed for power and broke up each other. In order to change this situation, Liu Jin built an expert factory, which was directly led by himself. Its functions were the same as those of the East and West Factory, but the scope of investigation was larger, even including the East and West Factory and the Jinyiwei. For a time, the four major secret agencies of the Jinyiwei, the East and West Factory and the Insider Factory were alive. In the fifth year of Zhengde, Liu Jin fell, and Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered the abolition of the West Factory and the Insider Factory.

Zhu Hongsan established the West Factory mainly because he was not at ease with the East Factory and the Jinyiwei. He didn't know about Zhu Youlang's murder, so the first task of the West Factory was to investigate and deal with the murder case of Zhu Youlang. However, Zhu Hongsan was the founding emperor and knew that such a spy was too much, so he gave the factory guards not as much power as the previous generation. Civil and military officials could never be punished without trial and emperor's imperial edict.

However, the resumption of the Xichang factory also caused an uproar in the court. Many ministers wrote letters to complain about the shortcomings, hoping that the emperor would take back his life. However, Zhu Hongsan was determined to do something that could listen to some nerds. Therefore, the Xichang, which was ten thousand times more stinky than the East Factory in history, was established on the original site of the Xi'an Gate Lingjing Hutong.

The factory supervisor of the West Factory was Han Qi, the eunuch of the palace supervisor, and he was also considered the old man of Zhu Hongsan. Han Qi was originally an eunuch of the Chu Palace in Wuchang. After Wuchang was attacked by Zhang Xianzhong, Han Qi fled. He joined Zhu Hongsan's team on the way to escape. According to the time he joined the revolutionary team, Han Qi was half a year earlier than Li Chengen.

He thought he was a veteran and was also a fellow villager in Huguang with Zhu Hongsan, so Han Qi was very dissatisfied with Li Chengen, who was in his position. This time, after receiving the emperor's imperial edict to reinstate the West Factory, Han Qi vowed to bring down the old bastard Li Chengen, so Han Qi was very concerned about reinstateing the West Factory in the past few months, and even ordinary players were selected by himself.

When Han Qi learned that the emperor had come to the West Factory, he quickly brought all the Jinyiwei Qian, hundreds of households, Fantou, and Fantou to the gate of the West Factory to welcome the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan sat in the imperial chariot and came to the entrance of the Xichang Factory in Lingjing Hutong. He got out of the car and looked up. The storefront of the Xichang Factory was very wide, with a three-meter-high archway at the door, with eight big words "Frankly confess and lenient, resist strictness" written by Zhu Hongsan himself. Although the three words Zhu Hongsan are not good-looking, the emperor wrote it, so it was framed with gold, which looked very grand.

The "Famous Eternal Times" on the Dongchang Archway was written by Zhu Di back then. As the ancestor of the emperor, Zhu Hongsan could not be inferior to Zhu Di, the Ming Taizong (the Emperor Chengzu of Ming was changed by Jiajing, and the temple name was Emperor Taizong of Ming after Zhu Di died). Therefore, Zhu Hongsan wrote down the famous horoscopes of later generations. Although the words are not good-looking, the number of words is more than that of Zhu Di.

Zhu Hongsan stood at the door and looked at the West Factory very grand. He nodded repeatedly. He allocated 100,000 silver dollars from his small treasury in order to restore the West Factory. Now he is naturally happy to see that all the money is used on the blade.

Zhu Hongsan saw the staff of the West Factory kneeling all over the ground and smiled and said, "Get up, I'm here today to see if you are doing it with your own heart. Han Qi, take me to visit your West Factory!"

When Li Chengen heard Zhu Hongsan call Han Qi, he couldn't help but feel a little secretly happy. It seemed that the emperor was still the most important thing in his heart. Among eunuchs, the only one who could be called Lao by the emperor was probably Li Chengen.

Han Qi also knew that his status in Zhu Hongsan's heart was not as good as that of Li Chengen, but there was no need to be afraid of this. You, Li Chengen, are not the emperor's son. Sooner or later, our family will step on your Li Chengen under our feet.

When Han Qi heard the emperor ask them to get up, he quickly got up from the ground and bowed and said, "I welcome the emperor to inspect the Western Factory!"

This scene reminded Zhu Hongsan of his last life, who welcomed the county leaders to inspect, but at that time he was the one who bowed down, and now he is indeed the emperor.

Zhu Hongsanzhi nodded proudly and asked, "The West Factory has been built for more than two months. I will see how you are doing today? Is it because my money has drifted away?"

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid! All the old slaves assigned by the emperor are used on the blade. They use 18,000 silver dollars to renovate the house and 12,000 silver dollars to hire people to use 12,000 silver dollars. Now there are 70,000 silver dollars left in the treasury and have never used them in the treasury!" Han Qi did not dare to move the money given by the emperor this time, and he spent every little of it on the main business.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that these dead eunuchs were not clean, and he didn't want to go into it. Now he was very happy to see the renovation of the East Factory.

"Okay, Han Qi, take me in and have a look!"

Han Qi bowed and took the order and led the way in front. When he walked into the archway, he saw the gate of the Xichang factory. This gate was similar to the East Factory. There was a plaque on the left, which read "Qinban Xijian Factory". After entering, he also had a dragon-patterned screen wall. Behind it was the main hall of the Xichang, with Yue Fei's embroidered statue hanging on it, and the top was four big characters "Zhengyi Qianqiu"!

Zhu Hongsan has been to the East Factory, and now he sees that the West Factory is the same as the East Factory, and he is a little unhappy.

"Han Qi, why do you do this like Dongchang! Do you understand the corporate culture? Are you still the Westchang here if you do this? Just change the name to Dongchang Branch!"

Han Qi heard the emperor angry and knelt down and said, "Old Master, I have never studied. I just think that Dongchang is so handsome, so I can follow the example!"
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