Liu Jin, a native of Xingping, Shaanxi, was the leader of the Eight Tigers. In the first year of Zhengde, he used the trust of Emperor Zhengde to manipulate the government. He was known as "Nine Thousand Years" and was also known as "Emperor of the Land". Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty

In Chao, he was one of the most powerful eunuchs.

Whether at that time or later generations, Liu Jin's reputation was not very good, and it could even be said to be very poor. At that time, he summed up two major crimes.

The first crime is that Liu Jin monopolizes the power and excludes dissidents. The most obvious evidence is that as soon as he takes office, he immediately squeezes away Xie Qian and Liu Jian among the three wise ministers, as well as a large number of court officials.

He won over a group of minions such as Jiao Fang, Liu Yu and others to take over the power of the court.

However, in Zhou Chong's opinion, this crime was really wronged. After all, the emperor and the ministers were once in a while. Zhengde had just succeeded to the throne, but old ministers such as Xie Qian and Liu Jian had always wanted to suppress the power of the monarch, and even regarded Zhengde as a small person.

The child had to contradict him from time to time. As a result, Zhengde had to rely on the eunuchs around him to seize power, so the confrontation between the eunuch party led by Liu Jin and the ministers in the court appeared, and finally ended with Liu Jin's victory.

Liu Jin's second biggest crime was greed for money, which was not wronged at all. As eunuchs, they could not do things between men and women, so they had an unusual love for yellow and white things, which was even more prominent in Liu Jin.

After he came to power, he tried his best to make money for himself, solicit bribes, accept bribes, and embezzle them all. In order to make money, he even geniusly invented many items he had never seen before, or carried forward some of his original etiquette.

, such as congratulations and printing money, such as greetings, etc.

Moreover, Liu Jin is different from ordinary corrupt officials. He is particularly brave because he only has one emperor above him. Moreover, this emperor is a guy who likes to play and never likes to manage affairs, which gives him the opportunity to make money.

In addition, Liu Jin is very domineering. In his opinion, he thinks that he can respect the other party because he wants money, so others have to give it if they want it, and they have to give it if they don’t want it, otherwise they will offend him. The consequences are naturally very serious.

It is precisely this unique way of making money that Liu Jin accumulated huge wealth in just a few years. In the later generations of Zhou Chong, Wall Street, the world financial center, once made an authoritative statistics, and the result was Liu.

I am listed as one of the fiftiest richest people in human history, which shows how amazing the wealth he has accumulated.

However, although Liu Jin was greedy for money and extremely greedy for power, he was able to stand out among the Eight Tigers and control the government alone. Of course, he was not an incompetent person. Even while satisfying his pursuit of wealth, he began to have a higher level.

The pursuit of life, this pursuit is to be passed down in history.

After Liu Jin gained power, he did not do anything. On the contrary, he made many changes to the political system in response to some current problems of the Ming Dynasty at that time and implemented some new laws, namely the so-called "Liu Jin Reform".

Liu Jin has many entries for reform, so there is no need to describe them one by one here. Among these reform entries, some of them were indeed very targeted and solved some problems in the political affairs of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Of course, some reforms did not achieve the expected purpose, and some even some were

The entry is based on Liu Jin's selfishness and serves his own interests, so the content of Liu Jin's reforms is both good and bad, and cannot be generalized.

However, among these reform entries, one of them ultimately claimed Liu Jin's life, which was to organize military garrisons. The so-called military garrison was a military system developed by Zhu Yuanzhang, to put it bluntly, to let soldiers farm and support themselves.

He trained his troops during the slack season, and these soldiers were called military households.

The military garrison system was originally good. First, a large number of soldiers could be self-sufficient, and even the grain produced could support the national treasury. Second, if soldiers have their own land, they would not be easily incited to rebel. Of course, these military households are all

The combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as that of the professional army, but it is still good as a public security force.

But later, with the development of the times, some systems formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang began to collapse, including the military garrison system. This was mainly because some senior officials in the army began to embezzle the land of the military households, which resulted in the military households losing step by step

His own land eventually became a tenant for officers, and his life was extremely miserable.

The collapse of the military garrison system made most of the troops in the Ming Dynasty unable to fight. After all, all the military households could not even have enough food, let alone go to war. This situation was fine in other places, but in

The border areas such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia are undoubtedly fatal. So in this case, Liu Jin proposed to organize military camps and remeasure the land and distribute it to military households, hoping to restore the military camp system and improve the army.

The purpose of combat effectiveness.

But Liu Jin was only concerned about his own greed for money, but he never thought that the military camp had long become a private land for the middle and upper class of the army. Now he had to measure the land and re-divided it, which was undoubtedly cutting off the officers. Therefore, the reform of organizing military camps was to organize the military camps.

As soon as he came out, he was immediately opposed by the military system, especially those generals with real power, who responded fiercely.

In this case, a person finally jumped out. This person was Zhu Wei, the king of Anhua. This person has always been ambitious, especially when he saw that Zhengde was not doing his job and was playing in the leopard room all day long. The power of the court actually turned out to be powerful.

Being controlled by the eunuch Liu Jin made him even more ambitious and ready to do a big career.

In early April of the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the opportunity that Zhu You had been waiting for finally came. Liu Jin sorted out the military garrison and caused dissatisfaction among the vast majority of the generals of the army, and his morale was also very unstable. Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhu You convinced the commander of Ningxia.

Shi Zhou'ang and a group of generals killed the eunuch Li Zeng, general Jiang Han, and a group of civil and military officials in Ningxia at a banquet, and formally launched a rebellion. In order to promote the justice of his rebellion, Zhu Weng published a

The manifesto against Liu Jin was directed to all the mistakes on Liu Jin, and then launched a military campaign with the slogan of killing Liu Jin and eliminating the harm for the people, hoping to get a response from all over the country.

But Zhu Lie was too overestimating his influence. He thought that as long as he raised his arms and shouted, he would immediately receive responses from all over the world. However, the fact is that his manifesto was sent everywhere, but no one responded.

Some people sent his manifesto to the court, which caused great shock to the court and the country for a while. Even Zhu Houzhao, who was traveling in the leopard room, was alarmed. For the first time, he took the initiative to summon several important ministers to discuss matters.

In Wuying Hall, the young Emperor Zhengde sat on the dragon throne with a frown, with a rare serious expression on his face. In front of him, important ministers such as Liu Jin, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe were all listed.

"Your Majesty, King Anhua is ill-behaved and actually rebelled at this time. I thought that I should send troops to suppress him immediately to serve as a warning!" Liu Jin, who had gray hair and hunched waist, stood in the hall, and was suggesting Xiang Zhengde righteously and righteously

King Anhua sent troops to suppress the rebellion.

Seeing Liu Jin so active, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and others beside him all laughed in their hearts. The manifesto of King Anhua's rebellion had been spread to the capital, and every sentence in the manifesto was targeted at Liu Jin. No wonder he was so anxious.

"I agree that as a descendant of the royal family, King Anhua did not know how to educate the people, but instead instigated the frontier military households to rebel. It was a very serious crime. We must send troops to pacify as soon as possible!" Although Li Dongyang laughed in his heart, he still had to do so in this kind of national affairs.

Liu Jin stood together. After all, King Anhua’s rebellion was an unforgivable crime, so he naturally had to send troops to suppress it.

Liu Jin saw Li Dongyang supporting him, and he nodded with satisfaction. Some time ago, a confidant of Jiao Fang, who was the chief minister of the cabinet, secretly praised him for his loyalty, and told him some of the words Jiao Fang said secretly slandered him.

This made Liu Jin furious. He originally wanted to punish Jiao Fang, but he didn't expect that the other party was also very sloppy. When he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately resigned to him, and finally he approved it. So now the cabinet is now

Most of the affairs in this matter were temporarily replaced by Li Dongyang, and the other party's performance also made him very satisfied.

Emperor Zhengde, who was sitting on the dragon throne, saw that Liu Jin and Li Dongyang agreed to send troops, so he said lazily: "What the two beloved ministers said is very much, but what I am worried about now is who should send to command the troops to quell the rebellion.

, What are some good candidates for you?"

When Zhengde asked about the generals who were commanding the rebellion, Liu Jin and others showed a bit of distress. Speaking of which, in addition to reusing military generals for a period of time in the early stage, the Ming Dynasty once again took the military suppression to the extreme, and even the border.

Many of the people who commanded the army were civil servants. No matter how high a military general had a higher position, sometimes when he saw a civil servant who was several levels lower than him, he would feel that he was shorter.

This is especially true in the Zhengde Dynasty. The entire court has almost no military generals who can make any moves. If you want to suppress the rebellion now, you must not only send a person who understands the military, but also be trusted by the court. However, looking at the entire court,

There are almost no one that meets this condition.

"Your Majesty, I have someone to recommend it. I hope your Majesty will be right!" At this time, Li Dongyang suddenly stood up and said with a smile, and there seemed to be some indescribable meaning in his smile.

"Oh, who do Master Li want to recommend?" Zhengde asked happily when he saw someone finally spoke. Li Dongyang was the prince's grand guarantor and was responsible for teaching Zhengde to study, so Zhengde has always called him a master, which is also Liu Jin.

One of the reasons why I dared not deal with Li Dongyang without authorization in the past.

"Report to Your Majesty, the old minister recommended Yang Yiqing, the former general of the trilateral system. He has been an official in the court for many years and is in Ningxia and Gansu. He has a great prestige in the border. If the court can use him again, he may not be able to do so at that time.

One soldier and one soldier, only Yang Yiqing needs to arrive in Ningxia, the rebels there will definitely surrender without fighting!" Li Dongyang finally spoke out the candidate in his heart, but when he was saying these words, his eyes inadvertently glanced at him.
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