Wanli Youming

Chapter 4 Feng Bao's Miscalculation
Feng Bao came to the place where Empress Dowager Li lived in Qianqing Palace.

And Feng Baoneng became the most powerful eunuch in the inner court today because he relied on the trust of Empress Dowager Li and was responsible for monitoring the emperor Zhu Yijun for Empress Dowager Li.

For this reason, he not only often gave Zhu Yijun small reports in front of Queen Mother Li, but sometimes directly pointed out Zhu Yijun's mistakes and criticized them.

Not only was Empress Dowager Li not angry about this, but she valued and trusted Feng Bao even more, thinking that Feng Bao was an upright and truly loyal eunuch, so letting Feng Bao take care of Zhu Yijun really made her feel at ease.

Feng Bao also did what he liked, and naturally he would try his best to look at Zhu Yijun, and would not allow Zhu Yijun to be slightly inconsistent with the Holy Master Renjun.

Because of this, Empress Dowager Li trusted Feng Bao very much in history.

Even the selection of his own daughter, Zhu Yijun's own sister, was handed over to Feng Bao by Queen Mother Li.

As a result, Feng Bao accepted the bribe and directly chose a sick young man who just wanted to marry the princess.

During the wedding ceremony, the selected son-in-law vomited blood directly, and died soon after.As a result, the princess was killed as a widow for the rest of her life, and was still a virgin until she died.

It can be seen that Feng Bao is greedy for money.

However, Feng Bao is not only greedy for money, but also playing with power.

If he didn't know how to play power, he wouldn't become one of the Iron Triangle, and he wouldn't have defeated Gao Gong with Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng in a bloodless fight, and he would have supervised Dongchang as an eunuch in charge of ceremonies.

You know, as a rule, the eunuch who is the supervisor of ceremonies and seals cannot concurrently serve as the admiral of the East Factory.

For good checks and balances.

Turn the words back.

Feng Bao also hopes to further consolidate his power because he knows how to play power.

And his way of consolidating power is to strengthen Empress Dowager Li's trust in him and her sense of need for him, but how to strengthen it?
In Feng Bao's view, it is to take good care of Zhu Yijun.

Because what Empress Dowager Li values ​​most is whether Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun can become a sage and benevolent lord!
But if Zhu Yijun showed the appearance of a sage and a benevolent ruler too early, it would mean that his role and function of guarding were of little significance.

And Feng Bao could no longer further control the emperor and steal the imperial power in the name of taking care of the queen mother.

You must know that Feng Bao is now in the inner court. From the perspective of power alone, the one who can really restrict his power is the imperial power, that is, the little emperor Zhu Yijun.

Therefore, Feng Bao had to let Zhu Yijun make some mistakes from time to time, so that he could sue Queen Mother Li to show that he took care of Zhu Yijun seriously and did not indulge Zhu Yijun, and that Queen Mother Li always felt that the emperor was not yet fully mature and needed him as a great companion Help with some inner court affairs.

You must know that Feng Bao himself specifically listed himself and Zhang Juzheng as ministers of Gu Ming in the edict written for Emperor Longqing, in order to make Empress Dowager Li more willing to let him take care of Zhu Yijun in the name of the former emperor.

Because of this, Feng Bao wanted Zhu Yijun to make some mistakes from time to time, so he deliberately asked the little eunuch next to Zhu Yijun to do things to lure him to have fun and waste his studies.

Otherwise, the little eunuch beside Zhu Yijun wouldn't really be looking for trouble. When he knew that Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao didn't like the emperor being bad, he would still lure the emperor to be bad.

Obviously, it's not that the little eunuch is stupid, but someone is really bad.

After all, how many deacons and eunuchs who can get in front of the emperor are really stupid, and they are basically pawns of the great eunuch.

However, in history, Wanli was indeed lured by the deacon eunuchs around him to do some fun things when he was older, and was instigated to kill Feng Bao after drinking. On the second day, he reported the matter to Queen Mother Li.

Empress Dowager Li was very angry after hearing this, and directly threatened to cry for Taimiao to abolish Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun could only kneel down and beg for mercy, and finally he was forced to commit a crime.

And Feng Bao became more and more proud of it. In the name of taking care of the Empress Dowager Li, he regarded Zhu Yijun more strictly, and intervened in more people and things around Zhu Yijun, so that Zhu Yijun was frightened when he learned that Feng Bao was coming. , when being lured by other eunuchs to do some outrageous things, he would ask cautiously: "What if my companion finds out?"

Of course, these things haven't happened yet.

After all, it is only the first year of Wanli, and Feng Bao has only recently become the eunuch in charge of the ceremonies, and he was busy fighting with Zhang Juzheng to defeat Gao Gong, so he didn't have time to make a fuss about the emperor Zhu Yijun in order to gain the trust of Queen Mother Li.

Now, he has only just begun to make a fuss about Zhu Yijun.

It just so happened that at this time, his plan in advance to let Wei Chao lure Zhu Yijun to play with crickets came to fruition.

Naturally, it was impossible for Feng Bao not to seize this opportunity, so he hurriedly came to see Queen Mother Li.

"Reporting to the ancestors, the empress has gone to Ciqing Palace."

Feng Bao is generally respected as the ancestor in the palace, but in the outer dynasty, he is generally honored as the old man or the old inner minister.

At this time, after Feng Bao came to the Empress Dowager Li, the wife next to the Empress Dowager Li called Feng Baolai in this way, and told her where the Empress Dowager Li was now.

"Thank you ma'am."

Because she was an old court lady who had served Empress Dowager Li for many years, Feng Bao respected her very politely, and then went to Ciqing Palace.

"Heck! It's true for my sister to say so."

As soon as Feng Bao arrived at Ciqing Palace, he first heard Empress Dowager Li's laughter through the palace gate.

However, when Empress Dowager Li saw Feng Bao coming, she stopped laughing and asked, "Feng Bao, why are you here?"

After Feng Bao first saluted, he said: "I have something important to tell my mother. As soon as the emperor came back from the banquet, he was lured by a deacon eunuch named Wei Chao to play with crickets."

When Queen Mother Li heard Feng Bao say this, she immediately frowned: "There is such a thing?"

Feng Bao nodded: "How dare this old slave lie! In the past, Xuanmiao was regarded as a rare sage and enlightened lord in this dynasty. Because of this thing, he gained a bad reputation for promoting the emperor. If the emperor is really obsessed with this thing, it will not Let the empress know that it is the sin of the old servants and the people around the emperor."

"Humph!"

Empress Dowager Li had stood up at this moment and walked out quickly.

The maid beside Empress Dowager Li hurriedly followed.

"younger sister!"

Empress Dowager Chen called out, but did not stop Empress Dowager Li. She only gave Feng Bao a look, and then hurriedly followed.

Empress Dowager Li came to Qianqing Palace angrily not long after she came here.

Feng Bao also followed, with an imperceptible smile on his lips.

Empress Dowager Chen looked flustered and kept calling from behind: "Sister! Sister!"

"Fight him! Fight him quickly!"

As soon as Empress Dowager Li appeared in Zhu Yijun's bedroom, she first heard the sound of fighting crickets, her willow eyebrows stood on end, and her phoenix eyes widened.

Seeing that Empress Dowager Li looked like this, Feng Bao became even more proud.

"Zhu Yijun!"

Empress Dowager Li yelled loudly, then turned around and appeared on the steps outside Zhu Yijun's bedroom, only to see King Lu playing crickets with a few servants, and she became even angrier for a while: "Well, even his younger brother followed He broke it!"

After speaking, Queen Mother Li walked up quickly, grabbed the cricket pot in Lu Wang's hand with one hand, threw it on the steps with all her strength, and then walked in. As soon as she entered, she saw Zhu Yijun standing behind the imperial case, holding a pen in her right hand Writing, reading a book of memorials in my left hand.

"what?"

Feng Bao was secretly surprised.

Empress Dowager Li also stretched her brows and walked over. Seeing that there were many imperial notes written on Zhu Yijun's imperial case, and the ink was still wet, even the pen in her hand was still wet, so she asked, "Where are you?" doing what?"

(End of this chapter)