Chapter 16 Zhu Youxiao, Shun Jun'er
In September of the seventh year of Tianqi, in late autumn, when the Hanlin Academy reviewed Li Mingrui impeached the eunuch of the dynasty, the eunuch of the dynasty and the admiral of the Eastern Factory, Wei Zhongxian, a young boy and a young girl, was furious after hearing this, and scolded Wei Zhongxian for being a beast.
Wei Zhongxian, who was once powerful, was dismissed from the position of Sili Jianbing, demoted to Nanjing, and was deposed as the title of Nine Thousand Years. The sacred temples built by officials from all over the country were also strictly ordered to be demolished immediately.
At the same time, after the reinstatement of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Sun Chengzong and the Minister of the Secretariat Xu Guangqi, the civil and military officials of the court who were dismissed from office in response to the dispute between the Party and the Prison were reinstated one after another.
Immediately afterwards, Your Majesty personally issued an edict to rehabilitate Xiong Tingbi, the former Liaodong governor, posthumously granted the title of Minister of War, and posthumously named Xiangmin, and Yin his youngest son was the Qianhu of Jinyiwei.
For a time, the ministers of the Middle East Lin Party of the Court were all excited to hear this. Many officials of the Donglin Party even took advantage of this to continue to impeach Wei Zhongxian, and some impeached other eunuchs. From the chief assistant of the cabinet, Huang Liji, Grand Secretary Wei Guangwei, to the Minister of Personnel Cui Chengxiu, and the Minister of Works Huo Weihua, etc., were all impeached.
It is really a pain to beat the dog in the water, and the saying that the remaining bravery chases the enemy is vividly interpreted.
The impeachment memorials received by the Tongzheng Department have piled up into a hill, and the Ministry of Works' Department of Construction and Training even yelled that the supply of memorials in the court was insufficient, and the price of paper in the capital has tripled.
However, only the emperor himself, Zhu Youxiao, was still calmly wandering around with his queen in the Forbidden City. The eunuch of Xixinsi reported that because the weather became colder, the firewood was not available for the time being, and the treasury was needed to be moved.
Zhu Youxiao was anxious when he heard this. Wang Zhichen wanted to move his own treasury, but he didn't even give it to him and directly transferred Wang Zhichen back, allowing Wang Zaijin, who had a more economical strategic thinking, to become the Liaodong strategy.
Even Sun Chengzong asked to supervise Liaodong, but he did not agree. The reason was that Sun Chengzong's strategic thinking was to burn money.
Zhu Youxiao didn't want to spend most of the country's resources on the Liaodong group of Guanning Iron Cavalry, who was scattered and incompetent, and his own treasury was even worse.
"The Tongzheng Department has so many impeachment memorials, why are you keeping them? They all moved them to me. I just used them to cook the fire." After Zhu Youxiao said this, a group of people from the palace really went to the Tongzheng Department.
Although the newly appointed eunuch Bingbi and admiral Wang Chengen of the East Factory was loyal and reliable, he was not as arrogant as Li Jinzhong. He knew that he could hide his weaknesses in front of civil servants. After going to the Tongzhengsi, he just said that he would give his Majesty the approval, so the officials of the Tongzhengsi believed it. Anyway, the impeachment memorandum would not leave the cabinet, so it doesn't matter.
As a result, a large number of memorials were added to the palace and became firewood.
Zhu Youxiao took a copy of the impeachment of the Censor in his hand and patted it, saying, "Oh, such a good paper, I just made firewood like this. Thinking about it, I feel extravagant." As he said that, he threw the memorial into the furnace and the flames suddenly burst out. The excited Zhu Youxiao hurriedly called the little yellow gate who was accompanying him to come over to cook the fire together.
"What! Your Majesty actually burned us as a brothel!"
When Xu Biqian, an official of the Donglin Party, learned that Zhu Youxiao had burned all the memorials of impeachment of the eunuch party, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He ignored the righteousness of the monarch and his subjects and cursed: "This Zhu Youxiao is a fool!"
"Hmph, I thought he had reformed and no longer covered up the eunuch party since then. I didn't expect that he was just deceiving us, which was so angry!"
Chen Xianqing also echoed, looking like he wanted to swallow Zhu Youxiao.
Only the Youyude Zhang Yong was still like Gu Jing Wubo, and he smiled coldly and said, "When did Zhu Youxiao change? I have told you that if Zhu Youxiao doesn't die, my Donglin Party will have no chance to make a comeback!"
"How should we deal with what Brother Yizijie saw? Now, in addition to the eunuch party, neutral officials have also leaned towards Zhu Youxiao. Even Grand Secretary Sun Chengzong and others no longer associate with us. If we continue here, the Donglin Party will be divided!"
Sun Zhixie, who had already defected to the Donglin Party, said worriedly. He now regretted that he shouldn't have changed his family, but now he regretted that he was too late. Moreover, when he thought of being humiliated by Zhu Youxiao that day, he also wanted to one day really pull Zhu Youxiao off the throne of the emperor.
Zhang Yong smiled and said, "Don't panic, I, Zhang, first introduce someone to everyone."
As he said that, Zhang Yong clapped his hands, and then he saw a white-faced scholar and a burly Tartar coming over.
This white-faced scholar is naturally unwilling to me, and the Tartar, who had the finest copper coins, was one of the two major Tartar commanders who destroyed the Hongguang regime in later generations, Ajige!
Ning Wan, these Donglin Party officials have known each other. The last time they plotted to assassinate Zhu Youxiao, Ning Wan was involved. But everyone thought that Ning Wan was a staff member of the King of Xin Zhu Youxiao, but everyone did not expect that Ning Wan, I actually knew the Tartars outside the pass.
Seeing that other colleagues from Donglin were surprised, Zhang Yong hurriedly explained: "You don't have to be surprised. This brother Ning is actually a Grand Secretary of the Later Jin Kingdom and is deeply favored by Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty. This time, he is Bel Azige, the twelve sons of Nurhaci. He went to Beijing to do business with Brother Ning this time."
After Zhang Yong said that, Ning Wan, I simply pulled the scarf on my head, revealing an extremely ugly braid:
"As Brother Zijie said, I am a minister of our great khan. This time I came to Beijing to visit all the wise ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Please forgive me for your recklessness!" Ning Wan said modestly.
These Donglin Party officials, including Sun Zhixie, just smiled awkwardly. Now the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty are in a hostile relationship, and no one will have a good mood in front of the enemy.
However, Zhang Yong was very calm. Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, he advised: "Oh, why should you be so restrained by your colleagues? Brother Ning and us are just their own masters. The two countries will not be killed even if they fight, let alone we are just having a private relationship."
"Why do you have to talk so much nonsense? Either cooperate to kill the Ming Emperor, or if you don't cooperate, I will kill you!"
This Azig looked reckless and slapped a big knife made of iron on the table, which scared the officials of the Donglin Party trembled in their hearts.
Ning Wan, I hurriedly advised, "Master Beile, don't worry, everything has a slave."
"Hmph!" Azig sat down disapprovingly.
The other Donglin officials did not dare to say anything else, and in the end, Zhang Yong broke the deadlock and said, "Everyone knows that Zhu Youxiao has to be eliminated now. How should he be eliminated? Zhang and Brother Ning thought for a long time and finally got a plan."
Sun Zhixie was always timid and didn't say anything. Instead, Xu Biqian asked with some interest: "Oh, what's the plan? Let's hear it."
"It's like this. Everyone knows that my Zhang family is one of the eight major Shanxi merchants. What I do all year round is business inside and outside the pass. Now my Zhang family is going to transport a batch of raw skins from Liaodong to Beijing for sale. At that time, we will dress up the Eighteenth Later Jin and hang out in the caravan. After entering Beijing, on the day when Zhu Youjiao left the palace to worship the sky, he will secretly assassinate!"
Zhang Yong said again, "But you all know that Zhu Youxiao is now living in a quiet place and refuses to leave the palace easily. He must rely on all his ministers to force him out of the palace to worship the sky. As long as he leaves the palace, these eighteen Batulus will definitely kill Zhu Youxiao!"
"This is easy. Now, in order to deceive the audio-visual, this dog emperor has done a lot of things that an emperor should do. My mentor happened to be Wang Jimo, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites. I will meet my mentor tomorrow and ask my mentor to personally advise Your Majesty to sacrifice to heaven." Xu Biqian volunteered.
"Okay, then I, Chen, will take the opportunity to impeach him, Zhu Youxiao disregards etiquette and does not value agricultural education. If you advise and advise like this, Zhu Youxiao will not agree!" Chen Xianqing also responded with him.
Seeing this, Sun Zhixie had to say: "It just so happened that my teacher didn't know that I had changed to Donglin. I also went to persuade my teacher to advise Zhu Youxiao to sacrifice to heaven!"
"The teacher of Sun Chengzong is Sun Chengzong. Now the Holy Family is Zhenglong, so it's just right!" Ning Wan couldn't help but laugh and said to Zhang Yong in a low voice: "Don't worry, after the matter is done, I will definitely report your contribution to the Khan."
"I'm thankful for this," Zhang Yong replied in a low voice. The officials of the Donglin Party here didn't know that Lord Zhang had already secretly defected to Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Chapter completed!