Chapter fifteen
After more than two years as the lord, Emperor Chongzhen gradually grew from the feces that were so dedicated but unable to use but was unable to use. This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards Zhou Shixiong changed. The problem is that Emperor Chongzhen began to grow up, but the ministers in the court ignored this growth and still regarded him as a child. No matter what Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do, if it was not what the ministers proposed, it would be difficult to continue to promote it.
These days, in order to rehabilitate the loyal ministers who were falsely accused and persecuted by the eunuch party, Emperor Chongzhen accumulated enough anger, and the fuse soon appeared.
After lunch, Emperor Chongzhen began his daily office hours. When he was reviewing the memorial, he saw an impeachment memorial written by Liu Hongxun. In the memorial, Liu Hongxun denounced Yang Weiyuan, Li Hengmao, Yang Suxiu, Tian Jingxin and others colluded with each other, all of which were remnants of the eunuch party and had to be expelled from the court.
To be honest, these people do have a good relationship with Wei Zhongxian. The question is, how many people in the Tianqi Dynasty had a bad relationship with Wei Zhongxian? Emperor Chongzhen started to attack the eunuch party in the seventh year of Tianqi. It has been more than two years since he found that if the battle continued, the Niu and Li dispute between the Song Dynasty would reappear. This was the inspiration that Emperor Chongzhen discovered from the Emperor's model written by Li Shimin.
Emperor Chongzhen had a great affection for Liu Hongxun's entry into the cabinet at first, because during the several court meetings in which Liu Hongxun was reinstated, the ministers either quoted the classics and only knew empty talk about the ancient and modern times, or hesitated to answer the questions that were not asked. Only Liu Hongxun performed well, and every time he answered Emperor Chongzhen's questions, he was not only quick to speak, but also able to find a solution. He was a very capable and pragmatic person.
Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen brought Liu Hongxun into the cabinet. Liu Hongxun did make many achievements in practice, but one thing made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy, that is, whenever he talked about the emptiness of the treasury and it was necessary to increase the treasury income, Liu Hongxun would uphold the righteousness of the Confucian sage king and let the emperor tighten his expenses and save money for the country.
In name, the Ming Dynasty belonged to the old Zhu family. In fact, the silver emperor in the treasury could not be moved, and the silver emperor of the common people could not be moved. Only a very small part of the tax collected was for the royal family to allocate. These were only financial issues. In terms of government affairs, the emperor could manage less. The cabinet processed the memorials sent from various places and handed them over to the Sili Supervisor. After reading them, Emperor Chongzhen made a red note. Theoretically, this instruction was the final decision.
In fact, it is not that true! The cabinet believes that the emperor is wrong and will bring back the memorials and let the emperor think clearly and write criticisms. If we look at it from the perspective of bystanders, this is a mature and effective administrative system. The problem is that Emperor Chongzhen is not an bystander, he is the party involved, and he is the one who loses in the end every time he conflicts with the cabinet. Generally, the emperor may find a way to find a way to coordinate with the cabinet, or throw government affairs to the cabinet and make trouble.
Emperor Chongzhen was not good. His irritable temper and strong personality led to his understanding of consultations in normal work as a slap in the face. Some emperors became accustomed to the face when they were slapped too much. Emperor Chongzhen could not stand it. Every time he was rejected, he had to debate with the prime minister of the cabinet. But a political baby under 20 years old fought with some old foxes who had been immersed in the officialdom for decades, and could even know the result with his toenails.
After many attacks, Emperor Chongzhen did not find a good way to communicate with the prime minister of the cabinet, and only accumulated a lot of personal grudges. Yesterday, in the morning court, Liu Hongxun proposed to ask Emperor Chongzhen to use the treasury to pay the border troops, and he asked for 300,000 taels of money, which completely angered Emperor Chongzhen. This morning, Emperor Chongzhen refused to discuss this issue, but Liu Hongxun actually insisted on scattering. After the court, he chased him to the imperial study room to compete with Emperor Chongzhen, which annoyed Emperor Chongzhen.
Therefore, when he saw the memorial of Liu Hongxun's impeachment of the remnants of the eunuch party, Emperor Chongzhen threw it aside. Emperor Chongzhen deeply hated Wei Zhongxian and his minions. If someone else impeached these guys, Emperor Chongzhen would probably be accurate. Anyway, there are so many officials in the court, it doesn't matter how many more or less. Liu Hongxun came to force Emperor Chongzhen to pay the private money to pay the border troops. It seemed that Emperor Chongzhen would be a foolish emperor if he didn't do this and offended Emperor Chongzhen too harshly.
After reading a few more memorials, one of which was the censor Tian Shizhen impeached Liu Hongxun. Tian Shizhen said that Liu Hongxun recommended Tian Yang as the governor of Sichuan and accepted Tian Yang's bribes of two thousand gold. The whole article was full of hearsay words, and the main part was to scold Liu Hongxun for being in a high position and not wanting to serve the country and use his power to seek personal gain.
Generally speaking, this kind of memorial should be kept for the last minute and let Liu Hongxun give a defense. After all, there is no evidence of the content of the impeachment, so it is impossible to cause any harm to Liu Hongxun. Emperor Chongzhen also planned to do this at the beginning, but Liu Hongxun's thin image kept flashing in his mind, which made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy. "Come here, I'll tell you about Luo Yang's character."
Emperor Chongzhen called the commander of the Jinyiwei to come over, and the news quickly reached the ears of some big shots in the Forbidden City. Wang Chengen put down his official duties and rushed to the imperial study room, wanting to know what happened? After all, Eunuch Wang is also the admiral of the Dongchang Factory, and he can do what the Jinyiwei can do.
"Long live, my uncle Luo Yangxing will pay you a favor." Luo Yangxing was young and strong, and came to the imperial study room first before Wang Chengen. Emperor Chongzhen threw Tian Shizhen's memorial off the imperial case, "Investigate, check carefully."
Luo Yangxing was confused after reading the memorial. There were at least seven or eight such memorials every day. Anyway, the censors did not need evidence to impeach ministers, and the news was their patent. Emperor Chongzhen asked him to investigate, what exactly did he look for? Luo Yangxing secretly looked at Emperor Chongzhen, but His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have not seen him and continued to review the memorial. Without any explicit hint, Luo Yangxing took the memorial and left the imperial study room. Emperor Chongzhen smiled happily as he looked at his back.
It is very simple to check the contents of the memorials. Just go to the Sixth Department to ask Tian Shizhen. Tian Shizhen admitted very positively that he heard the news of Liu Hongxun's bribery. It is said that it was the news that Tian Yang accidentally revealed after drinking. Tian Shizhen was present at the time. Tian Yang was far away in Sichuan, and Luo Yang could not arrest people without an edict. He could only go back to the cabinet to ask for approval and let Tian Yang put the memorial on his own.
Now the cabinet knew that Liu Hongxun was working in the cabinet. When he heard the news, he came out, "Sir Luo, please give me a comment." Luo Yangxing also knew that this was strange. Where did he come to the other person's office to apply for an investigation and approval letter?
After reading the memorial, Liu Hongxun bowed to the chief assistant Han Du, "Xiang Yungong, a family will avoid it for the time being. I will ask you all these days." According to convention, court officials must go home to rest when impeached and are allowed to write self-defense memorials, but nothing else can be done.
When Zhou Shixiong left Sun Chuanting's broken house and was about to return to the inn, Liu Hongxun's self-defense letter had been sent to the Forbidden City. "Teacher, you really have to say that you are short of money. I am so good, but you are like a beggar. You will scold me when you see it."
Zhou Shixiong was in a good mood. He told about his experience in the past two years. Sun Chuanting was very happy to praise him for his good work and recommended two people to be his staff. One was Xu Hongzu and the other was Song Yingxing. The name Xu Hongzu was Zhou Shixiong. Song Yingxing was so famous. I remember that when he was in elementary school, Song Yingxing had been watching him. Because Song Yingxing's avatar was posted in his line, Zhou Shixiong would be watched by him when he sat there.
"You little brat, I knew to tease you teacher, go quickly, the city gate will be closed if it's too late." The two masters and apprentices drank a little too much, and they were talking nonsense. Everyone knows that Zhou Shixiong pretended to be a fake dog. Sun Chuanting was really drunk. He was so happy. How could a teacher be unhappy if his only disciple is so promising?
"What are you afraid of? I have the Jiulong Pearl. Who dares not open the door for me!" Today, Zhou Shixiong was hurt by the Jiulong Pearl and developed deep resentment towards the Jiulong Pearl. He planned to do something bad to the royal family with the Jiulong Pearl.
"Don't talk nonsense, go back quickly." Sun Chuanting, who was drunk, woke up immediately. Zhou Shixiong also felt that he could not make jokes casually, and honestly got on the horse and flicked people.
When he returned to the inn, Fang Zhenghua was waiting for him in the inn. "Sir, my godfather originally wanted to send him to you personally, but later something happened in the palace. My godfather couldn't get away with me, so he had to send me over." Fang Zhenghua sent an invitation to Zhou Shixiong. Wang Chengen was dragged down by the matter of being unable to investigate the prime minister, so he didn't dare to go.
"Long live, you are so kind. OK, we will see you tomorrow."
"Come on, it's better for the officials to come here to pick up the masters." Emperor Chongzhen was so polite to Zhou Shixiong, which shows that Emperor Chongzhen attached great importance to Zhou Shixiong and followed Zhou Shixiong to join the frontier and felt that the future was bright.
"That's right, I'm not familiar with the roads in the palace." Zhou Shixiong slept very sweetly that night. What he had to do when he came to the capital was to complete most of the time. He could return to Guangxi as long as the queen gave birth to a child. Although it was not too regretful that he could not watch his first child be born.
Emperor Chongzhen also slept soundly tonight, and he would smile in his dreams from time to time. The annoying guy would soon disappear, and all this was just a small strategy, a small strategy he had come up with.
Liu Hongxun also slept very well. He was not worried at all that he would be slandered by these false accusations. Others knew that the Liu family in Shandong was very rich and it was impossible for a mere two thousand golds to catch his eye.
Tian Shizhen slept very sweetly, and he became famous. As the censor, he lived a hard life with only the little food and salary. If it weren't for the privilege of the news, who would have dared to meet the important officials in the court? Originally, writing this memorial was purely to deal with the monthly tasks, but unexpectedly, the emperor sent Luo Yangxing to investigate himself. No matter what the conclusion, I, Tian Shizhen, became famous!
There may be only two people who didn’t sleep well tonight, one was Luo Yangxing and the other was Wang Chengen. The reason why Luo Yangxing couldn’t sleep was very simple. He couldn’t make a fuss about what Emperor Wansui wanted to do and what should he do to satisfy Emperor Wansui? This kind of work that tests IQ gave Luo Yangxing a headache.
The reason why Wang Chengen couldn't sleep is complicated. After figuring out the whole story, Wang Chengen was very grateful to Long Sui for his love and care. If Wang Chengen was involved in this matter, there would definitely be no good results. The reason why Wang Chengen couldn't sleep is that Long Sui's temper is getting bigger and bigger, and this matter has been done a little too much!
Chapter completed!