Sixth, Wei Zhongxian cracked down on dissidents

The editor Wu Kongjia had a grudge against his fellow clansman Wu Yangchun, so he induced Wu Yangchun's slave to denounce his master for occupying Huangshan, and Wu Yangchun's father and son died in prison.

Wei Zhongxian sent the director Lu Xiawen and the commentator Xu Zhiji to Huizhou to raid his home, which was very cruel. The prefect Shi Wancheng couldn't bear it, cut his hair and left, and Huizhou almost caused a disaster.

His henchmen, Zhang Tiqian, falsely accused Liu Duo, the prefect of Yangzhou, of plotting to release Chen Chengen on behalf of Li Chengen, and colluded with the warlock Fang Jingyang to curse Wei Zhongxian, and Liu Duo was beheaded.

He also falsely accused Wang Guoxing, the son of the Marquis of Xincheng, the official of Jinyiwei, sentenced him to death, and dismissed the principal Xu Shiqi.

Yu Shi Menke Xin falsely accused Gu Tongyin and Sun Wenyun, who were from Wu County, of writing a memorial to Xiong Tingbi, and the two were convicted of the crime of evil words and beheaded.

He also arrested the squire and killed him in prison. All those whom Wei Zhongxian has always hated, such as Han Huang, Zhang Wenda, He Shijin, Cheng Zhu and others, although they have left their posts, they must be removed from the official register, and the heavy ones will be confiscated, and the dead ones will be recovered and their families will be ruined.

Some Wei Zhongxian accidentally forgot, his henchmen must have pursued the past, arousing Wei Zhongxian's anger.

At that time, all the internal and external power belonged to Wei Zhongxian, and in addition to Wang Tiqian and others, there were more than 30 eunuchs, including Li Chaoqing, Wang Chaofu, Sun Jin, Wang Guotai, and Liang Dong, who supported them left and right.

Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, Li Kuilong, and Ni Wenhuan were the main conspirators of the foreign court, known as the "Five Tigers"; while the military ministers were Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan, who were the main conspirators, called the "Five Biao."

There are also Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry, Cao Qincheng, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and others, known as the "Ten Dogs". There are also names such as "ten children" and "forty grandchildren".

And there are countless people who are under Cui Chengxiu's gang. From the cabinet and the six ministries to the governors and governors of the Quartet, they are all full of his dead friends.

He hated Empress Zhang in his heart, and in the autumn of this year, he falsely accused Empress Zhang's father Zhang Guoji of committing a slave offense, and then falsely passed on the will of the Middle Palace in an attempt to shake Empress Zhang.

Wei Zhongxian was not satisfied, and sent Liu Zhixuan, the Cheng of Shuntianfu, and Liang Menghuan, the imperial historian, to expose Zhang Guoji's crimes in turn, and said that the queen was not Zhang Guoji's daughter. It happened that Wang Tiqian was dissuaded by dangerous words, and Wei Zhongxian was just that.

In the winter of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the three halls were completed. Li Yongzhen and Zhou Yingqiu played Wei Zhongxian's exploits, and Zhu Youxiao then made Wei Zhongxian the lord of the Shanggong and the third class of grace.

Wei Liangqing had been promoted to the Marquis of Suning at that time, and at this time he was promoted to the Duke of Suning, and Shilu was issued according to the official regulations of the Wei State, and then the commander of the Yin Jinyi Guard was one person and one person was also known.

Xue Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, played to Wei Zhongxian and gave the mansion. Soon the eunuch Tao Wen played the Xifeng Pass to be built, the supervisor Wang Zhichen played the Shanhaiguan City, the criminal department Shangshu Xue Zhen played the great thief Wang Zhijin Prison case, the construction of the filial piety tomb in Nanjing was completed, Ganzhen played the Jie, and Zhang Yongzuo of the Fan Education Department captured the thief, they all said that it was due to Wei Zhongxian's planning and strategy.

Wei Zhongxian himself played the credit for the arrest for three years, and Zhu Youxiao issued an edict to praise him. In the past six months, Wei Zhongxian has four Jinyi guards commanding envoys, three Tongzhi, and one servant.

He also gave his nephew Ximeng hereditary Jinyi Wei Tongzhi, nephews Fu Zhicong and Feng Jixian as governors, and promoted Cui Chengxiu's younger brother Cui Ningxiu to the deputy chief soldier of Jizhen.

The imperial power was abused by usurpation, and it reached its extreme. All his comrades sat in Ji, Liao, as well as Shanxi Xuanfu and Datong. The general soldier Liang Zhuchao, Yang Guodong and others have dedicated famous horses and treasures to him every year, and they have never stopped

Yuan Keli, who was neither a eunuch nor a Donglin, did not want to get involved in the party dispute, the three halls were in full swing, and the left attendant of the military department had the responsibility of reading. ”

"After a brief dispatch of people (the old chief) to hang sacrifices, the prince (Yuan Keli) hated him (Yuan Chonghuan) for humiliating the country and not planning, and he spoke to the court. A certain public hurriedly covered his mouth and said: "Don't forget to say, worship is here." The public sighed and said, "With this worship, don't worry about laughing at the future generations?"

Da Sima heard that it was against him, and he hated it. Let the investigator serve the public every day, and there is no one who can be killed.

Huinan Hubu is still missing, and the court pushes the public, and the counter-subpoena is to the officer. "On November 21, the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the Jiuqing Kedao official recommended Yuan Keli to be the head of the household department in Nanjing.

Originally, Wei Zhongxian also intended to rely on Yuan Keli's talent to support and balance the troubled Ming Army, but the eunuchs could no longer tolerate Yuan Keli's disobedience and disobedience, and made up their minds to exclude Yuan Keli from the court. Yuan Keli protested in the hall and said: "This is not the time to hang the crown Shenwu Gate?"

Seventh, the sea flattered Wei Zhongxian

In the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), he sent Cui Wensheng to the governor Caoyun, Li Mingdao to the governor of Hedao, and Hu Liangfu to guard Tianjin. Cui Wensheng used to serve Guangzong and took medicine, but was attacked by the Donglin Party.

The domestic and foreign ministers such as Yan Mingtai, Liu Zhao, Li Jingbai, Yao Zongwen, etc., competed to praise Wei Zhongxian and set up a shrine, and they were all hustle, fearing that they would not be able to. Under and the martial arts, businessmen and villains. The scoundrels also built shrines for him.

These ancestral halls were built with great skill, and no one dared to accuse them of encroaching on the people's fields and houses, and cutting down the trees in the cemetery. And the prisoner Lu Wanling even asked Wei Zhongxian to sacrifice Confucius, and Wei Zhongxian's father to sacrifice Qi Shenggong.

At the beginning, Pan Ruzhen was the first to write the book, and Liu Zhi, the imperial historian, was one day late and was removed from his post. And Hu Shirong of Jizhou Dao was thrown into prison and sentenced to death because he did not have the books and texts of the ancestral hall, and Geng Ruqi of Zunhua Dao was thrown into prison and sentenced to death.

Therefore, the atmosphere of the world, no matter how big or small, praises Wei Zhongxian. Clans such as Zhu Hua, King of Chu, Zhu Shenjian, Zhongshu, meritorious relatives such as Li Yongzuo, Marquis of Fengcheng, courtiers such as Shangshu Shao Fuzhong, Li Yangde, Cao Sicheng, Governor Zhang Ixu, Sun Guozhen, Zhang Yiming, Guo Yunhou and others, are all full of words and shame.

Wei Zhongxian also often rewarded them with favors. All the scribbs called Wei Zhongxian a "factory minister" instead of his name.

When the scholars Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, and Zhang Ruitu drafted the holy decree, they would also say "I and the ministers", and no one dared to write Wei Zhongxian's name directly.

Shandong produced a unicorn, and the governor Li Jingbai drew an image and reported it to the imperial court. Huang Liji and others drafted the holy decree and said: "The factory ministers cultivate virtue, so the benevolent beast arrives." "This is the end of the deception.

Zhu Youxiao gave him countless commendation orders before and after, and the edicts issued were all imitation of Jiuxiwen.

From spring to autumn this year, Wei Zhongxian took the lead of Wang Yaobi to capture the credit of Aban Luo Tie, and the total number of commanders of the Jinyi Guard reached 17.

His clan grandsons Xikong, Ximeng, Xiyao, Xishun, Pengcheng, in-laws Dong Fangming, Wang Xuan, Yang Liuqi, Yang Zuochang, the governor to the left and right, and the governor Tongzhi and the governor.

Hakka's younger brother Guangxian was also crowned as the governor. Wei Fumin was transferred from Jinyiwei to Shang Baoqing. And Wei Zhongxian's wish has not yet been reached, just as Yuan Chonghuan played Ning Yuan's good news, Wei Zhongxian ordered Zhou Yingqiu to play his grandson Wei Pengyi as An Pingbo.

Remembering the three major project merits, he named his nephew Liangdong as the Marquis of Dong'an, Liangqing as the Taishi, Pengyi as the young master, and Liangdong as the prince Taibao.

So he generally rewarded his ministers, and used Cui Chengxiu as the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the left capital, but the credit of Yuan Chonghuan was discarded.

At that time, Peng Yi and Liangdong were still in infancy and couldn't walk.

Liangqing even offered sacrifices to the northern and southern suburbs on behalf of the Son of Heaven and sacrificed to the Taimiao. So the whole world suspected that Wei Zhongxian was going to usurp power.

Zhu Youxiao is clever, good at using axes, saws and painting and other things, and he has been tireless for many years. Every time he was pulling the thread and sharpening the ink, Wei Zhongxian's generation often came to play. Zhu Youxiao was very bored and said absurdly: "I already know, you can do it yourself." ”

Wei Zhongxian therefore allowed himself to do whatever he wanted. He traveled many times a year, and every time he always sat on Wenxuan, with feather curtains and green covers, four horses like flying, the sound of cymbals and drums, and the sound of cymbals and drums, with the rumbling wheels, hidden in the flying loess.

The waist of the Jinyi Guard School is surrounded by a jade belt, the boots are boasted, the knife is carried with each other, and the people who follow the cooks, excellent lings, hundred operas, and slaves and maids are tens of thousands.

The recitals of hundreds of officials can only catch up with fast horses. Everywhere he passed, the scholars and doctors covered the way and bowed, cheering 9,000 years old, and some people simply called him "9,900 years old", "the one who raises the court, but worships the godfather, performs five bows and three prostrations, and calls the 9,900-year-old grandfather." ”

And Wei Zhongxian still looked left and right, ignoring it. The Hakka family lived in the palace, coerced the queen, and brutalized the palace concubines.

Occasionally going out of the palace to return to the private house, the attendants are prestigious, illuminating the road, and it looks like the emperor's honor guard.

Wei Zhongxian turned out to be stupid and had no strengths, so his henchmen taught him day and night, and the Hakka clan was the master, so the gang raged and poisoned the sea.

Eighth, the end of the eunuch:

In the autumn and August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), Zhu Youxiao died, and Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, ascended the throne. Zhu Youzhen was familiar with Wei Zhongxian's crimes, and he was deeply guarded, and Wei Zhongxian's henchmen began to be afraid.

Yang Suoxiu and Yang Weiyuan first attacked Cui Chengxiu to test Zhu Youzhen's mind, and the principals Lu Chengyuan and Qian Yuanyu, and Shi Gongsheng, a member of the staff, then discussed Wei Zhongxian one after another.

But Zhu was hidden and did not send it.

So Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng impeached Wei Zhongxian for ten crimes: one is tied with the emperor, two is contemptuous of the queen, three is to manipulate military power, four have no two ancestors, five grams are knighted by the vassal king, six are no saints, seven are indiscriminately rewarded, eight cover up the side work, nine exploit the people, and ten traffic joints.

After the recital was submitted, Zhu Youzhen summoned Wei Zhongxian and asked the internal officials to read it to him. Wei Zhongxian was very frightened, and hurriedly bribed Xu Yingyuan, the eunuch of the Xindi, with a heavy treasure, and begged him to save him.

Xu Yingyuan is Wei Zhongxian's former gambling friend. Zhu Youzhen knew about this, so he reprimanded Xu Yingyuan. In November, Wei Zhongxian was sent to Fengyang to settle down, Wei Zhongxian on the way to Fengyang, still raised a group of outlaws, Zhu Youzhen was furious when he heard about it, and ordered Jinyiwei to arrest him and escort him back to Beijing for trial.

[Li Yongzhen learned the news and hurriedly sent someone to report to Wei Zhongxian.] Wei Zhongxian knew that he could not escape death, and when he arrived in Fucheng, when he heard the latter order, he and his accomplice Li Chaoqin drank bitterly until the fourth watch at the Keshi Hotel in Nanguan, Fucheng, and finally hanged themselves together.

Zhu ordered Wei Zhongxian to be dismembered by the edict and hung his head in Hejian Mansion. Whipped the Hakka to death in the Huanyi Bureau. Wei Liangqing, Hou Guoxing, Keguangxian and others were all executed, and their bodies were violently killed on the streets, and their homes were raided.

When raiding the Ke family's house, there were eight palace maids, probably wanting to imitate Lü Buwei's actions, so people especially hated her.

In February of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Zhu Youzhen ordered Han Yi and others to examine and approve the reverse case, which expelled all Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, and the Donglin party members were able to enter again.

Those involved in the rebellion plot day and night for revenge. Later, Wen Tiren and Xue Guoguan came to power one after another, and they secretly excluded upright people to prepare for the reversal of the rebellion case.

Zhu Youzhen also hated the courtiers forming parties for personal gain, so he appointed eunuchs, and Ruan Dacheng and others in the reverse case finally poisoned Jiangzuo until they perished.

To sum up, Wei Zhongxian is a bad, complete villain, don't believe those whitewashing on the Internet, what nonsense such as Wei Zhongxian is not dead and Ming is not dead!

The Donglin Party in history did not save the Ming Dynasty, but Wei Zhongxian could not save the Ming Dynasty, so why was Wei Zhongxian whitewashed in the novel, because it is an indisputable fact that the Donglin Party failed to make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, so the vast majority of the authors used another model to save, so Wei Zhongxian's image is much better!

I'm no exception, please forgive me!