Chapter Ninety-One: Bloodbath in Donglin
Wei Zhongxian stepped into the Wenhua Hall with one foot, and when he saw that the emperor was writing, he tiptoed forward a few steps and called softly:
"Your Majesty, why haven't you been to Nanhaizi recently?"
"Li Chaoqing, the commander of Nanhaizi, told the slave maid that I haven't seen him for a while, and I miss Your Majesty."
Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, pinching the pen and practicing his own words.
Wei Zhongxian also stepped forward again and whispered a few words, but when these words fell, Zhu Youxiao raised his head suddenly, and the words on the paper were destroyed.
"Slaves and maids should die, slaves and maids should die..."Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Get up, what does the matter of the fifth brother have to do with you." Zhu Youxiao crumpled the paper in his hand, threw it to the ground in disgust, looked at Gong'e who was busy cleaning up, sat down and asked:
"Zhenguan Dignitaries, why did he suddenly look at this book."
The emperor asked casually, and Wei Zhongxian couldn't understand whether he was angry or indifferent, so he had to say in a decent manner:
"I went out of the palace to the old man, the fifth brother was raised by Xi Li, Xi Li was expelled from the palace by the emperor, and now he is in the palace of Dong Li Niangniang."
"According to what you mean, this book was shown to him by Concubine Li Zhuang?" Zhu Youxiao asked, and his eyes also shot over.
Wei Zhongxian's heart trembled, and he said, "This... The slave doesn't know. β
"Hey." Zhu Youxiao stood up, accompanied by Wei Zhongxian, walked out of the Wenhua Palace, walked to the courtyard, and said:
"Zhongxian, listen to my advice, don't worry about this harem matter."
Halfway through these words, Wei Zhongxian had already sensed that the emperor knew that he was going to frame Dong Li, so he hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, snot and tears:
"The emperor spared his life, and the slave and maid confessed."
"Zhenguan dignitary, this book seems useful to others except for me?" Zhu Youxiao smiled, and Wei Zhongxian understood the meaning of his words.
After walking a few steps, Zhu Youxiao suddenly asked again:
"How old is the fifth brother?"
"Back to the emperor, the fifth brother will be ten years old this year."
Fifth brother, this is Wei Zhongxian's nickname when he accompanied Zhu Youzhen when he played with him.
"Oh, it's not small, why hasn't the fifth brother's recital been canonized by the Ministry of Rites?" Zhu Youxiao said slowly, seemingly unconcerned.
Wei Zhongxian's heart tightened, and he naturally knew what the emperor was going to do, so he said with a flattering smile:
"What the emperor said is that the fifth brother is not young this year, and it is time for the Ministry of Rites to arrange the canonization of the king, but what do you want to seal?"
Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "Seal him as the king of letters." β
"Let the Ministry of Rites put on a script, canonize this year, and choose a princess for him, this Zhenguan dignitary doesn't need to read it, and it's useless to read it."
After that, Zhu Youxiao sped up and left by himself.
Looking at the emperor's back, Wei Zhongxian was dumbfounded, he thought that the emperor and the fifth brother had a good relationship, but now it seems that this is not the case at all!
After a while, he chased after him again, and when he reached the door of Xinuan Pavilion, he asked again:
"Your Majesty, Wang Huazhen's matter..."
"Wang Huazhen has been in Liaodong for many years, he has no merit, and he also has hard work, not to mention that this time he has made great contributions to exposing the embezzlement of Liaodong military funds by the Donglin Party."
"Great Achievementββ?
Before the words fell, Zhu Youxiao held Xinuan Pavilion with one hand, but suddenly stopped, turned his head, and said coldly:
"The lives of 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Guangning City, Shenyang was unable to be rebuilt in time, so Xiong Tingbi had to give up Shenyang, and he did so many bad things."
"You're telling me now, he's doing a great job?"
"Wei Zhongxian, look, you're floating!" Zhu Youxiao stepped into the Xinuan Pavilion, returned to the imperial case, and said:
"Not only are you floating, you don't know who should use it and who should kill it."
"The slave is guilty, the slave is guilty!"
Wei Zhongxian could see that the emperor was really angry this time, and he didn't expect that the emperor's attitude would be so resolute in the matter of Wang Huazhen.
This time, it was indeed a miscalculation.
"I don't care about the dealings between you and Wang Huazhen. Plead with him, Wei Zhongxian, I'm disappointed in you! β
"Don't bring it with you, call Wang Tiqian back from Phi Dao and bring it to him!"
"Your Majesty..."
Wei Zhongxian's mind was dizzy, and he took two steps back.
"Don't take it as an example, I still have important matters to discuss with the two ministers, so you can step down!" Zhu Youxiao turned around and said.
"The slave and maid are gone."
Wei Zhongxian regretted it, but it didn't help, and he was like a tiger, and if he was wrong in one sentence, it would be a earth-shaking change.
He can only eat a trench to grow a wisdom, and never mention the name Wang Huazhen again.
This situation made Wang Zaijin and Gu Bingqian both shocked.
Ordinary people say that Wei Zhongxian is deeply favored by the saint and blinds the sacred heart, whatever he says, the emperor will approve anything, but now, they clearly see Wei Zhongxian's weakness in front of the emperor.
"Factory father, you, you said you wanted to save me!"
In the Dongchang prison, Wang Huazhen heard this result, and her face was full of disbelief.
At this time, Wei Zhongxian had already changed into a gloomy face, he sneered a few times, and said: "The governor said it, but in the end, the emperor had the final say. β
"The emperor insists on killing you, can I persuade you?"
Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian patted him on the shoulder and persuaded: "Save your strength, don't struggle; Evil, the emperor wants you to die, and you can't live. β
"Hahaha-" Wang Huazhen was silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed out loud:
"In my life, Daxian has done it, he has been a gelding, and he has also been involved in military affairs and political affairs, and he can be regarded as a well-deserved death!"
Immediately, he looked in the direction of Liaoyang again, and said sadly: "Xiong Man, you won, you won completely!" β
......
June of the first year of the Apocalypse, summer.
Wang Huazhen, the culprit of the Guangning War, was finally sentenced to Ling Chi in Jingshi Pailou Street after the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Wei Party.
It was the same person as Ling Chi Zhang Heming's execution, and the execution took three days to complete.
Immediately afterwards, Wei Zhongxian rode out in all directions, searched everywhere for the scholars who hid the book "Zhenguan Political Leaders", and all of them were arrested in Dongchang and tortured.
In the end, this book was found in the Donglin College, where Zou Yuanbiao, one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, gave lectures, causing an uproar.
Wei Zhongxian made a statement the next day, saying that Zou Yuanbiao intended to rebel, and sent Ti to ride out of Beijing and go to Jishui County, Jiangxi, where he called the Zou family members the same party and locked them all into Beijing.
But this is not over, Huguang Yingshan County, there is also a team of horsemen uninvited.
After Yang Lian resigned and returned home, he was not as honest as he imagined, he belonged to people who were not idle, and he also started lecturing, commenting on the government and politics all day long, and criticizing the eunuchs.
On this day, the local school asked Yang Liancai to teach him.
The following are all half-grown children, who have no basic judgment on this kind of affairs at all, and they basically remember what Yang Lian says.
The rise of Yang Lian's talk is just commenting on the situation in the DPRK and China at this time, saying that the emperor is mediocre, the eunuch party is powerful, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and the Ming Dynasty has reached the darkest and most critical time.
If there is no person of insight like him stationed in the court, the survival of the Ming Dynasty will only be in the evening.
At this moment, a group of red-clothed horsemen suddenly came outside the door, led by a brocade-clothed guard hundred, holding the Beizhen Fu Commander card, running directly to Yang Lian, shouting:
"Yang Lian, the emperor Zhun Er returned home to recuperate, it was Nian Er who did his best for the court and did his best!"
"But you are not repentant, you are still demagoguery, and heaven is intolerable!"
Speaking of this, Baihu pressed his hand on the saber and sneered: "Beizhen Fusi has prepared the prison cell and torture equipment for Mr., please come with us, sir?" β