With the sudden downfall of Wei Zhongxian, there was an eerie silence in the court, but Zhu Youzhen knew that this was the calm before the storm.

Zhu Youzhen executed Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian, Hakka and other leaders of the eunuch party in one day, and the princes in the court did not react for a while.

Moreover, although Wei Zhongxian died, the obscenity left by the eunuchs is still there, and the scene of the tragic deaths of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou is still vivid, and many people still have lingering palpitations when they think about it.

Just let the bullets fly a little longer.

Sure enough, the day was not long in coming.

On October 23, Lu Chengyuan, director of the Ministry of Industry, wrote to the cloud:

"The factory minister Wei Zhongxian served the first emperor, on the merits of the reward, has its own common canon, how to favor the king and marquis, the three princes are above, the authority of the factory ministers, so that the outer court does not dare to write the name of the loyal and virtuous, the gift of the monarch and the minister began to collapse here, and the world gradually descended to this very much."

Although Lu Chengyuan is only a minor official of the fifth grade, he is a small official and famous.

When the Donglin Party was in power, Lu Chengyuan couldn't get used to the shame and arrogance of the Donglin Party, and cracked down on other non-Donglin Party figures.

After the eunuch party gained power, Lu Chengyuan couldn't get used to the eunuch party's revenge on the Donglin party, and the conspiracy and trickery used all the villainous methods.

So over the years, Lu Chengyuan has not been a party or a group, he has not eaten soft and hard, and because he is honest and honest, he has no desires and no desires, and no one faction dares to touch him when he comes to power.

At this time, as soon as Lu Chengyuan made a move, he fired the first shot to liquidate the eunuchs.

After Zhu Youzhen saw this bullet seal, he checked Lu Chengyuan's resume and daily conduct.

After Zhu Youzhen saw it, he felt that Lu Chengyuan was really a good official who was not a party or a group and was dedicated to doing things.

But because of this, Lu Chengyuan's career was quite unsmooth, he was thirty years old, and he was still a five-grade petty official until he was fifty years old.

found a good official, Zhu Youzhen was very relieved, so he issued a decree and promoted Lu Chengyuan to the right attendant of the ministry on the same day.

The director of the five-grade engineering department was promoted to the right attendant of the third-grade ministry in one day, and he was promoted to four levels in a row, which is a very obvious signal.

As a result, the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Tian Ergeng and other key figures of the eunuch party flew like snowflakes to the General Political Division.

Zhu Youjian ordered Gao Qiqian, Xu Yingyuan, Wang Dehua and others to select the bullet medals according to the list of eunuch backbones provided by Wei Zhongxian.

Zhu Youzhen checked all the impeachments that were true, and registered the people who wrote them one by one, and these were all figures that Zhu Youzhen kept as an entrainment and would be investigated in the future.

Of course, there are also some people who wantonly expand the scope of the attack in the name of impeaching the eunuchs, which is actually a practice of communiqué personal vendetta and the exclusion of dissidents, and Zhu Youzhen also ordered someone to write it down.

Party strife! Party strife! At the time of the national crisis, what Zhu Youzhen hated most was officials who disregarded the overall situation and only fought for the party whenever the situation of the DPRK was a little disturbed, and of course, the political future of these people would naturally come to an end.

But the situation in the court is not stable, Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to touch them now, and these people's excerpts are naturally left behind.

Among all the twists and turns, among them, the bullet chapter performed by Wang Shou, a member of the household department, won Zhu Youzhen's heart the most, so it was sent by Di Baoming.

"The calamity of the eunuchs in today's dynasty is cruel, but it is not the people of the party who attach Lizhi, wings, and Zhang Qishi to assist it, and the eunuchs do not have today's calamity, Gai Wenchen Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, and Li Xie Long are the five tigers, and the military generals Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan are the five biao, and the crimes of the ten people are especially loyal."

The above ten people are all the backbone figures of the eunuch party confessed by Wei Zhongxian, and they respectively hold important positions in the military department, Jinyi Guard, Dongchang and the official department, and Zhu Youzhen must be eliminated.

So most of the bullet chapters were left in the middle, and only Wang Shou's performance was sparsely reported to the palace, and Zhu Youzhen's meaning was already very clear.

Soon, the targets of impeachment were aimed at the above ten people.

The various sections known as the pioneers of the trolls gave the officers a stamps against the above ten people on the same day.

After Zhu You reviewed it, he published an important red on the song: "Good, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, and the three law divisions will be tried." ”

Of course, later, there were officials who couldn't see the situation clearly, and they felt that it was boring for everyone to impeach the 'Five Tigers and Five Biao', so they arranged Wei Zhongxian's 'Ten Sons and Forty Grandchildren' to lead the direction of Xinxin's impeachment, but all of them were retained by Zhu Youzhen.

Stability is paramount.

Although it is true that the 'ten children and forty grandchildren' have done a lot of evil things, they are still within the scope of tolerance.

Zhu Youzhen did not want to be like Chongzhen in history, and carried out a two-year-long major case of liquidation of the eunuch party, so that no one in the court had the heart to do anything, the civil officials did not think about the government and the military attachés did not think about defending the territory, and they were all busy attacking the eunuch party and clearing up the relationship with the eunuch party.

In the end, the border pass was lost in the second year of Chongzhen, and the Houjin invaded the hinterland of Gyeonggi, and the change of Jisi began.

Daming can't stand the toss.

Therefore, after staying in the middle school many times, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty also knew what Zhu Youzhen meant.

That is: the first offender should be punished, and the accomplice should not be asked, at least not for the time being.

So the court was quiet again.

The officials on the periphery of the eunuch party who were originally attached to Wei Zhongxian were all relieved, so those who gave gifts, asked for help, and those who were anxious and waiting for death were all settled, but it was their common idea to be grateful for Zhu Youzhen's kindness.

Although the Donglin Party wanted to take the opportunity to fight back, but in the face of an emperor who loved to stay in the middle of the country, they couldn't make it out if they had the strength, and they didn't have the courage to do it now, so they all died down.

The court fell into a strange period of tranquility, and the pressure was all transferred to the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple.

The officials of the Donglin Party asked for peace three times a day, as if they were going to break through the threshold of the three yamen, for fear that they would leave out the charges against the 'Five Tigers and Five Biao'.

Of course, the current officials of the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple are more dedicated than ever, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are staring at it, and the emperor is also staring at it.

Gao Qiqian came every other day to ask about the progress of the case, and often pretended to express his opinion inadvertently.

The Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple were sincerely afraid, and they naturally understood that Gao Qiqian's view was the emperor's view, so they did not dare to slack off at all.

So, a month later, the handling opinions of the three law divisions were sent to Zhu Youzhen's case.

"The 'Five Tigers and Five Biao' were sentenced to capital punishment, and their families were assigned to the army, and the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple raided their homes."

Zhu Youzhen glanced at it, and then ordered Gao Qi to sneak back.

Subsequently, after Gao Qiqian's guidance, the handling opinions of the three law divisions were quickly submitted again.

"The 'Five Tigers and Five Biao' were sentenced to capital punishment, and those who committed crimes in the family were punished according to the law, and the rest were not asked, and the house was raided in the East Factory."

Zhu You reviewed it, and without saying a word, he wrote a big "quasi" word on it, and covered it with a jade seal, and then sent a report to the palace.

The eunuch case is over.

But what followed did not develop as Zhu Youzhen expected.