The secrecy in the palace is like a fishing net, and it is the kind that is broken. The Emperor of the Apocalypse's treatment of the six gentlemen of Donglin spread to the outside as quickly as possible. There was an immediate uproar in Donglin Shoushan Academy.

Agreeing to the conditions of the Apocalypse and rescuing the six gentlemen, or rejecting the conditions of the Apocalypse and continuing to work against the emperor, this has become the focus of Donglin's quarrel.

The six gentlemen have been imprisoned, and the current first assistant Ye Xianggao is qualified to sit in the first place. Donglin does not determine the party leader based on the level of officials, but on the condition of learning and fame, so although the official position of the six gentlemen of Donglin is not high, they are leaders. For example, now, sitting on Ye Xianggao's left and right is Donglin's current second person Wen Tiren, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and the third person's young newcomer, Zhou Tingru, the six-grade petty official of Zhan Shifu's right Zhongyun. He is now equivalent to being a colleague with Mao Yulong, that is, a boring person who has nothing to do without the prince. But because of his rare Lianzhong Sanyuan Er sat in the eighth position in Shoushan Academy, after the other six people were imprisoned, they rose in order, and achieved the current third, and for a while they were full of smugness, even Huang Min, who had been the first assistant, had to sit behind him, because on lip service, on writing splendid articles, how Huang Kuang was the opponent of Zhou Tingru of Lianzhong Sanyuan. This is Donglin, whoever has the best mouth has the final say.

Ye Xianggao's gloomy face, a rare sunny day, opened his mouth first: "The six gentlemen were wronged in prison, we ran in many ways, but there was nothing we could do, and we were about to die unjustly under torture." But now there is good news, King Xin entered the palace and brought the emperor Mr. Yang Lian's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, and directly sued the emperor for the greatest traitorous crime in the world, which made things take a huge turn. The emperor has grounded Wei Zhongxian's old dog for five days, and the emperor also has the intention of letting the gentlemen out, which is a great thing. ”

Zhou Tingru is so obvious, that is, the performance, at that time, he clapped his hands together: "Mr. Yang's writing is unparalleled in the world, he is upright and loyal, he is an upright official, and he dares to expose the perverse behavior of the eunuch party. ”

Then he looked around at the dozens of remnants of Donglin: "This shows that the emperor has begun to take action against the eunuchs." ”

A deep Wen Tiren stopped Zhou Tingru's statement: "I don't think it's so optimistic, although the emperor grounded Wei Zhongxian, but later the words that came out were that he was showing King Xin, and he was using this method to tell King Xin, the eunuch party, Wei Zhongxian is just a dog of the royal family, no matter how powerful the eunuch party is, if the royal family wants them to live, if they want to die, they will die, this is just to teach King Xin, and it does not mean that the emperor has lost his favor for Wei Zhongxian, indicating that the eunuch party has begun to attack." ”

Wen Tiren and Zhou Tingru are natural enemies, although they are the same party, but the two of them are fighting each other in secret, the purpose is to achieve an absolute position in the Donglin Group, and then rely on the strength of Donglin to realize more of their ambitions. In the end, the two of them continued this kind of struggle until the Chongzhen period, and finally killed Daming directly for the position of first assistant. It can be said that he is the first hero of the extinguishing of the light.

In line with the principle that everything must be opposed, Zhou Tingru's statement, Wen Tiren must oppose it.

But this time, Zhou Tingru was indeed too optimistic, but Wen Tiren was right in the essence.

Of course, Zhou Tingru never regressed, and shook his head at the time to refute: "Lord Wen is short-sighted, and his current temperament is also considered to be in the middle and upper class, the eunuch party is powerful, and it is already too big to fall, this is what everyone knows, once the eunuch party is kicked over, it will inevitably cause major turmoil in the court situation, and it is the truth that Xu Xu Tuzhi is the truth, is it that Lord Wen has been an official for so many years, and he doesn't even understand this?" ”

Commenting on the emperor's temperament and confronting the boss, this is nothing in Donglin. For the emperor, a faint king, a mouthful, and the spittle stars sprayed directly on the emperor's face, which is not a great disrespect to the emperor, but can show the spirit of the Donglin party. And it is not a matter to contradict the boss, precisely because all the official appointments of the Ming Dynasty are hand-picked by the emperor to draw circles, which means that everyone is the emperor's protégé, the insignificant county order and the high-ranking first assistant, everyone is an equal classmate, who is afraid of whom.

Wen Tiren just smiled slightly, ready to continue to reply.

Ye Xianggao, who presided over the meeting, saw that the two of them were about to get up again, so he directly stopped the two people. If you don't stop, you can't do it, both of them are eloquent, as long as they start to talk about it, they will talk endlessly, and they will be ridiculous, so the topic they want to talk about today will be completely wasted. Regardless of anything else, saving people is important.

"What both of them said makes sense, our struggle against the eunuch party will not happen overnight, and it will not happen overnight in the future. The key now is to rescue the suffering gentlemen. ”

The host spoke, and everyone still had to give face, so they temporarily understood the topic and waited for the following statement.

Ye Xianggao continued: "According to the news, in order to protect the face of King Xin, the emperor promised him that as long as we don't insist on opposing his salt tax, we can release 6 people." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the hall of Shoushan Academy.

Everyone knows that in fact, the ignition point of the Six Gentlemen incident was the confrontation between himself and the emperor over the collection of salt taxes. Since everyone resolutely disagreed with the levy of the salt tax, other emperors had to take the six gentlemen to open the knife, the purpose was to make the Donglin Party leaderless, so that everyone could not unite to oppose the levy of the salt tax, and let this policy harmful to the people continue.

Now that the emperor has loosened, it would have been a good thing to exchange this condition.

But the reason why everyone became silent together was that they did have other ideas.

For example, Wen Tiren and Zhou Tingru don't want the six gentlemen to come out the most, the reason is that the two of them have just sat down, which is enviable, the second and third positions, but when the six people come out, they have to return to their original positions. And some other people, representing the interest groups behind them, how can the lives of their six people offset the benefits of the salt tax of more than 2 million in the previous year. More than 2 million, how many lives can be bought? And the most important thing is that once you can't leave the more than 2 million to those big families behind you, you will lose their support. Everyone wants to eat and drink, travel the world, visit friends and ask friends, take concubines to marry, want fresh clothes and angry horses, and give lectures, which are all huge expenses, without the support of those wealthy families, who can reimburse everyone for these expenses? In fact, between silver and the six gentlemen, it seems that silver is more important.

But everyone knows this, but they can't say it, and the consequences of saying it are very serious.

Huang Kuan proposed: "The model of the six gentlemen in the world is the banner of our east, and now when the two sides are at a stalemate, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have this opportunity, let's take a step back from this salt tax and rescue the six gentlemen——"

As soon as his words came to this, a clear voice at the end of the hall let out a loud shout: "This is surrender, this is weakness, this is surrender to the eunuchs, surrender to the traitors, and think about the wrong surrender of the faint king and the country." ”