[175] Three hundred years out of a Wuchang

In fact, the situation in the Mongolian steppe was not as unfavorable to Hauge as Sonny thought, and although Dolgon's men had Nikan and others to help persuade the Mongol Khans, the Mongol Khans were not fools. Dorgon brought two white flags and a part of the two red flags, and because of the haste in which they went, these men did not carry much food and hay. Therefore, these nearly 40,000 people became a burden on the Mongolian tribes along the way.

However, Dorgon also has one card to play, and that is the mother and son of Bogol. Once he arrived in the Mongolian steppe, Dolgon did not go elsewhere, but first went to the Abaga banner. Because the great concubine of Yijing, Borzigit Namu Zhong, was the daughter of the king of Abahai, Ezignoyan, and Bogol was the grandson of Ezignoyan, the king of Abahai. I want to support your grandson as the emperor, can you not contribute as a grandfather?

When Dolgon heard that Fan Yongdou and the others refused to send grain to Jianzhou, Dolgon said to Azig and the others who followed him: "Look, Hauge doesn't have a few days to live. ”

The autumn of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen is destined to be an unpeaceful day, the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Haoge, Dolgon, the eight locusts, all forces acted together, and the second half of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen was turned upside down.

First of all, after Zhou Yanru first proposed to abolish the Jinyi Guard, the imperial historian Yang Renyuan participated in the Jinyi Guard: "Emperor Gao set up officials, and there is no so-called detective yamen. If the subordinates have illegal acts, the officials will directly picket them, and they will not expose their privacy. Later, because of the purging of the treachery around the emperor, the bundle factory was built. The minister served in Nancheng, and most of the lawsuits he reviewed were injustice because of the infringement of the fake fanzi. The harm caused by the fake East Factory is still like this, let alone the real one? This is due to the power that has accumulated over a long period of time. The so-called accumulated prestige refers to the fact that the method of evaluation and promotion of Cambodian factories is to compare the number of reported cases, and every time the fan service pays a high price to buy the incident, the seller even tempts the person to sell the incident for the adulterer, and the fan service does not ask where the news comes from, and the seller has already divided the profits. Those who have grievances and informants and falsely accuse others of severe punishment and punishment are all satisfied. It is hoped that the emperor will relax the responsibility of the incident of sealing the factory, and then the incident of the East Factory can be more lenient, the incident of the spying of the factory can be relaxed, the incident of buying and selling can be calmed down, and the accumulated power may be gradually reduced. ”

Chongzhen's reply to this is: The factory guards are only investigating those who conspire to rebel and corrupt morality, and those who do evil and violate the law will be dealt with by their own competent authorities, and it is not appropriate to investigate and arrest. However, in order to appease Yang Renyuan, Emperor Chongzhen still admonished the fierce and greedy Jinyi Guard. As a result of this, Luo Yangxing hated Zhou Yanru even more, because Luo Yangxing believed that Yang Renyuan's letter was instructed by Zhou Yanru.

"Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru~~" In the lobby of Jinyiwei Zhenfusi, Luo Yangxing looked at the several large boxes in front of him and muttered: "Although you recommended me at the beginning, your old puppet crossed the river and demolished the bridge." If you are unkind, then you are welcome. ”

At this moment, a brocade guard hurriedly came running, holding a white dove in his hand.

"What's the alarm?" Luo Yangxing asked.

The brocade guard replied: "Your Excellency, there is an urgent report from Liaodong, saying that there is an abnormal movement in the Jiannu army. ”

Luo Yangxing took the secret report and looked at it, frowned, and said, "Prepare the horse, I want to enter the palace to see the emperor." ”

The brocade guard frowned and said, "At this time, I'm afraid Your Majesty will sleep." ”

Luo Yangxing scolded: "The military situation is urgent, how can you stay overnight?" "Although Luo Yangxing is greedy for money, he is still loyal to Chongzhen.

The brocade guard didn't dare to slack off, and immediately prepared the horse, and Luo Yangxing sent the secret report to Chongzhen's dormitory overnight. After Chongzhen received the report, he also attached great importance to it, and immediately recruited his "humerus minister" Zhou Yanru.

How do you know that after the sleepy-eyed Zhou Yanru read the secret report, he asked disapprehantly: "The minister dares to ask Your Majesty, where did this secret report come from?" ”

Chongzhen said: "Jinyi Wei was sent from outside the gate~~"

"Oh~" When Zhou Yanru heard that it was Jinyiwei, he became more and more disapproving, and said with a smile: "This is just a means for the border generals to reach out to the court to ask for money and food~"

"Really?" Chongzhen was still a little worried.

"Where does the old minister dare to deceive the emperor?" Zhou Yanru may have been catering to Chongzhen's desire to save money, in short, he repeated his old tricks, and once again took out the means of framing the Liaodong generals to blackmail the salaries, pointing out that the border generals lied about the enemy in order to blackmail the imperial court money and grain. It was this technique that made Zhou Yanru rise from a squire to a university scholar. So for him, it's a familiar thing. "There is the old and serious Hong Jingluo who sits in Ningyuan, and there is the brave and fierce Song Youliang who guards southern Liaoning. What else is there to worry about in Liaodong? ”

Sure enough, Zhou Yanru described it vividly, and Chongzhen believed it very much, and Chongzhen said apologetically: "I really didn't want to go by recruiting Lao Aiqing so late!" ”

Zhou Yanru said with a smile: "Eating the king's luck and bearing the king's worries is the duty that a courtier should do." ”

Chongzhen also smiled: "If I remember correctly, it will be Aiqing's birthday soon, right?" ”

Zhou Yanru looked grateful, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty remembers the birthday of the old minister, and the old minister is flattered. ”

Returning from the palace, Zhou Yanru looked at the Forbidden City with disdain and smiled.

Zhou Yanru, the first minister, was preparing to celebrate his 50th birthday. Because he was the most favored minister before Emperor Chongzhen at that time, the preparations for this birthday were extremely grand, and even the queen asked her brother Zhou Yunlu to help him prepare for this matter, which shows his power.

In the blink of an eye, it was October, the autumn breeze in Beijing was cool, and there was a busy scene in the private residence of Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, the young master and the prince, and the scholar of the Zhongji Palace: the slaves were in and out, the maids were busy, and they were full of lights, and they were killing pigs and sheep. It turned out that Zhou Fuli was busy preparing for the fiftieth birthday of the eldest lord Zhou Yanru.

As the saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy, and Zhou Yanru is in good spirits at this time, full of red light, and his little eyes are full of smug brilliance. I want to be the gold list and high school champion at the age of 20, and since then my official fortune has been prosperous and skyrocketing. With his own skillful skills and painstaking management, he sat on the top spot of the ministers - became the first assistant of the cabinet. Except for Wen Tiren's conspiracy a few years ago and his resignation from the field, his life has been smooth sailing.

At this time, the housekeeper came in and said that someone had come to deliver the birthday ceremony and handed over the gift list. Zhou Yanru saw that the list was only a few jewels, gold and silver, and felt that it was very ordinary, so he didn't care very much, so he just asked the housekeeper to accept it.

Zhou Yanru was proudly lying on the Taishi chair basking in the sun, when suddenly a doorman hurriedly came to report, "My lord~~My lord, it's not good~~"

Zhou Yanru frowned and said, "What's the alarm?" ”

"Lord Wu in Wuchang, he was taken away by Jinyiwei~" The doorman said eagerly.

"What?" Zhou Yanru slapped the armrests of the Taishi chair with both hands, "Luo Yangxing really dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head?" ”

The doorman said: "It's not that Jinyiwei wants to move Lord Wu~~ I heard those fans say that it is the emperor who wants to interrogate Lord Wu in person~"

"Your Majesty?" Zhou Yanru's hand shook violently.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned hundreds of civil and military officials such as government ministries and bureaucrats in the Wenhua Hall to personally try the case of Jiang Gongchen's participation in Wu Chang Shitong and corruption and perversion of the law. Emperor Chongzhen was dressed in plain clothes and looked angry, accompanied by the crown prince and King Ding. In the main hall, all kinds of cruel torture instruments owned by Dongchang and Jinyiwei are displayed, and there is a serious and terrifying atmosphere.

Chongzhen asked angrily: "When you were bold Wu Chang, you communicated with Li Duan and Wang Yumin, leaked the secrets of the Great Interior, and deceived him, but is there such a thing?" ”

Wu Changshi shouted with a full mouth: "The system of the ancestors, befriending the waiters, although the ministers are not talented, they do not dare to defy the law." This must be a traitor who resents the villain and designs a frame-up. ”

Chongzhen asked again: "Why do you have a family fortune of 400,000 taels of silver?" Is it greedy for ink? ”

Wu Changshi said coldly: "How dare Weichen be rich? Emperor Zhou is fighting for gold every day, and Emperor Tian is fighting for wealth with others, and every day is full of friends, and there is a sea of wine in Roshan. Weichen is not even as good as their corner, but it is just a little ancestral property left by some ancestors. Chongzhen was furious and called on his ministers to come forward and confront him. The ministers, however, backed down and did not say a word.

It turns out that Wu Changshi is an iron mouth and steel teeth on weekdays, and those who are reasonable can bite the bones in one bite, and those who are unreasonable can also be relied upon. The courtiers feared and hated him, but they were no match for him. No matter which official accuses him, he will turn back on him and implicate the other party's unsightly things. As the saying goes: "Everyone has ugly things, but not showing them is a good hand." "Wu Changshi specializes in studying the ugly affairs of officials, which ones do what they do in private, which ones are abnormal transfers, which ones steal their daughters-in-law, which ones do not honor their parents, etc., some of which he can exaggerate, and what he does not can make up, so that people can't figure out which is true and which is false? Officials have an attitude of "whoever puts on new shoes and steps on the shit" and try not to offend him. Therefore, Chongzhen asked the ministers to come out to confront Wu Changshi, and the ministers were afraid that their ugly things would be exposed, so they passed the buck to each other.

Wu Changshi never admitted it, and said arrogantly: "The king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, how dare the minister disobey the holy will?" But His Majesty is so arrogantly charged, the minister is not convinced even if he is dead! ”

"Bastard~~" Chongzhen already knew it in his heart, and he didn't necessarily wait for a confrontation. Drink and order the attendants to be punished heavily.

Cabinet ministers Jiang Dejing and Wei Zaode came out of the class and said: "The palace is not a place for torture, but it is still sent to the Criminal Department for strict interrogation." ”

Chongzhen said disdainfully: "Such a traitor has great powers, if he leaves this three-foot ground, who will dare to investigate this person according to law?" ”

Chongzhen's words were punned, and Jiang Dejing and Wei Zaode's two ministers were said to be panicked, but they just said: "Your Majesty's torture is really something that has not been done in three hundred years!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Wu Changshi's house is also a person who has not been seen in three hundred years. Come on, torture~~"

The minister was speechless.

"Ah~" Wu Changshi screamed again and again, and the Jinyi guard who was in charge of the torture clamped the clamping stick again and again, until Wu Changshi's legs were broken, and he couldn't ask for a confession.

Chongzhen had no way to take him, and he couldn't be convicted. The second execution is already a fainting death. There was no way, so he ordered Luo Yangxing to put him in prison and let him be tried again. Wu Changshi couldn't stand anymore and was dragged away by Jinyiwei.

Wu Changshi howled at Luo Yangxing: "I am already the meat on your board, if you want me to die, come to a good time~~"

"Isn't it easy to get you dead?". Luo Yang smiled and said, "I don't know if your Wu family is so hard-boned?" ”

"Luo Yangxing~~ I won't let you go if I'm a ghost!" Wu Changshi cursed and was pushed into the cell.

Knowing that he couldn't pry anything out of Wu Changshi's mouth, Luo Yangxing arrested his family and tortured him to extract a confession. How do you know that Wu Changshi's family has already been explained by Wu Changshi, and he knows the truth that confession is lenient and in prison, and resisting strictness for up to half a year. He flatly denied all the charges, and he didn't know anything about it, and the case could not be determined. In order to avenge their mentor, Wei Zaode, a protégé of Xue Guoguan who was overthrown by Zhou Yanru, found a lot of circumstantial evidence before finally deciding the case. Wu Changshi asked for a capital crime, and the two chamberlains were also killed by the harem staff.