Chapter 92: The Banner of Loneliness, Yang Lian (Asking for Collections, Asking for Votes)
In fact, whether it is Wei Zhongxian or the Emperor of the Apocalypse, what they care about is Yang Lian's position.
Yang Lian has unwittingly become a banner, a banner against the eunuch policy.
Qing officials, after all, are the most virtuous people in the dreams of the people of all dynasties.
In the Ming literati and the middle and lower classes, Yang Lian's reputation for honesty is unusually easy to use.
Not only the Donglin Party, but also countless people with various purposes are hiding under the banner of Yang Lian, and with the help of this banner, they speak out for their different purposes.
Yang Lian is sad.
What Yang Lian cares about most is his own Dao.
But he had no idea what his alliance was for.
I don't know what they're doing with him.
Perhaps the allies behind Yang Lian are just borrowing his reputation for incorruptibility to cover up their ulterior motives.
Yang Lian didn't know any of this.
Yang Lian is a lonely gentleman, and the six gentlemen are his few friends.
Yang Lian, who is now in prison, is full of the lofty ideal of martyrdom. For the Tao in his heart, Yang Lian did not hesitate to give everything, even his life.
Wei Zhongxian knew nothing about Yang Lian's Dao. Of course, even if he knew, Wei Zhongxian would not believe that there was such a great existence as a martyr.
Wei Zhongxian only instinctively believed that the opponent's banner should be cut down, so as to deter the opponent to the greatest extent and facilitate the development of his next plan.
Wei Zhongxian never thought that Yang Lian was just the banner of the Donglin Party, but not the core of the Donglin Party. Wei Zhongxian was not clear about the loose structure of the Donglin Party.
Wei Zhongxian is not a literati, he is from a gangster. Yang Lian's good reputation was useless to Wei Zhongxian. Dealing with Yang Lian, Wei Zhongxian did not have the slightest scruples about throwing rats.
In Wei Zhongxian's plan, there was only the naïve idea of cutting the banner first to deter all enemies.
Yang Lian is the banner that Wei Zhongxian wants to cut.
As a third party, Zhu Youzhen was shocked to receive the detailed information from the edict.
The six gentlemen were now being severely tortured. Although people are not dead, they all have the possibility of being disabled.
What is Jinyiwei doing? Is this a hell of a hell of a place where the six gentlemen are killed?
Zhu Youzhen was a little confused.
Ming officials were arrested and sent to the Imperial Prison, and they were generally held in the front district for a period of time. During this time, officials were no different from the outside world except that their freedom of movement was restricted.
This habit of edicting prisons is to prevent the officials who are caught in from having the possibility of resurrection.
There is a way that is unpredictable, but in fact, the heart of a king is even more unpredictable.
Who knows, the officials who were arrested in the edict will suddenly turn over?
If he can be arrested and imprisoned, at least the official will leave an impression in the emperor's mind.
Regardless of the impression left on him, the emperor at least knew of the existence of such a person. This is also to some extent Jane in the emperor's heart.
can Jane be in the emperor's heart, then no one knows if there will be a sudden reversal.
Jin Yiwei is also a human.
Although most of the officials who went to prison ended badly. But there is also no shortage of anti-heaven existences who escaped from the edict and rose to the throne.
Once that kind of anti-heaven existence appears, as a pawn of the brocade guard in the edict, he will become the object of the other party's anger.
There is no shortage of precedents for the pawns who died in the edict prison.
This is a matter of one's own fate, and officials who commit crimes have always been cautious in prisons.
Only when it is believed that the offender will never be able to turn over, will he be sent to the post-prison area and let the other party enter hell mode.
Because of this, Zhu Youzhen will have time to arrange calmly.
He never thought that Yang Lian and the other six gentlemen did not exist in the imperial prison at all, and directly entered the hell mode.
This is so unreasonable, this is obviously the rhythm of directly putting people to death.
Jin Yiwei is so sure that the six gentlemen can't turn over?
Grandpa Wei has so much energy?
Zhu Youzhen never believed it.
Don't look at the Donglin Party's withdrawal from the capital on the surface, in fact, the potential power of the Donglin Party in the capital is still very large, and there are still many supporters. Not to mention, there are also many neutral factions in the court.
If the Donglin Party fully supports the Six Gentlemen, not to mention overturning the case, at least it will not let the Six Gentlemen be embarrassed like this.
Does the tragic result of the six gentlemen now being injured and nearly disabled show that the six gentlemen have become outcasts?
After learning more about Jin Yiwei's interrogation process of the six gentlemen, Zhu Youzhen was even more firm in this view.
In terms of procedure, Jin Yiwei didn't seem to want to directly kill the six gentlemen.
After Jin Yiwei caught the handle of the six gentlemen to accept bribes (of course, it is very likely that they were deliberately framed), the focus was obviously on chasing the stolen money.
From this, it can be seen that Wei Gonggong's plan seems to be focused on attacking the reputation of the Six Gentlemen.
The public pursuit of stolen money dealt a greater blow to the reputation of the six gentlemen. Especially when the family of the six gentlemen made every effort to prepare money to cope with the pursuit in order to save people, the blow to the reputation of the six gentlemen was even more fatal. Every time the money is taken out, it is a trampling on the reputation of the six gentlemen.
Perhaps in the eyes of Wei Gonggong, destroying the good reputation of the Six Gentlemen, making them discredited, and no longer being able to serve as the banner of the Donglin Party is the first priority.
But things turned out beyond everyone's expectations.
The six gentlemen seem to be really sad.
In the Donglin Party, the six gentlemen seem to be very bad, and no one is willing to help them pay the so-called stolen money.
If the Donglin Party is so powerful, it can't even raise tens of thousands of taels of silver.
What's even more ridiculous is that the money raised in some places specifically for the rescue of the Six Gentlemen has not been found.
There were several huge fundraising actions, and it is not known whether no one donated or the money was swept away, and no one seemed to know the result.
The reactions of all parties in the court seemed to be waiting for the death of the six gentlemen.
The six gentlemen are so unlikable?
Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs wanted the six gentlemen to die, which is not surprising to Zhu Youzhen.
Wei Zhongxian wants to use the heads of the six gentlemen to shock the world, which is very possible.
Jin Yiwei wants the six gentlemen to die?
That's barely enough to say. After all, they are the ones who handle the case and want to close the case as soon as possible.
However, if the six gentlemen were all tortured to death, then the responsibility would all fall on Jinyiwei. Jin Yiwei is so willing to take on this responsibility?
Jin Yiwei was not a subordinate directly under Duke Wei, they were the unit directly responsible to the emperor. Wei Zhongxian only has the right to supervise Jinyiwei, and does not have the authority to directly manage it.
Jin Yiwei's internal promotion and appointment, Wei Zhongxian can't directly intervene. Jin Yiwei is not Wei Zhongxian's vassal, let alone obey Wei Zhongxian's words.
On the contrary, if Jinyiwei shows signs of clinging to Wei Zhongxian, then what awaits Jinyiwei can only be the result of resignation.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse will never tolerate blindness from the ears and eyes.
Luo Sigong, the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, was dismissed because he deliberately favored the Donglin Party. Does the current commander of the capital make Tian Ergeng learn a lesson?
Xu Xianchun, the commander who is specifically responsible for the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, can listen to Wei Zhongxian's words to this extent?
Zhu Youzhen really couldn't figure it out.