Volume 8 Chapter 71 The Doubts of the Three Major Cases in the Court
Although Zhu Cihong had been mentally prepared, he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty would be defeated so badly in the battle of Salhu, and more than 100,000 troops went to attack Jiannu, whose strength was less than 50,000, but they killed more than 50,000 people, and also lost six soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles!
In order to avenge his personal revenge, coach Yang Hao deliberately sent his soldiers to death!
A battle that was impossible to lose at all was actually lost by him, and it was a fiasco!
Speaking of this, Zhang Bin stopped and asked, "Hong'er, what do you think of the Battle of Sarhu?" ”
At this time, Zhu Cihong's already angry little face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This Yang Hao should be executed by Ling Chi, and he should be executed by Ling Chi when he lost his teacher and humiliated the country in North Korea!" ”
Zhang Bin nodded and said: "Yes, as the most basic reward and punishment of the emperor, it must be done, Yang Hao fled without a fight in the Battle of Ulsan, resulting in the death of nearly 20,000 soldiers, and he should indeed be executed by Ling Chi to set an example." Anything else, what else do you think? ”
Zhu Cihong was stunned when he heard this, and then said embarrassedly: "This, master, I just thought about putting Yang Hao Ling Chi to death, and I didn't think about anything else, this Yang Hao is simply too hateful." ”
Zhang Bin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Hong'er, you can't just look at the surface when you look at things, Yang Hao is indeed hateful, but he is not the most hateful, the most hateful is the person who supports him behind his back." If no one supports him behind him, in the Battle of Ulsan, even if he is not executed by Ling Chi, he will at least be punished with a capital crime, how can he continue to stay in the court and harm others. If he hadn't been the boss in the later battle of Salhu, would Daming have lost if he had just sent a normal official to the past? Will Da Ming be defeated so badly? ”
When Zhu Cihong heard this, he thought for a while, and then asked: "Master, you said that behind Yang Hao is the Zhejiang Party, who are these Zhejiang Party people?" ”
Zhang Bin patiently explained: "The Zhejiang Party refers to the party with Zhejiang officials as the main body, of course, it does not mean that all Zhejiang officials are Zhejiang Party, and some honest and honest Zhejiang officials will not be in trouble with them; Not all Zhejiang officials in the Zhejiang Party are from Zhejiang, and officials from other places can join the Zhejiang Party as long as they desperately try to convince them and gain their approval. The Zhejiang Party probably arose in about 20 years of Wanli, and its founder and first leader was Yang Hao's backer Shen Yiyi, and the Zhejiang Party can be said to be the initiator of the party struggle between Wanli and Tianqi, because when the Zhejiang Party was founded, there was no one else in the court who was as blatant as they were to form a party for personal gain. It is precisely because the Zhejiang Party is a traitor, excludes dissidents, and constantly obtains high positions in the court, that other officials compete to follow suit and form many friends to confront it, among which the more famous ones are the Qi Party with Shandong officials as the main body and the Chu Party with Huguang officials as the main body. However, at the beginning, it was the Zhejiang Party that had the greatest momentum, and Shen Cheng gradually climbed to the high position of the first assistant of the cabinet by virtue of the momentum of the Zhejiang Party. ”
Hearing this, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but ask curiously: "Master, isn't there still the Donglin Party, I heard that the Donglin Party is the most famous party." ”
Zhang Bin continued to explain: "The Donglin Party came later, Shen has always been the first assistant of the cabinet in the 29th year of Wanli, and Gu Xiancheng Wanli began to lecture at Donglin College in the 32nd year of Wanli and founded the Donglin Party. At the beginning, the party struggle was mainly between the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang party had always occupied an absolute advantage, until the slow rise of Donglin later, which suppressed them. And the turning point of the party struggle was when your imperial grandfather Guangzong succeeded to the throne, and your imperial grandfather Guangzong mistakenly took the red pill and died, which was the result of the party struggle. “
"Ahh , Zhu Cihong was shocked when he heard this, he naturally knew that his imperial grandfather had taken the red pill by mistake and died, but the red pill case had never been conclusive, and it was not even settled later, so he didn't know that the red pill case was related to the party dispute.
This is a major matter related to the life of his family, he doesn't want to take the red pill by mistake and die!
He asked with some trepidation: "What is going on with this red pill case, hasn't it been inconclusive?" ”
Zhang Bin sighed and said: "In the three dynasties of Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi, the case of the attack on the court, the red pill case and the palace transfer case, except for the palace transfer case, ended with Li Xuanzhi moving out of the Qianqing Palace, which is clear. Both the attack case and the Red Pill case were deliberately covered up for various reasons, making it suspicious and obscure. The absurdity of the assault case is simply a ridiculous joke, a crazy man can rush into the Ciqing Palace with a wooden stick to murder the prince at that time, the palace has become more unsafe than the street, how did he break into the palace? There is also the red pill case, obviously it was the eunuch Cui Wensheng who deliberately prescribed rhubarb medicine that made Guangzong have diarrhea, and it was obviously the red pill offered by Li Kezhuo of Honglu Temple that caused Guangzong to die violently, but because of his backstage power, it couldn't be done! “
When Zhu Cihong heard this, his face showed a rare solemn look, and he asked solemnly: "Who is the backstage of Cui Wensheng and Li Kezhuo?" ”
Zhang Bin said with a little indignation: "In fact, everyone knows that Cui Wensheng was a confidant of Zheng Guifei, the lord of the harem at that time, Li Kezhuo was the chief assistant of the cabinet at that time, and a cronie of Fang Congzhe, the leader of the Zhejiang Party. It is obvious that because at that time, Zheng Guifei and Li Xuanzhi bullied the harem, and the leader of the Zhejiang Party, Fang Congzhequan, leaned towards the government and the opposition, and a shocking case of murdering the emperor of the dynasty was so hard pressed! After Guangzong died violently, Fang Congzhe shamelessly proposed to reward Li Kezhuo with fifty taels of silver to reward him for his contribution to the immortal medicine! “
When Zhu Cihong heard this, he slapped the table angrily and roared: "How can this be reasonable, killing my imperial grandfather even wants to reward him with silver, do these people think that they can be lawless if they control the court?" What happened to Cui Wensheng and Li Kezhuo, the two brutes? ”
Zhang Bin nodded helplessly and said: "They really thought that if they controlled the court, they would be lawless, and then the Donglin Party led the upright officials in the DPRK to denounce the Zhejiang Party and Zheng Guifei, but the Zhejiang Party charged the Donglin Party with a crime of taking advantage of the emperor's death to set off a party dispute, and forced this matter to be suppressed, and in the end it was just to send Cui Wensheng to Jinling, and Li Kezhuo to the frontier, and hastily settled the matter." Later, after Wei Zhongxian came to power, he promoted Cui Wensheng to the governor of the river, and as for Li Kezhuo, there seems to be no news after he was assigned to the frontier. “
When Zhu Cihong heard this, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and said, "What does the master mean, these two people may not be dead yet?" ”
Zhang Bin nodded solemnly and said, "It's very likely." ”
Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "Okay, they'd better live longer, and when I ascend the throne, when the time comes, I will slowly execute them Ling Chi." ”
When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help frowning, this prince Zhu Cihong seems to have inherited the ruthless temperament of the old Zhu family, and he wants to punish the nine clans at every turn and put people to death, but these people are indeed hateful, and Ling Chi's execution is not an exaggeration, he doesn't know whether to persuade Zhu Cihong to give up this violent idea.
He thought about it, and simply diverted the topic: "Let's not talk about these two people for the time being, let's talk about the palace transfer case later, Li Xuanzhi wanted to occupy the Qianqing Palace, hold the first emperor hostage, and control the government, but later because the ministers led by Donglin desperately blocked it, she was forced to move out of the Qianqing Palace, but she left a scourge. ”
Zhu Cihong couldn't help but ask curiously: "Scourge?" Who? ”
Zhang Bin then said heavily: "This scourge is her cronie eunuch Li Jinzhong, that is, Wei Zhongxian in the back!" ”
Zhu Cihong couldn't help but be surprised: "Wei Zhongxian is Li Xuanzhi's cronies? ”
Zhang Bin glanced at Empress Zhang Yan, nodded heavily, and said: "Yes, Wei Zhongxian is the eunuch in charge under Li Xuanzhi, he was originally surnamed Wei, and he changed his name to Li Jinzhong just to please Li Xuanzhi." To put it mildly, the first emperor was a little confused, Li Xuanzhi wanted to hold him hostage to control the government, but he didn't arouse vigilance, just because Wei Zhongxian fell in love with the first emperor's nurse Keshi, he reused Wei Zhongxian. As a result, the first emperor was in the prime of life, and he lost his life with a cold, and Wei Zhongxian's immortal medicine spirit revealed was exactly the same as the red pill in the red pill case. The struggle in the court is extremely sinister, the slightest carelessness will be a catastrophe, even the emperor is difficult to spare, Hong'er, you must remember, don't trust people you don't understand, especially eunuchs. ”