Volume V, Chapter 38 Control of Public Opinion
The next morning, Fucheng Gate in the middle of the river trough West Fang, Wu'an Hou Hutong, Jinyi Wei on the left yamen.
Liu Shunzheng, a thousand households, sat on the main seat of the lobby with a stack of manuscript paper and frowned, two deputy thousand households, ten hundred households, walked in one after another.
This lobby is different from the general yamen, it is not a master sitting on the head, all the people below are standing, and there are seats below, and there are more than one or two, three coffee tables and six seats on the left and right, just twelve.
The big guy looked at the Qianhu adults frowning and didn't say anything, and they all sat there honestly with their heads upright, and straightened their waists.
Lao Liu Tou is good at everything, but his temper is a little violent, if anyone shows a little problem when he is angry, he is likely to come over is a big ear, and basically all the people who are sitting have been smoked by him, many of them are not good at sitting in the morning, hanging Erlang, either around Erlang's legs, or on the back of the chair like a paralyzed, when Lao Liu Tou is in a good mood, they will go, once he is in a bad mood, he will beat people that is not one or two times.
Therefore, when I saw Lao Liu's frowning, the deputy thousands and hundreds of households below hurriedly sat straight and straight, for fear that they would be smoked if they were not careful.
Liu Shunzheng is actually not in a bad mood, but he is a little ashamed of what Min Hongxue and Min Mengde did, these two guys are simply not people!
After watching it for a long time, he finally coughed twice, and then said loudly: "There is only one errand today, that is, to find acquaintances to talk to, and the more people you can talk to, the better." ”
There are a lot of errands for Jinyiwei, very miscellaneous, generally every morning when the mao, each thousand households will have an arrangement, and the following hundreds of households have received errands, and then go back to explain to the general flag and the small flag, the basic charter is like this.
It's not a strange errand to talk to someone, and they've taken all the weirder errands, so everyone doesn't have any surprised expressions.
Liu Shunzheng glanced at everyone, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued: "What are you talking about?" Let's talk about Min Hongxue, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Min Mengde, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who clinged to Wei Zhongxian. ”
It's easy to talk about, there were many people who came to them yesterday to ask what was going on, the ghost knows what's going on, they also want to know, and the eyes of the people below are almost showing a raging fire of gossip.
Liu Shunzheng took the manuscript paper and flipped through it slightly, and then continued: "There are too many things, I'm afraid you can't remember it, just say the good things they did in Yungui, these two people climbed to Wei Zhongxian in the second year of the Apocalypse, and immediately won the high-ranking official Houlu, one became the governor of Yunnan, the other became the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the two brothers served in one place, and they were also the governor and governor in charge of all military and political affairs, the imperial court generally would not do this stupid thing, this is Wei Zhongxian specially asked them to go to Yungui to pick up money." ”
Everyone below nodded, the court would definitely not do such a stupid thing, doesn't this make it clear that people will be the emperor of the soil.
Liu Shunzheng took a sip of tea and continued: "As soon as these two people arrived in Yungui, they tried their best to hold the money, the big head was given to Wei Zhongxian, and the small head was stuffed into their own pockets. ”
Good guys, these two people are ruthless enough, in the poor place of Yungui, they can take out so much money, they all know the rules of this money, Gonggong Wei takes ninety, and they take one, that is to say, they hug at least tens of millions of taels in Yungui.
Liu Shunzheng paused for a moment and continued: "Everyone has heard of the Anbang Rebellion, and it is rumored that it is precisely because of their tyrannical expropriation and arouse the dissatisfaction of the Tusi that the An Bangyan Rebellion was caused. In fact, this rebellion was mainly caused by An Bangyan's rebellion, and as soon as he got up, he was cleaned up by Wang Sanshan, the governor of Sichuan. ”
Everyone had heard of this to a greater or lesser extent, so everyone had no unusual expressions and listened attentively.
Liu Shunzheng paused and continued: "However, as soon as I arrived at Yungui, which was in charge of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, this strange thing happened one after another. Wang Sanshan, the governor of Sichuan, took advantage of the victory to pursue and chased to Yungui, but was killed by the thief, which is a strange thing. Lu Qin, the prime minister's first fierce general in the southwest of Sichuan, Guihu, and Guangzhou, who was in the military affairs of the three provinces, had fought well, but he also committed suicide in an inexplicable defeat, which is a strange thing. Cai Fuyi, the governor of the five provinces, was about to exterminate An Bangyan, but Wei Zhongxian suddenly stopped his salary, the soldiers mutinied, and the officers and troops were defeated. The final result of the three strange things is that Min Mengde succeeded to the governor of the five provinces, and the cat in this is very clear, the two brothers cooperated with Wei Zhongxian to kill all those who had prestige, qualifications, and military exploits, and finally they took sole control of the southwest. An luxury rebellion or something, they didn't care at all, until the first year of Chongzhen, An Bangyan was still making trouble, and then the emperor sent Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces, to suppress the soldiers and horses for nearly three years, until last year, An Bangyan was completely wiped out. ”
Everyone below showed angry expressions, these eunuchs are really shameless, in order to fight for power and profit, they don't care about the Tusi rebellion, and kill all the loyal ministers and good generals, they are so in charge!
Liu Shunzheng paused for a moment and continued: "I think they are very shameless, right, these are just appetizers, Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, the two culprits who caused the Anluxe Rebellion, made Yungui a mess, patted his ass and left, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, they were both promoted to squire for their meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, and then, they became the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the military department, pay attention, when they were promoted to the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the military department, the riot of peace and luxury was not confiscated, I don't know what credit they have for this merit!" ”
Is it really shameless, it was obviously a rebellion caused by them, killing all the loyal ministers and good generals who went to quell the rebellion, scooping up the money, and then patting the ass and leaving, this is called meritorious!
For Wei Zhongxian, they are indeed meritorious, because they have made money for Wei's father-in-law, and for Daming, they are not meritorious but guilty, a heinous crime!
The people below have already begun to grit their teeth and prepare to scold their mother, if it weren't for Liu Shunzheng's presence, they would probably have scolded a long time ago.
Liu Shunzheng couldn't help it a little at this moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know how Min Hongxue and Min Mengde quelled the rebellion?" An Bangyan led a large army to attack Guiyang Mansion, more than 400,000 people in Guiyang Mansion all fled into Guiyang Mansion, An Bangyan besieged Guiyang Mansion for more than half a year, Min Hongxue and Min Mengde ignored it, do you know how miserable it is in Guiyang Mansion City? ”
Speaking of this, Liu Shunzheng patted the coffee table next to him, stood up and roared: "More than 400,000 people, thousands of defenders, there is nothing to eat, what should I do?" The soldiers and the people cannibalized each other, and in the end there were more than 20,000 people left, do you know? This is the great merit of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, more than 400,000, more than 400,000, all the people who died were ordinary people, this is their monstrous achievement! ”
, these two things, are they still people!
The deputy thousand households and hundreds of households below all gritted their teeth and stood up, asking Min Hongxue and Min Mengde to be here, I am afraid that they will be beaten to death.
Liu Shunzheng roared at the gate: "Go, tell everyone, what kind of virtue these two beasts are, the remnants of the eunuch party are still spreading rumors everywhere, saying that our Jinyiwei abused his power and arrested important ministers of the court without authorization, you let everyone comment, should these two beasts be arrested!" ”
I've seen a lot of shameless people, but I've never seen such a shameless one, is it a big one, arresting this kind of person and slandering Jinyiwei for abusing his power!
If this kind of person is not caught, there is no royal law, and there is no heavenly reason!
Two deputy thousand households, ten hundred households all scolded and walked out, these shameless people, they are simply shameless, people can be so shameless!
This kind of situation was staged in the seventeen guards of the Jinyi Guard, except for the palace guard and the inspection around the residence of Wen Tiren and his henchmen, everything else stopped, and on this day, all the Jinyi guards went outside to find someone to chat.
They were all talking about Min Hongxue, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Min Mengde, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who had climbed to Wei Zhongxian, but they were all added to the vinegar version.
Slandering people is not to say that no one will, it's just that most people won't do this kind of immoral thing, but this time, the remnants of the eunuch party did make Jinyiwei angry, and there were two people who lacked virtue for such a lack of morality, and they didn't let people arrest them, and they also slandered Jinyiwei for abusing his power and not adding some material to you, how can I swallow this breath.
Therefore, the matter of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, these Jinyi guards were not passed on according to the version written by Zhang Bin, they all used their wisdom and wisdom to add some material to Min Hongxue and Min Mengde.
What Min Hongxue and Min Mengde were originally corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they gave all their corruption gains to Wei Zhongxian in order to be promoted, thus winning the favor of Wei Zhongxian and being appointed governor of Yunnan and governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.
What are they in Yungui to be rampant, bullying men and women, the two brothers are going to spoil ten women a day, forcing An Bangyan to rebel.
In order to compete for the position of governor of the five provinces, they conspired to frame Wang Sanshan, Lu Qin, and Cai Fuyi, poisoned them, made stumbling blocks, withheld people's food and salaries, and starved the soldiers to death.
In order to frame the governor of Guizhou, they deliberately led the rebels to Guiyang Mansion, so that Guiyang Mansion was besieged by the rebels, more than 400,000 people, thousands of defenders, had nothing to eat, ate each other to satisfy hunger, and there were more than 20,000 people left to eat, and finally, the rebels withdrew, and the two brothers directly led people to kill the remaining 20,000 people, pretending to be military merits, and became the secretary of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War!
This is just the original version of Jinyiwei, and it is unknown what it will look like later.
Zhang Bin's personal guards are also spreading everywhere, however, they are not about the Min brothers, they are about the backstage of the Min brothers, it is rumored that the Min brothers are the backbone of the Zhejiang Party, and the leaders of the Zhejiang Party are preparing to rescue them with all their might, as for who is the leader of the Zhejiang Party, I didn't say, everyone guess.
Zhang Bin asked Jinyiwei and his own guards to pass it on, naturally not to the common people, but mainly to the civil and military officials of the court.
If Wen Tiren wants to save people, he must be trying to find a way in the court, Zhang Bin wants other courtiers to know how bad these two guys are, as long as these things reach the ears of those courtiers, there will naturally be upright people who will jump out to stop Wen Tiren from saving people.
He did this, a little bit of using others, however, he didn't have any burden in his heart, these courtiers, what can they do if they don't take advantage of it, rely on them, Daming will die sooner or later, it is better to let them play a role, to fight with Wen Tiren, so that he can withdraw to save Daming.
So, will the courtiers hear these rumors?
Jin Yiwei and Zhang Bin's personal guards add up to more than 20,000 people, so many people spread the news, it is still very terrifying, the so-called one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, there are only a million people in the capital of Daming, that is to say, Jin Yiwei and Zhang Bin's personal guards actually only need to find a table of people to publicize it, and they will pass on more than ten of them, that is, 200,000, and these 200,000 people will be passed on to the remaining 800,000 people, that is, a wave of things.
In the past two days, Min Hongxue and Min Mengde have become the hottest topics in the capital, and they were arrested after the Lantern Festival, along with more than 40 officials who gave them New Year's greetings.
As soon as Jin Yiwei and Zhang Bin's personal guards stood there and said, they would immediately surround a bunch of people, especially Jin Yiwei, who generally prevented people from discussing state affairs, but at this time, they ran out and said that the people still had any scruples, the speaker was foaming at the mouth, and the listener was relishing, and after listening, they immediately ran to show off in front of others.
This person's memory is sometimes only so good, after all, there are not many people who remember it all after all, many people will forget something, and some people don't even hear it clearly, what should I do, I ran to show off, I can't say that I didn't hear clearly, or I forgot it, anyway, Min Hongxue and Min Mengde are both bad and the soles of their feet are bleeding pus, so let's make up for the bad brain!
As a result, the more the story of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde spread, the more evil it became, and when it came to the back, they were no longer people, but demons.
The common people know about this, and the officials in Beijing can naturally know that their government always sends people to buy vegetables, daily necessities, rouge and gouache, etc., how can these people not hear the rumors when they buy things, and as soon as they come back after hearing the rumors, they will not be able to show it everywhere, and the rumors will naturally reach the ears of the old man who is in charge.
In short, except for the news that the remnants of the eunuch party of Wen Tiren's line were blocked, I don't know these rumors, almost all the officials in Beijing know about them, and even the remnants of the other eunuchs are terrified when they hear it, these two guys are so bad, I really haven't seen it before, it seems that these two people can't be saved, and they have to hurt themselves if they are rescued!
The people of the capital are even more terrible, and everyone is talking about the Min brothers who have changed their color, who brought the two demon kings of the mixed world to the capital, hurry up and get rid of them, we don't want to be killed after eating each other like the people in Guiyang City!
Wen Tiren and his cronies' mansions are surrounded by a different scene, these people have Jinyi guards patrolling around their mansions in the past two days, as long as someone from their mansion comes out, Jinyi guards will follow intentionally or unintentionally, if anyone wants to tell them about Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, they will go up and give a stern warning, don't talk about state affairs!
These guys are sick, you are foaming at the mouth when you talk elsewhere, and when you come here, you come and tell us not to talk about state affairs!
Of course, it is still very scary for Jinyi Wei to say "don't talk about state affairs", and no one really dares to risk being arrested and imprisoned to talk about Min Hongxue and Min Mengde with Wen Tiren and the people in his cronies' mansions.
This kind of thing can't be done if it is blocked for a long time, but fortunately, there are only two days left during the Lantern Festival holiday, and it is still easy to let specific people know about two days.
Therefore, until the evening of the last day of the Lantern Festival holiday, Wen Tiren and his cronies did not hear relevant rumors.