Volume 6 Chapter 13 Merit is all based on one mouth
Yang He deserves death on crime, this matter, irrelevant people stand from an irrelevant point of view, and they will definitely say in their hearts: It's about my!
Zhang Bin originally looked at it this way, because Yang He was not a unique person in history, and he had not made any particularly great achievements, his fame was 108,000 miles away from his son Yang Sichang, why should such an unknown person care?
However, now, when Shi Fan jumped out and impeached, Zhang Bin felt that something was wrong, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
Is Yang He guilty?
This is also a, people who don't know the overall situation of the late Ming Dynasty or the Chongzhen Dynasty may really believe Shi Fan's nonsense, thinking that it is Yang He's fault that the peasant army appeared near the capital.
If you analyze the overall situation of the Chongzhen Dynasty in combination with it, you really respond to the sentence "There is no excuse for the crime you want to add"!
First of all, the peasant uprising was not caused by him, but caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters, which have nothing to do with him, there are many man-made disasters, such as royal relatives, corrupt officials, local tyrants and squires, etc., can be counted, but Yang He is not a man-made disaster, because he is a good official who is honest and honest.
Then, the strategy of "appeasement first, pursuit and suppression supplemented" cannot be said to be wrong, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, etc., have all accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, some have surrendered and rejuvenated, and some have been working for the imperial court, if the appeasement is wrong, then why should the officials in the back be appeased, isn't this a slap in the face, doesn't this mean that the officials behind are knowingly committing crimes!
Finally, the most important point is that the peasant uprising is very difficult to suppress at this time, the main reason why the peasants revolt is that they have no food to eat, and if they do not rebel, they will starve to death, that is, as long as you let them have food, the vast majority of people will not rebel, on the contrary, if you don't give them food, the vast majority of people will take risks, how many people are willing to starve themselves to death?
Therefore, Yang He cannot be blamed for the peasant uprising, and it is not Yang He's fault that the more he caress him, because the natural disasters are getting more and more serious, and the man-made disasters are getting more and more serious, more and more people have no food to eat, and there are naturally more and more people who rebel.
Yang He has done a very good job, the imperial court only gave him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he was forced to suppress in Shaanxi for five or six years, there are millions of hungry people there, really to completely solve the problem of peasant uprisings, a month to give hundreds of thousands of taels is not enough, at least a year to tens of millions of taels, but he used hundreds of thousands of taels to persist for five or six years, and also forced the peasant army to have no choice, one after another to escape from Shaanxi.
It's really not easy for him, he's really doing really well.
At this moment, Wen Tiren's henchmen suddenly jumped out to impeach him, why?
Zhang Bin knew very well that either Yang He didn't deal with them, or they had a grudge, or they wanted to get Yang He down and replace him with their own.
These people will never think about anything for the country and the people, they will only think about themselves, they will only exclude dissidents for their own interests, and bring disaster to the country and the people!
Wen Tiren's routine is also quite clear to him, this guy will not make a move, and once he makes a move, it is definitely an endless offensive, and if Chongzhen does not help him eliminate dissidents according to his intentions, he will not stop.
Sure enough, immediately after that, Wen Tiren's henchmen such as Tang Shiji, the squire Tang Shiji, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, Zhang Jie, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, and Wang Yingxiong, the new secretary of the ministry, came out one after another, and attacked Yang He vigorously, saying that he was simply a traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people, and was heinous.
Chongzhen's face slowly showed a look of anger, the peasant uprising simply annoyed him, he was worried that he couldn't find a place to be angry, Wen Tiren's henchmen slandered this time, he already believed it a little, Yang He, I want you to exterminate the anti-thief, you will suppress me more and more, if you don't clean up, who will you clean up!
At this time, no one stood up to speak for Yang He, because Yang He is the kind of official who is not a party or a group, honest and honest, has not formed gangs, formed parties for personal gain, and has not bribed anyone, no one will stupidly jump out and oppose Wen Tiren, the head of the dynasty, for such an irrelevant person.
Chongzhen thought self-righteously that there was really something wrong with this Yang He, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and there was no one to speak to him!
So, he was provoked by Wen Tiren, and vented all his dissatisfaction with the peasant uprising on Yang He, and shouted angrily: "This treacherous villain, immediately dismiss him from office and reduce his status, and escort him back to the capital to punish the crime!" ”
It's okay now, the emperor has said so, and no one dares to stand up and speak to Yang He, Yang He seems to be dead, the peasant uprising is such a big black cauldron, he can't afford it alone, and he will definitely be crushed!
The early dynasty ended like this, and all the court officials secretly sighed in their hearts about Yang He's fate, and some people were even secretly glad that the emperor's fire had finally been sent out, and it would never burn on himself again!
Zhang Bin originally didn't care much about Yang He, because Yang He had nothing to do with him, and Yang He was not the kind of person who was famous and capable in history, and he didn't think about wooing him, so he always regarded Yang He as an irrelevant person and didn't pay much attention to it.
However, this time, Wen Tiren actually entangled his henchmen to impeach Yang He, and he couldn't help but pay attention to this matter, because Wen Tiren is a big traitor who has brought disaster to the country and the people, and what this guy has done, he doesn't know it, but now that he knows, he can't let it bring disaster to the country and the people.
Why did he impeach Yang He?
This problem is not difficult to figure out, after the early dynasty, he immediately ordered someone to contact Luo Yanghe and Qi Panzong, and asked them to find a way to get Yang He's resume, if Yang He's resume is not a problem, then it is very likely that Wen Tiren is trying to take away his position as governor of the three sides.
Because at this time, the main force of the peasant army had been defeated and lost by itself, and fled to Henan, and Shaanxi was basically fine, and if he could go up with his own people to mix in the position of the governor of the three sides, and then brag about it, he could barely be promoted to a high position.
This kind of operation method is also the usual routine of the eunuch party, like Min Hongxue and Min Mengde were promoted in this way.
Jin Yiwei's search for an official's resume is naturally very simple, Zhang Bin returned to the small courtyard of Chongxing Temple, and Zhao Ru was already waiting at the door of the study with a stack of manuscript paper.
He took the manuscript paper, entered the study, sat down at the desk, and opened the manuscript paper to look at it carefully.
Yang He, the word Xiuling, a native of Wuling, Huguang, a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli, was first inspected by the Imperial Inspectorate, and in the first year of Chongzhen, he was awarded the right imperial history of the Imperial Palace, and the right servant of the Relocation Department, and the governor of Shaanxi Trilateral Military Affairs.
This resume is very ordinary, Wanli thirty-two years of Jinshi, Chongzhen was promoted in the first year, that is to say, he has been doing more than 20 years of patrolling the imperial history, this guy is estimated to have offended the eunuch party or unwilling to give the eunuch party a gunman, otherwise he will not stand still for more than 20 years, you know, he is a patrol according to the imperial history, as long as he casually impeaches a few people for the eunuch party with a clear conscience, and the promotion or something is just like drinking porridge.
Sure enough, his resume during his tenure as a patrol in the imperial history proved Zhang Bin's guess, this guy, after the first battle of Salhu, desperately impeached Yang Hao, so that Yang Hao was sent to the prison and sentenced to death, and then, throughout the Apocalypse, he was patrolling everywhere outside, and he didn't return to the capital at all, making it clear that he didn't want to be a gunman for the eunuchs, so he stood still and didn't move.
This guy is also more brainy, and he doesn't want to go out and patrol everywhere if he doesn't want to be in the same stream as the eunuchs, so that at least his life is saved, and his position is also saved, unlike those upright courtiers, who impeached Wei Zhongxian one by one, and was killed by Wei Zhongxian again and again, but it was useless, and they all died in vain!
It seems that there is nothing wrong with this guy's resume, it should be that Wen Tiren wants to take the opportunity to take his position as the governor of the three sides.
In order to seize people's seats and kill people, it is not impossible for the eunuchs to do this kind of thing, like the famous Anluxe Rebellion of the Apocalypse Dynasty, the eunuchs did not hesitate to withdraw the two wings of soldiers and horses in order to seize the position of the governor of the five provinces, so that Cai Fu was defeated by the hands of thieves, so as to dismiss him and cut his status.
So, who will the eunuch party send to take Yang He's place?
This is not difficult, Zhang Bin immediately found Zhao Ru and ordered him to secretly go to Luo Yangxing, and let Luo Yangxing inform Cao Huachun to pay attention to the performance of the election of the governor of the three sides.
Zhang Bin estimated that since Yang He has been taken down for punishment, Wen Tiren should soon let his subordinates nominate his own people to take over the position of his trilateral governor, this governor is appointed by the emperor himself, and does not need to be recommended by the court, generally the emperor asks the ministers below to recommend, that is to say, the recommendation of the governor, at most, after determining the candidate, ask the opinions of the courtiers, and the selection process does not require the participation of most courtiers.
Who Wen Tiren wants to recommend must be known through Cao Huachun to know the result, the news will not be transmitted for a while, waiting is always boring, Zhang Bin felt bored, and simply picked up Yang He's resume and looked at it, looking at it, he suddenly realized that he had ignored a very important person, this person was Yang Hao, the commander of the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu!
Because the Battle of Salhu took place in the Wanli Dynasty, he didn't think about the eunuchs, but now that he thought carefully about Yang Hao's background, he found that he seemed to be thinking wrong.
Isn't the Zhejiang Party part of the Eunuch Party, the Apocalypse Dynasty, almost all the Zhejiang Party has joined the ranks of the Eunuch Party, and the Zhejiang Party of the Wanli Dynasty and the Zhejiang Party in the Eunuch Party of the Apocalypse Dynasty are not in the same vein!
Yang Hao is the object of key support from the Zhejiang Party, this guy escaped from the battle in the Wanli Korean War, resulting in the death of more than 20,000 soldiers of the Ming Army, such a big crime, there is nothing at all, and he can also serve as the Liaodong Economic Strategy and preside over the Battle of Salhu, these are not all good things done by the Zhejiang Party!
After a long time, this matter is not what he imagined before, Wen Tiren is not necessarily to seize the position of the governor of the three sides, he, the new leader of the Zhejiang Party, is avenging Yang Hao!
What is Yang He's crime, he worked hard in Shaanxi, suppressed and appeased, and made the peasant army unable to gain a foothold and had to flee to Shanxi, is this still guilty?
The peasant army went around in Shanxi and ran to Beizhili, what does it have to do with him, he is only the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, not the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhili!
Is he guilty of not exterminating the peasant army?
Who wiped out the peasant army in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and in the end, Chongzhen was not equal to dying in the hands of the peasant army.
Is Yang Ho not guilty?
The killing of more than 20,000 soldiers in the Wanli Korean War was enough to sentence him to death a hundred times, a thousand times, and the personal vendetta of the Sarhu War led to a fiasco, so that the rise of Houjin, his death of 10,000 times was not enough!
Shouldn't Yang He be impeached?
He committed heinous crimes twice, and the Zhejiang Party couldn't think of it, it was shameless!
Yang He's crime is not in the combination of suppression and appeasement, let alone in his failure to exterminate the peasant rebel army, his biggest sin is that he should not desperately impeach Yang Hao, and he should not offend the Zhejiang Party!
These dog thieves are simply lawless, and in order to avenge their personal revenge, they want to kill a governor!
Zhang Bin was thinking about whether to save Yang He, but Zhao Ru hurriedly ran in, took out a secret letter from his arms, and carefully handed it to him.
Why did this kid come back so soon?
Zhang Bin took the secret letter and asked curiously: "Didn't you ask you to recruit Lord Luo, why did you run back again?" ”
Zhao Ru hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The little one wants to go to Lord Luo, but he just ran to the newly settled contact location, but Lord Luo sent Lord Qi to find the villain, Lord Qi said, this is Gonggong Cao from the palace, and asked me to hand it over to you quickly." ”
It turned out to be a secret letter from Cao Huachun from the palace, Zhang Bin hurriedly picked up the envelope and looked at it, nothing was written on the envelope, this was to prevent someone from intercepting the secret letter and finding out that Zhang Bin had a relationship with the eunuch in the palace.
He tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper, and saw that the font was in the standard imperial examination style, and he couldn't tell who wrote it.
This Cao Huachun is becoming more and more careful, Zhang Bin smiled slightly, and looked at the content of the letter carefully.
There is no title on the letter, but it is a copy of the contents of two copies.
One is the memorization of Yu Anxing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the other is the recital of Wang Yingxiong, the secretary of the ministry, and the content of their recitals is almost the same, that is, to promote Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, as the governor of the three sides!
Wang Yingxiong is Wen Tiren's henchman, Zhang Bin knows this very well, what the hell is this Yu Anxing?
Yu Anxing is not famous at all, how did he become the secretary of the military department?
Of course, it doesn't mean that you have to be a fairly famous person to be the secretary of the military department, the fame in the officialdom actually refers to the achievements made in the official career, and Yu Anxing's lack of fame at all means that he has no achievements at all.
How could such a mediocre official become such an important position as the secretary of the Ministry of War?
I can't think of this, I have to send someone to investigate, in short, there must be something wrong with this Yu An, although there are not many famous ministers in the Ming Dynasty at this time, but, no matter what, it is not the turn of such a mediocre person to be the secretary of the military department.
Zhang Bin shook his head and looked at the content of the recital carefully, looking at it, he couldn't help but snort coldly.
These people are simply shameless, the reason why they recommended Hong Chengchou was that Hong Chengchou had a meritorious role in suppressing thieves!
What kind of bullshit is this, Yansui Town is just a border town in the three sides of Shaanxi, and the governor of Yansui is only one of the many officials under the governor of the three sides.
What kind of logic is this, who has merit and who has been a court official, you don't need to look at the facts, you don't need to be reasonable, it's all up to you Wen Tiren with a mouth!
If you say that there is merit, you will be meritorious, and if you say that you have been, you will have it, in the same place, the chief officer is guilty, and his subordinates are meritorious, and this kind of absurd thing is actually spoken!