After Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, the positions of some officials changed, and a series of liquidations followed.

In the turmoil between King Fu and Emperor Taichang for the throne, the greatest benefit is undoubtedly the Donglin Party, after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, he will definitely appoint and promote some officials close to him in the court, and the Donglin Party that has always supported him is undoubtedly favored by him, and is ready to use it to deal with the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang in the court.

Therefore, the Donglin Party, which was originally demoted from Beijing in the last time in Beijing, was recalled to the capital by Emperor Taichang to entrust it with important tasks, the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, ready to use the Donglin Party to balance the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, this kind of thing is clear to every son of heaven, even if Emperor Taichang is not as talented as King Fu, but he has been exposed to it in the capital for many years.

It's just that Emperor Taichang will definitely not be able to calmly control the factional battles in the court like Emperor Wanli.

The court was proud of the spring breeze of the Donglin Party, and the inner court became the world of Wang An, the former head of the Qingning Palace, and after Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he was appointed as the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the seal of the seal, and became the most powerful among the eunuchs.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian just took over Wang An's position and became the new head of Qingning Palace, separated by Wang An's mountain on the road to power in the inner court.

With the ascension of Emperor Taichang to the throne, the officials of various factions in the imperial court began a new round of fierce battles, and their targets were naturally to supervise the imperial history and the six branches of the matter, which had a large number of vacancies.

When Emperor Wanli was the emperor, the civil officials had no way to deal with the vacant official positions, but now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, it is natural to fill the vacant official positions, do they want to give Zhu Changluo an incomplete officialdom?

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the influence of the Yanguan group had reached its peak, and the power of impeachment was enough to influence the government, so it naturally became the focus of competition among the various factions in the officialdom, and the officials of each faction wanted to seize more Yanguan positions in order to consolidate their position in the officialdom.

Although Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin have little experience in the officialdom, they are inevitably involved in this battle because they are cronies of Emperor Taichang.

At the same time as the fierce fighting between the various factions in the court, the liquidation of the losers in the matter of King Fu and Emperor Taichang also began, and a bloody storm began.

In addition to the black pot of rebellion carried by Wuwei Hou Zhang Guang, he once wrote the fifteenth major crimes of Emperor Taichang to curry favor with Empress Dowager Zheng and Fuwang Duchayuan, Guizhou Provincial Inspectorate and Imperial History Zhang Han was regarded as Zhang Guang's fellow party, and then he was imprisoned.

Zhang Guang and Zhang Han are both surnamed "Zhang", so the case of the two is also known as the "Shuangzhang case", which implicated more than 100 civil and military officials of all sizes in the imperial court, and can be called the third major courtier rebellion case in the Ming Dynasty after the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case.

For this reason, Zhang Guang and Zhang Han, as the leaders of the two major cases, naturally could not escape the charge of beheading, and those officials who followed the two of them on the wrong line were killed, and the mismatched were killed, and they changed from high-ranking courtiers to prisoners who were allowed to be practiced overnight.

If it weren't for the enthronement of Emperor Tianqi and the amnesty of the world, then not only Zhang Guang and Zhang Han would have been beheaded by the whole family, but also some important comrades would have been beheaded by the whole family.

However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse knew the secret of the matter and knew that those people were not really rebelling, so he showed his mercy and did not kill Zhang Guang and Zhang Han's family members, but sent them to the frontier, otherwise more people would be executed.

One afternoon at the end of August, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, edicted prison.

"Scholar, if you have something to order, the lower official will be waiting outside." Li Hongyu was led to a single cell by a thousand households from Beizhen Fusi, bowed to Li Hongyu with a smile on his face, and led his subordinates to retreat.

Li Hongyu has been promoted to Zuochunfang University Scholar by Emperor Taichang, so people naturally refer to him as "University Scholar" when calling him an official position, which is a respectable title in the Ming Dynasty, which not only represents a lofty identity but also shows profound knowledge.

In the cell, there was a man in a white prison uniform, sitting on the grass with his hair scattered, leaning against the wall and looking out the window at the sky, not looking at Li Hongyu who had come in.

The entourage behind Li Hongyu carried the food box, methodically placed the wine and food in the food box on the table in the cell, and then bowed and retreated, leaving only Li Hongyu and the prisoner in the cell.

"Brother Sima, your shelf is getting bigger and bigger, and now that the scholar has come to visit you in person, you will also put up a shelf for the scholar."

Seeing that the prisoner didn't move, Li Hongyu sat down at the table with a smile, picked up the flask and poured two glasses of wine, and said to him with a smile, "Why, I don't even have the courage to have a glass of wine with this scholar?" ”

Provoked by Li Hongyu, the prisoner immediately stood up, sat opposite Li Hongyu and drank the wine glass in front of him, then reached out and picked up the chicken leg in a dish and took a big bite on it.

It can be identified through some messy hair that this prisoner is Sima Ze, Sima Ze can be said to be Zhang Guang's staff, so if Zhang Guang falls, he will definitely be implicated, and as Zhang Guang's important colleague, he will inevitably die.

"Brother Sima has always been gentle and elegant, when did he have such a rough appearance." Li Hongyu smiled and poured Sima Ze a glass of wine.

"If you commit a capital crime, you will die soon, so naturally you will eat one less meal, where do you care about what you eat."

Sima Ze picked up the wine glass and drank it dry again, chewing the chicken in his mouth while saying coldly, "I heard that Zhuang Yuanlang has become a scholar of Zuo Chunfang University, and he actually has the intention to come here to see the joke, which really does not match the identity of Zhuang Yuanlang." ”

"Brother Sima's words are wrong, he has been entangled in mundane affairs recently, where do you have the heart to watch other people's jokes."

Li Hongyu poured Sima Ze a glass of wine again, then smiled and raised the wine glass in front of him to Sima Ze, and said in a deep voice, "I came here this time to thank Brother Sima for his rescue, so that my fiancée avoided a catastrophe." ”

Sima Ze was slightly stunned when he heard this, he was the one who stopped Qin Yue in front of Mo Yunxuan last time, but he didn't expect Li Hongyu to know about it, he had never mentioned it to others.

"He who has read the books of the sages will not tolerate such a thing."

However, then Sima Ze was relieved, if Li Hongyu couldn't find out this kind of thing, he wouldn't have become the envy of Zuo Chunfang University, so he hesitated for a moment, raised his glass and touched Li Hongyu and drank it all, and his tone became softened.

Obviously, Li Hongyu did not come to see his jokes as Sima Ze had thought before, and took the opportunity to ridicule him, which made his hostility towards Li Hongyu disappear a lot.

"Brother Sima, I know that Brother Sima has great ambitions and wants to make a career to make an earth-shattering career, but unfortunately the opportunity is not good, and the people are not ladylike, so I can't get the opportunity to show my ambitions."

Li Hongyu put down the wine glass and picked up the wine jug and poured wine for Sima Ze and the wine glass in front of him, looked at Sima Ze worriedly and said, "Now the Ming Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, both the construction of slaves and the rebellion of the people, and there is constant disturbance in the court. ”

"I am already a prisoner under the order, and what Zhuangyuan Gong said has nothing to do with below." Sima Ze was told by Li Hongyu, his face changed suddenly, and then he said with a somewhat gloomy expression, because he was convicted of plotting against the rebellious party, he had lost the opportunity to turn over.

"Brother Sima is too pessimistic, the emperor is the first to ascend to the throne, and he needs a talent like Brother Sima."

Li Hongyu immediately laughed when he heard this, he heard the unwillingness in Sima Ze's words, and then his face turned pale, and he asked solemnly, "Brother Sima, do you think your ambition to stay in the capital can be realized?" ”

"The capital is a place of right and wrong, and if you want to show your strengths, you can only go down to the place." Sima Ze was slightly stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Hongyu to say such a surprising thing, seeing that Li Hongyu's serious expression didn't look like he was lying, so he replied after a deep groan.

The capital is the main battlefield of factional strife in the officialdom, and the officials of various factions are busy fighting openly and secretly and pulling each other's hind legs every day, and if they want to make meritorious contributions, they can only leave the capital and go to the local place like Li Hongyu.

However, because the capital is the center of power in the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing officials represent the identity and status, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's tradition of valuing the officials of the capital and ignoring the local officials in other places, so the officials of the world have sharpened their heads and want to enter the capital as officials, and those officials who want to work hard are very few.

"If Brother Sima goes to Guangzhou Mansion to take up an official position, is Brother Sima willing?" Li Hongyu bowed slightly when he heard this, very satisfied with Sima Ze's reply, and then stared at him quietly and asked.

"Canton Mansion?" Sima Ze was stunned at this time, looking at Li Hongyu with a stunned expression, he didn't understand what Li Hongyu meant for a while, he is now a rebellious repeat offender in the imperial court, it would be good to be able to save his life, where can he still hope to continue to be an official.

"Brother Sima, to be honest, Guangzhou will be an important place for my Ming Dynasty to communicate with overseas countries, not only for overseas trade, but also for the future exchanges between Ming and overseas countries."

Li Hongyu looked at Sima Ze solemnly, and said worriedly, "The Yamen of the Customs Department is located in Yangzhou, and it is beyond the reach of the Guangzhou Customs Branch, so I hope that someone in the Guangzhou Government can take care of the Guangzhou Branch, and in my opinion, Brother Sima is the best candidate." ”

"You want me to take up a post in Guangzhou?" Sima Ze understood now, and looked at Li Hongyu with some astonishment, Li Hongyu actually wanted him to take care of the customs department in Guangzhou!

"I believe that Brother Sima can be qualified for this position." Li Hongyu nodded, and said with a straight face, "With Brother Sima's intelligence, he will definitely be able to control the situation in Guangzhou Mansion, and then ensure the smooth operation of the customs office." ”

The reason why Li Hongyu chose Sima Ze to go to Guangzhou Mansion was because Sima Ze was calm and wise, his talent was no less than Zhao Xin's, and he acted decisively, without the kindness of a woman, which was just suitable for fighting with the local forces in Guangzhou Mansion.

As an important coastal city in the south of the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou has close contact with overseas countries and is an important smuggling port for smugglers, which makes the local dragon and snake complicated, and the various factions are intertwined.

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