When Li Hongyu and Yamashita Sakurako rushed to Xiaoliuqiu by boat, the situation in the capital had become white-hot, and the officials of the Donglin Party and the anti-Donglin Party were arguing over Wei Zhongxian, and the affairs of the yamen of the major ministries and courtyards had almost come to a standstill.

It was at this time that the Donglin Party proposed a new name, calling those civil officials who opposed the Donglin Party and protected Wei Zhongxian as "eunuchs", and they were extremely contemptuous of Wei Zhongxian's behavior of defecting to Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch who was neither male nor female, and his words were full of disdain.

However, those civilian officials who were called "eunuchs" quickly launched a counterattack, calling the Donglin Party members, who only thought about eliminating dissidents all day long, a "traitorous party" that brought disaster to the country and the people and disrupted the government.

Compared with the "eunuch party" put forward by the officials of the Donglin Party, those officials who oppose the Donglin Party regard themselves as the "imperial party" and believe that the imperial power is the foundation of the stable world and should not be excessively challenged by the power of the ministers, and the Donglin Party, especially the radical faction of the Donglin Party, is undoubtedly too out of line and out of the duty of a courtier.

In the long run, the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty is bound to decline, and the decline of the imperial power will cause the Son of Heaven to lose control of the court, because the Zhou Tianzi in the Spring and Autumn Period became a puppet, and the officials in the court will inevitably form a new faction to compete for power and profit, and the Ming Dynasty will be really in danger.

Taking the Donglin Party as an example, the Donglin Party has only been established for 30 years, but now there are radicals and moderates within the party, and there are different factions within the radicals and moderates.

In time, if the Donglin Party really takes charge of the court and suppresses the imperial power, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely continue to have disputes, and it will be the ordinary people who will suffer.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, the more fierce the civil officials on the side of the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian, the more solid the Emperor of the Apocalypse will be when he sleeps at night, and he may wake up laughing in his sleep.

Obviously, the struggle between the two major factions in the court will greatly enhance the power and prestige of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, if there is no control of those eunuchs, that is, the officials of the Imperial Party, the people of the Donglin Party can make decisions on the affairs of the court, and then bypass the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and gradually set the emperor of the world in the air.

Now, those officials of the original Qi, Chuzhe, Zhejiang and other factions are desperately trying to block the Donglin Party in the court, which makes it impossible for the Donglin Party to make decisions on military affairs, and finally has to let the Emperor of the Apocalypse make a holy judgment, which helps to consolidate the monarchy's power.

In fact, if the people of the Donglin Party were smart enough, they would not have exterminated the officials of Qi, Chuzhe, and other factions, after all, from the perspective of fighting against the imperial power, the civil official groups in the court all belonged to the "vassal power" camp, and the two sides could elevate the young Emperor of the Apocalypse as long as they compromised with each other, and harmony with light and dust was the royal way to ensure the stability of the vassal power.

However, the people of the Donglin Party chose the most wrong way, wanting to overthrow the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, monopolize the government and become the sole representative of the ministers, and as a result, the officials of the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and other factions had to change their positions and devote themselves to the camp of protecting the "imperial power".

At this moment, the Donglin Party party struggle is in full swing, and few people in the court can see that the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who secretly dominates this good show, is the ultimate winner.

If it were not for Emperor Tianqi's previous "unreserved" support for the Donglin Party, there would not have been the radical faction of the Donglin Party who took advantage of Jingcha to exterminate the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, and they thought that relying on the Emperor of the Apocalypse's trust in the Donglin Party could eliminate Qi, Chu and Zhejiang and other opposition factions in one fell swoop.

But as a result, when the radical faction of the Donglin Party after Jingcha wanted to give the officials of the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang the final fatal blow, the situation changed, and the officials of the original three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang took refuge in Wei Zhongxian in order to protect themselves, to be precise, they turned to support the Emperor of the Apocalypse behind Wei Zhongxian.

This made the offensive of the radical faction of the Donglin Party against the three parties of Yuan, Qi, Chu and Zhejiang blocked, and they could no longer attack them by their temperament, and gradually formed the current situation in the court.

The day after Li Hongyu and Yamashita Sakurako left Haicheng, a major event occurred in the capital, Wei Zhongxian ordered Dongchang to arrest Wang Wenyan, the secretary of the cabinet, and officially launched a counteroffensive against the Donglin Party.

The secretary of the cabinet is only an official position from the seventh grade, responsible for the collation and copying of cabinet documents, in charge of the correspondence of the central cardinals, and is deeply trusted by the cabinet assistants.

In other words, this Wang Wenyan can be said to be the information center of the Donglin Party, and all kinds of news must be summarized and disseminated by him.

According to what Li Hongyu knew, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Zhou Jiamo and other Donglin Kui were frequent visitors to Wang Wenyan's house, while Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Gu Dazhang and others of the Donglin radical faction had the best relationship with Wang Wenyan.

It is worth mentioning that Wang Wenyan is a sleek, long-sleeved and good dancer person, who can be described as a broker of the Donglin Party, helping the people of the Donglin Party to accept bribes and move around.

After all, the people of the Donglin Party are not saints, they have the same seven emotions and six desires as the officials of the Qi Chu and Zhejiang factions, except for the good under the banner of serving the country and the people, in essence, there is not much difference from the officials of the Qi Chu and Zhejiang factions, is it possible that the officials of the Qi Chu and Zhejiang factions are not willing to prosper in the Ming Dynasty?

The reason why Wang Wenyan was able to handle those dirty things with ease had a lot to do with his background, he was originally a small official in charge of the treasury in a county town in Huangshan, Anhui Province, but he was sentenced to confiscate the army for embezzling money, and as a result, he absconded to the capital halfway.

People like Wang Wenyan are the most involved in interpersonal relationships, and inadvertently befriended Huang Zhengbin, the secretary of the cabinet and a member of the Donglin Party, and Wang Wenyan arrived at that time under the recommendation of Huang Zhengbin

Huang Zhengbin took a fancy to Wang Wenyan's talent for intrigue and trickery, and recommended him to work under Wang An, the personal servant of Emperor Taichang, who was the crown prince at the time.

In the palace transfer case, which was very important to the Donglin Party, Wang Wenyan was responsible for transmitting news between Wang An and the Donglin Party, and formed a deep friendship with Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, the leaders of the Donglin Party at that time.

In fact, it is not difficult to see from the relationship between the Donglin Party and Wang An that the attitude of the Donglin Party towards the eunuchs is not as bitter as it was later, and the relationship between them and Wang An is very harmonious.

If we find out what it is, it will be found that this is inseparable from the interests of the Donglin Party, Wang An is good friends with the Donglin Party, and Wei Zhongxian is loyal to the Emperor of the Apocalypse and it is not good for them, so it is natural to be opposed by the Donglin Party, at best it is just a situation of party struggle.

In fact, in history, the reason why Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian for the 24 cardinal crimes was precisely because Wei Zhongxian arrested Wang Wenyan and sent him to prison.

It's just that the current situation is a little different, Yang Lian took the lead in impeaching Wei Zhongxian for the 24 major crimes because of the deepening contradictions between the Donglin Party and the officials represented by Wei Zhongxian, but Wang Wenyan has always been unable to escape the fate of being arrested by Wei Zhongxian because of his special position and identity.

I have to say that Wei Zhongxian's move can be described as a snake hitting seven inches, he wants to start from Wang Wenyan, who has many handles on his body, and pull the Donglin Party step by step.

The capital, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, edict prison.

In the dimly lit execution chamber, a middle-aged man in a white prison uniform was tied to a torture device, and a pungent smell of blood filled the air.

Through the dim lighting, you can see that many of the torture instruments in the torture room are stained with blood, which makes people shudder.

"Why do you want to arrest this official? Do you know who this official is? This official wants to see Fu-sama, and he wants to see Fu-sama! ”

This middle-aged man in prison clothes is naturally Wang Wenyan, he doesn't know why he was suddenly arrested by the people of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, this is not a good place, so he said to several five big and three rough jailers at the scene with a somewhat panicked expression.

"Lord Wang, the little ones naturally know Lord Wang's identity, but since Lord Wang has entered this edict, don't take chances, or obediently tell everything you have done, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin!"

The leading jailer said to Wang Wenyan with a smile on his face, shaking the leather whip in his hand as he spoke.

"What do you want the official to say?"

Wang Wenyan's face changed suddenly when he heard this, realizing that things were not good, he had done a lot of shady things, and then suppressed the shock in his heart, and pretended to look at the jailer with a face full of flesh.

"If you want to talk about Lord Wang's business, the little ones just let Lord Wang speak, if Lord Wang is not willing to confess honestly, then the little ones can only be offended."

The meaty jailer smiled when he heard this, then walked up to Wang Wenyan, raised the whip in his hand, stared at him gloomily, and said:

"Presumably Lord Wang doesn't know, this whip in the little hand was taken from the Nanjing Zhenfu Si Prison when Yongle Ye moved the capital, it is said that it is stained with the blood of Prime Minister Hu Weiyong and General Lan Yu, Lord Wang can be served by it is also a blessing, ordinary people are not qualified to use this whip!"

"This official is sitting up straight, there is nothing to say!" Wang Wenyan's face couldn't help but turn pale, his Adam's apple moved, and after swallowing a mouthful of saliva bitterly, he gritted his teeth and said to the jailer with a meaty face.

"Since Lord Wang toasts and doesn't eat and drink, then don't blame the little one for being polite."

The jailer with a meaty face sneered disdainfully when he heard this, how could he not see that Wang Wenyan, who had a bloodless face, was already extremely frightened at this time, so he raised the leather whip in his hand, ready to make Wang Wenyan suffer a little.

"Stop!"

Seeing that the leather whip in the hand of the meaty-faced jailer was about to fall under Wang Wenyan's horrified gaze, a voice came from the door and stopped the meaty jailer.

"Lord Lu." Immediately, a middle-aged man wearing a seven-rank official uniform walked in, surrounded by several entourages, and the jailers in the room bowed down one after another when they saw this.

"Lu Xing!"

After seeing the middle-aged man who entered the door, Wang Wenyan's face immediately became extremely ugly, he naturally recognized this Lord Lu, this person was the Imperial Inspector of Guizhou Dao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Lu Xing, and the former Zhejiang Party was now a trump card under Wei Zhongxian.

(End of chapter)

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