Chapter 386: The Storm Rises Suddenly
(Recommended reading: Sure enough, Li Hongyu's worries soon became a reality, when the coffin of Emperor Wanli was moved to the Guande Palace, Yang Lian took the lead in making it difficult for King Fu to give the matter to Zheng Guifei, and asked Zheng Guifei to let King Fu, who had already fulfilled his filial piety, return to the fiefdom to settle the country. Heaven's Voice. 『⒉
With Yang Lian's recital, the officials of the Donglin Party faction in the capital gave Zheng Guifei a soothing and asked King Fu to return to his fiefdom.
In fact, when King Fu entered Beijing, he was a little unjustifiable, he said that he came by the edict of Emperor Wanli, but no one in the capital knew about it.
However, no one except the crown prince was qualified to check the edict that King Fu claimed, and the prince did not want to cause trouble during the funeral of Emperor Wanli, and at the same time, he also took into account the friendship between brothers, so naturally he did not mention this matter.
Now that the wood has been completed, the officials in the court can only accept the statement that King Fu was edicted to enter Beijing, and those officials who support the prince can only find a way to let King Fu leave Beijing to ensure that the prince inherits the unification.
As the Donglin Party won the first place in the matter of the crown prince and King Fu's struggle for the throne, the officials of the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party were not to be outdone, and successively sent Zheng Guifei to let King Fu leave Beijing.
Although it seems that King Fu is in a disadvantageous situation on the surface, since there are people who support the crown prince, there must be people who look forward to King Fu, and there is never a shortage of people in the officialdom who seize the opportunity to climb up desperately.
Therefore, the civil officials who took refuge in King Fu quickly counterattacked, and also gave Concubine Zheng Guifei a dismissal, believing that King Fu's filial piety to Emperor Wanli was profound, and it should be fulfilled that King Fu should fulfill his final filial piety to Emperor Wanli, and rashly let King Fu leave Beijing.
Not only that, these civil officials also quoted scriptures and believed that King Fu should wait for the new emperor to ascend the throne before leaving Beijing, which is not only to fulfill the friendship of the monarch and ministers, but also to express the brotherhood.
Compared with the civil officials who supported the crown prince, the civil officials who defected to King Fu were scattered from various factions in the court, whether it was the Donglin Party or the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, there were people who spoke for King Fu.
For the officials of ancient times, especially the officials of the Ming Dynasty, their reputation was very important, and when the Yongle Emperor ascended the throne, he killed many civil officials who refused to regard him as the royal orthodoxy is the best proof of this, and Fang Xiaoru was punished by the ten clans for the first time in history.
But then again, when it comes to life and death, life is often more important than reputation, although after the Battle of Jingjing, although many civil officials loyal to Emperor Jianwen were killed by Emperor Yongle, more civil officials chose to surrender with interest.
Among the civil officials who took refuge in King Fu, the leader was Li Hongyu's old acquaintance, Zhang Han, the imperial history of Guizhou Dao of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who once wanted to stop Li Hongyu from checking the Yingchun Pavilion, but was resolutely counterattacked by Li Hongyu, and finally left in disgrace.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin, the Imperial History, and the Yanguan who gave the matter became the dominant force in the imperial court, and because they had the power to supervise hundreds of officials, they had a huge influence on the government and could even exert pressure on the six ministers and cabinet members.
This is also the reason why Emperor Wanli did not like Yanguan, who rarely made achievements in the country's government except for calling for wind and rain in the factional battles in the court.
Therefore, Emperor Wanli later deliberately did not fill the official vacancies of the officials other than Hanlin, which made the number of people in the imperial history and the matter vacant by nearly half, and his ears and roots were also a lot clearer.
In fact, not only the officials, this is also a common problem of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are usually good at empty talk and infighting and neglect the hard work, and value reputation and ignore the people's livelihood.
It is precisely because Yanguan is the vanguard of the struggle between various factions in the court, so this Fuwang incident naturally started by Yanguan.
And those high-ranking officials and other high-ranking officials of the six ministries fell into silence one by one, and kept silent about this matter, unlike those speech officials, their words and deeds had a great impact on the court situation, so they could not only speak as fast as those speech officials.
Compared with the clear attitude of the officials of the various factions of the civil official group between the prince and the Fu Wang, the Xungui group is silent, and none of the nobles are willing to take the lead in this matter.
Unlike the civilian clique, although the Xungui clique was rigidly suppressed by the civilian clique in the government affairs of the DPRK and China, resulting in a weaker and weaker influence in the court, they held military power, so their voice in the important matter of changing the dynasty was higher than that of those civil officials who danced and wrote and wrote.
Therefore, the nobles of the Xungui group will not easily show how to take sides in the matter of the crown prince and the Fu Wang seizing the heir, once they show their attitude, it means that the military conflict is not far away.
In addition, unlike the civilian clique, there is a strict hierarchy within the Honaki clique, and this kind of standing in line is usually led by the various factions in the Hokugui clique, unlike the clique, which can express their views regardless of the size of their official position.
Li Hongyu watched the scenes of the court's birth with a cold eye, paying close attention to the movements of the nobles of the Xungui group, no matter how fierce the civil official group is in trouble about the succession, it will not help, the key to this matter still depends on the attitude of the Xungui group, to be precise, it depends on the choice of several British Gongzhang Weixian and other nobles who are in charge of the pro-army and the military power in Beijing.
The nobles of the middle and late Ming Dynasty have been favored by their ancestors for two or three hundred years, and they have long lost the momentum of galloping on the battlefield in the past, and have become a family that is content with pleasure.
In the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the nobles could be said to have made no achievements, if Emperor Hongwu knew about this, I am afraid that he would be so angry that he would come out of the mausoleum and scold these unfilial noble descendants, they should have been the last line of defense to protect the Ming Empire, but they turned out to be like chicken ribs.
Therefore, these nobles in the capital are just noble status, neither enterprising nor capable, so many people have no idea of their own in this kind of major event of changing the dynasty, and they all want to protect themselves and follow the trend.
Therefore, there are only a few people in the Xungui group who can play a decisive role, and now they are in charge of the military power of the Beijing army and the pro-army in the capital, and the rest of the Xungui have been reduced to out-and-out vassals, which can be described as a sorrow of the Ming Dynasty, and the most capable class of the Ming Dynasty has become a burden to the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding the courtiers' questions about whether King Fu should leave Beijing, Concubine Zheng Guifei adopted a clever way and handed over those Shangshu to the crown prince Zhu Changluo, wanting to hear Zhu Changluo's opinion.
Zhu Changluo, as a brother, is naturally not good to drive away King Fu who came to the funeral of Emperor Wanli, no matter how to say that King Fu has come all the way to the capital, since he failed to block King Fu out of the city, then he must wait for King Fu to participate in his enthronement ceremony before leaving, otherwise where is the filial piety and brotherhood of father and son?
Besides, will Concubine Zheng Guifei easily let King Fu leave? Therefore, Zhu Changluo could only agree to King Fu to stay in the capital, so that King Fu was invisibly relieved, and Yang Lian and others, who supported the prince, could not say anything more, so they could only wait and see how it changed and firmly watched King Fu.
Everyone knows the intention and purpose of King Fu appearing in the capital and staying here, as long as King Fu does not leave, then the capital will continue to be shrouded in tension and depression.
Because Li Hongyu was trapped in the imperial city and cut off from the outside world, he could only focus on the British prince Zhang Weixian, as long as Zhang Weixian was safe and sound, then the prince would be safe.
Obviously, the safety of the crown prince is only temporary, Zheng Guifei and King Fu will definitely be difficult for the prince soon, and the crown prince must be pulled down from the crown prince before the crown prince succeeds to the throne, otherwise once the crown prince ascends the throne, then things will become complicated.
At the same time, the people sent out by Qin Yue went all out to investigate the unprovoked disappearance of the pro-army deputy Qianhu, the sooner she found the deputy Qianhu, the more beneficial it would be for Li Hongyu, this is the only place she can help Li Hongyu now.
The thing that comforted Qin Yue was that she had intermittently obtained a lot of useful information from the family member of the deputy thousand households, and combined with the information from the neighbors, she could gradually determine some hidden circumstances of the disappearance of the deputy thousand households, so after having a certain clue, she hurriedly sent someone to inform Zhao Xin.
"White Lotus Sect?" Zhao Xin rushed to the Li Mansion in a hurry, and couldn't help but be taken aback after listening to what Qin Yue told her, her face was full of shock, she never expected that the deputy Qianhu would be related to the White Lotus Sect.
The White Lotus Sect has been recorded since the Song Dynasty and is one of the most famous folk sects in ancient China.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as the land annexation became more and more serious, the local officials expropriated and expropriated violently, and the greed for ink became a trend, coupled with the continuous natural disasters, so the folk sects sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, absorbing a large number of poor people to participate, and because of the impact on local security, it was designated as a cult by the imperial court.
Taking the Wanli Dynasty as an example, the more famous folk sects include the White Lotus Sect and the Wuwei Sect, etc., all over the north and south of the river, among which the White Lotus Sect has the longest history and the largest scale.
As early as the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Lu Kun, the servant of the Criminal Department, reported to the Wanli Emperor, saying: "The White Lotus Association is all over the Quartet, and the head of the sect is passed on, and it is gathered. If there is a greeting, this is the one to whom it belongs. ”
Wang Sen, a native of Jizhou, is in charge of the White Lotus Sect and claims to be the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, and his followers are all over the north and south, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi.
In the 23rd year of Wanli, Wang Sen came to the Gyeonggi area to secretly show his own followers, which made the White Lotus Sect prosperous, and then was arrested by the local government, and was sentenced to death but was released by bribing the local officials, and preached in Beijing again, and was finally killed in the 42nd year of Wanli.
The forty-third year of Wanli was the peak of the White Lotus Exhibition, and the momentum was huge, which made the Wanli Emperor feel shocked and ordered the imperial court to crack down on him.
Although the soldiers of the local guards in the Ming Dynasty were not the opponents of the Houjin soldiers, they were more than enough to deal with those White Lotus Sect disciples who were born as peasants and lacked weapons, which made the White Lotus Sect suffer a heavy blow and could only preach secretly.
Zhao Xin was shocked that the deputy Qianhu was related to the White Lotus Sect, if he was a White Lotus Sect, then the consequences would be unimaginable, and he could completely rely on the holy decree of the transfer of troops to escort the White Lotus Sect into the heavily guarded Forbidden City, and the consequences would be unimaginable!
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