Section 141 Departure from Beijing
"Master, I have memorized the "Book of Filial Piety", will the emperor let me go home?" Li Yu timidly asked Liu Zhilun, who was holding a ring ruler.
"Familiar with the "Book of Filial Piety" to know the foundation of the people, can this be the price?" Liu Zhilun replied coldly, and then pointed to Li Yu and Na Mu'er's heads and said: "And your hair, you must not shave it anymore, you must grow your hair, Wang Baozhu, don't comb your braids." ”
"Master, we can't be blamed for this, we work on the grassland, where the wind and sand are extremely strong, and the water source is also lacking, how can we take care of the hair?" Na Mu'er cried out while covering the two pigtails on her bald head, and Li Yu also complained that she had short hair because she didn't have time to catch lice.
"What's your name! Your business is not over yet, Zi Bu is silent, what are you doing with Ding Qiming to Nantang in three days? Do you want to be a bold fanatic who doesn't worship saints and ancestors? Liu Zhilun shouted at Na Mu'er.
"Brother Yuan Cheng, the freshman only went to the South Hall occasionally to listen to the scriptures a few times, and by the way, he went to the Calendar Hall to help Master Xu do something, and he didn't do anything wrong, don't blame him!" Jin Sheng persuaded Liu Zhilun, in fact, Na Mu'er went to Nantang to be somewhat influenced by him.
"It's not okay to go occasionally, the art of Western learning is useful, but the Western religion respects God and has no son of heaven, prohibits sacrifices and abolishes human ethics, which is incompatible with my middle school, and I and other holy disciples should respect and stay away, blame you for encouraging the two of them, fortunately, Han Min has the problem of dozing off when he listens to the scriptures, if he is damaged by Western Buddhism, how can we explain to the emperor?" Liu Zhilun blamed Jin Sheng.
"Lu Zi said that the East China Sea and the West Sea are the same, Western learning and middle school are in the same line, God is the God of the "Book of Songs", and the art of Western learning also originated from Mozi's learning, the emperor ordered Lord Xu Guangqi to open a calendar museum to revise the calendar of my dynasty and compile Western classics, which is to pick up the omissions and supplement for my middle school, Brother Yuan Cheng is a big mistake!" Jin Sheng immediately retorted.
Liu Zhilun and Jin Sheng quarreled, but threw Li Yu and Na Mu'er aside.
Liu Zhilun and Li Fengxiang confronted each other in the Beijing camp for almost a month, and Li Shouqi, the governor of the Beijing camp, who had been hiding at home and pretending to be sick, finally appeared. Liu Zhilun also regretted it after forcing Li Fengxiang away, although Li Fengxiang is a eunuch, but he is also a person who does practical things, Li Shouqi is purely an old gentleman, except for eating and drinking with a group of Beijing camp officers, he doesn't do anything else, and he has to dismantle the stage when others do things, Liu Zhilun finally understood that the Beijing camp was hopeless, and the emperor took the opportunity to take back the official position of the right attendant of the military department who had been distressed on the grounds of his malaise, and demoted Liu Zhilun from the military department of the third product to the right of the fourth product of the imperial history, but, Liu Zhilun didn't complain - he finally got out of the mess in Beijing.
Liu Zhilun found out when he was idle that Li Yu and Na Mu'er took advantage of his fight with Li Fengxiang, took advantage of Jin Sheng's tolerance, and skipped a lot of classes, Li Yu almost forgot what he had learned, and was encouraged by Ding Qiming to go to Nantang to listen to the scriptures with Na Mu'er, Li Yu did not change the habit of dozing off when listening to lectures, and was politely persuaded away by the Western priest, but Na Mu'er was aroused, Jin Sheng not only didn't care, but also recommended Na Mu'er to Xu Guangqi, who presided over the revision of the almanac - this guy learned a good regular script with Li Fugui and went to the calendar museum near the South Hall, After doing the work of copying books and doing chores, Xu Guangqi was very satisfied with this young man who worked hard, and had the heart to leave him on an errand. Liu Zhilun realized that he might be busy in vain, and he has been holding Li Yu and Na Mu'er in his hands these days, forcing them to study.
Liu Zhilun and Jin Sheng quarreled for a while, and Jin Sheng said softly: "Brother Yuancheng, Hanmin is coarse and simple, pure and simple, this is enough, he is a military general and does not like to read, he may be able to pass the test after being a freshman, and now learn some practical ways of Western learning, it will always be useful in the future, why do you force them to be so tight." ”
"I understand what you said, but now that the situation is ever-changing, maybe it won't be long before the court will send them out, I'm worried that if they don't read good books now, they will go the wrong way in the future!"
At the beginning of the young emperor's accession to the throne, he reused the Wenchen of the Donglin family headed by Han Yi, Qian Longxi and Li Biao, ruined the "Three Dynasties Classics", cleaned up the grievances and prisons, and more than 260 people rebelled against the party, or executed, or condemned, or cut down and imprisoned for life, destroying Wei Zhongxian's remaining party in one fell swoop, but he soon found that the state of the Ming Dynasty was not only not better, but not as good as before, and now the court is worried about internal and external troubles, And these guys who don't do things but are good at talking about infighting are too powerful in the court, the emperor had to suppress them, and drove away Han Yi, Qian Longxi, Li Biao, the three cabinet ministers, the power of the Donglin family of courtiers does not seem to be weakened, although these people can't do practical things, but relying on their prestige in Shilin, they hold on to their authority, and let them out, they are righteous gentlemen, whoever goes against them is a traitorous villain or even a remnant of the eunuch party, which also frightened many courtiers who were ready to seize power, such as Zhou Yanru, This person is talented and considers himself a celebrity, and he is quite famous in Shilin, and he will never do anything to stain his feathers, so he recommended Wen Tiren, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to appear.
Wen Tiren is a Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, changed to a Jishi, a native of Wucheng, Zhejiang, with a hard old qualification, but his reputation is not very good, the reason is that this person is too sleek, no matter who is in power, he will definitely support the scene, but he will never get on the boat, so his career is smooth and steady, all the way to the Ministry of Rites, Qingliu disdains his person, thinking that he is not worthy of being a gentleman, when Han Yi cleared the anti-party in the DPRK, he put many courtiers who had a bad relationship with him in the past, and even looked unpleasant into the ranks of the eunuchs, but he couldn't catch Wen Tiren any handle, I had to let him pass.
Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru are old partners, when the new emperor ascended the throne in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he had elected cabinet ministers with the method of divination, but the courtiers excluded the emperor's favorite Zhou Yanru from the candidacy, Zhou Yanru was of course dissatisfied, so he instigated Wen Tiren to come forward to impeach Qian Qianyi, a famous member of the Donglin Party who was at the head of the divination, for accepting bribes and forming a party. In the end, the emperor drove Qian Qianyi back to his hometown, but since then, Wen Tiren's reputation has become even worse, and the Qingliu people have continued to impeach him, bribery, secret treachery, Wei Zhongxian's shrine in Hangzhou, taking property and even marrying prostitutes as concubines, these things were all placed on his head, fortunately, the emperor ignored this, Wen Tiren was sleek, narrow-minded, and the official addiction was very big, but he was not greedy for money and was one of the few poor officials in the Jingshitang, and the party was even more unbearable, everyone was offended by him, who could he form a party with? The emperor was still satisfied with him, Zhou Yanru's recommendation was quickly approved, Wen Tiren was a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the East Pavilion, and at the same time, Wu Zongda, the prince of the country who was good friends with Wen Tiren, also entered the cabinet.
"This person is very smart and willing to do things honestly, maybe he can help me." The emperor thought so, he was most afraid of those talented and upright civil servants who claimed to be upright, but could not do practical things.
Wen Tiren is indeed empathetic, he knows very well what the emperor wants to do - Yuan Chonghuan's case has affected the entire court situation, the courtiers of the Donglin family are desperately saying good things for Yuan Chonghuan, they know that once Yuan Chonghuan is decided, it will be a big crime, and it is likely to be a rebellion, Yuan Chonghuan is behind him and Qian Longxi who recommended him and his master Han Yi, Yuan Chonghuan's life and death are not important, but as long as one of these two bigwigs is involved, the Donglin family will definitely be notorious, which is a catastrophe for the Donglin Party that relies on fame to eat, And the courtiers of other parties who have suffered the big losses of the Donglin Party certainly understand this, and they bite Yuan Chonghuan to this matter, and the undercurrent of the Ming court is surging, and the party struggle is rising again. The emperor must end this situation as soon as possible, but he has some words that are not easy to say, how much he trusted this person at the beginning, but he dared to bully the king, kill the commander of a town, and let the Donglu soldiers under the city, the most odious thing is that this Yuan barbarian dared to openly coerce the court to negotiate peace with the Donglu when he summoned the right, and threatened to the courtiers, "The Dongren are here to be the emperor, and they have ascended the throne one day!" The emperor quickly ordered the ceremonial eunuch Shen Liangzuo, the internal official eunuch Lu Zhi to supervise the nine gates of the capital division and the imperial city, and the chief eunuch Li Fengxiang to the governor of the Zhongyong camp and the commander of the Beijing camp, and then arrested Yuan Chonghuan and imprisoned him.
As soon as Wen Tiren entered the cabinet, he found a group of non-party people among the Taiwanese officials to discuss, including the new right-handed imperial history Liu Zhilun, everyone believes that Yuan Chonghuan must be convicted as soon as possible and end the current chaotic situation, but Liu Zhilun is guilty of nerdy temper again, insisting that it must be verified before he can be impeached. By the time you find out, I'm afraid the court will fall apart.
In the end, Shandong Daoyu Shi Fan took the lead, impeaching Qian Longxi, who had returned to his hometown, for accepting tens of thousands of taels of private bribes from Yuan Chonghuan and hiding in the homes of relatives and friends. Then Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took the opportunity to defend himself against the mutiny caused by the removal of Dongjiang, Yuan Chonghuan made it clear to the imperial court that one of the reasons for killing Mao Wenlong was that Dongjiang Town was paid in vain and did not make contributions, he thought that the soldiers in Dongjiang Town had money in their hands, so he made up his mind to cut the town, how do you know that Yuan Chonghuan gave 100,000 taels of appeased silver when he killed Mao Wenlong, and he never gave money to others at other times. Originally, the price of grain in western Liaoning was extremely high, and the army and civilians lacked food and food, which was also a good thing, but Ning Yuan actually didn't give him face, refused to accept the grain, and insisted on urging the household to ask for silver taels, which must have been greedy for ink.
Emperor Daming expressed his attitude at this time, ordered Jinyiwei to go to Songjiang to arrest Qian Longxi and send him to Beijing, and did not listen to the ministers' nonsense, at the royal meeting of the platform, arbitrarily and arbitrarily to pay for ineffect, deception, theft of city rice, beheading the commander for money, arson to the enemy, etc., Yuan Chonghuan was sentenced, and his wife, concubine, children and brothers of the same birth flowed 2,000 miles, the case that dragged on for eight months was finally settled, the Donglin Party had a stain of rebellion, and the power of the DPRK and China has since declined, Cheng Jiming consciously proposed to resign and return to his hometown, And Wen Tiren has made a great contribution to the emperor.
After dealing with Yuan Chonghuan's reverse case, the imperial court seems to have returned to a normal state, the most important thing at the moment is the situation in the northwest, the trilateral governor Yang He has not yet sat down in the northwest, and he encountered the imperial court's urgent edict to the elite of the five towns in the northwest to enter the Weiqin King, Yang He has no soldiers in his hands, and he is unable to suppress the people's rebellion, fortunately, his old man's official reputation is good, and the people still believe in him. The displaced people who were recruited by Zhao'an robbed everywhere without food, and the big families naturally organized their families and tenants to resist, and the surrounding prefectures and counties also had to help, and the two sides fought again, Yang He was not a person inside and out, the local gentry blamed him for conniving at bandits, and the homeless people hated him for not believing in his words, Yang He wanted to cry without tears, and one after another asked the court for relief and sent it to Beijing.
The problem in the northwest has not been solved, Shanxi sent an urgent recital, Shanxi governor Song Tongyin impeached Yang He for not being effective in suppressing thieves, and also drove thieves into Jin, he said in the recital, Shanxi also suffered from a great drought, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, but Shanxi has a good way of education, the people would rather starve to death than cause trouble to the government, let alone rebel, but since there were thieves in the northwest across the Yellow River, the common people began to be dishonest, and there are countless thieves attached to them, and Shanxi will also be eroded if it goes on. Song Tongyin complained that his predecessor Geng Ruqi had ruined Shanxi's family base, and Shanxi had no capable generals and no available soldiers, and he asked the imperial court to send him additional men and horses to defend the Yellow River, and he also hoped to transfer Li Yu, the deputy general of Jingyu, who was idle in Beijing, to Shanxi, so as to solve the dilemma that no one in Shanxi could lead troops to level the thieves.
Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, also wrote a letter requesting that Li Yu be returned to Datong, Zhang Zongheng analyzed the situation in Fengzhou, and believed that at present, several forces in Fengzhou are mixed, and only Li Yu can suppress the forces of all parties, and if Li Yu does not go back for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be abnormal movements, and at that time, Fengzhou will not only be unable to contain the Han Dynasty, but may be another big trouble. The new governor of Xuanfu, Shen Di, also wrote a letter requesting that Li Yu be transferred back to Fengzhou as soon as possible - Chahar Khan came to ask for money again, and Shen Di felt that someone still had to take care of this shameless guy.
"This deputy general Jingyu has a big face, the governors of the three towns of Xuanda want him to go back, it seems that he is not restless in Beijing!" Zhou Yanru said coldly, and the emperor frowned when he heard this, and turned his eyes to Wen Tiren again.
"How can the deputy general Jinglu have any face, the ministers treat him as a Yiren in their bones, Xuanda Sanzhen is forced to be anxious, they have Hudun Rabbit Han peeping outside the border, and there are worries about the northwest Liukou crossing the Yellow River in the east, counting the deputy general Jinglu is probably the only good general in the three towns, they are helpless, the court does not need to be careful," Wen Tiren now has a habit, it must be different from what Zhou Yanru said, and it must make the emperor feel more intelligent, he saw the emperor's eyebrows relaxed, and continued: " Deputy General Jingyu was originally from Datong Town, and he should go back, and by the way, let him kill the thieves, but his little people are useless to deal with the thieves who are wandering around, His Majesty can give him an errand to help him, and then allocate some men and horses for him, and suppress the thieves and the people in the name of the Ming official army. ”
"Okay, according to Aiqing's words, I will issue an edict to change the deputy general of Jinglu to aid the deputy general, and I will give him the title of governor of the capital, and order the first department of the Beijing camp to follow him into Shanxi to level the thieves." The emperor also smiled, Li Fengxiang of the ceremonial supervisor had already reported that Li Yu was actually stupid, he belonged to a guy who was satisfied with a bowl of food, anyone could calculate him, this kind of person was the most reliable, and the emperor also felt that he was tortured too much by these civil servants, or Wen Tiren could see it clearly.
Li Yu's affairs are easy to do, but the northwest disaster relief affairs are not easy to do, these bastard officials are still not good at collecting taxes, and the money and grain in the treasury are always beyond their means, Bi Ziyan has been anxious to raise money and food for Sun Chengzong to repair the Da Ling River and Lushun, where to find the money and food for disaster relief, the courtiers invariably stared at the emperor's internal money, the emperor's face was pale, and he involuntarily touched the patched underwear in the dragon robe, and then left without saying a word.
Li Yu accepted the holy decree in the military department, and Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the military department, then talked to him and clearly told Li Yu that no officer in the Beijing camp was willing to go to Shanxi with him, even if he pressed them with the holy decree, Li Yu had to find a way to find someone by himself, of course, he himself still valued Li Yu very much, so the military department would help him anyway.
"This official finally made up 3,000 taels of silver for you, you take the money to recruit troops and buy horses, you can find people in the Beijing camp, and you can recruit troops in Shanxi, if you really can't do it, you will find Fengzhou people to be soldiers, this official wishes Vice General Li a smooth journey and success." Liang Tingdong pushed the silver in front of Li Yu and left immediately.
Li Yu returned to the small courtyard where he lived with a sad face, and found Ma Xianglin and his wife to discuss with Wang Pu, Wang Pu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard it, Liang Tingdong was right, the current Beijing camp can't be pulled out at all, this is probably the emperor's brain came up with a hot brain, but the emperor will never offend those officers with deep backgrounds in the Beijing camp for him, although Liang Tingdong is shirking his responsibility, but he also gave a few money, which is much better than kicking Li Yu out of the Beijing division.
"Three thousand taels of silver will definitely not be used, and the military salary and military department will not take care of it in the future, people will calculate you this time, you can only take one step at a time, a few of you will definitely not go to Shanxi, how many or a few hundred people, let's find someone to talk about, there are many idle officials in Beijing, maybe someone is willing to follow you." Wang Pu said.
"Xiao Li, my brother happened to be invited by Lord Song, the governor of Shanxi, to do the government affairs of praise painting, I will write a letter to him, and he will definitely help you." Zhang Fengyi also came up with an idea.
"The thieves are a bunch of rebellious people, it's nothing big, Xiao Li, you just have to go to Shanxi, it's a big deal that my brother will bring the white pole soldiers to help you, anyway, I don't want to go to Daling River." Ma Xianglin then encouraged Li Yu.
Wang Pu suddenly patted his thigh and said: "Some time ago, Sun Ge laid off some officers in Liaoxi, and planned to stuff them in the Beijing camp, but the governor refused to accept it, and this group of people were all driven out of the city to wait for dispatch, most of them are our Yansui people, they have no food and no salary, as long as they give errands, they will definitely be willing, I will go to them and say." ”
There were very few responders in the Beijing camp, Zhou Yuji and Ding Qiming took a lot of effort and only brought in more than 50 people, basically some guest officers who couldn't get along in the Beijing camp, Wang Pu also brought back three officers when he went out of the city, Li Yu was taken aback when he saw them, and before he could speak, Meng Ke first shouted: "Tiger head, fierce as a tiger, you two guys are not dead yet, God has eyes, you also have a time when you can't get along!" ”
"A gust of wind, don't think we're here to beg you, our brothers came to help him after hearing Vice General Wang say that our little brother is pitiful, what are you proud of?" Hu Dawei said disdainfully.
"That's it, this kid has only eaten for a few days with a gust of wind, and he has forgotten who he is, and I'll teach him a lesson later." Fierce as a tiger also said.
The other officer ignored them, walked up to Li Yu and saluted solemnly, and said in a northern Shaanxi accent: "The last general, Bai'an, the former commander of Shanhaiguan, has come to see the deputy general of the aid and suppression, and thank you for taking us in." ”
Li Yu also replied in northern Shaanxi dialect: "Bai Dusi is also from Yulin, so we can be regarded as fellow villagers." ”
"The last general and the tiger and the fierce two divisions were originally in Shanhai Town, Sun Ge Lao laid off the staff, and thought that our guest army was wasting food and salary, and drove us out, more than 200 people were starving outside the city, and no one took care of us, although rest assured, most of us have horses and armor, and the lowest official rank is also the general, all of them are the children of Yulin's hometown, and they will not eat the food of adults in vain."
Li Yu stepped forward and called Bai An, Hu Dawei and Meng Ruhu together, took their hands and said: "Your brothers can come to look up to me, and in the future, we will fight side by side together, and if I have a bite to eat, we will never let the brothers go hungry." ”
On the first day of the ninth month, Li Yu said goodbye to Liu Zhilun, Jin Sheng, Ma Xianglin and Wang Pu, and led nearly 300 people who followed him to leave Beijing.
Out of the Beijing Division, Li Yu took a deep breath and shouted excitedly: "Brothers, wave our Black Eagle Flag, let's go to Shanxi." ”
(After this section is updated,Lao Lu has to take a break for a while.,At the end of the year, there are indeed a lot of things.,Thank you for your support.,It will be restored and updated in January next year.,The content of this book will also enter a new level)