Although Li Hongyu and Ran Xingrang hoped that the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by the Donglin Party would be stopped this time, how could the Donglin Party, which was bound to win, give up because of this small setback?

The literati of the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the middle and late periods, had an almost pathological mentality, and they were proud of standing up to the emperor to win loyalty. Eight?? 1 Chinese ?(a).

Anyway, the emperors of the middle and late Ming Dynasty treated the literati very leniently, except for the Jiajing Emperor who once collectively roded the ministers who forced the palace, and killed a few people, the rest of the ministers who offended the emperor were just beaten with a board.

Therefore, this made the people of the Donglin Party, especially those radical officials of the Donglin Party, more and more courageous, and put on a posture that was bound to eradicate Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the traitorous ministers of the court, and then return the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, without realizing that Wei Zhongxian was a servant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

As the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, Wei Zhongxian is the companion who took care of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and he was able to take charge of the master of ceremonies to run errands for the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and what he did naturally had to follow the mind of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

This is not to say that Yang Lian deliberately slandered Wei Zhongxian, but it was really related to the situation in the court, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse had always clearly supported the Donglin Party before this, otherwise the Donglin Party would not have successfully eradicated the officials of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and other factions.

It stands to reason that Wei Zhongxian's celebrant should act in accordance with the Donglin Party, but Wei Zhongxian is against the Donglin Party in many things, which can be described as-for-tat, which naturally makes the outside world think that Wei Zhongxian is making his own opinion.

Like Yang Lian, the leader of the radical faction of the Donglin Party, he was originally an impatient, and some of the ideas promoted by the Donglin Party were stuck by the celebrant supervisor, and the officials of the Qi, Chuzhe, and other factions that had already collapsed into an army also regained their strength and gathered around Wei Zhongxian, which naturally made him intolerable, so he wrote to impeach Wei Zhongxian as a stumbling block.

In the final analysis, this situation was naturally deliberately done by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, on the one hand, through the Donglin Party to sweep away the complicated factions in the court, and on the other hand, to support Wei Zhongxian to resist the Donglin Party with the backing of the celebrant and eunuch, so that the Donglin Party could not really dominate.

It's a pity that the only person in the court who can see the thoughts of the Emperor of the Apocalypse is Li Hongyu, and the people of the Donglin Party still think that they have coaxed the Emperor of the Apocalypse into obedience, but they don't know that they were played by the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Just imagine, if the Emperor of the Apocalypse was really so easy to deal with, then Wei Zhongxian would not be able to rise at all.

Obviously, if the Emperor of the Apocalypse was left under the control of the Donglin Party, Wei Zhongxian would not have risen at all, without the support of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he was just a eunuch in the palace, what would he use to intervene in the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty, and how many people would face him up to him?

You must know that the eunuchs of the Jiajing Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty are in a state of suppression, and if the Emperor of the Apocalypse does not lift the ban, the power of the eunuchs will not rise at all, and they will be attacked by the civil official group first.

But the fact is that the power of the eunuchs suddenly expanded rapidly in the Apocalypse Dynasty, making Wei Zhongxian become the rumored "Nine Thousand Years Old", which shows that it is impossible to do this without the support of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

I have to say that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is very clever, when Yang Lian wrote to impeach Wei Zhongxian, in order to appease Wei Zhongxian, but also to stimulate Yang Lian and the Donglin Party, he ordered Wei Guangwei, a scholar of Dongge University, to write a decree to punish Yang Lian.

Moreover, the Emperor of the Apocalypse also specially issued an edict that the ministers were not allowed to perform without permission, and they should not perform without important matters.

On the surface, it seems that the Emperor of the Apocalypse wants to calm the matter and calm the impeachment turmoil, but how can the Donglin Party suffer this loss, so they have written to impeach Wei Zhongxian, and the music flew in front of the Emperor of the Apocalypse like snowflakes.

Even Chen Daoheng, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, who had been in hiding from his illness and had not participated in official affairs for a long time, also joined forces with the ministers of the Nanjing Ministry and the Jiuqing to impeach Wei Zhongxian, which can be described as a huge momentum.

Seeing this situation, the officials of the original Qi, Chuzhe, and other factions in the court, who were finally able to breathe under the protection of Wei Zhongxian, naturally did not sit idly by, and also wrote to Wei Zhongxian to complain about their grievances.

After the Jingcha, the second contest between the Donglin Party and the officials of the original Qi, Chuzhe and other factions slowly kicked off with Yang Lian's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, and quickly evolved into a struggle between the two major factions of the civilian official group.

Not only the officials in the capital, but also the local officials and the officials of Zhishi, as long as they had the power to write to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, all expressed their views on this matter one after another, and expressed their support for the Donglin Party or Wei Zhongxian.

Because last year's Jingcha Donglin Party cracked down on dissenting centrist officials, this time those influential officials in the court stood in line, and no one wanted to be alone.

Of course, what the people in the officialdom want to see most is the letter of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who are not only important ministers of the imperial court but also have a decisive influence on the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so the attitude of the two is very important.

However, it is a pity that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin did not mean to go to the book, and remained silent on this matter, there is no need to choose a team with the identity and status of the two, and no one can force the two to make a choice.

As for those officials who are not qualified to write the book, they can only honestly watch the excitement from the sidelines, secretly analyzing the possible results, this time Wei Zhongxian's incident will determine the future situation of the court, and whether the situation of the Donglin Party's dominance will be broken.

"Young master, the people in Yangzhou sent news that there is a woman who has become popular all over Yangzhou recently, and her talent and color art are excellent, which makes the red cards of the local Qinglou in Yangzhou bow down."

One evening in early August, when Li Hongyu was revising the syllabus of the Western Academy for the second half of the year, a guard came in and bowed down to report.

"Oh?"

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, and couldn't help but look at the guard, although the women around him are all pregnant, but he is now busy with official business and has no time to take care of those stormy things, I don't know why Yangzhou's intelligence network has such a strange news.

"That woman seems to be looking for Li Shenggongzi, I don't know what happened." The guard hadn't finished his report yet, and then said methodically.

"She's looking for Li Sheng?"

Li Hongyu's face suddenly showed a look of surprise, no wonder Yangzhou's intelligence network would pass on the news, it turned out to be related to "Huguang Li Sheng".

The person in charge of the Yangzhou intelligence network was the former guard around Li Hongyu, and he knew that Li Hongyu was Li Sheng of Huguang, so he passed on the news, probably not knowing what connection the woman had with him.

Because of the reputation of the world's first talent, Huguang Li Sheng is naturally admired by people, and many people want to ask for a piece of ink treasure of Li Shenggongzi, and they want to see Li Shenggongzi's demeanor.

Since the Oiran Conference in the first year of the Apocalypse, Li Hongyu has been busy dealing with the official business at hand, including overseas trade matters, as well as the chaos in Korea and outside the Guan, so Huguang Li Sheng naturally disappeared from people's sight.

But this did not reduce people's interest in Huguang Li Sheng in the slightest, but made Huguang Li Sheng have the reputation of being noble and disliking vulgar things, and he was sought after by people.

In fact, Li Hongyu was not surprised that someone was looking for Huguang Li Sheng, and to his surprise, Yangzhou's intelligence network would report the matter to him, so this means that there must be something different about the woman looking for him, so the intelligence person in Yangzhou reported it.

Today, Li Hongyu has set up a complete intelligence network in the Liangjing area and Jiangnan, the most important of which is the capital, followed by Yangzhou, which allows him to quickly get the movements of the court and the business community in Jiangnan.

"Do you know where that woman came from?"

Li Hongyu felt that the woman who was looking for him should have some unknown secrets, so he groaned for a while, and asked the guard quietly, maybe he could guess the origin of the other party from the identity and background of the other party.

"That woman came to Yangzhou in May, devoted herself to the Drunken Moon Pavilion, after a year of careful training by Aunt Hong of the Drunken Moon Pavilion, she officially performed in the Drunken Moon Pavilion in May this year, not only the color and art are unique but also the literary brilliance is extraordinary, known as the first talented woman in the south of the Yangtze River."

Hearing this, the guard bowed down and reported loudly, "As for the woman's background, I only know that she is from Suzhou, and I don't know anything else." ”

"Suzhou people?"

Li Hongyu's brows furrowed slightly, he had only been to Suzhou once, and nothing happened during the period, so he was suspicious of the woman's origin, presumably like Youlan, Liu Hongmei found someone to forge the woman's origin certificate.

"Young master, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not."

Just when Li Hongyu was secretly pondering the woman's life experience, the guard glanced up at Li Hongyu, hesitated for a moment and said seriously.

"What?" Li Hongyu felt that the guard seemed to have something unspeakable, so he asked in a deep voice.

"That woman has been in trouble recently, the son of the new Yangzhou prefect seems to have taken a fancy to him and wants to take him as a concubine, and now Aunt Hong of the Drunken Moon Pavilion is very embarrassed."

Hearing this, the guard replied in a deep voice, "Yangzhou doesn't know what the relationship between that woman and the young master is, so they reported the matter and asked the young master to decide." ”

"I see!"

Li Hongyu nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, no wonder the person in charge of the Yangzhou intelligence network would report the matter, it turned out that the woman was in trouble, although Liu Hongmei's Drunken Moon Pavilion had a backer behind her, but the other party was a local magnate in Yangzhou, so how could she be the opponent of the Yangzhou prefect?

Therefore, the Drunken Moon Pavilion will not be able to save the woman in the end, in case there is any relationship between the woman and Li Hongyu, then the situation will be serious, and the person in charge of the Yangzhou intelligence network will be derelict if he does not report it.

"Get ready, go to Yangzhou tomorrow."

After pondering for a while, Li Hongyu quickly made up his mind, put down the official document in his hand, stretched lazily, and opened his mouth to command the guard.

Yang Li'er has taken Chen Ting, who is also pregnant, back to the Cao Gang General Hall in Huai'an to raise the baby, where the two of them will undoubtedly be carefully cared for by Yang Li'er's mother, and at the same time, they will not cause trouble to Li Hongyu.

As a result, there is only one Sakurako Yamashita left in the concubine room next to Li Hongyu.

Yamashita Sakura disguised herself as a man and entered the Western Academy to study, which made his surroundings a lot cleaner all of a sudden, just took this opportunity to go to Yangzhou to relax, and by the way, let "Huguang Li Sheng" emerge, otherwise others would think that something happened to him who didn't show up for so long.

(End of chapter)