Chapter 204: The End of Donglin
It was night, and Sun Yueling, who returned to the house, was still immersed in the previous events, tossing and turning. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
There were so many things that had happened today, more than he could have imagined.
According to his understanding, Wei Zhongxian is very abnormal today, completely changing his usual arrogant and domineering style, first crying and repenting in front of the apocalypse, and winning the sympathy of the apocalypse. Later, in front of the apocalypse, he tried his best to praise the Donglin Party and strongly recommended him to be promoted to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
This is not over, after leaving the yamen of the military department, Wei Zhongxian actually found the second assistant Han Kuang, and repented of his sins in front of him, saying that he would turn enemies into friends with Donglin from now on, no longer fight, and tried to ease the current tense situation through him. It's a pity that Han Kuangyi sternly rejected Wei Zhongxian and scolded him loudly, making him die.
After bumping into Han Kuang, Wei Zhongxian immediately found Shoufu Ye Xianggao again, and confessed his guilt in front of him with tears in his eyes, hoping that Shoufu could focus on the overall situation, let him go of Wei's father-in-law, and stop killing him again. Ye Xianggao was different from Han Kuang, he expressed great sympathy and understanding for Wei Zhongxian's condescension and repentance, and also comforted and persuaded Wei Zhongxian, telling him that he no longer had to worry and be afraid, telling him that the people in Donglin did not actually plan to drive him out of the imperial court, but to assist the saint with him and do his best for the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding Wei Zhongxian's various actions, Sun Yueling was completely puzzled, this is not like the style of a nine-thousand-nine-hundred-year-old grandfather?
Could it be that this is just a tactic he has adopted to paralyze the entire Donglin Party?
Thinking of the situation when Mu Wan entered the Holy Lady that night, he felt even more sad in his heart, this may be the expedient measure that Mu Wan offered to Wei Eunuch.
Because of this, after Tianqi saw Wei Zhongxian's various "performances", he would only deeply think that he was a good minister who had no selfishness and was loyal to the country, not the leader of the country in Donglin's mouth.
-- This is completely retreating as advancing, secretly crossing Chen Cang.
Sun Yueling was shocked in his heart, if Zhao Nanxing still did not change his strategy at this time and continued to launch Donglin to launch a strong attack on the eunuchs, things would be in danger.
Thinking of this, he didn't feel sleepy at all, so he hurriedly got up in his clothes and shouted to his subordinates: "Prepare the car, I'm going to see Lord Zhao." ”
In the dead of night, a carriage drove out of the East Hall, through the streets and alleys, and came to the outside of Zhao Nanxing's mansion.
When he ordered someone to ring the knocker and convey the intention of revealing Zhao Nanxing, after a while, the housekeeper in the house walked out and said to him who was wandering left and right in front of the stone steps, unable to feel at ease: "My lord said it, I don't see it." ”
Sun Yueling was anxious, and was about to break into the Zhao Mansion, but the housekeeper said: "The lord also said that the gentleman is happy with his way, and the villain is happy with his desires, so the gentleman is not related to the villain, and the Tao is different and does not conspire with each other." Adults, please come back! ”
Sun Yueling felt a pain in his heart when he heard this, thinking that even if he saw Zhao Nanxing, who was as fierce as fire, he was afraid that it would be in vain to humiliate himself, sighed heavily, turned his head and said, "Let's go, let's go back." ”
At this time, a cold wind blew, blowing the yellow leaves on a big tree outside the mansion.
Sun Yueling stretched out his hand to take this lonely leaf, twisted it in his hand, turned around again and glanced at the majestic Zhao Mansion under the lights, lifted the curtain and boarded the car.
The carriage drove out, disappeared into the darkness, and finally disappeared.
The next day, Sun Yueling went to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to arrive at the usual point, preparing to handle the transfer to Dali Temple. However, to his surprise, the officials did not send anyone to handle the handover at all, as if this matter had never existed at all.
There was no movement on the side of the Ministry of War, and Zhao Yan, Li Banghua and others did not seem to have any intention of holding a "farewell party" for him, treating him as transparent air, and no longer assigning him to participate in the affairs of the Ministry of War.
Sun Yueling was embarrassed and distressed, and overnight, it seemed that he had become a public enemy of Donglin and was not treated well by anyone. However, there were exceptions, and some officials in the eunuch party actually greeted him when they saw him, although they never seemed to have a friendship on weekdays.
Seeing that his former colleagues were all busy with business, and he was the only one sitting in the hall with nothing to do, he felt very uncomfortable. Since the Yamen of the Ministry of War did not exist, then he could only go to Dali Temple alone to report and see what the situation was there.
In desperation, Sun Yueling left the military department by car and went to Dali Temple alone.
Dali Temple is one of the three legal divisions of the Ming Dynasty and is equivalent to the Supreme People's Court in later generations. In the early Ming Dynasty, Dali Temple is still very powerful, and also has the authority to participate in law enforcement, glory for a while, the duty is to review the criminal department transferred by the criminal department, the provincial criminal and civil cases, Beijing case; Review the cases of officials in Zhili, various provinces, and Beijing transferred by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the authority of Dali Temple was greatly weakened, and there was no law enforcement right, and only the case files could be verified and inspected, and it became an idle department.
After Sun Yueling arrived at Dali Temple, he was still not welcomed by Donglin officials, and only eunuchs such as Xu Dahua, a minister of Dali Temple, welcomed his arrival. But even so, he seems to be a superfluous person in Dali Temple, and there is nothing to be handled by him for the time being.
After three days like this, Sun Yueling finally felt the evil consequences of accepting the emperor's decree, although he had initially settled down in Dali Temple, and was also assigned to his own official room, but he was still an idler, and it was not his turn to intervene in anything.
Zhao Nanxing is really stubborn enough, and he still hasn't gone through the procedures for his transfer to Dali Temple, he hasn't changed into a fourth-grade official uniform, and he still wears a fifth-grade official uniform to swagger.
Sun Yueling was very helpless, such a day was simply eating and waiting for death, and he was despised. In a fit of rage, he came to the top and called himself sick, and he didn't use the excuse that he would die inside and be born outside, and he had long understood this truth, and decided to give it a try in this extraordinary period to see if he could survive this pass.
Maybe he will be overturned in the future, so it will be his turn to stand up, speak out righteously, save Donglin from fire and water, and let these colleagues and comrades-in-arms who spurn him see his painstaking efforts to be pointed out by thousands of people for the sake of the overall situation.
Just when he said that he was sick, the situation in the imperial court underwent subtle changes.
In the face of Donglin's huge momentum wave after wave, Grandpa Wei was actually "scared" and never dared to fight back against Donglin. The members of the eunuch party were also timid under this atmosphere of covering the sky and the sun and saliva, and they all cowered to protect themselves, and no one dared to stand up to support Grandpa Wei.
At present, Wei Zhongxian has lost his power and will be driven away from the imperial court sooner or later.
At this time, Tianqi actually summoned Ye Xianggao and asked him to spin it out and calm down the turmoil. After Ye Xiang Gao Bing's holy will, he found Zhao Nanxing again to discuss, but he didn't know that Zhao Nanxing didn't show any affection and vigorously criticized him.
Ye Xianggao had no choice but to find other officials in Donglin to persuade him. However, his behavior was opposed by a group of Donglin Zhichen, saying that he ignored morality, flattered the Son of Heaven, and shielded the eunuchs, and such an act was undoubtedly a traitor.
All of a sudden, the recitals of the impeachment of Ye Xianggao also flew to the front of the Apocalypse Dragon Book case, and even more played the list of things that he repeatedly shielded Wei Zhongxian, said for him, and let it go, and regarded Ye Xianggao as an incompetent chief assistant who did not care about the general situation of the imperial court, did not consider the government and politics, and only knew how to protect himself.
Apocalypse's dictation Ye Xianggao failed to do it, and had to bear the verbal criticism from his internal colleagues, under the pressure from the upper and lower ends, Ye Xianggao finally couldn't hold on, like Sun Yueling, and soon said that he was sick and retired, and went to the house to recuperate.
Ye Xianggao went to the first day, and the last gate that restrained the Donglin Party opened. Zhao Nanxing no longer had any scruples, and led the Donglin officials to launch a final onslaught against Wei Zhongxian.
But the turn of events was beyond the expectations of all Donglin officials. A few days later, the Holy Decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse came down, and the first to bear the brunt of the fierce generals Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, who had been leading the battle for Donglin, reprimanded Yang Lian for "no courtesy and great disrespect", dismissed him, and ordered him to leave Beijing; Zuo Guangdou also "enjoyed" the same treatment as Yang Lian, seized his position, and drove him away from Beijing.
After several fierce generals in the Eastern Forest were cut by the Apocalypse, everyone had already stopped the matter abruptly. Unexpectedly, within a few days, the will of the Apocalypse was issued again, this time different from the last time, the sharp point was directed at Zhao Nanxing, the leader of the Donglin Party, in this holy decree, he was reproached to Zhao Nanxing for "conspiring to form a party, and there was no monarch and minister", and he counted all kinds of sins since he became a courtier in the early years of the Apocalypse, and finally came to a summary: Zhao Nanxing coerced Donglin to be powerful, arbitrary, disregarded the law, and committed a heinous crime, denounced it as the people, and sought to kill the state.
In this holy decree, not only Zhao Nanxing, but also many Donglin gentlemen who had "made a fool of himself and disturbed the court" for him were severely reprimanded, including Zuodu Yushi Gao Panlong, Wei Dazhong in the official department, Zhou Shunchang and others, and even Li Ruobing, who cared about the palace and concurrently served as the Guozijian wandering business, was also among them.
Except for Zhao Nanxing, who was assigned, these people were just deposed and lost their official positions. However, the will of the Apocalypse also stated very indignantly that let these people leave the capital within three days, and if there is no emperor's order, they will not be allowed to step into the capital division for half a step.
It can be seen how strong the anger of the apocalypse is against Donglin, and he can't wait to let them get out of Beijing City immediately.
Sun Yueling, who got the news, was shocked, but he didn't expect that within a few days, things would turn so far. But at the same time, I also felt extremely helpless, the wheel of history rolled forward, crushing everything, and did not change because of his appearance.
The Donglin Party finally ushered in the complete destruction under Zhao Nanxing's insistence, and there was no room for maneuver.
All of a sudden, there was a rumor in the capital, and the government and the opposition shook.
Since the end of Wanli, the Donglin Party that has been in charge of the government for many years has finally stepped down the big stage of history, whether it is the party leader, the elder, the important minister, in this struggle with the eunuch party, suffered a complete defeat, the distribution of the distribution, the expulsion of the expulsion, above the court, the cadres of the Donglin Party will be empty, and the situation of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty has come to an end, and entered the West Mountain.
However, this is not the end, after the expulsion of the minister of Donglin, Tianqi listened to Wei Zhongxian's advice and dismissed Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and replaced him with Tian Ergeng; The Fusi of Beizhen no longer has Liu Qiao's jurisdiction, and is replaced by Wei Qian's henchman Xu Xianchun.
At this point, with the decline of Donglin, the factory guard system has completely become Wei Zhongxian's power and has become a tool for Wei Zhongxian's control.
Sun Yueling was most worried about his master Li Ruobing at this time, because Li Ruobing was also on the list of expulsions. He was so anxious that he quickly turned to the main hall, if Li Ruobing left the capital division, he would have to see him for the last time.
When he rode his horse to the main hall of concern located on Shijuma Street, he saw hundreds of Jinyi captains from a distance to drain the water around the hall, Sun Yueling was shocked, he didn't know what was happening, and hurriedly urged the horse forward.
As soon as he arrived at the periphery of the Jinyi Guard's crowd, before he could get off the horse, a captain stretched out his hand to stop him and shouted: "The Jinyi Guard is on an errand, and the idlers are avoiding." ”
"Don't stop Lord Sun!" With a loud shout, Zhang Yinglong rushed out, drank the man back, and said to Sun Yueling, "My lord, you are here." ”
"What's going on?" Sun Yueling suppressed his shaking heart and hurriedly asked him.
Zhang Yinglong looked back, lowered his voice and said to him: "Don't hide it, Lord Xu has been ordered by the palace, and this time he is here to ban the ...... who cares about the mansion."
"What?" Sun Yueling was shocked, he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian's actions to be so fast, he had just defeated the Donglin Party, and now he was constantly trying to ban the Concern Hall.
Zhang Yinglong looked helpless and said, "My lord, we are also acting on orders, and we have to ...... it."
"It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself." Sun Yueling comforted, "Is my master Li Ruobing still inside?" ”
"Yes, he's still in the church." Zhang Yinglong said, and said to his subordinates, "Don't get out of the way, let Master Sun in." ”
Sun Yueling jumped off the horse, led by Zhang Yinglong, stepped through the crowd, and went inside. When I walked to the innermost circumference, I saw that Xu Xianchun, Cui Yingyuan, Sun Yunhe and other family members were there, and they didn't look at them, so they strode towards the stone steps of the care hall.
When he stepped on the three-story stone steps, Xu Xianchun's compassionate voice came from behind, "Master Sun, even if you came in time, otherwise, you won't be able to see the last side of the Lingshi, haha!" "The voice is extremely arrogant and complacent.
Sun Yueling's body paused slightly when he heard this, and then he stepped in again, as if he had not heard of his words.
"Sun Yueling!" Xu Xianchun was angry and shouted at his back, "This time I was ordered to seal the Concern Hall, for Li Ruobing's sake, I will only give you an hour's time." Tell Li Ruobing, if you don't leave by then, don't blame me for attacking the mansion. ”
Sun Yueling turned around suddenly, his eyes swelled, and he glared at him angrily and said, "It's up to you?" ”
Xu Xianchun didn't expect him to be so arrogant, he was taken by his momentum, he couldn't help but take a step back, and then his face was full of cruelty, and he shouted unconvinced: "I am acting on the orders of the emperor, do you dare to disobey the holy will?" ”
Sun Yueling stared at him and said word by word: "Listen, if you dare to step on this step for half a step, I will be the first to cut you." After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Xu Xianchun, who was so angry that his face was flushed, turned around and walked into the house. (To be continued.) )