No. 054 Strange political situation

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At this moment, Ruan Dacheng published an article "The Reason for the Trapping of Lonely Loyalty" to defend himself, venting the grievances and resentments that have been suppressed in his heart for many years.

Shu Zhong claimed that he had nothing to do with the "eunuch party" and not only refused Wei Zhongxian's appointment, but also privately dissuaded others from following Wei Zhongxian, and it was unreasonable to call him a "eunuch party." It is the vicious slander and attack of some people.

He also claimed in his recital that some of the people who had attacked him as villains had now surrendered to the traitors and become puppet officials of the puppet dynasty.

In the recital, he gave a few examples, talking about Kechen Guang Shiheng, in order to keep the Emperor Lie, as a gift to meet the thief, he actually used great righteousness to provoke and resist the Emperor's move south.

talked about the talented Gong Dingyu, and said that after he surrendered to the thief, everyone said "I was going to die, but the concubine refused".

He also talked about Zhou Zhong, who was a great rebel and persuaded him to go into the Yangtze River, and sent a letter to persuade the thief to settle in Jiangnan as soon as possible, sending a letter to his son, calling the thief the new master, and praising his heroic, benevolent and benevolent and long, so as to confuse relatives and friends in the southeast.

At the end of the recital, he asks aloud: Who are the true loyal ministers? Is it him or the "retainers" who attacked him?

Ruan Dacheng's accusation is as bloody as a sharp knife in the hearts of the children of Donglin and Fushe in the southern capital, and the gentleman who renegade when the northern capital fell has indeed lost face to the scholars in the world. Gong Dingxiao, Guang Shihengxiang is the best among gentlemen, as a child of Donglin Fushe, their renegade gave everyone a resounding slap in the face, Ruan Dacheng used this to refute Donglin's slander, which made them speechless.

After the content of the song was made public to the world, Zhu Youhua took the opportunity to separate the relationship between Ruan Dacheng and the eunuch party, saying that he would not overturn the reverse case, and also said that Ruan Dacheng was wronged and implicated, and he just couldn't bear to be good, and it had nothing to do with the reverse case.

Ruan Dacheng was originally friendly with Donglin Party Zuo Guangdou and others, but he was not a hardcore Donglin Party, once Ruan Dacheng and Donglin Brother Wei Dazhong had a conflict in personnel, Donglin Party after weighing, made a decision to defend Wei Dazhong and sacrifice Ruan Dacheng, Ruan Dacheng was angry, and exposed to the court the dark inside story of the Donglin Party's formation of party and selfishness, specializing in conspiracy and trickery.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian was aware of the small actions of the Donglin party, and was about to find an opportunity to get a guy, Ruan Dacheng's performance made him like a treasure, so he arrested Wang Wenyan, a conspirator in the Donglin party, and prepared to follow the vine. But because of the collective rescue of the Donglin Party, Wei Zhongxian gave up.

Therefore, the Donglin Party hated Ruan Dacheng to the core, and regarded him as a "eunuch party", which really wronged Ruan Dacheng, at that time, Wang Wenyan, Wei Dazhong and others of the Donglin Party were indeed secretly manipulating personnel, and Ruan Dacheng's impeachment of them was not unreasonable.

After Ruan Dacheng exposed Donglin, in order to avoid retaliation, he resigned and went home. Later, the Donglin party started a war against Wei Zhongxian, which caused a catastrophe, and Wei Zhongxian cleaned up Donglin and used Ruan Dacheng as Taichang Shaoqing, but Ruan Dacheng did not fall into the well, nor did he have a big name, and he only worked for more than two months and then went into hiding again, and broke off the relationship with Wei Zhongxian.

It is precisely because he kept an appropriate distance from Wei Zhongxian that when Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian and was implicated in the upper limit of the platform, although he was also labeled as a eunuch and entered the list, he was sentenced very lightly and was only "on the ransom for the people".

Strictly speaking, Ruan Dacheng was indeed wronged, and Zhu Youhua's reply was also justified.

The emperor's reply resettled the hearts of most of the courtiers, and instead of coaxing the diehards, they successfully defused the offensive launched by Zuo Guangxian.

Although there were still some officials who were still chattering, the emperor insisted on refusing to remove Ruan Dacheng, and they had no choice but to resign.

In this incident, Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the left capital, took the lead in demanding the removal of Ruan Dacheng, Zhu Youhua did not expect that he had always been fair and selfless, and he showed his outstanding face before, and finally fell into the arms of the Donglin Party and served the interests of the Donglin Party. He deplored it greatly.

Liu Zongzhou's character is from the east, alias Niantai, a native of Shanyin (now Shaoxing) in Zhejiang. Wanli twenty-nine years of Jinshi. He is honest and upright, has very strict ethics, and often dares to resist and speak out, and although he has been repeatedly belittled, he will never change his will. And because he is not an official, he often lectures in Shanyin Qishan, so later generations respectfully call him Mr. Qishan.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were only two recognized Confucian masters, one was Wang Yangming, the founder of Xinxue, and the other was him, Liu Zongzhou.

In addition to being proficient in Confucianism, Liu Zongzhou is known for his outspokenness.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Liu Zongzhou, who had just been appointed as the head of the Ministry of Rites, did a big thing, impeached Wei Zhongxian, and compared Wei Zhongxian with Zhao Gao, a famous eunuch in history, and offended Wei Zhongxian.

Three years later, in order to support Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others who were persecuted by the eunuchs, Liu Zongzhou once again impeached Wei Zhongxian, bluntly saying that the Wei eunuchs stole power and brought disaster to the country and the people and should be severely punished. Therefore, he was severely punished by the apocalypse, dismissed from his post for the people, and expelled from the capital.

During the Chongzhen period, Liu Zongzhou went out of the mountain again to serve as the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, and he still maintained his true colors during his tenure, and he gave opinions every day, so even Chongzhen, who loves more seriously, has to admit that Liu Zongzhou is "honest and outspoken, and the courtiers can't do it".

After the fall of Beijing and the martyrdom of the emperor, Liu Zongzhou, who was dismissed from his hometown in Zhejiang, heard the bad news, he did not hesitate to choose to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and immediately devoted himself to the action of saving the imperial court from peril, Liu Zongzhou walked to Hangzhou alone with a spear, and asked Hangzhou Governor Huang Mingjun to mourn for Chongzhen and raise troops to fight for thieves, although Huang Mingjun reluctantly agreed to mourn, but for the matter of raising troops, Liu Zongzhou and the former waiter Zhu Dadian, before Zhang Zhengchen and others recruited volunteers to plan to go north.

At this time, Fu Fan succeeded to the throne in Nanjing and inherited the Ming legal system.

After the formation of the Zhangwu regime, Liu Zongzhou was reactivated, Liu Zongzhou did not change his loyal and straight nature, since he was appointed as the left governor of the Imperial Palace, from the national policy of the imperial court to the daily life of the emperor, Liu Zongzhou likes to insert a bar.

And for this old minister who has a very high reputation and has been in three dynasties. Zhu Youhua is also very face-saving.

For example, once, Liu Zongzhou, who was good at observing details, found that the emperor had some alcohol on his body, so he advised him that he hoped that the emperor could take it as his responsibility to save the common people, take care of his body, and quit drinking.

Although Zhu Youhua was only a rare drinker, he knew that Liu Zongzhou said this out of public intentions, so he sincerely agreed.

The emperor humbly accepted the advice, Liu Zongzhou was happy and a little embarrassed at the same time, so he relaxed a little, if he only drank one cup at a time, it would be nothing.

Zhu Youhua said very happily, just do as you say.

In this way, although Zhu Youhua had a stiff relationship with some Donglin ministers, his relationship with Liu Zongzhou was still quite harmonious.

After ascending the throne for more than a month, in addition to some etiquette trivialities, Liu Zongzhou did put forward some reliable suggestions.

For example, when the ministers of the southern capital were discussing the joint capture and extermination of the Kou, Liu Zongzhou put forward the strategic idea of "Imperial Driving and Conquering the Kou", opposing the joint capture of the Kou, he proposed: "Today's big plan, giving up the revenge of the thief, can not show His Majesty's heart to cross the river; If you don't make a resolute decision, you can't be loyal to the world."

Liu Zongzhou believes that the central capital Fengyang is strategically located, "choking Xu and Huai in the east, controlling Yuzhou in the north, Gujing and Xiang in the west, and Jinling in the south." ā€

Liu Zongzhou also suggested that the emperor personally control the forbidden army, the commander of the Beijing camp, and sleep arbitrarily.

If the emperor led his army into Fengyang, he would be able to control the Quartet and use it as a base for the Northern Expedition. In this way, Qin, Jin, Yan, and Qi will have those who respond.

The emperor's personal expedition is conducive to the development of military strength and the improvement of the appeal and cohesion of the imperial court.

The reason why it was not adopted by Zhu Youhua is due to many reasons.

First, Zhu Youhua still lacked sufficient power at that time, including the use of human rights, financial power, and military power, which were all constrained by the real power faction in Donglin, and it was difficult for him to show his strength.

Second, although the Beijing battalion in Nanjing had more than 60,000 troops, it had long been like rotten wood and could not afford to fight a war, and it was an army in name only that could manage public security.

Thirdly, and most importantly, this is the main point. In view of the filthy relationship with the Donglin Party over the past few days, Zhu Youhua has every reason to believe that the Donglin Party definitely has the intention of setting up a new monarch, and he is afraid that as soon as he leaves Nanjing, the Donglin Party will copy his old bottom and set up a new monarch in Nanjing, and set up a new monarch in Nanjing, and set him up! Thinking of Liu Zongzhou's Donglin background, Zhu Youhua couldn't be sure if this was a conspiracy of Donglin, and borrowed Liu Zongzhou's hand to achieve his goal of overthrowing himself, so for the sake of conservatism, he rejected Liu Zongzhou's pro-conquest proposal.

Crack down on the Donglin Party members who hold real power, control the Donglin Party members who are willing to obey, and win over the Donglin Party members who have reputation and remain neutral. This is the strategy that Zhu Youhua has been insisting on pursuing in dealing with the Donglin Party since he ascended the throne. Fighting a batch, pulling a batch, and collecting another batch, there is both struggle and unity. Only in this way can the power of the Donglin Party, which is already so strong that it makes him fearful, be weakened to the greatest extent. Zhu Youhua's plan in his heart is exactly like this.

And Liu Zongzhou belongs to the third category, which is the part that Zhu Youhua has always wanted to try his best to win over and then collect it for his own use. This is the harmonious relationship between the monarch and the minister since he ascended the throne for more than a month.

However, now the situation is completely different, at the critical moment when Zhu Youhua was ready to pull people to help him control the government, Liu Zong, who had upheld a fair and neutral attitude before the Zhou Zhou reform, actually turned to the side of the Donglin Party and advocated for them.

Is it really the ass that decides the head?!

Since you are so ignorant of current affairs, then don't blame me, Mr. Liu!