Before Su Maoxiang, Zhou Yanru, Xie Xuelong and others took office in Nanjing, when they collectively entered the palace and resigned, Emperor Chongzhen told them that after arriving in Nanjing, they would hand over government affairs to their predecessors as soon as possible, and wait until the overall situation in Nanjing was stable before unfolding the new policy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These people are all people who have been in the officialdom for many years and have been up and down in the sea for a long time, even the young Zhou Yanru has more than ten years of officialdom experience, so he naturally knows what the emperor means by this.

The dismissal of Qian Xiangkun, Zheng Sanjun, Qian Shisheng, Zhang Yandeng and other Nanjing ministers, as well as the imprisonment of Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin and Jiangnan literary circles, and the demotion of Hui Shiyang, a high-ranking official of the Donglin Party, have caused dissatisfaction among some officials and scholars in the southern capital.

Therefore, after these people arrived in Nanjing, in addition to handing over government affairs to their predecessors who had been dismissed, they were quietly waiting for the signal that the overall situation in Nanjing was decided.

And Wang Zhixin, Luo Yangxing, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, united with some nobles to plan to arrest another group of nobles who held real power and opposed the great policy of opening the sea, which was a signal that the overall situation in Nanjing had been decided.

At this time, these people met and informed each other of the situation, and they were all relieved.

Jia Jichun, a member of the imperial court who had just come to Nanjing two days ago to handle the case, said: "Since all the nobles arrested by the Holy Decree have now been imprisoned, in the opinion of this official, the facts of the Southern Capital should not be delayed for too long. If the imperial court has already made a will, it is better to summon the people of Jiangnan as soon as possible. ”

The will that Jia Jichun said was, of course, not the edict of the imperial court to open the sea, because this edict of opening the sea had already spread all over the south of the Yangtze River and the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang.

The will he said was about demoting Hui Shiyang to Qiongzhou, confiscating all the property of Qian Qianyi's father, mother and wife, and exile him to Dongfan.

Jia Jichun was born in the periphery of the eunuch party, and during the apocalypse, he and Hui Shiyang, Qian Qianyi and others often wrote to each other to attack each other, at this time, Emperor Chongzhen dealt with Hui Shiyang, exiled Qian Qianyi, and handed him over to the former eunuch party member to execute, which made him feel sincerely happy.

Jia Jichun is a political opportunist, and at the same time a real villain who does not take revenge overnight, at this time, seeing that the overall situation of Nanjing has been decided, he immediately proposed to implement the existing resolutions of the imperial court as soon as possible.

After listening to Jia Jichun's words, Wang Zhixin immediately said: "Our family thinks that Lord Jia's words are reasonable. This time, the overall situation of the Beijing camp and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has been decided, and those who intend to plot against each other will not be able to make any big waves. Besides, Master Jia is the one who tried and handled this case, no matter what Lord Jia does, our family will fully support it. ”

After Wang Zhixin said this, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, and Luo Yangxing, the envoy of Nanzhen, also nodded.

Wang Zhixin is a eunuch in Nanjing, and when he says this, others naturally have nothing to say.

In the afternoon of the same day, these people agreed on a report to Emperor Chongzhen, and sent someone to speed up 600 miles to the north to deliver it.

Early the next morning, Wang Zhixin and Luo Yangxing accompanied Jia Jichun and other officials of the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate to the prison of Fusi in Nanzhen, and conveyed the imperial court's decision to deal with them to Hui Shiyang and Qian Qianyi respectively.

After listening to the emperor's treatment of him, Hui Shiyang was silent for a long time before kowtowing and saying, "The ministers are grateful!" ”

As a minister from the Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department, he knows very well the attitude of the Chongzhen Emperor to the party struggle, when he learned that he wrote against the opening of the sea, and was actually characterized as forming a party for personal gain, he was discouraged at that time, and soon under the "enlightenment" of Luo's cultivation, he understood the truth that heroes do not suffer immediate losses.

He once participated in the whole process of the court's handling of the eunuch case, he was high-spirited at that time, and he was ruthless, but all the eunuch party officials, either beheaded and copied the family, or the family was exiled, and the heavy ones were never light, so they won the high praise of many Donglin colleagues, and in the circle of the Donglin Party people, the status and popularity of the people directly caught up with Qian Qianyi and others who sat in the south of the Yangtze River and devoted themselves to learning and raising fame.

Therefore, when he knew that he was also characterized as a party for personal gain, he did not dare to hope that he would be able to keep his official status, and he would be able to serve in a different place and continue to be an official.

Therefore, when he listened to his former political enemy Jia Jichun and finished reciting the holy decree, although he was extremely reluctant, he still kowtowed in a trance, received the decree, and thanked him.

And Qian Qianyi, who was imprisoned not far away, vaguely heard the court's treatment of Hui Shiyang, and also had hope in his heart, thinking that Hui Shiyang was the current political envoy, and he was convicted of forming a party for personal gain, but he was just demoted to Qiongzhou Mansion and then became an official, and the punishment was not heavy, he was already a person who had been dismissed from the official at home, how else could the court deal with it?

But what he didn't expect was that when Jia Jichun read out the court's handling of himself with a slow look of malice and contempt, Qian Qianyi was stunned.

It wasn't until Jia Jichun, a former political enemy, finished reciting the holy decree and couldn't help sneering at himself that Qian Qianyi reacted, kowtowing and shouting: "Impossible!" No way! Your Majesty must have made a mistake! Weichen has been wronged, Your Majesty! ”

Seeing Qian Qianyi like this, knowing that he was not convinced, Jia Jichun put away the holy decree and said to him: "Mr. Yu Shan thinks Your Majesty has made a mistake? Is it your identity that you are mistaken, or is it your crime that you are mistaken? Or do you think that His Majesty doesn't know how to govern the country and raise soldiers, and needs your Mr. Yu Shan to go out of the mountain to assist?! ”

After Jia Jichun said this, he saw Qian Qianyi looking at himself in a daze, no longer shouting and shouting grievances, and then said: "You Donglin Party members always boast of being Shilin Qingliu, thinking that the world is in your hands, and you think that you have the great deal of righteousness!"

"When you are above the temple, you always think about excluding dissidents and swaying the situation, but when you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you still don't want to let go, you always think about the party and fighting against differences, and inciting the Qing Dynasty. Isn't this what a courtier should do?!

"Er Donglin always thought that he could have both fame and fortune in the world, and he wanted to be famous and profitable. If you only pay attention to your name, the official will respect you a little, but if you want to clear your name, you still want to regain profit, and you always want to gain fame and fortune. How can there be such a good thing in this world?

"The opening of the sea by the imperial court is of great benefit to the country and the people, and you are either rich or expensive, and you are in the south of the Yangtze River, how can you not know this truth? From the official's point of view, it's not that you don't understand, but you're just confused by your own selfish interests! ”

After listening to what Jia Jichun said, Qian Qianyi was silent for a long time, until Wang Zhizhi was impatient and stepped forward and shouted: "Qian Qianyi, you still don't receive the order to thank you?!" ”

Luo Yangxing also said: "Qian Qianyi, you were born in Jinshi, you used to be Hanlin, you touched your conscience and said, the imperial court has ever owed you, and you have made friends in Suzhou in the name of opening the door to give lectures, and criticized the government, and these words of this official have not wronged you at all!" You are from Hanlin, and you should know the punishment of forming a party for personal gain in the Ming Law. Now you are guilty of forming a party for personal gain, and the court does not kill one of your three clans of the Qian family, but you are still crying out for injustice?! This official looks at you, this is just not knowing life or death! ”

Hearing this, Qian Qianyi, who had been silently with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes, looked at the three people in front of him and the fierce Nanzhen Fusi Jinyi guards inside and outside the cell, and said slowly: "Grass people Qian Qianyi received the order and thanked him!" ”

After saying this, Qian Qianyi kowtowed on the ground and fell to the ground.

At this moment, he really realized that he was the only one who had been difficult to die through the ages, and he was not a qualified leader after all, he couldn't be like Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong and other leaders of the older generation of Donglin who looked at death as home, and even couldn't be tortured like Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou and others.

Because deep down in his heart, he knows that the Donglin relationship network woven through the relationship between teachers and students is just a stepping stone for him to climb up in Vanity Fair, and there is no real faith in it.

And now the Donglin Party who have lost their original intention is just a group of Jiangnan gentry interest groups that intersect with profit.

Since the emperor has seen this clearly, or since the emperor has determined this, then the goal he wants to achieve by continuing to weave this network of relationships is already doomed to be unattainable, and all thoughts are in vain for a while.

The news of Hui Shiyang and Qian Qianyi's confession in prison spread throughout the Nanjing officialdom the next day, plus several Hou Bo families, who were originally invincible, were also taken to prison by the Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi, and the Nanjing officialdom, which had been surging undercurrents, soon fell into a death-like silence.

Historically, civil officials and nobles have formed a party, and no matter what the reason, they are destined to not end well.

Therefore, once the matter is involved in such a group of noble families, no one knows the depth of it, and they dare not wade into this troubled water.

And the scholars of Nanzhili Prefecture, especially Susong and Susong, the strongholds of the Donglin Party, did not dare to gather at every turn to denounce the traitors above the court as they did in the Wanli and Tianqi periods, except for a few complaints in the wine shops, teahouses and even brothels.

First, now the emperor and the cabinet ministers have been cheered and praised by these Jiangnan scholars when they disposed of the eunuch party a year ago.

Second, the confessions of Hui Shiyang and Qian Qianyi have also been spread all over Jiangnan through the imperial court's Mingfa Di newspaper. I have already confessed my sins, what else can these scholars and scholars say?

Moreover, the opening of the sea and trade by the imperial court was beneficial to those scholars and scholars who were born in small and medium-sized landlords and industrial and commercial classes, and their hearts were not opposed.

So in the next few days, Wang Zhichen, Luo Yangxing, Xu Hongji, Jia Jichun and others did not wait for the petition or gathering of scholars that might be triggered by the disposal of Qian Qianyi, and everything went smoothly and unexpectedly.