Chapter 18: Bloody Rain
is different from the scene of Wang Chengen's hot inspection of gold and silver, in front of Cao Huachun, it is a bloody storm. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
From Wei Zhongxian was ordered to guard the spirit of the White Tiger Palace, and after the master of ceremonies changed hands, the Wei Party in the inner court began to be liquidated one by one.
The 12 prisons, the 4th division, and the 8th bureau, a total of 24 inner court yamen, successively cleaned up five batches of Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tiqian, and other cronies.
The first batch of people were of course the backbone of the Wei Party who had already mastered their names and positions, and then the cronies and henchmen who had confessed to these backbones, and then these henchmen confessed to others.
There are also those who have been exposed, but they can't be confirmed, but no matter what, Cao Huachun doesn't have the heart to confirm anything, after all, the most creatures in the palace are eunuchs.
One group is brought in, tortured and killed, and then the next batch is captured.
In this way, for several days in a row, Cao Huachun, Zhang Yixian, Gao Qiqian, Du Xun and others successively killed more than 1,600 people in the inner teaching field outside the Xihua Gate, in the abandoned elephant room, and in the economic factory of the celebrant eunuch.
Of course, Zhu Daming couldn't bear it, but what could he do if he didn't. This is not only a kind of liquidation of the Wei Party in the inner court, but also a means of establishing authority, and the killing of Xu Yingyuan with a cane is out of the consideration of prestige.
Xu Yingyuan was originally a person from the Xinwang Mansion, but he received Wei Zhongxian's favor in the palace before entering the Xinwang Mansion, which cannot be regarded as a sin, and Zhu Daming will not deal with him because of this, he will be dealt with because he intercedes for Xu Dahua, a close confidant of Wei Zhongxian.
In history, when Emperor Chongzhen was about to execute Wei Zhongxian, this Xu Yingyuan ran out to intercede for Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen was furious, but he only beat him with a hundred rods, and then sent him to Nanjing to continue to be a eunuch.
This time, Zhu Daming's method of dealing with Wei Zhongxian was faster, and he didn't discuss it in the court at all, so Xu Yingyuan didn't have time to intercede for him.
But when Cao Huachun arrested Xu Dahua, Xu Dahua sent someone to find him with a lot of money, also because he and Xu Dahua entered the palace at the same time, suffered together, suffered crimes, and did have a little friendship, so he ran out to intercede for Xu Dahua, thinking that Chongzhen Nian gave him a little thin face in the love of being an old man in Qiandi.
However, Zhu Daming is now trying to restore the system of Zhu Yuanzhang's period, and the eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, so he is worried that these old people in the Qiandi period will be pampered and arrogant in the future.
The result can be imagined, before the hundred rods are finished, they will die with a whimper.
After killing Xu Yingyuan with a cane, Cao Huachun and other eunuchs in the inner court who are now in power have suddenly reined in a lot, knowing that the eunuch is the emperor's house slave, and the emperor will not forgive your mistakes or mistakes because you have made meritorious contributions in the past, and the awe of the emperor has increased a lot at once.
Of course, Gao Shiming has faced the bloody storm in the past few days.
After Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun committed suicide, all the high-ranking officials of Jinyiwei in Beijing were arrested and imprisoned in Dongchang, which was once full and has now been emptied.
All of a sudden, the prison in Dongchang became a slaughterhouse, and hundreds of corpses were pulled out by horse-drawn carts every day to be burned.
And those sons and daughters of civil and military generals, who have the hereditary official rank of Jinyi Wei more than 100 households, and lead the Jinyi Guard, but have no actual position, that is, those who used to be registered for empty pay but did not go to work are also ordered to report to the Jinyi Guard Command Envoy Si Yamen in the imperial city and on the west side of the noon gate within 30 days, and receive the actual position, otherwise they will be punished for leaving their duties without permission.
At this time, the sons, including Sun Chengzong's sons and grandsons, were also affected, and had to hurry into Beijing to report to Jinyiwei, because Sun Chengzong's third and fifth sons Sun Zhan and Sun Key, as well as the eldest grandson Sun Zhixin, are not reading materials, there is no fame, and he is fond of practicing martial arts, so as early as the Apocalypse, he was awarded the title of Jinyiwei by Zhu Youxiao, the two sons are thousands of households, and the eldest grandson is a hundred households.
Sun Chengzong's sons and grandsons, who were awarded the title of Jinyi Wei, of course, did not receive a real position in history, but it was just an honorary title, and they were just a piece of money, and they all died on the battlefield of the defense of Gaoyang.
Now Zhu Daming's approach has changed their fate and made them usher in a completely different life.
For Zhu Daming, this is also a way to do it, there are nearly 60,000 people in Jinyiwei, all over the two capitals and thirteen provinces, but the people who actually work are less than half.
The divisions of the Jinyi Guard, the thousands of households, and the hundred households, like other guards, most of the personnel are hereditary, and now some of them are extinct, but they have been impersonated by their superiors.
Some are purely honorary, such as the brocade clothes and guards awarded by the emperor, and the bare collar does not work, which also accounts for a part of the proportion.
In addition, too many Jinyiwei in Beijing were killed this time, and if some new forces were not added, wouldn't it be in vain to blind the golden signboard of Jinyiwei, after all, Zhu Daming still wants to use Jinyiwei, if Jinyiwei is in the hands of the emperor and operates according to its own duties, it can still play a great role.
Wang Guoxing has been promoted by Zhu Daming to the rank of commander and governor of Jinyiwei, and appointed as the pacification envoy of Jinyiwei North Zhenfu Division, and he is responsible for the daily affairs of Jinyiwei when there is no commander for the time being.
The Yiluan Division was changed back to its original name by Zhu Daming, that is, the Gongwei Division.
After the Yiluan Division was renamed the Gongwei Division, the authority was expanded, and the defense of the entire inner courtyard of the Forbidden Palace was supervised by the Gongwei Division of the Jinyi Guard, of course, it was still supervised by the Bingbi eunuch Gao Shiming, but the command of the Gongwei Division was personally selected and appointed by Zhu Daming.
This person's name is Gao Wencai, of course, this person has nothing to do with Gao Shiming.
Wang Chengen first selected a group of suitable candidates with clean family backgrounds from among the officials of the Jinyi Guard who had been purged, and selected them for the emperor.
From a large number of names, the emperor unexpectedly selected this Gao Wencai who looked ordinary, had an ordinary family background, and even ordinary martial arts.
This Gao Wencai, who is not amazing, is in his thirties, has a hereditary Jinyi Wei Qianhu's false title, Wei Zhongxian and Tian Ergeng controlled Jinyiwei, of course, they have been in a state of being unemployed at home, and now such a person, as long as he withstands the scrutiny of Gao Shiming and Fangzhenghua, he will immediately become a sweetheart, because there are many vacancies in the high-level positions of Jinyiwei.
And Gao Wencai was selected to become the commander of the Gongwei Division of the First Division of Jinyi Guards today because he has a good name.
Of course, others don't know what's so special about this name. Only Zhu Daming knows what is special about him.
Because Zhu Daming saw it in a book in later generations. It was this Gao Wencai, on the night of the break in Beijing, organized the army and the people to continue to fiercely resist the Dashun army, and the next day after hearing that Emperor Chongzhen had committed suicide in the coal mountain, he returned home and hanged himself with the rest of the 14 members of the family to martyrdom.
Such a person, if Zhu Daming doesn't know his name, then forget it, now that he knows it, he must reuse it.