After Emperor Chongzhen's latest decree arrived in Nanjing, Su Maoxiang, Zhou Yanru, Jia Jichun and a group of officials in Nanjing were not surprised. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Especially for the death of those Nanjing nobles, except for the other Nanjing nobles who were a little trembling, none of these officials from Beijing were surprised.

The current emperor once was able to make a big move in Beijing because of a very small thing, and killed the noble family of the Beijing master and the nobles in a river of blood, and from this point of view alone, the emperor will not show mercy to these Nanjing nobles who are now arrested in prison.

On the contrary, he still took good care of the civil officials in Nanjing, except for Zhishi, who was demoted and transferred, not only did not kill anyone, but even cut his nationality.

This also relieved several high-ranking officials who came to Nanjing from Beijing.

They came here to do something, but if they intensified the contradictions and got into disagreement with the original officials in Nanjing, what would they do in the future?

Therefore, on the day after the holy decree was transmitted to Nanjing, Zhou Yanru, Su Maoxiang, Xie Xuelong, Jia Jichun and others went separately to visit several high-ranking officials of the former Yugoslavia who were exempted from official duties at home, and while conveying the will, they also respectfully sent Qian Xiangkun, Zheng Sanjun and others away from Nanjing.

And that night, Jia Jichun, together with Wang Zhixin and Luo Yangxing, went to Fusi Prison in Jinyi Weinan Town.

The next day, the news that Zhang Gongri, the former Marquis of Boping, Tang Guozuo, the Marquis of Lingbi, Zhao Zhilong, and Jiao Mengxiong, Bo of Xincheng, committed suicide in prison in fear of crime, spread throughout the city of Nanjing.

In the Nanjing officialdom, of course, some people know that these people are not afraid of crime and committed suicide at all, but at this juncture, who dares to compare this truth with these high-ranking officials who have come from Beijing?

Soon after arriving in Nanjing, these high-ranking officials naturally formed a small circle of their own.

No one in this small circle has pointed it out unmistakably, but it does exist, in the officialdom of Nandu, which is dominated by the Donglin Party and the sympathizers of the Donglin Party, these few people have been airborne from the Beijing Dynasty and replaced the previous Donglin bosses, if they want to gain a firm foothold, it is not possible to stay warm without huddles.

Zhou Yanru is a native of Yixing, Nanzhili, and is not yet twenty-one years old, and he even won the middle school examination and the palace examination, and quickly became famous.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yanru was also born in Donglin, but in history, Zhou Yanru was an opportunist with all sides.

His rapid promotion in the officialdom of Beijing was inseparable from the promotion and recommendation of the Middle East Lin boss in the early years of the Apocalypse, but in the fierce struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, Zhou Yanru chose to stay out of the matter, not only did he never say anything good about the Donglin Party, but also quickly drew a line and cut off from the Donglin Party, so he was not affected by anything, and he was in a high position at a young age.

When he was less than thirty years old, he was already in charge of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy with the qualifications of the young Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion.

In history, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he admired his name as a young champion and promoted him to the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhou Yanru was not yet thirty-five years old at that time.

Not long after that, Zhou Yanru had just turned thirty-seven years old, and Emperor Chongzhen promoted him to the cabinet again despite the opposition of the courtiers, and soon made him the head of the cabinet.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen is really not thin on Zhou Yanru.

But in history, Zhou Yanru was finally characterized as a traitor, and he was personally given death by Emperor Chongzhen.

The reason for his death was because before his death in the Ming Dynasty, he personally supervised the division and fought a defeated battle, but after returning to Beijing, he deceived Emperor Chongzhen and said that he had won the battle, Emperor Chongzhen was very happy and rewarded him, but not long after, the then Jinyi Wei commander Luo Yangxing reported the truth to the emperor, and other officials also impeached him for bullying the king, Emperor Chongzhen was extremely disappointed after learning the truth, exiled him to the army, and then sent someone to kill himself soon after.

Zhou Yanru's final tragedy has his own reasons, as well as the historical reasons of the late Ming Dynasty at that time, but he was able to be favored by the very critical Emperor Chongzhen in history, and was repeatedly promoted and reused, which is also directly related to his outstanding intelligence.

And his outstanding intelligence is mainly manifested in figuring out people's hearts, especially in grasping the thoughts of Emperor Chongzhen very accurately.

And this time is no different.

Although Emperor Chongzhen asked him to go to Nanjing to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and was accustomed to seeing the Nanjing Hanlin Academy, he had the consideration of transferring him from the court of the Beijing Division, but let him be promoted to the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites at the age of thirty-five, no matter what, this is a great grace.

Others see it this way, and Zhou Yanru himself sees it this way.

Because in the history of the Ming Dynasty, the six Shangshu were already the pinnacle of the career of the vast majority of civil officials, and the vast majority of officials could not mix in this position, and when a few people got into this position, they were basically sixty or seventy years old.

Of course, it is not uncommon for a younger scholar to be a scholar, but he has to be over forty years old, and it can be said that there is no one like Zhou Yanru who became a scholar in his thirties.

Therefore, after Zhou Yanru received the order, he quickly packed up his belongings, moved his family south, and went to Nanjing to take office, which was quite a sense of spring breeze and horseshoe disease.

When the officials who went south collectively resigned, the emperor explained his words, and he also knew the meaning very well, in the final analysis, it was just that the emperor was afraid that the Donglin Party was too powerful in Shilin, Jiangnan.

And he is also very clear about his mission of serving as the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, that is, to find a way to break the control of the Donglin Party over Jiangnan Shilin, and at the same time change the literary style of Jiangnan Shilin who likes to sit and talk about Taoism and advocate Qing discussion.

At that time, the emperor said to him: "Wei Jin Shilin advocated Qing discussion and metaphysics but not pragmatism, and then there was the tragedy of five nonsense and chaos." At the end of the Tang and Song dynasties, there was a party struggle in the court, and then there was the result of the destruction of the country and the world. Qing waited until he arrived in Nandu, and on the one hand, he wanted to support Kaihai, and on the other hand, he had to clean up people's hearts.

"It is necessary to sum up the reasons and lessons of the Wei, Jin, Tang and Song dynasties that destroyed the country and the world, and reverse the bad habit of Jiangnan Shilin advocating empty talk and clean discussions.

"As for how to do it, I don't have a good way, but I have a few principles here, and I must follow them. One is still new, the second is Chongshi, the third is history, and the fourth is outside.

"The first three, I don't need to say more, Qing and others are all from the imperial examination, familiar with the scriptures and history, and full of economy, so they naturally know what I mean.

"I'm just talking about this fourth article today, check outside. And the so-called observation of the outside is to open the horizon, open the eyes to see the world, whether it is Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, whether it is at home or abroad, the children of Shilin must understand and master.

"In particular, the global geography, history and customs of the overseas Taixi Zhuyi, and even the study of hundreds of crafts, must be widely collected and compiled, and widely in Jiangnan County School, Fuxue, Nanjing Guozijian and Hanlin Academy, in order to advocate and disseminate, we must make Jiangnan Shilin children broaden their horizons, cultivate both inside and outside, and no longer indulge in clean discussions and rest on their laurels.

"Jiangnan Shilin, close to Fujian and Zhejiang, after the opening of the sea, Taixi Zhuyi will come and go, for the introduction of Taixi's learning, don't be afraid, as the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, we must understand the truth of Shiyi's long skills to control Yi."

Emperor Chongzhen said these words, Zhou Yanru of course knew the meaning of this, to eliminate the Donglin Party from the root, he could no longer continue to encourage the Donglin Party's set of doctrine.

The original proposition of the Donglin Party members was to take Cheng Zhu Lixue as the orthodoxy of Confucianism academically, to insist on opposing Yangming Xinxue, and politically to advocate opening up the way of speech, benefiting business and caring for the people, reforming maladministration, and opposing eunuch interference in politics.

Therefore, on the whole, in the last years of Wanli, the first batch of Donglin Party members, such as Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong, Qian Yiyi and other Donglin Six Gentlemen, were all upright and upright hard-headed true gentlemen, and they were not as unbearable as the disciples and grandchildren of the Donglin Party later, and they were completely reduced to party fighting tools for the sake of selfish interests.

For example, before the destruction of Donglin Academy, the world-famous couplet "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the ear, the family affairs, the state affairs, the world, everything is concerned", there is nothing wrong with it.

It's just that later these true gentlemen died in the struggle against the eunuchs, and the rest were either half-hung or soft-boned, and in the last years of Chongzhen, they finally became hypocrites who only asked about right and wrong.

Although Zhou Yanru was not interested in the political propositions of the Donglin Party, he still recognized the early doctrine of the Donglin Party, for example, one of the academic propositions of the Donglin Party was also opposed to empty talk and advocated attaching importance to reality.

However, now that the emperor has said so, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, he is in charge of the academic atmosphere, imperial examinations, education and other affairs of Jiangnan Shilin, and he can neither advocate Cheng Zhu Lixue, which is a kind of heart-to-heart talk, nor can he advocate the more mysterious and virtual Yangming Xinxue, so he can only find another way and make a fuss about attaching importance to historical miscellaneous studies and Taixi Zhuyi studies.

Therefore, when he arrived in Nanjing, and after taking up the post of Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Bachelor of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy, the first thing he did was to go to Nanqi, Jiangyin, to invite a strange person to serve as an assistant teacher in Nanjing Guozijian.