Chapter 25: The Court and the Distraction
Early the next morning, Xiao Mu got up early, washed and dressed, and then prepared to go to the court to meet the test of the ministers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Originally, Xiao Mu planned to pretend to be unwell and not go to the court, but just let people read the will of amnesty to the ministers, but considering that he did not go to the court, I was afraid that no one would be able to control the scene, and the situation was likely to get out of control again, so although he was very reluctant, Xiao Mu decided to go in person.
No wonder the faint monarchs in history are reluctant to go to the court, there are so many courtiers arguing in their ears, as the emperor and there is no good way to suppress them, the last dynasty is simply a chore, especially to pull the emperor out of the concubines' bed to go to the early dynasty, it is simply a ****** behavior, compared with the gentle township of the concubine, the early dynasty is like a Shura field, hell on earth.
In fact, most of the emperors who like the last dynasty are fierce people who can easily suppress their courtiers, just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, while maintaining a long life, he can also deal with the twists and turns every day, so that he can set up a court every day. In Xiao Mu's view, this kind of pleasure of enjoying and controlling the ministers is the source of power for Zhu Yuanzhang to go to the court, and other emperors often can't enjoy this pleasure, and of course they don't like the early dynasty.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything, for example, Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor who Xiao Mu is now possessed, is also diligent in political affairs and never quits the dynasty, but Emperor Chongzhen almost did not enjoy the pleasure of any driver, but had to be suppressed by the civil official group, and even had a "slight feeling", when he temporarily canceled the early dynasty, he was criticized by the minister, so that Emperor Chongzhen had to self-examine to pass, it was in this situation that Emperor Chongzhen was able to adhere to the previous dynasty for more than ten years, and his will quality was tenacious, Ordinary people really can't match it.
To a certain extent, Emperor Chongzhen is also paying off debts for his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, and it has been more than ten years, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang has killed too many civil officials, so that nearly three hundred years later, civil officials have concentrated on asking his descendants for accounts, the so-called "heavenly way is good reincarnation", it seems to mean this.
Xiao Mu naturally didn't want to repeat the mistakes of Emperor Chongzhen. So in order to suppress the ministers at least today, Xiao Mu came to the court with a cold face, and decided not to give anyone a chance to speak first.
Starting from the continuous party struggle in the Wanli period and the defeat of the "Salhu War"; Then when it comes to the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" during the Apocalypse, and later the eunuch dictatorship headed by Wei Zhongxian, and finally Shenyang, Liaoyang, and even the entire territory of Liaodong - as for whether this pot should be carried by the Donglin Party of the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", or by the eunuch party of Wei Zhongxian and his gang, this question is not important at all, and Xiao Mu is also deliberately downplaying this issue; Speaking of the death of the first emperor and his accession to the throne, the atmosphere in the palace was strange, and there were even more chaotic ministers and thieves who found pregnant women from outside the palace to try to pretend to be the orphans of the first emperor and steal the throne. Finally, he said that the current struggle between the eunuch "remnants" and Qingliu officials has caused the entire Ming officialdom to form a line, and no one has the heart to do things, so that there is a collusion between officials and bandits in Daxing in Gyeonggi, and no one has discovered the illegal act of wantonly abducting and trafficking women and children.
All in all, Xiao Mu spoke earnestly with only one central idea -- that is, the defeat of Sarhu, the fall of Liaodong and other evil consequences were all caused by party strife, and the evil causes planted by party strife will bear evil results on the top of the country, and the more fierce the party strife, the more dangerous the Ming court will be. As for why Xiao Mu can say the truth, in fact, there is no difficulty, the party is the same and the different is originally hated by the rulers of the feudal dynasties in the past dynasties, and it is also very taboo for the scholars and doctors who have read the sages and sages, as long as the bad things are attributed to this, no one will feel inappropriate.
Of course, Xiao Mu believes that the reason for these humiliations to the Ming court is definitely not only party strife, but also party strife. Just like when people talk about the reasons for Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, they have pointed the finger at Grouchy, who is close at hand but hesitates to hold on to the order to "pursue the Prussian army" and does not dare to come forward to support, but is Grouchy's hesitation really the whole reason for Napoleon's defeat? Even if Grouchy had been able to step forward decisively, would Napoleon have won the Battle of Waterloo? Xiao Mu felt that no one dared to give a positive answer. It's just that despite this, the current Xiao Mu can only let the party play the role of Grushi and take on the responsibility of losing his teacher and humiliating the country. As for the future outcome of this "Battle of Waterloo" between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin, at least the issue of party disputes should be resolved on the surface, so that "Groushi" can first come forward to support.
Talking and talking, Xiao Mu also became more and more into the play, as if he was Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen himself, after learning that his efforts to make great efforts and Zhongxing Daming finally came to naught, he issued a strong accusation of "the ministers are mistaken", and in the end, Xiao Mu found that he was already hoarse and his eyes were swollen.
Naturally, the ministers in the palace were all moved, and knelt on the ground to plead guilty, and many of them wept bitterly - some of their tears were shed for the direct ministers who were persecuted to death in the party struggle, some for themselves who had to climb the camp and cling to themselves in the party struggle, and the wise and wise to protect themselves so that they failed to live up to the way of the sages they had learned in their lives, and some were for the millions of people who were ravaged by the Ming Dynasty for the large territory of Liaodong that the Ming Dynasty had lost.
The courtiers above the entire court have already wept bitterly, and the first assistant came to the sect to come out of class in a timely manner and said: "The party is the same and disagrees, and ignores the grace of the monarch, so that the ruins of the society are ruined, the court is in danger, and the ministers are guilty, please punish the emperor." The rest of the ministers also fell to their knees: "The ministers are guilty." ”
At this time, Xiao Mu realized that he had been too deep in the play. After waving his hand to signal the ministers not to cry anymore, Xiao Mu said, "Make a decree." ”
"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says ......"
At this time, Xiao Mu was thinking in his heart: "How will the history of the future generations record the events of this morning?" It was probably 'the emperor's words were earnest, deafening, and the ministers were all crying'. Heck, my literary skills are really not enough, if Lin Yi is here, he should come up with some sentences that are much better. ”
After the announcement was completed, the matter of this amnesty was finally decided, and the partisan dispute above the court was temporarily suppressed, but Xiao Mu found that things were far more complicated than imagined: Wei Zhongxian, as a eunuch, was despised by the Qingliu literati, and there would naturally be great resistance to taking power, so Wei Zhongxian was bound to carry out a purge in order to stabilize his authority, which led to many officials framed by Wei Zhongxian, and many of them had lost their lives - such as Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, In short, there are countless unjust cases waiting for Xiao Mu to be rehabilitated.
Inspired by Lin Yi's words before, Xiao Mu decided to let his subordinates collect and sort out these unjust cases instead of himself, and be the candidate for this matter, Xiao Mu selected Wang Chengen's superior, the eunuch Cao Huachun, who had been following Zhu Youzhen since the time of the letter to the palace. The arrangement of handing over the errand to Cao Huachun is not only because Cao Huachun is in a high position and has certain qualifications and prestige, but also because Xiao Mu is in order to make a good relationship between the eunuch and the Qingliu official and alleviate the psychology of mutual antagonism and hatred. In fact, in the history without Xiao Mu's crossing, this thing was also done by Cao Huachun, which can only be said that history really has a "self-correction" situation to some extent.
A huge amount of information in the morning dynasty finally ended, the ministers each with excitement, went back to deal with government affairs, Xiao Mu felt unusually tired - from psychological to physical exhaustion made Xiao Mu decide that in the next half a month, he would "occasionally feel slightly sick", just like skipping the morning class in college because he didn't want to get up. In this way, it can also indirectly avenge the original Chongzhen Emperor in history.
Originally, Xiao Mu planned to go to Lin Ye after the dispersal of the dynasty and tell her about his excellent performance in the court, as well as the touching picture of the ministers crying bitterly, but thinking of being ridiculed by Lin Ye before, Xiao Mu felt that the possibility of going to Lin Ye to get praise was simply minimal, so he gave up this idea - as a normal person, who would be willing to endure the ridicule of a crazy woman, and a pregnant crazy woman, and he couldn't fight back?
So Xiao Mu decided to go back and get a good night's sleep first and completely recover his energy.
When he woke up, Xiao Mu found that his depressed mood was still not fully released, so he decided to do something interesting to relieve his pressure.
So Xiao Mu concealed Lin Yi, Wang Chengen and others, quietly found Yang Tao and Hu Yun, changed into a cross-dress, and took a package - pretending to be the mahjong and playing cards sent this morning, and slipped out of the palace. Xiao Mu planned to go to Li Shiyao and them to have a look, after all, since he returned to the capital, he had not visited them, the decent Wang Jingyuan Wang shopkeeper, Xiao Mu also missed it tightly, after all, this kind of decent person is really getting rarer and rarer.
Just as Xiao Mu was walking on the way to visit them, Li Shiyao and Zhao Qizhi were fighting in the courtyard, and next to him stood Xie Lianhui, who had originally come to call the two of them to eat, but was now hiding his face and crying in fright.