readx;?readx; Chapter 634: The Great Purge

After a heavy rain, Li Hun's rebellion, which had been carefully planned for many years, was beaten by the wind and rain, and became a ridiculous and sad history. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, no matter how you look at it, five or six years ago, Li Hun had already lost his dominance over the Great Qin army; The old man made a lot of tricks, first by cronyism, and then by unknown acquaintances, burying away the already small advantages.

Especially in the big battle in the last years of Zhaowu, his seemingly clever Taoguang was obscure, but in the eyes of officers and soldiers, he was no different from a 'turtle with a shrunken head'. For a while, people's hearts were completely reversed, and he had clearly fallen behind!

Taiwei Li, who had never been able to make up his mind, finally had no choice but to rebel - rather than being slowly strangled to death by the Qin family, it was better to give it a go, or there was a possibility of turning the tables!

But it was too late at this time, even by force alone, Qin Lei would be able to level him without much effort, not to mention that there was an old queen mother who had calculated his Li family for decades! So much so that the only effect of Taiwei Li's rebellion was to pull tens of thousands of people to Huangquan with him......

On April 15 of the first year of Tianyou, Emperor Tianyou, who had been silent for several days, finally issued an edict to the world, Taiwei Li Hun and his party conspired to usurp the country, seize the palace by arms, force the queen mother to death, and frame the body. If you don't punish you severely, you can't deter Xiaoxiao!

Today, I order the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple to ask about the Li family's rebellion case after the self-trial, correct his comrades, make his evil deeds clear, and tell the world that he will be severely punished! To comfort the spirit of the emperor's grandmother in the sky! To uphold the foundation of my Great Qin!

Like a thunderclap after the haze filled the sky, the most tragic bloody storm in the history of the Great Qin Dynasty began......

At the end of April, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple completed a self-examination, and a total of 179 members of the anti-party were investigated and punished, of which all the officials below Wei Zhengyi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and all the officials below Zhou Weigong, the secretary of the Dali Temple, were impressively listed!

So that the last remaining officials of the two ministries are less than ten each, and the largest official is only a five-grade director......

The judge wants to ask, how did this self-examination become suicide? Certainly not suicide! Because the initiator of all this is the only one who stands still.

First of all, let's talk about the special feature of this place, the biggest feature of this place is that it is poor. The fact that others are getting richer and richer while others are getting poorer and poorer is related to the nature of their work -- what does the Metropolitan Procuratorate do? Those who specialize in picketing lawlessness and impeaching corruption have no other powers, so they cannot use their power for personal gain.

Those officials who paid bribes to the imperial court avoided them even more, and they could hide as far as they could, and they didn't have their share at all.

There is no way to use power for personal gain, and no one dares to be filial, so the imperial historians can only live on that dry money, and in the city of Kyoto, where prices are extremely high, the living conditions can be imagined.

In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate only has the ability to file complaints, and has no power to try cases, and in the case of the large number of officialdom families and the protection of officials and officials, no matter how big the case is, it can be turned into a big case and a small matter.

All in all, in short, there is nothing flattering about this yamen, so it has always been disliked by the family, and the children have avoided it. Over the years, except for the imperial envoys on the left and right, they were all from the Shu clan and were incompatible with other ministries.

After a long time, even the two imperial envoys were also labeled as aliens and isolated from the mainstream.

How many eyes, contempt, ridicule, and teasing will be subjected to such an outlier yamen, which can be described as a long story......

It can be said that this evil breath in the heart of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been held back for too long!

In order to change the situation, the 'second king' of the year chose to be loyal to the weak prince, hoping to take a risk and gamble on his future. Once decided, it is ten years of loyal following, never giving up at critical moments, and finally after a long wait, waiting for the footsteps of spring!

Think about the performance of Lord Wei of the Criminal Department and Lord Zhou of Dali Temple during the 'Tiger Prison Pass Trial', and you will understand that the emperor's so-called three-hall trial is just a high-sounding reason for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to monopolize the power of trial.

Emperor Tianyou's move can be described as extremely clever, because he knows that the Duchayuan, where his daughter-in-law has been a mother-in-law for many years, will definitely not let go of this opportunity to be angry, and they already have a natural contradiction with the Shi clan, and it is easy to become life and death!

Under his authorization and even instruction, the masters of the imperial history who had been in drought for a long time suddenly became the embodiment of justice and the nemesis of evil, taking the elimination of demons and defending the Tao as their own responsibility, and the elimination of all reactionary forces as the highest outline! As soon as he came up, he overturned the other two departments in charge of the trial to the ground, cramped and peeled the skin, and completely abolished the martial arts! ‘

This is just the beginning of everything, the imperial historians who thoroughly mastered the one-stop process of arrest, torture, trial, and conviction soon expanded the scope of interrogation to six departments and nine qing, so the 'Li Hun case' that has been left in history kicked off. It turns out that although the imperial historians who changed their careers to try cases in the middle of the road were very laymen, they were full of passion. From beginning to end, they only recognized one principle, and that was 'fighting'!

Since it has been determined that the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are the same party of the Li family, then they must have other comrades. Okay, let's beat the one who went to prison first, so that the old lady can't recognize it.

Those officials who offended the Metropolitan Procuratorate on weekdays even poured blood mold, and tasted the eighteen kinds of torture of the Great Qin Dynasty one by one, and they had to be permanently crippled if they didn't die...... Fake public and private affairs have always been the favorite of Chinese people.

After beating the losers into horizontal and flat rounds, the imperial historians began to ask their comrades. Although they don't know what the so-called 'same party' is, in order not to be beaten again, they will confess a lot of 'same party', who have borrowed money, forced debts, and robbed their own sugar gourds when they were children. Anyway, as long as you know yourself, it's a little bit of a holiday, and you can say whatever you think of.

The imperial historians who tried the case were naturally overjoyed, and they played the Emperor of Heaven in a fart of the upheaval. Their indiscriminate involvement and collusion should be said to be a problem for the emperor, after all, so many ministers are one party, if all of them are investigated and dealt with, who will take care of the government? Who's going to do the thing?

It stands to reason that the emperor should rack his brains at this time and consider how to divide and disintegrate these people, and how to eliminate dissidents to the greatest extent without hurting his vitality, and how easy is this? It's so sad!

However, looking at the list that was more than two inches thick, Qin Ting didn't even blink his eyes, and then gave the order to arrest the others again!

As a result, the case became bigger and bigger, and in the two months from mid-April to mid-June, more than 1,000 people were investigated and punished, almost all the yamen and nearly half of the officials in the central capital city were swept away.

The officials could not take it anymore, and they suddenly found that everything they had relied on had lost its effect - because the central capital had been put under military control, everyone had become suspects, all departments had ceased to function, and the once invincible network of relationships was no longer useful.

According to the four-year-old historian Fan Wenzheng's recollection, his father, who was the head of Honglu Temple at that time, held a ceremony at the door of the house every day before the last dynasty, dressed neatly, hugged his mother, kissed himself, and then explained clearly how to deal with the right and wrong in the family in case of misfortune.

And when he got off work at dusk, his aunt would hold him at the door of the house and wait, and when he saw his father come back, he would set up a banquet and celebrate with a big bang, and he didn't know what to celebrate.

This somewhat absurd description is quite bizarre, and if it were not for Mr. Fan's rigorous scholarship and opposition to exaggeration, future generations would have doubted the authenticity of history.

However, people who have come from that era have a vivid memory of those days, and no one will feel absurd. Under this kind of terrifying pressure of losing their official positions at any time, going to prison at any time, and ending up at any time, the officials finally couldn't bear it!

They had no choice but to find Tian Minnong and Koji Yanwu, two highly respected bachelors. The two originally thought that His Majesty was just venting his anger, so they deliberately closed the door and remained silent, but seeing that the connection was getting wider and wider, and things were becoming more and more unpleasant, the two finally couldn't sit still.

Finally, through Tian Minnong's younger brother, Tian Ainong, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, conveyed the meaning of the meeting to everyone.

"A few adults, please." Tian Ainong led a few Shangshu servants into the back house of the Tian family, and Tian Minnong and Koji Yanwu were already waiting inside.

More than a dozen high-ranking officials above the third grade, such as Gong Yilian, Lu Zimi, Mu Renwei, and Xie Zhiyan, rushed in. Just looking at the surnames of these people, they have already accounted for all the famous families in the middle capital.

It can even be said that this room is the headquarters of the civilian official group, and all the decisions they make will become the behavioral instructions of the civil officials of Great Qin, so as to twist into a joint force to fight against all kinds of powerful enemies.

For these civil officials, there are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests! As they have done over the past 100 years, whoever is in their interests will support and whoever deviates from their interests will be brought down, with absolutely no exceptions.

At the moment, the eyebrows were burning, and these adults didn't care about putting up a shelf and arguing about dignity and humility, and after saluting the two Zaifu, they couldn't wait to ask: "The middle capital city is like this, what do the two adults care about?" ”

"If you don't care, what are you going to do?" Lu Yanwu frowned slightly and said: "The more moments like this, the more you have to calm down and sit down for me!" ”

The ministers sat down in order, but they still looked at the two scholars with anxious faces, and they had a good relationship with Tian Minnong, and asked stubbornly: "Lord Shoufu, you called us all here, and we always gave the account first, so that we know in our hearts, right?" ”

"At first, Koji Pavilion Elder and I just thought His Majesty was venting his anger." Tian Minnong said with a sad face: "But at the moment, it doesn't seem to be so simple. ”

"yes." Ko Yanwu replied: "This is not some indiscriminate killing of innocents, but a long-planned ......" I wanted to say 'purge', but I felt that it was too harsh, so I changed my words: "Rectify it." ”

"Rectification?" Tian Ainong smiled dryly: "If we are rectified, we Shangshu and squires will be made into bare rods, who will work for his Qin family at that time?" Who is Zhang Luo for this Great Qin State? ”

"Don't be angry." Tian Minnong frowned and said: "On the matter, everyone expresses their opinions, and tells me how long this mess will last?" ”

"It won't be long." Lu Ziyi sneered and said, "Waiting for us Shangshu servants to be locked in, who else can he arrest?" ”

"There are more people who can be arrested." Gong Yilian said lightly: "There are still local Futai and Futai counties, which are really not enough, and there are captains and generals in the army, are you still worried about living in the cell?" ”

"Don't their Qin family want this world?" Xie Zhiyan slapped the small machine hard and said: "If it weren't for us, the military generals, his Qin family wouldn't be able to last a day!" ”

"Not necessarily." Tian Minnong shook his head and said: "What you can think of, the Heavenly Family will not ignore it, and people have already thought of it, and they have already had a countermeasure!" ”

"How so?" The ministers were shocked.

"Do you remember the prison in the eighteenth year of Zhaowu?" Tian Minnong said lightly: "It's Prime Minister Wen Cheng who ordered a division to investigate King Wucheng...... Oh, it was still the time when the king of Longwei County. ”

"Of course I do." Tian Ainong said in a deep voice: "At that time, there were many people in the government and the opposition who supported the king of Longwei County, and we also wrote to ask for a delay in the investigation, but later the matter was very big, and many officials were imprisoned. ”

Everyone also nodded in unison and said, "Yes, our yamen has people, but there is no grade that is too high, so it didn't make it to this point." ”

Hearing what they said, Tian Minnong sighed and said, "You haven't understood it until now, which shows how deep this trick is hidden." As he spoke, he pierced the window paper and said: "Think about it, everyone, those people are just going to the book to protect Wu Chengwang, and they have nothing to do with him, why do you want to put them all in prison, and they have all yamen, impartially?" ”

"Didn't you say that Prime Minister Wen Cheng killed chickens and monkeys, and showed us the leaders?" Xie Zhiyan asked a little honestly.

"Of course not." Old Koji Yanwu's face flushed, this was what he said at the beginning, but it was obviously wrong. He coughed dryly and said: "This move does not do Prime Minister Wen the slightest benefit, but allows the royal family to transfer hundreds of young officials who have low official positions and shallow qualifications, but their positions are very important." ”

Hearing him say this, everyone was shocked, and they were silent for a long time before they asked with difficulty: "Did you plan to put these people in the entrainment belt in the first place, and then take them out and use them today?" As soon as they heard that the other party's calculation was so deep, all the adults couldn't help but feel creepy, and shivered on a hot day.

"Isn't it?" Tian Minnong said in a deep voice: "I have a record here, which was copied back by myself yesterday to the Ministry of Officials, among the officials who were cleared in the eighteenth year of Zhaowu, except for the two hundred new Jinshi, the rest are all Tongjinshi in previous years!" ”

In the face of the facts, all the arguments became pale and powerless, and the adults could only accept this terrible fact - the old Qin family didn't plan to take them to play anymore, and they wanted to reopen and hand over the Great Qin Dynasty to those 'turbid officials'! ”

Xie Zhiyan Huo had to stand up, and said with a pale face: "We must not let them succeed!" ”

"That's right! Never! The ministers shouted along, and for a while the voices were boiling, almost tearing down the roof. The so-called scholar family can only be counted for several generations. If they are directly excluded from the imperial court and have no support of power, then even if their families have thousands of loads of gold and silver and thousands of hectares of fertile land, they are just fat in the eyes of the nouveau riche!

Looking at these guys who were at a loss, Tian Minnong and Lu Yanwu looked at each other and smiled bitterly, they finally believed what they said, and the Shi clan had become synonymous with depravity and incompetence. Before they could do anything, they were scared like this, and how could people believe that they could compete with the unprecedentedly powerful imperial power?

"Go and ask King Wucheng, right?" I don't know who shouted out first, and everyone said like a treasure: "Yes, he is in charge of Daqin's army, as long as the prince says that this matter is not good, then it will not work!" ”

"Go dream." Gong Yi Lian laughed angrily and said: "After the defeat of Li Hun's mutiny, the emperor and the prince of Wucheng had a deep talk, and then there was His Majesty's holy decree to strictly investigate the Li Party, you say they are not a nostril out of the air?" ”

"You're right." Tian Minnong nodded and said: "King Wucheng should indeed have known in advance and agreed with His Majesty's decision, after all, without the approval of the military, this matter cannot be done in any way." ”

"So the army can't be messed up!" Tian Ainong's eyes lit up, and he slapped his palms and smiled: "Isn't it just our idea to let the army rise up?" ”

"How?" Everyone turned their eyes to Lord Oda.

"They all say to be a soldier and be a soldier. Eat food and get paid. Tian Ainong said proudly: "We want to transfer the money and grain of the household and the locality, cut off their food and salary, and within a month, the quasi-security chaos will arise!" "This is their way of living against the military, and it has been tried and tested, and it is very cool.

"What should I do?" The two adults glanced at each other, and Lu Yanwu said slowly: "Just do it, but pay attention to the method, the prince has a bad temper." ”

"We know that." With the approval of the scholars, Tian Ainong became even more proud, and said with a smile: "Let's not do things too much, and we can go down the steps when the time comes, anyway, as long as King Wucheng promises to help us make peace, we will correct it immediately." ”