"What kind of captivity case, why doesn't the Criminal Department know!"

The middle-aged man was Zhu Yungou, the right attendant of the Criminal Department pushed by the court in the early days, and his father was Zhu Zhichen, the servant of the Criminal Department who opened the city with Zhao Gongri and others to welcome the Qing soldiers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since Zhou Shixiang led the army to cross the river and the Northern Expedition, the court of the southern capital has changed greatly. The most obvious point is that after the Qing army came, many former officials of the former dynasty who did not want to sacrifice their lives to resist the Qing Dynasty and did not want to lose their reputation and become traitors came to vote. Among them, typical characters include Wang Fuzhi who came from Shichuan Mountain, Meng Zhengfa who came from Hengyang, and Jin Bao, who cut his hair and became a monk in Guangdong.

These people used to be officials in the Yongli Dynasty, and after Yongli escaped, they were under the rule of the Qing Dynasty but did not want to go out of the Qing court, so they all lived in seclusion and called themselves the remnants of the Ming Dynasty. When they heard that the Taiping army had recovered the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Tang King sacrificed filial piety in the southern capital, and ascended the throne as the emperor, these people traveled thousands of miles from their respective hermitages to Nanjing. Because they had a great reputation in the past, and they took the initiative to vote, which was of great help to the legality of the Dingwu regime, Emperor Dingwu appointed all those who came to vote, and personally held a banquet in the palace to meet these famous officials.

In addition to these "remnants" who came from various provinces one after another, a large number of scholars whose fathers and ancestors had served as officials in the Ming Dynasty or who had served as officials in the Ming Dynasty joined the court. Most of them were gentry from Jiangnan. Because Taifu Qian Qianyi was the leader of the gentry in Jiangnan, in order to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan when Zhou Shixiang led the army to cross the Yangtze River and the Northern Expedition, he gave Qian Qianyi a lot of power, and as a result, Qian Qianyi introduced these people into the court and divided them into the Hanlin Academy of the Yamen of the Great and Small Jiuqing. For example, Huang Zongxi, who came from Zhejiang, was awarded the bachelor of Hanlin Academy, and Qian Qianyi's protégé Mao Xiang was also a bachelor in the academy.

Zhu Yungou, the son of a demoted official, was able to become a member of the Ministry of Justice because of his family relationship and served as the right attendant of the Criminal Department. Taifu Qian Qianyi called the successive scholars "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", and Emperor Dingwu also happily said that this is a sign of Zhongxing.

However, because when Emperor Yongli canonized Zhou Shixiang as the Duke of Guangdong, he had the right to set up six officials for Zhou Shixiang in imitation of Jinxia Yanping, and since then, the military and political affairs in Guangdong have actually been presided over by the six officials set up by Zhou Shixiang. After the Tang Dynasty supervised the country and restored the southern capital, the Taiping army was still in the midst of the war, so Zhou Shixiang did not pay attention to the six ministries and other yamen in addition to the cabinet shelf, and only placed Ding Zhixiang, Yuan Kuoyu and others in the cabinet. As a result, the large and small yamen are all decorations, and even the Yulu has to be sent by the Qi Palace.

When an official has no oil and water, he has to be controlled by others, and this official is naturally tasteless. Change some people with less knowledge, but I am afraid that they will abandon their official positions and leave. However, in the eyes of these "remnants" and gentry from the south of the Yangtze River, it was only an expedient measure for the Qi palace to be in charge of military affairs, and the six officials set up in the palace were only temporary ones. At that time, the affairs of the state will still be supervised by the cabinet and the six ministries, so although it seems that there is no power and no power now, it will certainly not be the case in the future. In addition, most of them are almost not short of money at all, all they want is their status and status in the Dingwu court, so even if the treatment is low, there are countless gentry who want to enter the court every day.

It's not that no one is worried that Zhou Shixiang, who controls the real power of the Dingwu court, will try to usurp the throne like Sun Kewang back then, but thinking about the Jin King Li Dingguo, the Min King Zhu Chenggong, and the Shun King Li Laiheng and other princes with military power, this Zhou Shixiang really dares to be Sun Kewang, and he may not be able to get his wish. Moreover, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still there, and Wu Sangui is also enshrined in Emperor Yongli, and Zhou Shixiang can't help but weigh whether he has the qualifications to be Sun Kewang. No matter what, the emperor married his niece to him Zhou Shixiang, although he did not get married, Zhou Shixiang was already the de facto son-in-law of the Zhu family. The son-in-law rebelled against his father-in-law, which is a natural short-term thing, and the wise man does not do it. Under this idea, the officials in the Dingwu court still had certain expectations for the Ming Dynasty to prosper, but their first choice of allegiance was definitely not the king of Qi for his courtiers, but the emperor Dingwu for the king.

Only some scholars who are really poor and have nothing to do with will turn to Qi Wangfu and seek a future for themselves, but the Qi Wangfu is not welcome to these people, and the palace is keen to use the characters of the Taiping Army, as well as a few rare characters who are looked down upon by the King of Qi, so there are still a lot of scholars who are unwilling to do so in the south. It is that these scholars were used by the Qi Wangfu, and they mostly arranged some chores that they looked very unbearable, or things that the officials could do, which made them feel that they were underused, or even despised, and often couldn't do it for a few days before they stacked the stalls and left, and then sat down with their friends in a small shop, and a few glasses of wine were strange words, saying that the King of Qi was a show talent after all, not a real scholar, and his actions were closer to martial arts, rather than Wenchen, and his generation was different from each other.

Zhu Yungou's question was not explained in detail by the hundred households, but asked him rhetorically: "Who are you?" ”

"Zhu Yungou, the squire of the official criminal department."

Zhu Yungou is the origin of family education, everyone's children, they are not afraid of Jin Qinwei, he urged a little impatiently: "This official doesn't care what case your pro-army handles, this official is in a hurry to go out now, you can get out of the way and let me go out of the city." ”

The hundred households glanced at Zhu Yungou, not moved at all, and only repeated coldly: "Pro-army handling cases, no one is allowed to go out." ”

"You!"

Zhu Yunwei saw that it was useless for him to report his name, so he couldn't help but flick his sleeves angrily, snorted angrily, and said to the hundred households: "Do you know who is sitting in the carriage behind!" ”

"I don't care who sits, I only know that the pro-army is handling cases, and no one is allowed to go out!"

Those hundred households also came out of the battlefield, and they were full of murderous energy, ignoring Zhu Yungou's threat at all.

"Can the pro-army handle cases with their eyes on everything and treat us and other imperial court nobles as nothing!"

When Zhu Yungou was angry, Zhang Gongri jumped out of the carriage. Zhu Yungou is only a squire of the Criminal Department, and has no title, and although he Zhang Gongri has no official position, he is also the Marquis of Longping, who has just been reinstated by the emperor.

Seeing that Marquis Longping came to help, Zhu Yungou was overjoyed.

Zhang Gongri was fearless in his heart, because he knew very well who were sitting in the carriages blocked on the road behind, and he believed that no matter how domineering these brocade-clothed pro-soldiers were, it was absolutely impossible to offend so many nobles at once. Moreover, he also wanted to show his face in front of these guys who were called pro-army, but in fact they were Zhou Shixiang's minions, so that the emperor would know that he Zhang Gongri was also an iron-clad marquis who dared to resist the majesty of King Qi.