Chapter 6 The clouds open and the fog disperses
Early in the morning, Zhu Youxiao was washing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAfter the battle last night, I was able to get a good night's sleep. Although the trouble of his henchmen is only half gone, his life is finally guaranteed. As the saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy. Zhu Youxiao felt very wonderful. At this time, Wang An came to report, "Your Majesty, Luo Sigong is here." "Well, take it to the imperial study and wait, I'll go over right away." After Zhu Youxiao finished washing, he hummed a small tune and walked into the imperial study in a leisurely manner. "Minister, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Sigong sees Your Majesty, may my Emperor Dragon be healthy." "Well, Aiqing has a heart, get up, presumably Aiqing already knows the meaning of me announcing you." "Back to Your Majesty, the minister knows that the errand ordered by Your Majesty earlier has been completed." "Aiqing, let's talk about it, I'm listening." "Yes, Your Majesty, in addition to the people who were captured last night, there are also many accomplices in this rebellion, including many Donglin Parties, including Mr. Donglin Gu Xiancheng, Ye Zitu, Gu Yuncheng, Gao Panlong, Qian Yiyi, Gu Dazhang and others. These are just some of the masterminds. There are also many Jiangnan gentry involved. At present, these people are in the hands of the ministers." "Aiqing did a good job, let's act now. Remember that you can't get away with anyone, you have to bring it back to me.' Yes, Your Majesty will go and personally arrest these and arrest the rebels and thieves." After speaking, Luo Sigong bent down and retreated. Zhu Youxiao muttered, "It seems that I am too merciful, and I actually let you get carried away." Wang An, the decree immediately let Shangguan take command and go to the land south of the Yangtze River to arrest those bold businessmen. They can't watch the artifact, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead." "Your Majesty, what about the SX matter". "Send someone from Dongchang to replace Shangguan, let Shangguan rush to Jiangnan as soon as possible, is there a person named Wei Zhongxian under your hands?" "Back to Your Majesty, there is such a person, and he is quite clever." "Get him, I want to use him, this time to track down the rebellion, and tell him to go with him." Yes, Your Majesty, the slave and maid will arrange it." Wang An's heart was not calm at the moment, he secretly wondered if he had made His Majesty dissatisfied. His Majesty is ready to let this Wei Zhongxian check and balance himself. Thinking of this, Wang An was secretly frightened, and he must be careful in the future. There can be no difference. It's really unpredictable, but as long as you are loyal to the Son of Heaven, nothing will happen. After figuring out this, Wang An's pace accelerated a lot. And at this moment, Zhu Youxiao's heart was also thinking that the way of balance has always been one of the important means for the emperor to control his courtiers. Wang An's matter was just a small experiment. These days, Zhu Youxiao passed the history books and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. The codex he left behind learned a lot about the art of the emperor. Combined with the experience of his previous life, he found that it was nothing more than balancing, supporting, striking at one side, winning over one side, or giving favors, or giving power can never make the courtiers hold together. is also like what Jiang Gong did in later generations, first to the ocean, then to the cannon, and finally to the beauty. With such means, Jiang Gong has been crisscrossing the Central Plains for 30 years, and he is almost invincible. However, in the end, it ended in failure, and the reason is nothing more than not giving him the most important faith. Zhu Youxiao is ready to take it as an example, take its essence, and remove its badness.
Outside the palace, or in that room, it was still those people. But at this moment, these people are not as calm as yesterday. Seems panicked, and the chaos in the room is not as elegant as the merry man. It was still the person who was sarcastically caricatured by Ye Zitu that day who first spoke, "What to do, what to do, looking extremely panicked." Why is this fat man so bad, so he was destroyed". Someone then replied, "What should have been thought of a long time ago, what should have been thought of a long time ago, will not be accomplished by a person who only knows how to have fun all day long." What should we do now?' Ye Zitu looked at these people coldly on the side, and he felt a burst of sadness, how could he be mixed with these people. How could I not have found that these people were so incompetent and stupid before, thinking of this, Ye Zitu couldn't help but smile bitterly, these people are stupid, and he is not even more stupid. It is a repentance that he should not have done that great rebellion with these people. It's too late to say anything. No wonder the little emperor wants to kick these people away and start anew. It's really because in addition to fighting for power and profit, all that is left of this group of people is to oppress the good and greed for ink and silver. At this time, Gu Xiancheng walked out and was still sitting there, still as elegant and calm as before. Gu Xiancheng opened his mouth and said, "Be quiet, what kind of system is this, you should have thought that there would be such a day." Now we should think about how to remedy it, instead of barking like the ignorant women and children here." I have to say that Gu Xiancheng is a very talented person, and he calmed everyone in a few words, but at this moment, Gu Xiancheng's heart is far less calm than it seems. In fact, Gu Xiancheng had a premonition that he might fail this time, but he still wanted to give it a try, just because if he missed this opportunity, his ideals, the political proposition of the Donglin Party. It will never be possible. That's why he was willing to take the risk to help King Fu. In a word, Gu Xiancheng is a careerist, a careerist with ideals, ambitions, and political opinions. During the Wanli period, his political ideas were not liked by Wanli, and after failure, Gu Xiancheng learned from the pain and decided to recruit a group of people to work together, but there were not many people with him at that time. In the end, he thought of the opening lecture, and then he thought of the Jiangnan gentry. For some historical reasons, the social status of these people is not very high. But soon after Gu Xiancheng returned to Wuxi and reopened Donglin Academy. Accepting apprentices to teach, together with Qian Yiyi, Gao Panlong and others formed the prototype of the Donglin Party in Wuxi. Later, the Jiangnan gentry joined. At this point, the largest friend party in the history of the Ming Dynasty is born. The Donglin Party criticized current affairs and criticized current affairs in Jiangnan. But it was not liked by Wanli. Historically, it was not until the apocalypse ascended the throne that it was initially involved in court politics. Chongzhen completely dominated the government.
In the imperial study, Zhu Youxiao was thinking about the Donglin Party. It is undeniable that there are some talents in Donglin. Such as Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Sun Chengzong, etc. But it had a fatal flaw, the exclusion of dissidents, the rigidity of thought, and the representation behind it was the gentry, the landlords, the merchants, and the budding bourgeoisie. It is different from the traditional Shidaifu group. These people are inherently opposed to the imperial power and cannot cooperate. The ideology of the traditional scholar group is to be loyal to the monarch and consolidate the imperial power. However, the Donglin Party wanted to weaken the imperial power and maximize its own interests. The two are destined not to coexist. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only kill the killer. Eradicate this group of people who are somewhat ahead of their time1. If such a political proposition is placed in a time of peace. Zhu Youxiao is not an official, maybe he will help him. After all, Zhu came from the school and knew that it was the general trend to suppress imperial power and develop capitalism. But now it doesn't work, outside the gate, Houjin is eyeing the tiger. It is possible to knock on the gate at any time, and there is also the White Lotus Sect and those that are very likely to break out. A great peasant uprising due to starvation. These will require the concentration of all the forces of the empire to deal with them. So Zhu Youxiao could only say sorry to the Donglin Party.
At the same time the British Mansion. Zhang Weixian, Zhu Quanzhong, Duke of Chengguo, and Sun Chengzong, the first assistant, were discussing the counterinsurgency last night. Cheng Guo said openly: "Looking at the rebellion last night, Your Majesty seems to have been prepared. It seems that I have known it for a long time". Zhang Weixian said, "You forgot what Jinyiwei and Dongchang do, and besides, they don't even know this news." Does Your Majesty still need them". "That's right, you say that this blessed king has something wrong with his brain. actually learned to rebel, this Ming Dynasty has been standing for two hundred years except for that one. That vassal king succeeded in the uprising." Zhu Quanzhong said, "Zheng and Li are indispensable among them, and of course, the most important thing is that Donglin Confucianism." Speaking of this, Zhang Weixian looked at Sun Chengzong's face ugly. "Busy said, Kaiyang, I didn't mean you. Although you are also from Donglin, you are different from them, you are a talented person, and you know how to think about this country. Your Majesty also knows this, so you are allowed to sit in this position." I know it, but it's very uncomfortable in my heart, you say, why are they so confused? Zhu Quanzhong opened his mouth and said, "It's nothing more than interests, and you don't want me to wait for the nobles to return to the court." I don't want my own interests to be harmed. It's not like Kaiyang you, you have a gully in your chest, you know the general situation, and you know the righteousness." "Donglin, Donglin, will soon be history. The spring I've been waiting for has arrived."
The place where the Donglin Party gathered was already surrounded by countless horsemen. The people in the room were panicked, some were crying and fussing, some were distracted, and some seemed to be extremely calm. But the fear in the heart cannot be hidden. At this time, Gu Xiancheng said, "Don't panic, we haven't clearly rebelled with it." There are countless scholars as the backing, and it is expected that the Son of Heaven will not embarrass us. In addition, all parts of the imperial court also need to be governed by well-educated people. There are countless students and scholars behind us, and if you kill us, how will Your Majesty face the world's speech." Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this. But Gu Xiancheng's remarks also comforted those ordinary people. Some veteran people understand that it is difficult to recruit even if they enter the edict. "Ha, ha, ha, Mr. Donglin, don't come to harm, Luo's Xiang is going to offend." "Don't bother Lord Luo, I'm in good health, hum." Gu Xiancheng snorted heavily. "It's good to be healthy, I'm afraid that adults won't be able to bear it when the time comes." The two of them exchanged words for a while before stopping. People who don't know still think that there is a lot of enmity between the two. In fact, there is no personal enmity between the two. It's just that between Jinyiwei and civil officials, they have loved and killed each other since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The two sides have been fighting for more than 100 years. It is a deep grievance. "Take them all away, parade through the streets first, and the people will see what the traitor looks like." Yes, my lord, one brocade Yiwei 100 households replied.
"Her second aunt, I'm about to see the excitement, I heard that Jinyiwei has arrested a lot of officials." "yes, I'm going to have to check it out." The same scene was staged all over the capital, but this was arranged by Zhu Youxiao. It is to take advantage of this rebellion to completely stammer the reputation of the Donglin Party. Let it never turn over. "Look, look, isn't that Lord Zhang from West Street, how did he get arrested." "Does this big brother know the person in the car? A man asked the man who had just spoken. "Yes, I also delivered food to his house. How? Any questions? "Big brother, little brother can tell you, you must not say that you know him in the future." "Why is that?" Why do you think these people were arrested, it's because they want to rebel." "Ah, what, rebellion, oops, thank you for this brother". "Nothing, nothing. Helping each other out and about. It should". This kind of picture is playing out everywhere. "I heard that these officials are, what kind of Donglin Party. What is this Donglin Party for?" asked one person and the other person next to him immediately continued: "This Donglin Party is composed of a group of officials, and it is said that they have studied with Mr. Donglin Gu Xiancheng and Donglin Academy. to plague us little people". "So that's the case, so why did they rebel again? At this time, the other person preemptively said, "I know this". "Then brother, quickly say that you will know with us." "I heard that Your Majesty can't get used to them bullying us and other small people. After a few words for me and a reduction in taxes, these people were not happy. They are going to rebel and kill Your Majesty, and change them to someone who listens to them'. For a while, the surroundings were full of admiration for Zhu Youxiao. In the attic in the distance, looking at all this, he smiled slightly, this person is Wei Gonggong of Dongchang, Wei Zhongxian. This was Wei Zhongxian's first suggestion to Zhu Youxiao. And apparently it worked very well. Wei Zhongxian's heart was full of excitement at this moment. But he forcibly pressed it down. Secretly said in his heart, Wei Zhongxian, you can't be proud, you must always be careful, and you must be the same as Your Majesty, a eunuch who doesn't want to be a eunuch of the Three Treasures is not a good eunuch. Yes, be like the Three Treasure Eunuchs. Your Majesty is right, your journey is a sea of stars.