Under Yang Chao's control, the civil officials and the four princes were temporarily converging, and the Jiangnan civil officials and scholars were no longer antagonistic, and Yang Chao's next step was to concentrate on dealing with the emperor himself.

As for Jin Yiwei, he was temporarily ignored by Yang Chao, because Jin Yiwei was the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and Jin Yiwei actually had no position at all, and their position was actually the emperor's position.

The question is how to get the emperor to compromise.

This seems to be a dead knot in the eyes of the Jiangnan civil official group and the scholar group, but Yang Chao has a way to stand outside.

And he is very confident, otherwise he would not let Feng Kezong operate immediately.

Under normal circumstances, civil officials are stronger than scholars, but the emperor generally supports scholars, so occasionally scholars can break out against the civil bureaucracy.

But under the system of monarchy, the imperial power is transcendent from beginning to end, and no one can control the emperor.

Of course, the living can't control the emperor, the civil officials can't do it, the scholars can't do it, and Yang Chao can't do it, and the only people who can control the emperor under the system are the dead, or the saints.

Confucius.

Under the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, the emperor is not the greatest, Confucius is.

But a dead Confucius could not threaten the imperial power, so the emperors of the past dynasties dared to rest assured that Confucius was held to the high position of the master of all generations, and the purpose of holding it high was actually to give the imperial power a dazzling purpose.

Now the one who wants to oppress the emperor to submit in the Ming Dynasty system is this Confucius, but Confucius can't speak, but Confucius once spoke.

The dead Confucius couldn't say anything to the emperor, but countless living Confucius's disciples could use Confucius's words to say something to the emperor.

That's the idea that Yang Chao hits!

Under the operation of Yang Chao, with the scholars of Erli Society as the core, the scholars of the entire Nanjing City took action.

At first, it was the other students of the Erli Society, under the leadership of the fourth son. Some are in the Confucius Temple, some are at the gate of Taixue, and there are dozens of groups of dozens. Sitting on a straw mat, his hair scattered. He didn't cry or make a fuss, but sat on the mat and kept reciting the books of the sages.

The city of Nanjing was almost shrouded in a magnificent and solemn atmosphere, so that the crowd watching the excitement was infected and all moved.

The entire Nanjing officialdom was moved.

The act of Nanjing scholars sitting in the Temple of Confucius and reciting the books of the sages spread to other places.

Scholars from other places were also touched and followed suit.

From the neighboring Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, it spread to Hangzhou Mansion in the south and Yangzhou Mansion in the north, and spread north to south along the canal.

For a time, the scholar Confucius Temple endorsed. It has become more and more intense, and it has become a kind of movement that no one can control, dare not control, and cannot control.

After all, the scholar did not make trouble, and the local government would not suppress it, nor did it dare to suppress it.

In less than a month, the endorsement of the Confucian Temple of Scholars has been extended to the city of Beijing, and the emperor can't pretend not to know, and the general trend has been achieved.

At the same time, Zhang Guowei, Ling Yiqu and other high-ranking officials quietly feasted the four princes.

The emotion at the banquet was inexplicable. I was very moved by the endorsement of the scholar Confucius Temple, and couldn't help but tell the fourth prince that they were also from a scholar's background. Knowing the righteousness, this matter is related to the emperor's relatives and relatives, and it is related to the power of Jinyiwei, and they have no choice but to do so.

Speaking of emotion, Ling Yiqu said even more righteously that he was going to resign.

Zhang Guowei immediately stopped him, saying that resigning would be useless, and if there was righteousness, he could risk death to admonish. Asked the emperor to punish Tian Wan.

A performance full of emotion immediately moved the fourth son. repeatedly said that Zhang Guowei and Ling Yiqu are both righteous people. And also praised the two.

These two people do have some political achievements, otherwise it would be impossible to be the governor and governor in an important place like Yingtianfu.

Especially Zhang Guowei, the reputation is very good, he has been in the south of the Yangtze River for many years, renovated countless water conservancy, and can always go to the front line in person, together with Gongzhuang, not only won a great reputation for himself, but also accumulated a wealth of practical experience, as the governor of the ten provinces, there is still the spare time to write a water conservancy monograph "Wuzhong Water Conservancy".

Other things that make people praise have also done a lot, the year before last Chongzhen 12 years, Zhang Guowei was the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry, the governor of the river, this year of the drought in Shandong, a stone of rice sold for eight taels of silver, Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River is only three taels, Zhang Guowei sent people from Suzhou to buy rice and transport it to Shandong to sell at a low price, and the small amount of profits earned was also taken out to set up more than a dozen porridge farms, free porridge for refugees, and the literati praised him for saving millions of victims.

Therefore, Zhang Guowei is famous, and he has a good reputation, the fourth son is not a fart in front of such a person, but being praised by this person, and feeling their loyalty, is equivalent to endorsing the fourth son.

The fourth prince was naturally happy, and he was also happy to be praised by such seniors, and when he saw that his predecessors sympathized with them, he immediately felt that he was a comrade and a confidant with Zhang Guowei.

Zhang Guowei immediately scolded Jin Yiwei, scolded the emperor for having a villain around him, and said sincerely, asking the fourth prince to rest assured, he wanted to write a book desperately, argue for the fourth prince, let the emperor distinguish ten points, and was willing to impeach Tian Wan in a book, asking the emperor to punish Tian Wan.

and to mobilize his peers, classmates and teacher-student relationships to write together, Ling Yiqu also said that he would countersign and also mobilize his relationship to write the book.

In addition to these two, after the matter of reciting the book of sages in front of the Confucian Temple of scholars came out, a large number of self-proclaimed officials in Jiangnan had already taken action, and their impeachment recitals were written and sent out overnight.

Taking the lead in the imperial history of Jiangnan, other civil officials in Jiangnan can follow, and this limelight of impeachment of Tian Wan goes hand in hand with the scholar's endorsement incident, and blends with each other.

In some places, civil officials first heard about the incident and impeached Tian Wan, while in other places, scholars endorsed it first, and then the civil officials were impeached after being infected.

The two actions formed two general trends, which spread northward, and finally entered the city of Beijing, the Forbidden City, and the ears of the emperor.

At this time, it was the emperor who was difficult to ride a tiger.

It is said that the emperor did not sleep for three days and three nights, and finally scolded Tian Wan for being incompetent, and then issued an order to dismiss Tian Wan from his post as the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Specially issued an edict to exaggerate the scholars, affirmed the scholar's righteous behavior, and said that he was deceived by the traitors, and then the emperor cleaned up a large wave of 'traitors', among which the Nanjing Zhenfu Division was the hardest hit area, and the Nanzhen Fufu was the first to bear the brunt, and was directly deposed and exiled, and only two of the five thousand households remained.

In the end, the emperor sent people to Beijing Taimiao and other places to appease the scholars, and wrote a earnestly worded sacrificial letter to Confucius to repent of his sins.

Since the emperor admitted his mistakes and punished the traitors, especially the scholars, the scholars were also satisfied, so the two general trends, starting from Beijing, slowly eased up.

The situation has calmed down! (To be continued)