Chapter 80: The Fall of Donglin
The question is how many people to send to do the bait.
As Xiong Tingbi said, there are too many factions, and the traitors are not fools, how can they have the courage to rob them. But if there are fewer factions, don't ambush them, and if reinforcements can't arrive, the bait will be eaten.
With such actions, it was inconvenient for Yue Su to transfer more people from the Luoyang garrison, for fear that the momentum would be bigger. It can only be used by the guards at hand, and there are also patrol personnel in Yanshi County. The number of these people is certainly higher than that of the rebels, depending on how they are used.
How to make reasonable use of the soldiers and horses in your hands, and wipe out the traitors, it seems that there are people around you who understand, and the idea is from Lord Xiong, simply, the right to deploy is also handed over to your old man. This is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, you should always grasp it, as long as the rebels are completely annihilated, after returning to Beijing, you will definitely show merit for you in front of the emperor.
Two days later, Yue Su led the escort army to Yanshi. As soon as he entered the county, the first thing Yue Su did was to meet Zhang Guobang.
The governor was still located in the county office, and sent someone to invite Zhang Guobang to the back hall, and all the officers of the county government were sent to the front, including the county commander Hua Tengzhuo, and there was no need to accompany him in the back hall, all of Yue Su's subordinates.
Zhang Guobang entered the back hall, and as soon as he stepped into the door, he heard the sound of "mighty" left and right, so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground. hurriedly took two steps forward and knelt on the ground, "Xiaomin Zhang Guobang saw the adult, I don't know what happened when the adult summoned the villain?" ”
After saying this, Zhang Guobang muttered in his heart, he didn't commit any crimes, why was he escorted to the lobby? Is it for the ancestral property?
Yue Sugao sat on it, smiled slightly, and said, "Zhang Guobang, the Ministry has sent you here, not for anything else, but for the secret in your family's ancestral hall and an important case. If you tell the ministry as it is, the ministry will not take you away, and the ministry will not rob you. If you don't tell the truth, then don't blame the headquarters for being unkind to you! ”
There is a treasure in the ancestral hall of the Zhang family, but it is just Yue Su's speculation, and now in order to capture the rebels, some subsections cannot be adhered to.
"In my ancestral hall, there is no ...... There are no secrets......" Zhang Guobang said with flickering words.
"There are no secrets! Have you ever been a three-year-old child in the main department? The piece of jade under the spirit card is obviously the mechanism, and the picture of the lady is the key to opening the mechanism. Under the organ, what is hidden, I hope you still tell the truth, and if there is half a sentence to hide, the headquarters will also tell you the truth, one is to dig three feet into the ground in your ancestral hall, and the other is to open the skin of your beating! ”
Yue Su said this harshly, Zhang Guobang was even more shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "My lord, this is absolutely unacceptable." That's our family's ancestral hall, even if you are in a high position, you can't do this thing of digging people's ancestral halls. ”
"You can rest assured, the headquarters will not dig your ancestral hall, but dig outside the ancestral hall, and there are people under the command of the headquarters, and there is time, you can dig slowly. As for you, the ministry has no leisure to talk nonsense with you, don't you not say it? Around! Pull to the side and hit the eighty boards! ”
"Yes!" Yue Su gave an order, and the officers on both sides rushed up and pressed Zhang Guobang to the ground. Raise the board and make a gesture to fight. However, his eyes were all looking at Yue Su's hand.
Yue Su was holding the fire stick in his hand, in fact, he had already instructed him not to fight, as long as he made an appearance, if the fire stick landed, he was allowed to do it.
But how did Zhang Guobang know, when he saw that Yue Su was really coming, he shouted loudly: "My lord...... The people say that you are Qingtian, is Qingtian so careless about human life? ”
"Sima Chen, the former county commander of Yanshi County, died because of the lady's picture, and the cause of death of Zhang Guozhu, the uncle of Zhenbei, is also strange, and the death of the two of them can be said to be a secret involving the ancestral hall. One of them is a court earl, and the other is a local parent, and the two of them died, what a connection! The ministry and the hospital routinely asked you to find out the real culprit, but you used quibbles and concealed it, which must be harboring evil intentions. Can't the ministry beat you? Having said this, Yue Su was really polite, and threw the fire stick to the place heavily.
Seeing that the fire sign landed, the messenger no longer hesitated, picked up the board, and hit Zhang Guobang's body fiercely.
"Ah......h
With only two boards, Zhang Guobang was beaten and shouted, "Adult, adult...... Adults don't ...... I say...... I said......"
"Stop!" Yue Su waved his hand and said, "If you tell the truth as soon as possible, how can you eat this pain of flesh and skin." ”
"My lord, according to the elders, below the ancestral hall is the property handed down by our ancestors of the Zhang family, how much can it be, the small one is not clear, but it is by no means a decimal number. If you want to open the treasure, you must break the mechanism, and the ancestor sent a picture of a lady, saying that as long as you see through this picture, you can open the mechanism. Or the descendants of my Zhang family are stupid, and no one has realized it for more than ten generations. There were also people who wanted to forcibly break the mechanism, but the jade was extremely hard, and even the stone platform under the spiritual seat was difficult to shake. Some people have thought about the idea of forcibly excavating, but after all, it is the ancestral ancestral hall, and the clansmen are resolutely opposed, so they give up. There is only one copy of the lady's picture, passed down from generation to generation, owned by the head of the family, passed on to the son but not to the daughter, if there is no heir, it will be passed on to the nearest man. What the villain said, every sentence is true, and I hope that the adults will learn from it. The treasure under the ancestral hall is the ancestral property of my Zhang family, and I hope that the adults will not covet it, and it is absolutely impossible to dig it forcibly. Because he couldn't stand the board, Zhang Guobang finally told the truth.
What he said was similar to what Yue Su expected, there were really treasures hidden under the ancestral hall. If this is the case, it is even more necessary to dig up. Yue Su didn't want the Zhang family's property, but only this move could lead to the Dragon Slaying Gang.
At the moment, Yue Su led the people and horses to the Zhangjia ancestral hall, and directly blocked the ancestral hall compound, and the soldiers and horses lived in the courtyard, and the ancestral hall hall was not allowed to trespass, so he was only ordered to dig outside the ancestral hall, and he was going to dig in from the ground.
Don't look at the large number of people in Yuesu, but this project is not a one-time effort, plus the weather is cold, the soil is hard, and it is even more laborious.
Yue Su is good at digging the ancestral hall of Earl Zhang's family, how can the people of the Zhang family allow it, the Zhang clan people have come to demonstrate, but Yue Su has nearly a thousand guards, plus the patrol soldiers and horses of Yanshi County, together with the servants, etc., there can be more than 1,500 people, and those unarmed clansmen are nothing.
Seeing that Yue Su could not be stopped, the Zhang family jointly went to the Yushi Yamen of Henan Province to complain, and some even sued Jingshi.
On the side of Yanjing City, it is now tense, who has the leisure to take care of Yue Su. Even if you have leisure, you don't have that ability, because those who really have the ability have already started fighting.
Wei Zhongxian promoted Wei Guangwei into the cabinet, and the Donglin Party felt an incomparable crisis, and finally, Yang Lian, the tiger of Donglin, took the lead and preemptively impeached Wei Zhongxian for 24 major crimes, and all the charges could be Wei Gelding's head.
This piece is too long, so I won't go into detail about it, but I will only say it succinctly. Crimes such as corruption and bribery are not a matter, and crimes such as blinding Shengcong, pretending to harm ministers, and killing the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Ciran, are also really fatal.
Some of these 24 crimes are true, and some are also Yang Lian's chasing the wind and catching shadows, the imperial history, that is, hearing the wind and doing things, the speaker is not guilty.
All the folds must first go through the celebrant before they can be sent to the emperor, so every fold can be seen by Gonggong Wei first, and Yang Lian also knows this. It's just that there's really no way. The emperor has not been to the court for many years, and he wants to play directly with the king, but he has no chance.
When Gonggong Wei saw this recital, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to let the emperor go to court. However, the Donglin Party also had a way to secretly spread the content of the song to the whole city, and finally reached the ears of Carpenter Zhu.
Carpenter Zhu met with Gonggong Wei and asked for the fold, but he did not have a dragon eye to read it, but asked the eunuch Wang Tiqian, the master of ceremonies, to read it. Wang Tiqian took this opportunity to make up nonsense, only saying that he was impeaching Wei's father-in-law for corruption, and as for other crimes, he didn't read it at all.
Saying that Carpenter Zhu is not illiterate, I don't agree here, his teacher Sun Chengzong is also a famous teacher, no matter how poor the students he teaches, it will not make Carpenter Zhu illiterate. The twists and turns of this year are all in classical Chinese, and if you can understand it, it means that you can understand it. But Carpenter Zhu just didn't look at the twists and turns, and trusted Wang Tiqian's nonsense, and finally sent it away with a sentence, "Isn't it just this little thing, pay attention next time, don't do it again." ”
Gonggong Wei escaped a difficulty, he is very grateful, and he is not ready to accommodate the Donglin Party anymore, and he must fight back immediately. The first thing he did was to re-appoint Xu Xianchun as the commander of the Jinyi Guard. The second thing is to frame Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou for impeaching Yue Su for seven major crimes.
Carpenter Zhu didn't even look at the twists and turns made up by Gonggong Wei, but only said, you can look at it.
Wei Gonggong still has Fang's sword in his hand, and he also cares about those who directly dismissed Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other Donglin party members. Without waiting for these people to return to their hometowns, they were charged with embezzlement, and asked Jinyiwei to arrest these people, send them to Zhao Prison, and interrogate them severely.
The six people who were arrested were named Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Yuan Huazhong, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, and Gu Dazhang, and all these six people died tragically in the end, known as the Six Gentlemen of Donglin in history.
Get rid of them, Gonggong Wei is not finished, he continues to punish and harm people, and the cabinet ministers, led by Ye Xianggao, have been forced to send officials, and a number of major officials such as Shangshu [***] Xing of the Ministry of Ministers have also been dismissed one by one. However, their fate is much better than that of Yang Lian and others, and they just go home to retire.
In these years, don't look at the power of Duke Wei, but he is still measured, he kills the first assistant, he doesn't have the courage yet, you are really a carpenter Zhu. At most, they will kill some officials of the grade of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou.
The chaos inside is like this, Yue Su is not to mention digging the ancestral hall of the earl's family, even if the ancestral grave of the duke's family is dug up, it is estimated that no one has the leisure to care.
In a blink of an eye, Yue Su had been digging in the courtyard of the Zhang family ancestral hall for a month. It's just that it's closed all around, so that no one can know what has been dug up inside.
Because the protagonist is Lord Yue, the fall of the Donglin Party will not be described in detail. Historically, the collapse of the Donglin Party was the fourth year of the Apocalypse, because the appearance of the protagonist accelerated the decisive battle between the two factions, resulting in the third year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian completely defeated the Donglin Party.
Because the main article has more than 3,000 words, in the following text, Xiao Yi weakly expressed his personal views on the collapse of the Donglin Party. I always thought that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was actually not confused, he was a very smart person, because if he was stupid, he would not be able to do such a good carpenter job.
The Ming Dynasty paid attention to the scholars and the emperor to govern the world together, so it has always been the ministers and the emperor who fought for power, and when they encountered a strong emperor, they could completely suppress the ministers, but if the emperor was weaker, they would inevitably be suppressed by the ministers. Above the court, there were endless arguments, and a trivial matter could not be discussed for a few days.
Carpenter Zhu should have his imperial skills, using Wei Zhongxian to suppress the ministers and unify the government and the opposition. It's like Song Gaozong Zhao Gou used Qin Hui to kill Yue Fei.
History says that Gonggong Wei often dismissed ministers, may Carpenter Zhu not know about this? Most of the people in Wei's father-in-law are high-ranking officials of the Donglin family, one less today, one less tomorrow, and the emperor is not blind, when he goes to the court, how can he not see it. To put it bluntly, it is to open one eye and close one eye. Let you Wei Zhongxian help me run the country, and I will do my carpenter's work. You, a eunuch, can you still rob me of the throne?
(To be continued)