Chapter 059: The waist pole is stiff
At this time, the officialdom of the capital can be described as very lively, and the emperor opened the tax bureau, which aroused the opposition of many officials, especially the Donglin Party.
It's just that it backfired, and their pen did not let the emperor stop, but instead increased many taxes. For a while, the Donglin Party was helpless, and if you want to lie to the emperor to eat a red pill! Now the emperor is only fifteen years old (imaginary age), his body is in an extremely healthy state, and he is not yet young, and he often goes to the military camp to practice martial arts, and there is nothing wrong with his body at all.
As for Xinjun, the reactionaries of the Donglin Party are very contemptuous, Zhu Changluo is supported by them, and Zhu Youxiao is also supported by them, so they are naturally unscrupulous.
It's just that the situation is far beyond their control, and the emperor is disobedient.
This gave the reactionaries of the Donglin Party an extreme headache, and they were trying to use their brains to figure out how to kill this emperor. However, not all members of the Donglin Party are reactionaries, most of them are brainwashed, which is equivalent to fringe members, and only the core members know the inside story, and these core elements are reactionaries.
So the one who planned to kill the emperor was the core group of Donglin Party. Originally, after discussing with Wang An, it was decided to get the Hakka family away from the emperor first, so rumors flew all over the capital.
It's just that in the face of rumors, the emperor is still immovable, and the Hakka family is still managing the emperor's daily life. This made the reactionaries of the Donglin Party extremely depressed.
Wang An was questioned by the emperor, and all the eunuchs promoted by Wang An were also removed. This made the Donglin Party finally take advantage of the support for Zhu Changluo's ascension to the throne and develop the palace connections to lose everything. How to start without internal response?
In fact, these Donglin parties are not very proficient in spy activities, and they are even more proficient in power-for-money trading, political tilting, and the like. The reason why they were able to find a loophole was mainly because Zhu Changluo was not liked by the Wanli Emperor, so he needed the support of the Donglin Party to successfully infiltrate the palace in the political transactions between the Donglin Party and Zhu Changluo.
It is not easy to re-infiltrate the uterus.
There are only a group of eunuchs who can leave the palace, and it is difficult to buy powerful eunuchs. Even if it penetrates, it is only a preliminary breakthrough of the defense line. The emperor was very cautious in the palace, and the imperial dining room and imperial pharmacy were heavily guarded. Even if they open their minds, there is nothing they can do.
It is located in Tongju, Gyeonggi, which is where Lee Sam-jae settled. After Li Sancai returned to Tongzhou, he followed Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong and opened the 'Shuanghe Academy' in Tongzhou, teaching scriptures and teaching disciples, which was very lively.
In Li Sancai's mansion, Li Sancai was meeting with several Donglin Party officials. The meeting of several people was very hidden, and they lowered their voices a little during the conversation.
"The old man already knows the situation in the capital, and the only way to do this is to develop internal response in the palace first, and then wait for the opportunity to move, waiting for the emperor to show his flaws." Li Sancai whispered to several Donglin Party officials.
"The emperor is now suppressing Donglin with corruption, how can this be good?"
"If the emperor wants to arrest him, let him arrest him, anyway, what we have in Donglin is a substitute for the dead ghost." Li Sancai said indifferently, if you want to talk about corruption, Li Sancai has served as the governor of Caoyun, the secretary of the household department (Ministry of Finance), and the governor of Jianghuai for 12 years, all of which are rich in oil and water. Caoyun and the household department do not mention, the governor of Jianghuai for 12 years, Jianghuai is the center of the salt industry of the Ming Dynasty, salt merchants are everywhere, and the abundance of oil and water can be imagined.
After being a corrupt official for so many years, Li Sancai naturally has his own set. As a big guy, naturally you don't have to embezzle yourself, just let the younger brother embezzle, and the big guy can take the big head. Even if it's a crime, it's a big deal to push the younger brother out as a substitute for the dead, and at most it's a job cut or something, as long as you don't confess, there's no.
There are also many younger brothers who are willing to do this kind of rough work, after all, not everyone in the Donglin Party is born in a merchant family, and there are many who are working class, living in the city all day long, watching the luxurious life of the rich have long produced money worship, and they naturally want to get rich after becoming officials.
Li Sancai was not too worried about the emperor playing the anti-corruption card, but many Donglin Party officials still tried to redeem the emperor's trust in them at this time.
It was at this time that the coinage case shocked the government and the opposition. The Donglin Party did another ugly thing in Nanjing, and was pulled out by the emperor. It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight! At this time, the Donglin Party no longer knew how to stop the emperor's 'excessive defense' behavior.
The Nanjing coinage case has entered the stage of thorough investigation.
The twelve Donglin Party officials who were implicated were not only arrested personally, but Dongchang and Jinyiwei went around to search for three generations of relatives and confiscate one qiē asset.
The intensity of the investigation also made the officials frightened. Anyone can see that the emperor is really here. They prayed that they would not become the emperor's target. At the same time, the opposition to implicating the three clans also increased like snowflakes, but they were all ignored and deaf by Zhu Youxiao. Learn the method of Emperor Wanli, leave all the twists and turns, and then leave it behind.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao suddenly stopped playing the anti-corruption card against the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party thought that the performance had an effect. And Zhu Youxiao gave a rare notification to the hundred officials and decided to go to court tomorrow morning.
The emperor has not been in court for several months, and suddenly he is going to the court, and the Donglin Party and the Qichu Zhexuan Party immediately began to prepare ammunition and bulletproof, and prepare to be attacked.
On the sixth day of the fifth month of the first year of the Apocalypse, hundreds of civil and military officials entered the noon gate early in the morning and headed for the Huangji Gate. Along the way, everyone knew that this early dynasty was unusual.
Almost all parties have made adequate preparations overnight to deal with this possible political change.
"The emperor has arrived."
With the shouts of the eunuchs, Emperor Zhu Youxiao walked out surrounded by the left and right, gently waved his sleeves, and sat on the dragon chair calmly.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." The hundred officials knelt on the ground and bowed.
"Zhong Aiqing is flat." Although Zhu Youxiao's voice still carries some childishness of a teenager, his bearing has changed a lot.
Some of the well-established officials clearly felt that the emperor at this time had become calm and unhurried in his behavior, not as cautious as when he first ascended the throne.
During this time, the emperor did not go to court, and most of the time he either stayed in the barracks or in the military factory, and anyone could see that the emperor wanted military power.
Naturally, the reactionaries of the Donglin Party can see it, but what can they do? Whether it was Wanli or Taichang, who died within a month of ascending the throne, they did not let the Donglin Party control the military power. The emperor wants to rectify the soldiers and horses, and the Donglin Party really has nothing to do. Originally, when Zhu Youxiao rectified Tengxiang Siwei, the Donglin Party was still waiting to see the joke, and Tengxiang Siwei is still a joke in their eyes. It's just that after the Beijing camp was rectified, it was also directly led by Zhu Youxiao, which made the group of reactionaries in the Donglin Party unable to laugh.
No matter what Tengxiang Siwei and Jingying are rectified, at least Jingying will not be worse than the original. Regardless of whether these two armies can really fight well, the result is the same. That is, the emperor could not be overthrown by a coup d'état by force, because there were only these armies in the capital.
The nine-sided army outside the capital, the Donglin Party also ordered not to move. Although the military attache clique was completely suppressed by the civilian clique, it did not mean that they would be willing to rebel with the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party would not dare to rebel against the Zhang Party in name.
As for the inland army, most of them were war scum, and they were destroyed before they reached the capital. At this time, the emperor had military power, and his waist was already stiff. PS: Thank you for the will of the Führer, the tip from McSoap, bow.