Chapter 338: The Outer Dynasty is Too Arrogant
Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde led their troops to descend and the overjoyed Gao Qiqian has sent six twists and turns to Beijing, but the heart is long gone, and he only looks forward to the arrival of the holy decree every day, and he is looking forward to entering Beijing as soon as possible. He didn't know that in the capital at this time, because of him, Chongzhen encountered the first big trouble since he ascended the throne.
This troublesome thing is that the cabinet, the six ministries, and the Xiandao forced the emperor to summon the ministers, and the number of officials involved accounted for almost three-quarters of the court, and the momentum was no less than that when the ministers asked Emperor Shenzong to make the crown prince.
The ministers were indignant, and they had only one goal, the ministers to supervise the army, specifically for Gao Qiqian, but also for Emperor Chongzhen. In the future, the state should only serve as foreign officials, and the ministers will never be allowed to do foreign official affairs again.
It was not easy to fight for the power of the inner ministers and the army from the hands of the foreign court, how could Chongzhen be willing to stop. But the hundred officials targeted Gao Qidive, but he couldn't have a seizure. Denglai's affairs were really done badly, spending empty food, grass and silver, but he was unable to make meritorious contributions, but on the contrary, he lost his members, which made Chongzhen, who was bent on seizing power from foreign courts, lack confidence. Although Chongzhen is also very dissatisfied with Gao Qiqian now, after all, Gao is the first person in the court to supervise the army, and he was personally sent by the Son of Heaven, which is of great significance, and Chongzhen has to protect him as a last resort. Keeping Gao Qiqian is also keeping the power of the ministers and supervising the army, this power is not very important to Chongzhen, who has been repeatedly suppressed by foreign dynasties, but very important.
As for what the people in the foreign court are going to do, Chongzhen knows it well, and he is also annoyed, those guys are by no means really designed for the country and shared the emperor's worries, they are all planning for the court and their lives! To put it bluntly, those people didn't want their power to be checked and balanced, let alone the emperor's own strength.
Now, Chongzhen really regrets it, he shouldn't have been hot-headed in the first place, and he was so praised by the people of the Outer Dynasty that he couldn't touch the north, and he forcibly weakened the East Factory and the Jinyi Guard, otherwise, with the strength of the factory guards left by the imperial brother, would the Outer Dynasty dare to bully the monarch like this? !
There is no regret medicine in the world, and the ancestors will not set up factories and guards for no reason, there must be a reason. Hates only that he is too young, too easy to go to the Donglin Party outside, and now, he can only swallow the Yellow Lotus dumbly - there is bitterness and can't be said.
I thought that after the replacement of the official secretary, the military department, and the important members of the Taiwan Constitution Science and Technology, the courtiers would be afraid, so they would take the initiative to stop and give some power to the emperor, at least, they should not always criticize the emperor's actions. Things are also as Chongzhen hoped, after the dismissal of the Prime Minister of Wei, the trend of the foreign dynasty on the matter of supervising the army of the internal ministers has faded, after all, it is not easy to be an official, and no one wants to really provoke the emperor to lose the hard-won official.
I don't want the eunuch Wang Kun to know whether Lu Dao is out of public or selfish intentions to play the last book, clearly pointing out that the champion of the previous new department, the Hanlin Academy revised Chen Yutai to steal the name of the department, when the chief examiner, the former first assistant Zhou Yanru had shortcomings.
This time it can stab the hornet's nest, and the originally calm foreign dynasty was in an uproar, they don't care whether what Wang Kun played is true or not, they only know that a eunuch temple in Lu Dao dares to attack the country's first assistant!
Regardless of whether this Shoufu is the predecessor or the current one, whether he is guilty or not, they don't care about it, they just know that Lu Dao must not let the eunuch temple attack, otherwise it will be Wei Zhongxian again! What's more, although Zhou Yanru has dismissed the first assistant, he is still a scholar of the Dongge University in the imperial court, and he is the leader of the Donglin Party in the world, attacking him is attacking the imperial court and attacking the Donglin Party!
Is it tolerable or unbearable, the government and the opposition are full of Donglin Party members, even the first assistant Wen Tiren does not dare to collide with them easily, how can Wang Kun, a eunuch in the inner court, poke this hornet's nest.
Under the instruction of the Donglin Party, Zhou Yanru's cronies He Ruzhong, Wu Zongda, Zheng Yiwei and others, hundreds of officials began to go up and down to impeach, but it was not to impeach Wang Kun, because this matter was known in the hearts of the discerning people, Zhou Yanru was indeed cheating at the beginning, if it was entangled in this matter, no matter whether it was won or not, it was not too good for Zhou Yanru and the reputation of the Donglin Party, so they chose another direction, that is, to continue to accuse the ministers of supervising the army, forcing the emperor to bow to the outside court, and severely punish the bold eunuch Wang Kun!
Donglin henchmen are all over the world, and for a while, the accusations of the ministers and the army for violating the ancestral system are piled up with the general political department, and the momentum is compared with the previous official department to write a letter to the minister of Wei in the matter, but it can't be bigger. The inner court is also the same enemy, their power comes from the imperial power, the emperor's power is weakened, that is, their power is weakened, not to mention that the fat of the inner ministers and the army is too fat, the big eunuchs have no cronies to send the prison army, which has not benefited, so under the instruction of Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and other ceremonial supervisors, the yamen of the inner court quickly began to fight back, and the trouble was so inexorable that the whole capital is now talking about this matter. If the scholars of the guild hall get together and don't scold the inner court for a few words, then they will not be loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and they will walk around the city of Beijing, and some of them will even say that the emperor is mediocre and wants to repeat the old things of the previous dynasty and the eunuch party and the country. There is even a young speaker of Na Ke Dao who shouts to learn from Yang Lian, the sage of Donglin, and admonish him to death!
The internal and external dynasties are so incompatible, Chongzhen is angry and anxious, as soon as he goes to the palace, the following is all accusing the ministers of supervising the army, so that no one has told him about the military aircraft. Counting on Wen Tiren's first assistant to suppress this trend, but Wen Tiren is difficult to support alone, it is good to be able to remain silent, if even Wen Tiren's first assistant bows to the Donglin Party, then this matter is really not something that he, the emperor, can do.
Muddy tent, muddy tent! Who gave the outer court this arrogant courage! Who allowed them to deceive me like this, do they still have the emperor in their eyes! Hmph, if the arrogance of the foreign court does not continue, how can I still be the emperor!
Chongzhen was furious, but he knew that he was absolutely isolated, and it was the emperor who was alone against the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, how to fight? You can't kill them all, don't say if you have the ability to kill them all, even if you have, you can't do it, this Ming has internal and external troubles, and you have to point to them to do things.
When he was irritable, a good thing came, and the eunuch sent to him made a face and made a case, which made Chongzhen even more convinced that sending his ministers to supervise the army was a good move, and also greatly increased his confidence in defeating the foreign ministers.
Well, since you want me to see the hundred officials, then I will see you!
Chongzhen decided to fight the Confucianism with his tongue, so that the foreign dynasty would lose face, and also make himself a real emperor. Passed down the decree that all officials above the fifth rank in Beijing should be seen in the Huadian.