Chapter 395: Wen Tiren's End
Chapter 395: Wen Tiren's End
The matter of the Kong family is settled like this, and a young child family head is set up again, and then there is no more. In principle, a group of women and children were in charge of the house, and because of the Confucian family's land deeds and usury, they were burned clean. Chen Xie was not polite at all, and returned 10,000 acres of land to the Kong family, and all other fields were confiscated. The people of the Kong family were dissatisfied, but they couldn't come up with the credentials, so the matter had to be resolved. Yan Shenggong is a child, what tricks can a group of old and weak people come up with?
The strange thing is that no one impeached Chen Xie for bullying the Kong family, and even the local officials in Shandong did not speak for the Kong family. The officials of the Imperial History, who are usually very noisy, were unexpectedly quiet at this time.
In June, a big event happened that captured all the attention. The cause of this major event was a person named Zhang Hanru. This person did one thing, reporting and exposing his fellow countryman Qian Qianyi. Zhang Hanru is just a master, and it is really difficult to get Qian Qianyi in the local area. But then again, when the local bully Qian Qianyi didn't take this matter seriously, someone from Jingshi came. Without saying a word, Suo took Qian Qianyi and went to Jingshi. This time, things are getting bigger.
Why is it so big? Hehehe, I have to start with Shoufu Wen Tiren. Wen Tiren hated Donglin, and during the imperial examination, he did not spare any effort to suppress the Jinshi who were born in Donglin. In the Tingtui case that year, Donglin played a trick and directly excluded Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, which was a move to cut off people's futures. Wen Tiren hated Qian Qianyi to death. Although in the ensuing battle, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru became the victors. Later, Zhou Yanru stabbed Wen Tiren in the back and him. But the seeds of hatred were planted deeply, and Wen Tiren saw that there was an opportunity, of course, he wanted to kill Qian Qianyi.
In June, the traitor Zhang Hanru spied on Wen Tiren and wanted to sin Donglin, so he entered his door and conspired with Ding, which was to defamate Qian Qianyi and Qu Shi's illegal hometown. Tiren presided over it, and arrested the two and sent them to prison for strict interrogation. This is the historical record.
It is said that Qian Qianyi is eating himself at home, Wen Tiren should let him go, and leave a line in everything. I'd love to see you in the future. Wen Tiren does not do it. If you have to kill Qian Qianyi, you have to kill him if you have a chance, but if you don't have a chance, you have to kill him if you have a chance.
Zhang Hanru listed Qian Qianyi's 58 counts. It's definitely going to kill his rhythm. Qian Qianyi, who was imprisoned. There are still many ways to go. And it's not bad for money and bribes, and it's not too bad to be treated in prison. I can still get pen and paper and write a letter to the emperor. He wants to defend himself. However, these letters sank into the sea, and Zhu Youzhen ignored him.
At this critical moment of life and death, Qian Qianyi made a big move, and this big move was to ask Cao Huachun for help. Funny, right? It's not funny at all. It is this "moral gentleman", Qian Qianyi, who has to fight resolutely against the eunuchs in both the government and the opposition, asked the eunuch Cao Huachun for help at this time.
Cao Huachun has no interests with Wen Tiren, and he has nothing to do with Qian Qianyi, so why should he help him? This has to start with another eunuch, this eunuch is called Wang An. Who is Wang An? He has two cronies, one is named Wei Zhongxian and the other is Cao Huachun. I see? The old boss of the eunuch world.
When Wang An died, he needed an epitaph. And this epitaph was written by Qian Qianyi. In one, there is also a living Sun Chengzong in the Donglin Party, and this old gentleman also came forward to rescue Qian Qianyi.
Sure enough, Cao Huachun looked at the face of the dead Wang An, and may have received some benefits and promised to help. From this point of view, Cao Huachun is still a relatively affectionate eunuch, otherwise why would he help Qian Qianyi because of Wang An's epitaph? This is a good thing to remember Qian Qianyi, after all, not anyone who was born in a Jinshi can write an epitaph for a eunuch.
Cao Huachun is the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and he has great power. And the heart of the admiral and eunuch Wang of Dongchang is also his old department. Cao Huachun found the heart of the king, and under normal circumstances, after Cao Huachun's activities, this matter can be understood quickly.
But things can't be understood quickly, because Wen Tiren is unconscious, and he is bent on killing Qian Qianyi. You don't have to do Qian Qianyi, he also pulled Cao Huachun to do it. He found someone to spread rumors that Cao Huachun had accepted bribes from Qian Qianyi, and then there were witnesses. In order to do something like, Wen Tiren also asked for leave to rest at home and make a look of avoiding suspicion.
This time, Cao Huachun Mao, Nima, if you do it with me, then I'm sorry. Cao Huachun is not simple, especially the eunuch who has stayed in the palace all his life, who can do this step for him, who is not a master of internal struggle, and how can he not understand Zhu Youzhen's mind better than Wen Tiren?
Cao Huachun took the initiative to attack, first reported to Zhu Youzhen, saying that there was such a thing, such and such a thing, and now he was involved in the slave. Wronged! Please send Dongchang to investigate, and return the slave to innocence. When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he had to do it, and there was such a big thing. Ordered the East Factory, check it for me, and find out.
As soon as Dongchang intervened, things were completely wrong, all the human and material evidence were taken over, and then slowly investigated. In this place of Dongchang, it is really necessary to clean up people, and it is hard to say whether the living will become dead people when they go in, but they will definitely become disabled people. All kinds of torture waiting, Zhang Hanru and the so-called witness, where can they resist. They are not unyielding GC members. It is estimated that there is no need to be tortured, and I will pee when I pull it in and look at the torture tools. I said everything, what was the seven-year-old peeking at the widow and the woman taking a bath, the eight-year-old molesting the maid, and the nine-year-old learned to masturbate himself, etc.
At this time, Wen Tiren was confessed, and the interrogation results were sent to Zhu Youzhen, and the conclusion was: "Tiren has a party."
Well, this time it was a stab in Wen Tiren's soft underbelly. At the beginning, he killed Qian Qianyi, relying on the "Donglin Party" to attack Qian Qianyi, and he appeared in front of the monarch with the image of "a lonely minister and not a party". What is it? This is a bully, a long-term bully.
Zhu Youzhen, who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes, immediately made a decision. Because of the results of the interrogation, Wen Tiren had to make a show and hand in a resignation. Shousuke, if something goes wrong, you always have to behave. Then wait for the emperor to stay, even if the emperor doesn't want him to stay, he has to keep it three times, this is a ceremony, he has to go.
As a result, Zhu Youzhen played very simply, and directly approved three words, "let him go". This time, Wen Tiren completely got rid of it. Zhu Youzhen didn't even say a kind word, you hurry up and pack up and get out, Lao Tzu is very annoyed when he sees it.
The career of officialdom fighter Wen Tiren has come to an end, and looking back on history, it is not difficult to find. Comrade Wen Tiren's life was a life of fighting and a life of constantly digging holes for others. He threw his limited life into an unlimited struggle for power, and finally played himself to death with his own hands.
After the dismissal, Wen Tiren died the next year, dying of illness at home.
Wen Tiren stepped down, and the beneficiary made his debut, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War. There was another group of people in the cabinet, Liu Yuliang, Xue Guoguan, and Fu Guantong, who were appointed as scholars of Dongge University.
In Shandong, the autumn harvest ended smoothly, and Zhu Youzhen issued an edict to exempt the summer and autumn taxes of the four prefectures of Shandong. It's really not that Zhu Youzhen is generous, but he has fished a lot of money into his pocket, I'm really embarrassed. The tax and salt taxes of the two provinces of Denglai were not exempted from him. Counting on the emperor of the Zhu family to give up his wealth, you can dream about it.
Shandong Wenwu, who "escaped a catastrophe", ushered in a new test at the beginning of this autumn.
There was a locust plague in Henan, and then it came to Shandong. When the news reached Jinan, Chen Xie immediately called all the officials to a meeting, and now Chen Xie's prestige in Shandong is absolutely sufficient, and the meeting went smoothly.
"We have overcome the drought, quelled the civil uprising, and preserved the summer harvest and the rush for seeds. It can be seen that natural disasters are not terrible, and as long as the whole group works together, they will definitely be able to resist natural disasters and tide over difficulties. Governor Chen's impassioned speech, the Shandong army and civilians went into battle together, urgently purchased a large number of chickens and ducks from Nanzhili, and put them in the field to eat insects. Along the Yellow River, in the fields, bonfires are set up at night. At the same time, the government issued an order that after steaming and drying the carcasses of five catties of locusts, they could go to the government to exchange for one catty of miscellaneous noodles.
Because of the last officialdom earthquake, officials from top to bottom in Shandong did not dare to slack off and immediately took action. A large amount of grain was transported from Denglai and other prefectures to various counties in Shandong. Hundreds of thousands of Shandong soldiers and civilians are killing locusts day and night, and the elderly and children are all dispatched.
In fact, the people of this era have no way to deal with locusts, thinking that they are condemned by heaven, and they cannot kill locusts, lest the locust gods condemn them. Chen Xie didn't care about this, personally took a broom, and led the officers and soldiers to kill the locusts. There are miscellaneous noodles as bait, the governor and the three divisions take the lead, and the people don't care if they are gods or not.
The locusts flew across the Yellow River, dense as far as the eye could see. Everywhere I passed, the grass roots were gnawed clean, not to mention the green seedlings in the ground? A great war between humans and locusts began.
"I told you to eat the seedlings, and I told you to eat the crops." Governor Chen came to the front line in person, waved a broom, and killed the locusts one by one, and asked the soldiers to investigate the eggs of the locusts along the river and dig them out to kill them. Tens of thousands of officers and men were all dispatched to guard to the death. Governor Chen has always been fighting on the front line, eating and living on the locust extermination position. It greatly encouraged the fighting spirit of the military and people in Shandong. After a month of hard work, the locust plague was finally stopped, although two counties failed to harvest grain because of the locust plague, but the government did what it said, and exchanged miscellaneous noodles for a large number of dried locusts.
The dried locusts were loaded onto the car and transported to Dengzhou, where they were ground into powder with water conservancy in a black-hearted workshop, which is high protein. These high-protein flours, corn flour, potato flour, and sweet potato flour are added to make mixed noodles, and a large number of them are sent to the hard-hit counties. At the same time, a large number of sweet potatoes, corn, and potato seeds were also delivered. While giving relief to the people, we also hurried to plant a batch of crops.
The whole country is united, and the military and the people are united to minimize the consequences of the disaster. This matter was written by Song Guanglan into a splendid article, talking about the locust plague has nothing to do with the sky, but is a force of nature. Did the army and civilians of Shandong soon work together to defeat the locust plague? This recital is not written in vain, this is indirectly speaking for Zhu Youzhen. (To be continued......)