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Chapter 146

Zhang Jiashi himself knows a truth very well, that is, it is not advisable to kill a boatload of people with a bamboo pole. Pinshu.com

Even if the Donglin Party is very unbearable in many cases, and even criticized for the actions of some people, the Donglin Party also has no shortage of talented and loyal ministers.

Yang Lian's master and apprentice are one of its representatives.

Yang Lian may not be too famous in history, and his last official position is not too high. But if his students are also included, Yang Lian is in a sense another kind of model for being a teacher.

This student was Shi Kefa, the Ming army supervisor who defended Yangzhou during the Southern Ming Dynasty.

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Yang Lian was born on July 10 of the sixth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, he learned to study at the age of five.

Yang Lian's youth was the period of the prosperity of the Donglin Party, and he admired Gu Xiancheng and others for taking the world as their own responsibility, not fearing power, and daring to discuss the government. Whenever he encounters a lecture in Donglin, Yang Lian must do everything possible to rush to Wuxi to discuss the study of sex and reason with the gentlemen of Donglin and discuss the way to govern the country. They are like-minded with each other and have gradually become the rising stars of the Donglin Party.

In the fourteenth year of Wanli, he married Zhang.

In the sixteenth year of Wanli, Yang Lian became a "disciple of Mending Yi" with "Zengguangsheng" and became a Xiucai.

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, due to the death of his father Yang Yanao the year before, Yang Lian was worried for three years as usual and lost the opportunity to participate in the township examination. In the same year, the original wife Zhang died.

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Yang Lian's Ding Wei period expired, and he married Zhan as his wife, and accompanied him for life.

In the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Yang Lian failed the imperial examination. Later, due to poverty, he became ill after worrying and tiredness, and then recovered.

In the thirty-second year of Wanli, he obtained the reference qualification of "Legacy", and the forty-sixth person in Huguang Road.

In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Yang Lian was admitted to the Jinshi, observed politics in the Ministry of Rites, and later served as Changshu County. In order to truly understand the local people's conditions, he often went deep into the fields and houses, visited in micro-clothes, and was deeply supported by the people. Later, because of the "first honest official", he was promoted to the household department, and soon changed to the right of the military department.

What can be seen from Yang Lian's early experience is that Yang Lian is not an official who does not understand the situation of the people. On the contrary, Yang Lian himself was born in the civilian class and understood the facts of some situations very well.

And Yang Lian's rise is mainly the "palace transfer case" of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty.

Yang Lian is a fair and upright person who refuses to flatter the powerful. At that time, Zhu Yijun of Mingshenzong had not seen courtiers for many years, and Zheng Guifei had colluded with officials of foreign dynasties, and Xijue, the first assistant of his dynasty, was one of them. They separated the flesh and blood relationship between Shenzong and the crown prince Zhu Changluo. Yang Lian saw through Concubine Zheng's conspiracy and was deeply worried about the future and fate of the prince.

It's just that it is said that Shenzong looks down on the identity of Zhu Changluo's mother...... For such a situation, Zhang Jiashi can only say one sentence: "You Y don't necessarily know where your son can go." ”

Because Mingshenzong's biological mother, Li, was also just a palace person at the beginning, it is said that Shenzong was punished by Li for these reasons.

In his opinion, the crown prince is the foundation of a country, and the "country" is chaotic when it moves. Therefore, he linked the status of the crown prince with patriotism and loyalty, and resolutely supported Zhu Changluo.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun was ill for a long time, and he should have called Zhu Changluo to serve medicinal food in front of the royal bed. However, due to Concubine Zheng's obstruction, the prince was not allowed to see his father. Yang Lian secretly sent someone to tell Wang An, who was in the East Palace, and asked him to let Zhu Changluo "invite him to serve, taste medicine and food, and return at dusk". Strive for the opportunity to get close to Zhu Yijun to prevent Zheng Guifei from falsely transmitting the holy decree and confusing the government. At the same time, Yang Lian and Kedao urged the university scholar Fang Congzhe to lead hundreds of officials to the Qianqing Palace to greet him, in order to show the power of the courtiers. Fang Congzhe was afraid that Concubine Zheng would be angry with him, so he prevaricated in every possible way and said, "The emperor is sick." That is, asking, left and right do not dare to pass. Yang Lian immediately cited the precedent of Yanbo in the Song Dynasty, and asked Fang Congzhe to lead hundreds of officials to ask three times a day, "The first order is that the palace knows that the courtiers are here, and the matter is self-helping." Fang Congzhe was inconvenient to push it further, so he had to do it.

After Zhu Yijun's death, Zhu Changluo ascended the throne for Guangzong. However, four days after Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he became ill. At that time, there were rumors in the palace that Zhu Changluo's illness was because Concubine Zheng Guifei offered eight beauties, which caused Zhu Changluo's physical loss. He also instigated Guan Cui to take laxatives to make his condition worse. When Yang Lian heard these rumors, he was deeply worried about Zhu Changluo, and was determined to eliminate Zheng Guifei's threat to Zhu Changluo, so he contacted the courtiers and asked Zheng Guifei to move the palace and drive her away from Guangzong. also impeached Cui Sheng for "using drugs without form", and at the same time exposed Zheng Guifei's ambition to become the queen mother. Yang Lian is sparse, his language is sharp, and the smell of gunpowder is very strong, and everyone is worried that Zhu Changluo will be very unhappy after watching it. After three days, there was still no movement, and he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when suddenly a word came from the palace that Zhu Changluo would summon the minister tomorrow, and specially announced Yang Lian and Jinyi Wei official school. The courtiers all knew in their hearts that when the Xuanjin Yiwei official school entered the service, they were generally ordered to carry out the "court staff". Everyone speculated that Yang Lian must have been more than lucky when he was summoned this time. Fang Congzhe persuaded Yang Lian to hurry up and excuse the crime, but Yang Lian insisted on disobeying, saying, "Death is death, what is Lian's crime?"

At noon the next day, the ministers entered the court to Zhu Changluo. Zhu Changluo said weakly that he wanted everyone to do their duty and be loyal to the imperial court, so he turned his gaze to Yang Lian and stared at him for a long time, never saying a word. Everyone was worried, and suddenly Zhu Changluo sighed, pointed at Yang Lian and said to everyone: "This is really loyal." He ordered Cui Sheng to be expelled, retracted the holy decree of enshrined Concubine Zheng Guifei as the queen mother, and also made Yang Lian the minister of care. Yang Lian was very grateful for Zhu Changluo's trust, and since then he has been tireless, swearing to serve the court to the death.

On the first day of September, Zhu Changluo died. His favorite concubine Li Xuanzhi wanted to emulate Concubine Zheng Guifei back then, and was ready to hide Zhu Changluo's eldest son Zhu Youxiao to "coerce the emperor's eldest son to respect himself". Foreign minister Zhou Jiamo also advocated raising orphans in Li Xuanzhi on the grounds that the emperor's eldest son had neither a mother nor a biological mother. Li Xuanzhi was ruthless and cunning, and when Zhu Changluo was there, she was arrogant and arrogant, dominating the harem. Zhu Youxiao's biological mother Wang was killed by her. Later, she took advantage of Zhu Changluo's serious illness and colluded with Zheng Guifei to ask for Zheng Guifei to be named the queen mother and herself the queen. Once Zhu Changluo was annoyed by her, so he summoned several ministers to discuss and prepare to make her the imperial concubine. Unexpectedly, Li Xuanzhi, who was hiding behind the curtain and eavesdropping, was not satisfied, so he stretched out his hand from behind the curtain to pull Zhu Youxiao, who was standing next to Zhu Changluo, in, whispered, and pushed him out. Zhu Youxiao knelt on the ground and asked his father to make Li Xuanzhi the queen. Such an arrogance and violation of etiquette not only made the ministers present look angry, but even Zhu Changluo was "discolored". In order to prevent Li Xuanzhi from holding the emperor's eldest son hostage to interfere in court politics and disrupt the national system. Yang Lian and a group of upright courtiers were determined to take risks and turn the tide.

At noon on the same day, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou urged the courtiers such as Fang Congzhe, Liu Yixie, and Han Yi to go to the Qianqing Palace together. As soon as he arrived at the Qianqing Gate, there was an eunuch holding a barricade to block the road, and he was not allowed to enter. Yang Lian scolded: "Minion! The emperor summoned me to wait. Now that he is driving, if Cao doesn't listen, what do you want?" After speaking, he waved his hand to block the gun, and all the courtiers rushed in. After everyone finished crying, they found that their eldest son Zhu Youxiao did not hold a vigil in front of Zhu Changluo's coffin, and they were secretly surprised.

The ministers asked the eunuchs on the left and right, but they were all hesitant and did not dare to answer. Yang Lian saw Zhu Changluo's henchman eunuch Wang An signaling Xinuan Pavilion with his eyes, and immediately understood, turned around and whispered a few words to everyone, and everyone knelt down to Xinuan Pavilion together, and shouted to see the prince in person. Li Xuan hugged Zhu Youxiao and hid in Xinuan Pavilion, where had he seen such a formation, he had already frightened the six gods without a master. Wang An immediately entered, pretending to persuade him, saying that the eldest son of the emperor could be sent back after meeting the ministers. After speaking, he pulled Zhu Youxiao out of the cabinet, and the ministers waiting outside hurriedly hugged Zhu Youxiao into the chariot that had been prepared long ago, and escorted him out of the Qianqing Palace. Only then did Li Xuanzhi come back to his senses, and hurriedly ordered the eunuchs on the left and right to go and block the car. The eunuchs chased after and dragged the sedan chair and shouted: "Where is the young lord going? Yang Lian was furious and scolded loudly: "Your Highness, the lord of the ministers, the four seas and Kyushu, who are you afraid of?" The eunuchs were scolded speechless, and then retreated.

Yang Lian and others carried Zhu Youxiao to the Hua Palace, and immediately held the ceremony of "Zhengdong Palace". And it was agreed that on September 6 of the first year of Taichang, he would be the emperor in the Qianqing Palace.

Li Xuanzhi was very angry when he saw that the emperor's eldest son was taken away, but the overall situation had been decided. She decided to stay in the Qianqing Palace and not leave, so as to blackmail Zhu Youxiao to crown her as the queen mother. When the news came out, the whole court was indignant, and the chapters asking Li Xuan to move the palace continued one after another. Li Xuan sent eunuchs to summon the prince to the Qianqing Palace to discuss matters, but was blocked by Yang Lian. He said with a straight face: "His Royal Highness is the crown prince in the East Palace, and now the emperor, choose to serve An Dezhao?" angrily forced the eunuchs who came to deliver the message back.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, seeing that the crown prince's enthronement ceremony was approaching, Li Xuanzhi was still in the Qianqing Palace. Yang Lian was anxious, and contacted the ministers to gather in Ciqing Palace, asking the scholar Fang Congzhe to take the lead in asking the prince to send an edict to drive Li Xuan to move the palace. Fang Congzhe said disappreciatively: "Chi is harmless." Yang Lian argued: "Yesterday, the emperor's eldest son was in the womb, and tomorrow is the son of heaven, but he is in the palace to avoid the palace?"

At that time, some people suggested that Li Xuanzhi was an old man of Guangzong, and whether it was unseemly to force him too quickly. Yang Lian immediately reprimanded: "The ministers are ordered by the first emperor, and the first emperor wants to take care of his son first. And said, "If you can kill me, you can do it, otherwise, you can't move today, and you can't die." The other ministers also praised and helped, and their words were fierce, which alarmed the prince of the palace. The prince sent people to reprimand the ministers to retreat, but Yang Lian still refused to obey, and continued to argue: "In the name of choosing the protection of the servant Yangtuo, the palace must not be moved." At the insistence of Yang Lian and others, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to send Li Xuanzhi to move to the palace on the same day. Li Xuanzhi accepted the order, knowing that the defeat was decided, so he had to move out of the Qianqing Palace crying. The next day, Zhu Youxiao officially ascended the throne, that is, Ming Xizong.

From Zhu Changluo's death to Zhu Youxiao's accession to the throne, it was only six days before and after. Yang Lian worked hard to assist the crown prince to ascend the throne smoothly, and almost didn't sleep at night. The history books say that within six days, "the ripples are white, and the emperor is also called a loyal minister". Soon after, Yang Lian was promoted to the military department. At that time, Yushi Feng Sanyuan and others tried their best to slander Xiong Tingbi, and Yang Lian justly reported the matter. Soon after, he impeached Huang Jiashan, the secretary of the military department, for the eight major crimes, and Huang Jiashan was dismissed.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian was appointed as the capital of Like, and was immediately promoted to Taichang Shaoqing.

In the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao worshiped Yang Lian as the imperial history of the left capital.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, he was promoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history.

However, Yang Lian did not fully implement his ambitions and was attacked by the "eunuch party".

However, Zhu Youxiao, who was able to ascend the throne with the support of Yang Lian and other upright courtiers, did not get rid of the maladministration as the Donglin Party hoped, but on the contrary, he intensified his efforts, becoming more absurd, extravagant, and incompetent. The eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao's nurse Ke colluded to monopolize power in the palace and wantonly abuse.

Some officials took refuge in Wei Zhongxian and formed a "eunuch party" to attack and ostracize the Donglin party. Yang Lian was full of grief and indignation, and was determined to come forward and crusade against Wei Zhongxian.

On June 1 of the same year, Yang Lian hid the written recital in his arms, preparing to play Zhu Youxiao in front of him in the morning and expose Wei Zhongxian on the spot. Unfortunately, Yang Lian was "afraid of another leak", so he had to hand over to Jimen and transfer it to Zhu Youxiao.

Yang Lian listed Wei Zhongxian's 24 crimes in the song, exposing his crimes of persecuting the former emperor's former ministers, interfering in court politics, forcing the harem concubines to death, and manipulating Dongchang to abuse obscenity, and finally pointed out that the evil consequences of Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship were "to the court, but he knew that there were loyal and virtuous, but did not know that there was His Majesty, and in the capital, he also knew that there were loyal and virtuous, but did not know that there was His Majesty." He asked Zhu Youxiao to "work hard and thunder, gather martial arts, and send strict interrogations to the Ministry of Punishment to correct the law of the country."

Yang Lian was sparse, and every word was like a thunderbolt, hitting Wei Zhongxian's vital point. Wei Zhongxian was terrified when he heard this, and hurriedly ran to Zhu Youxiao to cry and complain about his grievances, and took advantage of Zhu Youxiao's illiteracy to reduce the guilt. made it difficult to distinguish between the true and the false of Zhu Youxiao, and there was no distinction between good and bad, but he comforted Wei Zhongxian with gentle words, and "strictly reprimanded" Yang Lian.

Since then, Wei Zhongxian has hated Yang Lian to the core. In October of the same year, Wei Zhongxian reprimanded Yang Lian for "great disrespect" and "no one to courtesy". Yang Lian was dismissed as a citizen.

squeezed out Yang Lian, Wei Zhongxian still refused to give up, and wanted to put it to death as soon as possible. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Wei Zhongxian instructed the "eunuch party" Dali Cheng Xu Dahua to impeach Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou for "the party is the same as the other, recruiting power and accepting bribes", and used the "Wang Yan's Prison" to murder Yang Lian and others. Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, tortured Wang Yan to extract a confession at the behest of Wei Zhongxian, asking him to frame Yang Lian for accepting bribes. Wang Yan would rather die than give in, looking up to the sky and shouting: "How can there be a corrupt Yang Dahong in the world." ”

Xu Xianchun had no choice but to fabricate a confession by himself and frame Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou for being bribed by Xiong Tingbi of Liaodong Economic Strategy for 20,000 taels. Wei Zhongxian immediately sent Jinyi Wei Tiqi to arrest Yang Lian and others and come to Beijing for interrogation.

In June, Yang Lian was arrested and escorted to Beijing, and the people along the way heard the news, all of whom were unhappy with Yang Lian. They automatically cried in the middle of the road, and the villages and cities they passed, "burned incense and built Jiao, and prayed for the survival of Youlian". At that time, under the initiative of the prefect Li Xingzhi and the county magistrate Xia Zhiyan, "four doors set up cabinets, and donations were initiated." Those who are righteous and righteous will be happy to help. It is more of a monk's way, and it spreads all over Wuchushen and Zhejiang provinces." But in the end, only more than 10,000 taels were raised.

On June 28, Yang Lian was interrogated by the Imperial Prison of the Lower Prison Commander. Xu Xianchun used many of the tortures of Jinyiwei on Yang Lian one by one, and tortured him to the point that he was covered in bruises and dying. Later, when Yang Lian was tortured to the point that he could not sit or stand, Xu Xianchun asked the thugs to shackle Yang Lian and drag him to the hall to lie underground for trial. Yang Lian still did not give in, and wrote "The Absolute Writing" in prison, continuing to state the truth of the "Palace Removal Case" and denouncing Wei Zhongxian for disordering the dynasty. When Wei Zhongxian learned about it, he was so angry that he ordered Xu Xianchun to kill Yang Lian immediately.

On the night of Gengshen in July, Xu Xianchun ordered Tiqi to execute Yang Lian in prison, and the thief successively harmed Yang Lian by means of "crushing his body with soil bags and piercing his ears with iron nails", but Yang Lian did not die. On the 24th day of the seventh lunar month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Xu Xianchun drove a large iron nail into Yang Lian's head and finally killed him at the age of 54.

Before his execution, Yang Lian bit his finger and wrote a bloody letter. said, "If you want to return to the court with your life, you don't want your wife to cry!"

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