If a large number of eunuchs run to Liaodong by themselves, they will definitely attract Chongzhen's attention.

But now it's not so obvious that it's just their nephews.

It is also normal for these people to resign and sell their industries, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang are still in the hands of the eunuchs.

Chongzhen's ears and eyes are not clear, and it is normal.

For example, today's 100-day funeral of Emperor Qi has ended.

Although the mausoleum has just begun to be built, it is not yet possible to be buried, but the funeral ceremony is completed.

In fact, at this time, Chongzhen's crisis was not completely resolved, although many members of the eunuch party resigned in the previous dynasty, which caused the prestige of the eunuch party to plummet.

However, the palace was still completely under the control of Wei Zhongxian, and it was impossible for a Wang Chengen to affect the eunuchs' control of the palace.

So he had to be patient.

Zhang Yan told Chongzhen that all water and food must be careful so as not to be plotted by Wei Gelding.

In order to deal with Chongzhen, the eunuchs still used the tried and tested methods before to present beautiful women to Emperor Chongzhen.

Not only that, but also the aphrodisiac Ecstasy incense is used.

However, in terms of resisting beauty, Emperor Chongzhen is indeed much stronger than his father and brother, Emperor Taichang and Emperor Tianqi, and these methods did not make Chongzhen addicted.

In the end, Wei Zhongxian directly resigned as the governor of Dongchang to test Chongzhen's attitude.

Chongzhen did not allow it, but he was relieved, and allowed Mrs. Fengsheng to leave the palace and live in a private mansion.

Then Wei Zhongxian asked all localities to stop building their own ancestral halls.

Zhu Youzhen approved the previous ancestral hall to remain the same and not be newly repaired.

In the end, he let his henchmen praise him, and Zhu Youzhen always read these pieces very happily without the slightest anger, and he continued to praise Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen Wang Tiqian, Cui Qixiu and others.

These series of temptations also made the eunuchs finally let down their guard.

Emperor Chongzhen is only 16 years old, perhaps he is too careful.

Although Yang Weiyuan is also a eunuch, he has contradictions with Cui Chengxiu, he impeached Wei Zhongxian's right-hand man Cui Chengxiu on the one hand, and praised Wei Zhongxian on the other hand.

This just gave Zhu Youzhen a chance to have a seizure, and he directly pushed the boat down the river to get rid of Cui Chengxiu, which undoubtedly sent a signal.

Cui Chengxiu is the head of Wei Zhongxian's "Five Tigers", and he is not only a member of the cabinet, but also serves as the official secretary of the Ministry and the imperial history of the left capital.

His downfall also sounded the clarion call for a counteroffensive and liquidation against the eunuchs!

The impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by the DPRK and the Central Committee appeared one after another, but Zhu Youzhen remained silent and let them play until the wave of attacking Wei Zhongxian reached its highest, and Qian Jiazheng, a Gongsheng of Jiaxing County, listed Wei Zhongxian's ten major crimes.

One is called the emperor.

The ministers are sparse, and they will be attributed to the factory ministers, and they are loyal and virtuous to the first emperor.

Second, after contempt.

Luo weaving the imperial family, several dangerous officials.

The third is to get soldiers.

Recruit the unregistered and build internal exercises.

Fourth, there is no king.

Military affairs, one-handed obstacles.

Five, it is said to be stripped.

The newly crowned king of the three feudal domains is not as good as one of the Fu domains.

Loyal and virtuous, anointed by thousands of acres.

Sixth, there is no saint.

Dare to use a knife to see the remainder, and plan to match the beans.

Seven Days of Mischief.

openly attacked the seal of the public, and he was shy and did not know the province.

Eight said indiscriminate martial arts.

The military ministers used their strength to defend the wall, and the loyal and virtuous lived in the bottle to take the reward.

Nine said to build a living temple, a temple can not be built no less than 50,000, how can the people lose the joy of the people.

Ten through the joints.

The god's son Cui Chengxiu, the son Cui Duo, posted the text, and reverted to the virtuous book.

All kinds of rebellion are too numerous to write, and they are endless.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen suddenly launched and angrily denounced Wei Zhongxian's crimes in front of the Manchu civil and military forces.

At this time, most of the high-ranking officials of the eunuch party had been cleaned up in the previous dynasty, and the rest of the people were like frightened birds, and no one dared to defend Wei Zhongxian.

And the ministers were even more excited, and many people proposed to cut Wei Zhongxian with a thousand knives like the eunuch Liu Jin of the previous dynasty!

At this time, there was no longer the "Fengsheng Lady" Hakka who was in cahoots with him in the court.

However, for these accusations, Father-in-law Wei naturally will not admit it.

He also knows the truth of "confessing leniently, sitting in prison", when the court confesses his guilt, isn't it the old birthday star eating arsenic - tired of living?

Wei Zhongxian knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "At the beginning of the first emperor's accession to the throne, there were internal and external troubles, and the treasury was empty. In order to make up for the military salary, slaves and maids had to crack down on corruption and increase commercial taxes. It has indeed offended many people! ”

"Even if they turn black and white upside down, attacking the slaves and maids will not change the fact that the prisoners have fallen."

"Wei Liangqing, the nephew of the slave maid, escorted the grain and grass to supervise the army in Liaodong, and was knighted for merit because of the first emperor's promise. All the way from Suning Bojia to the Duke of Ningguo, all the ministers have no objections, why have these become slaves today? ”

"The state affairs are difficult, and the vassal king has to appropriately reduce the regulations, and these have also become the sins of slaves?"

"The slaves and maids have worked hard to expand the financial channels for the imperial court, so that the income of the imperial court in the fifth and sixth years of the Apocalypse has exceeded 10 million taels, and His Majesty has been able to have a surplus to train a new army, have these also become the sins of the slaves?"

"It is a small matter for slaves and maids to be wronged, but these people insinuate and slander the first emperor, and please ask Your Majesty to learn clearly!"

Wei Zhongxian is shameless anyway, you say that I mean the first emperor.

Of course, he also knew that the things he did in private could not withstand investigation, so after some impassionedness, he still said: "The slave is unwell, apply for leave, and I hope Your Majesty will agree!" ”

Zhu Youzhen also knew that Wei Zhongxian had many henchmen, and it was difficult to completely eradicate him at once, so he could only agree to his leave first!

But now that he has torn his face, he is naturally no longer soft.

Soon, Chongzhen replaced Wang Tiqian's position as the master of ceremonies and the palm seal with Cao Huachun.

Cao Huachun originally won the trust of Zhu Youzhen, although he has been serving Zhang Yan in Kunning Palace all these years, but he often extended a helping hand to Zhu Youzhen, coupled with the recommendation of the imperial sister-in-law Zhang Yan, so he ascended to the position of the palm seal of the master of ceremonies.

And Cao Huachun's little follower Duoduo also successfully ascended to the throne and became the steward eunuch of Cining Palace. If Zhang Yan, who was promoted to the queen mother, would naturally move into Cining Palace and give Kunning Palace to Chongzhen's Empress Zhou.

The commander of Jinyiwei, the left capital governor Tian Ergeng has always been Wei Zhongxian's right-hand man.

If Chongzhen wants to take Wei Zhongxian, he naturally wants to take out Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng controls the North Town Fu Division, while Li Xianzhong's second brother Li Shizhong controls the South Town Fu Division.

Chongzhen naturally can't replace Tian Ergeng with Li Shizhong, but at present, the top leaders of Jinyiwei are either Wei Zhongxian's minions or Li Xianzhong's subordinates.

Chongzhen decided to reuse the young man, and he ordered Jinyiwei Qianhu Luo Yangxing to serve as the commander of Jinyiwei.

Although Luo Yangxing is only a thousand households, his father is the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Sigong, and his great-grandfather Luo An was also in charge of the Jinyi Guard.

The Luo family's influence in Jinyiwei is unmatched by any family.

And Luo Sigong has only been away from Jinyiwei for five or six years, and his influence is still there.

Chongzhen's move undoubtedly made the young Luo Yangxing grateful to him and controlled Jinyiwei very well.

Then he asked his confidant Wang Chengen to supervise Dongchang.

In this way, Wei Zhongxian's arm was basically cut off by Chongzhen.

This result has long been expected by Wang Tiqian, anyway, his property and the sons and nephews in the clan have already been transferred to Liaodong, and he has no worries at this time.

Wang Tiqian said: "'Nine thousand years old' is good with Liaoguo, why don't you ask him to save the life of his nephew Wei Liangqing?" ”

The so-called authorities are obsessed with bystanders, but in fact, Wang Tiqian, Tian Ergeng and others have already transferred their property to Liaodong.

On the contrary, Wei Zhongxian relied on the dying recommendation of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and felt that Chongzhen would not kill him, so he did not take action for a long time.

At this moment, he woke up like a dream.

Soon Wei Zhongxian found Shi Junjie, the head of the Intelligence Department, in the "heaven and earth", and Li Xianzhong was naturally salivating about his property in Suning.

However, Li Xianzhong was very embarrassed about taking Wei Liangqing in.

Next, Chongzhen will definitely attack Wei Zhongxian, Wei Liangqing is a key criminal, and it is impossible for the imperial court to let him go unpunished in Liaodong.

If this is not done well, it will cause open confrontation between the imperial court and Liaodong.

In the end, after Wei Zhongxian spent 1 million taels to buy his life, Li Xianzhong agreed to kill Wei Liangqing under the pretense of being a rogue.

Then let Wei Liangqing be incognito and be a rich man in Liaodong.

However, at this time, Suning had already been targeted by the imperial court, so it became very difficult for Wei Zhongxian to transfer assets.

Naturally, no one dared to take over his large number of fixed assets in Suning.

Although Gonggong Wei almost sold them at the price of cabbage, these things are now not to be bought, and even if they are sent, no one will dare to accept them.

At this time, if you have something to do with Wei Zhongxian, it is really a lamp in a pit - looking for death ()!

Moreover, Wei Zhongxian's several industries in Suning have long been targeted by Jinyiwei.

Fortunately, when Li Xianzhong bribed Wei Zhongxian in Suning, he directly gave him a secret mansion, which had a secret passage.

Wei Zhongxian hid part of the silver taels here.

In the end, only 2.2 million taels were transferred, which was less than one-third of Wei Gonggong's cash.

And Wei Liangqing's "borrowing the corpse to return the soul" also failed.

It's not that this trick is not easy to use, but there are really a lot of eunuch children who have used this trick recently.

It has long attracted the attention of the imperial court.

Wei Liangqing himself was captured by Luo Yangxing's Jinyiwei on the way to Tianjin.

After that, Zhu Youzhen sent Wei Zhongxian to Fengyang for resettlement, and Wei Zhongxian still raised a group of outlaws on the way to Fengyang to follow and protect.

When Zhu Youzhen heard about it, he was furious and ordered Jinyi Wei to arrest him and escort him back to Beijing for trial.

Li Yongzhen learned the news and hurriedly sent someone to report to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian knew that he could not escape death, so he and his accomplice Li Chaoqin drank bitterly until the fourth watch.

On the eighth day of April in the first year of Chongzhen (1627), Wei Zhongxian, a "nine-thousand-year-old" who leaned towards the government and the opposition, committed suicide by hanging himself from the beam at the Keshi Hotel in Nanguan, Fucheng.

Emperor Chongzhen has always been bullied by the eunuchs, and he has long hated Wei Zhongxian to death, so he naturally threw his imperial brother's words out of the clouds.

After Jinyiwei brought Wei Zhongxian's body back to Jingshi, Emperor Chongzhen ordered his dismemberment and his head hung in Hejian Mansion.

With Wei Zhongxian's suicide, the imperial court also publicly liquidated the eunuchs.

Two days later, the Ke family was taken out of the private house and escorted to the Huanyi Bureau, a place in the palace that specializes in punishing palace maids, for severe interrogation.

Due to the search of 8 women who were about to give birth in his residence, in the end, the Hakka family could not withstand the torture and confessed that these people were to cooperate with the imperial concubine Ren to fake pregnancy, so as to pretend to be the prince of the first emperor.

This matter was a scandal in the palace, and in the end, the imperial concubine Ren was secretly executed by the empress dowager Zhang Yan.

And the Hakka was flogged to death in the Huanyi Bureau.

Later, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen ordered Han Yi, the veteran of the Donglin Party and the former head assistant of the cabinet, to take charge of the trial of Wei Zhongxian's case.

Emperor Tianqi reigned for 6 and a half years, and Wei Zhongxian controlled the government for almost 5 years, and he had many henchmen.

Many people just follow the crowd, and Emperor Chongzhen originally just wanted to dispose of his core members, and the others were dismissed lightly.

Some people who don't do much harm can even be retained.

However, the Donglin Party has been persecuted by the eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian in recent years, and it is really miserable.

First, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other "Donglin Six Gentlemen" died tragically, and then Gao Panlong, Miao Changqi, Zhou Shunchang and other "Donglin Seven Gentlemen" were persecuted.

How many of the Donglin Party members and their families who died directly or indirectly at the hands of the eunuch party are hundreds?

How many officials of the Donglin Party who have been implicated in various ways and have been belittled and dismissed?

Just punishing a few first evils and trying to turn this story around, how is this possible?

Under the repeated insistence of Sun Chengzong, Han Yi and other Donglin party members, it was finally decided to eliminate all evils and deal with all eunuch party members.

A large number of officials were convicted separately: Choi Chengxiu and six others were convicted of being the accomplices of the rebels and were summarily executed (at that time, Choi Chengxiu had already hanged himself and ordered the corpse to be killed).

Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun and other 19 people were designated as close servants and executed after the autumn.

More than 180 people were also designated as close servants and sentenced to confiscation, imprisonment and dismissal.

In the end, a total of 258 people were included in the eunuch list and never hired.

Wang Tiqian and other eunuch members who escaped death moved their families to Liaodong for fear of being liquidated again by Emperor Chongzhen and the Donglin party.

At this time, they have already been convicted, and Li Xianzhong naturally does not refuse to come to this kind of consortium.

In fact, many people were just forced to cling to the eunuchs, and they did not do much to hurt nature and reason.

The expansion of the scope of the Donglin Party is nothing more than to free up more official positions so that they can take the position.

Moreover, many of their sons and nephews are also famous scholars, and now Liaodong is just short of civil officials, so they can be supplemented.

Of course, Li Xianzhong still doesn't use the eunuchs themselves, except for a few more talented ones.

On the one hand, this is clearly against the imperial court, and on the other hand, these people are easy to bring bad to the officialdom of Liaodong.

Originally, Han Yi and others included Li Xianzhong, Yan Mingtai, Xiong Tingbi and others in the list of eunuchs.

However, in the end, it was crossed out by Sun Chengzong.

Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, and Yan Mingtai, the Governor of Liaodong, can't be controlled by the imperial court at all, can you put them on the list of eunuchs, and the imperial court will still punish them?

If you can't cure the crime, then why are you listed up, you can't slap the court in the face?

Although the relationship between Liaodong and the imperial court is well known, on the surface, Liaodong is still subservient to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Liaodong also pays tribute to 600,000 taels of silver copper ingots every year.

If you really want to provoke Li Xianzhong, it is not impossible to give you a "Qingjun side" to directly enter the Beijing Division.

It is estimated that he will not dare to kill the emperor, and it is still possible for Qingyi to clear the monarch's side.

In the end, Xiong Tingbi, a member of the cabinet and a scholar of the Criminal Department, was designated as a eunuch and dismissed from his post and investigated.

Xiong Tingbi has served as the secretary of the military department for many years, and has always given Li Xianzhong support, so he naturally can't treat Xiong Tingbi badly.

In addition to preparing a mansion and thousands of acres of fertile land for Xiong Tingbi in Kaiyuan, he was also appointed as the governor of Monan to lead Monan.

The seizure of the eunuchs' family property also made the Ming court reap a lot of gains.

A total of more than 500,000 taels of gold and silver were seized, in addition to no less than 3 million taels of land, shops, calligraphy and paintings.

Wei Zhongxian's uncle and nephew are a big head.

This also made Emperor Chongzhen energetic and determined to let go of his hands and feet.

However, at this time, the Chongzhen Dynasty was basically controlled by the Donglin Party.

The first assistant, Sun Chengzong, and the second assistant, Han Yi, were both members of the Donglin Party, and 7 of the 9 cabinet members were members of the Donglin Party.

Although Bi Ziyan, the head of the household, was not a member of the Donglin Party, his political views were still very close to those of the Donglin Party.

It stands to reason that the state has abundant finances, and the people should be exempted from "liao salary" first.

However, Bi Ziyan also has another identity, that is, the elder brother of Bi Zisu, the governor of western Liaoning, who committed suicide in shame in the "Liaoxi Mutiny".

Therefore, Li Xianzhong can be regarded as Bi Ziyan's enemy.

Bi Ziyan is the same as the Donglin Party's proposition, Liaodong is a big problem for the Ming Dynasty, so the "Liaodong salary" must not be canceled.

"Liao Salary" has also changed from the original defense of Jianjiao to the current defense of Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao.

Now that the eunuch party has been purged, the "bad government" left by the eunuch party naturally cannot be preserved.

As a result, the Donglin Party proposed to drastically reduce the commercial tax and mining tax previously imposed by the Eunuch Party.

Now that the eunuch party that overthrew Wei Zhongxian had become a political slogan for Chongzhen, he had to agree to the suggestion of the Donglin party.

Eventually, the Apocalypse's efforts to increase revenue were cancelled except for trade with the Dutch in Yuegang, Fujian, which was preserved.

For the Donglin Party, it was certainly not enough to simply abolish the commercial tax.

In the past, Wei Zhongxian was able to collapse the Donglin Party, mainly relying on the factory and health institutions in his hands, as well as the checks and balances of the cabinet by the celebrant and supervisor.

Although Wei Zhongxian was defeated by them, as long as these things that restricted them were still there, the Donglin Party was still restless.

Who knows if Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun and others will become the next Wei Zhongxian?

Will the Donglin Party suffer another major persecution?

So the Donglin Party began to fool Chongzhen.

They first wrote to praise His Majesty for quickly eradicating the eunuchs by thunderous means, and he was the Holy Lord of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was very proud, and he was a little fluttering.

Of course, this is just an introduction, and their real purpose is to learn from the pain and prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of the eunuch party's chaotic government.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei are the minions that Wei Wei relies on the most, especially Dongchang, who brutalizes Zhongliang and extorts tyranny, and the people can be said to do all kinds of evil.

In order to prevent the resurgence of the eunuchs, they suggested that His Majesty dismantle the East Factory and restrict the Jinyi Guard, so as to save a lot of money from the imperial court; More importantly, it can prevent eunuchs from messing up the government.

Why is the attitude towards Dongchang and Jinyiwei completely different?

That's because Jinyiwei is a place where the descendants of the noble officials of the Ming Dynasty are mixed.

Whether it is a noble or a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants will shadow the official position of Jinyiwei.

Among the more than 30,000 brocade guards under Luo Yangxing, there are thousands of noble children who eat mixed rice alone.

Eliminate the brocade guard?

What a joke.

Whoever dares to mention the removal of Jinyi Wei will definitely be attacked by the crowd.

Dongchang is different, and this kind of secret service must be resolutely banned.

Chongzhen didn't take it too seriously, but he couldn't stand the civil officials led by the Donglin Party saying every day.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen himself was often oppressed by Dongchang's minions when he was still King Xin, so he naturally had no good impression of Dongchang.

However, he did not dismantle the East Factory in the end.

It only reduced the size of the East Factory and restricted their movements.

He canceled the edict of Dongchang and canceled their right to spy on the kings of the hundred official domains.

No edicts, no arbitrary surveillance.

As a result, a large number of spies in the East Factory were unemployed, and the originally feared Jinyi Wei and the East Factory basically only had the function of royal bodyguards.

Without the surveillance of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, these officials can be even more unscrupulous and corrupt.

Of course, the flickering didn't end there.

The Donglin Party also said: "Since Emperor Jiajing, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has been neglecting his administration, so the celebrant often oversteps his duties, giving the eunuch an opportunity to abuse power. ”

Chongzhen also makes sense when he thinks about it, I am a diligent king.

The vote of the cabinet is intended to be reviewed and replied in person, so why should the celebrant intervene?

So they all did it themselves, so that the celebrant also became an ornament.

In fact, the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty has matured after more than 200 years of development.

The "approval of the red" of the celebrant and the "vote" of the cabinet are a kind of mutual constraint, and only when they restrain each other can the emperor control the overall situation.

And sometimes the celebrant is also the thunder for the emperor, and the emperor is inconvenient to go down in person, so he often uses these eunuchs to fight with the ministers, and he is the controller behind the scenes.

When Chongzhen's series of operations were transmitted back to Liaodong, they really stunned the civil and military officials in Liaodong.

To be honest, Chongzhen's start is definitely a state of eternal Mingjun.

The 16-year-old young emperor defeated Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs in one fell swoop and regained power through his forbearance, which made many people question Li Xianzhong's choice.

Emperor Chongzhen is obviously much stronger than his brother Emperor Tianqi, "Duke of Liao" This is a strong enemy for himself?

But then almost all eunuch officials are not used, which is a bit too hasty, how can so many important positions be filled at once?

It seems that Emperor Chongzhen is indeed too young.

The next operation was to stunned everyone, reduce or reduce commercial tax and mining tax, and continue to maintain "Liao salary"; self-abandonment of the East Factory, Jinyiwei; Overhead ceremonial supervisor, sole use of the Donglin Party.

Chongzhen's wave of high and low driving made everyone have to admire Li Xianzhong's "wisdom of knowing people".

Mao Yuanyi even said: "The Intelligence Department has received thousands of spies that Dongchang doesn't want, if it weren't for the recent deficit in Liaodong, the subordinates would want to take over all these people." ”

At this moment, Li Xianzhong understood the true meaning of the so-called "loyalty and immortality, and the Ming Dynasty is immortal".

It's not that Wei Zhongxian saved Daming, but that because he died, Chongzhen directly abolished Daming.

Just as Li Xianzhong was thinking and understanding, Mao Yuanyi received an urgent letter.

He said: "Qi Liao Guogong, Feng Quan sent a letter requesting that Tian Ergeng's life must be saved!"

Tian Ergeng has saved a lot of silver in Liaodong Bank, but he has been decided by Chongzhen, how can he save him?

Mao Yuanyi said again: "Feng Quan said that Tian Ergeng knows some of the inside story of the murder of Lingzun Li Rusong? ”

Tian Ergeng's grandfather Tian Le was indeed the secretary of the military department of the Wanli Dynasty at that time, and his father's death was inseparable from Tian Le, so he thought that the clue was broken.

Li Xianzhong said: "The Intelligence Department must rescue Tian Ergeng!" ”

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