Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Aihong
Zhao Nanxing, who presided over the "Jingcha", carried out his task of "tidying up the world" and drove out all the villains in his mind.
This is the second time he has taken over the power of Jingcha—it is exactly 30 years since the last time Wanli was 21 years old.
In the imperial court, there are still many old people who remember the past events, and many young people who have heard about the past events. At that time, Zhao Nanxing was a doctor of kaogong. , unselfishly dismissed incompetent officials, but unexpectedly met with a backlash, and was convicted. In addition to two resignations, even those who rescued them were all dismissed from office, which made the court and the middle class look like nothing——Zhao Nanxing lived idle because of this For more than twenty years.
This time, there were whispers in advance, what kind of attitude would the elderly Zhao Nanxing preside over the "Guihai Jingcha" this time?Is it a "iron face and iron heart" thirty years ago?Or is it like Zou Yuanbiao that the ruling attitude has been adjusted to be lenient?Both conjectures have their own merits and have been discussed for a while.
It wasn't until the time approached that one of the two speculations stopped——Zhao Nanxing's "impartiality" attitude and position became more and more obvious, and the principle of drastic rectification of officials was fully revealed.
Some officials who "knew what they knew" began to fear...
On this day, Zhao Nanxing invited Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Chen Yuting, Wei Dazhong and other Donglin scholars in the court, and clearly announced the actions he would take: "Today's officials are corrupt and criticized by others. There are several reasons: firstly, ministers gather friends to form cliques, seek mutual self-interest, cite and shield each other, the so-called "clique formation and disorderly government" is a major disaster for the country! Second, favors are entrusted with favors, financial interests and bribes make troubles, making recommendation all the way full of dirt; The old man once heard that when a job is vacant and there are many plotters, the bribes will increase steadily, reaching as many as 300,000 to 400,000 gold. Officials don't focus on people's livelihood and suffering, but focus on currying favor with the powerful, even eunuchs in the harem. Once they get the position, they will take advantage of the opportunity to amass money; such a repeated cycle will make the administration of officials ruined all the way. Let it get worse—if these many ills are not eliminated, it is difficult for me to have the hope of "apocalyptic rule"; therefore, this year's Jingcha, I will strictly rectify these ills, depose villains who are not in office, and clarify the administration of officials!"
After a few words, the words were righteous and strict, and Yang Lian was the first to resonate: "Your Majesty is right!"
Then, he talked a lot about his own opinions, echoed Zhao Nanxing's conversation, and added some details; as soon as he finished speaking, Zuo Guangdou immediately continued...
The few people present at the meeting were all members of Donglin, with the same opinions and ideas, and even somewhat similar personalities. Therefore, they all had a consensus with Zhao Nanxing; and since they were all Zhao Nanxing's juniors, of course, Zhao Nanxing was the only one who followed suit; After the conversation, there was almost no dissent—everyone agreed and strongly supported Zhao Nanxing's strict management of officials. Opinion.
Therefore, Zhao Nanxing's "deliberate clarification" opinion and "iron face, iron heart, iron hand" approach became the task of Donglin Group's joint efforts.
A few days later, the "merciless" purge began...
Zhao Nanxing believes that ministers forming cliques and chaotic administration are the first cause of the current corruption of officials, and members of the "three parties" that have been formed will bear the brunt of his "killers".
Yuan Shijiao, the leader of the "Qi Party", was ranked first on the deposed list.
Followed by Zhao Xingbang, Guan Yingzhen, and Wu Liangsi—all important figures in the three parties, the charge is of course "forming a party for personal gain".
However, as soon as the list of the four deposed in the first wave was announced, voices of opposition immediately aroused: neither were they listed in Donglin, nor were they all members of the three parties. Because although these four people have formed a party, they have not committed any major crimes. Whether they should be punished so severely remains to be discussed.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this opinion was put forward, it immediately triggered a more intense reaction from Zhao Nanxing.
Zhao Nanxing, who "chooses the good and is stubborn", wrote the special article "On the Four Evils" overnight, stating that the "four evils" who form a party are villains who must not be forgiven, otherwise it will lead to serious consequences. Consequences; Moreover, in addition to writing fiercely and sharply, he quickly launched an action with the kaogong Langzhong Cheng Zhengji, dismissed the four, and stopped the voice of opposition.
Then, he continued to investigate the mistakes of other officials. For example, Zhang Suyang, the inspector of Zhejiang Province, once recommended improper people and punished them with deprivation of salaries; He made severe accusations and particularly severe punishments for people and things that he thought were inappropriate.
He seemed eager to vent his suffocation that he had been silent for more than twenty years and was full of ideals that could not be realized. He also seemed eager to rectify the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy overnight. Officials whom he considered unfit were expelled from the court.
He has a strict and resolute personality, and his style of acting is more decisive, and there is no room for others to discuss; in the second generation of Donglin, there are not only Yang Lian and others who are close to him in personality, but also many people who have admired him for many years. He came to carry out the work of "clarifying the courtiers" this time; for a while, the court was full of turmoil.
However, the development of the matter was not as he expected, and the Ming Dynasty's official administration was clarified in one fell swoop, but Zou Yuanbiao's worries came true...
Of course, the deposed officials will not "remove without a fight", but want to keep their positions, they will rebound in groups; thus, the three parties have united into the same front; Gao felt that he was alone and alone, so he simply joined the three parties.
And because they were united by Donglin's exclusion, and the increasingly powerful three parties still feel that their own strength is insufficient, some people have already begun to actively establish channels, contact the harem, send a large number of gifts, and ask Wei Zhongxian for help—"Little man "Not only were they not all expelled, but they changed the ecology of the imperial court; the dark tide was surging and gradually gathered into a new force, which was about to set off earth-shattering changes.
As a result, there was a special atmosphere in the imperial court. Under the double accumulation of the invisible and unsettling pressure, as well as the discordant feeling brought about by the vicious fight between Donglin and Feidonglin, The atmosphere was almost suffocating.
People have already begun to have doubts about the dream of the "reign of the apocalypse", and have even begun to feel disillusioned...
Only Emperor Apocalypse, who is the king of a country, was unaware of all this, but only focused on his own wooden works.
On this day, the workshop he wanted to build officially started.
He was so happy that he couldn't sleep since two or three days ago, counting the time for groundbreaking excitedly, and even walked to the scheduled construction site several times a day, looking at it as if he had forgotten his feelings. The empty ground applauded.
There is a beautiful vision in his heart, and there will be enough space, complete tools, good ventilation, and bright light in the workshop that is completely his own—he said to Rong Qingfeng more than once: "In the future, I will I won’t disturb you when I’m doing carpentry!”
Rong Qingfeng also teased him from time to time: "When the house is built, you can simply move out of the Qianqing Palace! It doesn't matter if you spend twelve hours a day beating and hammering nails and hammers. It won't bother me anyway. !"
He didn't realize the sarcasm in these words, but nodded again and again; however, on the fifth day after the workshop broke ground, Queen Zhang of Kunning Palace sent someone to report the bad news to him.
Queen Zhang was pregnant for three months, but unexpectedly had a miscarriage...
When he heard this report, he had just returned to Qianqing Palace from the construction site, and his heart was still full of excitement. Hearing this, he immediately uttered a dumbfounded exclamation: "What? How could it be?"
In fact, he was not yet mentally prepared to be a father. At the beginning of Empress Zhang's pregnancy, when he accepted the human blessing from all the harem, he only had a mixed feeling of surprise and wonder in his heart. The so-called "happy" was reminded by others. I just realized it——afterwards, he didn't take it very seriously, and even less went to Kunning Palace to care about it. On weekdays, he and Empress Zhang only met two or three times a month; Most of the time and thought are used in carpentry.
However, when the accident happened, he was still surprised, and couldn't help asking: "How did this happen? Why did this happen?"
The first thought that subconsciously arises is: "Call the imperial physician to ask me!"
But Rong Qingfeng immediately caught up with his words: "Oh! The imperial doctor can't do anything about this kind of thing!"
As she spoke, she sighed again and again, expressing her sadness and regret with a frowning expression, while she said to Emperor Tianqi carefully: "Maybe you are building a house in the palace, and the air of the earth has reached the level of the fetus. Yes—I have heard old mothers-in-law and mothers say since I was a child that pregnant women are not even allowed to drive a nail into the wall or put a bolt on the door; if one is not careful, the fetus will move! This Come on, it's all your fault, if you build the house when the queen is pregnant, of course something will happen!"
Emperor Tianqi became more and more dumbfounded, and he was speechless for a long time, before asking Rong Qingfeng: "What should we do now?"
Rong Qingfeng sighed and said: "What else can I do? Resign to fate! The child is gone if he is gone, and he will not come back even if he begs the Jade Emperor!"
Emperor Tianqi was in a daze for a while, thought for a while and said, "I'm going to Kunning Palace to see the queen! She must be very sad right now!"
Rong Qingfeng quickly stopped: "You are the emperor, how can you go to the ominous place to see such bloody things in person? Let Wei Zhongxian go, he is careful and considerate; in addition, call the imperial physician Prescribing some prescriptions to mend one's body is your reward, and it's just the 'emperor's grace'!"
Emperor Tianqi heard that it made sense, so he did so, and gave an extra order: "Tell Wei Zhongxian to give me some comfort; explain to the imperial physician, try to use the best medicinal materials!"
Rong Qingfeng replied: "Yes, let's enjoy two thousand-year-old ginseng!"
Emperor Tianqi nodded his head twice, then lost his mind for a while, and then said: "You said that building a house is to stimulate the fetus, so I ordered them to suspend work for two days, so as not to rush to people again! "
Rong Qingfeng couldn't help but secretly chuckled, but said to him with a steady face: "People don't rush, fetuses do!"
However, as soon as the words came out, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately added: "However, in order to prevent further offences, let's call a few Taoist priests into the palace and practice on the construction site to drive away evil spirits!"
Emperor Tianqi was noncommittal, and after a while he said, "You go to Zhang Luo!"
Rong Qingfeng sighed pretendingly and said: "Alas! The Taoist priest should have been summoned long ago——If the Dharma has been practiced first and then the ground is broken, maybe it will not be a bad pregnancy!"
He said and blamed himself: "I was also confused, I didn't remind you earlier!"
Emperor Tianqi said softly: "How can I blame you?"
On the one hand, he frowned unconsciously, stroked his chest and said, "It's so boring——"
Rong Qingfeng quickly said softly: "Call someone to come for a massage!"
Helping him to bed even more diligently, he said: "Chest tightness, must have heard this bad thing, blood stasis - quickly forget about this, the chest tightness will no longer be!"
While talking in his mouth, his hands were busy undressing him.
After a while, several eunuchs in charge of massage came and came up to wait on her, so she had to back away.
The eunuchs in charge of massage have all received strict training, and their massage skills are so superb that it takes only half an hour to move their hands, and they can make people's qi and blood flow, muscles relax, fatigue disappear, the whole body is relaxed, and then they can fall asleep peacefully , forget all the troubles.
These eunuchs have also been personally selected and trained by Wei Zhongxian - she is absolutely at ease.
After Emperor Tianqi fell asleep, it would take at least two hours before she would wake up. She could calmly go to Kunning Palace with Wei Zhongxian in person to inspect the details of Empress Zhang's death.
The season coincided with the bright and beautiful spring and March, and the court of Daming Palace was overflowing with an evil spirit.
What's more, the spring light also drives Liaodong to bloom, but people in the dangerous situation in Liaodong have no intention of appreciating the beautiful spring willows and spring flowers brought by the spring...
As soon as he heard that Sun Chengzong had sent out a "beg for rest", Yuan Chonghuan, who had just returned from his inspection tour in Ningyuan, didn't care about the dust and mud all over his face, it was getting dark, and he didn't care about the etiquette of begging for a meeting. Entering Sun Chengzong's official office, as soon as he saw Sun Chengzong, he shouted: "Are you going to abandon the 100,000 living beings in Liaodong?"
He was thin and thin, with thin cheeks, red and black complexion, but loud. He shouted in a hurry, and the momentum was even more astonishing, which immediately changed Sun Chengzong's face.
However, what moved Sun Chengzong was not his abrupt attitude or the high pitch of his voice, but the fact that this short and sharp content accurately cut into his heart.
He was taken aback for a moment.
But Yuan Chonghuan went on like chasing after him: "My lord, you must not—"
The tone gradually softened, but the content of the speech became more in-depth and pertinent, which made him unable to deal with it: "Since your lord took office, you have worked hard to deploy, rectify the troops, and comfort the people, and Liaodong has gradually become more stable and defensive. , Gradually curb Nurhachi's southern invasion; now, my lord has the idea of letting go-the humble official boldly asserts that the day my lord leaves the Liao Dynasty is the day when the golden iron cavalry takes over the Liao; my lord does not care about his own fame and future, nor does he care about the hard work of the past Put it all in vain, but how can you bear to let the land of Liaodong fall into the enemy's hands? The people of Liaodong are in a sea of misery?"
As he was talking, Yuan Chonghuan's eyes turned red; the atmosphere became very heavy, and Sun Chengzong was even more speechless.
The hearts of both of them were filled with uncomfortable feelings - after a long time, Sun Chengzong was still silent, but Yuan Chonghuan didn't care that his voice had become hoarse, his voice was slightly choked, and he continued: "I heard that the humble job , After Jin took over many of my lands, he abused the people of our dynasty, slaughtered innocent people, and caused the people to revolt, but it was hard to think that he was a strong soldier, and he was killed even worse—”
He began to enumerate all kinds of tragic facts:
Every time Nurhachi captured a land, he would order the people to shave their hair, braids, and change their clothes to show their submission. If they did not obey, they would be killed; The servants were killed, and countless people died on the way because of impatient toil; third, due to new foundations, building cities and houses in the late Jin Dynasty, a large number of labors were needed, and Han people were also called as servants. The labor was heavy and miserable; , Checking out and expropriating grain to meet military needs; then there are often incidents of plundering people's food, causing many Liao people to starve to death-"Mourning is everywhere, people are dying, Liaodong has become a purgatory!"
He talked for an entire hour, and he came to such a sad conclusion, and then he added another sentence: "If my lord abandons Liaodong, the only remaining places in Liaodong, Ningyuan and other places, will also be very difficult." I quickly fell into the enemy's hands; then, the enemy cavalry pushed into Shanhaiguan; I am afraid that my lord will witness with my own eyes that all the people of my Ming Dynasty, half of them died in the massacre, half of them shaved their hair and changed their clothes, and built a city and house for Nanurhachi!"
Sun Chengzong finally let out a heavy and deep sigh, and then said in a low voice: "Don't say any more——"
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