Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 171 Why is Wei Zhongxian Vulnerable

This day can be said to be the most important day for Taichang since he came to the throne, because tomorrow he will clean up the eunuchs, end the party struggle, control the court, and become a real emperor who promises everything!

He had waited a long time for this day.

For this day, he endured for a long time.

For this day, he also prepared for a long time.

Now, the officials from the Nanzhili Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Ministry are already in place, and the students who have failed the rankings who are going to be low-level officials have almost been taught, and the new subjects who are the backbone of the imperial court have also been almost screened.

What else?

There is also the crime of the eunuch party, which is definitely indispensable. There must be a reason for cleaning the court. Although the eunuch party has caused public resentment and even forced the northwest disaster victims to rebel, not everyone knows about these crimes.

He had to sort out all of these and announce them, so that the common people could clearly know what evil deeds the eunuchs had committed, so as to achieve the best results.

If he didn't say anything, catching the eunuch would be a one-shot kill, and that would be a good shit.

Why do things that are supported by all people can be done so unclearly?

As for the crimes of the eunuchs, it is naturally not difficult to find them. There are a lot of eunuchs in the imperial prison. As long as they confess honestly and sort them out according to their confessions, it should be almost the same.

So, will the eunuchs in the prison be honest?
According to the legend, as long as you enter the imperial prison, no one dares not to recruit you.

actually not.

The Imperial Prison generally refers to the Imperial Prison acting as the agent of Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi. The prisoners here are all convicts convicted by the Emperor himself, so it is called the Imperial Prison.

Generally, Jin Yiwei arrests people and enters the Imperial Prison based on orders. There is no need to go through the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Dali Temple.

Imperial prison has always been criticized by people, and it is called the biggest tyranny of the Ming Dynasty. The reason is actually not much related to the fact that the Ming Dynasty was the emperor.

Because the emperor was not out of his mind, there was a reason why they arrested people and sent them to prison. Those who were sent to prison by the emperor basically committed serious crimes, even if some were wronged , that would not make the Imperial Prison the greatest tyranny of the Ariake Dynasty.

It is impossible for an emperor to use all kinds of instruments of torture for no reason, and take pleasure in torturing people.

After all, if you commit a crime, you can be beheaded or cut to pieces. There is no need to be so boring as to torture people.

Moreover, apart from the two major purges of the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of other dynasties did not arrest many ministers and sent them to the imperial prison.

The reason why Imperial Prison is so notorious is mainly because of Wei Zhongxian.

In history, more people were arrested by Wei Zhongxian and imprisoned than the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty combined!
Moreover, Wei Zhongxian arrested someone and sent him to prison not because he committed any crime, but because he didn't listen to him, opposed him, or even accidentally offended him.

In other words, when Wei Zhongxian arrested people and sent them to prison, it was not to see if they had committed a crime, but to see if they had offended him!

Wei Zhongxian doesn't care if you are an official or not, even if he finds out that some common people have scolded him behind his back, he will still be sent to prison to have his skin cramped and his tongue cut out.

There is a saying in "The Edict of the Prison": In the age of Wei Eunuchs, all those who committed crimes will be sent to the imperial prison, and their souls will be thrown into flames, and the cruelty is unspeakable.

Donglin offended Wei Zhongxian the most, so Donglin was the most imprisoned in the imperial prison. The torture of the first six gentlemen and the last seven gentlemen in the imperial prison is already beyond the scope of human nature. Animals have never been tortured so miserably.

If Wei Zhongxian did this, the prison will naturally be notorious and will last forever!

Maybe it's because of the displeasure of the retribution of the natural law. At the moment, all the eunuchs are imprisoned in the prison. Moreover, Taichang has already ordered Luo Yangxing to use all [-] instruments of torture, regardless of whether he is dead or alive.

He ordered Luo Yangxing to do this, which actually meant the same thing as Wei Zhongxian, that is Liwei!
In history, offending the nine thousand year old Eunuch Wei would definitely make life worse than death.

Now, those who don't take him seriously, who only know how to fight for power in the court all day, will live a life worse than death!

Just ask if you are afraid?
Let me ask you, do you still engage in party struggle?
Let me ask you if you still dare to fight for power and profit, trying to control the court and the emperor in vain!
There are eighteen instruments of torture in the imperial prison, but no one can bear them, at least these eunuchs can't bear them.

So, these guys recruited everything they knew, regardless of whether they did it or not, even if they just heard about it.

In this way, there will be more crimes brought out.

Wang Shaohui, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Kuilong, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, joined forces to buy and sell officials. No matter what position, as long as someone pays, Li Kuilong is responsible for rectifying the incumbent, and Wang Shaohui is responsible for replacing the person who pays.

In order to fight for the position of eldest son, Cui Chengxiu, a scholar of the University, and Tian Ergeng, the commander of Jinyiwei, tried their best to help Wei Zhongxian eliminate dissidents, deliberately framed him, and murdered Zhongliang.

For the sake of being superior, Feng Quan, a scholar of the university, and Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the household department, tried their best to flatter Wei Zhongxian and made money everywhere to honor Wei Zhongxian.

In order to please Wei Zhongxian, Xu Dahua, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, and Wang Zhichen, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, robbed Wei Zhongxian of his nephews and nephews for the merits of important local cases and frontier military achievements, and helped Wei Zhongxian add officials to his nephews and grandchildren.

What Wei Zhongxian wantonly snatched the mansions in the capital, but those who refused to give up were immediately dispatched by the Dongchang gang to arrest them and beat them to death.

What Wei Zhongxian secretly trained the dead, plotting wrongdoing.

There is also embezzlement of disaster relief money and food in the Northwest, salt tax and salt tax in the southwest of Mexico, etc. I don’t know how many people have been recruited.

Sitting in the dim signing room of the edict prison, Taichang looked at the pile of confessions in front of him, and couldn't help but nodded slightly: "Well, this matter is good, list all these crimes, make up dozens of them, and follow the test The confession in the fraud case is the same, hundreds of copies are transcribed, and they are ready to be posted."

When Luo Yangxing heard the words, he cupped his hands without hesitation and said, "My minister obeys the order."

Taichang nodded slightly, then got up and walked out.

This is already the last day, and as soon as the gold list is posted tomorrow, he will start.

What else has not been dealt with properly?
He walked all the way, thinking all the way, and suddenly remembered a crime he just saw.

Wei Zhongxian trains the dead, plots evil!

This kind of thing, if people don't know, it's a joke.

Are you kidding me, training dead soldiers?

But Taichang knew that this was true because Wu Mengming had reported it to him.

Historically, this crime was also included in the Chongzhen imperial eunuch case.

Moreover, in later generations, a powerful man named Wen Mouan wrote a book based on this matter, called "The Murderer Tang Zhan", which was about the dead men trained by Wei Zhongxian. Later, this book was made into a movie.

These dead men are not generally scary, because they are a bunch of killing machines, if they are not eliminated, it will be a great hidden danger.

He thought for a while, and said to Huang Degong, the commander of the imperial guards beside him: "Degong, after returning to the palace, you go and pick out a thousand of the best guards, give each of them a musket, and let them rest immediately. something tonight."

In fact, the imperial guards are not equipped with muskets yet, but Taichang has already started to let Huang Degong practice the imperial guards and use muskets.

Because muskets will definitely become the main equipment on the battlefield in the future, the imperial guards under him will naturally be able to use them. When the muskets of Shenjiying are equipped, he will prepare to equip the imperial guards.

At this moment, the Shenji Battalion is still fighting in Bashu, and the muskets made by the Ministry of Industry are basically used by the guards for practice, and there are still a thousand of them.

Huang Degong naturally cupped his hands without hesitation and said: "The general will understand."

Taichang looked at Gu Cheng, Cao Huachun, and Liu Shiyou again, and finally said to Ge Cheng: "Old Ge, tonight you will take the Thousand Guards Musketeers and the Hundred Imperial Guards masters to deal with the dead soldiers trained by Wei Zhongxian." how?"

When Gu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "Wei Zhongxian is really training dead soldiers?"

Taichang nodded solemnly and said: "Well, Wu Mengming has already found out the place, but only Wei Zhongxian's nephews and nephews can enter that place, and he can't go in. I don't know what's going on inside."

This is a bit troublesome.

Gu Cheng couldn't help frowning and said: "It's a big night, if those dead men escape, it will be a big trouble."

Taichang nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, so I sent you a thousand Musketeers of the Imperial Guard, there is a manor, you let all the musketeers live around the manor, and then bring the masters of Jin Yiwei in, these musketeers Stay on the outskirts and open fire as soon as someone escapes, no matter how powerful the dead are, hundreds of bullets will never be able to hide, right?"

I don't know about this.

Gu Cheng could only nod solemnly and said, "I will try my best not to let anyone escape."

After Taichang arranged these things, he returned to the imperial study.

He thought about it carefully, and then said to the door: "Bring it to Wang Cheng'en."

Soon, Wang Chengen came over in a hurry.

Right now he is considered to be the most powerful in the palace. In order to enhance his strength, Taichang asked him to recruit another two hundred martial eunuchs. Should be no problem.

After paying respects to the monarchs and ministers, Taichang couldn't help laughing and said, "Cheng En, don't you want to beat Wei Zhongxian with a punch?"

Hearing this, Wang Chengen couldn't help but his eyes lit up and said: "Your Majesty, what do you mean, can we do it now?"

Taichang smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, tomorrow morning, Neidongchang Yamen will be handed over to you. If you start early morning, you can do it. You go punch Wei Zhongxian and bring it to me!"

Wang Chengen couldn't help cupping his hands excitedly and said: "Your servant understands."

The arrangements here in Taichang are almost done, and we are waiting for tomorrow to start. What about Wei Zhongxian?

Wei Zhongxian had sensed that something was wrong a long time ago, and after those cheating examiners were caught, he was extremely anxious.

However, his godsons and grandsons are a bunch of trash, and all of them are selfish, so they know how to use his reputation to corrupt the law and rule out dissidents.

At this moment, these guys know how to be anxious with him. As for any countermeasures, they can't think of a single one!

Let them use the prestige of Godfather Wei or Grandpa Wei to bully others, they are one by one ruthless, and if they are asked to find a way to deal with the emperor, they are one by one more cowardly!
This is also the case in history. When Chongzhen first came to the throne, he was really a little afraid of Wei Zhongxian, so he always forbeared, always forbeared.

Chongzhen ascended the throne in August of the seventh year of Tianqi. It was not until November of the seventh year of Tianqi that he decreed that Wei Zhongxian should go to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum.

In other words, he endured it for three full months!
Because he is really a little scared. Above the court, the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Five Temples, including Dongchang, including Jinyiwei, are all controlled by Wei Zhongxian's godson and grandson, and the palace is full of Wei Zhongxian's people. , how dare he do it?
In the end, after suffering for three months, he discovered that Wei Zhongxian's godson and grandson were just a bunch of trash, who basically knew nothing except taking money and breaking the law.

Moreover, these guys are extremely selfish and often engage in fighting for some benefit, and they even impeach their own people!
Ever since, he tried it out, and with an impeachment memorial handed up by the eunuch himself, he gave Wei Zhongxian's eldest son Cui Chengxiu, who was then the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Minister of the Ministry of War, to do it.

As a result, not only was nothing wrong, the remnants of the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties in the eunuch party also took the opportunity to desperately impeach Wei Zhongxian's godson and grandson, intending to regain control of the court.

Chongzhen took advantage of the situation to clean up Wei Zhongxian's godson and grandson, and then an imperial edict passed, Wei Zhongxian could only obediently go to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum.

There is no way, his godson and grandson are too useless, but if they are as powerful as the Qi Chuzhe Party, how can Chongzhen deal with them?
I'm afraid, before Chongzhen even made a move, some laxatives and red pills filled his mouth!
This may be the root cause of Wei Zhongxian's vulnerability, because his godson and grandson are a bunch of waste, even if they control the entire court, it is useless!

(End of this chapter)