Lu Ming

Chapter 475 The Golden Temple Splash ([-])

April 4th, Chen, Huangji Hall.

The morning court ended very quickly today, basically the rhythm of disbanding after the mooting, because everyone knows that the focus is on the small court meeting after the morning court.

After thousands of officials dispersed, only a small group of people were finally qualified to participate in the small court meeting.Excluding those departments such as Qin Tianjian who were in soy sauce, and then excluding the honorable generals who were also in soy sauce, there were less than 100 people who were finally qualified to stand in the Emperor's Palace today.

These 100 people are the core bureaucrats in charge of the central operation of the Ming Empire, including the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, the ministers of the six ministers, the Hanlin Kedao, and the five temple ministers.

Of course, today's protagonist is indispensable in the hall: Uncle Zhongyong.

Uncle Zhongyong, who was dressed in the uniform of a military officer, was standing alone on the rank of generals, with no humans or animals within two meters of his body.Under the watchful eyes of many civil servants, Uncle Zhongyong crossed his hands in front of his abdomen, closed his eyes slightly, and his feet were irregular.

The next moment, with the long shout of "the emperor is coming", all the officials fell to their knees and saluted long live.

The emperor didn't talk too much nonsense today. Immediately after the cutscene, he threw the last memorial to the eunuch: "Cao Qing, I have been playing a lot of chapters recently, and they are all about you. I will allow you to defend yourself today." .”

Following the emperor's words, the eunuch also handed over the original bullet to Uncle Zhongyong.

According to common sense, the emperor was already very biased in allowing his subjects to defend themselves so clearly.But this discount is not enough for the civil servants who have set off a tide.

In the past five or six days, officials all over the capital knew what was going on, because the urgently printed black materials about Uncle Zhongyong were being distributed for free.

During this process, some people inevitably became interested in Uncle Zhongyong's lair and came up with some ideas.But the number of these people is too small to be seen even if they are hidden in the crowd.

The one who really made a big statement was the anti-Cao group composed of the Donglin Party and a group of "self-employed gentry" with a sense of crisis.And when the mainstream opinions are unified, the political tide will rise.At this time, posting a post to impeach someone Cao has become politically correct. Even if you sneer at this matter from the bottom of your heart, as long as you are a civil servant, you have to follow the trend and say "top landlord". If you don't say it, you are not from the Ming Dynasty, not a landlord class representatives.

To be honest, this sudden political tide really surprised the people who traveled through time.

In this plane, the Ming Dynasty first made a huge strategic victory out of thin air, severely injuring the Beilu.Immediately afterwards, the forces within the Ming Dynasty actually began to try to strangle the perpetrators. Is this the so-called butterfly effect?Or call it the internal "compensation" after losing the external pressure?

However, these are of no use.Whether it is the butterfly effect or the inevitability of history, the cards of the time-traversing people are too strong, and this time they have already got what they want in the north, so they can leave at any time, and they are not afraid of this wave of criticism at all.

After receiving the memorial from the eunuch, Uncle Zhongyong bowed at the same time and said "the minister leads the decree", then opened the memorial and looked at it pretendingly.

In fact, on the night when Wei Xu posted this memorial, a certain ally in the cabinet sent someone to send a copy of the memorial to Uncle Zhongyong, so Cao Zongbing actually knew the content above.

Insert a sentence here: In this wave of political tide, the only ones who didn't post to scold Cao thief were Wen Tiren and his accomplices who were bound to Cao thief.On the other hand, his own people, including Luo Lishi, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry, posted curse posts under the instructions of the cross-travelers—the underground party cannot be exposed.

After reading the memorial, Uncle Zhongyong first raised his head and laughed, and then pointed to the [-] serious crimes on it and began to refute each one.

The first crime: abuse of people.

The so-called abuse of the people, the memorial pointed out that the Cao thief set fire to the forest in the south of the Yangtze River, occupied the people's fields, and forcibly robbed the people's women and other vicious methods of annexing the land.In addition, the Cao thief ordered the ship to fire at the households of the gentry, which was also brought up as important evidence of abuse of the people and rebellion.

Cao Zongbing began to refute loudly on this point.

According to Cao Chuan, he sent people to Jiangnan to buy land and build a private port to buy houses. There is nothing to argue about this—isn’t it normal for people in the Jianghu to buy land and properties arbitrarily after recruiting?In history, Zheng Zhilong bought almost all the land in his hometown and the entire county after he was recruited, and the government didn't fart.

However, in the process of buying the land, Cao Zongbing said that he was resisted: a group of Jiangnan gentry not only refused to sell the land to him, but also maliciously purchased the land around the port, hoarded it, demanded prices, and resisted demolition.

Here Cao Zongbing clearly pointed out: the so-called "people" in the memorial is actually a secret exchange of concepts to sell miserably: these landowners are all Jiangnan gentry, and there are no real grassroots people.

So the two sides fell out, so Cao Zongbing sent someone to "use a little bit of tricks"-you are not benevolent and I am not righteous, and I am also an official of the court. How can these gentry be so humiliated?
When Cao Zongbing said this, he stopped talking, put his arms on his chest, and squinted at the sky, with an aura of "you can resist me".

The next moment, the original author of the memorial shouted to Wei Xu in the matter: "The traitor has such a sharp mouth, he actually talked about bullying the good people so grandly."

When Wei Xu said this, he turned to face the throne and bowed in salute: "Your Majesty, since Cao Chuan has accepted the crime of abusing the people, please send this person down."

Chongzhen, who was sitting on the stage, laughed when he heard the words, with a face full of disdain: "Master Cao and Master Xu are fighting for land, why should I favor your family?"

After Wei Xu was satirized by the emperor, he was stunned for a moment, and then he blushed instantly, turned his head and asked loudly: "Even so, Cao Chuan, how can you explain why you killed the Jinyiwei family first, and then bombarded the Xu family mansion? Ling Xingbing killed the imperial court officials without a decree in the confidant of Ming Dynasty. This is ironclad evidence of conspiracy. Thousands of people on both sides of the Pujiang River can testify that day, and you can't get away with it!"

Cao Zongbing sighed helplessly when he heard this: "Yes, mobilizing troops without orders is treason, thank you for knowing this."

"My Majesty, before I arrived in Shanghai at the beginning of the year, the private port I bought in Jiading County was once attacked by two bandits."

"This is the first case of bandits from Taihu Lake, so I won't say much about it. After all, thousands of lake bandits crossed continents and counties to Jiading to loot in the most benevolent place in the south of the Yangtze River. It can probably be said."

Uncle Zhongyong said this, and looked at Wei Xu with a half-smile: "This second incident is weird. On October 28 (lunar calendar) last year, Jinshan Wei Hangjiahu Counselor Feng Tong's army training guerrilla Wang Deqiao, Zeng personally led 1500 soldiers. A regular soldier, out of the camp for a hundred miles, with a tiger and two cannons, besieged the private port for two days, and then retreated."

"I said Wei Xu, who is raising troops without orders in the heart of Daming? Which family is plotting rebellion?"

"Bastard, what happened!?" Chongzhen was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Where is Liang Tingdong? Last year, the Ministry of War ordered Yuhangjiahu to join the general?"

The new Minister of War, Liang Tingdong, is not a member of the Donglin Party. Even if he was, he would not be able to talk nonsense about this kind of head loss, so he stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty, I have not been in office for a long time. I don't know. But according to the As far as we know, there were no military disasters in Hangjia and other places last year."

"Investigate! Strictly investigate! According to my order, Feng Tong, Wang Deqiao and others will be dismissed immediately and sent back to the capital for interrogation. I will definitely investigate this matter!"

Seeing the emperor furiously on the throne and the stunned Wei Xu, Uncle Zhongyong smiled and shook his head: "Master Wei, you spend all your time trying to form a clique to harm me, but have you ever thought that the Xu family is audacious?" ? Haha, I didn’t inform you about the unauthorized deployment of troops, did I?”

After teasing Wei Xu, Cao Zongbing turned his face and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, those evil gentry from the Xu family colluded with the Jinyiwei and the Nanjing Military Department. He is the great thief of the country."

Having said that, Uncle Zhongyong turned around and pointed at a chubby middle-aged man among the officials and shouted: "Xu Bengao, your clan brother Xu Jin used Suzhou Jinyiwei to mobilize troops for no purpose to rebel. I'm afraid it was because of your power." ?”

With a "plop", Xu Bengao, whose face had already turned pale, jumped out of the queue and knelt down to the emperor.

Ignoring Cao Chuan who was standing aside, Xu Bengao shouted to the emperor with a mournful face: "I am wronged, Your Majesty, this matter must have been framed by the loyal and brave uncle. The ministers have been loyal for generations and have been loyal to the court. How can they do such a rebellious act?" Things?"

"Hmph, you can find out if it's true or not, and you can go down now." Chongzhen glanced at Xu Bengao in disgust, and then looked at Jin Yiwei's official commander Luo Yangxing: "Look at the good deeds you Jin Yiwei has done!"

Luo Yangxing had already scolded Xu Bengao's ancestors for eight generations in his mind at this moment.Luo Yangxing, who was lying on the ground for no reason, hurried out to kneel to thank him, and vowed to send all the criminals back to the capital for interrogation.

When the matter developed to this point, the originally arrogant line of civil servants disappeared as soon as they saw it.

All the people present were old foxes, and one could guess from Cao's insider words just now and Xu Bengao's reaction: the matter of privately dispatching regular battalion soldiers to attack houses in the south of the Yangtze River in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty was probably true.

It stands to reason that such a big or small matter can be fooled by everyone if they try their best on weekdays.However, everyone knows that this matter is absolutely unacceptable today.

Because the ministers knew that the emperor sitting on the throne was here to pull the fence today, but it turned out that such a big handle fell into the hands of the emperor. After those idiot generals and soldiers of Wei were escorted back to the capital by Jin Yiwei to torture them, the emperor would definitely settle the score after the autumn—what would the conspiracy party do?
When the emperors Ye Zhengde and Wanli were in Taiwan in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a sick phenomenon in the court: civil servants desperately posted posts against the emperor, and then the emperor ordered court battles against the courtiers, and then the courtiers became famous, and became He became a scholarly leader, a model of being upright and not afraid of imperial power.

This trick is called "cheat court battle".

However, today, this set of funny things can no longer be used: the social contradictions in the late Ming Dynasty were severe, and the political environment had long since changed from being relaxed to being imprisoned.Just like the end of the previous dynasties, at the end of Ming Dynasty, the emperor and the courtiers became cruel and vicious. Families were often destroyed in political disputes, and the court environment deteriorated day by day.

Therefore, once the civil servants in the hall today are really caught by the emperor, no one will jump out to cheat the court - Chongzhen will order this person to be beaten to death.

You must know that Chongzhen reigned for 17 years, and the high-ranking officials who died under him, 1 assistant minister, 4 ministers, 7 governors and supervisors, 11 governors, and the rest below the servants were ordered to die in various ways Officials are simply hard to count.

So at this moment, the court was as silent as cicadas, and there were no civil officials who jumped out to sell their loyalty, because Chongzhen really knew how to kill.

(End of this chapter)