Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 383

Since the Ming Dynasty, it seems that such a large number of arrests of relatives, except for the Taizu Gao Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who used the Hu Weiyong case and the Lan Yu case to do such things, has never been of this scale.

Emperor Chongzhen used the case of Li Ruzhen and the eight thieves to extend the "collaboration case of his relatives", and took advantage of the current situation of all parties to launch a large-scale cleansing in the capital, which undoubtedly shocked the government and the public.

With such a big commotion, there was chaos in the inner and outer parts of the capital city. It was because Yin Sun Chuanting of Shuntian Mansion and the Admiral's Mansion of Nine Gates were there, and there would be chaos in the capital.

In this campaign, the Emperor Chongzhen accurately planned the group, targeting the members of the wall-riding faction headed by Tang Guozuo, Zhu Guobi, and Li Hongji, and dispatched Jinyiwei to eradicate the profiteers who secretly raised prices, and did not expand the scope of the purge. This is called Chaozhong The group of civil servants did not follow suit.

Clean up the door.

All the high-ranking officials in the court, the cabinet, the Military Aircraft Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Sixth Ministry, Dali Temple...these cabinet ministers, Shufu, court officials, etc. all gathered here.

"What's going on here? How could you arrest so many relatives? Why did the emperor do this?"

"This time around the Gyeonggi area, there was such a big commotion, the factory guards were mobilized, and the three major battalions were mobilized, but the Ministry of War and other divisions didn't even know about it beforehand..."

"Arresting so many relatives is still rare in my Ming Dynasty. Could it be that they have committed some serious crimes and offended His Majesty?"

"This……"

A group of cabinet ministers, shufu, and courtiers gathered here were discussing in low voices that the commotion in the capital was too great for them to calm down.

"Your Majesty to..."

Following the sound of Wang Chengen's voice, all the ministers who were talking in low voices immediately became quiet, stood respectfully in the court class, held the court wat, bowed down, and shouted: "Long live my emperor!" "Long live!" "Long live!"

Under the shouts, Emperor Chongzhen appeared at Qianqing Gate, sat firmly on the dragon chair, but did not reply.

At that time, outside the gate of Qianqing, Han Yu, Wen Tiren, Bi Ziyan, Wang Qia, Zhou Yanru and other cabinet ministers, shufu, and courtiers were kneeling, all showing different expressions.

No one knew what the emperor was thinking at this time.

"I think in the hearts of all the ministers, including the courtiers of the government offices such as the courtyards and temples who failed to come to the Qianqingmen, they must be suspicious."

After an unknown amount of time, Emperor Chongzhen's indifferent voice echoed around the Qianqing Gate, causing many ministers to tense up.

It seems that something really happened.

As for why the emperor sent troops to arrest the group of honored relatives who were emptied, in fact, the group of civil servants in the court did not particularly care.

On the contrary, in the hearts of some ministers, they even thought that it would be great if all the relatives could be arrested by the emperor.

Such ad hoc capital governor's mansion, including the three major battalions, can call their civil servants to occupy all their positions.

Ever since the Tumu Fortress incident occurred, the backbones of the Great Ming's relatives had been broken, and their right to speak in the court had been completely weakened, and even the mighty and powerful Fifth Army Commander's Mansion had become a decoration.

If Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners of Jianlu and entered Daming Pass, and Emperor Chongzhen wanted to set up a Privy Council instead of a Military Aircraft Office, then I don’t know how many civil officials would attack them.

What the Privy Council is, Ming's civil servants are far clearer than ordinary people, and such a military center that robs them of their authority must never appear.

But the Military Aircraft Department is different.

Neither seen nor heard of.

It was purely specially set up for counter-insurgency. If the counter-insurgency is over, wouldn't the special military aircraft department have no meaning of existence?
Moreover, when the Military Aircraft Department works, some matters must go through the Ministry of War to complete the process. In addition, Wang Qia, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Li Banghua, the left servant of the Ministry of War, all work in the Military Aircraft Department.

This also made many courtiers, especially the Donglin party members, relax their vigilance.

Emperor Chongzhen took advantage of this lax mentality to use military aircraft to seize the central privileges of Liaodong and Shanshan, the two counter-insurgency centers.

It was never an easy task to fight against the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. They were not individual individuals. Behind them, they represented powerful groups.

"It's a shame, my Daming's face is completely humiliated."

Emperor Chongzhen's expression was cold and stern, he glanced at the officials in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "As relatives of Daming, none of them wanted to be loyal to the court, but secretly connected Li Ruzhen, the Eight Great Thieves and other national thieves, with Daming's sworn enemy, Daming's former Slaves, secretly colluding together.

From the beginning of the Tianqi Dynasty, the gang of national thieves headed by Tang Guozuo secretly communicated with the above-mentioned Jianlu, reselling the secrets of the country, secretly smuggling iron materials, firearms and other prohibited items of the country, which completely destroyed the good policies of the country. .

Even this time, I resettled the fleeing victims, taking advantage of the civil turmoil in Shanxi, but the crisis in the country, secretly driving up food prices, cloth prices, etc., making a lot of money for the country.

Like this kind of unfaithful and unfilial people, I want to take their titles and execute them all in a hurry, implicating the three clans! ! ! "

The angry voice of Emperor Chongzhen echoed around the Qianqing Gate, and all the cabinet ministers, shufu, and courtiers who were kneeling on the ground showed expressions of shock and disbelief.

They never thought that the captured Tang Guozuo and other relatives would dare to do such a rebellious thing.

Even Li Ruzhen, who was once arrested, including the eight thieves who were arrested in Jindi, was closely linked with them.

"The cabinet, the Military Aircraft Department, issued an order to Zhenming to send all the crimes of these national thieves to various parts of Daming."

Emperor Chongzhen stood up, looked at Han Yu, Wang Qia and others who were kneeling on the ground, and said loudly: "I want the world to know.

This group of unfaithful and unfilial national thieves enjoy the privileges bestowed by Ming Dynasty, eat the imperial food of Ming Dynasty, and receive salary from Ming Dynasty, but dare to do such heinous things.

The leader of this gang of national thieves, spread the word to the whole world.

I want to order the Imperial Academy to compile a record of national thieves, and I want everyone in the world to know what these thieves have done, so that they will never stand up again! "

In this rotten Ming Dynasty, if you want to rectify the government and morale, you have to take something that they care about to frighten them severely.

Previously, due to the corruption of officials in Shanxi, it was clearly recorded as a corrupt official.

Now, because of the secret communication about the construction of captives, the country's thief record is clear.

These are the two sharp weapons in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

When killing some people in the future, I will add to these two collections and rely on them. Don't they all like to look after them?

OK!

Everyone who was killed will be added to you one by one, so that you will never be able to stand up again.

(End of this chapter)