The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 178 The Emperor Actually Went Back to Beijing

"All the lovers are going to resign?"

In the imperial study room, looking at the six ministers who were about to resign collectively, Zhang Yan also stood up in shock.

"The ministers are incompetent, have owed the emperor's kindness, and are ashamed of His Majesty. They deserve death!"

The six ministers all knelt down in unison and worshiped.

"The Ai family knows that Ma Aiqing and her six loves have been slandered by Jiangnan literati recently, and they have endured tremendous pressure on behalf of His Majesty and the court. The six lovers, Your Majesty has already returned to Beijing half a month ago."

At the end of Zhang Yan's speech, she also looked helpless, knowing that she was hiding it from them, I'm afraid she couldn't do it.

Because she knew that these six ministers did not really want to resign, but that the scholars in Jiangnan collectively denounced the slander of the second assistant and the six ministers who were in charge of the New Deal. This caused their misunderstanding and panic, thinking that His Majesty wanted to abandon them.

After all, only His Majesty can solve the current situation.

"what?"

Sure enough, when the six ministers heard that His Majesty had returned to Beijing half a month ago, they looked at each other in blank dismay, relieved and at the same time speechless.

For such a big event as the Reform and New Deal, His Majesty has not come forward, and it is fine to hide behind the scenes, but it is at a critical time for the New Deal, and he even went back to Beijing.

"Empress Dowager, I have the guts to wonder what kind of emergency happened in the north, so that Sheng Jia returned to Beijing urgently?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials gritted his teeth and asked, the other five ministers also pricked up their ears, obviously curious, what kind of event happened in the north?It caused His Majesty to abandon the Jiangnan New Deal and return to Beijing in a hurry.

Zhang Yan's face was slightly embarrassed, because Lang'er returned to Beijing in a hurry, not because there was any major matter to deal with, but to attend the graduation ceremony of the students in the martial arts hall, and she was helpless about it.

However, seeing that they were not asking for resignation, they were also relieved, so they said: "Don't worry, dear friends, it is actually not a big deal. Your Majesty said when he left that he will go back quickly, and he will return by the end of June at the latest." Nanjing.

After His Majesty came back, His Majesty would not sit idly by when Jiangnan literati slandered all Aiqing. During this period, Aijia hopes that the six Aiqing can perform their duties and continue to promote the progress of the New Deal. Tomorrow Aijia will go to visit Ma Aiqing in person ! "

The six people were overjoyed when they heard that Zhang Yan was going to visit Ma Shiying in person tomorrow, because in this way, it would be impossible for His Majesty to abandon them, and at the same time, they would be able to wash away a lot of stigma.

Seeing that Zhang Yan had expressed his opinion, the six of them regained their confidence and expressed that they would serve His Majesty and the court even if their bodies were smashed to pieces and their stigma would last forever.

"Six dear ministers, the New Deal has now reached the most critical juncture, and it must not be affected by this matter."

"Empress Dowager Qizuo, ever since various places began to slander the Mage lao, all states and counties have been affected, and after the Ma Ge lao fell ill, the local yamen became even more passive and sluggish, and people panicked. So far, half of the states and counties have not reported their land again. The data.

Even for many states and counties that reported, the data has not changed much, and it has not achieved the expected effect of the Ministry of Household Affairs at all! "

Hubu Shangshu explained slowly, and he sighed after he finished speaking. Obviously, this incident dealt a great blow to the authority that the cabinet had just established.

Zhang Yan also frowned when she heard the words, but she also knew this kind of thing. Even if she ordered the various states and counties in the name of the Queen Mother, it might not play a big role. The only thing she can do is to represent the emperor to support Ma Shiying and cabinet.

On this day, early in the morning, Zhang Yan drove to Ma Mansion with great fanfare, and visited Ma Shiying in person.

This will be bedridden Ma Shiying was moved to cry bitterly, and also learned that His Majesty did not ignore him, but went back to Beijing, not in Nanjing.

The depression in my heart dissipated immediately, and the illness was cured by [-]%. The whole person recovered from the lifelessness of the past few days, and returned to the previous vigor and spirit. Two days later, he dragged his unhealed body to the cabinet and continued to preside over it. Implementation of the New Deal.

When Zhang Yan went to visit Ma Shiying in person, she undoubtedly slapped the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, especially those from the Donglin Party.

After all, Zhang Yan is a well-known virtuous empress among the Donglin Party population. Now Zhang Yan, who is praised by them as a virtuous empress, went to visit a treacherous minister who was scolded by them in person. What is the matter? Son?

How can this be called the Donglin Party's feelings?

But no matter how dissatisfied they are with Zhang Yan, they dare not slander Zhang Yan like they slandered Hong Niangzi and Ma Shiying.

So in the end, he could only choose to ignore this matter and continue to slander Ma Shiying and the officials of the six ministries, and the momentum became more and more massive, and the methods became more obscene and radical. The literati and gentry in other southern provinces also began to respond one after another.

Not to be outdone, officials from various provinces made concerts one after another to impeach Ma Shiying and six ministers, and the memorials flew to Nanjing like snowflakes for a while.

Obviously, the gentry and gentry in other provinces are not stupid. They all understand that once the New Deal is implemented in Nanzhili, it will be the turn of the provinces.

Similarly, for His Majesty's complete control over the power of public opinion, almost all civil servants and scholars also resisted from the bottom of their hearts.

Faced with this situation, Ma Shiying also became ruthless. While sending the inspector censor to inspect the states and counties, he ordered again, urging and warning the states and counties to report the real farmland data as soon as possible.

However, the effect is not great. Whether it is the inspector censor sent out, or the officials of the prefectures and counties, they all choose to be passive and sabotage, silently resisting the New Deal and His Majesty's act of snatching the right to public opinion.

Neither Ma Shiying nor Zhang Yan can do anything about this, because the power of the cabinet comes from the emperor.

Now the authority of Ma Shiying, who is in charge of the cabinet, has been severely damaged, and it cannot be restored by himself. The emperor must stand up in person to restore the authority of Ma Shiying and the cabinet again.

The reason why all the officials in the past were afraid of the cabinet and the Six Ministries was because all the officials knew that His Majesty absolutely supported Ma Shiying and the Six Ministries.

At this time, even if they are against the New Deal in their hearts, no matter how unwilling they are, they can only choose to implement the cabinet's decree honestly. Since they can't resist, they can only obey.

But now that Ma Shiying and the cabinet have been slandered, His Majesty has not moved at all. This makes all the officials have to wonder if Ma Shiying has fallen out of favor?

Is Your Majesty going to kill the donkey?
Or feel that Ma Shiying's knife is not very handy, and plan to change it again?
If it wasn't for Zhang Yan's visit to Ma Shiying in person, which restored a lot of confidence in the eunuch party, I am afraid that the entire eunuch party would lose their hearts under this kind of suspicion, and eventually fall apart.

At this time, Zhu Cihong didn't know what happened in Jiangnan.

He also didn't know, just because he was leaving, he was responsible for propagating and supervising the newspaper, such a small matter in his opinion, but it triggered an unprecedented resistance from the gentry and literati in the south of the Yangtze River, which made it impossible to continue to implement the New Deal.

Instead, he is awarding swords to the second batch of [-] students in the lecture hall in the Hall of Martial Arts in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

This time Zhu Cihong really came here specifically for these three thousand students, because he can let the red lady take over for other things, but he will not let anyone take over for the graduation ceremony of the Military Academy.

(The mourning period has passed, and the update resumes today, and the 5 chapters owed in three days will be made up.)
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