The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 560 Donglin panics
The Zhejiang Party was destroyed and Donglin was in a panic.

In other words, some people in Donglin were panicking.

Shen Yikuan, Yang Hao, Tian Le and others were all executed along with their entire families.

In addition, their relatives and friends all suffered misfortune. Dozens of them were implicated and beheaded, and the rest were all exiled to Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Wanli's move seemed to have frightened Dong Lin in the court into a panic.

The Zhejiang Party had just been executed, and the Donglin in the court actually gathered together to discuss the matter regardless of the danger!
At three quarters past five in the evening, night had just fallen, but the lobby of the residence of Li Sancai, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was already brightly lit.

Ye Xianggao, Zhang Wenda, Zhao Nanxing, Cui Jingrong, Han Yu and other famous court officials from the Donglin clan were all there.

At this moment, it seems that Li Sancai is the leader of Donglin in the court.

Because he had the highest position in Donglin, and the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was the most important position among the Vice Ministers of the Six Ministries.

The highest rank of the remaining Donglin backbones is only fourth rank, and most of them are fifth or sixth rank. Their positions cannot be compared with his at all, so everyone naturally looks up to him.

Li Sancai sat high in the main seat, frowning and thinking for a long time, then he said solemnly: "Everyone, you have all seen the result of the Zhejiang Party.

The Emperor is about to completely purge the court, and we will be next in line. Do you have any plans?"

This is somewhat confusing.

The Zhejiang Party collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, had secret dealings with Japanese pirates, supported pirates, plotted evil, accepted bribes and perverted the law, and their crimes were too numerous to count.

They didn't do anything to violate the law, so why did the current emperor deal with them like he dealt with the Zhejiang Party?
Donglin is not a monolithic entity, or rather, there are still many people in Donglin who are unaware that the three major families of Puzhou are using them.

They all thought that the three major families in Puzhou no longer existed!
Not everyone in Donglin is in danger now. The ones who are really panicking are those related to the three major families in Puzhou.

For example, Han Yu.

For example, Li Sancai!
Others don’t feel much of a crisis yet.

Zhang Wenda was quite puzzled and said, "Sir Li, the reason why the current emperor is dealing with the Zhejiang Party is because their crimes are too numerous to list, and everyone has seen this.

We haven't done anything wrong. So many corrupt officials have been found throughout the court, and none of them have anything to do with us. Why is the emperor punishing us?"

why?
Can I tell you why?

If you understood why, you would probably turn against me immediately!
Li Sancai secretly glanced at Han Yu, then pretended to be righteous and said, "Since you want to know why, I will risk it today.

To put it bluntly, the current emperor wants to be arbitrary and do whatever he wants without restraint.

We are the clean stream, and the clean stream in the court regards us as the backbone. Can we allow the current emperor to act so recklessly? "

There is some truth to this. The current emperor is indeed acting recklessly and does whatever he wants.

However, precisely because the current emperor is autocratic and unscrupulous, it is extremely dangerous for them to advise him.

Not only does this guy not listen to advice, he also has a very bad temper. He will chop people when he gets mad!

Ye Xianggao said with some trepidation: "Sir Li, you are well aware of the emperor's temper, we cannot advise him.

Besides, although the emperor is a bit reckless, he still has some rules. Do we really need to risk our lives to persuade him?"

It might not be a big deal if you don't go.

Because you really haven't done anything illegal, even if the little emperor does something wrong again, at most he will dismiss you from office and remove you from your official position.

The problem is that we will definitely be beheaded. If the truth is found out, at least our entire family will be executed, nine generations of our clan will be exterminated, or even tortured to death.

If you don't take action in this situation, we're finished!
Li Sancai thought about it and then provoked him: "Since you are doing nothing, aren't you afraid that the upright officials in the court will point fingers at you and scold you?

Does the emperor still follow the rules?
Lord Xin Zixiu was a well-known figure in the Qingliu clan. He didn't follow any rules and directly forced him to retire.

Lord Chen of Chen Province was also a clean official. It was obvious that Lord Chen had been tricked by the Zhejiang Party in the Ministry of Revenue matter, but he didn't care and just killed them.

Also, was it in accordance with the rules that he promoted Li Tingji, Wang Zhiyuan, and Jiao Hong into the cabinet?

Li Tingji had only been in officialdom for fifteen years, and Jiao Hong had only been in officialdom for nine years. What qualifications did they have to enter the cabinet and assist in government affairs?
Wang Zhiyuan was not from the Hanlin Academy at all, so what qualifications did he have to enter the cabinet and assist in government?
There is also Yuan Keli, who has been in the officialdom for less than ten years and has no achievements, but he was directly promoted to the Minister of Justice. Is this in accordance with the rules?
I'm going all out today, and I need to wake you up too.

Think about it carefully. Seeing the emperor acting so recklessly and doing nothing about it, isn't that what a coward does?
The upright officials in the court are all watching us. How can we be called upright officials if we are so cowardly?

Ye Xianggao was indeed a bit cowardly, he was a coward, he simply kept silent.

Zhang Wenda was still a little angry, but he was not the kind of brainless young man.

He slowly clenched his fists, still a little worried, and said, "Master Li, we are not cowards.

The problem is, the current emperor's temper is truly unbearable to be advised. Submitting a memorial to him would not only be useless, but would only bring him into trouble. "Great, finally provoked someone."

I have already considered this question for you.

Li Sancai said subtly, "You should know that the law does not punish the masses, right?

Besides, he is still purging corrupt officials. If he continues like this, we will be the only clean officials left in the court except for those servile members of the imperial party.

Let's all go together and see what he can do.

Could he possibly do without civil servants to govern the world?

If he really doesn't want it, then we'll all quit our jobs and go home to farm and see what he does!"

At this time, Han Yu, who had been sitting at the end of the left hand without saying a word, finally spoke.

He nodded slightly, and then agreed: "Master Li is right, this is an opportunity.

Perhaps, this is our last chance. The current emperor is still trying to win over the old aristocratic families. Among the descendants of the loyal and diligent Earl Wang Chongguang, there are more than ten Jinshi graduates.

If the current emperor clears out all the corrupt officials in the court and replaces them with a large number of old-established aristocrats who have been won over, then our clean stream will be weakened.

By then, the current emperor will be truly unscrupulous and lawless, and we will be punished if we dare to submit a memorial to advise him.

In fact, as Lord Li said, even if we don't submit a petition to persuade him, he will come to deal with us when he has almost cleared out the corrupt officials.

It’s different now. The imperialists in the court are not as numerous as us, the clean stream. If we submit a petition to persuade him, he may not dare to deal with us.”

Li Sancai nodded slightly and then looked at Gao Panlong.

In fact, among those present, only Gao Panlong is the real Donglin, and the others can be said to be fakes!

Donglin Academy was just like schools in later generations, where teachers gave lectures and students listened.

Although there is no such thing as a teacher's certificate or a graduation certificate nowadays, to be a real Donglin, one must have taught or attended lectures at Donglin Academy.

To use the terminology of later generations, if you say you are from a certain university, you must be a teacher there or a student who graduated from there.

You said you were from Donglin Academy or Donglin College, so you must have taught or attended lectures there.

Among those present here, only Gao Panlong has actually taught at Donglin Academy. Not many others have actually been to Donglin Academy.

As for the students of Donglin Academy, there are almost no ones who have passed the imperial examination and become Jinshi. Even if there were, they would not be qualified to sit here.

So, these guys are just imposters. They are just using the name of Donglin to fool the upright officials in the court.

Now, the real Donglin people such as Gu Xiancheng, Gu Yuncheng, Qian Yiben are all obsessed with teaching and are too lazy to take up official positions. Only Gao Panlong still wants to take up an official position and do something.

To be an official and do something, one naturally needs power. To put it bluntly, he is a little power-hungry.

Li Sancai, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, happened to be in charge of the selection and promotion of officials, so he naturally had to curry favor with him.

He thought for a moment, then nodded slowly and said, "The main purpose of our Donglin is to criticize current ills in order to eliminate them.

What the current emperor has done does have many drawbacks. If we don't dare to say anything, the upright officials in the court will be extremely disappointed.

If we do this, it would be like talking without doing anything, just empty talk. If we talk too much, no one will believe us.

Therefore, we have to stand up, otherwise, our Donglin will become a joke.

However, it won’t be enough for just a few of us to stand up. The law cannot punish the masses. We must call on all the upright officials in the government to stand up.”

What this means is that we can choose not to go, but we must let those fresh and young people go!
In fact, those who can sit here are not young and inexperienced, but smart people.

If they were young and naive, they would have been so angry that they would have ignored anything after Li Sancai's instigation.

It is unlikely that these cunning people will be the first to take action.

However, it wouldn't be a big problem to let them encourage those young and naive people to join in.

This is Donglin’s usual tactic.

The young and naive people of the Qingliu clan were beaten and punished for submitting petitions, and they took the opportunity to get promoted, get rich, and become glorious!

Throughout history, countless upright people were encouraged by them to come forward one after another, which enabled them to come to power.

(End of this chapter)