Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 162

Under Yang Chao's control, for the time being, the civil servants and the four sons were allowed to join forces, and the Jiangnan civil servants and scholars were no longer opposed to each other for the time being. Yang Chao's next step was to concentrate on dealing with the emperor himself.

As for Jin Yiwei, they were ignored by Yang Chao for the time being, because Jin Yiwei was the Emperor's pro-army, and Jin Yiwei actually had no position of their own, their position was actually that of the emperor.

The question is actually how to get the emperor to compromise.

From the perspective of the Jiangnan civil official group and the scholar group, this seems to be a deadlock, but Yang Chao has a way out of the situation.

And very confident, otherwise Feng Kezong would not have been allowed to operate immediately.

Under normal circumstances, civil officials are stronger than scholars, but the emperor generally supports scholars, so occasionally scholars can break out against civil official groups.

But under the system of autocratic monarchy, the imperial power is transcendent from beginning to end, and no one can control the emperor.

Of course, the living cannot control the emperor, neither civil servants, scholars, nor Yang Chao. Under the system, the only people who can control the emperor are dead people, or saints.

Confucius.

Under the way of Confucius and Mencius, the emperor is not the greatest, but Confucius is.

But a dead Confucius cannot threaten the imperial power, so the emperors of all dynasties dared to hold Confucius to the high position of the ancestor of all ages, and the high praise was actually to impress the imperial power.

Now the one who wants to oppress the emperor to submit within the Ming Dynasty system is this Confucius, but Confucius can't speak, but Confucius once spoke.

The dead Confucius can't say anything to the emperor, but the countless disciples of Confucius who are alive can use Confucius' words to say something to the emperor.

Yang Chao's idea was exactly this!

Under Yang Chao's operation, with the scholars of Erlishe as the core, the scholars of the entire Nanjing city took action.

In the beginning, other students of the Erli Club, led by the fourth son, some were at the Confucius Temple, some were at the gate of the Taixue, a group of dozens or dozens, sitting on straw mats, disheveled hair, did not cry No fuss, just sitting on the mat and constantly reciting the sage books.

The city of Nanjing was almost shrouded in majesty and solemnity, which infected the crowd watching the excitement, and they were all moved.

The entire Nanjing officialdom was all moved.

The behavior of Nanjing scholars sitting quietly in the Confucian Temple and reciting the books of sages has spread to other places.

Scholars in other places were also quite touched and followed suit.

From the adjacent Suzhou and Songjiang Prefectures, it spread to Hangzhou Prefecture in the south, Yangzhou Prefecture in the north, and spread north and south along the canal.

For a while, the endorsement by scholars and Confucian temples became more and more violent, and it became a movement that no one could control, dare not control, and could not control.

After all, the scholar did not cause trouble, and the local government would not suppress it, nor did they dare to suppress it.

It took less than a month for the scholar Confucius Temple to endorse the book, and it had already expanded to the city of Beijing.

At the same time, Zhang Guowei, Ling Yiqu and other senior officials quietly entertained the fourth son.

At the banquet, I was inexplicably moved, and I was very moved by the scholar's Confucius Temple endorsement. I couldn't help expressing to the fourth son that they were also born in school and knew the righteousness. However, this matter related to the emperor's relatives and the power of Jinyiwei, they had no choice.

When it comes to the emotional part, Ling Yiqu said even more righteously that he would resign from office.

Zhang Guowei immediately stopped him, saying that resigning from office would not help the matter. If there is righteousness, he could risk his life and ask the emperor to punish Tian Wan.

A performance full of voice and emotion immediately moved the fourth son, repeatedly saying that Zhang Guowei and Ling Yiqu are both righteous men, and praised them a lot.

These two people did have some political achievements, otherwise it would not be possible for them to be Governor and Governor in such an important place as Yingtian Mansion.

Zhang Guowei, in particular, has a good reputation. He has renovated countless water conservancy projects in Jiangnan these years, and he can always go to the front line in person. Together with Gongzhuang, he not only won a great reputation for himself, but also accumulated a wealth of practical experience. The governor even had spare energy to write a water conservancy monograph "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Complete Book".

I have also done a lot of other amazing things. In the 12th year of Chongzhen the year before last, Zhang Guowei was the right servant of the Ministry of Industry and the governor of Hedao. This year, there was a severe drought in Shandong, and a stone of rice sold for eight taels of silver. Zhang Guowei sent people to buy rice from Suzhou and transport it to Shandong to sell at a low price. The small profits he earned were also used to set up more than a dozen porridge farms to give porridge to refugees for free. Scholars praised him for saving millions of disaster victims.

Therefore, Zhang Guowei is famous, and has a good reputation. The fourth son is not a fart in front of such a person, but being praised by this person and feeling their loyalty is tantamount to endorsing the fourth son.

The fourth son is naturally happy, and also happy to be praised by such seniors. Seeing the seniors sympathize with them, he immediately feels that he and Zhang Guowei are comrades and confidants. up.

Zhang Guowei immediately scolded Jin Yiwei, scolded the emperor that there was a villain by his side, and his words were sincere, and he wanted to reassure the fourth son. He would desperately write a letter to argue for the fourth son, so that the emperor could make a clear distinction, and he was willing to write a letter to impeach Tian Wan and ask the emperor to punish Tian Wan.

In addition, he wanted to mobilize his classmates, classmates, and teacher-student relationships to write the letter together. Ling Yiqu also said that he would also mobilize his relationship to write the letter.

In addition to these two, after the incident of reciting the sage's book in front of the Confucian Temple, a large number of upright officials and censors in the south of the Yangtze River have already acted, and their impeachment memorials were written and sent out overnight.

With the censor in the south of the Yangtze River leading the battle, other civil officials in the south of the Yangtze River can follow. This impeachment of Tian Wan went hand in hand with the scholar's endorsement incident and blended with each other.

In some places, the civil servants first heard about the incident and impeached Tian Wan, while in other places, the scholars endorsed it first, and the civil officials were impeached after being infected.

The two actions formed two general trends, which spread all the way to the north, and finally entered the city of Beijing, entered the Forbidden City, and entered the ears of the emperor.

At this time, the emperor is the one who can't get off the tiger.

What can the emperor do? On one side is his concubine who is sick and haggard, and on the other side is the raging public opinion in the world. It is said that the emperor did not sleep for three days and three nights, and finally scolded Tian Wan for being incompetent. .

Specially issued an order to exaggerate the scholar, affirmed the scholar's righteous behavior, and said that he was deceived by traitors, and then the emperor dealt with a large number of "traitors", among which Nanjing Town Fusi was the hardest hit area, Nanzhen Fushi Bearing the brunt, he was directly dismissed and exiled, leaving only two of the five thousand households.

Finally, the emperor sent people to Beijing Taimiao and other places to appease the scholars, and wrote a sincere sacrificial letter to Confucius to repent.

Now that the emperor has admitted his mistakes and punished the traitors, he has especially praised the scholars, and the scholars are also satisfied, so the two general trends, starting from Beijing, slowly eased.

Things calmed down!

(End of this chapter)