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Chapter 163 (Outer Part) Chongzhen
Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to do something.

Before he took office, he hid in his Wangfu Xinwangfu all day long. Some people said that he was trembling, which was too much, but it was true that he lived in fear.

Because Wei Zhongxian shrouded the city of Beijing like a huge shadow, Zhu Youjian, the king of faith at the time, felt a sense of precarious crisis. He was afraid that his brother Emperor Tianqi would listen to Wei Zhongxian's slander and drive him out of Beijing.

At that time, Zhu Youjian was convinced that Wei Zhongxian would try to usurp the throne, firstly because he was young, and secondly because Wei Zhongxian was even nine thousand years old.

Moreover, Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs are everywhere in the ruling and opposition parties.

This horrible childhood memory made Zhu Youjian develop a cautious and suspicious character.

Although his elder brother called him to the bedside to warn him that Wei Zhongxian was available when he was dying.

However, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he acted vigorously and eliminated Wei Zhongxian in a short period of time. Only then did he realize that Wei Zhongxian's power did not seem to be as great as he had imagined.

Chongzhen, who had just taken office at that time, didn't quite understand why. He was prepared for a bloody battle, and this result was indeed beyond his expectations.

The current Chongzhen has been the emperor for 15 years, and he has long thought about that problem.

It turns out that the so-called eunuch party is actually the imperial party, and the power of the eunuch party actually comes from the emperor. Without the support of the emperor, how could it be possible for an eunuch to seek to usurp the throne? Many people in this world may seek to usurp the throne. For example, ministers, such as bandits, but I have never heard of that eunuch plotting to usurp the throne.

This kind of disabled people who are not accepted by the whole society will not give birth to eunuchs who are heirs and offspring, they will not receive sincere support from others, and they themselves will not have any plans to usurp the throne.

Chongzhen figured it out, Wei Zhongxian's monstrous power actually came from the favor of his brother Emperor Tianqi, he became nine thousand years old because of his brother's too much favor, not because Wei Zhongxian was too capable to control the emperor.

And those civil officials who had been secretly telling themselves that Wei Zhongxian had a heart of treason became the most troublesome objects of Emperor Chongzhen at this time.

From Emperor Chongzhen's point of view, civil servants were too corrupt. This was not the key issue. The key issue was that they were too incompetent.

But Chongzhen sometimes felt that it was not that the civil servants were incompetent, but that the civil servants had no intention of doing things or doing things for him.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was often angry, and with a suspicious temperament, he always felt that he was targeting himself, so he often killed people.

During his 15 years in power, he killed more chief ministers, ministers, and civil officials at all levels than the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the two emperors Zhu Yuanzhang who founded the country and Zhu Di who usurped the throne.

However, such severe punishments and killings cannot deter the civil servants. They still go their own way, are still corrupt, and still refuse to do things. The bigger it is, the more it has become a rival to the Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen, who no longer believed in civil servants, began to approach Xunchen and the relatives of the emperor. In his opinion, Xunchen shared weal and woe with the Ming Dynasty and lived with the country. Trusted, and the relatives of the emperor had to protect him, and even Emperor Chongzhen began to reuse eunuchs again.

Chongzhen felt that it was not that he didn't trust Wen Chen, but that Wen Chen was too incompetent and disappointed him too much.

So the eunuchs around him became more and more powerful, and the chief assistant like Zhou Yanru often had to bribe the eunuchs if he wanted to take office.

Therefore, Xun Chen, who had been suppressed by civil officials for hundreds of years, was proud again, holding important positions in key positions, and most of the troops in the northern and southern capitals were in the hands of Xun Chen.

So the royal relatives and relatives began to be domineering, the queen's family, the imperial concubine's family, all flourished, and all kinds of evils ran rampant in the village.

But Chongzhen still trusted these people, not because he didn't know what these people did, but because he felt that these people, no matter good or evil, would never betray him, which gave him a sense of security.

But he didn't expect Tian Wan's matter to be so difficult. Didn't Tian Wan just rob a few women, and they were prostitutes, but the scholars in Jiangnan made a big fuss and began to make guest appearances, making Jiangnan a mess.

But Chongzhen couldn’t kill these people yet. He was headstrong and suspicious, but he also loved face and refused to bear a bad reputation. Therefore, he kept putting pressure on the Jiangnan civil official group to deal with it properly, and at the same time demanded that the civil official group not kill a scholar.

As a result, things developed unexpectedly. Under his high pressure, scholars and civil officials merged together. Civil officials began to defect and impeach Tian Wan one after another, while scholars refused to give up.

Scholars not only quarreled in front of the Confucian Temple, but also made a fuss in front of the Taimiao, crying to Confucius in front of the Confucian Temple. .

Emperor Chongzhen loved face, and he couldn't tolerate any stain on his body, let alone such things that made people in the world blame him.

So he had no choice but to punish Tian Wan, but he still tried his best to maintain it. He just dismissed Tian Wan from his official position and fined him a year's salary without any punishment.

But this has already caused him a lot of pain, because it was his concubine who was seriously ill at this time, but went to punish her father.

More importantly, Chongzhen was forced to do everything, not on his own initiative.

Chongzhen felt that he was being coerced by Jiangnan scholars, Jiangnan officials, and civil servant groups, which once again touched the fragile sense of crisis in his heart.

So Chongzhen wanted to go on a killing spree. Depending on the situation, the Jiangnan civil official group could not move for the time being, because they were twisted together.

The Jiangnan Scholars Group can't move, and the law does not blame the public, but Emperor Chongzhen has remembered the names of the four sons, and they will never use them.

In the end, the only one who could let Emperor Chongzhen vent his anger was the Jinyiwei, who was not doing well. Nanjing Jinyiwei was in great trouble. The high-level officials were either exiled or imprisoned.

But at this time, a different memorial appeared in front of Chongzhen's eyes, which made his eyes shine. This memorial was not impeaching Tian Wan like others, but a civil servant. If this memorial is published in the world, obviously this person It offended the entire civil servant group.

After Chongzhen read it, he didn't send out the residence report. Instead, he burned the memorial and wrote down the person who wrote it.

(End of this chapter)