Wanli Xinming

Since Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, imperial examinations have flourished, and candidates from all over the country who came to Beijing for the examination were often bullied by shopkeepers due to unfamiliar people and places.There are Beijing officials and local merchants who bought houses and land in the capital, and built a place where fellow bureaucrats, gentry, and imperial examination scholars lived and gathered.

With the passage of time, it has become a common practice for merchants to build various township guild halls or industry guild halls in various prosperous and converging places.Different from general commercial activities, most of the guild halls have local or industry-like exclusive behaviors-most of the guild halls do not accept people from non-local and other industries.

However, those who come to the Datong Guild Hall today must receive them.Because the people who came were not polite to him, not only came in aggressively, but also brought hand guns and waist knives, iron rulers, iron chains and law enforcement sticks dyed black and red.

It was Chen Dianli who took the lead, and he came in with a group of yamen servants arrogantly. He was so frightened that the shopkeeper of the guild hall ran to the front, nodded and bowed, and said, "Master Chen, you are here to do it."

"Handle the case!"

Chen Dianli looked up and down the shopkeeper with triangular eyes, his face rolled, and every word he spat out between his teeth was threatening: "There is a man named Qiao Liwei who stayed at your shop the other day?"

The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You mean Qiao Juren? Yes, yes, I remember him. He lived for more than a year. He left on the thirteenth day of this month. He said he was going home for the New Year."

"Take them all!"

"Hey? How do you say this? What kind of rule have we violated?"

There was a sinister smile on Chen Dianji's face, "He has violated the rules of heaven, but whether you participated in it or not, you will find out if you walk with me to the yamen!"

Afterwards, the Datong Guild Hall went wild, so there is no need to elaborate.The crying shopkeeper of the guild hall, the buddy who served Qiao Juren, and a little singer who warmed Qiao Juren's bed were packed and taken away by Chen Dianli. Such scenes are everywhere in the capital.

On the 15rd of the winter month in the 23th year of Wanli, Wang Tong and Wang Xizhi, who had an audience at the Hall of Wuying, submitted a secret report on the "Longqing Party Case".After reading the performance, Zhu Yijun's face sank like water.

After the South Taiwan Conference, the emerging forces in the ideological world represented by Li Zhi gradually developed and grew stronger under the protection of Zhu Yijun, and various "retro schools", "humanistic schools", "humanistic schools" and other jaw-dropping theories "let a hundred flowers bloom". It's almost a "dance of demons".

The ancient school advocates "recovering all the schools of thought, and the king of benevolence chooses the 'good' ones to use them"; the humanistic school realizes a great expansion on the basis of the theory of mind, advocating that "man is the master of the universe, and there is no universe if there is no one, so all governance It all depends on personal development”; on this basis, the anthropological school advocates that “human desires are the cause of everything” and vigorously advocates “indulgence” and “personal liberation”.

The confusion between Song Shien and his wife Hongbao Layman has its own ideological roots—in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, the "pillow box books" and erotic pictures describing these erotic desires were sold in bookstores in a grand manner, and the court was powerless to prohibit them.In the northern capital, the spread of these ideas is also an open secret, and it is not surprising that the defenders were heartbroken because of this, and they even had the idea of ​​​​putting things right.

Of course, like Shen Yiguan and others who attributed their faults to the late Zhongxing County King Zhang Juzheng, the Taoists did not have the courage to attribute the source of all evil to the emperor-not because they were short-witted, but because they feared that their thoughts would have the slightest deviation in this direction. transfer.

Under Zhu Yijun's strong promotion, the "Wanli New Deal" became the "Wanli Reform"; he gave Zhang Juzheng the utmost honor as a minister to show his determination to continue to implement the Wanli Reform; he established a new army, reformed the political system, Solving the clan issue, promoting expansion and immigration—all of this did not originate from the promotion of ideological emancipation or productivity, but was based on the "white terror" in the fifth year of Wanli, which was forcibly promoted with blood and swords.

Now, the capital branch he forcibly grafted has grown. Although Zhu Yijun is in the deep palace, he can also feel from the reports everywhere that it is absorbing nutrition from history and reality, and it is gradually showing ferocity.

But Zhu Yijun doesn't know whether this beast is also on the same path in the original time and space because of the invention of the flying shuttle and the textile machine, and whether the nutrition it absorbs is full of the flesh and blood of the people.

But "one leaf falls and the world knows the autumn", the "Longqing party case" that appeared in the court is the fallen leaf.In addition to Shen Yiguan who was in the same year, there were also seven people in the next Longqing five-year list. Because of the same political philosophy of anti-reform, this group has merged with Shen Yiguan and others in the second year of Longqing.

With the advancement of the reform, the party group gradually expanded, adopted a very low-key development strategy and strictly kept secrets, and it was unexpectedly developed to more than 30 people at this time.These people exist in various ministries and divisions, and they usually gather to exchange news and criticize people, and they have a clear political program—the "Oath of Association" that Wang Tong read to Shen Yiguan.

In the case of exposing posts, Wang Tong was given an opportunity by the emperor face to face, and his main attack direction has always been the "party" against the reform. After grasping the core, the case was successfully solved.

Among the officials who were dismissed from office for opposing Zhang Juzheng as Prime Minister, there was one named Qiao Zhenwei.He has a younger brother named Qiao Liwei.This person won the examination in Beijing for 14 years, but he lost his name to Sun Shan.

Although the Qiao family is not considered a rich family, it is still effortless to provide for the children of the family to start their careers.Therefore, Qiao Liwei stayed in the capital to prepare for the next exam, met peripheral figures of the "Longqing Party" in various literary associations and social gatherings among classmates, and became one of them.

According to these "friends", Qiao Liwei's articles are mature, and the 14-year contest has been full of beautiful articles, and there are no deductions for subjects such as "General Knowledge and Straight Pointing".Therefore, there is only one reason for not being on the list: Qiao Liwei was implicated by his elder brother Qiao Zhenwei.

Later, Qiao Liwei was recognized as the number one in writing in several literary conferences, but his mentality gradually became unbalanced-no matter how good the writing is, there is no hope of being a Jinshi in this life.After getting into the horns, he became a little dissolute, drunk and lingered in the flowers all day long, and some fellow villagers in the guild hall wrote letters to inform relatives and friends of his state.

Before the incident of uncovering the posts, a letter from Qiao's parents also arrived, urging him to return home, otherwise his stay in Beijing would be cut off.The more Qiao Liwei thought about it, the more depressed he became. Before he left, he wanted to vent his anger, and in a moment of heat, the servant took advantage of the night to post dozens of Song Jiu's doggerel.

On the second day after posting the post, Qiao Liwei hired a carriage and left the capital.If Jin Yiwei followed up with clues such as paper and ink, the case would never be solved.But Wang Tong started with the "Longqing Party", compared the activities of all members, and found that he left Beijing the day after the case was exposed, so it must be right.

Eight hundred miles to Datong in a hurry, the family was arrested and questioned, of course the truth came to light.

Although the case was clarified, Zhu Yijun felt that it was difficult—the reform policy he had set up could not be wrong, but in essence it was a kind of "grafting", or a kind of "grafting of seedlings to encourage growth", and Daming did not do it well ideologically. Prepare to enter capitalism.Therefore, how to deal with Shen Yiguan's group of Longqing party members who did not break the law has become a big problem.

Despite Zhu Yijun's escort, Ming did not have its own Montesquieu and Rousseau, and as the emperor Zhu Yijun had no idea of ​​a constitutional monarchy or a "republic".

In his grand blueprint, he is the one who will lead all mankind on a new path—judging from the outbreak of the "Longqing Party Case", he will probably have to fight against these people again and again for the rest of his life.

If there is no thorough ideological transformation, it is impossible to follow the path he envisioned. Zhu Yijun, who has been in Wanli for 15 years, looked at the file and was very convinced of this.

"Wang Xizhi, how long have you been the director of the National Security Bureau?"

Wang Tong, who kept his head down and stared at the gold brick, was used to the emperor's beating.Similar words often have a similar beginning, but in the depths of Wang Tong's heart, he has already understood that the emperor's dependence on him is getting deeper and deeper.

"It has been ten years since I took over the commander of Jinyiwei in the fifth year of Wanli. Later, Jinyiwei was divided into the Department of Internal Affairs and the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, and the minister served as the director of the Department of Internal Affairs. The bureau was changed to the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the minister and Liu Shouyou were in charge of it."

Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Tong who was kneeling and playing back. His temples under his hat were already gray. Although he sent people to keep an eye on this biggest intelligence leader, he didn't receive any information about his selfish thoughts, but as a loner, he never dared to give total trust.

"Well, I asked you to keep an eye on the various places, whether there is a social party for business and industry, can you get something?"

"Yes. These years, according to the distribution of the emperor, I carefully checked and did not dare to slack off. Now apart from the guild, there is no social party - scholars do not speak for them

"Ah."

The Hall of Martial Arts fell into a moment of silence.Wang Tong once again felt the pressure like a mountain, even though he knew that because of his loyalty and diligence, the emperor's trust in him was increasing day by day, but whenever this silence came between the two of them, there was a feeling of fear from the king. Tong's heart was surging and rolling.

"Can child labor be used in businesses everywhere?"

"Returning to the emperor, the minister has followed the emperor's assignment these years, and dare not slack off in the slightest. According to the investigation, although some factories occasionally use child labor, most of them are brought to work by the poor in the city. There is no such thing as abuse."

"Can you use slaves?"

Wang Tong's face turned slightly red, and he lowered his head: "Return to the emperor's words. Nowadays, there are many Annan slaves and Burmese slaves. Especially Annan, the minister has already reported it last year. Besides." His voice paused pause.

"what?"

"I received information from Guangzhou last month that there are already merchants selling Kunlun slaves to the country, and there are quite a few of them. There may be thousands in the entire south of the Yangtze River."

The expected scolding did not come, Wang Tong only heard the emperor sigh on the throne.Later, I heard the emperor say to the Wei Dynasty: "Pass the decree to Luo Wanhua, and let him have an audience."

Wei Chao bowed, went out of the hall to pass the decree, and Sun Long entered the hall attendant class.Wang Tong was still kneeling on the ground, the emperor seemed lost in thought and forgot to call out.

After a while, Wang Tong suddenly heard the emperor's voice from the throne: "Wang Tong, tell me, what about Confucius?"

The director of the National Security Bureau was stunned by this wild question.He couldn't help but want to raise his head to peek at the holy face, but he held it back abruptly, and his back immediately broke out in a layer of sweat.

But the silent air in the Hall of Martial Heroes could not make him hesitate, so he said:

"Although I don't study much, I think this person is nice. Well, he's pretty good."