Lu Ming

Chapter 474
Before the red-robed civil servant could finish his sentence, four or five colleagues in various robes stood up in the queue, and said in unison: "My minister seconded the proposal, and please take your majesty back!"

After seeing this scene of the standard attack and defense mode of the imperial court, the Chongzhen, including the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, realized it later.

So the melon-eaters began to speculate in secret: Today's incident seems to be another attack planned by this group of civil servants from the Donglin Party. The opponent is Xinke Zhongyongbo, who incidentally poked the emperor's skin. As for the cause and effect, maybe Is the emperor too proud these days?Or was it because Donglin didn't make any contribution in this matter, and was robbed of the limelight, and hated because of jealousy?

Just when the wind was stirring in the big square, Comrade Chongzhen, the only one in the audience who had a seat, had already realized that something was wrong, and at this time someone plotted against him.Chongzhen, who had been sitting in the dragon chair for three years, was no longer the dazed young man he was back then, so he snorted coldly, stopped his losses in time, got up, shook his long sleeves hard, and left.
At this time, the eunuch on duty's "retreat" sounded slowly.

Hearing the sound of retreating, all the officials scattered in the hall, and the melon-eaters talked as they walked, with excitement on their faces.

At the same time, a young eunuch ran over and took the memorial from Wei Xu, who was still kneeling there.

Uncle Zhongyong, who stood there a little at a loss, finally realized: It's time to get off work.

Uncle Zhongyong, who was burning with the desire to fight, was not used to this ending, as if he had stepped on the ground.But it was already like this, Zhang Dongdong had no choice but to go out of the imperial city alone under all kinds of complicated eyes, and everyone avoided wherever he passed, as if he was a street tiger.

Time went back to the day before yesterday.

When Bu Daxing woke up, Master Bu gave all the details of the "Cao Thief" he had mastered to his same-year Master Hou, and the latter finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

Before this, Hou Xun had also heard about Cao Zongbing bombarding the Jinshen's house in the south of the Yangtze River in order to fight for the land.After all, the Jiangnan area is the stronghold of the Donglin Party, so if the gun goes down, it will definitely implicate the Donglin people in the court.As a general of Donglin, although Hou Xun is from Henan, he still knows about it.

It's just that this incident did not cause any waves in the court.

First of all, the court had entered a state of wartime emergency at that time. It was impossible for someone to write a book with the surname of Cao on such an insignificant matter—this would prove to the emperor and his colleagues that he was an idiot and had no sense of the overall situation. .

Secondly, in the eyes of outsiders like Hou Xun who lacked information, this incident probably happened because the gentry were too greedy and somehow angered a country bumpkin who came to buy land, and then the two sides had a quarrel. It's a dog eats a dog.

That's right, Hou Xun thought so at the time.Don't look at the gentry who have a face to the outside world and want to protect the interests of the class, but there are not a few who despise each other behind the scenes.

However, when Bu Daxing explained the process of the matter in detail, coupled with his own understanding and analysis, the matter was not so simple.

Only then did Master Hou know that Cao's surname had been premeditated, step by step to lure and force the gentry to escalate conflicts, and never talk about peace. In the end, he ended up firing cannons, smashing the gentry's power in Jiangnan in public, and smashing Cao's bandits. Shop sign.

Now, in just a few months, the imperial court was busy with the northern captives, but they didn't know that the poor ghosts and mud legs in the south of the Yangtze River were running to the territory surnamed Cao in large numbers, and this had become a public matter.

A recruited pirate devours refugees like this, so what else can he do but rebel?
Hou Xun was quite shocked by the news above.But what Bu Daxing took out next made Master Hou break out in a cold sweat.

Regarding what Master Bu saw and heard in Taiwan, as well as the various things he came into contact with in Fujian and Jiangnan and other places about the people who traveled through, these days, through thinking and investigation, Master Bu has achieved a comprehensive understanding and thoroughly understood Cao thief's true colors.

After reaching a conclusion, the next step is naturally to publicize it, so that everyone in the world can see the true face of Cao thief.However, this kind of thing is not enough to rely on words alone. Now that the Cao thief has become powerful, he is no longer something that can be restrained by the idle gentry.

That's why Master Bu recently wrote a booklet called "The Essentials of the Strange Thieves" carefully, and asked someone to copy some of it. He planned to distribute it to the bosses for free, and at the same time find an opportunity to publish it and spread it around the world.

This booklet will hold a high place in history.Among them, first, in the tone of a bystander, he described in detail the actions of Cao thief who gathered the population in the workshop, and then used the iron tools to do farming.

Afterwards, Mr. Bu changed the subject and deeply analyzed this behavior of eliminating tenant farmers and owner farmers from the perspective of traditional Confucianism, and analyzed the deep social significance brought about by it.Finally, point out the theme, and thoroughly deduce the destructive harm of this practice to the scholar-bureaucrats.

After Master Hou Xunhou finished reading this booklet, he asked Master Bu carefully, and found that the other party had indeed gone to Taiwan to investigate for himself, and Master Hou's cold sweat also came down—if this person surnamed Cao did what he did in Taiwan Because if it is as stated in the pamphlet, then this person is really the public enemy of the gentry.

So Mr. Hou ordered people to go to the capital to find those who had been to Taiwan to investigate, and at the same time contacted his colleagues in Donglin to give a brochure to publicize the details of Uncle Zhongyong of Xinke.

People who had been to Taiwan found it the next day. After all, there are so many businessmen in the capital, and many of them have gone to the south to do business in the past two years.

After comparison and confirmation, it was found that Uncle Zhongyong was really as stated in the brochure, so an alliance was quickly established.

This alliance included the Donglin Party and some other officials.

As for the Donglin Party, since Uncle Zhongyong had slapped Guan Ning's army before and took a lot of credit from Sun Chengzong's generals, he was originally not pleasing to the eye, but now he has a reason to go crazy.

In addition, although Wei Xu was not a member of the Donglin Party in the case, he was the spokesperson of some gentry in the court who were bombarded in the south of the Yangtze River, so Wei Xu was the vanguard in today's impeachment.

Finally, there are still some people in this alliance who just came out to help: among the civil servants who have read the brochure, there are always a few like Master Bu, who have the attributes of a saint with the world in mind, and are willing to bring their own dry food to become black fans.

The above is the reason why the civil service group suddenly launched an impeachment operation in the middle of the court today.

However, the cross-travelers were slow to respond to the undercurrent in the court because they did not have an intelligence department or affiliated forces in the capital before, and finally Cao Zongbing was sniped.

But overall it's not a big problem.After all, the time-travelers come from the future, and they have a deep understanding of the late Ming dynasty hall.Since Cao Zongbing dared to enter Beijing this time, he still made a plan in terms of political struggle.

Judging from the results afterwards, the Donglin Party's raid today was a success.

Although Emperor Chongzhen came to his senses in time, turned around and left to retreat, avoiding further deterioration of the situation, but after all, the words had already been spoken, so it was still tantamount to being slapped in the face by Xiaoxiao.

No matter how inappropriate the timing of Wei Xu's presentation of the memorial today, the emperor didn't even read the memorial, and planned to take down a person who was doing his job and was responsible for inspection and correction. This would definitely not work.

So today's surprise attack not only slapped Uncle Zhongyong in the face, but also slapped the emperor in the face. It is another small victory for the civil official group-the imperial power and the gentry power are always fighting. It has long been instinct for civil officials to find ways to restrain the emperor. .

After Chongzhen retired from court, he returned to Qianqing Palace and opened the memorial angrily.

Unsurprisingly, the content of the memorial is the usual style of writing for civil officials to impeach political opponents—the twelve major crimes are horrifying, and each is exaggerated.

In short, in the writing of civil officials, every villain who opposes an honest gentleman is a heinous enemy of the country.

After reading it, the emperor kept the memorial as expected, and ordered the bastard who had nothing to do to give it to Wei Zhong.

Generally speaking, there are three ways for the emperor to deal with bullets.

First of all, if the emperor wants to protect the impeached, then he will not send the bullet.

This trick is equivalent to deleting posts in later generations, and it is the basic means to eliminate influence and transfer hot spots.Once the emperor started to delete posts, the officials who were impeached in the previous chapter of the outer court would be tantamount to useless efforts.Even if there is a [-]th-level flood in a red robe who is forced to post, the moderator can also delete it, and then this topic will naturally cease to exist, and people will be saved.

Secondly, if the emperor does not want to protect the impeached person, then it is very simple, just "hand over the ministerial discussion" to the memorial.

The Ministry of Communications meeting is an obvious hint that it is tantamount to allowing members to discuss the matter openly.Under such circumstances, smarter officials will immediately "retire from old age and return to their hometowns" to preserve a chance for a comeback.

The last way to deal with bullets is Xiaochaohui.

If the emperor is undecided, he will listen to the opinions of all parties at the small court meeting attended by only important ministers, and finally make a decision on how to deal with the bullets.

So regarding today's bullet, the emperor will definitely not send it.It's a joke, Uncle Zhongyong is now Chongzhen's hope to get rid of the northern captives, how could he allow the courtiers to impeach him?

So the memorial was kept.

However, from the next day, a large number of posts impeaching Uncle Chung Yong poured into the Secretary of General Affairs like a tide.Then as time went by, more and more melon-eating civil servants who had read the booklet "The Mystery of the Strange Thieves" also became self-sufficient gentry, and began to impeach Uncle Zhongyong non-stop.

When the number of posts reaches an order of magnitude, the emperor's deletion of posts is useless.

This belongs to the fourth hidden situation: explode.

Exploding the bar is a serious incident, which is equivalent to setting off a political tide against this incident. The emperor must have a positive response to this incident.

Of course, the emperor also saw the brochures through other channels in the past few days, and figured out the ins and outs behind the bullets.

Although he held a critical and skeptical attitude towards the nonsense in the brochure, Chongzhen, who had no way to deal with the officials, could only decree in the end, saying that after the court tomorrow morning, a special meeting will be held in the Huangji Hall to discuss this matter.Brackets: Uncle Zhongyong is allowed to defend himself.

At the same time, Uncle Zhongyong also obtained a private guarantee from the emperor through the channel of his ally Wen Tiren: Go to the palace tomorrow to complain, you are not alone.

(End of this chapter)