Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 644 Kidnapping the Emperor
In fact, the ministers also married in private, and even formed an alliance in secret. For example, Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen had a good relationship before, and later married their sons and daughters, and Zhang Mingzhen became sons and daughters of relatives with Huang Binqing and Zheng Zhilong.

Wu Kai married Wang Xiang.

Shen Wenzhong and Yang Boxing jumped into the water together to die for their country, and later became the emperor's confidantes.

Military generals marry military generals, and civil servants marry civil servants.

Coupled with the relationship between family brothers, brothers-in-law, in-laws, etc., all kinds of relationship networks are formed.

For example, Ding Kuichu, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who was dismissed by Zhu Yihai before, his nephew Ding Qirui was originally a scholar of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Then Ding Kuichu contacted secretly and brought Ding Qirui and Ding Qiguang brothers back. They were still in an uprising against the Qing in Henan Later, Zhu Yihai also awarded Ding Qiguang the title of commander-in-chief of regiment training.

Another example is Lu Daqi, who was also a senior scholar. His brother, son, son-in-law, and in-laws, there are seven Jinshi from his two families, not counting the relatives of the two clans.

The second assistant, Qi Biaojia, had an even better marriage, and his son, son-in-law and in-laws were all Jinshi.

In the Shaotian Dynasty, there are now many new nobles appearing.

For example, Zhang Mingzhen, he was named the Duke of Chu, and his official rank was the governor.He also has three brothers, one is now a civil servant of the Ministry of Rites, and the other two are admirals.The three brothers all have world titles, two marquises and one uncle.

There are four brothers in a family, one male, two marquises and one uncle.

In addition, the sons of their four brothers have already started to serve in the army as guerrillas, generals, and even generals, and even two of them have already been named uncles based on their military merits.

The family has six generations of titles, a properly emerging family of meritorious service.

Many people in the court are relatives, so naturally Zhu Yihai can't be left behind.

For the emperor, in fact, everything he did, every word and deed, was already politics.

Now Zhu Yihai likes to learn from Tiance Admiral Li Shimin, Li Shimin is very fond of marriage, whoever wants to be the prime minister of Li Shimin's dynasty, he can't escape sending his daughter to the palace, or being his son and daughter's in-laws.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with thinking about this kind of thing. Anyway, as far as he knows, not to mention the high-level civil and military generals in the court, even the soldiers under the imperial camp are now starting to marry each other.

There is a feeling of exclusion from the circle.

The treatment in the imperial camp is good, the fat and water do not flow to outsiders' fields, and even get married to take care of each other. This is a very realistic consideration.

Now in the Shaotian Dynasty, there are several powerful families of generals, Wang Zhiren of Yue, Zhang Mingzhen of Chu, Wu Kai of Wu, Wang Xiang of Jing, Qin Liangyu of Shu, Li Chixin of Xing, Zheng Zhilong of Ping, etc.

In addition, the five adoptive sons of the emperor also represent five emerging generals.

Others such as Yang Boxing, Liu Mu, Zheng Zunqian, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Pengyi, Lu Xiangguan, Jin Gongyu, and Liu Shixun are already a banner.

"Your Majesty, my foot disease has recurred in recent days, my legs and feet are painful, and it is inconvenient to walk. I request to resign from the military and concentrate on recuperating at home."

In a good atmosphere, Wang Zhiren actually offered to resign after accepting the money back from the emperor.

Zhu Yihai looked at him with a glass of wine.

"But because of the bullets from Hou Fangyu and others?"

Wang Zhiren was silent.

"I've seen the bullets of Hou Fangyu and others, but I don't approve of them, so I keep them all. Why should Wang Qing be worried? You are a general, and he is a speech officer. It's normal for a speech officer to criticize. Right and wrong, I know what's right. .”

Hou Fangyu is one of the four great sons of Fushe. At the beginning, he came to vote for Zhu Yihai, and Zhu Yihai asked them to run the Fuxing newspaper. Later, the four of them became speech officials. All the way, they gave the palm seals of all six subjects to Shizhong. up.

The Remonstrance Academy also launched a new remonstrance newspaper, which was also edited by them.

These four people have been in charge of six subjects in the past few years, and they are actually good supervisors. They are also good mouthpieces for running newspapers by order. They have also won a lot of fame in the government and the public.

The last time Wang Zhiren besieged Yanzhou, he rushed to break through the city before the new year, and slaughtered the stubborn defenders in the city, more than [-] people.They not only killed the Manchus and Mengtars in the city, but also killed all their family members, old and weak, even the Han army flags, Han coats, slaves, and even their family members.

This can be said to be the first time since the Ming army's Northern Expedition, such a massacre of the city.

Although Wang Zhiren reported to the court that all the Qing soldiers and their recalcitrant family members were killed, many people in the court disagreed with this explanation.

Hou Fangyu took the lead in impeachment, counting Wang Zhiren's many crimes such as massacre of the city, indiscriminate killing, and looting.

Speaking of Hou’s attack on Wang, there are actually some historical reasons. Wang Zhiren’s eldest brother, Wang Zhixin, was the chief eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty. He was in charge of Dongchang. Donglin was indeed cruel, and the two sides had old grievances.

Wang Zhiren was also a libertine in the past, thanks to his brother's relationship, he rose to the top in the late Ming Dynasty, and became a general in the army all the way, and because he voted for Zhu Yihai earlier, his status in Shaotian Dynasty has always been very high.

However, Wang Zhiren has always been in command of the Beijing camp, which belongs to another main force of Shaotian outside the imperial camp. Wang Zhiren leads the troops to fight, and he still has a lot of old military habits. matter.

In the past, Hou Fangyu and other officials from Donglin Fushe were often impeached, but they were all individual problems of the soldiers below, not very serious. Although Wang Zhiren would be punished, it would not be too strict after all.

But Wang Zhiren has always been rather domineering, how can he bear this anger?
So not only did they openly scold these people once, but they also wanted to engage in party disputes. They even caught some illegal acts of Donglin party members' families in their own defense zone and dealt with them severely.

The contradiction between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.

The emperor's adjustment is not good.

This time when Hou Fangyu seized the opportunity, he must put Wang Zhiren to death.

After all, more than 2 people were slaughtered at one time. Although not all the people in Yanzhou were slaughtered, it was indeed a bit surprising, and Yanzhou was still the old fief of Emperor Zhu Yihai's family for nearly 300 years.

Zhu Yihai was also somewhat dissatisfied with this matter. Wang Zhiren should not have killed like this. When he was in Jinan, he only killed some officers, and the rest were treated separately. All the Han people in the village immigrated to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland, and the officers in the Han army banner were also executed.

But Wang Zhiren killed them all, and even because of the excessive killing, there was looting in Yanzhou City in the end.

But he was a general after all, and Zhu Yihai also hated Tartars, so he would kill them if he killed them, so he couldn't go into the court's meritorious general just because of a group of Tartars.

This is also in the Shaotian Dynasty. In the past, this would not have been a problem.

But Hou Fangyu insisted on it, regardless of the emperor's will, instead, he took advantage of his control of the editor-in-chief of several major newspapers, and even used his influence in the court to make things bigger and bigger, and even publicized it among the people, instigating that it would be bad for Wang Zhiren. The public opinion is somewhat of the idea that the whole people should try Wang Zhiren and kidnap the emperor.

This matter has actually touched Zhu Yihai's red line, and he is more dissatisfied than Wang Zhiren's behavior.

Nowadays, public opinions are raging, and Wang Zhiren has been said to be a big warlord, arrogant and domineering, and no one can control him, etc., everyone condemns him.

Wang Zhiren took the initiative to resign today, and chose this time to gather with the heroes, not for other reasons, but because he really felt the huge pressure and had no choice.

The father and son of his family are now titled princes, and other brothers, nephews, adopted sons, etc. also hold important positions in the army, and their daughters are also in the palace, and they are married to many generals.

With such a raging public opinion, he had no choice but to avoid the edge, so he had to ask for resignation, hoping to calm the public opinion so that the fire would not continue to burn.

"Today is not the time to talk about these things, and I will not agree to your resignation. You are still in your prime, a general in our army, and now that the Northern Expedition has not yet succeeded, how can you be the pick?
I will formally deal with this matter in two days. I will discuss the matter according to the facts. If you make a mistake, you will be punished, and if you make a mistake, you will be rewarded. You are indeed at fault, but it is not that big of a fault. "

The matter that Hou Fangyu provoked this time may simply be the old grievances between the eunuch party and Donglin, but if it is analyzed in detail, it may be a big contest between the military and civil officials.

The military generals of the Shaotian Dynasty already had a very high status, and there was no longer the scene where a magistrate could overwhelm the commander in chief, and a soldier in charge could make the commander in chief kneel down to worship him.

Although the imperial court also set up governors, governors, and even governors, there were also separate patrols, but after the abolition of the eunuchs who commanded the troops and supervised the army, many restrictions were actually imposed on the civil servants to supervise the army.

The army has its own system. For example, the main supervisor in the army is the long history, and the long history is no longer the censor sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the civil servant with the title of censor, but sent by the Ministry of War, and even many This is a general.

It is true that civil servants are still responsible for food and payment, but it is also a self-contained system.

In short, the status of generals is high now, and they even feel a bit suppressed by civil servants. This makes the civil officials who have completely taken charge of the government since the Tumu Fort change, naturally feel a little dissatisfied.

With this incident, it can be regarded as an explosion.

It's just that this aggressiveness is just the opposite for the emperor.

He can't tolerate kidnapping and kidnapping the most. No matter whether it is a general or a civil servant, he is not allowed to force his will.

Hou Fangyu kidnapped public opinion and oppressed the emperor. This is the worst thing.

Even if Wang Zhiren is not forced to resign today, Zhu Yihai has already decided to deal with Hou Fangyu severely after the Zhengdan court meeting, and to frighten them by killing a few early birds.

Zhu Yihai has never been able to simply distinguish between loyal ministers and treacherous ministers, and he will not use party identities to distinguish things.

The last time Gu Xianshou and the Donglin Party launched an impeachment case against Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying and others, Zhu Yihai finally handled it personally and demoted them all.

Now Hou Fangyu set off another major impeachment case against Wang Zhiren.

This time it will be impossible if we don't clean up a little harder.

Although there was this small episode in the middle, but with the emperor's guarantee, Wang Zhiren finally thanked En and withdrew his resignation. Then the emperor continued to recall the beginning of the war with everyone, and thanked everyone for their support along the way.

Liu Mu, Zheng Zunqian, Shen Wenzhong, Yan Wogong and other Yuan Cong all drank slightly smoked, and finally went to the ice outside the boat to set off fireworks together.

It didn't go away until very late.

"Your Majesty really wants to deal with Hou Fangyu?" Liu Chao couldn't help asking when he returned to the palace.

"Don't you think you shouldn't be punished?"

Liu Chao reminded the emperor that the four sons of Hou Fangyu had a very high reputation in the court and the public in recent years, not even losing to Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozong, etc., they were even called loyal ministers, and some people called them Wei Zhengma Zhou of the Shaotian Dynasty.

If the emperor punishes them, it may cause some criticism.

Zhu Yihai just smiled, he stretched out his hand to catch a few falling snowflakes, and watched the snowflakes melt into water in his palm, "Actually, Hou Fangyu and others are all held by me, although they can be scattered in this world, but in fact , nothing."

It doesn't matter if the four people were allowed to run the newspaper at the beginning, or they were allowed to make six permanent seals later, it was all the emperor's needs, and their talents and reputations were also used.

But if they wanted to challenge the emperor, it would be a big mistake.

"Actually, they are not treacherous ministers." Liu Chao couldn't help but speak for them.

Zhu Yihai laughed, and turned his head to look at the loyal eunuch, "I know, if they were really traitors, how could I keep them until now, but if they make mistakes, they must be punished, especially this kind of mistakes, they must be punished. Otherwise, next time it will be too much.
You don't have to worry about them, I am not a faint king, and punishment is also to learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones, so that they can repent and correct themselves. "

Zhu Yihai looked at the snowflakes, "The four young masters have indeed gained a lot of fame in the past few years. They are still young, so they may have lost themselves a bit. After a few years, I will send them to Taiwan to serve as prefects for three years. It just so happens that Taiwan sets up Taitung, Tainan, and Taipei. In Taichung's four prefectures, they have been officials for several years and chief editors for several years. They are either playing with their pens or their mouths. They haven't done anything practical yet. State and county experience?

Just take this opportunity to let them go to the most remote Taiwan, to be an official close to the people, take care of common affairs, and engage in land reclamation and development. If they can calm their minds, do things down-to-earth, and make some achievements, that means They also deserve more reuse.

If they complain because of this, or if they are too talkative and can't do practical things, then their upper limit is nothing more than that. "

Liu Chao was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the emperor would demote them to Taiwan.

The palm print of the Sixth Division of the Third Grade Admonition Academy, known as the Prime Minister, has a bright future, especially the high reputation of the ruling and opposition parties, but now he is going to be relegated to the fourth grade magistrate, or is it a new land of immigrants like Taiwan?
How many immigrants are there now?All together, it is estimated to be hundreds of thousands, a barren land, more terrifying than Hainan Island or even Yunnan and Guizhou.

Can these political upstarts withstand such a blow?

"Liu Chao, you don't have to think about that for them. I know you are a loyal person, but there are some things that you should not interfere with."

Liu Chao knelt down, "Slaves deserve to die, they shouldn't interfere in government affairs."

"Get up, I also know that you have no selfish intentions, let alone taking money from anyone, you are worried about me, but don't worry, there are some things, you and I stand in different positions, you can't see what I can see. "

The four young masters of Fushe have indeed had a smooth sailing these past few years. With the full support of the emperor, they stood in that important position and became famous for a while, so they felt that it was all due to their own ability.

They mistake platforms for personal abilities.

Whether it is the Fuxing Daily or the Remonstrance Report, even the palm prints of the six subjects are given to Shizhong, it is only arranged by the emperor, and it is also the result of the emperor's support, but they use this platform to carry private goods, and they don't even listen to the emperor. Warning, this must be taken care of and tidied up.

The Tartar Emperor is still celebrating the New Year in Beijing this year. Even Anhui and Henan still have Yingzhou and Nanyang that have not been recovered, and Hubei has not yet recovered. Some people are starting to fight among themselves. How can Zhu Yihai condone this kind of behavior that has no regard for the overall situation? ?
Being exiled to Taiwan as magistrates is already Zhu Yihai's recognition of their abilities, and even a commendation of their achievements in the past few years, otherwise they will be relegated to county magistrates or even county magistrates.

Hope they can cherish this opportunity!

(End of this chapter)