Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 228 Inner Court Struggle
On December 8, there was a big thing to do for Zhu Youjian, that is, his biological mother, Empress Dowager Xiaochun Liu, moved to his nephew Qingling Mausoleum.

This is what he has been busy with these days, and it is also something that must be done. For the Ming Dynasty, which governed the country based on Confucianism, the emperor had to show filial piety to the world.

However, because his biological mother died early, Zhu Youjian could not even remember her appearance. She could only let the painter draw a portrait for her based on what her uncle's family and the palace people said.

This incident made Zhu Youjian a little sad and a little uninterested. I didn't care much about the messy things in the court for a while.

In addition, after the establishment of the Nine Temples, his adjustment of the imperial organization was basically completed. The next step is to further improve it in practice.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian no longer plans to make any big moves, and plans to spend the seven years of Tianqi peacefully.

However, he wanted stability, but some officials did not. Another incident happened that made him very upset.

This matter starts with the Liu Duo case.

Liu Duo was arrested twice because Wei Zhongxian felt that Liu Duo was mocking him because of words such as "Yin Lai Guo Tie", "Ejection", and "Chasing the Minister".

After being arrested for the first time, because the Ming Dynasty did not punish people by language, the eunuchs could not find any other crimes against Liu Duo, and were eventually released without charge.

However, after being released, Liu Duo was quickly falsely accused and arrested again.

Still unable to convict Liu Duo of death this time, Wei Zhongxian was filled with resentment and let people see the opportunity.

Zhang Tiqian, then the patrol battalion commander, and Liu Fu, a member of Liu Duo's family who had been selected by Zonggu and arrested Liu Duo for his activities in Beijing, fabricated the plot of Liu Duo using witchcraft to curse Wei Zhongxian after his release, forcing Liu Fu to confess accordingly, and finally convicted Liu Duo. Death penalty.

After Zhu Youjian took power and overthrew the eunuch party, he ordered a retrial of Liu Duo's case. Zhang Tiqian and Gu Yingxuan, the two generals who fabricated the charges, were naturally arrested.

Throughout the whole process, Zhu Youjian had no intention of protecting them, but just let Dali Temple try them.

But what the civil servants said made him very angry:
"The crime of Bencho Tigan is in prison."

"Zhang Tiqian came to kill Liu Duo. He used his martial arts skills to humiliate the fourth-rank civil servants and shut down the state."

"What does it mean to be guilty? What does it mean for a warrior to humiliate a fourth-grade civil servant and shut down the state?"

"What's the reason?"

"Type these back and rewrite them!"

Really angry about this, Zhu Youjian realized that some civilian officials had not given up their intention to suppress military generals at all, and were still trying to suppress the status of military generals in various ways.

After Zhang Tiqian served Wei Zhongxian in the Liu Duo case, he was promoted to the rank of admiral of the patrol camp and was given the title of First Grade Commander and Tongzhi.

But in the eyes of civil servants, he was still a warrior who humiliated the fourth-grade civil servants and shut down the country.

This made Zhu Youjian realize even more that the status of military attachés in the Ming Dynasty was really low. From the first-grade governor to the prefect of the patrol camp with real power, in the eyes of civilian officials, they were far inferior to the fourth-grade prefect. Not to mention other generals who are not as good as this position.

Wang Tigan looked on and took the opportunity to step forward and said:
"Your Majesty, do you want to save Zhang Tiqian and Gu Yingxuan and send them to Dongning Guard together?"

Zhu Youjian looked at him in surprise. He really didn't expect Wang Tiqian to have such thoughts.

At this time, Liu Ruoyu reminded from the side:

"Gu Yingxuan is Wang Zhangyin's nephew-in-law. Please forgive him a little for Wang Zhangyin's merits."

When Wang Tiqian heard this, he glanced at Liu Ruoyu from the corner of his eye. He knew that as soon as these words came out, Gu Yingxuan was over.

What contribution did he, the Chief of Ceremony, have to the emperor? He was just an eunuch retained by the emperor to stabilize the situation.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the emperor's anger at the civil servants to save Gu Yingxuan. Now that Liu Ruoyu has pointed out the key points, this matter has naturally failed.

Sure enough, Zhu Youjian had no scruples about Wang Tigan's so-called credit and said:
"Zhang Tiqian and Gu Yingxuan had lives on their bodies, and they took the initiative to rebel for selfish reasons."

"They have a serious tendency to commit crimes and should be designated as the principal offenders."

"Let Dali Temple judge properly and don't write such messy words."

"Wang Zhangyin, your relatives should take care of it and don't cause any deaths."

"I hereby warn everyone that the murder case must be investigated." Wang Tigan responded repeatedly and took the initiative to plead guilty. He said that he did not take good care of his relatives and did such a thing. You will be punished as you should, and he will never interfere.

He still let the matter go, and Zhu Youjian did not criticize him harshly. He did not think that Gu Yingxuan's actions were under Wang Tigan's instructions, otherwise Gu Yingxuan would not have gone to Zhang Tigan to conspire, but would have gone directly to Wang Tigan. Based on the relationship between Wang Tiqian and Wei Zhongxian, Gu Yingxuan will benefit even more.

Of course, it is also possible that Wang Tiqian wanted to be a non-stick pan and deliberately asked Gu Ying to choose Zhang Tiqian.

There may be too many things involved, and Zhu Youjian didn't want to be too involved, so he didn't delve into it.

Seeing that the seventh year of Apocalypse is about to pass, Wang Tiqian should be retained until next year to show respect for the last words of Emperor Apocalypse.

At the beginning, Emperor Tianqi said, "Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian are loyal, and they can plan for big things." Now that Wei Zhongxian has been eliminated by him, Wang Tiqian must be kept, which shows that Emperor Tianqi is not so dim, and he has not completely overturned his policies.

For this reason, Wang Tiqian narrowly passed the test and was not implicated in Gu Yingxuan's matter.

After leaving the emperor, Wang Ti looked at Liu Ruoyu with a dry smile and said:

"How did Mr. Liu know about Gu Yingxuan?"

"Is it from Mr. Gao?"

Liu Ruoyu is from Gao Shiming's lineage, which Wang Tiqian has known for a long time.

Therefore, in his opinion, Liu Ruoyu's sudden attack today was probably instigated by Gao Shiming.

Gao Shiming, the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Royal Horse Supervisor, may have been eyeing his position as the Supervisor of Ceremonies and wanted to become the number one person in the inner court.

Of course Liu Ruoyu would not admit it and apologized to Wang Tiqian with a smile:
"No one in the palace knows the relationship between Wang Zhangyin and Gu Yingxuan."

"I already knew about this when I was at Li Yongzhen's place."

"It's a pity that I couldn't help Wang Zhangyin protect his nephew-in-law."

"Perhaps Wang Zhangyin can go to Dongchang to look for records. Liu Duo's case was also tried by the Dongchang criminal officer!"

"Maybe we can find evidence to reduce my nephew-in-law's crime and send him overseas."

Wang Tiqian felt his teeth itching after hearing this, knowing that he had made many people dissatisfied as he held the two positions of Chief Ceremony Supervisor and Admiral of the East Factory.

It would be fine if it was a temporary part-time job for a period of time, but now that the emperor has no intention of adjusting, he is very likely to continue in these two positions.

So these people are already reminding him in a roundabout way to let him step down from his position.

Otherwise, more troublesome things will happen. He, the second eunuch of the eunuch party, is absolutely unclean.

Especially since Cao Huachun and other eunuchs under Wang An's name are about to return to Beijing, and given Wang Tigan's involvement in the murder of Wang An, these people will never let him go.

Wang Tiqian was not sure what they had done with the support of Gao Shiming.

Therefore, although he was resentful in his heart, after Wang Tiqian went back to think about it, he decided to resign a position and let the Dongchang Admiral go. I can no longer wear two hats and make other eunuchs jealous.

The next day, Zhu Youjian received his resignation, and Wang Tiqian requested that the admiral of the East Factory and other part-time officials should be resigned on the grounds that it was not appropriate to hold the post of Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Supervisor of the East Factory at the same time, and only the Seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies should be retained.

　"Zi Zhong Zhi":
　　Also, Wanli Bingchen Jinshi Liu Duo, a well-known scholar in Jiangyou, was erudite and good at calligraphy. On the day of the imperial examination, he drank too much and wrote too many boxes in the examination paper, which could not be arranged in order. Of. He successively served as a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment and the magistrate of Yangzhou in Tianqi Yichou Qiubi.

　　When he was in Beijing, he had contacts with the dwarf monk Benfu of Meitan Temple. The monk asked Duo to write a few copies of the fan, which were suitable for unprinted books. Later, he sent family members to bring the books to Benfu's place to refill them on the fans. Ouyang Hui from Guangdong had also been in contact with Benfu for a long time. Occasionally he went to the temple and wrote three poems on the greeting paper. The poems were full of resentment, and the servants couldn't understand the words. Benfu wrote the end of Qianhui's poem paper in Duo's book, Sticking to the wall of the house, he was detected by the Jinyi guards, who revealed poems and participated in the ceremony. They met with Ni Yushi Wenhuan and others to worry about Duo's promotion of Yanming, so he asked Cui Chengxiu to go against the virtuous and correct the order and arrest Duo in prison.

　　Later, in the detailed poem, there were words such as "ejection and chasing away ministers", indicating that Duo was promoted to an official position, which is a major category. Only then did he realize that although Duo's name was on the book, the poem was written by Ouyang Hui. Then he caught Hui's face again and had nothing to do with Duo, so he was reinstated.

　　When Chu Duo was in prison. Seeing that Li Cheng'en, his relative, was planning to establish a new regime, and was interrogated hotly by Bingyin, and was beaten fifty times by Wang Tigan, he felt pity for him. He secretly worked with Fang Yushi Zhenru to rescue him, which further aggravated Ni Xian's anger.

　　At that time, Wang Tiqian's nephew-in-law, Wang Tiqian's nephew-in-law, and the commander of the patrol camp, cleverly built Luozhi into a prison.

　　Today, in the summer of the first year of Chongzhen, Zhang Tiqian and Gu Yingxuan were all in full compliance with the law. After the autumn of the second year, Ni Wenhuan decided to commit suicide in Xishi City.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)