Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Originally, in the snowflake-like impeachment memorial, Ye Zhong's touch of red would definitely be ignored.Even this memorial did not attract the attention of the cabinet and the supervisor of rituals at all, because Ye Zhong's rank was too low.In the final analysis, Ye Zhong was just a small eunuch of the Henan Supervising Army Xiao Yuegui.

Fortunately, although Zhu Dadian, the governor of water transportation, also impeached Wu Shigong, he still reported Wu Shigong's credit for being on the Huaihe River in a realistic manner in his memorial.Although this credit was cut corners after the profit was distributed, it at least confirmed the accuracy of Ye Zhong's memorial.

It wasn't until this time that Emperor Chongzhen and the court ministers were surprised to find that there were so many big victories in the Central Plains bandit suppression campaign, and what was even more surprising was that these big victories were created by the notorious Bai Ding and his troops. of.

This situation aroused the curiosity of Emperor Chongzhen, and he immediately ordered to read Wu Shigong's memorial, so as to confirm the two sides and find out the truth of the matter.Emperor Chongzhen has been on the throne for seven or eight years, and he is already very familiar with the urine of those civil servants, so he already knows that he can't listen to one side and believe one side.

But the eunuch who took the order went down to search around, but found that there was no performance by Wu Shigong at all.Wu Shigong is very "self-conscious" and has inherited the fine style of "not in his position, not in politics!".Since he was removed from his official position, he simply didn't waste his time on the memorial.

Besides, the memorials submitted by Wu Shigong in the past could not be delivered to Emperor Chongzhen's case.Wu Shigong's small garrison, although the Secretary of the General Administration also accepted his memorials, but basically they were all read by the Grand Scholars, and then forwarded to the Ministry of War for processing.This is why Wu Shigong had to pass a private letter to Eunuch Qin if he wanted to send a message to Emperor Chongzhen.

However, this rule was not aimed at Wu Shigong alone by the court.Just imagine that every military officer above the garrison in the Ming Dynasty asked for military pay at the last memorial every month.Then Emperor Chongzhen must be bored to death?

And not only Wu Shigong, but even the memorials of Li Lu and Zhao Ming could not be found.This time, the two of them didn't dare to take Wu Shigong's boat anymore, and they both shuddered at the bad consequences of being afraid of being famous and being afraid of being strong.

And after searching carefully, Emperor Chongzhen discovered another strange phenomenon.Local officials in Runing, Guide, and Nanyang Ye County hardly impeached Wu Shigong.

It was Wang Chengen's words that solved Emperor Chongzhen's doubts: "The son-in-law of Xuehou's family seems to have made little achievements, but the relationship with his colleagues is too bad. Your Majesty! Good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles!"

Of course, there was also an official from Guide who impeached Wu Shigong, that is, Yu Zilian, the magistrate of Ningling County.Yu Zilian also knew that he had caused a catastrophe by taking away the militia, and was afraid that Wu Shigong would impeach him first.So it's the first to act first.

Moreover, the content of Yu Zilian's impeachment is quite shocking. He said in the memorial: Wu Shigong amassed money wantonly in Runing and Guide, raised troops, and invited people's hearts widely.The imperial court should be on guard against Wu Shigong.

Don't tell me either.The person who knows himself best is definitely the enemy.Yu Zilian's memorial is also the closest to the truth.But how could such a lonely memorial attract the attention of the court?Besides.The personal enmity between Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong is no secret.The imperial court also regarded this appalling memorial as Yu Zilian taking the opportunity to retaliate.

So Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned the first assistant Wen Tiren and the sick Minister of the Ministry of War Zhang Fengyi to discuss the matter.Wen Tiren's answer was very simple: Suppressing bandits is the top priority now, and with Wu Runing's strong army, he is always a helping hand. As for other crimes, they can be fined, dismissed, or settled after autumn.It's better not to move for the time being!

Here, the imperial court did not intend to transfer Wu Shigong away at all, and transferred another military officer to lead the Runing Army.It's not that the court ministers were negligent, but the Ming Dynasty's system determined that it could only be so.

If civilians lead the army.Then it's nothing to transfer a civil servant.However, the military officer leads the army. If a military officer is transferred, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the transferred military officer will take all his family members away.In other words, all the officers of this army will be taken away.And without officers all of a sudden, any strong army will immediately become a weak brigade.Therefore, unless the military officer destroys all the backbone of his family members, the general court will not arrest and execute the military officer who is defeated, let alone transfer the military officer casually.

This is also the reason why the military officers of the Ming Dynasty preserved their strength.This can also be seen from the reason that although Wu Shigong was beaten to the end, the imperial court still wanted him to stay in the Runing Army to commit crimes and meritorious deeds.If Wu Shigong is released, Wu Shigong can justifiably take away all the officers of the Runing Army, because those officers are servants who have signed contracts with Wu Shigong!All are Wu Shigong's personal belongings.

But now Wu Shigong no longer has an official position, so punishments such as fines and removal of officials are useless, and only after the fall is settled.However, Emperor Chongzhen and these ministers were also a little troublesome. It would be difficult for Wu Shigong to lose his official position. Unless Wu Shigong committed the crime of beheading, otherwise, because there is no way to punish him, he can only watch Wu Shigong do whatever he wants.

But the next few heavyweight memorials made Emperor Chongzhen and the court officials even more determined, and they could no longer let Wu Shigong be free.

The first is the memorial of Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces.In this memorial, Hong Chengchou was furious with Wu Shigong.After Hong Chengchou entered Henan, he was of course deeply impressed by the strength of the Runing Army, so he wanted to take Wu Shigong and the Runing Army under his account.

Unexpectedly, Hong Chengchou was immediately rejected.Wu Shigong not only did not take the initiative to look for Hong Chengchou, even Hong Chengchou called all the generals to Xinyang for discussion, Wu Shigong refused politely.

Not only that, Wu Shigong also sent an ultimatum-like letter to Hong Chengchou: warning Hong Chengchou's army to strictly observe military discipline when passing through Runing Mansion.

This pissed Hong Chengchou half to death.Who does that Wu Runing think he is?Did he think he was the local emperor of Runing Mansion?Do you think that the official position of the governor of the five provinces is less than...?

But after discussing with his staff, Hong Chengchou found that he, the governor of the five provinces, could not command Wu Shigong.Now Wu Shigong is no longer in the officialdom, and the level in the officialdom is useless to him. Wu Shigong has no obligation to obey the orders of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces.

As for the Runing Army, it can also be said that Wu Shigong recruited people from the Runing Mansion. It is a non-governmental organization that defends his hometown.It is okay to let them defend the Runing Mansion, but if they are to be transferred to the bandit suppression army, it depends on the mood of the leader of the Runing Army—Wu Shigong. (To be continued..)