Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Now Wu Shigong is planning to drive the peasant army to the vicinity of Nanjing, but the city of Nanjing is full of turmoil.It wasn't that civil and military officials in Nanjing City saw through Wu Shigong's sinister intentions, but were arguing about a major event that happened in Nanjing City.

"'Plague' is quite the way, how can the world be ruled? First, Jia Yan was imprisoned, and now Qian Gong is in trouble. It is true that relatives and enemies are quick. I once fought with the bandit army in Nanyang, and saw a sea of ​​blood drifting. Roosters crowing from thousands of miles away, smoke from hundreds of houses..." Hou Fangyu was impassioned in Meilou, and his personal experience of going to war immediately attracted the attention of the scholars and courtesans present.Speaking of the highlights, those scholars and courtesans continued to give out bursts of cheers.

When he came to Nanjing after the beginning of spring, Hou Fangyu immediately became the most popular person in the Qinhuai River Fengyue circle by virtue of his knowledge, literary talent, youth and wealth, and handsome appearance. He also successfully became one of the four princes of Fushe. Zijie has made a very famous name.And today is his Meilou banquet for all the children's boots.

"Young Master Hou said it well!" Gu Hengbo who was on the side immediately cheered, "Today, I can no longer receive gifts from Young Master Hou. Although I am a lowly person, I know loyalty!"

Gu Hengbo's words immediately aroused even more applause from the scholars, who would be unhappy if they could play with the girls in the Meilou for nothing?

Qian Qianyi has been at home for eight years since he fell into Wen Tiren's trap at the debate meeting in the first year of Chongzhen, lost his chance to be a bachelor and was driven home.

During these eight years, apart from the regular friendship with literati, Qian Yiqian's main entertainment was writing poetry.Most of these poems are included in his anthology, citing Mingyue's words: "Those poems have obvious psychological effects. When you read them in a good mood, you can be depressed; when you read them in a bad mood, you can commit suicide."

Anyway, this kind of: I regret it, I want to retire, I have lived in vain, and my boring poems can seduce many female literary youths.For example, those masters on the Qinhuai River.

But Qian Yiqian didn't expect that he was enjoying literature and art at home.But the woe fell from heaven.At the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen, a litigator named Zhang Hanru in Changshu, south of the Yangtze River, sued the registered squires, Qian Qianyi, the former minister of rites, and Qu Shixu, the former minister. [

Then I won’t introduce the detailed experience of Qu Shixu, if you are interested, you can take a look at it.We only need to know that he is a cadre of the Donglin Party and has served as a member of the household department.

The officials who have done the six subjects are all people who are familiar with the situation of the officials and the trend of the court. Therefore, although Qu Shixu has been dismissed at this time.But he has a lot of friends and is very familiar with the secrets of many officials.Under his activities, the appointment and dismissal of many officials is under his control, so he has quietly become the underground "Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials".

And this time, the chief assistant Wen Tiren wanted to eliminate these two "generals" of the Donglin Party, and completely defeated the Donglin Party, so as to achieve the goal of monopolizing the government.

But Wen Tiren has a high position and authority after all, if he wants to do it himself.It's too embarrassing to spread it out, and it's easy to leave a handle.So he decided to borrow a knife to kill someone.And the knife he borrowed was Zhang Hanru.

Zhang Hanru is a master of the yamen, indeed a small person, so in any case, he has nothing to do with the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Master Zhang has worked in the legal field for a long time, and is very familiar with work such as shooting black bricks. And never tire of it.

In fact, this is also an accidental event.It turned out that there was a rich man in Changshu named Chen Luqian, who once turned to Qian Qianyi and Qu Shiqi for help in a lawsuit over property.But these two people helped the other side of the lawsuit because they looked down on Chen Luqian's character.That's why Chen Luqian held a grudge and wanted revenge, so he found Zhang Hanru, a gangster who specializes in taking on lawsuits.

Although Zhang Hanru is a grassroots citizen, he knows the inside story of the politics of the court and China.He knew that the emperor's chief assistant, Wen Tiren, was the most trusted by the emperor, and Wen Tiren's enemies were members of the Donglin party, so he only had to sue Qian Qianyi and Qu Shixu, the two backbones of Donglin, to the court.It will definitely have a miraculous effect.

So Master Zhang wrote a complaint overnight.On the pleadings, Master Zhang accused Qian Qianyi of 58 crimes.Those crimes are classics, including embezzlement, bribery, smuggling, collaboration with enemies, power play, and party formation. In short, as long as you can think of crimes, he has written them all.

In fact, the gentry in the Ming Dynasty were extremely domineering in the countryside, especially those in the south of the Yangtze River. What Zhang Hanru said in his complaint may not be true.

But Qian Qianyi didn't panic too much, because this petition was written so nonsense that he rushed home and became a commoner, so why is he embezzling?right to play?Take control of the government?That is basically nonsense, and a shrewd person like Emperor Chongzhen would not believe it.

But when Wen Tiren saw this document in the cabinet, he immediately felt like a treasure.Qian Qianyi was his old enemy and the only remaining veteran of the Donglin Party, and the remnants of the Donglin faction in the court had been attacking him almost all these years, trying every means to force him to step down.With this case, it was just a chance to blow the arrogance of the Donglin party members.Therefore, Wen Tiren immediately drafted an order to ask the Ministry of Criminal Justice to arrest Qian and Qu and put them in jail for review and conviction.

You know, the current Emperor Chongzhen is in a state of desperation for the great affairs of the court, who will take care of a former official who has been dismissed?Moreover, Qian Yiqian left a bad impression on Emperor Chongzhen, so when Wen Tiren handed over the official draft, Emperor Chongzhen immediately signed it, perhaps without even looking at it.So this time Qian Yiqian made a bit of a miscalculation.

At this time, Qian Yiqian thought that the lawsuit was still a minor issue. Although he had lived at home for eight years, Qian Yiqian was still relatively bully in the local area, so he thought that it would be easy for a little master to make trouble.

However, within a few days, Qian Yiqian welcomed several "guests" from the capital city—several "guests" who came to arrest him.On the way to be escorted, Qian Qianyi finally figured out: So the teacher's complaint is an imperial complaint!

After all, Qian Yiqian is one of the leaders of the Donglin Party, with great energy.So during the escort, he started to move.On the one hand, the Donglin party members still have considerable influence in the ruling and opposition parties, and they are even more rampant in the Jiangnan area. Therefore, although the imperial edict ordering local investigations and investigations came down, the local officials deliberately delayed it in order to find a turning point. [

On the other hand, Qian Yiqian used his old relationship with the court to make the courtiers plead for him one after another.

However, this case has twists and turns, and the ups and downs are very story-telling.It quickly became a major event that stirred up the court.The specific process will also be described in detail later.

However, no matter whether it is Wen Tiren or Qian Yiqian who wins, it is all an internal struggle among the courtiers, which also makes the court's focus shift to a battle between the chief and the auxiliary, completely ignoring the two major enemies of the peasant army and the Manchu Qing, making There was a half-year-long blank period in the normal government affairs of the imperial court.

It's really infighting that kills people!