Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Xue Guoguan died, he was given 5 taels of stolen money and his home was confiscated.But only more than 600 taels of accumulated wealth were copied, and there was nothing more than an ancestral house.Many people think that although Xue Guoguan is not a good person, but the punishment is not his crime, the situation is really miserable.He is not guilty of death, forming a party is inevitable, and corruption is definitely a false accusation.

Although the role of Fushe in the incident of dumping Xue was relatively obscure, it was still rumored among the ruling and opposition parties.Donglin's lineage celebrates with their foreheads and hands, while Donglin's opponents are full of hatred.Now that Fushe has penetrated into the core of the political struggle, it will continue to do one thing, and further push for one of its own representatives to serve as the chief assistant.After careful study, Zhang Pu and his assistants, who were far away in Taicang, felt that the most suitable candidate was Zhou Yanru, who had previously served as the chief assistant.

Zhou Yanru originally had many friends in the Donglin Party, but he was not selected for the meeting in the early years of Chongzhen, so he joined hands with Wen Tiren to tear his face apart with the Donglin Party members.Later, he himself was squeezed out by Wen Tiren, and for the sake of interests, he also took a stand against Wen Tiren and was more consistent with the Donglin party members.He has spent several years of leisure, living in his hometown of Yixing, his neighbors are full of giants from the Eastern Forest, and he has had many contacts with him.On the surface, everyone has let go of the previous suspicions and became good friends again.

The decision-makers in the Fushe thought that by fully promoting Zhou Yanru, they could become their own political spokesperson without arousing too much vigilance from the opposition. Moreover, because of Zhou Yanru's unusual qualifications, he would be the chief assistant when he joined the cabinet. , much less hassle than others.

After the decision was made, the Fushe people went out to move around, not only found the Donglin backbones in the government and opposition such as Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, etc., but also found the famous eunuch figures Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng.When Fushe wanted to use Ruan Dacheng, he immediately smiled at him;But Ruan Dacheng was like an itchy skin, not remembering the lesson.The official is fascinated, this is no longer crazy, but evildoer.He could only shake his head and was speechless.

However, it is not a small project to move out a chief assistant to come out of the mountain. It requires both smooth personnel and the use of large sums of money.However, this difficult problem will not trouble the gentlemen of Fushe. The wisdom of the people is infinite, let alone gentlemen?So Fushe adopted the method of offering shares, one share is 1 taels, and they will be rewarded separately after the matter is successful.

So we patched together.They even sent people to Runing to search for Wu Shigong, the military attache of the Donglin Party, but because Wu Shigong was in Liaodong, the officials in Runing could not make such a major decision, so they failed in the end.At the end.Finally got together 20 taels of activity funds, and transported all of them to Beijing for bribes.

Of course, this sum of money, which was close to astronomical figures at the time, played a huge role.In terms of personnel.It mainly depends on Wu Changshi's activities in the capital.Wu Changshi had a close relationship with the eunuchs.He is very familiar with the situation in the palace, and can exert influence on Emperor Chongzhen invisibly. He is known as "holding the court handle for a while, and breathing through the emperor's seat"; Dare not to look at it differently.Plus 20 taels of silver as backing, after some activities.It really worked.

Emperor Chongzhen did not know when he began to miss his chief assistant, and courtiers also seemed to mention Zhou Yanru's loyalty and capableness often inadvertently.Come February, everything seems to fall into place.When the state affairs became more and more difficult and there were no supporters around him, Emperor Chongzhen finally "Chen Gang was arbitrary" and decided to re-appoint several former cabinet ministers.

He summoned Zhou Yanru, He Fengsheng, and Zhang Zhifa, former assistant ministers, to Beijing to assist in government affairs.Among them, Zhang Zhifa probably knew a little about the inside story, and felt that being attached to Zhou Yanru was quite boring, so he did not come to Beijing on the pretext of illness.Zhou Yanru and He Fengsheng were ordered to leave immediately, and they came to the capital to take up posts in September of this year.

However, Zhang Pu, the leader of Fushe, was a young man who showed his sharpness. Not only did he look down on certain behaviors of Zhou Yanru, a teacher, but he often asked him to do things according to Fushe's wishes. Therefore, Zhou Yanru hated this student deeply. Just to take advantage of the lack of talent and make mistakes, how can you really change your mind and change your past?

Although Zhou Yanru was once a champion, he was greedy for money and sex.In the rich family of East Dongting Mountain, there was a young woman whose husband had died. She couldn't stand her loneliness and colluded with outsiders to marry herself. Of course the rich family didn't want to, so they sued the county. They were afraid of getting married, so they had no choice but to give the young woman a beautiful make-up to Zhou Yanru. .

At this time, Zhou Yanru was "loved at first sight", just at the time when the imperial court announced that he would be the chief assistant again.Zhang Pu took the arrest warrant from the county to find Zhou Yanru, and threw the arrest warrant in front of him regardless of the teacher-student gift, Zhou Yanru couldn't help being furious.

But Zhang Pu didn't buy it at all: "This is just a trivial matter, you don't need to get so angry. If you don't want to go out now, there may be worse things than this in the future."

Zhou Yanru, an old cunning man, immediately changed his face when he heard this, and he said to Zhang Pu with a pleasant face: "Without your words, I would not have seen this." Even the students also respectfully called you.So he took the young woman to take office.This incident seems to be a "small matter", but the resentment is extremely deep.

Moreover, Zhang Pu also threatened Zhou Yanru with this matter, and wanted to use Zhou Yanru as a puppet to manipulate the government and the appointment and dismissal of officials.This made Zhou Yanru hate Zhang Pu to the bone.

What Zhang Pu didn't know was that when he learned that Zhou Yanru had resumed as the chief assistant, his favorite student Wu Changshi had already changed his family.When Zhang Pu got the conditions agreed by Zhou Yanru, he returned to his home in Taicang excitedly. That night, he suffered from severe abdominal pain and died.

That's what Wu Changshi sent Zhang Pu to Jiuquan with a dose of medicine.Zhou Yanru's comeback, Zhang and Wu were both the ones who planned to make contributions, but in the struggle for power and profit, Wu Changshi held the power in his hands, and he didn't want Zhang Pu to have a chance, so he came up with this poisonous plan.Of course, behind Wu Changshi, Zhou Yanru could still be seen grinning.

But no one dared to publicly expose this obvious conspiracy.Afraid of Zhou Yanru's murderous hands and clinging to Zhou Yanru's power, the gentlemen of Fushe and Donglin Party collectively lost their voices, but still flattered Zhou Yanru.But Zhang Pu's funeral was deserted, and those "friends" and "comrades" who were alive before his death were all gone, which really made him die with regret!

Anyway, this farce of changing phases, apart from allowing Zhou Yanru to become prime minister for the second time, did not have any positive impact on the current situation of the Ming Dynasty at all.Because at this time, the decisive battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Liaodong to determine the fate of the country is about to begin. (To be continued..)