Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

But Xiong Kaiyuan's behavior successfully aroused the anger of Emperor Chongzhen.Seeing that Xiong Kaiyuan was clearly going to attack Zhou Yanru, but he was full of stinginess and pettiness when he spoke, he was very annoyed, and asked him to point it out sharply.Xiong Kaiyuan kept covering up, accusing Sang and scolding Huai.In the end, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to listen to his nonsense, and ordered him to step down and write what he wanted to say in this chapter.

But Zhou Yanru is powerful after all.After Xiong Kaiyuan was summoned this time, he heard the advice of many friends and fellow countrymen, and they all thought that Zhou Yanru was considered lenient and experienced among the previous prime ministers, and it was absolutely unwise to impeach Zhou Yanru.Xiong Kaiyuan, who was hesitant at both ends of the first mouse, lost all energy. In this chapter of the supplementary replay, he just repeated what Zhao Duoshi said, "only the minister's order is played, respectfully listed above, minister Zouyun:..."

When Emperor Chongzhen, who was full of anger, saw Xiong Kaiyuan's contentless supplement, he felt that he was being tricked by this villain, so he was furious, and immediately sent Jin Yiwei to arrest Xiong Kaiyuan and send him to Beizhen Fusi for torture. torture.

Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan are just two little people in the court, and the so-called "crime" is just a few irrelevant words when the emperor asked for blunt speech, and it does not have any fundamental relationship with the emperor and the cabinet ministers on major national policies Sexual conflict, but was regarded by the emperor as an enemy of the country, a big rape and a big evil, and sent to the darkest Jinyiwei Town Fusi Prison to torture and extract a confession.

The courtiers talked a lot about the emperor's unreasonable anger, and they were quite upset with Jiang and Xiong.Zhou Yanru was even more disturbed because Xiong Kaiyuan's imprisonment was for the purpose of impeaching himself.So at the next imperial meeting, the officials, ministers, and cabinet ministers successively defended Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan.

Among them, Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu, who is famous all over the world for his Taoism, said the most sincerely: "The imperial court has its own system for treating the officials, and the officials give advice, use it when it is available, and ignore it if it is not available. Even if there is a deserved crime, It should also be issued to the judiciary to convict according to the circumstances. Now Xiong Kaiyuan and Jiang Cai are mad and ignorant, and cannot be innocent. But at present, the emperor is eager to ask for advice, and the second minister is imprisoned because of his words, which will greatly harm the holy government. I am afraid it is not the emperor The original intention of asking for words. I hope that the emperor will bow down to the difficult and dangerous times, and let go of the generous measure like the sky, so as to open up the way for all the ministers to remonstrate."

Originally, Emperor Chongzhen vented about this kind of thing.Just dismiss these two little people from office.But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen was already on the tip of his horns. He felt that Liu Zongzhou's words were extremely harsh, thinking that he was obviously ridiculing his narrow-mindedness and abusing lynching.

So Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and said forcefully: "The Sanfa Division and the Jinyiwei are all the yamen of the imperial court. What is the difference between public and private? You say that officials have their own system. Is it possible that they are corrupt, corrupt the law, deceive the emperor, and mess up the discipline. Shouldn't you be guilty?"

"Xiong Kaiyuan is here. There must be someone in charge, and I think the person behind this is Liu Zongzhou!"

As a result, the powder keg was ignited.The cabinet ministers Zhou Yanru, Jiang Dezhen, and Wu Wei, the minister of the Ministry of War Zhang Guowei, the servant Feng Yuanbiao, the minister of the Ministry of punishment Xu Shiqi, and the minister of the Ministry of Industry Fan Jingwen.Jin Guangchen, the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the honored and military ministers of the five mansions defended Liu Zongzhou together, and even wept their sleeves bitterly.But Emperor Chongzhen became more and more annoyed and insisted on punishing him severely.

After this unhappy reunion, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to dismiss Liu Zongzhou from the Ministry of Criminal Justice.The cabinet has firmly resisted this.Withhold the decree and refuse to issue it, and jointly implore the emperor to withdraw the order.Emperor Chongzhen had rarely encountered such resistance since he came to the imperial court, and he didn't want to quarrel with his courtiers, so he had to order Liu Zongzhou to be dismissed from the people.Xu Shiqi and Jin Guangchen were also dismissed and demoted for this case.

The ministers could survive the struggle, but Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan, who were small people, were doomed.On the day after the call, Emperor Chongzhen issued a secret decree to Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei: "Take Xiong Kaiyuan and Jiang Cai's lives and report their deaths."

When Luo Yangxing saw the secret decree, he immediately turned pale with shock.Jinyiwei has always been a powerful tool for the emperor to implement tyranny. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, countless people were secretly executed for the emperor.But most of the Jinyiwei supervisors who helped the evildoers did not end well. Not to mention, the "Five Tigers" who presided over the Jinyiwei during the Apocalypse period were all executed for lynching and murder.

What's more, Luo Yangxing and Xiong Kaiyuan are from the same hometown, and they had some friendship at first, and this incident has already caused a lot of trouble, and the two people were killed in a hurry. Whose responsibility is it that the courtiers pursue it?For this reason, Luo Yangxing discussed with Jin Yiwei's friends and decided not to carry out the emperor's secret decree, and also intended to disclose the content of the secret decree to the courtiers.But in order to deal with the emperor, the Zhen Fusi still used poison to Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan.

Because the officials began to discuss the matter of secret order for the emperor, Zhou Yanru and other cabinet ministers fought hard again and again. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen still had to decide to transfer Jiang and Xiong to the Ministry of Punishment, but killed them to vent their anger. The mood is still not eliminated.

But the prison speeches played by the Ministry of Punishment were obviously avoiding the most important and taking the lightest. He severely reprimanded the Ministry of Punishment for "no trial without trial" and "deception and playfulness". After the stick, he was still sent to Zhen Fusi for torture.

For Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan, who were already dying of torture and wounded, a hundred court sticks was almost synonymous with certain death.Fortunately, the prison and execution eunuchs and Jinyiwei officials were afraid that killing someone would cause collective protests from the courtiers, so they were merciful while holding the court staff, and the two survived.Even so, after being beaten with a hundred sticks, Jiang Cai was as angry as a gossamer and unconscious.His younger brother Jiang Gai was also an official in Beijing, so he rushed to pour him urine with his mouth in his mouth, and finally regained consciousness.

The incident of Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan, two little people, has been tossing for a whole month, and Emperor Chongzhen finally regained a little psychological balance by making a big move against them.

Although both Jiang Cai and Xiong Kaiyuan managed to save their lives, the ministers and workers in the court were even more disappointed with the emperor and the political situation.If their criticisms of the emperor were limited to "extremely severe" and "too clever" before, by this time they clearly felt his narrowness, cruelty and irresponsibility.

An important sign of the sharp decline in Emperor Chongzhen's prestige is that he wanted to kill the two minor officials but failed in the end. This was unthinkable a few years ago.It's just that the courtiers' resistance to the emperor is definitely not a check and balance on the imperial power in the positive sense, but a negative disintegration of people's hearts.

In addition, the honorable group is also quite dissatisfied with Emperor Chongzhen. They think that the emperor's attitude towards Wu Shigong is simply accusation.In the eyes of the nobles, it is a "virtue" for the generals to be domineering outside, not to mention that many nobles also regard Wu Shigong's fortune as a "good example" for revitalizing the noble group.

But this time, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards Wu Shigong has already faintly threatened the two marquis' mansions, and the relationship even spread to most of the noble mansions in the capital.Why doesn't this make the nobles vigilant?

Therefore, an act of showing strength by the Runing Army unintentionally aroused conflicts between the DPRK and China.By this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already betrayed his relatives. (To be continued..)

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