Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 31: Qian Qianyi

It's already winter now, and with the influence of the small glacier climate, snowflakes have begun to flutter in Jiangnan, where the drizzle is drenching and the clothes are wet.

Muchun Garden, located in Changshu County, South Zhili, is therefore covered in the white snow field.

The owner of Mu Chunyuan, Qian Qianyi, who is the leader of the Donglin Party, pushed open the small window of his house, looked at the snowflakes in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Thinking that it has been the seventh year of Tianqi, and it has been three years since he was dismissed in the fourth year of Tianqi, Qian Qianyi's heart is particularly heavy.

Although he said in front of countless friends that he would like to be a farmer, and he didn't want to go to the temple again, and he was too busy with the case, but how could he, who has always been greedy for power and fame, really not care about wearing black yarn on the top and beasts on his chest.

In addition, since August of this year, especially after His Majesty's sudden recovery, countless old Donglin officials have been reinstated, such as Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chuanting and many other court officials who cannot be tolerated by the Eunuch Party have been reinstated or even promoted to a higher level. , but it happened to me, myself, the most famous and talented talent in the Donglin Party, who had already surpassed Jiangnan, but there was no news of his recovery for a long time.

Of course, like Han Yu, he also went to the capital to do things, and even Wang Chengen accepted his gifts. Even now that Wei Zhongxian has arrived in Jinling (now the real place names will be alphabetized, so in the future the place names will be replaced by other words), Qian Qianyi I also went to visit secretly.

But even so, the court still didn't intend to use him.

It wasn't until recent days that news came from the north that countless officials of the Donglin Party had been ransacked and Shanxi merchants had been rooted out. Only then did Qian Qianyi realize that His Majesty never intended to revive the Donglin Party in large numbers.

It turned out that he was just being paralyzed. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly sulk, but when he learned that the Fan family, which he had a close relationship with, was also confiscated, he was very worried, worried that he would not be implicated either.

"Master, this is the latest "Da Ming Daily." At this time, the housekeeper in his house came up and handed over a newspaper.

In today's Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiangnan, "Daming Daily" has long been a must-read for everyone, even Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, also reads it, and his pseudonym "Changshu Old Confucianism" is his columnist , and is also a fierce fighter in the pen battle with the recently emerging so-called royalists.

Seeing that the new "Da Ming Daily" had been delivered that day, Qian Qianyi put down the depression in his heart for the time being, and ordered the maid to make a cup of Yuqian Longjing, and sat on a yellow rosewood chair, looking at it through the snow light outside the window. report.

By the way, let's also look at how those royalist guys responded to their 28 questions yesterday.

Those were the 28 questions Qian Qianyi came up with for three full days. From the words of Confucius to the system of Hongwu ancestors, Qian Qianyi believed that the group of ignorant royalists would never be able to refute him.

But before that, Qian Qianyi usually read the latest headlines published on the front page of the newspaper and the editorials written by the literati of the "Da Ming Daily" newspaper.

The content is naturally what Zhu Youxiao did and said, what policies the court issued, and how the surrounding relations are.

These all represent the latest trends of the imperial court and the latest developments of the imperial rulers. The appointment and dismissal of some senior officials will also appear here, and Qian Qianyi has to watch it.

But when he saw an article titled "A 48-year-old scholar—Exploring the cause and effect of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Rural Examination Fraud Case in Xinyou Year", he couldn't help being stunned.

In Xinyou year, which is also the first year of Tianqi, the chief examiner of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provincial examinations was Qian Qianyi. That time he did accept bribes from many businessmen's children, and admitted many businessmen's children, but who knows that because of the wrong things Perfect, he was discovered in the end. If it weren't for the Donglin Party ruling at that time, he wouldn't have just been fined and paid. I'm afraid he would have been killed already. But it has been seven years since this incident, why? Someone will suddenly mention it.

The strong wind started at the end of Qingping. Could it be that this is a signal that the imperial court wants to punish him?
But he no longer has any official position, and the court still wants to do something to him.

Qian Qianyi read it with doubts. The text is very simple and self-proclaimed. At the beginning, he tells an inspirational story about a poor family scholar who started to enter the middle school and Sanyuan when he was 12 years old. Therefore, relatives and friends in the family expect him to be tall, but who However, Zhi spent more than forty years in the first pass of the provincial examination, and in the rural examination in Xin Younian, he committed suicide by jumping into the river because he failed again. .6 position, but the person died.

Then it is natural to discuss how much harm the examiner's cheating has done to a poor student, to the selection of scholars and the long-term stability of a country. The writing is very sharp, and the scolding is also merciless. The chief examiner is Qian Qianyi.

Even if he only saw the text, Qian Qianyi wished he could eat that person's flesh and drink that person's blood, and his face turned red.

But since the "Daming Daily" was run by Wei Zhongxian, the guardian eunuch, and it is said that it was ordered by His Majesty, he dared not tear down that newspaper.

He had no choice but to vent his anger on the newspaper and tore it to shreds: "It's a bunch of nonsense!"

However, on the second day, the editorial topics published in this newspaper continued to ferment, and countless literati who failed the exam began to criticize Qian Qianyi verbally and in writing.

Topics about Qian Qianyi and Xin Younian's scientific examination fraud case kept popping up on the message board of "Da Ming Daily". Ma Shiying clearly published his memorial requesting the court to punish Qian Qianyi severely.

For a while, countless low-level literati from poor and humble backgrounds became more courageous, and some even came to Changshu directly, holding banners and standing in front of the gate of Qian's mansion, insulting Qian Qianyi as a hypocrite.

Qian Qianyi's inscriptions in various temples were also smeared and smashed. Some temples also smashed Qian Qianyi's inscriptions in order not to cause public outrage.

Qian Qianyi didn't expect that a newspaper would put him in such a disadvantageous situation, and he hurriedly mobilized his disciples to write articles and publish them in "Daming Daily" to fight back.

Wei Zhongxian did not prevent these Donglin Party literati from publishing articles anonymously on the "Daming Daily", but there was one prerequisite, that is, not only did the Royalist Party not charge page fees for publishing articles, but they also received an extra reward of one thousand words and five renminbi. , but the literati of the Donglin Party have to pay silver instead, which is also calculated according to the number of words, and a correction fee of two taels of silver is paid for every thousand words.

There are many literati in the Donglin Party in the south of the Yangtze River. Since then, the "Daming Daily" has not only not lost money due to deliberate political propaganda, but has made a lot of money.

Gossip less, although Qian Qianyi's students here spent a lot of money and wrote a lot of words, they couldn't stop the anger of the masses because of his cheating, which caused many poor children to lose their promotion opportunities, even in the "Five Money Party" With the fuel of the fire, things intensified.

Qian Qianyi had no choice but to visit Wei Zhongxian in person and ask him to stop letting the "Da Ming Daily" discuss this matter.

But it was rejected by Wei Zhongxian. The reason is very simple. Wei Zhongxian said that His Majesty's original intention was to make "Daming Daily" the tongue of the people of the world. Not to mention you scolded Qian Qianyi, but you scolded me Wei Zhongxian and His Majesty the Emperor. It must also be published for him without any modification.

For this reason, Wei Zhongxian also showed Qian Qianyi an article written by a literati from the Donglin Party scolding him as an undead eunuch, but the article was signed by an old Confucian in Changshu.

　The bug of Chapter 6 has been changed, thank you for reminding me

　　
　
(End of this chapter)