A few days before the end of the New Year, when all the yamen were about to seal their seals and go on a long holiday, in the middle hall of Huang Liji's yamen, officials from all walks of life gathered together. The old minister of the cabinet, the official of Kedao, as well as the governor of Jiliao and the governor of Liaodong who came to Beijing to report on his work, and Yuan Keli, who had just been appointed as the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Denglai, all came to Huang Liji's side. Everyone's faces are not very pretty. You look at me, and I look at you.
Huang Liji, the first assistant scholar, was sitting on the chair at the top, drinking a bowl of hot tea without raising his head and not moving at all.
The voices of several high-ranking officials below gradually became louder.
"...600,000 yuan in salary, enough armor and equipment for 30,000 people, and 2,000 fine muskets, were given directly to Mao Wenlong, bypassing the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the supervising ministers and civil servants? Does this still require households? What do the Ministry, the Ministry of War, and the Superintendent do? What do you want us cabinet ministers to do?"
"Isn't that right! The imperial court set up governors and managers, and let the governors control the troops, in order to control the military with civility. But now the border generals are becoming more and more powerful and domineering. The only way that the commander-in-chief can restrain the border generals is food and salary. Military resources? If the commander-in-chief of the cabinet is bypassed and given directly to the border generals, how can the commander-in-chief supervise the division?"
"It's just a matter of setting up an army of 10,000 or 20,000 people in front of the tent. Anyway, we are dividing the imperial village and the garden. But Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town has always been under our control, how can it be returned to the inner court?"
"Yeah, isn't this a mess? How will the Liaodong frontline be commanded and dispatched in the future? Who can command and control Mao Wenlong?"
"That's not okay. We have to stop this matter today, otherwise we won't be able to be an official in the future!"
"That's right, the rules can't be so bad! Without rules, what's the point?"
Hearing the discussion, Huang Liji suddenly snorted coldly, slammed the tea bowl in his hand, and slowly raised his head: "What nonsense are you talking about? Can we stop Wei Zhongxian? Wei Zhongxian is worth nine thousand nine hundred When he was 99 years old, who among us dared to stop him? Who could stop him? So many officials below even built a shrine for him... Can such a powerful 9900-year-old man be able to stop him today? Feng Boheng , your enemy Cui Chengxiu is still being detained in Xiyuan!"
Feng Quan, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, was the loudest in the discussion just now. Those who didn't know it thought his bones were so hard!
But Huang Liji knew his details too well. He was impeached and convicted because his father, Feng Shengming, the governor of Henan Province, left his post without permission. He wrote a letter to express his displeasure for his father, and was also deprived of his official post of review by the Hanlin Academy. Go home and eat old rice.
In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian went to Feng Quan's hometown of Zhuozhou to offer incense. Feng Quan, regardless of the dignity of a scholar-bureaucrat, knelt down by the roadside and cried to Wei Zhongxian. Only then did he get the opportunity to be a dog for Wei Zhongxian!
After becoming Wei Zhongxian's lackey, he contributed a lot in the fight against Donglin Zhengchen, and helped Wei Zhongxian fight to death Donglin boss Yang Lian, so he was highly regarded. At the age of thirty, he was promoted to the cabinet by Wei Zhongxian. Chen and Hubu Shangshu were known as the "black-headed ministers".
Later, under Wei Zhongxian's instruction, he, together with Gu Bingqian and Huang Liji, served as the chief executive of "Three Dynasties Essential Codes" - this "Three Dynasties Essential Codes" is not simple. It is a book based on the three dynasties of Li, Taichang and Tianqi. A collection of official history compiled from the archives of three major cases, plus the words of the cases. Many big bosses of the Donglin Party were beaten into the culprits of the three major cases of Tingji, Hongwan and Yigong.
It can be said that as long as the "Three Dynasties Essential Code" is not overturned, the Donglin Party will always have a sharp knife hanging on its head!
Therefore, after Zhu Youjian executed Wei Zhongxian, the calls to destroy the "Three Dynasties Essential Codes" became louder and louder. But Zhu Youjian had his own idea - no matter how the people below shouted, he would not move the "Three Dynasties Essential Code". They also did not rehabilitate Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Hui Shiyang, Zhou Chaorui, Gao Panlong and others.
And Feng Quan, a villain of the eunuch party, was also the chief executive officer of the "Three Dynasties Yaodian" and was restored to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue after the fall of Wei Zhongxian - there was also a struggle within the eunuch party! Because Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu competed for each other's favor, which led to internal strife, Feng Quan's positions as Minister of Household Affairs and University Non-commissioned Officer were already eliminated before Wei Zhongxian's downfall.
After Wei Zhongxian's fall, Zhu Youjian deliberately regarded Feng Quan as a good person who opposed Wei Zhongxian's treason and reinstated him as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue... And because Cui Chengxiu did not have the "Three Dynasties Essential Code" to protect himself, When Wei Zhongxian fell, he happened to be the Minister of War, so he is still being held in Xiyuan with 69 other traitorous officials. If Feng Quan didn't recognize his identity and was bitten by 70 mad dogs, his crime would be as great as the sky.
Huang Liji didn't spare Feng Quan's face as soon as he opened his mouth. Feng Quan was stunned and could only lower his head in despair. Huang Liji still felt that it was not enough, and continued to slap the table: "Who made the rules? Did we make them? The rules were made by the Holy One! Let me tell you something more. Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Wenhua Hall to meet the Holy One. At that time, the Holy One said... Jinyiwei North Town Fusi has been reorganized, and it will be time to resume work after the New Year, and then we will track down the rebels!"
Huang Liji yelled at him, and most of the officials in the central hall did not dare to speak. They all more or less relied on Wei Zhongxian and labeled them all as rebels. Maybe some of them slipped through the net. If we want to arrest half of them, If the imperial edict is locked up, a lot of people will definitely slip through the net.
Sun Chengzong was definitely not against the party, so when he saw a group of officials who were silent, he felt very angry... You are all eunuchs! It’s not necessarily true whether he is against the party, but he is definitely an eunuch! Why is the emperor so confused? Why don't we just wipe out all of you eunuchs? I am being criticized every day, and I am writing abusive articles so fast, how come I haven’t joined a single eunuch?
Thinking of this, Sun Chengzong also slammed the table: "It's better to track down the eunuchs! We must investigate carefully, wipe out all the eunuchs, and give me a bright future!"
As soon as his words came out, he immediately attracted dozens of hateful looks... because he did not say "rebel the party", but directly said "eunuch". This nature is different! Anyone who flatters Wei Zhongxian or other big men and climbs up the ranks can be considered an eunuch. It's not a big deal. As an official, you have to curry favor with powerful officials even if you don't curry favor with eunuchs. Those who don't curry favor with anyone usually have to be officials until death. Therefore, everyone understands that Zhu Youjian will not punish the eunuchs.
But the nature of being a rebel is different!
To follow Wei Zhongxian in rebellion is to rebel against the Party!
The rebels who are now determined to be traitors are the Hakka family members who were stabbed, Wei Zhongxian's nephew and grandnephew, Hakka family members' younger brother Ke Guangxian, and their son Hou Guoxing. There were also several Daju who were arrested together with Wei Zhongxian and Hakka in Xian'an Palace. Basically, they all belong to Wei Zhongxian's core party members, and their number together can only be twenty or thirty. Most of these people are still alive and in Dongchang's custody.
The five tigers, five cubs, ten dogs, ten children, and forty grandchildren who were captured and taken to Xiyuan are still only suspected of rebelling against the party, and have not been finally convicted and executed.
The above people are not a threat to the Donglin Party, but to the Eunuch Party, they are a life-threatening existence at any time! If coupled with the impeachment of Sun Chengzong, the censor of Zuodu, it would be a trivial matter to reduce his status to the people, and he might lose his life.
Sun Chengzong must feel that he has let slip at this time... Impeachment is necessary, but he cannot say it in front of a room full of traitorous eunuchs!
This is so hated!
Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao who came back from the Liaodong Army, glanced at Sun Chengzong with a bit of complaint, and then started to smooth things over, "The top priority now is how to deal with the Hulu! News from the grassland said that the Han (Chahar) Two of the eight Otuok tribes have defected to Donglu. After Hutu Dun Khan (Lin Dan Khan) led most of the troops to move westward, the tribesmen who stayed in the Liaohe Hetao and stationed in the Han tribe could not last long. . By next spring at the latest, the Donglu will be able to capture the entire Liaohe River! In addition, the purpose of the Han tribe's westward movement is to annex the territory of King Shunyi... King Shunyi is the canonized king of Ming Dynasty. Yes, can we just watch it be destroyed by the Khan Department? Let’s make an idea quickly!”
