"Wu Jungong, you shameless coward, how could you turn around and betray me!"
Zhao Jinmei, who was being escorted by Dongchang, yelled loudly at Wu Weiye.
Wu Weiye ignored Zhao Jinmei and remained silent.
It didn't take long for Zhu Youxiao to learn about the matter here, and asked Zhang Yandeng, the left minister of the Ministry of Justice, who was temporarily in charge of the Ministry of Justice, to try the case in accordance with the current judicial system of the Ming Dynasty and put forward the opinions of the Ministry of Justice.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Jinmei refuses to admit that he is suspected of treason, saying that he was framed by Wu Weiye and Tang Aiming. However, Dongchang did copy from his home a writing that says, 'Today is cruel and unethical, and scholars should be governed by etiquette and law.' Such treasonous remarks may not be considered treason, but they are disrespectful and can be punished according to law."
After hearing the case, Zhang Yandeng reported his opinions on the trial to Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "It is the fault of my father who failed to educate me. I will be deprived of my honor and will be given a reward to commit suicide. The part of the lenient life will be added to his clan. The whole clan will be exiled to Chahar to atone for the crime of improper education. In addition, Wu Weiye knew clearly that this person had made disrespectful remarks, but he still refused to retaliate. It can be said that he had bad intentions and was indifferent to loyalty to the emperor, so he accused him of being exiled to Chahar and serving as a soldier to guard the border. He will not be able to retaliate until his death!"
"According to the order!"
Zhang Yanden replied, thinking: "The emperor is driving the nobles to a bitter and cold place in a different way!"
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"Until death?"
When Wu Weiye heard what he had done, he was struck by thunder, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
But now he can only admit that he is unlucky.
A few days later, when he came out of Dongchang Prison, he was shackled by officers from the Ministry of Punishments and taken to Chahar.
Scholars Zhang Mingbi and Mao Xiang were his friends, so when Wu Weiye left the capital, they rushed to the suburban post station to meet him.
"Brother Jun, how come you are so good at this?"
Zhang Mingbi bribed the officers of the Ministry of Justice, and Mao Xiang got an opportunity to chat privately with Wu Weiye.
Because of this, Wu Weiye sighed pitifully and said: "It was all due to the report from Tang Aiming of the Royal Academy, saying that my brother and brother Yun Tui were plotting rebellion. Naturally, we refused to admit it, and we ended up like this."
"Royal Academy!"
After hearing what Wu Weiye said, Zhang Mingbi couldn't help but grit his teeth and mentioned the Royal Academy.
"Ever since the emperor settled the refugees in the capital in the third year of Tianqi's reign, and allowed the sons of these refugees to study, and even set up a royal academy to select and train their elites, the emperor has gained many blind supporters! These people are more loyal to the emperor than the eunuchs, and they have already There have been several disputes with these people because we discussed government affairs, but now I didn’t expect that they would directly frame us, the nobles’ sons, for treason! It’s getting more and more outrageous!”
Maoxiang also said angrily.
"I have no intention of saying this. Now that I, Mr. Wu, have gone away, I am afraid I will never come back. Please take care of yourself, dear friends!"
Wu Weiye cupped his hands and started crying.
Zhang Mingbi and Maoxiang also said goodbye.
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"When I go there, I don't know if I will die in a foreign country. Oh my god, you guys understand, this is why Mr. Min did not support the use of foreign troops and the expansion of new territories. With the wisdom of today's sage, once he opens up new territories, After the earth is laid, it will be filled with our corpses!"
Min Hongxue, the former censor of Zuodu, also spoke with tears in his eyes to Zhang Yandeng, Chen Xinjia and other officials who came to see him off.
Shen Weibing, who was passing by, said: "It was Shen who harmed all the gentlemen!"
As he spoke, Shen Weibing couldn't help wiping his eyes: "If I had known better, I wouldn't have asked Xue Kedao for help, otherwise I wouldn't be able to be considered a governor now. The road ahead will be difficult."
"Thunder, rain, and dew are all for your kindness. Let's go. Don't sigh here."
Wang Zaijin, who was demoted to the governor of Chahar and dismissed from his title, said something at this time and got on his horse first.
The other demoted ministers of the Lord and Sect followed.
By the time we reached the outside of the Great Wall, it was already very cold, and many of the weak civil servants had begun to have fevers and runny noses, so much so that they kept coughing throughout the journey.
However, fortunately, there were medical officers and medicinal materials accompanying him, so no one died from the illness.
Therefore, these ministers and scholars who were demoted and exiled should be fortunate that the court at least still cares about their life and death.
The Horqin people who were assigned to do hard labor in the Daning area had no one to care about their life or death.
In order to build the railway from the capital to Daning as soon as possible, all the Horqin prisoners, totaling more than 30,000 people, were assigned to the Chief Secretary of Daning to participate in the construction of the railway.
When Wang Zaijin, Shen Weibing and other ministers from the main peace faction passed through Daning, they saw these disheveled Horqin people tamping earth and transporting gravel in the ice and snow.
The entire outside of Daning City was like a large construction site.
Wang Zaijin and others even discovered that when the whips of the government supervisors on this large construction site hit the Horqin people, they were whipped harder than the north wind at that time.
And many of these Horqin people died from exhaustion.
Wang Zaijin, Shen Weibing and other peace ministers discovered that Horqin people were being thrown into the fire and cremated.
"This is really cruel! In order to build such a section of railway, it is so tortured!"
Liu Zongzhou, who was also demoted, was filled with the Holy Mother's heart and felt pity for these Horqin people.
"My lord, I don't like hearing what you are saying. At this time in the past, the barbarians on the grasslands would raid our border towns. For this reason, the lords forced us to repair the border wall. Or they were beaten if they repaired slowly. Just like them, there was no time when a group of people were not killed when building the border wall. Now they are suffering the same suffering as us. Besides, at this time last year, it was because of their looting that we Those who were tortured like this, every time they crossed the Great Wall, they didn't commit murder or arson that time. Now they deserve to suffer such a crime! How can it be considered cruel! Shouldn't we torture them instead of torturing us? "
A supervisor on the side retorted Liu Zongzhou with a few words.
Liu Zongzhou had never experienced side events, so he didn't know the details behind it, and was speechless for a moment.
Wang Zaijin laughed at this time: "Liu Gong, let's go. He is telling the truth. You are from the south and have never been a border official. Naturally, you don't know. Otherwise, you won't pity these barbarians. The imperial court This is very good, it saves a lot of manpower and a lot of financial resources.”
"ah!"
At this time, a Horqin noble named Badali screamed on the spot. Because he was lazy, he was whipped by an overseer.
Liu Zongzhou looked at Xun Sheng and said nothing. He just sighed: "Alas!" He thought to himself: "China has always been a kind and gentle country, how can we become so mean and unkind!"
Baicheng.
This royal city built by Lindan Batur using the Han people captured from the Jiubian border town of the invaders, at this time, became the provincial capital of the newly established Chahar Chief Secretary in the Ming Dynasty.
After the Jurchens in Jianzhou were wiped out, the Chahar tribe took the initiative to move westward, and the Horqin tribe was raided and wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, this vast land in the northeast became the Ming Dynasty's.
Zhu Youxiao set up three chief secretaries in the eastern and northeastern regions of Inner Mongolia in later generations, one for Chahar, one for Horqin, and one for Northeast, where Northeast means north of Liaodong.
Now some of the ministers of the Peace Party and the entire tribe of Shen Weibing, Xue Guoguan, and Zhao Jinmei have to settle here.
Looking at the vast white snowfield, Shen Weibing, Min Hongxue and others wanted to cry without tears.
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