At this time, outside the palace, the ministers and other bureaucrats in Beijing were already anxious and looking eagerly in the direction of Qianqing Palace.
They don't care whether the New Deal that implements reforms can continue, but they care about how to resolve the current turmoil and what the attitude of the highest power holder in the palace is.
After all, it may not matter to them who were born as landlords whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not.
But local unrest is directly affecting their interests.
Bureaucrats who have been trained in Eight-part essay and have been trained as tools of rule since they became officials do not dare to make their own decisions. They are only willing to wait for the highest power holder to make their decision and quickly tell them what to do.
Therefore, what they need most now is a solution to the turmoil, rather than being left unresolved like it is now.
Whether they are reformists or conservatives, they have to maintain this governing process and wait for the higher-ups to tell them what to do and give them a solution.
"What are you talking to Your Majesty about? Even if the land of Wu is slaughtered to the point of blood flowing into rivers, there is still a way. It is better than no way at all!"
"It's already this time. Do we still want to teach His Majesty how to tolerate each other for the sake of the country? No matter what! He becomes a king or a bandit. No matter what the emperor does, as long as the country is not destroyed, there will be three taboos for him. It is better to cover up the side that should not be known to the public than to leave it unresolved now!"
At this time, Wang Guoguang couldn't help but start muttering to the other party.
Fang Fengshi whispered from the side: "Do you think the uncle is you?"
Zhang Siwei also squinted at the main hall at this time, and asked Liu Yingjie and Yang Zhao beside him: "Why do you think Yuan Fu stayed in there for so long?"
"If he stays any longer, I will have no choice but to knock on the door in person and beg Your Majesty for a favor!"
Liu Yingjie said in a deep voice at this time.
Yang Zhaoze replied: "No matter how long he stays, Yuan Fu should not mess with the wishes of the ministers of the world!"
"What do you think the prince of the world wants?"
"What can the ministers of the world have any intention? Even if they have intention, when have they agreed upon it? When Yuan Fu asked whether the officials and the gentry should be paid together to work on errands, it seems that I am the only one who has my own opinions, right?"
"A group of guys who only care about themselves when big things happen, do they deserve to have people care about you?!"
Wang Guoguang became sarcastic at this time.
Yang Zhao's face turned ugly.
Liu Yingjie opened his eyes wide, looked at Wang Guangguang, and shouted: "Wang Ruguan! We are all scholar-bureaucrats, please keep your word! I don't want to speak ill of you!"
Wang Guoguang snorted, waved his sleeves behind his back, and said no more.
Fang Fengshi scolded Wang Guoguang in a low voice: "You still have this temper. If the ministers of the Xian Temple were not in the shape of clay sculptures in the past, how could they have succeeded in Hua Li Court Affairs? It is the same today!"
"I'm not made of clay. I really wanted to reform, but I didn't expect that the reform would go this far."
Wang Guoguang replied.
"I know, I know!"
Fang Fengshi quickly said "I know" twice.
There was a squeak.
The palace door suddenly opened wide at this moment.
At this time, it was Zhang Juzheng who came out of the hall.
Zhang Juzheng had a long beard and thick eyebrows, and he walked down the steps step by step holding a wat board.
"Motosuke!"
"Uncle!"
"What did your Majesty say?"
The ministers came over immediately and looked at Zhang Juzheng eagerly, trying to get the answer from his face.
Even the Jin Yiwei who was on guard duty couldn't help but glance over.
"Deploy troops to quell the rebellion! Give Governor Hai Rui the southeast military affairs authority and give Shang Fang a sword."
Zhang Juzheng replied.
"Where are the pro-military guards?"
Liu Yingjie asked.
Zhang Juzheng said: "Of course, besides collecting taxes, we will help put down the rebellion on the spot and let Hai Rui control it."
After hearing this, Liu Yingjie looked disappointed: "So your Majesty is unwilling to submit to the military guards?"
"Even if I am a servant, I will not let the emperor submit to the humiliation of his own army!"
Zhang Juzheng suddenly replied in a deep voice.
Liu Yingjie suddenly wanted to say it was impossible, but then he felt that this was something Zhang Juzheng could do. After all, even Wu Naisheya dared to say it, so he directly asked: "Why don't you agree?"
"If you agree, wouldn't the restored Six Guards of the Emperor's personal army be restored in vain? If a sword can only be hidden in a box, what is the difference between not having the sword?"
"If the emperor is not respected, how can there be justice in this world?"
Zhang Juzheng asked about Liu Yingjie.
Liu Yingjie glanced at Yang Zhao and Ma Ziqiang, then took a long breath and said: "Okay, Yuan Funing forced everyone in Wu to rebel and caused chaos in the southeast. He did not want to wrong the emperor. My loyalty is far inferior." Yuan Fu is truly unworthy of being an official in the court."
After saying that, Liu Yingjie turned around and walked away with his sleeves fluttered: "I will resign right now!"
Ma Ziqiang, Yang Zhao, Yan Qing and others all stood up and wanted to speak.
"No!"
But Zhang Juzheng suddenly shouted loudly.
Liu Yingjie stood up and sneered: "Isn't it up to Yuan Fu to decide?"
Zhang Juzheng looked at Liu Yingjie: "At this time of unrest in the place, the Central Committee cannot cause chaos at this time. You are not allowed to lose your temper and resign at this time!"
After saying that, Zhang Juzheng said again: "So, if the Duke does this, the servant can only go back to the emperor immediately to ask for an order to kill the Duke. He said that the Duke has no superiors. At this time, he threatens Your Majesty with resignation to open his eyes for the rebels. He has ulterior motives." ! I don’t have the courage to bully the emperor as a servant, but I still have the courage to kill the prince in a strict manner!”
After Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he turned around and went up the steps.
Liu Yingjie was stunned when he saw this.
When Wang Guoguang saw this, he shouted in front of Liu Yingjie: "Why are you standing there, why don't you go and tell your uncle that you didn't mean it this way? Are you going to trap your father in injustice?!"
Only then did Liu Yingjie come to his senses. He quickly turned around and raised his hands to Zhang Juzheng and said loudly: "Yuan Fu stayed back. I was confused. Now I understand that this is not the time to be angry!"
After Liu Yingjie finished speaking, he shouted again: "We all regard the overall situation as the most important thing. Now that the holy will has been decided, it is not appropriate to add any details!"
"That's right, now that the decision has been made, it is for the people of the Wu region, regardless of gender, age or status, as long as they burn, kill and loot, they will all be killed as anti-thieves!"
Wang Guoguang echoed.
Fang Fengshi also followed up and said at this time: "The nature is certain. Officials, gentry and the people all need to have a clear stand, and they can no longer act in a secretive manner!"
"Yes, it is said that Han and traitors are not at odds with each other. Anyone who speaks for rebels at this time should be punished by order!"
Zhang Siwei started talking.
When Zhang Juzheng saw this, he came back and glanced at Liu Yingjie who was sweating: "I just pretended that I didn't hear what you just said!"
"Thank Yuanfu!"
Liu Yingjie breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, Zhang Juzheng went to the Imperial Service Department and asked Minister Cheng to draft an edict instructing the Privy Council to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion in Wu. He also sent an edict to Hai Rui, asking him to first oversee military affairs in the southeast to quell the rebellion.
The memorial jointly signed by Hai Rui and Sun Guangyou, who had already reached the cabinet, regarding the withdrawal of pro-military guards and returned to the capital, was also rejected, and was reprimanded by the cabinet.
Zhang Juzheng even told Zhu Geng: "Thieves are rampant in Wudi today, which has nothing to do with Fu's inability to arrest them locally. For Sun Guangyou, Tian Le, Lu Huo, Li Yi, Li Wei and other Nanzhi officials, they will directly confiscate half a year's salary and salary." The year-end reward will be a silver reward! Let him serve his crime and perform meritorious service. If the local government is in disarray again, it will be a crime of disloyalty and he will be arrested and brought to Beijing!"
"For these orders, on the grounds that the military situation is extremely urgent, we directly request the Privy Council to be delivered by express delivery over 800 miles away."
The eight-hundred-mile express delivery was very fast, and within a few days, both the imperial edict and the imperial approval were in Hai Rui's hands.
"I was scolded!"
After Hai Rui saw the content of the imperial approval, he smiled and said, and then said with a smile: "Well done, well done!"
After saying that, Hai Rui handed the royal batch to Hu Shouren, and then said to Hu Shouren, Lu Kun, and Tang Chuanxun with a calm face:
"Now that the imperial court has made up its mind to label these bullies and hooligans encouraged by the powerful right-wingers as rebels, we have nothing more to say. We will just follow the order!"
"The patrol teams that have been recruited and trained will follow the arrangements that have been made by the church. Some of them will patrol and arrest them. If they are caught, they will be killed to restore order. In particular, those who set up the Weeping Temple and the discussion bureau must be arrested and executed!"
"There is no need for a trial. The trial will definitely not reveal anything. The people behind the scenes are not that stupid. We have to tail our own foxes. To catch the people behind the scenes, we have to rely on our own spies!"
"The other part also encouraged the people to go to the government offices to cause trouble, demanding that the officials and gentry reduce rents, interest rates and increase salaries;"
"With the power of Governor Southeast, this church allows them to establish agricultural and industrial cooperatives to demand that the township meeting be more in line with the people's wishes;"
"If the right-wing officials and gentry want to use force to suppress it, the nearby patrol team has the right to directly suppress it!"
"But there is no need to send out all the Jinwu Guard officers and soldiers from the National Taxation Department. A thousand headquarters will be left in shifts so that in the event of large-scale unrest, there will be enough troops to suppress it!"
"The first thing to be suppressed is the three thousand fierce people who blocked the Jinyiwei officers from entering Zhenjiang City!"
The three of them bowed their hands and said yes, and they all followed the instructions energetically.
Hai Rui promised governor Sun Guangyou and other civil officials to hold a meeting to ask the imperial court whether to withdraw the pro-military guards. After the turmoil was eliminated, he was not idle.
While Hai Rui asked the officers and soldiers of Jinwu Guard to quickly recruit young and strong people they were familiar with before the training to form a patrol team; at the same time, Hai Rui asked the capable backbone of Jinwu Guard to go undercover to investigate the situation, and also contacted the Jinyi Guard, hoping to quickly put out the fire after the training of the patrol team was completed. They rebelled against thieves; they even recruited a group of poor scholars and encouraged them to join the Governor's Yamen as assistants to help carry out mass movements.
At the same time that Hai Rui agreed to Sun Guangyou and other civil servants, the pro-military guards did not impose taxes anymore, and only plain clothes were scattered in various villages to train young people. Therefore, the civil unrest also weakened a lot, and was not as severe as the rumors outside.
But it is true that there are still many bullies and hooligans. Once they take advantage of the power of the local right-wing, it is difficult to stop them.
In addition, some powerful right-wingers actually began to despise public rights because of this, and wanted to continue to use these bullies and ruffians to seize people's fields and expand their interests, not just to resist the New Deal.
Therefore, small-scale burning, killing and looting are still occurring in local areas.
After Hai Rui issued the order to kill anyone caught, the first thing the patrol team suppressed was the evil gentry who were still burning, killing and looting.
On this day, Hu Huaide led a patrol team of 500 people to Longtan. They encountered a team of bullies, with a total of more than 200 people, walking along the street with knives and knocking on people's doors to collect protection fees.
Hu Huaide gave an order, and the 30 former regular cavalrymen of the Jinwu Guards in this patrol team first passed through the adjacent street and blocked the way of this bully. Then Hu Huaide personally led the infantry to rush up and directly attack this team of bullies. Shooting started.
Immediately, the bullies in this team of bullies were shot and fell to the ground. At the same time, the cavalry also charged and killed those who did not fall to the ground.
The leader of the bullies, Gu Yuanxiong, didn't understand what was going on for a moment, so he just knelt down and said, "Spare my life!"
Hu Huaide came over, held a large blunderbuss to Gu Yuanxiong's head, and because Hai Rui demanded to be killed immediately after being caught, he directly pulled the trigger.
boom!
With just the sound of the gun, Gu Yuanxiong's head exploded and a large amount of blood spurted out, and his whole face was immediately smeared with blood.
(End of chapter)
