Wei Yunzhen knelt on the ground as she spoke, looking up to the sky and roaring: "God, please open your eyes and see. It stands to reason that if a country has enemies, the country will not be destroyed. But now it wants to kill the enemies! Woo!"
When Wei Yunzhen burst into tears, she was dragged away by the Jin Yiwei like a dog trying to drag him to death.
At this time, Gu Xiancheng, Li Zhi and others saw this scene and said nothing.
It wasn't until Jin Yiwei had gone away that Li Zhi couldn't help but murmur: "Wei Gong is right. Why is Jiangling gone but worse?!"
Gu Xiancheng's face darkened and he said, "Something must have gone wrong in the Imperial Palace. A minister has become a slanderous and flattering minister. He has defected in the face of battle. We have become outcasts!"
Li Zhi nodded after hearing this: "That makes sense. What should we do now?"
Gu Xiancheng said: "Of course we should go and find out first, who advocated this and why it happened? Only in this way can we prescribe the right medicine and rescue the Lords of Shangshu."
At this time, Zhang Dingsi from Li Ke came over and said, "I have some bad news for you. Jiangling's posthumous title has been decided, and he will be named Wenzheng. Not only that, Jiangling County will be changed to Taiyue County, and local taxes will be exempted for one year and three years." Within the year, the number of student members in the local county was doubled, and he was posthumously granted the title of Marquis of Jingzhou."
"If a civil servant has this honor after his death, I will see him in this country!"
"What?!"
"How can such a ministry meeting be passed?"
"Doesn't the Rites Department have the right to reject the Rites Ministry's proposal?!"
After hearing this, Li Zhi was very disappointed and asked Zhang Dingsi.
Zhang Ding thought: "There is no way, the holy will is so, don't dare to violate it!"
"Why don't you dare to violate it?"
"If it is unreasonable, we must reject it!"
Li Zhi said excitedly.
Zhang Dingsi sneered: "You said it easily! Have you forgotten? The emperor now has soldiers in his hands! There are personal guards who have just gone to the Japanese island to kill tens of thousands of Japanese pirates!"
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"You're right to remonstrate."
"Your Majesty has troops in his hands."
Gu Xiancheng smiled bitterly, and expressed his understanding to Zhang Dingsi, and said: "As the saying goes, a small stick will hurt you, but a big stick will go away. When the king's father has a stick in his hand, there is no need to force the king's father into an unjust situation."
Although Li Zhi had nothing to say after hearing this, he still couldn't hide his disappointment: "Because of the restructuring, he was given the posthumous title Wenzheng, which also benefited the village and enabled the villagers to receive his favor, and other clans and neighbors in the world would also be willing to do so." Is it a good thing to support government ministers who have left their hometown to restructure the government? If this continues, isn’t it a good thing?”
"Everyone knows this is not a good thing, but how dare you violate the holy will?"
Zhang Dingsi continued talking at this time and said: "There is another thing. Mr. Xu has been confiscated by his whole family for smuggling with the Japanese and instigating people to dig up the tomb of the imperial concubine. He himself has also been escorted to Beijing and ordered to be interrogated by the three judicial departments. The decree has been issued, just wait for Mr. Xu to arrive in Beijing."
"What?!"
Gu Xiancheng and Li Zhi both looked over in shock.
For a moment, Yu Shenxing, who was here, couldn't help but sigh: "These are the Yuanfu of the two dynasties! I believe that Mr. Xu may be dissatisfied with Jiang Ling's political concerns, but I absolutely cannot believe that Mr. Xu will Doing such a thing is really an act of smuggling for profit at most, but as the Prime Minister of the two dynasties, why can't the current rulers persuade His Majesty to be lenient instead of being so harsh?"
"Out of holy wrath, the situation is irreversible. I think the ministers in the court would not dare to dissuade him."
Gu Xiancheng said with a wry smile.
Zhang Dingsi nodded.
Li Zhi clenched his fists: "Are we going to sit back and watch these immoral things happen one after another? At least, Jiangling cannot pursue the posthumous title of Wenzheng!"
Yu Shenxing sighed at this time: "That's all! At least when Jiang Ling was in power, although he had killed officials who forced the emperor to dismiss him, he was not like now when he could not even remonstrate and hinder things that had become his will. Look at him. For the sake of serving the country, it is not too much to receive this honor, and it can also show the emperor's virtue of respecting teachers. There is no need to embarrass Your Majesty in this matter. It is actually a good thing for the emperor to respect teachers and teach!"
Everyone nodded after hearing this.
Only Li Zhi asked at this time: "What about the current harsh government? Will it not be abolished?!"
"Of course it must be abolished!"
"Although the emperor has troops, his ambition may not be strong and his plans may not be high. What is important is whether the ruler of the court has the determination to abolish the harsh rule of Jiangling."
Gu Xiancheng started talking again at this time, and said: "Let's first find out why the current acting chief minister did not prevent this from happening."
Not long after, Gu Xiancheng and others inquired and learned that it was Zhang Siwei who requested the hanging of Shang Shuyanguan. The reason was that Wang Guoguang said that Zhang Siwei deliberately indulged Yanguan, so that Zhang Siwei simply catered to the emperor because he was afraid of making the emperor jealous. He even personally petitioned to kill these officials to prove his innocence.
"I didn't expect Zhang Puzhou to be so cowardly!"
Yu Shenxing was quite disappointed when he found out about this.
Gu Xiancheng was also very disappointed and said: "Not only is he cowardly, but he is also shameless! Since he doesn't have the courage to offend Yan Zhijian for speaking out for officials, then don't think about being the leader of the abolition of tyranny!"
Snapped!
After Gu Xiancheng said that, he punched the table hard.
"One general is really incompetent and the three armies are exhausted!"
"Unexpectedly, the first wave of offensive to defeat Zhang Dang broke his front teeth!"
"Although I have lost a whole kingdom, I am still interceding for the official Yan Guan. Considering how courageous I am, I don't want to add insult to injury and make people in the world feel that speaking for the official Yan Guan is not a good thing." It only made Dongchang a profit, and he did a big thing involving the chief ministers of two dynasties, which caused great loss to the face of our scholar-bureaucrats!"
Li Zhi also spoke angrily.
Gu Xiancheng laughed at this time and said: "Don't say these depressing words. It's still unknown who will win. As I said before, the emperor's ambition may not be strong, and his plan may not be deep."
Li Zhi and others all nodded after hearing this.
Then, Gu Xiancheng looked at Li Zhi and others, and continued to say with a smile: "The road is long and difficult, but we will get there soon; if we keep on walking, we will have a promising future."
Then, Gu Xiancheng bowed his hands and said, "Let me encourage you all!"
Li Zhi and others returned the gift: "Uncle Shi's words are very true!"
…
At this point, because Zhu Yijun showed a tough stance to protect his husband's dignity by relying on the fact that he had close military guards, and Zhang Siwei was not strong enough personally to dare to disobey his superiors, and the ruling ministers in the DPRK and the Central Government were in the Zhang Juzheng era. The majority of the reformists had not yet been deposed, so in the end, the opposition's first wave of counterattacks against the New Deal and Zhang Juzheng, with the goal of preventing Pan Cheng from joining the cabinet, failed.
The price for the failure of the opposition to the New Deal was that several public officials were taken to the execution ground and executed.
What's more, I can only watch Xu Jie being escorted to Beijing for interrogation.
Wang Jixian, Sun Wei, Wei Yunzhen and other officials were formally taken to the execution ground on this day to await execution.
These officials were all on the verge of tears. They dared to be the first to sound the clarion call to abolish the New Deal and liquidate Zhang Juzheng's party. Naturally, they were motivated by speculative psychology, hoping to gain a rich political legacy first.
But the struggle in the court has always been cruel, especially in times of uncertainty and uncertainty. Although being a vanguard will reap great political gains, once it fails, the price will be high.
Therefore, these officials can be considered to have suffered the consequences because of their own choices.
"ah!"
When the rope that hanged Wang Jixian was tightened around his neck, Wang Jixian's eyes were filled with regret.
Sun Wei even pursed his lips and began to cry: "Your Majesty, I was wrong. I should not ignore you."
Wei Yunzhen just smiled bitterly, then burst into tears after smiling bitterly, and shouted: "What's wrong with speaking out for the country, and what's wrong with speaking out for the emperor! I don't understand why he, Pan Xinchang, can't speak out after he has done something wrong. ? Why can’t we expose our mistakes! Is it wrong to be a critic? Even if the late emperor did not kill Haigangfeng, why does this court want to kill me, Wei Yunzhen?!"
Whether it was regret, begging for mercy, or dissatisfaction, these officials were all hanged in the end.
While these officials were being hanged, the decree regarding Zhang Juzheng's posthumous title and title was also quickly delivered to Jiangling.
It's just that Hao Rusong, the prefect of Jingzhou, was also dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng's reforms. After all, Zhang Juzheng's reforms during his reign were too harsh on the interests of big bureaucrats and landowners.
You know, it's more ruthless than in history.
The officials and gentry worked as errands together and sent troops to raid the smuggling houses of the powerful officials and gentry in Japan. These are the cakes that Zhang Juzheng did not touch in history.
Therefore, just like in the original history, Hao Rusong would detain Zhang Juzheng's family in advance and starve to death more than 20 people before the imperial edict arrived. What he wants to hear now is the news that Zhang Juzheng's house was ransacked.
So, Hao Rusong asked the confidant who came back to report the news: "Someone from the capital has come to the Zhang Mansion again? Is it good news or bad news?"
"good news!"
