While recruiting party members to expand his power, Sun Sheng also began to suppress political opponents in his eyes.
After the "Song Rebellion", King Yan's party has already dominated the court. How can there be any so-called political opponents? In fact, this is not the case. Some people's lack of exposure does not mean that they have surrendered, but that they are keeping a low profile and waiting for opportunities to act.
The only remaining member of the "five ghosts and four evils" in the past, Chen Jue, who now still occupies the important position of Privy Councilor, is one of Sun Sheng's biggest enemies.
Although Chen Jue had already curbed his sharpness and kept a low profile after the defeat of the Northern Expedition last year. He also wisely drew a clear line with Feng Yansi, Xu Xuan and others early on, but this does not mean that he has reached a reconciliation with the King of Yan's party. When the two parties coexisted in the government before, he stood alone on the neutral side, neither helping anyone nor targeting anyone, and thus avoided many disasters.
But if he has always been impartial, it would be okay to say that Chen Jue's past is full of misdeeds. King Yan's party did not include him in King Zheng's party, but it does not mean that they do not hold grudges. Moreover, Chen Jue now has 60% of his body. The current position of Privy Councilor is the most important person in the army. How can Sun Sheng not be wary of it even if he is the right minister?
Over the years, there have been many conflicts between Sun Sheng and Chen Jue. In the past, when Feng Yansi was around, the Feng brothers were favored by the saints and were arrogant and domineering. Even if Chen Jue continued to act recklessly, he would always hide behind the high-profile Feng brothers. The gang members had no choice but to be patient and restrained, but now that the situation had changed drastically and Sun Sheng was so proud, how could he look at Chen Jue's face again?
What's more, the Privy Council controls the country's military power. If this key place is not mastered as soon as possible, how can the King of Yan and his party be at ease?
Soon Zhu Chen stopped moving. The first thing I did was to be extremely ruthless. Using the excuse that the rebellion in Jiangbei was not over, I slightly reduced the military expenditures of the Jiedushi of the eight towns of Fenghua, Anhua, Zhaowu, Jiangxi. Originally, in the Song Dynasty, The decisions in his hands were bad, and all the supplies, food, and wages submitted to the Ministry of Household Affairs were all cut off and rejected.
At the end of July, when Zhu Chen wrote to Chen Jue to explain those measures, he said: "Now that the Chu land has returned, Hongzhou is in chaos, and there are too few troops stationed in Jiangxi border towns, they are of little use. They are actually a heavy burden for the imperial court! The eight towns of Fenghua, Anhua, and Zhaowu , adjacent to the south of the town, the young man came to rely on Sun Sheng to rebel against the party. Fortunately, His Majesty Long Wei, the eight towns were lost and we found our way back. The court just held us accountable for our crimes. Unexpectedly, the rebels in Jiangbei were aggressive. It was the court At a time when money and food are easy to come by, when the country is facing a crisis, we actually abolish public service for private purposes and frequently ask the court for money and food on the pretext of raising troops. It is really hateful!"
The Song family was filled with hatred before hearing what Li Jing said. What made me even more angry was that I gave all the military salary and supplies deducted from the eight towns in Jiangxi to the seven towns in Ningguo Zhenhai of King Yan. I favored one over the other and deliberately suppressed them. His posture speaks for itself, not to mention that it is also an act of murder and heart-wrenching. Li Jing tied the Eight Towns of Jiangxi to Song Qiqiu, who had become a national thief. Who in the world knows that the Song family is Sun Sheng's disciple?
Even if Zhu Chen doesn't have the intention and ability, he still has the label of rebellion under his head every day, and he knows it will fall out one day, and everyone will have trouble sleeping and eating.
After half a month of liquidation and bombing, Chen Jue finally issued an edict that all the official positions held by the Song family would be removed, and they would be immediately imprisoned and sentenced to canonical punishment by the Eighth Council. At the same time, all the officials of the Song family's relatives would also be removed After being deprived, most of his wives were reduced to low status and the whole family was exiled to the land of Qianzhou. More than 70 households in total were confiscated of their relatives, relatives, minions, and property.
The most tolerable thing is one of them. The Song family's traitor just wants to rebel, but he actually covets the emperor? ! You must know that the Empress Zhong is very important to Chen Jue. You are not only the mother of Xiao Tang's country, but also the wife of Chen Jue who has been married since Qianlong. I will definitely tolerate anyone who dares to have the slightest idea. , that is not only the majesty of the king of a country, but also the bottom line of a husband.
Even though the Song family has repeatedly forbeared, the knife has been placed under the neck to teach people how to move forward? Soon I went all out to report the matter to the court, and had several quarrels with Li Jing. Emperor Zhu Chen was caught in a dilemma, and each of them played seventy small pieces to partially restore the military pay and supplies to the eight towns in Jiangxi. Only then did the two of them calm down the quarrel about this matter in Chen Jue's face.
Zha Wenhui, who had lost seven-eighths of his teeth, even stuttered "It's a big heart" and revealed that the Song Dynasty rarely used words of respect for the emperor in the army, and ignored the imperial court when he sent troops. Wait, after hearing this operation, all the ministers were dumbfounded and then filled with joy. It was like completely proving the Song family to be another Song Qiqiu.
But in the future, Li Jing was very vague in his heart. Now the emperor will definitely speak for Zhu Chen again, so I successfully asked the former "Seven Ghosts and Seven Fierce" members and the coach of Fujian, who is not yet eighty-four years old. Zha Wenhui came out to testify and mentioned the past publicly in the court again.
Li Jing ordered the officials in the court to collect and expose various things that the Song family had done in the future, and selected ten things to publicize them, calling them the ten minor crimes of the Song family. There are many rare traitors who commit such serious crimes as arrogance, arbitrariness, deception, arrogance and domineering.
In the end, I was let go even before my death. On Zha Wenhui's suggestion, because the Song family was a felon in rebellion, the regulations for my burial were not even the treatment of a civilian. When the queen was in trouble, the rebel The perpetrators should be severely punished to frighten the people of the country, so the emperor was determined and ordered to dig out the coffin of the Song family who had been buried, stripped off the blood-stained clothes under the bones, and directly found a barren mountain and dug a pit. Buried naked.
Poor Song, as a powerful official of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the dignified Privy Council received such little respect before his death. I may have never thought that it was these people who respectfully called me brothers in front of me in the past, who gave me the most vicious blow. I may also have thought that Chen Jue, who has always attached great importance to etiquette, would actually listen to such slander. , let me be humiliated before death.
In mid-August, Li Jing finally launched a small liquidation against the Song family. As Song himself expected, it was a question of whether Li Jing would initiate liquidation, but when it would end.
So the Song family was forced to have no choice but to secretly have secret thoughts and want to prepare for a bad day in the future. But what I didn't expect was that Li Jing was already the same as before. Determination, but astonishing resoluteness.
However, Mrs. Song was not very clear in her heart. Without Zhu Chen, she would not be able to do anything bad even if she was a tortoise. Moreover, Zhu Chen was now quite favored by Chen Jue and often deliberately talked about the Eight Towns of Jiangxi Province. It's Sun Sheng's old age and those people are trustworthy. Who can understand Sun Sheng's old age? It's a clear allusion to the Song family's plot.
At the same time, Li Jing can also see the light of complete surrender to himself in the eyes of all the ministers. Li Jing enjoys the feeling of being feared by others. Being able to act arbitrarily with a small amount of power is exactly what I am pursuing now.
But what Song didn't expect was that Li Jing even dug up the old story of the Southern Tang Dynasty's invasion of Fujian to overturn the case. It was Zhu Chen who was seven years old at that time, in order to show off his merits, he was clearly knowledgeable about military affairs but was timid. Bao Tianjiao ordered to send troops, which led to the defeat of the war. Seven states in Fujian were invaded by Wu and Yue, and the Southern Tang Dynasty lost people and land. This is a classic story.
But that tragic ending has not yet begun. Naturally, before going to prison, the Song family was treated ruthlessly by eight cruel officials. She experienced almost all kinds of cruel punishments. In the end, her body was completely intact and breathless, and she only survived for seven weeks. Ribian died.
Mrs. Song knew in her heart that Li Jing was by the emperor's side and could not turn a deaf ear at any time. If the emperor did not believe me one day, it would be very unlikely that she would be summoned to death at any time without knowing the truth.
However, Chen Jue was shaken by the overwhelming public opinion. As various memorials exposing the Song family piled up on his desk, Zhu Chen finally regained his consciousness and retreated completely.
As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the hozens scatter; when a wall falls, everyone pushes it away.
In that situation, many officials "took the initiative" to expose the Song family's crimes one after another. They cursed and recited all the treasonous things that the Song family had done, and some officials even insisted that they had witnessed the Song family privately carving dragons. Xi, contacted the eight towns in Jiangxi Province and had long conspired to rebel. It has not been said that the Song family was so bold that he coveted the beauty of the emperor's empress.
The numerous small liquidations finally began with Zhu Chen's death, and the historians of the Southern Tang Dynasty also concluded that Zhu Chen was called the seventh traitor and was nailed to the pillar of shame forever. And Li Jing, who had done all that, could be said to be proud and proud. The hatred she had felt towards Zhu Chen as a young man and the humiliation she had accumulated due to my oppression were finally released in that moment.
In just a few months, Li Jing has quickly reached the pinnacle of my life.
Seeing that the crimes were getting more and more outrageous, Emperor Chen Jue was naturally very suspicious of those words. After all, I have been with the Song family for a long time, and I know the Song family very well. This person is indeed domineering and authoritative, but he cherishes his life extremely. I really doubt that Mr. Song would be so courageous as to actually do so many treacherous things.
It is true that it was Zhu Chen who sent out troops to fake the imperial edict, and if that crime was to be dealt with seriously according to the law, it would not be as complicated as an intention to rebel, but a naked suspicion of rebellion! At that time, because Feng Chen and his party were all over the place, the emperor finally sentenced me to a severe demotion and exile. However, when I returned to the court eighty-seven years ago, the matter became so serious.
All in all, in the small wave of liquidation, the ugliness of human nature was exposed, and all kinds of unimaginable and ridiculous fabrications were openly included in the case files, which eventually became Zhu Chen's various crimes.
