Officials in nursing homes in Nanjing have not experienced as much as officials in Beijing.
They did not experience Zhu Houcong's first court meeting after he ascended the throne, they did not experience the undercurrent debate in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice afterwards, and they did not face the "party struggle" in the first year of Jiajing that sent many officials to jail.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, the closest Nanjing officials came to fear was the Southeast Killing of Officials in the 16th year of Zhengde. At that time, Zhang Zilin went south, with a strong tendency to plow and sweep, but in the end he was raised high and fell gently. In the end, he only focused on propagating and fussing.
After experiencing the gentle Hongzhi Dynasty, and the Zhengde Dynasty where the emperor did not like to fight despite the domineering eunuchs and ministers, Nanjing officials finally recalled that during the Hongwu period, Taizu's pressure spread from Nanjing to the entire Ming Dynasty.
Now the young emperor is far away in Beijing, but overnight, Wu Dinghou has taken control of Nanjing's gates, Xininghou is in charge of the military and horse divisions of the five cities, and the imperial guards are still running among the various offices in Nanjing.
In the Nanjing garrison hall, inner guard Dai Yi, guard Guo Xun, coordinated guard Song Liangchen, Caojiang admiral Wei Pengju, Caojiang censor Xia Yan, and Nanjing war department minister Qiao Yu met.
"Eunuch Dai, if you have a will, please declare it!" Qiao Yu looked at Guo Xun again with a sullen face, "If there is no will, what was the reason for what happened last night and today?"
This is a meeting in the garrison hall. Xia Yan is Cao Jiang's censor, and Qiao Yu is qualified to counsel this meeting.
Dai Yi was much older than he had been more than two years ago. He bent over and said nothing.
Guo Xun narrowed his eyes slightly: "Does Shangshu Qiao think that Jin Yiwei and I are acting on our own initiative? I told you that Mr. Jiang Ge is going south, and the decree will arrive in the next two days."
Qiao Yu felt a chill in his heart: "Overnight, Ying Tian Fu Yin, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, two people from the Ministry of War, two people from the Ministry of Industry, three people from the Ministry of Punishment, and the Minister of Rites, and now they are going to take over the three magistrates of Shangyuan County and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The Censor of Supervision, the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the Minister of Household Affairs! How can you, Marquis Guo, with so many people and such a high position, take action without purpose?"
"Since Qiao Shangshu knows that there are so many people, how can he capture them all in one fell swoop without being caught by surprise?" Guo Xun raised his head, "If you ask about the decree, I already received it before I went south. The purpose of coming to Nanjing was started last night. Big deal! The three major camps were resettled by this lord from the beginning, and now someone dares to reach out to the Beijing camp and even dares to mutiny! Qiao Yu, as the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, you are now aggressive about this matter. Don’t you think about it carefully? Any consequences?"
Guo Xun called him by his first name. The pleasure of controlling the situation in Nanjing at this moment made his waist stiffen and his tone became a little sinister.
Dai Yi finally spoke: "Your Majesty has made arrangements, and the news from the palace has come. The Jin Yiwei came to Nanjing to bring Eunuch Zhang's message. Including our family, the guards in many provinces and important places will be changed. Guo Guo Lord Marquis, Minister Qiao is just worried about Nanjing’s instability.”
"There is nothing unstable! As I said, Mr. Jiang Ge will arrive in the near future, and he will have a clear purpose to go to Nanjing by then. The Beijing camp has a total of 30,000 forwards selected. If Nanzhili dares to be unstable, you can give it a try!"
When Qiao Yu heard him say that he had received the order before going south, he could only shut up in fear.
After a corpse impeachment, Guo Xun had already gone south before the Fifth Army Camp Incident happened.
Zhang Wei's rebellion and changes in Sichuan happened later. Did Guo Xun come to Nanjing just to wait for the world to have an excuse for rebellion?
Guo Xun said coldly: "To be honest, it was not just Nanjing that took action last night. In Zhejiang, it was also done at the beginning of Hai hour last night. Qiao Shangshu, we are all here today. It is only right for you to care about how to make meritorious service. Jin Yiwei The capital commander has also left the capital, and it is not the imperial court who acted rashly before the fifth year of Jiajing!"
Qiao Yu took a breath.
So with the case of Li Xiang's corpse impeachment, what the emperor cared about was not his reputation in the history of history, but he was furious at this kind of trick?
Qiao Yu is smart, but he is also timid.
He will follow the trend, but this trend of new laws is so fierce, and His Majesty is so determined and persistent.
When he ascended the throne, he resettled the three major battalions, which meant that he was ready to sweep the world and was ready to raise troops to quell the chaos!
The world is in chaos? Is he just worried that there will be no chaos?
Otherwise, how could a second- and third-grade officer just take it without asking the reason like last night?
Over in Zhejiang, who did Yan Song take?
On the Zhejiang side, Yan Song took a stack of banknotes and said to Xie Changjie with a smile: "Look, there are still many people who know the goods. With this money, Your Majesty does not need to spend additional money to arrange people to build this emperor's palace." It’s time.”
Xie Changjie was in a complicated mood.
This guy must know very well that his main task in Zhejiang is actually to keep an eye on him for His Majesty. Yesterday, many people were "enthusiastic" to purchase manufacturing franchises and hire Wanfa Hall to worship and teach secret techniques, so he told himself clearly the amount of silver he received and acted like a show off.
Then Yan Song got down to business: "The families that He Xingxing took last night were all well-connected in Zhejiang. According to Xie Xun, after the news spread, many prefecture and county officials must have been frightened and uneasy under Wang Zhitai's interrogation. Xie Xunxun According to Zhejiang, the next step will be hard."
Xie Changjie hesitated for a moment, and then asked for advice: "Futai, in view of Xie, I am afraid that many officials and gentry have contacts with him. Xie is a patrol magistrate, and the inspection of Zhejiang still depends on whether the local officials are useful. According to the confessions of the arrested people, Xie Mou still looks at which officials bought land, hid their households, and evaded too many taxes and services, and used this as a criterion to impeach them for their treason?"
Yan Song smiled and saluted: "Brother Xie is brilliant!"
Isn’t it just about forcing people to take sides?
If you don't want to be guilty of treason, then "spend money to eliminate disasters" and pay the taxes that are due in the future. In this way, you may be able to seize the good positions left after many high-ranking officials were purged this time.
As for the future, it will have its own rules. The law of purchasing and the treatment of officials are the same. Yan Song knew very well that His Majesty was not the Taizu who only wanted to let the officials live a hard life.
Seeing Xie Changjie relieved and left, Yan Song had some doubts in his eyes.
Why does Your Majesty clearly don't care that capable ministers also get some benefits, and why does he send Xie Changjie to be a patrol official in Zhejiang to keep an eye on him?
Yan Song cherishes the broad and smooth path for promotion now, and does not want to leave the impression of greed in His Majesty's eyes now.
But Your Majesty thinks I might be greedy?
He secretly warned: Although Your Majesty does not mind that his ministers live a better life, there must be a limit.
And the most important thing is that you must be able to do things extremely beautifully!
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Two days later, the news spread, and Liu Zhenyuan saw it very accurately.
Nanjing and Zhejiang were dispatched at almost the same time and captured so many people at once, which showed an extremely powerful deterrent effect.
Behind this, what is needed is early planning and preparation, as well as dealing with possible reactions after good things happen.
In a word: determination and strength.
Jiang Mian came to Nanzhili, which also showed determination and strength.
But he didn't reach Yingtian Mansion or Nanjing City.
He stayed in Yangzhou Prefecture.
This is the throat of the canal going north from the Yangtze River. The office of the Governor of South Zhili was actually located in Yangzhou.
The Governor-General of Southern Zhili was only a temporary one, and his main affairs were water transportation, salt law, and water conservancy.
But since he has such a name and the second assistant is going south, the remaining ministers and other senior officials in Nanjing still have to go there to pay a visit, and they also need to listen to orders.
Guo Xun didn't need to listen to the order, and neither did Xia Yan - Jiang Mian had not yet arrived, but someone had already sent the official selection results: Xia Yan was promoted to Yingtian Prefecture Yin.
After all, Meng Chun was the person Jiang Mian had determined to be eliminated before he left Beijing.
So Guo Xun and Xia Yan sent many people onto the boat outside Jinchuan Gate. The river was surging, and the official boats were flowing down the river. The "surviving" Nanjing officials on board were heavy-hearted and had no interest in talking.
In two days and three nights, the six departments and yamen in Nanjing lost a total of twenty-eight fifth-grade or more. On the contrary, there were only thirteen people who were below the sixth or seventh grade.
This time, we focus on the big ones.
Naturally, there is also a prison in Jinyiwei in Nanjing, and now guests are arriving like clouds.
Going down the river, the official ship passed Zhenjiang and arrived at Jiangdu County at noon.
Yangzhou's government is in Jiangdu County. Now Jiangdu County is not only attached to the city, but also operates under the eyes of the temporary governor of Nanzhili, which highlights a trepidation.
The dock was already ready to welcome the six left-behind ministries and senior government officials from Nanjing. Seeing the large number of people in red official uniforms disembarking one after another, the Jiangdu magistrate could only accompany the Yangzhou magistrate to greet them.
No one wanted to talk more. After all, there were also governor-general pacesetters dispatched by Guo Xun for Jiang Mian.
You said that he is only a temporary governor, and he is not a governor with full titles like other provinces, but he, Jiang Mian, has his own model battalion.
Jiang Mian temporarily set up his yamen in the Daming Temple, which was first built during the reign of Xiaowu in the Southern Song Dynasty. Many officials from Nanjing came here to visit.
On the west side of the main hall of Daming Temple is Pingshan Hall, which was built by Ouyang Xiu when he was the governor of Yangzhou.
Standing in front of Pingshan Hall and leaning on the railing, you can overlook many peaks in the south of the Yangtze River. The distant scenery is almost parallel to the real world, so it is named Pingshan Hall.
Are the peaks in the south of the Yangtze River at the feet of Jiang Mian who set up his office here?
An incense table has been set up in front of Pingshan Hall, and the floor has been swept clean. In the pacesetter camp, Jiang Mian's personal soldiers were guarding everywhere inside and outside Pingshan Hall. Jiang Mian stood in front of the incense table, and the person next to him was holding an imperial edict in his hand.
Several people couldn't help but look at the person who was preparing to announce the decree with extreme surprise, and their hearts were shaken.
When the Nanjing officials came to see Jiang Mian, Jiang Mian stepped aside and saluted the man holding the imperial edict, and then said: "Please ask the eunuch Zhang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, to announce the edict."
The person who went south with Jiang Mian turned out to be the Chief of Ceremonies.
Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuo discussed the replacement of the list of guard eunuchs from all over the world. As a result, he gave up the position of the chief eunuch of the ceremony to Zhang Zuo, and he went to Nanjing to replace Dai Yi.
At this critical moment, the entire ministerial system is no longer what it used to be. With the imperial study room, the role of the ceremonial supervisor is gradually being adjusted. Zhang Jin, like Wei Bin and Gu Dayong, will go to work for the emperor and perform meritorious services.
Now, for the officials in Nanjing, the chief minister of rites came to announce the decree in person, and then the decree clearly stated that he would take over the garrison of Nanjing, making the emperor's determination even more obvious.
"...I asked Jiang Mian to be the governor of Nanzhili. Except for water transportation, salt law, water conservancy and other matters, the remaining ministries in Nanjing should follow the old rules. In the land of Longxing in the south of the Yangtze River in Huaixi, I will guard the country in Beijing. You must be loyal to Nanjing. The body of the country. I said in front of the palace that five years before Jiajing, the world would first observe the effectiveness of the new law in Guangdong. If there is any obstruction, it will be regarded as treason."
"Now, not only are they obstructing us, but they are openly rebelling against me! Where did Zhang Wei and others from the Fifth Army Camp and Gao Kewei and others from Sichuan get the courage to make trouble by false orders? Besides Yin Mengchun and others from Yingtian Mansion, who else gave them the courage? Today Let me reiterate: I said what I said on the day I killed Guangdong Buchen and raised my son, and this intention has not changed!"
"I appointed you as high-ranking officials in order to relieve my worries and enrich the country and secure the people. I agreed to the treatment requested by Mr. Yang Ge, so why? Now I feel and still feel that the new law treats officials and gentry harshly. As for collaborating to conspire against each other? They are all people who are well-read in ancient history. They have been able to get by for more than a hundred years since the founding of the country. Do you really want me to see the Ming Dynasty subjugated in the future? "
"Last year, Guangdong achieved results. This year, we will try out a new tax law. I will come to advise you on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. So loyal! Good integrity! Good reputation! I want you to remember one thing. I, the vassal king, have the destiny to succeed this great king. I have no burden for you! I only want to be worthy of my ancestors and the people of Ming Dynasty!"
"I also warn you that you also need to be worthy of my importance, worthy of the sages' books that you have read, and worthy of the people you rule! Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said that water can carry a boat and also capsize it. You must remember it. Ming Dynasty If this boat capsizes, I and my descendants will not be spared, and neither will you and your descendants!"
"Appreciate this!"
This is by no means an imperial edict to be drafted by the Hanlin Academy with gorgeous rhetoric and euphemistic writing.
Many people had not heard the emperor's speech in person, but now from Zhang Jin's mouth, they seemed to see a determined young emperor standing in front of them, coldly speaking to them with suppressed anger and reason.
The emperor and his ministers are all people who sit on the big ship of Ming Dynasty.
Anyone who is not a fool knows the consequences of continuously squeezing the people. Sooner or later the boat will capsize.
The problem is: not right now.
The emperor did not want the flood to spread after his death. The emperor said that he was just a vassal king and had no burden in his heart.
The emperor seems to be an irritable young man...
The ministers knelt down to listen to the imperial edict and made their promises in unison before standing up. After looking at Jiang Mian and Zhang Jin with serious expressions, they remembered that the emperor had allowed Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong to perform this scene together. Now, in the name of treason, Bu Ke The power of terror suddenly descended on the wrist of the power of thunder.
The emperor is also a scheming young man...
He is still a teenager.
When the "surviving" officials in Nanjing heard this imperial edict with their own ears, the people who went to Guangdong to announce the edict to Zhang Fujing and Gui E had already arrived in Wuchang Prefecture.
The decree for Sun Jiao and Zhenyuan Marquis has naturally arrived.
Gu Dayong, the eunuch of the general town of Huguang, Sun Jiao, the Marquis of Jing'an who is also the head of the cabinet and is now the governor in his hometown, and Gu Shilong, the Marquis of Zhenyuan and the general of the Huguang Army, clearly stood together, but it was not as some people had guessed before. Because of the change in the fifth military camp, the "Qin Wang Qing Jun side" was planned.
And Gu Shilong tied up his second son and handed it over to the eunuchs who came to announce the decree, and asked them to take them back to reply to the emperor's decree.
The person who was most stimulated by this news was King Zhu Rong of Chu.
The stimulation he received was so great that it shocked both Sun Jiao and Gu Shilong that night.
"Is this true?"
Sun Jiao stood up after taking the case and asked the person who came to report the news.
The person who came was the Chief of the Chu Palace. He tried his best to make a sad expression, but his eyes were very frightened: "It's true, the King of Chu has passed away!"
Zhu Rong, the sixth king of Chu, was named king of Chu in the seventh year of Zhengde. He is now only 12 years old and he is fifty.
He had been sick before, really sick.
But he never expected that after the imperial decree reached Huguang and after Gu Shilong kidnapped his second son and sent him to the capital to apologize, the King of Chu died that night.
Sun Jiao and Gu Shilong looked at each other with solemnity in each other's eyes.
What will the world think?
(End of chapter)
