In the court, as soon as the discussion started, the first assistant Zhou Yanru came out and said: "Your Majesty, I really didn't expect that the Jin Yiwei would do such a shocking thing. This reminded me of the Jin Yiwei during the Tianqi Year. Just like now, they are rampant in lawlessness and regard human life as nothing! I think that the existence of Jin Yiwei is harmful rather than helpful!"
The fight between civil servants and factory guards, according to later generations, was political correctness.
Hearing that Zhou Yanru, the chief minister, seized the opportunity to fire first, Zhang Sizhi, the assistant minister of the cabinet, immediately followed up and said: "Your Majesty, a group of warriors do not know etiquette, justice and integrity, and they will do whatever they want when they have power. This is something everyone knows, and it is really not appropriate to let them Continue to do evil."
Chen Xinjia, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, also seized the opportunity to express himself. Anyway, the new commander of the Jinyi Guards is the person he hates the most. "Your Majesty, these words of the Chief Assistant are indeed mature and prudent words. The opinions of the Wei Ge Department are also the words of the conscience of heaven and earth!"
Wei Zhaocheng, the assistant minister of the cabinet, even went a step further and reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Not only Jinyiwei, but also Dongchang has been sealed off everywhere in the past few days. The arrogance is really rare in our dynasty. Taking history as a guide, we can know the gains and losses, Liu Jian, Wei Ni’s disaster must never happen again!”
Thinking of Wang Chengen's arrogance in the cabinet the day before yesterday, he had seized and confiscated his house everywhere in the past two days, which immediately led to on-the-spot impeachment by other civil servants. Anyway, all the civil servants present, including Liu Zongzhou, the imperial censor of Zuodu, all came out to agree and asked Emperor Chongzhen to reinstate the factory guards, or even abolish them.
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Listening to their impeachment, Emperor Chongzhen had a gloomy face and said nothing.
I remember that when he first came to the throne, he experienced the terror of the factory guards headed by Wei Zhongxian, so when he heard the suggestion from these civil servants, he agreed to ban the factory guards without saying a word.
But in the days when he became emperor, he felt that these civil servants were not very good, so he slowly began to use factory guards again.
Now Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, is actually capable of murdering and silencing the man he most relies on and respects. If he didn't know other circumstances, it must have aroused Emperor Chongzhen's fear and disgust of the factory guards in the past. Maybe so many civil servants have reported to him. , it really must be effective, so he ordered the factory guards to be banned again.
However, at this time, Emperor Chongzhen already knew that the most fundamental reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty was the sanctimonious civil servant group in front of him. It is said that Jin Yiwei is a warrior who does not know etiquette, justice and integrity. Haha, based on what most civil servants here do, they know etiquette, justice and integrity?
Don’t the two masters know that loyal ministers are innocent? What a shame they still have the nerve to talk about courtesy and integrity! The teachings of the saints have been read into the dog's belly by them. They eat the emperor's wealth, but the result is not good. When the exiles come, they suppress the exiles, and when the exiles come, they surrender to the exiles. There is no bone in the body that is hard!
With this thought in his mind, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately shouted coldly and sternly: "The facts of what Wang Daban did are all true, and I am sure of them all. As for the Jin Yiwei, I have ordered you to take over." I can rest assured that he will do his job! Don’t say anything more about this matter!”
These civil servants were working hard to impeach the emperor when suddenly a basin of cold water was poured on them by Emperor Chongzhen. They couldn't help but look at each other. They discovered that so many people had said so many words, but it had no effect at all!
But if they were to obediently listen to Emperor Chongzhen's words, then it would not be "all ministers are subject to the subjugation of the country." For their own benefit, who would these civil servants be afraid of?
Chen Xinjia immediately grasped one of the points in Emperor Chongzhen's words, and immediately went out to play again: "The gentleman your Majesty is talking about is the Zhang Mingwei, right? The ministers are puzzled. They don't know where this person comes from and how much knowledge he has. How can your majesty be called sir?"
After a pause, his jealousy and hatred finally broke out, and he immediately asked: "He was already the refugee resettlement envoy in Gyeonggi Province, and now he is going to take over the Jinyiwei. I wonder if this person is a civil servant or a distinguished military general? How can he take on such an important task?"
Chen Xinjia's speech, calling Zhang Mingwei by his name in front of the emperor, can be said to be very clear. He was very dissatisfied with Zhang Mingwei.
However, these words resonated with most of the civil officials present. Seeing the Minister of War firing the first shot at the man, others immediately followed suit. Everyone wants to take the opportunity to find out who Zhang Mingwei is? If you can take the opportunity to get him down, that would be the best!
Faced with so many people's questions, this time, Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts did not change at all. He just sneered and said: "Haha, how can you be so virtuous? Let me ask you, which one of you will donate most of your property?" , just to rescue refugees outside the city?"
This question immediately made the people in the palace question a little aggressively, and they all fell silent as if someone had cut them off with a knife.
It is impossible for everyone present to do such a thing!
This scene embarrassed the civil servants who had just attacked Zhang Mingwei. Chen Xinjia then said forcefully and rationally: "Your Majesty, this is just to gain fame and reputation, but it is actually to gain your Majesty's trust!"
Before Zhang Mingwei appeared, Chen Xinjia was a favorite of Emperor Chongzhen. But at this time, no matter how he looked at Chen Xinjia, he felt a little disgusted, so he said without hesitation: "Then you should try your best to gain fame and reputation by donating all your property. I like it the most. How about it?"
"..." Chen Xinjia never expected that Emperor Chongzhen would actually say such words. He was immediately speechless and stunned!
If in the past, other civil servants would have gloated when they saw Chen Xinjia, their favorite, being defeated, but now, for the sake of their common enemy, someone immediately came out to rescue him.
"Your Majesty, Ambassador Zhang is really kind-hearted. He actually sets an example to save the refugees. I admire him!" This was the first assistant Zhou Yanru who came to smooth things over. "But Weichen thinks that it is really difficult to solve the problem of refugees outside the capital city." It is extremely difficult. Even if everyone in the capital donates money and materials like Ambassador Zhang did, the refugee problem will not be solved forever even if it can be solved for a while!"
After a pause, he was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would not understand, so he immediately added: "As long as word spreads that the capital can resettle refugees, refugees from all directions will come in droves! This is a bottomless pit. It's not that humble ministers can't wait and try their best. In fact, It’s because you are helpless!”
Good guy, if you say this, they can stop donating money and materials later. It’s a bottomless pit anyway, so why should they donate?
Originally, many people heard Zhou Yanru praising Zhang Mingwei and had objections to him. But after hearing what he said, everyone immediately praised him for his wit.
However, before this was over, Zhou Yanru continued to report: "The position of refugee resettlement envoy in the capital is already very difficult. I think it is not appropriate for resettlement envoy Zhang to take over the command of the Jinyi Guards, otherwise the refugees outside the city will Hope will be dashed again, but it will cause more riots, and something big will happen!”
After hearing his words, most civil servants immediately understood his purpose. First, he suppressed Zhang Mingwei, and when he saw that it was not working, he immediately slapped him back, emphasizing the difficulty of refugee resettlement. It was already too difficult for Zhang Mingwei to complete one thing, so it was best to cancel the appointment of Commander of the Jinyiwei!
You know, with the style of work that Zhang Mingwei has shown before, if he were to become the commander of the Royal Guards, their life would definitely be very difficult!
