Chapter 38 Suddenly
The Donglin Party is connecting with each other and is preparing to make a big move at the court meeting on September 19 to echo the emperor's action to remove the eunuch party.
However, what everyone in the Donglin Party unexpectedly expected was that the first shot to impeach the eunuch party was not the Justice Alliance they actively connected, but Yang Suxiu, who jumped out of some unknown knot.
Yang Suxiu was the deputy censor of the Censorate at that time. In fact, he was not an eunuch party official who defected to Wei Zhongxian, nor the Donglin gentleman who came from the literary place of Jiangnan. However, the Donglin gentleman did not care about so many. Zuo Guangdou's words "It's either a fellow or an enemy" are really not a joke.
Yang Suxiu is indeed a speculator with unique vision. He can see clearly and clearly.
The eunuch party will definitely fall!
Not good, I'm in danger!
Yang Suxiu quickly came to this conclusion. Although he believed that he was not a eunuch party, the Donglin party did not believe it. What should he do?
Of course, it was impeachment of the eunuch party to cut off!
So at the court meeting on September 19, the deputy commander Yang Suxiu, who had been neglected, suddenly jumped out, exercised the power of the censor openly, and wrote a letter to impeach the eunuch party.
However, the targets of his impeachment were not Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch party, but Wei Zhongxian was able to control the foreign dynasty. They were Cui Chengxiu, Minister of War, Chen Yin, Shaoqing of Taipu Temple, Zhu Tongmeng, and Minister of Works, Li Yangde.
With the bird nature of the eunuch party, when they were in power, they naturally did many bad things that were hard to write, including embezzlement and bribery, encroachment on fertile land, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil.
Their handles are all there, and as long as they are willing to collect evidence of their evil deeds, they can get a lot of them in a minute.
However, the charge of Yang Xiu's impeachment has nothing to do with all evil deeds, but is a light but extremely fatal crime - unfilial one.
After careful verification by Yang Suxiu, he found that the parents of the four eunuchs had passed away, but they did not go home as usual and stayed at home for three years and all "take away love", which was not in line with filial piety.
This is a very powerful reason. Zhang Ju, who was in power at the time, was so powerful that he was dying of the ecstasy. Before he took over the love, Zhang Juzheng was famous all over the world. Everyone regarded him as a pure and pure moral gentleman. Even the gentry group that suffered losses from his reforms could not criticize him morally.
In the case of a crisis in the country, financial income is insufficient, refugees are making trouble everywhere, and political corruption is unbearable, Zhang Juzheng seized the highest power with extremely powerful means of power and completed the greatest reform in the history of the Ming Dynasty through political skills of "mixing".
Zhang Juzheng is worthy of being the most outstanding politician in the Ming Dynasty. He is a pillar of the country and the pride of the nation.
However, Zhang Juzheng, who was so terrifying, was almost in a desperate situation because his father died. At that time, the reform was in progress. If Zhang Juzheng had returned home for three years of worry, the reform would be very likely to be in a situation where people were leaving.
For the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng endured the great grief of losing his father and always insisted on working hard as the chief minister of the cabinet, and forced himself to prolong his life in the Ming Dynasty.
What a heroic story if Lao Zhang's behavior was put into modern times!
Comrade Zhang Juzheng should be named a contemporary Chinese figure, enter the Great Hall of the People, and accept the commendation and honor given by the state.
Unfortunately, he was in the Ming Dynasty.
Because he refused to go home because he was deprived of love, Zhang Juzheng went from being famous all over the world to being slandered all over the world. Almost all civil servants were scolding him, and even his students stood up to oppose him.
Fortunately, Zhang Juzheng used almost rogue means to escape danger and passed the crisis, but even Zhang Juzheng was tortured by this incident and was worse than death.
But today, Yang Suxiu used a trick to deal with big shots like Zhang Juzheng to deal with Cui Chengxiu and the other four. What kind of virtue is Cui Chengxiu and the other four? He actually enjoyed the same treatment as Lao Zhang. He was simply killing a chicken with a slaughter!
Yang Suxiu's sudden disruption was not only shocked, but also the Donglin Party was shocked, and even Zhu Youjian couldn't help but be forced. He really didn't expect it! [It can only be said that he was too ignorant in modern times. Yang Suxiu's impeachment of Cui Chengxiu was a real event recorded in the Ming Dynasty]
Yang Suxiu impeached Cui Chengxiu and the other four in the name of "unfilial piety". Even if there were thousands of unwillingness in their hearts, they could only follow the customs of the officialdom and bowed: "The criminals know that they are guilty, and beg to return to their hometown to observe the system and be filial. I hope your Majesty will beg you to beg to beg to be filial to you!"
As the four people finished speaking, the civil and military officials in the court looked at Zhu Youjian, guessing whether Zhu Youjian chose to "take away the love" or "response the report".
To be honest, Zhu Youjian believes that this rule that officials must go home to mourn for three years is inhumane: when parents die, they are already very sad, and they must deprive him of the right to serve the country [corruption] and share the worries of the king [making money]?!
But Zhu Youjian did not intend to change this rule. It is not without reason that emperors of all dynasties highly praised this rule. After all, officials in ancient times did not have a retirement system. If powerful ministers were in power, they could continue to work until they died.
But with the Dingyou system, the emperor had a reason to let the powerful ministers go home. Even if the powerful ministers refused to leave, the reputation of the powerful ministers would be greatly damaged after taking over the love, and it would be much easier for the emperor to deal with him again.
Cui Chengxiu was not Zhang Juzheng or a powerful minister who suppressed the emperor. He was just Wei Zhongxian's close friend and could not be the top figure in the eunuch party. Of course, Zhu Youjian would not use the power of "seizing love" on him.
Wei Zhongxian, who witnessed all this in the court, felt unprecedented fear, because Choi Chengxiu was already his last card. If Choi Chengxiu was kicked off the stage, then he, Wei Zhongxian, would have truly become a lonely man.
But what he was difficult to understand was that Yang Suxiu was neither a eunuch party nor a Donglin party. He had no feud with him on weekdays. Now that he suddenly jumped out, he would definitely be instructed.
And there is only one person who can command Yang Xiu - the emperor.
Wei Zhongxian looked at the emperor who was sitting high on the throne with complicated eyes, as if saying: Emperor, do you really want to kill me, Old Wei? I am loyal to the Ming Dynasty! Your success in inheriting the throne was because I never set up obstacles. Now, if you have firmly settled on the throne, you will kill me, Old Wei?
Zhu Youjian naturally felt Wei Zhongxian's resentful gaze, but he did not feel any guilt in his heart.
A king is originally a kind of ungrateful creature. A king who does not know how to be ungrateful is not a qualified king.
Shang Yang's reforms made Qin the most powerful in the Warring States period, but after the new Qin king ascended the throne, he completely inherited Shang Yang's laws, but the reward for Shang Yang was that the carriage was broken into the market;
Chao Cuo presented the "Strategy for the Reducing of the Vasts" to Emperor Jing of Han, which made the centralization of power more consolidated. However, in order to calm the wrath of the kings, Emperor Jing of Han gave him a reward of halving the market;
Dou Ying threw his official position and tried his best to stop Empress Dowager Dou from making King Liang the crown prince, allowing Liu Che to ascend the throne smoothly, but the reward Liu Che gave him was to behead him and show him...
Now Wei Zhongxian hopes to assist the emperor in successfully ascending the throne to receive the emperor's tolerance. He is too naive and is just a fool who does not understand politics at all. Therefore, he is extremely disappointed, regretful, and even despair at this moment.
Zhu Youjian ignored Wei Zhongxian's resentment and said lightly: "Authentication!"
Chapter completed!