The shops managed by Meng Biao have grown in size.
Briquettes earned eight thousand taels of silver in one winter and gained an excellent reputation.
Now that spring is cold, there are still long queues to buy. Meng Biao found a group of people to sneak into the crowd, and in the chat, he added fuel to the conflict in Donglin, making it worse than the previous party struggles.
Although making money from clocks is not that fast, the people who order them are all nobles and wealthy businessmen in the capital. Through these connections, the fight in Donglin is exaggerated.
The relationship between the noble and wealthy businessmen and the Donglin Party of this period was not yet friendly, so these rumors that were unfavorable to Donglin spread all of a sudden.
Meng Biao lamented that it was Brother Wang who had laid out the plan months in advance. Now Dong Lin dared to criticize the Sichuan Army. It was really ungrateful.
His motivation to mobilize public opinion was very strong, and Donglin's group was busy writing memorials to the court. How could they control the public opinion in the capital?
However, the two major military advisers of the Donglin Party, Wang Wenyan and Huang Zunsu, were aware of the situation.
Wang Wenyan also received news from Wang An, the eunuch of Bingbi, saying that Emperor Tianqi wanted to bring Xiong Tingbi back immediately, but he quickly persuaded him to stop him. If he wanted to keep Yuan Yingtai, he would have to make more efforts.
They still didn't know about Yuan Yingtai's retreat and "disappearance". Especially Wang An, the eunuch, was still thinking about hugging Yuan Yingtai and preventing Xiong Tingbi from coming back.
All of this was deliberately induced by Wei Zhongxian, and Emperor Tianqi cooperated, putting on a show to make Wang An anxiously send a message to the Donglin Party.
Zhu Youxiao, who has been on the throne for half a year, although he is only 16 years old, is no longer the little emperor who was snatched away, but an emperor who is fully aware of the threat of Donglin Party and Wang An and is ready to fight back.
The Donglin Party also colluded with Wang An, the eunuch of Bingbi, and deployed manpower in the inner court.
Although Wang An had been working closely with Wang Wenyan of the Donglin Party when his father was still the crown prince of the East Palace, after he ascended the throne, their operations really exceeded the bottom line.
Tianqi's behavior, words and deeds are all under Wang An's supervision and control, and news is passed directly to Wang Wenyan through his confidants.
Originally, Tianqi thought that the Donglin Party was full of talented people, full of righteous people, and the scholars who swore about justice could achieve great things. However, in the past year, they had emptied the family fortune left by the emperor Wanli.
Not only did Liaodong lose troops and generals, they even lost Shenyang. Liaoyang, the largest city in Liaodong where Yuan Yingtai was in charge, will soon be lost. The news has not yet arrived, and it is estimated that it will be lost now.
Emperor Tianqi discovered that the gentlemen of the Donglin Party were masters of debate and debate. They also flaunted themselves as moral high ground, but it was difficult to accomplish anything practical.
The original Liaodong Economic Strategy, Xiong Tingbi, was captured by the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party. The Donglin Party arranged for its own man, Yuan Yingtai, to make the Liaodong Economic Strategy.
Yuan Yingtai managed Liaodong for one year and spent nearly 8 million taels of silver. Not only did he not defeat Jiannu, he also destroyed Shenyang.
Not only did Yuan Yingtai fail to save Shenyang and the Southern Army who fought bloody battles with Jiannu, he also falsely accused other generals who took the initiative to support him and refused to allow the Ming army to support him.
traitor.
He refused to listen to the generals' dissuasion to accept Mongolian refugees and recruited Mongolians to join the Ming army. As a result, the Mongolian army acted as internal support in Shenyang City, causing Shenyang to fall.
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Then he ignored the dissuasion of the civil and military generals and spread rumors in the city. The Mongolian soldiers did not listen to the call and wanted to go out of the city to fight against the enemy.
It is inevitable.
According to the situation described in Zhang Quan's memorial, Liaoyang could no longer be defended. While Yuan Yingtai watched the Southern Army fight hard, he also blamed the Southern Army and passed on the responsibility for his successive defeats.
Now, regardless of the Liaodong crisis, the Donglin Party still wants to listen to Yuan Yingtai's words and wants to put to death those generals who actively fought against the slave establishment.
It was precisely because Tianqi at this time saw clearly that the Donglin Party could only sing high-pitched words and could not do practical things. They always blamed others for their bad methods, but they had no way to do anything about them. Therefore, Emperor Tianqi enabled him to cultivate people who could do practical things for him. Wei Zhongxian shared the worries and suppressed the Donglin Party.
He has decided to let Wei Zhongxian replace Wang An's eunuch Bingbi...co
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Although the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch of Si Li, was only the second in the eunuch of Si Li, and his position was lower than that of the eunuch who held the seal, there were examples of eunuchs Bingbi holding more real power starting from Feng Bao in the early years of Wanli.
Then let Wang Ti, who is more loyal but has no ability, be the head of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, so that Wei Zhongxian will not be too ostentatious and immediately attract a group of civil servants to attack him.
【In view of the general environment,
A few days later, with the assistance of the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian planned how to deal with Wang An.
Not only did they expel Wang An, but they also eliminated his and the Donglin Party's informants in the palace.
They secretly collected evidence of Wang An's false transmission of imperial edicts and other actions, and prepared to take Wang An down.
Many evidences of Wang An's crimes have been obtained through various means, including colluding with the Donglin Party through Wang Wenyan, passing Emperor Tianqi's words and deeds to the Donglin Party through Wang Wenyan, falsely passing on imperial edicts, selling his official position, and Donglin The party's spy in the palace.
Including eunuchs, maids, imperial doctors, and imperial chefs, all palace departments were infiltrated by the Donglin Party, and even the palace guards had people placed by them.
The Donglin Party dare not move for the time being, and all the people they have installed are under the surveillance of Wei Zhongxian's men.
Now the only way to mobilize the power of the inner court to capture Wang An is to wait for the emperor's order to replace Wang An's eunuch Bingbi.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when Zhao Nanxing and a large number of court officials were concentrating on driving away Fang Congzhe, the first assistant.
Wei Zhongxian contacted the central government and asked Huo Weihua to impeach Wang An on the grounds of corruption and dereliction of duty. Huo Weihua's words were sharp, but more importantly, Tianqi knew that Wang An had betrayed him and approved Huo Weihua's proposal.
Wang An was suddenly demoted and sent to serve as a soldier in Zijing's army in Nanhai.
First he was tortured, and then Wei Zhongxian appointed Liu Chao, his direct descendant, as the admiral of Nanhaizi, that is, the admiral of the Jingjun. He tried to starve Wang An to death. In the end, he found that he had not died of starvation for three days. The Donglin Party realized that they were ready to support him, so he was killed. Immediately execute him.
This is already a power struggle.
Tianqi and the Donglin Party court compete for power.
Even though Wang An had followed Tianqi's father in the East Palace for decades, he had a deep relationship with Taichang and watched himself grow up.
However, in terms of power, Wang An was determined to team up with Dong Lin to achieve the unity of the inner and outer court.
At least it creates the effect of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao joining forces, but at worst it causes internal and external collusion to cause the palace to fall into the water.
Tianqi has experienced fear in the past six months. Without the authority of the emperor, he is almost like a puppet on strings.
As soon as the Donglin Party took action, they ignored Wanli's edict and changed the Liaodong manager. Feeling that they were not powerful enough, they drove Fang Congzhe back home, who had already obeyed them.
In this case, Wang Anxiu wants to blame me for not caring about others.
Because I don’t want to be your puppet.
Wang An died soon, and Wei Zhongxian quickly took control of the inner court.
The people in Donglin were cleared,
Tianqi finally felt relieved and summoned Liu Shimin alone to ask him where the letter to Wang Hongyu was estimated to be.
Liu Shimin said that it has been nine days since now and it is about to arrive.
Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied. After he captured Wang An, he immediately sent a letter to Wang Hongyu, bringing him full sincerity and great help.