Chapter 191: Donglin adjusted the target of attack
The Donglin Party vigorously pushed forward and successfully captured Fang Congzhe, the first assistant, and pushed Ye Xianggao, the leader of the Donglin Party, to the position of first assistant.
Emperor Tianqi is already 16 years old. Not only is he not a foolish emperor who was discredited by history and only did carpentry work, but left the government to the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.
On the contrary, Tianqi has known since he was a child that the relationship between the emperor's grandfather Wanli and the civil servants was not harmonious.
His father, Emperor Taichang, was killed less than a month after he ascended the throne. He had been on the throne for almost half a year and was almost ignored by Wang An and the Donglin Party.
My father was supported by the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party was excluded from the list of people who killed my father. Is it another party or a distinguished person who did it? Tianqi has not been able to find the real culprit until now.
Now only Wei Zhongxian, Liu Shimin, Hakka and their cronies can be trusted in the palace.
In the past year, Wang An has betrayed himself by engaging in external affairs. Wang An deceived him into moving to the palace and allowed himself to be controlled by Zhang Guogong and the Donglin Party.
For the sake of his own safety, Emperor Tianqi always wanted to regain his power and had to fight back desperately. Of course, purging the inner palace was not an easy task, because for decades, various parties and nobles took advantage of the opportunity of Wanli's resignation to arrange arrangements in the inner court and bribed many people.
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He couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to take advantage of Donglin's busy affairs with Liaodong and his chief minister, and asked Wei Zhongxian to attack Wang An first, while other factions and nobles' informants would gradually take advantage of him.
Wang An is dead, but the news has been blocked by the Nanhaizi Jingjun. The Donglin Party thought that Wang An would be fine as he was a veteran of three dynasties, and did not dare to take any more actions to be implicated, but no news came out from Nanhaizi.
After spending a few more days reviewing the Donglin Party's informants in the inner palace and making sure that they had all been eliminated, Emperor Tianqi announced Wang An's three major crimes to the cabinet through Wei Zhongxian:
Falsely preaching imperial edicts and selling official positions to win titles.
Colluded with foreign court officials to imprison the emperor.
Liaise with the party inside and outside for private gain.
Obviously this person refers to Wang Wenyan, the military adviser of the Donglin Party.
This time it was just beating, but it was enough to scare the Donglin Party.
Wang Wenyan hurriedly approached the nobles for activities, but everyone turned a deaf ear, fearing that Tianqi would accuse them of seeking power and usurping the throne, which would mean they would be executed!
That night, news came out from the inner court that Wang An committed suicide in Nanhaizi out of fear of crime.
Without Wang An as an internal correspondent, Wang Wenyan would be nothing more than a strategist, and the Donglin Party would be like an eagle that has lost one of its wings and can no longer soar in the blue sky.
News kept coming that the Donglin Party's spy agents in the inner court had indeed been uprooted, and their luck was shattered.
** Star, Gao Panlong shouted loudly: "This is Wei Zhongxian's conspiracy, we should unite all forces to clear the emperor's side!"
They knew that this matter was led by Emperor Tianqi, but they pointed the finger directly at Wei Zhongxian.
Ye Xianggao was also upset, but he did not speak out loudly. Instead, he calmly thought about the response strategy and suggested that everyone calm down for the time being instead of directly confronting Wei Zhongxian or even the emperor behind him.
Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others also have the will to fight Wei Zhongxian to the death at this time, but there are still people who can unite and win over them.
They had a good relationship with Duke Ying and Duke Cheng. At this time, the two great warriors of the Ming Dynasty appeased them and advised them not to act rashly. However, if Wei Zhongxian dared to act recklessly, they would never sit idly by and watch.
This is to suggest that Donglin should not rush into trouble and stabilize things first.
It is in line with Ye Xianggao's thoughts.
Wang Wenyan knew that his biggest backer had fallen, and his voice in the Donglin Party had been reduced since then. If Huan Huan made a fuss, he might have been implicated by Wang An. Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian must have caught a lot of information about him from Wang An.
It's better to be honest at this time and accept the result.
Wei Zhongxian and Liu Shimin wrote letters to Wang Hongyu, informing Wang Hongyu of what happened in the inner court and the outer court, and asked him to act according to the plan. They also included a secret edict from Tianqi.
The secret edict asked him to lead his troops back immediately. He planned to go to Tongzhou first to prepare for the next move and to become His Majesty's foreign aid at any time.
The worst-case scenario is that the Donglin Party and the nobles take rash actions, which will lead to a direct war, and Wang Hongyu will become one of the few troops Tianqi can mobilize except for a small number of troops.
Of course, no one wants to get to that point so soon.
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Ye Xianggao and others also noticed that Wang Hongyu reorganized his troops and went to Shanhaiguan privately. There may be something very complicated behind it.
He vaguely guessed a possibility, that is, Emperor Tianqi took action against the harem, and maybe also took action against the military power.
If this is true, it would be a bit scary...
Wang Hongyu was the most powerful army in the world after Wu Xun, and his troops defeated Jiannu in the bloody battle at Hunhe River. Such people and troops...
The Donglin Party had better not make enemies with them.
The smart Ye Xianggao had an idea in his mind. His student Wang Huazhen was more active in rescuing the refugees from Liaohe River, and he also opened a way for Wang Hongyu to pass, which was a good start.
I remember that Ai Youzhi, a student of Zou Yuanbiao, seemed to have a similar hometown to him, so we had met him several times.
It seems the foundation is good ~
He watched the situation for several months and not only observed Wang Hongyu, but also realized that he should be united at this time.
A few days later, just as they were figuring out how to unite, a new batch of memorials arrived at the cabinet.
"Oh my, it's great that everyone is up and running, but the workload of the cabinet is not small~"
Ye Xianggao opened the first one and saw the memorial from Donglin's own person and the most powerful Zuodu Yushi**xing.
Oops, it's his memorial, so we need to deal with it quickly.
As soon as he opened the memorial, Ye Xianggao shrank.
"Impeach Wang Hongyu who was transferred without permission and did not obey orders!"
What the hell, why didn’t you tell him beforehand that he was going to be impeached?
Ye Xianggao just wanted to unite with Wang Hongyu, and took advantage of Wang Huazhen's good start to win him over to the Donglin Party. One of the three giants of Donglin, the most powerful political star at this time impeached him!
I glanced around and saw the second memorial.
High-flying.
After opening it, I was so scared that I shrank again.
In the open memorial, it was clearly written: "The little warrior, despicable and shameless, secretly mobilized to harm Yuan Jinglue, resulting in the great defeat of Liaodong..."
Damn it!
Gao Panlong, can you look at the situation?
After hearing the latest news about the battle in Liaodong, who in the world does not admire the warriors in the bloody battle of Hunhe River?
Anyone with a little common sense will know that if Yuan Yingtai didn't know how to fight, Liaodong wouldn't have such a result!
Now they are impeaching Wang Hongyu and speaking out for Yuan Yingtai.
What kind of teammate is this!?
Although Ye Xianggao was the first assistant, he couldn't fight back the top star, Gao Panlong. After racking his brains, he found that he could only try his best to reduce big things to small things, and this trick turned small things into small things.
Now Wei Zhongxian is in charge of the palace. He is also new in office, and he is also new in office. No matter whether they fight or not, they should cooperate.
As a result, ** star and Gao Panlong were directly impeached.
But as I said before, I will not attack Wei Zhongxian.