"Liu Hongxun may not be able to survive, we must be prepared to give up on him," Qian Longxi said sadly.
After Chongzhen came to power, he re-determined the cabinet members by drawing lots.
There are a total of nine cabinet ministers in the cabinet.
They are Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, Li Guopu, Lai Zongdao, Yang Jingchen, Zhou Daodeng, Li Biao, Qian Longxi, Liu Hongxun and others.
Not long after the new emperor was established, there were too many officials from the eunuch party in the court. Although Wei Zhongxian had passed away, the eunuch party was extremely powerful. In order to stabilize the court, the emperor could only continue to use some non-core personnel.
Chongzhen was well aware of the dark history of these cabinet ministers, and did not investigate them at the time. He just sought stability first and left it to be investigated later.
A few months later, Chongzhen began to adjust the young censors in various places and the capital. At this time, it was time to settle the general accounts with the eunuchs.
Within a month, the cabinet was in great turmoil and a major change of leadership took place.
Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, Lai Zongdao, and Yang Jingchen stepped down.
As the chief minister of the eunuch cabinet, Huang Liji secretly placed bets on the issue of Chongzhen's coming to power. The emperor accepted his favor and allowed him to resign on his own, so there was no way to pursue him.
According to Chongzhen's thinking at the time, none of these eunuchs should be spared.
But at the critical moment, the people in Donglin were scared. No one was willing to sacrifice themselves for the collective.
Everyone knows that if this thing is done, they will not end well.
Where is the power of the eunuchs? They can kill one thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses.
Now that he is on stage, there are many good things that have not yet been dealt with. No one is willing to deal with these thankless things that may make him/herself covered in shit.
They all shirk responsibility, avoid the important and take the easy, and deal with two or three kittens casually.
But the emperor is not easy to deal with.
In June of the first year of Chongzhen, when Zhu Youjian summoned the cabinet ministers, the Ministry of Punishment, and the chief officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate on the platform, he reviewed the list of eunuchs who had been punished by them. He was very dissatisfied and asked: "Zhang Ruitu, why didn't Lai Zongdao be punished?
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The cabinet minister responded that there was no factual basis and no evidence could be found.
Zhu Youjian was very unhappy at the time. He continued to ask: "(Zhang) Ruitu was loved by Chun for his good writing, and (Lai) Zongdao presented a memorial to Xiu's mother for (Cui), calling him the 'spirit in heaven'. How abominable is that?"
Because of his persistence, Zhang Ruitu and Lai Zongdao were finally included in the fourth category of anti-eucalyptus, Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan, etc., redeeming disciples for the people. Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, and Yang Jingchen were included in the fifth category of anti-eucalyptus, chanting in the temple
If you don't follow the rules, you will live in peace.
In this way, the cabinet ministers were left with five people including Li Biao, Qian Longxi, Li Guopu, Zhou Daodeng, and Liu Hongxun.
Among them, Zhou Daodeng's ability was extremely poor, and he was simply a straw bag. It can be seen that it is normal for the elder who was picked out by lottery to be unreliable. He also resigned soon.
His resignation was not because he was involved with the Eunuch Party, but because he was simply a person who pretended to be false. When Emperor Chongzhen first came to power, he was working hard to govern and had great ambitions. How could he tolerate a idiot hanging around in the cabinet.
This person was ignorant and ignorant, and was a joke among the people in the court and after dinner. Even the people in the market knew about all the stupid things that Zhou Ge did.
One day the emperor went to Jingyan and asked his cabinet minister: "Why should the prime minister use scholars?" Zhou Daodeng was dumbfounded, and after a while he said: "Rong Chen will wait until the cabinet to find out the response."
The emperor's face was slightly sullen, but then he smiled as usual and asked: "Recently, the word 'human face' is often used in the memorials of ministers. What is human face?" Zhou Daodeng was too embarrassed to say "find out the response" again, so he had to bite the bullet.
The answer: "Those who are affectionate are called facial feelings." I said it but didn't say it, and my colleagues on the left and right kept laughing.
The emperor angrily cursed this idiot for being a waste of national money. He soon resigned due to impeachment.
In this way, there are only four people left in the cabinet. Among them, Li Guopu is still an old member of the eunuch cabinet. Among the cabinet ministers, only Li Guo has more political opinions and has the style of a loyal elder.
At that time, Wei Zhongxuan instigated Liu Zhixuan to frame Zhang Guoji, the patriarch of the country, in an attempt to destabilize the central palace and help the Hakka family completely control the harem. It was not easy for him to risk offending Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family and speak out to defend Queen Zhang. Emperor Tianqi did not depose Queen Zhang Yan.
He has merit.
Empress Zhang's role was one of the most important factors for Chongzhen to succeed to the throne safely.
In fact, in the cabinet at this time, three of the four people were from Donglin. Li Biao was the first assistant, Qian Longxi was the second assistant, and Liu Hongxun was the cabinet minister.
Qian Qianyi was a little surprised. Liu Hongxun had won the trust of Chongzhen before, and it was Chongzhen who sent people to the thatched cottage three times to invite him to come out. Why did Qian Longxi say that something would happen to Liu Hongxun too?
Liu Hongxun, courtesy name Mocheng and Qingyue, was born in Changshan, Shandong.
In the 41st year of Wanli's reign, he became a Jinshi. He was tired of official duties and had few affairs.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he was reprimanded for being disobedient to the people. He was dismissed from his post because he opposed Wei Zhongxian, and has been idle in his hometown since then.
After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, in order to change the situation in which the eunuch party was dominated by the eunuchs, he summoned Liu Hongxun three times, but Liu Hongxun refused to come out.
Later, Chongzhen personally sent someone to invite Liu Hongxun, and gave him enough opportunities to raise his hopes. Then he became the Minister of Rites and the Bachelor of Dongge, and participated in the maintenance of machinery.
Qian Qianyi frowned and said, "But His Majesty is still angry about Governor Yuan's request for salary."
After the Ningyuan mutiny, Yuan Chonghuan returned to Beijing on his way to be appointed as the governor of Jiliao and went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to demand the arrears of military pay.
Bi Zisu, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, had just been forced to death by the Ningyuan mutiny, and his brother Bi Ziyan, the governor of Liaodong, knew in his heart that their brothers were members of the Qi Party. The mutiny was instigated by Donglin, with the purpose of using the mutiny to rectify the situation.
They arrived at Bi Ziyan and dragged themselves into the water. They were so greedy for the household that they almost had claws out of their eyes.
However, his younger brother was bloody and would rather commit suicide than give them a chance to bring down his brother. If Bi Zisu could give him money, it would be like the sun rising from the west.
Yuan Chonghuan had no choice but to go to the emperor. The emperor was not a fool and had long suspected that something was going on here.
When Yuan Chonghuan refused to leave, he felt something was wrong. Yuan Chonghuan was not a master who could play rogue, that was what Mao Wenlong did. Why he stayed in the capital and refused to leave, the emperor was also puzzled.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When the mutiny happened, no matter how slow the emperor was, he understood that the Donglin gang was not the stuff of East and West. This meant that the governor of Jiliao was not satisfied, and he wanted to take Liaodong.
The governor also took it.
Now, there is no one in Liaodong who can check, balance and supervise them. Among the civil and military officials in Liaodong, they are the one-handed existence. They are doing it in the dark, and no one knows about it.
They bastards had just forced someone's younger brother to death, so they couldn't give it to them even if they had money. It was even more impossible for the emperor to force Bi Zisu to give money at this time.
Things have been done, power has been obtained, and now it's time to put down the mutiny.
If the trouble continues, it will bring trouble to Donglin himself.
But the planning and instigation behind the scenes is easy to say. Now that the riot has started in the name of paying, there is only one possibility to calm it down, and that is to pay the soldiers. Otherwise, the soldiers will never agree. How do they know these shady stories?
You know how to ask for money from those who are officials, so whoever is an official now will ask for money from anyone.
At this time, Liu Hongxun came forward and asked the emperor to provide 300,000 taels of internal funds to Yuan Chonghuan. Otherwise, the soldiers would not see their military pay for a long time, and it would not look good if they voted for Huang Taiji.
Chongzhen felt as disgusted as if someone had stuffed a fly into his mouth. This was not about money, but a naked provocation to the emperor, and he even stepped on his face from time to time.
As a result, Liu Hongxun's impression in the emperor's heart plummeted.
From an upright man who resisted the eunuchs, to a noble man who refused to leave the country three times, he suddenly turned into a careerist, conspirator, and hypocrite in Donglin.
Chongzhen remained calm about this matter and did not make his views on Liu Hongxun public.
Although Chongzhen is only seventeen years old, he is young and mature, the city is deep, and he is full of joy and anger.
Everyone in Donglin thought that this matter was over, and the emperor swallowed his breath. They could not wait to show Chongzhen's intention to further liquidate the eunuchs.
Not long after, under the instruction of Liu Hongxun and Chongzhen, he launched a denunciation of the eunuchs and began to punish the eunuchs Yang Weiyuan, Li Hengmao, Yang Suoxiu, Ruan Dacheng, Huo Weihua and others.
At that time, most of the officials in the DPRK were promoted by the Eunuch Party. Although Wei Zhongxian had passed away, they were still very powerful. The Eunuch Party's counterattack immediately came like a violent storm.
Soon, many people began to expose Liu Hongxun's corruption.
Yuan Hongxun, the imperial censor, said, "Hongxun sent cockroaches and brought back a load of mink and ginseng." It was revealed that he went to North Korea as an envoy and got a boatload of ginseng and mink skins. In fact, it was Liu Hongxun who carried two boatloads of refugees from Liaodong who had fled to North Korea back to China.
Jinyi Qianshi Zhang Dao criticized him, saying that on the surface he was a filial son and a loyal minister, but in fact he secretly formed a clique and was a hypocrite and two-faced person.
In the incident, Yan Jizu said, "Hongxun's borrowed title was due to Dao's rise to disrupt the government," and he also said that Hongxun had embezzled money. In the incident, Deng Ying revealed that he had embezzled a huge amount and requested that his home be searched and the stolen goods etc. were seized.
At this time, the identity of many eunuchs had not yet been identified. Emperor Chongzhen began to waver in the face of the impeachment. The eunuchs still had such great strength, which frightened the emperor. The emperor had to sacrifice Liu Hongxun.
Thoughts on easing the situation.
On the other hand, the eunuch identities of many people have not been dug out or exposed. Many ministers have been exposed and impeached, and the emperor has begun to doubt whether there is really something wrong with Liu Hongxun.
Coupled with the fact that he had forced the emperor to pay internal funds for Yuan Chonghuan, the emperor had begun to dislike him, so he ordered him to go home and suspend his duties until he could be dealt with.
But at this time, Chongzhen thought about it and felt that he still couldn't deal with him, because he initiated the liquidation of the eunuch party by himself. If he dealt with Liu Hongxun, wouldn't it be like slapping himself in the face and losing his prestige?
If I am in the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, wouldn't I be a member of both sides?
In the end, he endured it, and soon resumed Liu Hongxun's job as cabinet minister on the grounds that there was no solid evidence.
The wind rises at the end of the green grass. A truly wise man can be keenly aware of things when they first begin to appear, so that they can avoid disasters in time.
If Liu Hongxun retreated from the rapids at this time, he could avoid his subsequent fate.
It is a pity that none of the people in Donglin are real political talents. Like Wei Duong, they were paralyzed by Emperor Bao Liu Hongxun.
Seeing Qian Longxi shaking his head, Qian Qianyi's heart skipped a beat, and he said in horror: "Could it be that the imperial edict happened?"
Qian Longxi looked miserable and nodded silently.
"I don't know who is responsible for this Japanese pirate incident. It just happened to happen. The emperor became suspicious of us."
