On the fifth day of July, Zhang Yuan and his entourage entered Shanhaiguan. Zou Zhiyi, the chief of the military department who was stationed at Shanhaiguan, was a disciple of Wu Daonan, the second assistant to the cabinet, and was naturally close to Zhang Yuan. Zou Zhiyi hosted a banquet for Zhang Yuan at the official mansion that night. Ruan Dacheng and the North Korean envoys invited several people.
After the banquet, he had a long talk with Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng at the Shanhaiguan Gate Tower to drink tea and cool down in the summer heat. When Zhang Yuan talked about the attack on Phoenix Mountain, Zou Zhiyi said solemnly: "It's like walking on thin ice. Fortunately, Zhang Xiuzan was cautious and called in hundreds of people."
Musketeers and imperial guards dare to fight, and there are guards with strong martial arts skills who kill the leader of the thieves in one fell swoop, otherwise the situation will be in danger!" He also sighed with emotion: "From what I have seen, today's Liaodong generals are not accustomed to fighting, but they are arrogant and arrogant.
, thinking that the slave chiefs are not worth worrying about. For many years, they have not repaired their weapons, their rotten halberds are dull and their weapons are useless in times of emergency. The golden drums have almost stopped ringing. The soldiers under their command are only slaves. They have little training and cannot even shoot a bow.
If you can't draw a bow within thirty steps, if something happens, these soldiers will be of no use!"
This is rotten to the core. Zhang Yuan sighed: "Governor Li is just trying to make ends meet. General Zhang is brave but has no plans. In less than a year, Liao affairs will be ruined."
Ruan Dacheng did not care much about the affairs of Liaodong. Like most officials and people of the Ming Dynasty, he did not believe that Hou Jin could pose much of a threat to the Ming Dynasty. Even after this trip to Korea, Ruan Dacheng's view has not changed much, at most.
He believed that Nurhachi would pose a certain threat to Liaodong. What he was most concerned about was the result of Ding Si's inspection in Beijing. When they left the capital on March 22, the inspection of officials in the capital below the fourth rank had ended. Ding Yuanjian, the head of the Ministry of Rites,
Six officials from Donglin or close to Donglin, including Lu Dashou, a doctor in the Zhejiang Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Ma Defeng, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, Fu Mei, the chief officer of the Punishment Department, Li Feng, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, and Li Pu, a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs, were dismissed from their posts.
Lin officials were demoted or transferred out of Beijing, and Donglin's forces suffered heavy losses.
However, the highlight of Ding Si's imperial inspection was the inspection of senior officials of fourth rank and above. The records of these officials were sent to the emperor in early March. They were copied and circulated by the science and technology officials. If the science and technology officials thought that the officials' records were
If there are any falsifications in the report, and if there are any good things that conceal evil, they can be found out and reported. Nowadays, the officials of the Department of Science and Technology are basically controlled by the three parties of Zhejiang, Chu, and Qi. The officials of the three parties want to use this find to expel all Donglin high-ranking officials from the two capitals.
We have been collecting evidence against Donglin Party members since last year.
So Ruan Dacheng took advantage of the break between Zhang Yuan and Zou Zhiyi to discuss the situation in Liaodong and asked quickly: "Mr. Zou, I wonder if the overall situation of the Beijing inspection this year has been decided?"
Zou Zhiyi stared in surprise and said: "That's right, you two are far away in North Korea, and you don't know about the changes in the country. Alas, now that a group of young people are in power, the party will be in trouble!" He immediately told Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng in detail
Ding Si's investigation of the whole story, Yao Zongwen of the Zhejiang Party, Zhou Yongchun of the Qi Party ordered Xu Shaoji, the chief minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Affairs, to serve as a minister, and Han Jun, the censor of Henan Province, impeached Weng Zhengchun, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a scholar at the Hanlin Academy, and Weng Zhengchun, the former rites and deployment department.
Sun Shenxing, the right minister of the Ministry of Affairs, Qiao Yunsheng, the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, Wang Tu, the former right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Zhu Guozhen, the former imperial minister of the Imperial Academy, and other Donglin Party officials, as well as Sun Wei and Zhan, the censor of the left capital of the Imperial Academy.
The two pro-Dongli officials, Zhan Shi and Qian Longxi, were both impeached.
People are not saints, and no one can do anything wrong. Moreover, this also involves the clan. If there are any radical violations in the clan, the officials will be blamed. Therefore, once the relics are found, it is difficult to defend oneself. Emperor Wanli announced on the sixth day of April that
The relics will be distributed. Qiao Yun was promoted and dismissed, Wang Tuguan took Xianzhu, Weng Zhengchun, Sun Shenxing, and Zhu Guozhen returned to their hometowns for recuperation. The so-called return home recuperation is a euphemism, which is tantamount to removal from office in disguise; they were demoted to the post last year in the attack case.
Donglin Ganjiang Wang Zhicai, the magistrate of Quanjiao County, was punished again, this time directly dismissed from office; in addition, Sun Juxiang, the censor of Jiangxi Province, was transferred to Jiangxi to participate in politics.
Shi Li Banghua was transferred to Shanxi...""As a senator, Xiong Mingyu was transferred to Fujian Province from the military department. Only Sun Wei, the imperial censor of Zuodu of the Duchayuan, and Qian Longxi, the young master of Zhanshifu, were retained. It can be said that Dingsi Jingcha, Chaozhongzhong
The power of the Lin Party has been wiped out, and the three parties have achieved a comprehensive victory.
Zhang Yuan frowned slightly. Although this result was expected by him, he was still unhappy. Although there were scum in Donglin, there were mostly decent people. Although there were many upright people in the three parties, most of them followed the trend.
Otherwise, they would not have attached themselves to Wei Zhongxian and became eunuchs. The Donglin people headed by Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong also had a far deeper understanding of the country's maladministration than the Three Parties. Some people in later generations fabricated and distorted historical facts to describe the Ming Dynasty.
There was an ulterior motive in placing all the responsibility for the demise on Dong Lin. He advocated a common rule of the world and opposed the monarchy. Du cái was also tabooed four hundred years later. Zhang Yuan had a clear understanding of this, but that was all for later.
The difficult problem before him is: Now that Donglin officials have completely withdrawn from the political center, and the drums are about to rise in Liaodong, how should he respond?
Ruan Dacheng was not as calm as Zhang Yuan, and said in surprise: "Servant Weng, Zhu Jijiu has returned home!"
Zou Zhiyi said: "Yes, the dismissed officials have been leaving Beijing one after another since June. By the way, there is another matter that Zhang Xiuzuan may not know about yet. My brother-in-law and Mr.
No." Zuo of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties had the courtesy name Ming and his nickname Dingxuan.
Zhang Yuan was shocked and hurriedly asked what happened. Zou Zhiyi said: "I ordered my brother-in-law to patrol Fujian as the censor of Zuoqiandu. This is not considered a relegation."
Ruan Dacheng looked at Zhang Yuan without saying anything. He knew very well that this was a means for Fang Congzhe, Yao Zongwen and others to attack Zhang Yuan. Shang Zhouzuo originally belonged to the Zhejiang Party and had a good official reputation. If the three parties were willing to push forward, then Shang Zhouzuo would be here.
It is not impossible for Ding Si to be promoted to the rank of third-rank right deputy censor of the capital this time. Now, although the censor of the left "Ya sāo Chapter 489 Jinghui's Disease" Qiandu censor is not demoted to Fujian, he is not demoted to the outside world.
There is a big difference in Beijing. Many officials would rather be a seventh- or eighth-grade minor official in Beijing than let a fifth- or sixth-grade magistrate or general magistrate, like Ruan Dacheng, stay in the middle of the capital.
The eighth-grade practitioners also think that they are better than Huang Zunsu and others who are sent to work as seventh-grade county magistrates. There are many opportunities for promotion in Beijing. Local officials rarely enter the center of power. Who among the six department officials and the cabinet bachelors started as county magistrates?
The Shang and Zhou Zuo governorship of Fujian was tantamount to weakening Zhang Yuan’s power.
It seems that after Fang Congzhe and the three party bureaucrats expelled Donglin, they also began to suppress Zhang Yuan's Han Society. As a member of the Han Society, Ruan Dacheng could not help but feel in danger and had no future.
Zhang Yuan felt relieved when he heard that his brother-in-law was going to patrol Fujian, because he knew that the struggle in the court would be the most intense in the next few years. After the crown prince Zhu Changluo came to the throne, all the Donglin people who had been demoted earlier were reinstated and promoted. However, in the Hongwan case,
However, the palace transfer case came one after another. Donglin and the three parties were at loggerheads. The party disaster was unprecedentedly violent. Therefore, it should be a good thing for brother-in-law Shang Zhouzuo to leave this whirlpool of disputes. Sister-in-law Fu and Jinglan, Jing
The two sisters from Huizhou have to travel six thousand miles, which is more difficult than going to Fujian.
Zhang Yuan asked: "Then who are the people who took advantage of this trip to get promoted?"
Ruan Dacheng also asked: "Yes, what official position does Yao Zongwenju have?"
Zou Zhiyi said: "Yao Zongwen's reputation is not good, and he is still in charge of all the officials and departments. Zhou Yongchun of the Qi Party was promoted to censor of the Youqian capital this time, while Li Rong of the Zhejiang Party was also in charge of the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the rest were mostly official positions.
As usual, this is because the emperor refuses to fill the vacancy, otherwise the officials of the Six Departments, the Five Prefectures and the Seven Ministers will all be members of the Three Parties."
Zhang Yuandao: "Actually, it's almost the same. The important positions of the Science and Technology Officer "Yasāo" and the Six Ministries are basically controlled by the three parties. If the emperor doesn't fill the vacancies, they will have one person to hold multiple positions, giving them greater power."
Ruan Dacheng felt hot all over his body. He shook his folding fan fiercely and stood up. He looked from the tall Shanhaiguan Gate Tower toward the southwest capital. The night sky was vast and dotted with stars. He thought to himself: "I have returned from being an envoy for several months and it is already like this!
"Looking back at Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan remained calm and showed no signs of worry. I really don't know what Zhang Yuan was thinking.
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On July 18th, Shao Fuzhong, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, was ordered to come to Luhe Post in Tongzhou to welcome Zhang Yuan and the Korean envoy Yu Yan. In the evening, more than 100 people from the Ming and North Korean envoys arrived at Luhe Post. Before the banquet,
Zhang Yuan and Ruan Dacheng reported to Shao Fuzhong about their mission and the attack. Shao Fuzhong said: "The emperor will decide the affairs of Korea. It is good that Zhang Xiuzhuan and Ruan Xingren return safely." He also said: "Sixty-one people are accompanying us.
Nearly half of the Jin Yiwei sent out as envoys were killed or injured, which is something that has never happened in the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty." Shao Fuzhong's tone seemed to be teasing.
Zhang Yuandao: "The Eastern captives are rampant and the border is uneasy. This is indeed a crisis rare in the past two hundred years."
Shao Fuzhong laughed, said no more, and invited Zhang Yuan, Yu Yan and others to the banquet.
In the afternoon of the next day, Shao Fuzhong, Zhang Yuan, and Yu Yan entered the inner city of Beijing through Chaoyang Gate. Suddenly they heard someone shouting: "Master, Master", and another person shouting: "Master, Master," the two of them shouted at the same time.
, and rushed to the front of the mission vehicle.
Zhang Yuan heard the voice and knew it was Wu Ling and the young man Baima, but at this time the scorching sun was setting in the west, the light was dazzling, and there were many people on both sides of the street. He didn't see where Wu Ling and the others were, so he put up an awning to look for them, and raised his voice to go to the other side.
Jin Yiwei said: "This is my family, no "entertainment show" wants to stop him."
The Jinyi Guardsman sent Wu Ling and Baima over. Wu Ling said happily: "Brother Fu and Dachui are still guarding Chongwenmen. They think that if the young master leaves from Chongwenmen, he will definitely come back through Chongwenmen. But I guess that the young master will leave."
Chaoyang Gate, as expected!" He then ordered Baima: "Baima, go back and inform the young nǎinǎi first, saying that you have received the young master."
Baima is an impatient person and ran away. Zhang originally wanted to give a few instructions, but he had already run a long way away. It is more than ten miles from here to Lige Old Hutong. Wouldn't this little boy be exhausted to death?
Moreover, it was a hot day, so Zhang Yuan quickly asked Wu Ling to catch up and call Baima back. There was no need to rush back to report the news, he had to return to the Ministry of Rites first.
Wu Ling and Baima were walking with Zhang Yuan's horse. Zhang Yuan asked, "Is my brother Shang still in the capital?"
Baima rushed to answer: "The elder left Beijing at the end of last month."
Wu Ling added: "Miss Jing Hui stayed in Beijing. Miss Jing Hui felt unwell last month and did not go to Fujian with Master Shang."
Zhang Yuan hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling better now?"
Wu Ling said: "It's better, but I haven't recovered yet. I don't know what the disease is."