Lu Ming

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In this plane, due to the appearance of the traversers, the situation of the Guan Ning army is even worse than in history.

This time King Qin, apart from the 300 Tartar heads left behind in Zunhua, the Guan Ning army did not get more credit.Although Chongzhen gave Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong the credit for recovering the four cities, everyone knew who won the four cities.

And the most important thing is that Chongzhen is not like in history, he can't live without the Guanning Army-the emperor now has Zhongyong Bo.

So it was the right choice for Zu Dashou not to come.With Chongzhen's pissing nature, maybe after seeing him, there is a real chance of turning his face and throwing him into prison.

The long and complicated awarding process is very difficult.When Uncle Zhongyong was bored, he could only half-close his eyes, standing half awake in the queue, half bowing his head in a pious gesture.

When the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, the long reward activity finally came to an end.At this time, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had already stood on the square in front of the Huangji Hall for three full hours... It can be seen that it was not easy to be an official in the Ming Dynasty. , Abusing employees is a real hammer.

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When the eunuch on duty took a step forward and yelled out the classic line in a high-pitched voice as usual: "Play early if there is something to do, and leave the court if there is nothing to do", all the employees on the square breathed a sigh of relief.

Now you only need to hold on for a few more seconds, and after the eunuch shouts the word "retire from the court", the comrades can leave the venue and go back to drink tea.

Just at this moment, a loud voice came out from the queue: "I have this to play!"

The next moment, under the angry eyes of thousands of employees, a small official wearing a seventh-grade green robe stood out of the queue, held up the memorial with both hands, and walked all the way to the white marble steps without squinting, and knelt down firmly: " Chen Gong Ke gave the matter to Wei Xu, and wrote a letter to impeach the loyal and brave uncle Cao Chuan for abusing the people, exceeding the system, and conspiracy for a total of 12 major crimes."

With a "crash", the originally sleepy officials were all in an uproar after hearing such explosive bullet content, and there was a buzzing sound in the square.

At the same time, Uncle Zhongyong, who had been drowsy, opened his eyes with surprise on his face: "I'm going, someone really impeached me? Didn't it mean that now is the honeymoon period, and no one will come looking for trouble?"

After feeling the warm eyes projected from all around, Zhang Dongdong's heartbeat quickened, and adrenaline began to secrete a lot: "This is forcing me to perfect the character design, okay, okay, want to play, right? Then play!"

At the same time that Uncle Zhongyong's eyes were showing fierceness and his face was full of murderous intent, Emperor Chongzhen who was sitting on the top of the three-story majesty's platform was also pale.

After picking up a piece of paperweight on the table and smashing it down, the emperor said angrily, "Show off the crowd, come, take off this jumping-beam hat, and take him down for interrogation!"

No wonder the emperor went mad.

Cao Zongbing, a good melon farmer who just participated in the prisoner offering meeting and sent melons to the capital, is a super advanced model according to later generations.

Not to mention that Chongzhen planned to have a good talk with Cao Zongbing about the Northern Prisoner. Even if he wanted to impeach him, he should wait for a while, after the heat had passed?How can it be played on such a special ceremonial occasion today?

At this juncture, there is such a clown who doesn't know the overall situation jumping out to be disgusting. This is Chi Guoguo slapping Chongzhen in the face.

So the young emperor became furious, and not only threw out the paperweight in an extremely rude manner, but also ordered Wei Xu's official position to be seized on the spot, planning to send the clown to prison first.

However, this world belongs to the scholar-bureaucrat group after all, and the emperor does not have the final say on everything.

The next moment, a high-ranking minister in a red robe stood up.After this person came out, he said loudly: "Your Majesty, the ancestral system, the court will not be a sinner because of words. What's more, Wei Xu is a minister, and it is his job to load bullets. How can he be convicted for this? I hope His Majesty will take it back." Fate!"

Chapter 474

Before the red-robed civil servant could finish his sentence, four or five colleagues in various robes stood up in the queue, and said in unison: "My minister seconded the proposal, and please take your majesty back!"

After seeing this scene of the standard attack and defense mode of the imperial court, the Chongzhen, including the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, realized it later.

So the melon-eating crowd secretly speculated: It seems that this group of civil servants came out today... The Donglin Party premeditatedly provoked the attack, and it was Xinke Zhongyongbo, who poked the emperor's skin by the way... As for cause and effect Well, maybe the emperor is too proud these days?Or was it because Donglin didn't make any contribution in this matter, and was robbed of the limelight, and hated because of jealousy?

Just when the wind was stirring in the big square, Comrade Chongzhen, the only one in the audience who had a seat, had already realized that something was wrong, and at this time someone plotted against him.Chongzhen, who had been sitting in the dragon chair for three years, was no longer the dazed young man he was back then, so he snorted coldly, stopped his losses in time, got up, shook his long sleeves hard, and left...

At this time, the eunuch on duty's "retreat" sounded slowly.

Hearing the sound of retreating, all the officials scattered in the hall, and the melon-eaters talked as they walked, with excitement on their faces.

At the same time, a young eunuch ran over and took the memorial from Wei Xu, who was still kneeling there.

Uncle Zhongyong, who stood there a little at a loss, finally realized: It's time to get off work.

Uncle Zhongyong, who was burning with the desire to fight, was not used to this ending, as if he had stepped on the ground.But it was already like this, Zhang Dongdong had no choice but to go out of the imperial city alone under all kinds of complicated eyes, and everyone avoided wherever he passed, as if he was a street tiger.

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Time went back to the day before yesterday.

When Bu Daxing woke up, Master Bu gave all the details of the "Cao Thief" he had mastered to his same-year Master Hou, and the latter finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

Before this, Hou Xun had also heard about Cao Zongbing bombarding the Jinshen's house in the south of the Yangtze River in order to fight for the land.After all, the Jiangnan area is the stronghold of the Donglin Party, so if the gun goes down, it will definitely implicate the Donglin people in the court.As a general of Donglin, even though Hou Xun was from Henan, he probably knew about it.

It's just that this incident did not cause any waves in the court.

First of all, the court had entered a state of wartime emergency at that time. It was impossible for someone to write a book with the surname of Cao on such an insignificant matter—this would prove to the emperor and his colleagues that he was an idiot and had no sense of the overall situation. .

Secondly, in the eyes of outsiders like Hou Xun who lacked information, this incident probably happened because the gentry were too greedy and somehow angered a country bumpkin who came to buy land, and then the two sides had a quarrel. It's a dog eats a dog.

That's right, Hou Xun thought so at the time.Don't look at the gentry who have a face to the outside world and want to protect the interests of the class, but there are not a few who despise each other behind the scenes.

However, when Bu Daxing explained the process of the matter in detail, coupled with his own understanding and analysis, the matter was not so simple.

Only then did Master Hou know that Cao's surname had been premeditated. He lured and forced the gentry to escalate the conflict step by step. Shop sign.

Now, in just a few months, the imperial court was busy with the northern captives, but they didn't know that the poor ghosts and mud legs in the south of the Yangtze River were running to the territory surnamed Cao in large numbers, and this had become a public matter.

A recruited pirate devours refugees like this, so what else can he do but rebel?

Hou Xun was quite shocked by the news above.But what Bu Daxing took out next made Master Hou break out in a cold sweat.

Regarding what Master Bu saw and heard in Taiwan, as well as the various things he came into contact with in Fujian and Jiangnan and other places about the people who traveled through, these days, through thinking and investigation, Master Bu has achieved a comprehensive understanding and thoroughly understood Cao thief's true colors.

After reaching a conclusion, the next step is naturally to publicize it, so that everyone in the world can see the true face of Cao thief.However, this kind of thing is not enough to rely on words alone. Now that the Cao thief has become powerful, he is no longer something that can be restrained by the idle gentry.

That's why Master Bu recently wrote a booklet called "The Essentials of the Strange Thieves" carefully, and asked someone to copy some of it. He planned to distribute it to the bosses for free, and at the same time find an opportunity to publish it and spread it around the world.

This booklet will hold a high place in history.Among them, first, in the tone of a bystander, he described in detail the actions of Cao thief who gathered the population in the workshop, and then used the iron tools to do farming.

Afterwards, Mr. Bu changed the subject and deeply analyzed this behavior of eliminating tenant farmers and owner farmers from the perspective of traditional Confucianism, and analyzed the deep social significance brought about by it.Finally, point out the theme, and thoroughly deduce the destructive harm of this practice to the scholar-bureaucrats.

After Master Hou Xunhou finished reading this booklet, he asked Master Bu carefully, and found that the other party had indeed gone to Taiwan to investigate for himself, and Master Hou's cold sweat also came down—if this person surnamed Cao did what he did in Taiwan Because if it is as stated in the pamphlet, then this person is really the public enemy of the gentry.

So Mr. Hou ordered people to go to the capital to find those who had been to Taiwan to investigate, and at the same time contacted his colleagues in Donglin to give a brochure to publicize the details of Uncle Zhongyong of Xinke.

People who had been to Taiwan found it the next day. After all, there are so many businessmen in the capital, and many of them have gone to the south to do business in the past two years.

After comparison and confirmation, it was found that Uncle Zhongyong was really as stated in the brochure, so an alliance was quickly established.

This alliance included the Donglin Party and some other officials.

As for the Donglin Party, since Uncle Zhongyong had slapped Guan Ning's army before and took a lot of credit from Sun Chengzong's generals, he was originally not pleasing to the eye, but now he has a reason to go crazy.

In addition, although Wei Xu was not a member of the Donglin Party in the case, he was the spokesperson of some gentry in the court who were bombarded in the south of the Yangtze River, so Wei Xu was the vanguard in today's impeachment.

Finally, there are still some people in this alliance who just came out to help: among the civil servants who have read the brochure, there are always a few like Master Bu, who have the attributes of a saint with the world in mind, and are willing to bring their own dry food to become black fans.

The above is the reason why the civil service group suddenly launched an impeachment operation in the middle of the court today.

However, the cross-travelers were slow to respond to the undercurrent in the court because they did not have an intelligence department or affiliated forces in the capital before, and finally Cao Zongbing was sniped.

But overall it's not a big problem.After all, the time-travelers come from the future, and they have a deep understanding of the late Ming dynasty hall.Since Cao Zongbing dared to enter Beijing this time, he still made a plan in terms of political struggle.

Judging from the results afterwards, the Donglin Party's raid today was a success.

Although Emperor Chongzhen came to his senses in time, turned around and left to retreat, avoiding further deterioration of the situation, but after all, the words had already been spoken, so it was still tantamount to being slapped in the face by Xiaoxiao.

No matter how inappropriate the timing of Wei Xu's presentation of the memorial today, the emperor didn't even read the memorial, and planned to take down a person who was doing his job and was responsible for inspection and correction. This would definitely not work.

So today's surprise attack not only slapped Uncle Zhongyong in the face, but also slapped the emperor in the face. It is another small victory for the civil official group-the imperial power and the gentry power are always fighting. It has long been instinct for civil officials to find ways to restrain the emperor. .

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After Chongzhen retired from court, he returned to Qianqing Palace and opened the memorial angrily.

Unsurprisingly, the content of the memorial is the usual style of writing for civil officials to impeach political opponents—the twelve major crimes are horrifying, and each is exaggerated.

In short, in the writing of civil officials, every villain who opposes an honest gentleman is a heinous enemy of the country.

After reading it, the emperor kept the memorial as expected, and ordered the bastard who had nothing to do to give it to Wei Zhong.

Generally speaking, there are three ways for the emperor to deal with bullets.

First of all, if the emperor wants to protect the impeached, then he will not send the bullet.

This trick is equivalent to deleting posts in later generations, and it is the basic means to eliminate influence and transfer hot spots.Once the emperor started to delete posts, the officials who were impeached in the previous chapter of the outer court would be tantamount to useless efforts.Even if there is a [-]th-level flood in a red robe who is forced to post, the moderator can also delete it, and then this topic will naturally cease to exist, and people will be saved.

Secondly, if the emperor does not want to protect the impeached person, then it is very simple, just "hand over the ministerial discussion" to the memorial.

The Ministry of Communications meeting is an obvious hint that it is tantamount to allowing members to discuss the matter openly.Under such circumstances, smarter officials will immediately "retire from old age and return to their hometowns" to preserve a chance for a comeback.

The last way to deal with bullets is Xiaochaohui.

If the emperor is undecided, he will listen to the opinions of all parties at the small court meeting attended by only important ministers, and finally make a decision on how to deal with the bullets.

So regarding today's bullet, the emperor will definitely not send it.It's a joke, Uncle Zhongyong is now Chongzhen's hope to get rid of the northern captives, how could he allow the courtiers to impeach him?

So the memorial was kept.

However, from the next day, a large number of posts impeaching Uncle Chung Yong poured into the Secretary of General Affairs like a tide.Then as time went by, more and more melon-eating civil servants who had read the booklet "The Mystery of the Strange Thieves" also became self-sufficient gentry, and began to impeach Uncle Zhongyong non-stop.

When the number of posts reaches an order of magnitude, the emperor's deletion of posts is useless.

This belongs to the fourth hidden situation: explode.

Exploding the bar is a serious incident, which is equivalent to setting off a political tide against this incident. The emperor must have a positive response to this incident.

Of course, the emperor also saw the brochures through other channels in the past few days, and figured out the ins and outs behind the bullets.

Although he held a critical and skeptical attitude towards the nonsense in the brochure, Chongzhen, who had no way to deal with the officials, could only decree in the end, saying that after the court tomorrow morning, a special meeting will be held in the Huangji Hall to discuss this matter.Brackets: Uncle Zhongyong is allowed to defend himself.

At the same time, Uncle Zhongyong also obtained a private guarantee from the emperor through the channel of his ally Wen Tiren: Go to the palace tomorrow to complain, you are not alone.

Chapter 475 The Golden Temple Splash ([-])

April 4th, Chen, Huangji Hall.

The morning court ended very quickly today, basically the rhythm of disbanding after the mooting, because everyone knows that the focus is on the small court meeting after the morning court.

After thousands of officials dispersed, only a small group of people were finally eligible to participate in the small court meeting.Excluding those departments such as Qin Tianjian who were in soy sauce, and then excluding the honorable generals who were also in soy sauce, there were less than 100 people who were finally qualified to stand in the Emperor's Palace today.

These 100 people are the core bureaucrats in charge of the central operation of the Ming Empire, including the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, the ministers of the six ministers, the Hanlin Kedao, and the five temple ministers.

Of course, today's protagonist is indispensable in the hall: Uncle Zhongyong.

Uncle Zhongyong, who was dressed in the uniform of a military officer, stood alone on the rank of generals, with no humans or animals within two meters of his body.Under the watchful eyes of many civil servants, Uncle Zhongyong crossed his hands in front of his abdomen, closed his eyes slightly, and his feet were irregular. He looked like a master of martial arts.

The next moment, with the long shout of "the emperor is coming", all the officials fell to their knees and saluted long live.

The emperor didn't talk too much nonsense today. Immediately after the cutscene, he threw the last memorial to the eunuch: "Cao Qing, I have been playing a lot of chapters recently, and they are all about you. I will allow you to defend yourself today." .”

Following the emperor's words, the eunuch also handed over the original bullet to Uncle Zhongyong.

According to common sense, the emperor was already very biased in allowing his subjects to defend themselves so clearly.But this discount is not enough for the civil servants who have set off a tide.

In the past five or six days, officials all over the capital knew what was going on, because the urgently printed black materials about Uncle Zhongyong were being distributed for free.

During this process, it was inevitable that some people became very interested in Uncle Zhongyong's old lair and came up with some ideas.But the number of these people is too small to be seen even if they are hidden in the crowd.

The one who really made a big statement was the anti-Cao group composed of the Donglin Party and a group of "self-employed gentry" with a sense of crisis.And when the mainstream opinions are unified, the political tide will rise.At this time, it has become politically correct to post a post to impeach someone Cao, even if you sneer at this matter from the bottom of your heart, as long as you are a civil servant, you have to follow the crowd and say "top landlord", if you don't say it, you are not from the Ming Dynasty... Oh, Not representatives of the landlord class.

To be honest, this sudden political tide really surprised the people who traveled through time.

In this plane, the Ming Dynasty first made a huge strategic victory out of thin air, severely injuring the Beilu.Immediately afterwards, the forces within the Ming Dynasty actually began to try to strangle the perpetrators. Is this the so-called butterfly effect?Or call it the internal "compensation" after losing the external pressure?

However, these are of no use.Whether it is the butterfly effect or the inevitability of history, the cards of the time-traversing people are too strong, and this time they have already got what they want in the north, so they can leave at any time, and they are not afraid of this wave of criticism at all.

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After receiving the memorial from the eunuch, Uncle Zhongyong bowed at the same time and said "the minister leads the decree", then opened the memorial and looked at it pretendingly.

In fact, on the night when Wei Xu posted this memorial, a certain ally in the cabinet sent someone to send a copy of the memorial to Uncle Zhongyong, so Cao Zongbing actually knew the content above.

Insert a sentence here: In this wave of political tide, the only ones who didn't post to scold Cao thief were Wen Tiren and his accomplices who were bound to Cao thief.On the other hand, his own people, including Luo Lishi, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry, posted curse posts under the instructions of the cross-travelers—the underground party cannot be exposed.

After reading the memorial, Mr. Zhongyong first raised his head and laughed, and then pointed to the 12 serious crimes on it and began to refute each one.

The first crime: abuse of people.

The so-called abuse of the people, the memorial pointed out that the Cao thief set fire to the forest in the south of the Yangtze River, occupied the people's fields, and forcibly robbed the people's women and other vicious methods of annexing the land.In addition, the Cao thief ordered the ship to fire at the households of the gentry, which was also brought up as important evidence of abuse of the people and rebellion.

Cao Zongbing began to refute loudly on this point.

According to Cao Chuan, he sent people to Jiangnan to buy land and build a private port to buy houses. There is nothing to argue about this—isn’t it normal for people in the Jianghu to buy land and properties arbitrarily after recruiting?In history, Zheng Zhilong bought almost all the land in his hometown and the entire county after he was recruited, and the government didn't fart.

However, in the process of buying the land, Cao Zongbing said that he was resisted: a group of Jiangnan gentry not only refused to sell the land to him, but also maliciously purchased the land around the port, hoarded it, demanded prices, and resisted demolition.

Here Cao Zongbing clearly pointed out: the so-called "people" in the memorial is actually a secret exchange of concepts to sell miserably: these landowners are all Jiangnan gentry, and there are no real grassroots people.

So the two sides fell out, so Cao Zongbing sent someone to "use a little bit of tricks"-you are not benevolent and I am not righteous, and I am also an official of the court. How can these gentry be so humiliated?

When Cao Zongbing said this, he stopped talking, put his arms on his chest, and squinted at the sky, with an aura of "you can resist me".

The next moment, the original author of the memorial shouted to Wei Xu in the matter: "The traitor has such a sharp mouth, he actually talked about bullying the good people so grandly."