Chapter three hundred and fifty one.
Wen Tiren is a treacherous minister. He is a treacherous minister. He is a common party and is jealous of talented people and exclusion of others. During his reign, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil. As the chief minister, Wen Tiren did not make any effective suggestions. However, Wen Tiren had the only advantage, that is, he ensured the stability of the political center of the Ming Dynasty. The cabinet team had not changed significantly for several years. At least the passage of the Ming Dynasty's government orders was smooth and the center was stable. The local area cleared out peasant army, supplying the nine external sides, and collecting and escorting the three pays, everything was still on the right track.
After that, Chongzhen changed the chief ministers like a flowing water, and the orders were changed every day. No cabinet minister could do it for a long time. The political chaos and the policies were not continuation at all. Even the local officials below were panicked, but they did not even make half of the achievements with twice the effort. Most bureaucrats involved party struggles and waited and did not do anything. Just like the Songjin Battle of the decisive battle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ming Dynasty actually even lived in a corner of Liaodong, and the Qing Dynasty, which was also frightened, could not consume it. In just seven years, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the country.
In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the stable end point of the Ming Dynasty's central central has arrived now.
However, the reason for this is Wen Tiren's own fault, and the war was also ignited in the remote Jiangnan.
Changshu.
From the place name, we can see how rich and fertile this place is. As a local clan, the Qian Family Manor is even more prosperous and has a grand scene. However, today, it is a scattered bunch of turtles. A pair of armored and rich doors are all over the ground. Dozens of Jinyiwei, wearing flying fish robes and embroidered spring swords, dragging a white-haired old man, holding a middle-aged scholar on the other side, and shouting and yelling, pushing onto the prison cart.
He really asked people to sit at home, and the pot came from the sky! Qian Qianyi had been unemployed at home for several years, and for no reason he was taken by an official. While pulling the chain around his neck, he shouted angrily.
"What's my fault?"
"Mr. Qian, you have been in great power over the years, forming a clique for personal gain, remotely controlling the government, and the glory has been over. This incident happened and it is time to pay it back. You can accept it!"
With a sarcastic spirit, a three-bearded slutty official waved proudly in front of the Jinyiwei.
"take away!"
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I have to say that Wen Tiren is really capable and makes Emperor Chongzhen stunned. Zhang Guowei, the governor of Jiangnan, and Lu Zhenfei, wrote letters to complain for Qian Qianyi. Wen Tiren said a few words and said a few words to the emperor easily convinced the truth. He did not listen to the memorials of the two local officials or the testimony of Qian Qianyi and Qu Shisi's complaints for him, and he kept the memorials directly and refused to be published.
However, at this time, another giant took action.
I have to say that Qian Qianyi is also an old fox, a cunning person. When the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian eunuch party fought to the death, they claimed to kill all eunuchs in the world. As a result, he was fine. He also wrote an inscription for the former eunuch of the Sili Prison, Wang An. Now the eunuch of the Sili Prison, Cao Huachun, is a subordinate of Wang An. With this connection, he asked Sun Chengzong's son to ask Cao Huachun for help and got in touch with this eunuch.
In April, things suddenly turned sharply. With Cao Huachun's intervention, the case that was originally a false accusation easily revealed flaws. In a hurry, Wen Tiren made a fatal mistake. He instructed his confidant to attack Cao Huachun for accepting 40,000 taels of bribes from Qian Qianyi, which was well known to everyone in the capital, but it completely angered the eunuch who was also deeply trusted by Emperor Chongzhen. Cao Huachun personally asked the emperor to inspect the case.
There is an old saying that what can I ask for under the three trees? In addition, I was guilty and Cao Huachun's factory guard was punished. As the complainant, Changshu master Zhang Hanru was the first to be unable to bear it. He vomited, confessed and was instructed by Chen Luqian to frame Qian Qianyi and Qu Shisi. Then, Chen Luqian and his son were also arrested. In early April, Cao Huachun proudly held the interrogation result and came to Emperor Chongzhen.
Looking at the bloody confession, Emperor Chongzhen was also shocked to say the sentence that seemed quite heavy in the political arena at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
"Tiren has a party!"
The reason why Wen Tiren succeeded was that he had figured out the thoughts of Emperor Chongzhen and knew that Emperor Chongzhen hated party struggles very much, so he built himself into the image of an isolated minister, deliberately sought trouble, attracted civil and military officials from the court to attack him, showing that he was isolated and helpless, and defeated Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru who had the division of the party. But this time, Cao Huachun exposed not only his crime of falsely accusing Qian Qianyi, but also the fact that he formed a party, which was equivalent to severing the trust of Emperor Chongzhen.
Wen Tiren, who was still unknown, was still using the same trick again. While leaving the pavilion, he wrote a letter to the emperor to resign, hoping to show that there was nothing to do with him at this time. However, just when he was full of joy, what he was waiting for was the three cold words of Emperor Chongzhen.
Let him go!
In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen! Wen Tiren, the chief minister who had been in power for eight years, was dismissed from his post and returned home.
However, even if the court suffered a lot of ups and downs, it had nothing to do with Mao Jue, who was far away in Dongjiang and a corner. However, because of the super inefficiency of the Ming Dynasty court and the political struggles in the past two months, I had arrived at the Ministry of War in the capital in February. Mao Wenlong retired and returned home, and recommended Mao Jue to take over. It was not until mid-April that he went to the Sili Supervisory Office through the cabinet.
Cao Huachun is the one responsible for criticizing the winner.
This was the time to counterattack against Wen Tiren. Mao Jue was considered unlucky. He left the deepest impression on Cao Huachun. A few years ago, he lent Wen Tiren and promoted the Ming Dynasty to launch a war on the Tokugawa Shogunate. Cao Xi, who was in charge of the military supervision, repeatedly reported the news of Mao Jue's domineering in Dongjiang. He was a domineering general with Wen Tiren's label.
"The first general Mao Wenlong is a remnant of the eunuch party. His Majesty was to forgive and deal with the emergency war in Liaodong, so he allowed him to continue to supervise Liaodong. This agent did not care about the emperor's kindness, but was lazy in state affairs. He opened border cities without any hesitation, was greedy and abused the border people. Now he still wanted to retire and pass the position to Mao Jue's treacherous martial artist. It was simply outrageous!"
With a bang, the memorial was thrown directly from the table to the ground. The eunuch jumped up angrily and turned around in circles. He picked up the memorial and turned toward the backyard.
The next morning court.
After Wen Tiren left, the huge vacuum of power was greedily fought over by various parties. From the cabinet chief to the second auxiliary, to the position where Wen Tiren was expelled from expelling Wen Tiren's confidants, no matter what the Donglin Party and the Chu Party and Zhejiang Party were all fighting red. In this, the Dongjiang General's acceptance of his fate could not cause any turbulence, but when he heard that the ministers in the court were all hit by lightning.
"Now, Liaodong general, left governor, Dongjiang general Mao Wenlong retires and returns home, Ningyuan deputy general Huang Long is the general of Pidao, and Haining County soldiers are preparing for the military construction road, and they will take office today, and I will be honored!"
"His Majesty!"
The granddaughter was not married for nothing, and he was almost in a hurry to vomit blood. The censor Chen Zanzhong stood up from the court without hesitation, kowtowed to the ground, and defended quickly.
"The Mao family is in charge of Dongjiang for many years. The troops in Dongjiang are all old generals of the Mao family father and son. The Mao family has been guarding Dongjiang for many years and has been protecting the Li family. He has been in charge of the Li family and has been in charge of the elbows. Besides, Dongjiang in Liaodong has been in charge of many frictions due to Yuan Chonghuan's affairs. Now I am transferred to the Liaodong general to control Dongjiang. I am afraid that there will be any recurrence. I suggest that Mao Wenlong's son Mao Jue should be used to succeed as the general of Pidao to safeguard the border affairs!"
Chen Zanzhong had to worry. It was not that he loved Mao Jue so much. It was because this young man was brave and cruel and ruthless, which left a deep impression on him. He could foresee how angry this young man would arouse if this imperial edict was passed to Dongjiang.
He could do everything to collude with pirates to attack Hangzhou, because it was not impossible to rebel at this time. Haven’t you seen the Ningxia Hebai Rebellion, which was pacified by the three major sieges of Wanli. It was because the imperial court’s appointment was unfair and the position of general that the Han family should have been granted, leading to the Ningxia mutiny.
Dongjiang rebelled, and Mao Jue was fine for a while. At worst, he could pat his butt and take his men to join the Later Jin Dynasty. According to the current situation outside the pass, the Ming Dynasty could not do anything to him. But as the Mao family's in-laws, his Chen family was a disaster! Don't you see Li Ling of the Han Dynasty?
Unfortunately, his suggestion was the most in line with the needs of the court, but it was not what Emperor Chongzhen liked. The emperor glanced at him lightly for such a military and national event.
"I heard that Dongjiang Maojue is Chen Qing's son-in-law?"
In a word, Chen Zanzhong came to an abrupt end and retreated back to the court squad with fear.
He knew very well that according to Emperor Chongzhen's character, nothing he said was useless.
Chapter completed!