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Chapter 179 Han Xu is arrested

"Han Du? Zhou Yanru? Zhang Pu?"

Zhu Youjian of course heard of these three people. After Chongzhen eradicated the eunuch party in history, he recalled Han Du and asked him to serve as the chief minister of the cabinet again.

After Han Yu recovered, he quickly promoted a large number of Donglin Party members, and the court finally ushered in the long-awaited dynasty.

But the Donglin Party members said that they were invincible in the world, but they were powerless in doing things. They knew that the Ming Dynasty's finances had already reached the verge of collapse, but they always blindly believed that the emperor's inner treasury was infinite. So they tried their best to instigate Emperor Chongzhen, who was addicted to the name of a wise king, to abolish the commercial tax and mining supervision tax, which made the national treasury even more embarrassing, and the finances were finally collapsed by them.

After the financial collapse, the Donglin Party members shamelessly distributed the important task of paying taxes to the farmers. The Liao and military pay had to be borne by the farmers, forcing the farmers to survive and could only rise up. The refugee rebellion in the Ming Dynasty began, and became more and more intense, and Li Zicheng eventually overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

There is no reason for later generations to dissipate the Donglin Party in a crazy way. Although from the perspective of God, there were thousands of reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt that the Donglin Party members who were infighting and in-house and governing the country and outsiders should bear a large part of the responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Han Du, who mastered the Ming Dynasty in the early two or three years of the Chongzhen Dynasty, was undoubtedly a typical representative of the Donglin Party’s incompetence in governing the country.

During his tenure as the chief minister of the cabinet, the Ming Dynasty truly fell into the boundless abyss. Even if some things have little to do with him, as the chief minister of the cabinet, he naturally has to bear most of the responsibilities.

But ironically, Han Yu actually received the reputation of "being prime ministers one after another, being mature and polite, attracting righteous people, suppressing evil parties, and calling them virtuous people in the world" in history books, which is really the number one joke in the world.

Zhou Yanru and Zhang Pu were also a pair of strange things. With his huge influence in the Donglin Party and the Fushe, Zhang Pu supported Zhou Yanru as the chief minister of the cabinet.

However, when Zhang Pu intended to control the government by controlling Zhou Yanru, he was assassinated by the cunning Zhou Yanru. Compared with Zhou Yanru, Zhang Pu was obviously highly jealous and was ridiculous.

These three people still stirred up a huge storm in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian did not expect that they would come together early in order to deal with their common purpose.

Wang Chengen encouraged: "Your Majesty, these people have ulterior motives and hide in the corner to stir up the storm. I even suspect that the repeated waves in the court are all their work. Your Majesty must not be ruthless and let these people go!"

The reason why Wang Chengen instigated Chongzhen to capture Han Du, Zhou Yanru and Zhang Pu was of course his selfish intentions.

Since Zhang Chaozhong returned, Wang Chengen has truly felt the tremendous pressure from Zhang Chaozhong, and his favor is almost surpassing him.

Outside the court, after Zhang Chaozhong bloody battle of the Xuzhou officialdom, his bad reputation made the children stop crying and shocked all officials.

In the eyes of many people, Zhang Chaozhong is undoubtedly the next Wei Zhongxian, who has the potential to become a powerful eunuch.

In contrast, Wang Chengen was too concise and did not achieve any outstanding results. The reason why he was able to sit in the position of eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and the governor of the East Factory was simply because he had taken advantage of serving Zhu Youjian for a long time, and his ability was far less than that of Zhang Chaozhong.

Faced with Zhang Chaozhong, who had a very obvious upward momentum, Wang Chengen undoubtedly felt a sense of crisis, so he wanted to make contributions to prove his ability by arresting Han Dong, Zhou Yanru and Zhang Pu.

Zhu Youjian originally wanted to let Han Yu and others go first to see who else was behind them, but when he recalled the extraordinary party struggles in the court, he still ordered: "Parent Wang, immediately order the troops and capture Han Yu, Zhou Yanru, and Zhang Pu."

Wang Chengen happily accepted the order and replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, I will act immediately and will arrest the thief."

...

In Han Yu's mansion, in the study, Han Yu, who was anxiously waiting for news, saw the butler pushing the door and standing up quickly and asked, "How is it? Is there any news?"

"Master, something big is not good. Qian Qianyi led all officials to knock on the palace and forced the palace to fail!"

When Han Yu heard this, the glitter in his eyes suddenly dimmed.

The so-called greater hope, the greater the disappointment. Although Han Yu was not mentally prepared for failure, he still couldn't hide his disappointment when he received the news of the failure.

Han Du said in a trembling voice: "How could it fail? Zhu Youjian was not up to the point of notifying the officials. What ability does he have to calm down when he faces the officials' beatings and forced to the palace?"

Through observations over the past six months, from Zhu Youjian's several indecisive behaviors, Han Du judged that Zhu Youjian had no ability and courage at all, and he was not as good as a ruler. He could not have imagined that Zhu Youjian was able to deal with the officials' forced palace.

The housekeeper replied: "Master, it's Qian Qianyi! The officials in the court were united and strongly advised His Majesty to kill the eunuch Zhang Chaozhong, but Qian Qianyi, the thief, turned against the enemy, and suggested to the emperor to kill Wang Shoulu, Wen Zhenmeng and Lu Chengyuan.

In addition, among the seven cabinet ministers in the cabinet, except for Sun Chengzong, who had always ignored the government affairs, the other five cabinet ministers and Qian Qianyi were in a mess and strongly advised the emperor to kill the three adults. So the emperor followed the situation and approved Qian Qianyi's request to behead Wang Shoulu, Wen Zhenmeng and Lu Chengyuan. "

"What?" Han Yu was dizzy and almost fainted.

"Master, are you okay?" The housekeeper was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to support Han Du.

Han Du calmed down, grabbed the butler's arm, and asked, "It's okay, Zhu Youjian killed Wang Shoulu, Wen Zhenmeng, Lu Chengyuan, what are the reactions of all officials? Will they watch Zhu Youjian kill Wenchen?"

The housekeeper said: "Although all the officials tried their best to dissuade the emperor, for some reason, the emperor's attitude was unprecedentedly strong. When the court ordered the guards to pull the three adults out and behead them.

The officials also wanted to advise the emperor, but after the guards presented the heads of the three adults, the officials shut up obediently. Only Yao Ximeng could not accept the fact that his uncle was killed and protested against the emperor's tyranny by hitting the wall."

Han Du wanted to ask again, but at this moment, a scattered sound came from outside the door.

Han Yu asked the butler to go out to see what happened. But before the butler could go out to the study room, the door of the study room was kicked open with a rough kick, but a group of Dongchang people came in.

The seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, the housekeeper was used to being arrogant and domineering. He was not afraid of seeing the Dongchang mansion and scolded angrily: "Who are you waiting for, dare to break into the Han Mansion? Are you afraid of your life?"

Unexpectedly, Dongchang Actor said coldly: "Pack all!"

"Stop, what are you going to do?" The butler struggled hard, but the Dongchang Man took out the chain and put it on the butler's neck, and immediately became honest.

Seeing this, Han Yu tried to calm down and said, "What do you mean by Han Yu, what do you mean by me?"

But I heard a voice coming from far to near, "Mr. Han, you are in trouble, come with us!"
Chapter completed!
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