Chapter 367
: Rebellion
The words were filled with gold and destroyed. When he saw the censors and other officials in the court saying the same thing, attacking Sun Chengzong together. Wei Zhongxian was fanning the flames and making an idea, even if Emperor Tianqi trusted Sun Chengzong, he had some suspicion. He immediately decided to meet his most trusted gentleman in person, hoping that he could give himself an explanation and voluntarily resign from his position as Minister of War.
When Sun Chengzong saw the emperor in casual clothes appearing in front of him, he knew that the opponent's attack had played a big role, so after the ceremony, he did not make any excuses. He just said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is over 60 years old and often lives in the bitter and cold places in Liaodong, and his health is no longer as good as before. After returning to Beijing, he has to manage so many ministries and is unable to do so. I also ask Your Majesty to see that the old minister is old and weak, so he will be allowed to resign from his official position and return to his hometown to retire!"
After hearing what he said, Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian were completely different. The emperor's not much suspicion disappeared when he heard that Sun Chengzong was about to resign, but his purpose here was to get Mr. Sun to leave the court, so he couldn't speak for a while. At the same time, he felt a little sorry for Sun Chengzong. Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed. It seemed that Sun Chengzong had indeed become very easy to deal with after losing military power, and this time he could easily drive him out of the court.
After a while, Tianqi said: "Mr. Sun, you are determined to retreat because someone in the court has been constantly impeaching you recently? In fact, I have never doubted you, so why do you resign from office?"
Seeing that the emperor suddenly wanted to keep Sun Chengzong, Wei Zhongxian's face became a little unnatural. He looked at Sun Chengzong nervously, afraid that what he said before was really a means of retreating to advance, and he would be happy at that time. Fortunately, Sun Chengzong did not have such an intention, but said sincerely: "Thank you for your trust in the old minister, but the old minister had the intention of returning to his hometown to retire when he left Liaodong, and it had nothing to do with this matter. Please ask the emperor to approve what the old minister asked for!"
When Tianqi was still waiting for further persuasion, Wei Zhongxian had already interrupted softly: "Your Majesty, it seems that Mr. Sun's intention to leave has been decided. It's time for him to return to his hometown to enjoy his old age. Don't be too forced to do it!"
After being slightly stunned, Tianqi said, "Since Mr. has made up his mind, I can't make any more obstruction. However, Mr. Sun has made contributions to the country. I will only ask you to resign after you have given me a good reward and thanked Mr. He to resign!"
"Thank you for your kindness!" Sun Chengzong knelt down again and thanked the emperor. Then he took a casual look at the already full of eunuchs. He knew that his fight with the eunuchs was completely over today and he was defeated by these people, but he believed that that person would remove this eunuchs for the people of the world.
Although the emperor repeatedly tried to keep Sun Chengzong in front of everyone when he received the memorial of resignation, Sun Chengzong had no intention of leaving, so on March 20, the sixth year of Tianqi, the emperor finally allowed him to resign from all his official positions, but the glory he had previously granted was not deprived at all. At the same time, the emperor also issued an order to give Sun Chengzong a hundred taels of gold as a travel expense, and there were countless silk and other items. As for the title of the Taifu, it was also the title of the title. In addition, because Sun Chengzong was from Baoding, Northern Zhili, and only half a day away from Beijing, the emperor specially allowed him to come to Beijing to meet him during the holidays. This was also the last bit of nostalgia for this hero and his teacher.
Although it seemed that this was a decision made by Sun Chengzong himself and the court gave him the glory he deserved, those who knew very well that everything that happened during this period still clearly knew that all this was inseparable from the impeachment of Sun Chengzong together with the court officials, and Tang Feng was among the people who knew much more than ordinary people.
When he heard that Sun Chengzong had "begging for bones", Tang Feng locked himself in the room, and saw no one, and had no food or drink. It was not until Tian Jingyan saw something was wrong and invited Liu Hui, who was already in a big belly, to persuade him that he walked out of his study. Everyone found that although the adult's face was calm, from his red and swollen eyes, everyone could still guess that the adult was crying. Tang Feng, who had never cried because of any difficult things, finally cried because of Sun Chengzong's incident this time. He was crying for his incompetence and helplessness. A man did not cry easily, just because he had not reached the place of injury!
After Tang Feng had completely calmed down, Tian Jing came to see him again: "Sir, it's not the time to be hurt. Lord Sun resigned to help you even his official position. You can't let his sacrifice be in vain."
Tang Feng's face became firm because of his reminder: "Yes, I can't retreat anymore. Now it is the moment of life and death. I must make a difference!" After saying this sentence almost like a war book, Tang Feng's eyes showed a lot of murderous intent: "What I should do now is to completely control the Jinyiwei in his hands!"
When the officials in the court were still saying something about Sun Chengzong's sudden resignation, there was already a big storm inside the Jinyiwei. In the past few days, although Tang Feng had some action, he only used the little people to take action and used the mistakes made by Huang Conghu and others to remove Xu Xianchun's power bit by bit. But suddenly, Tang Feng's actions became big. He blatantly ordered people to punish Huang Conghu and others, as well as the middle and lower-level military officers of the Jinyiwei who were later caught, and let them explain where the cost of the Jinyiwei worth hundreds of thousands of taels was gone.
Even the Jinyiwei's use of torture can't bear even his own people. After several heavy tortures such as torture, cannons and other heavy tortures, these people could no longer bear it and confessed everything. Of course, Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun were indispensable. It turned out that these people were still thinking that they might find a backer after they clinged these two people, which made Tang Tongzhi have some concerns, but unexpectedly, Tang Feng wanted these testimonies, and he soon sent all the testimonies he received to Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian has been so happy that Sun Chengzong has been cleaned up these days, and has completely forgotten the promise he had made to Tang Feng. Now, after seeing the materials he sent, he knows what Tang Feng meant. He changed his mind to clear the fields and Xu and the others from the territory of the Jinyiwei.
In response, Wei Zhongxian did not accept Yang Changzhou's suggestion that he asked these two people to restrain Tang Feng, but agreed to Tang Feng's request and took down these two good helpers from his past. In Eunuch Wei's dictionary, there was no such thing as feelings. The people under his command were divided into useful and useless. Those who were useful would be valued and would give the other party the supreme power, while those who were useless would throw them away as if they were abandoned, and even squeezed out their residual value. Obviously, Tang Feng is very useful to Eunuch Wei now, and Xu and Tian are useless. Since these two are useless, Eunuch Wei is naturally happy to buy Tang Feng, a person who needs great use.
After learning about Wei Zhongxian's decision, Tang Feng's face, which had been tense for the past few days, only showed a little smile. Just as he was about to send someone to Xu and Tian and his men's mansion to handle them, a group of people suddenly broke into the Beizhen Fushiya Yamen.
Since its establishment, no one dared to treat them so arrogantly. When people walked past the Beizhen Fushi, they avoided themselves, fearing that they would be captured by the spies inside. Even when the East Factory was extremely arrogant, no one dared to break through. But today, someone broke through the obstacles of the lieutenant in front of the door and rushed to Tang Feng's house where he was doing business.
When the Jinyiwei saw this, he was furious and surrounded him, holding the Xiuchun Sword in his hands. Those who broke into the door did not even look at these people, but stared at Tang Feng, with contempt and disdain in his eyes. When he saw these people, Tang Feng's heart skipped a beat. Afterwards, he completely forgot to communicate with the person in front of him, which caused the other party to misunderstand him. This person was naturally Yuan Chonghuan.
In fact, after learning about Sun Chengzong's resignation, Yuan Chonghuan was a little sad, but he had no choice but to know the current court. However, the arrival of a man brought him a message that made him angry. The person who met him was Song Yi who was protecting him safety. This person who was extremely loyal to Sun Chengzong did not know the agreement between him and Tang Feng, but he had noticed that there were many people around him for a while.
When Sun Chengzong was impeached, Song Yi guessed that the impeachment of these officials was related to the actions of the surveillance officers, so on the night before, he personally followed the spies and learned the fact that they were Jinyiwei. It turned out that everything was done by Tang Feng, the current supervisor of Jinyiwei. After knowing this reality, Song Yi was really unbelievable. Then the confusion in his heart erupted with Sun Chengzong's resignation.
However, Song Yi also understood that his power was not enough to be an enemy of Tang Feng, so he had to turn to Yuan Chonghuan for help. When he heard that this was actually done by Tang Feng, Yuan Chonghuan could not bear this tone. Under the instigation of Song Yi and other tiger cavalry, Yuan Chonghuan led his people to the Beizhen Fusiya Office, and he wanted to ask Tang Feng in person if this matter was true.
Of course, the lieutenant of the Jinyiwei's military skills were not the opponents of the Tiger Cavalry and the Liaodong elite soldiers led by Yuan Chonghuan. They made them break in front of Tang Feng in a few strokes. For a moment, the atmosphere in the hall became solemn. Under the tension, perhaps a bloody incident would occur in one action, which was something Tang Feng didn't want to see at all...
Chapter completed!