Two riders heading south

Xu Cang returned to the capital with Yixin helplessness. At the same time, Xing Qi and others also brought him to She County, saw Tang Feng and everything they had inquired about, sent to Beijing through the express postman from the Nanzhen Fushishi, and to the hands of the eunuchs and the eunuchs.

At this time, something big happened in the capital. In October in late autumn, a head-on struggle broke out between the eunuch party and the Donglin party, which had been a little dispute and had no big fight.

The initiator of this fight was the Donglin Party, which is now in a disadvantaged position. They saw that Xu Cang had been away from Jing for some time and thought that he would be able to convince Tang Feng to lean on his side, so they immediately followed up with the second plan proposed by Wang Wenyan - to let the imperial envoys who stood on their side impeach the officials of the eunuch party, saying that they were corrupt and abused the law, saying that they used their power for personal gain and formed a clique for personal gain. In fact, apart from corruption, these eunuch party officials who did not occupy many key departments now could not seek much benefit for themselves. As for the fact that they formed a clique, it was no different from what Donglin had done.

So after learning about this, the eunuch party members, from Wei Zhongxian and Wei Guangwei to the Dongchang station, were furious. Almost immediately, the eunuch party began to instruct their censors to attack the Donglin party members. For a moment, the court had a quarrel. Today you said I would form a clerk, and tomorrow I would say you would seek personal gain.

However, although the people on both sides were quarreling fiercely, they could not really let the enemy take a fatal blow. The Donglin Party still controlled the government affairs, while the eunuch party members continued to stare at it. However, Wei Zhongxian could not swallow this. Since he and the emperor's wet nurse Yin Yue met with the emperor's wet nurse, successfully eliminated Wang An and controlled the inner court and the Dongchang Jinyiwei, he had encountered such a situation, but he also knew that under the current situation, he was not sure of winning, so he could only keep telling himself to endure. At this time, Nanjing sent the news from She County.

In fact, although Wei Zhongxian had paid attention to the case of the Wang family, he thought it was a good way to discredit the Donglin Party members. He did not regard it as a way to crack down on the foundation of the Donglin Party. Otherwise, he would not have only people from the Nanzhen Fushi Division like Xing Qi to do things. However, after reading the news delivered to Nanjing, he had another opinion. He hurriedly called some of his confidants to his mansion outside the palace.

If the Donglin Party gathered together that day and thought about the idea, then this place would be the ** Bizhi. Those who came were like Wei Guangwei, Cui Chengxiu, Gu Bingqian and others. These people were far less talented and skilled than Donglin and his men. Seeing that their confidants had arrived, Wei Zhongxian said with anger: "He Ye Xianggao and others are too forced. They control the court, but they don't even keep the place where we can settle down. They even impeach us repeatedly. It seems that we can't continue like this. We must find a way to drive them off the stage."

Several eunuch party backbones smiled bitterly in their hearts. Wei Zhongxian had never said this in front of everyone, but in fact they knew this truth in their hearts, but they could not find a way to attack the Donglin Party members. Just when several think tanks who were civil servants in the court were silent, Tian Ergeng, who was in charge of the Jinyiwei, spoke: "Don't worry, father-in-law, his subordinates have found a good way to attack them. News came from the Nanzhen Fushishi that those self-proclaimed upright Donglin Party members attach great importance to the case of the Wang family in She County. This time, an editor of the Hanlin Academy named Xu Cang went to see the county magistrate."

"What happened?" Cui Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian were not too concerned about this matter, but now he heard this and had a speculation: "Is this case really related to Donglin's think tank Wang Wenyan?"

Tian Ergeng had already discussed with Wei Zhongxian, so he immediately replied: "Mr. Cui, what you said is that this case is small, it is just a small case of persuading servants to commit crimes, but if it is big, it is a despise of the court and rebellion. Moreover, this matter also involves many local officials who are closer to the Kulin Party, such as the prefect of Huizhou Wang Zhanghe, and other officials from Nanzhili. If we can take this opportunity to make a case against those people, at least we can capture Wang Wenyan and a group of officials from Nanzhili to the capital."

When everyone else heard this, they were excited, but those who had previous experience said disapprovingly: "But Lord Tian, ​​don't forget that in the early years of the Tianqi period, we also sued Wang Wenyan in the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei. As a result, he was not only not guilty, but also promoted. This time, we cannot repeat the same mistake."

At this time, Xu Xianchun spoke: "The commander of the Jinyiwei back then was Luo Sigong. He and the Donglin Party members and snakes and rats would naturally not do anything to Wang Wenyan. But now the Zhao Prison is in my hands and Lord Tian. When Wang Wenyan enters the Zhao Prison, he should not go out intact without revealing some things. I have hundreds of torture instruments to try on him!" At this point, he showed an excited expression and unconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

Seeing him like this, Gu Bingqian sneered: "The matter is not yet finalized yet. You are so eager to capture the person in the imperial prison. Let's listen to what your father-in-law means first."

Wei Zhongxian looked at Gu Bingqian with satisfaction and said, "Yes, we must not be careless before this matter is done. The Donglin Party members sent the Hanlin to She County. On the one hand, we can see that the case has a great relationship with them, but on the other hand, we can also see that they have noticed this. This is an excellent opportunity. We must take the case before them."

Cui Chengxiu hurriedly followed Wei Zhongxian's wishes: "My father-in-law is wise. Since his Donglin party members can send Hanlin, who is of the same age as the county magistrate, to lobby him, of course, they will send a second person. So we must make plans early and take the case as soon as possible. My father-in-law, the subordinates think that a capable person should be sent to Nanzhili."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Guangwei shook his head: "Mr. Cui, your method is the same as that of the Donglin Party. If the county magistrate has been persuaded by Xu Cang, it will be useless for us to send people there. In my opinion, the people from the Nanzhenfusi Department should bring the county magistrate and the people from the Wang family to the capital in the name of the Jinyiwei. If the county magistrate is convinced, he, a county magistrate, dare not go against the Jinyiwei. If he did not change his mind, then what he had done before was just to make things worse, and he would not refuse to do so. In this way, the people in our hands, and it is unlikely that those Donglin Party members would want to go back. And the father-in-law can use this to make a promise to the emperor and let the emperor hand over the power of the case to us."

After hearing his two possible words, Wei Zhongxian felt very satisfied. He smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes: "Okay, Guangwei, you are really my Zhuge Liang. You have come up with such a good idea."

Hearing Wei Zhongxian calling his name directly, Wei Guangwei frowned indifferently. Now only Eunuch Wei will call his name in front of everyone. Others are either official positions or their own name Xianbo, but he also knew that this was because Wei Zhongxian had never read books, and he knew that he could not express any unpleasant expressions, so he hurriedly stood up and bowed: "Thank you, my father-in-law, for the praise."

When the rest of the people saw that the limelight had been snatched away by Wei Guangwei, they had no better idea. Moreover, Wei Zhongxian's words meant to use this method, so they agreed to this method one after another.

In less than half an hour, a fast horse came out of the capital and ran south.

When the eunuch party members celebrated with such a good opportunity, **xing looked at the person in front of him with anger, Xu Cang. Because the news he brought was that Tang Feng had not been persuaded by him. After holding the tea bowl and taking two steps, he sighed and said, "It's no wonder that you are not a mistake for this matter. If the Wang family had not taken Wang Fa seriously, they would not have caused such a disaster. I just didn't expect that the She County Magistrate would have ignored the overall situation of the court and kept advocating what he called justice. It's really..." He stopped and waved to Xu Cang, "Thank you for your hard work, so go back and have a good rest."

Xu Cang left **xing's mansion with guilt, and while he left, Wang Wenyan walked into the gate of **xing's family. He also heard that Xu Cang had arrived, so he rushed to find out the news. After all, this matter was related to his personal interests, so he had to be in a hurry.

After hearing Xu Cang's words reposted by **xing, Wang Wenyan was shocked at first, and then became angry. He really didn't expect that a county magistrate would have such a courage to make such a decision. Didn't he know that the current court was decided by the Donglin Party? After a long time, he calmed down: "Mr. Zhao means what should we do now?"

"I have no idea now, what do you think?"

Wang Wenyan's eyes flashed: "There is only one way now, that is, you have someone to remove Tang Feng's official position in the name of the Ministry of Personnel, so that the case will be left unresolved." Speaking of this, he found that **xing did not resist his words of using power for personal gain, and then continued: "But you must not let Master Ye Ge and Lord Yang know about this matter, otherwise they would not agree to us to do this. Fortunately, the appointment and removal of a county magistrate of She County does not have to go through the cabinet at all..."

Although **xing felt that this method was not open and upright, there was no better way, so he nodded and agreed.
Chapter completed!