Wanli Xinming

Chapter 121 Wang Shizhen

In August of the third year of Wanli, the Songjiang area encountered a typhoon.Wang Yixiu hurriedly played to the court, saying that the sea was overflowing, the water gushed over a zhang, the fields were ruined for three thousand hectares, and there were more than [-] people floating, and he asked the court to provide relief.

In Taicang County, Suzhou, in the wind and rain, Wang Shizhen, who had moved out of the sealed mansion, and rented another house, watched the showers in the patio, and the sorrow in his heart was soothed.

After all, when this great wind and rain is imposed on him, he will meet for all peoples.However, the storm and thunder that the imperial court gave to his family was endured by hundreds of members of the Wang family alone.

Yesterday, the court's verdict on Wang Shizhen's cousins ​​Wang Shiwen, Wang Shide and their three children, the son of Wang Shimao's younger brother Wang Shiru, and Wang Shizhen's favorite eldest son Wang Shiqi has come down:
Wang Shiwen and Wang Shide twisted.Wang Shilu, Wang Shiqi, and their three older brothers, all five were exiled to Nanning.

In the heavy rain, Wang Shizhen could still hear the wailing from the back room of the rented residence.

"It's a complete defeat, a complete defeat! The Wang family is over, the Wang family is over!" The cry rolled in his heart, and the hot Wang Shizhen was short of breath, which made his tears flow like a spring, and bursts of choked sobs pressed down his throat, but he couldn't cry.

Wang Fengzhou, who was nearly half a hundred years old, could never have imagined that this great clan, which had been passed down for thousands of years, would fall into the abyss in a world of peace.Was it Li Lingzhi, the two brothers, Wang Shiwen and Wang Shide, who destroyed the Wang family?Is it Hai Rui's hot hand?Is it Zhang Juzheng, who is high in the temple and in charge of the country?Or his good teacher, Xu Jie, Xu Huating, who fought against the enemy? !
While gnashing his teeth, he heard a low cough behind him.Wang Shizhen quickly wiped her face, and when she turned her head to look, it turned out that it was her younger brother Wang Shimao who hesitated to speak.

Wang Shimao, who was previously the minister of Taichang Temple in Nanjing, was dismissed from office at the same time as Wang Shizhen because the Wang family was convicted.At this time, his eyes were also red, and when he saw Wang Shizhen's face was still full of tears, he whispered: "Brother, don't be sad, the doctor said that Shijun is fine-because he was frightened, he had convulsions and fever."

Wang Shizhen let out a sigh of relief when she heard that her younger son had passed the gate of hell.He has been in office for many years and has experienced many storms. At this time, he calmed down and said in a painful voice:
"The calamity of the Wang family is the only one I have called. In May of this year, there was an earthquake in Yunyang, and I was beyond my own power. In "Earthquake Shu", I insinuated a powerful official and made a bad relationship with him. That's why my family has changed! Zhang Juzheng, what a poisonous heart!" When he was done, he burst into tears.

Wang Shimao sighed after hearing this and said, "Big Brother does have something to do with Meng Lang, 'Internally, he cultivates his aspirations, and he uses Kun Dao's tranquility as his teaching; externally, he is prepared, and he uses conspiracy and danger as danger'. What does it have to do with earthquakes? Not to mention, three You also offended his brother-in-law during the month."

What Wang Shimao said was the beginning of the evil between Wang Shizhen and Zhang Ju.

In the 26th year of Jiajing, Wang Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng were Jinshi on the same list.These two were in the same year, one was the current chief assistant of the empire, and the other held the banner of the leader of the literary world, and was publicly elected as the leader of the literary world for more than ten years. They are both top figures today.

In the same year as them, there is also the famous Yang Jisheng.Back then, when Yang Jisheng was severely imprisoned, the public in the political arena remained silent.Only Wang Shizhen delivered the soup and medicine, and wrote a grievance letter on behalf of his wife to the Jiajing Emperor; after Yang Jisheng died, Wang Shizhen collected his corpse and went to the execution ground to pay homage.

At that time, his bloody deeds aroused the hatred of the strict party, and his father, Wang Yan, was caught for his fault and was arrested and imprisoned.At that time, two brothers, Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimao, knelt outside the gate of the Yan Mansion for several days, but failed to save their father. Wang Yan was finally sentenced to beheaded.

Wang Yan's death completely turned a literary youth who was interested in politics into literature, and he became the leader of the literary world in middle age.

The reason why he can get this prominent position before he is obedient, on the one hand, is indeed talented, and on the other hand, the reason is that his family's clear and high reputation accumulated in the process of "falling strict" played a role.Anyone who argues with Wang Shizhen about the words of Yili, that article is not as convincing as what he wrote.

The relationship between Wang Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng has been very good since the Jiajing Dynasty. After Zhang Juzheng entered the cabinet, Wang Shizhen once praised the visiting Qi Jiguang: "Jiangling Xianggong is honestly called the minister of the society and Ji, and today's minister is the luck of the country and the blessing of the people!"

Of course, he touted Zhang Juzheng in front of Qi Jiguang for another purpose - to rehabilitate his father Wang Yan.In the early years of Longqing, Gao Gong objected to Wang Yan's vindication, and Xu Jie supported it. In the end, the vindication was successful. It must be said that Zhang Juzheng was the center of the coordination in the same year.

Zhang Juzheng was expelled from Gao Gong in the sixth year of Longqing, and he continued to take care of Wang Shizhen.Prior to the Huguang Township Exam, he was sent to take the exam, and he wrote to Shu Nianting, Governor of Huguang, to recommend his talents: "The new Wang Lianxian Fengzhou, who is adept at writing and entrusting Cheng Zhi's work, will be able to do it for him and benefit the grand ceremony."

It's a pity that Wang Shizhen doesn't appreciate it. His ambition lies in the Hanlin Lantai, and he wants to repair the history of the country.Zhang Juzheng has expressed this wish many times before, but Zhang Juzheng, as Bing Guoyuanfu, also used Wang Shizhen's status as the leader of the literary world to declare to the scholars in the world that enlightened politics and the political style that all talents can be used, so he was still appointed official.

In just three years, Zhang Juzheng successively arranged for Wang Shizhen to serve as the inspector of Huguang, and in less than a year, he was transferred to the Beijing official Taipu Siqing. At the beginning of the third year of Wanli, he was transferred to a foreign official and served as the governor of Yunyang. The way to enter the pavilion is smooth.

But Zhang Juzheng's pretty eyes were shown to the blind, and Wang Shizhen was floating at this time. He was conceited that he was talented in the world, but he had no political heart.During his tenure, he handled the land dispute case of Xu Shiyan, a scholar of Yunyang, very hastily. Behind Xu Shiyan stood Zhang Juzheng's brother-in-law Wang Hua, who was cleaned up by Wang Shizhen together, which was equivalent to giving Zhang Juzheng eye drops.

At that time, Zhang Juzheng looked at the matter from the perspective of Wang Fengzhou's literati's sexual development. He also wrote a letter to Wang Shizhen to do some explanation work for his family. At the same time, he understood Wang Shizhen and said that he did the right thing.

In May of this year, there was an earthquake in Huguang, including Yunyang.What puzzled people all over the world is that Wang Shizhen, when there was a lot of uproar about the withdrawal of the fields from the Xu mansion, even appeared in the "Earthquake Shu". source.

The memorial was kept by Zhu Yijun, and Zhang Juzheng didn't say anything to the emperor.However, the subsequent thunderbolt of the imperial court uprooted the Wang family and made it impossible to recover.

At this time, Wang Shizhen, who was hit by the disaster, asked himself, was he trying to repay Xu Jie's kindness for rehabilitating Wang Yan at that time, or was he jealous of Zhang Juzheng and lost his mind?Or both?He asked himself that he couldn't get it, and Wang Shimao, who was beside him, couldn't even know why his brother suddenly became confused.

At this time, listening to Wang Shimao's accusations, Wang Shizhen was depressed and wanted to die.The leader of the dignified literary world, showing off his words, and his family has long been the laughing stock of the world.If Zhang Juzheng framed his family, it would be fine. With the name of innocence left, the family will always recover one day.

However, the continuous exposure of the "Huang Ming Nanjing Daily" vividly described the details of his family's participation in the civil upheaval, and even the dialogue between the series was published truthfully - this family's voice has been stinking ten miles away, what capital does the Wang family have? Turn over?
In fact, Wang Shizhen wronged Zhang Juzheng at this time, and Zhang Juzheng did not participate much in the handling of the Songjiang Civil Incident.

All Zhang Juzheng could do was to keep Xu Jie.He also couldn't open his mouth to protect Wang Shizhen, otherwise he would be suspicious of the emperor - teacher, the same year, you have been protected, Zhang Juzheng, what do you want to do?

What's more, Wang Shizhen's brain was out of breath, and he took the initiative to be evil with Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng's failure could be considered worthy of him.As for Zhu Yijun, he judged that Wang Shizhen was very popular, was it a clear stream? He used to slander the government as an ability to earn his high reputation. Zhu Yijun has seen a lot in later generations, and the "public knowledge" on the Internet is full of such things. .

So turn your palms down and show Jiangnan and the world's Shilin, no matter if you are a third-rank senior official or a Shilin leader, as long as you obstruct the new policy of the court, and want to obstruct the big policy by forming associations, inviting names, and even manipulating public opinion in Jiangnan, Always grind to powder.

Wang Shizhen, who was in the sound of wind and rain, was angry and ashamed, and was so depressed that she wanted to vomit blood.Wang Shimao was afraid that he would not think about it, and persuaded him, "Big brother, don't blame yourself, when Hai Rui was in the picket, there were the Xu family and the Zhuang family. I just regret that our family doesn't have long eyes, and there are no good guys from these two families. "

Not to mention these two, Wang Shizhen's mouth is full of bitterness.The old Xu family's counter-attack will bury the four convicted families in the pit, not to mention that they have not lost any reputation - Xu Jie's tail-cutting survival strategy has worked. Jiangnan public opinion did not think that the Xu family participated in the slave change. .If he really participated, would he still be beaten into the house by the starving people and almost didn't run out?
But the dealer was even more ruthless. Before Hai Rui could finish the case, the dealer started to withdraw the land.It turned out that his home occupied an area of ​​13 mu, and when Hai Rui's memorial was uploaded, there would be less than [-] mu left.

Afterwards, the owner of the banker burned the usury owed by his tenants, as well as the unpaid ground rent vouchers.This hand stunned the entire Jiangnan landlords at that time. Although Shilin didn't respond, he rose to fight the common people and regarded the bankers as the Buddhas of all families.

What's more, the banker will make up for the Tianfu that has been escaped by means of trickery, distribution and other methods over the years, and only this one, Jiaxing and Wuxian counties, will be able to collect the money for the three years of Wanli.

What Jiangnan Shilin didn't understand at the time was that the banker did all this without contacting Shilin to become famous, and he didn't show up to the court through any means.Because his family has supported Yizhuang for many years, the name of charity is the best in Suzhou, so the common people who do not know the truth, all sincerely believe that these things such as returning the farmland are the charity of the Zhuangjia.

Doing so wisely will of course be rewarded.Zhu Yijun, who received information from the Jiangnan area, made a light circle with the Zhubi, and the Zhuang family was drawn out of the decree issued by him.

And the emperor who was in the ninth level thought about the follow-up encounters of Zhuang and Wang families.

(End of this chapter)