Prince of Chaos

Chapter 489 Wan Fang is at fault

Ruixue Fengnian.

There was a lot of snow in the 26th year of Wanli, which was in stark contrast to the 1566th year of Jiajing in "Da Ming Dynasty 40", which did not snow.

In the plot of the TV series, Zhou Yunyi, who is the supervisor of the Qintian Supervisor, said that the reason why it does not snow is because "the imperial court is spending too much, the government is corrupt and ink is rampant, the people are living in poverty, and the sky is angry and people complain."

In the end, Zhou Yunyi, who had the upper hand, was beaten to death by Feng Bao.

However, Feng Bao did not receive any punishment. What really put Feng Bao on the line of life and death was that he later corrupted Ruixue's work and offended several ancestors of the Supervisor of Rituals.

From this, it can be inferred that what Zhou Yunyi did was acquiesced by Emperor Jiajing.

As for why Zhou Yunyi had to acquiesce in his death, the answer is also very simple.

Because Zhou Yunyi forgot his duty!
How can a Qin Tianjian, who is as big as a sesame seed and mung bean, have the right to comment on astronomical phenomena?
Qin Tianjian only needs to explain the astronomical situation to the emperor without embellishment, which is considered to be conscientious.

But what did Zhou Yunyi do?

The non-headed said that it does not snow because "the imperial court is spending too much, the government is corrupt and ink is rampant, the people are in dire straits, and the sky is angry and people complain."

Does he think he is the censor?Or the cabinet ministers?

This is a typical misplaced position, in vain attempt to invite fame directly, and trap the father of the king in an unrighteous way.

Killing such a person is not a loss.

Now, the same situation is before Zhu Changluo's case.

However, this Qintian supervisor is more responsible than Zhou Yunyi in the TV series. He just vaguely talked about his calculation of the current celestial phenomena and some more professional Zhouyi terminology. He didn't say a word about politics. .

However, just because Qin Tianjian didn't say anything, it doesn't mean that no one said anything about it.

For example, those censors and six subjects who have the right to play rumors themselves.

Because of the heavy snowfall for several days, the entire capital seemed to be wearing a white and flawless, shining snow suit.

This snow suit looks pretty, but it is actually extremely dangerous. Many people living at the bottom of society inside and outside the capital have already been reported to have died of freezing.

Although Shuntian Mansion is also trying its best to rescue, the mobilization ability and material allocation ability of the feudal dynasty must be limited.

So, gradually, some people began to talk about the heavy snowfall.

The first to attack was the birthplace of the famous mouth strong king - the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Liuke Yandao.

There are hundreds of large and small censors in these two yamen, accounting for nearly a quarter of the more than 2000 Beijing officials.

It can be seen from this that once these people talk about it, they can really control the public opinion in the capital instantly.

Therefore, besides having a headache, Zhu Changluo had to deal with it carefully.

Although he knew that the reason for the continuous snowfall in the capital was due to the Little Ice Age, but these people didn't know.

Moreover, even if they know, they will continue to use the astronomical phenomena to talk about things.Because this kind of thing has more advantages than disadvantages for them.

Therefore, they are trying to gain political benefits by taking advantage of the celestial phenomena.

But this time, the target of their attack is the cabinet!
A censor said that the continuous snowfall in the sky was because the cabinet did not practice morality, which caused the sky to warn.

Therefore, their political appeal is to ask the court to choose a generation of virtuous and virtuous people to enter the cabinet, so as to rectify the righteousness.

Bring heaven back to normal.

After seeing these memorials, Zhu Changluo called Dong Qichang first, and now Dong Qichang can be regarded as the leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The reason why Dong Qichang was called here was because Zhu Changluo wanted to know about these Shangshu censor trends in advance.

After Dong Qichang was summoned by Zhu Changluo, he immediately went to Ciqing Palace in the wind and snow without stopping.

Zhu Changluo looked at Dong Qichang who was covered in wind and snow, and he said kindly: "Bring a stove to Master Dong to get rid of the cold."

Dong Qichang was moved by Xie En.

After Dong Qichang held the heater in his hand, he dispelled the cold air brought from outside.

Zhu Changluo asked: "Master Dong, what's going on in the Metropolitan Procuratorate recently?"

As soon as Dong Qichang heard this, he understood that the crown prince would definitely not ask such things for no reason.

But what does the crown prince want to ask?

Dong Qichang racked his brains for a while, and finally he realized that His Royal Highness must be asking about Tianxiang.

Now, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate seemed to have a collective climax, frantically expressing their opinions in front of the continuous heavy snow.

Even Dong Qichang, the actual controller of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, could not control this public opinion.

After all, these censors are all Qingliu with a deep background. When three or five of them unite, it can be said that they are not afraid of the sky and the earth. Is the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate a ball?What's more, Dong Qichang is not yet the chief constitution.

Therefore, when they started something, they would never report it to Dong Qichang.

They will only communicate with the political forces behind them.

The reason why these censors can do whatever they want is simple.

That is because Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of this dynasty, once said that the official censor cannot be convicted by words.

Although there are also some desperate censors who always use the emperor to gain political fame, but are killed by the emperor.

However, these killed censors became heroes among civil servants in an instant, and the emperor who killed the censors was forced to shut himself up.

Therefore, gradually the emperor indulged these censor officials.

This has also led to a disguised form. For the sake of interests and selfish desires, many speech officials should have emphasized the truth and rejected rumors. The loyal speech officials have become tools for party struggle. They began to impeach for the sake of impeachment and opposed for the sake of opposition.

In the end, it led to the chaos of the political situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the increasingly fierce party struggle.

Dong Qichang replied in a low voice: "Your Highness, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been discussing astronomical phenomena recently."

A smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Changluo's mouth. It seems that Master Dong has also learned to figure out what he wants.

Zhu Changluo said: "What celestial phenomenon are they talking about?"

After Dong Qichang heard Zhu Changluo's question, he was sure that he answered correctly.

Therefore, Dong Qichang said: "Recently, the capital has been constantly snowing. Some censors believe that this is the result of the court's failure to cultivate virtue. Therefore, they are talking about this celestial phenomenon."

After hearing this, Zhu Changluo sighed in a pretentious manner, "Wan Fang is at fault, and I am the one to blame. The emperor gave Gu the burden of supervising the country, and now the fault is naturally Gu's fault."

Dong Qichang panicked when he heard this, how could the crown prince be wrong?

If he made a mistake, wouldn't the entire court officials be wrong?

After all, Zhu Changluo, the crown prince, has always been the representative of orthodoxy in the hearts of all civil servants, the continuation of the country.

If he was wrong, wouldn't he say that all the officials in the court are blind treacherous ministers?
Therefore, in their view, anyone in the world can make mistakes, even the emperor, but only the crown prince can make mistakes.

Because, the Crown Prince is their foundation of justice.

Otherwise, what are they fighting for in their country-based struggle?
Is it just to fight for a mistake?
Dong Qichang panicked: "Your Highness, you are not wrong."

Zhu Changluo said, "Why does it keep snowing this day?"

Dong Qichang said: "The censors said that this is the reason why the cabinet does not cultivate morality."

Zhu Changluo said again: "So it's because of the cabinet? It seems that these censors know more about celestial phenomena than the officials of Qin Tianjian."

After Dong Qichang heard this, he understood that the Crown Prince was not dissatisfied with someone talking about the astronomical phenomena.

So Dong Qichang said: "Your Highness, I don't think so."

(End of this chapter)