Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 662 Party struggle is the top priority (third update)

Unspoken rules are not the rules?

Chongzhen didn't understand this way, so the courtiers resisted collectively when he dealt with Ma Shiying.

The point of criticism is that the eunuchs have great power, can it be of any benefit to the emperor?

Is Your Majesty going to raise another Wei Zhongxian?
Chongzhen refuted it and continued to go his own way.

Zhang Yixian, the eunuch of the prime minister's ceremonies in the household and industry departments, ordered the household and industry departments to give orders. He ignored the minister and the minister, and even ordered all officials below the doctor to come to pay homage.

Gao Hongtu, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, did not want to be under the eunuch, and protested: "There is a government office in the ministerial department, with the seat of the minister in the middle, and the seats of the ministers on both sides, this is the general of the country.

Today's internal minister Zhang Yixian is ordered to be the second minister of the prime minister, and he is above the minister and the minister. This is an insult to the court and a blasphemy of the state system.

The minister is the minister, and he is the deputy of the minister, not the deputy of the minister. For the sake of the country, the minister must be cautious. "

If the eunuch is not transferred, he will resign directly.

Regarding the courtier's resignation, Chongzhen directly ignored it, and then Gao Hongtu wrote resignation nine times in succession, which angered Chongzhen and directly reduced him to the people.

Don't want to do it?
Then don't even think about being an official in this life.

But this disposition did not scare the courtiers. Even though they were not good at handling state affairs, they were particularly good at confronting the emperor.

Jin Xuan, the head of the Ministry of Industry, made an appointment with his colleagues not to pay a private visit, which annoyed Zhang Yixian and was impeached and dismissed.

Zhou Shipu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, was questioned by Chongzhen because he did not want to cooperate with Zhang Yixian.

Chongzhen originally wanted to exterminate the thieves in Shanxi, and many courtiers should have worked together, but now the court and the eunuchs are fighting more and more fiercely.

The eunuchs think why you people can make money, and if we make a little money, we will come and cut off our money?

Why!
Isn't this bullying rootless people?

All I want is justice!
Nanjing Yushi, the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the head of the Ministry of Industry impeached Zhang Yixian, a minister, and was dismissed, convicted and sent to the garrison, and sent to prison for punishment.

After eunuch Liu Yunxie impeached Xuanda governor Ma Shiying, eunuch Wang Kun immediately followed up, directly impeached the inspector censor, participated in major affairs in the court, and began to attack the chief assistant Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru's previous in-laws champion Chen Yutai, who joined the Imperial Academy at this time, immediately impeached the eunuch Wang Kun, and then attracted more impeachments against him.

"Back when the No. [-] scholar was parading in the streets, you were captured by bandits. Why didn't you die as a No. [-] scholar!"

Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant, was in a more difficult situation. Zhang Tinggong, the governor of Datong, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, whom he promoted, were believed to be the result of bribing Zhou Yanru, which aroused public dissatisfaction.

His children's family ran rampant in the village, arousing public indignation and being corrected by the officials.

His elder brother Zhou Suru pretended to be from Jinyiwei and got a position of a thousand households.

His family member (slave) Zhou Wenyu became the deputy commander in chief, and he was attacked even more.

It can be said that one person is an official, and even the "dog" in the family is organized.

The eunuch Wang Kun and others said that if we are not clean, you scholars are not going to be clean!
Zhou Yanru submitted a letter of resignation in accordance with the usual practice, and was retained by Chongzhen.

With the occurrence of the Wuqiao Mutiny, Chongzhen's trust in Zhou Yanru became shaken in his heart.

The old general Mao Wenlong of Phi Island mutinied, and Sun Yuanhua took over the rebel generals of Phi Island, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan and other generals.

As Zu Dashou was besieged, Sun Yuanhua sent Kong Youde to the front with [-] cavalry for reinforcements, but the Liaodong soldiers in Dengzhou were at odds with the Shandong soldiers.

When Kong Youde arrived at Wuqiao, due to heavy rain and snow, the troops were insufficiently supplied.

When the army arrived at Wuqiao, there were frequent frictions with Shandong people, and the county people closed their doors to stop the market.

A soldier forcibly took a chicken from the servant of Wang Xiangchun, a prominent family in Shandong.

Therefore, Li Yingyuan ordered soldiers to kill the servant. Afterwards, Wang Xiangchun's son refused to give up and demanded to find out the truth.

Li Jiuzheng spent all the horse money Sun Yuanhua gave him, fearing that he would be accused, so he robbed and mutinied.

The Wang family, a prominent family in Shandong, was hit hard.

Kong Youde was instigated by Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan's father and son to rebel and fell into several cities in Shandong.

After Kong Youde refused to support Zu Dashou, he turned his back on the Shandong peninsula, captured several cities, and led his troops to Dengzhou.

Sun Yuanhua urgently ordered Zhang Tao to lead the Liao soldiers to guard outside the city of Dengzhou, and to fight against Zhang Ke, the commander-in-chief, and the two forces formed a joint attack.

But Zhang Tao and Kong Youde were old friends, and Zhang Tao's soldiers immediately joined Kong Youde's ranks.

Everyone rebelled together, gorging on wine and meat.

Most of the only loyal minister Zhang Ke was defeated and fled back to Dengzhou.

Kong Youde's former friends Geng Zhongming and Chen Guangfu in Dengzhou city raised fire and opened the door at night to respond. Dengzhou fell in January of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

General Zhang Keda first killed his wife and concubines and then committed suicide. Most of the Portuguese mercenaries under Sun Yuanhua died in battle.

Because Sun Yuanhua took the initiative to accept Kong Youde and was kind to them in the past, he showed his interests and righteousness to the rebels in prison. Kong Youde was originally bewitched to rebel, and after being persuaded, he asked for peace.

Chongzhen also agreed with Sun Yuanhua's convicting with crimes, but Wang Daochun, the inspector, hid the imperial edict, and the rebels could not seek peace for a long time, and the rebellion resumed.

Sun Yuanhua persuaded the rebels to return to the court to tell the truth and give everyone an explanation.

When Kong Youde released Sun Yuanhua to return to Beijing, Wang Daochun attacked the rebels and the chaos expanded.

After the mutiny, the court said that Sun Yuanhua had rebelled.

However, more impeachments were directed at the first assistant Zhou Yanru, and all of this was promoted by the second assistant Wen Tiren.

Because of the position of chief assistant, he also wants to sit!
Wen Tiren secretly ordered the eunuch Wang Kun to impeach him, and then implicated Zhou Yanru and forced him to resign.

As for the military chaos in Dengzhou that cannot be resolved in time, so what?
Everything has to pave the way for Wen Tiren to become the chief assistant.

When Sun Yuanhua returned to the capital, he was framed by political enemies and sent to Zhenfusi Yamen, where he was severely punished. The Dengzhou rebellion was conclusive evidence and he was sentenced to death.

Zhou Yanru wanted to exonerate Sun Yuanhua from the death penalty, so he asked Xu Guangqi for help, and wrote a letter together, but Chongzhen, seeing the convincing confession, refused, and approved Sun Yuanhua to be executed in the west of Beijing after this autumn.

Chongzhen hurriedly sent people to governor Denglai to prevent the rebel Kong Youde from advancing westward, and someone wrote a letter to appease Kong Youde.

The imperial court hesitated and almost let the situation of corruption in Shandong not unrelated to this kind of infighting between the court and China.

The conflict between Chongzhen and the courtiers was entirely because he wanted to expand the power of the eunuchs, although he took very tough measures to protect the eunuchs and not allow the courtiers to object.

But he also understands in his heart that even if the eunuch is his own, those palace servants are mostly greedy, contemptible and foolish people.

Chongzhen used these people as confidantes and backbones, firstly because of the difference between inside and outside, there is a psychological and emotional factor.

Chongzhen is a person with great face and great reputation.

He clearly knew that if he overemphasized his ministers, he probably wouldn't get much praise either in the actual word-of-mouth or in the future historical records.

But he has no other way to check and balance the courtiers!

(End of this chapter)