The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 357
Mao Wenlong pondered that if Mr. Huang got involved in North Korea, it would be of great benefit to the future development of Dongjiang Town to restore the Tuntian District.

He said: "Master Huang, Dongjiang Town is so poor that there is only one life left. If Master Huang sends troops to North Korea, he will definitely be willing to be a pawn. You can rest assured that the sons and daughters under his command are not cowards. Everyone has a blood feud with Jiannu. Every time I play, I don’t care about myself.”

Huang Sheng patted Mao Wenlong's thick shoulder and said, "Shuai Mao Gao Yi deserves to be the Minister of the Humerus of Ming Dynasty, yes! It's a deal, when the time comes, the Huang and Mao families will bleed Jiannu together."

Mao Wenlong has a population of hundreds of thousands, and most of them are doing nothing on the island. The public security situation is terrible. He knows that population is the key to development, and he is reluctant to abandon these Liao people who took the initiative to seek refuge.

If the land is regained and land reclamation is available, it will not only increase the food supply, but also prevent many people from fighting and fighting all the time when they are idle on the island.

After negotiating this gratifying matter, Mao Wenlong drank happily and passed out, and Mao Chenglu helped him board the warship and return to Phi Island.

On August [-]th, the seventh year of Tianqi, Emperor Zhu Youxiao died in Qianqing Palace. Emperor Tianqi had three men and two women, none of whom grew up, and eventually had no children.The posthumous edict established Zhu Youjian, the fifth younger brother Xin Wang, as the emperor, who was later the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the last true emperor of the Han people, Chongzhen Emperor.

At the end of his life, Zhu Youxiao entrusted his younger brother Zhu Youjian with state affairs, saying: "My brother should be Yao and Shun."

It's a pity that Zhu Youjian only obeyed his elder brother's last words and treated Queen Zhang kindly. Not only did he not reuse Wei Zhongxian, but he killed Wei Zhongxian only a few months after he came to power.

During the Ming Dynasty's national mourning period, all entertainment activities were stopped, except for the "Blood Fire Liaodong" drama, which was still widely publicized to create momentum for this drama.

Cao Huachun finally turned around in September. Emperor Chongzhen sent someone to pick him up and return to Beijing. Zhang Youlu took nine young men and escorted Cao Huachun to the foot of the imperial city with the captain of Jinyiwei. The old eunuch had only been with ten people for half a year. The boy Yiyi bid farewell, but the old eyes were filled with tears.

Since all public entertainment venues in Daming dared not open for business, the number of members of "Wonderland on Earth" increased exponentially. Although the dance halls and billiard halls here were closed, bathing was not within the scope of the ban, and there was no place for dignitaries at night. Looking for fun, I had to come to the sauna in groups of three or five to talk about the mountains.

The imperial court is in a time of turmoil, and officials in sensitive periods have to connect together, but they can't visit each other to teach others, so the chance encounter in the "fairyland on earth" has become a tacit understanding.

Later, it developed into a "fairyland on earth" and became a gathering place for officials from all walks of life in the imperial court. Officials from various departments of the Ming Dynasty can find it here, and it has become the best place for social interaction in the upper class.

Membership cards are sought after, and they are really a status symbol. Too many businessmen who want to find a way to do things have no choice but to ask for it. Of course, the Huang family is very profitable.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he wanted to work hard to govern, and immediately operated the Donglin Party with too many bureaucrats in power, and the Ming Dynasty began the so-called "All Zhengying Dynasty".It's a pity that the development of the current situation has blatantly slapped these Donglin party members who can only think about people but not about things.

The refugees in Shaanxi started to make troubles, and it became more and more violent. Because the Donglin Party adopted a loose fiscal and taxation policy that did not compete with the people for profit, Daming's mining tax, commercial tax, and vehicle and boat tax dropped sharply, and fiscal expenditures were stretched.

The Donglin Party does not compete for profit with the people, but with bureaucratic capital, and the tax burden of poor peasants increases instead of decreases.Because of their absurd ruling ideas, the people are even more miserable, and many people are indirectly pushed to the opposite of the court.

A clown jumped out again. Not only was he restored to his post, but he was also able to appear in Emperor Chongzhen's sight.The honest boy Zhu Youjian listened to Yuan Chonghuan's rhetoric several times and thought that this person was worthy of great use, so he gave him the official position of Minister of the Ministry of War.

Fortunately, the governor of Liaodong Military Department Shangshu Wang Zhichen is very different from history. Because Huang Sheng took him to burn Xinwang's cold stove too early, Emperor Chongzhen had a good impression of him and trusted him.

And because the situation in Liaodong has not been corrupted beyond control, the king's ministers have not been moved for the time being.

In late October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the impeachment of Cui Chengxiu for infidelity and unfilial piety by the Donglin party member Jia Jichun, the censor of Zhili, kicked off the prelude to eunuchs.In November, Wei Zhongxian, the admiral of Dongchang who had power over the ruling and opposition parties, fell, and Chongzhen sent him to Fengyang, the central capital, to face the crime.

The Donglin Party naturally made trouble, whether it was unfounded or not, they collected dozens of crimes enough to cause Wei Zhongxian to die a hundred times.

Chongzhen, who is easy to be fooled by others, was fooled and prepared to avoid future troubles.He is too ignorant of power, and Wei Zhongxian should be kept without Wei Zhongxian, the living have something to say, and the dead have nothing to say!It's too late to regret after death!
On the way to Fengyang, the central capital, Wei Zhongxian received a secret report from a young eunuch, knowing that Tiqi had set off to arrest him.

The old eunuch knew that he could not have a good result, so he gave the little eunuch all the money he carried with him, telling him to run for his life as far as possible, and never come looking for him again.

That night, he heard someone singing outside the posthouse: "The shadow of the cold moon is accompanying, and the neighing of the horse is choking. It seems so desolate, it is really worse than death."

Thinking of the glory and wealth of the past, Wei Zhongxian also felt that he would rather die, so he lamented several times and hanged himself in the posthouse.

The old eunuch Wei Zhongxian died. In fact, he was demonized by later generations. His loyalty to the Ming emperor was much higher than those civil officials, and there is no evidence that Wei Zhongxian had violated the people and killed them wantonly when he was in power.

But the conclusion of history is that he is a bad guy who does all kinds of evil.Huang Sheng believes that there are no good or bad people in party struggles, they are all people with personalities.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no question of right or wrong, good or bad, and officials formed cliques for personal gain and to challenge the imperial power.

In the end, it gradually developed into a deformity. When encountering things, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, and whether it is beneficial to the country or not, the party will fight against differences.

The reason why the Liaodong war in the Tianqi year was defeated again and again was because of the fierce party struggle. Xiong Tingbi, Wang Huazhen, etc. were actually victims of the party struggle.

The chaotic court changed the officials, staring at each other to compete for the fruits of victory, and those senior officials who had studied new words fell down one after another, with the exception of one person, Yuan Chonghuan, who had both sides.

In December, Huang Sheng, who was already the fourth-rank Zuoqian capital censor leading the pass, came to Shanhaiguan to meet Wang Zhichen, who was once again supervising Liaodong.

Huang Sheng gave a lot of kits, such as ivory, rhino horn and other special products of the southern country, counted as early New Year greetings, the two are already a party, of course they will talk about court affairs.

Huang Sheng learned from Wang Da's population that Yuan Chonghuan had gained the trust of Emperor Chongzhen and made his way up the sky, and recently won the command of Jin Yiwei, Shi Yin.

On a whim, he planned to test Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards him, and immediately wrote an impeachment memorial listing Yuan Chonghuan's many shortcomings.

Among them, the three most destructive ones are negotiating money privately, actively asking to build new words, and building slave soldiers who only wanted to protect themselves but not save Jinzhou when they pressed the border, asking the court to punish him and remove him from office, and continue to let him go home and take care of his children.

The fierce impeachment memorial is to express one's own attitude and let the emperor make a choice. If the court appoints Yuan Chonghuan as the supervisor of Liaodong, he will immediately resign and go back to seclusion, vowing not to be with this person.

(End of this chapter)