Chapter 517
Wei Zhongliang is dead.
Like Aqina, he died from the suspicion of the emperor.
The difference is that Aqina has a clear conscience and Wei Zhongliang is worthy of death.
But no matter whether loyal or treacherous is suspicious of the emperor, the outcome will be similar. The difference is how to die.
Just like a melon, when you doubt whether it is a raw melon, it is no longer ripe.
Because it doesn’t matter whether it is a raw melon or not, what’s important is that you are afraid of it as a raw melon.
The same is true for the emperor. When the emperor doubts you, it doesn’t matter whether you are loyal or traitorous. What’s important is that the emperor is afraid of you.
There is no way. The profession of the emperor has been high-risk since ancient times. Almost half of the evidence was conclusive, and half of them died inexplicably, and few of them had good beginnings and ended well.
There is a total of one stone of poison in the world, and the palace occupies eight dou.
What is a lonely person? This is a lonely person. Trust requires life to bet on.
Since ancient times, emperors have been very careless, and killing brothers, fathers, sons, and wives is not new, let alone the officials.
When Wei Zhongliang died, the emperor was furious and issued two imperial edicts to order Feiyuwei to solve the case quickly.
Feiyuwei immediately detained all monks in Guangyuan Temple to investigate.
After some search, the problem was found.
A few months ago, Guangyuan Temple hosted two monks from Liao, and found items with Di clan characters from their personal belongings and an empty bottle containing poison that had no time to be destroyed.
This is called stolen and captured.
After interrogation, the two monks not only admitted their crimes, but also confessed their identities - the shadow work of the eight tribes of Di State. The main task of going south was to lurk and assassinate important figures in Dali.
So within less than half a day, Feiyuwei closed the case.
People, physical evidence, confessions and confessions are all there, and the iron case is like a mountain.
When the emperor learned about the results of the case, he immediately issued an order to execute Di Lu Xizuo Lingchi. All the monks in Guangyuan Temple were sent to guard the border and ordered the Hanlin Academy to write a biography of Wei Zhongliang and buried him with a grand ceremony.
In general, Chongzheng's action to eliminate Wei Zhongliang was extremely successful.
As soon as Liu Chang'an's memorial appeared, he quickly handed Liu Chang'an over to Wei Zhongliang to handle it to show comfort and trust. After temporarily stabilizing Wei Zhongliang, he decisively killed Wei Zhongliang through Feiyu Secret Guard.
But Chongzheng ignored one thing: the eunuch party is the only political force that can suppress the Donglin Party, and the survival of the eunuch party is entirely due to Wei Zhongliang.
As soon as Wei Zhongliang died, the eunuch party lost his backbone.
The only one who was quite prestigious was the Minister of War Choi Chengxiu. However, before Cui Chengxiu could stabilize the morale of the army, the Donglin Party members beat him to death on the morning court the next day.
That's right, a group of officials who could not take the shoulders and could not bring civil servants to death when they were in court.
His behavior is like a battle between the world.
Chongzheng was shocked when he heard the news and quickly issued an order to capture several officials involved in the group beating.
However, he still did not realize the seriousness of the matter and did not use this to suppress Donglin to support the eunuch party or other factions. Instead, he raised the board high and gently fell down amid the calls of the Donglin party, and only fined the arrested officials for three months' salary.
After the arrested officials in Donglin were released, they not only did not feel ashamed, but also proud, and regarded themselves as "the heroes of the eunuch" with glorious faces.
Since then, the balance of the Dali court has been completely unbalanced, and a vigorous liquidation action against the eunuch party has been unavoidable.
On the eighth day of the lunar calendar, Yan Wenzhong, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, counted 30 crimes of Wei Zhongliang and his eunuch party, and asked to kill the eunuch party.
On the 19th day of the eighth lunar month, the Minister of Personnel jointly appointed twenty-three officials and requested a thorough investigation of Wei Zhongliang.
On the 20th day of the eighth day of the lunar calendar, 76 officials from the court and the country jointly requested a thorough investigation of the five tigers and five bells, including Wei Zhongliang, Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun.
For several days after that, all kinds of black materials from the eunuch party flew onto the Chongzheng Den, and the sounds of requesting the killing of the eunuch party were rising and falling, so that the morning court could not discuss matters at all.
Because no matter what is being reported, a few words can always involve the matter of being accused of being accused of the overthrow, and then one-sidedly criticize.
The weak Southern Party, Propaganda Party, and General Party, and Northern Party saw that the wind was wrong, so in order to avoid being implicated, they joined the siege one after another.
As for the eunuch party, the end of the world is coming. Some seek self-protection and backward as the leader, some hold boxes of gold and silver to bribe the boss Donglin, and some simply resign and run away.
The only little resistance force was also submerged in the tide of saliva.
With the help of the eunuch party, Donglin has more firepower, one by one, and it can be said that the evidence is conclusive and the evidence is as strong as a mountain.
Even if Di Renjie is alive, he can't say anything.
When the wall fell, everyone pushed it, and when the drum broke, thousands of people beat it.
Chongzheng realized something was wrong, but seeing the fierce situation in the court and the public, he also issued three judicial departments to inquire about the eunuch party.
Pay attention to wording and inquire.
However, no matter whether it is the eunuch or Donglin, who can stand the question?
The difference is just who asks and answers.
But two days.
Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng, two of the five tigers of the eunuch party, committed suicide one after another for fear of crime.
The Donglin Party followed the trend from the open breakthrough, constantly catching up and biting, and finally caged the entire eunuch party.
In the next half month, all eunuchs in the eunuch party in Beijing, including civil and military officials, were imprisoned, and dozens of imperial edicts rushed across the country to capture the remaining party.
The vacant spaces are all filled by the wild Donglin.
People are called "all the kings are full of the court".
He was respectful to the righteous and followed the good, and was regarded as the "Saint of Revival" by the government and the people, and was widely praised.
So immediately afterwards, an important decision that determined the fate of Dali came.
The Minister of Revenue jointly appointed more than 30 officials to request the abolition of the factory supervisor, and the Ministry of Revenue sent someone to collect Jiangnan commercial taxes, and listed the twenty crimes of the factory supervisor.
Mantang Donglin promised that the Ministry of Revenue sent someone to collect commercial taxes, which could increase the tax by 5 million taels per year, and eliminated the bad policies of the factory supervisors to make money and make money to satisfy their private pockets, so as to calm the anger of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.
Chongzheng was immersed in the praise of the "Zhongxing Saint King" and continued to "take good things like flowing", and sent an imperial edict to Jiangnan to lay off all the factory supervisors who collected money and grain, and the grain supervision team of Wei Zhongliang, a total of more than 5,000 people.
In the future, let Donglin collect his own money and grain.
On the day the imperial edict arrived in the southern capital, the landlords and powerful merchants in Jiangnan celebrated each other and shouted long live to the northern mountains. After leading the guards to protect the silver warehouses, granaries and fleets of the factory supervisors and grain supervision teams burned, killed and looted them all, and revenge them if they had any grudges.
More than 5,000 factory supervisors and the grain supervision team were killed and injured. The rest fled into the mountains and dissipated.
It was on that day that the lucky golden dragon entrenched above the palace disappeared in vain and became dull, and he could only vaguely identify the shape of the dragon.
This scene was so shocked that the King of God's Summons took a breath and exclaimed: "Da Li is finished!"
Chapter completed!