Great time travel

Chapter 97, the new crossing is still going on

On the ninth day of October in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the capital, the Forbidden City, and the cabinet office
With a "click", a Bingbutang newspaper that had just been delivered was thrown heavily on the floor.Immediately afterwards, there was another "bang bang", and a glazed tea bowl with a pattern of flowers and birds was slammed against the wall, then fell down and shattered into pieces of porcelain on the floor.

"...Idiot! This idiot, Qian Yizhi, is misleading the country! At this moment, why are you still playing the role of a cabinet minister? This life-or-death thing!"

After learning the whole story of the Tianjin Incident, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet who presided over the court these days, immediately fell down in anger, his whole body was twitching and trembling, wishing that he could stir up the mutiny and bring down the last one near the capital. Qian Shisheng, the second assistant of Wang Dajun of Zhiqin, was taken out and severely beaten.Beside Wen Tiren, the other two cabinet ministers, Wang Yingxiong and Wu Zongda, also echoed their voices, scolding Qian Shisheng, the second assistant who is currently fleeing.And He Wuzhen, who was sitting on the other side of the classroom, lowered his head and fiddled with the jade pendant on his waist, seemingly in deep thought.

Seeing that He Wuzhen still refused to admit his mistakes at this time, and did not have any intention of helping each other, Wen Tiren was so angry that he wanted to slap him and wake him up severely: all fell here When the situation of life and death is reached, you and the Donglin party members are still thinking about tearing things apart and fighting within?

——In the official history of later generations, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant in the late Ming Dynasty, was classified as a first-class traitorous official.Because of his consistent attitude of opposing the Donglin Party, Gai was always an enemy of the Donglin Party during his reign. He repeatedly proposed to increase the commercial tax in the south of the Yangtze River and reduce the land tax in the north, and he wholeheartedly opposed the Donglin Party.Although Wen Tiren's actions failed under the desperate obstruction of the Donglin Party in the Manchu Dynasty, it was enough to make the gentlemen in the south of the Yangtze River grit their teeth with hatred.

Therefore, after Wen Tiren defeated Zhou Yanru, the leader of Donglin, and seized the throne of chief assistant, the Donglin Party members kept putting all kinds of feces on Wen Tiren's head, and even used Wen Tiren's surname as a fuss, calling "Wen Tiren" "Associated with "plague", exhausted all kinds of low-level methods.

For example, in order to prevent Wen Tiren from becoming the chief assistant, Huang Shaojie even openly declared to the emperor: since Wen Tiren entered the cabinet, there has never been a year without drought, no day without the sun not dimming, no place free from disasters, and no place without disasters. Bandits appear.Therefore, Wen Tiren is an unlucky person and should be allowed to resign.And folk songs, which are the must-kill skills of literati and political struggles, also began to "sing" Wen Tiren, and cursed Wen Tiren and his political allies: the cabinet was turned into a brothel, and Wugui Wang Bamian always suffered from plague (Wen).This ballad is alluded to by surname and place of origin. "Wugui" means tortoise, referring to Wen Tiren, the chief assistant from Wucheng; It means those who accompany others to study, play chess, draw pictures, etc., similar to the current three escorts. It is used here to refer to Wu Zongda, another cabinet minister.

——The three cabinet ministers, Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, and Wu Zongda, have a good relationship, and they are all sworn enemies of the Donglin Party members in terms of political stance. These three people were ridiculed by scholars all over the world as brothels.

But to be honest, compared with the other chief assistants during the Chongzhen period, Wen Tiren's character and talent are already considered very good.

First of all, Wen Tiren is shrewd and capable, and has a strong ability to work.The cabinet is busy with government affairs, punished with money and food, and has many clues.Every time they encountered a complicated problem, all the ministers frowned and looked at each other. Only Wen Tiren could understand it at a glance, and never made mistakes or refutations. Therefore, other ministers in the cabinet admired his dexterity.Secondly, Wen Tiren was very clean and honest. The mansion in Beijing was bestowed upon him by the emperor, other than that, he had no money left and never accepted any bribes.Compared with the astonishing family wealth accumulated by his predecessor, Zhou Yanru, the chief minister who ruled the world for four years, Wen Tiren, the chief minister, was really the cleanest prime minister since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and could even be compared with the famous upright official Hai Rui during the Jiajing period.Even the members of the Donglin Party who hated him deeply had to admit that Wen Tiren "Baoju (meaning bribery) is not up to the door."

No matter how you look at it, it is really unfair to label such a clean and capable chief assistant as a traitor.Speaking of it, as long as Wen Tiren wants to do things, he will definitely not tolerate the Donglin party members who only talk nonsense and are not practical. Without Donglin's dismantling, he, the chief assistant, can really carry out major national affairs .However, the logic of the Donglin Party members is: Donglin Party members are always good people, so Wen Tiren who excludes Donglin Party members is a bad person.This kind of logic is shameless and unreasonable gangster logic, and brainless pig-headed logic, but because Donglin scholars controlled the right to speak and compiled history under their auspices, at that time and for many centuries after that, it was No one can refute this absurd logic.

On the other hand, Wen Tiren's character and talent are not bad among the courtiers in the late Ming Dynasty, but they are just the eldest son among the dwarfs. great man.

Especially in this time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty that was greatly changed by many traversers, Wen Tiren took advantage of the Dongfeng of Dalinghe's disastrous defeat, just defeated Zhou Yanru, and not long after he was promoted to the chief assistant of the cabinet, he encountered a series of events that could be called heaven and earth. Super cataclysms——Huangshi rebellion in Fujian, Chen Xin's rebellion in Dengzhou, Wenxiang sect uprising in Shandong, internal strife among the Xuanda frontier army, bandits from Shaanxi broke through Taiyuan and killed the vassal king, the Guanning army defected and surrendered, and Jurchen soldiers re-entered Gyeonggi... No matter which one of these is one, it is a drastic change that can shake the whole world, but now it happened to come together and explode at the same time!With so many saps falling down, Wen Tiren, who had just ascended the position of chief assistant, was at a loss for a while, and almost fainted.

What's more, as the sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, Wen Tiren, the Chief Assistant, is now fighting alone with the entire bureaucracy.Although he is the chief assistant, after the Eunuch Party was purged and the Donglin Party was offended, Wen Tiren only had a few cronies to help him, so what power could he do in the face of the Donglin Party's hold back?The Ming Empire is now suffering from internal and external troubles, but why is his warm body and benevolence not from internal and external troubles?
Even at such a critical moment of life and death, the Donglin Party in the court is still tirelessly dragging its feet - although Wen Tiren is the chief assistant at the moment, the important positions in the court are all members of the Donglin Party, the order issued by the cabinet It is impossible to get the effective implementation of the six parts.

Even the cabinet ministers are not of the same mind: for example, Qian Shisheng, the second cabinet assistant, is the Donglin Yuanxian who became famous very early, and his qualifications are older than Qian Qianyi.However, after he was promoted to the chief assistant, facing the collective sabotage and non-cooperation of many Donglin party officials in the imperial court, Wen Tiren felt that he could not support himself alone, so he decided to give up his position to accommodate the opposition, which attracted Qian Shisheng, who was watching Donglin Yuanxian, who was quite pleasing to the eye, entered the cabinet, and hoped that Qian Shisheng would put the country first and suppress Donglin so that the cabinet's government orders could be passed.Unexpectedly, Qian Shisheng looked kind and kind, but in fact he was still a good model Donglin with endless life and party struggles. He didn't think about Wen Tiren's support and support at all. He even blatantly colluded with a group of ministers and planned to overthrow Wen... Wen Tiren's plan was completely defeated.

Then, another college student, He Wuzhen, is also a member of the Donglin party in the cabinet, and he is also an extremely staunch anti-Wen faction. He has always vented his anger with Qian Shisheng. My teeth were itching with anger, but there was nothing I could do about him, because it was impossible to drive him away through legal means—as long as Wen Tiren dared to instigate people to impeach He Wuye, there would be several times the impeachment of Wen Tiren from the Donglin Party. The cabinet comes.

In short, if Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, wants to really make a difference, he must vigorously attack the Donglin Party, but now that the country is in critical condition, it is really not the right time to engage in party struggles-but even though Wen Tiren intends to be tolerant, the Donglin Party still wants to Continue to add chaos, even to death!
For example, after Lu Xiangsheng defeated Jizhou, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, no matter how bad he was at military affairs, understood that the Qin army in Tianjin was already the capital’s last straw, and he had to be rewarded generously no matter what. just do.

But the problem is that the Donglin Party in the imperial court does not seem to think so: the Ministry of Household Affairs stated that there is no money and food in the treasury, and the last remaining food was allocated to Lu Xiangsheng in Tongzhou, and there was no money to pay the Qin army.It is even more impossible to promote them in violation of the old rules.There is also a censor official who openly accused Wen Tiren of being self-willed to be lowly and flattering warriors-"...We are scholars who are the pillars of the country. But to curry favor with such lowly warriors, isn’t it a reversal of the world and a disobedience? These years, the honest and gentlemen have been in the court, but the country’s affairs have been corrupted. It’s all because of those lowly warriors who deserve death. There is no loyalty, so he refuses to fulfill the duty of serving the imperial court. He only wants to make a fortune and save his life, and he shrinks back when things happen. It's not difficult, as long as the princes in power drive all those treacherous people out of the court, and entrust us with the important task of monitoring and beating those warriors in the army, always showing righteousness and threatening them with severe punishment, those lowly warriors will surely be punished. Everyone will serve their lives with death, so the situation will be better!"

Naturally, Wen Tiren scoffed at such ridiculous words, but the princes of Dong Lin agreed one after another, thinking it was golden and jade good words.Immediately afterwards, after discussing with He Wuzhen, the second assistant to the cabinet, Qian Shisheng, did not say anything to him at all, and ran to Tianjin by himself to "supervise the war"... and then forced him into a mutiny Come!What's more terrible is that Jiannu Donglu took advantage of the loophole and destroyed the [-] King Qin's reinforcements in one fell swoop!
Hey, don't mention things that have passed away now.What's really important is that now that the situation in Gyeonggi has deteriorated to such an extent, even Wen Tiren doesn't know what to do next.Anyway, as the chief minister of the cabinet, he is probably the most aggrieved person in the country for more than 200 years. No one listened to what he said.

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What makes Wen Tiren feel even more chilling is that he has already caused such a catastrophe and put the capital in deep danger. Not to mention the missing principal culprit Qian Shisheng, the accomplice He Wu sitting in front of him Zou still had no intention of repenting at all.

——Under the silent condemnation of Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, and Wu Zongda, the three cabinet scholars, He Wunu was silent for a long time without blushing, and suddenly changed the subject and asked, "...I don't know the dragon body of the Holy One, at this moment How is it? Has your condition improved?"

"...According to the inner prisoner in the palace, His Majesty is still in a coma..." Although he was unhappy, Wen Tiren reluctantly replied.

In recent days, the reason why Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, has been so aggrieved, even almost despised and dismissed, is that apart from the Dongdonglin Party's obedience and defiance, another very important reason is the sudden death of Emperor Chongzhen. Lying in a coma, Wen Tiren, a lone minister, lost the support of the imperial power, and suddenly fell into a predicament under the non-cooperation of the Donglin Party in the Manchu Dynasty, which basically paralyzed the court recently.

——After hearing the bad news that Liaoxi surrendered to the enemy and Liaodong built slaves to seize Shanhaiguan and invade Yongping Mansion, Emperor Chongzhen was so anxious that he rolled down from the palace's dange, and his head was broken on the spot. I don't know about personnel.Although the injury did not worsen after being rescued by the imperial doctor, Emperor Chongzhen has been lying in bed for a long time, unconscious for many days, and barely hanged himself with ginseng soup... Today, it is January More than that, despite the rapid collapse of the country's situation outside, the concubines in the palace cried and went blind, and Emperor Chongzhen still showed no signs of waking up.

However, when the Grand Master He Wuzu mentioned this matter at this moment, of course he was not really concerned about the safety of His Majesty's dragon body, but had another purpose.

"...Well, Your Majesty is in poor health and unable to take care of the government. It really worries us, and we are quite tied up in handling state affairs. No one can make a decision. But now the country is in a difficult time, as the saying goes. There is no king for a day. How about setting up the crown prince (Zhu Cihong) as the supervisor of the country?" He Wunu stood up, raised his hands to the sky with a serious face and said, "... In this way, the wishes of the officials will be appeased, and the people will be safe. heart of……"

"...but your majesty, although the dragon's body is in trouble, it's not a big deal after all, and the prince is only four years old this year..." Wen Tiren said subconsciously, and then suddenly his pupils shrank, guessing He Wuzhen's sinister intentions—— He wants to launch an overthrow of the cabinet again, and take away his throne as chief assistant!
——Before, although the emperor's sudden coma made Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, under the pressure of the court, he became a nameless figure, but it was also because of the same reason that the Donglin Party could not push Wen Tiren down from the position of chief assistant: Removal The first assistant must be approved by the emperor.

And if the crown prince, who is only four years old this year, is allowed to exercise the imperial power on his behalf, it seems possible to operate the matter of overthrowing the cabinet and dismissing the prime minister...

Thinking of these Donglin gentlemen who are full of loyalty and morality, at such a critical moment of the country's life and death, they are still only thinking about how to overthrow the cabinet and seize power... No matter how good Wen Tiren's self-cultivation is, he can't help turning red for a while Feeling embarrassed, he stretched out his finger and pointed at He Wuzhen, who was about to have a seizure.

However, before Wen Tiren could yell and curse, a middle-aged eunuch with a happy face hurriedly opened the door and barged in, not even knowing that his shoes had escaped, "...Gentlemen, congratulations! Great news! Your Majesty finally woke up! Your Majesty finally woke up today!"

Hearing this rare good news, Wen Tiren, who was originally full of anger, couldn't help but relax, and suddenly turned anger into joy.

"...Your Majesty is awake? This is really... great!!! The old minister's heart is really... hey..."

Thinking of the tremendous pressure these days, and so many bad news that could scare people to death, Wen Tiren almost murmured in tears.

"...Well, Your Majesty's dragon body has turned the crisis into safety. It is true that God has blessed my Daming Sheji... Congratulations, congratulations..."

The He Wuzu university scholar who just proposed to support the crown prince to supervise the country had no choice but to agree with it.

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At the same time, in the depths of the bedroom, on a large carved bed hung with a dragon pattern curtain, a haggard and thin young man was sitting up in a daze, looking blankly at the crowd who were crying and laughing, with expressions on their faces. The excited concubine Gong'e couldn't help but feel confused.

"...What...what's going on here? Where did I go? Who are they?"

He clearly remembered that he was sitting in front of the computer in an Internet cafe and playing "World of Warcraft" a moment ago, how could he lie on a bed in the blink of an eye, surrounded by such a circle of beauties in ancient costumes with tall buns and rings? ?Is it a prank game for variety shows?Or are you dreaming?
So, he coughed a few times, opened his mouth with some difficulty, and wanted to ask the people beside the bed, but he felt a sharp pain in his throat immediately, and he couldn't make a sound at all... At the same time, he felt greasy, dirty, hair It was extremely itchy as if there were lice, and there was an extremely disgusting rancid smell coming from his mouth—what the hell, how long has he been lying on the bed?Why didn't anyone come to help me clean my body?
Next, he suddenly felt as if he was getting an electric shock, his whole body twitched violently, and his brain felt as if it was about to burst—countless original memories of this body flooded in like a hurricane and tsunami, making this traveler feel like a hurricane. Time is painful, but I also know my identity at this time:

"...It turns out that this is the Forbidden City, and I am Zhu Youjian, the last Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty... I never thought I would have crossed over... Wait, no! It's only five years since Chongzhen! The Qing soldiers in Liaodong... Uh, Now it’s still the Houjin soldiers, how come they have already entered the customs early?!!”