Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 869 Conspiracy
Beijing, Forbidden City.

The north wind was howling outside, and Wenyuan Pavilion was also warm as spring, even forcing Wang Yingxiong to sweat slightly.This is not surprising, even Jinzhou's Zu Dashou and Shenyang's Huang Taiji used things like heating. Those who hold the power of the Ming Empire are called hell if they don't need it.

The tiredness on Wen Tiren's face deepened a bit.This year, his pressure is getting bigger and bigger. Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng's imperial twins are a blessing to the people of Ming Dynasty, but to him they are plague gods!Lu Xiangsheng continued to win successive victories in the Hetao area, and he was about to take down the entire Hetao area. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalrymen died in his hands, expanding thousands of miles. Most importantly, relying on the Hetao Plain, the Ming Empire The most solid line of defense in the western frontier is gradually being formed, and the outstanding military exploits cannot be overestimated!To put it bluntly, if Lu Xiangsheng took a fancy to the chair under his buttocks, the emperor would eagerly let him go, and then invite Lu Xiangsheng up with a smile on his face!As for Yang Menglong, it doesn't make people worry. The whole meaning of this guy's life seems to be to toss. In March and April of this year, there was an appalling battle between heaven and man. A natural disaster enough to destroy a farmer's family.With him taking the lead, if there is any natural disaster in the future, they civil servants can no longer push the responsibility on the emperor as before, and then do what they should do. If they don't work hard to overcome the natural disaster, the common people will Ripped them off!Overcoming natural disasters is a huge victory for Yang Menglong in public opinion. This slap deformed the face of the entire Confucianism, and he also achieved a huge victory on the battlefield. The Heluo New Army launched a campaign against Fujian from Heluo and Guangzhou. Blitz, within a short period of time, the Zheng Group, which had 30 million members and was respected by even Xiyi, was wiped out!Then the bastard pointed his still-uncooled gun at Taiwan, and the result was self-evident, a big victory. In just one battle, the main force of the Xiyi Fleet was sent to the bottom of the sea by him, and Tainan declared its recovery. The army is besieging the Taipei area, and it is only a matter of time before the entire Taiwan is recovered!

If Yang Menglong only knows how to fight, that's fine. A martial artist can't achieve any great things. At worst, he can learn from Zhang Juzheng, take him for his own use, and let him become the second Qi Jiguang.However, Yang Menglong is not only powerful in fighting wars, he is even more powerful in governing the region. How powerful is it? He is so powerful that as long as he spreads the word about a place that has development prospects, a large group of businessmen will flock to it, vying to invest, and then at most two or three years, that place For example, now that he said that Shanghai and Taipei have great prospects for development, countless wealthy businessmen immediately brought a large number of silver coins to invest in factories, cultivate land and reclaim wasteland, and even some people who have always been with Yang Menglong The wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River are no exception!Wen Tiren sincerely believes that compared with Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Menglong poses a greater threat to him, because Yang Menglong is more ambitious, shameless, and never plays cards according to common sense. What kind of scholarly reputation and public opinion trends are shit in his eyes!Wen Tiren was really troubled by such a freak who was both capable and unreasonable.Now it was reported that the Mohists and Legalists went to seek refuge with Yang Menglong and developed rapidly in the Heluo area. The entire scholar-bureaucrat class panicked and accused Wen Tiren of being useless. After so long, they couldn't think of a way to deal with Yang Menglong!And the accusations against him by the Jiangnan Consortium are getting worse day by day. Yang Menglong is the disaster star of the Jiangnan Consortium. As long as he plays around for a day, the losses of the Jiangnan Consortium will be heavy. You, the prime minister, were raised by us and given to you. With so much money, it can't help us settle this calamity? It's simply unreasonable!
Under the tremendous pressure, Wen Tiren was physically and mentally exhausted. Several times, he really wanted to take off his black hat, and let it go, so as not to get angry here!But it was hard for him to climb to this position, and he had mastered the power of the entire country, so he was unwilling to give up like this, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

"Have you prepared the scriptures for the impeachment of Sun Chuanting and Fu Zonglong?" the Imperial Chief Assistant asked weakly.

Wang Yingxiong also had two dark circles under his eyes, and said, "It's all ready."

Wen Tiren frowned and asked: "Are they still unwilling to cooperate? Fu Zonglong's stubborn ass is fine, Sun Chuanting..."

Wu Zongda muttered: "I've talked to him, that guy is more stubborn than Fu Zonglong, and he refuses to bow his head!"

Wen Tiren frowned even tighter.

Facing the pressure of reform forces from outside, Wenchen Group certainly will not sit still, they have been planning to fight back.It is too difficult to overwhelm them with more dazzling political achievements than Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng, but the party has never fought for political achievements, but for power. It just so happens that the power of this country is in their hands.Using the power in their hands, they have the confidence to destroy all forces that threaten their status!It's just greed, they have been waiting and watching to see if they can win Yang Menglong and get huge benefits from it, but Yang Menglong's feat of beating Leng Yun gave them a loud slap in the face and woke them up: Such a character cannot win over!
If you can't win it over, you can only destroy it.

Since May, these civil servants have planned to cut off the pro-Yang and pro-Lu forces in the court.After a month of hard work, the Shanxi governor who was more pro-Lu was taken down by them for dereliction of duty and demoted to a commoner. , but he has one advantage, that is, he obeys Lu Xiangsheng's words, which brings him disaster.Then, Zhang Fengyi was transferred to be the governor of Shanxi. He was a die-hard defender of Taoism. After he took office, many conflicts arose with Lu Xiang, and the originally stable situation in Shanxi was destroyed in this way.Later, Liang Tingdong, the former Minister of the Ministry of War, was transferred to be the governor of Gansu.

Of course, the cabinet did not dare to push Lu Xiangsheng too hard. After taking Gansu and Shaanxi, it stopped. , everyone will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.They pointed their knives at Yang Menglong, but they were surprised to find that Yang Menglong didn't seem to have much influence in the court. Apart from Fu Zonglong, the only people who were willing to speak for him were two, one was the emperor and the other was the queen...these two They can't move!And their attempt to add sand to Huguang and Heluo also failed. Officials in Huguang and Heluo said that we only listen to the champions. You stay away from us and don't bother us!What's more, the people in these two places are too aggressive. Every family has firecrackers and crossbows. If the government can't help them vent their anger, they will use firecrackers to collapse people. Few people dare to go there to become officials. ———As for their piss-like behavior of scraping the ground wherever they go, when they run to that ghostly place where every household has firecrackers, and every young man and woman has received shooting training to become an official, within a month they will be beaten into a hornet's nest , or be shot as a sea urchin!

Well, Yang Menglong, you are being cruel, we will not move you for the time being!Everyone turned their attention to the pro-Lu forces again, and killed several of them in a row.Then they discovered that there were only two hard bones left, and these two hard bones were not easy to chew at all.

Hard bone No. [-]: Fu Zonglong.Nickname: Yunnan Stubborn Donkey.The position is Minister of the Ministry of War, and the main achievement is to fully support the new army after the defeat in Lushun, and to destroy the rogues in Zhending and Yiluo Valley.He and the new army can be said to have both prosperity and loss, and the poisoning is quite deep. He believes that this Ming Dynasty should really change, and if it continues like this, it will only lead to death.

Hard bone No. [-]: Sun Chuanting.Nickname: Shaanxi Stubborn Donkey.The position is the governor of Shaanxi and a die-hard supporter of Lu Xiangsheng.This guy was originally just a magistrate, and he hit it off with Lu Xiangsheng at first sight, and his promotion was like a rocket.And he also fully demonstrated his talents in Shaanxi, measuring the fields, appeasing the refugees, exterminating bandits, building roads and dams, digging wells and building factories. There are more than hundreds of profiteers who died in his hands!Under his governance, this suffering land in Shaanxi gradually revived, and the people of Shaanxi regarded him as a living Buddha of thousands of families.

This is very bad.

The Wenchen Group does not want the power of military generals to continue to grow, in other words, it does not want them to continue to win battles and open up territories.If you want the military generals to be deflated, the central government cannot give them strong support, and the northwest cannot settle down. They need to add some chaos to them from time to time. If they are in harmony, how can they trip up the military generals group and add chaos to them? Two people, must win!However, these two stubborn donkeys are not easy to mess with. In a real fight, we still don’t know who will win. In the middle, everyone worked together to add obstacles to the new army.However, these two don't follow their way, and ignore their fallacy!
I had no choice but to destroy these two as well.

The cabinet let out the news, and immediately a large group of speech officials and censors jumped out like chicken blood, and began to impeach Fu Zonglong and Sun Chuanting.The excuse is ready-made, Fu Zonglong's hands and feet are not clean, and he has handled millions of military funds, and he will be more or less corrupt, so just impeach him for a crime of corruption.As for Sun Chuanting, it is easier to handle. Ever since he killed the profiteers, the voice of impeachment has not stopped. The reason is that he killed innocent people indiscriminately. As for which ones are innocent and which ones deserve to die... Of course, these gentlemen in the court have the final say. .Chongzhen still had great trust in these two people, and all the impeachment reports against them were ignored. However, the officials persisted, and the impeachment memorials flew by like goose feathers and heavy snow every day. They wished they could bury Sun Chuanting and Fu Zonglong with the memorials!No, Hou Xun and Wu Zongda have a thick pile of memorials in their hands, ready to be distributed to those officials as ammunition. They will not give up until these two stubborn donkeys are killed!
Wen Tiren read several memorials and found that they were not bad. Luo Zhi had been accused of many crimes, including the two who had eaten human hearts and drank human blood.He was still not satisfied and coughed and said: "This won't work. We don't have much time to waste with those two stubborn donkeys. Let's find two famous young men to give us advice!"

"Dead remonstrance" means to remonstrate with death and risk one's own life to remonstrate. If the emperor does not accept it, they will be killed on the spot on the pillars of the Main Hall. This method of remonstrance is quite tragic and is rarely used.But now Chongzhen seems to want to protect these two stubborn donkeys, and the Wenchen Group has to take them down, so they can only do this!
The dark clouds pressed lower and lower until they reached the top of the Temple of Heaven, like an iron plate, making people breathless.

(End of this chapter)