Wen Tiren Changqing, a native of Wucheng, was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Wanli. He served as an editor of the Hanlin Academy, a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and a minister of the Ministry of Rites. At that time, people called Wen Tiren a man who was cautious and fierce in the outside world, with deep skills and a deep mind. He was a bureaucrat with a deep mind.

Wen Tiren used the power of the Donglin Party, Zhou Yanru, to enter the cabinet to assist the government.

However, after entering the cabinet, he and Zhou Yanru had completely opposite attitudes towards the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party, so he began to try to replace Zhou Yanru's position as chief minister.

Because Wen Tiren had fought Qian Qianyi with him and brought him into the cabinet, Zhou Yanru did not notice Wen Tiren's conspiracy at all. In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Wen Tiren secretly helped the eunuch Wang Kun, and Chen Zanhua attacked Zhou Yanru, and instigated Chen Zanhua to impeach Zhou Yanru to indulge his subordinate Li Yuangong to corruption and abuse his power, and Zhou Yanru said rebellious words.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and ordered the investigation. Zhou Yanru was in a very difficult situation and asked Wen Tiren for help. Wen Tiren not only did not help, but also removed all officials with Zhou Yanru, so that he could not get any support. In desperation, Zhou Yanru was forced to resign because he was sick.

Therefore, Wen Tiren became the chief minister of the cabinet, which is also a feature of the Ming Dynasty cabinet in the past few decades. That is, the position of the chief minister was taken. At first, he wanted to unite the eunuchs to strengthen his own power, but Emperor Chongzhen was always proud of being able to eliminate eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian in the past nine thousand years, which made Wen Tiren give up the idea of ​​appointing eunuchs.

He was incompatible with the Donglin Party again, so he repeatedly attacked the Donglin Party members. In the sixth year, Donglin Party’s human Wen Zhenmeng entered the cabinet, and Wen Tiren was in a dilemma with Wen Zhenmeng everywhere, and finally caused Wen Zhenmeng to be dismissed from office.

After Wen Tiren assisted the government, he was good at observing the form and distinguishing the colors, catering to the emperor's wishes, and was particularly favored. So he became more stubborn and arrogant. He secretly asked someone to suggest what he wanted to recommend, and if he wanted to exclude and frame him, he deliberately tolerate and let the emperor suspicion. The people he recommended and the same person were mediocre people to show his cleverness and consolidate his status.

When Emperor Chongzhen asked about military pay, he said humbly: "I used to serve in the Hanlin Academy with my articles. The emperor did not know that I was dull and promoted to prime minister. There were more and more thieves every day. It was indeed a death to die to fulfill his duties. However, although I am ignorant, I dare not deceive military pay when drafting the imperial edict. I hope the emperor will make a judgment."

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that this guy was really stupid, and he thought he was simple and loyal, and he was even more trustworthy. Wen Tiren had been in power for a long time and had countless memorials exposed. Emperor Chongzhen was still unaware of it. Instead, he believed that he was isolated and non-party, and those who accused him were even tortured to death.

This has caused the problem to have a very bad reputation.

Why is Wen Tiren so famous?

First of all, he was opposed to many politically related people and leaders of the Fushe. After Wei Zhongxian persecuted Donglin figures in the late Apocalypse, Donglin became a golden sign that symbolized moral level, with many clinging people; secondly, Wen Tiren's style of conduct was not as generous and tolerant as expected by the ministers, but was as aggressive as a lawyer, and he personally impeached Qian Qianyi, Wen Zhenmeng, Zheng Zheng and others; at the same time, he did not make grudges, and others filed a memorial to attack him, and was punished by the emperor. He would only secretly expose the emperor's request for leniency, and would not publicly submit memorials to let Shilin know, so it was not easy to win people's hearts.

Of course, Wen Tiren maintains this style, so that the emperor can see his unbiased and unpartyed image of a lonely minister and maintain trust in him. The more this happens, the more angered the opponents are. As Cao Rong said: Those who fear the evildoers rise up and attack him, fearing that they will not leave and will not leave.

In this way, as Wen Tiren implemented his own way in his career, he also received the honor and infamy of the scholars.

Wen Tiren was the chief minister of the cabinet. He had no plans to resist the southward advance of the Jiannu soldiers in Liaodong, or deal with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's bandits, but he was good at flattering. Although he had no talent, he was treated well. Wen Tiren was an official who ignored the country and the interests of the nation were just for personal power. To put it bluntly, he was a selfish person. He had no distinction between him and later politicians. The people had a sharp vision. The people hated him because he was really bad at being an official and did not regard him as a treacherous minister because he opposed the Donglin Party.

As early as Wen Tiren turned over the former chief minister of the cabinet and became the chief minister of the cabinet himself, there was a folk song among the people saying: "The Ministry of Rites reopened the Tianlist, and the top scholar was the second place in the flower world, and he was a little frightened; the cabinet turned into a brothel, and the turtle turtle bamboo strips are always affected by plague."

Wen Tiren was from Wu Chengji Gui'an, Wang Yingxiong was from Ba County, and he had evil deeds. Wu Zongkui followed the two of them to do evil. At that time, people regarded it as bamboo strips. It happened that Huang Shijun, Kong Zhenyun, and Chen Zizhuang were from Sandingjia, and someone wrote the first couplet. Huang Xixihuang refers to Huang Jun; afraid that Kong Kong refers to Kong Zhenyun; Wu Gui means Wu Cheng'an, and Mu Zhitu means Wen Tiren; Wang Ba Xixiu, Wang Yingxiong refers to Wang Yingxiong, and Mu Zhituren is from Ba County; Plague Hexiwen also refers to Wen Tiren.

Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, did not do anything, but in terms of court policies, he was pushed away by the court, because as the chief assistant of the court, the first thing he had to think about was the interests of the court. This was a last resort, and he had to do this. Just like when he dealt with the Liu family, he had no grudges with the Liu family, but he had to move forward, which was a conflict of interests.

As for some people saying that he dealt with the Liu family because Liu Yuanqiao was suspected of murdering his disciple Lin Ruonan, this is a false thing. Even if Liu Yuanqiao plotted against Lin Ruonan, if he did not fight him directly, he would not have dealt with him.

Because he will not stand up for a dead man who has no value.

But Wen Tiren is like a mediocre and incompetent official. He has no lofty ambitions and no planning to govern. He just serves as an official to be an official and to sit in this position and hold a firm position. This is in normal times. If he was in a peaceful and prosperous era, he could still survive. However, if he faced such a huge historical change and wave in the late Ming Dynasty, he would seem a little out of control and was stretched.

Wen Tiren dared to fight against the Donglin Party because the Donglin Party is a member of the Shilin and the main force of the party struggle, but it does not mean that they can represent scholars in the world, and the Kong family can represent scholars in the world.

Now that the Liu family and the Kong family are married, they are formed, this makes Wen Tiren, who has been committed to dealing with the Liu family, catches a little fire in the small temple. He is panicked. He thinks that if he can't deal with it, he just won't deal with it.

Of course, he still thought that being the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty for one day would have to safeguard the interests of the Ming court. He still sent his confidant south to visit Yan Shenggong and asked him to cancel the engagement with the Liu family.

In fact, this is all funny. Even if Wen Tiren takes action personally, whether the contemporary Yansheng Gong will sell his face is a question. He sent one of his subordinates to the point of being even more awesome or not.

The court wanted to deal with the Liu family because of the major policies and conflicts of interest of the court. The alliance between the Liu family and the Kong family is also part of the combination of interests, so it cannot be resolved in just a few words.

Wen Tiren was the chief minister for four years. Since he defeated Zhou Yanru, he has been in this position for four years. However, this is also the four years when the Ming Dynasty's government took a sharp turn. During these four years, the Ming Dynasty's government can only be described as sharp turns, and day by day is worse than day, so that the Liu family has a rebellious intention.

Wen Tiren's reaction is also similar to most of the court officials' reactions. Everyone believes that we have to deal with the Liu family out of justice and have no personal grudges. If we want to deal with the Liu family and offend the Kong family and offend scholars all over the world, it seems a bit unworthy. So after hearing the news, they also stopped dealing with the Liu family, wait a moment before saying that, and see how the Kong family should deal with this issue.

They even have an idea, that if the Liu family successfully gets married to the Kong family, it will be equivalent to becoming a member of them in the Jinshi area. In the past, they are not of my race, but their hearts will be different. Now they have become my kind. Can we work together?

This change of form made Emperor Chongzhen, who was a little aware of it, not noticed it. He was still excited to deal with the Liu family and cooperated with everyone to deal with the Liu family. As a result, he found that suddenly there were thousands of horses and the officials were silent, which made him feel very embarrassed. This was equivalent to performing on stage alone, but no one in the audience agreed and responded. How should this continue?

The powerful faction like the Liu family is different from the cabinet ministers and ministers in the court. Although he can fight against the emperor, the emperor can still be exempted from his position if the emperor wants to be exempted. Basically, a single edict can be exempted from his position. However, the emperor is not sure about the ministers and powerful faction in the local area who want to be exempted from his position.

What the emperor feared most was that when an imperial edict was issued to relieve the other party of the other party, the other party would raise an army to rebel. This would be a huge blow to the emperor's authority. Under the current circumstances, the authority of the royal family was almost gone, so he should try his best to retain it. And he was also afraid that if he issued an imperial edict to relieve Liu Yuanqiao of his position but encountered the fallen links of the ministers in the court, what should he do?

If the imperial court and the cabinet are consistent, they can jointly issue imperial edicts. To disobey the imperial edict, they will destroy the nine clans, which is equivalent to confronting the Ming Dynasty. However, if it is the emperor's will and there is no cabinet's attached notice, it is equivalent to the imperial edict. It depends on the nature of ordinary people in the cabinet now, and the scruples of the people. If the emperor issues an order to eradicate the strength of the Liu family and remove the position of the Liu family, whether they will agree is the same. Depending on their intention, the first thing is to communicate with the Kong family first. The two sides have reached an agreement and let everyone get everything together before they agree.
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