Chapter 98 Fighting against each other(1/3)
"Dang...dang...dang..."
As the morning bells and evening drums rang continuously in the city, all the officials in the capital hurried to the Forbidden City with heavy hearts.
This group of former officials were in a hurry, and all of them headed to the Forbidden City with heavy hearts.
Soon, all the officials entered the Donghua Gate before dawn, and at the same time, Zhu Youjian of the Xuqin Palace in the East Palace was also awakened by Wang Chengen.
"Your Highness? Your Highness..."
Outside the bed curtains, Wang Chengen's shadow was dimly visible, illuminated by candlelight.
Zhu Youjian's eyes were dim, and after rubbing them, he stood up and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Zhu Youjian getting up, Wang Chengen saluted through the bed curtain:
"Long live the decree, His Highness Xuan will also go to the Wenhua Palace to pay homage today."
"Me?!" Zhu Youjian's heart skipped a beat when he heard that he was also going to court.
Obviously, the good emperor brother was not sure about changing the Beijing inspection time, and wanted someone to help him make decisions during the Chang Dynasty.
The good emperor brother didn't have any ministers who could make up his mind, so he had no choice but to invite him to go.
However, Zhu Youjian also has a headache. He is just thinking about dormant. Once he gets involved in things like the Beijing Prosecution, various cronies will notice that he has gathered such a large power.
But if he doesn't help the emperor's brother well, who will help the emperor's brother well?
If no one helps the emperor brother, the final outcome will be the same as in history. The good emperor brother can only use Wei Zhongxian to balance the parties...
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian could only bite the bullet and get off the bed. After walking out of the bed, he raised his hands and said, "Let's change clothes."
Hearing this, Wang Chengen and the three maids next to him began to get busy. Today was the Chang Dynasty, so there was not much to pay attention to, but Zhu Youjian still changed into a scarlet python robe.
Putting on a python robe, a gold, gem, and jade crown, a jade belt, and a series of complicated decorations, Zhu Youjian suddenly felt that he weighed six or seven kilograms.
After everything was put on, the palace maid began to clean his nails, face, and mouth.
After finally finishing everything, he stood up and subconsciously put his hands on his belt, patted the jade belt around his waist, and couldn't help but sigh:
"This thing will be passed on to future generations, and not a single apartment in the capital will be lost."
After that, he simply ate some cakes and drank a sip of tribute tea, then asked someone to drive a chariot and hurried to the Wenhua Palace.
Since the Wenhua Palace is not far from the East Palace, we crossed the Jinlong Bridge, turned a corner, and walked a few hundred steps before arriving at the Wenhua Palace.
"Isn't that His Highness the Fifth Prince? Why is he here?"
"I don't know, I think it was Long Live summoning me."
"It seems like there is indeed something big going on today..."
Seeing Zhu Youjian's appearance, some non-partisan officials whispered, and Zhu Youjian also got off the carriage in front of the Wenhua Hall, took Wang Chengen into the Wenhua Hall, and immediately saw the dusty people
Yang Lian.
"Your Highness..."
Yang Lian had received the imperial edict this morning. He arrived at the town outside Andingmen last night and hurried over as soon as the door opened today.
No one was surprised by Yang Lian's arrival, but they were surprised why Yang Lian saluted Zhu Youjian.
In their memory, Yang Lian seemed to be angrily quarreling with Zhu Youjian the last time he appeared on the stage. However, less than a month after arriving in Changping, he was so polite to Zhu Youjian?
This scene successfully attracted the attention of Liu Yishui, Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou, Guan Yingzhen, Gu Tianjun, Qi Shijiao and others.
Seeing this, Zhu Youjian could only sigh in his heart, and then returned to Yang Lian:
"Yang Du is in trouble"
"clang!"
Suddenly, the minister of Honglu Temple rang the bell, and he responded by singing:
"Entering class..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the ministers entered their positions in an orderly manner according to their official ranks, while Zhu Youjian walked directly to the side of the imperial case in front of everyone.
"Congratulations..."
"Humpa!"
The ceremony was sung again, and the imperial guard at the entrance of the Wenhua Hall immediately cracked his whip and announced the beginning of the court meeting with his clean whip.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao also walked out from behind the screen of Wenhua Hall, nodded to Zhu Youjian, and then sat on the dragon chair.
"The ministers are reporting..."
The minister of Honglu Temple rang the bell and sang the salute again, and as soon as he opened his mouth, someone immediately stepped forward and said:
"Chen Du Cha Yuan You Qian Du Yu Shi Qi Shi Jiao..."
"Censor Zhao Xingbang..."
"I am the young official of Taichang Temple Ying Zhen..."
"The Ministry of War has sent a message to Wu Liangsi..."
"Yao Zongwen is involved in the matter of Chen Huke..."
"I am the Censor of Gyeonggi Province, Xu Zhaokui..."
"Long live please reject the imperial edict of changing the capital!!!"
Wenhua Hall is not big, but it is enough to accommodate more than a hundred people.
When nearly forty people out of more than a hundred people stood up and denounced it, it was a shock to everyone.
But before Zhu Youxiao and the others could react, Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, also stood up and pointed to the thick memorial on the imperial case:
"Long live this, these are the memorials and postscripts of relevant officials after the imperial edict to restructure the capital was left in the Central Government. There are eight volumes and 372 posts in total."
"Among them, 210 are for petitioning to reject the restructuring of the Beijing-Chamberlain State, and the remaining 162 are for the impeachment of Liu Yixuan, the deputy minister of the cabinet, the military affairs department's impeachment of Yang Lian, and the imperial censor of Zuo Qiandu, Zuo Guangdou..."
Fang Congzhe read out a dozen names eloquently, basically summarizing all the main officials of the Donglin Party, and finally concluded:
“If we don’t get rid of the traitors, how can our family and country be safe?”
Fang Congzhe's forced uterus gave Zhu Youjian a vivid moment.
That is, in the face of power, even if Zhu Youjian helped Fang Congzhe, Fang Congzhe would not stand on his side.
However, Zhu Youjian never counted on Fang Congzhe. All he wanted was to cut off the Donglin Party's support for the palace transfer case.
He needs a balance between the Donglin Party and other parties.
However, the balance he tried his best to create only lasted less than two months before it collapsed, and he was unable to stop it.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at the good emperor brother, and saw that the good emperor brother took out the memorials on the table and read them one by one.
Zhu Youjian glanced at the pile of memorials and saw from the cover of the memorials how violent the reaction of the various parties was this time.
Qi Shijiao's "The Great Rebellion General", Xu Zhaokui's "The Donglin Renchen Shu", Wang Zhi's "The Disease Returns", Yao Zongwen's "Exterminating Evil Officials Zhaozhang Shu", Feng Sanyuan's "Exposing Corrupt Ministers and Evil Officials", Zheng Fang's "Evil Plans and Strange Essays"
", Shi Chaofeng's "The chaos has been planned for a long time"...
These memorials are like the open letters of later generations. A post can range from hundreds to thousands of words, and the content is so vicious that it can make people's scalp numb.
It seems that in their memorials, the Donglin Party and others have all become corrupt officials, while they are the gods who stand in a high position and are responsible for supervising the trial.
"Sure enough, don't play with the literati..."
Looking at this pile of memorials, Zhu Youjian didn't know how to deal with this situation for a while.
To put it bluntly, in his previous life, he was at the grassroots level in poverty alleviation. He didn't even succeed in getting rid of poverty in the village, so he came to the Ming Dynasty. There was no time to deal with this situation.
Dealing with the large-scale soldiers in the Yanshan camp and dealing with the Gonggun princes in the Forbidden City are completely different concepts.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but at this moment, a piece of silk appeared in front of him, and then he saw the worried expression of the good emperor brother:
"Why are you sweating so much? Could it be that you caught the wind and cold last night?"
"..." For a moment, not only Zhu Youjian, but also all the Dukes Gonggun who had been shouting fiercely just a second ago shut their mouths.
Zhu Youxiao's move seemed to be caring about Zhu Youjian, but in fact it was just stalling for time.
He is buying time for the Donglin Party, and he is also buying time for himself.
Sure enough, under such delay, Liu Yishen, the second assistant to the Donglin Party Cabinet, stood up and said:
"Long live, I think it is necessary for the capital city to be restructured!"
"Long live, I second the proposal!"
"Long live……"
"Long live……"
Suddenly, among the hundreds of officials who had already stood up for more than forty people, more than thirty people stood up again, and in the end only more than twenty non-party officials remained.
Donglin Party officials all agreed to the restructuring, and Yang Lian walked forward holding a wat board and said:
"Long live the old Emperor Taizu Gao who once stipulated that the Beijing Examination should be held every three years, and later it was changed to once every ten years. During the Hongzhi period, it was stipulated that it should be held every six years."
To be continued...