: The Eunuch Party Goes to the Top (1)

From the beginning of the year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have to work hard anymore. Of course, the officials in the Beijing period were no exception. The daily court meetings were stopped and the various yamen also took holidays. However, those officials who wanted to go further did not free themselves. Instead, they seemed to be busier than before, busy walking around the Shangguan place and visiting each other to bring the relationship between each other closer. This is just commonplace for people in the officialdom, but the situation this year has changed a little because some people came to their door before those officials of low rank had not yet taken action.

When this situation reached Ye Xianggao and others, it was already a few days later, which made the Donglin Party very puzzled. However, things were unusual and were close to monsters. They still kept their minds about this very different things than usual. Soon after, they knew something was wrong because of the identities of those visitors and the interviewees. Those who were interviewed, or those who were close to the Donglin Party or even officials of the Donglin Party, of course, they were just small officials with no reputation in the court without speaking, but the visitors were the same. They were all eunuchs. Although they did not have great power, they had a close relationship with these people.

When you know all this, the pawnshop can guess the intention of the eunuch party, which is to win over all those who can win over and isolate the Donglin Party members. Although you know the other party's intention, Ye Xianggao and others are helpless. Because these bigwigs of the Donglin Party are all people who should be arrogant and refuse to discard their faces. Only when these friends are together will they not show any airs. However, if they show goodwill to their subordinate officials and even those on both sides of the head and the head, their self-esteem cannot accept. Moreover, even if they are willing to lower their attitude to make friends with these people, they are afraid that those officials who are free from the eunuch party and the Donglin Party may not necessarily like them, because the eunuch party members bring generous gifts when they come to the door, but the Donglin Party members are strict with themselves and are strict with others, and generous gifts are neither willing to give them out nor willing to give them.

At the beginning, ** Xing and others disagreed with this behavior of the eunuch party. They believed that the officials' power in the court was too small after all, and they believed that with their own appeal, those people might not be attracted by the eunuch party. But after a few days, they found that the situation was a little bad.

Although the Donglin Party members emphasize that the friendship between gentlemen is as calm as water, and the interactions between the superiors and subordinates are not too frequent, there are always some officials coming to congratulate them during the New Year. Although they may not accept gifts from those people, and sometimes they are even unhappy about their coming to give gifts, there are always such people coming to the door every year. But the situation this year is different. Except for the Donglin Party’s important officials walking with each other between the important officials in the court, no low-ranking official went to the homes of the assistant ministers, which made everyone truly experience the feeling of being neglected in front of the door.

After that year, everyone felt the changes even more. They didn't know what curse the eunuch party had put on the officials in the court and the officials in the capital. In just twenty days, the people in the Donglin Party clearly felt the neglect of the officials. There were very few people talking to them when they went to court, and when they proposed a policy, there were very few responding, but there were many opponents. Those who did not dare to disobey themselves in the past began to jump out and deny themselves.

Ye Xianggao looked at all this and felt a little nervous. Now he wanted to abandon everything he had insisted on and act like a member of the eunuch party. However, the inherent aloofness of the Donglin Party did not allow him to lower his status and seek those small officials. Moreover, it seems that there is no major change. They still control the central organization of the imperial court, and the major affairs of the court are still issued by them. Gou Hong, a person from the Silijian, quickly did not make things difficult, and cooperated more quickly than before the age of the year. However, he had been through the officialdom for a long time. Wait, he always said to himself in this way.

Just as the Donglin Party members were outdated one day, the eunuch party was brewing a huge offensive. After one New Year holiday, they used countless silver and treasures as pioneers, and supported by the official appointment as a wish, the eunuch party members had already won over many officials in the court. Of course, some of them were voluntarily joined the eunuch party camp after seeing the direction of the wind, and they also refused to refuse such people. Their purpose was to bring all the officials in the court to their own side and compete with the Donglin Party, which was originally covered by the sky. Of course, they also used some other methods in addition to giving gifts to officials, such as taking out the case of the Wang family, which made the Donglin Party worried, and even letting Xiong Tingbi's case know, to prove that the Donglin Party's life was over.

In the first month of the year, most of the officials in the court turned to the eunuch party. Although they might not be the only ones, at least these people would no longer be enemies with the eunuch party. This was the result that Wei Zhongxian wanted. When he saw that the overall situation in the court was about to be settled, he called Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng to him and asked them to make a decision on the two cases of the Wang family and Xiong Tingbi.

Tian Ergeng was also very concerned about these two things. Of course, he knew that they had not closed the case yet, so he told the truth, which made Wei Zhongxian very displeased. At this time, Xu Xianchun thought of what the prison guard in the prison said to him before. At that time, because the two cases were very important, he did not dare to do this, but he still knew the situation in the court, so he secretly gave Tian Ergeng a wink. Seeing his behavior, Tian Ergeng just thought that things had changed, so he changed his mouth again, which made Wei Zhongxian look better.

When the two were alone, Tian Ergeng said complainingly: "Since you have made a new breakthrough, why didn't you tell me earlier, otherwise you wouldn't have made my father-in-law so angry."

Xu Xianchun thought to himself that if you were not my boss, I would have snatched you in front of my father-in-law. But his face was full of respect and he hurriedly said, "Sir, don't be angry, the subordinates have a report." As he said that, he said that he wanted to force Wang Wenyan to write. As soon as he finished speaking, Tian Ergeng looked at the man in surprise and said, "I'm afraid this matter won't work. After all, if all these cases are confirmed, it's a big case. We can't move."

Xu Xianchun's lips sneered: "Sir, can't you see it? Most of the officials in the court are already father-in-law's people. He is just trying to find an excuse to get rid of the Donglin party. Why don't we do it according to his wishes? As for other things, I think my father-in-law's current abilities are enough to deal with it."

After pondering for a while, Tian Ergeng also agreed with the other party's opinion and said, "Since that's the case, then go to the imperial prison to get things done. Don't let your father-in-law wait for a long time."

When Wang Wenyan was mentioned to the execution room again from prison, he obviously felt that the situation today was a little different. Except for Xu Xianchun, who was like a demon, was also among them, the Jinyiwei's faces were actually looking at him with a smile, rather than being as angry as before. This strong contrast made Wang Wenyan immediately guess that the other party had a way to deal with him, but he still looked at the minions of the eunuchs with a tough attitude, although one of his eyes had been blinded.

"Wang Wenyan, I will ask you another question, are you willing to tell the truth about Ye Xianggao and others colluding with Xiong Tingbi?" Xu Xianchun's cold voice came into Wang Wenyan's ears again, but he still shook his head firmly as usual, and said with difficulty: "No such incident, this is your false accusation!"

"Please use torture!" After saying this, many tortures were imposed on Wang Wenyan again, but he had already suffered enough of these punishments, and even felt that they were no longer fresh. Looking at his hunched appearance, Xu Xianchun's eyes showed a hint of hatred. No one had ever been able to grit his teeth for so long under his great punishment, which made him hate Wang Wenyan even more.

When he saw that the other party finally fainted after a series of tortures, but there was still no chance of letting go, Xu Xianchun decided to end all this. However, he did not want Wang Wenyan to die like this. He wanted to make this person who dared to fight him completely despair. Even if he became a ghost, he would not dare to remember him. So after waking up Wang Wenyan with cold water, he did not ask someone to torture him anymore, but ordered people to pull Wang Degong and Wang Wencheng to his front.

"Brothers, don't hold back anymore, please greet them!" Xu Xianchun's face was faintly smiling when he said this, which made Wang Wenyan's heart feel cold. This is a secret code, which means that people will directly use the two uncles and nephews of the Wang family to death to torture, and there is no need to leave a living mouth.

So in less than half an hour, these two people had become two bloody balls, leaving only one last breath without swallowing it. Seeing his relatives become like this, Wang Wenyan's eyes were cracked, but at this time he had no strength to speak. He could only close his eyes and not watch this tragedy happen in front of him. But not seeing this miserable scene does not mean that Wang Wenyan doesn't know what is happening here, because from time to time the screams of his brother and nephew, the sound of various torture instruments whipping on the human body, and at the same time, his nose also smells a burnt smell, which is the smell of iron placing a soldering iron on the human body and burning the skin...
Chapter completed!