Originally in history, the spring of March and April in the 21st year of Wanli was a very intense season. That year was the year of Jingcha, which was held every six years, and was known as Guisi Jingcha in history.
This is an important node in the history of Wanli party struggle. It can even be said that Guisi Jingcha completely established the basic pattern of party struggle in the middle and late Wanli Dynasty.
Why is it that Beijing and Chaoyang are always very fierce and often become a battlefield for party disputes?
That's because the main purpose of the Beijing Inspectorate is to eliminate unqualified Beijing officials, and they are really good at "firing" a group of Beijing officials, so it's easy to start a life-and-death fight.
In the history of the Guisi capital inspection, the Qingliu forces represented by Sun Qin, the official secretary, Li Shida, the imperial censor of Zuodu, Zhao Nanxing, the imperial examination doctor, and Gu Xian, the foreign minister of the literary selection department, and the cabinet forces represented by Wang Xijue, the first assistant
There was a very fierce fight between them.
The consequence of the conflict was that the chief assistant Wang Xijue was seriously injured, and the members of the Qingliu forces who participated in the fight were reprimanded one after another, including Zhao Nanxing, Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong, Gu Yuncheng, Xue Fujiao and others.
Then most of these people returned to Wuxi County to hibernate, continued to gather people to give lectures, and raised funds to rebuild Donglin Academy, and then evolved into the Donglin Party.
Therefore, it can be said that the Guisi Jingcha in the 21st year of Wanli in history was the direct source of the formation of the Donglin Party.
But in this time and space, due to the huge butterfly effect brought by Lin Tailai, the layout of the court has changed beyond recognition compared with the original history.
Today, the Qingliu forces are no longer facing the whining chief minister Wang Xijue, but a Lin Party group with strong comprehensive strength and particularly good at political struggle.
The Qingliu force's own strength has dropped by two-thirds compared to its peak, not to mention that before Jingcha, Sun Piyang, the censor of Zuodu, was directly deposed.
In this situation where Tao eliminates demons and grows, it is actually difficult for the Guisi Jingcha in this time and space to become intense even if it wants to be intense, at least it will not be as intense as in the original history.
If the feud with the Qingliu forces is still inextricable, then wouldn't Lin Tianshuai, who is far away in North Korea, have traveled through time in vain?
Besides, the process of Beijing inspection is roughly as follows: officials of fourth rank and above will file a private prosecution, officials of fifth rank and below will be jointly inspected by the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and finally the Ministry of Personnel will draft and submit a elimination list.
It can be said that the Ministry of Civil Affairs holds the initiative in the capital, but now most of the power of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is not in the hands of the Qingliu forces, and the Qingliu party members cannot do much except passive defense for the time being.
On this day, Gu Xiancheng, the newly appointed member of the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, hosted a banquet for Liu Yukui, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
After the end of the rule, Gu Xiancheng returned to Beijing and resumed his job. He had been waiting hard for this year since last year, and finally got the opportunity. His patience was not in vain.
Wang Xiangmeng, formerly a member of the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Personnel, was promoted to the rank of doctor in this department, and the Ministry of Personnel finally vacated a position for a foreigner of the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Personnel.
Logically speaking, the Lin Party would definitely not be willing to allow a dangerous person like Gu Xiancheng to return to the core department of the Ministry of Personnel.
However, in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there was a mechanism of "restoring the original official or similar official position after the end of the mourning period". It was almost natural for Gu Xiancheng to be replaced as a member of the literary selection department, and the Lin Party could not openly break this rule.
Coupled with the hard work of Liu Yukui, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the exchange of benefits required by the Lin Party general Wang Xiangmeng to be promoted to doctor, Gu Xiancheng was finally replaced as the official wailang of the Wenxuan Department.
After all, Gu Xiancheng, an academic star and true Confucian, had a high status among the Qingliu forces, and he would definitely be the one to be protected and supported.
In order to be reinstated and return to the civil service, Gu Xiancheng, who refused to take up his job elsewhere, had been wandering in the capital for nearly a year, and his mood had been depressed for nearly a year. Now he can finally feel proud!
Gu Xiancheng held a banquet tonight to thank Liu Yukui, the left minister.
During the chat, the two officials naturally talked about this year's Beijing inspection, which was the most important thing in the court recently, and they were both ready to take a look at the "elimination list."
Liu Yukui sighed: "Now we can only focus on self-protection, and we have to see how they play chess first.
It can be expected that the Lin Party will definitely take the opportunity to clean up our people!
Then we can launch a public discussion and accuse them of forming a clique for personal gain and dictatorship!
At that time, we will try our best to alarm the emperor and make him feel disgusted with the authoritarian and domineering Lin Party."
These ideas can be regarded as the consensus reached after emergency discussions between several Qingliu forces leaders after Sun Piyang was dismissed from office.
There is some truth to this idea. Since ancient times, there are many examples of people who hold power without restraint and are eventually counterattacked.
Gu Xiancheng replied: "My fellow countryman Qian Yiben once said sixteen words, which I think make sense - hold firm, observe carefully, deal with it calmly, and maintain concentration."
Liu Yukui praised it and said: "Yes, yes, these sixteen words are so reasonable. We must follow these sixteen words now."
Gu Xiancheng added: "However, these sixteen words always feel familiar. It seems that I have heard them elsewhere. Qian Ben also said that he heard them from others."
In the final analysis, the sixteen words were just the self-motivation of the weaker side. Liu Yukui was still worried, but he could only continue to enjoy the hardship and said: "Fortunately, Lin Tailai is not in the capital at the moment, otherwise the situation we face would be ten times more difficult.
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Just hearing the name "Lin Tailai", Gu Xiancheng felt as if he was shrouded in a huge shadow.
The experiences over the years flashed through my mind one by one: schooling in Wuxi County, cracking down on pornography on the Qinhuai River, pressing my head three times to force myself to debate the Bible, publicizing and stigmatizing the "Gu Family Class", secretly visiting the former site of Donglin Academy
Land allocated to build a nunnery
If I hadn't happened to have Ding You go back to his hometown to hide for three years after Lin Tailai entered the court, otherwise he might not know what he would be like now.
Look at my friend and former colleague Zhao Nanxing. His official position is getting smaller and smaller, and his position is getting more and more biased.
Thinking of this, Gu Xiancheng said subconsciously: "I always feel that Lin Tailai has been desperately targeting me in the past eight years."
Hearing Gu Xiancheng's words, Liu Yukui was surprised and lost his voice: "Do you think too highly of yourself?"
Gu Xiancheng: ""
Zuo Shaozai, what exactly do you mean? Isn’t he, Gu Xiancheng, worthy?
Liu Yukui quickly explained: "I mean, you are not worthy of Lin Tailai's long-term deliberate targeting, right?
Ah no, what I want to say is that Lin Tailai shouldn't have to deliberately target you all the time."
When Liu Shilang thought about it, the person who was qualified to be targeted by Lin Tailai for a long time should at least be of the level of Lu Guangzu, the former Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the Censor of Zuodu.
Although you, Gu Xiancheng, have a certain status in the industry, you are still several levels behind. How could He De allow Lin Tailai to keep an eye on you for eight consecutive years?
"Really, I don't dare to deceive the young master. I have indeed been maliciously targeted by Lin Tailai." Gu Xiancheng said seriously.
Liu Yukui couldn't help but laugh, "Gu Jingyang, you are drunk."
Gu Xiancheng deliberately mentioned this, meaning that he was in the opposition before. Now that he has officially returned to the official department, he will definitely be maliciously targeted by Lin Tailai. He asked Liu Shaozai to take care of him.
As for the business of Beijing inspection, it is personally led by the Minister of the Ministry of official affairs, and the examination department of the Ministry of official affairs is specifically responsible for it.
One of them is Zuo Shilang, and the other is Wailang, a member of the Literature and Selection Department, and they cannot get involved in the Beijing inspection business at this stage.
In March, the latest battle report of Liaodong was sent to the capital.
Lin Tailai first used a strategy to scare the Japanese pirates into retreat. Then Li Rusong, the admiral in charge of military affairs, commanded the troops and defeated the main force of the Japanese pirates in the southeast of Seoul. He beheaded more than 5,000 Japanese pirates, captured more than 14,000, and drowned more than 10,000. This was unprecedented in a century.
What a great victory!
At the same time, Lin Tailai, the general manager, led the Biao battalion to seize the Donui Gate. Lin Tailai personally equipped himself with strong weapons and climbed first again. Then the officers and soldiers entered the city in large numbers and recovered Seoul.
This battle report is wonderfully written, and this victory is also brilliant. The fourth advance and the annihilation of 30,000 enemies are very shocking.
These are all very good topics, but everyone still pays more attention to the official department.
How can a war three thousand miles away be stimulated by the "elimination list" that the officials are about to draw up?
Especially when the Beijing inspection business is led by Lin Dang, it is even more exciting.
Everyone knows how good the relationship between the Lin Party and the Qingliu Party is.
It is said that the underground gambling house in the capital has offered odds for all well-known Qingliu Party members to be on the "elimination list", and betting is very popular.
If a member of the Qingliu Party who holds an important position is eliminated, won't others have a chance?
But the biggest move Wang Shizhen, the Minister of Civil Affairs, has made public recently is to organize the Capital Literary Forum this spring.
As for the theme of the literary conference, it doesn’t take much to think about it. It must be the “Eastern March”. Otherwise, how could it still be spring?
In the past three years, since Lin Shizong's focus shifted to overseas expeditions, the literary world began to develop a fierce trend of frontier poems and military poems.
It is said that this is called "literature should reflect the characteristics of the times and be realistic."
At the end of March, the literary conference came to a successful conclusion, and the poem rated first by the old leaders of the literary world was a seven-rhyme poem.
"On the jade festival, the sun is shining brightly, and the handsome ministers are ordered to pay homage to the capital.
The Nine Heavens Tower is under the purple mud edict, and the green water river leads to the ten-year-old Cha.
I cast a pen to seal the grass in the west, and embrace the frost to bloom the northern mountain flowers.
The sunrise of Fusang should be near now. Looking back to Chang'an, I wish to transfer it on credit."
Everyone was impressed by this poem, which indeed has distinctive characteristics of the times and profound practical significance.
Did the young man who bravely resisted the hegemony of the literary world in Suzhou become what he once hated the most?
After holding the Literary Forum, Wang Laotianguan finally began to pay attention to his own work. On the last day of March, he summoned all the officials and division officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for a meeting.
Wang Laotianguan looked at the left and right ministers, three ministers (Lin Tailai, the examination minister, was absent), four ministers, and eight chief ministers, and said calmly:
"Yesterday, the Merit Examination Department handed over the draft list of officials to be eliminated by the Beijing Inquisition to the headquarters. Today, we will announce it to you first."
To be continued...