Officials in nursing homes in Nanjing have not experienced as much as officials in the imperial court in Beijing.
They did not experience Zhu Houcong's first court meeting after he ascended the throne, they did not experience the undercurrent debate in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice afterwards, and they did not face the "party struggle" in the first year of Jiajing that sent many officials to jail.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, the closest Nanjing officials came to fear was the Southeast Killing of Officials in the 16th year of Zhengde. At that time, Zhang Zilin went south and had a strong tendency to plow down, but in the end he was lifted high and fell gently. In the end, he just ended up with
Xuanfu is the main one.
After experiencing the gentle Hongzhi Dynasty, and the Zhengde Dynasty where the emperor did not like to fight despite the domineering eunuchs, officials in Nanjing finally recalled that during the Hongwu period, Taizu's pressure spread from Nanjing to the entire Ming Dynasty.
Now the young emperor is far away in Beijing, but overnight, Wu Dinghou has taken control of Nanjing's gates, Xininghou is in charge of the military and horse divisions of the five cities, and the imperial guards are still running among the various offices in Nanjing.
In the Nanjing garrison hall, Dai Yi was guarded, Guo Xun was guarded, Song Liangchen was guarded in coordination, Wei Pengju, the admiral of Caojiang, Xia Yan, the censor of Caojiang, and Qiao Yu, the minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, met.
"Eunuch Dai, if you have a will, please declare it!" Qiao Yu looked at Guo Xun again with a sullen face, "If there is no will, what was the reason for what happened last night and today?"
This is a meeting of the Defense Hall. Xia Yan is Cao Jiang's censor, and Qiao Yu is qualified to attend this meeting.
Dai Yi was much older than he had been more than two years ago. He bent over and said nothing.
Guo Xun narrowed his eyes slightly: "Does Shangshu Qiao think that Jin Yiwei and I are acting on our own initiative? I told you that Mr. Jiang Ge is heading south, and the decree will arrive in the next two days."
Qiao Yu felt a chill in his heart: "Overnight, Ying Tian Fu Yin, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, two people from the Ministry of War, two people from the Ministry of Industry, three people from the Ministry of Punishment, and the Minister of Rites, and now they are going to take over the magistrate of Shangyuan County and three people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The Censor of the Supervision Bureau, the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs! How can you, Marquis Guo, with so many people and such a high position, take action without purpose?"
"Since Qiao Shangshu knows that there are so many people, how can he capture them all in one fell swoop without being caught by surprise?" Guo Xun raised his head, "If you ask about the decree, I already received it before I went south. The purpose of coming to Nanjing started last night.
Big deal! The three major camps were resettled by this lord from the beginning, and now someone dares to reach out to the Beijing camp and even dares to mutiny! Qiao Yu, as the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, you are now aggressive about this matter. Don’t you think about it carefully?
Any consequences?"
Guo Xun called him by his first name. The pleasure of controlling the situation in Nanjing at this moment made his waist stiffen and his tone became a little sinister.
Dai Yi finally spoke: "Your Majesty has made arrangements, and the news from the palace has come. The Jin Yiwei came to Nanjing to bring Eunuch Zhang's message. Including our family, the guards in many provinces and important places have changed. Guo
Lord Marquis and Minister Qiao are just worried about Nanjing’s instability.”
"There is nothing unstable! I told you that Mr. Jiang Ge will be here soon, and he will come to Nanjing with a clear purpose at that time. The Beijing camp has a total of 30,000 forwards to choose from. If Nanzhili dares to be unstable, you can give it a try!"
When Qiao Yu heard him say that he had received the order before going south, he could only shut up in fear.
After a corpse impeachment, Guo Xun had already gone south before the Fifth Army Camp Incident happened.
Zhang Wei conspired to rebel and Sichuan was in trouble. That happened later. Did Guo Xun go to Nanjing just to wait for an excuse for rebellion to appear in the world?
Guo Xun said coldly: "To be honest, it wasn't just Nanjing that took action last night. In Zhejiang, it was also done at the beginning of Hai hour last night. Qiao Shangshu, we are all here today. It is only right to care about how to make meritorious service. Jin Yiwei
The capital commander has also left the capital, and it is not the imperial court who acted rashly before the fifth year of Jiajing!"
Qiao Yu took a deep breath.
So when the case of Li Xiang's corpse was impeached, what the emperor cared about was not his reputation in the history of history, but he became extremely angry at this kind of tactics?
Qiao Yu is smart, but he is also timid.
He will follow the trend, but this trend of new laws is so fierce, and His Majesty is so determined and persistent.
When he ascended the throne, he resettled the three major battalions, which meant that he was ready to sweep the world and was ready to raise troops to quell the chaos!
The world is in chaos? Is he just worried that there will be no chaos?
Otherwise, how could the second- and third-grade officers just take it like last night without asking the reason?
Over in Zhejiang, who did Yan Song take?
On the Zhejiang side, Yan Song took a stack of banknotes and said to Xie Changjie with a smile: "Look, there are still many people who know the goods. With this money, Your Majesty does not need to spend additional money to arrange people to build this emperor's palace."
It’s time.”
Xie Changjie was in a complicated mood.
This guy must know very well that his main task in Zhejiang is actually to keep an eye on him for His Majesty. Yesterday, many people were "enthusiastic" to buy the franchise and hire Wanfa Hall to worship and teach secret techniques, so he put the number of silver coins he received
Be clear with yourself and act like you're showing off.
Then Yan Song got down to business: "The many families that He Xingxing took last night were all well-connected in Zhejiang. Xie Xunxun, after the news spread, many prefecture and county officials must be frightened and uneasy under Wang Zhitai's interrogation. Xie Xunxun
According to Zhejiang, the next step will be hard."
Xie Changjie hesitated for a moment, and then asked for advice: "Futai, in view of Xie, I am afraid that many officials and gentry have contacts with him. Xie is the patrol magistrate, and the inspection of Zhejiang still depends on whether the local officials are useful.
According to the confessions of the arrested people, Xie should look at which officials purchased land, hid their households, and evaded too many taxes and servitude, and used this as a criterion to impeach them for their treason?"
Yan Song smiled and saluted: "Brother Xie is brilliant!"
Isn’t it just about forcing people to take sides?
If you don't want to be guilty of treason, then "spend money to eliminate disaster" and pay the taxes that are due in the future. In this way, you may be able to seize the good positions left after many high-ranking officials were purged this time.
As for the future, there will be laws. There are laws for purchasing, and laws for treating officials. Yan Song knew very well that Your Majesty was not the Taizu who only wanted to let officials live a hard life.
Seeing Xie Changjie relieved and left, Yan Song had some doubts in his eyes.
Why does Your Majesty clearly don't care that capable ministers also get some benefits, and why does he send Xie Changjie to be a patrol officer in Zhejiang to keep an eye on him?
Yan Song cherishes the broad and smooth path for promotion now, and does not want to leave the impression of greed in His Majesty's eyes.
But Your Majesty thinks I might be greedy?
He secretly warned: Although Your Majesty does not mind that his ministers live a better life, there must be a limit.
And the most important thing is that you must be able to do things extremely beautifully!
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Two days later, the news spread, and Liu Zhenyuan saw it very accurately.
Nanjing and Zhejiang went out at almost the same time and captured so many people at once, which showed an extremely powerful deterrent effect.
Behind this, what is needed is early planning and preparation, as well as dealing with possible reactions after good things happen.
In a word: Determination and strength.
Jiang Mian came to Nanzhili, which also showed determination and strength.
But he did not reach Yingtian Mansion or Nanjing City.
He stayed in Yangzhou Prefecture.
This is the throat of the canal going north from the Yangtze River. The office of the Governor of South Zhili was actually located in Yangzhou.
The Governor-General of Southern Zhili was only a temporary one, and his main affairs were water transportation, salt law, and water conservancy.
But since he has such a name and the second assistant is going south, the remaining ministers and other senior officials in Nanjing still have to go there to pay a visit, and they also need to listen to orders.
Guo Xun didn't need to listen to the order, and neither did Xia Yan - before Jiang Mian arrived, someone had already sent the official selection results: Xia Yan was promoted to Yingtian Prefecture Yin.
After all, Meng Chun was the person Jiang Mian had determined to be killed before he left Beijing.
So Guo Xun and Xia Yan sent many people onto the boat outside the Jinchuan Gate. The river was surging, and the official boat went down the river. The "surviving" Nanjing officials on board were in heavy hearts and had no interest in talking.
In two days and three nights, the six departments and yamen in Nanjing lost a total of twenty-eight people of fifth rank or above. On the contrary, only thirteen people were taken away from those of sixth or seventh rank.
This time, we are specifically targeting the big ones.
Naturally, there is also a prison in Jinyiwei in Nanjing, and now guests are coming like clouds.
Going down the river, the official ship passed Zhenjiang and arrived at Jiangdu County at noon.
The government of Yangzhou is in Jiangdu County. The current Jiangdu County is not only attached to the city, but also operates under the eyes of the temporary governor of Nanzhili, which highlights the trepidation.
The dock was already ready to welcome the six left-behind ministries and government officials from Nanjing City. Seeing the large number of people in red official uniforms disembarking one after another, the Jiangdu magistrate could only accompany the Yangzhou magistrate to greet them.
No one wanted to talk more. After all, there were also governor-general pacesetters dispatched by Guo Xun for Jiang Mian.
You said that he is only a temporary governor, and he is not a governor with full titles like other provinces, but he, Jiang Mian, has his own model battalion.
Jiang Mian temporarily set up his yamen in the Daming Temple, which was first built during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Song Dynasty. Many officials from Nanjing came here to visit.
On the west side of the main hall of Daming Temple is Pingshan Hall, which was built by Ouyang Xiu when he was the governor of Yangzhou.
Standing in front of Pingshan Hall and leaning on the railing, you can overlook many peaks in the south of the Yangtze River. The distant scenery is almost parallel to the sky, hence the name Pingshan Hall.
Are the peaks in the south of the Yangtze River at the foot of Jiang Mian who set up his office here?
An incense table has been set up in front of Pingshan Hall, and the ground has been swept clean. Jiang Mian's soldiers in the pacesetter camp are guarding everywhere inside and outside Pingshan Hall. Jiang Mian stands in front of the incense table, and the person next to him is holding a copy of the imperial edict in his hand.
Several people couldn't help but look at the person who was preparing to announce the decree with extreme surprise, and their hearts were shaken.
When the Nanjing officials came to see Jiang Mian, Jiang Mian stepped aside and saluted the person holding the imperial edict, and then said: "Please ask the eunuch Zhang Jin, the eunuch of the Chief of Ceremonies, to announce the edict."
The person who went south with Jiang Mian turned out to be the Chief of Ceremonies.
Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuo discussed the replacement of the list of guard eunuchs from all over the world. As a result, he gave up the position of the chief eunuch of the ceremony to Zhang Zuo and went to Nanjing to replace Dai Yi.
At this critical moment, the entire system of ministers is no longer what it used to be. With the imperial study room, the role of the ceremonial supervisor is gradually being adjusted. Zhang Jin has to go to local places to replace the emperor like Wei Bin and Gu Dayong.
Do meritorious deeds.
Now to the officials in Nanjing, the chief minister of rites personally came to declare the decree, and then the decree clearly stated that he would take over the garrison of Nanjing, making the emperor's determination even more obvious.
"...I asked Jiang Mian to be the governor of Nanzhili. Except for water transportation, salt law, water conservancy and other matters, all the remaining ministries in Nanjing should follow the old rules. In the land of Longxing in the south of the Yangtze River in Huaixi, I will guard the country in Beijing, and you will be loyal to Nanjing.
Tiguo. I said in front of the palace that five years before Jiajing, the world would first observe the effectiveness of the new law in Guangdong. If there is any obstruction, it will be regarded as treason."
"Now, not only are they obstructing us, but they are openly rebelling against me! Where did Zhang Wei and others from the Fifth Military Camp and Gao Kewei and others from Sichuan get the courage to make trouble by false orders? Who else gave them the courage besides Yin Mengchun and others from Yingtian Mansion? Today
Let me reiterate: I said what I said on the day I killed Guangdong Buchen and raised my son, and this intention has not changed!"
"I appoint you as high-ranking officials in order to relieve my worries and enrich the country and secure the people. I agreed to the treatment of officials requested by Mr. Yang Ge, so what? Now I feel that the new law is harsh on officials and gentry, but I don't think so.
As for collaborating to conspire against each other? They are all people who are well-read in ancient history. They have been able to get by for more than a hundred years since the founding of the country. Do you really want me to see the Ming Dynasty subjugated in the future? "
"Last year, Guangdong achieved results. This year we will try out a new tax law. I will come to advise you on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. So loyal! Good integrity! Good reputation! I want you to remember one thing. I, the vassal king, have the destiny to succeed this great king.
I have no burden for you! I just want to be worthy of my ancestors and the people of Ming Dynasty!"
"I also warn you that you also need to be worthy of my importance, worthy of the sages' books that you have read, and worthy of the people you rule! Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said that water can carry a boat and it can also overturn it. You must remember it. The Ming Dynasty
If this boat capsizes, I and my descendants will not be spared, and neither will you and your descendants!"
"Appreciate this!"
This is by no means an imperial edict to be drafted by the Hanlin Academy with gorgeous rhetoric and euphemistic writing.
Many people had not heard the emperor's speech in person, but now from Zhang Jin's mouth, they seemed to see a determined young emperor standing in front of them, coldly speaking to them with suppressed anger and reason.
The emperor and his ministers are all people who sit on the big ship of the Ming Dynasty.
Anyone who is not a fool knows the consequences of continuously squeezing the people, and the ship will capsize sooner or later.
The problem is: not right now.
The emperor did not want floods to flood the sky after his death. The emperor said that he was just a vassal king and had no burden on his heart.
The emperor seems to be an irritable young man...
All the ministers knelt to listen to the imperial edict and stood up after making a promise in unison. After looking at Jiang Mian and Zhang Jin with serious expressions, they remembered that the emperor could allow Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong to perform this scene together. Now in the name of treason, Bu Ke
The power of terror suddenly descended on the wrist of the thunderous power.
The emperor is also a scheming young man...
He is still a teenager.
When the "surviving" officials in Nanjing heard this imperial edict with their own ears, they went to Guangdong to pay tribute to Zhang Fu. The person who announced the edict from Gui E had already arrived in Wuchang Prefecture.
The orders to Sun Jiao and Marquis Zhenyuan have naturally arrived.
Gu Dayong, the eunuch of the general town of Huguang, Gu Dayong, the Marquis of Jing'an who is also the head of the cabinet, Sun Jiao, who is now the governor in his hometown, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and Gu Shilong, the general general of the Huguang Army, clearly stood together, but it was not as some people had guessed before.
Because of the change in the fifth military camp, we are planning to "Qin Wang Qing Jun side".
Gu Shilong tied up his second son and handed it over to the eunuchs who came to announce the decree, and asked them to take them back to reply to the emperor's decree.
The person who was most stimulated by this news was King Zhu Rong of Chu.
The stimulation he received was so great that it shocked both Sun Jiao and Gu Shilong that night.
"Is this true?"
Sun Jiao stood up after taking the crime and asked the people who came to report the news.
The person who came was the Chief of the Palace of the King of Chu. He tried his best to make a sad expression, but his eyes were very frightened: "It's true, the King of Chu has passed away!"
Zhu Rong, the sixth king of Chu, was named king of Chu in the seventh year of Zhengde. He is now only 12 years old and is fifty years old.
He had been sick before, really sick.
But he never expected that after the imperial decree reached Huguang and Gu Shilong kidnapped his second son and sent him to the capital to apologize, the King of Chu died that night.
Sun Jiao and Gu Shilong looked at each other with solemnity in each other's eyes.