Three hundred and thirty-eighth chapter court struggle
Each room in the courtyard of the inner study has different permissions, so the further inside, the fewer people around Leng Ningyun. When he stepped into the warm pavilion of the inner study, there was only nothing left around him.
The manuscripts and various documents compiled and translated by the masters have already been placed on the table: these are collected and sorted by special personnel every day. Currently, we are busy with Sun Yuanhua's work, so the intelligence collection work in this area has become more and more intense.
Wu Kaidi was Leng Ningyun's indispensable assistant and often had to handle some relatively sensitive matters for him, so some simple intelligence gathering tasks were instead delegated to local servants.
In the winter, a large number of refugees from Beizhili, Shandong, Henan and other places flowed into the capital. These refugees lived on the streets and relied on soup kitchens from Shuntian Prefecture to survive. Many people died of cold and hunger every day. Leng Ningyun took in several of them.
After screening the ten orphans, seven or eight smart and reliable ones were left who were responsible for running out every day to buy newspapers and go to teahouses to inquire about news. The other children he considered "unsuitable" were transferred back to Lingao.
These children can more or less recognize a few words. They go out with a few cakes every morning and come back around three o'clock in the afternoon. When they come back, they tell the master what they see and hear, and the master compiles it into a manuscript. Every week, the Beijing Information Station will pass it.
The Wei Escort Bureau sent a "Summary of Important News of the Week in Beijing" to Lingao. After this information was sent to Lingao, in addition to being used by the Intelligence Analysis Department, it was also an important reference material for the historical data group of the Grand Library.
Leng Ningyun changed his clothes under the service of the life secretary, and drank a few more sips of tea. He looked through today's information compilation. Of course, what he was most concerned about was the information about the situation in Dengzhou.
Judging from the materials in the Di newspaper, the battle for suppression has gradually begun to fade away, and both the government and the public have begun to lean toward suppression. This is not only due to the repeated appeals of Shandong officials, but also due to the original main support faction: Xiong Ming
After meeting, the attitudes of Xu Guangqi, Zhou Yanru and others changed.
Obviously, Sun Yuanhua's letter has arrived in the capital, so these factions began to turn around. However, in order not to turn too quickly and abruptly, these former factions proposed a "slow suppression". Sun Yuanhua's memorial was also announced a few days ago.
When he arrived in the capital, Leng Ningyun had read the full text, except for his escape story and current military and government affairs. Leng Ningyun noticed that he had deeply reviewed his previous policy of pacification, and proposed to "focus on suppression, supplemented by pacification."
". It fits perfectly with the current attitude change of Zhou Yanru, Xiong Mingyu and others - obviously both parties have fully communicated in private.
This made the originally fierce battle for suppression in the court calm down. The parties only argued over whether to "urgent suppression" or "slow suppression". The focus of the conflict in the court returned to the issue of how to deal with Sun Yuanhua and others.
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Yu Dacheng has been completely dismissed. In addition to his failure to deal with the Dengzhou rebellion, his dismissal also involves some old problems from the past: in particular, he did nothing to suppress the White Lotus Rebellion and blindly appeased him. Not only did he request the imperial court to grant the leader of the riot an official position
, there were even rumors that he was a brother of his leader. So it is not surprising that he was attacked and fell with concentrated firepower this time.
Because Sun Yuanhua had the protection of Zhou Yanru and others and got out of trouble in time, he was not attacked by accusations of "rebellion" like in the old time and space, but the public opinion of the court was still very unfavorable to him.
Leng Ningyun listened to lectures when he was studying at the "Farm" and knew that those who attacked Sun Yuanhua were actually drunkards who were not interested in drinking. Rather than holding Sun Yuanhua accountable, it was better to take this opportunity to attack Zhou Yanru.
Whenever a major event occurs, the various factions in the court will use it to attack dissidents, and the party will fight against dissidents. This will be used to raise prisons to exclude and attack political opponents. After the Yuan Chonghuan case, Yuan Eunuch, who was suppressed after the Donglin Party came to power,
Party members took advantage of this incident to convict Qian Longxi, a bachelor of the Donglin Party, one of the leading generals of the Donglin Party. Although in the end, Wen Zhenmeng, Huang Daozhou and other Donglin Party members tried their best to rescue him, he was still alive.
Dinghaiwei was exiled until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The Nanming regime pardoned him.
Although Zhou Yanru was not a member of the eunuch party, he used this incident to operate privately and drove away the chief minister of the cabinet, Cheng Jiming, and became the chief minister himself.
The major event of the Dengzhou Rebellion naturally became a great opportunity for various political forces in the court to take the opportunity to make trouble. Attacking Sun Yuanhua was equivalent to attacking Zhou Yanru.
Zhou Yanru had many enemies, but his biggest enemy was Wen Tiren, who was also a bachelor. Although Wen Tiren was introduced to the cabinet by Zhou Yanru, after driving away the chief minister, the two of them went from being in collusion to being at odds with each other.
Starting from the spring of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren began to fight openly and covertly. Under Wen Tiren's instruction and instigation, officials continued to file memorials to impeach him. After Zhou Yanru gained power, he acted unscrupulously. Even his domestic slaves became
There were many people in the government and the public who were dissatisfied with him. By November of this year, the impeachment of Zhou Yanru reached its climax. Criticizing Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai he promoted, was also an important means to attack Zhou Yanru.
The change of troops in Denglai gave the anti-Chou faction enough ammunition, so the attacks on Sun Yuanhua became more and more fierce. Judging from the content of the impeachment, it ranged from his waste of military pay to corruption to smuggling goods from Liaodong. There are many.
There is a tendency to brand Sun Yuanhua as a "sinner of the country".
This matter is not so much about protecting Sun Yuanhua as it is about protecting Zhou Yanru. Leng Ningyun thought to herself that Sun Yuanhua is not the key, the key is Zhou Yanru.
From the perspective of the Senate itself, it does not matter who is in power, Zhou Yanru or Wen Tiren. But for him, a person who performs front-line tasks, if he wants to keep Sun's position, he must start with the political struggle between Zhou and Wen.
The history research team of the Great Library has also made similar speculations. Although Leng Ningyun doesn't know what the Foreign Intelligence Service plans to do next, judging from the various current signs, the Foreign Intelligence Service has obviously already started working on it.
The biggest manifestation is that starting from the middle of the fourth year of Chongzhen, there have been a large number of exposure posts targeting Wen Tiren and his accomplice Xue Guoguan. Although a large number of them accusing them of being "remnants of the Eunuch Party" seem to be the work of the Donglin Party.
, but Leng Ningyun knew very well that these disclosure posts were most likely the work of the "Truth Office."
Destroying Wen Tiren's reputation on a large scale - of course his reputation is not very good to begin with - will undoubtedly create enough ammunition for the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party will not let go of this opportunity to deal with Wen Tiren.
Here, the operation of a larger situation is involved. Leng Ningyun thought, would it be an easier option to simply assassinate Wen Tiren directly? With the current operational capabilities of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau and the Special Investigation Team, it is impossible to eliminate without leaving any traces.
The task of losing body temperature is not difficult - but is it necessary? This all needs to be weighed.
"Forget it, let Jiang Shan, Li Yan and the others worry about it." Leng Ningyun decided not to think about it anymore. He still followed the instructions of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau and first did a good job of wooing the eunuch - the eunuch was at a critical moment.
His words and a few words are no match for the long speeches of ministers outside. As for the work on the deeper political struggle, others can do it.
Leng Ningyun's report was transmitted by radio to the telecommunications station in Lingao. The naturalized citizen telegraph operator who received the report found that it was a coded telegram. Based on the call sign at the beginning of the telegram, she knew that it was a telegram from "Department 13". According to the regulations
, she immediately registered the telegram number and then put it into the confidential folder of Department 13.
That night, the mid-shift correspondent took the folder from the telecommunications main station. The telegram was then handed over to the confidential department for translation. The female confidential officer knew based on the number on the header of the message that it was an important message from a foreign station.
The intelligence and telegrams were put into a locked red folder and immediately sent to the first place: the desk of Li Yan, the director of the Domestic Division, or the Ming Division.
Li Yan read the report and immediately went to find Jiang Shan. Later, Jiang Shan met with Li Yan, Wang Ding, and Yu Eshui, chief researcher of the History Research Office of the Great Library, and Zhang Haogu, director of the Office of Truth, in the conference room of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
held a working meeting
At the meeting, it was believed that Leng Ningyun's analysis was generally accurate. Although the latest "Beijing Weekly News Summary" has not yet been sent, judging from the various intelligence obtained previously, in order to save Sun Yuanhua's political life, we still have to start from the overall situation.
, clean up the anti-Zhou Yanru forces.
The assassination of Wen Tiren is not technically difficult, but after discussion, everyone believed that the assassination of Wen Tiren was of little significance. After Wen Tiren's death, Zhou Yanru would only become dominant, and the Donglin Party would definitely turn the spearhead of the struggle to Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru was not Donglin either.
As allies of the Lin Party, in the original struggle to overthrow Qian Longxi and drive away Qian Qianyi, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru were working together, and Dong Lin may not be able to take advantage of this opportunity to overthrow Sun Yuanhua to drive Zhou Yanru away.
Only by retaining Wen Tiren, could the Donglin Party choose to cooperate with Zhou Yanru. Although Zhou Yanru had attacked the Donglin Party, he still had a close relationship with the Donglin Party. The fourth-year general examination of Chongzhen took place in
Zhou Yanru served as the examiner, and under the secret operation, a large number of Fushe students including Zhang Pu, the leader of the Fushe, were recruited. It is difficult to say whether there was any secret transaction between the two.
"Fushe and Donglin are actually the same thing." Yu Eshui said, "Zhang Pu's power is actually already superior to the big bosses in the old Donglin. Zhou Yanru ignored the old rules and squeezed out Wen Tiren.
As chief examiner, in addition to taking care of his good friend's son as Hui Yuan, he also had plans to recruit famous Confucians as disciples to expand his influence in the court. From this point of view, although Fushe and Zhou Yanru were not the same person, they
There is a basis for cooperation between the two parties. After all, Zhou Yanru's second rise to the cabinet later had a great relationship with Fushe's secret operation and support. They are not as irreconcilable as Wen Tiren." (To be continued...
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