Wanli Youming

Chapter 204

Chapter 204

At this time, outside the palace, Gong Qing and other bureaucrats in Beijing were already anxious, and they all looked in the direction of Qianqing Palace.

They don't care whether the New Deal that promotes reforms can continue, but they care about how to solve the current turmoil and what the attitude of the highest power holder in the temple is.

After all, the survival of the Ming Dynasty may not be too important to them who were born as landlords.

But local turmoil is directly affecting their interests.

And bureaucrats who have been trained in stereotyped essays and have been trained as ruling tools since they became officials dare not make up their own minds. They are only willing to wait for the highest power holders to make up their minds and tell them what to do.

Therefore, what they need most now is a solution to the turmoil, rather than being unresolved like it is now.

Whether they are reformers or conservatives, they have to maintain such a governing procedure, waiting for the higher-ups to tell them what to do and give them a solution.

"What Uncle is telling His Majesty, even if it is to slaughter Wu's blood into a river, it is a solution, and it is better than nothing!"

"At this time, do you still want to teach Your Majesty the principle of mutual tolerance for the country? What to do with so many! Winners and losers, no matter what the emperor does, as long as the country is not destroyed, there will be three taboos for it, It is better to cover up the side that should not be known, than to suspend it now!"

At this moment, Wang Guoguang couldn't help muttering to the other party.

Fang Fengshi whispered from the side: "You think uncle is you?"

Zhang Siwei also squinted at the main hall at this time, and asked Liu Yingjie and Yang Zhao next to him, "Why do you think Yuanfu stayed in there for so long?"

"If he stays any longer, the old man will have to knock on the door and beg His Majesty to grant it!"

Liu Yingjie said in a deep voice at this time.

Yang Zhao replied: "No matter how long you stay, Yuan Fu should not ignore the wishes of the ministers of the world!"

"The will of the ministers of the world?"

"What kind of intentions can the ministers of the world have? Even if they intend to, when did they agree? When Yuanfu asked whether the officials and gentry should pay food as an errand, it seems that I am the only one who has my own opinion?"

"A group of guys who only care about their own lives when encountering big things are worthy of people caring about you?!"

At this moment, Wang Guoguang began to sarcastically.

Yang Zhao's face became ugly.

Liu Yingjie opened his eyes wide, looked at Wang Guoguang, and shouted, "Wang Ruguan! We are all scholars and bureaucrats, please keep your words! I don't want to speak ill of the public!"

Wang Guoguang snorted, waved his sleeves behind his back, and said nothing.

Fang Fengshi blamed Wang Guoguang in a low voice: "You still don't change your temper. In the past, if the ministers of the Xianmiao Manchu Dynasty were not in the form of clay sculptures, could there be Chenghuali court affairs? The same is true today!"

"I'm not made of mud. I really want to change the system, but I didn't expect the system to go this far."

Wang Guoguang replied.

"I know I know!"

Fang Fengshi quickly said "I know" twice.

creak.

The door of the hall suddenly opened wide at this moment.

And it was Zhang Juzheng who came out of the hall at this time.

Zhang Juzheng walked down the steps step by step holding a wat board with his long beard not fluttering, his bushy eyebrows furrowed.

"Yuansuke!"

"Uncle!"

"What does Your Majesty say?"

Zhu Gongqing immediately greeted him and looked at Zhang Juzheng eagerly, trying to get the answer from his face.

Even Jin Yiwei, who was on duty at the side, couldn't help but glance over.

"Mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion! Add the governor of Hai Rui's military affairs to the southeast, and give Shang Fang a sword."

Zhang Juzheng replied.

"Where's the pro-military guard?"

Liu Yingjie asked.

Zhang Juzheng said: "Naturally, besides collecting taxes, we will help counter the rebellion on the spot and listen to Hai Rui's restraint."

Liu Yingjie looked disappointed after hearing this: "So Your Majesty is unwilling to wrong the military guards?"

"A servant would not let the emperor wrong the military guards!"

Zhang Juzheng suddenly replied in a deep voice.

Liu Yingjie suddenly wanted to say it was impossible, but then felt that this was something Zhang Juzheng could do. After all, even Wu Naishe dared to say what he said, so he directly asked, "Why doesn't uncle agree?"

"If you agree, the restored emperor's personal army and six guards will be restored in vain. If a sword can only be hidden in a box, what is the difference from not having this sword?"

"If the emperor is not respected, how can there be justice in this world?"

Zhang Juzheng asked about Liu Yingjie.

Liu Yingjie glanced at Yang Zhao and Ma Ziqiang, and then took a long breath, and said, "Okay, Yuan Funing forced everyone in Wu to rebel and the southeast to be chaotic, and I don't want to wrong the emperor. My loyalty is far behind." Yuanfu is truly unworthy of being an official in the court."

After saying that, Liu Yingjie turned around and walked away, "I'm resigning now!"

Ma Ziqiang, Yang Zhao, Yan Qing and others all stood up and wanted to speak.

"No!"

But Zhang Juzheng suddenly shouted.

Liu Yingjie stood up, hehe sneered: "This can't be decided by Yuanfu, right?"

Zhang Juzheng looked at Liu Yingjie: "When this place is in turmoil, the center can't be in chaos at this time, don't lose your temper and resign at this time!"

As he said that, Zhang Juzheng said again: "So, if you do this, the servant can only go back to the emperor immediately and ask for an order to punish you. He said that you have no king. At this time, you will threaten your majesty by resigning from office, and you will show your eyes for the rebels, with ulterior motives." ! A servant doesn’t have the guts to bully the king, but he still has the guts to kill a public servant if he learns to be strict!”

After Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he turned and went up the steps.

Seeing this, Liu Yingjie froze in place.

Seeing this, Wang Guoguang yelled in Liu Yingjie's face, "Why are you standing still, why don't you tell the uncle that you don't mean it, and you want to trap your father in unrighteousness?!"

Only then did Liu Yingjie come back to his senses, he hurriedly turned around and cupped his hands to Zhang Juzheng and shouted loudly: "Yuanfu stay here, I'm old and confused, now I understand, this is not the time to be angry!"

After Liu Yingjie finished speaking, he shouted again: "We all regard the overall situation as the most important thing. Since the holy will has been determined, it is not appropriate to reproduce side effects!"

"That's right, now that the decision has been made, people from the land of Wu, regardless of male, female, old or young, or inferior, as long as they burn, kill and loot, they will all be killed as anti-thieves!"

Wang Guoguang followed suit.

Fang Fengshi also followed up at this time and said: "The nature is certain, officials, gentry and common people need to have a clear stand, and they can no longer be obedient and contradictory!"

"That's right, the so-called traitors and traitors are incompatible, whoever speaks up for the traitors at this time should be ordered to punish them!"

Zhang Siwei followed up.

Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng came back, and took a look at Liu Yingjie, who was covered in sweat, "Your servant just pretended not to hear what you said just now!"

"Xie Yuanfu!"

Liu Yingjie breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, Zhang Juzheng went to the Siyusi, and asked the Minister of Chengzhi to draw up an edict ordering the Privy Council to dispatch troops to quell the rebellion in Wu, and also sent an edict to Hai Rui, asking him to be the governor of the southeast military affairs to quell the rebellion.

And Hai Rui and Sun Guangyou, who had already gone to the cabinet, jointly signed the memorial about withdrawing relatives and guards and returning to the capital, which was also rejected, and was reprimanded by the cabinet.

Zhang Juzheng even gave instructions to Zhu Geng: "Thieves and thieves are rampant in Wu today. It has nothing to do with Fuyan's ineffective arrest in the local area. For Sun Guangyou, Tian Le, Lu Huo, Li Yi, Li Ji and other Nanzhi officials, they will be directly fined and confiscated for half a year. And year-end rewards for silver! Let him commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. If the place is not peaceful, he will not be guilty of ministers, and he will be arrested and sent to Beijing!"

"For these orders, we can directly request the Privy Council to deliver them within [-] miles on the grounds that the military situation is extremely urgent."

The eight hundred li express delivery was very fast, and within a few days, the edict and imperial approval were all in Hai Rui's hands.

"I was scolded!"

After seeing the content of the imperial criticism, Hai Rui laughed and said, and then said with a smile: "Good scolding, good scolding!"

After speaking, Hai Rui handed the imperial batch to Hu Shouren, and then said to Hu Shouren, Lu Kun, and Tang Chuanxun with a calm face:

"Since the imperial court has made up its mind to define these bullies and hooligans instigated by the powerful right as rebels, we have nothing to say, just follow the order!"

"The patrol teams that have been recruited and trained will follow the arrangements that the church has already made. Some of them will patrol and arrest. They will kill them immediately and restore order. In particular, they will arrest and execute those crying temples and those who set up the discussion bureau!"

"There is no need to interrogate. The interrogation will definitely not reveal anything. The people behind the scenes are not that stupid. If we want to catch the people behind the scenes, we have to rely on our own eyeliner!"

"The other part also encourages the people to go to the government office to make trouble, demanding that the officials and gentry reduce rent and interest rates and increase salaries;"

"The church uses the power of the governor of the southeast to allow them to set up agricultural associations and industrial associations, so as to demand that the township council be more in line with the wishes of the people;"

"If officials, gentry and rightists want to use force to suppress it, the nearby patrol teams have the right to suppress it directly!"

"However, it is not necessary to send out all the Jinwu Guard officers and soldiers of the National Taxation Department. A thousand headquarters will be left in shifts, in case there is a large-scale turmoil, there will be enough troops to suppress it!"

"The first thing to suppress is the [-] thugs who prevented Jinyiwei from entering Zhenjiang City!"

The three of them bowed their hands and said yes, and they all followed suit energetically.

Hai Rui promised governor Sun Guangyou and other civil officials to ask the court whether to withdraw the pro-military guards at the meeting, and after the turmoil was eliminated, he was not idle.

On the one hand, Hai Rui asked the officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Guard to quickly recruit young and strong people they knew well before the training to form a patrol team; Anti-thieves; even recruited a group of humble scholars and encouraged them to join the governor's office as assistants to help carry out mass movements.

At the same time that Hai Rui agreed to Sun Guangyou and other civil officials, the pro-military guards did not collect taxes anymore, and only plainclothes were scattered in various villages to train young and strong people, so the civil unrest has also weakened a lot, and it is not as severe as the rumors outside.

But it is true that there are still many bullies and hooligans. Once they take advantage of the local power, it is difficult to stop.

In addition, some tyrants and rightists actually despise public power because of this, and want to continue to use these bullies and hooligans to seize the people's land and expand their interests, not just to resist the New Deal.

Therefore, there are still small-scale burning, killing and looting in places.

And after Hai Rui issued the order to kill if caught, the first thing the patrol team suppressed were the bullies and evil gentry who were still burning, killing and looting.

On this day, Hu Huaide led a patrol team of 500 people to Longtan, and encountered a team of bullies with knives strutting along the street and knocking on the doors of houses to collect protection fees. There were more than [-] people in total.

Hu Huaide gave an order, and the [-] Jinwuwei former regular cavalry in this patrol team copied from the adjacent street first, blocking the path of this bully, and then Hu Huaide personally led the infantry to charge up, directly facing the bully team. The shooting was launched.

Immediately, the bullies in this team of bullies were shot and fell to the ground one after another. At the same time, the cavalry also charged and killed those who did not fall to the ground.

Gu Yuanxiong, the leader of the bully, didn't understand what was going on for a while, so he just knelt down and said, "Please forgive me!"

Hu Huaide came over and held the big eagle-billed blunderbuss against Gu Yuanxiong's head. Because Hai Rui asked to catch and kill immediately, he directly pulled the trigger.

boom!

With just one bang, Gu Yuanxiong's head exploded, and a lot of blood gushed out, his whole face was immediately covered in blood.

(End of this chapter)