Wanli Youming

Chapter 422

Chapter 422

"Zhang Nianhua! You're a sycophant, aren't you afraid that you will end up like this too?!"

After Zhang Wenxi got the emperor's permission, he really started to investigate the situation of enlisted battalion soldiers in Fengyang area, and even started to investigate the situation of enlisted guard soldiers.

As a result, a large number of civil servants and military generals in Fengyang were arrested or dismissed, and gentry were also dismissed or exiled for serving the battalion.

Lu Liangui, the deputy envoy of Huaiyang military preparations, scolded Zhang Wenxi loudly when he was arrested and taken to Beijing.

Zhang Wenxi didn't care.

Relying on the power of the military selection department given to him by the emperor, he recruited a group of Fengyang military officials who also wanted to make progress and did not serve soldiers, and stood on his side, making Lu Liangui and other bureaucrats and gentry no longer able to serve the soldiers of the court and began to restrain them. Soldiers get rich, but they can only swallow their anger on the bright side.

But Zhang Wenxi did this, after all, he was offending the bureaucratic landlord class, so the bureaucrats representing the interests of the bureaucratic landlords naturally hated him, and began to impeach him in court and slander him among the people.

"The minister impeached Zhang Wenxi, a member of the Fengyang inspector and military selection department of the Privy Council, who abused the gentry and framed officials and generals, causing local people to boil, and all officials are in danger!"

On this day, Chen Ye gave Zhu Yijun a scripture to impeach Zhang Wenxi.

After Shoufu Shen Shixing read it, he heard about Chen Ye and asked, "How did Zhang Wenxi abuse the gentry and frame the officials?"

Chen Ye took out the posters and tabloids and said: "Back to Yuanfu, there are posters as evidence, and a large number of non-governmental tabloids in Huaiyang revealed that Zhang Wenxi falsely accused the military constitution, guerrillas, and thousands of households in order to prove to the Privy Council that he was effective in rectifying military affairs. They waited for the enslavement of the battalion, and even blackmailed the big family, forcing the big household to pay 500 taels of book, otherwise they would falsely enslave the battalion and force them."

Shen Shixing took these postings and tabloids and read them, and said after reading: "This is not enough evidence, who knows if it is a false accusation, but you are giving advice, but you can get rumors."

"Yuanfu said yes, but the subordinates are afraid that if this continues, Fengyang officials will resign because they are in danger, and the big households are only afraid that they will move to other places, or reduce expenditures, which will greatly affect local commerce and trade, and lead to an increase in refugees. "

Chen Ye replied at this time.

Shen Shixing said: "This is just your guess, you can't let His Majesty listen to your one-sided opinion."

Therefore, Shen Shixing's opinion on handling Chen Ye's memorial to the ticket was to order Zhang Wenxi to defend himself.

Yuan Yikui, the censor, therefore believed that Shen Shixing was protecting Zhang Wenxi, so Shangshu impeached Shen Shixing to protect the private party and concealed a treacherous heart.

Zhu Yijun directly ordered Yuan Yikui to be sent to the army to exile Anton Nuerqian.

When the bureaucrats impeached Zhang Wenxi, as the emperor, he didn't have to come out to express his position in person, but when impeaching the chief minister Shen Shixing, he, the emperor, had to take a clear stand, otherwise it would only make Shen Shixing fearful of further actions.

Yuan Yikui was exiled by the army, and his son Yuan Yuanrong went to the court to ask for his replacement.

Zhu Yijun immediately rejected the imperial approval, saying that filial piety cannot replace loyalty, and etiquette must not be messed up. He only gave Yuan Yuanrong a great gift to accompany his father to slavery.

Yuan Yuanrong opened his mouth wide after receiving the imperial decree, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He didn't expect that the emperor would not accept such a trick.

However, Yuan Yuanrong's behavior also won the sympathy of many bureaucrats. For a while, many officials complained, saying that Yuan Yuanrong's filial piety is commendable. Road, so that officials dare not speak.

However, these officials were all dismissed one after another.

Politics is something that has me without you. It is impossible for Zhu Yijun of the central court and the ruling party to allow the bureaucrats below to confront him.

Zhang Wenxi's self-defense memorandum was also sent to Beijing not long after, and Shen Shixing Piao also expressed his belief in his opinion when he planned to deal with it, and instead demoted Chen Ye and transferred him to Dongying as an inspector, in fact, he was demoted and exiled.

After all, the transfer of a Beijing official to a local official in the pass is regarded as an apparent promotion and an implicit surrender, let alone going to Japan to serve as an inspector.

The officials, gentry, and rightists in Fengyang were naturally very disappointed by this, and began to show sympathy for Chen Ye, Yuan Yingkui, etc. in the tabloids and daily conversations.

It's just that they can only do this, and they don't dare to really fight against the imperial court. Instead, the people intensified their efforts to fabricate rumors to discredit Zhang Wenxi.

However, they soon discovered that the civilians reported the situation of the officials and gentry serving the camp soldiers, and the battalion people dictated that the gentry arrested the soldiers and civilians without authorization, and even many officials and gentry arrested the soldiers and civilians wherever they went, which led to Many soldiers and civilians were killed and injured, and even tabloids about wives and daughters being raped began to appear in large numbers.

Even, the number of such tabloids far outweighed the number of tabloid posts smearing Zhang Wenxi.

In large cities like Huai'an and Yangzhou, there are tabloid posters posted in blank spaces almost everywhere.

What's more, there are quite a few tabloids piled up directly in densely populated places for people to pick up or hand out by children.

In fact, Zhu Yijun asked Jin Yiwei to do this, in order to confuse public opinion first, and then correct public opinion.

That is to first expose the black material of the gentry and landlords oppressing the people, and then let the people of the world start to learn to think in the two opposing views of public opinion, so that public opinion can really become a kind of supervision of bureaucrats, rather than bureaucrats Especially a mouthpiece for civil servants and bureaucrats.

Since Jiangzuosi developed the rotary wooden type printing machine, the official printing technology of the Ming court has naturally been greatly improved, and the printing speed has also been much faster, so it has an advantage in the battle of public opinion.

What's more, the imperial court itself is stronger in terms of financial resources and manpower.

In addition, Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of this matter, had a much stronger execution ability after being rectified by Zhang Jing.

Therefore, after Zhu Yijun asked Jin Yiwei to do this, the public opinion of exposing the gentry and tyrants who used soldiers and horses overwhelmed the public opinion of attacking Zhang Wenxi.

"Excessive! Very excessive! Who did this?!"

"Why are they all talking about enlisting soldiers! Don't you know the order to ban it?"

Lu Shude, who was about to go to Nanjing to serve as Minister of Taichang Temple, asked Shi Yingyue, the new governor of Fengyang, on this day.

Shi Yingyue asked Lu Shude a little puzzled: "Don't say it can't be banned at all, even if it can be banned, how can we scholar-bureaucrats block the mouths of the world?"

"That can't let the materialism that is clearly humiliating the gentlemen and the nobles be so publicized!"

"As a member of the scholar-officials, should I just sit back and watch this unhealthy trend spread?"

Lu Shude asked.

Snapped!

Shi Yingyue slapped the table and asked Lu Shude: "What do you mean I sit and watch? Don't you want people in the world to talk through newspapers and posts?!"

Lu Shude couldn't help saying angrily for a moment: "That's not what I mean, what I mean is that it's very inappropriate to go on like this! There will be an insult to the gentleness of the world!"

"It's okay, there are still a lot of gentlemen in the world, so a few tabloids won't damage our image as a scholar-bureaucrat. You must have confidence in us civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats."

Shi Yingyue said this.

"Announcement!"

After hearing this, Lu Shude could only sigh, then nodded and asked again: "Is Mr. Ke really not worried that this will cause everyone in Fengyang to resign and everyone to be uneasy?"

"The point is, I haven't seen anyone resign angrily because of these tabloid posts exposing the military and civilian violations, and I haven't seen people's life affected by this?"

(End of this chapter)