May 1, 1625 in Beijing

In the early morning, after the five watch drums on the streets, the originally quiet city woke up from its deep sleep, and the streets began to move, and then began to be lively. The people of the city began to take to the streets one after another, starting their day either leisurely or busy.

As an imperial city, the life of the common people living in Beijing is actually very leisurely, many people who are slightly wealthier or businessmen come to the teahouse to chat with familiar neighbors or friends after breakfast, and soon the major teahouses in the capital are crowded. Although the drought in the north has become more and more serious in recent years, and there are more and more displaced people in the capital, this has not affected the lives of these people living under the roots of the imperial city.

But at this time, there was no such leisurely atmosphere in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Imperial City, and several ministers sat in the hall, looking at the few letters sent below, and only felt their heads big. A lot of bullshit has come together these days, first of all, just a few days ago, the thief chief Nurhachi moved his capital to Shenyang and renamed it Shengjing.

This matter is not a trivial matter, you must know that Shenyang is the most important town of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, and now it is occupied by the full of people, not to mention, it is even designated as the capital by others, such a shame is no less than being slapped in the face, but at this time the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has long declined, and it can't beat people, so you can only watch people occupy the magpie's nest and massacre the Han people.

Well, if this incident is nothing, then what happened in Wu County, Nanzhili, that is, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in later generations, caused a shock to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

The reason is this, since Wei Zhongxian killed Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Yuan Huazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Gu Dazhang and other six Donglin Party members who opposed him, his notoriety can be said to have reached its peak, and at the same time, his self-confidence has also been unprecedentedly inflated.

For ordinary people, it pursues the principle of killing people too much, and it is the most disgusting TV series, and the bad guys should rest after acting here. But our father-in-law Wei is not a bad person, he is a eunuch among bad people, so this kind of thing does not exist in his dictionary when he sees a good thing.

He gritted his teeth with hatred for the Donglin Party, and concocted another list, and the names of seven people on this list were Gao Panlong, Li Yingsheng, Huang Zunsu, Zhou Zongjian, Liao Changqi, Zhou Qiyuan, and Zhou Shunchang.

It stands to reason that these seven people are not big officials in the court, nor are they representative figures of the Donglin Party, that is, they scold Wei Gonggong a little more fiercely on weekdays, but Wei Gonggong holds a grudge, and he who killed the Donglin Party people so much that he didn't stop doing anything, so he simply sent these seven people to the Lord of Yama together.

But Grandpa Wei forgot one thing, that is, the rabbit will kick people if he is in a hurry. Since Gonggong Wei kept raising the butcher's knife, the Donglin Party members are also in a hurry, you can kill a few of us, and now you want to continue to kill, do you want to kill them all, since this is the case, then we are not welcome.

When the Dongchang fan sent by Gonggong Wei came to Suzhou to arrest Zhou Shunchang, something happened when our Gonggong Wei relied on the prestige of the Emperor of the Apocalypse for several years, but he forgot that Suzhou is the territory of the Donglin Party, and the power of the Donglin Party is also the largest here. What's worse is that the Dongchang leader named Wen Zhibingbing he sent is also the master who wants money and doesn't want to die, he originally thought that he could make a small fortune by the way after he caught Zhou Shunchang, but unfortunately Zhou Shunchang's family is very poor, and he can't squeeze any oil and water, so he was angry and angry and publicly threatened that if Zhou Bingchang didn't pay the money, he would do Zhou Shunchang halfway.

Don't say it, after he publicized it like this, many Donglin Party members in Suzhou really scraped together a sum of money and gave it to Wen Zhibing, asking him to raise his noble hand and let Zhou Shunchang go. It stands to reason that Wen Zhibing, who took the money, should be satisfied, but unfortunately this Wen Zhibing is a bastard of bastards, and this guy actually temporarily increased the price after getting the silver, which is too much and too bad, and the angry Donglin Party launched businessmen to hold a huge strike the next day, and the originally prosperous Suzhou market immediately became inaccessible within a day.

It is said that it would be good if you changed to a smarter one and saw that the momentum was not right, bowed your head or ran away quickly, but this Lord Wen Zhibing estimated that he was used to acting in Beijing, and even ordered Governor Mao Yilu to order Suzhou to forcibly stop the strike, which completely angered the people of Suzhou, so more than 100,000 people surrounded the county government where Wen Zhibing was located under the leadership of the Donglin Party.

To say that this Wen Zhibing is also so stupid that no one is there, blackmailing, collecting money and not doing things, bullying the people, and even threatening to arrest people after seeing more than 100,000 people surrounding the county government, so these more than 100,000 people completely rioted, and they rushed into the county government under the leadership of the Donglin party. It was only at this time that Wen Zhibing felt scared, but unfortunately it was too late, he was surrounded by more than 100,000 people and was beaten to death in the chaos, and the dozens of Dongchang fans he brought were also killed in the chaos, and the rest were all beaten so that they couldn't take care of themselves.

This time the matter is big, Dongchang arrested people, not only did they not catch them, but they were also killed a few, which is estimated to be the first time in the eunuch career of Wei Gonggong, and it is also the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

After the incident, Gyeonggi shook, the cabinet shook, and even Zhu Youxiao knew, after all, the matter was too big, Wei Zhongxian couldn't hold it anymore, but Wei Zhongxian also brushed his cleverness, he threw this black pot to the first assistant Gu Bingqian, and made a small report to Zhu Youxiao that he didn't want to arrest people, but then he did it after listening to Gu Bingqian's bad idea, so that he poked out Da Louzi.

After listening to Wei Zhongxian's words, Zhu Youxiao rarely summoned the first assistant Gu Bingqian into the palace, reprimanded him, and ordered him to settle the matter immediately. Gu Bingqian was called a grievance in his heart, it was obviously a basket poked out by Wei Zhongxian, why should I wipe his ass for him, but this year, the emperor of heaven and earth is the biggest, since Zhu Youxiao has spoken, he can only carry out the grievances no matter how wronged he is, so he summoned several cabinet members to discuss this matter.

At this time, the meeting was held in Wenyuan Pavilion with five people, including Gu Bingqian, the first assistant of the cabinet, Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Li Qiyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Lin Yaoyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhao Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Gu Bingqian said with a calm face: "Your Majesty already knows about the matter of Wu County, and Your Majesty has ordered us to deal with this matter well, I don't know what your best plan is?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the ministry, said without raising his eyelids: "Elder Ge, this matter is handled by the nine thousand years old, we don't know at all, why let me wait to deal with it, this is unreasonable." ”

"Exactly, it's not reasonable!" Cui Jingrong's voice fell, and several people around him also echoed.

"You ......"

Gu Bingqian was dumb for a while, and Cui Jingrong and the others were clearly saying that we don't carry this pot.

At this time, a young voice came, "As a cabinet minister, you are a cabinet minister, but you shirk the blame, is this how you do things?" ”