said so, but Wei Bao was not sure at all, he just relieved Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er.

Wu Xuexia, Wang Qiuya and Princess Zhenming were very confident in Wei Bao, and comforted Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er in unison, saying that the president would definitely do his best to do what the president promised.

"Thank you, President." Xiong Xin'er looked at Wei Bao empathetically.

Wei Bao smiled slightly and shook Xiong Xin'er's white and tender little hand, "Annoying." ”

Xiong Xin'er's face turned red, this was the first time Wei Bao shook her hand like this.

Wei Bao also wanted to touch Yang Xue, but Yang Xue was slightly colder than Xiong Xin'er, and Wei Bao and Yang Xue didn't know each other for as long as Xiong Xin'er, plus he thought that he might not be able to rescue their father, so he felt a little guilty, so he didn't touch Yang Xue.

That night, Wei Bao slept very deeply, and he was indeed tired.

And this night, the ministers of the Donglin Party couldn't sleep well, especially the hardcore ministers of the Donglin Party, they were all notified in various ways, asking them to go to the palace gate early tomorrow morning to 'make trouble', to see the emperor, and to state Yang Lian's 24 major crimes of impeaching Wei Zhongxian.

Although he was very tired, Wei Bao still got up early the next morning and went to the morning pilgrimage.

As Wei Bao imagined, the early dynasty was indeed very lively, and hundreds of hardcore ministers of the Donglin Party kept shouting to see the emperor.

Seeing that many people had been arrested by the Donglin Party, the ministers of the Eunuch Party were still undiminished, and they couldn't help but talk about it with worry.

The reason why Wei Zhongxian has never dared to fight the Donglin Party to death excessively is precisely because of this, a group that has survived for a long time has deep roots, whether it is in the capital or in the locality, there are very powerful forces, it is not so easy to bow down, the more severe the suppression, the stronger the rebound.

"As long as we work together, and there are many Guozijian and Hanlin Academy students outside the palace to support us, Your Majesty will definitely hear about it, and we must see Your Majesty today! Otherwise we don't go! "The Minister of the Donglin Party and the Deputy Cabinet Assistant, Lord Zhu Yanxi, has a very resolute attitude this time.

The speech officials of the Ming Dynasty were a very special group, and most of the speech officials were not of high rank, or even very low, but their political status was extremely prominent.

They are free to impeach any dignitary with impunity.

It can be considered that the speech official system of the Ming Dynasty represents a certain degree of freedom of speech, and it is undeniable that those who have such freedom of speech and the right to speak are high-level intellectuals.

But the politics of the Ming Dynasty were very chaotic, with partisan disputes, and the officials would have their own parties, impeaching officials who were actually beneficial to the state for the benefit of a certain party, and some would impeach for the sake of impeachment.

Thus actually causing disadvantages to the country.

So what kind of influence does a class have an absolute say on the country?

If this kind of discourse is attributed to the intellectual elite, then what kind of development will it be?

A country with a benign mechanism should have how to distribute its discourse weight.

What role should the media and the public play?

The extent to which the political chaos of the Ming Dynasty was related to the official system.

The chaos of politics in the Ming Dynasty was caused by many factors, and the extent to which the influence of the speech and official system was, Wei Bao is still not good, but it is clear that the speech and official system is one of the main reasons for the political chaos in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Wei Bao felt that the official system itself was still good, and it only needed to be slightly modified, such as prohibiting rumors.

Impeachment, proposals, must be justified by evidence.

Impeachment is justified and rewarded (promotion, seniority, etc.), and rumors are punished without evidence.

But Wei Bao will not make such a suggestion now, Wei Bao does not want to take all the problems of the Ming Dynasty into account, and with his current strength, he is not qualified to take up the situation.

The law of the Ming Dynasty was that as long as they were impeached by the officials, they must first immediately write a resignation report, and then carry it at home to wait for investigation and interrogation.

If the impeached official is found guilty, he is naturally prepared to accept punishment.

If it turns out that the official is indeed innocent, the emperor will issue a consolation decree.

But regardless of the outcome, there is no punishment for the speaker.

If you deliberately rectify you, even if you don't want your life at that time, you can still lose your dignity, dignity, morale, friends, and relatives, and you will have to shed your skin if you don't die.

As soon as the performance is over, if the emperor does not stay in the middle, he will have to defend himself and prove his innocence. If you don't die, you have to shed your skin.

Even if Wei Zhongxian is already in power at this time, he is still very troublesome in the face of a group of officials.

Li Hongzhang has a very accurate view on this, and he said that the official system is the worst thing. Therefore, the death of the former Ming Dynasty is the death of the speech official. This generation is a young newcomer, and he doesn't do anything more, and he doesn't pay attention to the gains and losses of the facts, or the interests of the country, but he casually finds a topic, opens his mouth, and publishes a discussion freely, so as to show his head; And the major national affairs have been obstructed a lot. When such difficulties and mistakes are made, they are often to blame, and the parties concerned do not dare to speak lightly. But the responsibility lies in the fact that we cannot sit still. Painstakingly and lonely began to find a line, a little hope, a thousand twists and turns, just will gather things, the speaker thinks that it will be successful, then the group will rise up and fight it. The court said that the road was where it was, and it could not help but show accommodation. is often halfway to the stalk, and it is bound to be nothing to do.

In the discussion of folk history in later generations, there was a widespread misunderstanding that the speech officials represented a positive and honest progressive force, and the imperial power represented the reactionary feudal autocratic forces, and the struggle between them was the relationship between revolution and counter-revolution, and between democracy and dictatorship.

This is a dualistic historical view of good guys and bad guys that has been cultivated by the miscellaneous dramas for a long time, which is very one-sided.

In fact, the original intention of setting up posts such as imperial history and speech officials was to "supervise hundreds of bureaucrats", which was the product of the imperial power used to check and balance the civil and official groups.

In the past dynasties, the positions of the counselor, the imperial historian, and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were parallel to the prime minister, the secretary of the central government, and the cabinet, and were directly responsible for the imperial power.

The so-called rumors and impeachment of officials are the means by which this power is exercised.

Regardless of the level of the official position, if there is no protection from the emperor or the same party, the impeached official is likely to face the result of losing political prestige and even power.

The high degree of absolute monarchy means that the degree of centralization is strengthened, that is, the decision-making power is more restricted, but due to the backwardness of ancient technical means, mainly the backward means of information transmission, the vast majority of monarchs are unable to do all the affairs themselves, and they can't even give instructions directly to the executors.

Therefore, the monarchy still depends on the civilian clique to carry out its own decisions.

Therefore, the strengthening of autocracy in the Ming and Qing dynasties only means that in the decision-making process itself, procedurally speaking, the weight of the civil and official groups has decreased significantly compared with the Song Dynasty, but in fact, at the implementation level, the efficiency of centralization has a peak and will decline.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a situation in which civilian officials controlled decision-making.

There is neither a positive nor a negative correlation between the degree of activity of the official and the degree of centralization of the monarchy, because the so-called impeachment of the imperial history is essentially a means of struggle, and it will be used in the struggle between the monarchy and the civil officials, and it will be used in the factional struggle within the civil bureaucracy.

The degree of activity of speech officials is only related to the intensity of the struggle, and has nothing to do with who controls the direction of the struggle.

Yang Lian's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian's 24 major crimes was to the effect that Emperor Gao ordered that eunuchs could not interfere in court affairs, but could only clean the court, and those who violated it could not be pardoned.

The emperor's order is above, and there are still people who are unscrupulous and interfere in the government, such as Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of Dongchang.

Wei Zhongxian criticized the minister without authorization, and broke the ancestral system.

Wei Zhongxian cut off dissidents, became close to the thieves and hated loyalty.

Hurt the concubines in the palace.

Damage the Dragon Heir.

Looting people's wealth and greedy for enjoyment.

Raise the house army.

The ministers of the Donglin Party made a lot of noise outside the palace, and Wei Zhongxian was like an ant on a hot pot, walking back and forth outside the emperor's bedroom.

"You can't hide it, hurry up and beg Your Majesty, just say that the Minister of Donglin will unite to put you to death, as long as Your Majesty is willing to believe you, no matter how many people sue you, you will not be afraid, and I will beat the side drum for you from the side." Ke Baba said to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian thought about it and felt that it was such a truth, and he really couldn't think of any other way.

I only hate that the Donglin people are too difficult, he has imprisoned Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, how dare these people be so presumptuous?

Especially now that Wei Bao is still desperately trying to make a text inventory, how many people in the officialdom of the capital have been unlucky? At this kind of panicked moment, these Donglin people still have the strength to make trouble for themselves.

This is something that Wei Zhongxian couldn't figure out.

"Your Majesty, save the old slave, Your Majesty, woo woo woo." Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to use his last skills, crying and kneeling outside the emperor's bedroom.

Zhu Youjiao was going to do carpentry work, seeing that the weather was good today, he had already sketched out a complete set of carpentry work to be completed today in his mind, and he was very impatient when Wei Zhongxian cried like this, "What's the matter with Grandpa Wei?" Tell him to come here. ”

The personal eunuch beside Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse agreed, and hurriedly went to let Wei Zhongxian, who was kneeling outside the hall, in.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, save the old slave, the old slave was wrongfully killed, they don't give the old slave a way to live." Wei Zhongxian cried loudly and knelt down and came inside.

"Grandpa Wei, what are you doing in the early morning? What happened? Zhu Youxiao was surprised.

"Your Majesty, the old slave has served in the palace all his life, and he has been even more loyal to His Majesty over the years, but I'm afraid that the old slave will never be able to serve His Majesty in the future." Wei Zhongxian cried: "At the beginning, Xili Niangniang refused to move the palace, but it was the old slave and Mrs. Ke who fought with their lives to protect Your Majesty." ”

Wei Zhongxian cried vigorously and recounted his own past exploits in order to win Zhu Youxiao's sympathy.

From July to September 1 of the 48th year of Wanli, the two emperors of Wanli and Taichang died one after another, and the enthronement of the new emperor was related to the fate of the country and became the focus of attention of the government and the opposition at that time.

Emperor Tianqi because his father Emperor Taichang was not favored by Emperor Wanli, he was also neglected since he was a child, and it was not until Emperor Wanli died that he left a will and made him the emperor's grandson.

Although Zhu Youxiao's biological mother Wang Cairen was respected above Li Xuanzhi, but because Li Xuanzhi was favored, she was humiliated by Li Xuanzhi and died, and her last words before her death: "I have a grudge against Xi Li, and it is difficult to extend my hatred."

And Zhu Youxiao was also "insulted and abused" by Li Xuanzhi since he was a child, and he cried all day long, forming a weak character that was afraid of Li Xuanshi.

In July of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli died, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, that is, Emperor Taichang of Mingguangzong.

After Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, Zhu Youxiao and Li Xuanzhi moved to the Qianqing Palace.

A month later, Emperor Taichang died, and Li Xuanzhi took control of the Qianqing Palace, and conspired with the eunuch Wei Zhongxian to hold Zhu Youxiao hostage, hoping to become the empress dowager to control the government, which aroused strong opposition from the courtiers.

On the day of Emperor Taichang's death, Yang Lian, Liu Yixiao and other courtiers went straight to the Qianqing Palace, asking to cry to Emperor Taichang and ask to see the emperor's eldest son Zhu Youxiao to discuss the accession to the throne, but they were blocked by Li Xuanzhi.

Under the efforts of the ministers, Li Xuan's attendant Fang Zhun Zhu Youxiao met with the ministers.

When Yang Lian, Liu Yixiao and others saw Zhu Youxiao, they immediately kowtowed to the mountain and shouted long live, and protected Zhu Youxiao to leave the Qianqing Palace and go to the Wenhua Hall to accept the worship of the ministers, and decided to hold an enthronement ceremony on the 6th of this month.

For the safety of Zhu Youxiao, the ministers temporarily arranged for him to live in the imperial palace, and the eunuch Wang An was responsible for protecting him.

Li Xuanzhi's purpose of holding Zhu Youxiao hostage failed, and he proposed that all ministers should be handed over to her first, and then handed over to Zhu Youxiao, but the courtiers strongly objected.

The courtiers asked Li Xuanzhi to move out of the Qianqing Palace and move to the Luan Palace, but Li Xuanzhi refused.

Li Xuanzhi also demanded that he be crowned the empress dowager first, and then let Zhu Youxiao ascend the throne, but he was also rejected by the ministers, and the contradiction became increasingly intensified.

The date of Zhu Youxiao's enthronement ceremony in the Qianqing Palace is approaching. By the fifth day of the first month, Li Xuanzhi had no intention of moving the palace, and it was rumored that he would continue to postpone moving out of the Qianqing Palace.

The cabinet ministers stood outside the gate of the Qianqing Palace, urging Li Xuanzhi to move out. Zhu Youxiao's East Palace companion eunuch Wang An drove in the Qianqing Palace, and Li Xuanzhi was helpless, hugged the eight princesses born to him, and left the Qianqing Palace in a hurry and moved to the Qiluan Palace in the Renshou Palace.

On September 6, Zhu Youxiao enshrined the gate of heaven, that is, the emperor's throne, and changed the year name to Tianqi, known as the Emperor of Tianqi in history.

At this point, Li Xuan's attempt to become the queen mother and control the government finally came to fruition.

Although Li Xuanzhi has "moved the palace", the struggle is not over.

"Moved the palace" for a few days, the fire in the Luan Palace, and after struggling to rescue, Li Xuan's mother and daughter were rescued.

Officials who opposed the relocation of the palace spread rumors that the waiter was selected to throw himself into the well, and his daughter was thrown into the well, and said, "Who is merciful when the eighth sister of the emperor enters the well, and the surviving pheasant is not complained", accusing Zhu Youxiao of violating the way of filial piety.

Zhu Youxiao, with the support of Yang Lian and others, refuted these rumors, pointing out that "I order the suspension of the selection of the title of servant to comfort the soul of the Virgin in heaven." Raise the selection of waiters and the eighth sister of the emperor to comply with the meaning of the imperial examination. Your ministers can look up to their hearts."

At this point, the "moving palace" turmoil is temporarily over.

Originally, in this farce, Wei Zhongxian was on the side of Xili at first, but later he saw that the Donglin Party was powerful and it was imperative for the emperor to ascend the throne.

"Your Majesty, that Yang Lian framed the old slave everywhere, just because he was afraid that the old slave's credit would be too great and block their way, it was the old slave who died to protect His Majesty, and their ministers outside the palace, where did they know the hardships in the palace?" Wei Zhongxian couldn't stop crying.

"Enough, as soon as you encounter something, you will talk about the fact that I ascended the throne at the beginning, and Yang Lian's credit is indeed great! Yang Lian is only a third-grade official until now, I also obeyed your wishes and put Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others in prison, what else do you say? Zhu Youxiao said unhappily.

"Your Majesty, although Yang Lianzuo Guangdou has been imprisoned, their comrades are not convinced, and they will continue to kill the old slave." Wei Zhongxian cried.

Zhu Youxiao frowned impatiently: "You say, what trick do you have for others to grab?" Otherwise, how could you be so afraid?"

Wei Zhongxian was shocked when he heard this, and felt that he was doing too much? It's rare for the emperor to be so shrewd, did he see any flaws?

"The old slave has no handle, they are all falsely framing the old slave." Wei Zhongxian hurriedly argued.

"Wei Zhongxian, then I came to ask you, until now I don't know what Yang Lian impeached you, is it all the truth about his impeachment of you?" Zhu Youxiao asked loudly.

Zhu Youxiao's original attitude towards Wei Zhongxian was not so impatient, that was because before Wei Bao came to the emperor's side, Zhu Youxiao felt that the affairs of the court and politics could only be discussed with Wei Zhongxian.

Zhu Youxiao has a 'spare tire' and a 'promotion' to replace Wei Zhongxian.

Although Wei Bao is still young and a foreign minister, he is not the same kind of person as Wei Zhongxian, and it is impossible to completely replace Wei Zhongxian, but the emperor explained many things in the court and politics through Wei Bao, and felt that Wei Bao was very smart and capable, so the emperor gradually regained some confidence in Bingzheng.

All this led to the fact that in a short period of time, Zhu Youxiao no longer relied on Wei Zhongxian as much as he did in the past.

It also led Wei Zhongxian to make up his mind to follow the advice of Xu Dahua and other eunuch ministers to expel Wei Bao from the Beijing Division, drive Wei Bao to the local area, and drive him to Liaodong.

"It's not true, it's all fake." Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said.

Zhu Youxiao snorted, "Don't you really know anything when I am not in charge, Yang Lian's twenty-four crime books are full of turmoil, and the ministers are overwhelmed with impeachment of your playbook!" Do you dare to say no? ”

Wei Zhongxian hesitated and said: "There is indeed a transcript of Yang Lian's impeachment of the old slave, but it is all false, slandering the old slave, Your Majesty must not believe it." I hope that Your Majesty will be clear. ”

"What about Yang Lian's recital? I want to see it for myself! Zhu Youxiao stood up and said.

Wei Zhongxian only felt that the thunder was coming, and he was deafening, and the whole person seemed to be stunned.

Because Zhu Youxiao is not very literate, Zhu Youxiao has rarely read the notebook, and he told it on his behalf.

The reason why Wei Zhongxian's power is so great is precisely because he told the emperor that he could say whatever he wanted, and the emperor would not verify whether he was right or wrong.

Now that the emperor wants to see Yang Lian's recital in person, how can Wei Zhongxian not be afraid? As long as one of the twenty-four articles is listened to by the emperor, today may be the day of his great disaster.

"Somoto is in the celebrant superintendent." Wei Zhongxian said stiffly.

"Come on, go and get the transcript of Yang Lian's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian!" Zhu You proofread a personal eunuch beside him.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch agreed, and he was going out.

"Wait, ask Wang Tiqian to read the recital!" Zhu Youxiao added.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch agreed again, turned and walked out.

When Zhu Youxiao's personal eunuch was about to leave the dormitory, Zhu Youxiao stopped him in a loud voice, "Wait, call Wei Bao to me too!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch stopped again and agreed.

Wei Zhongxian was shocked when he heard this, if Wang Tiqian read the recital, he still had a certain degree of confidence, if the emperor asked a certain little eunuch who could read the recital in the emperor's own bedroom, Wei Zhongxian would not be so frightened.

But if Wei Bao was asked to read the transcript of Yang Lian's impeachment of himself, Wei Zhongxian would not dare to imagine what the situation would be!

Wei Zhongxian has never fully trusted Wei Bao, appreciation is appreciation, appreciation and trust, these are two different things.

But the emperor's words have already been exported, and he can't stop it if he wants to, so he can't stop the eunuch from going to Wei Baolai.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian couldn't wait to send someone to kill Wei Bao immediately, as soon as Wei Bao died, he could be completely at ease, but unfortunately, it was too late.

At this time, Wei Bao was waiting outside the hall for the court, and while waiting, he was chatting softly with the officials on the side.

Because of his status as a neutral minister, Wei Bao's popularity in the imperial court is excellent, and he can talk to many people.

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