Wei Zhongxian lay on the ground, trembling for a long time before squeezing out a sentence, "The minister is guilty, please punish Your Majesty heavily." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wei Zhongxian for a long time before he said meaningfully: "Being scolded like this proves that Gonggong Wei still did something for Daming." If Gonggong Wei had been kind to everyone, he would not have been attacked by the crowd today. ”

After listening to Zhu Youzhen's comments, Wei Zhongxian burst into tears for a while, and said silently: "Your Majesty, even if the old minister is dead, there is no regret." ”

"Don't talk about immortality at every turn, how unlucky it is. Since Gonggong Wei is doing things for Daming, how can I not let you end up, otherwise who will dare to do things for Daming in the future? Zhu Youzhen first gave Wei Zhongxian a reassurance.

This made Wei Zhongxian, who had been under great pressure since the death of the apocalypse, finally relaxed, and he cried bitterly in front of Chongzhen, of course, in addition to some touching injuries, there was also a bit of a show in front of Chongzhen.

After Wei Zhongxian's crying subsided, Zhu Youzhen continued: "But now that the court is attacking you one after another, if you don't deal with you, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public." ”

Wei Zhongxian wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve, choked up and said: "The old minister is willing to resign from all positions and go to the imperial tomb to guard the spirit of the first emperor, please ask Your Majesty for permission." ”

"You've been in the capital for so long, haven't you stayed enough? I heard that the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River are more nourishing, I think you are Gonggong Wei, or go to Fengyang, the capital of the central capital, to recuperate for a period of time, what do you think? Zhu Youzhen asked with concern.

Wei Zhongxian only hesitated for a moment before replying, "Your Majesty thank you for the grace of heaven. Wei Zhongxian resigned from his position as the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and was succeeded by Gao Mingsi. Zhu Youzhen demoted him to the garrison eunuch of the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, and asked Wei Zhongxian to leave Beijing within 3 days.

At the court meeting the next day, Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for the hundred officials to speak out, and took the first step to take out the impeachment of Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng and criticized him bitterly.

“… The so-called ten major crimes are either fictitious or falsifying. Our dynasty treats scholars more favorably than the previous dynasty, not only giving them preferential treatment, but also allowing them to discuss the gains and losses of the government. However, today, the morale is declining, either going to the Qinglou prostitutes, or going to the Xianggu Pavilion to hug the Xianggu, which is simply obscene and shameless. He did not discuss the gains and losses of the government, but attacked the ministers of the government and the central government at will in the name of discussing politics. Is the student an imperial history? Can I hear about it? Zhu Youzhen, who has always been gentle and polite in the court meeting, suddenly became furious, so that Wang Shou, a member of the household who was preparing to continue to attack Wei Zhongxian today, swallowed the suspicion that wanted to impeach Wei Zhongxian.

Zhu Youzhen didn't finish his anger and forget it, he glanced at the silent officials in the court, and continued to conclude: "After reading the book of this Jiaxing Gongsheng, you can know that the atmosphere of Shilin is corrupt today, and the students are not good at studying and progressing, but they think about attacking the minister to invite fame and fortune all day long.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu came to Zongdao, and I ordered you to order all localities to study and study seriously, and those who dare to go to the Qinglou and the Elephant Pavilion to have fun will be exempted from the preferential exemption except for forced labor, and their names will be registered in a separate book. And from this day onwards, those who donate to prison will not be exempted except from forced labor.

If the study and administration of various localities are perfunctory and cannot be eliminated, they will all be dismissed from their posts. In addition, Jiaxing Gongsheng Qian Jiazheng criticized the minister, and the Guozi Prison was demoted by one level. Beiguozi's sacrificial wine was undisciplined to the prisoners, and he was dismissed and transferred to other positions, and the sacrificial wine candidate Ling Yousi recommended him. ”

Zhu Youzhen has long been dissatisfied with the preferential and exempt policy of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, if it is to take care of poor scholars, but today this policy has become a cancer of the Ming Dynasty, many wealthy classes rely on financial resources to cultivate scholars, enjoy tax exemption treatment, and the huge national taxes are all pressed on the poor peasants.

Let the people at the bottom send troops, pay food, pay taxes, and serve conscription to feed such a large group of parasites, no matter what era it is, such a country will perish.

If it were not for his uncertainty, Zhu Youzhen actually planned to prohibit the families of officials from doing business, and not to allow businessmen to use the preferential tax exemption of scholars. However, considering that although the struggle between these civil officials in the DPRK and China is fierce, they are more or less related to businessmen, his blow is a bit big, and he will not become the target of public criticism. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen only targeted the prisoners who were born in donations, and the scholars who did not conform to Confucian morality and etiquette.

Huang Liji, who is the first assistant of the cabinet, after listening to Zhu Youzhen's anger, let go of his tense heart. In the past few days, he was afraid that this young son of heaven would try to cure the sins of Wei Zhongxian and his party after seeing these impeachments. Then those Donglin Party members in the government and opposition will gain power again, and then the Donglin Party will inevitably liquidate the eunuch party and once again set off a political struggle between the DPRK and China.

But at this time, the Ming Dynasty was already full of holes, there were border troubles such as the West and the East, and there was the Extravagant Rebellion that had not yet subsided, and Shaanxi had been suffering from drought for many years, and it seemed that it was also a place where chaos was about to occur. At this kind of moment, if there is another Donglin disaster in the DPRK and China like a few years ago, then the world of the Ming Dynasty is really in danger.

Now that Chongzhen has belittled Wei Zhongxian, and scolded the students who attacked Wei Zhongxian, it is tantamount to warning the two sides not to continue fighting. Although the new majesty took his anger on the prisoners who paid the donations, he gently let go of Qian Jiazheng, the student who was on the book, and it can be said that the disposition was quite lenient.

Huang Liji was the first to stand up and support Zhu Youzhen's decision. Since Shousuke made his attitude clear, the other members of the cabinet also stepped forward. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has always been tactful, and after he saw that the cabinet had already supported Chongzhen, he immediately accepted the order.

Most of the other high-ranking officials such as Shangshu and Shilang were regarded as eunuch members by the Donglin Party, and they were originally panicked because the government and the opposition had continuously attacked Wei Zhongxian and others in the past few days, and they didn't know what Chongzhen meant in his heart, so they didn't dare to speak out for Wei Zhongxian and others.

However, today, since Chongzhen has made his attitude clear, he only investigated and punished Wei Zhongxian and several others, and did not pursue the eunuchs in the mouth of the Donglin Party, and did not favor the Donglin Party members too much.

This kind of behavior finally brought these eunuchs back to their souls, and they immediately praised Chongzhen for his proper handling and holy eyes. In this way, several officials of the Donglin Party, who were not high-ranked, could only remain silent.

After Wang Shoulu, Lu Chengyuan, and Qian Yuanyu met, Wang Shoulu shook his head slightly, signaling that the two could not continue to impeach the eunuchs.