Hearing that Li Kuilong confessed his guilt, Ni Yuanlu, who had been thinking about relieving Liu Zongzhou and was unwilling to be cleaned up by Chongzhen, suddenly moved his mind.

He took half a step forward and said, "Minister..." When Zhu Youzhen reprimanded Li Kuilong, he had been carefully observing the civil official queue, and he criticized Li Kuilong just to divert his attention, not to really want to take Li Kuilong down.

The Ming Dynasty's science and technology officials are notoriously difficult, and there are not many officials like Li Kuilong who are in a high position and can bow down to the emperor.

The administrative power itself has been monopolized by the civilian clique, and now if even the public opinion position is controlled by the civilian officials, then he will really be locked up in Miyagi as a stallion.

It is because although Li Kuilong's ability is a little worse, and he bears the infamy of a remnant of the eunuch party, Zhu Youzhen still has to defend him alive and dead, resolutely refusing to let the Donglin party impeach him, and controlling the entire court.

Seeing that a Donglin official who had taken the lead in impeaching the eunuch party all day these days came out, Zhu Youzhen quickly took Li Kuilong's words and said: "If you know that you are wrong, it proves that you can still be saved." It's not terrible to make mistakes, but what is wrong with people? If you make a mistake and die without repentance, you really have a problem with your thinking. Since you know that you are wrong, then this time you must uphold the public heart of cleaning up the science and road, if you still play the same trick as before, to fight against dissidents and protect relatives and friends, I will settle the old accounts with you and the new accounts, do you understand? ”

Li Kuilong originally thought that Chongzhen was going to suppress himself in order to divert his attention. Unexpectedly, Chongzhen just scolded a few words, but he still didn't move half of his hair, and he didn't even take away the matter of cleaning up Kedao.

He was immediately overjoyed, he could continue to keep his official position with a few scoldings, Li Kuilong was so happy. He is not a member of the Donglin Party, and he talks about the solar terms at every turn, and if he is criticized by the emperor for two sentences, he will resign or something.

What Li Kuilong appreciates most in his life is the sentence said by Deng Juan in the Northern Song Dynasty, "He laughs and scolds, and I do it myself as a good official." Chongzhen scolded a few words painlessly, not only did he not cut off his official position, but also listened to this meaning, even the previous matter of his attachment to Wei Zhongxian was whitewashed by Chongzhen by taking this opportunity, and he immediately thanked him again and again, and wanted to be loyal to state affairs under the pretext of a ticket.

Only then did Zhu Youzhen look up at Ni Yuanlu, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who had taken half a step and was now in a dilemma, and asked, "Ni editor, what did you want to say just now?" ”

Ni Yuanlu gritted his teeth, and still knelt down to Chongzhen and said: "In the past, Zhongxian was powerful, and Li Nanan attached himself to Zhongxian and called him his father-in-law; Today, Zhongxian lost power, and Li Nanan went up to impeach Zhongxian for rebellion. Such a capricious villain, how can he rectify the words and ways of the court. The minister thought that although there were no science and road officials, but it was just some henchmen who were good friends with Li Nan'an who had bad morale, and His Majesty wanted to rectify the science and road, it was better to choose another sage, so as not to backfire and block the way of the court. And the left capital of the imperial history is still in the middle of the house, why does Your Majesty use Li Nan'an to take charge? ”

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to interrupt Ni Yuanlu's speech and said: "How can there be a perfect person in this world? The Master has said, "I will save my body three times a day." A cold scholar, from a child to a jinshi, at least has to go through more than a dozen cold and summer, and some people can not even enter the office for life.

Just by making a few small mistakes, I have to brand others for a lifetime, and let these more than ten years of hard work come to naught, I'm afraid this is against the Master's way of forgiveness, right?

In the then, I Ming preferential treatment of scholars, from the beginning of a student to free food, the people of the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money and grain, to feed the world of many officials, just because of disagreement, they want to shout and kill each other, do you take the hard work of the people of the Ming Dynasty to heart?

The ancients said: Punish the former and the latter, cure the disease and save people. If there are mistakes in the past, we must expose them, and we must not be emotional, but we must analyze and criticize the bad things of the past with an open mind, so that we can be more cautious and do a better job in our later work. This is what it means to 'punish the former and punish the latter'.

However, the purpose of exposing mistakes and criticizing shortcomings should be like that of a doctor treating a disease, which is entirely to save people, not to grasp them and put them to death.

As for Zuodu Yushi Fang Suzhong, just do your own work. Let Zuodu Yushi clean up the road, so who will supervise and manage the officials in the court? ”

In order to prevent the Donglin Party members from continuing to press, Zhu Youzhen simply threw out the famous thesis of the chairman when he united the comrades in the party, punished the former and the latter, and treated the disease and saved people.

However, he didn't know that there was no such thing at this time. Although the punishment before and after punishment is derived from the "Book of Songs, Zhou Litigation (Song), Xiao Wei", but before the chairman adds the last four words of curing the disease and saving people, the punishment before and after only means that you should learn from the previous lessons and do not re-step on the same path, which is used for self-discipline.

But after adding the last four words, he becomes someone else, and the pursuit of the ego is sublimated into the salvation of the public. The intention suddenly rose, and it was the last four words of curing the disease and saving people that immediately raised the vision from the flat ground to the moral peak.

Ni Yuanlu's foothold in attacking the eunuch party is that he is fighting against the eunuch party for the sake of the people and the Ming dynasty, and the eunuch party has been virtualized into an enemy symbol in his eyes. Whether the Donglin Party fought against the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties in the past, or fought against the eunuch party, the first thing was to transform the contradiction between the other party and themselves into a contradiction between the enemy and ourselves, and the contradiction between harming the Ming Dynasty and guarding the Ming Dynasty.

In their eyes, only the Donglin Party is worthy of being the representative of the Ming people, and others who dare to oppose the Donglin Party are opposing the Ming people.

And Zhu Youzhen's statement today undoubtedly negates the statement that the Donglin Party represents the people of the Ming Dynasty. In his words, he inadvertently canceled the aura of justice that Donglin had attached to himself.

In the past, the reason why these officials were tied to the Upper Donglin Party was because they couldn't find their own position.

The Donglin Party said that it represented the people, of course, this people should be put in quotation marks, because the people in Donglin's eyes are actually just the gentry and landlord class in various places.

Although other non-Donglin officials should also belong to the representatives of the gentry and landlords, the Donglin Party members did not recognize that they represented the people, and the Donglin Party members, who had mastered public opinion, forcibly expelled these landlords and gentry from their own class, which made these officials very hesitant.

Although they took refuge in the imperial power represented by Wei Zhongxian, they still lacked confidence in their hearts, because this was equivalent to betraying the entire civil official group and violating the civil official tradition after the civil engineering change.

Zhu Youzhen just wanted to borrow the chairman's famous words to block the endless attacks of the Donglin Party on Li Kuilong, and he never thought that someone would extend this sentence to other places.

Huang Liji really understood something from Zhu Youzhen's words, and he immediately supported: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, not only the Donglin Party is the minister of Your Majesty and the official of the Ming Dynasty. This official who is not from Donglin is also an official of my Ming Dynasty and a minister of His Majesty. This treatment and saving people shows that Your Majesty is very benevolent, and the old minister congratulates me on becoming a holy king. ”

Ni Yuanlu's face turned a little blue, although he felt that Huang Liji, the first assistant of the cabinet, openly jumped out to pat Chongzhen's ass, which was a little shameless. But he also had to admit that Chongzhen's sentence was very high-level, and he was completely standing on the moral high ground and looking down on himself.

Compared with Chongzhen, his action of sticking to the eunuchs does not seem to be in line with what the saint said.

Han Yi looked at Chongzhen with some surprise, he had heard that His Majesty loved to read when he was a prince, but he didn't think that a prince without a teacher could learn anything by self-study.

But now, he felt that it was time to re-evaluate this young genius. As soon as Huang Liji spoke, he immediately came to his senses, this Shoufu Lord was in these days, the Donglin Party people were closely chasing and killing the members of the Eunuch Party to fight back.

With Chongzhen's words as an endorsement, they, the Donglin Party members who cling to the eunuch party, have become villains who grasp other people's mistakes and die to death. Huang Liji also clearly told the Donglin Party members in what he just said that everyone is an official of the Ming Dynasty and a courtier of His Majesty, and if the Donglin Party persecuted it again, it would not be His Majesty's ministers.

Han Yi's mouth was a little bitter, of course, everything the Donglin Party did was revenge, not what to cure and save people. But this can be done, not said. Now Chongzhen has come to the conclusion that these days the Donglin Party has come to the impeachment of the eunuch party, thinking that this is to cure the disease and save people.

The Donglin Party can't stand up and oppose it by themselves, saying that they don't want to save people, they just want to take advantage of his illness to kill him. The Donglin Party, which has always stood on the moral high ground and attacked others, found out for the first time that they were actually cheated by a teenager under the age of 17.

Liu Zongzhou and Wen Zhenmeng, who were still angry, have also sobered up now, although the two of them still don't look at each other. But these two scholars, who are familiar with the meaning of the scriptures, also know that Donglin is facing a dilemma.

Although Liu Zongzhou was annoyed by Wen Zhenmeng's indiscriminate attack, he had to give in when it came to the Donglin Party. After all, most of his mentors and friends are Donglin Party members, and safeguarding mentors and friends is one of the ethical guidelines.

"Your Majesty's words are really benevolent. I think that although Ni Bianxiu is in a better mood, his heart is very right, and His Majesty thinks that his impeachment of the eunuch party is to rectify dissidents. Fang Zuodu Yushi can't be separated, but the rectification of the road can't be handled by Li Nan'an, this is not the way to govern. Liu Zongzhou had to open his mouth and defend Ni Yuanlu.

In the maintenance of Donglin, Wen Zhenmeng and Liu Zongzhou have common interests. At this time, he also had to give up the battle of will with Liu Zongzhou, and echoed his words: "Although Your Majesty wants to cure the disease and save people, but the rectification of the science and the road involves the words and paths of the imperial court, and you must not completely entrust the hands of one person, otherwise if there is a mistake, wouldn't it be against the holy will?" ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the two Donglin leaders who were still angry just now, but now they unanimously objected to letting Li Kuilong be the person in charge of cleaning up the Kedao. Suddenly knew that he seemed to have finally won a game, and the Donglin Party couldn't stop the action of cleaning up Kedao, and began to retreat to the next best, wanting to control the power of rectifying Kedao in their own hands.