The decision of the Ming Dynasty Jingshi court soon turned into a series of holy decrees, which quickly spread to Nanjing at an expedited speed of 600 miles. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As the envoy of Nanzhen Fusi who guarded Nanjing with Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing had obeyed Emperor Chongzhen since he took office, so he acted quickly after receiving the will of the imperial court, and within a few days, he arrested Zhao Zhilong, the noble Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong of Nanjing, Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin who lived in Suzhou Mansion, and Hui Shiyang, the political envoy of Zhejiang, were arrested and imprisoned.

Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, Qian Shisheng, the servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Yandeng, the imperial historian of the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, were also dismissed from their posts on the day of the decree and ordered to stay at their homes in Nanjing, where they were temporarily placed under residential surveillance by Jinyiwei pending the results of further investigation by the imperial court.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of noise and panic in the Nanjing officialdom.

In addition to the shock of officials from all walks of life, many people started a new round of writing to discuss politics, but this time the writing and discussion of politics no longer focused on the imperial court's policy of opening the sea, but focused on interceding for the help of these Jiangnan officials who were dismissed or imprisoned.

Of course, there are many kinds of criticism and education of Emperor Chongzhen, some accuse the emperor of being too eager and sloppy, some criticize the emperor for repeatedly raising a big prison for small mistakes, not the way for the court to treat ministers preferentially, and some say that there are traitors around the emperor, and so on.

However, most of these officials in the southern capital are just talking, and few of them threaten Emperor Chongzhen and the Jingshi Imperial Court with their resignation.

There is only one person who dares to do this.

That is, Qian Xiangkun, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, who also has a very strong color of the Donglin Party.

Qian Xiangkun, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Jinshi in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, and was also born in Hanlin, and was a trusted Donggong official of Emperor Taichang.

In August and September of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he immediately restored him to his original position.

Originally, in history, Qian Xiangkun was once invited to Beijing by Emperor Chongzhen, became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing, and joined the cabinet as a scholar of Dongge University, which can be said to be deeply trusted by Emperor Chongzhen.

However, it is actually difficult to live up to the fame, and after arriving in Beijing, Qian Xiangkun quickly made Emperor Chongzhen disappointed in him because of his participation in the party struggle above the court, and he was soon forced to resign and go home.

In this life, it didn't take long for Emperor Chongzhen to take on a new look after he ascended the throne, and of course he would not let this pure Donglin bigwig enter Beijing and join the cabinet to assist the government.

Therefore, Qian Xiangkun has been serving as the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and reinstated him as an official.

This Qian Xiangkun is also a character, in the southeast Shilin during the Chongzhen period, with Qian Longxi, Qian Qianyi, and Qian Shisheng, and called "four money".

These people were all officials in Nanjing, during which they often held some literary meetings, gave some lectures, engaged in some poetry and singing, and widely recruited disciples, acupuncture and disadvantages, and discussed the government and politics, so they were very famous in Jiangnan Shilin, and belonged to the super "public knowledge" of the society in the late Ming Dynasty, and the vast majority of the readers in Jiangnan Shilin were their loyal "fans".

Perhaps Qian Xiangkun thought that with his influence in Jiangnan officialdom and Jiangnan Shilin, the emperor and the ministers in the court might not deal with him for the sake of his reputation.

Or maybe Qian Xiangkun was hindered by his reputation in Shilin and was burdened by fame, so he had to write to the imperial court, so that he resigned and threatened to ask the court to retract his life and pardon Qian Qianyi, Hui Shiyang, Zheng Sanjun, Qian Shisheng and others.

Of course, it's also possible that he really wants to go home.

However, in any case, Qian Xiangkun did this, in his opinion, it was a matter of fame and fortune.

Even if the imperial court neither agrees with him nor acquits these people, his reputation will only be greater, and no one in Jiangnan will give him a thumbs up and say that he is good.

And even if the imperial court agreed to him, he didn't have much to lose.

For them, the more the court suppressed them, the happier they became, because they would gain greater fame through such things.

And in this era, ** is not only not illegal, but for people like them, it is a kind of literati and elegant thing, Emperor Chongzhen just wants to clean him up, and he can't use **, the usual method of dealing with public knowledge in later generations, to stink him.

However, what Qian Xiangkun thinks and what he is thinking is not important at all in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen now.

On 25 February, after Emperor Chongzhen received Qian Xiangkun's Zhishi excerpt and his advice, he did not delay at all, and on February 26, he approved his Zhishi excerpt, and in the Zhu approval that was transferred to the cabinet, he directly appointed Zhou Yanru, the left attendant of the Beijing Rite Department, as the secretary of the Nanjing Rite Department.

And after the Shuo Sun Dynasty Meeting of the Jianji Hall on March 1, Zhou Yanru resigned and set off for Nanjing to take over the Ministry of Rites.

As for the other officials who wrote to rescue Qian Qianyi, Hui Shiyang and other arrested people, and for Zheng Sanjun and other people who were dismissed, Emperor Chongzhen ignored them.

finally seized such an opportunity to clear out these super "well-known" level Donglin Party bigwigs from the court, how could he easily be affected by the above above influences by these officials who don't know the inside information, and ruined the plan he had planned a long time ago?

The negative impact of these super "public knowledge" of the Donglin Party in the society at the end of the Ming Dynasty was far greater than its positive impact on popularizing education and opening up the wisdom of the people.

And these "well-known" figures of the Donglin Party, who have always prided themselves on being gentlemen, except for a very few of them who still have discipline, most of them are hypocrites who have come to break down and come to the Qing Dynasty, at least none of the famous Jiangnan Shilin "Four Money" were martyred for the death of Emperor Chongzhen.

Among them, Qian Qianyi, especially among the "four coins", is the most prominent, which can be said to be a typical two-faced personality.

These super "public knowledge" in the late Ming Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, while being a high-ranking official, while being a big landlord, and at the same time using the power in their hands, let other people in the family run business, often still extremely wealthy businessmen, but they have no loyalty to the Ming Emperor and the court, whether it is writing articles, running schools, or recruiting disciples, discussing the government, the favorite thing to do is to go against the court.

If you use them, they will be a clear stream in the court, except that it doesn't hurt to stand and talk, and they will only say some big empty words.

As for the problem of financial emptiness known to the government and the opposition, people like them knew how to persuade the emperor to cultivate his self-cultivation, reduce his expenses, and save expenses.

As for what to do if the imperial court is short of money and its finances collapse, they often just say one sentence, that is, please send internal funds.

And if you don't use them, they will give lectures and form associations outside the court, speak ill of you, make rumors about you, and smear you with all their might.

Anyway, they are all big landlords and big businessmen, and they don't have to worry about running out of money to spend, and doing nothing all day long is to rebel against the rulers.

However, it was also known to the Ming Dynasty that when the Manchu pigtailed soldiers swept Jiangnan, they all became "good babies" one by one, and the Manchu army killed people in Jiangnan and bled like rivers, but these people surrendered quickly and were willing to be lackeys of foreign races.

And it was at this time that all the previous public knowledge and clear stream appearances were long gone, and good people didn't do it, but they were very happy to be slaves.

None of the Manchu braided soldiers dared to openly stand up and say a single word "no" for all kinds of atrocities committed by the Manchu braided soldiers in various parts of the Yangtze River, and the previous kind of Qingliu integrity and gentlemanly style of gathering people to give lectures, specifically singing against the imperial court, and not colluding with those in power, had long been thrown out of the clouds by this time.

In the final analysis, most of these super intellectuals of the Donglin Party, except for a few who have withstood the test of history, are just a group of cheap embryos who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard.