Domineering Daming

He is very dissatisfied with the current king of North Korea. This king has sent envoys to Beijing repeatedly, asking Daming to revise the "Records of Shenzong", to delete and beautify their king's "anyway".

Such shameless behavior naturally made Yuan Keli furious, and he couldn't bear it long ago.

After he received the order, he immediately dispatched troops and ordered the main force of the northern navy to move towards Seoul.

Chapter 516

In the early morning of the next day, the imperial edict "On the Strict Prohibition of Party Formation" issued by the cabinet was promulgated to the world and posted next to the gate of the palace.

This edict is different from the past. It clearly states that those who form cliques will be "severely punished" and implement "continuous sitting". Once they are found out, family members and fellow villagers will "never use them"!

Note: After the edict is issued, you can report to the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, the local government office, Dongchang, the Ministry of Officials, and the Governor's Office.

After the imperial court promulgated the order, the Ministry of Rites's court paper was also fully reprinted, along with some articles by famous literary figures, including "heavy codes to control chaos" and "partisan lawlessness" and so on.

During the late Ming Dynasty, party disputes were commonplace, and almost every official could not do without the word "clique", but some were direct, some were covert, some were deeply involved, and some were shallow.

This naturally set off a huge wave in the capital, like a thunderstorm, and countless people were shocked and uneasy!

In a teahouse on Suzaku Avenue, the two gathered at a table, and they were both seriously reading today's morning newspaper.

Not long after, a middle-aged man slapped the newspaper on the table and said with a cold snort: "The imperial court is becoming more and more foolish in its actions now!"

Opposite him is a slightly fat middle-aged man, shaking his head and laughing: "Like me, resign early and become a businessman. Now the life of a businessman is much better..."

The one who spoke first was Hong Xianli, who was in charge of the Ministry of Industry in the sixth year of Tianqi, and was dismissed at the beginning of Chongzhen.The fatter one is called Li Zaiyong, former member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice Wailang, four years after Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian investigated Wang Yongguang, he was afraid of being implicated, so he resigned and hid in the countryside, and only dared to come out at the beginning of Chongzhen.

The two could be regarded as a pair of suffering brothers and sisters before, but their current situation is quite different.

Hong Xianli stayed in the capital, trying to get back in office, but he never succeeded, and now he is destitute.

Li Zaiyong is different, he has been in business in recent years.In recent years, the "commercial spirit" of the Ming Dynasty has flourished. After the political reform, the business management has become more clear and clear, and a large part of the potential has been released. In addition, the great changes in land and water routes, extending in all directions and unimpeded, have also made business more prosperous. Li Zaiyong is now worth less 20.

Hong Xianli was full of resentment, looked at Li Zayong's somewhat smug expression, snorted coldly, and said: "A businessman is a lowly family after all, if you don't think about yourself, is it possible that you don't want your children and grandchildren?"

At present, business registration does not allow imperial examinations to become officials.

Li Zaiyong didn't care at all, and said with a smile: "My sons are not up to date, and they don't like to study. Now they are keen to go to sea."

Hong Xianli was naturally familiar with this old friend. He just wanted to vent his anger, looked down at the newspaper, and couldn't help but snorted coldly after a while: "'Strictly investigate cronies', 'Severe punishment', just killed Dozens of Feng Quan and others are not enough? Hmph, cronies, cronies... How do you distinguish crony? Is a fellow villager a crony? There must be chaos!"

Li Zaiyong also knew the dissatisfaction in Hong Xianli's heart, and persuaded: "Although the court situation is stable now, it is becoming more and more incomprehensible. If it is not for this court newspaper to clarify the confusion, I don't know what the court is going to do. Our The new emperor thinks very differently from ordinary people, if I were you, I would have given up a long time ago, this official position is not worth spending my whole life on."

Hong Xianli sneered, and said: "You are also someone who has read the books of sages for decades, but now you are covered in copper stink, what qualifications do you have to talk about government affairs!"

Li Zaiyong was not angry at all, this was not the first time Hong Xianli said such words.

Hong Xianli vented his depression for a while, then stood up again and said, "I'll go out for a while."

Li Zaiyong knew that Hong Xianli would not give up, so he had to take the opportunity to move around again.

Is this on the cusp?

Li Zaiyong knew that persuasion was useless, he shook his head slightly, but did not stop him.

At the same time, he also understood that there were more and more people like Hong Xianli in the capital over the years.

South of the city, the Royal Government Council.

Cao Dingjiao, Wei Xuelian, and Meng Zhaoxiang walked and read today's newspaper.

Wei Xuelian kept shaking his head, and said, "I thought the emperor had eliminated the party disputes, but I didn't expect that there are still such dark tides below..."

Meng Zhaoxiang walked with his head buried, and said concisely: "The centipede is dead but not stiff."

Cao Dingjiao looked calm. He paid more attention to the Southwest, but there was very little content in the newspaper, just talking about the Southwest's "crowds and vast land, the government's power is weak, and the disaster is like fire" and so on.

Different from his uncle Cao Wenzhao, and also different from his elder brother Cao Bianjiao, Cao Dingjiao prefers government affairs. These days he has been studying in the Political Academy, quite hungry, forgetting to eat and sleep.

Seeing that Cao Dingjiao was silent, Wei Xuelian turned to look at him and said, "Old Cao, what do you think?"

Cao Dingjiao said casually: "It has been clearly stated in the court papers. It is obvious that the emperor is determined to eradicate the faction. It is a warning not to give the faction a chance to revive."

Meng Zhaoxiang nodded thoughtfully, and said: "Brother Cao's idea is a bit unexpected, but it hits the nail on the head. Originally, the resumption of the cabinet should be the best time for the party struggle to resume. Now I am afraid that most people will not dare to move around." gone."

Wei Xuelian said: "Thinking about it, it should be that the imperial court noticed some signs and gave this a blow."

Speaking of this, Meng Zhaoxiang suddenly raised his head to look at Cao Dingjiao, and said with a strange expression: "Brother Cao, your ideas are always different, it is really a family tradition."

Cao Dingjiao was stunned. This was the last time he visited his elder brother Cao Bianjiao in the palace. Before he left, Cao Bianjiao told him in the academy not to participate in forming cliques, let alone forming cliques to seek power.

If it's a family background, that's right, right?

He couldn't reveal his relationship with Cao Bianjiao and Cao Wenzhao, so he could only smile stiffly.

Wei Xuelian didn't care about these things, and said quickly: "Let's go, if you don't hurry up, there will be no place."

There is a huge library in the Royal Government House, which is full of various books of classics and history, and there are many orphans, which are naturally manuscripts, but there are also 10,000+ volumes, and they are collected from all over the world every day. , making the library constantly become vast and rich.

Students of the Political Academy can read, transcribe, and borrow books here. Every day, it is full of people. If you slow down, there is no place to step down.

Cao Dingjiao couldn't help stepping up when he heard the words. Today he will make a copy.

Meng Zhaoxiang glanced at Cao Dingjiao, and quickly followed.

After walking a few steps, Wei Xuelian complained again: "I don't know who came up with the idea. I have to copy one of the three books and return it to the library. I don't know how many copies I have copied."

Meng Zhaoxiang didn't care about this, and said with a smile, "This is going to be sent to the libraries of various colleges. You transcribed it, and there is no telling how many people will borrow it, so let's be more serious."

Meng Zhaoxiang was speechless, and walked a little faster.

Cao Dingjiao also smiled, and the three quickly ran to the library.

Zhu Youjian became the chief assistant of the cabinet, and on the first day he convened six ministers and ministers to discuss matters.

The meeting went smoothly, and the focus of the discussion was "emphasis on actual performance, disregarding exaggeration", "working together to restore state affairs", "using the power of the imperial court to resist unforeseen disasters", etc., and the six ministries were required to implement them in earnest.

These are also regarded as a kind of filling in for Zhu Xu's omissions in government affairs. They are indeed for the country and the people, and the Six Departments have no reason to refuse.

I don't know if Zhou Yingqiu's words had an effect, Zhu Youjian's actions were not in a hurry, nor did he intend to overthrow Zhu Xu's previous policy at one stroke, which made the six ministers and the servants heave a sigh of relief.

Just as Zhu Xu expected, as Dongchang arrested more and more people in the south, and the Sansi Yamen sentenced them to death, the number of exiles continued to increase, and the local pressure also followed.

This kind of pressure was not limited to the imperial court. Governors from all over the country couldn't bear it. They wrote to the imperial court one after another, asking the imperial court to "don't kill wantonly, and treat the world with mercy."

Shenyang, the palace.

Zhu Xu looked at Liu Shimin's brief writing, impeaching Lai Zongdao, Zhu Youjian's memorials have already exceeded [-], and it is said that there are still a group of famous scholars who are going to come to Beijing to "discuss the ancestral system" with King Xin face to face, and even sue the Imperial Court .