Beiyang new warlord

Listening to Qian Qianyi proudly showing off his contact person, the other Donglin party leaders not only did not despise, but showed envy and jealousy. After a moment of hesitation, Minister of Rites Wang Cha added another sentence.

"Master Gu is so good for the country and the people, why don't you let His Majesty bestow a Chastity Archway to commend Master Gu's merits!"

Once again, Wang Qia's proposal was unanimously approved by the Donglin cabinet.

There is a saying in later generations that even if you become a whore, you still want to set up a memorial archway! Although Gu Hengbo's talent and insight are admirable, but she comes from a prostitute family after all, and is despised by orthodox scholar-bureaucrats! But in order to please Mao Jue, a person close to her, This group of people who stand on the moral high ground are willing to give Gu Hengbo, who was born as a prostitute, the chastity archway that represents the highest spiritual reward of feudal ethics, which shows how shameless these benevolence and morality are!

However, just as Zhang Pu was aggressively marching towards Nanjing, the Dukes of Donglin also gradually completed their strategic deployment, and they were just waiting for the first battle!

This tense confrontation lasted until the end of November. While everyone in the southern province was watching nervously, Zhang Pu led his disciples and finally arrived in Nanjing.

It's a typical feature of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty. When the scholars fight, even the generals are ashamed of themselves. Both sides have exerted their influence to the extreme. On the streets of Nanjing, the scholars who cultivated and studied the heirlooms and the scholars from the business families fought all over the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. , in taverns, and in painting boats, you can often see scholars and scholars who used to hang shoulders and backs to buy wine and music, pointing at each other's noses and scolding rebellious thieves. , Merchants eagerly gathered at the North Gate of Nanjing, confronting the Jinyiwei officers and soldiers.

At the gate of the capital, after all, he wanted to give the emperor some face, and he was also afraid that the Donglin Party would blackmail him. Zhang Pu finally kept a low profile, found a new pair of shackles to put on himself, and took the initiative to wear the official uniform. Gone, and put on a prison uniform.

But this does not delay his popularity. Seeing Zhang Pu staggeringly appear at the North Gate of Nanjing, the merchants and scholars who came to welcome the leader of the Fushe were almost boiling, and they shouted excitedly, Mr. Renxue!

It was like facing a big enemy. The Nanjing Forbidden Army on the outskirts was holding guns and desperately resisting the outside, preventing the people from crowding in. The governor of the Left Army of Xinbei Prefecture, Wu Yinghou Zhang Jinzhong also had a face full of sadness and helplessness. Dare to take it directly like the prisoner, but with a smiling face, he led the horse to Zhang Pu and bowed heavily in front of Zhang Pu.

"My lord Zhang, Your Majesty ordered the servants to welcome you into the palace!"

Just like the battle base in attacking the base, looking at the looming Nanjing city in the mist from a distance, shaking the heavy handcuffs, Zhang Pu also bowed his hands full of fighting spirit.

"I'm sorry to bother you!"

On the other side, in the Hall of Qinzheng, Zhu Yousong still did not break through the shackles of the Ming emperor. Everyone knew about it, but the emperor didn’t know it. A graceful body.

Underneath, the leaders of Donglin wearing purple cannons also tightened their bodies tightly, and a murderous aura burst out from these old bones.

The civil and military officials were divided into two factions, and they were hostile to each other like cross-eyed.

In the thick smell of gunpowder, the eunuch's sharp voice suddenly sounded, which completely blew the battle horn of the highest-level party struggle in the Southern Kingdom.

"By the emperor's order, the Governor of Wenzhou, Mr. Zhang Pu, the Ministry of Commerce, is here!"

Chapter 721. Northern Expedition?

The shackles on his hands were clanging and shaking. Under the leadership of the eunuch, Zhang Pu walked slowly up the court step by step. Looking at his figure, the pupils of many officials from the young group burst into fiery brilliance, and Some of the old school are full of jealousy and hatred, as if seeing a thorn in the bone.

However, whether it is Donglin or Fushe, the pupils of officials, big and small, are full of excitement standing in the Nanjing court hall, party struggle!It's still the two largest factions in the southern province who are fighting each other, a rare occasion in decades!They seemed to feel that their knees were heating up, and there was a faint flame spraying from their mouths, and every Nanguan was eager to try.

But the first sound was made by Emperor Hongguang, leaning on his cheek with one elbow, Zhu Yousong asked in a greasy voice, lazily and annoyed.

"My lord Zhang, why are you so confused about Wenzhou affairs? In July, before you took office, you promised to obtain 260 million taels of revenue for the imperial court in front of civil and military officials, but this year it is only 97 taels. You have killed many merchants, you really disappointed me!"

It's no wonder Zhu Yousong is depressed, this matter is related to him, Mr. Qian Qianyi promised him that 260 million taels of tax silver will be put into the treasury, and the emperor's internal funds will increase by 50 taels of gold and silver, but he is looking forward to the stars. The moon has been looking forward to it for three months, but the 130 million taels of military expenses have not been paid, and he has to withdraw 20 taels from his internal funds to subsidize the military expenses. No wonder Hongguang is not annoyed.

However, the emperor's tone made the Donglin party uncomfortable. Zhu Yousong's tone was mostly complaining, but he didn't question the crime. Wang Qia, who had been brewing the lion's roar all morning, was almost suffocated to death.If Zhu Yousong's tone is followed, then this court trial is only to find fault rather than to punish crimes. This purpose is not in line with the Donglin Party's goal of getting rid of Zhang Pu. She glanced at the emperor like a century-old resentful woman, Minister of the Ministry of Rites Only then did he raise his momentum again, and roared after Zhu Yousong.

"Abusing merchants and people, being fatuous, and eating vegetarian meals on corpses, resulting in the loss of tax and money from the court, the displacement of the people, and the people's livelihood. Are you guilty?"

With a swipe, as Wang Qia's angry eyes widened, he pointed at the past, the eyes of six ministers, four cabinet ministers, and a group of big figures all focused on Zhang Pu who was kneeling in the middle hall, each of them was an old man who had been an official for many years. Politicians, with that ferocity, if they are even a little bit courageous, they will be scared out of breath.

But is Zhang Pu a courageous person?Not to mention trembling, he didn't even respond, he raised his head as usual, and replied in an extremely calm tone.

"The minister is not guilty!"

"What nonsense!!!"

Wang Qia was almost out of breath, and the cup holder pointed at Zhang Pu's forehead with a wat dang sword, the veins on his forehead were distorted like earthworms and growled: "In Wenzhou City, more than 160 families from Wang Zhixing to you have been killed. The whole family was forced to commit suicide! Nearly a hundred merchants have nothing but [-] walls, and the income of the household department has a deficit of more than [-] million. Your hands are covered with blood. How can you claim to be innocent?"

The boss needs the help of his younger brother to be powerful, what is a party struggle, one party shoulders to shoulder the work together, after Wang Qia finished speaking, this court is just like Xia Zhi’s, the party members of Donglin’s party jumped out one after another, Pointing at Zhang Pu's nose and scolding him for everything, such as treason, disloyalty and filial piety, some even said that he was a spy sent by Mao Jue.

However, in the midst of such voices of questioning, none of the Fushi Party members spoke, and all of them remained silent, as if they had given up on Zhang Pu, and Zhang Pu, who was kneeling on the ground, did not say a word. It landed in front, but at 45 degrees, and looked back slightly.

Under his gaze, one person was like a thorn on his back, the one leg standing on the ground trembled violently, and the young forehead was twisted like a few snakes in the coals.

bang~

In disbelief, Wang Qia looked at the gate of the palace, and the noisy court hall was silent just now. While the Donglin party members were dumbfounded, Luo Zhen smashed the handle of the pumpkin hammer in his hand to the ground again.

"The ancestral system, above the court, don't make noise!"

With this sentence, the mountain-like attack of the Donglin Party just now was completely broken. Before the angry Wang Qia started to prepare the next wave of attacks, Zhang Pu had already seized the initiative.

Kneeling up straight, he also raised his shackled hands, pointed at Wang Qia's nose and began to curse.

"A thief shouting, catch a thief! It's a big joke! The one who killed the Wang family and many merchants is the official? It's Wang Shangshu who speaks so much, and Mr. Qian Ge and Mr. Gao Ge!"

"Zhang Pu, how dare you be so rebellious and spurt people with blood!"

I didn't expect that I would be dragged into the water too. Qian Qianyi jumped out like a bite, but the leader of Fushe was the leader of Fushe after all. His face was full of sarcasm and his anger was like a torrent of bells. He straightened his chest and roared angrily.

"The reason why the southern merchants failed this time is that the northern merchants have no tax! And the southern merchants have to pay 13% of the northern barbarian commercial tax! For the same thing, the northern barbarians have to pay [-] taels in order not to pay for it. Moreover, the good port was cut off, and our merchants had to go to sea in the wind and rain, without supplies on the road, and the hardships of the journey, how could we not pay for it?"

"If it weren't for a few elders who bowed their heads to the Northern Man, lost their power and humiliated the country, how could they be here today?"

Both Qian Qianyi and Gao Hongtu were stupefied, they never imagined in a hundred dreams that Zhang Pu would dare to set the fire on Mao Jue!

And what made them even more unbelievable was that Zhang Pu was still not satisfied with just this, his voice was so loud that it was almost broken, he was furious, stood up with red eyes, and the shackles in his hands dangled and jingled.

"Zhu Ziyan, get rid of human desires, and preserve the principles of nature! What is the principle of nature? Monarchs and ministers are governed, and the country and the country! Now that half of our Ming Dynasty has fallen, and the northern barbarians have rebelled, how dare we manage the world on behalf of the emperor, and cut off my Ming's sacrifices! All people in the world are passionate Guan, I can't wait to lift the three-foot Qingfeng upside down to collect the fifty states of Guanshan for your majesty! But you elders, are you greedy for life and afraid of death, seeking skin from tigers, cede land and pay tribute, and betray the country for glory? You and other saints have learned the teachings of dogs Are you in? How are you different from Qin Hui?"

"Your Majesty, please send volunteers to recover Hangzhou, Quan, Fu, and Ning states! Although I am a scholar, I am willing to be your majesty's vanguard!"

Kowtow again, this is a signal, see you soon!With a crash, the officials who occupied three-fifths of the court knelt down. Although they were all petty officials, most of them were young scholars. Their aura was not comparable to that of a group of old men, and their roar was extremely neat. Neatly knelt on the ground and roared.

"Recover my rivers and mountains!!!"

"Your Majesty, please go to the Northern Expedition! I would like to be ashamed!!!"

During the reign of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong also experienced the troubles encountered by the former emperor Zhu Youjian thoroughly this time. The overwhelming roar made him unable to intervene as an emperor. Jue's aura when drinking Ma Changjiang, he was fat and pale again, at a loss, sitting on the dragon chair dumbfounded.

Several times he tried to interject but couldn't get in. In the end, beads of sweat kept dripping from his forehead. Qian Qianyi simply stared back. The others were very stupid. This Zhu Yousong understood. He turned around and left, running to the harem in desperation to escape.

After a few seconds, the court was finally quiet. Even the officials of the Donglin faction were stunned. The emperor fled the court, which was unprecedented in the ages!

But even though it is a party struggle, the rules of the game must be followed. The emperor is still the highest decision maker in name, and Zhu Yousong has escaped. What's the point of shouting?While the Fushe side was stunned, Qian Qianyi took the opportunity to grab a job as an eunuch and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Retire!!!"

.........

The battle of Donglin Restoration Society, which attracted worldwide attention, came to an end in the emperor's shameless way.

On the surface, no one suffered a loss, and it seemed like a tie, but anyone with a discerning eye knew in their hearts that Donglin had lost!Donglin has always stood on the moral high ground to criticize others, but now he has been given a feng shui turn, leaving Zhang Pu helpless, because the three cardinal guides and five constant principles were the highest standards in the feudal era, and Mao Jue became the emperor instead of Daming , but Qian Qianyi and others did nothing, which is unreasonable.

In the next few days, a newspaper of new things that had been born in the north for more than a year was finally born in the south of the Yangtze River. Under the leadership of Zhang Pu, Fushe founded the Nandu Daily. Young people accept new things quickly enough. The vernacular that they despised was also completely introduced at this time, and the entire Nandu Daily was written in vernacular.