These years of being the queen mother!

Whether it's the bright killing move against the empress, or the soft knife against Concubine Fan Hui and Concubine Li Cheng, it all showed the cruelty of Ke Baba, an old woman.Even Yang Lingyue, who learned about this from Wei Zhongxian later, couldn't help sighing, and by the way, she was glad that she didn't offend this old woman, and was not her opponent, otherwise she might not have been able to play tricks on her.

So far, Yang Lingyue has been nestled in the Yikun Palace, except for the occasional visit to the Qianqing Palace to give Zhu Youxiao suggestions on the selection of carpentry materials, so the door will not leave the door, and the matter of asking for safety has almost been pushed away. .Of course, since she is not here and she is also pregnant, Queen Zhang, who has been careful all day long, will not let her come to pay her respects.As early as after Empress Zhang passed out in Yikun Palace and was diagnosed by the imperial physician as pregnant, she directly announced that she would waive the rule of asking for peace, and hid at the gate of Kunning Palace without leaving the door. Even Concubine Fan Hui and Concubine Li Cheng who were pregnant at the same time People, also fearing that something would happen to the fetus in their womb, they nestled in their respective palaces to raise the fetus.

Concubine Fan Hui and Concubine Li Cheng, who were raising the fetus, did not know that when they were cautious in everything and were afraid that the queen would harm them, the personal maid who was trusted by the two of them, without anyone noticing, would cause a debilitating death. The inner secret medicine was sprinkled in their daily meals, allowing them to be tricked without anyone noticing.

A few months later, when the fetus in Empress Zhang's womb was three months old and formally formed, Yang Lian, the censor of the left deputy capital, suddenly wrote a letter to impeach Wei Zhongxian for 24 major crimes.

Although this incident of impeachment was a year earlier than in history, it still caused an uproar and officially opened the prelude to the Donglin party struggle.

After Yang Lian, the censor of Zuo Fu, wrote a letter of impeachment, members of the Donglin party from the same faction in the court also followed up with a letter to discuss Wei Zhongxian's crimes.You must know that Zhu Youxiao believes in Wei Zhongxian very much, and Zhu Youxiao doesn't believe the remarks of the ministers of the Donglin Party at all.So he didn't pay attention to the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, and scolded Yang Lian, the censor of the left, for making out of nothing.

In this way, the officials of the Donglin Party, who claim to be patriotic, loving the people, and capable of governing the country, naturally quit. They immediately wrote a letter clamoring that the state has sycophants, the state is not the state, and the emperor asked the emperor to punish him. The sycophant, wandering around, soliciting connections everywhere, tried to use various forces to coerce Zhu Youxiao to nod to deal with Wei Zhongxian and his cronies, and once again made the whole capital into a mess.

Zhu Youxiao, who was pissed off again, ran to Yikun Palace to complain to Yang Lingyue after he dropped the three-story sailboat model that he worked so hard to complete with great effort.

"Ah Yue, what do you think these bastards want to do? Can't you let me live a stable life for a while?"

After finally getting rid of the shadow of Concubine Yu giving birth to snakes, when Zhu Youjiao was preparing to live a stable life devoted to carving, this kind of thing happened again.Zhu Youxiao could see clearly that those who yelled the loudest were all members of the Donglin Party.

Since Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the government of the Ming Dynasty, a feudal country, has become increasingly corrupt, with numerous factions and party disputes.Among these parties, the Zhejiang Party is the most powerful. The leaders of the Zhejiang Party, Shen Yiguan and Fang Congzhe, successively served as the chief assistant of the cabinet and took power in the court.Later, after the three cases of "梃打", "Hongwan" and "Yigong", Guangzong Zhu Changluo came to the throne, and the Donglin Party became very powerful because of its meritorious service. Therefore, the formerly powerful Zhejiang Party was gradually defeated by the Donglin Party , and turned to Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch.

The Donglin Party can be said to be the agents of the major chaebols in the south of the Yangtze River. They have extremely strong moral standards and can find out social problems, but they have never found a solution.And because they value personal reputation more than national interests, and strive for morale rather than right and wrong, it can be said that their contribution to the court and the country is pitiful, not even comparable to the notorious eunuch Wei Zhongxian.

There is a saying in later generations that Wei Zhongxian supported half of the Ming Dynasty alone.In all fairness, Wei Zhongxian is sinister and vicious, just like the vicious Ke Baba.In order to consolidate his personal power, Wei Zhongxian, an old man, wants to fight against dissidents.But in history, he also fought against all opinions and boldly used Xiong Tingbi, who was slandered after the defeat of Liaoyang.

Although this time and space was suggested by Yang Lingyue like Zhu Youxiao to appoint Xiong Tingbi, Wei Zhongxian in this time and space also put aside his personal grievances and recommended Zhao Nanxing, Sun Chengzong and other capable ministers against his will as in history.During his administration, although there were droughts and floods every year, the situation was still good. At least the money he got from stealing ministers' homes was used for disaster relief except for private treasury.

In the second year of Tianqi, the drought that swept through most of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty due to the influence of the Little Ice Age, was quickly brought under control because he was in charge of the disaster relief work.Not to mention other things, at least the victims of the disaster basically had porridge and fruit stomachs. Although many people died, but because the bodies were burned and buried, the epidemic that was expected to occur after the catastrophe did not occur.

As for Liaodong, because of Mingda's relationship there, Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to withhold or default on a single cent of food and salary. Therefore, the situation in Liaodong can be described as stable when there is no shortage of food, salary, weapons and equipment.

Historically, during Wei Zhongxian's administration, there was only one recorded civil uprising, but during the reign of Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian's downfall, and the Donglin Party's administration, there were countless peasant uprisings, large and small.

Zhu Youxiao loves carpentry and doesn't care much about government affairs. He is a mediocre king.But Chongzhen was not greedy for money, not lustful, worked more than ten hours a day, and had patches on his clothes, so he could be regarded as a good emperor.

Apart from this, the biggest difference between the two brothers is that they have different subordinates.Although Wei Zhongxian said that he loves power and people are greedy, he still does business anyway.One of Wei Zhongxian's policies when he came to power is to collect industrial and commercial taxes, and he is vigorously collecting industrial and commercial taxes. Why should he collect them?Because the group of people in Houjin had a lot of fun in Liaodong, and the country was drought and flooded every year, and there was not enough money for disaster relief. If you don't vigorously collect industrial and commercial taxes, how can you have money to support the army.

And when Chongzhen was emperor, what did the group of Donglin Party, which fought against Wei Zhongxian and won the ultimate victory, needed money to relieve disasters and the treasury had no money?For their own benefit, they tried their best to prevent Chongzhen from collecting taxes when they revealed that they had no money, saying things like "How can the court compete with the people for profit?" Not only did they not allow the collection of industrial and commercial taxes, but they even abolished the mining tax in a weird way. .The so-called coal bosses don't pay taxes, capitalists don't pay taxes, and farmers who are struggling with one-third of an acre of land every year increase taxes year after year.It can be explained that the dynasty only perished from the bandits, and in the final analysis, it actually perished from the Donglin Party.

Yang Lingyue, who is familiar with the history, knows this, so she personally supports Wei Zhongxian's operation against the Donglin Party.So when Zhu Youxiao came to Yikun Palace to complain to herself, Yang Lingyue hooked her mouth and stabbed the knife in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's words: "I guess I'm holding my breath in my heart. The one who has the disadvantage happens to be the person who made the most trouble this time."

"They don't want me to live a stable life, and they don't want to live a stable life." Zhu Youxiao is also a person with a temper. When his temper comes up, even Ke Baba can only avoid him.No, Zhu Youxiao, who had a temper tantrum, slapped the table and smashed Yang Lingyue's beloved three-color glazed cup, and then asked Wang Tigan to call Wei Zhongxian who was working in the East Factory.

"Those bastards have become more and more violent recently. After I finish, you should suppress this matter as soon as possible. Don't disturb my good mood. You must know that Ah Yue is still waiting for me to make a set of furniture for her."

Well, Yang Lingyue, who inexplicably got a set of furniture made by Zhu Youxiao himself, smiled. When Wei Zhongxian led the order to clean up the group of guys who were so courageous that he dared to write a letter of impeachment, Yang Lingyue added: "Long live Lord, it is best for the factory guards to supervise this matter together, so as not to prove that Eunuch Wei has seized power and deliberately distorted the meaning of Long Live Lord to persecute loyal ministers."

Yang Lingyue remembered that the Jin Yiwei had the right to enforce the imperial scepter against the scholar-bureaucrats. With the addition of the Jin Yiwei, there would inevitably be a large number of guys with their pants down and their buttocks spanked at the Meridian Gate.This group of scholar-bureaucrats who can only talk cannon is not proud of receiving the imperial staff. Once received the court staff, they will become "gentlemen in the court" and become famous all over the world.

Yang Lingyue felt that since they liked the imperial staff so much and liked to cheat for fame recklessly, this time she, the bad woman whom they called a "disaster for the country and traitorous concubine", must fulfill their wishes and let them "be famous all over the world". .

Wei Zhongxian didn't understand Yang Lingyue's thoughts very well, not only him who was old and cunning, but even Zhu Youxiao didn't understand.Zhu Youxiao knew that once Jin Yiwei went out, he would definitely bring out his staff.Although it was very relieved, it also fulfilled the reputation of those bastards.Zhu Youxiao didn't want to fulfill their reputation, so he objected:

"It's enough to have Dongchang. Whatever they want to shout about, anyway, I trust me completely."

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian put on a moving gesture, looked at Zhu Youxiao with tears in his eyes, and said affectionately: "Because of the trust of the Long Live Lord, this old slave is willing to die even if he dies forever."

Perhaps because she couldn't see Wei Zhongxian expressing her loyalty to Zhu Youxiao in this way, Yang Lingyue twitched her lips secretly, and said with a smile: "Actually, this problem is easy to solve. You have to let the Jinyi guards read it aloud in vernacular while executing the sentence." What crime did they commit? As long as they don’t speak in a polite way, the common people can understand it, so even if they want to use the imperial staff to improve their reputation, the common people will not believe it.”

"The imperial concubine is really Zhuge among women. In this way, suffering the punishment of the court rod can no longer fulfill the reputation he yearns for. They will definitely restrain themselves, and will no longer care about everything and talk about the selfless affairs of the emperor every day."

Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up for a moment. To be honest, he was really fed up with the group of self-proclaimed gentlemen, and he was short of pretending to be a true gentleman of morality. .Seeing Yang Lingyue's idea, even the loyal ministers and generals in his mind agreed, Zhu Youxiao made a final decision:

"Wanwu, you will do as the imperial concubine tells me!"

"The minister leads the order."