Chapter 703: Also a Tyrant

Lin Yue turned around, and the newly promoted young eunuch presented a memorial with both hands.

"Read it, my lord Chief Assistant."

snap~

The memorial fell at Han Kuang's feet.

"His Majesty?"

"I let you read!"

Han Kuang picked up the memorial book in front of him, got up from the ground, held it in his hand and looked at it, sweating immediately.

"Read it? Why don't you read it?"

"Chen...Chen Cao Huachun, today I received a secret report from Wang Ye, the chief of the Dong...dong factory..."

Han Kuang was a bit stuttering in his reading, but everyone around him could hear him clearly. He said that Wang Ye, the commander of the East Factory, was having dinner in Deyuelou and heard Han Kuang talking with his friends from the south about the recent announcement by the emperor that could shake the foundation of the country. Regarding the various reforms, the man drank too much wine, and his mouth was unguarded. He wanted to criticize the content of the reforms for a while, and said that the identity of the emperor was doubtful, and he might be an impostor wearing a human skin mask.

Cao Huachun, who was just promoted to the eunuch of Bingbi, and who handled the eunuch case with Han Kuang, turned around and sold Han Kuang? The civil servants and military generals kneeling on the ground were stunned.

What is the old eunuch going to do!

Standing behind the dragon chair, Cao Huachun looked at the scene in front of him and his mouth twitched. It wasn't what he wanted to do, but what the emperor wanted to do. Now, if he couldn't figure out the emperor's intentions and cooperated with the emperor's strategy, it might take two days. He was the one who was dismissed from office and ransacked his house. You must know that the little eunuchs in the harem now regard the emperor as an object of worship.

Yes, it was completely different from before, their emotion towards him was admiration, not fear.

The consequence of this change is that the eunuchs in the leadership are all trembling, for fear that the emperor will be beaten into a pig's head by those supporters if they do not serve well.

To talk about the reasons for this change, first, the emperor defeated the Four Guards Camp in Yanshan with fewer victories and more. Second, he opened a school in the harem and personally taught the young eunuchs who had just entered the palace. To a certain extent, those people It can be regarded as a disciple of the Son of Heaven. Three, he promised to ignore the origin and physical defects, as long as they can prove that they have the ability to replace the courtiers and military generals, they will be given corresponding official positions and titles, and he also said that this is called competition.

The emperor's inner palace has become a big trend, and Cao Huachun knows very well that if he wants to keep his official position, the only thing he can do is to cooperate.

Some words, the speaker "unintentionally", but the listener intends.

The eunuch party is now over, and what the emperor will do next is... Donglin Party, not only because these guys dare to complain and resist reform because their interests are damaged, but also because the emperor has realized that Donglin Party, Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, etc. It will become an obstacle to his centralization of power.

As for Han Kuang, who is both the chief assistant of the cabinet and the core figure of the Donglin Party, it is most appropriate to use him as an example to others.

From the standpoint of Cao Huachun, either he will be dismissed from office and his house ransacked, or he will become the sharp knife and shield of the Lord Long Live. What will the person who knows the current affairs choose? The answer is obvious.

Lin Yue looked at Han Kuang and said, "Is the content written in the memorial true?"

"emperor."

poof~

Han Kuang knelt down on the ground: "Your Majesty, that fellow from my countryman is talking nonsense after drinking, and he can't count it."

Lin Yue said: "I will not pursue the crime of your fellow countryman for the time being, but what I am asking now is the crime of your acquiescence."

Ordinary people, if they were unhappy with the emperor's orders, complained, and complained, of course he wouldn't mind. However, these officials who cling to the imperial power to search for the people's fat and anointment, and when something happens, they put all the responsibility on the emperor. If they dare to harm their rights and complain about the reform content that is beneficial to the people, I'm sorry, please die.

Since they rely on the imperial power to obtain the life of a master, and they and their descendants enjoy the preferential treatment that ordinary people can't match in a lifetime, then... because they want to protect their own interests and fight against the imperial power, Lin Yue is under a little psychological pressure to kill such a person nothing.

"come."

A guard with a knife under the hall stepped forward.

"Push Han Kuang out of the Meridian Gate and chop it up." After finishing speaking, he threw the second memorial in front of Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jin Yiwei: "Torture and torture the members of the Han clan, and I want them to spit out all the money they have been greedy for all these years." .”

Wow~

The audience was in an uproar.

Is this going to kill the chief minister of the cabinet and then ransack the family? He is too ruthless.

Zhu Guozhen and Qian Longxi stepped forward and pleaded for Han Kuang: "Your Majesty, please think twice."

"Come here, push Zhu Guozhen and Qian Longxi out of the Meridian Gate and behead them. The next thing, Luo Yangxing, you know what to do."

"I know." The sweat beads on Luo Yangxing's forehead over there.

There was no sound in the hall.

really? An early morning killing of three cabinet members? The first and second assistants were cut off?

This murderous nature is simply unprecedented.

Zhu Guozhen and Qian Longxi were paralyzed on the ground all of a sudden, they didn't expect that begging for love would lead to death.

He is not only a fool, but also a tyrant.

The guards in front of the hall didn't give them more space to think, so they set up the three of them and walked out.

Now Han Kuang understands that it doesn't matter whether the false emperor's rumors come from his fellow countrymen, the emperor is going to bloodbath the Donglin Party and implement reforms by violent means.

Lin Yue despised everyone in the hall: "From today onwards, all the memorials submitted by the state capitals will be submitted to the Supervisor of Ceremonies for review."

After saying this, he walked straight to the back, and the little eunuch in his class yelled "Back to court" for help.

Is this to abolish the cabinet system?

Some people think that Han Kuang's fate is a bit suicidal, saying that the emperor is a counterfeit, whether he is or not, from his standpoint, it is untouchable.

Some people looked at Cao Huachun, wondering if there would be another "Nine Thousand Years"?

Don't you know that Cao Huachun was so wronged that he was about to die. If you want to talk about the energy and determination of the Long Live Lord, it is simply... not like a young man in his early 20s. Several times he doubted whether the outside rumors were true. Not only did his physical fitness not decline, but he was so strong that it made people heinous, and his style of speaking and doing things was also different from when he was in Xinwangfu.

But he didn't dare to say it. He didn't dare to say it before, and he didn't dare to say it now. He didn't look at Han Kuang and just heard his fellow countrymen complain. Did he get killed without saying anything?

The emperor used the Donglin Party to overthrow the Eunuch Party, and then pushed him onto the chariot to purge the Donglin Party.

On the other hand, Lin Yue didn't take the killing of the three cabinet members seriously at all. Look at Wanli's later era, what did these bastards in the court do? He knew every day that the party was infighting, and it was too little for him to kill three today.

Of course, because Han Kuang had a mental breakdown and the length reached the ideal eighteenth, he was in a good mood, so let’s kill a few less.

In the following month, the investigation and punishment of the "fake emperor" rumors expanded, and a large number of people were arrested from cabinet members to street inspections, so many that the imperial prison could not be filled.

The imperial court ordered officials to complain, and ordinary people were very excited. After all, the concept of "no official, no corruption" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The more officials go in, the more intense the firecrackers on the street.

In August, a major event happened——Empress Zhou was abolished, and all the maids and eunuchs in Kunning Palace (at this time Zhang Yan had moved to Cining Palace) were all killed with sticks. Because according to the clues obtained by Jin Yiwei's investigation, the false emperor's statement was first spread by Kunning Palace.

On August 15th, Jinwu Zuowei and Habayashi Youwei under the control of the Ministry of War moved, but they were suppressed by the Gendarmerie Battalion and the Shenji Battalion before the worse situation arose. The head of the family was exterminated or dismissed from office. Afterwards, except for the minister and the minister, they were replaced by veterans from other ministries.

In the current situation, not only the government and the public are shaken, but the official circles are afraid. The man on the dragon chair set a precedent for eunuchs to study, and even serious official positions began to be assigned to eunuchs who were easy to use. He didn't pay attention to any ancestral system or the teachings of the former emperor.

Up to now, the civil servants in the court have also seen that in order to promote the reform, the emperor has made up his mind to attack the civil servant group, and there is no room for relaxation. Either obediently divide the power in his hand, or seize the family and exterminate the clan, and the males will be assigned to the frontier. Serving as slaves, the female relatives became free official prostitutes to comfort the frontier army.

At the end of August, Lin Yue did one thing—repair a book, what kind of book was he repairing? history book.

There is nothing else written in this history book. It is all about the suppression and massacre of "lower people" after Yuanmeng took over the Central Plains, such as Chu Yequan, massacre of cities, slavery, etc. The harassment, destruction and killing of civilians.

He also ordered that the book be promoted nationwide, and the contents of the book should be included in the imperial examinations, as well as in the promotion and assessment of officials, emphasizing the truth that if you are backward, you will be beaten. In modern society, whether this truth is too extreme is a question It is a question worthy of discussion, but in a feudal society, it is naturally comparable to the truth.

Then came September.

In the first ten days of September, Emperor Chongzhen performed relatively low-key. He suddenly stopped going to court, and really handed over all the memorials from various places to Cao Huachun, the supervisor of ceremonies, for review.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty thought that he had changed his temper again. This is the aftereffect of burning his face with the torch, right?

Only Man Gui knew that the emperor was busy with something.