At the beginning of April in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622 AD), the dusk weather in the early summer of Jizhen was still very cool, and a group of beggars gathered leisurely in the dilapidated mountain temple outside the city, they sat or lay down.
One of them, though as unkempt as a beggar, was clearly not ordinary in his equally dirty clothes. The man was alone, and the beggars were some distance from him, as if they did not dare to disturb his peace.
Suddenly, several burly figures appeared at the door, and the beggars fixed their eyes on a group of officers and soldiers.
The beggars were all alarmed when they saw the officers and soldiers appear at the door, but one beggar showed a happy expression, he squeezed his eyes at the officers and soldiers, and then pointed to the man who was lying alone on the side.
The leading junior officer glanced at the man lying alone and waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers rushed into the broken temple and locked the man up.
In the dim military prison in Jizhou, looking at the dazzling array of torture instruments in front of him, the man who was locked by the officers and soldiers trembled with fright, and before he could be tortured, he confessed directly.
The small one is called Du Mao, and he was sent to the Ming Dynasty by Li Yongfang, the chief soldier of the Later Golden Black Flag Army, to inquire about the news. ”
Knowing that Jizhen had captured a Houjin spy, the criminal department of Beijing City immediately ordered Jizhen to escort the spy to Beijing.
In the blink of an eye, a few months have passed.
Lord Wang, Your Majesty ordered our family to ask you, why hasn't Tong Bunian's case been closed yet?”
Hehe, the annoying Gonggong summoned to His Majesty, there was something wrong with this case, so Ji had to continue to investigate in depth. ”
Lord Wang, our family has been to your criminal department lobby for 20 times in the past few months, and your case will not be closed any longer, Your Majesty, our family will not be able to explain!”
The annoying father-in-law said a lot of kind words in front of His Majesty, and Ji Ding closed the case as soon as possible. ”
Wang Ji, the secretary of the Criminal Department, finally sent back the eunuch who passed the word in the palace, he turned around and came to the front of the case, opened the case file of Tong Bunian on the table, and looked at the record on it and fell into deep thought.
Tong Bunian was born in the Tong family in eastern Liaodong, and the Tong family was naturalized from the Jurchen Tong Jia clan in the early years. And Tong Jia is the first surname of the Jurchens, according to Korean historical records, Nurhachi claimed to be surnamed Tong Jia, Emperor Kangxi's grandfather Tong Tulai is Tong Bunian's nephew, Tong Tulai's descendants Tong Guowei and Long Keduo are Kangxi, Yongzheng and other powerful ministers.
The Tong family was also favored in the Ming Dynasty, and the famous Nuer Gandu Division has always been operated by the Tong family. After Nurhachi captured Shenyang, the Tong family surrendered to Houjin, and his surname was changed back to Tong Jia, but many times he continued to simplify the writing of the surname Tong.
With the Tong family's gold reduction, the famous Nuer Gandu Division officially came to an end.
Although the Tong family has reduced its gold, many of the descendants of the Tong family still live in the land of the Ming Dynasty in Guannei, among which Tong Bunian became a magistrate of the Ming Dynasty with the title of the gold list.
Tong Bunian, who served as the magistrate of Hejian County, can be said to be prosperous in the previous year, and was first promoted to the Tongzhi (Zheng Wupin) of Kuizhou [Kuí] Prefecture (now the eastern region of Chongqing City), and before he set off, he received an order from the imperial court to transfer to Denglai Supervisor (Zheng Sipin).
In just one year, Tong Bunian has risen to a full six levels, and his future is bright, but the capture of this Du Mao caused him to suffer a catastrophe. Du Mao claimed that he had stayed at Tong Bunian's house when he had arrived in Hejian a year earlier, during which time he had successfully rebelled against Tong Bunian. In order to show his determination to defect to Houjin, Tong Bunian also specially sent two servants to escort Du Mao out of the customs and return to Shenyang to return to Li Yongfang.
Looking at Du Mao's confession on the case file, Wang Ji couldn't help frowning, and he continued to look down at the case file that he had read countless times.
I saw that the following trial ** wrote:
After Tong Bunian served as the supervisor of Denglai, he did recommend Du Mao to Tao Langxian, the governor of Denglai, who first appointed Du Mao as the general manager of Qian, and gave Du Mao 300 taels of silver to recruit troops in Jizhen, but Du Mao squandered all the money in Jizhen and failed to recruit a soldier. In desperation, he took refuge in the broken temple and boasted to the beggars in the temple that he was a post-gold worker, so he was reported by the beggars as captured by the border army of Jizhen Town.
Looking at this record, Wang Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then when he continued to look at the record below, his expression became serious.
Du Mao was never able to name the two Tong family servants who went out with him.
According to Du Mao, two servants of the Tong family followed him thousands of miles north, but he couldn't say the names of these two people;Moreover, the Criminal Department asked him to identify these two servants, but he pointed out indiscriminately in the crowd, and the designated person was found by the Criminal Department to make up the number, and it had nothing to do with the Tong family at all.
Wang Ji looked at the case file and thought for a long time, and finally put pen to paper and wrote his results at the end:Born in the sin clan and exiled for 3,000 miles
Wang Ji, who finished writing the verdict, sat down on the chair for a moment, and he muttered to himself: "I'm sorry Brother Tong, I, Wang Ji, can only try my best to save your life." ”
After speaking, Wang Ji looked up at the roof and sighed: "I want my Wang Ji to enforce the law fairly all my life, but I didn't expect that today I have to follow the will of the law and bend the law, alas!."”
Wang Ji's file on the conclusion of Tong Bunian's case was sent to Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Youxiao, who had read the file, had a blue face, and he casually handed the file to Shen [què], a scholar of Wuyingdian University, the second assistant of the cabinet next to him.
After reading it, Shen showed an expression full of righteous indignation, and said angrily: "Sure enough, as expected, Wang Ji really bent the law to shield Tong Bunian's traitor." Your Majesty, you have already signaled that you will be punished for treason, and Wang Ji still dares to disobey your will. Wang Ji must be severely punished, otherwise Your Majesty's prestige among your courtiers will be completely lost!”
Later, a holy decree was passed down in the Forbidden City that made the court uproar, and Wang Ji, the secretary of the criminal department who was famous for his fairness in judging cases, was dismissed because of the delay in the Tong Bunian case!
Who is Wang Ji?
Donglin boss is also!
As soon as this holy decree was issued, the Donglin Party fryed.
So a new round of fighting in the court began, and the Donglin Party brought up the old matter again, bombarded Shen, who attacked Wang Ji the most ferocious in the Tong Bunian case, communicated with the internal officials, and recruited Jinyi guards according to the intentions of the internal officials, opening the door for the internal officials to operate conveniently.
The so-called internal exercise refers to the fact that Wei Zhongxian had just become the governor of Dongchang, and proposed to Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, to establish an army controlled by eunuchs.
This kind of thing, which has been regarded as a taboo in all dynasties, has actually received strong support from the second assistant Shen.
It turned out that after Shen served as the deputy assistant of the cabinet, he went to the inner study hall to give the eunuchs the classics according to the rules, during which he found that Wei Zhongxian was deeply favored by the emperor and deliberately approached him.
This naturally led to the siege of Shen by the Donglin Party, and Wei Zhongxian had not yet shown his grandeur at that time, so the Donglin Party's firepower was mainly aimed at Shen. After all, with the departure of the first auxiliary party from Zhe, the Zhejiang Party Alliance, which has suppressed the Donglin Party for many years, is now the boss of Shen.
Although Shen did not shy away from interacting with eunuchs, he was the main promoter of the combination of the Zhejiang Party Alliance and the inner court forces led by Wei Zhongxian to form the eunuch party, but it was only the Donglin Party in the court that had an advantage, so he couldn't resist the bombardment and had the intention of going, so he submitted his resignation to Zhu Youxiao.
But when Fang Congzhe was absolutely unable to retain him, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly pulled Shen into the cabinet, just to check and balance Donglin, so as not to dominate the Donglin family.
Therefore, after Zhu Youzhen's retention, Shen continued to stay in the cabinet, and wanted to come to the Ke family and Wei Zhongxian to contribute a lot.
However, this time Zhu Youxiao gave Wang Ji of Donglin, and he had to appease the Donglin Party, so this time Shen submitted his resignation again, and he agreed.
Tong Bunian's case caused Donglin to lose the criminal department Shangshu Wang Ji, but its opponent, the Zhejiang Party Alliance, lost the cabinet assistant Shen, and the balance of power in the court once again tilted in favor of the Donglin Party. Due to the imbalance of power, the Zhejiang Party Alliance accelerated the integration with Wei Zhongxian's inner court forces, and the famous eunuch party in the late Ming Dynasty was about to emerge.
The protagonist of this case, Tong Bunian, died of illness in prison, so the case was finally closed.
Tong Bunian and Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse were vegetarians, why did Zhu Zhu Youxiao hold on to him?
Tong Bunian's death benefited a famous figure a lot, and he was able to live for another three years!
This person is Xiong Tingbi!
When Xiong Tingbi conquered Liaodi for the second time, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse not only granted him a unicorn suit that only those with titles could wear, but also held a banquet for the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to see him off, and selected 6,000 elite soldiers from the Beijing army as his escort to the north.
Zhu Youxiao gave Xiong Tingbi enough face, so Xiong Tingbi's loss will make Zhu Youxiao's face suffer a lot and become the laughing stock of the world. Therefore, Xiong Tingbi went to Liaodong again this time, and there was no way out.
However, Xiong Tingbi went to Liaodong again, but was joined by Zhang Heming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, so his temper came up, and he and Wang Huazhen impeached each other every day, which hardly played a positive role in the defense of Liaodong.
In the end, Xiong Tingbi directly reprimanded Zhang Heming for setting himself up, which led to the openness of the contradiction, and Zhu Youxiao had to order the courtiers to meet the issue of Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi to stay.
Although the courtiers and the mud advocated that both King Xiong should be retained, Zhang Heming, who had become close to Xiong Tingbi, independently advocated that Xiong Tingbi be removed from office for other purposes. However, Zhang Heming's opinion was rejected by Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao decided to continue to retain Xiong Tingbi, but also issued an order to warn Xiong Tingbi that once Liaodong was lost, he Xiong Tingbi would be guilty of the same crime as Wang Huazhen (Blame merit and sin
As for Tong Bunian, Zhu Youxiao met through Xiong Tingbi, and the reason why Tong Bunian was promoted to the post of supervisor of Denglai came from Xiong Tingbi's recommendation.
However, regarding Xiong Tingbi's reuse of Tong Bunian, Zhu Youxiao once raised questions at the banquet: (Tong).Bu Nian is a traitor, why do you want to do anything?(Liu).What is the use of the national number scriptures?(Hu).Jiadong made meritorious service to atone for his crimes, where is he in Tianjin?
Tong Bunian, Liu Guojin, and Hu Jiadong are all talents recommended by Xiong Tingbi to run Liao affairs, and Zhu Youxiao is expressing his dissatisfaction with Xiong Tingbi when he has questions about them. Among them, Tong Bunian was reprimanded as a traitor by Zhu Youxiao, and Tong Funian was also named by Zhu Youxiao at this time.
However, in the end, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen teamed up to lose all of Liaodi.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and the greater the disappointment, the greater the anger.
Although adhering to the emperor's will, Wang Ji sentenced Xiong Tingbi to death, but he also interceded for Xiong Tingbi at the end of the file. And because the Donglin Party cabinet has been trying to protect Xiong Tingbi, this makes Zhu Youxiao unable to directly use a knife to kill people, so he wants to use the Tong Bunian case to implicate Xiong Tingbi and kill him.
Therefore, Wang Ji protects Tong Bunian's life, which is actually protecting Xiong Tingbi's life.
In the end, Wang Ji became the target of Zhu Youxiao's anger and paid the price of being dismissed.
Tong Bunian's case was an important watershed in the relationship between the Donglin Party and the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, and since then, the conflict between the two has continued to drift apart, so there is the disaster of Wei Zhongxian's slaughter of Donglin.
It is not for nothing that Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, is the only two Ming Dynasty emperors in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" (the other is the naughty boy of Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong) who did not give any praise.
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