Chapter 288: The Game of Thrones is so absurd yet true! Donglin is destroyed and ends Jinhua County, the back hall of the county government office. "Bang!" Magistrate Sun Xingyao looked at the overwhelming news on the spiritual network and the picture stone. He fell directly into the chair, his face pale at this moment. At this time he had realized the seriousness of the matter. The matter suddenly became so serious that it actually sparked civil unrest in many areas. You know, the current Ming Dynasty is an immortal dynasty. In addition to the basic development of the mortal economy, the most important national policy is the development of the immortal way. Therefore, at this time, the civil unrest instigated by the immortal cultivators is called a riot, and if it is not handled properly it will get out of control. As long as this result occurs, the imperial court can investigate it to the end for any reason and then suppress the culprit of the incident. In the whole incident, Yan Dang's hands were clean from beginning to end. It can be said that Yan Dang completely put himself on the side of the victim. Now that the matter has become so serious, if we trace the root cause, it must be the Donglin Party.
As for whether there are Donglin Party or Yan Party in the court, no one would care at all. What this party, that faction. There is no such mess on the surface at all. Now that things have become so serious, there is not the slightest movement in Prince Yu's Mansion. What does this indicate? His keen political sense told him that Prince Yu's Mansion was most likely not going to intervene in this matter, which meant that it had given up on the Donglin Party. Once the upper echelons completely abandon the Donglin Party, coupled with the overwhelming pressure of public opinion, if you are a member of the Yan Party, the subsequent counterattack can be said to be very simple! He originally thought that the Donglin Party would be able to hold out for quite some time, but in the end it was defeated in just three months. It can be said that the Yan Party didn't even raise their hands throughout the whole process, and yet they were defeated. Their defeat was so thorough and simple! "Bang!" Just when Sun Xingyao was feeling confused about the impending catastrophe and his own future, the door of the study was suddenly pushed open roughly. Then Xu Lei came in in a hurry and said quickly, "Tang Zun, have you seen the news on the Internet?" "Now, in several counties belonging to the Yan Party, monks have surrounded the government offices!" "It looks like a civil uprising is about to break out! No, it's a riot! If a riot breaks out among the immortal cultivators, the casualties will be incalculable if it is not suppressed in time!" “Even if at this time, the Yan Party does not allow the court to help, or organizes the three camps to suppress it, then once these monks riot in various places, what will happen?” "By then, what kind of punishment will all the culprits receive? I'm afraid beheading is a light punishment... Don't forget, our Ming Dynasty has a precedent of killing ten generations of a family. We..." "Alright!" Before Xu Lei could finish his words, Sun Xingyao sat up angrily and interrupted him, saying, "How could I know that those idiots couldn't even last three months!" "I didn't even know that they had already been abandoned by Prince Yu's Mansion, and they didn't even realize it!" "Now, he is even more arrogant and dragging everyone to deal with the Yan Party. Who gave these idiots the courage?" "What a bunch of crap great scholars, they are all idiots, idiots!" As he said this, the furious Sun Xingyao cleared the desk. Seeing the hall master losing his composure like this, Xu Lei was also stunned for a moment. He had never seen this hall master, who was always so confident and seemed to have everything under control, losing his composure like this! "Jinhua County Magistrate, Sun Xingyao, County Magistrate Xu Lei, Chief Clerk Li Wenzhi has reported that the two of you are planning to undermine the imperial court's national policy. Now that we have irrefutable evidence, follow us!" Just then, three men wearing special uniforms of the Jinyiwei and with long swords on their waists walked in. The leader was a general flag. "Jinyiwei, so fast!?" Seeing the person coming, Sun Xingyao and Xu Lei's hearts trembled involuntarily.
After all, a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Although the activities of the Jinyiwei have decreased a lot in recent years and the people have gradually forgotten their existence, the Jinyiwei and Xianwuwei have never been disbanded. Even when the incident involving two factories and one guard involved spiritual stones and caused such a big commotion, they only replaced a group of people. Some officials who knew the inside story understood that the so-called replacement was just a replacement between Jinyiwei and Xianwuwei. After all, the leaders of these two guards were both Lu Bing. One of the emperor's absolute confidants. It can be seen how great the reputation of the Jinyiwei is in the hearts of these officials. Execute first and report later, imperial power has granted permission! These eight simple words alone are enough to scare countless people. Seeing the Jinyiwei coming to arrest people in person, no matter how good Sun Xingyao was at making plans and keeping a calm face when faced with a crisis of life and death, he was finally afraid. "Sir, we..." Sun Xingyao was about to say something, but before he could finish his words, the Jinyiwei flag officer waved his hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense and follow us!" As he spoke, two "Soul Binding Rings" were thrown out and locked the wrists of Sun Xingyao and Xu Lei. Well, they were officials of the Ming Dynasty after all, so the Jinyiwei still gave them dignity and did not directly lock their necks. Sun Xingyao glanced at Xu Lei with a pale face. At this moment, both of them saw the despair in each other's eyes. "Excuse me, sir, our family..." Xu Lei couldn't help but asked in a trembling voice. "Arrest them all and wait for your decision!" the general said coldly, then waved his hand to signal his men to take the people away. "Li Wen!" Just as the two were being taken out, a young man in a green robe walked in from outside the courtyard. Seeing this young man, Xu Lei was immediately furious and asked angrily: "Why, you are also a Donglin scholar..." "It's true that I was born into a Donglin scholar family, but I don't owe Donglin Academy anything. I have paid the annual tuition fees." "There is no master-disciple relationship between me and the so-called great scholars in Donglin." "I am a scholar of the imperial court, not a member of a certain faction." Li Wen took a deep breath and said, "The Donglin scholars formed cliques for personal gain, fighting for the sake of fighting for the sake of fighting..." As he spoke, Li Wen glanced at the angry Xu Lei, then looked at Sun Xingyao, who had already accepted his fate, and said, "Master, in fact, you have already imagined the result of today, right?" "But you overestimate the power of the Donglin Party." Hearing this, Sun Xingyao raised his head and looked at Li Wen, who was extraordinary and upright, and suddenly said, "Qian Gong, I saw your extraordinary qualities a long time ago." Qiangong is the name of the chief clerk Li Wen. "Before this, I had proposed to Old Xu that if I am lucky in my career and can move up a level, Old Xu will take over my position, and you will be the county magistrate. Ha..." At this point, Sun Xingyao laughed at himself and said: "Now it seems that I was short-sighted." Hearing this, Li Wen's eyes flashed with an inexplicable color. He could naturally hear that this hall master who usually respected him had seen some of the tricks behind the whole thing. "Now it seems that they claim to be noble, but they are short-sighted and missed the real gold. We thought we were on the rise, but in fact we stepped into the abyss..." "Sir, you are wrong again." However, after hearing this, Li Wen shook his head. Having said that, Liu Wen naturally understood that this venerable man had obviously seen that although he was born in Donglin Academy, he was not a Donglin scholar and that Prince Yu was behind him. The Prince Yu's Mansion has actually given up on all the Donglin scholars. After this group of old people are cleared out, it will be the time for the direct descendants of the Prince Yu's Mansion to take power. Perhaps after three to five years, when the situation has calmed down, Donglin Academy, Donglin Party, Donglin scholars, and so on will disappear. "In this Ming Dynasty, neither you nor I are worth gold, nor are we good horses. The only difference between us is our luck."
"Luck?" Hearing this, Sun Xingyao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and then laughed and said: "I have lived so many years in vain, but I still can't understand it as well as a young man like you." "It's a pity that I used to think my current achievements were due to my own abilities, but in fact, it was just luck..." "You were noticed by the higher-ups not because of your innocent background, nor because of your extraordinary talent or talent, but simply because the higher-ups noticed you." "The reason why I was seen is because of good luck!" “Hahaha…” Sun Xingyao laughed loudly, looking up to the sky, “A leaf blinds you, that’s all, hahahaha…” Looking at Sun Xingyao and Xu Lei being taken away, Li Wen stood with his hands behind his back, staying in the yard for a long time without moving. "Don't take your success as strength. This is a truth I understood the moment I stepped out of Donglin Academy." "No matter when or where, be humble, regard hard work as luck, and be careful in what you say and do, that is the long-term way..." Looking at the people who were gradually going away, his eyes flickered, as if he saw the fall of Donglin scholars in the entire Ming Dynasty. And the fact was just as Li Wen had thought. The Donglin scholars began to be liquidated on that day. Of course, those so-called great scholars of Donglin Academy were also liquidated. On the spiritual network, the news about the arrest of the Donglin Party also spread. Under the guidance of public opinion, everyone knew that the damage to the national policy of assistance was all caused by the Donglin Party. Just because the Donglin Party was fighting for the sake of factional struggles and to eliminate dissidents, they ignored the interests of all the people. At the same time, the issue of the national policy of cross-regional burdens being proposed by Yan Song was brought up again. The news was overwhelming, and anyone who had access to the internet and had access to the news could see it. For a time, under the guidance of public opinion, the reputation of the Yan family father and son, who had always been regarded as representatives of treachery in the minds of the people, suddenly reversed, and many people even began to worship the Yan Party. It is believed that even if the Yan Party is corrupt, accepts bribes, and forms cliques for personal gain, at least Lord Yan and his sons are actually doing practical work. Some people even talked about "initiating innovation", "national policy of assistance" and the previous "national policy of stationing troops to promote agriculture", and for a time, many people without judgment began to follow suit. However, this phenomenon was extinguished not long after it appeared. The immortal academies of all sizes and representatives of various schools of thought in the Ming Dynasty began to point out that this blind worship was wrong. Although the people were not told by name that they should not worship a treacherous family like the Yan family, everyone was told explicitly and implicitly that merits are merits and faults are faults. The reason why the Yan Party acted like this was because the emperor was wise and intelligent and was not deceived by treacherous people. Afterwards, many people, such as Wu Chengen, who now has considerable influence in the Ming Dynasty, also began to support it. Not only Wu Chengen, but also his disciple Xu Zhonglin spoke out. It was also because of the appearance of Wu Chengen and Xu Zhonglin that many people with a keen sense of smell realized that the sudden public opinion that began to suppress the Yan family did not seem so simple. At the beginning, many people believed that this was due to other factions in the court who did not want the Yan family to use this incident to "whitewash" themselves. After all, the spiritual network was something that was decided in the beginning and is jointly managed by the cabinet, and no one can control public opinion. But when Wu Cheng'en appeared, many people discovered the trick. Everyone knew that Wu Cheng'en, the most popular novelist in the Ming Dynasty, was promoted by Yan Song. Master Wu Cheng'en and his apprentice suddenly came forward and openly and covertly told everyone not to worship Yan Song. Well, the logic behind this made the old officials who knew the inside story sneer.
A single leaf can tell the coming of autumn. For these old hands, they only need a little bit of information to see the essence and the overall situation behind things. What is happening in the Ming Dynasty officialdom today, in essence, is nothing more than a game of power. But compared to the actors' pitiful performances on stage, the more absurd and unbelievable the officialdom dramas seem to ordinary people, the more real they seem to them! It can be seen that there may be other people who do not want Yan Song to be cleared, but more importantly, the Yan party itself is unwilling to do so. Here, if there was no approval from the higher-ups in the court, how could Wu Chengen and his disciples, who represent huge influence in themselves, dare to openly stand up and implicate their backers? The Donglin Party was wiped out, and the Eight Gentlemen of Donglin, led by Gu Xiancheng, as well as Qian Qianyi and others, were all beheaded. Shen Shixing, who had been working for Prince Yu's Palace and had made many contributions, was sent to the Netherlands to serve as a prefect because of his relationship with Crown Prince Zhu Yijun. This was a demotion in public but a promotion in private. However, this action also showed that from then on, the Donglin Party had nothing to do with him at all. The collapse of the Donglin Party was like a huge rock embedded in the mud under a lake being removed, and the huge hole was filled with lake water, causing wave after wave of water. However, the waves on the lake gradually subsided as the holes were filled. The newly appointed officials quickly restored the shelved national policy of aiding the country. The immortals and monks also began to devote themselves to their own affairs, but this matter became a topic of conversation among them after dinner. The demise of the Donglin Party may be a significant shock to the officialdom in the southeast. But for the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, it was just a small episode in the drama of the Nine Dragons' succession struggle, or to be more precise, an introduction. The officialdom is becoming more and more turbulent and undercurrents are surging. Finally, this introduction broke out with the alliance between the Yan Party, Jingwang Mansion, Anwang Mansion, Yuwang Mansion, Hai Family, Xu Family, Zhao Family, the families of the five military commanders, and the Southeast Tang Family! The drama of the battle for the throne among the nine dragons has finally begun! "..." (End of this chapter)