This is the benefit of being a human being for two lifetimes and reading and knowing history.

The biggest reason why Wei Liangchen came to Ningbo to worship the mountain is not that he was the Siming Guardian in Zhejiang, but that Siming Guardian and his Eunuch Wei are on the same front line. It can even be said that they should be close comrades-in-arms.

First of all, the Zhejiang Party has always been the biggest political enemy of the Donglin Party.

Secondly, among the backbone members of the eunuch party, the Zhejiang Party accounts for a large part.

The biggest reason why the second uncle was able to collect a lot of commercial taxes from various places during the Tianqi period was that the Zhejiang Party made great efforts.

The reason why the Zhejiang Party is willing to work for the second uncle and even give up some of its selfish interests is that if they do not do this, they will be completely driven away by the Donglin Party.

Objectively speaking, although Chen Yiguan is the leader of the Zhejiang Party, he was not incompatible with the Donglin Party at the beginning. After all, the Zhejiang Party and Donglin are both from the south, and their interests are not in conflict with each other, and they even help each other.

If goods in Jiangnan want to go overseas to make profits, they follow the Zhejiang Party’s sea trade line.

Therefore, it can be said that the two parties are in a cooperative relationship.

At least in the dispute over the foundation of the country, although some people in the Zhejiang Party met with the Zheng family, Chen Yiguan, the leader of the Zhejiang Party, stood firmly on the side of the eldest son like the Donglin Party, and eventually led to Zhu Changluo's entry into the East Palace.

The reason why the two parties that could have continued to cooperate was that Chen Yiguan wanted to withdraw the second assistant of the Donglin Party, Chen Li, was purely caused by the Chu Zong case.

To be more precise, Siming Gong received money and did things for others, but the Donglin Party insisted on destroying his reputation and wanted to take the opportunity to get Siming Gong off the stage.

So the Siming Gonggong was dissatisfied and insisted on discussing one, two, three, four with the Donglin Party. The more he reasoned, the more he became, the more he was confused. In the end, it was the result today.

The incident was caused by Guo Zhengyu, the teacher of the Eastern Palace shrew Li Cui'er, the teacher of Zhu Changluo.

Although Guo Zhengyu is a member of the Donglin Party, he is actually a member of Chu. However, he does not deal with the Chu Party and has a good relationship with the Donglin Party.

I don’t know if it was the news or it was true, but Guo Zhengyu heard a rumor when he was at home that the King of Chu is not a descendant of the royal family, but a fake person.

At the beginning of the country, Emperor Hongwu of Taizu named the sixth son Zhu Zhen the King of Chu, and his vassal land was in Hubei. Zhu Zhen's seventh generation grandson Zhu Yingjun reigned for twenty years. He was the last palace man Hu, and his twin sons Zhu Huakui and Zhu Huabi, were taken care of by Guo Lun, the inner supervisor of the royal palace.

In the eighth year of Wanli, Wanli was granted the title of Zhu Huakui's successor, namely King Ding of Chu; Zhu Huabi was granted the title of King Xuanhua. However, there were always people in the Chu Mansion who were full of doubts about the origin of Zhu Huakui, the origin of King Zhu Huakui.

When it was confirmed that the title of succession was confirmed, the Yibin (the princess’s husband) Wang Ruoquan in the mansion once reported that Brother Huakui was not born by King Gong, but it was not taken seriously at that time, and Huakui was given the title of succession.

When Zhu Huakui ascended the throne, he was unable to take charge of the office at a young age, so his uncle, Zhu Xianhuai, the king of Wugang, was appointed as the official.

Zhu Xianhuai was "acquainted with knowing what he was named after", and was full of resentment towards Huakui, so he kept stealing property from the royal palace. People in the Chu palace were worried that Zhu Huakui's life experience would be rumored and caused unnecessary disputes, so they always took the attitude of calming the situation and let Zhu Xianhuai steal property.

Later, with the intervention of Zhao Xian, the governor of Huguang, his brother, Zhu Xianjun, was appointed as the Zongli. From then on, the clans who suspected Zhu Huakui's legitimacy gradually stopped being subject to restrictions, and the Chu Mansion was like a mess.

After Zhu Huakui took power, he severely punished the criminal sects, but the measures were lacking in harmony, which led to the dissatisfaction of the sects.

In February of the 31st year of Wanli, Zhu Huafeng, a lieutenant of the Chu family, was scolded for offending the King of Chu for his crime. He was dissatisfied and joined forces with 29 people from the same clan and sent someone to sue, saying that Zhu Huakui was a fake king, and said that Zhu Huakui and Zhu Huabi were not Prince Gong of Chu.

Huakui is the son of Eujinmei, the concubine of Princess Gong's brother Wang Ruyan, and Huabi is the son of Wang Yu, a concubine of Wang Ruyan's family. They were all adopted in the King of Chu's mansion several months after they were born. It is also said that Huazu's wife is Wang Ruyan's daughter, which can be proved by others, so Huazu knows very well.

This statement was recognized by many Chu royal families, such as Zhu Yingsui, King Dong'an, Zhu Huazeng, King Wugang, and Zhu Huaqi, King Jiangxia, and caused a long-lasting and wide-ranging dispute between the King of Chu and the Emperor Chu.

The Ming Dynasty imposed extremely strict punishments on the chaotic royal bloodline.

During the Chenghua period, the Han Yin King of Han's mansion once had a precedent for raising a different surname and pretending to be his own son, and later exposed. The late Han Yin King Zhu Zhengyan was chased to be a commoner, the Queen's mother, Ping, the Princess Zhou, and the county lord were all sentenced to death. The princess' father Zhou Xun Lingchi, his wife, concubines, and children were beheaded.

The younger brother of Zhu Zhongying, the King of Fangshan, the King of Jin's palace, and the general of the State, Zhu Zhongxiang, also took the son of his wife's sister-in-law as his own son. After his death, he was exposed and his title was reprimanded. His wife Zhang and Zhu Qiyan, who pretended to be his son, committed suicide. Both Zhang's parents were beheaded. Zhu Zhongying, the King of Fangshan, knew the truth and supported him and changed his title.

Now that the Chu prince’s personal vassal has had a fake king case, that is really a big deal.

Zhu Huawei's memorial was first sent to the Tongzhengsi.

Before the memorial was reached by the emperor, King Zhu Huakui of Chu was unwilling to have another dispute over the matter, causing family scandals to be made public, so he bribed the cabinet chief assistant. Zhejiang Party leader Shen Yiguan ordered Shen Zimu, the envoy of Tongzheng, not to mention his memorial.

Tongzheng envoy Shen Zimu was a member of the Zhejiang Party. Seeing that things were complicated, he followed the instructions of the chief assistant Shen Yiguan and temporarily suppressed the memorial.

The Tongzheng Envoy was the Chief Secretary for Tongzheng. The Tongzheng Envoy was responsible for recording the opinions, confessing feelings, declaring military affairs, and other matters, and sending them to the office for handling. If you ask for an order for major matters, Shen Ziwu has this power.

After more than a month of incident, King Zhu Huakui of Chu impeached Zhu Huahuo for being "strong and rude" and "deception" and other four crimes were reported to Wanli.

Wanli ordered it to be handed over to the Ministry of Rites for investigation.

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Huaze asked the royal family of the Chu royal family to jointly submit a memorial with twenty-nine famous people, and personally brought it to Beijing, informing the Ministry of Public Envoy to invite Jie Shifeng and Zhu Huakui to bribe.

Guo Zhengyu, who was the Minister of Rites at the time, had heard that the King of Chu was a fake king before, so he was particularly concerned about this matter. He also found out that the King of Chu gave 100 taels of gold to the chief minister Shen Yiguan and promised to give another 10,000 taels of silver in the future.

Guo Zhengyu couldn't sit still at this moment. He believed that the King of Chu gave gifts to the chief minister because he felt guilty, which proved that the King of Chu was fake.

The chief minister Shen Yiguan accepted bribes to protect the King of Chu, which was a dereliction of duty and a great traitor to the country. He submitted a memorial to the emperor to reveal the matter and ask the emperor for a question.

Shen Yiguan took the money from the King of Chu, but he did not think that the King of Chu was fake. He only believed that it was a civil strife in Chu, and that it was Zhu Huafeng and others who deliberately framed the King of Chu.

Guo Zhengyu exposed this matter and revealed that he had collected money from the King of Chu. This made Shen Yiguan so angry that he couldn't sit still.

When King Zhu Huakui of Chu heard about this, he was very frightened and sent someone to send 100 taels of gold to celebrate Guo Zhengyu's birthday, promising that if Guo no longer pursued the matter, he would also give him 10,000 silver.

This is to regard Guo Zhengyu, the Minister of Rites and the Chief Minister, as the same level as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, but Guo Zhengyu rejected the bribery of King Chu.

The King of Chu was frightened. Although he was a relative, he could only show his power in the palace. The capital court could not allow him to interfere.

At this time, Chen Yiguan took action.

The Chief Aunt is quite authentic. He will do things for others when collecting money and must do things well.

Under the instruction of the Prime Minister, his confidant Qian Menggao submitted a memorial to impeach Guo Zhengyu to "frame his relatives and vassals". The matter started from Guo Zhengyu. As long as Guo Zhengyu was solved, there would be nothing wrong.

Although Guo Zhengyu is a member of the Donglin Party, Chen Yiguan didn't care what the Donglin Party said at this time. Otherwise, he would be troublesome as the assistant.

After Wanli learned about this, he did not easily speak out. He personally ordered the eunuch Zhang Cheng, the eunuch in charge of the relevant memorials and royal documents, to verify them personally for the first time.

In the end, Wanli rejected the saying of "the fake king of Chu" in Guo Zhengyu on the grounds that "the lack of evidence" and issued an edict to denounce Guo Zhengyu and dismiss him from office.

Originally, this matter could end here.

The relationship between the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party will not break down because of one person.

But the Siming Guardian is a vengeful person. He has not yet dispelled his hatred for Guo Zhengyu, and he happened to have a "demon book case" at this time.

Chen Yiguan took advantage of the situation and sent troops to surround the Guo family's mansion, captured the Guo family's wet nurse, and lured him out of the head. Then he sent troops to surround Guo's temporary residence, who had been temporarily living in Yangcun a hundred miles away from Beijing, and strictly prohibited the Guo family from going out.

Seeing that his daily life was tight, Mrs. Guo had no choice but to take off her hairpin and earrings and other jewelry on her head, and sent her daughter to the village to buy firewood and rice to relieve her lack of food.

Guo Zhengyu felt deeply in danger and knew that Chen Yiguan wanted to die by himself. So he sent his family to escape from Yangcun on a night when he was out of sight and went to the residence of the eunuch Wang An in the capital to study for the residence of the eunuch Wang An, and begged him to ask the prince Zhu Changluo to try to rescue him as soon as possible.

Wang An was also a responsible person and reported the matter to the prince as soon as possible.

Of course, Zhu Changluo needs to save the teacher.

The dignified prince, even his own teacher, couldn't help but feel heartbroken outsiders.

At Wang An's suggestion, Zhu Changluo quickly summoned the Sili Supervisor of the Admiral East Factory to seal Chen Ju, and asked Chen Ju to give him his face in a pleading tone.

As the eunuch in charge of seals in Sili and the admiration of Dongchang, Chen Ju is truly the first person in the inner court and also supports Zhu Changluo. He is also very close to the Donglin Party. However, he is not aware of the fact that Chen Yiguan arrested Guo Zhengyu, but the prince complained to him, the old slave, so he could not ignore it and decided to interfere in the matter.

In this way, one can sell the prince’s affection and the other can also sell the face of the Donglin Party.

As for Chen Yiguan's side, Chen Ju was not afraid. You should know that before Chen Yiguan entered the cabinet, he wanted to curry favor with Eunuch Chen.

Under Chen Ju's instruction, Dongchang sent someone to bring the Guo family's wet nurse Gong and his ten-year-old daughter, and asked: "Did you see that there are monster books in your master's house?"

The daughter replied, “There is a whole house.”

After hearing this, Chen Ju smiled and said, "There are only two or three pages of demon books, so how many are there?" Then he released the Gong mother and daughter on the spot, and ordered the withdrawal of the Tiqi who surrounded the Guo family in Yangcun.

Si Lizhang sent a message, and the Jinyi Qi who surrounded Yang Village did not dare to accept it, and the Guo family's difficulties were solved.

Chen Yiguan heard that Chen Ju came forward, and knew that it was the East Palace who asked Chen Ju for love. He knew that he could not kill Guo Zhengyu, but he was not willing to accept it. He made the excuse that Guo was suspected and asked the East Factory to take Guo Zhengyu into prison and not release him.

Chen Ju gave Chen Yiguan face this point. As long as he was not killed, he could explain it to the East Palace.

At the same time, Chen Li, who was the Minister of Rites at the time, was also trying to rescue Guo Zhengyu. He informed the governor Li Sancai of the matter, hoping that Li Sancai could come forward to mediate.

Li Sancai served as the governor of the grain for many years and had a high prestige. He was an important governor. Chen Yiguan was the chief assistant and had to sell Li Sancai for his face. Chen Yiguan also attached great importance to Li Sancai. If Li Sancai came forward, there would be a turning point.

After receiving the letter from Chen Li, Li San immediately wrote a letter to Chen Yiguan. The letter was written very cleverly. He first confessed to Guo Zhengyu, saying that Guo had no prejudice against Chen and that he was just talking about the matter on the matter of King Chu, and that he did not have a personal grudge against Shen Yiguan.

After Chen Yiguan read the letter, considering that the East Palace was determined to rescue Guo Zhengyu, he might not be able to kill Guo. Moreover, Si Libing the pen and Chen Ju also disagreed with the execution of Guo. If Chen Yiguan insisted on killing Guo, after the East Palace ascended the throne in the future, Chen Yiguan would not end well. Si Lijian was afraid that there would be some trouble, so he let Guo Zhengyu go.

The matter came to an end. Chen Yiguan's Zhejiang Party and Donglin Party did not fight for it, and the relationship between the two sides was still good on the surface.

The fuse that led to the complete rebellion between the Zhejiang Party and Donglin was the cabinet dispute, that is, the dispute between the two Shens.

Shen Yiguan is against Shen Li.

Because of the lack of cabinet ministers, Chen Li was very popular among court officials. When the court recommended cabinet ministers, the Ministry of Personnel listed him as the first person.

At that time, the Donglin Party was powerful and produced many important officials. The Kedao was also very powerful. Chen Yi was always worried that Chen Li, who was born in Donglin, would replace him and suppress the Zhejiang Party after entering the cabinet, so he wanted to stop Chen Li from entering the cabinet.

After thinking about it, it would definitely not work to stop it. The court recommendation is the sacred intention and a legal procedure. The open veto of Shen Li’s qualification to enter the cabinet is undoubtedly a counterattack against the civil and military officials of the court. The power of the Zhejiang Party alone cannot be achieved.

So, Chen Yiguan wrote a letter to Li Sancai, saying that when Gong Guide (Shen Li) came, there must be a dispute between the cabinet and it will be unfavorable for national affairs. You, Li Sancai and Shen Li, are members of the same party, so you might as well give an idea to see how to resolve this matter.

On the surface, Chen Yichang regarded Li Sancai as his family and was consulting him for countermeasures. In fact, Chen wanted to use Li Sancai's mouth to pass on the message to Chen Li, implying that there was murderous intent in the cabinet, forcing Chen Li to retreat when he was in trouble and not to enter the cabinet.

Li Sancai is extremely smart, but doesn’t he know that he always thinks?

However, it is a great benefit for Chen Li to enter the cabinet in Donglin. Li Sancai couldn't even wait for such a thing, so how could he stop it? So he did not stop Chen Li from entering the cabinet as Chen Yiguan wished, but urged Chen Li to take office as soon as possible. In this way, with Chen Li as a nail in the cabinet, he could break the situation where the Zhejiang Party unifies the world.

But Li Sancai still had to reply to Chen Yiguan.

In this letter, he strongly praised Chen Li for being loyal and honest, not taking away the beauty of others, nor causing trouble to Chen Yiguan. From the perspective of bystanders, he persuaded Chen Yiguan to be in the same heart and virtue as Chen Li, and put the country first.

After reading Li Sancai's letter, Chen Yiguan knew what Li Sancai was thinking, and since then he no longer contacted Li Sancai and regarded this Caopu as a villain.

As Chen Yiguan expected, Chen Li immediately had a head-on conflict with him after entering the pavilion.
To be continued...