Chapter 2: Under House Arrest (1)
After a whole year of separation, Zhu Yinglong returned to Beijing. The crowd on the street was the same as he left, without much change. To be honest, the faces of people were smiling less and less, and they became more and more indifferent. Especially when he saw the eunuch who was sent to Zhu Yinglong and others, he was even more frightened and retreated.
Zhu Yinglong's palace in the capital had not yet taken it back, and the three big words for gold in the palace of Xin's palace were still shining, but the people were no longer there. It turned out that all the servants and maids who left the guards' house had been replaced, and Zhu Yinglong did not recognize any of them. The eunuch who passed the imperial eunuch kept sending Zhu Yinglong into the palace, and then returned to the palace to submit the imperial eunuch.
Although he walked slowly along the way, he continued for more than ten days, including Zhu Yinglong, who had been sitting on the carriage, felt even tired. He washed up and took some meals and took a break before he could get his energy back.
The flying of the Eagle in September is the season of hunting. Huang Taiji worshipped the world, ascended the throne as Khan, and changed the year name to Tiancong to Khan. The court was relieved for a while. Huang Taiji ascended the Khan throne quite uneasy. The domestic power struggle has not yet subsided. He wants to suppress the opposition forces in the country and will not invade the south in a short time. He can take a breath. The court and the outside world immediately praised Wei Zhongxian and praised him for his wise leadership. Under his great leadership, he went to Ningyuan to win. Even the chief was seriously injured and died. As the cultivating temples were completed one after another, Zhejiang Governor Pan Ruzhen, the first person to build the cultivating temple was even more generous.
This temple, called "Pude", was built for more than two months by Emperor Tianqi. Under the supervision of Pan Ruzhen, the first temple of Wei Zhongxian in the world appeared on the bank of West Lake in Hangzhou. Its scale and exquisite architecture are exactly the same as the palaces in the Forbidden City. In the temple, Wei Zhongxian seemed to be made of pure gold, and the internal organs in the abdomen were made of pearl agate, and they were gorgeously dressed, comparable to the emperor.
On the day when the Pude Temple was completed, Pan Ruzhen led civil and military officials from Zhejiang to bow and bow to the statue of Wei Zhongxian three times and five times, and added firecrackers and drums, which made the mess.
Pan Ruzhen, the leader, moved, and all over the country tried to follow suit. The "Puhui Temple" in Suzhou, "Dexin Temple" in Songjiang, "Zhan'en Temple" in Yangzhou, "Zhan'en Temple" in Huai'an, "Long'en Temple" in Beijing, "Guangren Temple" in Beijing, "Maoxun Temple", as well as Kaifeng, Luoyang, Henan, Baoding, Hejian, Shandong, Jinan, Penglai, Shanxi, Wuhan, Huguang, Chengdu, Sichuan, etc., all built temples. People's dynasties were even more competitive and compared with each other. Those who did not realize it were even more and more. The scale was getting bigger and bigger, and the money spent was enough to Ningyuan's military expenditure for ten years. I don't know how much the people's ointment and blood were scraped, dragging the Ming Dynasty into the abyss one step further.
This unhealthy trend of building a living temple was filled with the anger of heaven and people, and the people were scolded by the people. Every time a living temple was built, it cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the most were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As far as Zhu Yinglong knew, his fiefdom was located in Kaifeng, where his fiefdom was built, Wang Shaowei ordered the demolition of more than 2,000 private houses and the tax on living temples was added, which caused public resentment. In the Linqing period, the construction of a living temple was even more powerful. More than 10,000 private houses were demolished at one time. This practice of harming the country and the people was opposed by the righteous officials, but none of the opponents escaped the evil hands of Wei Zhongxian and his minions. Hu Shirong, the Daotai of Jizhou, and Geng Ruji of Zunhua, were arrested and imprisoned because they did not agree to the building of the temple and were unwilling to bow to the statue of Wei.
Zhu Yinglong knew history. He was not angry. He also knew that he could not protect himself now and could not stop this ridiculous unhealthy trend of building a temple.
Shi Kefa is different. He has seen the situation in Kaifeng with his own eyes. He thought that Wang Shaowei was Wei Zhongxian's minion, so he did this. How could he know that the whole country is like this? For a scholar with a sincere patriotism, when he heard and saw such a situation, his heart was bleeding. He also understood why his mentor cursed him out in prison. The power of the eunuch party was too strong, so powerful that the country was completely controlled by them. The older generation of Donglin party members came from the emperor.
There was no hope in them, but their spirit of struggle had not been eliminated. Instead, they passed on this spirit to the new generation of young Donglin Party members. The bloody lesson was right in front of us. It was impossible to move to the power of the eunuch Party without a powerful force. Originally, he wanted to eradicate the eunuch Party under the leadership of Prince Xin and give the people a bright world. Now he knew that he was wrong. Only by pushing King Xin to the throne of the emperor and following Prince Xin's governing philosophy can this Ming Dynasty be saved!
At this time, Zhu Yinglong and Shi Kefa's hearts were truly united. Shi Kefa not only had to assist Xin Wang in eradicating the eunuch party, but also assist Xin Wang in ascending the throne. This was the ultimate goal. After understanding this, Shi Kefa began a transformation in his life and became more mature.
It has been three days since he entered Beijing, but there was no summoning at all. Zhu Yinglong felt a little uneasy and hurriedly issued an order to let him go to Beijing, but left himself aside for three days. He neither summoned the order nor sent anyone to pass on a message. Fortunately, Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong assisted Zhou Yingning in the Kaifeng to control the overall situation. It was the calm that this extraordinary calmness made Zhu Yinglong's heart frequently, and an ominous premonition was shrouded in his heart.
As this premonition became stronger and stronger, something unexpected happened to Zhu Yinglong.
"Under the imperial edict, Prince Xin kneels down to receive the edict!"
"I believe that King Zhu Youjian received the order." Zhu Yinglong knelt down uneasy.
"In accordance with the heavens, the emperor summoned: King Xin is in his fiefdom..." The general meaning said that he did not respect his elders, designed to frame the King of Zhou, forced him to give up his engagement, and forcibly purchased land and built over-order buildings on a large scale. Zhu Yinglong heard this and sweated on his forehead. The previous crimes were not important, and the last one to build over-order buildings was suspected of treason. He asked himself that there was no over-order construction, so how could he have such a crime for himself?
Finally, I said it roughly that it involves the royal family and the emperor's younger brother. First, the matter was not found out, and second, he was scattered, so he was exempted from the punishment of ban. He was temporarily placed under house arrest in the Xinwang Mansion and handed over to the Jinyiwei to strictly guard the matter. He would be dealt with after the matter was found out.
Unfortunately, the leader of the Jinyiwei who was appointed to be strictly guarded was Zuo Qianhu, who was ordered to be blamed by Zhu Yinglong. He has now been promoted to deputy commander Shi of the Jinyiwei. This time, his enemies are narrow in the road. You can imagine how Zhu Yinglong lived after being under house arrest.
Chapter completed!