In history, there is a kind of official called cool officials, they are not necessarily corrupt officials, and they are very likely to be very clean economically, but they are very cruel and inhumane, and they are interested in rectifying people, harming people, and killing people, and their psychology must be extremely perverted.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was such a cool official in the Ming political arena, who only relied on one mouth to impeach others at every turn, and actually killed tens of thousands of people.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a student from Chuzhou, Anhui Province, named Chen Ying, who was very good at learning and very capable. After the completion of Taixue, Chen Ying successfully entered the central ministries and commissions for internship, in the last years of Hongwu, Chen Ying was promoted to work in the national discipline inspection department, as the imperial history, and later served as the Shandong inspector, this official was promoted very quickly.
After Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he began to cut down the feudal domain, and many feudal kings were cleaned up, and some were killed, such as Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, who was forced to close the palace and self-immolation.
In fact, among the many vassal kings, there are not many princes who have the strength and ambition to rebel, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is counted as one, and he is regarded as the most likely person to rebel. King Yan will rebel, in the early years of Jianwen was a hot topic of discussion in the government and the opposition, and Shi Gecheng, the head of King Yan's mansion, entered the play, saying that King Yan was going to rebel.
After learning of this information, the imperial court did not immediately take military action, but stepped up its reconnaissance of Beiping. In the investigation and deployment of the imperial court, Chen Ying was also one of the links, he was transferred from the post of Shandong according to the inspector to the Beiping according to the inspector, responsible for monitoring the king of Yan.
Who would have thought that as soon as Chen Ying arrived in Beiping, she was attracted by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and received other people's money and got on other people's boats.
There is no impermeable wall, and Chen Ying's seller behavior has been reported. Emperor Jianwen and his court are really benevolent women, and they didn't kill this kind of person, but only gave the punishment of degrading Guangxi.
From Zhu Di's campaign to the three years of ascending the throne, Chen Ying has been living in Guangxi. However, in June of the fourth year of Jianwen, after Zhu Di entered Nanjing and ascended to the throne, in just half a month, Chen Ying became the left deputy capital of the New Dynasty's Imperial Palace, and was in charge of discipline inspection.
Chen Ying, as the first person to be summoned to Beijing from other places after Zhu Di became emperor, was promoted from a degraded official to a third-grade official, and was ordered to take charge of the affairs of the Imperial Palace, which means that Chen Ying is about to become a sharp sword in Zhu Di's hands!
Sure enough, Chen Ying did not disappoint Chengzu, and at the beginning of his tenure, he immediately inherited Chengzu's intention and launched the killing of the remnants of the Jianwen Dynasty.
Chen Ying arrived in Nanjing a little late, and the old ministers of Jianwen that Zhu Di hated the most, such as Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, Fang Xiaoru, etc., had already been killed by Zhu Di. As the historian said, "Emperor Wen entered the Qing Palace, that is, Jia Luo weaving, first raised a reward, and then ruled the party poorly." ”
So, is there no room for Chen Ying to give full play to his ability to weave and kill people? Chen Ying wants to repay Zhu Di's favor for promotion, and also revenge for the demotion of the Jianwen Dynasty, so he must handle big cases and big shots!
Although Zhu Di ascended the throne, the government and the opposition "coaxed Emperor Jianwen to still be there, and he was trying to recover with all the ministers". Chen Ying, as the imperial history of the capital, figured out the master's thoughts, "Then secretly played the stories of Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng's protégés, and the party was worried, so it was appropriate to order them to be arrested."
That is to say, Chen Ying wants to expand the area of attack. Zhu Di liked this idea very much, so he "ordered Ying to act cheaply and weave arbitrarily." ”
From the beginning of Chen Ying's reign in the Imperial Palace, he began to cater to Zhu Di's mind and continue to attack the former ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty. During this period, there were nearly ten former ministers of Jianwen who were impeached by Chen Ying, most of whom were military generals of the Jianwen Dynasty, and many of these people fought with the division of Jingnan for a long time in the Battle of Jingnan, and they were resentful after the war, but there were very few Wenchen of the Jianwen Dynasty who were impeached.
This situation shows that Zhu Di was still very worried about the armed subversion of the old forces of the Jianwen Dynasty at that time, and his spirit was still highly tense.
Chen Ying's impeachment and disposal of the old ministers of Jianwen are mostly some old ministers of the Hongwu and Jianwen eras. For example, Sheng Yong, who once led the army to fight with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, for four years. After Zhu Di seized the throne, he did not immediately move Sheng Yong, but "comforted Yong with a seal book". Later, Sheng Yong had no choice but to surrender to King Yan and was not disposed of.
After Sheng Yong surrendered, he was not recruited to Nanjing, but was sent directly to Huai'an. In fact, Zhu Di removed Sheng Yong's high moves, because although Zhu Di won the throne, Tie Xuan, the former minister of the former Jianwen Military Department, still supported Huainan and Shandong was not peaceful.
Sheng Yong's departure from the town of Huai'an could not only prevent Tiexuan to the north of the Huai River, but also allow these two former allies to kill each other in order to reap the benefits of the fisherman. Soon after the pacification of Shandong, Sheng Yong was forced to serve for no reason.
In this case, Sheng Yong may have complained a little. So, Chen Yingshang, who was bent on establishing authority for Cheng Zu's big case, impeached Sheng Yong, saying that he "said that he had grievances and slanders, and had different intentions, so please re-enact the code to set an example for the rest of the people." As a result, Sheng Yong was forced to commit suicide······
The secretary of the Criminal Department, because Shangshu gave Cheng Zu advice, saying, "The court should employ people from both the old and the new, and those who are trusted today lead the old ministers of the domain, which is not the way of justice." Such an opinion would be common in a normal society, but this poked Zhu Di's sore spot, and as a result, he was "really punished to death".
Many military generals of the Jianwen Dynasty who had fought against the army of King Jing of Yan were removed from their posts or died for various reasons, and He Fu, the Marquis of Ningyuan, and Hu Guan, the commander of the horses, were impeached for some inexplicable crimes, and finally committed suicide in fear. Geng Bingwen, the old general of the Jianwen Dynasty, also led troops to fight a bloody battle with King Yan.
In October of the second year of Yongle, Chen Ying and Zheng Ci, the secretary of the Criminal Department, went to the court to impeach Geng Bingwen, saying that he "did not follow the etiquette, and his clothes and utensils were decorated with dragons and phoenixes". This is completely unwarranted, and as a result, "Chengzu ordered his family, and Bingwen committed suicide in fear".
Before Geng Bingwen was killed, Zhu Di also cleaned up the famous anointed son Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong is the son of Taizu's nephew Li Wenzhong, and he was once pinned on by Emperor Jianwen, but this person has long been secretly colluding with King Yan, and it is an infernal affair if it is not good.
However, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also became suspicious, "although he shows respect on the outside, he hates him very much." In July of the second year of Yongle, Zhang Xin impeached Li Jinglong for "harboring grievances, conspiring treacherously, recruiting and fleeing, and the picture is wrong."
Zhu Di also personally sent an edict to appease Li Jinglong, saying that "since ancient times, the relatives have always been preserved, and the monarch and the minister will have the right way." Er, the grandson of my aunt, love each other less, and share wealth".
However, in August of this year, Chen Yingshang impeached Li Jinglong for "sneaking and treacherous, which will be wrong······ begging for canonical punishment in order to collect the authority of the state". In the end, Li Jinglong was robbed of his title and convicted and placed under house arrest.
Chen Ying is like a vicious dog raised by Chengzu Zhu Di, frantically pounced on Jianwen's old ministers, and "History of the Ming Dynasty" has a cloud "Chen Ying destroyed dozens of loyal ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty, and tens of thousands of relatives were killed." "
In fact, the imperial history is just a fierce dog raised by the emperor, just as the first secret of the Yongle Dynasty said, "The imperial history corrects the bullets, and all inherit the secret purpose". Chen Ying impeached and killed so many old ministers of Jianwen, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" also said, "The impeachment of more than ten relatives and ministers is all Yin Xi Emperor." ”
Without the instruction of Chengzu, where could Chen Ying set off such a big storm? In the end, Jianwen's old ministers were almost killed, and after Zhu Di had a sense of security, Chen Ying was useless, and this person was finally thrown into prison by Zhu Di and killed, and the effect was "the world is fast!"
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