Author: Old History
Second, the strange fate of life and death with the mentor Zuo Guangdou
▲ Left Vice Capital Yushi Yang Lian prepares to go to the "Impeachment of Zhongxian Twenty-Four Sins"
7. Zuo Guangdou wrote "Zhongxian and Guangwei Thirty-two Beheadings" sparsely
When the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian flew to the cabinet like a snowflake, Zuo Guangdou's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian's "Zhongxian, Guangwei Thirty-two Beheadings" was also written. In fact, when Yang Lian drafted his manuscript, he also began to write, which was a unified action taken by them together with Zhao Nanxing, Miao Changqi and several other elders of the Donglin Party after consultation. Through a series of twists and turns, they want to expose Wei Zhongxian's crimes of arbitrary power, deception, and persecution of Zhongliang, and they must use some of the actual crimes of Wei Zhongxian that they have mastered to awaken the emperor. However, Yang Lian's sparse performance did not have the expected effect, but caused a large number of Donglin people to suffer continuous setbacks.
In October, at the behest of Wei Zhongxian and Wei Guangwei, their close associate Chen Jiuyu came forward to impeach the official Kedu and Wei Dazhong. He said that he recommended his students to serve as the governor of Shanxi, and was suspected of forming a party for personal gain, and the official Shangshu Zhao Nanxing was also responsible for this matter. Wei Zhongxian immediately demoted Wei Dazhong to a lower position. In a fit of rage, Zhao Nanxing asked to resign from his official position, and Gao Panlong also asked to return to his hometown. Wei Zhongxian was secretly pleased, and immediately issued a decree to approve them one by one, and immediately removed them from their official positions. After Zhao Nanxing resigned, he reconsidered the election of the official Shangshu. For the candidates elected by these people, Yang Lian simply did not participate in the statement. Wei Zhongxian also reprimanded Yang Lian, saying that the emperor ordered his ministers to go to the imperial court to promote officials, but Yang Lian dared not to participate, committing the crime of "great disrespect" and cutting him off. "Great disrespect" is one of the serious crimes stipulated in the criminal law of the Ming Dynasty, that is, disrespecting the emperor, and conspiring against the emperor, plotting great rebellion, plotting rebellion, plotting evil rebellion, dishonesty, filial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife are the same as the "ten evils". At this point, the power of the Donglin Party was constantly weakened, and the power of the imperial court was gradually grasped by Wei Zhongxian and his gang.
In such a situation, Zuo Guangdou felt that he should let his sword out of its sheath. He revised the manuscript overnight and prepared to play the emperor on November 2. For the sake of safety, he sent his wife and family back to his hometown in Anhui for a while, and asked Shi Kefa to go home to continue his studies.
Since Shi Kefa lived in Zuo Guangdou's home, he has been cared for by teachers. In life, he has a secluded hut with a bedroom and a study, and someone to take care of his food and living, so that he can calm down and study with peace of mind and study diligently. In addition, he was often asked to bring back a little necessity to help his family. In terms of learning conditions, many of the teacher's books can be read at any time, live with the teacher's sons and nephews, and can also learn from each other and improve each other. More importantly, because I usually have a lot of opportunities to contact and talk with teachers, in addition to discussing the Four Books and Five Classics, the scriptures and historical principles, I often talk about the foundation of being a man and the foundation of the country, and the way to govern the country and the country. The teacher's noble virtues of loyalty and concern for the country and the people were also imperceptibly absorbed in his ordinary contacts, making him useful for life. Although it is a teacher-student relationship, the teacher often calls him to the study to talk about, astronomical geography, everything. Of course, the most talked about is these worrying things that happened at the imperial court. Especially about Wei and Ke, when the teachers and students talked about it, they were sometimes so excited that they were bleeding, and their anger could be known.
Now the teacher told him to go home for a while, and he also sent his family back to his hometown, realizing what the teacher would do next. However, as a young man, he could not give the teacher any help now, and he did not even know how to say words of relief and reminder. However, the teacher saw his concerned eyes and said to him: "The first half of the festival is in me, and the second half of the festival is in Ru." That is to say, you can't play any role now, but in the future, it will still depend on young people like you to continue to complete.
Sure enough, having just sent his family away, Zuo Guangdou wrote the "Zhongxian, Guangwei Thirty-Two Beheadings" sparsely, and prepared to play the news of the emperor on the horse was inadvertently leaked out by one of his personal servants Fusheng, and The Jinyi Wei Tiqi immediately reported this information to Xu Xianchun, the envoy of the Northern Town Fusi.
▲The Zuo Clan Ancestral Hall located in Tongcheng
Beizhen Fusi was an institution under the Jinyi Wei of the Ming Dynasty. At the time of Chengzu, the original Jinyi Wei Zhen FuSi was the Second Division of the South and North, and the Fu Si of the North Town was in charge of the criminal name of the Main Guard, and was in charge of the Zhao Prison, which was used to deal with the imperial court ministers and officials at all levels, although it was only a Three Pin Yamen, it was a secret service agency of the emperor, and its power was supreme. The emperor of prison is not required to pass through the Jinyi Guards, and those who do not command the prison are not allowed to interfere in their affairs. As long as the emperor speaks, no evidence is needed, no formalities are needed, and even the biggest officials cannot escape their torture.
Xu Xianchun knew this news, naturally did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately reported it to Wei Zhongxian. The next day, at the behest of Wei Zhongxian and drafted by Wei Guangwei, the "Holy Will" was sent to the various ministries and departments through the Department of Communications and Political Envoys, announcing that Yu Du Yushi Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian had secretly formed a party, and that Pembi had committed adultery, had their nationality cut off, and repatriated them to their original hometowns. This was a despicable act by Wei Zhongxian who stole the emperor's name and once again falsely preached the holy will and framed the minister of justice.
In this way, two days after the wife returned to her hometown, that is, the first day of November in the fourth year of the apocalypse [December 10 of the Gregorian calendar]. Zuo Guangdou was deposed for a reason that could not be easier and was repatriated to his native Tongcheng, Anhui. Naturally, the recital that counted Wei Zhongxian's thirty-two major sins could not be sent to the emperor's hands.
(Some of the photos in this article are downloaded from the Internet, and I would like to thank the original author)
Updated on 2021.11.03
Editor: Yan Jingping,"White Wave Love"