Chapter 431

Wen Tiren, Changqing, from Wucheng, was a scholar in the 26th year of Wanli. He has successively served as the editor of the Imperial Academy, the Chamberlain of the Ministry of rites and the Minister of rites. At that time, he was known as Wen Tiren. He was sincere in external music and fierce in attack. The machine was deep and piercing. He was a very deep bureaucrat of the city government.

With the help of Zhou yanru of Donglin Party, Wen Tiren entered the cabinet to assist the government.

However, after entering the cabinet, he and Zhou yanru had diametrically opposite attitudes towards the Donglin Party and the castration party, so they began to plot to replace Zhou yanru's position as the first and auxiliary party.

Zhou yanru was unaware of Wen Tiren's plot because Wen Tiren had worked with him to overthrow Qian Qianyi and dragged him into the cabinet. In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Wen Tiren secretly helped eunuch Wang Kun, attacked Zhou yanru by Chen Zanhua, and instigated him to impeach Zhou yanru, connived at Li Yuangong's corruption and perverted the law, and Zhou yanru said rebellious words.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and ordered the investigation. Zhou yanru was in a very difficult situation and asked Wen Tiren for help. Wen Tiren not only didn't help, but also dismissed all officials who had a good relationship with Zhou yanru, so that he couldn't get any support. In desperation, Zhou yanru was forced to resign because of illness.

Therefore, Wen Tiren became the chief assistant of the cabinet, which is also the characteristic of the Daming cabinet in recent decades. That is, the position of the chief assistant was robbed. At first, he wanted to unite eunuchs to expand his power, but emperor Chongzhen was proud of being able to cut off 9000 year old eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian, so that Wen Tiren gave up the idea of using the eunuch party.

In June this year, Wen Zhenmeng of the Donglin Party entered the cabinet. Wen Tiren was in trouble with Wen Zhenmeng everywhere, and finally Wen Zhenmeng was dismissed.

After Wen Tiren assisted the imperial government, he was good at observing forms and distinguishing colors, catered to the emperor's wishes, and was particularly favored. Therefore, he became more stubborn and bossy. If he wanted to recommend, he secretly asked people to make suggestions, and if he wanted to exclude the frame, he deliberately tolerated and let the emperor suspect. The people recommended and their peers were mediocre, so as to show his wisdom and consolidate his position.

When Emperor Chongzhen asked about the military pay, he said humbly, "my minister used to work in the Imperial Academy with articles. The Emperor didn't know that I was dull. He was promoted to prime minister. Thieves are more and more day by day. It's really not enough to do his duty. However, although my minister is ignorant, he dare not cheat the military pay when drafting the imperial edict. I hope the emperor will make a ruling."

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know whether the goods were really stupid. He thought he was simple, honest and more confidant. Wen Tiren has been in power for a long time and exposed his countless memorials. Emperor Chongzhen still did not wake up at all. Instead, he believed that he was isolated and had no party. Those who accused him were even tortured to death.

This creates a problem. He has a very bad reputation,

Why does Wen Ti Ren have such a bad reputation?

First of all, he was opposed to many political figures related to Donglin and the leaders of the restoration society. After Wei Zhongxian persecuted Donglin figures in the late apocalypse, Donglin became a gold lettered signboard symbolizing moral level, with many adherents; Secondly, Wen Tiren's style of conduct was not as lenient and tolerant as expected, but as aggressive as a litigant, and he personally impeached Qian Qianyi, Wen Zhenmeng, Zheng Ying and others; At the same time, he was not a city of gratitude and resentment. Others attacked him and was punished by the emperor. He would only expose the emperor secretly and ask for leniency. He would not publicly let the scholars know, so it was not easy to win the hearts of the people.

Of course, Wen Tiren's maintaining this style can also let the emperor see his image of an impartial and isolated minister and maintain his trust in him. The more so, the more the opponents resent him. Just as Cao Rong said: those who fear his murderers rise up and attack them, lest they don't go.

In this way, as Wen Tiren implemented his own way in his official career, he got the honor and favor given by the Lord and the reputation of scholar Lin.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wen Tiren did not have any strategies to resist the southward movement of the slave soldiers in Eastern Liaoning, or to deal with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. However, he was good at flattering. Although he had no talent, he was well paid. Wen Tiren was an official regardless of the interests of the country and the nation, just for personal power. In short, he was a selfish generation, It is no different from those politicians of later generations. The people have a clear vision. The people hate him because he is really bad as an official and do not regard him as a traitor because he is against the Donglin Party.

As early as Wen Tiren turned over the former cabinet leader and became the cabinet leader himself, there was a folk ballad that said: "the Ministry of rites reopened the list, and the number one scholar came out in the list. There was some fear; the cabinet turned into a brothel, and the tortoise king eight strips were always plagued“

Wen Tiren was born in Guian of Wucheng, and Wang Yingxiong was born in Ba County. He had a wide range of evil deeds. Wu zongkui believed that their intentions were evil. At that time, they were regarded as strips of bamboo. It happened that the Hall officials Huang Shijun, Kong Zhenyun and Chen Zizhuang of the auditorium were three tripods. Some people were the couplets on the title. Panic harmonic yellow refers to Huang Jun; fear harmonic hole refers to Kong Zhenyun; Wu GUI refers to Wucheng's intention of returning to an, and harmonic tortoise refers to Wen Tiren; Wang Ba harmonic King refers to Wang Yingxiong It is from Baxian County; Wen harmonic temperature also refers to Wen Ti Ren.

Wen Tiren, as the chief assistant of the imperial court, did not really do well, but he was pushed by the imperial court in terms of imperial court policy, because as the chief assistant of the imperial court, he first wanted to think about the interests of the imperial court, which was a last resort. He had to do so, just as he dealt with the Liu family. In fact, he had no gratitude and resentment with the Liu family, but he had to move forward It is a conflict of interest.

As for some people saying that he dealt with the Liu family because Liu Yuanqiao was suspected of murdering his disciple Lin Ruonan, this is a false thing. Even if Liu Yuanqiao murdered Lin Ruonan, he wouldn't deal with him if he didn't directly confront him.

Because he won't stand up for a dead man who has no use.

However, Wen Tiren is like a mediocre and incompetent official. He has no lofty aspirations and no policy planning. He is only an official for the purpose of being an official. He is an official for the purpose of taking this seat and stabilizing this position. In peacetime, if he is a bastard like him, he can still mix, but if he is faced with such a huge historical change and wave at the end of the Ming Dynasty, He seemed a little embarrassed and stretched.

He wentiren dared to fight against the Donglin Party, because the Donglin Party is a member of the official forest and the main force of the party struggle, but it does not mean that they can represent the scholars in the world, but the Confucius family can represent the scholars in the world.

Now the Liu family and the Kong family are married and integrated, which makes Wen Tiren, who has been committed to dealing with the Liu family, a little worried about the fire in the small temple. He was thinking that if he couldn't deal with it, he wouldn't pay at all.

Of course, he still thinks that to be the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty one day, we must safeguard the interests of the Ming court. He dutifully sent his confidants south to visit Yan Shenggong and asked him to cancel his engagement with the Liu family.

In fact, it's all funny. Even if Wen Tiren comes out in person, it's a question whether the contemporary Yan Anglican Association will sell his face. He sent one of his confidants to go. Whether the other party is even more loser or not is a question.

The court wanted to deal with the Liu family because of the court's major policies and conflicts of interest, and the alliance between the Liu family and the Kong family was also part of the combination of interests. Could he resolve it in a few words.

Wen Tiren has been the first assistant for four years. He has worked in this position for four years since he turned over Zhou yanru. However, this is also the four years when the government of the Ming Dynasty has taken a sharp turn. In these four years, the government of the Ming Dynasty can only be described as turning straight, and it is getting worse day by day, so that the Liu family has a reverse intention.

Wen Tiren's reaction was similar to that of most officials of the imperial court. Everyone thought that we wanted to deal with the Liu family out of the justice of the imperial court and had no personal hatred. If we wanted to deal with the Liu family and offend the Kong family and the scholars all over the world, it seemed a little worthless. Therefore, after hearing the news, they all stopped dealing with the Liu family, Wait a minute and see how the Kong family should deal with this problem.

They even have an idea that if the Liu family successfully gets married with the Kong family, it will be equivalent to Jinshi and the land becoming one of them. In the past, they were not our race, and their hearts must be different. Now they have become our kind. Can they work together?

The change of this form was not discovered by the emperor Chongzhen, who was a little late witted. When he was still preparing to deal with the Liu family and cooperated with everyone to deal with the Liu family, he found that all of a sudden it was dark and the officials were silent, which made him feel very embarrassed. It was equivalent to performing on the stage alone, There is no echo and response under the stage. How should this go on.

The local power faction of the Liu family is different from the cabinet ministers and ministers in the court. Although he can fight against the emperor, the emperor can remove him from his post. Basically, a piece of imperial edict can remove him from his post, but the emperor is not sure about these local ministers and power factions if they want to remove him from his post.

The emperor's greatest fear is that when a piece of imperial edict is removed from each other's front foot, the other party will start a riot, which is a great blow to his emperor's authority. At present, there is little royal authority left, so he should keep it as much as possible, and he is also afraid, That is, if he made an order to remove Liu Yuanqiao from his post, but met the falling chain of the central minister, what should he do?

If the imperial court and the cabinet are consistent, they can jointly issue a decree. Disobeying the decree is to kill the nine ethnic groups, which is equivalent to fighting against the Ming Dynasty. However, if it is the emperor's will and there is no signature of the cabinet, it is equivalent to the central decree. Judging from the urine and scruples of ordinary people in the cabinet, if the emperor orders them to eradicate the strength of the Liu family and remove the position of the Liu family, Whether they will agree or not is a question. It depends on what they mean. First of all, we must communicate with the Kong family. After the two sides reach an agreement, we will agree to everything.

This is the influence of the Confucius family. Although they have no actual administrative power, in many matters involving the handling of their family, only with the consent of Yan Shenggong can these officials dare to do it openly. Otherwise, they are afraid of being misunderstood. This is a confrontation with Yan Shenggong family, that is, with scholars all over the world, No one wants to let himself fall into such a curse for some business.