Chapter 125 Competing for the right of public opinion
These civil servants who were close to Fang Shihong were basically civil servants who were enemies of the Donglin Party.
Many of them were members of the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang Party during the Wanli period.
Now because Fang Shihong, the chief assistant son, took the initiative to make friends, they have joined forces through Fang Shihong's bond.
After Fang Shihong said this, all the civil servants immediately started to do it.
Not long after.
There were suddenly dozens of book shops in the entire capital.
Moreover, these book shops placed a publication called "The Disaster of the Donglin Party" in front of the store's door, which made people hawk.
The entire publication "The Disasters of the Donglin Party" revealed all the various court scandals done by the Donglin Party since the end of the Wanli period, including those who secretly overthrew Xiong Tingbi after Taichang, Fang Congzhe, and the instigation of spies in the inner court to replace the emperor, as well as colluding with Shanxi merchants in Liaoning to smuggle.
Feng Quan is the main author.
As a Hanlin native, he has a brilliant literary talent and writes the things done by the Donglin Party clearly and vividly.
He also systematically summarized the trilogy of the Donglin Party's political struggle, namely, impeachment together first, then seek bribes, and finally, once the bribes of the impeached person are obtained, they will be protected.
After all, Feng Quan's own father had been attacked by the Donglin Party, so he was very clear about the Donglin Party's tricks.
besides.
Other civil servants who had a grudge against the Donglin Party followed Fang Shihong's instructions to write the Donglin Party into a vivid plot for storytellers to tell, and also made a song for storytellers to sing. Zhou Yanru, Miao Changqi colluded with the inner court to make a bad intention, and the Donglin Party was a party without a king and father, and other words began to appear densely in the mouths of children in the capital city.
Next, after the popularity was almost the same, the group of scholars that Fang Shihong himself bribed began to learn from the Donglin Party to write a post.
The content of the post mainly says that the Donglin Party is a clique that harms the country and the people, and the Donglin Party is a corrupt, bribery, hypocritical, and traitor of the country, is not a true gentleman but a real villain, etc.
For this reason, Fang Shihong also asked a group of scholars to organize a group of scholars to go to the Censorate to file a complaint, expose the Donglin Party's crimes, and ask the imperial censors to investigate the Donglin Party's crimes and submit them to the court.
The Jinyiwei, who was in charge of public security and order in the Imperial City and the Central Government Office, naturally knew about this, but Wei Zhongxian had already greeted Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun and other Jinyiwei in advance.
Therefore, the Jinyiwei no one cared about the remarks and posts that criticized the Donglin Party.
"Excessive! Who wrote this "Donglin Clan Disaster Revealed"? Who asked you to sell it? The Censor of the City, and Shuntian Mansion, why didn't I copy this book? I actually said that I formed a party to and for personal gain, eliminated dissidents, had no king or father, and intended to disrupt the government and disrupt the court's principles! This is simply a frame-up or a frame-up!"
Donglin official Hou Xun was angry at this time because he discovered the "Donglin Party Disaster Revealed", and also took the publication back to the Censorate and gave it to other censors for reading.
Censor Li Yingsheng and Zhou Qiyuan were both furious.
"It is necessary to submit a memorial to ask the court to ban this book. This is simply nonsense, it is slander, it is purely slander! According to the Ming Dynasty, all the people who make monster books and words should be executed!"
Li Yingsheng immediately tore up the book and yelled.
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"Hou Xun, Li Yingsheng, Zhou Qiyuan and other censors jointly submitted a memorial to ask the officials to strictly investigate the editors and writers of "The Disasters of the Donglin Party", to destroy and ban the book, and to ask the factory guards to strictly investigate the people behind the scenes! What should the officials think this matter should be written?"
The cabinet soon received a joint memorial from Hou Xun and others.
Fang Congzhe also asked about Han Yu and Wang Xiangchunlai.
"The person who compiled this book was obviously a false statement and slandering the court. When did my Ming Dynasty have cliques? What's more, today's son, the sea is peaceful and the river is clear, and the officials are pure and the people are pure. How can there be any party disputes?! The officials believed that in front of the officials, such false statements were strictly prohibited from appearing on the market, but there was no need to go too deep and cause panic."
Han Yu said that he could guess that behind this, it was definitely the non-Donglin Party members who were causing trouble, but now he received Ye Xianggao's instructions and tried not to act too radical. He just denies that these editing books were slandering and believed that the court could not investigate too deeply.
"I also asked Yuanfu to slaughter the enemy, and the subordinate officials had limited opinions on matters of material discussion."
Wang Xianggan directly let Zaifang Congzhe make his own decisions.
Fang Congzhe said: "In my opinion, this is just a small matter, so there is no need to make a fuss. The folk discussion is common. The dispute over the foundation of the country was even more intense and meaningless. Governing a big country is like cooking a small thing. This is not a big matter. It is not appropriate to make big fuss. These censors are too nervous."
As Fang Congzhe said that, he wrote three words on the memorial: "I understand."
"I know" means that there is no meaning of dealing with opinions.
Seeing this, Han wanted to say a few more words, but finally shut up.
After the memorial was to be sent from the eunuch in the literature room to the Silijian, and then from the Silijian to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao just took a look and asked the Silijian to approve the red.
It is obvious that Zhu Youxiao and Fang Congzhe are both condoning non-Donglin officials to manipulate public opinion and compete with the Donglin Party for public opinion power.
As a result, the non-Donglin civil servants who Fang Shihong secretly manipulated became more and more troubled.
Even these civil servants who were not from the Donglin Department really learned from the previous Donglin Department scholars who pleaded for Li Sancai, and also came to the Censorate and shouted: "Please investigate the illegal affairs of Donglin officials who formed cliques and private affairs, embezzled and bribed!"
"Please investigate the illegal activities of Donglin officials forming cliques and seeking bribes, etc."
"Please investigate the illegal activities of Donglin officials forming cliques and seeking bribes, etc."
"Please investigate the illegal activities of Donglin officials forming cliques and seeking bribes, etc."
The scholars organized by Fang Shihong shouted so loudly in front of the Censorate, alarming many scholars and people around him.
Wang Zhichang, the left deputy censor of the Censorate, was worried that his relationship with Li Sancai would be exposed because of Li Sancai's execution. Now, seeing so many scholars appearing in front of the Censorate's gate, shouting that the Donglin Party has formed a clique for personal gain and bribery, he is naturally even more angry and becomes furious for a moment.
"What are you doing? Let me leave immediately. Do you know what you are doing? You are slandering the court's official, criticizing the government's affairs, and making trouble! You are seeking death!"
Therefore, Wang Zhichang shouted to the outside world that asked the Censorate to severely punish Donglin officials for illegal rituals. He was very different from the previous attitude of Donglin scholar when he caused trouble for Li Sancai in front of the Censorate, although they were all scholars.
But these scholars naturally did not listen to the king's rebellion and did not leave, and continued to shout about the crimes of forming cliques and making private interests.
Did the Censor Li Yingsheng become even more angry because of this? He asked: "Where is the Jinyiwei, why don't you come and arrest these bastards and try them out!"
Chapter completed!