When a captain wearing an orange royal guard appeared in yingshan county City, he had a premonition that his life had entered the countdown. However, he didn't panic at all. According to historical records, the scene at that time was "with the arrival of Qi, the public laughed and walked calmly, making people follow." "Making people follow" means "making people carry coffins behind".
In Yang Lian's posthumous work, it is also found that before he left yingshan county, he wrote a five-character poem to bid farewell to his hometown. The last two sentences are: "The cuff will be recovered for a while, but it will be recovered in a thousand years." It means I'm going to die and become an immortal. In a thousand years, I may go home again. All these prove that Yang Lian has really put life and death on the back burner at this time.
Yang Lian himself is ready to throw caution to the wind. So, what was the reaction of all walks of life at that time to his arrest and imprisonment?
Although Wei Zhongxian had completely controlled the state power at that time and controlled public opinion with spy politics, social justice would exist no matter when and where, and people's conscience would not die out.
"The first honest official in the country" became a corrupt official? "Minister Gu Ming" became a prisoner? This contrast is so great that almost everyone can't believe it or accept it, even the core members of Wei Zhongxian Eunuch Party. Therefore, when they fabricated charges for Yang Lian, they spent a lot of time and consumed a lot of brain cells.
Finally, I decided to use "bribery" as an excuse for two reasons. First, Lindong party member entrusted Wang Wenyan to rescue Xiong Tingbi who was sentenced to death because of the fall of Liaodong. The middleman found Wei Zhongxian, the prefect of the East Factory in charge of the prison, and Wei Zhongxian offered twenty-two thousand pieces of silver. In the end, because he didn't raise enough money, he was filled with indignation, so he grafted the plot of Xiong Tingbi's bribery on Yang Lian. Second, the "bribery" is secretive, and no one can tell clearly, which makes it easier to fabricate evidence. This is a wonderful idea contributed by Liang Menghuan, another adopted son of Wei Zhongxian.
Wang Wenyan, the key witness, was an expert in Jianghu in his early years. Later, he entered the Lindong political party circle and became the cabinet secretary (secretary general). At this time, he is being imprisoned by Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian was also a quack when he was young, and he always followed have it both ways's way of life. He thought it was not difficult for Wang Wenyan to confess in the face of torture.
In order to improve the insurance factor, Wei Zhongxian asked the Royal Guards to direct Xu Xianchun to handle the matter personally. He is recognized as the first executioner. He said to Wang Wenyan, "As long as Yang Lian accepts your bribe, I will let you go."
Wang Wenyan firmly replied: "In this world, there is no greedy Yang Dahong!"
Xu Xianchun said: "Resistance is ineffective. I'll kill you right away, put your fingerprint on the confession, and you can go to the underworld to explain to Yang Lian! "
Wang Wenyan said, "If you dare to doodle, the underworld will not spare you!"
Wang Wenyan was soon tortured to death, and Liang Menghuan's confession of bribing Yang Lian was also stamped with his handprint. However, this scene was quietly recorded by Xu Xianchun's colleagues, and the truth came out three years later. In "Fight to the Death", the Jianghu "master" didn't want "have it both ways" to defile Yang Lian's innocence, but tried to crush the eunuch's plot with his own life, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting Yang Lian. Therefore, Wang Wenyan won the respect of future generations, and his historical image is also tall.
As the saying goes, "people are doing, the sky is watching", and justice has never been laid off!
People also helped Yang Lian in different ways. On the day of his arrest, tens of thousands of people in Yingshan County and its surrounding areas surrounded a security guard captain and cursed Wei Zhongxian for killing Zhongliang and preventing them from taking Yang Lian away. Although they threatened the people with the imperial "driving post" (the arrest warrant issued by the emperor), the people didn't believe it at all, because they knew that Yang Lian could not be a corrupt official.
Seeing that a large-scale mass incident was about to happen, in order to avoid the intensification of contradictions, Yang Lian, who was shackled and shackled, personally knelt down to the villagers and pleaded, "This is for Yang Lian's good. If I don't go today, it will be against my will. If I go against my will, everyone will be guilty. Isn't it because I am in danger? "
The magistrate of De 'an and the county magistrate also advised everyone to be cold, thinking that Yang Lianyuan was innocent. I believe that the court has its own justice and someone will definitely protect Beijing. Please don't stop, if the time limit is late, it will increase Yang Lian's guilt. Everyone believed in the words "justice" and "someone must have hit Beijing" before getting out of the way.
According to records, from Yingshan, Hubei Province to Beijing, tens of millions of men and women rushed to see loyal ministers in every village along the way. Crying loudly, he said that since the fall, every family has to establish a loyalty card and a prayer for survival. "
In the end, it failed to save the loyal minister's life, but it showed a truth: Heaven is in people's hearts, and no one can cover the sky at any time.
At the beginning of the imperial edict, Yang Lian still had some confidence in the apocalypse. After all, he is loyal to the court, and there is no bribery. He hoped that the young emperor would have a sober moment and let them go out. But as the torture became more and more cruel, I felt that I might not be able to get out, so I began to write a suicide note and arrange a funeral.
Yang Lian himself gave up the hope of survival. Many people who wanted to rescue him were scared into silence by the terror politics in Wei Zhongxian, but some people dared to risk their lives to try.
According to The Beginning of the First Wave, Wei, a core member of the Wei Party, tried to save his life, but was eventually destroyed by another core member.
Quanfeng, a native of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, was a scholar in the forty-first year of Wanli, and was appraised by the Hanlin Academy. His father, Feng, is also a scholar, and his official position is Ji Liao. Huang taiji was trapped in Liaoyang, and Lao Feng fled without fighting and abandoned the camp and returned to the south. He was punished by Commander-in-Chief Xiong Tingbi, and Xiao Feng and his father were fired. From then on, he hated Xiong Tingbi and his Lindong party member. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), Wei Zhongxian went to Zhuozhou for pilgrimage, knelt down and waited, and befriended Wei as the maiden of Mrs. Wei Zhongxian (Feng Shi), and was reinstated, and soon became Wei Zhongxian's confidant.
It was Cui, the minister of does, who proposed the rescue. Emperor Wanli was recuperating at home and had no deep connection with the Party and Yan Party. When one party completely withdrew from the state affairs, the eunuch Cui came into use. I thought Cui would be "grateful", but this person was very dissatisfied with the eunuch dumping the righteous.
Cui worked with Wei Yunzhen, the father of Wei, then a bachelor of cabinet. Although he had no friendship with Yang Lian, he participated in the evaluation of "the first honest official in the country" and firmly believed that Yang Lian would not be a corrupt official. He asked Wei for help in the name of the official ministers and elders. He believes that politicians will inevitably struggle, and it is enough to dismiss and cut books, and then they will become hooligans.
Wei hesitated at first. To cheer him up, Cui Jingrong said, "I'll write you a letter. If Wei Zhongxian gives you trouble, take out this letter and put all the responsibility on Cui. "
Wei Yunzhen, Wei's father, is a good friend of party member. Therefore, Lindong people are very disdainful of his refuge in Wei Zhongxian. Call him "not Wei Yunzhen's son" when they meet. Finally, he and Lin Dong party member turned against each other completely, accusing Yang Lian of drafting the imperial edict of "disrespect". In a sense, he was the first person to murder Yang Lian. It is not clear whether Cui Jingrong wants him to rescue Yang Lian.
Wei is, after all, a man of culture, and he may admire him in his heart. With Cui's repeated encouragement, he moved into compassion and wrote a personal letter to the Apocalypse, hoping to take him out of prison (out of Wei Zhongxian's control) and hand him over to the punishments to "reduce his guilt for his merits"-that is, to avoid death.
The original text of the "First Dial Record" is as follows:
Wei, a university student, unveiled the card: "Today, an imperial edict came from the Secretariat:' The town magistrate please wait for the stolen goods and draw up tickets with courtiers and other officials. They play in strict accordance with the competition every day, once every five days, and at the end of the day, they are sent to the legal department to draft charges. "Surprise! I haven't seen this purpose since I was in the office. Lian and others are guilty today, but they were wise the day before yesterday. That is, if the theft is true, it will be handed over to the Ministry of Punishment, and I still propose to reduce it. Suffering day after day and dying in a moment. "
Wei used the privilege of being a bachelor of cabinet to write a "private letter" directly to the emperor. If the emperor sees this letter, he will usually type it accurately. As long as there is a written reply, Yang Lian will be transferred from prison to the punishments department, and then he will be fine, so this is the most likely way to save Yang Lian.
It's a pity that this letter reached Wei Zhongxian's desk first, so as to infer that the Apocalypse had indeed become an idiot at that time, and even his own private letters to communicate with ministers were handed over to Wei Zhongxian, which means that all the power of the imperial court was transferred to the hands of eunuchs.
Wei Zhongxian asked his new favorite Quan Feng for advice. What this person hates most is Xiong Tingbi and those who support Xiong Tingbi. He not only denied Wei's opinion, but also thought Wei's position was unstable and very dangerous. He suggested that Wei Zhongxian, on the one hand, strengthen the attack on Lindong Party, and on the other hand, severely punish the "fence-sitters" inside.
Wei Zhongxian really felt the same way, so he asked Quanfeng to draft a decree on his behalf, reprimanding Wei for eating an inside and picking an outside, regardless of the enemy and the enemy, which was very popular. Knowing Wei Zhongxian's ruthlessness, Wei Zhengguang was scared to death to see this "imperial edict" and took the initiative to go to Wei Zhongxian for review. However, no matter how well he speaks, it is difficult to dispel the antipathy of the other party. In desperation, he had to take out Cui's letter and reluctantly cleared himself of the suspicion of "saving Yang's mastermind" before he resigned and went home.
Fortunately, with this rescue file, he left the leadership core of Yan Party ahead of schedule. Three years later, Wei got a lighter treatment from Chong Zhen.
Cui, the official department minister, was immediately dismissed without any suspense, and the last chance of survival was ruined.
Wei resigned and became a college student. With political hooligans like him as accomplices, Wei Zhongxian's attack on Lindong party member is even more handy. However, due to excessive arrogance and great public anger, he was impeached and dismissed by his own brother Cui Chengxiu.