Chapter 429
The two sides couldn't talk through the city wall, and there was a bloody feud before, and the situation collapsed suddenly. The shepherd drove the cattle and sheep all the way to the city wall of the Han people. After eating all the food on the way, he waited to exchange food with the Han people and bring them back to support the family. However, now the Ming court has let them go back empty-handed. Of course, the shepherds didn't take the opportunity to attack the city and break into the border to grab food.
The shepherds who came to Jiāoyi entered the border as thieves, and immediately sounded the alarm to Ma Shi. The court received several articles of impeachment, accusing the frontier generals of appeasement and support of Jian, and internal and external enemies. Guo Xun is a person who resolutely promotes the horse market. Now that there is an accident in the horse market, he has also been questioned a lot.
Guo Xun insisted that this was an accident. Most of the Mongolians obeyed the rules and were friendly to trade. The whole horse market plan could not be rejected because of a few mouse feces.
When the Chinese military attache quarreled again, Liaodong also had an accident. The Alta tribe lives by water and grass, and this year they migrated to Liaodong. They asked to continue to open the market in Liaodong, but last year they had a deal with Datong Prefecture, and the Liaodong guard refused to take this risk and let them go to Datong to negotiate.
The Altan tribe was provoked, and felt that the Han people had gone back on their word and deliberately made things difficult. They took the opportunity to enter the border three times and looted food and livestock.
After some people started, there were also Mongolians in Xuanfu and Datong's horse markets. They deliberately used sick and bad horses as shoddy ones. Some people even sold horses during the day and sneaked people into towns at night to take back their horses and swept the city. Food and money went away.
In fact, most Mongolians are very orderly, but they can't stand someone who is slick and evil and wants to get something for nothing. Peace is hard to come by, but destruction is too easy. The wind between North Korea and China about Ma Shi immediately turned sharply downward. Previously, some censors and military generals quarreled, but now, all the civil servants folded their bullets to impeach Ma Shi.
Among them, the one who scolded the most fiercely was the first assistant Xia Wenjin. Xia Wenjin and Guo Xun had been at odds for a long time. Now that they have this opportunity, Xia Wenjin joins Guo Xun crazily, and even said that Guo Xun should cooperate with the enemy and treason, and opened the horse market to help the Mongols.
Originally, it was just to discuss the horse market. After Xia Wenjin mentioned collaborating with the enemy and treason, the nature of the whole thing changed suddenly. Whoever wants to be labeled as collaborating with the enemy and treason, other officials are afraid that they will be considered to be Guo Xun's comrades, and they will impeach Guo Xun more severely. , and even the "Brave of Heroes" and "Water Margin" compiled by the Marquis of Wuding before have been taken out to write articles.
In the end, everyone was arguing in the direction of right and wrong, and the horse market changed from a commercial issue to a moral issue.
Once a matter rises to a moral level, it will completely change its taste. In the end, even the emperor can't stop it, so he can only put Guo Xun in prison to quell public anger.
This is a common way for civil officials to clear political enemies. Instead of focusing on the facts, they will deduct moral hats and crush you with loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety. It's not enough to just take down Guo Xun, Xia Wenjin continued to expand the situation, involving Guo Xun's party members one by one, saying that they funded the enemy and betrayed the country.
Fu Tingzhou was Guo Xun's nephew and son-in-law, and he once wrote an essay to support Ma Shi, but he was soon pulled into the water.
The emperor did not expect that the matter would be so turbulent. When there is trouble in the horse market, there must be one person responsible. Anyway, the person who made the mistake will not be the emperor, it can only be Guo Xun.
The emperor needed a scapegoat to quell the trouble. Guo Xun jumped the highest some time ago, which naturally became the target of public criticism. The emperor pretended to be angry and imprisoned Guo Xun.
People close to Guo Xun were also convicted one after another. Fu Tingzhou was relieved of his military power, dismissed from the post of commander in Gansu, and imprisoned for the crime of collaborating with the enemy. Marquis of Yongping, Marquis of Yongping and Marquis Wuding had a very close relationship and were suspected of collaborating with the enemy, so they were also taken away for investigation.
For a time, the Marquis of Wuding and the family were in a state of turmoil, and everyone was in danger.
Hong Wanqing only felt that the sky fell overnight, her uncle was taken away on the charge of collaborating with the enemy and treason, her husband was dismissed from his position, and her father and brother were suspected of collaborating with the enemy. All the people she knew were either too busy to take care of themselves or avoided her, and the faces of those who flattered her in the past have changed drastically.
Hong Wanqing swept away the dust from the noble lady of the Hou Mansion in an instant. She kept going out to run and beg for mercy. Usually, wherever she went, she would always call in front of her and embrace the moon, but now, she has to wait at the door of others. , standing under the sun for hours.
However, even if she trampled her self-esteem into the mud, no one was willing to help. In the end, it was a once-good lady who couldn't see it, and quietly sent a servant to remind her that it was not that they were cruel, but that they really couldn't help.
Now whoever speaks for Marquis Wuding is a traitor. They all have husbands and sons. No matter how good they are with Hong Wanqing, they can't drag a family of people to their deaths unless Marquis Wuding is proven not to be collaborating with the enemy.
At this time, there is only that one who has the ability to clear the name of Marquis Wuding.
The servant closed the door when he said this, leaving Hong Wanqing to think about the rest. Hong Wanqing walked down the steps in a hurry, and suddenly fell down with her head up.
The maids hurriedly shouted "Mrs. Hou" and hurriedly helped her up.
Hong Wanqing caught a cold, and when she returned, she developed a high fever. When she woke up, she saw the maids wiping tears around her, all of them looking like the end was coming. Hong Wanqing's throat was sore, and he asked in a hiss, "What time is it?"