In addition to giving Zhang Juzheng a word, Longqing sent Chen Ju, the eunuch of Bingbi, who was ranked last in the ranking of the celebrant eunuch, to the Gao University Scholar's Mansion, and under the recommendation of Gao Shishi, he had a sincere conversation with Gao Gong.

The next day, another decree was issued to the high school scholars' office: "Qing Auxiliary Zhengbingquan, with Pu Zhongliang and upright, do not avoid suspicion and resentment, resulting in rumors, I have been informed." Why do you want to retreat again? It is advisable to follow the previous order, that is, to give out the auxiliary reason, to the vice of the heart, and be cautious and do not resign. ”

Gao Gong did not insist this time, but went out of the house to return to the cabinet to see things.

However, this time the matter was destined to not be ended so easily, because on the same day that Gao Gong went out of the house to observe the matter, Gao Gong's protégés couldn't sit still.

The clerk gave Tu Menggui an impeachment in the matter: "Liu Fenyong, the secretary of Shangbao, thinks that he is an old minister, and he is vainly overpromoting, which is a false suggestion to disturb and shake the country." It is advisable to give it urgently, and still carry out the punishment, thinking that the people and ministers are pretending to be public and private. ”

Cheng Wen Shu said in the middle of the engineering department: "The auxiliary ministers are loyal to the country, and they will always rely on it, and they can't do it for a day." Fenyong and Cao Daye conspired with each other, trapped Yuan Fu, and had the crime of being obedient, and they could not be punished. It is advisable to show that you are far away, or to reprimand. ”

The meaning of the two is roughly the same, thinking that Liu Fenyong and Cao Dayu are so deprecating, which is very inappropriate, and they should be directly deposed, and even continue to be held accountable.

Zhang Juzheng, who was writing the ticket that day, did not make any reply, and directly sent it to the ministry.

Gao Gong saw it in the ministry and replied: "Fenyong tastes the submersible mansion, and the effect is Lelao." Da Yu is young and sharp, and he is also an official, and he is not deeply guilty. Please be brave and reinstated. ”

This statement is interesting: Liu Fenyong is an old minister of Yudi and has been meritorious in the past; Cao Dayu is young and vigorous, and he is an official, so don't delve into it, and ask the emperor to exempt them from punishment.

Didn't the emperor want me and Zhang Juzheng to give up confrontation, work together, and serve the country together? Okay, not only will I not pursue these two people, but I will also ask the emperor to reinstate them.

Trespassing, the emperor did not allow it, and issued an edict again: "This Cao Peng plotted to frame him, and the crime is hateful, and it should be punished as the law." To play, let me be lenient. Strive to be mediocre as before, Da Yu was demoted by one level and transferred to another position. ”

As a result, Liu Fenyong was still transferred to Huguang Xingguo Zhizhou, while Cao Dayu suffered a loss, and then demoted to the county magistrate of Wugong County, Qianzhou, which was the eighth grade, and almost demoted out of the official sequence.

Zhang Juzheng did not react to this.

After April, the emperor's illness did not improve, nor did it worsen, and all the ministers thought that although the emperor's body was weak, there might be no major problems, as long as he recuperated with peace of mind, there would always be a time to improve.

But the emperor himself seems to be unwilling to have a good rest, on this day without the invitation of the ministers, he ordered the Taichang Temple Qing to manage the country and supervise the wine Ding Shimei, with the former official and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, as the official of the East Palace. He also ordered the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials and the associate of the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhang Siwei was in charge of the affairs of the Zhan Mansion. At the same time, he was promoted to a bachelor in charge of Zhan Shi and a bachelor in Hanlin Academy, and Ma Ziqiang was in charge of Zhan Shi, and he was still a bachelor, an assistant to the government, and a fellow teacher of Xi Shu Jishi.

Zhang Siwei took a period of time off from illness last time, and he just returned to Beijing, and as soon as he returned to Beijing, he found that he was inexplicably slandered and sent "eight hundred gold" to Gao Gong, which was angry and funny - not to mention that Gao Ge Lao has always been interested in me, I don't need to do these stupid things at all, even if I really want to bribe, what kind of net worth am I, what kind of identity Gao Ge always has, and I want to send money that can be beaten by eight hundred gold?

He had just returned to the ministry as a duty, and he was promoted to an official by the emperor, but this also reminded him of his false accusations, so he used Cao Dayu to be sparse and dirty, and defended himself in the last chapter, and was dismissed for begging.

The emperor replied that the matter had been settled, so you should not have any ideological baggage, and hurry up to follow the order.

Zhang Siwei's problem is a small problem, and he just does it according to the usual practice, since the emperor said so, then don't continue to be reserved, so he went back to the ministry and didn't mention it.

On the same day, the emperor also promoted the left of the official department to give Song Zhihan to the criminal department; Engineering left to do things, Cheng Wen is for engineering, and all are given to things; Wu Wenjia is the left of the military department; The right of the engineering department is given to the middle of the matter, and Zong Hongxian is the left of the criminal department; Chen Sanmo is the right of the criminal department to the matter; Tu Menggui is the right of the household department to the middle of the matter; Zhou Liangchen is the right of the military department to the middle of the matter.

Since most of them were Gao Gong's protégés, the outside world believed that this was an expression made by the emperor to further appease Gao Gong.

Regarding this matter, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng did not directly express it, but only two days later, Gao Gong went to the cabinet as the secretary of the ministry, and asked to adjust the deputy envoy Cai Guoxi of Susong's military preparation to Huguang in Shanxi to supervise Xuezheng. Then he voted to approve it as the first assistant of the cabinet and submitted it to the emperor.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and felt that he had basically succeeded in reconciling the contradiction between Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

The reason why Long Qing thinks so is because he has always believed that the starting point of the contradiction between Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng should be from the handling of the case of Xu Jie's Songjiang retreat. And this Deputy Envoy Cai Guoxi Cai was sent to Su Song to deal with Xu Jie's "special case" after Hai Rui was transferred from the post of governor of Yingtian.

This Deputy Envoy Cai was insulted by the Xu family when he was the prefect of Suzhou in his early years, so although he was not as brutal as Hai Rui after he arrived, he was very attentive to a thorough investigation of the Xu family, even if Gao Gong later wrote to persuade him not to go too far, he was not very willing to listen.

But Cai Guoxi has excellent personal ethics, and he doesn't like to be hard like Hai Rui, he slowly collects evidence of the Xu family's crimes, and he doesn't take action until the evidence is conclusive, so although the outside world is dissatisfied with his continued suppression of a Zhishi veteran, he can't find any good reason. In this way, Cai Guoxi has been working in Su Song's military preparation until now, and the Xu family has also been hit by this, including Xu Jie's sons Xu Fan and Xu Kun, who have been found out, and even sent to the army.

Longqing is a kind-hearted person, although he knows in his heart Gao Gong's intention to suppress the Xu Party, and even he himself intends to suppress the Xu Party who "just talks but doesn't practice", but getting Xu Jie to this extent is not Longqing's original intention after all. It's just that things have come to this point, and it's not good for him to take the initiative to exonerate Xu Jie.

Long Qing felt that Xu Jie was Zhang Juzheng's mentor, and the relationship between Gao Gong and Xu Jie was made like this, Zhang Juzheng must not be a good person in the middle, and most of the contradictions between him and Gao Gong arose from here.

Therefore, Gao Gong's transfer of Cai Guoxi made Longqing very happy, thinking that Mr. Gao was still concerned about what he explained to him no matter what, and this move must be to ease the contradiction with Zhang Juzheng.

It seems that his many practices have finally not been in vain, and now it depends on Mr. Zhang's side.

Is there any move on Mr. Zhang's side? No, he kept silent, no matter what the emperor and Gao Gong did, he just accepted it silently, neither obediently pandering, nor taking the initiative to confront.

Long Qing felt that this might also be the default attitude, after all, Mr. Zhang usually didn't talk much.

The situation in the imperial court finally eased under the strong mediation of the emperor, and the smell of gunpowder seemed to have gradually dissipated.

But it's not rain, it's just the unusual calm before the storm.

Because of May Yiyou, Longqing suddenly became seriously ill, this time it was different from usual, the emperor's whole body was swollen, and he couldn't even get out of bed.

On this day, the Qianqing Palace was full of kneeling doctors, and the Tai Hospital was kneeling on the ground, asking the emperor to summon the auxiliary ministers and the prince with trembling words.

Long Qing lay with his head tilted, as if he had heard it, but he didn't seem to hear it.

He knew that his day was near.

"Biography...... Cabinet Ministers and ...... The concubine, the crown prince and others came. ”