Summer has gone to autumn, and the time has quietly come to October of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing.

The Ming Dynasty was relatively calm during this time, and in the eyes of outsiders: Wu Shan and Xu Jie got along very well, the former led the other two ministers to concentrate on revising the "Chengtian Dazhi" for the emperor, and the latter conscientiously dealt with the recitals of the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

As for another important figure, Lin Haoran, the head of the reform faction, this leading figure of the reform faction has also stopped these days, and he has been handling large and small affairs in the household yamen in peace.

However, most of the officials in the whirlpool of this court are still relatively alert, and behind this calm court, both sides are probably silently brewing a bigger storm.

In the political struggle of the Jiajing Dynasty, it was rare to stage a scene of fierce bloody struggle or a red-faced and thick-necked confrontation, but more of a ruthless move that killed with one blow.

From the first assistant Xia Yan, who was pushed to the guillotine in the past, to Li Mo, the former secretary of the Ministry who died in prison, to Yan Song, who is now being cut by his family, the situation is all the same.

The current calm in the court is not that the forces of all parties are really peaceful, but that all parties are silently preparing for the next move.

In this period of calm in the court, Yan Shifan's affairs continued to ferment.

The new Jiangxi Governor arrived at Yuanzhou Mansion in Jiangxi Province according to Cheng Shoujie, and presided over the raid of the Yan family's holy order, and obtained a total of more than 32,960 taels of gold, more than 2,027,990 taels of silver, as well as gold and silver jewelry.

If these figures are true, two million taels of silver is undoubtedly an astonishing wealth, after all, the annual salt tax of Huaiyan in the imperial court is also this amount, but it seems to be a bit different from "the imperial court is not as rich as me".

However, it doesn't matter whether the Yan family is rich or not, for ordinary people, two million taels is already an astronomical amount, and Yan Shifan and Yan Song should be executed by Ling Chi.

In addition, Nanzhili Patrol according to the imperial history Wang Ruzheng did not violate Luo Longwen's family wealth, and copied a total of more than 142,200 taels of silver from Luo Wen's family.

Things have been calm so far, but when he was copying Luo Longwen's house, a major event happened: Wang Ruzheng found a letter written by Hu Zongxian, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, to Yan Shifan, which vaguely mentioned that Hu Zongxian asked Yan Shifan to help cover up the embezzlement of military salaries, and also mentioned the content of self-drafted holy decrees.

This thirty-two-year-old Jinshi of Jiajing followed his teacher Xu Jie, and had a patriotic heart to eliminate traitors for the country. Now after being released by grace, he does not think about making up for his mistakes, and the more rampant he recruits scoundrels, tyrannical in the township, and his crimes are not reduced to those of Shifan and Longwen. The second offense has been clearly defined, and Zongxian alone has been spared, and I am afraid that he will not be able to convince the world.

In this impeachment note, it not only pointed out that Hu Zongxian had an affair with Wang Zhi through Luo Wenlong, but also shook out Hu Zongxian's request for Yan Shifan to cover for him, and even accused Hu Zongxian of "recruiting scoundrels and tyrannizing the township" during his stay in the township.

In the eyes of Ruzheng, the king of the Southern Zhili Imperial History, Hu Zongxian was already "a crime that is not reduced to Shifan and Longwen", but he asked the court to behead Hu Zongxian in Xishi.

This impeachment of Hu Zongxian was sent to the cabinet, and Xu Jie was also as good as a stream, and immediately ordered Hu Zongxian to be escorted to Beijing to await trial.

Hu Zongxian, a person from the Huizhou Mansion in the south of Zhili, a Jinshi in Jiajing for 17 years, was first awarded the county of Yiduzhi, and then supervised the imperial history of Huguang Road, and served as the governor of Zhejiang in the 33rd year of Jiajing.

It was during his reign in the southeast that the troubles that had been plaguing the southeast of the Ming Dynasty were effectively resolved, and he also quelled the miners' turmoil in Jiangxi and made outstanding contributions to the stability of the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of military merits alone, no one in the entire court can match it.

When Hu Zongxian was about to start preparing to exterminate the Japanese in Fujian with all his might, he was convicted because of the fall of Yan Song, which also caused the Japanese to take the opportunity to slaughter the city of Xinghua in Fujian.

In the face of the impeachment of the Xu Party, the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs made a big fuss about Lu Fengyi's 30,000 taels of silver whose whereabouts were unknown, so that the biggest contributor to the Japanese once stood on the edge of the cliff.

After all, Jiajing was an emperor with clear rewards and punishments, and he was deeply aware of Hu Zongxian's outstanding contribution in quelling the troubles, which was to open up to Hu Zongxian and order him to return to his hometown to live idle.

It's just that after three years, Hu Zongxian still hasn't escaped the scourge of Xu Yan's party struggle, just like Yan Shifan, who was captured in Beijing at the beginning of this year, and now he is facing an unwarranted disaster again.

Autumn in the capital is getting stronger, and the tall locust trees in the city are dyed yellow, and the yellow leaves fall with the wind, falling on the roofs, courtyards and streets.

The household signing room, here seems quiet and peaceful.

Lin Haoran, who was wearing a second-grade official uniform, sat at the table, and the tea cup next to him still had cold tea left. After years of growing a beard, his beard has taken shape, and the beard grows regularly on the upper jaw and chin.

His skin is very white, his beard is also very beautiful, although he gives people the image of a beautiful man, but the official authority on his body is flourishing. In the process of getting along with people, few people are no longer entangled in their youth or age.

It has been half a year since he served as the secretary of the household department, and after the personnel combing and reasonable division of labor, he has been able to deal with the affairs of the household department with ease, and has become a very good household secretary.

Lin Haoran is an ambitious person, but he is also a person who can calm down. Since the time has not yet come, he will not be in a hurry, but will seriously take care of the household yamen.

Yin Xugang of Shuntianfu Prefecture said above in the household department: Wanping County Guangyuan Gate originally set up 40 gatekeepers, now the gate has been abandoned for a long time and is useless, and now the yamen in Beijing is full of grain, so please abolish it. In addition, there are more than 190 horsemen in Xianghe County, who are dedicated to carrying money and grain, and recently the forage and grass are paid by the merchants, and it is advisable to check the number of servants and idle, and so on.

Lin Haoran didn't tell Shuntian Mansion Yin to do anything, but seeing that he was able to take the initiative to do this, this Mansion Yin was undoubtedly a good official with a patriotic heart.

Xu Gang's behavior actually represents the concept of officials in this era, and the "open source" of the imperial court's finances is usually given to the people, so "cutting provinces" is the most common thing that many officials do, and they prefer to focus on "throttling".

Lin Haoran naturally "smiled" in the face of this kindness, but he knew that if he wanted to change this decadent dynasty, he could not rely on blindly "throttling", but tried to build a healthy finance, create more social wealth and a reasonable distribution mechanism.

After dealing with Xu Na's invitation, he pulled the bell next to him and instructed Lin Fu who came in: "You ask people to call Yang Junmin, the director of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Division!" ”