Yang Cong or Yangming's side of the power in the capital is really a little far behind Xia Yan's party.

Behind Xia Yan is the leader of the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, the six squires, the chief officials of the five temples, and a lot of others, and Nie Yuan does not even have a six-department squire level figure behind him, and the strength of the two sides is simply incomparable.

Isn't this a lost matter, why did Yang Cong still instigate Yang Ming to make a move?

Nie Bao should also know about this situation, why did he stand up stupidly?

Quite simply, they are all gambling, betting according to the temperament of Emperor Jiajing.

Jiajing likes to watch the infighting among his ministers, which is not a secret in the court.

At the beginning of his succession, he provoked a dispute over the Great Rites Debate, "watching" Zhang Xuan, Huo Tao, Fang Xianfu and others defeated Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet at that time, and Yang Yiqing, a cabinet scholar.

At this time, he was conniving at Xia Yan and Yan Song's party fighting cabinet chief Zhang Xuan and his family, in history, he also connived at Yan Song to fight Xia Yan and connived at Xu Jiedou Yan Song, in short, the entire Jiajing dynasty never stopped, and Jiajing not only did not stop it, but also contributed to the trouble behind the scenes.

Yang Cong and Nie Bao are betting on this, doesn't Jiajing like to watch the ministers fight, then, he definitely wants to see Yang Ming and Xia Yan fight.

As for the comparison of strength or something, this is not the point.

At the beginning, Zhang Xuan was just a political scholar, and he didn't even have a position, and he didn't even fight for Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yang Yiqing, a cabinet scholar, to step down.

At the beginning, Xia Yan was only a seven-grade person, and it wasn't that Fang Xianfu and Huo Tao, the cabinet scholars, stepped down, and at this time, Zhang Xuan, the first assistant of the cabinet, was so hard that he couldn't do it.

Therefore, strength is not the point, the point is that Jiajingxi doesn't want them to fight.

As long as Jiajing wants them to fight, then the weaker side has a better chance of winning.

The examples of Zhang Xuan and Xia Yan are proof that Jiajing likes to "hoe the strong and help the weak"!

Therefore, when Nie Bao wanted to make a big splash and let the crown prince and the prince and the princess of the prince and the princess of the horse, the marquis of Jingshan Cui Yuan and the marquis of Wuding Guo Xun, and even the family of Wei Guogong stand up to support, Yang Cong persuaded him.

He just wants to make his side appear weak, so that Jiajing will be biased towards their side.

So, what will Jiajing think and what will he do?

As soon as Jiajing saw this posture, he understood that this was a challenge to Xia Yan's party by Yangming.

Yangming's power in the capital at this time is really a bit shabby, except for Nie Bao, the left attendant of the military department, and Zhang Shiche, the right attendant of the military department, the highest position left is Mu Konghui, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, who is too far from Xia Yan's party.

The ministers are fighting among themselves, okay!

Whether it is Xia Yan's party fighting Zhang Xuan's party, or Yangming's fighting Xia Yan's party, it is a good thing for him, as long as the ministers fight, they will not think about fighting with him, the emperor, and once the ministers fight, they will definitely ask him for help as the emperor, so that his authority will be even greater.

What should I do if the strength of this Yang Ming pulse is too poor?

It's okay, I'll give you a chance!

He likes to "hoe the strong and help the weak", but what he thinks in his heart is not "hoeing the strong and helping the weak", but playing the art of balance.

This balancing technique can be said to have always been a treasure book of governance pursued by the Zhu Ming royal family.

In the Hongwu Dynasty and the Yongle Dynasty, the military generals and nobles were too powerful, so they trained civil officials to fight.

In the Hongxi Dynasty and the Xuande Dynasty, the power of civil officials was flourishing, and they supported the military generals and nobles against the civilian officials.

In the orthodox years of Yingzong in the Ming Dynasty, Yingzong's cronies and eunuch Wang Zhen drove the expedition in person, resulting in the fiasco of Tumubao, and the military generals and nobles were killed and wounded.

Why?

It's very simple, in order to play the art of balance!

If the military generals and nobles are not good, then train eunuchs to deal with civil officials!

This balancing technique is played, there are more great eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty than any dynasty in history, and in the future, I don't know whether this world is the Zhu Ming royal family or the eunuchs!

However, this Jiajing doesn't like to use eunuchs against civil officials, he likes to use civil officials to deal with civil officials.

He can be said to have played this balancing technique perfectly, and at the beginning, his vision was quite good.

Like the "fighting generals" Zhang Xuan and Xia Yan selected by him, although they are both aggressive, they are not the kind of corrupt officials who fight for power and profit for their own selfishness.

They are all relatively honest officials, and their abilities are also quite good, so the development of the entire Ming Dynasty in the early Jiajing period was quite good, and there were even signs of Jiajing Zhongxing.

It's a pity that later he was obsessed with the art of immortality and mistakenly believed Yan Song who was "well-written", so that the dynasty was corrupted, corruption was rampant, and Jiajing Zhongxing came to an abrupt end.

Of course, it is difficult to say whether the scene in history will be repeated at this time, because Yang Cong is already a high school champion, and he stood up and launched an attack on Xia Yan and Yan Song's party.

Jiajing looked at his teacher Mu Konghui, and then at Yang Cong, the new champion he had mentioned, hesitated for a moment, and then said aloud: "Well, Liu Aiqing and Zhang Aiqing are both quite good, I still need to think about it and retreat." ”

Yes!

When Xia Yan heard this, he couldn't help but be confused.

And at this moment, Yang Cong's face showed a smug smile, sure enough, this Jiajing just likes to watch the ministers fight.

In fact, Xia Yan also knew quite well that Jiajing liked to watch the infighting among the ministers, because he relied on this to get to the top in the first place.

However, once many people have power, they will gradually lose themselves, Xia Yan is also a little floating at this time, floating a little bit I don't know who he is, he still thinks that Jiajing can only rely on him at this time!

After the end of the early dynasty, he actually went to the imperial study and urged Jiajing to immediately organize a court meeting, convene important ministers of the court, and determine the candidates for the secretary of the household department in Nanjing.

The court meeting is a unique deliberative system in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the emperor ordered the important ministers of the court to discuss national affairs, and the participants were generally cabinet scholars, six books and five temple officials.

At the beginning, when Jiajing had just succeeded to the throne, Xia Yan relied on a letter to persuade Jiajing to listen to the minister's opinions on major national affairs and not to trust the eunuchs, so as to win Jiajing's appreciation.

However, this time is different from the past, Jiajing is no longer the little emperor who has not yet sat in the same position, and he Xia Yan is not the one who has no power.

At this time, Jiajing doesn't need the support of his Xia Yan to control the ministers, and he Xia Yan doesn't need more power, because at this time, he Xia Yan is about to fall into power!

Of course, Jiajing knew why Xia Yan suggested organizing a court meeting, because no one from the Yangming family had entered the cabinet at all, and there were no six Shangshu and five temple chiefs, and Zhang Xuan's family was obviously no longer good, so Xia Yan still had the final say in the court meeting.

Are you an idiot?

Isn't the court discussion your Xia Yan's world, it's a fart!

Jiajing simply put his face on the board, crossed his legs, closed his eyes, and cultivated.

Xia Yan looked at this posture and finally sobered up a little.

He knew that the emperor was already a little impatient, and if he was chirping, I was afraid it would backfire!