Jiajing's posture seems to be favoring Yangming's line and suppressing Xia Yan's party, but in fact, the reason why he didn't organize a court meeting was just because he didn't want this struggle to die down.

He knew that no one in the Yangming family was qualified to participate in the court meeting, and once the court meeting was organized, it would be equivalent to letting Xia Yan's party win easily, and he would naturally not do this kind of stupid thing.

His purpose is to let the two sides fight, as for what methods the two sides use, who can win in the end, then it depends on their ability, anyway, in his opinion, Liu Boyue, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, and Zhang Shiche, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, are basically the same, and whoever serves as the secretary of the Nanjing household department can be.

In short, he will only create a relatively fair environment, let the two sides fight happily, and if he wants him to help which side win easily, it is impossible, Xia Yan don't think about it, Nie Bao and Yang Cong don't think about it.

So, why did Yang Cong fight with Xia Yan, he is a cabinet scholar, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, a high and powerful position, he is a Hanlin Academy, even if he adds Nie Bao and Mu Konghui, he can't beat it, not to mention that there are also high-ranking officials such as Tu Qiao, the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Tu Qiao, who can pull them out casually, why should he compete with others for the fat shortage of Nanjing Hubu Shangshu?

Of course Yang Cong has something to rely on, and he relies on Lu Bing!

Although Lu Bing has no power at this time, he has an innate advantage, that is, he can run to Jiajing at any time to sue him, and Jiajing will not suspect him.

After all, the two of them are milk brothers who have played since childhood, as long as Lu Bing can come up with some crimes, Liu Boyue will not be able to be the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, I am afraid that the position of the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry will not be able to be kept!

This is where Yang Cong's confidence in defeating Xia Yan lies, he believes that in the officialdom at this time, few people have clean buttocks, Xia Yan may not be greedy or corrupt, but his subordinates are not easy to say, after all, these people are following Yan Song, in history, Yan Song is so crazy and corrupt, and I haven't seen these people angry, it's strange how good they can be.

So, how to investigate the corruption of this official?

Generally, of course, the Imperial Procuratorate goes to investigate, and the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate is specialized in this, but the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate is also the most unreliable, because everyone knows that you are a specialized supervision official, and they don't know that they are hiding from you, that is, there is a brain disease.

Besides, at this time, the Imperial History of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is Tu Qiao, and he is with Xia Yan, and it is impossible for him to order to investigate Liu Boyue.

There is another way, that is, to send Jin Yiwei to secretly investigate, Jin Yiwei originally also had the duty of secretly supervising court officials, but this is not the time when Liu Jin and Qian Ning are in power, Jin Yiwei can't just go to check the court officials.

Although Jiajing has a good favor for Lu Bing, it seems that it is nothing for Lu Bing to check Liu Boyue without authorization, but the Jinyi guards below dare to investigate, without the emperor's will, he messed around, and he was going to kill his head.

Therefore, it seems unreliable to let Lu Bing take his subordinates Jinyiwei to investigate Liu Boyue, because at this time, Lu Bing has not yet had the power to lean towards the government and the opposition, and he does not have much authority in Jinyiwei, so it is basically impossible for Jinyiwei to risk angering Jiajing to investigate Liu Boyue.

So, what to do?

This is actually not difficult, because Yang Cong has someone, he knows the local snake Li Twelve in the capital!

In these years, it is not very reliable to let the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jinyi Guard investigate the corrupt officials, because the people who can mix up an official and a half-position are not fools, and they cannot be so rampant that they are corrupt in front of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jinyi Guard, even if the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Jinyi Guard go to investigate, people will try their best to cover it up.

Therefore, let the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei investigate corruption, it is basically difficult to find out anything, of course, if it is a Jinyiwei secret agent, it is different to investigate in civilian clothes, however, Jiajing seems to be a little afraid of Zhengde Chaodongchang and Jinyiwei's one-handed covering, at this time, the plainclothes spies of Dongchang and Jinyiwei have been eliminated, and there is basically no such function.

Yang Cong didn't think about letting Lu Bing take this risk, although Jiajing favored Lu Bing, it was not without limits, if Lu Bing disobeyed his will and secretly cultivated plainclothes spies to investigate the court officials, who knows if he would be mad.

Li Twelve went to check it was different, this guy's friends or subordinates were all over the major yamen in the capital, and even in the people, he had a great network, and it should not be difficult to find out the braids of a left servant of the Ministry of Works.

At about midnight that night, Yang Cong sat alone in the lobby of the new mansion, waiting for Li Twelve's arrival.

It didn't take long for Li Twelve to walk in quickly, and respectfully bowed his hand and said, "Lord Yang, I don't know what to do when you summon the little one to come?" ”

Yang Cong snorted, then smiled and raised his hand and said, "Twelve, don't be so polite, sit, sit, there are no outsiders here anyway, so we don't have to care about those vulgar etiquette." ”

This one.

Li Twelve was stunned for a moment, but still according to Yang Cong's meaning, he carefully sat in the guest seat.

He knew that this Lord Yang was not polite, because they had dealt with a lot, and this Lord Yang was usually indeed approachable and had no arrogance.

Yang Cong waited for him to sit down, and then asked with a smile: "Twelve, you should be familiar with all the major yamen in the capital, right?" ”

What does this mean?

Li Twelve nodded, and said cautiously: "I don't dare to say that I am too familiar, but the officials in the major yamen in the capital still know some of them." ”

Sure enough, Yang Cong immediately said directly: "Liu Boyue, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, Lord Liu, have you heard of it?" ”

He had naturally heard of such a big official as Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Works, and Li Twelve nodded honestly: "I've heard a little." ”

Yang Cong then asked, "Is he greedy?" ”

This one!

When Li Twelve heard this, he was stunned again, he was not a court official, and he would not know about the affairs of the court if he didn't inquire.

He usually doesn't deliberately inquire about the affairs of the early court, because it is easy to arouse the disgust of the court officials, anyway, as long as it is a major event in the court, he will always know about it slowly, and there is no need to deliberately inquire to be suspicious.

At this time, he didn't know that Yang Cong had already been on the bar with Xia Yan, let alone that the two sides were competing for the position of the head of the household department in Nanjing.

Liu Boyue, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, is greedy or not, if someone else asks him, he will definitely say that he doesn't know, but Yang Cong asks him differently, this Lord Yang is very generous, as long as he can help him, silver is absolutely indispensable.

He also thought that Yang Cong had something to ask Liu Boyue for help, otherwise he asked people if they were greedy or not, if they didn't want to stuff money into other people's affairs, you would be greedy or not.

He said cautiously: "This Lord Liu, the little one has heard of it, when Lord Xia supervised the construction of the altar in the suburbs of Beijing, it was this Lord Liu who was specifically responsible, at that time, Lord Liu was only in the Ministry of Industry to clean up the officials, but he made a lot of oil and water at that time. ”

Okay, this guy is really a corrupt official!