Chapter 20: The Arrangement of Heaven
On the second day, when the court was in front of the palace, no one felt noisy, and no one would talk to each other, but Cao Jixiang and Xu Youzhen's identities were the most expensive, and they were the upstarts who were born from the door, so naturally they couldn't talk to each other, and the two talked unscrupulously.
Cao Jixiang said: "I heard that Lord Xu is very concerned about the appointment of the Jiangzhou prefect, it is better to sell it to our family a face, I have a cousin named Gao Jin, who is a person who can be appointed by five cars, I want him to be the prefect of Jiangzhou, I don't know what Lord Xu wants." ”
Xu Youzhen squinted at Cao Jixiang and said: "This matter should be asked to the emperor, ask the official what he has done, even if he doesn't ask the emperor, Gonggong Cao should also ask the officials and adults, and the court is not my Xu alone." ”
"That's not right, we are all heroes of the door, discussing the promotion of one or two officials for the imperial court, it is not something that we can solve through private discussion, how can such miscellaneous matters bother the emperor, the ministry is not a matter of your words, of course, I have also informed the secretary of the department, as long as Lord Xu is released, he will not be in a dilemma, I know that you attach great importance to the position of the prefect of Jiangzhou, and want to arrange it for your protégé, so is it good, I will pay 50,000 taels of silver, and I should invite you to tea, In the future, if you have other positions, it will not be too late to give them to Lord Xu's protégé, so you have the right to sell me a favor. Cao Jixiang said,
Xu Youzhen listened to Cao Jixiang's words and said angrily: "What a mess, have you become a tool for you to pay money as an official of the imperial court, it's really not like words." ”
Xu Youzhen's voice was very loud, and the hundred officials secretly looked sideways, Cao Jixiang's face was a little unbearable, and his face was red and white for a while, and he snorted coldly for a long time and flicked his sleeves to the side and ignored Xu Youzhen,
After about a cup of tea, Zhu Qizhen went to the palace, and the procedure went down, Zhu Qizhen first gave instructions on some excerpts on the spot, and made suggestions on how to deal with them, of course, there were also ministers who came out to dissuade them, of course, they each belonged to different camps, and their natural starting points were also different.
Zhu Qizhen listened to the minister's suggestion, and made two kinds of instructions to insist on his own opinion and to be decided, which can be regarded as giving the ministers some face, and the scene was still relatively happy, and the matter in front of the palace soon came to Yang Xuan's walking question, Zhu Qizhen looked at it with his eyebrows, and then said: "It's really a good courtier of mine, dare to speak out and not be afraid of power, I want to reward Yang Aiqing, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate." Zhu Qizhen suddenly put down his praising expression and shouted angrily: "Where is Cao Jixiang,." ”
"The minister is here." Cao Jixiang hurriedly stepped forward and replied, Zhu Qizhen threw the fold on the ground in front of Cao Jixiang, and said, "You pick it up and take a look for yourself." ”
Seeing Zhu Qizhen's angry face, Cao Jixiang hurriedly picked up the fold and read it, on which he had several major crimes: corruption and bribery, deception, arbitrariness, exclusion of dissidents, appointment of pro-party,
Cao Jixiang hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to explain, his expression was flustered but he looked wronged, his eyes were full of grief and indignation, and his tone was impassioned, making people can't help but believe that he was framed, Cao Jixiang begged for mercy while looking at the triumphant Yang Xuan viciously, and then swept to the side of the triumphant Xu Youzhen, and scolded in his heart: Since you want to go to war, don't blame me for ignoring the feelings of seizing the door that day,
Things have passed like this, and there have been people participating in Cao Jixiang for a few days, Zhu Qizhen Xuanren went to strictly investigate, but it was the people from the Inner Service Bureau and Dongchang, these people were Cao Jixiang's subordinates, indicating that the emperor still intended to let Cao Jixiang go, but otherwise they would not let their own people check their own people, Cao Jixiang was sick at home, and he would never go to court again and wander in the palace,
Xu Youzhen invited everyone to come to the house, toast to celebrate, Cao Jixiang has not dared to go to the court, indicating that the emperor has begun to severely punish Cao Jixiang, Cao Jixiang received the news and did not dare to come, the emperor just let him go, to spread falsehood, spread too much, even Xu Youzhen was carried away by joy, originally had little mind, believed it was true,
At Li Xian's suggestion, everyone began to write Shi Heng's recital again with the strength of wine, Cao Jixiang stepped down Shi Heng will be far away, seeing the arrogant figure of everyone lifting the pen and writing hard, Li Xian showed a satisfied smile, and one of them was unloaded first, and then lied that he was not strong enough to be helped down by the servant,
After Li Xian and the servant in Xu Youzhen's mansion walked two steps, Li Xian said to the servant: "Tell heaven for me, everything is ready, please rest assured." There was still a hint of drunkenness in this look, and his eyes were full of power, and the manservant nodded and said, "I'll help you go to rest first, and then I'll report to heaven immediately." "Heaven is the head of the thirteen secrets, and only heaven is great,
Beginning the next day, the imperial historian led by Xu Youzhen really gave up criticizing Cao Jixiang, who had "not dared" to show up, and then began to sue Shi Heng, citing scriptures and providing a large number of evidence and testimony that were really relied on. ”
It turns out that Xu Youzhen thought too much about Cao Jixiang and Shi Heng, he didn't know that Cao Jixiang was incarnated by Gao Huai, and Gao Huai was born in a famous Wang family, and when Zhongzheng was in power for the first time, he was in the officialdom of the capital for a long time, and the officialdom in his stomach didn't know how much deeper than Xu Youzhen.
Shi Heng is not just a martial artist, after Zhu Qizhen was captured and Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, and then Zhu Qiyu stepped down and Zhu Qizhen was reinstated, Shi Heng of these three dynasties was not brushed down, and the official position is getting bigger and bigger, in addition to good luck, brains and strategies are never bad,
Cao Jixiang and Shi Heng got together, and Shi Heng said with some indignation: "Xu Youzhen, this villain, is really fucking shameful, and he turned his face with us if he didn't monopolize the power, if he let these scholars be arrogant, it would be okay, Lao Tzu led the troops to kill them." ”
Cao Jixiang looked at Shi Heng coldly, Shi Heng pretended to be reckless, and was angry for a long time Seeing that Cao Jixiang did not agree, he coughed lightly and asked in a low voice: "What does Lu Yunzhi's side say about the matter between us." Cao Jixiang nodded and said: "Next time, when the two of us go straight to the topic, the brainless martial artist who pretends to be in front of me is too boring, neither of us knows anyone, your sentence is to the point, fortunately, Lu Yunzhi didn't say anything." ”
"Lu Yunzhi really doesn't care about the government, and he has begun to cultivate himself." Shi Heng asked with a slight hesitation,