Yangming refers to the three famous ministers of Hongzhi, Zhengde, and Jiajing, and the Yangming school founded by the new Bo Wang Shouren, at this time Wang Shouren has passed away, leaving his disciples and heirs.

The most famous of the Yangming lineage are the seven sons of Yangmen: Wang Ji, Qian Dehong, Ji Yuanheng, Wang Gen, Nie Bao, He Tingren, Zou Shouyi, and Mu Konghui, Wang Dao, Huang Zhi, Huang Honggang, Wen Renquan and other Wang Shouren's disciples, and Xu Jie is a student of Nie Bao, one of the seven sons of Yangmen.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, or in the early and middle Jiajing periods, the phenomenon of forming parties and engaging in personal interests in the court was not as strong as the party struggle in the Wanli Dynasty, at least before Yan Song came to power and there were no friends in the court who played the banner.

Of course, the absence of the banner does not mean that there are no friends in the court, such as the Yangming lineage, the four wealthy maritime merchants, and the township parties in various places, although these groups have not made it clear to outsiders that we are a gang, but many times they unite to fight against differences, and their essence is no different from that of friends.

The reason why Zhao Yan felt lonely and helpless in his heart, and even faintly afraid, was because he was alone, did not take refuge in any friends, and in the face of the powerful maritime merchants in the southeast, he could be said to have no ability to resist.

Therefore, as soon as Xu Jie stretched out an olive branch, he took it without hesitation.

Xu Jie is actually a little suspected of bragging at this time, because the Yangming line does not have any power in the southeast, and if he really fights hard with the maritime giants, he is not an opponent at all.

And at this time, he is not a representative of the Yangming lineage, he is just a student of Nie Bao, one of the seven sons of Yangmen, and the representatives of the Yangming lineage at this time are Wang Ji, Qian Dehong and Wang Gen among the seven sons of Yangmen, and even Nie Bao is not ranked, let alone him.

However, the influence of Yangming Yimai in the court is still very great, so big that the maritime tycoon also has to have some scruples, even if he can't represent the Yangming Yimai, Longxi Chen does not dare to treat him as a lonely ghost with no background and bullying him at will, this is the confidence that he dares to compete with the maritime tycoon.

Of course, it is not enough to have confidence, he has a certain amount of power in Quanzhou for so long, which is the fundamental reason why he dares to compete with Longxi Chen, if it is in Fuzhou or even in Zhangzhou, he does not dare to compete with Longxi Chen.

Xu Jie had already used his means to win over Zhao Yan, and this real battle could be regarded as the prelude.

At this time, Chen Wenjie didn't know that his intentions had been detected by Yang Cong, and he always thought that Yang Cong was still in the dark.

When Xu Jie's visit to Zhao Yan, he was not idle, Xu Jie's sedan chair had just arrived at the courtyard where Zhao Yan was staying, and his carriage came to the courtyard where the examiner Song Yingkui was staying.

Song Yingkui is biased towards the Longxi Chen family, this point, you don't have to think about it, because he is higher than Zhao Yan's official rank this time, and it is impossible for the Longxi Chen family to send an official from the fifth grade or even the sixth grade to clean up Zhao Yan, so before Song Yingkui arrived in Quanzhou, his identity has been exposed, and the officials on duty near his courtyard are all sent by Xu Jie!

Chen Wenjie didn't know that he was already under Yang Cong's close surveillance, and he didn't know that Song Yingkui was already under Xu Jie's close surveillance, so he came to Song Yingkui mainly to discuss the specific plan to clean up Yang Cong and Zhao Yan, and by the way, take the exam questions for this government exam.

In other words, why is he from Zhangzhou Mansion taking the Quanzhou Mansion government examination questions, does he want to come to Quanzhou Mansion to participate in the government examination in violation of the rules?

Of course not, with his Longxi Chen's power in Zhangzhou, the government exam is a floating cloud for him, and he has already passed the government exam, and he came to get the exam questions not because he wants to participate in the government test of Quanzhou Mansion, but because the younger brother of one of his uncle's favorite concubines wants to participate in the government exam of Quanzhou Mansion.

This candidate named Wu Tang wants to talk nonsense and has a bit of a relationship with him, and the Wu family is also a squire family attached to the Chen family, so he brought others to ask for the exam questions for this government exam by the way.

Of course, this exam question was not given for nothing, the reason why Song Yingkui gave him the exam question was because this guy had been scolding them Longxi Chen, and he would not give this exam question to Wu Tang for nothing, because he had this Wu Tang in his plan.

To put it bluntly, this Wu Tang is a pawn for him to deal with Yang Cong and Zhao Yan.

After he took the exam questions, he personally went to Longchang Building in the city to give the exam questions to Wu Tang, and at the same time, he also explained them in detail, so that Wu Tang could pit Yang Cong like this in the next government examination.

He thought he was doing something unknowingly, but as everyone knows, as soon as he came out of the rented yard, he was discovered by Peng Fu, who was watching.

Isn't this guy Chen Wenjie, Peng Fu also recognizes him when he is burned to ashes!

Peng Fu knew that this news was quite important, so he sent two guards to follow Chen Wenjie's carriage, and he quickly ran back to Yang Cong to report the news.

Yang Cong was overjoyed when he received the news.

Chen Wenjie is here, it's great!

The imperial examination fraud case is a big case in this year, Chen Wenjie wants to use this to clean up Yang Cong, and even Zhao Yan, the prosecutor with the five products, has cleaned up the sentencing envoy Zhao Yan, Yang Cong and Xu Jie also want to use this to play a big game and teach Chen Wenjie and Longxi Chen a profound lesson.

Originally, Yang Cong thought that Chen Wenjie might not show up this time, and they would be able to clean up one or two officials who favored the Longxi Chen family at most, but he didn't expect that this Chen Wenjie would come to "command" in person, he was simply throwing himself into the net!

Such a good opportunity can't be missed, if the operation is good, it is very likely that once and for all, Chen Wenjie, the scourge, will be put in prison, and there will be no need to worry about him retaliating in the future.

Since this guy has been sent to the door, he naturally can't let him have a good time.

Yang Cong immediately asked Deng Cheng and Tang Ke to take turns keeping an eye on Chen Wenjie with four guards, and at the same time sent someone to inform Xu Jie, Chen Wenjie appeared.

Actually, there is no need for him to inform him, Xu Jie also knows that Chen Wenjie is here, because Chen Wenjie is visiting Song Yingkui.

This Song Yingkui is the target of Xu Jie's attention, because this guy was originally very close to the maritime giants, and this time he suddenly appeared in the ranks of the inspectors, and he happened to come to Quanzhou, if there are no ghosts among them, who believes it?

Sure enough, not long after the inspector arrived in Quanzhou, Chen Wenjie went to visit Song Yingkui.

Xu Jie received the news and also sent someone to inform Yang Cong.

On both sides, Chen Wenjie's plan has almost surfaced, no need to ask, the protagonist of the "cheating case" in this government test is undoubtedly this Song Yingkui.

Immediately afterwards, Deng Cheng stared at Chen Wenjie again and came to Longchang Building, and Wu Tang, the pawn arranged by Chen Wenjie, was also exposed.

When Chen Wenjie was secretly arranging everything, Yang Cong and Xu Jie also began to secretly arrange.

Of course, Chen Wenjie's "secret" is just what he thinks is "secret", in fact, everything he has done has long been seen by others, and Yang Cong and Xu Jie are really "in the dark".