Wei Bao smiled indifferently, nodded, and didn't say anything.

In fact, Wei Bao didn't plan to let Gu Bingqian be the master, and he also knew that Gu Bingqian couldn't be the master.

Wei Bao's trip is just to send a signal, telling everyone that his attitude has not changed, and he wants to resign, immediately, immediately.

Gu Bingqian was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what to say to Wei Bao, now Wei Bao is a sensitive person, although Wei Bao does not have a head-on conflict with Wei Zhongxian, but now Wei Zhongxian is targeting Wei Bao.

Offending the most powerful person is a crime, a criminal, and no one wants to say anything more to the criminal.

Wei Bao also ignored Gu Bingqian's indifference to him, and sat quietly on the chair by himself.

Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan, and Ding Shaoshi didn't know what to say to Wei Bao.

Among these people, Ding Shaoshi was slightly better, and he also said hello to Wei Bao.

Because Ding Shaoshi is the boss of the Donglin Party, Wei Bao was driven out of the court by Wei Zhongxian, and their Donglin Party will naturally sympathize.

But that's all, if Wei Bao is now Wei Zhongxian's frontal hard steel, the Donglin Party is likely to extend an olive branch, but if it is just defeated and left, it can even be said that it is a gray escape, and the Donglin Party will not look down on Wei Bao.

Wei Bao didn't care, after sitting for a few minutes, Wei Bao said goodbye and left, "Lord Shoufu, it's been a few days since I submitted my resignation, and I haven't been summoned by His Majesty in the past few days, I'm exhausted, it's not suitable to stay in Beijing, if I don't resign so quickly, I'll take sick leave for a while, go back to Liaoxi to recuperate, what do you have to let people go to Liaoxi to find me, but it's only two or three days away." ”

"I'm afraid that's not appropriate, right? Lord Wei, your identity is different, where can you say that you can leave, Daming has always been like this, promotion, resignation are not so fast, some people have not been approved for several years, it is normal. The efficiency of our Apocalypse Dynasty is considered to be high, and there are many state capitals that have not moved their positions for more than ten years or more than twenty years. Gu Bingqian was puzzled: "The lord can play in Beijing with peace of mind, right?" Is there any difference between being in Beijing and being in Liaoxi? ”

"It's different, I'm in a much better mood after I go home, and the air in the capital makes people feel depressed." Wei Bao pretended to be at a deep forty-five degree angle, looked up at the sky, looked like he had seen through the impermanence of the world, and looked disheartened about the court, "Anyway, I have already said hello to Lord Shoufu, and I really need to return to my hometown to recuperate, Your Majesty wants to punish me, and I admit it." ”

Gu Bingqian looked at Wei Bao in embarrassment, and then looked at Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and others to see what they said.

These are all eunuch bosses, and the relationship is still relatively harmonious, at least they have been together for so long, begging for food under the moody Wei Zhongxian, and it is not okay not to hold each other.

Feng Quan shook his head at Gu Bingqian, meaning that whatever Wei Bao does, don't promise him.

Gu Bingqian also thought so, so he said to Wei Bao: "Lord Wei, don't tell me about this, the old man said that he was the first assistant, how many things can he manage?" The old man's difficulties are very clear to the lord, so it's better for you to go directly to the nine thousand years old. ”

"Okay." Wei Bao is actually waiting for Gu Bingqian's words, otherwise Wei Bao is a foreign minister, unless he goes to Wei Zhongxian's private house to ask for a meeting, it is difficult to find a suitable reason to see Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian can't manage Wei Bao, at least you are a eunuch, why are you in charge of the three grades, and you are still the one who has been given the title?

The rules in officialdom are like this.

But if the first assistant Gu Bingqian asked Wei Bao to find Wei Zhongxian, the situation would be different.

Because this was what Gu Bingqian asked Wei Bao to find, not Wei Bao himself.

In fact, before Wei Bao came up with the policy of comprehensively reorganizing and managing the Daming Naval Division, opening treaty ports, and opening the sea ban, he thought about whether to negotiate with Wei Zhongxian.

The reason why Wei Bao did not go to Wei Zhongxian in advance, but directly brought this matter out in front of the emperor was fully considered.

On the one hand, Wei Bao knew that this matter would definitely not be so easy.

If you go to Wei Zhongxian first, the first thing you will face will be the problem of money, such a big thing, it is not that you will definitely be able to do it if you give money.

If money is given and it is not done, the money is given in vain.

If money is given and things are done, how to divide them, it will be very difficult.

If you earn two million taels a year, and Wei Zhongxian wants to take one million taels, it's not interesting, it takes so much effort, it's all about helping Wei Zhongxian, what else is there to do?

Wei Bao wanted to give a little subsidy to Daming's finances and a little subsidy to his own power camp.

If neither he nor the court can get subsidies, why should he fulfill Wei Zhongxian?

Therefore, it is definitely better to go directly to Wei Zhongxian than to go directly to the emperor.

If the luck is good, the emperor tends to do it, then there is nothing to do with him Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Bao didn't say that he used this incident to confront Wei Zhongxian head-on, anyway, it would be enough to start a new mountain in the future, and it would be very difficult for Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party to move him, which would form a three-legged situation of Wei party, eunuch party, and Donglin party.

This kind of vigorous situation will not take long, it will be almost the same in more than a year, and it will last until the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, hangs up, and Wei Bao believes that his strength will be enough to withstand the ups and downs of Chongzhen's coming to power in the future.

If Chongzhen gets along well with himself, he will continue to mix in the Chongzhen court and continue to accumulate strength.

If Chongzhen doesn't do anything and can't get used to himself, he just goes home.

Therefore, Wei Bao made a decision after a series of thoughts, and decided to entrust the matter to the emperor first.

If the emperor doesn't agree, it's too late to find Wei Zhongxian again, just like now.

Therefore, the most important thing is not Wei Zhongxian, but the emperor's meaning.

Of course, Wei Bao knew very well that if he threw such a big thing at once without communicating with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian would definitely be unhappy and would definitely deal with himself, just like now.

But Wei Bao is not afraid, because Wei Bao is no longer what it used to be, behind Wei Bao is the British government, Wei Zhongxian wants to directly arrest him, kill him, it is impossible, you have to ask your father-in-law's tens of thousands of Beijing battalions to agree, and you have to ask your Shanhaiguan soldiers and Shandong soldiers whether they agree.

In fact, Wei Bao had expected the current situation, and Wei Bao thought that there was no harm in engaging with Wei Zhongxian in this way, only benefits.

First of all, everyone will see that Wei Zhongxian is engaged in himself, this is the first time that Wei Bao has clearly drawn a line with the eunuch party!

The people of the Donglin Party can see it, and the people of the Eunuch Party can also see it, including Chongzhen, who has not yet come to power and is still in the Xinwang Mansion.

Wei Bao just wants everyone to see that he is not Wei Zhongxian's person.

Secondly, after the falling out, it is also interesting to see how Wei Bao handles the subsequent development of things.

Wei Bao is now implementing a policy of complete retreat and appeasement, I don't dare to fight with you nine thousand years old, I'll go.

Of course, Wei Bao has another route, Wei Bao controls the elite soldiers and horses in Liaodong, the 50,000 troops in Shanhaiguan can be directly mobilized by Wei Bao, and the 50,000 infantry troops in Shandong can also be mobilized by Wei Bao!

Wei Bao has the ability to mobilize 100,000 troops to attack the capital.

Moreover, these two armies can be regarded as the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, at least among the troops directly under the Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty.

There are still some powerful armies in Daming, most of which belong to private armies.

However, Wei Bao is more clever, Shandong's army belongs to the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, he is not authorized by his real name, he is not the official Minister of the Governor of Haiphong, and he has not been in charge of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong for a long time, and the person in charge is Wu Sanfu.

The army of Shanhaiguan belongs to Wu Xiang, and Wu Xiang is the commander of the army.

Although Wu Xiang is Wei Bao's father-in-law, after all, it is not Wei Bao's direct command of the army, which is the same as Jingying, the British public Zhang Weixian is Wei Bao's father-in-law, but it does not mean that Wei Bao can directly control Jingying.

If you add the Beijing camp, Wei Bao can be directly mobilized, and the infantry army alone exceeds 130,000 people, which is a very terrifying number, and more than half of the Ming mobile troops are under Wei Bao's control.

If Wei Bao didn't adopt the appeasement strategy of resignation this time, but adopted the opposite strategy of waving the hard steel, not to mention overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and killing the emperor, there would be no problem in getting rid of Wei Zhongxian and Qingjun's side anyway.

Therefore, Wei Bao just wanted to use this matter suddenly to let Wei Zhongxian see his attitude.

Wei Zhongxian is also quite scared these days, Wei Zhongxian has controlled nearly 20,000 armed eunuchs, so many armed eunuchs, it is unrealistic to go out of Beijing to fight, but it is okay to guard the Beijing division, this is Wei Zhongxian's reliance.

Also, Wei Zhongxian did not believe that the British Guild and Wei Bao rebelled together, and would make the Beijing camp turn against the capital and attack the capital with one blow.

But fear is inevitable, it's not that there is no such possibility, so Wei Zhongxian asked people to closely monitor the dynamics of the Wei Mansion today, as well as all the people associated with Wei Bao.

The party struggle in the Ming Dynasty was almost always with the Ming Dynasty, and its intensity was the first in the previous dynasties.

From the dispute between the two major groups of Hongwu Kaichao, Huaixi, and Zhejiang, to the "Hu Dang Case" and "Blue Party Case", which were personally condemned by Zhu Yuanzhang in the thirteenth year of Hongwu and were suspected of crimes; and then in the change of the two dynasties of Yingzong and Daizong, the counterattack of the nobles of the gate against the ministers of Jingtai was counted; Until the Jiajing Dynasty's "Great Rites Discussion", the old ministers of the imperial party could not tolerate water and fire, and finally brewed the Zuoshunmen incident.

In the late period, the strict party was dominant all over the world, so that Xu Jie's and other "Wang Xue" ministers had to use the law of villains to "reverse strictness".

In the three dynasties after Wanli, the party struggles within the imperial court were staged in turn with Xuan, Kun, Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and other regions as small groups, and finally evolved into the dispute between the "eunuch party" and the so-called "Donglin party" scholars and doctors in the Tianqi Dynasty.

Compared with the previous generations, the court of the Ming Dynasty had more factories and guards and less power and pressure, and the "top and corner balance" under the politics of the single husband was often played by the emperor's neglect of government or the power of the eunuch to become bigger, so the disputes continued, and the forces of each faction were eliminated and counter-attacked, which accelerated the tearing within the court and hollowed out the pillars of the Empire State Building.

The endless quarrels and attacks between the government and the opposition provided the straw that crushed the sick camel for the rapid defeat of the Ming Dynasty. The late Ming Dynasty (from the 11th year of Wanli to the 17th year of Chongzhen) was a typical period of party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the source of party contention relied on the "righteousness" of the worship of morality and order to be eroded.

Until the late Ming Dynasty, with the naked interests of the game, the parties were distorted step by step from the initial "the one who is fighting" to "fighting for the right".

Similar to the situation of the New Party camp in the late Song Dynasty, there were also scum who took advantage of the opportunity to drill camps and seek personal interests among the Donglin Shi people, who were the opposite of the eunuch party. For example, Zhou Yanru and Ruan Dacheng are first-class.

After Zhou Yanru successfully ascended to the position of a university scholar, his recommender Zhang Pu died a mysterious and violent death, and it is rumored that he poisoned and killed him.

Ruan Dacheng later took refuge in Ma Shiying, a remnant of the Nanming Eunuch Party, and persecuted the re-establishment of the society.

Both of them were included in the "Biography of the Traitorous Ministers of the Ming History".

As for the deterioration of the political atmosphere caused by party strife, the evil faction is certainly the main culprit, and the upright faction should also bear a certain responsibility.

"Lord Wei, I didn't say that you should go to the nine thousand years old, I mean that I can't control this matter, and I can't be the master." Gu Bingqian is also quick-witted and experienced in the end, and he can sit in the position of first assistant, and he can't completely rely on his godfather and grandfather.

Gu Bingqian immediately understood the intention of Wei Bao's words.

Wei Bao said with a smile: "Don't worry, Lord Shoufu, I only said that I asked the cabinet for resignation and leave, and I couldn't get approval for half a day, I am in a hurry to return to my hometown, and I won't say anything about Lord Shoufu." ”

Although Wei Bao said this, Gu Bingqian was still uneasy, secretly thinking, your legs are on you, if you want to go to Wei Zhongxian, you can do whatever you want, I can't stop you from going.

"I didn't promise you anything anyway, sir." Gu Bingqian was embarrassed: "If there is anything offended, I hope to include it, in fact, I have also resigned and am waiting for approval." ”

Wei Guangwei and Huang Liji nodded, which proved that what Gu Bingqian said was true.

Wei Bao knew that what Gu Bingqian said was exaggerated, with the current intelligence network of the Heaven and Earth Society, it was impossible for him not to know about such a big matter as Gu Bingqian's resignation, and the reason why he didn't know was that Gu Bingqian didn't do it.

Maybe Gu Bingqian has already written his resignation, Wei Guangwei and Huang Liji have already read it, but they have not handed it over to the emperor, or it has not been handed over to Wei Zhongxian, what is the difference between this and not resigning.

Wei Bao knew that Gu Bingqian's desire for power was extremely strong, and at Gu Bingqian's age, he didn't have much power, if Gu Bingqian resigned, Wei Zhongxian would not keep it at all, just change someone.

How could Gu Bingqian be willing to give up the position of first assistant, this is the position that many people dream of all their lives, for many officials, let alone being the first assistant, even if they can be the first assistant every day, they will die without regrets.

"Shousuke-sama, you also resigned? Is it because I asked you to help me with the book? I'm going to make it clear to Gong Wei that it's all my idea, and let him not be angry with you and Lord Wei, Lord Huang, and have nothing to do with you. Wei Bao said hurriedly.

"No, no, this matter has nothing to do with Lord Wei, I'm old, it's time to say goodbye to my hometown." Gu Bingqian's tongue was big, and he secretly regretted that he shouldn't say anything about his resignation, and when Wei Bao went to tell Wei Zhongxian, it would be extraneous.