Officials do not use knives but pens to kill.

A pen reverses black and white and concocts a crime. No matter how bright your tongue is, the lotus flower is speechless.

Cui Lu is such a person.

As a member of the military department, Cui Lu's most important responsibility is to impeach the supervision officials.

Not long ago, Zhao Wenhua, the governor of Zuo Tongzheng, approached him, hoping that he could impeach Zhu Kun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Of course Cui Lu is happy. You must know that it took him a lot of effort to get in touch with Zhao Wenhua. This is the godson of Yan Dang, the current first assistant Yan Song.

Cui Lu was anxious to perform, and used all his strength to write a note, and scolded Zhu Su as a thief without a king and a father.

When Cui Luzhi was complacent and eager to offer the treasure, Zhao Wenhua found him and said that he would not impeach Zhu Kun, at least not for the time being.

Of course, Zhao Wenhua didn't need to say a reason, and Cui Lu didn't dare to ask. Although it was a little awkward, the matter dragged on.

Now Cui Lu is waiting for an opportunity.

The four major families of Liu, He, Lin, and Wu in Hangzhou attacked Zhu Su at the same time, and instructed the sons and nephews of the clan to write a letter of impeachment.

These four major families are all wealthy families in Zhejiang, and there are many sons and nephews who are officials in the court.

For a while, the impeachment of Zhu Kun was all gathered in the General Political Envoy, and Zhao Wenhua, who was a leftist general official, naturally smelled the opportunity.

The reason why Zhao Wenhua did not dare to impeach Zhu Kun was because he had a handle in Zhu Kun's hands.

If impeachment is forced, it is likely to end up in a dead end.

And now the form is very different.

There are countless officials who have impeached Zhu Kun, and an extra note will not attract attention.

Zhao Wenhua naturally decided to fish in troubled waters and took the opportunity to participate in Zhu Kun's book.

And the person he entrusted was Cui Lu.

Cui Lu is originally from Zhejiang, so he naturally understands why Zhu Kun offended so many local wealthy families.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea.

Zhejiang is adjacent to the ocean, and fishing and going to the sea is the most important livelihood.

But there is a rule in the Ming Dynasty that is forbidden to the sea, and ordinary people are not allowed to go to the sea to fish, let alone doing business.

But the law has always only been effective for ordinary people, those wealthy businessmen, wealthy and powerful families, naturally do not take the Ming law in their eyes.

Not only did they collude with the Japanese to smuggle, but they sometimes even plundered merchant ships to do business.

Zhejiang's successive political envoys and commanders are well aware of this, but none of them have offended these local nobles.

They turned a blind eye to the smuggling activities of the Wang clan in Zhejiang, and only caught some fishermen who were fishing as a way to invite credit.

Only Zhu Kun made drastic reforms as soon as he took office. Not only did they train their troops in shipbuilding and rectify the rule of officials, but they also really sent sailors to patrol the coast and take the initiative to attack smuggling ships.

If it was just that, it would be enough, but Zhu Kun intensified his efforts and destroyed Shuangyu Island in one fell swoop.

This is a hornet's nest.

You must know that Shuangyu is the largest smuggling port in Ningbo and even Zhejiang, and basically ninety percent of these maritime merchants' commodities have to be traded and unloaded in Shuangyu.

Shuangyu was destroyed, and it was impossible to find a suitable seaport in a short period of time.

Walking the sea is a huge profit, and it hurts to delay for a day, let alone a few days and a month?

Under such circumstances, these maritime merchants who have suffered huge losses are naturally eager to cut the initiator of all this, Zhu Kun, with a thousand knives.

Although Zhu Kun is the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he is a feudal official who grasps the military and political affairs. But none of them are fuel-efficient lamps.

If you are safe, it is the best. But if it really touches their vital interests, they don't mind fighting Zhu Su to the end.

This is the reason why the official has recently impeached Zhu Kun.

Cui Lu felt that this was a godsend.

First of all, this wave of impeachment gave him good cover.

One of the many notes is not too remarkable.

Second, he can take the credit that belongs to everyone on himself.

As long as Zhu Kun falls, Zhao Tongzheng will be happy.

Zhao Tongzheng doesn't care too much about which part of the impeachment of Zhu Kun was dismissed. He will only focus on the results.

Fortunately, Cui Lu still remembers the general content of the impeachment note. Otherwise, if he is asked to write it again, he will have to die.

Cui Lu was full of ambition to dip his pen in ink and wave his book.

This battle was the moment when he made a name for himself.

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Emperor Jiajing generally did not believe in these four words.

In his eyes, the world is greedy. The courtiers were no exception.

So what is there to talk about? The so-called ministers are nothing more than a group of people who chase fame and fortune.

In the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, the world naturally belongs to the Zhu family. Therefore, every grain of rice and every penny should also belong to the Zhu family.

The courtiers ate the Zhu family's rice and took the Zhu family's money, not only did they not know gratitude, but even embezzled money.

It's all the Zhu family's money.

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing was as wary of his courtiers as he was of thieves.

If it is not to his liking, he will be arrested and interrogated.

Those who commit misdemeanors are reprimanded, and those who are felonious are killed and robbed of their homes.

The so-called harmony between kings and ministers is just a joke.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing still needs courtiers to work for him.

Otherwise, he alone will not be able to handle the complicated government affairs even if he is tired to death.

With the use of prevention and defense, Emperor Jiajing is very clear.

Sometimes Emperor Jiajing even connived at mutual impeachment among his courtiers, so that he could rest easy.

This is called the emperor's mental technique, and it cannot be easily used by outsiders.

Recently, there have been many cases of impeachment of the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang, but Emperor Jiajing did not take it to heart.

This is because he has just read a book called "The Story of the Resistance to the Japanese".

Although what is written in this book is a bit extreme, it is still very thought-provoking.

Among them, the description of the real and the fake is the most emotional.

He always thought that the most vicious Japanese were all Japanese ronin.

Now it seems to be wrong.

There are many pirates who are his people, his people!

This made Emperor Jiajing's heart mixed.

Why are there so many fake widows?

This is very clear in "The Anti-Japanese Chronicles".

Local merchants colluded with the Japanese in smuggling, and there was a shortage of manpower to hire seamen. This has led to the phenomenon that the false widows are several times more numerous than the real ones.

After some contemplation, Emperor Jiajing felt that it made sense.

Human nature is profit-oriented.

The huge profits of smuggling made these maritime merchants disregard the interests of their families and countries and take risks against the national policy.

So far, Emperor Jiajing has seen the faces of these maritime merchants thoroughly.

Zhu Kun destroyed Shuangyu, and the most serious damage to the interests of these local maritime merchants was naturally these local maritime merchants.

It is a coincidence that so many officials impeached Zhu Su together at this time?

Emperor Jiajing is not stupid, how can he not see the connection?

Nowadays, there are the most officials in the DPRK and China, except for Jiangxi, and they belong to Fujian and Zhejiang.

The officials of Fujian and Zhejiang are all the mouthpieces of the family, and it is naturally premeditated to speak out together at this time.

With such a small trick, how can he hide it from Emperor Jiajing?

He is a self-proclaimed saint who takes care of his eyes.

Emperor Jiajing decided to leave these impeachment notes of Zhu Su in the air, and first dry these "loyal" ministers.

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