On the sixth day of the first month of the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, the Son of Heaven sent a holy edict to question the ministers about the recovery of the Hetao.

"Is the teacher famous? Is there a surplus of strength for the soldiers, a surplus for the fruits, and success is inevitable? Zeng Milled what he said, but he was afraid that the people would be killed by the dead. ”

For a while, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition.

Yan Song, a scholar of the Cabinet University, thought about the holy will and felt that Emperor Jiajing's mind had changed, so he wrote to the Son of Heaven that "the Hetao must not be restored".

Not only that, Yan Song also put all the blame on the first assistant Yan Song.

In the recital, Yan Song did not shy away from pointing out:

"The courtiers all know the fallacy of repetition, but they are 'afraid'."

The meaning of this could not be clearer.

In fact, the courtiers knew in their hearts that it was ridiculous to reclaim the Hetao at this time, but they chose to go along with it because they were afraid of someone.

This person is naturally Shoufu Xia Yan.

With the endorsement of Shoufu, Zeng Mill naturally has no fear.

Yan Song's move can be described as extremely insidious.

Emperor Jiajing was already suspicious of Xia Yan, and he was even more furious when he saw this recital.

He issued a decree to reprimand Xia Yan for privately recommending Zeng Mill, regardless of the safety of the country and the life and death of the people.

After Xia Yan learned about it, he was naturally panicked all day long, and Shang Shu defended himself.

But how could Emperor Jiajing listen to Xia Yan's defense at this moment, and then issued a decree to reprimand him for "coercing the people", and ordered hundreds of officials to agree on his guilt.

The emperor has expressed his position, and the officials naturally know what to do.

For a time, the situation in the court changed abruptly.

At the behest of Yan Song, his henchmen went up to impeach Xia Yan and listed Xia Yan's various crimes.

The most fatal is a crime of befriending foreign generals with internal ministers.

This is murderous and heart-wrenching.

Emperor Jiajing saw the call of the ministers, so he issued an edict to stop the resumption of the Hetao, and ordered the Jinyi guard to quickly arrest Zeng Milling to Beijing. The officials of the Kedao Dynasty all turned a blind eye to the sin of the court rod and seized the April, and ordered the king of the military department to change the supervision of the three sides.

After a series of dictatorial wills, the Son of Heaven remembered Xia Yan.

"Shoufu Xia Yan took away his official rank and ordered Zhishi."

With this will, everyone in Xia Yan's party in the court is in danger. Yan Song took the opportunity to purge dissidents and planted cronies in various important parts of the DPRK and China.

For a while, the strict party chicken dog ascended to heaven.

The situation in the court changed so quickly, and before he knew it, Yan Song had already won a complete victory.

When the news reached Zhejiang, Xu Yan was full of emotion.

History really developed in the previous direction, Zeng Milling was arrested, and Xia Yan was Zhishi.

Of course, that's not all.

Soon after, Xia Yan should be imprisoned. Zeng Milling will also be beheaded in the west of the capital for the crime of "befriending close officials".

Xia Yan should be able to survive for a while with the identity of the former first assistant, but in the end, he will not escape the fate of abandoning the city and being beheaded.

The first assistant of the dignified cabinet is still like this.

Being an official in the Jiajing Dynasty is really dangerous.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, only the two emperors Jiajing and Chongzhen liked to do it, and the rest of the kings were basically quite normal.

At most, the emperor was angry and ordered the court staff to disobey the courtiers as a punishment.

As for the killing of the minister, such a thing is really very rare.

Fortunately, Emperor Jiajing only had eighteen years to live, and by the time Xu Yan entered the officialdom and achieved a high position, Emperor Jiajing had already choked his breath. The new monarch will be Emperor Longqing, who is known as a good old man, and this is much easier to deal with than Emperor Jiajing. As for Emperor Wanli, he was a child who ascended the throne at Chongling.

The Longwan period can be described as the golden age of being an official.

Not long ago, during the interview in the courtyard examination, the great master Lei Li once came up with a question, which was 'Why is An Hetao'.

Although An and Fu are only one word apart, the meaning is a thousand miles away.

An is to maintain the status quo, and recovery is the meaning of recovery.

Xu Yan's strategy is also very conservative, and the tone is active defense and gradual progress.

It was because he knew that Emperor Jiajing would soon turn his face and deny people, and punish Zeng Miao, Xia Yan and others.

Although he is just an inconspicuous student, it is better to be cautious at this time and try not to make trouble for himself.

To say that Emperor Jiajing is really shameless, Fuhetao is obviously supported by him, but in the end, he will not admit it when he puts on his pants, and the blame is put on the courtiers.

This is similar to Emperor Chongzhen.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Xinjia was beheaded in Xishi because of the revelation of "peace negotiation". In fact, discussing peace was originally the meaning of Emperor Chongzhen, and Chen Xinjia was just a backstopper. Without the instruction of Emperor Chongzhen, even if he borrowed a hundred courage from Chen Xinjia, he did not dare to negotiate peace privately.

But Emperor Chongzhen wanted to save face and refused to admit that it was his fault, so he could only kill Chen Xinjia and the civilians were angry.

is so mean and unkind, it is really inherited from Emperor Jiajing in his blood and bones.

Xia Yan won't say it, Xu Yan really feels sorry and worthless for Zeng Miao.

If he hadn't been born in the Jiajing Dynasty and served such a fickle king, maybe his fate would have been much better.

pressed these and didn't mention them, but said that Xu Yan would go to Hangzhou again in February.

This time he went to Hangzhou, and he had a lot to do.

The first is to inspect the expansion and opening of a branch in Hangzhou, the second is to meet the future uncle to dispel his doubts, and the third is to get together with his mentor Qian Dehong.

Of course, the most important point is to give Zhu Kun some pertinent and practical suggestions from a historical perspective.

He clearly remembered that in April of the 27th year of Jiajing, after careful planning, Zhu Kun ordered Lu Bo to lead the army to conquer Shuangyu Port.

Shuangyu Port in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province has always been an important stronghold of the Japanese in the southeast, and Zhu Kun's move can be said to be the first shot fired by the Ming army against the Japanese.

According to the historical process, even if Xu Yan did not participate in the Ming army, he could capture Shuangyu Port.

The reason why Xu Yan still had to give advice to Zhu Yan was that he hoped that the Ming army could do a better job in the details.

After all, there are still many cases in history where true and false Japanese escaped from Shuangyu Port to other islands and then set up a mountain.

The most famous is Wang Zhi.

If these pirates can be brought to a halt, at least Daming will be able to get a chance to breathe for a short time.

Of course, Xu Yan was very aware of the drawbacks of the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense policy, and as long as the maritime ban policy was not abolished, it would be impossible to eradicate this stubborn disease.

If there is one less Wang Zhi, there will be a second and a third.

But with Emperor Jiajing's suspicious and stubborn temperament, trying to let him open the sea is tantamount to a fool's dream.

What can be done now is only to mend the seams as much as possible and use newcomers like Qi Jiguang.

As for completely quelling the sea disaster, I'm afraid it will have to wait until the Longqing Dynasty.

In history, because he offended the Fujian and Zhejiang maritime business groups, Zhu Kun finally committed suicide in anger.

Although Zhu Kun's status is higher now, and he has also been trusted and appreciated by Emperor Jiajing to a certain extent, this essence has not changed.

Xu Yan felt that it was still necessary to remind Zhu Yan.

After all, Zhu Yan is Xu Yan's biggest backer now, and if the skin does not exist, Mao will be attached.

Whether it is from the perspective of righteousness or personal friendship, Xu Yan does not want Zhu Kun to have an accident.

The seizure of Shuangyu Port was only the beginning of the anti-Japanese resistance.

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