Although it was a secret conversation between the queen mother and the emperor in the palace, this word still reached Zhang Juzheng's ears that night.

After all, over the years, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao have long formed a close alliance of interests. It is not uncommon for them to exchange news with each other.

However, Zhang Juzheng did not feel any surprise about this. Even everything was expected, even when recommending candidates, he deliberately put Lu Tiaoyang last, the so-called holy will is unpredictable. In fact, it is just a rhetoric of being a minister, in fact, the reason why he can achieve his current position is precisely because of the speculation of the holy will. But the Queen Mother's words still made Zhang Juzheng suddenly feel the unfathomable heavy pressure of Tianwei.

Maybe the unpredictability of the holy will is false, but the truth that a companion is like a tiger. Anyone who is a minister is firmly in mind, even if he says that he is not facing the emperor but the queen mother. It's the same thing.

Because of this, since taking over as the first assistant, Zhang Juzheng has been cautious. He has always learned the lessons of his predecessor's reduction of nationality, and of course, the experience of the previous first assistants leaving office, and has been conscientious, but even so, what he is most worried about is slander and discord between the monarch and the minister.

Although today's incident cannot be described as "slander". This matter has nothing to do with outsiders, it is completely a dialogue between the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and it is the Queen Mother's opinion of him.

Perhaps because of this, two sentences from "Yi" came to his mind.

"If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if he is not secret, he will lose his life."

If the king loses this minister, there is still another minister to replace; If the minister loses his life, how can he replace him?

Thinking about this layer, Zhang Juzheng broke out in a cold sweat. He let out a dark breath, looked out the window, and muttered to himself.

"It's really worthy of the Empress Dowager Li who has been invited for eight years!"

The reason why Zhang Juzheng has this sigh is because the Empress Dowager Li herself is a palace maid, and it is completely a mother who relies on her son, because her son became the emperor and became the queen mother, and the first emperor has another queen, that is, the current Empress Dowager Rensheng. Although as the Empress Dowager Cisheng, because she took care of the emperor's daily life, she gradually intervened in the government in the name of taking care of the emperor. But as the queen mother, she was not proud of this, not only would she take the emperor to the Empress Dowager Rensheng every day to say goodbye, but even during the meal, she was not on an equal footing with the emperor and the Empress Dowager Rensheng, so she could only stand behind them.

Such a woman is really not simple!

Perhaps, because of this, Zhang Juzheng never looked down on the Empress Dowager Li, who was born in a mason family, and she was also terrified when she heard her analysis of employment.

And while he was frightened, he breathed a sigh of relief, at least for now, the queen mother and the emperor still trusted him very much. And they're using some means to maintain that trust. It's like agreeing to use Lu to tune Yang now. What the Queen Mother and the Emperor needed was balance. It's conditioning. As long as this balance and restraint still exists, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor's trust in him will not change in the slightest, and all he needs is to carefully maintain this balance.

At the very least, the Queen Mother must feel that this balance is always in his hands, and only in this way can he maintain the trust in him now.

Lu Tiaoyang!

Thinking of this, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but sigh.

"I don't know, I'm doing this, it's right or wrong!"

With such a sigh, Zhang Juzheng sighed helplessly.

"Fortunately, Lu Tiaoyang can be regarded as a pure minister!"

It is true that it may be impossible for Lu Tiaoyang to obey him, but he will also not abolish the public because of private interests, and there will not be only selfish interests in his eyes and no Ming Dynasty. Such a pure minister may not be able to be used by him, but it is not the best choice for the Jiangshan Sheji of the Ming Dynasty.

"Let's hope nothing has changed for him this year!"

After pondering for a moment, thinking of the ball that was kicked to the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment, and then called the old servant and ordered:

"You go to Zhang Cifu's house and tell him that the banknote customs is really a private matter in the palace, and it has not violated the system, and foreign officials should not be noisy."

The old servant was about to retreat. As soon as he walked out of the door of the flower hall, Zhang Juzheng called out to him again and ordered:

"Go to Ma Gefu again, repeat the same thing, he knows what to do."

"The little one knows."

After the old servant withdrew, he felt that it had been almost arranged, and Zhang Juzheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, everything is under the control of the old man."

After a while, a porter informed the servant Wang Zhen that he wanted to see him. After a simple politeness with him, Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Zhan and asked. 

"Jiedong, I have received the will of the palace, what do you think?" 

Wang Zhu has always been obedient to Zhang Juzheng, but at this moment he was very frightened and replied: "

"Looking back at Fu, Your Majesty summoned Lu Cifu into the cabinet again this time, didn't you want to use him greatly? The ministers heard that the emperor ordered the officials to take things from the treasury and give him a reward, and the emperor bypassed the cabinet and issued a direct decree, and the ministers really couldn't understand it. ”

"Only women and villains are difficult to raise!"

Zhang Juzheng thought in his heart, this sentence came out early for no reason, although this was exactly what he needed, but he didn't expect that the Queen Mother would actually play such a chess, it seemed that he was worried that he would object.

But on the surface, he couldn't say that. After all, no matter how annoyed the TV is, it can't forget about humility, and if such words are spread, I'm afraid it's not just disrespectful, but killing people is not a punishment. If such words reach the ears of the Queen Mother, what will happen at that time?

Some words are just thought in the heart.

"Lu Cifu is also a rare virtuous minister, and the edict for him to enter the cabinet again is also to comfort the old minister, which is also a good thing." 

Directly diverting from this topic, Zhang Juzheng glanced into the distance, and then said.

"The country, the emperor has to govern both the country and the family, and if family affairs are mixed into state affairs, it will be difficult to handle state affairs." 

As shrewd as Wang Zhan, he naturally understood what Zhang Juzheng meant, so he climbed along the way.

"Actually, this harsh money is now known to the world, that is, the capital, no one does not know that Zhu Thirteen of Chongwenmen is a person who has lost money, speaking of which, they are really too much, even the official ship is not only, this time, they use the official ship to carry commercial goods, and there are more than 50 folds transferred from the palace, according to the law, they are to be dismissed and investigated, but the official ship carries commercial goods, but it is a well-known thing in the world, this official ship is still like this, not to mention the merchants?" 

"In this way, it is indeed a bit harsh, but now, it is inconvenient for me to interfere for the time being!"

Zhang Juzheng sighed, his voice so low that he could barely hear it.

"I handed over the banknote to the palace, I am the master, and now someone is handing this fold, I think it is Xiang Zhuang dancing sword! I see that there is someone behind this. ”

Zhang Juzheng, who has been presiding over the reform all these years, how could he not know that those people are always trying in every possible way to bring themselves down, as long as they are given a reason, they will never miss any opportunity.

O those people!

Now I see this opportunity.

"Huh?" 

"You said, logically speaking, after Ziwei asked for Zhishi, Shen Shixing was naturally promoted to the second assistant, so this has stopped a lot, but how can you make a fuss about the fact that someone suddenly took the money off? Isn't it, he's already heard the news? ”

Although it is a secret to introduce Lu to the court, Wang Zhan also knows it, listening to Shoufu's analysis, Wang Zhan felt that this storm has a great future, he first frowned, thought for a while, and then asked suspiciously.

"But there are only five people who know about it. Who is it that has such great ability to get news from the palace? ”

"The head ...... the palace"

After a moment of silence, Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said.

"The palace doesn't know that it's him I want to recommend, if I'm not mistaken, there must be someone else who knows about it, so I launched it in advance, wanting to disrupt my position."

In the Ming Dynasty, no matter what he did, he always had a purpose. In Zhang Juzheng's view, the reason why those people would do these things. There must be their intentions, but what will they be about?

It's nothing more than trying to distract yourself and then ...... There are still people who are unwilling to let Lu Tiaoyang return to the dynasty!

But who could it be?

Naturally, Zhang Juzheng thought of the person he had pulled out by himself, no one would do it except him, and this person was still a little anxious.

It's no wonder that sometimes, when it's time to get to the end, people panic. There will always be a cover-up that has been forgotten for many years. Just like now, he has already regarded that position as his own, and naturally he does not tolerate someone snatching his love from him.

Oh he!

It's still a little bit less work.

Squinting his eyes into a slit, Zhang Juzheng sneered.

"You say, how can I let them mess up, who makes a fuss about the banknotes, it must be because the banknotes touch their interests, but in three months, they will be taxed one million taels of silver, and 24 million treasure money, counting, this is worthy of the past three or four years, a month has been collected for a year, and these real money and silver are collected from those people's relatives and friends! How will they give up? ”

Although Shoufu didn't mention who it was, but there was no need to use his brain, Wang Zhen also knew who Shoufu was referring to, naturally those people from Nanzhili, for him, who was from Yichang, of course, he didn't have any opinion on this, but echoed it.

"Shousuke, it seems that they must be going to make a fuss about the money."

"Money ......"

With a cold smile, Zhang Juzheng said.

"They want to make a fuss with money, how can I make them agree, even if they want to use the topic to play, then I will give them a flower to offer Buddha!"

"Borrowing flowers to offer Buddha?"

Wang Zhen was stunned and asked rhetorically,

"What does Shousuke mean?"

"Originally, they didn't pay attention to this, and they wanted to use this to disrupt my position, but I haven't found out yet, compared to others, this money pass makes them feel more pain, so ......"

With a cold smile, Zhang Juzheng said in a low voice.

"Come and don't be rude!"

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