There is a strange phenomenon in the feudal dynasties in history, almost all ministers know that if they pat the emperor's ass and coax the emperor well, they will definitely have a future, but there are not many people who can really pull down their faces to pat the emperor's ass.

This phenomenon was particularly serious in the Ming Dynasty, civil officials not only did not like to pat the emperor's ass, but also liked to point fingers at the emperor, saying that this is not okay and that is not good, as if the emperor has to listen to them.

To tell the truth, the people who really dare to reason with the emperor are basically right, but they ignore a very important question, that is, whether the emperor likes to listen to you reason.

Most of the ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty ignored this problem, everyone felt that the emperor Gu Dao Changsheng was wrong, and he should focus on state affairs, but he didn't know that Jiajing wanted to take care of Dao Changsheng, no matter how reasonable you said, it was a fart in his eyes.

Many people suffered a big loss because of this, but the courtiers still did not forgive, and kept admonishing, hoping that Jiajing could "change the evil and return to the right", but Yan Song, not only did not advise Jiajing to focus on state affairs, but continued to offer green words to "encourage" Jiajing to cultivate.

Who is smart and who is stupid, it is obvious that Yan Song won Jiajing's trust by virtue of this, but many people became unjust souls because of admonishing Jiajing.

Sometimes Yan Song really wants to laugh in his heart, you stupid forks, see how the old man plays!

Of course, he vigorously encouraged Jiajing to cultivate, of course, not for the sake of "one person attaining the Tao and the chicken dog ascending to heaven", Jiajing could believe this, but he didn't believe it himself.

His goal is clear, that is, to control the power of the court.

This time, he took advantage of Jiajing's trust and played a trick to attack the west.

The reason why he asked Wang Hua to make it difficult for Yang Lin was to force the Yangming Yimai to clean up Wang Hua, when everyone thought that his goal was Lianghuai Yanzheng, he unexpectedly launched an uncompetitive Jiang Qichen, and when everyone didn't know why, he ran to Jiajing and used Xia Yan's mouth to criticize Yangming Yimai.

As a result, Jiajing also fell into the trap, and under his hint, Jiajing began to think.

Yang Ming uses power for personal gain, Xia Yan is arrogant and doesn't know how to restrain, what should I do?

At this time, Jiajing naturally thought of using Yan Song, not for anything else, just because Yan Song approved of his cultivation, and it was difficult to find a bosom friend, so it was not easy for such a "caring person" to emerge, so he naturally wanted to use it well, so he gave Yan Song the position of secretary of the ministry.

Everyone knows how important the position of the secretary of the ministry is, because all officials are nominally under the control of the ministry, as long as they control the ministry, nepotism, and network party henchmen, it is very simple.

Yan Song's move really caught Yang Ming off guard, and no one expected that this Zhang Bangqi would be replaced by Yan Song after only a few months in the position of the secretary of the ministry.

Fortunately, under Yang Cong's planning, almost all the officials who should be promoted in the Yangming line have been promoted, and the officials who can be wooed in the court are also almost all drawn, and the impact of the position of the official department on the Yangming line is not very great, and now, the only thing to worry about is that Yan Song will use the power in his hands to frantically win over the courtiers and expand the party members.

Officialdom has been disturbed, the New Year has come quietly, Yang Lin returned to the capital as he wished to have a lively reunion with his son and daughter-in-law, Yang Cong was accompanied by his parents and wife, and the New Year was more fulfilling.

However, the entire Yangming lineage, including Zhang Yue, Lu Bing, and Xu Yande on Yang Cong's side, was not very happy this year, because the position of the secretary was taken away, and Yan Song didn't know what kind of moths would come out.

The so-called "blessing is incomparable, and disaster does not go alone", just when they were worried about Yan Song's affairs, after the New Year, another unfortunate news came out that Li Shi, the first assistant of the cabinet, fell ill.

Li Shi, a good gentleman, is still relatively fair as an official, with him in the cabinet, Xia Yan will not fool around, he is sick, isn't Xia Yan like a tiger out of the gate, catch whoever bites whom!

This is really worse than not.

People in Yang Cong's department will inevitably have a haze in their hearts, because the current situation is too unfavorable for them.

At this time, the three most important yamen of the imperial court were the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, and these three yamen are now almost all in the hands of Xia Yan's party.

For example, in the cabinet, Li Shi fell ill and couldn't take care of things, so there were only two scholars left, Xia Yan and Yan Song, and they didn't do what they wanted.

Another example is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, although Zhang Yue was promoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history, the real decision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is still the left capital imperial history Tu Qiao, and Tu Qiao has long been united with Xia Yan's party.

As for the Ministry of Officials, not to mention, Yan Song is more powerful than Xia Yan and Tu Qiao, and his control of the Ministry of Officials is even more troublesome than Xia Yan's control of the cabinet and Tu Qiao's control of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

What should we do when the situation is so unfavorable?

Yang Cong once again invited the faction bosses to the banquet to discuss countermeasures.

This banquet is no longer as relaxed and happy as before, everyone's faces are sad, Xia Yan and his party are in full power, and it will probably be a devastating blow to greet them, so it's no wonder that everyone can be happy.

After everyone drank a few rounds of wine sullenly, Zhang Bangqi finally couldn't help but sigh and said: "Alas, I didn't expect Lord Shoufu to fall ill at this time, his old man is already nearly seventy years old, this time I'm afraid it will be difficult to carry it, to say that this Xia Yan's luck is really against the sky, at the beginning, Lord Zhang Zhang also said that he was sick, and he passed away not long after, if Lord Li Shili can't afford to be sick again, I am afraid that the position of the first assistant of the cabinet will be him." ”

Everyone knows this situation, because there are a total of three scholars in the cabinet at this time, except for Li Shi, Xia Yan and Yan Song, Yan Song has just entered the cabinet, and he has just taken over as the secretary of the ministry, it is impossible to succeed the first assistant of the cabinet, Xia Yan has become the only candidate to succeed the first assistant of the cabinet.

Dingguo Gong Xu Yande couldn't help but sigh and said: "I just don't know if they will attack Wei Jing, if they fix Wei Jing, we will be in trouble." ”

Wei Jing is Zhang Shiche's word, at this time Zhang Shiche's position as the head of the Nanjing household department is really quite important, if Zhang Shiche is rectified, the share of this salt introduction will have to be reshuffled, and now Xia Yan and Yan Song are in power, if Zhang Shiche steps down, this salt introduction will definitely not have their share.

Alas, it's really better to be a human being than a god.

Yang Cong sighed secretly in his heart, but on the surface he said calmly: "Although they are in power, they can't be lawless, if they really dare to be lawless, we are not vegetarians." ”

Now it seems that he can only be ready to break the net, Xia Yan, who he was able to fix at the beginning, did not become the first assistant of the cabinet, and at this time he can also make Xia Yan and Yan Song unable to eat and walk around, the big deal is to tear their faces, everyone has their own abilities, and they can play a big game.

Unexpectedly, Mu Konghui, who rarely spoke, suddenly spoke: "Everyone, don't be so discouraged, no matter what they want, they have to go through the emperor's pass, the emperor is wise and martial, as long as everyone can be diligent and make achievements, it will be fine." ”

Is Jiajing wise and martial?

said this, it seems that there is a suspicion of patting a sycophant, according to Mu Konghui's personality, he should not be able to pat Jiajing's sycophant.

When Yang Cong heard this, his heart couldn't help but move.

This Jiajing, how to say it, sometimes he is indeed quite stubborn, he wants to do whatever he wants, and he doesn't care about the opposition of the courtiers at all, but many times Jiajing still attaches more importance to ability and merit, as long as he feels that you are capable, it doesn't matter if you make some mistakes.

It's like Xia Yan, I don't know how many mistakes I've made, but Jiajing has never let him step down, to put it bluntly, Jiajing just values Xia Yan's ability.

So, how do you let Jiajing see his abilities?

...... Final ...... of this volume

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