Moreover, I heard the emperor's reaction from Zhang Juzheng.

That day, after he told Zhang Juzheng about the information he knew from Zhuo Maolin, Zhang Juzheng immediately went to the Gaogong Mansion in person. Gao Gong learned that Zhang Juzheng was visiting, and realized that something was wrong, otherwise Zhang Juzheng would never take the initiative to visit, although the two were the three heroes of Yuwangfu back then, but the personal friendship was average, especially after the toss of the "edict" incident, the friendship between the two was not a crack added.

However, in major matters such as the great cause of the country and the rise and fall of the nation, the two of them can put aside their personal prejudices, and still help Emperor Longqing together as they did in Yuwangfu, and they will not have two hearts. Because of this, Emperor Longqing also had high hopes for the two scholars who seemed to be at odds.

The high arch mansion opened the middle door, greeted Zhang Juzheng with the highest etiquette, the high arch gate waited, the two entered the house side by side, the study talked secretly for less than half an hour, they came out together, and hurriedly went to the palace.

Emperor Longqing was reviewing the chapter with the eunuch Si Li and the eunuch Bingbi, and when he heard Gao and Zhang asking for an urgent audience, he immediately summoned the two important ministers in the palace.

If it is Xu Jie and other important ministers, even if they are summoned, they must be in the palace outside, and they generally do not choose a large palace for deliberations, after all, the space is empty, and they are all in a small side hall.

Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were in the Yuwang Mansion in the same year, and they could enter and exit the Yuwang bedroom, and this privilege was retained until Emperor Longqing entered the palace.

After listening to Zhang Juzheng's report, Emperor Longqing was furious.

"Soldiers? Are they trying to rebel?! ”

In this regard, whether it is Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, or the two eunuchs who are in charge of the inner court, they all have the same opinion, yes, this is indeed a rebellion! However, now I don't have real evidence, and I don't know who is involved in the court officials, and there is no way to start if you want to punish the crime.

All the palace maids and eunuchs withdrew. There are only five people left in the palace, the emperor and the prime minister, the highest core of the country, and all national policies are formulated by these five people.

Although Xu Jie is still a scholar of the first assistant university of the cabinet seal, it is just that his words have lost their due weight, and he himself understands this, he is now marginalized, and the time that belongs to him has passed, and he is happy to be a rubber stamp, waiting for the final glorious retirement.

Xu Jie's is still like this, not to mention several other scholars.

"Long live the anger, this is probably just the wishful thinking of the White Lotus Sect and King Alta, although those families are motivated by profit, they should also know the severity." The celebrant eunuch laughed.

"Do you know how heavy it is? Knowing the severity, they can still communicate with foreign enemies in private? Emperor Longqing was angry.

The anger of the five people in the room is the same, and such acts of rebellion must be punished severely. If this information is true, and the conspiracy of King Altan and Zhao Quan is aimed at the Ming court, then it is urgent to deal with the Tatar matter, and the five people must make a decision immediately.

In terms of power structure, the emperor has the final decision, and the remaining four people are only the emperor's secretaries in the inner court and the outer court, at best, they are think tanks, and they are only the role of giving advice, but since the Yongle period, the functions and powers of this secretary have slowly evolved, and gradually become a power cabinet without the name of a formal prime minister, and the emperor needs to seek their opinions before the major policies of the country can take effect. This is also a feature of the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang and Song dynasties all had a formal prime minister system, and there was a clear division of labor between imperial power and prime minister's power, and the prime ministers of the Tang and Song dynasties had very great power, although they were not as good as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, but they were much harder than the bachelors of later generations, and they were really one person under ten thousand people.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to emulate the Western Han system, because he was a die-hard fan of Liu Bang and was familiar with the "Book of Han", but after a coup d'état, he abolished the prime minister system and made regulations, and future generations will never be allowed to establish the prime minister system again.

The political structure of the Ming Dynasty was the concentration of imperial power and prime minister's power, and the emperor directly commanded the six ministries and held all administrative powers, which was originally the scope of the prime minister's authority.

However, time is not only a knife to kill pigs, but also a grinder for the evolution of power, and in the Jiajing period, the cabinet scholars gradually obtained the power of the prime minister, which is quite similar to the power of the prime minister of the Tang and Song dynasties. Because there was no official position of prime minister, administrative orders could only be issued by borrowing the emperor's edicts, and scholars held the power of the prime minister in a curvilinear manner.

Therefore, the exercise of the power of the prime minister has to rely on the internal minister, that is, the eunuch of the ceremonial rite and the eunuch of the pen, and the edict is basically in the hands of the bosses of these two positions.

Although Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng can avoid these two and talk directly to the emperor, the system has been established, and the emperor needs the opinions of these two people to make decisions on major national affairs.

"So the emperor ordered to arrest people?"

Hearing this, he asked.

He can't wait, and he is not afraid of chaos, just waiting for the emperor's order, he will take his elite soldiers to arrest people.

He doesn't have a formal case-handling officer, but who says that soldiers can't arrest people? When it comes to national security, the military is a strong line of defense, not to mention that the soldiers under him are all official Jinyi guards, and all of them have the official establishment of the country.

"Nope." Zhang Juzheng shook his head and smiled.

Besides, surprised, the emperor was furious, and characterized these powerful families as rebellion, why didn't he arrest people and ask them for the crime?

Zhang Juzheng gave an explanation, which made him frustrated.

He encountered the same situation in the Qinwang faction again, the problem was very complicated, and he couldn't explain it clearly for a while.

However, after Zhang Juzheng's explanation, he also understood a little.

It turned out that during the Jiajing period, the imperial court began to negotiate peace with the Tatars outside the Saiwai. Emperor Jiajing advocated Wenzhi and did not want to be the Han Wu of this dynasty, in fact, he spent too much effort on the cultivation of the Tao, and he did not have the energy to devote himself to military affairs, and he did not want the war to disturb his state of mind in cultivation.

There are two levels of negotiation between the imperial court and the Tatars, one is the formal negotiation, which is generally in the border cities, and the personnel sent by the two sides hold formal negotiations, and the other is the secret communication, Emperor Jiajing instructed some families who have economic and trade contacts with the outside of the Seychelles to negotiate privately with some Tatar leaders and nobles, and the two sides negotiate the content of the negotiations with each other, because in private, many words are easier to say, unlike there are too many scruples at the negotiation table.

However, the negotiations have never been successful, and both sides have insisted on their own conditions and refused to retreat, which is actually a manifestation of the strength and demands of both sides.

As for the imperial court, it doesn't matter whether the negotiations are successful or not, as long as the Tatars don't enter the customs and make trouble. The Tatars were also injured, and they could not attack in a big way in the short term, but they were also afraid that the imperial court would want to retaliate, so they really raised troops to fight a decisive battle, and even the smuggling trade would be completely cut off, which was also a result that the Tatars did not want to see.

The imperial court did not completely cut off trade exchanges, in fact, it did not want to force the Tatars to forcibly break through the border pass, and they came in to rob it, and in addition, the imperial court also needed horses and many local products outside the border, and it was not good for itself to completely ban trade between the two sides. Strict restrictions on border trade were the policies adopted by the imperial court.

The two sides have been staging this big negotiation drama in an orderly manner, no one will say anything, and they are very patient, not afraid that the negotiations will not be fruitful, or that the negotiations will break down completely.

Besides, he was dumbfounded, and he couldn't imagine that things were turning around like this. The supremacy of national interests, the emperor's anger, and the suppression of the rebel forces cannot be completely equated.

"So, is it legal for those powerful families to communicate privately with the Tatars?" He asked.

"This ...... Anyway, it's not completely legal. At least after the emperor ascended the throne, he didn't let them continue to negotiate privately with the Tatars, let alone harbor the remnants of the White Lotus Sect privately. Zhang Juzheng groaned.

"Ah, then what are you waiting for, go and arrest them immediately, even if you don't know who is harboring those White Lotus Sect bandits, search all those families, and keep them to find out." Besides, he exhaled.

Liu Shouyou is afraid of these powerful families, he is not afraid. What can the powerful family do, the big deal is to frame him, and if you want to put him to death, you may not be able to, no matter how big it is, you will lose your official position and resign, and if you return to your hometown in white clothes, he can't ask for it. He has repeatedly wanted to do something to these powerful families, and it is precisely this in mind.

"What are you trying to do?" Zhang Juzheng was suspicious, and always felt that this enthusiasm was a bit excessive, and there was something wrong with it. This kid has never cared about national affairs, and now he did it when the emperor's knife pressed on his neck, of course, he did it well.

"This ...... I'm not sharing my worries for the emperor and your lordship. And he giggled.

Zhang Juzheng also smiled, but he didn't believe a word of what he said. But he didn't want to be involved in this matter, and the handling of this kind of thing required scalpel-like precision, not sledgehammer-like rage.

That day, the five of them discussed for a long time, and in the end they could not come up with a perfect treatment plan, mainly because there was no real evidence, after all, it was only a one-sided source of information, and the reliability of the source of information was not guaranteed, so this could only be regarded as a wake-up call.

After that, the emperor completely handed over the matter to Zhang Juzheng to pay attention to and deal with it accordingly.

"You don't have to think much about this, let's do your own business." Zhang Juzheng said.

"My lord, this matter was the first thing I discovered, how can you leave me behind." Besides, he was dissatisfied.

"It was you who first discovered it, and if it is confirmed, it will be your first achievement. You don't really want to catch those two important people and want to be a marquis, do you? ”

"Feudal marquis? How could I think so much, I just think that as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the enemy invaded the important place of Kyoto in a grand manner, and if he could not be quickly arrested and brought to justice, wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty? It's ridiculous and generous. "Besides, he looked very loyal, very impassioned.

"I know your thoughts, don't you just want to make a fuss when you have nothing to do? You'd better hurry up and train your troops and go to the south, you can toss that place as much as you want. Zhang Juzheng could see his thoughts at a glance.

"Then I don't have to go outside." Besides, he laughed.

"Outside the plug?" Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but be stunned.

Originally, the emperor wanted to send out to spy on intelligence, but now this matter is about to become a farce. Originally, this was supposed to be a top-secret operation, and no outsiders should know about it, but now many people in the capital know that the upstart of the dynasty is going to spy on the military situation in person, but no one believes this rumor, and they all think that the emperor wants to give this upstart an official and a knight, so let out this kind of rumor, and at the appropriate time in the future, they will use this name as a reward.