Chapter 153: The Stubborn Demeanor

Besides, looking at Zuo Ling's plump and attractive body with perfect curves, his heart was also moving, and he wanted to rush up and hug her, he hadn't had this impulse for a long time.

However, he still held back, knowing that Zuo Ling was really angry.

He sighed in his heart, what's so good about having three wives and four concubines, it's not that he is splint. He hadn't shown himself to be particularly nice to anyone, but everyone was dissatisfied, which aroused public outrage.

Li Xiangjun must be full of resentment in his heart now, thinking that he would be happy when he saw Zuo Ling, and forgot her behind his head, and it is estimated that he will not have a good face to show him when they meet.

This kind of easy and easy to blame is far away, and it is estimated that there will be no end to it, and he thought about it, and his head began to hurt again. Fortunately, the pomegranate is not here, otherwise this day would basically be impossible.

Should the Marquis's Mansion really be used and Zuo Ling, Xiao Nier, and Li Xiangjun each assigned a set of mansions? But that won't solve the problem, it comes down to too many women. If you have more, you will not stop, this is the truth.

Hai Rui went out of Beijing to inspect Jiangnan, and hundreds of officials went out of the city to serve him, which was also a grand occasion that had not been seen for many years.

However, the cabinet scholars were absent because they were summoned to the palace to discuss state affairs.

Everyone understands that this is a grandiose excuse, one is not to give Hai the icing on the cake, and the other is to give Zhang Ju a positive face, many people are privately spreading that this time Hai Rui was appointed to patrol Jiangnan because Zhang Juzheng wanted to kick him to Jiangnan, saving Lao Hai from stirring up peace in the court. As for what happened, no one knows the details.

Hai Rui also heard these rumors, and he didn't care at all, he was summoned by the emperor before leaving, and explained to him the reason for sending him to Jiangnan to inspect, the intention was to let him suppress the Jiangnan Shi clan with all his might, and slowly take back the local power monopolized by these Shi clans; The other is to prepare for the full implementation of the "one whip" law.

A whip law was not originally created by Zhang Juzheng later, and it was implemented in the later period of Jiajing, but unfortunately there was a lot of local resistance, and it could not be really implemented, and finally had to give up halfway.

Local resistance comes from the cliques of scholars who hold local power and monopolize a large amount of land, and these families are always in important positions in the imperial court, and they collude with each other to form a power network from the imperial court to the local government, which is difficult to break.

Hai Rui has always been a strong and fierce Qingsuke, does not belong to any faction, and is not a scholar himself, the most important thing is that he is not afraid of offending people. Even Emperor Jiajing dared to scold, let alone others, so Hai Rui was of course the best candidate to be an enemy.

Another reason why the emperor did not tell Hai Rui was that he used his hand to suppress the coastal wealthy families with all his might, paving the way for the next step in opening the sea ban.

Opening the sea ban and strictly implementing a whip law is a national policy that the emperor has discussed with Gao Gong Zhang Juzheng during the crown prince's reign. The problem is that these two points are too difficult to implement, but if you don't do it, your national strength will weaken day by day, and the dynasty will suffer disaster.

If the emperor was not extremely difficult, he would not have turned to the national teacher to ask the heavens, and finally got this candidate. As for who to send to suppress the Shi clan, this candidate doesn't need to be calculated at all, and the court only has Hai Rui, who is not afraid of stabbing the sky, to be competent, and there is no other candidate.

Hai Rui originally disdained to have a glass of wine with these officials and engage in any false ceremonies, but he knew that the emperor had a lot of affection for him. At present, the emperor is facing many difficulties, and his visit to Jiangnan is also a heavy task and heavy responsibility, and it is not appropriate to make the relationship too stiff with bureaucrats at all levels, so he has to make a false accusation. However, he resolutely refused the luxurious banquet he originally proposed, which was beyond his bottom line.

Baiguan Yang Xing is to set up a table and chair outside the city, and there are signs on the table, which are the six departments and the three provincial temples, the Tongzheng Division, the Taichang Temple, the Taifu Temple and other imperial court institutions, and the officials of these institutions are sitting behind the tables.

The wine and food on the table are the simplest, and this kind of food is more formal than substantial.

After noon, the two flags went out of the capital first, and the big book on the flags was: the words "Governor Jiangnan" were hand-picked, followed by a pair of honor guards, and then the stagecoach on which Hai Rui was sitting.

As soon as Hai Rui appeared, everyone looked over to see what had changed in this upstart of the imperial court.

When Hai Rui served in the household department, he was just a judge, and not many people knew him, and he became an "Internet celebrity" after he was imprisoned after he scolded Emperor Jiajing, which caused many officials to go to see him, most of them were curious, and wanted to see what this world-famous strange man looked like.

After reading it, everyone was disappointed, and they all said that it was a stubbornness, and there was nothing peculiar about it.

After Hai Rui left the city, he didn't say goodbye to everyone, but walked past the tables, accepted everyone's compliments with a straight face, and then drank the glass of wine handed over.

He walked all the way, drank all the way, didn't say a word, and sometimes stared at someone's face for a while, making the person's hair straight, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Hai Jui does have an idea, he thinks that your days as a corrupt official are coming to an end, and your family is about to be unlucky.

Of course, these people who were noticed by him didn't know what he was thinking, but they all had a sense of foreboding, and even regretted that they shouldn't have come here to give this stubborn man anything, wasn't it self-deprecating? If they knew Hai Rui's true thoughts, they would probably regret their intestines.

After Hai Rui drank a glass of practice wine, he turned around and made a gesture to Baiguan, then turned around and got into the car and left.

It wasn't until the stagecoach went away that the officials woke up like a dream, and the atmosphere was too depressing, and everyone seemed to have a brick in their hearts, and it was a little difficult to breathe.

"What's going on? Even the upstart won't be arrogant to this one, right? Someone was dissatisfied and complained loudly.

"He's not arrogant, he's really this kind of temperament." An official of the household department said with a wry smile.

"Temperament? Lao Tzu didn't believe it, did he dare to drag us like this when he was a magistrate or even a county official? A ministry official said indignantly.

In the place where hundreds of officials gathered, this person even shouted out Lao Tzu, which shows that he is really angry.

For a while, loud scolding and whispering erupted.

Liu Shouyou stood behind a desk, squinting at the dust in the distance, thinking differently from these people.

He admires Zhang Juzheng very much now, even the emperor's destiny can be changed, he is worthy of being an emperor, and he is not as sharp as Gao Gong, which is disgusting everywhere.

As a high-ranking official of Jinyiwei, he knows the major events that happened in the palace, Hai Rui has been appointed as the imperial history of the left capital, and the emperor intends to first take the six departments and three provinces of the imperial court to open the knife and comprehensively rectify the official system, but unfortunately the will fell into the hands of Zhang Juzheng, who was on duty in the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng rejected the emperor's will, and wrote a note to pass into the palace, so the will immediately changed Hai Rui to the governor of Jiangnan.

Why Zhang Juzheng doesn't like Hai Rui, Liu Shouyou doesn't understand, because the two have never crossed paths before, and it is impossible for them to have personal grievances, and Hai Jui does not belong to any faction.

But Liu Shouyou knew that there must be a reason for this, he originally pulled him over alive and dead, just thinking that he could get the truth out of his mouth, and he didn't want to be more ignorant than him. It would be inconvenient for him to delve further.

"Lord Liu, why didn't our other upstart show up?"

Liu Shouyou asked curiously at the table on the left of a Taichang Temple official.

He asked naturally that besides, before Hai Rui was appointed, everyone recognized the upstart, and they all knew that he was forming a new type of Jinyiwei, but no one knew about the terms of reference and so on.

"Besides, the Lord has other important matters and cannot be present in person, so he specially asked me to act for Lord Hai on his behalf." Liu Shouyou said lightly.

He was a little disdainful in his heart, an idle official from Taichang Temple asked what he was doing here, if it weren't for this kind of occasion, he wouldn't have bothered to talk to this person, he really lost his identity.

He was faintly worried in his heart, besides, I don't know if the Sixth Guard really made a mutiny, if this matter is true, besides, the general situation is not good, the most taboo in the imperial court is the army mutiny, once this kind of thing happens, the chief official must be dismissed and questioned. Besides, the official fortune will not be so short-lived, right?

Now that he is in the same boat, he naturally doesn't want to be unlucky, and the Jinyiwei that was formed is a parallel organization to him, and there is no such thing as fighting for power and profit. He had already sent someone to inquire about the situation there, but unfortunately no news had come.

The officials of Taichang Temple saw that Liu Shouyou's expression was indifferent, and knew that his question was abrupt, so he had to turn his head and talk to others again.

After the emperor saw the report of the hundred officials for Hai Rui, he just threw it aside, Hai Rui's approach and the reaction of the hundred officials were all expected by him.

It's ruthless, this is very good, these constitutional officials in the court are too affectionate, and shamelessly exchange affection for benefits, many malpractices have been delayed for a long time, and in the end they can't be eliminated at all, aren't they all on this sentimental word?

Hai Jui's governor of Jiangnan was indeed proposed by Zhang Juzheng, but it was not because Zhang Juzheng had a grudge with Hai Rui, but Zhang Juzheng believed that it was the most urgent task to use Hai Jui to suppress the coastal scholars first, and as for the political bureaucracy of the imperial court, it was by no means overnight, and it was not something that the emperor could solve alone.

The emperor was convinced, and immediately withdrew his decree and changed his will, because he really wanted to open the sea ban with the power of thunder, but for no other reason, the treasury was already empty, and he could not continue to delay it any longer.

Later, he read the report of the mutiny there, and his face was a little uncertain.

"Long live the master, that is, some children are messing around, it's not a mutiny at all." Zhang Whale hurriedly bowed down and smiled.

The emperor didn't pay attention to him, but thought about it and smiled: "It seems that the divination of the national teacher is really effective, I thought that this was just a scholar, even if he was allowed to lead this brocade guard, that is, to hang a name, he couldn't do anything at all, but I didn't expect him to really do great things." ”

Zhang Whale didn't dare to speak, and couldn't figure out what the emperor's words meant.

"I can't start rectifying the official system here, he has already rectified the military discipline first, very good, very good, it seems that he is not the kind of talent who only knows how to play with Fengyue, he is still a talent, if he can continue to do this, great things can be expected."

Zhang Whale bowed lower, and said with a smile: "That's, that's, besides, if you are blessed with the grace of the country, you will live up to the trust of the Long Live Lord." ”

The emperor didn't look at him, stood up and walked around the hall at will, and then looked at the Heart Cultivation Palace, thinking to himself: Could it be that the hexagram of the national teacher is really accurate again.