Chapter 734 Yang (I)

The situation in the city of Nanjing was completely stabilized. It was already the beginning of May, and the weather began to get hot, and the sound resounded in front of and behind the houses of the poor people, but in the courtyards of the rich and wealthy families, in the offices of the ministries and officials, there was no such annoying voice.

Under the cover of tall pines and cypresses, the Jingmiao Hall is shady, and the atmosphere is even more solemn......

The eunuch who only listened to the edict from Beijing read the emperor's decree aloud:

'Zhang Wei, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, is incompetent, indulgent and incompetent, neglects to supervise power, and believes in slander and aids abuse! Remove from an official position, send back to your hometown, and never use it! ’

'The original Nanjing Household Department Shangshu and the current Household Department Shangshu Ma Kun first had harsh and severe, and then disposed of the lost opportunity, and it was the responsibility of the mutiny, which should have been severely punished, and the old ministers were honored. The merits and demerits are offset, and they are dismissed on the spot, sent back to their hometowns, and never used! ’

'Cai Kelian, the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, was sick and dim, overwhelmed by his heavy responsibilities, and returned to his hometown to live idle! ’

'Nanjing Household Department Right Attendant Lang Huang Maoguan, although he is honest and upright, but he does not know that the administration needs to be both rigid and soft, blindly harsh, resulting in military rebellion, should be severely punished, but he has already experienced humiliation after the humiliation, strong Ruosi, can also be praised, now do not investigate his faults, do not show his martyrdom, but should be merciful to the family, with integrity. ’

………… Then there were more than a dozen edicts of dismissal and demotion, which almost removed the upper and lower levels of the household department in Nanjing.

For a while, the wind and rain were cold and cold in Jingmiaotang, and the ministers who listened to the decree were not frightened. According to his experience, this kind of handling is timely, and it does not bring much harm, and the officials concerned will generally only be demoted, and it is unlikely that they will be directly pushed to the end...... In particular, high-ranking officials at the ministerial level are even more unlikely to suffer from this kind of treatment.

But now the three Shangshu have been dismissed at the same time. If you want to break your head, you can't find a similar event in the past hundred years. And what made Shen Mo even more frightened was that these three Shangshu were all Xu Jie's cronies, and it was said that they should be the future of iron and bronze.

It seems that there is another dragon fight in the city of Beijing. Shen Mo said secretly: "We must not relax our attention to the capital for a moment, otherwise all efforts will be in vain." ’

So what really happened in the Jingshi? Unexpectedly, Xu Jie didn't keep his three King Kongs? In fact, it was he who lifted the stone and hit himself in the foot. Ma Kun, Zhang Wei and others are actually Xu Jie's old buddies, and they were all capable ministers. In the years when the struggle with Yan Song became more and more intense, seeing that Zhao Zhenji, Ge Shouli and others were persecuted by the Yan family's father and son, in order to preserve his strength and preserve the vitality of the imperial court, he sent these people to Nanjing during the period when he was also in charge of the ministry, which was called snubbing, but in fact they took refuge.

When he finally brought down the Yan Party, he wanted to transfer these people back to Beijing to help him control the government, but the senior officials of the ministry were a turnip and a pit. And most of them are heroes who helped him to be strict, and he definitely can't unload the mill and kill the donkey, so someone has to take the initiative to resign before he can be transferred back. Wait, wait, wait until this spring, the eighty-year-old Hubu Shangshu Fang is blunt, and he returns to his hometown for the twentieth time, and finally gets approval, and Malili's Zhishi returns to his hometown.

Xu Jie has already agreed to several Shangshu in Nanjing, but after a long time, he can't hold his face, and now it is easy to vacate the seat, so he naturally immediately operates Tingtui, and smoothly transfers Ma Kun to the head of the household.

But just as this appointment had gone down and Ma Kun was about to go to Beijing, the Nanjing Mutiny occurred......

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In recent years, the weather in the north has become more and more abnormal, the winter is extremely cold, the summer is extremely hot, the rain is becoming more and more rare, this spring from the middle of February has a rain so far, there has not been a drop of rain stars, the northern provinces are thousands of miles of red land, millions of acres of land see no harvest, the people's tears are dry, the local officials are also so anxious that their throats are smoking, three days a book, to the imperial court to report the disaster. Asking for summer tax reductions and appropriations for disaster relief, the cabinet receives a bunch of them every day.

The pastures outside the mouth also seem to be affected, the Tartars' livestock are starving to death, the losses inside the wall are being replenished outside the wall, their looting this year is becoming more and more crazy, the nine sides frequently call the police, and the cabinet can also receive a stack of urgent documents every day.

This trouble from the east, west, north, south, and middle is all pressed on the cabinet, to be precise, Xu Gelao alone...... Although Yan Ne was added to the cabinet as assistant government affairs this spring, Yan Ne carefully guarded the dignity of the upper and lower levels, and let him do things beautifully, but he would definitely not take the initiative to give opinions; And Xu Jie's powerful assistant Zhang Juzheng was entrusted with a mission to inspect the provinces for disaster relief, and he couldn't count on it for a while.

After receiving the news of the Nanjing Mutiny, Xu Jie was not distracted too much, because he believed that Shen Mo would handle this matter well, and he was a noble protégé. The ability to do things is very strong, the wind and waves have passed, and the boat will never capsize in the gutter.

Sure enough, the news of quelling the chaos came quickly, Xu Jie was deeply pleased, and also calculated the punishment measures for the relevant officials, the fines above the third grade were demoted, and a batch of middle and low-level officials below the third grade were removed, which was harmless...... Of course, if there is no head on the ground, there will be long talk. So I looked at the roster, and Huang Cao, the head of the Nanjing Household Department in charge of the military depot, this small role who had nothing to do with it, became a victim. Xu Jiezhi ordered a division to strictly examine it, and as long as this person had a bad record of corruption, he would be charged with embezzling military salaries and causing a mutiny, and kill him to calm the anger of the public.

Repeatedly review your own punishment, and combine leniency and severity, and can make most of the people who are punished ...... Especially when the high-ranking officials accepted it, Xu Jie thought it was impeccable, so he ordered it to go down and ordered Yousi to handle it accordingly. It is said that although this is a bit arbitrary, it is very common, because in the past two years, the emperor has been sick for a long time and tired of government affairs, and the major affairs of state affairs can only be handed over to Xu Jie, so that he can let go and do it. This gave Xu Ge an excellent opportunity to display his talents, and in the past two years, he has passed through the heavens and the earth, and he has been quite ambitious; Blaming Chen Shan, it is really **. The advance and retreat of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces were all in the thought of Shoufu, and its authority was no less than that of the Yan family father and son.

Xu Jie didn't expect that someone would dare to question his decision, but as the saying goes, when the spring breeze is proud, it is also the day of jealousy.

However, Xu Jie's power was too strong, although Gao Gong was the secretary of the ministry and the teacher of King Yu, he also felt that he was alone and could not compete, and he did not dare to fight against him, but when a person returned to the court, he immediately found an ally.

That person's name was Guo Pu, a native of Anyang, Henan. Jiajing's fourteen-year-old Jinshi and Shujishi, Jiajing's forty-year-old secretary was appointed as the secretary of the ministry, but a few months before he returned to Beijing silently. Guo's father died of illness, so he had to return to his hometown to worry about it, and only returned to Beijing this spring. coincided with the fact that Yan Ne, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, entered the cabinet as a scholar, and at the same time, Gao Gong was transferred to the Ministry of Rites, vacating a seat for him...... This is actually Xu Jie's arrangement, he feels that Gao Gong is sitting in the seat of the heavenly official, which is really a threat, so he moves his seat to relax.

Xu Ge Lao was good at calculation in his life, almost never made mistakes, and he really expected to help Guo Pu return to the ministry, he could be grateful to himself. But this time he was really wrong, and not just one point, first, Guo Pu is Gao Gong's fellow countryman and friend; Second, if you can become friends with Gao Gong, you must be a stinky temper, and you won't buy his account as a young man.

And Guo Pu has been an honest official for decades, with a high reputation, and is deeply favored by the emperor, when he was in the court, he didn't give Yan Song and his son face, and the Yan family father and son didn't dare to do anything to him. I don't know if it's because the Henan people are angry or what, he and Gao Gong are both short-tempered, often drinking and chatting together, chatting and chatting about the government, and then it will evolve into a scolding of Xu Jie, the 'sanctimonious stealer of authority'...... At least during this period, the two of them were disgusted with Xu Jie, in fact, mostly from lingering feelings about the dictatorship of Yan Song's father and son, rather than out of personal anger.

As soon as the results of the Nanjing mutiny came out, Gao Gong and Guo Pu were angry again, and Xu Jie's protection of his own cronies was simply to the point of lawlessness - the Zhenwu battalion was recruited and trained by Zhang Wei, and now the rebellion is attacking the government, and Zhang Wei is only fined for one year and demoted by two levels; Besides, Ma Kun, now it has been found out that it was the improper handling of the household department that led to this mutiny, why did he come to Beijing to take office without any? Where does the law of the imperial court exist, is the authority of the state really left to him to play with?

Guo Pu took the case and said: "You have to treat him, otherwise he will be Yan Song again." ”

Gao Gong hesitated a little and said: "Xu Jie's old treacherous and cunning, I'm afraid we are not opponents." ”

"I'm afraid of a ball!" Guo Pu said: "The two of us are united, if we have a heart or not, can't we kill him?" ”

Gao Gong thought for a while, nodded and said, "I really have a killing move here, you can refer to it in detail." So the two whispered.

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In this era, the emperor claimed to be the son of heaven and ruled all the people on behalf of heaven, so abnormal changes in the climate would be regarded as a revelation from heaven; Since it is a revelation, there are good and bad, such as the appearance of Jingxing, Qingyun, Ruixue, Ruiyu, Ruixia, the combination of the sun and the moon, the five stars in a row, the wind does not sound, the sea does not raise waves, the mixed river is clear, and the regeneration of dead wood is auspicious, which is God's praise for the emperor...... Well done, praise.

But if there is a volcanic earthquake, a fire in the palace, as well as floods, hail and black frost, drought and locust plagues, etc., which cannot be broken, it is naturally a warning from God to the emperor. Then he will announce to the people of the world that he has received a revelation from heaven, usually 'traitorous ministers are in power', 'holy hearings are blinded', 'harsh government harms the people', etc., and then the emperor will punish a group of people, and even pretend to issue his own edicts.

This important ritual for maintaining imperial power has always been strictly observed by emperors of all dynasties, and even a stubborn master like Zhengde did not dare to take it lightly, let alone Comrade Jiajing, a fanatical religious element.

After not raining for eighty-one consecutive days, Jiajing finally issued a decree and summoned the cabinet scholars, scholars, and Qin Tianjian to the Shengshou Palace. After listening to the emperor's worries, Xu Jie was relieved: "Holy Mingjian, sunny, rainy, floods and droughts are all arranged by God, as long as the emperor is benevolent and self-denying; Hundreds of officials abide by the law, are diligent in government and love the people, and God has the virtue of a good life, and will not put all the people in fire and water, and I believe that the drought will be alleviated soon. Talking about the disaster relief plan that will be arranged, he told it one by one, which made Lao Jiajing feel very satisfied, at least the people couldn't afford it.

But to understand the heart of heaven correctly, you have to let the professionals ...... The Qin Tianjian that has been used by all dynasties is responsible for detecting celestial phenomena and interpreting the will of heaven for the emperor. So Jiajing's eyes fell on Qin Tianjian Zheng Jin Qiong and said, "Come and talk about it." ”

Jin Qiong took a step forward, knelt on the ground, raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the drought is a warning from the heavens, and it is not just relief that can be avoided. ”

"Warning from above?" Jiajing suddenly became nervous and asked, "What's the solution?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said that drought is yang, water is yin, and those who are in a big drought will be yang and yin. Those who are in the water, the yin and the yang are also extinguished! Jin Qiong played: "Now that there is a great drought for consecutive months, it is a warning that the yang energy in the middle of the court is too hot, and it has reached the point of extinguishing the yin!" ”

"Why does the yang extinguish the yin?" Jiajing's eyes flickered.

"Because the Son of Heaven 'let the yang not the yin'." The Jin Qiong was completely open-minded, and said loudly: "The yang is the head of the year, the insects of the world go in and out with the yang, and the plants and trees of the world rise and fall with the yang; However, the sage cloud 'yin and yang harmony', and cloud 'lonely yang does not give birth, lonely yin does not grow', that is, the Son of Heaven cannot be partial to favor, pro-yang and sparse yin, and must treat everyone equally, so that they can live and restrain each other, so that the wind and rain can be smooth...... If you only let the yang and not the yin, it will be suspended in the air for a day like now, and the land will be thousands ......of miles away."

When everyone present heard this, they were all shocked. This Jin Qiong is too bold to dare to openly claim that this drought was caused by someone's dictatorship, and it is unbelievable that he said it so clearly.

Xu Jie's forehead was already so hot that he was sweating, and now the sweat was dripping down the corners of his eyes, but he still opened his eyes wide, wanting to see if this Jin Qiong had eaten a bear's heart or a leopard's gall, and he fired at himself without warning.

Jiajing was also drowsy, but this shocked Jin Qiong's words made him sleepy, and a pair of narrow phoenix eyes flashed with cold light, and said: "The ministers around me are all here today, can you tell me that is the Dayang who I 'prefer to believe'?!" ”

Jin Qiong kowtowed his head and said: "Weichen only knows how to observe the heavens and speak, and he doesn't dare to speak falsely about your lords." In fact, there is no need for him to say it, who doesn't know who he is talking about.

"I told you to speak!" Jiajing pushed the cup in front of him, and the dark red rose dew and milky white ice ** were all sprinkled on the bright yellow stall, and a strange color of yellow, white and red appeared when it landed, and then mixed together.

Jin Qiong trembled with fright, his head hit the floor heavily, and blood oozed out, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.

Jiajing hissed and laughed: "You don't dare to say, I will say it for you, whoever has the highest official position and the most power around me is the Yang, right!" ”

Jin Qiong leaned over and pressed his forehead to the ground, no longer kowtowing, motionless.

In the middle of the room, Xu Jie also came down from the brocade pier, and knelt motionless in front of Jiajing.

Seeing that the pavilion elder knelt down, the rest of the ministers and the eunuchs outside the palace hurriedly knelt down, and even those mighty and majestic Han generals couldn't help but be moved, and said secretly: 'It's only been a few days since An's birthday, why are you here again?' ’

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Jiajing's thoughts were similar, he looked at everyone's expressions, suppressed his emotions again, and said slowly: "Get up, what are you doing kneeling?" ”

All the ministers looked at Elder Xu Ge, but saw that Xu Jie was still kneeling there, his body trembling slightly, could it be that he was frightened?

"Get up, Xu Jie......" Jiajing called again, and said unhappily in his heart: "No matter how much you are wronged, you can also say ...... to me" Before the words fell, I saw Xu Jie's body crooked, and he actually fainted on the main hall.

"Imperial Doctor, Quickly Pass the Imperial Doctor......" Shengshou Palace was in a mess, fortunately, the emperor was sick all day, the imperial doctor was always ready, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed into the main hall, went straight to the dragon bed, and when he saw the emperor's good end, he found that it was the first assistant who fainted, and then he turned to Xu Jie's side, looked at the eyelids, checked the tongue, and after some examination, he replied: "The head of state is fine, but he is overworked, worried and sleeps less, so that his body and mind are weak, and then he is a little stimulated, and all of a sudden his blood surges, his body can't bear it, and he faints, Just rest for a few days. ”

There was silence in the hall, Jiajing looked at Xu Jie, whose hair was all white, his eyes were a little moist, he remembered that a year ago, Xu Jie's hair was still gray, and now he couldn't find a single black hair. couldn't help but be a little emotional: "In the past two years, my health is not good, I am a little tired, the government is all supported by Cunzhai alone, you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, such a big country, so many things, he has to worry about it, he is as tired and tired as a donkey, how did he become an authoritarian careerist?" Saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Put Jin Qiong in prison and interrogate who made him say this!" Finally, the minister who warned him said: "Who dares to make a fuss about this matter again, and Jin Qiong will be accompanied by Jin Qiong in the edict!" ”

The ministers retreated awe-inspiringly, but after Shengshou Palace left, Gao Gong and Guo Pu couldn't help but exchange a victorious smile.

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Chapter 2, the monthly pass is over 100, so I want to add more, write it now, write it tomorrow morning, and then send it in the morning......

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