Chapter 438: Fu Que (I)

Entering June, as the capital enters the hottest time of the year, the atmosphere in the court seems to have entered the freezing point. (7* There was no early dynasty, and the ministers, who had never had enough to sleep, could barely get a good night's sleep, but what was originally thought to be a virtuous government was now a decree that everyone hated—at least most complained about.")

Because, for almost a month, Zhu Houzhao has never opened the Wenhua Palace!

Hundreds of officials are not allowed to see the face of the sky, and the celebrant eunuch routinely wants to send the presentation of the fold to the imperial tour and can't find anyone, the eunuch Li Rong had to let Gao Feng go to Xiyuan to persuade Zhu Hou to take care of the court, and Chen Kuan repeatedly went to the cabinet to discuss with the elders, and finally even Dai Yi, who returned to Beijing, and Wang Yue, who came back from Tailing, were also called to Xiyuan. Even so, they all pounced on each other, Liu Jin pulled others to try their best to block the car, where could they see people? As a result, the number of times he went back to the cabinet was too much, and a big plan inevitably brewed among the people.

In the evening of that day, the second assistant Li Dongyang returned to his mansion in Xiaoyongfang with a calm face. This is the first time he has gone home in more than 20 days, although the family is very happy, but seeing the haze face of his master, even if he is very happy, he can only hide it in his heart, even when Mrs. Zhu accompanied her to dinner, she carefully introduced the topic to her heir Li Zhaofan. However, Li Dongyang didn't mean to ask about the heir Zhaofan's knowledge, and suddenly interrupted Mrs. Zhu to ask.

"Are there any letters from the city of Nanking these days?"

Knowing that Li Dongyang was asking his younger brother Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, Mrs. Zhu hesitated for a moment and then nodded and said, "There is a letter from home." However, as hot as today, it took more than 20 days on the road. ”

"It doesn't matter, take it and show me."

Since Li Dongyang ordered so, Mrs. Zhu naturally went back to the room to get the letter in person. Seeing that Li Dongyang took the letter, he looked at the letterhead carefully, frowning slightly from time to time, and Mrs. Zhu, who had already read the letter, couldn't help but be a little puzzled. In addition to some greetings, the letter from her brother told her some inconsequential gossip, and it did not involve major affairs in the court - and her husband was in the cabinet, and the world was full of news, what else did she not know, and she actually wanted to read her brother's family letter?

Therefore, after seeing that Li Dongyang actually read it once, and then looked back at it a second time, Mrs. Zhu suddenly couldn't help but say: "Master, Erlang's letter only said some insignificant idle things, if you want to know about Jinling, why don't you send someone to ask him?" ”

Li Dongyang waved his hand to stop his wife, and it took a long time to put down the thin two pieces of letterhead, but he said lightly: "You don't need to be so busy, the things on the ground in Jinling, the Nanjing official also played, but after all, it is more reliable that Cheng Guogong mentioned in his letter to your family." I really didn't expect that a person like Zhang Fuhua, who couldn't rub sand in Geng Jie's eyes, would actually write an epitaph for Xu Xun's deceased mother, and Zhang Mao also wrote a memorial text himself, it seems that Xu Xun's reputation in Nanjing is really no ...... than in the capital."

Mrs. Zhu realized that it was for this, and when she was about to speak, a mother's voice came from outside: "Master, Li Mengyang, a member of the household department, asks to see you." ”

"Invite him to the study, and I'll come." Li Dongyang stood up, casually put the two pieces of letterhead back in the envelope and handed them to Mrs. Zhu, and said, "You don't have to ask anything when you reply to Cheng Guogong, it's still as it is." ”

Knowing Li Dongyang's temperament, Mrs. Zhu naturally didn't ask much, and got up to send someone out as soon as she agreed. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a figure looking at the stacks of books on the bookshelf with interest behind his back, and he couldn't help coughing angrily and funny. ..., "Teacher! ”

Li Mengyang stepped forward quickly, and after giving a deep salute, he asked bluntly: "I heard that the master minister rarely took a day off today, I didn't dare to disturb, but I didn't expect the master to summon me, I don't know what's going on?" ”

Li Dongyang waved his hand to signal that he was exempt from courtesy, and he sat down on the main seat first, and then ordered Li Mengyang to sit down. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "The emperor has not seen a foreign official for more than a month, and even the celebrant and the princess are difficult to see. Although the official has repeatedly written books, he can't get to the front of the emperor at all, and there is really no way to do it. If this continues, I am afraid that sooner or later there will be changes in the DPRK and China. ”

The teacher said this to himself from the bottom of his heart, and Li Mengyang immediately sat up straight. He has always been impulsive and jealous, so he gritted his teeth and said: "It's all those gelding dogs who lead the emperor to fight cocks and walk dogs and indulge in martial arts. In today's plan, it is useless for one person to write a book, so many people should be twisted into a rope, so that the emperor has to face up to public opinion in the court. Even if you retreat to the next best thing, you have to expel these traitors from the capital! ”

"You're right!" Li Dongyang nodded heavily, and then said word by word, "It's just that many people in the DPRK and the central government are now eyeing each other because of the gap between the Criminal Department of the Military Department and the main hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This kind of thing should have been done by the three members of our cabinet, but everything should be done in an orderly and gradual manner, and the DPRK and China should not make a public comment. ”

"Shixiang means ......"

Seeing that Li Mengyang seemed to have understood, Li Dongyang said in an aggravated tone: "At this time, what is required is for the well-known iron-clad ministers of the court to gather a large number of people to write to Fu Que, so that he can shake the emperor who has fun in Xiyuan and ignores government affairs!" ”

Although Li Mengyang is impulsive, he is not stupid. Of course, he can be regarded as an iron-clad minister, but to take the lead in doing this, his reputation and official position are not enough, so he thought about it again and again, and finally said tentatively: "What the master said is the head of the household Han Shangshu?" ”

Hubu Shangshu Han Wen is the famous minister of the Song Dynasty after Han Qi, who is strong and decisive. He was born as a speech official, and he once impeached Ning Jinbo, Liu Ju, Wang Yue, Ma Wensheng and other honorable ministers when he was in the matter, and even because his words were too fierce and involved in the two palaces, he was beaten by the court staff, and then went around and around in the foreign official office for more than ten years, and it was only in the seventeenth year of Hongzhi that he was called back to the head of the household department. And Li Mengyang is deeply trusted by Hangul, and he also has the meaning of taking Hangul as an example, so he will take Zhang Heling, the Marquis of Shouning, the previous time. Seeing Li Dongyang nodding in agreement at this moment, he immediately stood up.

"Don't worry, I will definitely convince Master Han!"

After a detailed explanation, Li Dongyang personally sent Li Mengyang to the door of the study, and when he saw the people striding away, he couldn't help but sigh, secretly wondering if it was really wrong for him to listen to Jiao Fang's lobbying to transfer Xu Xun out of the capital. In the past, when Xu Xun was in the capital, although the little emperor did things by his own temperament, he had some rules after all, but now that Xu Xun is not there, Liu Jin's eunuchs are actually holding the dignified son of heaven and not letting people approach, and I am afraid that it will be too late if I don't take a dose of fierce medicine.

"I only hope that Han Guandao can succeed in one fell swoop...... As long as we can shake the king's heart with momentum, a few of us can reveal it...... Coupled with the celebrant supervisors, they will definitely be able to turn the situation around...... Those eunuchs are all soaked in Xiyuan all day long to accompany the emperor to mess around, Xichang and Jinyiwei have no way to send news into the palace, plus the soldiers and horses of the 12th regiment of the Beijing camp...... As long as the emperor can be forced to make up his mind, he can't care about the infamy in the future, and a few of us are always worthy of the first emperor........."..., Li Dongyang, who was muttering to himself, did not notice that his tone was very uncertain. Although it is clearly understood that today's son is not the Hongzhi Emperor who has served him for many years of benevolence and generosity, and cannot be considered by common sense, but compared to those eunuchs whose roots are only in the palace and there are fewer henchmen outside the palace, their chances of winning are really not small! But for some reason, he always felt a little upset. Thinking of Liu Daxia's indignation, and then thinking of Ma Wensheng who left gloomily, his face couldn't help but darken.

He made an appointment with Li Mengyang and asked him to encourage Han Wen to come forward, but this was not his intention alone, but also Liu Jian's intention to Xie Qian...... Of course, you have to add a Jiao Fang. If he hadn't passed Liu Jin's movements directly to the cabinet the same year ago, Liu Jian and Xie Qian, who had always had a bad opinion of him, would not have turned a blind eye to the position of secretary of the ministry. And the reason why Liu Jin and the others dare to have fun with Zhu Houzhao wholeheartedly is because they are sure that Jiao Fang is in charge of the officials and they get carried away.

Coming out of Li Ge Lao Hutong, Li Mengyang did not rush to see Han Wen, but first visited a few officials who were familiar with him and were the most outspoken overnight. Early the next morning, I went to the Wenhua Hall to wait, but the officials rushed back to the yamen with complaints. However, among the recitals received by the General Administration Department, there were seven or eight more recitals of fierce rhetoric and punishing the eunuchs. Unable to send it to the imperial front, the celebrant naturally transferred all these things to the cabinet, because the Chinese calligraphy and documents walking in the cabinet are holding a fire these days, and when they go to the six branch corridors and six departments to do things, they will inevitably publicize the news.

It's just a few months of hard work, Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, have successively sent to Shi, plus the dead Imperial Shi Daishan of the Left Capital of the Imperial Inspectorate, and Min Qi of Zhishi a few years ago, since the death of Emperor Hongzhi, four of the seven Qings have been gone, and the Hanwen of the Household Department has both a feeling of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, and an indescribable resentment. Therefore, the cabinet secretary indignantly said that there were twenty or thirty copies of the backlog of official Jianzhang in the cabinet, but none of them could be sent to the imperial front, and he finally couldn't help but explode in front of his subordinates.

"Fighting dogs and horses, flying eagles fighting rabbits, singing and dancing, and wrestling with horns...... Since the emperor ascended the throne, those traitors have been bewitching with these things, and it is difficult not to lose their minds without playthings! If this continues, the emperor will inevitably forget the earnest entrustment of the first emperor before his death! There are dozens of books written by the officials, but the emperor doesn't read any of them, is there really no way? ”

Han Wen slapped on the table, but the solid table was not as ordinary as the ordinary goods in the restaurant, and it actually shook his hands. But he didn't bother to pay attention to this level of pain, he clenched his fists tightly, and the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, obviously extremely angry. The subordinates below all knew the strong temper of this household Shangshu, and no one dared to open his mouth when you looked at me, but one person chuckled lightly at this time.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and Han Wen at the top also glared at him fiercely, Li Mengyang stood up unhurriedly, arched his hand and said: "My lord is an important minister of the first emperor, a member of the imperial court, and he is in solidarity with the country. At present, the officials are impeaching these traitors, and the cabinet elders are also bent on getting rid of the traitors. ”……，