Soon, the emperor ordered the various departments to hold a meeting, and Li Mo should have a decision on where he should get it. The meeting was convened and presided over by Zhao Zhenji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhao Zhenji was sympathetic to Li Mo, he gave the meeting the surname and said, 'Discussion of punishment is not a crime', plus many people have the feeling of 'rabbit death and fox sorrow, things hurt their like', so in the end, only from the point of his gaffe, he played him 'paranoid for his own use, which is a loss of minister's courtesy; The story of the Han and Tang dynasties is not appropriate. ’

In other words, this guy is arrogant, he doesn't have a door on his lips, he doesn't speak properly, he should be beaten and scolded, but that's all.

As soon as the book was played, Emperor Long Yan of Jiajing was furious, saying that Zhao Zhenji and others were Li Mo's comrades and intended to protect them. The decree was severely reprimanded, and each person was fined for half a year as a punishment. As for Li Mo, he was still arrested and handed over to the Criminal Department for conviction.

This is really self-defeating! He Ao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, went home from illness a few years ago, and now Wang Xueyi, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, is in charge of the affairs of the Ministry, he is Yan Song's henchman, and he just took this opportunity to completely eliminate Li Mo.

In fact, Zhao Wenhua's fabricated charges were enough to put Li Mo to death...... Emperor Jiajing has always been stubborn and self-serving, and he can't tolerate the slightest dissent from the ministers, so how can the slanderers easily let it go? Moreover, the southeast plague has always been the emperor's heart disease, and he wants to explore the reason why the plague has not been extinguished for a long time, and Zhao Wenhua used 'supervising the non-human' to push the charge on Li Mo.

The Criminal Department quickly sentenced the death sentence and repeated the Xiyuan. Jiajing had no opinion after reading it, but he couldn't make a final decision for a long time.

Because his brother Lu Bing has been kneeling outside the palace for five days and five nights, he is willing to exchange his glory for His Majesty's extrajudicial mercy and spare the teacher's life.

Jiajing was originally angry with him and didn't plan to see him, but after all, he was a brother who had played since he was a child, and he always had some feelings beyond the monarch and minister. After a long time, his heart softened, and he first ordered Chen Hong to say a few words, and then left with a fierce face. He ordered someone to call Lu Bing in, and sighed to the kowtowing milk brother: "People have been doing this for a long time, and their hearts are like iron stones, why do you become softer the more you work......

Lu Bing bowed his head and wept and said: "When I was a child, I asked Your Majesty what 'loyalty' is, and Your Majesty said that you will never forget 'Heaven and Earth's Prince', which is loyalty. The minister has kept His Majesty's words in his heart for more than 30 years, and he has long been unable to change them. ”

Jiajing remembered that when he was a child, he played with him in the mud, caught birds, and peeked at Gong'e taking a bath, the corners of his mouth were no longer tight, and his heart couldn't continue to be hard, so he shook his head and said: "That's it, the law is nothing more than human affection." For the sake of the friendship we grew up with, I don't want his life. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the red pen, wrote a handwritten message on the paper, and handed it to Lu Bing.

Lu Bing stepped forward on his knees, rested the black gauze hat at the emperor's feet, and then took the edict, bowed to the emperor three times and bowed nine times, and was about to retreat.

Jiajing kicked the golden-winged black yarn of the first-class master at his feet, and scolded: "There is no way to pick a child!" Pick it up and put it on, what should you do! ”

Lu Bing burst into tears and said: "There is no joke in front of the king, and the minister does not dare to accept it!" ”

Emperor Jiajing walked over. took out a yellow handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Bingdao: "Wipe it, it's a person in your four or fifty years, and you are crying so much that your snot comes out, you are ashamed." Lu Bing grinned embarrassedly, but he didn't dare to take the emperor's handkerchief, so he wiped his face clean with his sleeve.

Jiajing patted him on the shoulder and said, "I am an only son, no brothers...... said with a self-deprecating smile: "I'm afraid that even if there are brothers, there are no two of us." ”

Lu Bing was moved to tears again, only to hear Jiajing continue: "The most credible person in this world is you, if you don't do it, I won't even be able to sleep well." ”

Lu Bing hurriedly said: "The minister will continue to do it, so that His Majesty can sleep peacefully." ”

"That's great." Jiajing nodded and smiled: "Actually, I am very pleased that you can speak for your teacher...... At the end of the day, I still like loyal people. Just like when I was silent, I liked it very much when I could take the risk of studying for my teacher, which made you close to him, because such a person can protect your children and grandchildren. ”

Lu Bing cried again.

Jiajing scolded with a smile: "Why do you look like a girl?" Get out of here, go get your teacher out and let him go back to his old age. "The words on that edict are 'send back to your hometown, never be used'.

Lu Bingxing left Xiyuan in a hurry, and went to the Dongchang Yamen outside the Donghua Gate in the east of the Forbidden City.

What he never imagined was that Li Mo had already committed suicide by taking poison!

Holding the cold corpse of his master, Lu Bing howled like a wounded beast. His body was already tired, and there was another burst of fire, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot.

Almost at the same time, Chen Hong had already gone and returned, kneeling down in front of the meditating emperor.

After Jiajing finished carrying Zhou Tian, he slowly finished his work, and asked lightly: "Is it done?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's all done." Chen Hong whispered.

"Will it show its feet?" Jiajing asked, "My milk brother is an expert. ”

"The slave knows that as long as there is the slightest trace of coercion, Lu Dudu will notice it." Chen Hongmei said with a smile: "So the slave maid said directly to Li Mo, Your Majesty takes care of your decency, and will not execute in public, let you take poison here and leave a whole corpse." ”

"What did he say?" Jiajing asked quietly.

He believed it, bit his finger and wrote three hateful words, took the bottle of Heding Red, and committed suicide. Chen Hong said a little proudly: "He didn't move a finger from beginning to end, Your Majesty, please rest assured." ”

"Hmm......" Jiajing nodded slowly, "Good job, but I can't reward you for this." ”

"The slave knows." Chen Hong said with a small meaning: "If this matter is spread, the slave and maid will have to be eaten alive by Lu Dudu." ”

"It's good to know, but I don't have to tell you." Jiajing said lightly: "Deal with all the minions who know, don't leave the palace from now on, leave the errand to Chang San......"

"Yes......" Chen Hong said with some frustration.

"Don't be unhappy, I'm here for your good." Jiajing glanced at him and said, "If you go out now, you will definitely be killed by Lu Bing...... Li Fang is already old, and after a few years, I will send him back to Anlu's hometown to retire. "The implication is that the position of the eunuch of the palm seal is yours, of course, I don't know what it means, that is, the final interpretation is up to me.

Chen Hong was excited and retreated upside down.

Emperor Jiajing was the only one left in the cultivation room, and he breathed a long sigh of relief and said to himself: "Whoever offends me, you still have the easiest death." He continued to meditate.

The news of Li Mo's suicide made all the undercurrents surging in the capital surface!

When Li Mo was imprisoned, Jiajing immediately issued a decree to depose Wang He, who had not yet taken office, and entered Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian as the Zuo Shilang of the Military Department and the Imperial History of Zuo Du, and the governor of the military affairs of the six southeastern provinces.

The next time, he took the university scholar Li Ben and was in charge of the affairs of the ministry, and promoted the bachelor Li Chunfang as the bachelor of Hanlin, and began to take a two-pronged approach to thoroughly purge Li Mo's two major teams.

For a time, the people in the capital were panicked, and everyone in the officials was in danger, lest this tragic struggle spread to themselves.

A few families are happy and a few are sad, and the strict party is naturally proud of the spring breeze and arrogant. Among them, Zhao Wenhua is the most. Although his intelligence is not enough to outline such a sinister and deadly conspiracy, the letter bears his name after all! After this omission, Li Mo was not only cleared, but also cleared of his own charges, and eliminated the emperor's suspicions. Regained Jiajing's trust, how can you make Lord Zhao not excited!

Moreover, Yan Ge Lao said that His Majesty intended to let him go south again and supervise Jiangnan to guide Hu Zongxian's work. Although he was crying and shouting to come back at the beginning, but this time and that time, now that the strict party in the DPRK and China is dominant, there is no longer a threat to him, and there is no need to worry about someone suing him.

Dreaming of Jiangnan Spring, Zhao Butang swayed out of his father's study step by step, and saw Li Ben, a university scholar, and a little official who was not good-looking waiting outside.

Arching his hand casually towards Li Ben, Zhao Wenhua smiled and said, "Lao Li, who are you?" ”

Li Ben shook his head and smiled: "I didn't know you before," he said and smiled at the dark-faced official: "What is your surname?" ”

The official saluted and said, "Lord Hui, the new head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, Yang Jisheng." Although he is a petty official from the fifth grade, he still makes the eyes of the two senior officials from the first rank shine...... It is the Department of Literature and Literature that manages the promotion of civil officials, and the promotion of military attaches is the Department of Military Selection, and fools know that they are all first-class fat differences. Moreover, the generals deducted military salaries, ate vacancies, and were more ruthless than the civilian officials, so the head of the Military Selection Division is the fattest director of the six departments, and I believe that no one will object.

"Wu Xuan Division," Zhao Wenhua said in his heart, "It seems that he is here to make offerings." Then he said, "You should go to Xiao Ge Lao, his study is in the courtyard next door." ”

Yang Jisheng took out a copy of his name and said, "It was Yan Ge who called me here." ”

Seeing that it was the person his godfather wanted to see, Zhao Wenhua no longer had much to do, waved his hand and said, "Then let's go, see you back." The latter sentence was said to Li Ben.

Yan Song saw Yang Jisheng first, not to take the opportunity to humiliate Li Ben...... He has already ordered Yan Nian to tell Li Ben that our matter is more important, and we will talk about it after the old man sends this kid away.

In the study, after Yang Jisheng saluted in a proper manner, he sat upright, silently waiting for Yan Song to speak.

didn't expect to be grateful, and didn't even hear a word of thanks, which made Yan Ge very disappointed...... Because Yang Jisheng can have today, it all depends on his promotion!

This Yang Jisheng, born in the 26th year of the famous Jiajing Ding Weike, the champion of this subject is Li Chunfang, as well as Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shizhan, Wang Shizhen, etc., is regarded as a group of people who are destined to make contributions and leave their names in history in the future.

Compared with these people, Yang Jisheng has almost no merit, and the top three Jinshi who were born in three generations of poor peasants are not good-looking, and their literary style is average, and they have no great future.

The only thing that is stronger than them is that he once squatted in the legendary edict...... Because he opposed the non-resistance general Qiu Luan who did business with me at the beginning, he was imprisoned, ate a stick, and demoted his official position to a remote border area.

Later, Qiu Luan fell, and all those who opposed him were reborn, and Yang Jisheng was no exception, and the official was reinstated as the magistrate, and a few years later he was promoted to the head of the household department in Nanjing, and a month ago he was promoted to the member of the criminal department...... After returning to the capital to report to the Criminal Department, people told him with jealousy, you have changed places, go to the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War to be the director.

Wu Xuansi is known as 'idle and rich, fat and oily', and the reason why Yang Jisheng, who has no background, was able to get this position was entirely because of Yan Song's recommendation.

And the reason why Yan Ge Lao promoted Yang Jisheng was mainly because of this person's good reputation...... After half a year of torture, Yan Ge Lao learned from the pain and decided to reshape his image and support a few reputable officials to fill the façade.

Moreover, this person used to oppose Qiu Luan. Qiu Luan is also Yan Ge's old enemy. In Yan Song's view, the enemy of his enemy is his friend. So he thinks that he can take advantage of this, use his official position and interests to buy this person, and be able to take him for his own use.

So it is not surprising that Elder Yan Ge was disappointed at this moment.

Let him knock on the side, implying that he was the one who made him where he is today, Yang Jisheng was like a piece of wood, and there was no response. Soon Yan Song lost interest and waved his hand to let him retreat. The heart said: 'No wonder the emperor doesn't like the direct ministers, these people really don't understand the amorous feelings.' ’

But he didn't know that this person was not just as simple as understanding amorous feelings? On this person's list of enemies, the dead ghost Qiu Luan can only rank second, and the first place will always belong to him Yan Ge Lao!

What is the enmity between the two? There is no personal vendetta, only public indignation!

Recruiting this person into the capital is simply finding an explosive bag for himself...... Yan Ge Lao didn't have front and back eyes, and he couldn't imagine how much trouble there would be, or he would definitely let Yang Jisheng evaporate from the world.

After packing up his heart, he invited Li Ben in...... Li Ben, whose real name is Lu Ben, is surnamed Li, and is a native of Yuyao, Shaoxing. Jiajing eleven years of Jinshi. He entered the cabinet in the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing after Xia Yan abandoned the city, and for many years under Yan Song's Yinwei, he had already bowed his head to his ears, but he obeyed his orders, and he did not dare to disobey at all.

After the unnutritious greetings, Yan Song said the purpose of looking for him, and asked him to write a book to Jingcha.

Li Ben was surprised: "It's already September, and it's a routine Beijing inspection in the new year, is it necessary to bother with this?" ”

"Yes." Yan Song nodded, but he didn't explain the reason. He knew very well the Jiajing Emperor, who was 'impulsive and emotional, transmuted and intelligent', and knew that if he did not follow the emperor's angry energy, strike while the iron was hot, and create a fait accompli. I'm afraid that after waiting for a while, the emperor's anger will disappear and he will come back to his senses, and he will still find a secretary who is against him, and then he will want to sweep away dissidents and cultivate party henchmen, but it will be even more difficult.

Of course, the reason why he is so impatient is also due to the fact that Yan Dang has lost too much blood in the past six months and urgently needs to recover.

Li Ben was just a puppet, there was no need to explain anything to him, Yan Song picked up a piece of music from the table and said: "You go back and take a look, if there is no problem, copy it and hand it over, and the emperor will definitely play it...... And will compliment you. ”

Li Ben knew that Yan Song was just borrowing his position, so he saluted helplessly, took the thing and went out.

The next day, Emperor Jiajing saw the recital of Li Ben, a scholar who was also in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and asked to inspect the yamen officials and governors of Liangjing Jiuqing and Changerfu Temple...... The governors of this dynasty are all nominally Beijing officials, but they are only stationed in the local area for a long time.

Jiajing looked at the song and wrote: "The minister who is close to the party (that is, Li Mo), the internal and external employment, regardless of whether they are virtuous or not, uses love and hatred as a sacrifice, favoritism and bribery, and only takes the position, which is based on merit, and the north and the south are chaotic." Your Majesty's holy will has been changed many times, that is, there are people who protect themselves, and few can share the main worries. When the minister heard that the piano was out of tune, he changed the tune; If the wolf is not removed, Jiagu will not be born. Therefore, it is not good to use people. The husband is the minister, the head of the minister, and the minister is not in office, the minister will follow it, so the minister who is not good will be the minister first. ’

This note was actually original by Yan Shifan, and he pointed the finger directly at the red-robed high-ranking officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the intention of detecting dissidents was clearly revealed. But he skillfully pulled Li Mo in, saying that the court used to be chaotic, all because of Li Mo's nepotism and inhuman use.

All of a sudden, Emperor Jiajing, who was angry, believed this bullshit. He also praised Li Ben for 'serving the country loyally' and ordered him to handle the matter with full authority.

As a result, Li Ben divided the 113 members of the DPRK into three classes. Twenty-eight people, Wu Peng, Zhao Wenhua, Yan Shifan, etc.; Medium 70 people, Yan Maoqing, Xu Luxiang, etc.; The fifteen inferior people, that is, those who should be reprimanded are Yang Xingzhong, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, Ge Shouli, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Ma Quan, the right attendant of the household department, Wang Chen, the left attendant of the military department, Zheng Datong, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, and Guo Jun, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works.

Li Ben had never been in charge of the ministry before, and now he had only been in charge for a few days, so how could he find out the one hundred and thirteen officials clearly at once? There's nothing mysterious in it, it's just doing what it's told.

It's just that it's not Jiajing, it's Yan Song.

According to the law, the upper class can be promoted as appropriate, the medium can be retained, and the inferior class can be deposed. If Jiajing approves this list, there will really be no competition with Yan Song in the world from now on......

(To be continued)