Chapter 832: The So-Called Friends (II)

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July is also called the Ghost Month, July 15 Midyear Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival, in this era when people are still very faithful, there are all kinds of taboos in this month, lest when the underworld opens mén, annoys those bull heads and horses, impermanence and the like, and is dragged down by them.

On this day, a bad news that made the officialdom of the capital feel that it was nothing to knock on the ghost spread in the capital - "Gao Ge Lao is back again!" ’

In fact, this news has been spread before, but before it is certain, those officials who have offended him will inevitably get lucky...... Everyone wishfully thinks that almost half of the officials in the capital are guilty of Gao Gong, and they think that those big officials will definitely resist to the end and not let this matter come true. Later, I heard that the holy decree had arrived in Xinzheng, but Gao Gong refused, although he knew that he was pretending to make a gesture to prevent them from making irresponsible remarks, but everyone would still comfort themselves...... Maybe Gao Gong understood that Beijing did not welcome him, so he retreated.

But today, the news that Gao Ge Lao had left home and would be able to arrive in Beijing in a few days finally made them completely stop thinking about it, and instead of it, there was a gloomy cloud.

Everyone knows what it means for Gao Ge Lao to come back this time, it is a tiger out of the cage and wants to eat people! For a while, people were panicked, not knowing whether their future was bad or good.

It seems that God still thinks that the return of the high arch is not strong enough, and at this time it also came out to add luàn...... On the afternoon of the same day, when the city was about to be closed, a group of knights dressed in filial piety clothes entered Beijing and came to the Tianguan Mansion in the east of the city.

Before the sky was dark, the people of the mansion had just hung up the red lanterns, and they saw the knights from far and near, and they stopped their horses in front of the mansion.

Mén just wanted to say, whose family is so depressed? But when he looked at the person who was the leader, he couldn't help but stumble and said, "Oh, isn't this the second young master!" ”

That person was Yang Bo's second son, Yang Du, who had always stayed in his hometown in Puzhou to take care of Mrs. Tai. The butler who came with him on the side, while helping the overtired second young master to dismount, cried to the mén: "Go and report to the master, there is a funeral ......"

Ménzi shuddered with fright and asked in a trembling voice, "Who, who's gone?" ”

"Mrs. ......"

The red lantern that had just been registered on the Tianguan Mansion was removed and replaced with a white lantern representing a family funeral......

At first hearing the bad news, Yang Bo was so sad that he fainted, and he cried in the room.

When he woke up, he saw that his sons were all gathered in front of Chuáng to wipe their tears, and a little back, Wang Guoguang, Zhang Siwei and Ma Ziqiang and other core members of the Jin Party were also there, all with a sad face, like a mourner.

Yang Bo burst into tears again and said: "After the death of the first monarch, Mrs. Tai's health has not been good, but she can't think of saying that it will be gone." As he spoke, he forcibly got off the ground, pushed away the children and grandchildren who stepped forward to support him, knelt down in the southwest direction, kowtowed vigorously, and wept bitterly: "Mother, my son is not filial...... crying heartbreakingly, smelling sad.

Everyone easily helped him up, and Wang Guoguang persuaded: "Yu Gong's day mourns, Mrs. Tai has no illness and no disaster, and she died at the age of eighty-four, which is how many people can't repair it." ”

"Yes, this is a joy and mourning...... Zhan Shifu Zhan Shima Ziqiang, not a descendant of the 'Yang Bo-Wang Chonggu' alliance, but a long way with the kingdom, although it is not close to the former, but when encountering things, they will still be united with the outside world and advance and retreat together. At this juncture of change, Yang Bo's old mother died suddenly, and this soul figure must immediately return to his hometown to worry, for the Jin Party, this is naturally a matter of rise and fall. So the two persuaded Yang Bo to calm down and quickly come up with countermeasures.

Yang Bo cried for a while before he stopped and said, "The old man will go to the book tomorrow to ask to return to his hometown to guard the system." ”

"Then ......" Wang Guoguang asked, "...... at this pass"

"What else could I do?" Yang Mu is not very interested in Wang Guoguang, this guy and Zhang Juzheng are walking too closely, in his opinion, this is a manifestation of political disqualification: "Do you want my father to be drowned by the spitting stars?" ”

"I didn't mean that," Wang Guoguang explained in embarrassment: "It's just that Gao Suqing set off on the front foot, and you are about to leave Beijing on the back foot, so what should the officials do, what should the court bureau do?" What do we do? ”

"Yes...... Zhang Siwei also sighed deeply: "The bad news is too sudden, and it has made all our arrangements." "Originally, the Jin Party, the Shen Party, and the Xu Party had already carved up the court before Gao Gong Future. Each of them put their own territory, the needle of the operation can not penetrate, the water is not penetrated, only ready to leave a short head for the high arch, so that it is in front, do some reforms, and will not damage the interests of the three families. But now, the barrel, which had been tightly closed, had been dropped by chōu on the thickest and tallest plank, how much water could still be stored in it?

Looking at the party henchmen with worried faces, Yang Bo said in a hoarse voice: "People can't fight with the sky...... We can't go as we planned anymore. ”

"It's all up to you." Everyone said solemnly.

"Three things," Yang Bo stretched out three fingers and said: "First, I originally wanted Ziwei to be stable in the Ministry of Rites, not to enter the cabinet in such a hurry, but now I have to ...... in advance" He said and looked at Zhang Siwei and said, "You have to be ready." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Siwei said worriedly: "Uncle, the child is really not ready. "There is only one silence in the world, and no one can replicate his experience, so most officials, no matter how talented you are, have to work hard for qualifications and wait until the right time to sit in the right seat. The result of the seedlings being promoted...... Zhang Juzheng is an example, this bachelor who is two years earlier than him, has been restricted everywhere since he entered the cabinet, and he wanted to turn over, but he was almost destroyed. After recognizing the situation, he was ready to bow down and do xiǎo, but he was trampled on, how could he still have half the dignity of the prime minister?

Although Zhang Siwei can't resist the yòuhuò of going to the pavilion to worship the prime minister, he definitely doesn't want to go now, otherwise he will not escape the bad luck of Zhang Juzheng, or wait, and it would be good to have some qualifications. This is also what Yang Bo meant.

However, now that such an accident has happened, the situation no longer allows him to follow the steps step by step, and he must be forced into the cabinet first...... Otherwise, Yang Bo will be gone for three years, and I don't know what will happen in these three years. In short, it is safer to be in the cabinet.

"Since it's a qualification, it's the same wherever you go." His answers are always extremely ironing.

"It's best if you have this awareness," Yang Bo's expression softened a little and said: "But don't worry too much, you are our phoenix of Shanxi, how can you be compared to an upstart like Zhang Taiyue, there are your uncle and Uncle Huo outside, ......" said and looked at Wang Guoguang and Ma Ziqiang and said: "And your big brother Wang and big brother Ma ......"

Wang Guoguang and Ma Ziqiang knew that this was for them to make a statement, so they nodded and said, "Yes, we will only look forward to Ziwei's horse." ”

Zhang Siwei hurriedly waved his hand and said, "How dare you, how dare you ......"

"Don't lift him," Yang Bo said lightly: "He can't control the scene now, don't let people bully him." Seeing that the two of them should come down, he said again: "The second thing, Lao Ge must be allowed to come back, if I am not in him or absent, you will not be able to keep the country." ”

"It's great that Ge Lao can come back." When everyone heard this, they were shocked, and when they talked about the backbone of the Jin Party, in addition to Yang Bo, there was only Ge Shouli, and Zhang Siwei couldn't hold back now: "It's just that he just returned last year, is it convenient to come back this year?" ”

"Don't worry, although he is a square person, he knows the overall situation," Yang Bo said: "When I pass by his house, I will go to talk to him, and I believe he will come back to take charge." ”

"What kind of official position will Ge Lao hold after he comes back?" Ma Ziqiang asked.

"......" Yang Bo said a little gloomily: "If I go, eighty percent of the officials will fall into the hands of Gao Gong, and now he will be like a tiger, I am afraid that it is no longer realistic to want to clamp him down." ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, which was also the most worried...... The original two pillars of the Officials and Jin Party were none other than the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War. Among them, the official department is still in the book. As the head of the Nine Qings, he has the heavy power to appoint and dismiss hundreds of officials, but all the more powerful officials can compete with the cabinet and scholars on an equal footing, and they are known as 'heavenly officials'.

Now Yang Bo, who is both the secretary of the ministry and the military department, has returned to his hometown to worry about it, but no one in the Jin Party can fill the vacancy after he leaves. This is not to blame others, who made Yang Bo save his heart and want his cronies to take over these two yamén? As a result, the military department has been silently taken away, and because of the suddenness of the incident, there is no enough person to take over...... So it was almost a foregone conclusion that it was taken away by the high arch that came back strongly.

"My position must change hands temporarily." Yang Bo said slowly: "But the Ministry of Officials is too important, and it must be in our hands, so you have to help Gao Gong together and ascend to the position of the first assistant in one go, and Jiāo's change of condition is to let Lao Ge come to be this heavenly official." ”

"But no matter what you do, no one can completely protect you when the old man is away...... Yang Bo closed his eyes tiredly and said: "So for the plan to send troops to the Hetao, you must fully support it, and if we win the battle, we will benefit the most." And it can also highlight the importance of Jianchuan, so that no one dares to act rashly...... The old man doesn't mind playing for three years. ”

Except for Wang Guoguang, everyone nodded yes.

Yang Bo saw that his expression was different, and said with some displeasure: "The southeast has promised that he will bear the military expenses of their soldiers, do you still have to cry poor?" ”

"Even if you don't have to worry about the military expenses and food of the guest army, there are still Beijing troops and border troops, and this half of the military funds have not yet been settled." Feeling Lao Yang's displeasure, Wang Guoguang hurriedly explained: "These armies have to rely on the household department to support, and they are barely able to maintain themselves, so how can they fight?" ”

"This question asks you, you make Zhang Juzheng annoyed," Yang Bo said lightly: "Doesn't he have many ways?" Let him watch it, and you just do what you are told. ”

"What if he harms our interests?" Yang Mu couldn't help but ask.

"......" Yang Bo glanced at his son dissatisfied, and said lightly: "Then we have to calculate, this is not cost-effective compared to what we will win." "The Shanxi Gang's enthusiasm for recovering the Hetao is definitely not out of national pride and patriotism, but because of their very clear strategic purpose.

If all goes well, it will be another pillar of their life in addition to the salt industry, getting rid of their dependence on the government and making them really strong.

Wang Guoguang didn't understand the truth in this, his face changed and he nodded: "I understand......"

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If the news of Gao Gong's return only worries the people in the officialdom of the capital; The bad news that he was appointed by Emperor Longqing as the secretary of the ministry before he entered Beijing completely plunged them into a nightmare.

Originally, although everyone was shocked, they always felt that the court had been divided, and even if Gao Gong came back, it was just an empty title of a pavilion elder, and it was not so easy to rectify people. But now, Emperor Longqing has put the power of life and death of the officials of the four pins into his hands...... And the enemies of Gao Gong, the Daoist officials of the Banke, are all below the fourth grade, if they can be spared, then it will not be Gao Suqing.

And so a jaw-dropping scene appeared...... Within three days of Gao Gong's decree to serve as the secretary of the ministry, more than 50 resignation letters were sent to the cabinet, imploring the resignation to go home and farm, so as not to be eaten by Gao Beard to the point that there were no bones left. Looking at their names again, all of them are the officials who impeached him in the first place.

If so many officials resign at the same time, if the imperial court approves it, doesn't it mean that the emperor also thinks that Gao Gong will liquidate these miscellaneous fish when he returns? What's more, this is not a play house, how can so many people leave at the same time? So the vast majority of resignations were rejected.

However, there are exceptions, and a few officials who have a particularly serious conflict with Gao Gong, and have reached the point of life and death, were still allowed to go. Among them is the famous scolding god Ouyang Yijing. It is said that scolding God is worthy of scolding God, scolding people is powerful, flashing people is also fast, and when he sees that the situation is not good, he immediately resigns, and after being rejected, he writes a bloody letter...... Of course, it will not be said that he is afraid of the high arch, but with the most high-sounding reason, he wants to go home to serve his mother, and he doesn't know what to do early.

Fortunately, the court also understood his situation, and was worried that he would lose too much blood, so he did not keep him again. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Ouyang Yijing packed his bags and left Beijing with his servants on the day he received the approval.

In the short impeachment career of less than ten years, a total of more than 20 civil and military officials above the third rank were beheaded, and a generation of scolding gods with a marquis and an earl, sat on the ox cart from Beijing, looking back at the Jiucheng Palace that was getting farther and farther away, and his heart was full of sourness and unwillingness...... He used to be so beautiful and dazzling, but now, there is no long pavilion to say goodbye, no grandiose words, so he is on the road in a hurry like a lost dog......

All the way is a bumpy dirt road, it has not rained for many days, the road surface is harder than copper, the ox cart walks on it and bumps badly, Ouyang Yijing leans forward and backwards, staggering, the bones seem to be falling apart, and the spicy sun is not blocked, and the sun is like a soldering iron. He only felt as if he was on fire, but he fell into boundless depression and lost his soul, and when he reacted, he had already suffered from heat stroke.

At this time, I happened to walk in a village without a store in front of him, and the family hurriedly fed him water and washed his face, and it was easy to get to the post house, and I looked for a doctor to come and see it, and I also opened yào, but it was not good. The whole person couldn't afford to lie down, the high fever did not go away, and he also launched hysteria, and from time to time he shouted in a faint: 'The tall beard is coming......' 'Don't kill me!' A few days later, one morning, his family found him dead.

At this time, Gao Gong was almost in the capital, and when he heard the news of Ouyang Yijing's death, he was also stunned for a long time before he hated it: "This is a good way to avoid debts...... But it doesn't matter, he's just an accomplice, as long as the culprit is still there! As for who is the culprit, he naturally recommends Hu Yingjia, who has been smeared on him several times and set off the overthrow of Gong Zheng.

'Xiǎo Hu, wait, the old man is here!' Gao Gong thought. Who knows, two days later, I received another message...... said that Hu Yingjia was also dead.

Gao Gong was completely stunned at this moment, how could he hate anyone who died, and those who knew said that I had a strong aura and could kill people with my mind, but those who didn't know, wouldn't they say that I was ruthless and wanted to destroy them?

However, no matter what he thought, Hu Yingjia was indeed dead...... This superb official, who was afraid that the world would not be luàn, was protected by Xu Jie, and after the inverted arch, he was safe and sound, and was sent to Shandong to serve as a senator, which was already promoted. Who knew that the good days had not passed for two days, and they heard the news that Gao Gong had returned, when Hu Yingjia was sick, he was shocked and frightened after hearing the news, and he actually died on this ...... I guess it's because of the psychological pressure.

The two inverted banner xìng characters actually died one after the other after learning the news of his recovery, how could Gao Gong not worry about not being clear...... But in fact, he was overly concerned, because both officialdom and the people generally believe that these two people are ...... Scared to death.

Since then, he has left an age-old proverb: 'A tall beard comes out of the mountain - scare a person to death'!

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The sun is blazing.

The carriage is galloping on the official road, the front is the soldier of the four cavalry escort, and there are also the soldiers of the four cavalry escort in the back, and there are two rows of brocade guards on both sides of the carriage to protect it closely, which makes this trip very exciting. According to the regulations, this is a pomp that can only be used by first-class officials when they go out of Beijing.

But at this moment, this team is not leaving Beijing, but returning to Beijing!

The old man in the carriage, wearing a cloth coat, with a resolute expression and a beard fluttering in the wind, is Gao Gong, with his xìng style, in fact, he will choose to travel lightly and return to Beijing in a low-key manner. But the emperor insisted on this arrangement, firstly, to compensate for the grievances suffered by the teacher in the past, and secondly, to declare to the people of the world that Longqing wanted to tǐng his determination to the end this time!

So Gao Gong can only bear it, but this taste is not uncomfortable - along the way through several provinces, each post station has changed horses, and before arriving in Beijing, the momentum is enough to declare that my Gao Laosan is back again!――

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Today's chapter. Tomorrow is very busy, not to mention it, the day after tomorrow will be more green, forgive me