Zhao Zhenji is the imperial history of the left capital, the leader of science and technology, and the head of the national speech officials, of course, he doesn't want to see his younger brother being rectified. Although he couldn't stop Gao Gong from writing the book, he also made a mistake and dissuaded the emperor from lightly inspecting and said: "The minister heard that because of the words of the imperial history Ye Mengxiong, His Majesty intends to evaluate the official. Weichen flipped through the roster, there were a total of 432 people in Liangjingkedao, most of whom were people who served the country with a heart and were loyal and outspoken! Now Your Majesty is alone because of this, and you have to go back a few years, how can you not let the hearts of the people be turbulent and everyone is in danger. Wechen was very worried about this, so he couldn't keep silent. ’

"Besides, our ancestors set up the science and road, just so that they can 'hear and say', and say what they hear, right or wrong, and Zaifu checks and the emperor himself judges! Even if it is wrong, the punishment is limited to the person who said the wrong thing. How can you censor all the hundreds of people and catch them all? Isn't this to repeat the mistakes of the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties, and not let people speak...... Definitely not a blessing for the country. 'This is a sparse one, all the officials are shocked, Old Master Zhao, you are our boss, what you said is too good, it depends on what happens to the emperor......

Seeing that he was sparse, Gao Gong was worried that his rake ears would shake the students. went up again, and said to Long Qing that since the emperor has decided, it must not be changed. Besides, the current speech official has long been reduced to the 'eagle dog of the jackal of the office', and he has to be cleansed and replenished with new blood in order to regain his effect.

In Longqing, Gao Gong's words obviously carried more weight than Zhao Zhenji, and the emperor also wanted to teach those hateful officials a lesson, so he finally accepted Gao Gong's proposal and ordered to investigate Kedao!

Everyone knows that the time for a decisive battle has come......

This contest, at least on the cards, can be said to be evenly matched. Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji, both of whom were scholars, each held great authority in the court. Gao Gong is also the Ministry of Officials, in charge of the personnel system, the registration, grading, assessment, award, and reward of officials in the world, all of which are below the fourth grade, are all decided by him, and above the fourth grade...... If he is silent, he basically has the final say.

Zhao Zhenji is in charge of the Ming Dynasty's supervision system - six branches and thirteen imperial history, referred to as 'science and technology', its duties are to supervise hundreds of officials, inspect counties and counties, correct wrongs, etc., when Emperor Taizu set up this kind of powerful officials and small science and technology officials, is to supervise senior officials, picket them for corruption and perversion of the law. And in order to prevent the slightest deterioration and keep the people in power sober, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave them the right to criticize at will.

It's really random criticism, because they also have the right to criticize and dissuade the emperor, but the emperor often doesn't like to listen to too much talk. Although Long Qing also understands the 'good mouth', what madman likes to be scolded every day?

Gao Gong is right, the Yan family's father and son have caused a lot of morale, seeing that Xu Ge Lao attaches great importance to the way of speech, those opportunists rely on the identity of the speech official, through wanton grandstanding, and even provoke the emperor to obtain political capital. From the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation, to the life of husband and wife, there is nothing they dare not manage. The good-natured Longqing was also scolded by them, and Xu Jie was there, so he could only endure his anger. But now that Lao Xu is gone, and the emperor has a high arch to support him, how can he not give these accounts a look?

So this time, because of Ye Mengxiong's inappropriate wording, Longqing took advantage of the topic to play, and without passing the cabinet vote, he directly issued an edict: "The Taoist official has always been presumptuous and bullying the dynasty!" 'Requires a thorough examination of Kedao's actions. 'Is it all right for yourselves to talk about others all day long?' Long Qing thought with some pleasure.

This is Longqing's general reckoning with Yanguan, but the happiest is Gao Gong, he hates Yanguan for more than a day or two...... In the first year of Longqing, the court tilted the arch, and it was these officials who held Xu Jie's stinky feet and coaxed themselves down. This time out of the mountain, just waiting for this opportunity to shame!

As a rule, this kind of investigation is carried out by the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the main secretary of the Ministry of Officials investigates, and the Zuodu Yushi is the overseer, which happens to be the errand of Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji, so this play is destined to be very lively.

On the day of the emperor's order, the text of the Ministry of Officials arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Branch Corridors - except for the heads of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who were above the third grade could self-correct and self-examine, the rest of the supervisors had to be examined.

Zhao Zhenji's side saw that he couldn't stop it, so he could only wait for it, and every inch of land would be contested. At the beginning of the investigation, the two immediately entered into a hand-to-hand encounter. Sometimes for a person's stay, he fought from morning to noon in Wenyuan Pavilion, with a dry mouth, red face and red ears...... Lao Zhao is fighting hard this time, and he must protect his subordinates no matter what!

But more ruthlessly, Gao Gong has not lost to anyone, as long as he thinks that the official who should be deposed, he must resolutely take it and never compromise. Lao Gao and Lao Zhao, this pair of old gingers, each held one end like this, and angrily attacked each other.

"Am I not right? You old thing, don't want to put him on the list! ”

"Am I wrong? Crazy Zhao, you want to shield him, go with delusional thoughts! ”

The two bigwigs were red-eyed in Wenyuan Pavilion and completely lost their minds, as if there were already two enemy countries in the cabinet......

The think tanks behind the two sides were also running at full speed, and soon, Gao Gong proposed a list of dethroned people, including all Zhao Zhenji's cronies in Kedao: 'Zhao madman, I'm going to turn you into a donkey! ’

Zhao Zhenji immediately countered and also proposed a list of dethroned people, on which they wiped out the high-arched fox group and dog party: 'Look at your example, am I usually deaf and blind? ’

The two sides froze at this moment, neither gang's buttocks were clean, and no one was wronged if they were dethroned...... If these two lists were to be executed together, there would be no point in fighting. It's like a pair of evenly matched masters competing for internal strength, and they can only vomit blood and die.

Seeing that the two sides were at a stalemate, and the trouble was really unpleasant, Li Ūnfang, who was the first assistant, finally reluctantly came out to persuade him: "Two big brothers, if you continue like this, you will become a sandpiper and a clam fighting, if you have something to say, you have something to say." ”

In fact, the two masters have long been difficult to ride a tiger, and now that they see steps, how can they not just get off the donkey?

"You let go first......"

"Why didn't you ...... first?"

"That, I'll say one, two, three, ......"

"Wait, I have a condition......"

In the end, neither side will kill each other, you don't pursue my people, and I won't fight your people...... However, the tall beard has an additional condition: "I used to help Xu Jie, but now I haven't voted for your old Zhao's bastard, so don't worry about it!" ”

At this time, the difference between Confucianism and Legalism was revealed, Zhao Zhenji, who believed in Confucianism, believed in the words of Gao Gong, who believed in Legalism, just like the stupid Qi State during the Warring States Period, and sought Gou An by abandoning his allies......

On Gao Gong's side, with the acquiescence of Zhao Zhenji, he showed his might and belittled forty-seven officials in one go...... is not only the current official, such as Yushi Wang Qi and others, but also Wei Shiliang, who has moved to Dali Shaoqing in the matter; Geng Wenzhong, who was once the imperial history and had moved to the right of Dali Temple; In the past, Wu Shilai, who had moved to the imperial history of the governor of Guangdong.

There are also other imperial historians Hao Jie, who did not wait for investigation at this time and went to work on his own, etc., a total of more than 50 people, all of whom were the people of the year when Xu Jie, and they were all driven away by Gao Gong.

Gao Gong's ruthless and domineering methods made everyone shudder, looking at the number of deposed officials who were increasing every day. Even Li Ūnfang, who has always had the intention of 'keeping quiet and getting by', was a little unbearable, and he euphemistically proposed, in order to avoid the government and the opposition from moving, could some officials be dismissed? However, Gao Gong was used to ignoring the opinions of the first assistant of this listing, which made Li Ūnfang very helpless.

Li Ūnfang went to Shen Mo and Zhang Juzheng again, hoping that they could persuade Gao Gong to stop, but Shen Mo would not open this mouth...... Because the purge of the speech officials was an important part of their plan, Gao Gong took the initiative to take this black cauldron, how could he stand and talk without backache? So he refused. Seeing that he refused to agree, Li Ūnfang couldn't help but say gloomily: "You live and die all day in the cabinet, I still don't resign as the first assistant." ”

This is, Zhang Juzheng, who has been silent, suddenly said in a deep voice: "In this way, you may be able to preserve your ......reputation" If you do this, you can also protect your reputation,

Li Ūnfang couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded dejectedly, no longer caring about these idle things.

The reason why Zhao Zhenji acquiesced to Gao Gong's dismissal of some people was because he felt great pressure from the emperor, and he could only throw some unimportant or unfocused horns to appease the emperor's anger.

However, his move, in the eyes of the officials of the DPRK and China, was inevitably interpreted as that under the strong pressure of Gao Gong, Zhao Ge Lao could no longer cover it......

Zhao Zhenji originally thought that the officials could understand their strategic retreat, but they forgot that officialdom is a 'mountain stream that is easy to rise and easy to retreat'. There is no shortage of people in the officialdom who 'swing the wall grass with the wind', and when a major change occurs in the political situation, it is often when such characters change their faces and tones. They always seek to cling to the new winners, and to do so they do not hesitate to take the lead in biting the losers, even if they are their patrons and benefactors, in an attempt to beg for favor with the new powers.

Therefore, when Zhao Zhenji did not retreat an inch, those people may still be uncertain and don't know where to bet, but once he shows defeat, even if he is not really defeated, those people will be eager to change the court and become the other party's right-hand man.

For a time, Gao Gong, who originally had almost no help in Kedao, actually had a group of officials to take refuge, among which Lu Shude, Song Zhihan, Cheng Wen, and Tu Menggui were the most, known as the 'Four King Kongs'. There is a way that the fortresses are broken from the inside, and with the help of these four King Kongs, Gao Gong's investigation of the speech officials is naturally more handy. The autumn wind sweeps away the leaves, as long as there is no Lao Zhao to protect them, no one remains. Impeaching anyone who speaks for the deposed, targeting one and hitting the other, is nothing short of a political massacre......

Seeing that the situation was completely one-sided, Gao Gong knew that the time had come for a general attack. He sent his own students and new officials to Han Ji in the matter. Section Chief Han is not one of those miscellaneous cards who have rebelled, he is the descendant of Gao Gong, and now he has become the head of the six branches, and it is all thanks to the support of his teacher, how can there be a reason not to repay him? He wants to take the head of the opposing coach in the formation!

Although Zhao Zhenji is an honest official and has no faults, it has never been a problem for those who take complaints as their business. Han Ji impeached Zhao Zhenji for being an incompetent and domineering mediocre assistant minister. I implore the emperor to quickly reprimand him, so as to clear the political book and the law!

saw that he made a mistake of being too honest again, and was played hard by the other party. Zhao Zhenji was full of grief and indignation, and immediately defended himself, and said in a heartfelt manner: 'Your Majesty, isn't this surnamed Han talking nonsense? If a person is incompetent, he cannot be tyrannical. If it is tyrannical, how can it be the specialty of Yongchen? Weichen is not talented, how can he be qualified to have both of what he said? "First pointed out Han Ji's mistake, Zhao Zhenji began to shout: 'The minister is in charge of the affairs of the hospital, and only to investigate the matter, which is contrary to the arch; Other bad election methods, indulgent and unscrupulous, the ministers can't say a word, there are negative envoys, and the ministers are really mediocre. If the arch, Si can be said to be horizontal. After the ministers returned, fortunately they still returned to the cabinet, so as not to dictate power for a long time, and to build up the party. ’

To the effect that since the emperor asked me to unite with Gao Gong, even though his deeds of violating discipline and committing jiān crimes have been made clear to the world, Wechen has been silent, so I can't refute that Wechen is a mediocre minister. However, this time, I had to stand up and speak, because Gao Gong was originally a close minister of the cabinet, and he participated in the secrets of the central government, and at the same time held the personnel power outside, which was too great. Didn't the emperor appoint the micro-minister to manage the supervision system exactly to ask me to control his power? ’

But since the investigation, Gao Gong has distorted the emperor's original intention and indulged the evil people, which is obvious to the eyes and ears of the people. If I don't speak, I'll be a mediocre minister. People have to be like Gao Gong to be tyrannical. Isn't his kid surnamed Han just trying to remove me? Okay, but please ask the emperor to take over the power of this high arch in the ministry after releasing me, don't give him such a big power, save him from letting him gather foxes and dogs everywhere! ’

Okay, are you going to have a final showdown with me? Seeing this, Gao Gong also immediately replied, and the content of the discernment was very ordinary, nothing more than saying that Han Ji's participation in the impeachment of Zhao Ge Lao was his personal behavior, and he was definitely not instructed by Wei Chen, and I did not indulge in the great evil...... In the end, he said in an indignant tone: "Since Elder Zhao Ge looks down on me so much, then ask the emperor to remove me to thank Elder Zhao Ge!" ’

This is the Emperor's army - either I go, or he goes! Two tigers, no longer in the same cage!

If you change to a more diligent king, you may go to work separately: 'They are all ministers, and the palms and backs of their hands are all to see my face or harmony...... 'If you change to a tyrant like Jiajing, you must be how far away these two cows will die, and dare to threaten the emperor, it is simply impatient!

However, Long Qing is a lazy person, and for the courtiers who have no feelings, since he has been persuaded to do so, he will not stay any longer.

Soon, the edict came down, which did not mention that Zhao Zhenji was wrong, but just said to Gao Gong: 'You are loyal and assisted, you are fair, and you are my right and left hand, how can you take the blame and resign?' Do a good job, resignation will never be approved! ’

The emperor only kept the high arch, but did not say a word to himself. Zhao Zhenji was so embarrassed that his face was gone......

Those officials who are waiting for news have finally determined who will be the ultimate victor.

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Returning to the protagonist tomorrow, isn't that a spoiler, right? Asking for a monthly pass...... RA！ ~！