Chapter 793 The Only Big Guy (II)

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After a long night of talking, Shen Mo finally had a clear understanding of the turbulent court situation in the first year of Longqing, and knew what attitude to treat Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Yang Bo, and the military officials...... On this chessboard where games are played everywhere, although he is still not the one who plays chess, he can already use the game of various forces to seek his own interests.

Although he was mentally prepared enough for what happened next, he was still stunned by Xu Jie's fierce and resolute offensive...... So much so that many years later, he can still clearly recall every detail of this absolutely classic 'Yanguan War'. And he himself has learned too much from it:

You must know that in this era of supreme monarchy, as a minister of the ministry, whoever is a saint is prosperous, which means that he has the incorruptible body of King Kong, and he is almost invincible. As we all know, the relationship between Gao Gong and Longqing is better than any pair of monarchs and ministers throughout the ages, so in the eyes of many people, Gao Gong is an invincible existence, so it is logical to replace Xu Jie.

However, Xu Jie, Xu Ge Lao, with his strong strength and perfect planning, broke people's superstition about the saints, smashed the legend of high arch invincibility, and staged a perfect battle like a textbook of political struggle:

The commander-in-chief of this battle is naturally Xu Jie, although he retreated behind the scenes in order to avoid suspicion, he did not say a word from beginning to end, and did not feel any pain. However, in the three-month protracted struggle, there is no other person in the world today who can do this by mobilizing hundreds of officials from the two capitals to make them advance and retreat in a measured manner and coordinate with each other -- fighting with the forwards, luring the enemy into depth, outflanking them in an all-round way, and encircling and annihilating them. proves that he is the only boss of the Ming Dynasty who deserves it

Hu Yingjia, Xin Zixiu and others were the death squads sent by Xu Jie to fight, although there is no evidence that it can be shown that Xu Jie ordered them to open fire. However, with Hu Yingjia's reputation as a 'risky and good-looking' character, it is impossible to respond to all of the six subjects. What's more, he himself is also at fault first, not only as an afterthought, but also on suspicion of chasing after the wind and shadows, and false ways - after all, Yang Bo is from Shanxi, and there is no Shanxi official who has been investigated, there is no inevitable connection between these two things. If you Hu Yingjia is suspicious, then you should investigate those Shanxi officials, whether they are competent or not, this is in line with normal logic.

However, Hu Yingjia did not ask the imperial court to re-examine the Shanxi officials, and in the absence of evidence, he concluded that Yang Bo was shielding the township party, and his argument was untenable. Of course, he is also justified, after all, the speaker has the power to 'hear about the news', but so many speech officials are also crazy? Why is it that under the premise of chasing after the wind and shadows and having bad intentions, there are still so many people who sympathize with him without distinguishing between right and wrong? Just use the explanation of 'cold lips and teeth', and I'm afraid it's too pale.

What's more, why is it necessary to pull Gao Gong into it while impeaching Yang Bo? It's rare for Gao Suqing to recognize the situation clearly and not say a word, but he was still bombarded? This is clearly not a mistake, but a deliberate act. It is not difficult to think of an ancient saying, called 'Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, meaning Pei Gong'

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However, Gao Gong's unusually abnormal tiger does not come out of the hole, which makes Xu Jie very dissatisfied with the results of the battle, because a slap does not make a sound, if Gao Gong blindly avoids it, and the officials sing a one-man show, it will not be able to force him into a desperate situation, and it may even make him escape this catastrophe, which is unacceptable to Xu Jie, because he knows that the opportunity to knock down Gao Gong is only this once, and if he misses it, he can only let it grow stronger and stronger, and finally defeat himself in turn

Xu Jie knew very well that with Gao Gong's shallow and biased temperament, the fastest grudge and hatred, if he could endure it until now, there must be a master behind his back. But he is not worried, because he believes that the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, like Gao Gong, a gunpowder jar that 'can't contain things in an emergency', will never learn what is called 'hiding and forbearing', as long as he takes another dose of fierce medicine, even the gods can't pull him

So the second wave of the offensive began, if it is said that Hu Yingjia, Xin Zixiu and the like are just cannon fodder to test the front of the army. Then it's only time for the real main force to come out - the day after the cabinet announced the final results of Hu Yingjia's treatment, Ouyang Yijing, one of the 'four major wars' in the world today, was impeached by Gao Gong

This old man is also a silent 'old friend', when he passed through the southeast, Xu Jie once sent him to patrol southern Jiangnan, with the intention of supervising the army. At that time, Ouyang Yijing, who had brilliant results in the war and had the name of 'scolding God', also went up to impeach Shen Mu, intending to challenge his authority, but he didn't understand the situation...... Gannan is a war zone, Shen Mo is leading the army to suppress bandits, playing not a peacetime routine, but called 'one force to ten meetings', so he didn't make a wave, he was cleaned up by Shen Mo, and honestly served as a patrol for a year, and then quietly and gloomily returned to the capital.

Originally, Xu Jie promised him to be promoted to the right and the imperial history after he came back, but the errand was not done, and he himself was embarrassed to be an important official with the first assistant, so he had to go back to be his supervisor of the imperial history...... But I can hold back my strength in my heart, and I must make a comeback and prove myself

Although he didn't please under Shen Mo, his brilliant resume is not a fake, and his profound scolding skills are even more extreme. In extremely sharp and harsh language, he scolded 'the auxiliary minister Gao Gong, treacherous and evil, authoritarian and gentry, tyrannical and arrogant, no different from the treacherous minister Cai Jing, and will definitely become the big beetle of the country in the future' and instigated the official to say: 'Gao Gong dealt with Hu Yingjia, proving his ambition to restrain his words, if he is allowed to go unpunished, then all the upright and dare to speak up in the future, In order to show his determination to impeach Gao Gong, he also said that Hu Yingjia's impeachment was made in advance after consultation with his ministers, and if you want to punish him, it is better to punish me.

And Ouyang Yijing is more powerful than the other three bulls, because he is better at leading the army to fight, every impeachment must be crowded, and public opinion is also one-sided support, so he is invincible and invincible, which is even more terrifying - sure enough, his impassioned impeachment is just the beginning. On the same day, several officials of the science and Taoism went up one after another, all of them on the grounds of asking for a complete pardon for Hu Yingjia, and they strongly demanded that a certain evil country beetle who attacked the way of speech be severely punished

This time Gao Gong couldn't sit still, Lao Tzu wanted to calm things down, but he was scolded by you as Cai Jing, if I don't speak again, what basin kickback? So in the routine self-defense, he came to a confession, full of grievances and said: 'When the first emperor was there, Hu Yingjia chased the wind and impeached Weichen, and the contradiction with me was known to the court. In order to avoid suspicion, the ministers encountered him and avoided everything, how could he dare to take the initiative to frame it? Now that Xu Ge Lao is merciful, he has been punished lightly, but Ouyang Yijing compared his party aid with him, and he unrelentingly climbed to Weichen, saying that I am as treacherous as Cai Jing, what evidence did he put forward that Weichen is comparable to Cai Jing? The dignity of the minister is where the dignity of the court lies, and the humiliation of the minister alone is small, but if he catches the wind and traps the minister, and if it is spread outside, people who don't know the inside will really think that the court is controlled by a traitor like Cai Jing. In order to avoid damage to the reputation of the imperial court, please allow Wechen to resign and also keep his innocence for himself......

Neglected, Emperor Longqing couldn't sit still at that time, the teacher was wronged like this, he no longer had the mood to have fun with the beautiful palace ladies, ordered someone to change himself into regular clothes, and took the public opinion to the Wenyuan Pavilion in the Huiji Gate.

Except for the first time he came to the cabinet, this was the first time the emperor had come to the cabinet for more than half a year, and Xu Jie hurriedly led the ministers to greet him.

After Longqing called 'Pingshen', he looked at his teacher, and saw that Gao Gong's spirit was still good, but in just a few days, his hair had turned gray, and he was obviously emaciated, his cheekbones appeared higher, and his wrinkles were more profound, as if he was a few years older.

The emperor's eyes were red at that time, and he choked up with a high arched hand: "I know the teacher's character best, don't care what they say, I will always trust you......"

The high arch, which has always been as hard as iron, is also hot in the chest and sore in the nose, so don't go overboard, I don't want people to see me crying.

Xu Jie invited Longqing to sit in the main hall and led everyone to visit again, Longqing was not in a mood, and said to Xu Jie: "Elder Guo, these days, the court and China are not peaceful." ”

When the emperor asked, of course Xu Jie couldn't be sloppy, and nodded: "It's a little bit of a discussion." ”

"What about talking?" Long Qing frowned and said, "I think it's boiling and the sky is boiling, right?" Some people are so disagreeable that they dare to make trouble and attack important officials in the court, such behavior should be killed. ”

"Yes......" Xu Jie replied respectfully.

"Well......" Seeing that Xu Ge Lao agreed simply, Long Qing had prepared for a long time, and he held it all in his stomach, so he had to say: "So very good...... but seeing Gao Gong giving himself a fierce look, Long Qing said again: "I should teach them a lesson, I remember that when the first emperor was the emperor, after the officials impeached the scholars, they usually had to receive a court staff ......"

"Your Majesty......" Xu Jie said calmly: "Don't do it, the officials are the conscience of the court, most of them are hard ministers, you have just ascended the throne now, if you punish them too harshly, how to prevent people from talking about this matter in the future?" After a pause, he said with a sad face: "Don't forget the lesson of the first emperor......

Long Qing was silent. He knew that his father, Emperor Jiajing, was extremely strict with his words, and he had directly punished the speech officials, not one hundred but eighty, and all kinds of means were used, such as debasement, court staff, border guarding, and imprisonment...... But it still can't put an end to the mouth of the world, and in the end, it provoked Haigang Peak, and directly pointed the cannon at the emperor, achieving a strange story through the ages.

When he accompanied the prince to study, Longqing learned some limited imperial minds, one of which is that Yanguan is the huge bureaucracy of the imperial court, the most important tool for self-purification, and the vanguard of defending imperial power. And what he saw with his own eyes was Shen Shu, Xu Xueshi, Yang Jisheng, Shen Lian, Ren Xu's third son, and Zou Yinglong...... Waiting for batches of hard-headed officials to go forward one after another, fearlessly challenged the Yan Party, and paid the price of blood, but also deterred the ambition of the Yan family's father and son, so that although they enjoyed their own blessings, they did not dare to act rashly and threaten the imperial power.

Emperor Taizu gave so much power to the officials, in the final analysis, it was not for the sake of the Zhu family's eternal solidity, and the emperors of later generations would not be robbed of their authority? I can't imagine what this court would be like if there were thousands of officials...... Although Longqing feels that the officials are troublesome, annoying, cheap, incorporeal, chicken thieves, and talk about the ancestral law all day long, they are really not a group of good birds. But he knew that the ancestral law was far-reaching, and he was only shallow in his learning, and he could not understand it, let alone change it at will. It doesn't matter if he is comfortable or not, he still sticks to the rules, and lets the set that has been implemented for nearly two hundred years run as usual, so that he can sleep peacefully and play with peace of mind.

The emperor thought so, so naturally he could no longer insist on the court staff, so he could only order Xu Jie, and he planned to reprimand those officials and prevent them from slandering the ministers again, so as to end this public case as soon as possible.

Seeing that the emperor didn't want to grudge with Yanguan, Gao Gong's heart was half cold, and he finally understood that everything was not going well since the beginning of this year, not because of the unfavorable year, but because someone calculated himself step by step into the quagmire of the war with Yanguan Look at Xu Jie, who sent Longqing off, he hated so much that his teeth were about to be crushed, and the old thing said to me silently, I will still be suspicious, it turns out that you are really a ghost

'You have a man of speech,' Gao Gong thought hatefully, 'I have three or five in my hand'

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With the emperor's instructions, whether he was reluctant or not, Xu Jie could only express his position on behalf of the cabinet, so he asked Li Chunfang to draft a note. Li Chunfang's composition style is originally gentle and left and right, even so, Xu Jie personally changed it again, and finally finalized it. In the name of the cabinet, he praised Gao Gong in an exaggerated manner, which was regarded as an expression of retention, but he did not rebuke the officials in the slightest, and did not even say a word to stop them from climbing indiscriminately.

In the eyes of the government and the opposition, this is undoubtedly a manifestation of the cabinet's decision to maintain neutrality in the battle between Gao Gong and Yan Guan, and the officials regard it as an encouragement, so they attack Gao Gong more unscrupulously. At most, thirty bullet stamps were handed in one day, and the attack has developed to an all-round, indiscriminate - they wantonly slandered Gao Gong's character and life style, dug deep into his historical problems, and even Gao Gong rejected Princess Shang when he was young, this kind of personal ** thing has also become the ammunition for their attack, and they have completely lost the bottom line.

In the face of the overwhelming foul language, Gao Gong was already angry, and he refused the exhortation of Shen Mo and others to 'stop haste, be patient', and decided to fight back with his own strength

Soon, Wei Xuezeng in Hubu Langzhong, Wang Xilie, a bachelor in Hanlin, and more than ten people including Han Ji in the matter, wrote to defend Gao Gong. But by this time it was too late, and public opinion was completely on the opposite side of the high arch, and a little defense only provoked more bullets, which flew over like snowflakes, and covered them up in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that simple defense no longer worked, he endured the high arch of impeachment and dirt day and night, and finally after discussing with his dead friend, he couldn't help but capture the thief and the king

At the end of February of the first year of Longqing, more than a month after Gao Gong was impeached, the superintendent of Yu Shi Qikang also raised an impeachment, and this time the target was Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet

Qi Kang's bullet seal, sprinkled with more than 1,000 words, which exposed Xu Jie's three major crimes, one is 'two sides and three swords', saying that the first emperor wanted to establish a prince, Xu Jie had resolutely opposed, and when the emperor ascended to the pole, he regarded himself as a meritorious hero, and his Tian Tian was shameless and incomprehensible; The third is 'hypocrisy and greed', saying that Xu is a person who is ostensibly self-proclaiming, but in fact, he is a man and a prostitute, and his eldest son Xu Fan often trades privately with others, and buys a wide range of properties in the capital, and the other three sons are in the Songjiang generation of lawlessness, evil, and scourge It is said that more than half of the land in Songjiang Mansion is under the name of the Xu family, compared with him, the father and son of the Yan family are considered Qing officials

Unlike the trumped-up charges against Gao Gong, these three charges are all well-founded, and they are obviously not hastily completed.

But this time, it was the anger of the officials, and on the day the chapter was announced, more than a dozen officials found Qi Kang and blocked him in the room and scolded him. Qi Kang was not easy to mess with, the two sides had a fierce conflict at that time, if it weren't for Lin Run and Zou Yinglong to arrive, the Metropolitan Procuratorate would have turned into a gladiatorial arena.

But the crowd has reached a state of excitement, and Lin Run's hard persuasion can only make them not attack in person, and when they turn around, they use bullets to vent their anger. First, Ouyang Yijing impeached Qi Kang as 'a lackey of the Gao Party, and the two conspired to frame Xu Lao to replace him'.

Qi Kang did not show weakness, and also impeached Ouyang Yijing: "If you say that I am a Gao Party, I will say that you are a Xu Party, you say that I am a lackey, and I say that you are a minion" Anyway, there is paper in Beijing City, and everyone let go of the impeachment

So the two sides went back and forth, and it became a big scuffle, but after all, the number of people on Qi Kang's side was too small, and there was no scolding god like Ouyang Yijing in charge, so he was quickly defeated.

Seeing that Qi Kang and the others were about to collapse, something unexpected happened at first sight - there was a person who also wrote a book to impeach Xu Jie, and it was this unexpected figure who forced Xu Jie into embarrassment at once, to the point where he had to resign......

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