Chapter 16 Xia Mu was too clever to understand the meaning of true psychology, but when he saw that Xu Jie had repeatedly mentioned the matter of Bingchen's external inspection, he was particularly attentive.

Judging from the form of this year's government and politics, I'm afraid that this year's Bingchen external inspection will not be easy!

Because this method of evaluating civil officials has always been divided into two categories: Beijing inspection and external inspection.

Jingcha is also known as internal planning, and the object of investigation is the official in Beijing.

External inspection, also known as external planning, is the object of inspection is local officials.

The investigation is carried out once every six years in Beijing and in the two years of Si and Hai, but the investigation is carried out once every three years, that is, the investigation is carried out in the four years of Chou, Chen, Wei and Xu. In principle, both of them were officials of the fourth rank and above, and they were entrusted to the cabinet scholars to adjudicate, and finally handed over to the emperor for decision.

However, after the emperor ruled according to the cabinet scholars, there must be another official of the science and Taoism to correct the impeachment, which is called a gleaning.

Only after the officials are impeached, the officials under investigation will be punished according to the eight categories of guilt, such as greed, coolness, impetuousness, inadequacy, old age, sickness, fatigue, and imprudentness. There are four kinds of punishments: Zhishi, downgrade, crown and idleness, and serving the people.

However, this method has great drawbacks, and if it is in the Hongwu, Yongle and other political and Qingming periods, it is indeed a way to improve the efficiency of politics. However, once there is a constant party struggle in the court, the method of investigation will be reduced to a way for various groups to attack each other.

This is what the so-called party is the same and the party is different.

Now the three parties of Yan, Xu, and Li coexist in the court. Li Mo, the secretary of the ministry, wanted to use this Bingchen external inspection to attack and destroy Yan Song's son Zhao Wenhua, and then bring down Yan Song.

But Yan Song's power is so huge, Li Mo may not be able to fight the big tiger, which undoubtedly added fuel to the fire when the Japanese slaves were rampant and the court was in danger, making the party struggle fierce.

This made Xia Mu quite worried.

"Look at this!"

At this time, Xu Jie took the big cigarette pouch from Zhang Juzheng's hand, took a deep breath, and then pulled out a few pages from the thick stack of texts. The above record is the turmoil in the capital in the past two months.

Xia Mu came back to his senses and looked at the places that were specially checked with cinnabar red pens, but when he looked at it like this, he was terrified.

Seeing that the Bingchen inspection has not yet begun, the parties have actually moved, and it can be said that the mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is full of buildings!

Xu Jie looked at the two of them, and after pretending to sleep for a long time, he opened his throat, deliberately assessed the two, and said to himself: "At the end of last year, Liang Menglong was given to Liang Menglong in the matter, and Li Mo was impeached for 'abolishing the law and committing personal gains.'" Negative national dereliction of duty beggars. With Qing Shilu, there is naturally Yan Song's shadow behind this, and Li Mo is nothing more than self-defense in the previous chapter......"

Xia Mu heard that he knew that Xu Jie was deliberately assessing the two of them, and glanced at Zhang Juzheng, who was contemplative, and saw that he seemed to be thinking about it, so he couldn't help but smile and took the lead in speaking: "Actually, this matter is obvious, that Liang Menglong is only in the middle of the military department, and it is undoubtedly Yan Song's pathfinder, so let's see Li Mo's reaction, but the result will not set off big waves." Because Yan Song knew in his heart that with Liang Menglong's status, it was impossible to shake the fierce Li Dazai. He's just a chess piece that Yan Song used to knock on the mountains and shake the tiger......"

When Xu Jie heard this, his eyes were obviously surprised, he didn't expect that a little calf could actually see through the essence of this matter at a glance, and then glanced at Zhang Juzheng, who was aware of it, with a faint trace of worry between his brows. It seems that Taiyue's scheming is not the opponent of the light, but fortunately, one of them is the future minister of the cabinet, and the other is a foreign official, otherwise he is really afraid that with Xia Mu's strength now that he is beginning to show his strength, Taiyue may not be able to sit firmly in the future position!

Xia Mu didn't know that Xu Jie had a different mind, and then continued to analyze his words with relish: "But Yan Song's trick knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger, but it was not Li Mo, but the emperor's mountain. Yan Song just wanted to remind the emperor not to let the big plan of the outside world become a tool for Li Mo's party to fight in other places...... And by the way, he carried the tiger of Zhenzhen Li Mo, telling him not to be too presumptuous, and he Yan Song is not a vegetarian. But judging from the results, Yan Song failed, because the next day the emperor issued an order to comfort Li Mo to 'serve as deputy Jian Ren with peace of mind', but he only said a word of 'rash advice' to Liang Menglong and did not deal with it...... But this deliberate connivance of the emperor seems difficult for students to understand. ”

Xu Jie nodded when he heard this, and smiled silently, but he laughed in his heart: This light is still too young to analyze this step, but he can't see the emperor's intentions, and sure enough, he still lacks experience, and he can't help but relax his vigilance against Xia Mu again.

Xia Mu paid attention to Xu Jie's face from time to time, he found that Xu Jie's face was tense a moment ago, knowing that he would lose if he said too much, the so-called Mu Xiu would be destroyed by Lin Feng, he still understood this truth, and knew that he might be too sharp, so he deliberately said half and left half.

And with the ups and downs of the officialdom in the workplace that he was accustomed to seeing in later generations, how could he not see Emperor Jiajing's intentions? That Jiajing is nothing more than to maintain his authority, indulging his subordinates to fight openly and secretly, and the more fierce the fight, the happier he is, because there is less power to threaten him, and his position and majesty are naturally stable.

But Xia Mu didn't say it. To do things, you must know how to leave three points of strength, don't use all your strength, and don't don't use no force, this is the golden mean.

Zhang Juzheng looked at the teacher's annotation, and also deduced a reasonable explanation from the trend of the court, with confidence in his eyes, and did not want to be compared with Xia Mu, who had just come to the end of the school, and hurriedly expressed his opinion: "In the opinion of the students, Li Mo is nothing more than finding a better and more fatal weakness of the Yan Party, so he will take advantage of external inspection, and from the perspective of the students, this weakness should be Zhao Wenhua's southeast war exploits of 'success on land and water, and clear sea and river' half a month ago!" ”

Hearing this, Xia Mu's expression was abrupt, and he secretly said that Zhang Juzheng really could not be underestimated, and he hit the nail on the head with a word, but it was also Zhao Wenhua's bad luck, when he left Zhejiang and returned to Beijing, Wang Zhi was dead, Xu Hai committed suicide, and the biggest widow in Fujian had indeed been eliminated, so he would go to this road and ask for credit for himself. But who knew that he had only returned to the capital on the front foot, and a large number of Japanese robbers had landed from the Inland Sea, coupled with Yan Shifan Luo Longwen's intention, the Japanese slaves were out of control and were caught by Li Mo with pigtails.

Xu Jie was very satisfied with Zhang Juzheng's analysis at this time, with a hint of old spiciness: "Zhao Wenhua returned to Beijing to present this sparseness, asked for merit for himself, and threatened that the southeast Japanese slaves had been extinguished, but in fact, the officers and soldiers in the southeast were repeatedly defeated, which shows that his report was untrue, deceived the monarch, and was a great disappointment!" Tomorrow, the cabinet will be able to imitate the fold, and Zhao Wenhua will be charged with 'bullying loyalty and lying about the military situation', and push Li Mo to the fire! ”

Xia Mu listened and trembled, this Xu Jie's heart trembled, this Xu Jie's really didn't think it was messy, and he had to "see the stitches", but if he could use this Li Mo Yan Song's party struggle to redress the grievances of his Xia family...... Thinking of Xia Mu, he wanted to hand over the account book in his arms to Xu Jie!

But he was about to take out the account book, but suddenly, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and then he remembered that he had given the account book to Zhu Xizhong to see, presumably with Zhu Xizhong's loyalty to the emperor, Jinyiwei would definitely report the matter to the emperor. Xia Muke knew that what was recorded in the account book was Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian's 'embezzlement of military salaries, corruption and bribery', which was more exciting than Zhao Wenhua's false accusations!

In the end, he didn't expect that the person who added fuel to the party struggle was himself!

When Hu Zongxian is investigated, the southeast anti-Japanese resistance will be in a predicament, and the dragons will be leaderless, and as the person who comes up with evidence, he will inevitably be pushed to the forefront by the three parties and become the target of public criticism, so isn't his situation very dangerous?

Thinking of Xia Mu's heart for a while, he felt that he might have done something wrong, so he closed his eyes and thought about it, he had to seriously think about how to protect himself in the next menacing tide!

How can I protect myself?

How can I protect myself?

Xia Mu thought about these four words repeatedly, but he was always confused, he actually inadvertently fell into the mediation of the three-party struggle, he could almost think that once Zhu Xizhong reported Zhao Wenhua's fornication with Hu Zongxian and the embezzlement of military salaries to Emperor Jiajing, then he would inevitably become a tool for Li Mo to attack and annihilate the Yan Party, and he is now just a powerless and powerless six-grade brocade guard hundreds, no matter who wins the battle between these two immortals, it is he who will suffer!

And can he entrust his net worth and life to Xu Jie?

No way!

The answer is yes, although Xu Jie has the name of teacher and student with his uncle Xia Yan, but in the past ten years, Xu Jie has not redressed his mentor, it can be seen that this person is a person who knows how to forbear and take care of the overall situation, he will never sacrifice the situation in front of him for many years for himself, and fight to the death with Yan Song!

Xia Mu smiled bitterly at this, he could only blame him for being too simple!

He thought that in the current world, justice would inevitably be proclaimed, and he got the evidence of Zhao Wenhua's embezzlement of military salaries, so he should contribute to the country, denounce this villain, and recover the country's losses, but he is too ideal for this era!

This era is not an era in which officials are honest and honest, the so-called conscience, the so-called light, in this real world, there is no use! There are only interests!

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

His preaching is useless, etiquette and shame are useless, loyalty and filial piety are useless, he told traitors and ministers, saying that this thing has no effect except to make them drowsy.

In this world of stripping away the ugly, they are all for the sake of the naked good.

Whether it is Li Mo, Yan Song or Xu Jie, what they want is interests, and only sufficient interests can drive them, this is the true face of this world, extremely cruel, but extremely real.

Xia Mu, who had figured it out, hurriedly took a sip of tea to hide his fright, seeing that Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng did not discover their abnormality, they quietly covered the account book in their arms, and he actually wanted to hand over the account book to Xu Jie, and let Xu Jie help him redress his uncle's grievances and defeat Yan Song.

It's ridiculous to think about it now!

Xia Mu remembered a sentence, which was not bad at all.

Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and the glory can only rely on oneself!

If he took out the account book and handed it to Xu Jie, he had no intention of handing over his own life! Man is a chopping board, he is fish!

And if you want to protect yourself, you must know how to maximize interests, Li Mo, Yan Song, Xu Jie, the three parties seem to be very strong, but they all work for others, and there is only one person who has the greatest interests, and that is Emperor Jiajing!

Xia Mu had a plan in his heart, he had to hand over the account book to Emperor Jiajing, he wanted to take refuge in the emperor, the big boss, only in this way could he gain the right to survive, and there was no bone residue left that would not be swallowed by Xu Jie's and Li Mo's party struggle!