Chapter 107: Attachment (2nd Update)
In fact, Chen Mo is not worried about Zhang Juzheng being liquidated, although he admires him, but he is only admired, even if Zhang Juzheng is liquidated, he will sympathize with and regret at most, and he can't afford to stay up all night for that excerpt last night.
He was really afraid that Zhu Yijun would lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot, let the officials of the science and Taoism pursue him relentlessly, and in the end, he would lose control of the development of things and repeat the mistakes of history -- he always thought that Wanli had an unshirkable responsibility for the decline of the Ming Dynasty, and the key point was to completely negate Zhang Juzheng's merits, make people lose their lives, and let the originally very effective reform be abandoned halfway. It also indirectly boosted the arrogance of those political speculators in the civil bureaucratic clique, making admonitions become commonplace, and if they did not impeach some important figures or scold the emperor, they did not seem to be good officials.
If Zhang Juzheng lives another ten years, no, even if it is five years, history will definitely be rewritten.
It's a pity that Chen Mo crossed a little late, and it's a pity that Chen Mo didn't know medical skills, so he crossed earlier, and he couldn't save Zhang Juzheng's life.
Chen Mo didn't speak for a long time, and the atmosphere in the room became very depressing for a while.
Looking at Chen Mo's back, which was a little thin but very upright, Yan Man mustered up his courage for a long time, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Taiyue Gong has only been dead for less than a year, right?" When he was alive back then, but His Majesty called him 'Yuanfu' and was not a nameless person, Yin Gong said this, a bit alarmist, right? ”
"Alarmist?" Chen Mo turned around and sneered and said, "As we said just now, you don't know what you think about today, and you are a monarch who is determined to prosper the Ming Dynasty and create a great cause." And to do all this, supreme authority is necessary. Our family admits that Taiyue Gong has made great contributions to the community. But when he was alive, everyone in the world knew Zhang Taiyue. Does anyone know His Majesty today? He once said: 'I am not a photo, I am also a photograph!' ’。 Is this what a courtier should say? In this case, our family can know, Your Majesty will not hear the wind at all? ”
Yan Manman's face was shocked, and he sighed for a long time before he said, "Hearing what Yin Gong said, Taiyue Gong is really finished." It's a pity that he has passed the test and a whip method......" As he spoke, he suddenly got up and knelt down in front of Chen Mo, and said solemnly: "Xia Guan knows that Yin Gong has a lot of influence on today, can you think of a way...... Now I look like a brocade of flowers on the surface, but in fact, it has been corrupt and moldy to the extreme, and officials are corrupt and prevaricated. I don't know how many people are vegetarian in the corpse position, and there are still some poor people who are bound by the test method, if they are ......" he couldn't go on, worried, prostrated to the ground, and never got up again.
The examination method is mainly aimed at the rule of officials. In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, there was a system for evaluating the performance of officials. According to the Ming system, Beijing officials "Jingcha" once every six years, and local officials once every three years "big plan". However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, officials were corrupt. Laws and regulations do not work, and these systems are either situationalized or used as a means for officials to fight for their rights.
Zhang Juzheng's family is poor, and in the 29th year of Jiajing, he once took leave under the pretext of recuperation. After returning to his hometown for three years, he traveled around the country and witnessed the ugly dramas of officialdom and the deterioration of the system in various places. We are deeply aware of the need not only to conduct regular inspections of officials at all levels, but also to set time limits for the work done by administrative organs at all levels. The so-called "set a limit on the examination and take responsibility for the matter". This is the origin of the test method.
Such a system has won the support of the people, but it has not been popularized by the government. The officials were accustomed to being free and lazy, and they hated this law, and even hated Zhang Juzheng, who proposed it. However, because Zhang Juzheng was too strong when he was alive, no one dared to beat his sharpness.
It was the first time that Chen Mo had heard an official say that the "test method" was good, and when he saw Yan Man sincerely kneeling at his feet, it didn't seem to be a joke, he couldn't help but be a little moved, and bent down to help him up with his own hands: "Lord Yan doesn't need to be like this, Taiyue Gong is Gonggong Feng's confidant, and he is also a figure that our family has always admired." If you don't ask for our family, our family also has to find a way. ”
"Yin Gong is righteous, the lower officials are respectful, and they are willing to follow the wings, but there is a sending, and they will not give up!" Yan Man said angrily, knelt on the ground again, and slammed his head three times.
This time, Chen Mo didn't stop him, waited for him to stand up, helped him up with a smile, and while pressing him to sit on the chair, he called his cousin and said, "Qianyi, sit down and talk." But he didn't sit down, and lifted the lid on the teacup for Yan Man with his own hands and handed it to him: "Drink tea, in the future, we won't talk about the rules of 'serving tea to guests', tea, it's just for drinking, it's a waste to just make it look good, right?" ”
Yan Man was stunned and then laughed, knowing that Chen Mo had truly accepted himself, he felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and he was busy sipping his lips to cover it up.
In fact, Chen Mo's heart is not as calm as it seems. Don't look at Yan Man's low rank, at least he is also the parent of the pastoral side of the civil officials, he is the first core team in the real sense of the civil official group, and he is the first intellectual he took the initiative to recruit, it is too unrealistic to say that he is not excited at all.
Li Tianyou has been watching from the sidelines, and his heart is full of emotion: "Chen Mo, Chen Mo, you are growing up too fast, I only thought you were smart and responsible, but your political methods were not necessarily very clever." It's good now, it's only been a few days, and you can get one of your parents to join you, what else can't you do? I'm afraid that even Grandpa Feng can surpass his achievements in the future, right? What can we do for you? "Between gains and losses, I can't help but feel a little trance.
"Zhang Juzheng's matter is in a hurry, and there must be a process of venting the emotions that have been stored for a long time, so now we can't do anything, we can only watch from the sidelines and wait for the opportunity." Chen Mo had recovered, standing in front of Yan Man and Li Tianyou and talking eloquently, looking confident, not like a castrated eunuch, but like a scheming cabinet minister.
Yan Man and Li Tianyou nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Chen Mo's analysis.
"This is also the countermeasure that our family discussed with Gonggong Feng last night, so that there is another advantage, that is, we can use this to eliminate the false and retain the true, eliminate those political speculators with different intentions, and find more good ministers like you who are truly for the country and the people...... You two are not outsiders, don't hide it, the power of Zhang Feng Group Feng Gonggong has been handed over to our family, three days later, important internal people will hold a meeting in Zhao Ji old store in Qinghe Town, when the time comes, you two will go with our family. ”
The so-called Zhang Feng Group is just a loose political alliance formed by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in the past ten years.
Now that Zhang Juzheng has died, Feng Bao has fallen, and the internal division of the group is becoming more and more serious, a figure who can take the lead is desperately needed to preside over the overall situation.
The meeting three days later was Feng Bao's last test for Chen Mo, whether he could suppress those people or not was all up to his ability, and he was not a fluke. As a result, he became the "leader" of a party who could influence the court and the court, truly stood on the highest political stage, and displayed his ambitions as he wanted.
As for the defeat...... (To be continued......)