The imperial political scene has been even more chaotic since October, with a large number of impeachment excerpts being sent in every day, and at the beginning many of the impeachment excerpts were directed at Guo Longyun and his protégés, and most of these impeachment of Guo Longyun's faction were in the traditional sense.

What is Qingliu, in the current imperial political arena, Qingliu does not mean that it represents Qingliu, but they insist on maintaining some Confucian traditions, and maintain an attitude of opposition to most of the nascent affairs, and at the same time, in order to win political prestige, they will always show an attitude of not being afraid of power and daring to directly resist the ministers.

Therefore, these people like to impeach the minister when there is nothing to do!

In the past Chinese New Year, Jiang Daoquan has repeatedly co-opted and used these people to add points to his own struggle in the cabinet.

Now that these people see Guo Longyun's weaknesses exposed, they can still bear it one by one, and those Qingliu courtiers who pretend to be loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty will not let go of any opportunity to gain fame, and they immediately handed over one fold after another, impeaching Guo Longyun and his faction.

And Guo Longyun and his protégés, most of them are officials who play industrial and commercial business, and this has more contact with industry and commerce, so naturally some problems will inevitably arise, and nine out of ten must have used their power to take money and other benefits, which is nothing more than a problem.

Therefore, if these Qingliu people are ruthless in impeaching them, it is not too difficult to grasp the handle.

And Jiang Daoquan, the nominal boss of these clear streams, was also happy to see his old opponent Guo Longyun deflated, so he did not suppress this kind of storm.

But his non-suppression led to Guo Longyun's counterattack!

No matter who first set off an attack on Guo Longyun, but at present, Guo Longyun is under the greatest pressure, but it is not wrong that it is the people from Jiang Daoquan's faction, and Guo Longyun, who is already about to be cornered, will take care of a lot.

You impeach me. I'll impeach you, without mentioning who wins or loses, and then confusing the water.

This led to the imperial politics in October, Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan, the two factions of the people and horses attacked each other, and in the face of the impeachment folds flying like snowflakes, Lin Zhe's attitude was the same. That is, all stay in the middle and do not send it.

As the emperor of the empire, although Lin Zhe was quite disgusted with this kind of political struggle that engaged in infighting, he also knew that some of them could not be suppressed, let alone take action in person.

Because Lin Zhe's role is a high-ranking arbiter, not a gladiator who goes down in person.

In the face of this wave of impeachment, his first reaction was to stay in the middle of the court, but he stared coldly at the court and watched the changes.

Guo Longyun, who was impeached by many people at this time, finally couldn't withstand the pressure from hundreds of officials this time!

On the 20th, Guo Longyun folded the bones of the beggars. He said that he was too old and sick to carry out his daily work, and asked His Majesty to allow him to return to his hometown.

Of course, don't think that this is Guo Longyun's real desire to resign, and don't think that he is really old and sick, Guo Longyun is less than sixty years old this year, and he is not much older in the group of senior officials, at least Jiang Daoquan is much older than him.

This kind of request is just a political statement. It is also a tradition that high-ranking officials are publicly impeached. Regardless of whether they are innocent or not, in order to prove their innocence and to show their grievances, most of the officials will have such a letter to the officials.

If you don't get on, even if you are innocent, you will be said to be in love.

Regarding Guo Longyun's request to Zhishi's excerpt, Lin Zhe also adopted a traditional approach. Directly dismissed.

Just when Lin Zhe thought that it would stop, Guo Longyun's counterattack also came, and he did it more ruthlessly than Jiang Daoquan and others, and directly let more people go to the Inspectorate to report Jiang Daoquan.

In this case, the officials of the Inspectorate, who have always stayed out of the matter, cannot sit still. The officials of these inspectorates are different from ordinary officials, and the officials of these inspectorates and the officials of the Supreme Court are independent institutions outside the cabinet, and even the state employee examination is also a separate recruitment, and the power to appoint and dismiss officials does not lie in the organization department of the cabinet, but is a self-contained institution.

Therefore, some time ago, the people on the side of the Inspectorate and the Grand Court basically had an attitude of watching the drama and did not participate in this kind of struggle between the Cabinet and the Cabinet.

But now, these officials are impeaching Guo Longyun in the front, and Jiang Daoquan is reporting later, and there are even more people who report Jiang Daoquan.

Facts have proved that Guo Longyun has made friends with quite a few people over the years, and in addition to the central cabinet, even many high-ranking officials of local governments have sued Jiang Daoquan in the form of a confession.

For a time, the center of this storm had shifted from Guo Longyun to Jiang Daoquan.

The people from the Inspectorate hurriedly ran to ask for a face, to see what Lin Zhe was doing, naturally to ask for instructions on what to do, whether to file a case or not.

This Guo Jiang Daoquan is not an ordinary person, but the Minister of Education, to investigate an official of this level, the Inspectorate is not bold enough, without the Holy Decree, they will not have the courage in any case.

Lin Zhe is also depressed, what's going on!

Check it out, it's not good, he knows better than others whether Jiang Daoquan has a problem, there is no big problem, but there must be a bunch of small problems.

But if you don't check it, then the political system of separation of powers between the Inspectorate, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet that you have worked so hard to build is useless, and you have been flaunting to govern the country according to law for so many years, and there are no less similar words, wouldn't it be a slap in the face if you don't investigate now?

In this case, he can only play a roundabout role, and let the Inspectorate publicly file a case for investigation first, but it also hints at the Inspectorate, don't dig too deep, it's almost enough.

The Inspectorate fully understood Lin Zhe's will, quickly filed the case, and then summoned Jiang Daoquan!

But this kind of thing is an outright insult in Jiang Daoquan's eyes, refusing to go to the Inspectorate to cooperate with the investigation, and immediately broke the bones of the beggar.

Lin Zhe is naturally not allowed according to the convention, but Jiang Daoquan is naturally called smelly and hard for a reason, Lin Zhe just rejected Jiang Daoquan's excerpt, and he immediately put on the second letter of the Zhishi excerpt.

Lin Zhe can't get off the stage a little bit, what should I do if Jiang Daoquan comes to Zhishi for the third time after this batch of refutations?

It is said that there are no more than three things, if it is three folds. Lin Zhe is not allowed, he has to be sure!

This old stubborn, who doesn't understand my difficulties at all!

For a while, Lin Zhe was a little complaining about Jiang Daoquan in his heart, could it be that your reputation of Jiang Daoquan is important, and my prestige is not important.

In fact, Lin Zhe still underestimated Jiang Daoquan's importance to fame. I underestimated the importance of fame to Jiang Daoquan.

Jiang Daoquan has been able to take root in the imperial court for more than ten years, what does it rely on? It's not Lin Zhe's trust, but his own prestige.

Many times, in fact, Lin Zhe didn't like Jiang Daoquan as a person, but he felt that the dismiss of Jiang Daoquan would not outweigh the losses, and for a while, he couldn't find someone better than Jiang Daoquan to replace him.

Playing the role of a conservative in imperial politics is not something that ordinary officials can do.

At this time, it was still the officials of the Inspectorate who were interested in it, and soon gave a so-called investigation report. The report shows that Jiang Daoquan is innocent.

This result was expected by many people.

In this storm in October, many people can guess Lin Zhe's thoughts, that is, they want to suppress this turmoil that broke out of thin air, and what should everyone do in the end.

Therefore, a series of impeachments and reports have no practical significance, and many people did not expect to pull Guo Longyun or Jiang Daoquan down with such a fight.

The turmoil in the imperial political arena in October seems to have been quietly suppressed.

In this turmoil, although Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan were safe and sound, many people were unlucky, and many very powerful characters who jumped up and down in this turmoil were retaliated against afterwards. For example, the political envoy of Jiangxi was greatly exerted by Guo Longyun. Then he engaged in dereliction of duty, and in November he was forced to resign and return to his hometown.

Many other people were also implicated, either transferred or demoted, these things don't need Lin Zhe to say, Jiang Daoquan and Guo Longyun have launched their own outbreaks. If you pull down one of my protégés, I'll beat one of your subordinates.

It's the same as the struggle of the past years, but it's much more intense.

In October and December, dozens of mid-level officials were transferred.

However, in this turmoil, Lin Zhe also noticed something wrong. That is, the troika of the current cabinet is a little unbalanced, and Xue Huan's power is too small to seem to be able to suppress Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan.

Xue Huan has been working hard to be a lonely minister all these years, he learned the lessons of Bi Yutong's downfall, and set two bottom lines for himself:

The first is to never interfere in the affairs of the prince, who touches and who dies in the imperial political arena, Bi Yutong was dismissed from office back then is the best lesson, the four words of 'arguing about palace affairs' are definitely the death of whoever is smashed.

In the past ten years, especially in the early sixties, there are not many officials who have died under these four words, and earlier those people may have gone to fight for the dragon's merit or something, leaving a loyal minister and the like, and being demoted for a few years under the pretense of being a big deal, and then returning to the central government.

However, in fact, none of the officials who had anything to do with the Lichu had been able to return to the central government in the past ten years, and a considerable number of them were directly dismissed from their posts, and then they could only return to their hometowns to become gentry, and some were demoted to remote provinces.

In the early years, if officials were demoted, at most they would go to Yunnan-Guizhou and other provinces, but later the places where they were demoted were Kokand, Xindong, Wutai and other places, which were thousands of miles away from the border provinces, and there were no planes and railways.

When they left Beijing, they were just like those officials in ancient times, all of them were full of a letter of court, and the sadness of the night and the fall of Kokand, many of them had already said something when they left Beijing, "it is good to collect my bones by the west sea".

The West Sea in the mouth of the Chinese people is generally called the Aral Sea, to be precise, this place is not part of the imperial territory for the time being, and even the distance is still very far, but for these literati, the distance from Kokand Province and Lake Balkhash to Nanjing is no different from the distance from the Aral Sea to Nanjing, it is the same concept.

This official who was demoted to Kokand, not to say absolutely, but it is estimated that there is no hope of returning to Nanjing in this life, of course, if you take the initiative to resign, you don't have to go to Kokand to eat wind and sand.

However, many officials, especially those who speak out, are basically ready to be demoted, and their honor does not allow them to resign after being demoted.

Because they are all self-proclaimed loyal ministers and the like, if the emperor asks you to govern the frontier, you are unwilling, and you are resigning and going home to enjoy happiness, you are embarrassed to call yourself a loyal minister, it is estimated that many people will drown you with a mouthful of spit.

Therefore, those who discuss palace affairs in vain and are demoted, they are basically tragic.

In addition to not being able to touch the affairs of the reserve, Xue Huan also set a second bottom line for himself, that is, not to form gangs!

Because Bi Yutong's resignation in the early years was also related to his gangs everywhere.

It is understandable that Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan formed a gang, because they are just cabinet members, and there is no group of people who take advantage of this, how can they compete for power and profit with others, but you Xue Huan is different, you are the prime minister of the cabinet, and the first civil official.

The real one person is below and above ten thousand, and there is no way to rise, what power do you want to fight for? What profits?

If you still have to form a gang, do you still want to fight for the throne under Lin Zhe's ass?

Xue Huan's two points are the guarantee that he has been sitting as the prime minister of the cabinet for many years, but in Lin Zhe's view, Xue Huan's control over the cabinet will be weaker, if Xue Huan is strong enough, the turmoil in the previous cabinet will not be able to rise, because in front of him, Xue Huan will calm down first.

If Xue Huan's power is too weak, then the power of Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan is too strong.

Lin Zhe wanted it to be the triangular balance of the cabinet, well, or Xue Huan's slightly stronger balance.

If the cabinet is compared to a triangle, then what Lin Zhe wants is not an equilateral triangle, but an isosceles triangle, and a long waist triangle.

Xue Huan is in the upper corner, and his power should be stronger than Guo Longyun and Jiang Daoquan, just like the relationship between Bi Yutong and Jiang Daoquan and Guo Longyun back then.

Although Bi Yutong did not have Lin Zhe's mind on the establishment of the reserve back then, Bi Yutong's control over the cabinet was still good, at least there would be no turmoil in the cabinet.

In this case, Lin Zhe decided to make some adjustments to the existing equilibrium situation of the cabinet, increase support for Xue Huan, and then weaken the power of Jiang Daoquan and Guo Longyun.

Especially Jiang Daoquan, in the turmoil in October, Lin Zhe once again felt that this person was stinky and hard, and he had endured him for so many years, Lin Zhe didn't plan to continue to endure it.

Anyway, Jiang Daoquan is also old, he is a sixty-six-year-old man this year, and he will not be able to continue to work in the cabinet for long, so it is time to support another third corner.

In line with this intention, Lin Zhe began the adjustment of the cabinet. (To be continued.) )