The process of discussing the "examination method" between the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials and Li Xian was extremely smooth, and the other party had long expected to use the power of the officials of the Ministry of Heavenly Officials to sweep out the corpses in the court, so that the officials of the Shen Party and the Young Zhuang faction who were loyal to the "hard work" could enter the political stage.

It's just that due to Shen Yichen's obstruction before, even if Li Xian is a heavenly official Otsuka, he is still a little constrained in many decisions. Now it is equivalent to opening the shackles, and the second year of Mingliang is the year of Dabi, it can be predicted in advance that this three-year small examination of the Ministry of Officials will have an unprecedented impact on the officialdom!

In the scorching heat of July in the second year of Ming Liang, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all set their eyes on the palace, wanting to see how the impeachment of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Shipu would be handled, and how Hu Hui, as the leader of the traditional civil official group, should be countered?

But a scene that everyone never expected appeared, Shi Pu did not choose to redress his grievances and shout grievances, let alone rush to the crown and hard top Shen Yichen, but chose to silently confess his guilt to Shishi, asking the emperor for forgiveness and letting him return to his hometown to worry about his mother.

This result surprised too many people, and none of the officials who were able to kill in the imperial examination system had problems with their IQ. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this impeachment is a long-planned "seizure of power" action, and the target is directly aimed at the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

The re-appeasement and retreat of the civilian-bureaucratic clique is no different from cutting meat and feeding tigers, cutting five cities today, cutting ten cities tomorrow, and what official positions can be cut out for the members of the Shen Party in the end?

Among them, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, suffered from the dissatisfaction of the entire Yanguan Qingliu group, after all, as the leader of the civil official group, you have endured everyone in the past few years, and now Shen Yichen has kicked his nose in the face and directly started to lift the table.

If you don't stand up and speak up, is it really that Lao Hutu is useless?

Hu Hui's weakness made many radical Kedao officials feel unacceptable, and they began to seek a way to save themselves, turning their attention to another important minister who could lead everyone to turn the tide, he was He Wenyuan, the "secretary of the ministry".

He Wenyuan was a jinshi during the Yongle period, and the generation of Emperor Ming Liang could already be called the elder of the Six Dynasties, and it was not a problem to command the ministers in terms of qualifications. In addition, although He Wenyuan lost power with the death of Emperor Jingtai, he gradually became a marginal figure in the court.

However, his former official position of "Officials and Scholars", as well as the title of "Prince Taibao" still exist, this kind of old minister with a good official residence, as long as he does not die by himself, including the emperor, it is not easy to seize the office.

More importantly, He Wenyuan is a traditional physicist, he hates deviant behavior, and instinctively opposes the crooked and evil way of "Shen Xue", and the two sides are naturally opposed.

Since Hu Hu can't defend the dignity of Confucianism, then He Wenyuan has to stand up and "accept the order"!

Of course, the officials of the science and Taoism also understand that relying solely on a "nominal and substantial" official secretary He Wenyuan will never be able to fight against Shen Yichen. Then, in addition to the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, it is also necessary to create a momentum among the people to set off a "downfall" of public opinion.

This group of radical officials chose Xue Xuan, the founder of the Hedong School of the Ming Dynasty!

The Hedong School can be said to be one of the sources of the Ming Dynasty School, and its disciples are all over Shanxi, Henan, and Guanlong. The academic concept adheres to the study of Zhou Dunyi and Ercheng, especially Zhu Xi, which is the orthodox Cheng Zhu Lixue.

The influence is so great that Ming and Qing scholars generally believe that there are two academic contexts in the Ming generation. One is the Yangming school in the south, and the other is Xue Xuan and Zhu Xue in the north, and it is by virtue of this identity as a founding master that Xue Xuan became the first sage in the Ming Dynasty to be allowed to worship from the Confucian Temple for future generations.

But if the history of the feudal dynasty is longer, maybe Xue Xuan will be honored as "Xue Zi" after thousands of years.

In fact, when Shen Yichen collected evidence of Wang Zhen's nephew's crime a long time ago, he had an indirect intersection with Xue Xuan. The other party originally served as the secretary of Dali Temple, but he was retaliated against for the crime of Wang Zhen's nephew, so he was cut down and released back to his hometown for the people.

It is precisely this return to his hometown that allows Xue Xuan to focus all his energy on learning, and the Hedong School he founded has become a hot faction at present, and its momentum is not inferior to Shen Yichen's "Shen Xue" with his protégé, and even surpasses it.

After all, Cheng Zhu Lixue has been developed for hundreds of years, and it has long been ingrained in the hearts of readers, and it is not an overnight achievement for the emerging school to defeat and replace it.

In addition, the Hedong School also imitated the "Wenbao" founded by Shen Yichen, and issued a newspaper called "Li Pao". It's just that the scope of transmission is limited to the scholar class, and the small people in the market have no chance to contact at all, and they still belong to the "spring and white snow" that are high above.

Regarding the formation of a new opposition force by the Chinese official group in the DPRK, Shen Yichen did not pay much attention, or he did not care.

It is difficult to complete the peaceful alternation between the old and new forces, and the two sides are destined to form a big dispute, this is not something that Hu Hu or Shen Yichen can suppress, just let it be.

As for Shi Pu's superiors, Shen Yichen abided by the agreement with Hu Hu, and did not continue to investigate the guilt, so that the other party could use the official title of the Ministry of Industry to return to the hometown in a more decent way.

Just when the government and the opposition thought that this conflict would end temporarily with Shi Pu's return to his hometown, the cabinet officially promulgated the "Examination Law", announcing the beginning of the reform era led by Shen Yichen!

Originally, Zhang Juzheng's "examination method" was to ask the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to register the things that their officials should do in three account books. One copy was kept by the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the other was sent to the Six Sections for supervision, and the last book was submitted to the Cabinet for decision-making.

Using Shen Yichen's desire to clear the acres of land as an example, the test method can formulate the number and time limit of the local officials' fields in advance, and then register them in the register for review month by month.

Originally, I wanted to punish officials, but as long as they did not make a big mistake or violate the penalty, they had to wait until the triennial assessment of the officials to ask for the crime. Now that the efficiency is increasing at the speed of light, as long as Shen Yichen feels that any official is messing around, he can be dealt with on the spot according to the "examination law", which can be said to control the personnel power in his hands.

Of course, this is not an absolute monopoly of power, after all, there are still household departments and metropolitan procuratorates, as well as six departments to check and balance each other. However, everyone in the world knows that Li Xian is a member of the Shen Party, and the imperial envoy Wang Wen has long had no prestige in the court, and he did not dare to have a hard fight with Shen Yichen.

Only the Daoist officials in the six branches can still raise objections.

But the problem is that without the cooperation of the high-level of the imperial court, it is almost impossible for the seven grades of Yanguan Qingliu to really affect the direction of the policy.

As soon as the "Examination Method" came out, the factional conflicts in the imperial court that had been calmed down immediately became boiling and noisy, and the civil and military officials realized that their careers were pinched in the hands of Shen Yichen, and the other party could be killed at any time.

For a long time, how can there be a place for the court to stand?

If it no longer erupts in silence, it can only perish in silence, impeach many members of Shi Pu's civilian clique, and still stand by with the mentality that it has nothing to do with himself.

This time there is vital interest involved, and they must not be able to stand idly by anymore.

On the starry night of August, the air was still filled with a sultry heat, but the mansion of Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was crowded, even though the hall was already full of ice cubes for cooling, and many people's foreheads were still covered with dense beads of sweat.

Among this group of officials who met Hu Hui, the leader was He Wenyuan, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and now as the situation became more and more severe, he was vaguely in the traditional civil official group, and had some intention of taking the position of Hu Hui's leader.

"Uncle Zong, the first assistant of the cabinet is in a high position, and there are officials and heavenly officials to compete with it in the past. Now Li Xian has become a loyal dog under his door, and he has completely delegated power to Shen Yichen. ”

"If you don't even stand up and set things right, won't the court be dark in the future?"

Le Yun made a heart-wrenching appeal, he didn't say how righteous he was, it was purely the fate of Shi Pu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who made him feel a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Today, Shen Yichen can seek an official position for Xu Youzhen, a "villain" whose relationship is not close at all, so tomorrow he can lay a green ladder for Xiao Yi, a core member of the Shen Party and currently serving as a right-hand politician.

With the promulgation of the examination law, it is easy to find trouble, and as long as a few tasks are assigned, then they will inevitably be held accountable by the cabinet. Le Yun has always had a sense of crisis about his position in recent years, and now it has reached the point where he must take precautions.

As soon as the voice of the political envoy Le Yun on this side fell, Wang Wen, the imperial envoy over there, immediately added: "Uncle Zong, you may not believe it when you say it, the cabinet promulgated the examination law this time without informing the official at all, so it was so stubbornly branded as the Metropolitan Procuratorate." ”

"Last year, Shen Yichen thwarted Shi Heng's mutiny and got the title of Imperial Division, and he has already reached the point where he is in power, and now he is doing whatever he wants!"

The most aggrieved of this is Wang Wen, Shen Yichen wants to reform and change the law, but he has specially discussed with Hu Hui, Nian Fu, Li Xian and others before, but Wang Wen, the imperial envoy of the Grand Jiuqing, did not know that there was such a thing until the promulgation of the examination law.

Wang Wen knew that he had been on the wrong side in the battle for imperial power over the years and had become a marginal figure among the old ministers, but Shen Yichen was too insulting to do so, so he had to bow his head and come to Hu Hui's mansion to expect the other party to uphold justice.

With the two high-ranking officials of the court taking the lead, the officials in the hall then denounced Shen Yichen's rampant and domineering incident, which turned into a criticism meeting.

In the face of this noisy scene, Hu Hu listened silently, and it was not until this moment that he finally understood why Shen Yichen was full of confidence to carry out the gentry as an errand and pay for food.

This son has already started his own plan, and the group of opposition forces in front of him is the object he wants to eliminate!

To tell the truth, when he became an official to the level of Hu Hui, a veteran of the Seven Dynasties, he had already reached the stage of doing what he wanted and not exceeding the rules. This is why Hu Hu chooses to compromise and retreat in many things, because his age and experience can see many things clearly and know the direction of the general trend of history.

The gentry are integrated as errands to pay food, if Shen Yichen can really do it, it is not an exaggeration to call it a work of eternity, and it can even break the fate of the three-hundred-year reincarnation of previous dynasties.

In the twilight of his life, he was able to see such a number one person in the imperial court and dare to do such a feat, which has to be said to be a blessing.

But it's a pity that Hu Hu's identity is destined to stand on the opposite side of Shen Yichen, even if he is unwilling to come forward to oppose it, the interest group to which he belongs will push him out, just like the scene in front of him.

"Uncle Zong, you say something, are we just waiting for the situation to collapse?"

A young officer of the Sixth Section, seeing that Hu Hu had been silent for a long time, didn't care about any etiquette and humility and urged.

In an ordinary moment, if the young juniors dare to talk to Hu Hu like this, they don't have to open their mouths at all, and the officials present will reprimand them in unison. But this time, everyone maintained a kind of silence, using this attitude to express their dissatisfaction, and at the same time, it also meant that Hu Hu had retreated many times, which had damaged his prestige in the civilian clique.

Seeing this scene, Hu Hui slowly stood up, sighed and said: "Shen Gongbao had discussed some things with this official long before impeaching Shi Shangshu, and he planned to carry out a reform and change in the court, and the intensity was unprecedented. ”

"For this reform, the official can't talk about the success or failure of the merits, the test law is only the first step taken by Shen Gongbao, and more measures will be promulgated in the future."

"Right and wrong need to be tested by time, which is why this official stood by and watched. If you can, I hope that your colleagues will wait and see what happens for the time being, and see if Shen Gongbao can benefit all the people in the world, and then make a decision. ”

Hu Hu has thought a lot in the past two months, and when he puts aside the political dispute to look at Shen Yichen's reform and reform, it is indeed a move for the benefit of the country and the people. Of course, there are also Shen Yichen who uses the name of reform to do things to fight for power, after all, people's hearts are safe.

But in fact, in Hu Hui's heart, there is still a secret hidden, that is, Yang Pu, one of the "Three Yangs" back then, was on his deathbed, helping Shen Yichen to tilt the power into the government and the opposition, and he knew.

I have to admit that Yang Pu's vision is higher than his own, and he has long seen that Shen Yichen is not a thing in the pool.

Isn't it true that the scholar reads the books of the sages and establishes the Lingyun Zhi all his life in order to practice the four sentences of the Hengqu, to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to continue to learn for the saints, and to open peace for all generations?

Hu Hui wanted to gamble and trust Shen Yichen in his twilight years to see if he could achieve the pursuit of a literati all his life.

If you can do it, you can call it a saint!

"Uncle Zong, what does Shen Gongbao want to do?"

Faced with Hu Hu's remarks about Shen Yichen's reform and change, Yu Shiyue, the secretary of the Criminal Department, couldn't hold back a little, and immediately asked.

"Shen Gongbao has fulfilled his promise to the official, so the official has to be a trustworthy person, I can't say it for the time being."

Hu Hu shook his head and didn't answer directly, from the first promulgation of the examination law, he knew that Shen Yichen was planning step by step, and saying it would disrupt his entire steps, and maybe he would die halfway.

"Yes, then it seems that the great uncle has a sympathy with Shen Gong Bao."

A sarcastic voice came, and it was He Wenyuan who said this.

He came to Hu Hu's mansion with all the officials this time, not only to "force the palace", but also to "seize power"!