"Party strife?"

Lu Fubao was thoughtful.

Fan Li nodded.

"Daming, first there was Taizu who abolished the prime minister, and then there was Chengzu who established a cabinet. As soon as it was abolished, it changed the solitary phase of the Ming Dynasty to the group phase. ”

"The prime minister's power is decentralized, and everyone in the cabinet is vying for it."

"Especially between the first assistant and the second assistant, the first assistant is afraid that the second assistant will compete for the position, and the second assistant wants to give way in his dreams, and the two are naturally enemies."

"Such a struggle for power and profit is a natural fertile ground for party struggle."

"And the longer the first and second assistants are in power, and the wings of both sides are getting richer, the more fierce the party struggle will be."

Lu Fubao was shocked when he heard it.

She has heard that whether it is Yan Song or Xu Jie, they are all evergreens in the Ming Dynasty, and they have been in power for a long time.

From this point of view, isn't the party struggle in the Jiajing Dynasty extremely fierce?

Talking about the court situation, Fan Li also had a lot of interest.

He continued:

"People often distinguish everything by simple concepts such as good and evil, loyalty and treachery, black and white."

"In the officialdom, clean officials are clear streams, and corrupt officials and traitors are turbid streams."

"Therefore, the Daming party struggle is also known as the turbidity dispute."

Lu Fubao was puzzled: "This ...... Is there something wrong? ”

Fan Li laughed.

"Your Taizu, the first Marquis of Wenxin, do you think he is loyal or traitorous?"

Lu Fubao was speechless.

The loyalty of the ancestors is really not something that her, a descendant, can evaluate.

In particular, the first Wen Xinhou was indeed a figure with mixed reputations, and later historians wrote books and said, sprinkled with tens of millions of words, and it is difficult to make a fair and objective evaluation of the first Wen Xinhou.

"Then you say, is it better to have a clear stream or a turbid stream?" Lu Fubao was a little unconvinced, and glared at Fan Li with disgust.

"Hehe, lady is angry."

It was rare for Fan Li to call Lu Fubao like this, and he immediately made her smile with a smile.

"In fact, since ancient times, the court has been turbid and mixed, where is there absolute clarity, or absolute turbidity?"

"Those who are in high positions should distinguish the turbidity and then make good use of it."

Lu Fubao said angrily: "Sophistry, how to make good use of the turbid water? Would you rather drink cloudy water? ”

Fan Li smiled and shook his head.

No wonder, Lu Fubao prefers formations in practice, and she really doesn't inherit much from the Lu family.

"I ask you, can you irrigate the farmland with clear water?" Fan Li's Q&A.

"Absolutely." Lu Fubao replied.

"Can that muddy water irrigate the farmland?" Fan Li asked again.

"This ......"

Lu Fubao stuck.

If she realized, she happened to wake up crying 'wow' in her arms.

"Oops!"

"Why did she pee?"

The boy's urine soaked through several layers of cloth, wetting Lu Fubao's clothes.

Fan Li laughed: "If you use this urine to irrigate the field, the harvest is better than that irrigated with clean water, which is called organic fertilizer." ”

"I'm going to change my clothes!"

How could Lu Fubao have time to listen to his nonsense, hugged the crying little Diao Chan, and fled into the back room in a panic.

When she left, Fan Li also restrained her smile.

"The simple truth of clear water and turbid water, it is impossible for Emperor Jiajing not to understand."

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"It is not used because the water is clear, nor is it wasted because of the turbidity."

"The water of the Yangtze River is clear, and the water of the Yellow River is turbid. The Yangtze River is flowing, and so is the Yellow River. ”

"The water of the Yangtze River irrigates the fields of several provinces on both sides of the river, and the water of the Yellow River also irrigates the fields on both sides of the provinces."

"You don't understand such a simple truth?"

On the throne, Emperor Jiajing was wearing a Taoist robe, with a long beard beating his chest, looking like a fairy with fairy wind and bones.

At the foot of the imperial stairs stood two ministers, both with white beards.

One is the second assistant Xu Jie, and the other is Zhang Juzheng, who is working hard outside Yunmeng Mountain.

"But ......," Xu Jie still wanted to argue.

"Huh?"

Emperor Jiajing's eyes turned cold, and his tone was calm.

"Elder Xu Ge, what I said doesn't work anymore? Are you ready to support your master on the throne? Need a reminder from me? Your master is seriously injured and unconscious, and it's hard to say whether he can wake up or not! ”

"Your Majesty! How dare a minister be disloyal and unfilial? ”

Xu Jie let out a 'poof' and knelt heavily on his knees.

Zhang Juzheng was helpless, so he had to kneel down.

Xu Jie kowtowed and said, "There is only one master in the minister, and that is Your Majesty." In the whole world, there is only one master for hundreds of millions of living beings, and that is Your Majesty! ”

"How dare you."

Emperor Jiajing sneered.

"How dare I belittle myself?"

"In addition to the Ming Dynasty in this world, there are also Wei Han Wu Chu, by the way, there is also a great mercy."

"There are hundreds of millions of living beings in the world, and there is more than one master."

"Even in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there may not be only one master."

"Elder Xu Ge, when you went to the Prince's Mansion last night and cried bitterly at the unconscious one, weren't you showing your loyalty?"

Xu Jie's face turned pale in shock!

He looked at Emperor Jiajing in disbelief, obviously he didn't expect that the emperor would actually install eyeliner in his prince's mansion!

Xu Jie bowed again, trembling all over.

"Minister......

"Wechen ......"

"Sinners ......"

Xu Jie's voice trembled, and he seemed to be confused.

In fact, he knew that he was wrong, but he didn't panic to such an extent.

It's just that if you want to get Emperor Jiajing's forgiveness, you must try to behave weak, ownerless, and pitiful in front of this arrogant and conceited emperor.

Then, it is possible to arouse a little sympathy and pity for his ministers.

Xu Jie's response finally worked.

After Emperor Jiajing vented, the anger in his heart calmed down a little.

Looking at Xu Jie's pitiful appearance again, he finally let out a long sigh.

"Fast."

"Minister...... Minister! ”

Just now he called him Xu Ge Lao, and now he is called Cunzhai.

Emperor Jiajing only addressed his favored ministers by words, such as Yan Song.

This kind of treatment, Xu Jie, is rare once a year.

"I stayed with Hu Zongxian, not because I didn't ask about his crimes."

"It's just that people can't run away from the prison, I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?"

In a few simple words, whether Hu Zongxian's crime could be cured or not, Emperor Jiajing did not say it explicitly, but left enough measure.

There is more than enough to advance and retreat.

Xu Jie knew that it was impossible to get Hu Zongxian to be convicted of the death penalty today.

"I understand."

Emperor Jiajing saw that Cifu retreated, and he was embarrassed to let his family come for nothing.

Zhang Juzheng is now also a cabinet minister and a student of Xu Jie.

Emperor Jiajing asked Zhang Juzheng: "Recently, what is new in the capital?" ”

"It's my turn to speak."

Zhang Juzheng complained in his heart, and on the surface, he gave Emperor Jiajing a kowtow first.

"Your Majesty, there are two things in the capital recently, which are quite fresh."

"First, Fan Yingcai, the representative of Fan's firm in Daming, is old and begging, and has arranged for his nephew to take over and continue to take care of all the business affairs of Fan's firm in my Daming."

"Oh?" Emperor Jiajing raised his eyebrows. "Checked?"

"The minister has ordered a division to investigate, Fan Yingcai has no children under his knees, and he does have a nephew named Fan Zhe, who is twenty-two years old and has a wife and a daughter."

"Fan Zhe has taken his wife and daughter to stay in the Fan Mansion in Beiting Lane."

Emperor Jiajing nodded with satisfaction.

Da Ming and Da Chu are enemy countries, and the official business is not easy to do.

But the goods of Fan's Commercial Bank are very fragrant, and the Daming commercial tax is even more fragrant!

The person in charge of the new Fan's firm dragged his family to Daming, which is a safe message.

"Another novelty."

"Xue Susu, a famous trick in Qinhuai, defeated Chen Deyan, the champion of the new department, at this year's Lanting Poetry Conference, and his fame spread far and wide, and the world is called 'Xue Family'."

"The minister suspects that Xue Susu is a person from the Pure Land."