The officials frantically impeached the reformist officials, and because many of the impeachments were not framed, but more or less true, and there was no Zhang Juzheng in front of them, it also made the reformist officials belonging to Zhang Juzheng's party feel uneasy, and even retreated.

"I'll quit!"

When the privy envoy learned that he had been impeached, he sighed in his study, and then wrote a plea.

Wang Zongzai also left the Metropolitan Procuratorate in frustration after learning that his subordinate Jiang Dongzhi had impeached him, and came to the left attendant of the Criminal Department, Wang Su, to say:

"The wind and rain are too strong, and I am afraid that the gold crow will inevitably be covered by dark clouds, I am ready to resign and retreat, what about the public?"

Wang Su sighed: "Then let's all retreat!" ”

Liang Menglong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also said to Zhang Xueyan in the courtyard of the official residence: "How is the public defending himself? ”

Zhang Xueyan asked Liang Menglong first: "What about the public, didn't the holy decree also make the public defend himself for accepting bribes?" ”

"I'm too lazy to defend myself!"

Liang Menglong waved his sleeves directly, and said: "As long as you have done the position of the governor of Jiliao, it is impossible not to accept bribes, otherwise the military ministers are really afraid that you will not allow them to eat empty salaries, and they will not listen to your command!" ”

"The position of the governor of Liaodong is similar."

"In many cases, it is inevitable to kill good people and take risks! God is pitiful, who knows, those herdsmen outside the customs who have no household registration to check are Hu Lu spies or their own people, who has the energy to ask so much? ”

Zhang Xueyan also followed.

Liang Menglong sighed and said: "Yuanfu has been changed, so naturally we will follow suit!" This is not a question of right or wrong, it is a question of the times have changed, and I am waiting for me to be dismissed from office, or even become a commoner or exiled to the army! Anyway, thunder, rain and dew are all Jun'en. ”

"I'm not going to quit!"

Zhang Xueyan replied bluntly, and said:

"So, I seriously wrote 10,000 words to defend myself! Prepare to have a good debate with those officials, and it doesn't hurt to fight him for 300 rounds! ”

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"I'm also going to let the Son of Heaven know that although I was greedy for ink and took risks, it was due to the current situation, and I didn't do it intentionally!"

"When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no friends, and it is inevitable that the superintendent with the troops will do one or two things that are sorry for the king's life!"

"What we should do now is not to ask about the past, but not to repeat the party struggle after the Northern Song Dynasty changed the law!"

"Try to keep those who can be retained, and try not to kill those who can not be killed, I am not excusing myself, but interceding for all the officials who have participated in the restructuring, please Your Majesty to show grace as the main, and Liwei as a supplement!" Because a new batch of people will not necessarily be cleaner. ”

Liang Menglong sneered: "Why should the prince be so insistent! ”

"This court is a place to talk about the general trend, not a place to reason! When the situation is on your side and mine, it can be said that way, but when the situation is not on your side and mine, there is no sin and there is no need, and a small thing can also be the reason why you and I are beheaded in different places. ”

"I don't think Your Majesty is a person who is not determined to continue the reform!"

"That's a bad word!"

"We don't need to be discouraged so quickly and have the intention of backing down and compromise!"

"The Taishi is the marquis and pursues Wenzheng, and he also deserves to enjoy the Taimiao, and his words have been set up to be studied by Hanlin!"

Zhang Xueyan asked Liang Menglong as he spoke: "Doesn't these prove Your Majesty's determination?" ”

Zhang Xueyan then asked: "Is it because of his inaction in Zhang Puzhou, that we all become turtles with shrunken heads in order to protect ourselves?" Sit back and watch Your Majesty's spirit be wiped out, and after the Taishi leaves, the entire government will be in a slump from then on? ! ”

"Your Majesty said so clearly in the Guozijian, even if the Taishi is gone, his spirit cannot die, why should we live up to Your Majesty? Is it because you are afraid that if you persist in the future, you will be beheaded and your home will be raided? ”

After Zhang Xueyan asked Liang Menglong like this, Liang Menglong fell silent.

At this time, Yan Qing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, came over: "That's good! ”

"The three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman can't win the ambition!"

"I don't plan to retreat, those powerful officials and gentry who opposed the New Deal in the past were indeed condemned in my hands, and they also impeached me as a cool official, but let them impeach me, unless Your Majesty personally decrees to depose me, I will not retreat."

Obviously, Zhu Yijun's previous series of measures to elevate Zhang's position in the country have also made some bureaucrats in the reformers still feel discouraged and are willing to continue to govern in the DPRK.

It's just that in this way, Zhang Siwei and the opponents of the New Deal are even more dissatisfied with these reformist civil officials who are not so honest and less cowardly.

"This Zhang Xueyan, as well as Zeng Xingwu and Zhang Jiayin, why are they so stubborn? ! Let them defend themselves, and they really defend themselves? Instead of resigning! ”

Zhang Siwei's face suddenly became very ugly after seeing the ink book delivered by the cabinet in the Imperial Division, and he was so angry in his heart.

Since Zhu Yijun set up the Imperial Chambers in the corridor on the west side of the Qianqing Palace, the chief assistants of the foreman Imperial Priests would often read the ink book for the emperor in the Imperial Division, and then provide the emperor with his opinion on whether to approve Zhu or not.

Therefore, what Zhang Siwei saw at this time was the ink copy of the ticket sent by Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers, and he also saw the reality that Zhang Xueyan, Zeng Xingwu, Zhang Jiayin and other reformist civil officials, that is, the backbone of Zhang Juzheng's party, did not resign through the ink book prepared by Shen Shixing and other ministers.

However, Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers did not cater to Zhang Siwei, but the vote was to accept Zhang Xueyan and others to defend themselves, and not to blame the past on the grounds that the cadres were compassionate and to make them change their minds and continue to work hard.

Because of this, Zhang Siwei inevitably felt a little in his heart, and the other cabinet ministers did not share their unhappiness with him, and his face became even more ugly.

If Zhang Siwei has an opinion, he can directly overturn the vote of Shen Shixing and others, and re-vote it, and the emperor will know.

But Zhang Siwei still didn't do this, and only instructed the housekeeper who served the imperial secretary to hand over the ink to the clerk in case Emperor Zhu Yijun approved it.

Zhu Yijun naturally approved the cabinet's vote to retain Zhang Xueyan.

It's just that these votes of the red queens, that is, Zhu's criticism of the holy decree, arrived at the six branches, and the officials of the six branches were very dissatisfied with this.

In the engineering department, Wang Yuyang saw that Zhu Pi for Zhang Xueyan, Zeng Xingwu, Zhang Jiayin, etc. was not guilty of the past in the sixth department duty room at this time, and his heart suddenly burned with fire:

"How can the great evil with conclusive evidence be put down so easily?!"

"How much benefit does his cabinet take from these people?!"

"Or are these ministers and ministers all in an embarrassment, bad for the clean and honest wind of this dynasty, and negative for His Majesty's desire to rule?!"

"Sign it!"

Chen Hejiao said with a calm face at this time, and said: "However, this matter is not over, the cabinet does not do personnel, so let our six departments come to Kuang Zheng to gain and lose in the court!" ”

As he spoke, he looked up at the other things: "Continue to look for the mistakes of the remnants of the Zhang Party, and hear about it!" I don't believe that these remnants of the Zhang Party can really be shy and occupy a high position, and they are not afraid of the discussion of the forest? ”

"We might as well publicize every impeachment!"

At the same time, the original text of the cabinet vote was also passed out, so that the non-governmental tabloids could publish it, and also let the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Guozijian, the Hanlin Yuan, the six departments and the gentry and elders of the world see it, and see how the cabinet ministers are on a vegetarian diet! How the ministers of the DPRK and China are shameless! ”

The Criminal Division proposed to Liu Shangzhi at this time, and it was obviously intended to make things bigger, lest the world be chaotic.

Wang Yuyang agreed with this: "When this is the case, when the time comes, it will be turbulent, and it will be up to the ministers and ministers to deal with themselves!" ”

……

"It's really a lot of discussion!"

"It's all about impeaching this minister and that governor."

"What are they going to do, do they think that I was deceived by Mr. in the past, and Mr. is a traitorous and loyal, so they use some Lu beetle villains and fortunate people?"

"Or the old man who impeached Mr. Akari, but in fact he is dissatisfied with my failure to liquidate Mr.?!"

Zhu Yijun was not idle.

He knew that these officials who sang big dramas were obviously aimed at the ministers and ministers, but in fact they were aimed at the new policy, and it was obviously caused by the deliberate connivance of the first assistant Zhang Siwei.

Because the examination system has not been abolished, the cabinet can still pass the examination of six subjects, that is to say, the cabinet has a rope to tie up the speech officials and prevent them from biting people, unless the cabinet deliberately does not use this power, otherwise the six subjects dare not be so presumptuous.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not choose to hide behind, but came directly to the imperial secretary, and scolded Zhang Siwei and Fang Fengshi and other ruling ministers, and then said:

"Governing the country with leniency and severity, you can't let these ministers mess around and mess up the world, immediately draw up an edict, and be born as the eldest son of the emperor, as a show of benevolence, so the past mistakes of the meritorious ministers, that is, the things ten years before Wanli, except for the rebellion and deception of the king, are not to blame in the past."