Shen Shixing met Zhang Siwei's gaze.

Since the decision has been made to seize power, there is naturally no need to hide anything.

And Zhang Siwei took sick leave in the next secret.

He knew that Shen Shixing and the other ministers must have been summoned by His Majesty to the Imperial Court that night because of the rebellion of Yang Zhao and other soldiers in the Imperial Palace, and reached an agreement, so they suddenly stopped being reluctant and joined forces to empty his first assistant.

But unless Zhang Siwei really dares to express his true claims to the emperor directly and tear off his true mask, otherwise, he can only be a paper lake head assistant who can only pass words and nod.

But Zhang Siwei actually has his own opinions, but he doesn't actually want to eat a corpse, and he actually has a great desire for power.

However, the emperor's attitude made him unable to use the hands of the officials to get rid of the reformist ministers and civil officials left by Zhang Juzheng, and second, he did not dare to directly disobey the will of the superiors, so that he did not accumulate prestige among the opposition ministers, so that he is now very isolated.

Zhang Siwei also knew that the emperor must hate him, otherwise he would not reproach him in the name of forgiveness and intercession.

Therefore, Zhang Siwei chose to take sick leave, so as not to be an eyesore in front of the emperor and make the emperor even more disgusted with himself.

But Zhang Siwei did not resign directly.

Because he couldn't let Shen Shixing easily get the position of first assistant in vain, he had to let Shen Shixing show him favor first.

"Wu County is hateful!"

However, after Zhang Siwei thought of Shen Shixing's actions in front of him in front of the emperor today, deliberately damaging the majesty of his first assistant, in order to find out His Majesty's intentions, even though it was already evening, he still couldn't help but grit his teeth.

Zhang Siwei couldn't help but instruct Cheng Jiu because of this: "Send a letter to the second master, let him arrange someone to go to Nanjing to build momentum first, and say that Shen Shixing wants to be the second in Jiangling and exclude dissidents!" ”

Cheng Jiu arched his hand and said yes.

Zhang Siwei felt much better after he gave this order.

At this time, because Zhu Yijun had approved the disposition of the unsuccessful officials and interceding civil officials, and also showed some favors, did not use the court staff to insult the minister, but just exiled, and even asked those with merit to continue to be sent overseas as officials, so it was not long before many speech officials and intercession civil officials in the imperial prison received the will, and also learned the original meaning of the cabinet.

For a time, these officials were all mournful or full of grief and indignation.

"Is this going to one Gangneung, and coming to several Gangneungs?!"

"Even cooler officials who are more ruthless than Gangneung!"

Because of the dereliction of duty, the local officials were corrupted, and the officials who were only arranged by the Holy Decree to teach in Hirado in the east were given to Wang Shixing at this time.

"The original vote of the cabinet was originally a hundred court staffs, and my brother was a housekeeper in the imperial department, so I saw the original vote."

At this time, Song Yingchang, who was promoted to the military department after returning to Beijing, said to Wang Shixing.

"Your Majesty is benevolent! As far as the cabinet officials are hateful! ”

In the middle of the matter, Yan Xi came over at this time and said a word.

"Xia Yongchang played too few civil and camp affairs in the military department, and he was rated as mediocre in the examination, and he was transferred to an idle position!"

"Li Fen is not a civil in the middle of the engineering department, and he is rated as lazy in the examination, and he is dismissed!"

"In the matter of Li Keyou, Wang Zun was late for the inspection of Beizhili Township, and mistakenly brought the Zhu Juan that had been ranked, and the test was rated as imprudent, and he was fined for half a year!"

……

The Cabinet continues to be examined, and no matter how big or small, it will be strictly investigated.

And the strict examination of the cabinet has indeed made the six departments return to the state of Zhang Juzheng's life again, and he has to pay attention to the national economy and people's livelihood in order to conscientiously complete the government affairs of the audit department, instead of focusing on fighting people.

Especially in the people's livelihood and suffering, we have to continue to pay attention to the six subjects.

Because according to the examination method formulated by Hai Rui, a certain proportion of the six subjects must be reported in terms of people's livelihood and suffering, so that they can be rated as excellent or qualified.

But before the strict examination, there was no motivation to speak for the people in the six subjects, after all, it was not beneficial to the people and offended the dignitaries.

Therefore, it is only now that the officials of the Sixth Section have begun to continue to pay attention to the suffering of the people.

As soon as the six subjects became serious, the ministries and institutes had to follow suit.

Li Sancai, a member of the household department, was called to the duty room by Zhang Xueyan on this day, and said: "The amount of the household department that you supervised the Tianjin granary this year is not the same as the amount handed over, it is less than 12,600 stones, what's the matter?" ”

Li Sancai couldn't help but feel a chill in his back after hearing this.

"Speak!"

Zhang Xueyan drank.

Li Sancai hurriedly handed over his hand: "Dasi Nong Rongyu, maybe the audit of the household department is wrong, please give your subordinates a little time, you must give the reason." ”

"How much time are you going to ask the parish to give you?"

Zhang Xueyan asked.

Li Sancai said: "This ......"

"There must be a time for everything, this is stipulated in the examination law, if you don't complete it within the specified time, the household department will have to participate in your resignation."

Zhang Xueyan said.

"Three days!"

Li Sancai replied.

Zhang Xueyan nodded.

Li Sancai, on the other hand, returned home with a calm face, and immediately called his servant and instructed: "Immediately transport 12,600 stone of grain from home to the granary in Tianjin, and tell Ambassador Liu, who is in charge of the warehouse, to remake the book and submit it." ”

After Li Sancai gave the order, he found Gu Xiancheng, a member of the ministry: "What's the matter with all the household departments to advise Xiao Gong, so unkind?" ”

"The root is still in the cabinet and has passed the six subjects."

"Everything has returned to the era of treachery and mistreatment of officials."

"I'm also working hard now, and the teachings of the twenty-three counties were selected in time because they didn't choose people to serve in time, and they were participated in by the officials, so don't think about being excellent this year! This year, Wen Xuanlang is estimated to not be my turn again! ”

"I knew that I shouldn't have taken the opportunity of the impeachment of Otsuka Zai by the Sixth Branch to imply that Otsuka Zai recommended me as a Lang official, it is better to honestly complete the government affairs in hand!"

"It's just that who would have thought that it would be like this!"

Gu Xiancheng said: "I don't have much time to talk to you, I still have to hurry up and report the origins of the students who are to be elected and the local school administration to report their evaluation!" ”

Li Sancai nodded: "I don't know if Wang Taicang went to talk to them in Shenwu County, such a big and harsh government, it is really an official who is not happy!" There is no forgiveness and clarity! ”

Wang Xijue here was not long after Gu Xiancheng waited for him, and found Shen Shixing and Yu Youding, and said: "I came to the second prince to seek peace on behalf of the younger generation. ”

"What's wrong with being tested into the outline law, not vain and wrong, and ensuring that the officials are clean and clear?"

Yu Youding asked.

"I didn't say it was wrong!"

"I even think that only by strengthening the power of the cabinet can we effectively curb the unauthorized power of eunuchs and relatives in the harem, not to mention, the biggest problem in this dynasty is that the power of Zaifu is unclear, so that everything planned depends on power tricks, and even has to rely on enfriending eunuchs to achieve things."

"But to govern the country with benevolence and to harmonize the top and bottom is the common law for other monarchs and ministers to be at peace and help each other."

"If this continues now, I am afraid that it will easily provoke great changes!"

"After all, the Taishi has been in charge of the country for ten years, and he has embarrassed the officials of the world, but he is only thinking that the Son of Heaven has been taught the right way and will be gracious to the world sooner or later, so he has endured so far."

"You and I can grieve ourselves for the country, but not everyone is willing to do this, people have public and private hearts, and there are more people who only know selfish desires."

Wang Xijue spoke.

Saying that, Wang Xijue said: "What they mean is that they still hope to abolish the examination results, leniency and prudence, and hope that the cabinet will take into account the friendship of Shilin, and also agree to abolish it, and no longer look down on the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty with other old Taishi!" ”

"Relaxation should be eased, but it cannot be eased in a way that sacrifices the interests of the country, and it cannot be eased in a way that corrupts the rule of the country!"

Shen Shixing said at this time.

Yu Youding also nodded: "That's right! What's more, they can't just be allowed to attack, and the ruling minister is not allowed to purge the dynasty for the country, not to mention that the old Taishi is now afraid of being liquidated with the Taishi, how can they give up easily, overkill must be corrected first, and now is not the time. ”

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Wang Xijue nodded: "It is necessary to play fifty boards each, and only when both sides know the pain, can't stand the current system, and are willing to talk about it." ”

"But when?"

"When the world no longer criticizes the Taishi, the world recognizes the merits and virtues of the Taishi, and even accepts the way of the Taishi as the right way!"

"Now it's just His Majesty and the Minister of the DPRK and China admitting it."

"So it's too late to talk about harmony."

Shen Shixing said at this time.