"Jiang Xinghuo established the law, thinking that it was the foundation of the country's system and governance, and the people who were responsible for it became a trend, since the first year of Yongle was tested to become the law, and it was tempered in the sea, so that he dared to be slack and to be detailed, and he was coherent, the prime minister was one, and he weighed the world, but that's it." ——Talking about the relocation of "Guoyi"

Jiang Xinghuo, who was in the game, didn't know what impact his every move would have on future generations, and how people would comment on him later, but it was obvious that in the winter tail of the first year of Yongle, trouble came.

"It's a frame-up!"

"That's a frame-up."

Yao Guangxiao was not surprised by Jiang Xinghuo's reaction, but said, "What are we going to do now?" ”

The old monk's simple words made Jiang Xinghuo fall into a long thought.

yes, how do they do it?

The cause of the matter is not complicated, and the bureau can even be called rudimentary.

A monk in charge of worshipping Buddha in Zhu Gaochi's mansion was reported, and the content of the report was that he accepted bribes from officials, and the reason why a monk could accept bribes was because many people heard that he had a "doorway", so they wanted to take this road, and when they passed the year-end examination, they received an evaluation that exceeded their due performance, and passed the test in Beijing.

The ups and downs of the sea are like this.

There is no problem with the intelligence of the officials, and the vast majority of them, do not expect much from this.

But the core of this kind of thing is that you can not believe it, but you can't not do it.

It's like filial piety during the New Year's holidays, the eldest prince has a lot of opportunities, and he won't remember who came to give gifts, and how valuable gifts he gave, but he will definitely remember who didn't come.

Those who come, just put a tick on the list, and will not list them separately.

But whoever is not ticked will be conspicuous, and then there will be a separate list.

Therefore, even if he is repeatedly prevaricated by the monk, no one will really make a big deal about this matter, it seems that a dumb loss is not worth really poking out to offend the eldest prince.

But there are always adults in this world who, after walking all the roads, find themselves desperate to find that they have no way out.

This is the case with the real-name system of this petty officer of the military department who was reported to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Sections, and even the General Administration Department.

It is not easy to be a Beijing official, and it looks majestic, but in fact, he lifted the gorgeous official robe, and there were leaky old clothes underneath.

Lao Zhu's salary for officials is ridiculously low, and there is no room for ushering in the send-off, barely enough for the family to eat food and not starve to death, but if this is the case, what are these people trying to be officials? Even if you are a straight person, it is difficult to have no social interaction at all, and it is not appropriate to visit your boss during the New Year's holidays and carry a pastry bag, right?

But social networking requires money, regardless of whether it is Qinhuai River or Mochou Lake, the consumption is not low, even if it is to maintain the most basic decency, go to a government-run or private restaurant, you have to take a month or two to get in.

On the other hand, the examination method and Jingcha actually promote the frequency of year-end communication activities that have no substantive effect on officials. It's like an arms race, maybe you know it's useless, but if you don't, you're falling behind.

Now it is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of military affairs, the five military governors' mansions are in charge of the military power, and the power of the military department is nothing in front of these meritorious ministers.

Therefore, although there is oil and water in the military headquarters, there is not much oil and water, and the distribution is extremely uneven.

The four divisions of the Ministry of War, namely, the military selection, the staff, the car driver, and the arsenal, the oil and water of the military selection and the arsenal are quite considerable; after all, one selects people and one inventory, and the staff and the car driver, and the room for officials to operate in this is quite small.

Liu Cunwu is a six-pin director of the Ministry of War's Staff Division, and the Ministry Department is in charge of the three major things of map, military system, and suppression, as well as some small things that are responsible for Chenghuang and Guanjin, and arrests.

Therefore, Liu Cunwu really wanted to move his position and didn't ask to go to other departments, but even if he was transferred to the Wuxuan Division and the Arsenal Division!

But his hope is not great, because his performance at work, is really lackluster, and even poked some small baskets, although the results have not yet come out, but once he heard untrue gossip that this time he is afraid that he will be transferred, which is the so-called "buffer period", and if he can't do it, he will be dismissed. This immediately made Liu Cunwu anxious, and it was at this time that he heard about the monk's way.

At first, Liu Cunwu was suspicious, but he saw that several colleagues had sent it, and whether it was Jinyiwei or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there seemed to be no response, Liu Cunwu began to fall into a serious state of anxiety, so he did not hesitate to scrape together and borrowed some loans to give a heavy gift.

After sending this heavy gift, listening to the monk patting his chest and packing the ticket, Liu Cunwu seemed to have unloaded a thousand catties of burden, he was full of confidence and hope, but as time went by, more and more signs showed that this monk may be just a liar who deceived the eldest prince, but no official dared to expose him, and it seemed that they all suffered this dumb loss by default.

Liu Cunwu didn't dare either, until the debt collector came to the door and forced him to dare not go back to his home, and slept in the yamen every day, Liu Cunwu was annoyed.

And until this time, Liu Cunwu still thought that if the monk collected the money and didn't do anything, it would be good to get the money back.

It's a pity that the money has long been lost by the monk who is getting bigger and bigger, where is the possibility of coming back?

"Liu Cunwu, who was cornered, finally chose to report - this is the statement of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Yao Guangxiao said meaningfully.

In other words, this is only Liu Cunwu's one-sided statement, and it is difficult to obtain other evidence, both it may be true and it may also be a perfectly made up lie.

But no matter what, Liu Cunwu has nothing to do with Jiang Xinghuo and people related to Jiang Xinghuo.

Therefore, even if it is a factional struggle, in the first round, it will not affect Jiang Xinghuo.

As for the real expansion in the future, of course, no one can avoid it.

Jiang Xinghuo was silent for a moment before he said, "Without intelligence, we can't understand the truth." ”

yes, there is no intelligence.

Now Yao Guangxiao's original Yan Army intelligence agency has been completely abolished or merged into Jinyiwei.

Zhu Di, who was sitting on the throne, seemed to take Jiang Xinghuo very hard.

There is no army, no intelligence, only some administrative power, what can you do except be controlled by the imperial power and serve the imperial power?

"Why didn't Jin Yiwei notice it at all? Ji Gang really takes the children every day? ”

"Maybe I noticed it, but I didn't dare to report it."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, although the rebuilt Jinyiwei is also very powerful, it is far less pervasive than the Hongwu Dynasty, and Zhu Di does not rely on the rule of spies, and there are many restrictions on Jinyiwei, and as Jinyiwei's stall begins to roll out again, many capable people have been transferred to other places and even foreign countries, and within the Beijing Division, Jinyiwei's monitoring ability has decreased a lot.

Besides, even if Jin Yiwei really didn't know, Jiang Xinghuo wouldn't be surprised.

Sometimes don't think about how controllable the political events of the Ming Dynasty are, in fact, just look at the history of the Ming Dynasty, the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty, the cause was a person named Zhang Cha, holding a wooden stick all the way into the Ciqing Palace where the prince lived, and injured the eunuch guarding the door, people at that time suspected that Zheng Guifei wanted to murder the prince, but who assassinated the prince, let people swagger through the main gate with a wooden stick? Petty things do, but excessive conspiracy theories tend to lead things away from the truth.

As the saying goes, "Logic is needed, reality is not".

Jiang Xinghuo lacked the necessary information at this time, just like a blindfolded person, he really couldn't tell whether this matter was accidental, or someone deliberately, if it was accidental, then it might really be done by the monk himself, but from the perspective of who benefited and who did things, he could speculate some eyebrows. It's not the remnants of Jianwen who don't die with a thief's heart, but the conservative forces that resist the test law.

Because of this, Jiang Xinghuo and Yao Guangxiao said in unison at the beginning, "This is a frame-up."

For the Fa-changers, it is intolerable for Zhu Gaochi to fall into passivity at this time, and even the progress of the entire examination method is delayed.

In the temple, Jiang Xinghuo certainly has an inevitable conflict of interest with Zhu Gaochi, and even in the previous incidents, on the surface, the law changers charged into battle, but in fact, when you explore carefully, it is Zhu Gaochi who is following behind to pick peaches, and quickly conquering the city in the temple of the Ming Dynasty.

And the group of people brought out by Zhu Gaochi from the civil official system in Beiping have now occupied many key positions in the six departments except Shangshu by virtue of the merits of Jingnan.

But no matter what, Zhu Gaochi is in favor of changing the law, and it doesn't matter whether he is happy or not, what matters is his actual attitude.

In the face of common interests, any contradictions can be put aside for the time being.

"The fire hasn't burned on us yet, now the test method is the most important, and the later Jingcha is just the implementation of the results of the test law, so we don't need to panic, do the last part of the test law well, I will think about the specific situation of this matter."

What can Jiang Xinghuo do, Yao Guangxiao probably also knows, it is nothing more than an exchange of information with Zhu Gaosui.

Ji Gang's line is out of control, and now the one who can find out the truth of the matter is Zhu Gaosui here.

At this time, in the Fengtian Hall of the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

Zhu Di sat on the dragon chair, his face was very calm.

"Tell me what's going on."

Zhu Gaochi, who was kneeling below, felt a little insufficient blood supply at this time due to his excessive weight, and even his feet were cold and dizzy, but he still didn't dare to slack off, and quickly explained: "Father, the minister really doesn't know about this matter. ”

"Of course you don't know!"

Zhu Di brushed his sleeves at this time, and said angrily: "I am busy installing cronies in the court all day long, cutting off dissidents, and I can't be busy, how can I still collect money?" Isn't it, Lord Shizi? Oh no, it's time to call the prince! ”

The prince of the world is naturally Zhu Di is clearly satirizing those civil officials who were born in the administrative system of Beiping, and he is called Zhu Gaochi.

In the past, Zhu Gaochi was the prince of King Yan, and these people were all called like this, but now whether it is out of the idea of wanting to show their old feelings to show their closeness, or some kind of dissatisfaction metaphor for Zhu Gaochi not justifiably becoming the prince, these people still call Zhu Gaochi like this.

It's a very small thing.

But here in Zhu Di, he has endured it for a long time, and now it is just a complete outbreak.

Zhu Gaochi wanted to speak, but looking at his father's terrible expression, he pursed the corners of his mouth and didn't say anything.

"Xu Siwen, the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Guan of the right, Sun Yu, the left waiter of the household department, Chen Shou, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, Qiao Wen, the left waiter of the Ministry of War, Shikui of the right waiter, Dali Siqing, Taichang Siqing, Taifu Siqing, Tongzheng envoy, and right Tongzheng are all your promoted cronies, do you want to let you sit on this dragon chair?"

"Come, stand up!"

Zhu Di's arm strength is extraordinary, Zhu Gaochi, a big fat man of more than 200 catties, when he didn't dare to resist, Zhu Di actually dragged it up directly with both hands, and then he was about to push Zhu Gaochi onto the dragon chair, so frightened that Zhu Gaochi sank down and didn't dare to move.

"Father, father!"

At this time, Zhu Gaosui appeared just right.

"Misunderstanding, really misunderstanding, this monk was picked up from the temple by his sister-in-law and Zhang Anshi, he was originally a flower monk who did not abide by the precepts, and the eldest brother is really half-hearted."

Zhu Gaosui's words came to an abrupt end, because Zhu Di suddenly raised his hand to signal him and pointed to the dragon chair.

The meaning is obvious, is it your turn to speak? What, you want to be an emperor too?

Zhu Gaosui immediately shut up and stepped aside.

The performance of the father and son came here, and Zhu Gaochi also understood that it didn't matter if he knew it or not, this was that his father wanted to beat him, or rather, the root cause was his power, which had begun to threaten the imperial power.

And what happens next, and the ultimate consequences of it, will be affected by his attitude.

This situation between father and son has actually been vividly interpreted in the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life.

Even if Jiang Xinghuo doesn't know much about the history of the Yongle period, he clearly remembers that once when Zhu Di returned from his northern expedition, Zhu Gaochi came to greet him for a while, which caused an extremely serious temple incident, and many princelings were imprisoned immediately.

In this time and space, because the conservative forces have been dealt a greater blow, the vacated positions and power vacancies have been preempted, and it is Zhu Gaochi and the Beiping civil official system directly managed by him that account for the majority.

After all, in Zhu Di's opinion at the beginning, although most of these civil officials in Beiping were not close to him, regardless of whether they took the initiative or were coerced, these civil officials rebelled with him, so compared with the Hongwu-Jianwen old ministers in the temple, Zhu Di was still more willing to use these officials from the Beiping civil official system.

But just as the so-called time and time, when Zhu Gaochi's power expanded to a somewhat unbearable extent for Zhu Di, this kind of beating became an inevitable thing.

Under normal circumstances, the imperial power does not allow any force to threaten it, and once there is a threat, it will be destroyed.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaosui and asked in an indifferent tone, "Third child, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Gaosui smiled bitterly in his heart, he had figured it out just now, but obviously the truth was not important, his father wanted to say what he wanted to say for him.

"Erchen didn't dare to speak falsely." Zhu Gaosui replied in a low voice.

He doesn't know what to say now, after all, the eldest brother doesn't want to offend death, and now that the internal strife is becoming more and more intense, he really wants to run away with a bucket as soon as possible.

But Zhu Gaosui also knew that there were people in the palace, and his father would definitely not let him go

"Huh?"

Zhu Gaosui said helplessly: "But since my father asked, my sons didn't dare not answer, no matter what, the eldest brother was not strict in discipline." ”

"Huh?"

There is no need for Zhu Gaosui this time, Zhu Gaochi himself admitted his mistake: "The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, it is the fault of the son, the son-in-law asks his father to punish him, but the son's loyalty to his father can be seen by the sun and the moon, and there is no party with the same intention and bad intentions!" ”

After saying this, there was silence in the hall for a long time.

After a long time, Zhu Di snorted coldly: "That's it!" Today, I wanted to deal with you, but I thought that you also had a little hard work, so I exempted you from the responsibility of not disciplining your family strictly, but from now on, you will go home and reflect for three months, and you will not need to ask about the matter of passing the Fa and Jingcha. ”

Although Zhu Di did not do anything to Zhu Gaochi, he also let him go home to reflect, which is equivalent to house arrest, and these three months are actually very important for Zhu Gaochi to compete for the position of the prince, because at this time, Beizhili also began to rebuild after the war and implement the new policy at the same time, and Zhu Gaochu was not idle for a moment.

But when Zhu Gaochi heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you for your magnanimity, and your sons should reflect on it carefully." ”

"I hope so."

Zhu Di waved his hand: "Let's all step aside!" ”

Zhu Gaosui also followed the promise, but when he helped Zhu Gaochi out of the door, he saw that the other party's face became very pale, obviously, Zhu Gaochi's heart was not as calm as he appeared.

After the two left, the door of the palace rang, and the people came in silently, and after a while, seeing Zhu Di's calm expression, a eunuch's voice came: "Your Majesty, your dragon body has not healed, you should be good to recuperate, don't get angry." ”

Zhu Di took the handkerchief handed over by the other party at this time and wiped his nose, but the charcoal fire in the hall was too hot before, and he was a little hot and cold.

"My body, I know it very well."

Looking at the eunuch Huang Yan, who was in charge of the seal, Zhu Di seemed to be angry again, and his voice became a little louder: "These few things that are not in the instrument are thinking about fighting for power and profit all day long. ”

Huang Yan sighed softly, seemed to be very sad, and then comforted: "Your Majesty, the old slave has no son, and he doesn't dare to persuade you to do anything, but at this time, looking at a few princes who have seen them since childhood, sometimes I think"

Looking at this old eunuch, Zhu Di was originally quite angry, but at this time, he couldn't send it out.

Yes, people rarely realize how much they have, and they can only feel it when they lose and compare, and everything they have and take for granted is actually priceless for others.

Seeing that Zhu Di was thoughtful, Huang Yan then persuaded: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be impatient, you are in good health, it is the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, the old slave has accompanied you for the past 30 years and witnessed countless storms, and it must be you who finally controls everything." ”

"Haha."

Zhu Di smiled, and seemed to be appeased a lot: "You! It's still so comforting. ”

"Okay, summon the official secretary Shangshu Jianyi and the national teacher Jiang Xinghuo to enter the palace to meet together."

(End of chapter)