This time the imperial meeting came very suddenly, and after Lin Tailai's pleadings were read, the direction of the whole situation completely changed!

Before Xin Zongxian and Fang Wanshan could react, they were already in a state of collapse.

This scene produced a sense of déjà vu in the eyes of the other ministers.

Just about a month ago, the Tianshou Mountain Palace was in a similar situation!

At that time, Shen Shoufu and Li Zhi, who was still popular, were at loggerheads, and the emperor himself was hesitant.

And after Li Rusong, who was sent from hundreds of miles away, was read out, everyone didn't react at all, and the situation also changed suddenly!

The key is that Li Rusong's letter also mentioned Lin Tailai, and also quoted Lin Tailai's remarks.

Without waiting for the ministers to figure it out, Emperor Wanli took the lead in recovering his indifference, and without consulting others, he directly issued an order:

"In the name of the imperial history, Wan Shan colluded with the imperial family, manipulated the exam, corrupted the discipline, immediately dismissed his post, and cut his status for the people!"

Everyone knows very well that the emperor has the intention of killing chickens and monkeys, because just now Fang Yushi fiercely opposed the canonization of the Zheng family.

In other words, Fang Yushi was punished by the emperor in the name of colluding with the Zheng family because he opposed the emperor's reward to the Zheng family.

It sounds absurd, but it does happen, and that's politics.

If it were replaced by a general situation, the emperor would severely punish a certain speech official who committed a dragon appearance, and there must be another group of speech officials holding high the banner of "speech is unimpeded", and pounced on him to admonish, plead for mercy, and be beaten with a cane.

But today, no one came out to speak for Fang Yushi, because the emperor punished Fang Wanshan for "colluding with the imperial family".

Whoever helps Fang Yushi is in favor of "colluding with the royal family", and even Qingliu colleagues dare not come forward.

Especially this royal family is already very sensitive to the Zheng family, and no civil official dares to bear the reputation of colluding with the Zheng family at this time.

In the end, all the pain was borne by Fang Yushi alone, and he didn't even have a fellow practitioner to share it.

It's just that Emperor Wanli is in a weird mood, and this is a new experience. After severely punishing the official who contradicted him, it was the first time he had encountered such a quiet situation.

"Xin Zixiu neglected to supervise and was fined for one year! Downgrade and retain! Emperor Wanli said again, but no one jumped out to object.

So Emperor Wanli was happy again, and was thinking about whether to take the opportunity to get a few more people, Shen Shoufu hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty will allow Fang Wanshan to thank you first." ”

Thunder, rain and dew are all graces, even if they are punished, they are also kind.

After Fang Yushi thanked him, he became a commoner in his identity and lost all political treatment. Dejected, he left the Wenhua Palace.

When he attacked Lin Tailai and Wang Shaositu just now, no one came forward to help Lin Tailai speak.

He once thought that he was done, and he was only one step away from sending Lin Tailai to prison.

As a result, a shallow and naïve pleadings completely reversed the emperor's mind.

The ministers looked at Fang Wanshan's back, and they could all see that Fang Wanshan wanted to use the Zheng family to draw out the emperor's sentiment of "helping relatives but not helping", and ruthlessly rectify Lin Tailai and implicate Wang Zhiyuan.

In the end, Fang Wanshan was counterattacked, or called playing with fire and self-immolation.

If Fang Yushi didn't use Zheng Guotai at the beginning, but simply opposed the emperor's reward to the Zheng family, the emperor might not be so angry.

In the blink of an eye, he set up an archway to fiercely oppose the reward of the Zheng family, which completely angered the emperor, and even Qingliu colleagues were not able to help talk to save him.

All the ministers once again felt as if there was a pair of invisible big hands shrouded above the Wenhua Palace, manipulating today's situation and forcing Fang Yushi to a dead end.

But the feeling is vague, based entirely on experience and intuition, and there is no clear idea.

Shoufu Shen Shixing, who had been lowering his head to control his emotions, only raised his head at this time, and the person in the hall who was most transparent about the status quo may be him.

After all, among all the ministers, Shen Shoufu is the person who deals with the Son of Heaven the most, and he is also the one who knows Lin Tailai the most.

But even he, the first assistant, just now only thought that Lin Tailai's pleadings were deliberately funny, but unexpectedly, the killing machine suddenly came.

It's like cleaning up Li Zhi last time, a few inadvertent words at a critical time made Li Zhi completely useless.

Thinking about it carefully, Lin Tailai's pleadings seemed to have a kind of magic power, luring the emperor to move forward in the designated direction step by step.

The more Lin Tailai shouted, "Your Majesty, don't unprincipled crown Zheng Guotai", the more the emperor will think, what is wrong with the seal?

Shen Shoufu understands too well how serious Emperor Wanli's rebellious psychology is.

And just now, everyone was laughing at this essay for being too earthy, but now that I think about it the other way, the childish tone of the low-level small farmers in the pleading has become a protective color.

How could an emperor who reigns over the world and rules all directions have a problem with a naïve peasant? He is just thinking about the interests of his own one-third of an acre, but he doesn't have any bad intentions.

Just when the hall was silent, Yang Wei, who was over seventy years old, seemed to have just woken up, and said: "The previous edict recommended the secretary of the household department, and the ministry nominated Song Qi and Wang Zhiyuan. ”

Everyone was speechless, you, the old heavenly official, are quite capable of grasping the time.

The official department is ranked first in the outer courts, and if you want to do something, the official department should be the first.

But just now, you, an old celestial official, were dozing off the side, not saying a word from beginning to end, and now you jumped out and started to do something?

When Emperor Wanli heard this, he casually asked, "Who do the courts recommend?" ”

Yang Wei said solemnly: "Wang Zhiyuan has been impeached by eighteen letters, of which two are on Fang Wanshan. ”

"What about Song Qi?" When Emperor Wanli heard Fang Wanshan's name, he frowned and asked again.

Yang Wei replied: "For some reason, there was no one in the Manchu Dynasty who impeached Song Qi, and the ministers were also strange about this, perhaps because of the expectations of the people." ”

Emperor Wanli, who was still in a rebellious mood, sneered: "It's really popular." ”

He said undoubtedly: "The wall of the king is the head of the household!" Cabinet Draft! ”

In addition to Fang Wanshan, there are also some people in the palace in the Qingliu forces, but at this time, they no longer dare to fight for the Hubu Shangshu.

Even their strongest weapon, the moral kidnapping, had been lost at this time.

Shen Shixing hurriedly represented the cabinet and went out to receive the order, and his heart was once again turbulent.

Lin Tailai once said that when participating in the martial arts test, you can pick up the grass and beat the rabbit and then get a household book.

At that time, due to various considerations, he didn't want to participate in the competition for the Hubu Shangshu, and he didn't think that Lin Tailai had the ability to meddle in this kind of thing.

After all, this is the top-level game, and you Lin Tailai don't even have a place to start, how can you participate in the game at the table?

I didn't expect Lin Tai to do what he said, and he really simply got the Hubu Shangshu over.

There are a lot of people who blow the force, but the people who can always achieve it after the blow are rare.

Emperor Wanli asked again: "Let's not talk about other trivial matters, the Zheng family canonized the imperial concubine, and the Zheng family was promoted to the governor of Tongzhi, what do you think?" ”

This time, Emperor Wanli asked "what do you think", not "can you do it", indicating that he has made up his mind.

There are still a few people who stood up and objected, saying: "Please ask Your Majesty to canonize the birth mother of the emperor's eldest son first, as well as the family of the emperor's eldest son and mother!" ”

Anyway, no one stood up to support it, and they all knew that the emperor rewarded the Zheng family and the Zheng family just by throwing stones to ask for directions, paving the way for the third son of the emperor to be the crown prince. This is a matter of ritual and religion, and it cannot be easily compromised.

Emperor Wanli looked at Shoufu and asked by name, "What does Mr. Shen think?" ”

Shen Shixing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and replied: "Although Lin Tailai is a guest of the minister's family, he is actually regarded as a junior.

Now Lin Tailai and Zheng Guotai are in a situation, and in the affairs of the Zheng family, the minister feels that he should avoid suspicion and is inconvenient to express his position. ”

This answer is full of foolishness, but what Shousuke needs now is to fool.

In the Ming political game, the cabinet was a buffer zone between the emperor and the ministers.

Under this sharp confrontation, what Shousuke is most afraid of is that he doesn't even have a reason to fool around.

Emperor Wanli snorted dissatisfiedly, but there was nothing he could do, it was good that Shoufu didn't directly collide.

If Shoufu is really forced to disobey the wishes of the courtiers and support the emperor in public to destroy the etiquette law, then the result will definitely be that Shoufu asks for resignation and quits.

Now Emperor Wanli is quite satisfied with Shen Shixing, and he doesn't want to force Shen Shixing to leave.

Seeing that he couldn't get the answer he wanted today, Emperor Wanli was not interested in saying anything more, so he got up and left directly.

Shen Shixing sighed secretly, today's level can be regarded as over.

Lin Tailai once said: "It's not that you are willful, but for Shen Xiang to be willful, and when Shen Xiang understands what benevolence and righteousness are, he will come back and be willful with him." ”

Because he criticized Lin Tailai for deliberately targeting Zheng Guotai, he was too capricious.

Now Shen Shixing finally understands what Lin Tailai means by that sentence.

To put it simply, if you have a feud with the Zheng family first, then there will be an excuse not to support the Zheng family on the issue of national capital and etiquette.

Compared with those ministers who are against the Zheng family, at least there is one more reason.

So I also want to thank Lin Tailai for deliberately making enemies with Zheng Guotai and sending an excuse to fool the emperor.

Could it be that Lin Tailai calculated this step when he heard that Zheng Guotai was going to participate in the martial arts test?

The emperor left, and the court meeting was dispersed. But everyone knows that the emperor is likely to make a moth on the issue of the country, and today is just the beginning.

Someone asked Zhang Dasima of the Ministry of War: "The first in the martial arts test is Lin Tai coming?" ”

Zhang Dasima asked rhetorically: "Can it still be Zheng Guotai?" ”

The man asked again: "If Jinke wants to increase the palace examination, will there be another martial champion in the end?" ”

Zhang Dasima said with a pun: "God knows." ”

The ministers were talking in groups, and they felt that none of the people who went to the palace today were good, and if they thought about it carefully, the biggest beneficiaries were not in the Wenhua Palace.

For example, Wang Zhiyuan, who has been impeached eighteen times in recent days, is another day of closed-door thanks, sitting under the willow tree by the pond in the afternoon and drinking tea.

Suddenly, I saw Wang Zhiyou, a member of the Ministry of Rites, rushing all the way from the moon gate, and the scarf hat was crooked and couldn't care about straightening it, and there was no demeanor at all.

Wang Zhiyuan said angrily: "What's the matter? Is it Jinyiwei who came to raid the house? Or who in our family has been assigned to the army? Or is Lin Tailai's enemy knocking on the door? ”

"Tobe Shangshu!" Wang Zhiyou gasped and shouted out four words first, and then added: "The Son of Heaven has decreed, you will be promoted to the head of the household, and you will be Wang Situ in the future!" ”

This is the first person in the Wang family of Shandong Xincheng to achieve the level of Qiqing and become one of the ten or so people at the core of the imperial court.

Wang Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "I don't seem to have done anything." ”

It's not that he's humble, it's honest.

Wang Zhiyou corrected: "No, you said a two-word line - don't think!" ”

Wang Zhiyuan didn't know how to express his joy, so he got up and said, "I'll go and tell Lin Tailai in person." ”

At this time, it was almost afternoon, and Lin Daguan was still sleeping in the house.

Wang Zhiyuan slapped the door of the house heavily, and Lin Daguan was woken up and opened the door with a yawn.

Wang Zhiyuan asked with concern, "Aren't you sick?" Why are you so tired? ”

Lin Daguan replied: "Recently, I have been going out every day to beat people, and yesterday I even wielded the public case in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to fight dozens of jailers, which consumed a lot of physical strength, so I was exhausted. ”

Wang Zhiyuan felt that he had asked too much, and said: "The Son of Heaven has issued an order to promote the old man to the head of the household." ”

Lin Daguan yawned again, and said a little disappreciatively:

"If Wang Situ had listened to me, he would have been the head of the household department last month, so why did he go to great lengths to delay it until today?"

Wang Zhiyuan: "."

Maybe it's redundant to come by yourself, and you can't share the joy with this kind of immortal who doesn't understand human nature!

That night, the male and female hosts of the Wang family sat together and held a family banquet behind closed doors to celebrate Wang Shaositu becoming Wang Situ.

This kind of interior is celebrated in advance and cannot be invited to outsiders. Originally, he was going to invite Lin Tailai over, but after Lin Daguan woke up, he slipped out of the door and didn't know what to do.

Lin Chui, the number one of the Wang family, sighed: "This Lin Tailai is really an immortal, I don't just talk about poetry. ”

Wang Xiangmeng said in his words: "Do you mean Wuqu Xing? ”

Wang 15 interjected and said: "You guys are overrated, Lin Jun's methods are actually like that, it's not surprising. ”

Wang Zhiyou quipped: "Not surprising? You dare to say this, fifteenth sister, or do you show humility for Lin Tailai? ”

Wang 15 explained: "The most powerful thing about Lin Jun is that he can accurately guess the emperor's thoughts, which is the foundation of success.

As for other means, compared to guessing the emperor's mind, they are all small skills, and they are mediocre. ”

Wang Situ, who was smiling, said: "I just reviewed it carefully, all the seemingly arrogant and brainless actions before Lin Tailai were actually deliberately sold flaws.

The main purpose is to seduce the other party, so that the other party mistakenly thinks that he has seized the handle, found an opportunity, and decisively stood on Zheng Guotai's side. ”

Wang 15 also said: "Lin Jun told us earlier that Zheng Guotai, who participated in the martial arts test, was fake, just to reassure us.

In fact, Lin Jun has no intention of exposing the fake Zheng Guotai so far, he thinks deeper. ”

Wang Zhiyou asked: "Will Lin Tailai finally expose Zheng Guotai for making people take the exam?" ”

Wang 15 replied with great certainty: "It depends on whether the Zheng family is honest or not, and whether it still hinders Lin Jun from seizing the martial champion."

Lin Jun kept this handle and refused to use it against Fang Yushi, just for the Zheng family. ”

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