In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, early in the morning of the first day of the new year.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang came to Zuoshun Gate early, waiting to enter the palace to meet the New Year, but only a few people arrived that day, and only Lin Han, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came early in the morning.

When everyone met, the basic New Year's greetings were indispensable, and then Liu Jian called Li Dongyang aside.

Li Dongyang spoke first: "Why is the future of the negative picture? ”

In Li Dongyang's view, yesterday Liu Jian went to find Ma Wensheng first, and the secretary of the ministry provoked today's kneeling advice, but even Ma Wensheng, the initiator, seemed to be a deserter.

"Wait." Liu Jian said, "Sooner or later, I should come." ”

Only then did Li Dongyang tell about his meeting with many ministers in the DPRK and China yesterday: "I have seen everything I should see, or I have found someone to spread the word, and the answer given is the same, and I will definitely respond today, but it is ......."

"But what?" Liu Jian frowned.

Li Dongyang sighed and said: "I heard that early this morning, Your Majesty issued an edict, saying that today's Chinese New Year was canceled, and everyone was allowed to weigh whether to come. Some people will not come because of this. ”

Liu Jian said: "If it's just a few people, it doesn't matter the overall situation, the people who come here now ...... It's okay too. ”

"Sss Cheng Minzheng took a breath and said, "Binzhi, this matter is a little difficult, don't you know that Your Majesty's attitude this time is very resolute?" And His Majesty let the people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei block it along the way, saying that many people just left the door today, and some people told them about the cancellation of today's court, and also told them that if they came, they would bear the consequences, etc...... How do you let the people come? ”

After the others walked away, Liu Jian glared at Li Dongyang and asked, "Didn't go looking for it?" ”

Liu Jian is also wondering which link has gone wrong.

Liu Jian couldn't respond for a while.

"Two elders, this new year, the government and the opposition will have to rely on more." Lin Han was smiling, and he was also full of spring breeze, "I heard that Your Majesty's bow is still unsafe today, why don't we go back sooner?" ”

Cheng Minzheng looked around and made sure that no one was eavesdropping here, so he leaned over and said: "People are afraid, and many people can't see the real meaning of participating in the impeachment of Cai Guogong, if it's just for Yu Qiao's business...... It should be fought for by the Criminal Department, after all, Yu Qiao's case has not yet been decided, not that there must be no turnaround. If you have to talk to Cai Guogong, isn't this the reverse scale that touches the Son of Heaven? ”

Cheng Minzheng said: "Do you mean that today's court meeting, there is something to play with Your Majesty?" Is it about saving the officials, or is it ...... What about continued impeachment? ”

As he was talking, someone not far away wanted to pay New Year's greetings to Lin Han, and Lin Han could only turn around in embarrassment to deal with it.

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"What?" Lin Han looked puzzled.

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In other words, it is impossible for Lin Han not to know.

Now the emperor is using righteous and bright means to punish Xie Qian, who formed a party for personal gain and participated in the impeachment of the front-line generals, which had an adverse impact on the war situation, and you traditional civil officials want to use some small tricks to burn this fire on Zhang Zhou......

Li Dongyang said: "Then what if he deliberately pretends to be confused? ”

To put it mildly, it is to bring Lin Han and other relatively neutral people to today's kneeling occasions, so that they have no face to leave if they want to.

Li Dongyang walked over and called Cheng Minzheng aside, and the people of Hanlin Academy were also very interested in getting out of the way, but at the same time, Wang Wei had just arrived with Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu and others, and Li Dongyang didn't have time to deal with them for the time being.

Liu Jian said: "Hengda, you don't know what day it is, right?" ”

The emperor didn't want Zhang Zhou to get involved, and he didn't even let Zhang Zhou come out to participate in the deliberations, your move was simply putting yourself on the opposite side of the emperor.

Liu Jian said: "With Lin Hengda's popularity and eyes and ears, can you not know today's events? ”

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Liu Jian frowned.

Time is ticking.

This matter was indeed discussed privately between him and Li Dongyang.

He really wants to stand on the side of Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, but people don't treat him as his own, he also wants to be a good man to mediate.

"Keqin, what's going on today?" Li Dongyang asked.

"Huh." Cheng Minzheng smiled bitterly, "The words are not good, but in fact...... It's pretty much the same. Who let the people impeached by Yu Qiao take credit for the First World War in the Northwest? Recently, the Hanlin Academy is also discussing the matter of promoting the lord of Pingyu, plus the new earl...... If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will be ...... Alas! ”

As a relatively neutral person, how could Cheng Minzheng not see the emperor's infinite favoritism towards Zhang Zhou?

This also makes Cheng Minzheng not a person.

Looking at Lin Han's appearance, it really seems that he doesn't know anything, but it may also be that Lin Han is pretending to be confused, otherwise why did he invite them to leave when he came early in the morning?

Cheng Minzheng said: "In other court affairs, the people in the court may not hesitate to stand here, but when it comes to Yu Qiao and Cai Guogong, this matter is ...... Not easy to classify. Some people are actually ...... It's hard to do both. ”

In this kind of matter, Cheng Minzheng is sincerely trying to persuade Li Dongyang to stop.

Cheng Minzheng came relatively late, and as soon as he came, he got together with a few people from the Hanlin Academy, talking and laughing, as if he didn't know what was going on today.

But on such an issue, how could he possibly convince Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, who were leading civil officials? So he would rather risk being criticized and come today, and even persuaded some people to come...... As a result, Li Dongyang will feel that he has not done enough.

"Will there be such a thing?" Li Dongyang was also taken aback.

As he was talking, Lin Han also came over to greet Li Dongyang and Liu Jian again.

Originally, Liu Jian thought that there would be more and more people at the gate of the palace, but when the sky was already transparent and the sun was rising in the sky, there were still very few people who arrived, and fewer and fewer people came.

Li Dongyang said: "Don't you forget, you also said before, some people are not invited, but by the shelf, and some things were said yesterday, and they are different from today." Some people come today, and they have to stay, if they are told in advance or find various reasons to excuse themselves. ”

Li Dongyang hurriedly pulled Liu Jian, probably to remind Liu Jian that there were some things that he didn't say hello to Lin Han at all.

Li Dongyang said with a straight face: "Both." ”

Li Dongyang frowned and said: "In your opinion, some people helped Yu Qiao when they were juting, but they were just embarrassed, but in fact, their hearts were towards Zhang Bingkuan?" ”

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The wait still has to go on.

When Li Dongyang returned to Liu Jian, he also roughly counted that there were only more than 30 people present, compared to the team of more than 400 Beijing officials, not even a single percent of the officials present today, and almost none of the middle and lower-level officials were present.

Liu Jian said: "Or is it not enough? Can't we just tell each other? ”

Li Dongyang said with a helpless face: "Even they don't want to come, let alone get involved, who do they want to tell them?" ”

"Ahem."

Liu Jian may also be choked by the wind, or it may be that the things in front of him hit him too hard, and he couldn't help coughing.

Li Dongyang waited for him to slow down before he said: "Your Majesty has already taken precautions, and sent people to greet each family, just on the way here today, many people blocked back." Some people are forced to do so. ”

He was polite when he said that.

He was embarrassed to say that people didn't like to come in the first place, but it just happened that the emperor sent someone to block them, and one by one they happened to feel that they didn't use it to participate in the court meeting today, and they didn't use it to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor, and then they all went back.

It's kind of a donkey down the slope.

"Binzhi."

Not far away, Ma Wensheng also arrived.

came with Ma Wensheng, as well as Fu Han, the left attendant of the ministry, and the two of them came to support Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, but they were late.

Ma Wensheng came over, and there were still people who wanted to give him a New Year's greeting, but he also stretched out his hand to temporarily stop him.

Marven came with a strong purpose, and walked straight forward and said, "Do you know that someone came to the gate of the mansion this morning and brought out the words from the palace." Or it may have a big impact on today's events. ”

"What about the joint name?" Liu Jian asked.

"Co-signer...... There are also a few of them, and there are many people who can sign together, but when they hear that they need to come here today to give advice, they retreat, and they may be embarrassed to say it in front of the two of you, but on my side, they ......"

Ma Wensheng was also helpless.

In fact, even people like Ma Wensheng don't really want to come today.

Engaging in kneeling admonitions, or even going against the emperor, just to let the emperor suppress Zhang Zhou and intercede for Xie Qian, this matter is unreliable.

The emperor's attitude, everyone in the government and the opposition knows that if they want to impeach Zhang Zhou, they must first find out what Zhang Zhou has not done well enough...... As a result, Zhang Zhou is now everywhere, and no one is in Beijing, so he didn't have a head-on conflict with you, so you regard Zhang Zhou as a big enemy...... From any point of view, it is not appropriate to press Zhang Zhou down.

Fu Han walked over and said, "Qin Tianjian's side, I also walked over...... It is said that there is no corresponding time for the time recently. ”

This involves another way of suppressing Zhang Zhou.

If there is a bad astronomical event happening now, the blame can be attributed to Zhang Zhou, or there is a disaster...... But the problem is that Zhang Zhou himself is a big expert in this area, every time there is something big, Zhang Zhou's prediction is ahead of anyone else, a half-immortal who allows the people to prevent disasters in advance, and attacks with astronomical things, isn't this hitting the muzzle of the gun?

Marven Sheng looked around and sighed, "But there are only a few people here, I didn't expect it." ”

Obviously, Ma Wensheng also overestimated the unity within the civilian bureaucracy.

Let's just say that the six books, with the initiator of Ma Wensheng, are not willing to come to kneel and admonish, but today's event was not organized successfully, after he heard that this side was very deserted, he hurriedly dared to come, but in fact, it was to no avail.

No one else will rush to help just because you Marven is here.

"Upper...... No matter how many people there are, this is a sparse ...... It's time to submit it, too! Liu Jian seemed very persistent.

This is the first time he has had such a big frustration in so many years in the DPRK.

Everyone else is losing their feet.

In the past, no matter how fierce he fought with Zhang Zhou, at least the civil officials were unswervingly on his side, and even when Xie Qian was bowed to the court, except for the Shangting Office and the Yanwutang, they all strongly supported Xie Qian...... This gave him an illusion that he could still control the situation of the court, so he would launch a general attack on Zhang Zhou today.

As a result, before the attack began, the emperor drew the ladder first, and those who opposed Zhang Zhou were not so determined, causing many people to temporarily change their hexagrams and quit directly.

Li Dongyang also hurriedly persuaded: "In this situation, if you sign a joint account...... I'm afraid that it won't have any effect, but it will make some people use the topic to play. ”

"yes." Ma Wensheng also hurriedly advised, "It should be better to think about it in the long run." Don't rush for a while. ”

This is to tell Liu Jian, originally we still occupied a public opinion base, but now even public opinion has gradually turned, how can you attack Zhang Zhou rigidly, I am afraid that even you will not be able to protect yourself.

When you retreat, who will you rely on to fight with Zhang Zhou?

Fu Han said: "If this had been changed a few years ago, it would not have been like this. ”

Li Dongyang said: "If it was a few years ago, Zhang Bingkuan would not have covered the sky with one hand like today, and now His Majesty can only listen to his words." Your Majesty is now less than even the last court, just listening to his remarks, it is difficult for me to admire Tianyan anymore. ”

Ma Wensheng smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty has indeed been in trouble recently, there is no doubt about it, and it is not who deliberately obstructed it." ”

At this point, Marven is also relatively neutral.

Because he knew that Zhang Zhou didn't mobilize all the resources to fight them, and if he did, it wouldn't be like it is now, but they were making moves.

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"How many elders, ministers? Still waiting? ”

This will, finally someone from the palace.

It was Chen Kuan, the eunuch who came to the eunuch Chen Kuan, and the eunuch Li Zhang, who was the eunuch of Bingbi, of course, Li Zhang was also the "sinner" who prevented the minister from coming to the palace gate today.

Liu Jian led people forward to greet him, first arching his hand.

Chen Kuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty heard that you are still here, so I specially ordered you to come down and give a banquet here." You don't have to wait until noon, you can go back first after the feast. If there's anything big, wait ten days...... Or maybe it's after the Shangyuan Festival. Your Majesty has also been thinking about it lately. ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Li Zhang left first.

"What is this?" Li Dongyang asked.

Chen Kuan was surprised: "Elder Li Ge, do you still need to ask?" The imperial tombs are to be worshipped, Your Majesty got up late today, and specially asked people to take the will and send it to each family, and the people in Beijing cooperated to worship the imperial tombs and other things. In addition, there is also a decree that the people of the court and China will rest for ten days, and the court will wait until after the Shangyuan Festival to resume. In other words, within 15 days, His Majesty will basically not intervene in the affairs of the DPRK and China. ”

Liu Jian said: "Don't you do anything? ”

"Not really." Chen Kuan said with a smile, "Like Xie Ge Lao's case, Your Majesty has already approved it." ”

"What?" Liu Jian became nervous.

This is still working hard for Xie Qian, but it was in vain?

Chen Kuan said: "It's not a secret, Your Majesty understands Xie Ge's heart for the country, and he doesn't mean to delay and hinder the war, but the impact is very bad, it's not ...... His Majesty pardoned him for his capital crimes, and he did not have to be exiled, but he could resign and return to his hometown after serving as an official by the sea for three years. ”

It's just a demotion, not even a distribution.

As for what kind of official it is, there is no need to care, but it is not allowed to resign within three years.

Three years later, Xie Qian got out...... In short, from now on, there should be no Xie Qian in the imperial court.

(End of chapter)