Wanli Youming

Chapter 268: An Edict!Don't let the officials mess around!

Chapter 268: An Edict!Don't let the officials mess around!

The officials frantically impeached the reformist officials, and because many of the contents of the impeachment were not framed, but more or less true, and without Zhang Juzheng standing in front, it also made Zhang Juzheng One-party reformist officials became anxious and even thought of quitting.

"I will retreat!"

Privy envoy Fang Fengshi sighed in his study after learning that he was impeached, and then wrote a letter of apology.

Wang Zongzai also left the Metropolitan Procuratorate dejectedly after he learned that his subordinate Jiang Dongzhi had impeached him, and came to the Ministry of Punishment Zuo Shilang Wang Zuan to say:

"The wind and rain are too strong, and I am afraid that the golden crow will inevitably be covered by dark clouds. I am going to resign from the office and retreat. What about the public?"

Wang Zuan sighed: "Then let's all retreat!"

Liang Menglong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, also said to Zhang Xueyan in the mansion's compound: "How is your defense?"

Zhang Xueyan first asked Liang Menglong: "What about the Lord, didn't the imperial decree also let the Lord defend the matter of accepting bribes?"

"I'm too lazy to defend myself!"

Liang Menglong waved his sleeves directly, and said: "As long as you have held the position of Governor Ji Liao, you can't accept bribes. Otherwise, the military ministers are really afraid that you won't allow them to pay for nothing, and won't listen to your orders!"

"The position of governor of Liaodong is similar."

"Many times it is unavoidable to kill good people and take meritorious deeds! God pity you, who knows whether those herdsmen outside the pass who have no household registration records are Hulu spies or their own people. Who has the energy to ask so many questions?"

Zhang Xueyan also followed suit.

Liang Menglong sighed and said: "Yuan Fu has been changed, so naturally we have to change it too! This is not a question of right or wrong, it is a question of the times that have changed, and I am waiting to be dismissed from office, or even become a commoner or exiled into the army. Right! Anyway, thunder, rain and dew are all due to your grace."

"I have no intention of retreating!"

Zhang Xueyan replied bluntly, and said:

"So, I seriously wrote Wanyan's self-defense statement! I'm going to have a good debate with those officials, and it's okay to fight him for three hundred rounds!"

"I'm still going to let the emperor know that although I was greedy for ink and took credit for it, it was due to the current situation, not my intention!"

"When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when the people are in the police, there will be no friends. It is inevitable for the governor who leads the army to do one or two things that are sorry for the king's order!"

"What should be done now is not to ask about the past, but to not repeat the party struggle after the reform in the Northern Song Dynasty!"

"Try to keep those who can be used, and try not to kill those who can't be killed. I'm not trying to excuse myself, but to plead for all officials who have participated in the restructuring. Please, Your Majesty, show your kindness first, and build your prestige as a supplement! A group of people will not necessarily be cleaner."

Liang Menglong sneered: "Why are you so persistent!"

"This court is a place to talk about the general trend, not the place to talk about reason! When the power is on your side, you can say this, but when the power is not on your side, no crime can be unfounded, and even a small matter can be ignored. Be the reason for you and me to be decapitated."

"I don't think His Majesty is someone who has no determination to continue reforming the system!"

"Your Majesty's words are wrong!"

"We don't need to be discouraged so quickly, but we have the intention of giving in and compromise!"

"The grand masters were granted the title of marquis and pursued the posthumous posthumous title of Wenzheng, and they deserved to enjoy the Taimiao. His words were even set up to be held in charge of the Imperial Academy for discussion!"

Zhang Xueyan asked Liang Menglong after speaking, "Don't these prove His Majesty's determination?"

Zhang Xueyan then asked again: "Could it be that because of Zhang Puzhou's inaction, we all act like cowards in order to protect ourselves? Sit back and watch His Majesty's desire to rule, and sit and watch the grand master leave, and the entire government will never recover from it?!"

"Your Majesty made it so clear in the Imperial College that even if the Grand Master leaves, his spirit will not perish. Why should we let His Majesty down? Just because we are afraid that if we persist in the future, we will be beheaded and ransacked?"

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

And at this time, Yan Qing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, came over: "Well said!"

"The three armies can win the commander, but the common man cannot lose the ambition!"

"I have no intention of retiring. Those dignitaries and gentry who opposed the New Deal in the past were indeed condemned by me. They also impeached me as a cruel official, but let them impeach me, unless His Majesty decrees to depose me personally. I'm not going back."

Obviously, Zhu Yijun's previous series of measures to elevate Zhang Juzheng's status also made some reformist bureaucrats still angry and willing to continue to govern.

Only in this way, Zhang Siwei and the officials who opposed the New Deal were even more dissatisfied with these reformist civil servants who were not so honest and cowardly.

"This Zhang Xueyan, and people like Zeng Xingwu and Zhang Jiayin, why are they so stubborn?! Let them go to the Shu to defend themselves, and they really go to the Shu to defend themselves? Instead of going to the Shu to ask for resignation!"

After Zhang Siwei saw the ink book delivered by the cabinet in the imperial court, his face suddenly became very ugly, and he began to slander in his heart.

Since Zhu Yijun set up the imperial servants in the corridor on the west side of the Qianqing Palace, the chief assistant of the chief imperial servants would often read the ink books for the emperor in the imperial servants, and then provide the emperor with opinions on whether to criticize Zhu.

Therefore, what Zhang Siwei saw at this time was the ink copy of the ticket sent by Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers, and through the ink copy drawn by Shen Shixing and other tickets, he also saw Zhang Xueyan, Zeng Xingwu, Zhang Jiayin and other reformist civil servants, that is, Zhang Juzheng. The backbone does not have the reality of resigning.

However, Shen Shixing and other cabinet ministers did not cater to Zhang Siwei, but the draft plan was to accept Zhang Xueyan and others' self-defense, and to let the ministers be sympathetic to the past, and make them change their minds and continue to do things honestly.

Because of this, Zhang Siwei felt unavoidable that other cabinet ministers did not agree with him or cater to his displeasure, and his face became even uglier.

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

But Zhang Siwei still did not do this, and only ordered the servant of the imperial court to hand over the ink book to the clerk in case the emperor Zhu Yijun would approve it.

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

It's just that these drafts after the approval of the red, that is, Zhu's imperial decree, came to the Sixth Division, and the officials of the Sixth Division were very dissatisfied with it.

Wang Yuyang, who was on duty in the sixth department of the engineering department, saw Zhu's criticisms of Zhang Xueyan, Zeng Xingwu, Zhang Jiayin, etc. were not to blame, and his heart was burning:

"How can you let go of such a crime with conclusive evidence?!"

"How many benefits has his cabinet received from these people?!"

"Or, are these cabinet ministers and ministers collaborating in collusion, ruining the clean and bright style of the dynasty, and betraying His Majesty's desire to rule?!"

"Issue it!"

At this moment, Chen Yujiao said with a somber face to the official department, "However, this matter is not over, the cabinet does not do personnel affairs, so let us six departments come to rectify the gains and losses of the court!"

As he said that, he looked up at other things: "Continue to look for the faults of the Zhang Party remnants, rumors and rumors! I don't believe that these Zhang Party remnants can really hold a high position without fear of scholars? "

"We might as well spread the word about every impeachment!"

"At the same time, spread the original text of the cabinet draft, let the tabloids publish it, and let the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial College, the Imperial Academy, the six departments, and the gentry and elders all over the world see how the cabinet ministers eat vegetarian meals! How shameless is Zhong Gongqing!"

At this time, Liu Shangzhi proposed to the criminal department, and it was obvious that he intended to make things bigger, lest the world would not be chaotic.

Wang Yuyang of the engineering department agreed with this and said: "If this is the case, there will be fierce discussions at that time, let's see how the cabinet ministers and ministers deal with themselves!"

……

"It's really hot!"

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

"What are they trying to do? They think that I was deceived by my husband in the past, and that my husband is a traitorous and loyal person, so they use only those who are small and lucky?"

"It's still the old man used by Mingli to impeach Mr., but he is actually expressing dissatisfaction with my failure to liquidate Mr.?!"

Zhu Yijun was not idle either.

He knew that these high-spirited officials were aimed at the cabinet ministers and ministers on the surface, but they were actually aimed at the New Deal, and it was obviously due to the deliberate connivance of the first assistant Zhang Siwei.

Because the examination system has not been abolished, the cabinet can still pass the six subjects. That is to say, the cabinet has a rope to tie down the officials and prevent them from biting people. Don't dare to be so presumptuous.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun didn't choose to hide behind, but went directly to the Siyusi, scolded Zhang Siwei and Fang Fengshi and other ministers in power, and then said:

"Govern the country with leniency and strictness. You can't let these little ministers gossip and mess up the world. Immediately draw up an imperial edict. As the eldest son of the emperor, you should show your benevolence. Therefore, the past mistakes of the meritorious ministers are the ten years before Wanli. All things, except for the conspiracy of the barbarians to deceive the emperor, let the past be the past."

(End of this chapter)