Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 822 The building suddenly crooked
In the Wenhua Palace, all the ministers looked at Chen Xun in surprise.

You know, this Minister of the Ministry of Industry, perhaps because of his previous stay in the cabinet, has always been known for his good temper in the court.

In many government affairs, what he is best at is maintaining neutrality. Moreover, because he was born in Qingliu, there are many old students in the imperial court, so what he does most is to speak good words to his students.

Among the current Qingliu lineage, Jiang Yuan is one of the few people who can be regarded as an important minister in the court, but he is such a person, and Chen Xun even used the words "hiding evil intentions" to describe him.

This is...the sun is coming out from the west?
Not to mention, these words were not only aimed at Jiang Yuan, but also offended Zhu Jian.

The incident at the beginning was the biggest setback that Zhu Jian encountered when he became an official. Although his reputation in the government and the public has been bad, he is still a dignified cabinet minister after all, and he has the credit for welcoming back the Supreme Emperor Standing next to her, in front of her face, no one has scolded her so badly.

Normally, those who can say such things are usually political opponents who have long-standing grievances in the court, but Chen Xun is a clear stream, and Zhu Jian who has been in the local area for a long time, what grievances can there be?
However, the ministers didn't know, but Zhu Qiyu, who was the leader, probably saw Chen Xun's intentions.

He was clearing up the relationship between himself and Jiang Yuan.

After the last palace examination case, although it was not publicized, Zhu Qiyu did receive a report from Dongchang that Jiang Yuan and Chen Xun seemed to be at odds in the mansion.

Although I don't know the specific situation, but combined with the truth of the palace examination case he got from Xiao Yi, we can roughly see some clues.

Chen Xun, in Zhu Qiyu's opinion, has flaws in character.

He likes to make friends and win over people's hearts, which was learned by Peng Shi and others. He is keen on officialdom and has a thorough research on officialdom, which is very similar to Xu Youzhen. At the same time, he is a little weak and always likes to emphasize Peace is the most important thing, this has always affected Du Ning.

Basically, these characteristics of Chen Xun can be found in several of his favorite students.

However, the most regrettable thing is that his students learned these shortcomings from him, but did not inherit his advantages.

Although Chen Xun has such and other shortcomings, he, Yu Qian, Chen Yi and others have a common advantage, that is, they can be upright!

Knowing that the general trend is irreversible, Chen Xun will not do useless work, but he will never take the initiative to do things that are harmful to the court.

It is not something that Chen Xunneng can do to harm the country and benefit himself.

He has the desire to be an official, but the difference between him and Xu Youzhen is that he has a bottom line, is not obsessed, and is indeed a person who can do things in a down-to-earth manner.

There are two points. Although he has a soft personality, he is always available.

In addition, this old guy has a high reputation in the court and has a wide network of contacts. Among the Qiqing, Hu Wei may not be able to compare with him in terms of popularity.

In many cases, it is not a good thing that there are sharp-edged people like Wang Wen and Yu Qian in the court.

That's why Zhu Qiyu put him in the position of Qiqing.

Therefore, according to Zhu Qiyu's understanding of him, Chen Xun would not do such a thing as cheating in the imperial examination, and the diametrically opposite attitudes between Du Ning and Jiang Yuan later on this case also verified his conjecture.

Under such circumstances, the relationship between Jiang Yuan and Chen Xun must have gradually become estranged. However, many people in the court know their relationship, so Jiang Yuan's actions can easily be regarded as Chen Xun's. follow the meaning.

Especially, in the current scene, Jiang Yuan seems to be following Chen Xun and opening his mouth. In order not to be implicated by Jiang Yuan for no reason, Chen Xun's charge must be serious, and if necessary, he must be ruthless!
For example...

"Your Majesty, I impeached the cabinet minister Jiang Yuan. He has no morals and no deeds. It is difficult to take up the post. He should be transferred from the cabinet and appointed elsewhere."

Under everyone's gaze, Chen Xun really made another shocking statement.

This sentence immediately made all the ministers present pay attention to it.

If just now, they still doubted whether Chen Xun was playing Liu Bei's trick of throwing the child, then now, this kind of thinking has completely disappeared.

In the capacity of Chen Xun's six ministers, once the word "impeachment" is exported, it will be hard to take it back. If you don't pay attention, it will cause a game between the court and the important ministers.

Of course, the biggest reason for this kind of game is that, under normal circumstances, the impeached and the impeached will not belong to the same faction.

However, strictly speaking, Chen Xun was originally Jiang Yuan's backer in the court, so once the impeachment was announced, it was almost a foregone conclusion.

So, this Chen Shangshu really made up his mind to clean up the door?
While everyone was thinking, Chen Xun continued.

"At the beginning, during the civil engineering campaign, the imperial court suffered heavy losses, the cabinet was empty, and the government affairs were cumbersome. Your Majesty promoted Jiang Yuan to the cabinet to predict the government affairs. However, since Jiang Yuan entered the cabinet, the government affairs have not made much progress. In the court, they have repeatedly gone crazy. Contradictory words, this is imprudent."

"When you are in the cabinet, you don't want to be loyal to your position, and you have repeatedly entangled cronies in the cabinet. This is disloyalty."

"Your Majesty's relatives believed in him, entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and ordered him to be the judge of the palace examination papers, but Jiang Yuan misjudged the top three papers as one of the top papers, and threatened to make the court palace examination a laughing stock. This is incompetent."

"Jiang Yuan, who knows Zhu Jiande's conduct is not good, still recommends him to serve in the East Palace. This is immoral."

"Such disrespectful, disloyal, virtuous and incompetent people stay in the court, which will only make all the officials laugh at them. Therefore, I implore your majesty to demote them out of Beijing, so as to set the record straight!"

Therefore, many times in the court, it is changing rapidly.

No one knows how big a storm will be caused by a small introduction in the end.

Just like Jiang Yuan himself, I'm afraid he didn't expect that he just said a few words for Zhu Jian, which provoked such a fierce reaction from Chen Xun.

However, before he could react, someone present had already reacted.

Chen Xun, this is not just about cleaning up the door!

Although Chen Xun's goal in the end was to demote Jiang Yuan from Beijing, the crimes he listed alone were enough to dismiss him from office.

This is not an ordinary clean-up, it's clearly going to be beaten to death!

Just praising Zhu Jian, why did Chen Xun react so violently?

The answer must be no.

With Chen Xun's good-natured character, he wouldn't be like this.

So why exactly?

Everyone present did not have an answer in their hearts, but they believed that there would be an answer soon.

Chen Xun's excited statement successfully calmed down the audience. Logically speaking, when it comes to whether the cabinet ministers will stay or leave, there should be at least some debate.

However, the premise of the debate is that people of the same level are willing to protect Jiang Yuan.

But still the same sentence, Chen Xun is Jiang Yuan's backer in the court, and he impeached Jiang Yuan himself, so who will protect him?
For a while, all the ministers fell silent, but it was not that they had nothing to say, but were watching the changes quietly.

At the same time, the face of the first emperor also straightened up, pondered for a moment, and asked Jiang Yuan who was beside him.

"Mr. Jiang Ge, Chen Shangshu impeached you for being unscrupulous, disloyal, incompetent, and immoral. What excuse do you have for this?"

Judging from the appellation, the emperor's attitude is relatively gentle.

With this question, Jiang Yuan also reacted.

There is no doubt that Chen Xun's actions are going to tear him apart.

Although I haven't figured out why such a simple matter caused him to react so violently, but at this time, I must not sit still, otherwise, if the emperor really goes along with the flow, then his official career will come to an end up.

Gently exhaling, Jiang Yuan stepped forward and cupped his hands.

"Your Majesty understands that I don't know how to defend myself, because the crimes mentioned by Chen Shangshu are all nonsense, and since they are nonsense, how can I refute them?"

Of course, having said that, it is impossible to refute nothing.

Pausing for a while, feeling the gazes of all the people around him focus on him, Jiang Yuan felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he still spoke calmly and said.

"Since I have received His Majesty's grace, I have been conscientious and conscientious since I joined the cabinet. Although I dare not say that I have outstanding abilities, I have not made any major mistakes in handling government affairs. I don't know where I come from."

"The cabinet is originally a place to communicate with the inside and outside, and the votes are to be consulted. All the cabinet ministers need to work together and discuss government affairs from time to time. The ministers and the cabinet ministers are all for official business. There is no personal relationship. I dare not accept the crime of entanglement. .”

"In the matter of the imperial examination, I misjudged Cheng Zong's file. Chen Shangshu said that I was incompetent. I dare not object. If Your Majesty wants to punish me for this, I have nothing to say."

"As for the matter of recommending Mr. Zhu Ge, it was originally ordered by His Majesty to discuss. I just expressed my own thoughts. I don't know why Chen Shangshu is so excited."

"The minister's talent is shallow, and his majesty trusts him so that he can enter the cabinet. Since he became an official, he has been blessed with the emperor's grace. He dare not slack off for a day, or have negligence, but he never neglects. I implore your majesty to learn from you. "

He said that he had no words to refute, but in fact, Jiang Yuan refuted Chen Xun's statement one by one.

On the contrary, what he said seemed like Chen Xun was making trouble for no reason.

As a result, the pressure fell on Chen Xun. As one of the seven ministers, he personally ended up dealing with an ordinary cabinet minister, and he was still his student. If he couldn't succeed, if he spread the word, where would he save his face? .

However, now that Chen Xun has reached this position, it shows that he is not a person who sits on a vegetarian diet. The reason why Qiqing is called Qiqing is not because he sits in this position, so he has such a position. It is precisely because he has Sufficient ability and prestige can take this position.

Facing Jiang Yuan's defense, Chen Xun didn't panic at all, sneered and said.

"Smart words are just sophistry!"

"In the cabinet, you don't think about the righteous way, and you have repeatedly formed a clique. Isn't it true? When Zhu Jian plotted against the Zhan Shifu, how dare you say that you didn't help?"

"The two of you are working hand in hand, supporting each other, jumping up and down in the cabinet, and now you are even making a fuss on the Eastern Palace Reserve Book. Are you really blind and deaf in the government and the public?"

"There is also the case of the palace examination, Jiang Yuan, no matter how eloquent you are, but you, the dignified Hanlin Qingliu, can't you really tell whether a test paper is good or bad?"

"Whether this is negligence of duty or other secrets, don't you know in your heart?"

This shout and question was full of momentum, which attracted the attention of everyone present.

Especially Zhu Jian's face turned green.

That's good, why did he wrap him in again? When he first joined the cabinet, he did get close to Jiang Yuanming secretly for a while, but when did this happen, it's worth it now. Turn it out?

Seeing that he could no longer keep silent, Zhu Ge had no choice but to step forward and speak.

"Your Majesty clearly learned that when I asked you to prepare the palace for His Royal Highness, it was actually out of public interest. During this period of time, there have been many criticisms against me from the government and the opposition. I didn't want to pay attention to it. However, I dare not accept Chen Shangshu's words."

"Your Majesty and Jiang Ge have no personal relationship, and you dare not write any articles in the Eastern Palace Reserve Book. I know that everyone is worth a lot of money, and I dare not ask for rewards from Your Majesty, but please learn from Your Majesty. I will never form a party. , the communication with Elder Jiang Ge is just for official business."

At this time, Jiang Yuan immediately followed, said.

"Your Majesty, what Chen Shangshu said just now is all guesswork and has no real basis. It is too arbitrary to impeach the minister with this. Please learn from your Majesty."

The two sang together, as if they were about to overwhelm Chen Xun and make him speechless.

However, even so, Chen Xun was still unhurried, and even said with a faint smile in his eyes.

"Jiang Yuan, how do you know the old man? There is no evidence?"

As soon as he said a word, everyone was shocked.

It should be said that what Jiang Yuan said was correct. Chen Xun's accusations just now sounded scary, but they were not supported by actual evidence.

Moreover, most of the crimes he listed are hard to find evidence for, except...

"Your Majesty, I was ordered to conduct a thorough investigation into the case of cheating in the imperial examination. Although the truth has not been completely found out, great progress has been made. Here is the report of the case. Your Majesty please read it."

At this moment, Du Ning, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly got up and spoke, took out a playbook from his sleeve, and handed it over.

Sure enough, Chen Xun would not do anything unprepared!

Among the many accusations against Jiang Yuan, if there is any real evidence, it is the case of cheating in the imperial examination.

This case was handed over to Dali Temple by the emperor to investigate, but there has been no follow-up. Looking at the current situation, could it be said that Jiang Yuan was investigated?
The servant took the memorial and submitted it to the imperial case. Zhu Qiyu pondered for a moment, then opened it and browsed it quickly.

It's just that after reading it, his expression was inexplicably weird. He first glanced at Chen Xun and Du Ning, and then settled on Jiang Yuan, looking thoughtful, as if he was thinking about something.

At this time, someone finally couldn't hold back any longer. Under the gaze of everyone, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Ao, stepped forward, cupped his hands and said.

"Your Majesty, today is to discuss the matter of awarding the crown prince's ministers who have made meritorious service. Now, the award of Zhuge Lao and General Zhu Yi has not yet been decided. Will we discuss other government affairs after this matter is over?"

This sentence was very plain, but almost as soon as the voice fell, it attracted the attention of all the ministers present...

(End of this chapter)