Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1099 The impeachment event
After leisurely writing a letter to Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, asking about subletting in Macau, Gao Wushi read a book for a while before going to bed early.

The next morning, he got up early, exercised in the yard for a while, took a bath, used up breakfast, and was thinking about how to pass the time, when Gao Mo hurried in, and upon seeing Gao Wushi, he said, "Master, you have been impeached." After speaking, he handed a note to Gao Wushi.

Tiaochen is a copy, that is, a copy of the memorial to impeach him.

Gao Yushi was a little confused, but he didn't bother to guess, so he just took it and looked at it.After a quick glance, he realized that he was actually impeached because of the meeting with Princess Yongning in the palace yesterday.

There are not only signatures on the copy, but also a few sentences that were obviously added on purpose. These few sentences are to introduce the identity of the impeacher: This person is called Huang Zhaolong, who was born as a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing. , from Yuyao, Zhejiang.

Gao Wushi knew that someone from the Supervisor of Rituals should have written these words to him as a reminder, and it didn't matter whether it was Huang Mengyu's person or Chen Ju's person.

Huang Zhaolong?Gao Wushi thought for a while, but he didn't seem to have any impression of this person. He is the supervisory censor of Shandong Province. It's not surprising that he "cared" about him, the governor of Liaodong. After all, the administration of Shandong and Liaodong was almost integrated.

The supervisory censor of a certain Tao at the central level is not the same as the inspecting censor of a foreign office. There is one patrolling censor in each place, and the power is huge, while the supervisory censor of a certain Tao usually has a group—such as Shandong Dao There are a total of ten supervisory censors.

There are a total of more than 100 such supervisory censors in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and it is normal for them to be highly pragmatic.

But... In the fifth year of Longqing, Xin Weike's supervisory censor impeached Gao Yushi, which is really weird, not because Gao Gong was already in power that year, nor because the chief examiner was Zhang Juzheng, but It has been 12 years since the fifth year of Longqing.

12 years!After this old man became a Jinshi, he has been in the center for 12 years, but he is still just an ordinary censor?There is a small test every three years, and a big test every nine years. Even if you don't get the top grades, you should still be able to get promoted if you get the qualifications from the middle grades, right?

Gao Wushi couldn't help but mocked: "After 12 years of standing still, I finally found a good business that can become famous immediately, and I am excited to impeach me. It's amazing, it's amazing, this kind of vision is really no one else."

Then he turned to Gao Mo and asked, "Have you checked this person's resume?"

Gao Mo suppressed a smile, nodded and said, "There's no need to check - the Supervisor of Rituals gave it, and Dugong Chen sent it along with the report." Then he handed another report to Gao Wushi.

Gao Wushi took it and looked at it for a few times, and he was amazed: "This gentleman was born in Jiajing 15 years ago, and he was 36 years old (false age) when he was a Jinshi. He is the head of the department hall, and this gentleman is almost fifty now, but he is still supervising the imperial history.

I thought that this gentleman might be similar to Hai Gangfeng back then, he was upright but didn't know how to be an official, who knew he would always just complain about these things. "

He stretched out his finger, flicked the message, and said: "Look, in the first year of Wanli, Shangshu said that the two palaces had 'secret meetings' with the first and second assistants several times, which was 'improper conduct and disrespectful to the superior. ’, as a result, he was severely reprimanded by the emperor, and by the way, he was demoted and released to the judge of Shangzhou——I think the emperor was too polite at the time, and Huang Yushi was probably very disappointed that he didn’t receive the imperial scepter for saying such a deadly thing.”

"In the fourth year of Wanli, he did well in the examination, and he was transferred back to the capital. This time, he was honest for two years and did not make any big moves. Who knows, the examination will be completed in three years. It happened that my third uncle died, and the emperor insisted on chasing the posthumous name Wenzheng. It's a good thing for Huang Yushi to write three memorials a day to express his opposition.

In the end, although the emperor ignored him, he offended my senior brothers severely.So less than a month later, senior brother Xu (Xu Guo) personally tricked him again: he was transferred to be a co-prefect of Ningzhou, and he was promoted secretly. "

"When the exams were over in the ninth year of Wanli, his brother actually returned to Beijing again. This time he was lucky, and he was promoted to an official.

But it's a pity, not long after I took down Annan, Mo Maoqia sent people to Beijing to pay tribute, and this Master Huang was in charge of receiving him.Unexpectedly, there was trouble in this reception. Just after they were arranged to live in, the house leaked water and burned a servant of Annan's envoy.So this old man was demoted back to the seventh rank and continued to be the supervisory censor.

He may feel that he is in conflict with my Gao family's fate, and he has started to fight against me since this time: I have contributed to the pacification of Annan, and the emperor ordered a reward, but he objected to it, saying 'this is an unjust war'; The full-power imperial envoy went out to command the battle, and he went up and said that I "exceeded my authority and started a quarrel"; The city circle plans to kill the two chieftains, Yehe, and he went to Shushu and said that I would 'be punished if I don't teach'..."

Gao Wushi looked helpless, and said with a smile: "I suspect that as long as this man sees my name now, he can't wait to find out some problems and scold him, but I really don't understand how I offended him."

That's what he said, but his expression was very relaxed, obviously he didn't take it seriously at all.

But Gao Mo reminded: "Master, this time is a little different from the previous ones."

"Really?" Gao Wushi was slightly taken aback: "What's the difference?"

Gao Mo said: "The previous impeachments, such as 'this unjust war', 'exceeding power to provoke', 'exhausting the treasury', 'punishing without teaching', etc., the emperor approved it as soon as he went to Shu , Every time it is strictly reprimanded. But this time it is different, the emperor saw this impeachment this morning, but he did not approve it, but stayed."

Huh?
Gao Wushi frowned slightly, his face gradually became serious.

In some dynasties, the meaning of staying in China was probably that the emperor felt that it was not important, or hesitated for a while, and didn't know how to approve it, so he planned to "let it go first", and the officials below would not have a special understanding because of this.

But the Ming Dynasty is different. The stay of the Ming Dynasty, especially the memorial to the impeachment of important ministers, is often considered to be the emperor's suspicion—because if there is no doubt, the emperor will immediately issue a strict reprimand. Maintain the performance of important ministers.

Then on the other hand, the emperor did not immediately issue a severe reprimand, but chose to stay in the middle, which is usually equivalent to giving a signal to some people in the outer court—come on, continue to impeach, I want to see how this guy is. How bad.

Of course, Gao Wushi knew these routines well, so he also restrained his smile, frowned, got up and walked around, thinking about what he did that made the emperor seriously dissatisfied, and he was so angry that he couldn't even keep the impeachment memorial. sent.

But after much deliberation, he really couldn't think of anything.I have handled the recent few things well, and Zhu Yijun's behavior was completely normal a few days ago, and he didn't feel dissatisfied with him at all.

Why did you do it all of a sudden?Is it really because of seeing Princess Yongning?But it's not right, seeing that Princess Yongning has the Queen's order, that is to say, the Queen knew and nodded, which is not a problem at all in terms of "jurisprudence".

Even if Zhu Yijun didn't know beforehand, the queen should have told him afterwards, and even if he was dissatisfied, he should argue with the queen first.

What does it matter to me?I'm just following orders!

"This matter is very strange, and I can't figure it out for a while..." Gao Wushi said in a deep thought: "In this way, we will deal with it in two ways: I will write my self-defense first, and I will resign by the way; You go to contact Huang and Chen Ergong to find out the details of the palace, especially the situation of the emperor, and it is best to know the specific reason why the emperor did not send the letter."

Gao Mo nodded in agreement, and without talking nonsense, he bid farewell to Gao Yushi and left.Gao Yushi asked people to polish the pen and prepare the ink, and planned to write the self-defense essay first. Anyway, writing self-defense essay is a regular task for high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the fact that you have to thank guests behind closed doors after handing in the self-defense essay, it doesn't matter, it's just good that no one comes to bother you, Chun Mian doesn't know it.

However, an accident happened. Before he could start writing, Gao Mo actually came back, and immediately said: "Chen Dugong sent someone to invite the master to meet him. The place is in his outer house, the one in Jiaozhongfang."

The great eunuchs in the palace all had foreign residences in the capital, and most of them had more than one house, and many of them were bestowed by the emperor from various sources, but most of them were the stolen goods of criminals who were confiscated.

Chen Ju is the more honest eunuch, but he also has a foreign house, and Jiaozhongfang is very close to Zhaohui Jinggongfang, where Gao Yushi lives. It is just across a street to the east, and the British government is also there side.

But after hearing the news, Gao Wushi felt more and more heavy.

If Huang Mengyu's personality is rough and fine, then Chen Ju is always cautious, similar to Gao Pragmatic himself.The matter of impeachment is only in the past morning, and Chen Ju is so anxious to come out of the palace to meet himself?

Maybe Zhu Yijun thought I molested his sister?Fuck, this misunderstanding is impossible.

The situation was urgent, so Gao Yushi didn't dare to think too much, so he quickly changed his clothes and left.Speaking of ancient times, this is not good. When doing different things and meeting different people, you always have to change clothes.

But this time, not only did he not dare to wear his sitting python robe or third-rank official uniform, he even didn't dare to wear the half-official and half-private Zhongjing Guanfu, so he just put on a navy blue Taoist robe and went out.Taoist gowns were not exclusively worn by Taoist priests in Ming Dynasty, in fact anyone who was a scholar could wear them, even some rural officials who couldn't even pass the entrance examination for children would like to wear them, the least conspicuous.

When I arrived at Jiaozhongfang, passing by the British government, I happened to meet Zhang Yuande, the younger brother of the British prince Zhang Yuangong, going out.

Zhu Yingzhen, Duke of Cheng, and Zhang Yuangong, Duke of England, were Gao Yushi's two main supporters among the nobles of the Jingnan family, and Zhang Yuande was Zhang Yuangong's younger brother, so he was naturally very close to Gao Wushi.Gao Wushi changed into casual clothes, and only took Gao Mo and another guard Ding away, but Zhang Yuande saw them all.

Zhang Yuande also only brought two servants with him, and when he saw Gao Wushi's attire, he ran over quickly, grabbed him, and asked in surprise, "Brother Qiuzhen, why is he dressed in white dragon fish?"

Gao Yushi was originally anxious and didn't want to chat with him, but he had already approached him, so he couldn't save face, so he said, "I'm just invited to meet a friend."

Zhang Yuande suddenly looked left and right with a strange expression, then lowered his voice and said: "Brother Qiuzhen's friend, is it a woman with a national surname?"

Gao Wushi was taken aback for a moment, then turned pale with shock, and hurriedly asked, "Where do you start with this?"

The so-called national surname is the surname Zhu, and a woman with the national surname is Miss Zhu.

What I am afraid of now is Miss Zhu!
Zhang Yuande grinned, waved his hands to make his two servants back, and then winked and said: "They are all my brothers, brother Qiuzhen, what are you doing to hide from me? We all know about the fourth princess. She fell in love with you before she surrendered." , it’s just because of the ancestral system... Not to mention what happened later, I remember that she didn’t even consummate the house with that damn consumptive ghost, and now she has become a widow again, you two..."

"Both of us have nothing!" Gao Wushi's eyes widened: "Where did you hear that the fourth princess has anything to do with me?"

Zhang Yuande still has no righteous conduct, and he waved his hands as if you understand me, and said, "Okay, okay, I'm not that Huang Zhaolong and Huang Yushi, what are you afraid of me saying? Even if you move to Changchun Palace, I will It will only be loudly applauded."

"Stop talking nonsense. If you speak so freely, this year's dividend will be deducted directly."

For this kind of person who almost has a death-preventing gold medal hanging around his neck, there are very few places where he can threaten him, and Gao Pragmatic can only talk about it with dividends. Fortunately, this threat has obvious effects.

"Hey, I have something to say, I have something to say!" Zhang Yuande hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I don't say it, okay, aren't you in a hurry to see her? Go, go, I... Uh, I rushed to see Jizhi, see you later."

"Stop!" Gao Wushi immediately called him to a stop, and regardless of Zhang Yuande's constipated expression, he asked calmly, "I asked you just now, where did you hear these gossips, and you haven't answered me yet."

Zhang Yuande smiled bitterly and said: "This is really embarrassing. Let me tell you, but you want to deduct dividends again. I won't tell you, but you insist on telling me again... You are looking for trouble."

Gao Wushi said angrily: "Don't smile! It was just a small misunderstanding at first, and I thought it was no big deal. Now it seems that I'm afraid my head is a little insecure. The matter is very important, so hurry up and tell the truth."

Zhang Yuande looked at Gao Yushi suspiciously, and said in disbelief: "It can't be so serious, right? According to my observation, if it wasn't for the restriction of the ancestral system, the emperor should be quite happy to be your brother-in-law."

Gao Wushi's face sank: "Still talking nonsense?"

"All right, all right, no nonsense." Zhang Yuande sighed: "But what do you want me to say? Now all the motherfuckers in the capital know that you went to the palace to meet the fourth princess yesterday, and how long did the two of you stay in the room?" For an hour, all the eunuchs and maids were sent outside to wait... By the way, you are in good health, did you eat some sea cucumbers and sea horses in advance? There should be a lot of these things in Liaodong."

"Get out!" Gao Wushi was so angry that his face turned green when he met such a heartless thing, he turned his head and left without saying a word.

Gao Mo hurriedly followed, and said worriedly: "Master, this situation is not right..."

"Nonsense, I'm not blind yet!" Gao Yushi's temper had already turned up at this moment, and he said through gritted teeth, "It's clear that someone is deliberately spreading rumors!"

But after saying this angry sentence, he stopped, took a deep breath, and exhaled a long breath, forcing himself to calm down.

After a while, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said coldly: "It seems that my opponents finally know what angle to attack me from. It's really a gratifying progress. However, this guy has counted thousands of times, and I'm afraid it's still a miss. Some places... Huh, let's see."

He stepped forward again, and said in his mouth: "Don't worry, go see Chen Ju first."
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