Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1330 The Nancha Disturbance ([-])
Hai Rui saw Wang Xijue's "undertones" and it was nothing more than a warning to himself that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were all prosperous and all were harmed, and most of these families had people in the officialdom, so if you move one, you will move a group, you have to think about it as a result of.

What he said is naturally true, but... so what?
"Three lives do not change the Frost Fuck, and ten thousand deaths will always stay in the community." I, Hai Ruiguang, have only the virtue of not daring to violate it in my life. There has never been anyone who dared not offend!
After collecting Wang Xijue's letter, Hai Rui straightened his back, which was slightly bent due to old age, as proudly as when he wrote "Public Security" 21 years ago.

Although life and death are important, they belong to my feathers; although chastity is light, they belong to Mount Tai.

Your generation concealed the Son of Heaven, Sheng Cong, and robbed the common people from below.Where there are one or two good officials and good people in the court, who want to clearly observe and rectify them, your generation will attack them together.

The world is the world of the people in the world, how can you be the only one of your generation!

When the emperor was angry, millions of corpses were buried; when Hai Rui was angry, black yarn was everywhere.Wang Xijue's letter successfully aroused Hai Rui's anger, and the Nancha incident was already in danger of spreading to the whole world.

However, what Hai Rui didn't think about was that no one in the world knew what his temper was?

At least, Gao Yushi and Wang Xijue are bound to know it well.

Because of this, although the high-practical letters do not talk about virtue, they always talk about virtue; because of this, although Wang Xijue's letters don't talk about power, they always talk about power.

In fact, no matter whether they are highly pragmatic or Wang Xijue, although the two letters seem to be completely opposite, they actually lead to the same goal by different routes.

But the high-level pragmatic purpose is here, and it is understandable to do so.Wang Xijue's interests are at stake, why should he be so angry at him?
In fact, Wang Xijue's actions this time were exactly "the opposite" compared to the one at the beginning of the fourth year of Longqing.

In the fourth year of Longqing, Hai Rui's main target was Xu Jie. Wang Xijue was just a junior in the officialdom, so he was naturally happy to let Xu Jie take down the sharp blade of Haigang Peak, while he obediently hid in the background and watched the show.

The sky is falling and there is a tall man holding it up. I, Mr. Wang, have thin arms and legs, so I won't join in the fun.

But this time it was different, Shen Shixing and him were the two pillars of the School of Mind with Nanbang officials as its core.However, although Shen Shixing is the chief assistant, his family business is only average - at least for Wang Xijue, it must be only average.

If it is true that commercial taxes are widely levied in the south of the Yangtze River, Wang Xijue is the one who will bear the brunt and cannot be tolerated. Behind him, there are countless "official businessmen" and "business official" families.

This time, although Wang Xijue did not have any evidence for the Beijing inspection, he concluded that Gao Yushi must have secretly instigated it.

This time the emperor used Gao Yushi as the Minister of the Household Department. It seems that because Gao Yushi's meritorious service is difficult to be rewarded, he had to be gifted by a high-ranking official. In fact, how can it be so simple?
Wang Xijue had already figured it out on the way back to Beijing. No matter how many tricks the emperor used this time, it was all because the court was short of money, and Gao Yushi was the one who was the best at managing money in his eyes.

That being the case, if Gao Yushi does something in the near future, it must be related to business and taxation, and the emperor will definitely try his best to cooperate.

Therefore, Jingcha started.

Wang Xijue knew very well that since the root cause of the Beijing inspection this time was business taxation, and Hai Rui is a stubborn guy, with a high degree of pragmatism, insidious and unpredictable, and full of vicious schemes, he must have the ability to persuade Hai Rui to regard this aspect as an important issue. It presided over the core idea of ​​the Southern Inspection.

What kind of person is Hai Rui, can it be stopped?Of course I can't stop it.Xu Jie couldn't stop him in the past, and Wang Xijue couldn't stop him today.

Since you can't stop it, why not change your mind?

Now, I, Wang Xijue, are the biggest ones out there, and my status and net worth among officials from Jiangnan are like those of Xu Jie in the past.

There were three reasons why Xu Jie was disgraced at the beginning: one was that he had already retired from office;

Today, Shen Shi acts as the chief assistant, and I, Wang Xijue, is also one of the assistant ministers. In the court, especially in the cabinet, I can be on par with the Real School.In this regard, Xu Jie was not as good as I am today.

Today, the discussion on the holy family may still regard high pragmatism as the No. 1 in the world, but high pragmatism and high arch are actually not the same.Gao Yushi is the emperor's companion and classmate, and the relationship between them is roughly equivalent to friendship.And Gao Gong is Mu Zong's imperial teacher. What Mu Zong feels from Gao Gong is not only the majesty of the teacher, but also the father's love that he has missed in his life-it is equivalent to family affection.

Friendship and family affection are all love, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior, but friendship can be chosen, but family affection has no choice.

You can choose who to be friends with, but obviously you can't choose who is your father.The most ruthless aspect of Gao Gong's strength in the Longqing Dynasty was that Emperor Longqing had signs of treating him as a father in his heart.

Therefore, although the two high schools are both blessed by holy families, they are relatively different in nature.Where is the real gap between this "other"?Because when Gao Gong was in the cabinet, he was the head of the "Mr.", and the emperor could justifiably consider his opinion first - "heaven, earth, monarch, relative and teacher". Even if others disagree, they can't find much reason to object.

Although Gao Yushi also served as a lecturer in the past, he obviously would not be regarded as the emperor's teacher. The current "emperor's teacher" is a few elders.This means that whenever there is an issue in the world, even if the emperor only wants to hear a high-level and pragmatic answer, he must follow the agreement to consult the opinions of the cabinet ministers first, and must give them enough respect.

So on this second point, Wang Xijue can also say, "Xu Jie was not as good as I am today."

As for the third, Xu Jie seemed to be very passive in dealing with Hai Rui's Qingzhang Tianmu. In addition to the above two reasons, there was another troublesome matter that had a great impact on Xu Jie.That is, his own younger brother Xu Zhi impeached him for some bad things, which is one of the reasons why he resigned and returned to his hometown. (Note: This is a historical fact, but there is no perfect explanation that can clearly explain why Xu Zhi did such a thing.)
At that time, this incident had a moderate impact on Xu Jie's political status, but it had a great impact on Xu Jie's reputation, so that after he returned to his hometown, he hoped to calm down and stop being "shameful"—after all, he regained his reputation. It is a consistent characteristic of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, of course, it may have to be excluded at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, when Xu Jie was "suppressed and beaten" by Hai Rui, he didn't resist too much. He just pretended to be pitiful and contacted his former students and officials to help him.

Although Xu Jie had many old students and old officials, at that time, it was not enough to have old students and old officials. live?

Wang Xijue himself is the most direct example. When Hai Rui punished Xu Jie, didn't he "hide" Wang?But if it was the other way around, if Xu Jie had united all Yingtian officials, including him, Wang Xijue, to fight against each other, what would happen if there was a war of scolding every day?Even if Hai Rui himself is not afraid, isn't the emperor afraid of causing big trouble?

Therefore, this time, Wang Xijue has learned the lesson of Xu Jie back then, and is going to take the "United Front" route.

But the united front is not so easy to organize. At this moment, the rest of the Jiangnan officials, especially the smart people inside, may not be able to do what Wang did back then, waiting for the "superior" gods to fight. It can't play a decisive role, as long as you don't be the first bird.

After the gods finish the fight, it is good to win, because your interests are preserved; there is nothing you can do if you lose, and you can only comfort yourself with "I am not the one who suffers the most".

But you can continue to wait for the opportunity. Anyway, the policies of the Ming Dynasty have always changed a lot. Maybe after changing to a crop of gods, there will be another way?Keep the green hills, and don't worry about no firewood.

However, although Wang Xijue used to do this kind of behavior in the past, time has changed, and now he has become "Xu Jie", so they can't be allowed to do it again.

The idea is good, but how to achieve this goal is particular.Calling everyone to unite is of course necessary, but it is definitely not enough to call on everyone. We are all civil servants, who hasn't been careful about small tricks?Naturally, they do more things in accordance with the tenet of "charging you, and pressing the battle".

Therefore, Wang Xijue needed external assistance - for example, Hai Rui did not engage in a focused attack, but directly launched an all-out attack without discrimination.At this time, no matter who was touched by Hai Rui, the person involved was certainly uncomfortable, but the others didn't know whether they would be the next unlucky one, and there was a feeling of common hatred and hatred.

So Wang Xijue wrote this letter, telling Hai Rui "subtly and euphemistically": Jiangnan is an iron plate, and someone in Hai can't move it!

What would someone in Hai do if he understood this meaning?
Simple, do it together!

Isn't Hai Rui's style always like this?Not hitting the south wall and not looking back is not enough to describe him, he hit the south wall... then just break it.turn back?I, Haigangfeng, never look back!

If Hai Rui wanted to do it together, he fell into Wang Xijue's trap, because the inspected officials also had means to use against the chief inspecting officials, and there were two "customs" in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

What custom?One is to expose posts.

When the Beijing inspection is due, officials with ulterior motives often post anonymous postings, slandering wantonly.Therefore, Tang Zhaojing once said: "Privately revealing a matter is banned by many yang and used by yin", which expresses the helplessness of the prosecutors in charge of false accusations and exposure of posts.

Although "the imperial court uses its ears and eyes to send its words to officials, and promises to use rumors", many officials take advantage of the opportunity of Beijing's investigation and use the name of rumors to attack and slander their colleagues in an attempt to avoid being deposed.

Because at the time of the Beijing inspection, "every yamen must have people. In this way, there are already people in the yamen, so they don't move again, saying: it's hard for other yamen. If there is no one in that yamen, it must be confirmed by people, saying: why is this yamen empty?" and also".Therefore, once the purpose of slandering colleagues is achieved, some lawless officials can get away with it.

"Every yamen must have people" means that every yamen must have someone who will be deposed. If someone is deposed first, the rest will be safe—at least much safer.

Although the Ming court does not offend people who have rumors, once the false accusation is known, it will not be beautiful even though it is in the name of rumors.Therefore, anonymous postings became rampant for a while, and this was also one of the main topics repeatedly discussed by many speech officials before Jingchao.

However, this is not the method Wang Xijue intends to use to deal with Hai Rui, the method he intends to use is the second method.

The second article is that officials who are afraid of the investigation can still discuss and impeach the person in charge of the investigation at this time, in order to avoid the investigation.

Because Jingcha is a major event related to the political future of officials, "once they are deposed, they will leave their posts", and for a long period of time until the late Wanli period, once they left because of Jingcha, they would "never be used." Some inofficials impeached those in charge in advance in order to avoid being dismissed.

The origin of those who framed the chief inspector in the Jingcha can be traced back to the early Jiajing period.At that time, Zhang Gui, an assistant minister of the cabinet, actively supported Sejong during the ceremony and "resisted the court for four or five years", so he was at odds with many courtiers in the court.Therefore, on the occasion of the expiration of the Beijing inspection in the sixth year of Jiajing, he made a self-indulgent statement, framed the chief inspection official as "shameful friends, and public harm to good people", begging the emperor's asylum.

However, it is a special case for a while to falsely accuse the officials in charge of the assistant ministers.However, in the original history, until the late Wanli period, false accusations against officials in charge by lower-rank officials often occurred.

For example, in the 27th year of Wanli, Xu Wenzao, the censor of Guizhou Dao, was underestimated by scholars because he "attached to Lu Kun's gate wall, regardless of his name". Dian"—Ji Dian, Da Ji and other words, in the Ming Dynasty, they all refer to Jingcha.

Another example is in the second year of Tianqi, "Zhu Tongmeng, Guo Yunhou, and Guo Xingzhi thought that the next year's Beijing Procuratorate would not be good for them, and secretly plotted to expel them." Zou Yuanbiao, the left capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at that time, although he had the spirit of party struggle, it was the same as the previous example. , are all false accusations by officials.

Similar to this, there are also those who framed the officials who annotated themselves.For example, in the 39th year of Wanli, Tang Binyin (a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Wanli) offered sacrifices to the Imperial Academy in Nanjing, because he was worried that Wang Tu (a Jinshi in the 11th year of Wanli), who was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, would note his lower examination in the examination language, so he ordered Yu Shi Jinming to impeach him. The son of Wang Tu, an official in the hall, was involved in corruption, and wanted to commit Wang Tu's son to commit murder in order to escape being investigated.

At the time of this catastrophe, since there is already a "custom" in place, Wang Xijue is naturally not hesitating to give it a try. As long as Hai Rui puts on a stance in Nanjing that he wants to "catch them all together", Wang Xijue will be able to act immediately.

For this reason, when Wang Xijue sent his letter to Hai Rui to Nanjing, a large wave of private letters had already been sent to various places in the south of the Yangtze River.Not only Wang Xijue, but also many letters from Shen Shixing.The two elders of the pavilion worked tirelessly, not only wrote a lot of private letters with their own handwriting, but also countless letters written by the aides in the mansion, all of which had the same purpose.

This time, the southern inspection was even more important than the northern inspection. Naturally, Gao Wushi would not just write a letter to Hai Rui, and he also made many corresponding arrangements.

Although the leaders of the two factions are both in Yanjing, the forces all over the world are like tentacles, and they have already been "activated" first, and they are both ready to move.

And because of time constraints, especially the transmission of official documents, the Northern Inspection was always earlier than the Southern Inspection, so when Hai Rui summoned the relevant personnel and began to arrange work arrangements, the Northern Inspection had already entered the first round of competition in full swing.
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