The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Fan's eloquence is good, and all the things he said are things he personally experienced and witnessed. nervous.

When Zhang Fan said that he had just arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, and that Liu Shan had flattered him, Long Qing didn't show any anger or disgust, at most he just sighed. The drama brought to Long Qing by this incident was more important, Zhang Fan could see that Long Qing was always smiling when he heard what he said.

And when Zhang Fan said that Liu Shan had nowhere to go because Zhang Fan's arrival was too sudden, and was going to put all his eggs in one basket to win Zhang Fan into the gang, the smile on Long Qing's face became even brighter. Not only Long Qing, Even the ministers who were listening below laughed. It was really interesting to think about it. A person who is going to be investigated is now trying his best to win over the people who came to investigate him, and the method used is still the same. With such "honesty", Liu Shan almost showed all his trump cards in front of Zhang Fan, and then used the huge amount of money to lure Zhang Fan into the urn.

When the courtiers below heard this, most of them laughed along with Long Qing, but many of them were muttering in their hearts, what were they muttering, naturally they all admired Zhang Fan, based on the pile of numbers reported by Zhang Fan , to be honest, few of the people below can resist the temptation.

But here are only a few people who know the reason. No matter how much Liu Shan pays, and no matter whether Zhang Fan is a master who regards money as his life, Liu Shan's idea is bound to fail. After all, Zhang Fan left Before the capital went to the south of the Yangtze River, Long Qing had already made the promise that he was forced to give him money.

Afterwards, things seemed to be going smoothly, until Zhang Fan said that he falsely agreed to Liu Shan's invitation, and tried every means to get close to him. Finally, after he got the real evidence of Liu Shan's corruption, he launched an attack on the spot, intending to arrest Liu Shan and bring him to justice. , Long Qing was very happy to hear this story. He ignored the emperor's etiquette and applauded repeatedly. This is when he heard that Liu Shan committed suicide after seeing that the situation was over. Liu Shan is too cheap.

After that, Zhang Fanyou talked about how he figured out a way to let those corrupt officials who followed Liu Shan spit out all the dirty money. Regarding Zhang Fan's secret request for money, he didn't disturb those officials. , and did not take any action to let the news spread, Long Qing was very satisfied. After all, he is not a person who does not understand anything. As an emperor, Long Qing has a lot of foresight. At that time, there will be no order to lift the sea ban.

He understood that the reason why Zhang Fan did this was because he didn't want to dismiss too many officials from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian at once. That would inevitably cause great confusion. Zhang Fan's doing this was really in line with him idea.

After hearing what Zhang Fan said, the courtiers below had no choice but to echo Long Qing with smiles on their faces, but speaking of it, their hearts were already full of wry smiles at this moment.

Zhang Fan's current status is the commander of Jinyiwei. This position has always been criticized by ministers, whether he is a civil servant or a military commander. It is the supervisory officials. For those who are not loyal to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, or who have done some selfish things in secret, they have the right to kill first and then act later. At most, when the emperor asks, give that person a rebellion As a result, no one dared to say anything more.

Therefore, there are two reasons for the pros and cons of the Jinyiwei. One is that if the current emperor is clear and bright, then the commander of the Jinyiwei will definitely restrain himself even if he is violent and fierce; the second is, If the current emperor is stupid, no matter how soft-hearted the commander is, he will do some things that both people and gods are angry with. After all, the quality of Jinyiwei still depends on what the current emperor is like emperor.

Although Long Qing is not a Mingjun Holy Lord, but the good thing is that he still has the thought of being a Mingjun Holy Lord, whether he pretends or is sincere, at least it is good to do things, and Zhang Fan, this man of literati background is also the reason why the ministers are not too opposed to his taking up this position. In their thinking, a literati, a number one scholar, will definitely not do those things that kill everyone.

But what Zhang Fan said just now made them worry, and what they were worried about was money. Today's officials of the Ming Dynasty understand very well that Long Qing's favorite thing besides women is money, but Long Qing would not openly go to the Ministry of Accounts to ask for money from the treasury to spend, but likes to check on corrupt officials, and how many of them are ministers who have never embezzled money, and the amount of money corrupted is not small. There are many people there.

If one day Longqing had a whim and wanted to spend another sum of money, it was hard to guarantee that the spearhead would not be aimed at them, and if that time came, Zhang Fan would definitely be the general sent by Longqing.

After all, these people are also worried that the "hard-earned" money in their pockets will be used by Zhang Fan to take away their money by making them speechless and making them have to take the money , but also put their names on the "blacklist".

"By the way, how much money was recovered in the end?" Long Qing asked the question he was most concerned about. Although he already knew the number, he still wanted to listen to it again.

"Your Majesty, this problem is still related to Master Ge, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs," Zhang Fan said. Speaking of which, Zhang Fan only now found out that he only knew a rough figure all the time. I really don't know.

"Where is the Minister of the Household Department?" Long Qing called out.

"Weichen, Ge Shouli," Ge Shouli, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, stood up in response, and said in front of Long Qing, "Your Majesty, just now Weichen has received a report from his subordinates. During this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, Master Zhang confiscated a total of 1309 yuan of dirty silver." 800 taels, this is the number reported by Mr. Zhang's subordinates from Jiangnan. Just now in Tongzhou, Weichen's men also counted it, 1309 taels of silver, one penny There is no shortage of money, all of it has arrived, and the silver is now being escorted by the Royal Forest Army sent by His Majesty, and is being transported towards the capital.

After Zhang Fan heard Ge Shouli's words, he couldn't help but glance at him twice. The silver was in Yangzhou back then, when Zhang Fan was about to leave, he found that it was a little less when he counted it. The people who guarded the money were really clean to the extreme. It is impossible to get back more of the money that is already in short supply. Could it be...

Sure enough, when Zhang Fan was thinking about a certain possibility, he saw Ge Shouli saw that Zhang Fan was looking at him. Although the expression on his face hadn't changed, the corners of his mouth were slightly turned up.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan understood that the court is now divided into three factions, and one faction is naturally a group of ministers headed by Gao Gong. Among these people, there are actually not many who follow Gao Gong from the beginning to the end. Well, there are a lot of sycophants who are sycophant because of Gao Gong's rise to power again. Now it seems that Gao Gong's party is very powerful, but in fact their foundation is the most unstable, and there are too many uncertain factors. It's easy to go down.

The second faction is naturally those who stand on the same front as Zhang Juzheng. In fact, these people cannot be called a party. At most, most of these people have many similar opinions. Gathered together.

Comparing the above two parties, there are really some different meanings.

And the remaining people are the third faction, which is also the largest faction. Speaking of the position of this faction, they are all neutral, not to say that they are really neutral. It's just because the state of the court is still unclear, and many things can't be seen very thoroughly, so this group of people are like this.

But now, Ge Shouli's actions made Zhang Fan see something different. This Ge Shouli looks fat, big-eared, and very rich, making people feel that this person must be a corrupt official. Zhang Fan, who was the commander of the Jinyiwei Capital, understood very well that although Ge Shouli lived a very wealthy life, it was only because his family was relatively wealthy, and had nothing to do with him. Ge Shouli could be loved by Long Qing There is also a reason why the wealthy emperor was appointed Minister of the Household Department. Although he has formed a party and engaged in private affairs since he became an official, who can stand in the hall of the court today? No, but apart from these things, Ge Shouli really never corrupted a penny. Even if he gave bribes, he was giving his own money. At least the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei had never found out that Ge Shouli was corrupt.

But now, the reason why Zhang Fan is so surprised by Ge Shouli's support is mainly because the faction that Ge Shouli belongs to is the neutral faction with the largest number of people, and Ge Shouli is quite well-known among them, and he is now helping Zhang Fan so much. , does it mean...

However, based on these superficial things, Zhang Fan still can't see any clues. However, if this is really the case, it means that at least half of the neutral faction is ready to fall in front of Zhang Fan. On Fan's side, this is an incredible number of people, and if all of them... If Zhang Fan has the support of these people, in this court, it means that he has half of the courtiers who will help him. He speaks, which gives him almost nothing to pass,