Mingshi

Chapter 622 The city head changes the king's flag

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He knew in his heart that none of the applicants belonged to him. There was no doubt that these applicants were from Gao Gong, and Gao Gong was using his own people to impeach him.

but……

This matter is not clear!
Xu Jie and Emperor Jiajing said that these memorials were impeachment of Gao Gong by Gao Gong...

Will Emperor Jiajing believe it?

Put it on yourself, will you believe it?
"Cruel! How ruthless! Wonderful! How wonderful! I underestimated Gao Gong before, really a dog that bites does not bark, and a dog that does not bark bites, that is three points to the bone!
But what should I do? "

Based on his understanding of Emperor Jiajing, he was unable to explain and justify at this time, which would only make Emperor Jiajing even more angry.Yan Song's reaction at this time flashed in his mind, and then he knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

"Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty! Please punish him!"

"Hehe..." Emperor Jiajing laughed twice, showing two rows of white teeth, and said in a cold tone:
"What's your fault?"

"Old minister...Old minister..."

At this time, Xu Jie began to regret why he had to teach what to learn?If he hadn't gone to Xiangshan to give lectures by himself, how could these excerpts have the opportunity to be presented in front of Emperor Jiajing?Didn't Gao Gong send these excerpts to Emperor Jiajing while he was going to Xiangshan to give lectures?
"What? I don't know?" Emperor Jiajing's voice became even colder.

Xu Jie's body just trembled, knowing that it was Emperor Jiajing who was angry because of his groaning, so he bowed down immediately.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty! The old minister is guilty!"

Emperor Jiajing saw that Xu Jie just kept saying "the old minister is guilty", but he never said what he was guilty of, and his face became even more ugly.It's not to blame Xu Jie, he is really dumb and eats coptis, it's hard to say!
"Okay!" Emperor Jiajing snorted coldly: "You step back!"

"Old minister...Old minister..."

"Get out!"

"Yes, the old minister retire!"

dusk!

Luo Xin frowned and sat in the study. He had gone through various channels during the day and could not get the reason why Chen Hong suddenly appeared in Xiangshan and announced Xu Jie's entry into the palace.But when he learned that Xu Jie had left the palace, his face was very pale.

"Something must have happened! Gao Gong must have made the move, but how did Gao Gong make the move?"

Luo Xin felt a little impatient, he realized that this was an opportunity for him, and losing this opportunity would be a huge mistake for him.

"The news is not equal! Find a way to leave a dark thread in the palace!"

"Master Hou!"

Suddenly Lu Daqing's voice was heard outside the study door.

"Come in!"

The door was pushed open, and Lu Daqing came in, holding a letter in his hand: "Master Hou, your letter."

"Letter? Whose?"

"I don't know!" Lu Daqing shook his head and said, "A child was delivered to the porter and then ran away."

Luo Xin frowned slightly, reached out to take the letter, picked up the scissors and cut the seal, pulled out a piece of paper from inside, stared at it, his heart skipped a beat, there were only a few words on the paper:
"Today, the officials impeached Gao Gong's corpse, proposed to remove Gao Gong from the cabinet, and nominated Zhang Juzheng to the cabinet. Holy wrath!"

Luo Xin closed his eyes, and with only three breaths, he opened them suddenly and said, "Send someone to invite Zhou Yu and the others to come here immediately, and send people to go at the same time, the sooner the better."

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

Lu Daqing left in a hurry, Luo Xin stood up, put the piece of paper on the table, looked at the words on the paper, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Jinyang Jiujie gathered in Luo Xin's study. At this time, everyone had finished circulating the letter. Luo Xin looked at everyone and said:
"What do you guys think?"

"If this matter is true, then Xu Jie must not be responsible for the impeachment of Gao Gong." Zhou Yu said firmly.

"That's right!" Zhang Xun nodded and said, "Now that Xu Jie has completely controlled the court, there is absolutely no need for him to kill them all like that. Doing so will only alert His Majesty."

"Then who do you think will impeach Gao Gong?" Luo Xin asked softly.

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, Liu Xiuwen said: "Gao Gong yourself!"

Luo Xin nodded happily and said: "What we need to determine now is whether this matter is true or not."

"No, are you sure?" Luo Zhi looked at Luo Xin longingly.

Luo Xin shook his head and said: "There is no channel to confirm, now we can only rely on our judgment. Of course, it would be best if you have channels to confirm."

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.Tao Xingyan sighed and said: "Our level is still too low, the news is not equal!"

"Yes!" Everyone nodded.

Ye Zhiqiu said with some distress: "I really underestimated Gao Gong before, neither he nor Xu Jie are simple people!"

Huang Sheng smiled wryly and said, "Can simple people join the cabinet?"

Haizheng frowned and said, "What I'm worried about is that even if we win in the end, Gao Gong will get the biggest victory. At that time, Gao Gong didn't have Xu Jie's restraint. With his decisiveness and ruthlessness, who is it?" His opponent?"

"That's right!" Zhou Yu also sighed, "Let's not chase wolves out of the front door, but let's let tigers in through the back door!"

"Now we don't care about the long-term!" Luo Xin said in a deep voice, "What we need now is to suppress Xu Jie's arrogance first."

"Are we going to do it?" Everyone's eyes lit up.

"Before we do anything, we need to judge whether what is said in this letter is true?"

Zhang Xun frowned slightly and said, "You just said that this letter was delivered by a child to the concierge and then ran away. How can we determine the authenticity of this letter?"

"Let's analyze it bit by bit!" Liu Xiuwen said while thinking: "First of all, Xu Jie's lecture in Xiangshan, even we went, there must be few Beijing officials who didn't go."

"Good!" Everyone nodded.

Liu Xiuwen went on to say: "This gave Gao Gong a chance. If Xu Jie was in the cabinet, those impeachment papers would not be sent to His Majesty at all. Xu Jie would not be so stupid. And when Xu Jie was giving lectures in Xiangshan, he was not here. During the cabinet, these excerpts were placed in front of Emperor Jiajing. Gao Gong didn’t go to Xiangshan today, did he?”

"Of course he won't go!" Everyone laughed.

"And when Xu Jie was giving lectures in Xiangshan, Chen Hong suddenly appeared and announced Xu Jie to enter the palace. From this point of view, at least something must have happened in the palace, and it would be ugly when Xu Jie left the palace. From the look on his face, he deduced that what happened must be related to Xu Jie, and it was something very bad for Xu Jie. Therefore, my inference is that what is said in this letter is the truth."

Everyone nodded, and Haizheng asked, "Then, who gave this letter to Buqi?"

Everyone looked at Luo Xin, and a smile appeared on the corner of Luo Xin's mouth:
"If this matter is true, then the real person who sent me this letter is Gao Gong."

"Why him?"

"Because he wants to pull me into the water, if possible, he even wants to use this matter to take us all under his command."

A smile appeared on Luo Xin's face.

"So shall we act immediately, or wait for further confirmation of the news?"

Luo Xin shook his head slightly and said: "Opportunities are fleeting, and everyone knows His Majesty's temperament. When we confirm the authenticity of the matter, His Majesty may not want to pay attention to it at that time. We must strike while the iron is hot, while His Majesty is still here. Take action when you are angry, otherwise you will miss the opportunity."

"Then shall we do it immediately?"

"Go!"

Day two.

Dozens of papers were sent to the cabinet. The officials who submitted the papers were not big, and none of them were of the fifth rank or first rank. They were all small officials of the sixth and seventh ranks.

Zou Yinglong.

Impeach him for cronyism, and those officials who promoted were corrupt and broke the law. Along with the papers, there is evidence of the crime of corruption and breaking the law that Zou Yinglong promoted those officials.

When these excerpts were placed in front of Xu Jie, Xu Jie knew that his strongest arm, Zou Yinglong, was finished.

If this had been put before, Xu Jie would have suppressed these papers without hesitation, and would have told Zou Yinglong to take revenge on these junior officials of the sixth and seventh ranks. During the time when Xu Jie was in power, other voices were absolutely not allowed.

but……

At this juncture, he really didn't dare to suppress these folds.He believed that Gao Gong must know the contents of these excerpts, and even if he suppressed these excerpts, Gao Gong would find a chance to report them to Emperor Jiajing, which would make Emperor Jiajing even more furious.At that time, it will not only be Zou Yinglong's problem, but also whether Xu Jie can stay in the cabinet.

He deeply knew that the present Ming Dynasty, even if it was Emperor Jiajing's words, lost the favor of Emperor Jiajing, and it was like a rootless weed.

Therefore, Xu Jie had no choice but to send those memorials honestly to Emperor Jiajing.After Emperor Jiajing saw it, a rare smile appeared on his face, and he said lightly:
"You did a good job, I will let Lu Bing investigate this matter thoroughly!"

Xu Jie left in cold sweat. He knew that the pain of his broken arm had brought Emperor Jiajing's anger towards him down. From Emperor Jiajing's point of view, he was being sensible. Maybe Emperor Jiajing thought this in his heart. It was he who sent people to impeach Zou Yinglong to reduce his own power to please Emperor Jiajing.

"Ugh!"

Xu Jie sighed, and suddenly felt very tired, even more tired than when Yan Song was in the cabinet.Just thinking of the glory of being in power these days, I straightened my waist again.He clenched his fist and thought to himself:
"Your Majesty, what is the age? Hehe..."

As soon as Xu Jie entered his office room, he saw a figure rushing towards him.

"Ge Lao, I am wronged!"

At the beginning, Xu Jie was pushed down one step, but after a closer look, it was Zou Yinglong, so he pulled Zou Yinglong to the chair, pushed him on the chair and sat down, and poured a cup of tea for Zou Yinglong himself, seeing Zou Yinglong frightened He stood up and motioned for him to sit down, and then Xu Jie also sat down and said:

"Ying Long, I've wronged you this time. But don't worry, you've only been idle at home for a few years, and the old man will soon let you return to the court. At that time, your position will only be higher than now, not higher than now. Low."

A hint of disappointment appeared in Zou Yinglong's eyes, knowing that Xu Jie was going to abandon him.But he had no way out, as long as Xu Jie didn't protect him, he would not be able to escape this catastrophe at all, but hearing Xu Jie's assurance to him, a glimmer of hope rose in his heart.Knowing that he now has only the big tree Xu Jie to rely on, he immediately stood up and saluted Xu Jie:

"Ying Long listens to Ge Lao, and Ying Long will do whatever Ge Lao tells Ying Long to do."

Xu Jie nodded in satisfaction and said, "Don't worry, I just let you go home and relax for a while, just to take a rest."

Soon, Zou Yinglong was dismissed from office.Zou Yinglong seemed to have known his end a long time ago, so he packed his luggage long ago, and on the day he was dismissed from office, he left the capital with his family and returned to his hometown.

The back garden of Luo Mansion.

Jinyang Jiujie sat in front of the flowers, Luo Zhi drank a glass of wine, smashed it, said:
"A few days ago, there was a lot of traffic in front of Zou Yinglong's mansion. Today, when I leave Beijing, there is no one to see me off. It's really a cold world!"

"How do you know that there is no one to see you off?" Zhou Yu asked curiously.

"Hey..." Luo Zhiqian laughed twice and said, "I secretly followed to see it!"

Everyone looked at each other and laughed, and then said in unison: "It's really boring!"

"Why is this boring?" Luo Zhi became impatient, put down the glass in his hand and said, "Don't tell me, I followed this time, and I really found a problem."

"What's the problem?" Everyone looked solemn.

Luo Zhi said with a strange expression: "I see that Zou Yinglong's face is not depressed at all, but his expression is very calm. How could he be like this? When his reputation was in full swing, he was suddenly dismissed from office, and no one came to see him off. peace?"

Everyone fell silent, and after a while, Luo Xin sighed softly and said, "That's because he knows that he will definitely come back."

"Come back again?" Luo Zhi was startled: "Your Majesty will use him again?"

Luo Xin nodded and said softly, "It's not His Majesty!"

Luo Zhi was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized.Now all the officials in the Ming Dynasty knew that Emperor Jiajing's health was no longer good, he had fainted several times, and when Emperor Jiajing died, if Xu Jie was still the chief assistant of the cabinet at that time, it would not be difficult to use Zou Yinglong again.

"Then... aren't we busy for nothing?" Luo Zhi asked unwillingly.

"That depends on what Gao Gong does!" Luo Xin said with a smile: "We don't need to worry about the future, we only need time to grow."

"That's right!" Tao Xingyan said: "If Xu Jie falls down like this, letting Gao Gong take full power, it may not be a good thing for us."

"Alas!" Luo Xin sighed, "We don't want to form a party, we just want to treat things and not people. But today's Ming Dynasty Hall has become one that treats people and doesn't matter."

"Oh!" Everyone sighed in unison.

A few days had passed, and Luo Xin and the others had truly seen what was right and wrong about Daming Chaotang.Taking advantage of Emperor Jiajing's anger towards Xu Jie, Gao Gong played repeatedly. He first promoted Li Chunfang as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and then successively dismissed or demoted some officials of the Xu Party, and promoted a group of Gao Gong members officials.

It's really changing the king's flag at the head of the city!
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