Chapter 756 855 Difficult Choice

"Good loan, good loan is in the house."

The next day, Wei Guangde was on duty handling government affairs when he heard Yin Shizhen's voice outside the door.

"Brother Zhengfu, I'm here."

Wei Guangde didn't wait for anyone outside to answer and shouted directly from the room.

When Yin Shizhen walked in, Wei Guangde also came over to greet him and asked curiously: "What's going on? You're so anxious."

"Look at this."

Yin Shizhen waved to Lu Bu who was following behind him, asking him to leave, and handed a memorial in his hand to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde took the memorial and asked with a smile: "What happened again?" ’

"You'll know after you see it."

Yin Shizhen just said, and after finishing speaking, he went straight to find a chair and sit down.

Wei Guangde followed him and sat next to him. Then he looked at the memorial in his hand, but his brows soon stood up.

After he finished reading the memorial, he looked up at Yin Shizhen and shook the memorial in his hand, "Has this been assigned to you?"

"Um."

Yin Shizhen nodded and said.

"It seems that Mr. Xu Ge took action, but we were careless and thought that Hai Rui would file a petition to arrest him."

Wei Guangde thought about it before saying.

When they made the plan in the first place, it was because they could control the distribution of memorials.

That is to say, the person in the Zhongshushe who was responsible for distributing memorials in the cabinet was arranged by Chen Yiqin, so he told the subordinates at that time that all memorials sent by Nanjing Hai Rui would be distributed to the high-arched room.

Well, I didn't expect that Hai Rui was such a reckless man that he directly fought with Xu Jie, or relied on his power to force himself on him.

If you want to take action against a cabinet minister, you should first ask for an order. This is a common practice.

Hai Rui's move only made Wei Guangde and others think that Hai Rui was brainless, but they did not expect that Xu Jie would directly contact the Beijing officials to impeach him.

"The peacemaker in Nanjing probably couldn't do it, so Xu Jie directly launched the Ke Dao to impeach Hai Rui."

Yin Shizhen expressed his analysis.

This is also an obvious thing, but the situation of Yingtian Mansion has actually been spread among the officials in the capital, and it cannot be ruled out that it is Ke Dao's own opinion.

"It seems that the relationship between Shu Hua and Mr. Xu Ge is solidified, otherwise no one else would impeach Hai Rui because of this, and it would be him.

Also, the last discussion about the factory guards' sit-down investigation seemed to be because the spies found out about someone's tampering there, so they petitioned Your Majesty to withdraw the factory guards. "

Yin Shizhen said calmly.

"He was born and raised in Zhejiang, and he may have considered himself to be from there."

Wei Guangde just smiled and shook his head.

There were no bachelors from Zhejiang in the court. For the sake of his own career, it was nothing to take refuge in Xu Huating in Songjiang Prefecture next door.

But after Wei Guangde entered the cabinet, almost all officials from Jiangxi turned to his side, but Shuhua did not. Apart from refusing to admit his identity as a Jiangxi native, what else could he say?

"It's hard to say whether it was Mr. Xu Ge who instigated it. Maybe Zhang Juzheng knew that things in the south were not easy to calm down, so he contacted Ke Dao to take action. It's also unknown."

Wei Guangde continued.

"Here, how do you think I should vote?"

Yin Shizhen asked.

This memorial was written by the Criminal Division to Shu Hua in Shizhong. It talked about the news that had been widely circulated in the government and the public recently. It commented that Hai Rui was pedantic and slow and did not understand the essentials of governance. Such a person was not suitable to stay as governor of Yingtian. , but should be transferred to a leisurely position in Nanjing to accommodate him.

"It's just a petition, just to let His Majesty know about it and make His Majesty think that Hai Rui is not suitable for his current position. I won't comment."

Wei Guangde smiled and shook his head and said, "Send it directly to the emperor, but you have to talk to Brother Yifu about this matter and let him arrange the matter. From now on, all such memorials involving Hai Rui will be assigned to Gao Xinzheng and let him handle it." ”

"That's right. We said something bad about Hai Rui. After all, it was us who pushed him. He said something good about Hai Rui. But when the outside world found out, they thought we were trying to get into trouble with Mr. Xu Ge."

Yin Shizhen nodded, took the memorial from Wei Guangde and stood up and walked out. As he walked, he said: "Then I will go to Yifu to inform him. I think someone will continue to report this matter in the future. We must avoid it first." Just open this hole.”

"The bigger the fuss about this matter, the better."

Wei Guangde smiled behind Yin Shizhen.

"Dong dong dong"

There was a knocking sound in the carriage carriage, the driver immediately tightened the reins, and the carriage slowly stopped.

"Master, what are your orders?"

The attendant next to the coachman turned to the carriage and asked.

"Where have you been?"

An old male voice came from the carriage, and then the curtain was opened, revealing a face of forty or fifty years old.

"Where is this?"

The captain asked the coachman beside him.

"A few dozen miles ahead is Guide Mansion. We should be on the edge of Henan now. We can enter South Zhili in a few days."

The coachman looked around before he began to answer.

"Gui De, cough cough."

The man in the car groaned, then coughed violently.

"Master, why don't we return to Germany and rest for two days? I'll go find the doctor to check on the master, nurse him back to health, and then return to Pengze."

Chang Sui suggested to the people in the car behind him.

The person in the carriage was none other than Ouyang Yijing, a former military officer who had resigned and returned to his hometown. Because of the flooding of the Yellow River, his return journey had to be changed from water to land. In order to avoid the flood, he had to move forward. The route is also to the west, just to get out of the yellow flood zone.

It was hard to ride in a car all the way. The ancient carriages did not have any shock absorbers, so it was very bumpy. Ouyang Yijing suffered a lot on the way.

But what made him most uncomfortable was that he was about to complete the nine-year exam, but because of Gao Gong's resurrection, he had to resign and return home, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Well, there was some fear, after all, Gao Gong was the teacher of Emperor Longqing and was deeply trusted by Emperor Longqing.

Although Gao Gong seemed very different from the past when he left the capital, and was very approachable, in Ouyang Yijing's view, this was Gao Gong's darkening.

As the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes. After being targeted by the whole court last time, Gao Gong evolved. On the surface, he no longer acted as aggressive as before.

However, as the saying goes, it is easy to change a country but difficult to change one's nature. Ouyang Yijing did not believe that Gao Gong would really change. He was actually releasing smoke bombs to confuse others.

I just hope Wei Guangde can withstand Gao Gong's pressure, and speak for him and relieve the pressure when Gao Gong intends to harm him.

Now that he has resigned, Ouyang Yijing himself is actually uncertain, wondering if he can withstand the revenge from Gao Gong.

Fear is his current mood.

It is also because of this that he was tired from the journey. Not long after leaving Beijing, he fell ill, dizzy, and coughed violently from time to time.

"I am dizzy, go a little slower, cough cough. When you get to Guide Prefecture, help me find a doctor to see cough cough"

In the carriage, Ouyang Yijing pulled open the curtain to take a breath, and then gave an order, but after saying these few words, he coughed again.

The carriage restarted and moved forward slowly, but the speed was much slower than before.

The speed of driving does not matter to the driver. Anyway, the toll is calculated according to the time. If it is late, it will be late, and you can earn more money.

These officials are all very rich, and they will not make money if they don't make money.

Another person who shared the same fate as Ouyang Yijing was Hu Yingjia from Shuyang County, Huai'an Prefecture, Nanzhili. The disaster in the first year of Longqing was caused by him.

Hu Yingjia impeached Yang Bo for personal grudge, demoted censors, and shielded his fellow townsman because no one in Shanxi was rated as low in the evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel in the first year of Longqing.

Hu Weixin also submitted a memorial to expose Yang Bo's unfair evaluation of officials, manipulation, and corruption.

Grand Secretary Gao Gong and others took private revenge for the impeachment of him last year, accusing Yingjia and Weixin of "partnering with officials to make false reports and drafting an imperial decree to dismiss them as civilians", which caused an uproar in public opinion. The attendants Ouyang Yijing, Xin Zixiu, and the censor Chen Lianfang were dissatisfied and jointly submitted memorials to rescue them, accusing Gao Gong of being disloyal and blocking the way for speech.

This incident directly pushed Gao Gong to the forefront.

The impeachment was originally aimed at Yang Bo's fraud, but the target fell on Gao Gong inexplicably. In the end, because of the fight between Gao Gong and Xu Jie, Gao Gong finally stepped down.

It can be said that the political arena in the first year of Longqing had an unusual situation since the accession of Emperor Longqing, which directly caused the cabinet ministers who were trusted by the emperor to resign, while they should have been celebrating and celebrating the successful accession of the prince they supported.

In a bedroom in the old house of the Hu family in Shuyang County, Hu Yingjia had fallen ill in bed. He had taken several medicines prescribed by a local famous doctor, but it was useless. At this time, he was lying on the bed, breathing out more than breathing in, and looked like he was dying.

The servant in the room followed the doctor's instructions and stayed by the bed day and night without distraction, and reported Mr. Hu's condition to the doctor at any time so that he could adjust the medicine according to his condition at any time.

His family thought that Hu Yingjia had caught a cold a few days ago, but he knew the real cause of the disease in his heart while lying on the sickbed in a daze.

It was still a heart disease, because the heart disease caused by fear could not be cured by medicine.

Although he seemed to be unconscious, Hu Yingjia clearly remembered what happened that year, from the banquet to the subsequent conspiracy, the impeachment of Yang Bo to the memorial falling into Gao Gong's hands.

Why was it so strange? It was arranged by someone.

The big figures in the court could not see Gao Gong staying in the court, or most officials could not tolerate his existence. He had too much influence on the emperor and was too upright in doing things.

Especially after he entered the cabinet, he wanted to rectify the administration of officials, which made most people afraid.

If he did it according to his ideas, I am afraid that the court of the Ming Dynasty would have to be replaced, and many people would be implicated, so what happened later happened.

Someone wanted to move the Minister of Personnel. Gao Gong wanted to win over Yang Bo, hoping that he would support him in rectifying the administration of officials. However, he didn't know that everything was calculated, and he just used this opportunity to divert the target of attack and directly attack him.

For the future, there were more powerful officials in the court to take over, and he only needed to cause a war.

Afterwards, Gao Gong was defeated as he wished and was forced to leave the capital. With the protection of that big man, he naturally would not have any problems.

Soon after he was transferred from the capital to Jianning Tuiguan, he was transferred to the position of Left Counselor of Huguang Provincial Administration. It can be said that he was also a prosperous official. It was not a delusion to become a governor after working for a few more years.

However, after receiving the news of Gao Gong's return, Hu Yingjia resigned from his post and returned to his hometown to recuperate on the grounds of illness.

After recuperating for so many days, his condition not only did not improve, but worsened, all because of the news of Gao Gong's return to the court.

Didn't you see that Yang Bo and others took the initiative to resign?

It can be seen how much pressure Gao Gong's return put on those people back then.

Today is different from the past. Back then, they could still give it a try with Xu Ge Lao in front of them, but now Xu Ge Lao has retired. Who else in the cabinet can withstand Gao Gong's full firepower?

"Uh uh."

After a sigh, the servant standing beside him woke up and hurriedly leaned over to the bedside and asked with concern: "Master, what did you say?"

"Uh water."

Hu Yingjia said a few words with difficulty.

"Master, wait a moment, I will bring you water right away."

After the servant finished speaking, he quickly walked to the table, poured a cup of warm water and brought it over.

"Are you sure that the person is in Zizhi Garden?"

At the Yingtian government office in Suzhou, Hai Rui frowned and said nothing after hearing the report from his subordinates.

Of course, he had heard of Zizhi Garden. The famous garden was built by the local noble Xu family. However, he did not expect that the Xu family in Huating and the Xu family in Suzhou were actually involved. When the government issued a warrant for arrest, they dared to lend them a house to live in.

Hai Rui was not a mediocre person. Of course, he knew what this meant.

Although he was now the governor of Yingtian, he could not make enemies everywhere, especially when the opponent he was going to face was very strong.

If he ordered his men to force their way into Zizhi Garden, it would actually mean that he would openly break off relations with all the wealthy families in Yingtian Prefecture except the Xu family of Huating.

Originally, he was only targeting the Xu Jie family, but it would soon turn into an enemy of the local clans.

At that time, no matter where the matter was, he would be in trouble. The court would not keep him as a troublemaker, and the best outcome would be to be transferred away from here.

After all, the court needed the help of local gentry and wealthy families to maintain local public security. The imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the grassroots were controlled by these gentry and wealthy families.

Hai Rui was now facing a difficult choice. Should he offend all the local clans? Is it worth it?

This was Nanzhili. Many of these wealthy families in the ten prefectures of Yingtian had relatives and children serving as officials in the court. If he was not careful, he would offend countless colleagues.

This was not as simple as rejecting a few officials who came to lobby. That was just offending a few people, but the situation might be different now.

Hai Rui was now somewhat conflicted. Although he was not interested in these gentry families, he had to make plans for the peace of his people.

"Did you see Xu Fan and Xu Kun in Zizhi Garden with your own eyes?"

Hai Rui turned his gaze back to the head of the police and asked seriously.

"My Lord, I did not see it with my own eyes, but my men saw two noblemen in the garden. From a distance, they looked like the wanted Xu Fan and Xu Kun."

The head of the police replied seriously.

"You have seen these two people. Now I want you to find a way to sneak into the garden and confirm their identities at close range to see if they are Xu Fan and Xu Kun. Do you understand what I mean?"

Hai Rui still ordered in a serious tone.

"I understand what you mean, sir. I will find a way to confirm their identities."

Although he trusted his men very much, the head of the police also knew that the matter was of great importance and he had to ensure that everything was foolproof.

"Strengthen the surveillance of Zizhi Garden and find out their identities as soon as possible."

Hai Rui ordered.