Chapter 786 885 Laxungui

The news of Hai Rui's resignation has undoubtedly become the most sensational news in the court today. Countless people are investigating and discussing this matter.

"Why did Hai Rui resign?"

Wei Guangde was also curious, so he naturally had to ask Lu Bu clearly. It was Lu Bu's job to help him find out these things.

"The Ministry of Personnel abolished the position of Governor of Nanjing Grain Storage and merged it into the management of Nanjing Ministry of Revenue, but only asked the Censorate to send out censors to inspect regularly.

At that time, the Ministry of Personnel transferred Hai Rui to Nanjing Ministry of Revenue, but Hai Rui did not seem to have any intention of going to the Ministry of Revenue, but directly submitted a petition to retire."

Hai Rui's reputation was too great. When Lu Bu heard the news, he knew that this matter would cause an uproar in the court, and his master would definitely inquire about the details.

Sure enough, the master asked about it.

"The Ministry of Personnel asked Hai Rui to go to Nanjing Ministry of Revenue, and Hai Rui resigned because he was unwilling."

Wei Guangde knew the reason. It had only been a short time since Hai Rui was transferred from Yingtian Governor to Nanjing Grain Storage, and this official position was abolished. Whoever fell on it did not consider whether he was bullied by people in the capital.

Wei Guangde sat in his seat and thought for a while. From Hai Rui's resignation from the post of Yingtian Governor to the elimination of redundant staff in the Ministry of Personnel, it seemed that Gao Gong was the most critical person. He couldn't help but touch his chin with his stubble.

There should be no conflict between Hai Rui and Gao Gong, but Gao Gong's actions seemed to be targeting Hai Rui.

"Pay attention to the news these two days to see what the outside world says about this matter, and also copy a copy of Hai Rui's memorial."

Some things, of course, he knows the inside story as he is in the cabinet, but people outside may not know.

"Yes, sir."

Lu Bu agreed and went downstairs to make tea for Wei Guangde.

Not long after, Lu Bu came back with tea and sent the copied memorial of Hai Rui.

This is the memorial called Hai Rui's "Recruitment for Sickness" by later generations. Of course, for Wei Guangde, who has little knowledge of historical knowledge, this is of course completely unheard of.

The beginning of the memorial was OK. According to the standard format of the memorial for retirement, it requested "to beg for grace to return to the fields", but then the memorial pointed directly at the officials Dai Fengxiang and others, who had impeached him for "incompetence".

The memorial for retirement was directly written as an impeachment memorial, or a self-defense memorial.

However, these had nothing to do with Wei Guangde. He did not offend Hai Qingtian, so Wei Guangde thought that he should have nothing to do with this memorial, but when he saw the end, he was a little angry.

"Now all the people in the court are women. Your Majesty, please don't listen to them. It's a blessing for the clan and the country, and it's a blessing for me."

Not only did he write it like this, but he also emphasized, "The poem says: Don't listen to women's words."

"Hai Rui has cut off his own way back to the court. He is a lone minister, haha"

After reading the last few sentences again and again, Wei Guangde couldn't help but laugh in anger.

Hai Rui was originally an outlier in the court, or a lone minister.

Being a lone minister, if he is valued by the emperor, he can rise to prominence, because the emperor needs such people.

But Hai Rui's situation is exactly the opposite. Whether it is Emperor Jiajing or Emperor Longqing, they all look down on him. Even after seeing the "Public Security Memorial", Emperor Jiajing angrily denounced him for "having no father or king, abandoning the country and family".

Such a person still wants to be reused.

This memorial will definitely be rejected when it reaches the emperor, but if Hai Rui is ignorant and keeps submitting memorials, he will definitely go there without return.

This Hai Rui is really bold, and he hits a whole boat of people in the water with one stick.

Such a memorial will not matter to the clear stream. They will think that the people mentioned in the memorial refer to the turbid stream, that is, the people in power in the court.

"Humph."

Wei Guangde had no interest in reading it any more, and directly crumpled the copied memorial into a ball and threw it aside, ignoring it.

The incident of Hai Rui's retirement spread from the officialdom to the people that day.

Under the unremitting praise of the clean officials, Hai Qingtian's name was widely spread among the people.

The people did not know the truth, so they naturally thought that such an honest official must have been suppressed by treacherous officials in the court and chose to retire out of helplessness.

Why Hai Rui did not go to the Ministry of Revenue, but directly requested to retire, of course, the officials in Beijing did not know, but there were countless speculations.

As Wei Guangde thought, Hai Rui was dismissed shortly after he moved to Nanjing Grain Storage. Although the Ministry of Personnel did not wait for him to be re-arranged like other officials to be dismissed, but decided on a place for him from the beginning, it was precisely because of this special treatment that people imagined it.

So, various conspiracy theories appeared in teahouses, wine shops, and places of entertainment in the capital.

At the beginning, the focus of the officials' discussion was naturally whether Hai Rui's continuous relocation in such a short period of time was the work of Xu Jie, the former Prime Minister.

After all, everyone knew that at the beginning of the year, Hai Rui had a stiff relationship with Xu Jie because of the surrender, and Xu Jie had a motive to deal with him.

At this time, no one paid attention to the last few words in Hai Rui's memorial.

Will the emperor listen to him?

He is destined not to return to the capital, and his influence on the government is extremely limited, so why bother with him?

He should have just submitted this memorial to vent his dissatisfaction. When he enters the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue, he will probably just sit on the bench and it will be difficult for him to get along well with his colleagues.

However, when someone discovered that the matter of cutting redundant staff was presided over by Gao Gong, the current cabinet's second assistant, Xu Jie's method should not have been acquiesced by Gao Gong, so some people began to suspect that this matter was not done by Xu Jie, but by Gao Gong.

But what everyone is scratching their heads and confused about is that Hai Rui doesn't seem to have offended Gao Gong.

If we say that in the first year of Longqing, Hai Rui issued a letter to support Xu Jie, thus offending Gao Gong, but there were many people who did so at that time, and Gao Gong would not be angry with Hai Rui because of this.

What's more, at that time, Hai Rui had also investigated Xu Jie, and the dignified Mr. Xu Ge was disgraced. He had to ask the capital for help, and asked the Ministry of Science and Technology to help impeach Hai Rui, in order to get him away first and then hurry up.

What Lu Bu could find out was the news circulating in the yamen and in the market. There were all kinds of rumors, and Wei Guangdequan was just having fun listening to them.

Wei Guangde also heard the news from the Ministry of Personnel. Originally, all the officials who had been dismissed were re-appointed to official positions after being evaluated by the Ministry of Personnel. It was Zhang Siwei, the assistant minister, who was worried that Hai Rui's reputation would be too great and he would be idle. He was criticized, so he talked to Gao Gong alone and transferred the person directly to the household department.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a deliberate attempt to embarrass Hai Rui and deliberately make things difficult for Hai Rui in the eyes of the people. Who can reason with this?

But up to now, the person who feels most embarrassed is not Hai Rui, but Gao Gong, the deputy minister of the cabinet. After all, he is in the capital now.

Hai Rui's memorial to become an official was naturally not considered acceptable in the Palace of Qianqing, and Emperor Longqing did not allow it.

This is also a common practice. When an official becomes an official, the court, whether intentional or not, must retain him to show his dignity.

Only when an official who made a mistake was forced to take up an official position, in order to quickly solve the bad situation, the emperor would approve it at the first request.

Hai Rui's situation is of course not an exception, and the current situation is special, and Gao Gong is involved.

If he agreed straight away, I'm afraid Gao Gong and even the emperor's reputation would be ruined among the people.

After the emperor's approval came and everyone thought the matter was settled, an urgent report from Nanjing was also sent to the capital.

Hai Rui, a third-rank official in the imperial court, after submitting his resignation letter, without waiting for the capital's approval, he went directly to Qiongzhou and returned to Qiongzhou.

In fact, the official positions abolished by the Ministry of Civil Affairs this time are not the post of Governor of Nanjing Grain Reserve, but the redundant officials in Nanjing are to be abolished. There is one person in charge of the seal verification department of the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing, and one member of the Yunnan and Jiangxi Divisions of the Ministry of Revenue. members, one person in charge of the Ceremony Department of the Ministry of Etiquette, one person in charge of the Sichuan Department of the Ministry of Punishment, one member of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Camp and Maintenance Department of the Ministry of Works, one member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Minister of General Affairs, the Right Counselor of the General Affairs Department, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and the Doctor of the Imperial College , Xuezheng, Taipusi Sicheng and so on.

It can be said that, let alone other places, dozens of people have been dismissed from official positions in Nanjing. These people are now running to the civil service department, hoping to find a good job.

Hai Rui had a plan, so he just left if he didn't want it.

"Everyone is talking about Hai Rui, but no one talks about Datong?"

Wei Guangde sat in the duty room and asked Lu Bu in front of him.

Of all the different religions, a local snake like Lu Bu would be better off finding someone to pry for information.

"Sir, most people outside are talking about Hai Rui. Especially last night, the news came that Hai Rui ran back to Qiongzhou. Many people were surprised, and no one talked about Datong."

Lu Bu replied.

"Oh, surprised?"

Wei Guangde nodded slightly. He was also surprised when he heard the news. He thought Hai Rui was just losing his temper, but he didn't expect it to be serious.

It can be seen from this that most people should have the same thoughts as him.

"There were not many people talking about Datong last night, but there were still quite a lot of people talking about it in the past two days. Most of them talked about Hai Rui for a while and Datong for a while, and the word spread among the people."

Lu Bu continued.

"Folks? Haha"

Wei Guangde knew what the people were concerned about. It was definitely not how the court handled the Datong incident, but Anda Khan's affair.

"Go down and keep asking people to pay attention. If you have any news, tell me in time."

Wei Guangde waved his hand, indicating that Lu Bu could go out.

After the others left, Wei Guangde's expression darkened.

Previously, cabinet ministers were worried that courtiers would pay attention to Datong and would wantonly collude and impeach because of the cabinet's dissatisfaction with Datong's reply.

After the Hai Rui incident happened, it gave the cabinet ministers a chance to divert their attention. Although Gao Gong was very dissatisfied, everyone tacitly agreed to let the discussion continue.

Yes, none of the cabinet ministers believed that Gao Gong was deliberately targeting Hai Rui. They thought it was just an accidental incident.

Also, Hai Rui's matter is his personal problem, while Datong is a national matter, so the priority should be separated.

Wei Guangde also thought that it would be best if Hai Rui could write two more resignation letters to continue everyone's discussion, so that no one would pay attention to Datong.

Unexpectedly, Hai Rui just hung up and left. Even if this matter continued to be the focus of attention of the officials, it would not be able to maintain its popularity for long, and it was feared that attention would soon shift to Datong.

But okay, it finally delayed some time.

While Wei Guangde was still thinking about it in the room, someone from the chief assistant came over and invited him to discuss matters.

Wei Guangde knew what to say. It was nothing more than two things. One was that Hai Rui ran away and whether the court should pursue it. The other was the matter of Datong. I was afraid that it would soon become the focus of the officials' attention. They also had to remind each other. Next, make preparations early.

Wei Guangde got up and left the duty room, and walked towards Li Chunfang, calculating the time as he walked. Their documents should have been sent to Datong by this time. Even though there was no edict this time, it was not a formal order from the court, and Wang Chonggu did not know Do you dare to accept the move?

When Li Chunfang checked in, she really talked about this matter.

"Everyone should know about Hai Rui. Does the court want to pursue the case? After all, his name is clear."

Li Chunfang immediately said what she meant by calling everyone here today.

Whether or not to deal with such unorganized and undisciplined matters as officials leaving with their titles was actually up to the emperor's whim.

It is rude to leave without waiting for the emperor's approval. If the emperor wants, he can punish him in this way.

Moreover, the begging memorial he had submitted before was also full of resentment.

When Wei Guangde heard Li Chunfang's words, he immediately shook his head. Although he didn't speak, his attitude was already revealed.

However, Yin Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng hesitated for a while before persuading him: "Since everyone has left, let him alone. If your Majesty intends to punish the crime, we should try our best to persuade him." ’

But at this time, everyone's eyes were turned to Gao Gong. After all, he had the greatest influence on the emperor and seemed to be one of the parties involved. His attitude was the key to deciding this matter.

"Let His Majesty make the decision regarding Hai Rui's affairs. But we have to pay attention. Although everyone was paying attention to Hai Rui's affairs a few days ago, but now that it's happened, I'm afraid Datong will become the focus. Maybe it will happen in the next two days. Someone will report this."

When Gao Gong opened his mouth, he really didn't talk about Hai Rui, but changed the topic to Datong.

Wei Guangde nodded, "What Brother Su Qing said is reasonable, but no matter what others say, since we had the same opinion at the beginning, it should be as written in the official document that day and not be confused by other people's opinions."

"If they object, let them speak out. We will also contact those who support this idea. If they object, we will support it."

Zhang Juzheng also said.

Shangzou is actually to create public opinion, hoping to attract more people to support their views.

It is difficult to convince the opponents, so you can only ignore them and only win the support of other neutrals.

"On the courtiers' side, we all need to take action and contact more people. Once they report this matter, we will also take action accordingly.

On the other hand, there is another force in the DPRK. I would like to ask Shandai to move around more and not let them stand there. "

Gao Gong looked at Wei Guangde at this time and said.

"Well."

Wei Guangde hesitated for a moment, then nodded, indicating that he understood.

What Gao Gong is talking about is naturally the nobles in the court.

Although many of these people have lost their power, they still have great reputation with the emperor and still have the right to speak in the court.

And the most important thing is that some of the benefits of Jiubian have flowed into their pockets.

If Datong can really negotiate well this time and stop fighting and trade with the Mongols, it will have the greatest impact on them.

Xungui, although they are more or less related to the pavilion elders, they are not as influential as Wei Guangde, so it is up to Wei Guangde to persuade Xungui.

Wei Guangde also made up his mind to go to Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi to discuss the matter today.