Chapter 808 897 Defense

Yang Bo saw that Gao Gong not only wanted to take down Li Qian, but also wanted to kill Yin Zhengmao.

Of course, the premise is that Yin Zhengmao failed to quell the Gutian rebellion.

One is Wei Guangde's fellow villager, and the other has a close relationship with Wei Guangde. Although Gao Gong has completely defeated the three-person group, Wei Guangde is still in mourning after all. After the mourning period ends, he can return to the court to continue to serve as an official, and he can directly meet with the cabinet.

Taking action early and cutting off his wings is also to prevent trouble before it happens.

Gao Gong always feels that Wei Guangde is deep-minded and often makes him unpredictable.

The most important thing is that since this kid flattered Emperor Longqing, his attitude towards him is obviously not as good as Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhan. There was even a period of time when this kid was on fire with Zhang Juzheng.

So he had to be on guard, including Zhang Juzheng. What he was most worried about was that this kid would get together with Zhang Juzheng and oppose him after returning to the court.

He did not come back to the court for trivial matters. He wanted to do big things and make the Ming Dynasty revitalized in his hands, so he expelled Li Chunfang, Chen Yiqin and others who did nothing.

Yes, Gao Gong did not think that he was wrong to eliminate dissidents. He did so to realize his ideals. These people blocked his way, so they were naturally not good people.

Yang Bo hinted to Zhang Juzheng and told him not to talk too much.

Zhang Juzheng was so smart that he guessed the intentions of Gao Gong and Yang Bo at once, so he shut up decisively.

In this way, the cabinet unanimously decided that Yin Zhengmao would replace Li Qian, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi military affairs, to be fully responsible for suppressing the Gutian rebellion.

As for Li Qian, who lost his job, he was waiting for a new appointment from the court.

Such a dismissal would be difficult to get back if there was no strong enough relationship in the court.

After all, there are not many official positions of this grade, and perhaps retirement in a certain department in Nanjing is their best destination.

Wei Guangde's messenger, at this time, hurried and finally caught up with Yin Shizeng's convoy in Dezhou.

In fact, in this era, messengers are not afraid of following the wrong route. After all, Yin Shizeng took the post road. With the emperor's imperial edict, all the post stations along the way received him attentively.

Although he is a retired old official, officials like Yin Shizeng are in their prime these days. It is not certain that they will be re-employed by the emperor one day.

Isn't the current cabinet chief minister a ready-made example? He was rejected by the whole court at the beginning, but he returned within two years. He ascended to the throne of the chief minister in just one year.

With the lessons learned from the past, even though they knew that Yin Shizeng lost the fight with Gao Gong, the officials along the way still treated Yin Shizeng and his party with courtesy.

It must be said that there is such a rule in the Ming Dynasty, that is, those who contradict their superiors are all civil officials with character, and they have to say "admiration" or "long heard of your great name" when they meet.

There is no way. Not everyone dares to contradict their superiors and can get away with it. This shows the status of Yin Shizhen in the emperor's heart.

Although communication was not smooth in ancient times, the officialdom was still well-informed.

Yin Shizhen punched the Prime Minister Gao Gong in the cabinet, but nothing happened. He retired with high standards, which has already explained a lot of problems.

Comparing the age difference between Gao Gong and Yin Shizhen, every official knows how to choose.

Of course, these are also kept secret, and they will not welcome them with great fanfare. If the news reaches Gao Gong's ears, it may cause trouble.

Gao Gong can't deal with Yin Shizhen, can't he make things difficult for the county magistrates and prefects?

At a post station outside Dezhou Prefecture, the messenger saw Yin Shizhen, saluted and handed him Wei Guangde's letter.

"You get up."

Yin Shizhen heard that it was Wei Guangde's letter, and he could actually guess something in his heart.

But now that he saw it, it was too late to say anything.

He took Wei Guangde's letter and opened it in front of him. The time of writing was written on the letter.

"Alas"

Yin Shizhen sighed in his heart. If the letter was delivered to him on the same day or two days later, perhaps many things would not have happened.

Unfortunately, transportation in ancient times was like this.

From Jiujiang to the capital, half a month is considered fast.

"Is your master okay?"

After reading the letter, Yin Shizhen said to the man.

"The master is now in his hometown"

The messenger immediately answered the question. In fact, in similar situations, every time a letter is delivered to a place, the other party will definitely ask a question.

After saying it several times, the messenger also spoke proficiently, and talked about Wei Guangde's current leisure and comfortable life in an orderly manner. Many people would involuntarily feel envious.

Although being an official in the Ming Dynasty was powerful and lucrative, the pressure was actually very high.

For example, Zhu Heng was worried about the construction of the imperial mausoleum, and when it rained heavily in Beijing, he had to consider the river. Although the heavy rain in Beijing had little to do with the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, people would think about it in this way.

In the years since he took over the Ministry of Works, the Ministry's money has been poured into the Yellow River, but the effect of flood control has not been obvious. The dikes have to burst if they should, and blocking the canal transportation is a big deal for the court. How can it not be worried?

Moreover, Zhu Heng actually had a worry in his heart, that is, in addition to the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, which is related to the money and grain of the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty.

The flooding of the Yangtze River in recent years is not bad, but it is not good now. It does not mean that it will always be like this.

In fact, the dikes of the Yangtze River should also be repaired, but the Ministry of Works has no money available now, and the Yellow River alone has emptied the Ministry of Works.

Zhu Heng has arranged the affairs of the Yellow River, but recently he has been thinking about the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River flows through several provinces, and it is not a small matter to control it, and the expenditure is huge.

So, recently the government in Jiangxi sent him a letter, hoping that the Ministry of Works would build the Yangtze River embankment and allocate money to Jiangxi first.

Zhu Heng actually understood that the government was concerned about the people's affairs, but what could he do? He still had to take care of them.

The cabinet minister who was in charge of the Ministry of Works was Zhang Juzheng.

After he knew that the Ministry of Works was considering repairing the Yangtze River embankment, he also emphasized that the embankments in Jiangling and even the entire Huguang area should be repaired. The reason was also very strong.

As the saying goes, "Huguang is well-fed, the world is well-fed." If Huguang suffered a flood, the food for the people in Jiangnan would become a problem, which would cause a major hidden danger.

As for other people, they also had their own selfish desires and troubles, so I won't go into details.

Yin Shizhe smiled after hearing that Wei Guangde was living a comfortable life in Jiangxi.

"The two places are too far apart, otherwise I would have gone directly to Pengze to see him."

After saying that, Yin Shizhen ordered someone to prepare a room for the messenger, "I will write a reply to Shandai tonight, please take it back."

"I dare not say thank you, it's all my duty."

The messenger bowed hurriedly and replied.

Yin Shizhen asked someone to prepare food and a room for him. After thinking for a while, he asked someone to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a reply to Wei Guangde at the post station.

It's useless to say more now, and it's hard to take back what has been done.

Nevertheless, Yin Shizhen still told Wei Guangde in detail about his experience this year in the letter, at least to let him understand his difficulties.

In fact, according to the time, the official report should have almost arrived in Jiangxi, and Wei Guangde might have known the news of his retirement.

As he thought, Wei Guangde had already learned about Yin Shizan's retirement from the official newspaper copied by his family in the county, but he had not heard that the reason for his retirement was that he had beaten Gao Gong in the cabinet, so he still had some resentment towards Yin Shizan in his heart.

Yin Shizan, the personal connections that he had built up with great difficulty, which was related to his biggest reliance on coming back in the future, just slipped away.

It's not that without Yin Shizan, his road to comeback would be blocked.

Even if Gao Gong replaced all the court officials, as long as Gao Gong could not become the governor-general eunuch and the prime minister of the inner and outer courts, Wei Guangde would have a way to make his name appear in the ears of Emperor Longqing, and he would have the opportunity to come back and continue to be an official.

In the Ming Dynasty, the benefits of being an official were too great, and Wei Guangde could no longer let it go.

Just when he was sulking about this matter, he was still resting in the house that day. The weather was gradually getting cooler, so he didn't go fishing by the river very often.

"Master, today the merchant ship of Huitong Trading Company came from Nanjing. It stopped outside and sent a small wooden boat to deliver some letters from the capital."

Because the messenger went to Shandong to chase Yin Shizun, the letters of Zhu Heng and others were entrusted to Jiangxi merchants in the capital to deliver.

At least the overall situation has been decided now, and there is no need to rush. It has already been like this.

But it happened that the last batch of goods of the merchants in the capital this year was sent out in the next two days, so they took their letters and sent them back directly.

Passing by Bengshanbao, I knew that some of the letters they brought back were to be sent to Wei Guangde, so I stayed here for a while and sent people to send the letters from the capital to the shore.

There are quite a lot of letters brought this time, not only letters to Wei Guangde, but those officials in the capital sent people to the guild hall or merchants. Knowing that there will be a ship back to Jiangxi soon, they also wrote more letters home, and heard that they would bring them back this time.

Wei Guangde took a dozen letters and looked at them. Except for the reply from Yin Shizhan, there were all the letters from others.

"Got it, go down."

Wei Guangde also guessed why. It must be that Yin Shizhan had left the capital, so the letter was not delivered to him.

But when Wei Guangde opened Zhu Heng's letter and read it, he was shocked. He really didn't know that there was such a thing in the Ming Dynasty. He directly waved his fist in the cabinet.

Well, due to the lack of historical knowledge, Wei Guangde didn't know whether this incident had happened in the time and space before he came, but in any case, it was shocking enough.

The shocking here is actually only for people of this era.

After all, the university scholars in the cabinet are all Wenquxing from heaven, otherwise how could they enter the cabinet.

When Wei Guangde just returned to Bengshanbao, the surrounding villagers still talked about the rumors at the time, making him wonder whether he should get angry.

The souls from the future have seen everything in the market.

Fights in foreign parliaments are the norm. The smaller the country, the more angry the parliamentarians tend to be. They throw shoes and even fight in groups when they disagree. It is a real party-based fight.

Moreover, beatings in the court are not the only incident since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. It has happened in the past, but the people are ignorant and don't know about these things.

Speaking of which, because Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di were both decisive and ruthless, the court officials were as obedient as quails at that time.

Even after the death of these two killers, officials were honest and did not dare to act rashly.

But when it came to Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, he patrolled the border in the ninth year of Xuande and died suddenly in the tenth year. It is said that it took only thirteen days from onset to death, which was very fierce.

How old was Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji at that time?

36 years old, in the prime of life.

His death was followed by the brilliant appearance of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and then the "Tumubao Incident" occurred.

The news reached the capital, the emperor was captured, the ministers were killed, and the regent at that time was Zhu Qiyu, who later became the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. At this time, he was discussing with the ministers how to solve the current dilemma at the court meeting. Suddenly, the Left Censor-in-Chief Chen Yi made a petition requesting severe punishment for Wang Zhen's followers and killing Wang Zhen's entire family.

Although Wang Zhen had died in Tumu Fortress, the ministers had been suppressed by him, a eunuch, for eight years. This time, he was the one who picked up the disaster caused by the emperor's personal expedition, so naturally he had to take all the blame.

That is, on the morning when the Left Censor-in-Chief Chen Yi proposed to kill Wang Zhen's entire family, the only and most serious vicious fight in the history of the Ming Dynasty occurred, known as the "Wumen Blood Case".

The main fuse of this case was Wang Zhen, and the three people who served as cannon fodder were Wang Zhen's followers Ma Shun, Mao Gui, and Wang Changsui.

Compared with the killing of officials in the current dynasty, Yin Shizan's punching the cabinet chief was actually not a big deal.

I just don't know if it was destined in the dark, after these two incidents, the parties involved were not punished.

As for Yin Shizhan's retirement, he chose to leave the court, not the emperor's punishment.

Otherwise, it would not be retirement, but dismissal.

Knowing what happened in the cabinet, Wei Guangde immediately found the letters of Cheng Wen, Shu Ao, Da Dongguang and others. They were all Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing, and were considered Gao Gong's disciples, but Wei Guangde placed them in the Censorate and the Six Departments.

Among them, Da Dongguang, Zhou Shouyu and Cheng Wen were all Jieshizhong, who were present at the time of the incident, while Shu Ao was in the Censorate, and was a censor, but he naturally knew the details afterwards.

The most important thing is that they were in different yamen, and Wei Guangde could better understand the attitude of various yamen in the capital on the day of the incident by reading their letters.

"Zhengfu was impulsive."

After reading the letter, Wei Guangde couldn't help but pat the armrest of the chair and repeated these words in a low voice.

In fact, it can be seen from the official positions that Wei Guangde placed in these fellow villagers that he really values ​​the Six Departments, even more than the Censorate.

Ten days later, Li Qian, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was transferred to Nanjing as the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and officially began his retirement life. The person who took over his position was Yin Zhengmao, who was responsible for the full-scale encirclement and suppression of the Gutian rebels. The news also reached Bengshanbao.

Wei Guangde was speechless for a long time after reading the official report. He had vaguely sensed the purpose of Gao Gong's doing this.

Well, get rid of the high-ranking officials and suppress the low-ranking ones. In this way, even if Wei Guangde returns in two years, the people who vacated the official positions will not be able to get them.

Because of the lack of rank and qualifications, even if Wei Guangde tried his best, it would not work.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde didn't care about being angry. He returned to the study and immediately wrote to Lao Kan and others. The purpose was naturally to ask them to be cautious and careful and never let anyone catch the handle.

Yes, it seems that there is no hope in the capital. Wei Guangde can only try his best to keep the officials in various provinces.

From the Provincial Administration and the Provincial Surveillance Department, he could still be appointed as the Vice Minister of the Six Ministries, especially Lao Kan, who was in the Fujian Provincial Surveillance Department. Wei Guangde was planning to push him to take charge of the Metropolitan Surveillance Office in the future.

Now the initiative was in Gao Gong's hands, and all Wei Guangde could do was defend, and defend impenetrably.