Hai Rui saw Wang Xijue's "implication", which was nothing more than a warning to himself that the Jiangnan gentry were both prosperous and lossy, and most of these families had clansmen in the officialdom, and if they moved one by themselves, they should think about the consequences.

What he said is naturally true, but it is just ...... So what?

"Three lives do not change the frost exercise, and ten thousand deaths will always stay in the community." I Hai Rui has a bright life, only the virtue that I dare not disobey, how can there ever be a person who does not dare to offend!

After putting away Wang Xijue's letter, Hai Rui straightened his back, which was slightly stiff due to old age, as proudly as he had been when he wrote "Public Security Neglect" twenty-one years ago.

Although life and death are heavy, they are in my feathers; Although chastity is light, it is Taishan for me.

The elders deceived the Son of Heaven and the Holy Cong, and took the people's food from the bottom, deceived the heavens and the earth, and betrayed their conscience. Where there are one or two good officials and good people in the court, who want to clearly investigate and rectify them, the generations will attack them en masse.

The world is the world of the people of the world, how can it be the only one!

The Son of Heaven was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed; Hai Rui was furious, and the black yarn was everywhere. Wang Xijue's letter successfully aroused Hai Rui's anger, and the matter of Nancha has already affected the world.

However, what Hai Rui didn't think about was that no one in the world knew what his temperament was?

At least, Gao Pragmatic and Wang Xijue must know it well.

Because of this, although the letter of high pragmatism does not speak of virtue, it speaks of virtue everywhere; Because of this, although Wang Xijue's letter is not powerful, it is full of words.

In fact, whether it is Gao Pragmatism or Wang Xijue, although the two letters seem to be completely opposite, they actually have the same goal, both in order to let Hai Rui come to "make trouble in the Heavenly Palace".

But the high pragmatism is here, and it is understandable to do so. Wang Xijue has a stake, why should he be so angry?

In fact, Wang Xijue's approach this time, compared with the one at the beginning of the fourth year of Longqing, is exactly "doing the opposite".

In the fourth year of Longqing, Hai Rui's main target was Xu Jie, he Wang Xijue was just a junior in the officialdom who had just emerged, so he was naturally happy to let Xu Jie carry the sharp blade of Haigang Peak, and he himself honestly hid behind to watch the show.

When the sky falls, there is a tall man on top, and my Wang has thin arms and legs, so I won't join in this excitement.

But this time it is different, the heart school with Nanbang officials as the core, the two pillars today are Shen Shixing and him. However, although Shen Shixing is the first assistant, his family business is only average-at least for Wang Xijue, it can definitely only be regarded as average.

If it is really to levy commercial taxes in Jiangnan, Wang Xijue is the one who bears the brunt of the intolerable person, and behind him, there are countless "official businessmen" and "business officials" families.

And this time in Jingcha, although Wang Xijue did not have any evidence, he concluded that it must have been instigated by Gao Shipra secretly.

This time, the emperor used Gao Pragmatism as the head of the household, it seems that it is because Gao Pragmatism is difficult to reward, and he can only be given by high-ranking officials, but in fact, how can it be so simple?

Wang Xijue had already figured it out on the way back to Beijing, no matter how many tricks the emperor played this time, in the final analysis, it was only because the court lacked money, and Gao Pragmatic was the person who knew the most about financial management in his eyes.

In this case, if Gao Pragmatic does something in the near future, it will be related to commercial taxes, and the emperor will definitely try his best to cooperate.

So, Jingcha also rose.

Wang Xijue knows very well that since the root cause of this Jingcha is in commercial taxation, and Hai Rui is a tenacious guy, with a high degree of pragmatism, insidious and unpredictable, and full of poisonous schemes, he must have the ability to move Hai Rui, and regard this aspect as the core idea of his presiding over the Nancha.

What kind of person is Hai Rui, can that be stopped? Of course it can't be stopped. In the past, Xu Jie's couldn't stop it, but today he Wang Xijue can't stop it.

Since you can't stop it, why not change your thinking?

Now my Wang Xijue is the biggest bird, and his status and net worth among Jiangnan officials are like Xu Jie's in the past.

There are three reasons why Xu Jie was disgraced at the beginning: one is that he has already become a leader; the second is the high arch to bear the holy family; The third is the failure to "mobilize the masses extensively."

Now, Shen Shixing is the first assistant, and my Wang Xijue is also one of the auxiliary ministers, and in the court, especially in the cabinet, he can be on a par with the Shixue school. At this point, Xu Jie's time was not as good as my today.

Nowadays, the saint may still be the first person in the world to be pragmatic, but high pragmatism and high arch are not the same. Gao Pragmatic is the emperor's companion and classmate, and the relationship between them is roughly equivalent to friendship. And Gao Gong is Mu Zong's imperial teacher, and what Mu Zong feels in Gao Gong is not only the majesty of the teacher, but also the father's love that he has lacked all his life - that is equivalent to family affection.

Friendship and family are all love, and it doesn't matter whether they are superior or inferior, but friendship can be chosen, and family affection has no choice.

You can choose who to befriend you, but obviously you can't choose who your dad is. Gao Gong's strength in the Longqing Dynasty, the most ruthless one is that Emperor Longqing has signs of treating him as a father in his heart.

Therefore, although the two highs are both saints, the nature of the two is relatively different. Where is the gap between the reality of this "other"? When Gao Gong was in the cabinet, he was the head of the "sir", and the emperor could justifiably consider his opinion first - "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher", even if others were not convinced, they could not find many reasons to object.

Although Gao Shishi has also served as a Japanese speaker, he will obviously not be regarded as an imperial teacher, and the current "imperial teacher" is a few elders. This means that whenever there is something in the world, even if the emperor only wants to listen to Gao pragmatic answers, he must consult the ministers first according to the convention, and must give enough respect.

So on this second point, Wang Xijue can also say, "Xu Jie, at that time, was not as good as me today." ”

As for the third, Xu Jie's response to Hai Rui's Qingzhang Tianmu was very passive as a whole, and in addition to the above two reasons, there was another troublesome thing that had a great impact on Xu Jie. That is, his own brother Xu Zhi impeached him for some bad things, which is one of the reasons why he resigned and returned to his hometown. (Note: This is a historical fact, but there is no perfect explanation for why Xu Zhi did this.) )

At that time, this incident had a general impact on Xu Jie's political status, but it had a great impact on Xu Jie's reputation, so much so that after he returned to his hometown, he wanted to stop a little and stop "embarrassing" - after all, re-fame was a consistent feature of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, of course, except for the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, when Xu Jie was "pressed and beaten" by Hai Rui, he did not resist too obviously, but just pretended to be pitiful while contacting his protégés and former officials to help.

Although Xu Jie's protégés and former officials are indeed many, at that time, it is not enough to have protégés and former officials - when he himself engaged in the "Manchu Dynasty inverted arch", wouldn't the high arch be unable to bear only by his protégés?

Wang Xijue himself is the most direct example, when Hai Rui rectified the steps, didn't he "hide"? But if it was the other way around, what if Xu Jie, including his Wang Xijue, had united all the officials of the Ying Heavenly nationality to fight against him at that time, and had to fight every day? Even if Hai Jui himself is not afraid, isn't the emperor afraid of causing big trouble?

Therefore, Wang Xijue learned the lesson of Xu Jie's back then, and he wanted to take the road of "united front".

But the united front is not so easy to organize, and the rest of the Jiangnan officials at this moment, especially the smart people in it, may not be like him and Wang Mou, waiting for the "top" immortals to fight, and they are short anyway, and they can't play a decisive role, as long as they don't come out of the way.

When the immortals finish fighting, it's good to win, and their interests are preserved; If you lose, you can't do it, so you can only comfort yourself with "I'm not the one who suffers the most".

But you can still continue to wait for the opportunity, anyway, the policy of the Ming Dynasty has always changed a lot, maybe after changing the immortals, it will be another way? Stay in the green mountains, don't worry about no firewood.

However, although this kind of style was something that Wang Xijue himself had back then, time has changed, and now he has become "Xu Jie", so he can't let them do it again.

The idea is great, but how to achieve it is a matter of detail. Of course, it is necessary to call on everyone to unite, but it is definitely not possible to rely on the call alone, everyone is a civil official, who hasn't been careful about the small doorway? Naturally, it is adhering to the tenet of "charging you to go, pressing the formation and I will come" to do more.

Therefore, Wang Xijue needs external assistance - for example, Hai Rui does not engage in key attacks, but directly conducts a full-scale attack and strikes indiscriminately. At this time, no matter who Hai Rui moves, the person concerned is certainly uncomfortable, but others don't know if they will be the next unlucky person, and they have the same hatred for the enemy.

So Wang Xijue wrote this letter and told Hai Rui "implicitly and euphemistically": Jiangnan is an iron plate, and you can't kick someone in the sea!

What would someone do if they understood what this meant?

It's easy, let's do it together!

Hasn't Hai Jui's style always been like this? It is not enough to describe him if he does not hit the south wall and does not look back, he hits the south wall...... That's it. Back? I never look back!

If Hai Rui wants to do it together, he will fall into Wang Xijue's trap, because the officials under investigation also have the means to use the officials in charge, and there are two "customs" of Ming officialdom here.

What customs? One is to unveil the post.

On the occasion of the Beijing Chacha period, officials with ill intentions often posted anonymous posts and wantonly slandered them. Therefore, Tang Zhaojing once said: "If you expose it privately, you will ban it from the yang and use it in the yin", which expressed the helplessness of the officials in charge of the false accusations.

Although "the imperial court sends words to officials with their ears and eyes, and allows them to hear about them", many officials have taken the opportunity of the Beijing inspection and the name of rumors to attack and slander their colleagues in an attempt to avoid being deposed.

Because at the time of Jingcha, "every yamen must have people." In this way, the yamen already had people, so he did not move, saying: It is difficult for him to be the yamen. If there is no one in his yamen, he will also be real, saying: "Why is this yamen empty." Therefore, once the goal of slandering colleagues is achieved, some lawless officials can get away with the law.

"Every yamen must have people" means that there will definitely be people in every yamen, and if someone has been deposed first, the rest will be safe—at least much safer.

Although the Ming court does not sin the people who have heard about it, once the false accusation is known, although it is a fake reputation, it will not be beautiful in the end. Therefore, anonymous unveiling of posts has become rampant, and this is also one of the main topics repeatedly discussed by many officials before Jingcha.

However, this is not the means that Wang Xijue intends to use to deal with Hai Rui, the means he intends to use is the second one.

The second is that the probationary officials can also impeach the person in charge at this time, in order to evade the punishment.

Because Jingcha was a major event concerning the political future of officials, "once they were deposed, they should leave office", and for a long time until the late Wanli period, once they left office because of Jingcha, they would "never be used", so some unemployed officials impeached the person in charge of the inspection in advance in order to avoid being deposed.

The origin of the person who framed the chief inspector in the Jingcha can be traced back to the early Jiajing period. At that time, Zhang Gui, an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, actively supported Sejong in the Great Rites Conference and "resisted the dynasty for four or five years", so he did not agree with many courtiers in the court. Therefore, on the occasion of the sixth year of Jiajing's Jingcha period, he neglected himself and framed the chief inspector official or had "yin tree friends and traitors, public injuries and kindness", and begged for the emperor's protection.

However, the use of auxiliary ministers to falsely accuse the officials in charge of the inspection is, after all, a special case for the time. However, in the original history, until the late Wanli period, the false accusations of lower-ranking speech officials against officials in charge often appeared.

For example, in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Xu Wenzao, the imperial historian of Guizhou Province, was thin by the scholars because of "clinging to the gate wall of Lu Kun and ignoring the name", and he was worried that Yu Jingcha would be deposed, so "Zhang Yangmeng, the servant of the household department, etc., and the Ministry of officials to avoid the dictionary" - the words "Jidian", "Daji", etc., in the Ming Dynasty, all refer to Jingcha.

Another example is the second year of the Apocalypse, "Zhu Tongmeng, Guo Yunhou, and Guo Xingzhi in the matter were worried that the Beijing inspection would not be beneficial to themselves next year, and conspired to expel them" Zou Yuanbiao, the then imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Similarly, there are also those who falsely accuse the court officials who have given their own notes. For example, in the 39th year of Wanli, Tang Binyin (Jinshi in the 23rd year of Wanli), the priest of the Nanjing Guozi, was worried that Wang Tu (Jinshi in the 11th year of Wanli) would note his next examination in the examination language, so he instructed the imperial historian Jinming to impeach the son of Wang Tu, the official of his court, for corruption, and wanted to sit on Wang Tu's crime of committing murder in order to escape from being investigated.

On the occasion of this catastrophe, since there are already "customs" in advance, Wang Xijue naturally does not hesitate to try, as long as Hai Rui puts on a posture of "catching them all" in Nanjing, Wang Xijue's side will be able to act immediately.

For this reason, when Wang Xijue's letter to Hai Jui was delivered to Nanjing, a large number of private letters had already been sent to all parts of Jiangnan. Not only Wang Xijue, but also Shen Shixing's letters. The two cabinet elders worked tirelessly, not only writing a lot of private letters by themselves, but also writing countless letters by the staff in the house, all of which had the same purpose.

This time, Nancha is even more valued than Beicha, and Gao Pragmatic will naturally not just write a letter to Hai Rui and finish the matter, and he has also made many corresponding arrangements.

Although the leaders of the two factions are in Yanjing, the forces that pervade the world are like tentacles, which have been "activated" first, and they are all ready to move.

And because of the time relationship, especially the reason of the transmission of official documents, Beicha has always been earlier than Nancha, so when Hai Rui summoned relevant personnel to start arranging the work arrangement, Beicha had entered the first round of the contest in full swing.

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