Chapter 148: The Case of Slandering the King (Part II)

It is reasonable that this bullet seal that kills the emperor will be angry, and Xiao Liangyu does not think it is strange. The strange thing is that Shen Yuanfu does not seem to have noticed some of the details, and only replied to the part of Gao Pragmatic "slandering the king" in the bullet chapter in the draft vote, which is a bit abnormal.

Xiao Liangyu thought about it, but he really couldn't understand the reason, so he looked at the follow-up notes, ticket plans and Zhu Pi again, and read all the follow-up twenty-six similar bullets in a row, only to realize that Shen Shixing might have simply missed it.

The biggest common denominator of the twenty-seven bullet chapters before and after is that they all impeach Gao Pragmatic in the article for slandering the monarch, Xiao Liangyu estimated that this is the reason why Shen Yuanfu used the exact same ticket to be pasted on it.

However, although Shen Yuanfu's ticket is worthy of the title of Tai Chi Holy Hand, it ignores the nuances of the specific content of these bullets. Although most of these bullets regard high pragmatism and slander as the biggest blow point, there are a few bullets that are mixed with some other things.

The emperor also dealt with the Zhu criticism of these 27 bullet chapters separately, and the Zhu criticism of 23 of them were exactly the same, just two sentences and 16 words:

"Alarmist, exaggerated. With Yuan Fuyan, I will forgive it now. ”

The former sentence doesn't need to be explained, and the meaning of the latter sentence is, "Because Yuansuke's vote is going to advise me not to care, so I will let you go today." ”

In other words, Shen Yuanfu's vote is still very effective, although the emperor thinks that these people are talking nonsense and wantonly climbing, but for the sake of Yuanfu's face, he decided not to care about it this time.

Don't worry about these twenty-three bullets, so what's going on with the remaining four?

The rest is naturally to be taken care of, as for the reason, the previous Zhu Pi has already said: What is your intention to be arrogant and shallow, crazy and speculative, slander the ministry, and divide the monarch and ministers?

The crime is obvious, "slandering the ministry and dividing the monarch and ministers" is also. This crime can be big or small, it all depends on how the emperor understands the "degree of harm".

The bullet seal that Xiao Liangyu saw just now was probably the most severe and harmful in the emperor's opinion, so he punished him the most severely, and directly gave the most severe punishment for the official since the emperor's reign.

However, "the Zhenfu Division really asks to play" is only one of them, and the Zhu criticism of the remaining three bullets is not the same.

One of them is "go down to the town to ask the Fu Division", one is "reform for the people, and leave Beijing immediately", and the last one is "demote three levels and transfer to other posts".

Even if it was the lightest punishment, he was demoted three levels and transferred to another position - Gao Pragmatic also suffered this punishment at the beginning.

Of course, Gao Pragmatic's situation was completely different from that of this official at that time, he was to bear the blame for the emperor that time, and because the Empress Dowager Cisheng did not explain what position he was demoted, he was released from the local real power position such as the Guangxi Governor Imperial History when he was demoted, but he achieved a miraculous feat because of the blessing of disguise.

The ordinary demotion, the foreign appointment, is not as good as Gao Pragmatic, and the imperial history who impeached him is also different from Gao Pragmatic's character at that time.

In the Ming Dynasty, like most dynasties, the official character was "nine grades and eighteen grades", in which the supervision of the imperial history was only the seventh grade, so the downgrade was from the seventh grade, the downgrade of two levels was the positive eighth, and the downgrade of the third grade was only from the eighth grade.

From the eight grades, and can only be outside the place, so the choice is very limited.

The first-level yamen of the prefecture has the prefect of the fourth grade, the same knowledge of the fifth grade, the general judgment of the sixth grade, the official of the seventh grade, the experience of the eighth grade, the governor of the ninth grade, and the light grinding of the ninth grade and the inspection school and the prison of the eighth grade.

The state-level yamen only knows the state from the fifth grade, the same knowledge from the sixth grade, the judge from the seventh grade, and the officials from the ninth rank - there is no position from the eighth grade.

At the county level, there are only the seven pins of the county, the eight pins of the county, the nine pins of the main book and the history of the unentered stream - there is no position from the eight grades.

Oops, what can I do?

Don't be afraid, there are still solutions. The most direct one is to strictly follow the arrangement of the position of the eight products, although the three levels of the government, prefecture, and county are not from the eight products, then we will arrange to go to the province - that is, the political envoy Yamen.

In the yamen of the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, there is an organization called the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department Zhaoma, and its chief official is called Zhaoma, and the grade is exactly from the eighth grade. Perfect.

What if all the political secretaries are full and can't arrange it? Then let the officials check again to see if the "governor" with the lowest official position in the department is full.

What if both of these positions are fully staffed? Then I have to be accommodating, according to the idea of "Beijing officials are transferred one level higher", saying that it is a three-level downgrade, but in fact, it is only a two-level downgrade - strictly speaking, Yulu and other treatments are still a three-level downgrade, but the position gives him a "high match": the promotion is used according to the eight grades. It's impossible to find a place yet, because there are still a lot of positions in Zhengbapin.

Sidao was impeached by the emperor as "slandering the ministry and dividing the monarch and ministers", and the lightest initiator was also "demoted to three levels of foreign office", and the other person was dismissed and expelled from Beijing, and the remaining two unlucky people were even skipped by the three law divisions and directly sent to prison.

What this means may be difficult to determine for a while, but I am afraid that the most peaceful and beautiful era of government in Wanli has passed. For the first time, the emperor really sacrificed the killing rod, and wanted to give some people a little color.

Judging from this result, in the first round of the "Slander Case", Gao Pragmatic has won a complete victory.

He didn't do anything in this, but according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, he locked himself in the palace and didn't ask about political affairs, which led to such serious consequences, and his weight in the emperor's mind must no longer be doubted.

After all, the identity of the Yanguan is special, so he dealt with the Yanguan ruthlessly, and it was the first time in the Wanli Dynasty that he had pushed up the Muzong Longqing Dynasty even once! Earlier, the Jiajing Dynasty had such a thunderous means.

Xiao Liangyu happily signed and used the seal letter on behalf of Hu Ke, but he couldn't help but be a little worried.

He always felt that this time the matter might not end so easily, although the Xin School did not have an advantage in the upper echelons of the court, but now the situation has changed slightly: first, Wang Xijue may have arrived in Shandong, and in a few days he will rush to Beijing to resume his new duties; Second, the Inner Heart School still has an advantage in the middle and lower class of officials in the imperial court, especially in the south, and it has an obvious advantage.

Xiao Liangyu found it hard to believe that the Heart School would immediately cry for his father and mother to admit defeat under the emperor's killing power, but it was very likely to launch a more powerful counterattack.

At this time, he had already sent Song Shu away, but the more he thought about it, the more it was not the way, and after hesitating repeatedly, he called his entourage, quietly commanded, and let him go first.

Naturally, the place where this Ding went was not elsewhere, it could only be the "Shangshu Gaofu" of Zhaohui Jinggongfang.

When Xiao Liangyu's news came, Gao Pragmatic had already learned about it, after all, the news that the celebrant learned was equivalent to not defending Gao Pragmatic, unless Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju thought that the news had nothing to do with Gao Pragmatic.

However, the news sent to him by the celebrant only explained the situation and did not contain any opinions, while Xiao Liangyu added his own worries.

Gao Pragmatic is completely understandable about Xiao Liangyu's concerns, because he also believes that this matter will not end so easily.

Shen Shixing's ticket is going to slip through the net, this is probably just an accident, Gao pragmatic estimated that he was mostly because there were too many similar bullet stamps, so he didn't take a closer look at the words, and after a few glances, he found that it was to say "slander the king", so he wrote the ticket according to the "standard answer".

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This is also understandable, after all, Shen Shixing, as the first assistant, can't just watch these performances, and there are still many government affairs waiting for him to deal with.

But in this way, we can see the emperor's attitude towards this matter in turn - Shen Shixing has a lot of notes to watch, and the emperor has a lot of notes to watch, but the emperor has carefully read these bullets, so that he can find out four of them.

Perhaps, the emperor had anticipated today's impeachment tide, and even made up his mind......

Gao Pragmatism is of course quite gratifying, but at the same time he is also a little vigilant.

On the one hand, the emperor's attitude of attaching importance to Gao Pragmatic himself was naturally the importance of Gao Pragmatic himself, but on the other hand, it was also his attention to the changes that would be caused by arranging Gao Pragmatic in the post of Household Minister.

What changes does Zhu Yijun hope Gao Pragmatism will bring to the post of the head of the household department? The most direct and fundamental point is undoubtedly guaranteed, that is, to ensure the smooth implementation of the ban on the opening of the feudal domain. Second, it is natural to ensure the financial security of all localities, so that there will be no more catastrophes caused by the lack of money and food like the Northwest Rebellion.

Out of his understanding of Zhu Yijun, Gao Pragmatic privately estimated that Zhu Yijun could probably guess that he would find a way to deal with business taxes after he took office, but ...... He probably didn't expect his steps to be so big.

It's not surprising to find a way to do business taxes, because Gao Pragmatism has always been this proposition, and he has often mentioned this idea when he was reading to Zhu Yijun when he was the prince's companion, and Zhu Yijun is very familiar with it. Not to mention that his court trial strategy back then was also about collecting commercial taxes, and it almost caused controversy in the court at that time.

But Zhu Yijun probably wouldn't have guessed that Gao Pragmatic did not engage in a roundabout encirclement this time, but directly punched out - this is indeed quite inconsistent with Gao Pragmatic's style. In particular, if Gao Pragmatic wanted to propose any restructuring and reform in the past, he would make a lot of foreshadowing in advance, and only when everything was ready, would he come out to act as that gust of wind.

The benefits of this are of course obvious, after all, the opposition will be much smaller, the pressure will not be great, and every measure will be almost ripe and down, saving time, effort and worry.

And this time, Gao Pragmatic is really "shaking the ancestral system" - he made it clear in "Take-and-Use Shu": "This is not a change in the sole tax law, and the old system of household departments and other government measures should also be easier." ”

"When it changes" and "it should be easier", this is not a clear show of carriages and horses?

In this way, it is not surprising that there will be a strong opposition.

Gao pragmatically feels that Zhu Yijun still chooses to sacrifice the killing rod to stand up for himself, firstly, because he has been deeply influenced by himself in the past ten years, secondly, because of his strong desire to change the status quo, and thirdly, because he ...... That's a matter of his personal employment habits.

If the first fire was extinguished by himself, it would obviously not be in line with his habit of employing people. And he can't slap himself in the face so easily, even if he is a Song Shenzong once, he has to protect the "Wang Anshi" of Gao Pragmatic now.

However, Gao is very clear that this only shows that his current political situation is not dangerous, but it does not mean that he is always safe.

Whether it is safe or not depends on whether the implementation of fiscal reform is smooth and whether the dividends after the reform are abundant.

If the implementation of the reform is not smooth, to put it more seriously, for example, if there is another big mess like the Northwest Rebellion, it is difficult to say whether Zhu Yijun can continue to support it.

It is true that he is Gao Pragmatic's classmate, but he is first of all the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to grit his teeth and not let go of the danger of chaos in the world, so he has to accompany Gao Pragmatic to die together, and by the way, he will accompany the ancestors to accompany the funeral.

That's not the emperor, that's a stupid bird.

It is also important whether the dividends after the reform are abundant. If the reform is completed with great effort, and the annual income is only 180,000 more, thinking about it, I know that Zhu Yijun will definitely feel that it is not worth it in his heart.

Let the emperor regret it, can Gao Pragmatic still have good fruits to eat? Even if he doesn't talk about it, his dependence on high pragmatism will be greatly reduced.

Fortunately, this is all a later story, Gao pragmatic is still more confident in the "efficacy" of commercial tax reform, and the real difficulty is the implementation process.

Commercial tax reform is easy to handle in the north, but the difficulty lies in the south. Especially in the south of Zhili, Zhejiang is the most difficult, and what is even more troublesome is that it is not directly under the control of the household department - it has to pass through the Nanjing household department in the middle, which makes it even more difficult.

Gao pragmatic thought about it, and the fingers of his right hand habitually tapped rhythmically on the armrest, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Liu Xin, who had been sitting not far from him, finally broke the silence and asked, "The emperor supports you so strongly, don't you want to thank you or something?" ”

Gao was stunned for a moment, and then smiled dumbly: "I thank you?" ”

Liu Xin was a little surprised by his reaction and asked, "Shouldn't it?" ”

"Of course not." Gao pragmatically shook his head and said, "You really don't seem to know much about these things in the court. At this moment, not only can I not express my gratitude, but I even have to hurry up and persuade the emperor to withdraw his order and not punish those four unlucky people. ”

Liu Xin was a little stunned, but with a roll of her eyes, she seemed to understand again, and suddenly said, "Oh, this is ...... Is this an attempt to get away with it? ”

"No, it's not lustful indulgence, it's really trying to persuade - you can understand that this is the internal tacit understanding of the civilian bureaucracy." Gao Shishi smiled slightly, and added: "But I just need to say it with emotion, whether the emperor adopts it or not, that is not something I can decide." Not to mention...... The emperor also has his own set of understanding of this kind of recital, do you understand? ”

"Understood." Liu Xin reacted quickly this time, shrugged her shoulders: "It's just to show that you are elegant and elegant, and you have a broad mind that repays grievances with virtue or something." ”

Gao Shishi laughed, and then quipped: "Now that you know, why are you still stunned?" Hurry up and study the ink, the main hall wants to show me my elegance and elegance, and the broad-mindedness of repaying grievances with virtue or something......"

Liu Xin gave him a blank look, but got up obediently and walked towards the study.

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