The impeachment of Pan Sheng was made with a decisive decision from Gao Shipra, so who should impeach him must of course be arranged.

Gao Pragmatic himself will definitely not come forward in this kind of impeachment of cabinet ministers, at least not in person from the beginning, this is the basic rule.

It's like playing chess, you don't hear of the start, you move the general, handsome.

Sitting in the middle of the army and instigating the overall situation, this is the job of the "general", as for the rush to kill and gallop, there are naturally soldiers under his hands and even chariots, horses and artillery to do.

Who should be the first to do such an impeachment? Of course, it is the supervision officer, that is, the science and technology officer.

The power of the Ming generation of supervisory officials was very great, and the targets of impeachment were also very wide, regardless of their rank and status. Supervisory officials can all be impeached by all relatives of the emperor, hundreds of officials who have honored the old and old, and even grassroots soap officials, young scholars, and even officials in the same office.

Throughout the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the background and opportunities for the impeachment incident are also numerous, and they have obvious characteristics of the times. There are impeachments in the context of major political events, as well as impeachments in the context of certain specific systems, as well as impeachments against officials' personal style and behavior.

Judging from the records of "Ming Shilu", the era when the most impeachment cases occurred in the Ming Dynasty and the most intensively was the Longqing Dynasty - you read that right, it was the Longqing period of good people and little bees.

During the Longqing period, an average of 12.5 impeachment cases were recorded in the "Actual Record" every year, which was the peak since the founding of the Ming Dynasty; This was followed by the Xuande period, with an average of 11.3 impeachment cases per year, and the Jingtai period, with an average of 10.375 impeachment cases per year.

The record of Emperor Chongzhen, the "popular saint", is neither high nor low, with an average of 7 pieces per year.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, which had the "Great Rites Discussion", only 4.67 impeachment cases were recorded in the "Records of King Sejong" every year. This may seem strange at first glance, but it's not.

First of all, the "Jiajing" period is very long, as long as 45 years, and the Great Rites Discussion is a matter in the early stage of Jiajing, and in the later period, due to the Jiajing Emperor's scheming, although the struggle is fierce, the court itself is still relatively stable. Especially when Yan Song was in power, he monopolized power, and of course ordinary people did not dare to impeach him indiscriminately.

In turn, this can explain why there are so many impeachment cases in Longqing: in the first year of Longqing, Xu Jie and Gao Gong fought each other, and the two sides had already set a record from the impeachment of "Xiaobing" all the way to the "boss"; Later, Gao Gong returned to the dynasty to help Longqing clean up the mess, and he had to impeach a few people who did not cooperate with the work.

However, Emperor Longqing himself died young, so of course, the impeachment case is very intensive.

In fact, the largest number of impeachment cases recorded in the "Actual Records" in the original history was set by Wanli, who recorded a total of 240 impeachment cases in the "Records of the Divine Sect" during his 48-year reign; followed by Wanli's grandfather, Emperor Jiajing, who recorded a total of 210 times; The second is the Orthodox year, with as many as 182 times.

Miraculously, during Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu years, in his 31-year reign, there were only 63 impeachments, an average of about two per year.

Statistics of this thing are not idle and idle, but from this, it can be seen that the performance of impeachment by officials in the Ming Dynasty has distinct stage characteristics.

During the reign of the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty, the overall political situation was stable, the political struggle was not very fierce, and the impeachment act generally operated within a relatively stable and orderly institutional framework.

After Xuande, the number of impeachments gradually increased, and reached its peak among orthodoxy, which was closely related to the eunuch Yu Xing's large-scale interference in court politics during the Yingzong period.

In the Hongzhi Dynasty, there were signs of decline again, which should be the result of the revival of Hongzhi and the improvement of the political atmosphere.

After that, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, on the whole, it can be said that impeachment became more and more widespread, and it was always in a high situation, which also shows the tragedy of the political struggle in the late Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was already in the past, although Gao Pragmatic had compiled the "Ming Huidian" and knew about it, but he didn't care much about it, what he really cared about was the present.

In other words, it is the trend of the situation after Jiajing.

In terms of the original history, the Ming Dynasty after Jiajing was considered to have entered a later stage. During this period, political events came and went, and they did not decline until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Along with these major political events, impeachment has played an important role in them, as has been the case with almost every political event.

In addition to various major political events, in the operation of certain specific systems, such as the imperial examination, as well as the appointment and dismissal, evaluation, and promotion of officials, and even when officials make official appointments and seize affection, they can also be found in the process of impeachment.

In the operation of these systems, along with the promotion of officials, the balance of political interests is tilted, and there will inevitably be fights, and impeachment will be born in this situation.

Judging from the records of the "Actual Record", the most common and powerful impeachments are probably the following four: one is the impeachment of Jingcha; Second, it is called the impeachment of Tingtui; 3. The impeachment of affection; Fourth, it is called the impeachment of the imperial examination.

At the Chongyang Conference, Zhang Yigui thought of finding trouble for Wang Xijue by going back to investigate the fraud case in the scientific examination, also because of the huge power of the impeachment of the imperial examination, as for Wang Xijue's several examiner careers, there was no pigtail to catch...... That's another thing, it doesn't mean that there is a problem with Zhang Yigui's thinking, the problem is just that "the operability for specific objects is not strong".

And this time, Gao Shishi wants to launch an impeachment case against Pan Sheng, which is one of the four major impeachment cases, the "impeachment of Tingtui".

The so-called court push refers to the system in which when important official positions in the imperial court are vacant, the courtiers nominate candidates for appointment by the emperor.

According to the Ming system, ministers enter the cabinet or are recommended by the court, or are subject to special orders, and when they are executed, they are "cabinet...... The court pushes two people" - that is, the cabinet provides two candidates for the emperor to choose one of them.

Of course, the emperor can not only choose from these two candidates, if he is really dissatisfied with these two candidates, he can also ask the cabinet to redraft candidates, or even simply bypass the cabinet and directly "enter the cabinet".

Disputes are inevitable due to the small number of places; In addition, those who have the right to sponsor are all important ministers of Jiuqing, who have a certain right to speak and supporters, so the complexity of the struggle is deepened, and the impeachment situation caused by the court push in the Ming Dynasty is also focused on the paradoxical political climate at the end of the period.

However, according to Gao Pragmatic's view, the most famous Tingtui impeachment case in the original history should have occurred in the late Wanli period.

In the 35th year of Wanli, when the court promoted the cabinet ministers, Li Tingji, who has now become a protégé of Gao Pragmatism, was among them, and he was resolutely opposed by Cao Yuchen and others, who belonged to the Donglin Party. Later, although Li Tingji joined the cabinet with the support of Wanli and even became the first assistant, he was always resisted, and even attacked by dozens of people, and finally left simply after many resignations.

Coincidentally, soon after, Li Sancai, the governor of Fengyang, was nominated to take charge of the affairs of the Imperial Court under the operation of the Donglin Party, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Zhejiang Party.

So in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, under the instigation of Shen Zheng, Shao Fuzhong of the Ministry of Industry Tuntian Shilang impeached Li Sancai for "being a traitorous like loyalty, a big fraud like a straight person, and a greedy and dangerous person", and tried his best to prevent him from ascending to the throne, which eventually led to Li Sancai's resignation and return.

In fact, if you only talk about ability, then Li Tingji can be regarded as well-organized, honest and cautious; And Li Sancai is also quite politically capable, "the world is virtuous with three talents". If these two people occupy their positions, they may be of benefit to the government.

However, when fighting for a party, the first thing to look at is never ability, but faction.

It's just that Gao Pragmatic is currently very open at this point: Pan Sheng's ability...... It's not bad, but it's really not irreplaceable, get Pan Sheng down, he really uses people on the side of the school to be on top.

After all, Pan Sheng is in charge of the Ministry of Rites.

The work of the Ministry of Rites, to put it mildly, who can't do this for anyone who is a Jinshi in everything? If you really want to talk about the requirements for ability, no matter which of the other five departments, is higher than the Ministry of Rites, especially "business ability".

Take the Longqing Dynasty as an example, it is definitely better to let the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War, such as Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, be in charge of the government, than to let Li Chunfang go up, and there is no need to even explain.

The Chongyang Conference dinner ended, and the guests gradually dispersed, but a few people stayed after being quietly notified by the Gao family.

The people who stayed were interesting, two pairs of brothers.

Xiao Liangyou, Xiao Liangyu brothers, as well as Wang Tingshu and Wang Tingyu brothers.

Interestingly, Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuo, the two who entered Gengchenke's "Sanding Jia" with Gao Pragmatic, have now become the "new backbone" that everyone in the Gao Party is optimistic about, and even the brothers with the two of them are also highly praised by the Shixue School.

Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingshu are optimistic, which is easier to understand, after all, they were originally Sandingjia, but they were "heavenly immortals". Although the two of them have been in the Hanlin Academy for several years, they have made a lot of credit when they followed Gao Pragmatic to compile the "Daming Huidian", and they both promoted from editing to revision, and they have not been promoted since then.

However, their resumes are placed here, and it is the same year of high pragmatism, which is naturally regarded as the arm of high pragmatism in the future, and the predecessors of the practical school and the senior brothers of high pragmatism are of course able to help a little, although it is not easy to promote, but to say good things, there is nothing to fill in their evaluation "excellent", that is not a gesture?

But Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu are optimistic, which can only be said to be too big for Gao Pragmatic - Xiao Liangyu is the fifty-sixth in the second class, and the selection of the Shu Jishi Pavilion was not passed, and he stayed in Beijing as an official; Wang Tingyu's ranking is even more ranked 135th in the top three, and there is no play at all in the selection of the museum, but he also got a stay in Beijing as an official.

Staying in Beijing as an official is originally regarded as a good place to go in the past, even if you go to be a magistrate and "the ruling party", it is not as good as staying in Beijing.

And their career after staying in Beijing is also very smooth, to a certain extent, it is better than the brother who mixed seniority in the Hanlin Academy.

This can be seen by looking at their current positions: Xiao Liangyu was the supervisor of Zhejiang Province at the time (not a patrol), and Wang Tingyu was the official department at the time.

At this moment, in the water pavilion in the backyard garden of the White Jade Building, Gao Pragmatic and the two pairs of brothers had been talking for a while.

"That's roughly the case, what do the four young brothers think?" Gao Pragmatic talked about what happened at the Chongyang Conference, and got to the point.

Xiao and Wang glanced at each other, and they were very clear about Gao's pragmatic intentions, which must have implied that they had impeached Pan Sheng.

Xiao Liangyu immediately opened his mouth first, and said: "I am the Imperial History of Zhejiang Dao, and Pan Ge Lao happens to be from Zhejiang, so I am naturally obligated to do this." ”

In fact, this does not make sense in theory, and the supervision of the imperial history in a certain place is not managed according to the place of household registration, and it has nothing to do with whether Pan Sheng is from Zhejiang or not.

However, Gao Pragmatic would not dwell on this, he knew that Xiao Liangyu was just looking for a reason for himself to make a move, so he smiled and said: "Brother Nian's Xiongwen, I have read it many times in the past few years, and I guess this shot will definitely hit it with one hit." ”

Wang Tingyu saw that Xiao Liangyu took the lead, and he was not to be outdone: "Although the court is not talented, but he also has a deep hatred for such ungrateful people, and he will play a bullet tomorrow to echo Brother Xiao." ”

Gao pragmatically nodded with satisfaction, and thanked him: "Thank you two young brothers for your righteous action." ”

The two of them were busy and didn't dare.

Gao pragmatic paused, and then said: "By the way, there is one thing about this impeachment, although the two young brothers must know it in their hearts, but pragmatic still has to say more, I hope the two young brothers will not be pragmatic and nagging." ”

The two of them were busy and didn't dare.

Gao pragmatic said word by word: "In this impeachment, we must talk about things and people - those who are on the matter only say that Pan Xinchang's entry into the court has caused controversy in the court, and he has never made a pleading speech; As far as people are concerned, that is, only Pan Xinchang is mentioned alone, remember not to mention others, and do not expand the scope of the attack. ”

Well, Gao Pragmatic said politely before, but when it came to the specific arrangement of things, the tone of his speech obviously had a feeling of "explaining the main points of the task".

Of course, there is no way to do it, after all, he is the one who speaks, this is an objective reality.

However, when he said this, both of them seemed to be a little incomprehensible. Xiao Liangyu was better, but he frowned slightly, as if he was in thought, and Wang Tingyu asked with some surprise: "Don't expand the scope of the attack?" Kung Bao is saying not to bring a stroke to other people in the Xinxue faction? ”

Before Gao Shishi could speak, Wang Tingyu's brother Wang Tingshu spoke first, and pointed to his younger brother: "Especially Shen Yuanfu...... Tiye Hughti. ”

Wang Tingyu was a little puzzled, frowned deeply, looked puzzled, and asked, "But why is this?" Isn't this what Shen Yuanfu did? I always feel that this ...... You don't need to knock on the mountain, right? ”

Gao Shixing understood what he meant, he felt that it was meaningless to "knock on the mountain and shake the tiger", because moving Pan Sheng, Shen Shixing must have understood that the Shixue School was fighting back against him.

However, Wang Tingyu didn't understand that what he meant was not to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, nor was it to startle the snake, this was indeed meaningless. My own meaning is actually very simple: it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers.

What's the use of piggybacking on Shen Shixing now? He just picked up a first assistant, and now that Zhang Siwei has just left, for the emperor, this situation is originally a time to seek stability, unless Shen Shixing wants to rebel, it will be impossible to do anything to Shen Shixing at this time.

In that case, what is the need to act at the right time? It is better to concentrate on beating Pan Sheng down, as long as Pan Sheng is impeached, when other neutral factions want to join the Heart School in the future, they will have to take a closer look and consider whether they are so strong.

"If Pan Xinchang is impeached, then who the Xinxue faction wants to win over in the future, people will have to think about the fate of Pan Xinchang today, so there will be a gap between the three types of people: Xinxue, neutral, and wavering."

Isolate the Xinxue from the neutral faction, and then let some wavering people dare not defect to Shen Shixing again, this is the highly pragmatic "cut you into three sections"!

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