Chapter 127: Before the Wind Rises
Liu Xin asked, "Do you have any judgments or guesses?" β
"Yes, there is a point, but there is not much certainty at the moment." Gao Pragmatic shook his head slightly: "Shen Longjiang (Shen Li, called Longjiang) is now the head of the Ministry of Households, and among the six departments, he is only the official of the Ministry of Officials, even if the emperor wants to transfer him, as long as he is not demoted, he needs to at least remain in the list of the Seven Secretaries, and now there is a vacancy in the Ministry of Industry among the Seven Secretaries - Yang Mengjing (Yang Zhao) begged for retirement before the Northwest Rebellion, and now the Ministry of Industry is empty. β
Qiqing, that is, the six Shangshu plus the imperial history of the left capital.
Liu Xin said: "Isn't that a coincidence? Maybe it's for this reason that the emperor wants to move Shen Li's position. β
Who knew that Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said, "This is not the case." You only know one but you don't know the other, although the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry has not been decided, but according to the news sent to me by Chen Ju before, the emperor seems to be more interested in Shi Dongquan (Shi Xing). In addition, the day before I arrived in Beijing, Heiding got the latest news that the stepmother of Zhao Yuanpu (Zhao Jin), the imperial history of the left capital, had died, and the news should reach Jingshi within two days today and tomorrow. β
Liu Xin was a little surprised: "Shi Xing? He seems to be the left squire of the military department now, is he still ranked ahead of you? β
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, he, the left waiter, is still before me, and when he is placed in our time, he is probably equivalent to the executive deputy - I only take care of the Beijing camp, and he is to assist Liang Mingquan Gong to 'grasp the comprehensive'." β
"Your explanation is easy to understand." Liu Xin praised with a smile, and said, "Then what happened to Zhao Jin's dead stepmother?" Do you have to worry about the death of your stepmother? β
Gao pragmatic said: "As long as it is his father's wife, whether it is 'step' or not, he can worry." β
"Okay?" Liu Xin noticed that Gao pragmatic pronounced these two words a little heavily, so she asked: "In other words, he can actually 'can't worry'?" β
"In principle, you should be worried, but the stepmother's words ...... If he is very favored, he may also be robbed. This love is different from Zhang Taiyue's love in the original history, and this is generally not widely criticized by the speech official - as long as this stepmother does not have many years of nurturing grace for him. β
Liu Xin thought for a while: "Then since you mentioned this matter, you must be guessing that the emperor will not win love?" β
"That's the key." Gao pragmatic said solemnly: "If it was an ordinary time, the emperor would have won love at this time, but at the moment, there are too many radishes and not enough pits." If the emperor still wants to promote Shi Xing to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, then Shen Li has no place to arrange it, and Zhao Jin ...... at this time I estimate that the emperor will most likely let him go home and worry about it. β
"The Heart Sect has suffered a big loss this time!" Liu Xin was surprised: "I heard that Zhao Jin is a person who learns from the heart. β
"Yes, he is a hardcore learner, and he once taught Wang Yangming."
Liu Xin was surprised: "Teacher Wang Yangming? Then he shouldn't be young, right? β
"It's not small, he was born in the eleventh year of Zhengde, and he was a Jinshi in the twenty-third year of Jiajing, only one subject later than my third uncle, and one subject of gold list earlier than Zhang Taiyue." Gao pragmatic said, and added: "Counting it up, he is seventy years old this year, and he should have been Zhishi two years earlier, but no one on the side of the Heart School watched the basic plate of this Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he had to let Zhao Jinjiang do it." This is also one of the reasons why I think the emperor will let him return to his hometown to guard the system. β
"Just because he used to be a teacher of Wang Yangming, so Shen Shixing would rather use such an old man to guard the basic plate of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy?" Liu Xin couldn't help but be a little surprised, she felt that this reason didn't seem to be sufficient.
Gao pragmatically said: "Then it can't be said that Zhao Jin still has some prestige in Shilin and officialdom, because he once impeached Yan Song." β
"Really? Didn't you say that Yan Song's downfall was the credit of Xu Jie? β
Gao was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that there are still a lot of places to make up for this history class, the problem of Yan Song's downfall is quite complicated, I can't understand it in a few words, let's talk about it next time, let's talk about Zhao Jin first." β
Liu Xin's face flushed, she also knew that her historical level was not good, so she didn't dare to argue, so she had to agree silently.
Gao pragmatic said: "When Yan Song was in power, not no one dared to impeach, and Zhao Jin was one of them. It was the New Year's Day of the 32nd year of Jiajing, and there happened to be a solar eclipse. You should know that solar eclipses are often used under the addition of the doctrine of celestial and human induction, well, Zhao Jin used it once to impeach Yan Song......"
Gao Pragmatic told Liu Xin the information he had read when compiling the canon, and at that time, Zhao Jin took the appearance of the solar eclipse as the fulfillment of the traitorous government, that is, the impeachment of Yan Song in the book. That impeachment is quite weighty, roughly like this: (In view of the fact that many readers and friends have found the ancient text difficult to understand, the following is a simple "translation".) )
"There was a solar eclipse on New Year's Day, and the mutation was very different. In addition, Shandong, Xu, Huai and other places are still flooded every year, and earthquakes are frequent in all directions. In the past, Emperor Taizu Gao dismissed the prime minister and delegated the power of the prime minister to the divisions, and how far-reaching the consideration was for future generations. Although the current cabinet does not have the name of the prime minister, it has the real power of the prime minister, which is not the original intention of Emperor Gao.
Previously, Xia Yan was greedy and violent. Now Yan Song, a university scholar, has favored Zhang Wei after Xia Yan as a traitorous hero, stealing power and indulging in desires, no matter how big or small, all are self-dictated. If anyone disobeys him, he will surely be in trouble, and he sighed in fear. When the affairs of the world are not reported to the imperial court, they should first report it to him.
The people who reported to him lined up at his door, and those who begged and bribed him, gathered at his house like a sea of rivers. The officials inspected the promotion of officials and the personnel deployment of the military department, and all acted according to his wishes.
When the border ministers were wrecked, all military funds were cut and bribed by Yan Song, so that those who did not succeed could be rewarded, and those who were guilty could escape punishment. As a result, the raids of the lords of the clan and the gifts of the ministers of civil and military affairs, whether they are given or deprived, all depend on whether they bribe more or less. So that those who climb up by unscrupulous means depreciate themselves. The title is very unspeakable, shameful, and there are other things that the minister can't bear to say.
His Majesty is the Holy Spirit of Heaven, and he is in charge alone. Since the decision is made by the palace, the question is covered in the divisions, and the ministers intend to take the decision. The manuscripts of the divisions are all under Yan Song's orders, how can Your Majesty know this? Now Xia Yan has been punished, and Yan Song has been able to do evil, Xia Yan is violent and shallow, and it is easy to be found to be evil, while Yan Song is soft and deep, and it is difficult to be known for evil.
Yan Song's ingenuity in watching and welcoming seems to be loyal and diligent; His flattering posture seems to be submissive. He introduced and cultivated private parties, arranged them in important places, and observed the movements and intentions of the ministers, all of whom knew the situation first, so most of them were able to claim the order. 117
or to look into the heart of the Divine Will, and act accordingly to achieve his own ends; Or take the opportunity of a certain event, so as to agitate to let his poisonous spirit unleashed.
If Your Majesty thinks about this, you will find that it originally originated in the imperial court; If the world refers to this, it does not come from the government. Fortunately, if he was moved by the Sacred Heart, the priests were punished instead of Yan Song; If it is unfortunate and passed on to future generations, His Majesty will suffer on behalf of Yan Song. How can Your Majesty really regard Yan Song as a virtuous person?
Since Yan Song assisted the government, it is only a reward for grievances, as long as someone delivers goods and bribes, they will be accepted. The ministers were afraid of getting trouble in secret, so they did not dare to state their loyalty directly; The Quartet is accustomed to the wind of greedy ink, and Lu Yan is trapped by sorrow day by day.
Soon after Gengxu, foreign invaders were rampant. His Majesty once recruited the world's brave men to fill the army, exhausted the world's financial resources to provide military salaries, collected the world's remnants and talents to serve as generals, and carried out extraordinary rewards, showing the profound imperial authority, so as to show the inside and outside.
However, the feudal ministers did not forgive His Majesty's worries day and night. Because the ministers in power are selfish, the officials are popular, and they take deduction as the top priority, and they can make progress by drilling camps. As a result, above the court, the unvirtuous who are appointed is not the virtuous who are not appointed; The reward is not appropriate for merit, and the punishment is not appropriate for sin.
Your Majesty wants to achieve peace, so the ministers are not enough to be virtuous; His Majesty wants to curb the Rong Kou, so the soldiers are not enough to resist the frontier. The money has been exhausted, and the external troubles have not been calmed down; The people are already in great distress, and they are worried that internal changes are about to happen. Your Majesty is holy, anxious and diligent, it has been like this for thirty-two years, and the general trend of the world is so dangerous, how could it reach such a point if it wasn't for Yan Song's treachery?
The minister hopes that His Majesty will watch the vertical image of the heavens, observe the subtlety of the ancestors' legislation, the power cannot be transferred to others, and the discipline can not make it chaotic, and immediately reprimand Yan Song, in response to the changes of the sky, then the court will be clear, and the law and discipline will be revitalized. Although Kou Rong is horizontal, the minister knows that he is not peaceful. β
There is one point that needs to be explained in this impeachment: Zhao Jin cited Xia Yan's "bad" example in the impeachment to compare Yan Song, which does not mean that he really thinks Xia Yan is "bad". It's just that Xia Yan was personally ordered by Jiajing to be killed and abandoned at that time, and he was not rehabilitated, so no matter what Zhao Jin thinks in his own heart, he can only treat Xia Yan as a "bad guy" in the impeachment.
Liu Xin listened, nodded and said: "From this point of view, this Zhao Jin was still quite bold at that time, and dared to impeach Yan Song when he was the most ambitious, if I remember correctly, Jiajing trusted Yan Song at that time." β
Gao pragmatic smiled, and didn't know what he meant, only to hear him continue: "It's good to be brave, but this matter has made him miserable." β
Probably because Zhao Jinnai is a member of the Heart School, Liu Xin was not too nervous when she heard it, but asked with a smile: "What?" Did he get a cane? β
Gao pragmatically said: "It's almost, maybe even worse than the court staffβbut it's because of this that he has the reputation he has now." β
It turned out that Zhao Jin's impeachment at that time was indeed not the right time, because at that time, Yang Jisheng happened to be severely condemned for impeaching Yan Song, and Emperor Jiajing was waiting for other people who said this. Zhou Mian was also imprisoned for arguing about the merit, and Zhao Jin's Shuzhang just arrived.
Of course, Jiajing was furious, and personally reviewed his sparse chapter, saying that Zhao Jin deceived the heavens and slandered the king, sent a special envoy to arrest Zhao Jinzhi for the crime, and gave Yan Song a consolation message. So Zhao Jin was escorted back from thousands of miles away, during which he also fell off the threshold car many times, and almost died several times.
After arriving in the capital, he was tortured and interrogated by the edict and prison, and the final decision was to beat him with a stick and beat him to 40 and denounce him as a citizen. His father, Zhao Xun, was a senator in Guangxi at this time, and he was also impeached and removed from office.
Immediately after Zhao Jin lived at home for fifteen years, until the first emperor Muzong ascended the throne, because of the various rehabilitations of the prisoners in the Jiajing period, Zhao Jin was used as the old official, and soon promoted to Taichang Shaoqing, and did not take office, and was promoted to Guangluqing, until he was promoted to the imperial history of the left capital.
In addition to the impeachment of Yan Song in the process of Zhao Jin's official office, there is also a relatively shining credit, that is, when the first year of Longqing was just the deceased official, he took the title of the right deputy capital imperial history as the governor of Guizhou, and once captured the traitor Miao Longde Yucha and others. The local big toast and the consolation envoy An has always been unruly, but he was afraid of Zhao Jin's "righteous name" of impeaching Yan Song, so he served him. After this incident, Zhao Jin was transferred to the imperial court as the secretary of Dali, and the left and right attendants of the Ministry of Labor.
After hearing this, Liu Xin was surprised: "You really know these ministers of the DPRK and China well, have you usually collected their information?" β
"That's what the Black Top does." Gao pragmatic said lightly: "The so-called material is like a god, in fact, it is better to say that it is like a god, only by knowing what kind of person the other party is, can you guess what he will do." If a person comes out of nowhere, I don't know anything about him, and he doesn't have a way to make a move, then it is naturally impossible for me to see the move, let alone ambush in advance, if I still want to win...... can only be the same as when dealing with Liang Bangrui's family, and forcibly break it by force. β
Liu Xin smiled: "I think that breaking the method is more relieving - I just want to kill you, and you can only wait for death, there is no way at all." Look, how domineering. β
"There are advantages and disadvantages to domineering. The good thing is that since that time, no one in the shopping mall near Jingshi Zuo has dared to disobey Jinghuayang, let alone grin.
But there are also a lot of disadvantages, after seeing Jinghua's hand, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium did not know whether it was taken by the majesty, or envied the prestige, and even gave up a lot of internal intrigues, and began to hug the group to fight against Jinghua's 'southern invasion'. Even, Liu Shouyou's original incident and Pan Sheng's affair are a little bit ...... for me to deal with Liang Bangrui's family Ripple associations. β
Liu Xin wrinkled her nose: "Oh, that still doesn't seem to be a good deal." β
Gao pragmatic smiled: "That's why people say that they want to make money in harmony and be a low-key official." β
Liu Xin glanced at him: "You don't have to instill in me more about your way of being an official, and I am not an official if I am left and right, what I am curious about now is that if you go to the top of the household department, the imperial history of Zuodu will really give Shen Li...... Can that Shin Yuanfu agree? β
"If this is all there is to it, I think Shen Yuanfu may not be very happy." Gao Shishi shook his head slightly: "But the emperor is no longer the little prince he was at the beginning, I guess he must still have the means to appease Shen Yuanfu." β
Liu Xin became interested: "Really? This is the loss of a metropolitan procuratorate, what compensation does the emperor have to give to his Mr. Shen? β
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