Chapter 164: The city is full of wind and rain and it is nearly dusk

Li Bing is very clear about one thing.

That is, after he has done this thing, it will be the end of his political life.

First of all, we must understand one thing.

Where does Li Bing's political prestige come from?

What is the confidence that makes him dare to speak out?

Is it the position of his minister's book?

No, it is Li Bing's moral cultivation in his heart, and Li Zhengzheng's flawless character for decades, which has been admired by the Quartet. This is the reason why Li Bing dared to come out to confront Zhu Qizhen.

With Zhu Qizhen's previous style, how is Li Bingzai, at most, he is dismissed from office, just like Liu Qiu.

Although Liu Qiu was deposed by Zhu Qizhen in the way of being sick. But Liu Qiu's death was when he returned to his hometown and ended up depressed. It has nothing to do with Zhu Qizhen. But if Liu Qiu can think about it a little and be a little bigger-minded, he will still be a moral gentleman who is a quiet monk of the Ming Dynasty.

It's like Cao Nai's now.

Although it is unlikely that he will return to Beijing, he has been in Nanjing for so many years, and he is regarded as a veteran and important minister at home, and this treatment is not bad.

In this way, it does not mean that Li Bing is greedy for life and afraid of death.

It's about Li Bing's real confidence.

But Zhu Qizhen arranged this errand for him, just to let Li Bing use his own spear and attack his own shield.

Li Bing's moral integrity, as well as his persistence for decades, will not allow him to bend the law for personal gain. But now this time, the Ministry of Officials, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the East Factory, and the Jinyi Guard, six parts of the joint action.

Li Bing can no longer influence the final result.

Dali Temple is an important part, but when it is juxtaposed with these departments, it seems that people are soft-spoken, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is scattered.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is Liu Qiu's basic plate, but after Zhu Qizhen won Liu Qiu, he didn't like the monolithic Metropolitan Procuratorate very much, so he naturally moved his hands and feet, and split the Metropolitan Procuratorate internally.

Moreover, the Metropolitan Procuratorate naturally has a split gene, which is manifested in the system of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and each imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has an independent right to perform, that is, if you are not in harmony with your boss, you can play alone without your boss.

Liu Qiu used his words and deeds to impress the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and none of his successors could do it.

It is not easy for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to have a unified voice in this matter.

The Criminal Department is Xu Youzhen's basic plate, and the tendencies of the Criminal Department are self-evident, as for Jinyiwei and Dongchang, they are the slaves of the Son of Heaven.

Even though Li Bing is presiding over this matter, when it is really time to make a decision, Li Bing can't control it at all.

In this way, it does not mean that Li Bing has the intention to bend the law for personal gain.

In every Jingcha, Li Bing is iron-faced and selfless. But the problem is that the law is dead and man is alive. Different lawyers will have different results for the same crime. Not to mention antiquity

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The ancient law was more flexible, and the presiding judge had more room for weight.

Moreover, with his keen political sense, Li Bing knew more clearly that this matter was not necessarily the emperor's dissatisfaction with the rule of officials, but the emperor's dissatisfaction with the current dark tide among the hundreds of officials.

Therefore, this time the joint Jingcha is more likely to be the emperor's purge. And this one thing was done by his hands.

These high-level officials in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen can basically control them.

But the middle- and lower-level officials are not easy to control.

That's why there is this kind of undercurrent.

And Li Bingchai was not wrong.

What Zhu Qizhen wants is a big purge.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen's purge can't be as severe. But it has to beat all kinds of complicated relationships in the court.

For different people, it is natural to have different means.

For those who stand up and fight with Zhu Qizhen on top of the law and do not agree, Zhu Qizhen is still relatively tolerant, such as in the Hanlin Academy, and many Confucians in the opposition.

Peng, a bachelor of Hanlin, and Wu and Bi are representatives.

Zhu Qizhen didn't do much of them. Even some of their opinions will be adopted. On many things, Zhu Qizhen is still interested in listening to objections.

But the officials at the executive level all over the court, Zhu Qizhen can't tolerate it.

In Zhu Qizhen's opinion, these people should not be pointing fingers at the imperial court.

This is also Zhu Qizhen's response to the dark tide among the hundred officials. Let them know what the power of the Son of Heaven is.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen will not wronged people.

But how? Looking at an official with a magnifying glass, there are few who are not faulty, in fact, Zhu Qizhen has mastered a large amount of black material from various departments from the Jinyi Guard of the East Factory.

Some are naturally greedy people, while others are stereotypes of the department. Then there is the problem of the test method. Many officials are inextricably linked.

And Zhu Qizhen is not going to clean up all the officials.

This time, the unprecedentedly strict Jingcha, the people who have problems will naturally not give up, and all of them will be cleaned up, those who should be imprisoned will be imprisoned, and those who should be dismissed will be dismissed.

If you really hold yourself upright, then you can also be promoted, such as putting it in the local area.

However, these vacancies can be transferred from the local government to support the reform of the law and enter the center.

In this way, the direction of public opinion in the imperial court will change. Even if there are still people who secretly oppose it, they don't dare to come forward when they think about it.

This time, Zhu Qizhen deliberately excluded the military. After all, the war in the Western Regions is still ongoing.

Li Bingyi thought of these things in an instant.

Zhu Qizhen asked him to do it himself and cleaned up the people who supported him against the new law. But what if he wanted to figure it out? This is a conspiracy.

He doesn't

It is possible to abandon one's own principles, there can be no tendencies. Even if there is, there is no way, the only thing that can be done is to review more severely.

But Zhu Qizhen doesn't care about this.

There are officials in the world.

Even this may not be useful for Zhu Qizhen.

Nowadays, many students from several universities have graduated from middle schools in various places, and most of them are officials in at least six departments.

This time, although the Jingcha was severe, it was still limited to the officials, and it had not yet reached the officials.

It's not that I don't want to, because the workload of examining most officials is already very large, and the workload of adding a large number of officials will be even greater.

The more severe it is, the more vacancies.

If the number of officials who have been made up is not enough, they can actually be promoted from among the officials.

Anyway, many ministries work, in Zhu Qizhen's view, do not need any knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, among the several yamen of the Beijing Division, only a few yamen such as the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy must be proficient in Confucianism.

When Li Bing was summoned into the Qianqing Palace, he was still solemn and full of neutrality, but when Li Bing came out of the Qianqing Palace, he lost his soul and seemed to be torn out.

"Master Li, what's wrong with you?" Peng Shi, a bachelor of Hanlin, and Zhou Hongmo, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and a priest of the country, Chen Chen. More than a dozen officials, large and small, surrounded Li Bing.

Li Bing's eyes swept over everyone, sighed, and said, "Let's do it ourselves." Then he flicked his sleeves and left.

Li Bing didn't know that how many of these dozen or so people could escape in this storm.

And what Li Bing did here, someone naturally reported it to Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen looked at this list and smiled lightly.

Of course, these dozen or so people do not have any big officials, cabinet scholars, and scholars, but there are also no minor officials, and each of them has the strength to run for Shangshu.

For example, Zhou Hongmo, if it weren't for Zhou Hongmo's inclination at the Biyong meeting, he would actually be the first choice of the Ministry of Rites, rather than being preempted by the merchant with the name of the department behind.

Whether there was an accidental injury or not, Zhu Qizhen didn't care.

Even if there is a mistake, it is self-inflicted, and at this time, when you are close to Li Bing, do you really don't know what happened just now, or do you not know?

Zhu Qizhen has a Zhu pen to erase these dozen names one by one. Then he handed it to Huai En and said, "Show this note to the people of Dongchang Jinyiwei, and let Xu Youzhen take a look." ”

"Remember, don't frame me or anything, if it's really spotless, aren't there still a few places in Nanjing?"

Wynne said, "The slave understands, so go now." ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and asked Huaien to do his errands. Then he put down the pen, sighed lightly, watched the sunset light shine on the table, and sighed: "The city is full of wind and rain and it is almost dusk." ”