Pan Sheng's resignation this time cannot be regarded as surrender for the time being, because normally speaking, even if the cabinet minister is impeached, his first reaction is to take the initiative to resign to show his innocence.

It can even be said that "even" should not be used here, but "but", because the higher the status of the civil servant, when he is impeached, the more he should resign in time to show his position.

Generally speaking, the emperor will definitely not approve at such a moment, most of them are "warm words to retain", and those extremely favored ministers are retained by the emperor after being impeached, and on the other hand, there are also emperors who issue orders to impeach those who impeach, just like Gao Gong has been treated like this many times back then.

However, Pan Sheng's status in Zhu Yijun's mind is obviously not so high, and what he gets is a simple "warm words to retain", without explaining the reason or blaming the impeacher.

Although Pan Sheng is known for his spit on himself, he still has to be face-saving after all, and the emperor's reaction, he obviously can't take it as a sincere retention, so he has to lock himself up at home and close the door to thank guests.

This is also a routine operation, and even Gao Pragmatic did it last time, which means that I am now "suspended from work for reflection", and you can check how you want, I no longer have the ability to interfere, and I will definitely not hinder judicial fairness.

So the emperor had no choice but to follow the "routine operation" and ordered him to "go out and see things".

Generally at this point, if the outside world does not continue to chase and beat him, then he can return to the cabinet duty, which means that this turmoil has basically been safely passed.

However, since Gao Pragmatic has made a move, of course he will not let him pass the test so easily - this is not a trick, the meaning is over.

So on the day when the emperor ordered Pan Sheng to "go out and look at things", another impeachment was handed to the General Administration.

This time, the person who was impeached was slightly older than Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu, and it was Li Hongdao, who was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli and the then governor of Guizhou Province.

Why was Li Hongdao, the governor of Guizhou Province, able to impeach Pan Sheng? Because according to the Ming system, the so-called "Tao" that supervises the imperial history is in addition to the provincial political secretary. For example, Guizhou Provincial Supervision Imperial History, according to the "Ming Huidian" record, his duty is to "take charge of the Guizhou Political Division, the Department of Inspectors and the Metropolitan Command Division, and assist in the management of the Ministry of Officials and the three prefectures of Suzhou, Hejian and Shunde." (Note: The rest of the provinces also have different "co-management", and this system is to avoid that a certain ministry or place only needs to face a sword of Damocles.) Because there are too many overseers, it is not easy to "deal with them". )

Li Hongdao impeached Pan Sheng precisely because he assisted in the management of Suzhou Prefecture. The reason for his impeachment was that it was discovered that Pan Sheng's nephew had recently acquired a batch of sea vessels and was docked in a private port somewhere in Suzhou. (Note: At this time, the jurisdiction of Suzhou was different from that of later generations, simply put, it was larger, and there was an estuary port.) )

Li Hongdao believed that there must be a problem, so he impeached Pan Sheng for taking advantage of his status and power for personal gain.

The supervision of the imperial history of the Ming Dynasty has always had many privileges, which have been mentioned many times before, and this is a typical "rumor" - Li Hongdao did not come up with any conclusive evidence, just heard that the Pan family had a batch of more sea ships, and he could justifiably impeach a dignified minister.

However, in fact, Li Hongdao is not unable to produce evidence, if necessary, Gao Pragmatic is fully capable of providing him with more detailed data, and can even help him get the confessions of some intermediaries involved in this matter, and even let these people turn back and testify.

This kind of crime is not fatal to the middleman, Gao Pragmatic can spend money to "persuade" them, and they must be willing to be persuaded by Gao Pragmatic in this way.

It's just that it's not necessary.

The result of Gao Pragmatism is only to confirm Pan Sheng's ugly deeds, instead of pulling the entire Heart School out of the decisive battle now, so it would be better to vaguely do it now, anyway, for the emperor, he just needs to know that Pan Sheng is not clean, and what kind of unclean it is not the point.

Some people say that "it is rare to be confused", and this kind of thinking is very appropriate here, because the emperor also knows that some things cannot really be thoroughly investigated, otherwise once the implication is too widespread, everyone will not look good at that time, and it will be troublesome for himself.

However, as long as a regime is established, this situation is basically unavoidable, so it is usually avoided from top to bottom, and the emperor himself will play stupid, because the turmoil of the court is obviously not a good thing for the emperor.

As soon as Li Hongdao's impeachment went up, Pan Sheng, of course, could not "come out and look at things", not only could he not get out, but he had to continue to write self-defense and resignation at home.

But this time was different from the last time, the emperor did not continue to "warm words and retention", but only issued an order to comfort a few words, and at the same time asked the cabinet to write to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, asking the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate the problem and wash away the innocence of Pan Gelao.

Washing away the white clouds, of course, is a kind word, and you can't just look at the literal meaning stupidly. What the emperor actually meant was to ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate to "investigate the matter clearly".

This time, some people are in a hurry.

The person who is anxious is not Pan Sheng, because Pan Sheng has actually prepared for the worst, and he is already thinking about how to return to his hometown.

The person who is anxious is Shen Shixing.

With the power of Zhejiang maritime merchants, Pan Sheng forced Xian to give Wang Xijue, which was a wonderful move that he came up with after thinking for a long time after a sincere conversation with Zhang Cheng. This hand not only perfectly used a trick of "great shift", transferring the pressure brought to him by the maritime merchants to Pan Sheng's head, but also took the opportunity to solve his dilemma of lack of helpers in the cabinet, which is the best of both worlds.

Shen Shixing and Pan Sheng generally hold the same or similar views on the possible reactions of the Shixue School, and both believe that this time will not completely anger the Shixue School, because Zhang Siwei has just been worried, and the Shixue School is facing such a big change, and it must first complete internal adjustments before it can be unified externally.

Shen Shixing believes that before the internal adjustment is completed, the Shixue School should be cautious in the face of any changes in the situation at this time, especially for changes that do not directly cause harm to them, and should turn a blind eye for the time being, so as not to blind the movement and lead to unexpected bad results.

However, since Pan Sheng miscalculated, of course Shen Shixing also miscalculated, Gao pragmatic chose to fight back directly.

But Shen Shixing didn't have time to think carefully about why Gao Shixing was like this now, he only knew that he must not let Pan Sheng fall unexpectedly before recommending Wang Xijue to replace him!

Although he himself is the first assistant, and the first assistant himself can directly recommend the ministers, even if Pan Sheng falls, he can also come forward to recommend Wang Xijue himself.

But in fact, Wang Xijue's entry into the cabinet was recommended by Pan Sheng or Shen Shixing, and there is a big difference.

Pan Sheng's recommendation is nothing, because Pan Sheng is a neutral, and no matter who he recommends, unless it is his own protégé, it will not cause a backlash from the government and the opposition.

But if Shen Shixing himself recommended Wang Xijue, he might be accused of "cronyism" or even "secretly planting henchmen".

As long as the emperor doesn't take this statement seriously, it will not be fatal, but it will also affect his prestige Shen Yuanfu.

Like Gao Shixing, Shen Shixing is extremely reluctant to see the loss of prestige happen.

So at this point, Shen Shixing was much more anxious than Pan Sheng himself, and quietly sent his own housekeeper to visit Pan University's Mansion privately on the same day.

The words that the housekeeper of the Shen Mansion brought to Pan Sheng were Shen Shixing's reminder not to sit still, let alone hope that the Shi School would save him any face this time.

Shen Shixing emphasized that since the other party is still launching a fierce counterattack at such a moment, the biggest possibility is that the main battle faction within the real school has already gained the obvious upper hand, and if you still hope that the other party will let you go, it is simply a pipe dream.

Shen Shixing proposed that Pan Sheng had better quickly mobilize his forces in the court to defend himself - if it was not easy to justify, at least muddy the waters, such as making another major event to divert the attention of the court.

This time, Pan Sheng also hesitated.

Although Shen Shixing did not name names, Pan Sheng certainly knew that the "main battle faction" in Shen Shixing's mouth must be led by Gao Shixing. Because Xu Guo has always been the main peace faction and the moderate faction, and there is no third peak within the practical school, since it is not Xu Guo, of course it is high pragmatism.

However, to this day, Gao Shicheng has no intention of talking to himself, but continues to promote the impeachment case in an orderly manner, obviously not planning to negotiate peace.

It can be expected that Gao Pragmatic must have a back hand in his hands, because until now, those who came forward to impeach him Pan Sheng are still Yanguan, and no one in the upper echelons of the Shi School has followed him to impeach him.

Gao Pragmatism must have the ability to let the high-level people within the Shixue School come forward to discuss the impeachment, and the reason why it has not yet been is that the time has not yet come.

Pan Sheng is almost certain that if he suppresses Li Hongdao's impeachment by any means, Gao Pragmatic will continue to launch further attacks, and most of the people dispatched will not be ordinary superintendents of the imperial history, but most of them will be high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

If things had gotten to that point, Pan Sheng would have really been involved in this party dispute, and unfortunately stood at the center of the storm, and when the time came, he would have wanted to get out of the way, which would have been almost a real dream.

One misstep becomes a thousand hatreds!

Pan Sheng sighed: How did it become like this? The old man just sold the last two years of his career to the Xinxue faction, and this is not what the old man was willing to do. Gao Qiuzhen, Gao Qiuzhen, the old man didn't offend you before, can't you raise your noble hand and let the old man be a glorious man?

It's a pity that it's useless to sigh, how to do Gao Pragmatic, he really can't change it.

Pan Sheng thought about it, and felt that Shen Shixing's proposition was also secretly selfish: he started to fight back now, and even went to muddy the water, will Shen Shixing end up in person when the time comes?

If he ends up in person, it will be confirmed that he has really completely betrayed the principle of neutrality this time and sided with the Heart School, and such a highly pragmatic blow will only come more violently and thoroughly.

At that time, behind Shen Shixing is the entire school of mind, even if he can't beat Gao Pragmatism, at least self-preservation is more than enough, but what is he Pan Sheng in front of the school of truth? It's not much different from being alone, once Shen Shixing is a little weak, he can sell him as cannon fodder when he turns around, and then he Pan someone to cry to?

And if Shen Shixing himself doesn't end up, it will be even more nonsense, just rely on him Pan Sheng and the few protégés under his disciples who can still be moved, and they are also worthy of fighting with the "heir of the lineage" of the Shixue School?

Pan Ge Lao thought ill-intentionedly: Maybe Shen Shixing just wanted to throw a stone to ask for directions, and I, Pan, was just that stone. His purpose is mostly to see how many families Gao Pragmatic has mastered in the real school and how large-scale impeachment can be launched.

Why?

You Shen Shixing want to know yourself and your opponent, and you want to weigh a high and pragmatic catty, so you use the old man as a scale?

Gao pragmatic relied on the Yu Yin of the three generations of Shoufu and the emperor's holy family, and it was just a matter of not taking me Pan seriously, who did you have in Shen Shixing?

Yes, you have already achieved the first assistant, but can your first assistant compare with the situation of the high arch back then? Gao Gong can exclude people who disagree with him from the cabinet, and you can do the same? The old man was harmed like this by you, you didn't think about buying horse bones, and quickly saved the old man before talking about anything else, but instead counted on the old man to be a weighing stone for you, weighing the high and pragmatic catties?

With your courage, the old man doesn't look like a master who can achieve great things, at most he has a little tinkering ability!

Pan Ge lost his temper in the study, and his mood was a lot happier, but the problem was not solved at all.

He found that he was really a wolf and a tiger now, in a dilemma, like a rat in a bellows, angry at both ends.

I wanted to go out and do a good job, so I simply listened to Shen Shixing's suggestion and went to see how powerful Gao Pragmatic could be. But when he thought that the protégés of the Shixue School were all over the world, and the power of the Jinghua Group was even more pervasive, he was a little bold.

I want to admit it to Gao Pragmatism, hoping that Gao Pragmatism is a "reasonable" person after all, as long as he talks about his situation a little worse, maybe he will inherit half of his teacher Guo Pu's benevolence, and let himself go. But when I thought that this Zhejiang Entrepreneurs Alliance was to dig up the roots of high pragmatism, and to fight with high pragmatism in the shopping mall......

Pan Ge is old from himself to others, and he feels that Gao Pragmatic may not be so generous to the point that he will not count millions of transactions properly.

It's hard!

In just two or three days, Pan Ge Lao, who has always been known for being old and strong, even turned seventy percent of his hair white. It seems that if this matter continues to be entangled, I am afraid that sooner or later he will be forced to die.

However, what Pan Sheng didn't expect was that he hesitated for two more days after receiving Shen Shixing's warning, which finally made Shen Shixing unable to hold his breath.

On September 14, Shen Shixing was promoted as the first assistant, saying that since Xu Xuemo had been promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, his vacant post of left attendant of the Criminal Department could not be suspended, so he recommended Song Zhihan, who was then the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, to be promoted.

Song Zhihan is the backbone of the Gao Party, and Shen Shixing did not do this to give Gao Pragmatic a favor, but he put forward another point: since Song Zhihan was promoted from the right servant of the Ministry of Officials to the left waiter of the Criminal Department (Note: Ming system, the left respects the right. ), then the right attendant of the ministry should also make up for it.

Shen Shixing recommended Zhao Zhigao, the right attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, to succeed him.

Zhao Zhigao, a native of Lanxi, Zhejiang (belonging to Jinhua Mansion), a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing, although he is not young, his seniority is not high, and he is also the "rising star" of the heart school.

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