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As Zhao Junchen expected, in the early morning of the next day, the "Zhou Party" could be described as violent, showing a posture of inevitability, and began to impeach the remaining cabinet candidates on a large scale. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, although the "Zhou Party" is imposing, it is still somewhat measured after all, and it does not attack all the cabinet candidates at the same time, but chooses to attack them one by one.

What makes everyone in the "Zhao Party" feel fortunate is that the primary target of the "Zhou Party" is not Zuo Lanshan of the "Zhao Party", but the candidate Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe who was fully recommended by the "Shen Party"!

Perhaps, in the eyes of the "Zhou Party", Zhao Zhenghe has always been a person with outstanding prestige and political achievements, and the possibility of entering the cabinet is second only to Li He, a bachelor of the "Zhou Party", and Liang Fuchen, the trilateral governor of the "Imperial Party", and the threat is naturally far greater than that of Zuo Lanshan, who is full of flaws, so the "Zhou Party" also regards Zhao Zhenghe as a great enemy, and wants to get rid of him quickly, but it subconsciously ignores Zuo Lanshan of the "Zhao Party".

It is precisely because of this that the "Zhao Party" did not initially have any reaction to the actions of the "Zhou Party", nor did it have any intention of watching and helping each other, and it seemed that it did not realize that the next target of the "Zhou Party" would be Zuo Lanshan or Huo Zhengyuan of the "Zhao Party".

Although Shen Changmao is now the first assistant, his influence is far inferior to Zhou Shangjing after all, so that the "Shen Party" has no ability to defend Zhao Zhenghe in isolation, and in the end, Zhao Zhenghe is naturally embarrassed under the siege of the "Zhou Party".

On this day, the early dynasty has just begun, there are more than ten imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate of Henan Province to impeach Ma Xicheng, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, saying that Ma Xicheng has the support of a certain important minister in the DPRK, and over the years he has been leviing tyrannical in the local area, oppressing the squire, asking for bribes, and doing all kinds of evil, in order to cover up his evil deeds, Ma Xicheng will bribe a certain important minister in the court every year, and after receiving bribes, this important minister has repeatedly covered up his crimes for Ma Xicheng, so that Ma Xicheng, a corrupt official and cool official, has been at large with impunity so far, and the territory of Henan Mansion has been boiling with public resentment.

Ma Xicheng, who was impeached by the imperial historians, was a distant relative of Zhao Zhenghe, a distant relative of Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe, and had been closely connected with Zhao Zhenghe since he entered the officialdom, and was repeatedly secretly promoted by Zhao Zhenghe, so the imperial historians suddenly impeached Ma Xicheng, naturally Xiang Zhuang Wujian intended to Pei Gong, ostensibly to impeach Ma Xicheng, but in fact it was an allusion to Zhao Zhenghe.

After seeing the performance of all the imperial historians, everyone from Shen Changmao to the "Shen Party" was surprised.

As mentioned above, the impeachment of the "Zhou Party" was an upright conspiracy, and they did not try to conceal their intentions from beginning to end, and the "Shen Party" naturally received the news and secretly prepared countermeasures.

However, the fierceness of the "Zhou Party's" offensive, the sufficiency of preparation, and the resolute attitude still far exceeded the imagination of the "Shen Party" people, not only instigating more than a dozen imperial historians to impeach Ma Xicheng on a large scale, but also after the imperial historians finished impeachment, dozens of "Zhou Party" officials came out one after another to express their secondment, and suddenly created a great momentum, so that the "Shen Party" people had no time to cover it up.

At the same time, according to the imperial historians, the reason why they want to impeach Ma Xicheng is because a large number of people from Henan Province have come to the capital to sue the emperor in recent times, and these people are now waiting in the capital, willing to stand up and testify at any time, and the imperial historians see that the situation is serious, and they are also fully prepared, before today's impeachment, they have conducted a detailed investigation and collected evidence, and found a large amount of conclusive evidence, so Ma Xicheng's various charges are also undoubted.

Hearing the stories of the imperial historians, the "Shen Party" everyone was even more surprised!

The people of Henan Prefecture went to Beijing to sue the imperial court, but they did not receive any news in advance, so in the face of a large amount of conclusive evidence, the "Shen Party" was caught off guard, and naturally fell into passivity!

In the end, under such a situation, Emperor Deqing could not express nothing, and immediately issued a holy decree, dismissed Ma Xicheng from his official position, and ordered the officials of the three divisions to go to Henan Mansion to escort Ma Xicheng to the capital for the trial of the three divisions.

As a result, the "Shen Party" did not have any resistance and reaction, and Ma Xicheng suddenly fell.

Then, naturally, the "Zhou Party" took advantage of Ma Xicheng's incident to involve Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe!

With the sudden downfall of Ma Xicheng, when the "Shen Party" was still at a loss, as if it had been rehearsed in advance, Song Qiwen, the secretary of the ministry, came out to speak.

I saw that Song Qiwen's face was full of grief, and after he came out of the ranks, he knelt in front of Emperor Deqing, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!" ”

After seeing Song Qiwen's performance, Emperor Deqing immediately guessed the next step of the "Zhou Party", and a trace of sarcasm flashed in his eyes.

However, officialdom is like a theater, even Emperor Deqing is only one of the actors, although he is aware of the intention of the "Zhou Party", but with the position of Emperor Deqing, it cannot be expressed.

So, on the surface, Emperor Deqing looked surprised and asked, "Oh? Why did Song Aiqing suddenly ask for guilt? ”

Song Qiwen's voice was full of self-reproach, and he replied: "Your Majesty, the minister is the secretary of the ministry, responsible for inspecting the political achievements and morals of the officials, for a corrupt official like Ma Xicheng, the minister did not notice it in time, and let him get away with it so far, which is naturally the crime of dereliction of duty and negligence of the minister!" ”

Emperor Deqing snorted lightly and said, "You are naturally derelict in your duty!" If Ma Xicheng's crimes come true, then your officials will not even notice it, and the responsibility will not escape! ”

Song Qiwen looked like he was willing to be punished, and kowtowed again: "Your Majesty, for Ma Xicheng's various evil deeds, the officials are actually not completely unaware, and the minister has also heard relevant rumors at the beginning, but when the minister was about to strictly investigate Ma Xicheng, a certain important minister suddenly came forward to defend Ma Xicheng, saying that Ma Xicheng's various charges are just malicious rumors, this important minister has always had an outstanding reputation, and the minister also believed him, and did not conduct a strict investigation, but only asked the opinions of the governor of Henan and the political envoy, After receiving the reply, the minister still did not dare to be careless, and sent Wang Zheng, the official of the Ministry of Officials, to personally go to Henan Mansion to investigate, and after Wang Zheng returned to the Ministry of Officials, he also declared that Ma Xicheng was a good official with clean and honest conduct, and was praised by the people in Henan Mansion......

In this way, the minister believed their statement and did not continue to investigate the matter! Looking back now, it was the minister who believed them credulously and failed to detect Ma Xicheng's various evil deeds in time! This is the minister's dereliction of duty, the minister has betrayed His Majesty's trust, the minister is ashamed, and please punish Your Majesty! ”

Song Qiwen's exuberant statement seemed to be taking the initiative to ask for guilt, but in fact, he took the opportunity to take most of his responsibilities and blamed most of the blame on the Henan government, the officials Langzhong Wang Zheng, and a certain important minister of the court.

And Zhang Qiling, the current governor of Henan, and Wang Zheng, the official of Langzhong, are all people of the "Shen Party"!

As for the reputable important minister mentioned by Song Qiwen, Emperor Deqing immediately guessed the specific identity of this person.

However, Emperor Deqing still pretended not to know, and just said slowly with a solemn expression: "Oh? Are you saying that the governor of Henan and others are secretly sheltering Ma Xicheng? Wang Zheng was also bribed and concealed the truth from the officials? Also, who is the important minister of the court you are talking about? The imperial historians said that a certain important minister in the court has been shielding Ma Xicheng, but is this person being referred to? ”

Song Qiwen replied: "Whether the governor of Henan and others secretly sheltered Ma Xicheng, and whether Wang Zheng of the Ministry of Langzhong concealed the truth, the ministers dare not assert it, and the court needs to interrogate Ma Xicheng before it can be decided!" But the ministers still keep the official documents they handed over to the ministers, which can prove that what the ministers said is true...... As for the important minister of the court who helped Ma Xicheng intercede, it was Shaobao Zhao Zheng and Lord Zhao! ”

As Song Qiwen's words fell, all the officials in the Imperial Palace changed their expressions, and their eyes all converged on Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe.

At this time, Zhao Zhenghe was even more pale and a little overwhelmed.

Now, the vacant cabinet is undecided, and Zhao Zhenghe is one of the candidates, but at this time, he was implicated in Ma Xicheng's matter, and was splashed with dirty water, which not only plummeted his reputation, but also greatly reduced his hope of entering the cabinet before he cleared his suspicions.

After all, it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to allow an official who shelters corrupt officials to be appointed to the cabinet as an assistant, at least on the surface.

Although there are several cabinet elders in the cabinet now, all of them are sheltering their friends, and there is never a shortage of corrupt officials among their friends, but this kind of thing can only be done, not said, it is a well-known secret, and it must not be discovered!

What's more, Ma Xicheng is the prefect of Henan Mansion, and although the distance between Henan Mansion and the capital is not far, it will take several days to escort Ma Xicheng back to the capital for trial, and it will take at least half a month to reveal the case.

In other words, even if Zhao Zhenghe can prove his innocence, it will take at least half a month.

But alas, by that time, the matter of vacant cabinet seats may have already settled!

Therefore, things have developed to this point, and the hope of Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe to enter the cabinet is extremely slim!

And these are exactly the yang conspiracy of the "Zhou Party", that is, the wishful thinking of the "Zhou Party"!

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PS: Well, the first update!

Overestimated the speed of their codewords, I'm afraid it's hard to update 6,000 words today, but there will still be two more, adding up to about 5,000 words!

…… (To be continued.) )