Beijing, Shaanxi Lane.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of merchants gathered in the area outside the front door to attract merchants and live goods.

There are many timber merchants in Shaanxi Lane, most of whom are from Shaanxi, so it is called Shaanxi Lane.

The place where merchants gather, the circulation of money, and the place of fireworks and willow lanes are also easy to become.

There are two types of brothels: north and south.

From Suzhou and Hangzhou is called the South Class, the north of the Yellow River is called the North Class, the land of Jiangnan culture, the prostitutes in the South Class are mostly both color and art, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are omnipotent, and some even make a good dish.

Therefore, the brothels of Nanban are all places for dignitaries and dignitaries in Beijing.

In addition to the skin and meat business, most of the prostitutes in the southern class also accompany these dignitaries to eat tea, feast, play the piano and sing, and make songs and lyrics.

Before nightfall, Shaanxi Lane was already lively.

Several young officials, dressed in ordinary clothes, sat in tightly covered sedan chairs, came to Shaanxi Lane, and found a brothel called 'Huayuexuan' to enter.

There is no shortage of beautiful women in the capital, such as Zhou Paner, but they have been beautiful for a year or two.

Zhan Shifu Youshan praised Xiao Liang for getting off the sedan chair, and a man immediately picked him up and entered the 'Huayue Xuan'.

Xiao Liangyou rebuilt the Ming Dynasty for four years in the History Bureau, and he had already faded away from his scholarly anger, and his official career was smooth and stable.

Until last year, after Zhang Jiangling died of illness, Qiu Hu raided his home.

He stood up and spoke, and went to the book of the Son of Heaven, Jiangling is not a traitor, and he is arrogant with a little power. Now that it is against its criticism of the government, it is enough to reinstate its abolition of virtue, but why not reinstate the name of the minister's old mother and son.

Xiao Liang has this sentence, which can be regarded as worthy of Zhang Juzheng's kindness to him back then, as well as Zhang Maoxiu's friendship.

After the Son of Heaven took over, he was very appreciative of Xiao Liang's neutral position.

Right now, Xiao Liangyou came to the private room on the second floor.

In the private room, several officials in regular clothes were singing and dancing and drinking, for fear of alarming others, they did not use gongs and drums, silk and bamboo, but just let others hold the clapper and light the board.

Seeing that Xiao Liang had entered, several officials surrendered their hands to him.

Xiao Liangyou's gaze swept over, except for his younger brother Xiao Liangyu, the rest of the people were all officials.

To serve as a speech official in the Wanli Dynasty.

Must be an official from a jinshi background.

Jinshi was born, and then the local magistrate county, promoted the official for three years, and entered Beijing as an official after being promoted. Such officials have very little qualifications, but with the experience of serving as a local official, they will not be stunned. Hanlin and Yanguan are both clear streams, and they are okay to communicate with each other, but they are easy to be criticized for contacting in private.

Several officials all stood up and saluted when they saw Xiao Liangyou, and Xiao Liangyou also saluted.

Xiao Liangyou sat next to his brother Xiao Liangyu, his brother and Xiao Liangyou are on the same list of Jinshi, and his brother is the same Jinshi, which was also a good story at the beginning. Xiao Liangyu first served as the magistrate of the county in the local area, and returned to Beijing this year to serve as the head of the household department. Now after Lin Yanchao leaves Beijing, Xiao Liangyou and Xiao Liangyu are already the most beautiful two of the Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli.

Xiao Liangyou repaired books in the History Bureau, and his actions were not as high-profile as when he was a scholar, but Xiao Liangyu was different, and he worked hard to make friends in Beijing and make good connections.

The crowd was chatting.

"Today, many colleagues in Lantaizhong wrote a letter to impeach Lin Sanyuan, which can be called a grand event."

"If you want to talk about the result, so many pieces of impeachment of Lin Yanchao, Shenwu County can't suppress it. Either kill your relatives in righteousness and abandon the car to protect your handsomeness, or you will protect yourself to the end and press your own phase? ”

"Protect to the end? The Qing Dynasty in the world can't spare Shenwu County, and His Majesty will also feel that Shenwu County is favoritism. ”

"Right now, before the Son of Heaven Imperial Case, I'm afraid I'm tired of impeaching Lin Sanyuan I'm three feet tall. Lin Sanyuan killed Ma Yu, how could the Son of Heaven spare him? ”

"Yes, it is estimated that there should be a result in this matter in two or three days."

After speaking, everyone let out bursts of laughter, and at this time, the song was over, and several famous prostitutes who accompanied each other raised their glasses, and the officials also toasted each other, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Among these officials, one of them participated in the impeachment of Lin Yanchao, and they invited Xiao Liangyou today with Xiao Liangyu's reputation, but it was not without purpose.

"Brother Yi Zhan, I heard that you have worked with Lin Sanyuan for many years when you were in Hanyuan, I don't know how to watch Lin Sanyuan's affairs today?"

"Brother Zhan's talent is not far behind Lin Sanyuan, at the beginning of the Spring Festival, if it weren't for Shenwu County's favoritism, the big man in the world would be Brother Zhan."

"Recently, there has been a rumor in the officialdom that Lin Sanyuan's business master Lin Yan is the same year as Shenwu County. Wu County, for the sake of the Nian family, so he favored Lin Sanyuan as Huiyuan. If this matter is serious, we are really upset for Brother Zhan. ”

Everyone knew that Xiao Liangyou and Lin Yanchao were at odds when they were in Hanlin Academy, so they took this opportunity to stir things up.

It's a blatant move, but it's effective.

Xiao Liangyou and Xiao Liangyu once sat in prison in Nanjing, and the sacrificial wine of Guozi was Xu Guo at that time, so the two of them can be regarded as Xu Guomen. If they are on the table, then the relationship between Xu Guo and Shen Shixing in the cabinet will be very embarrassing.

Xu Guo is the second assistant, and Shen Shixing is the first assistant.

The relationship between the second assistant and the first assistant has always been discordant, but after Shen Shixing was the first assistant, with his exquisite ability, the cabinet was ironclad. This is not what the officials are willing to see, this time they used the impeachment of Lin Yanchao to attack Shen Shixing, if Xu Guo defected and supported, then the odds of victory increased greatly.

Xiao Liangyu glanced at his brother, and at present, the cabinet is opposed to each other, and the officials of the six ministries are also at a loss. Now the power of the speaker is so great that everyone can see it, and even he is unwilling to offend the official.

Xiao Liangyou's gaze swept over everyone, and everyone felt that the atmosphere was a little different, and even the prostitutes who were beating the beat were stagnant.

But seeing Xiao Liangyou raise his glass and stop his lips, he then said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you are all important ministers in the court today, how can you listen to these nonsense things?" ”

A speaker said: "Brother Xiao, how can the wind come from the ground? ”

Xiao Liang said: "You all know that I do have a discord with Lin Sanyuan, and I will be happy if he falls, but in all fairness, he is the champion." ”

Seeing that Xiao Liangyou was resolute, one of the officials smiled and said, "We're just chatting, come, drink, drink." ”

The crowd continued to drink, and the two officials also found it bored and got up to stand by the window. At this time, one of the family members on the opposite floor hurriedly ran up the corridor, and one of them said to the official next to him with a low smile: "It seems that the impeachment chapter has already come to fruition." ”

"Yes, it seems that we are too worried, even if it is ...... Lin Yanchao can also be brought down. ”

At this time, the family member knocked on the door outside, and the official said calmly: "It's my family member, the little brother will go out for a while." ”

All the officials smiled and said, "Convenient." ”

But seeing that this official had been out for a long time, although everyone at the banquet was staggered, their hearts were all on the outside.

Just when he was wondering why the other party had been gone for so long, the official here returned to the house, and everyone wanted to see from his face what had just happened.

But seeing that the official looked solemn and said: "The matter is big, the news just now, Henan, Henan officials, Henan people submitted a letter to the Political Department, citing Ma Yu's ten major crimes, and should be killed!" ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of wine glasses shaking in the room.

"This move is intended to protect the forest and extend the tide!" An official said in a lost voice.

In the Qianqing Palace.

Zhang Hong and Zhang Cheng couldn't say it at the moment.

The party struggle between the DPRK and China is like a calm lake above and an undercurrent surging below, and the boat may capsize wherever it rows.

The princes of the Manchu Dynasty, even those ministers who pretend to be clear, which is not a scheming worker, better than a temple calculation. Even if you have Yan Song, Xu Jie's ability to be an official is not guaranteed, and there is no guarantee when someone will plot to step down.

is such a situation, countless open guns and hidden arrows are pointed at Lin Yanchao.

The impeachment of the imperial historian, who in the world can not change his complexion, but this is the case, Lin Yanchao, who is in the center of the storm, does not seem to take it to heart.

If everything is peeled back and a rule is made, then no matter whether Ma Yu dies, the imperial history is written, and Shen Shixing protects the forest and extends the tide, but the inner core is in the silt field and ink corruption case.

Lin Yanchao secretly dedicated the silt field to the Son of Heaven, so that Ma Yu mistakenly thought that Lin Yanchao was greedy for ink, so he investigated the matter, which caused the incident later.

In the eyes of the Son of Heaven, who is familiar with the inside story, this is the case.

But what did Lin Yanchao do? Before Ma Yu discovered the fraud case, he secretly transported the silver raised from the sale of the silt field to Beijing.

Ship silver, through the Grand Canal, arrived at Tongzhou, this way thousands of miles of waterway.

The ship transporting silver was very difficult to walk on the Grand Canal, Lin Yanchao contacted Gao Huai, sent a competent person to personally supervise the escort, and the brocade guards escorted, and needed to block the news all the way, and finally arrived in Beijing.

Not to mention the energy spent, if you want to strategize, Lin Yanchao must start preparing two or three months ago.

Two or three months ago, that was the key.

Lin Yanchao sold the silver raised from the sale of the silt field and devoted himself to the side affairs of Yunnan.

Two or three months ago, when the official army and the Yunnan rebels fought fiercely, the rebels were strong, and the whole court was still thinking about how to hold Yunnan, and no one thought about money at this time.

But now that the officers and soldiers are holding on and planning a counteroffensive, there is no silver to pay for the army, how can the soldiers be willing to contribute? Without food, how can soldiers go thousands of miles to quell the rebellion?

When the silver arrived, it was not early, it was not too late, and it was delivered at the time of the burning of the eyebrows.

With the silver, the Son of Heaven will also have the confidence to defeat Mang Yingli!

If it is said that from two or three months ago, when Lin Yanchao sold silt fields to prepare for military salaries, he had already predicted today's situation, and such a temple to prepare for a rainy day is really terrifying.

The Son of Heaven said: "I remember that Song Taizu set up a sealed Chun Treasury and saved the surplus wealth of the imperial court in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future. Lin Yanchao ...... What I hadn't thought of, he thought. ”

The Son of Heaven took out a letter from the imperial case and said to Zhang Hong and Zhang Cheng: "This is the secret music that Lin Yanchao entrusted Gao Huai and handed it to me, and in the secret performance, he advised me to hold Yunnan no matter what, and not to be shaken by the opposition of the ministers of the court...... Not to mention the lack of military pay because the treasury is empty! ”

At this time, Zhang Cheng said: "But Your Majesty, Ma Yu is dead after all, the Queen Mother, King Lu, and the Yanguan want an explanation." ”

"If the matter of the silting field is spoken, the minister will understand, but ...... But in this way, the 200,000 taels will not be able to enter the inner carrier warehouse, and will be collected by the household department to Taicang. Once this money is in Taicang, it will be difficult for His Majesty to use it. ”

The Son of Heaven paced and said: "I am also embarrassed by this matter, when the first official gave advice, I did not send it, but the impeachment was ......"

The Son of Heaven picked up the impeachment of Lin Yanchao, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and said with a calm face: "What about the cabinet's vote?" Why didn't the Cabinet give a vote for impeachment? ”

Zhang Hong kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty is angry, and the cabinet does not dare to draw up votes." ”

The Son of Heaven was stunned and asked, "Does Mr. Shen have a secret revealed?" ”

Zhang Hong said: "No. ”

Why is that? Why didn't Mr. Shen dare to draw up a ticket? Zhang Qingjia, do you know? The Son of Heaven asked.

The decision-making mechanism of the Ming Dynasty is that the Son of Heaven - the celebrant - the cabinet.

If the Son of Heaven has anything to tell the cabinet on weekdays, the Son of Heaven generally asks the celebrant to pass it on to the cabinet, and if there is anything in the cabinet, he also tells the Son of Heaven through the celebrant supervisor. However, in order to prevent the celebrant from being deceived and blocked in the middle, the cabinet can reveal the secret to the Son of Heaven, and the secret disclosure is not left in the clerical room, and no one, including the celebrant and the celebrant are allowed to look at it before the Son of Heaven.

What does it mean that Shen Shixing neither votes nor exposes secrets? So the Son of Heaven wants to ask Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong lowered his head and replied: "The ministers thought that when Lin Yanchao was appointed as an official in Dede, it was Mr. Shen who recommended him to His Majesty. ”

When the Son of Heaven heard this, he couldn't help but say suspiciously: "No, Zhang Hong, you tell me the truth!" ”

Zhang Hong immediately said: "The slave speculates, Mr. Shen avoids suspicion, and also has the intention of protecting the short." But the officials refused to let go, and used this matter to impeach Lin Yanchao, if Lin Yanchao was impeached, then Mr. Shen's crime of covering up would not be able to escape. ”

The Son of Heaven suddenly said: "That's it, such a speech official really catches whoever bites whom!" ”

The discord between the officials and the cabinet was deliberately instigated by the Son of Heaven.

Emperor Jiajing's method of controlling the cabinet was to use the second assistant to fight the first assistant. When Emperor Longqing was the emperor, there were many capable people in the cabinet, and no one was convinced, but no one was already looking at the emperor.

It was even better when it came to Wanli, and the Son of Heaven swallowed his anger in front of Zhang Juzheng for ten years.

Now that he has learned from the pain, the Son of Heaven feels that Jiajing, Longqing, and the method of letting the cabinet kill each other is unreliable.

He was also unwilling to trust only the Shoufu University Scholar as before, so he became a powerful official to supervise the power of the cabinet.

Kedao is only seven grades, and the official position is very humble. But because of his humble official position, he has little to consider, so he dares to speak.

But the Son of Heaven let the officials go, and the cabinet was restricted, but they also lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot.

The Son of Heaven is very annoyed, if he really wants to shut up the official, it is not impossible, but if he wants to shut up the official, then what should the cabinet do?

The ministers are also clear about the Son of Heaven's thoughts.

Whenever a speech official impeaches the Son of Heaven, the cabinet, which is originally in the same power as the speech official, will also use a trick to use force.

When the Son of Heaven wants to punish the officials, the cabinet will come forward to protect it, what does it mean that everyone will suffer together if there is a board?

The Son of Heaven is holding the music now, and he also feels that his hands are hot.

The official impeached Lin Yanchao, but Shen Shixing did not dare to draw up a vote, he continued to stay in the center, and the officials below also refused.

Staying in the middle is obviously the meaning of the Son of Heaven, but Shen Shixing carried the black pot for himself.

And the silt field was obviously embezzled by the Son of Heaven himself, but Lin Yanchao took the black pot for himself.

What should I do now, and I can't find it out myself?

The Son of Heaven gritted his teeth and said, "I asked Ma Yu to go to Henan to do the matter of King Lu's inauguration, but he went to check the silt field?" Is this his business? This Ma Yu really deserves to be killed! ”