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Although Huang Yourong has lost his use value, Emperor Deqing does not intend to let him leave the temple and return to his hometown easily.

Zhao Junchen could probably guess what Emperor Deqing was thinking.

In the eyes of Emperor Deqing, he is the Son of Heaven and the master of the Ming Dynasty, and everything in the world is his own, and the officials represent the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, which is equivalent to their own servants, just helping them deal with chores......

And Huang Yourong is naturally a servant with unclean hands and feet, and now he wants to return to his hometown and resign, but he has secretly stolen his master's property over the years, and he must return it to his original owner before leaving!

At the beginning, in order to be able to return to his hometown smoothly, Wen Guanliang "donated" most of the money he had been greedy for in his life to the internal money, totaling as high as nine million taels of silver, and then Emperor Deqing let Wen Guanliang leave the temple without pursuing his crimes.

Huang Yourong is not as greedy for money as Wen Guanliang, and his family wealth is naturally not as amazing as Wen Guanliang, but there are still three or five million taels of silver, in the eyes of Emperor Deqing, all these silver are his own things, and now he naturally wants Huang Yourong to spit it all out.

At this time, seeing that Huang Yourong was so ignorant, he just said a few words of guilt, without any expression, and planned to leave the temple, and Emperor Deqing naturally would not agree.

However, Huang Yourong is an old courtier after all, and now he wants to resign and return to his hometown, but Emperor Deqing can't make things difficult clearly, otherwise it will affect the image of the emperor.

So, Emperor Deqing subconsciously found Zhao Junchen - this villain role needs Zhao Junchen to play.

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Seeing that Emperor Deqing's eyes were on him, Zhao Junchen sighed secretly.

However, Zhao Junchen does not have the strength to resist Emperor Deqing now, and he still needs to continue to be patient, so after a moment of silence, Zhao Junchen came out again and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Huang Ge Lao is old, since he has made up his mind to resign and return to the wilderness, the court must not force it, otherwise it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of being inconsiderate of the old minister!" Therefore, Your Majesty, you still agreed to Huang Ge Lao's plea, and considered a replacement candidate as soon as possible. ”

Saying that, Zhao Junchen glanced up at Huang Yourong, and said: "In addition, Huang Ge has been in the cabinet for many years, and it can be said that he has worked hard and made a lot of achievements, but it is a pity that when he is about to become a minister, he has no beginning and no end, and he has done a lot of wrong things, and his reputation has been ruined, which is really a pity." ”

After speaking, Zhao Junchen shook his head and sighed with regret on his face.

Seeing that Zhao Junchen was actually feeling sorry for Huang Yourong, all the officials in the Imperial Palace were stunned, and they all felt that Zhao Junchen's move was a cat crying mouse fake mercy.

But in fact, Zhao Junchen's cat is not only fake compassion, but even swallows Huang Yourong's dead mouse with his belt and bones!

Although, Zhao Junchen also did this because there was a tiger behind him who was persecuting him.

Under the surprised gaze of hundreds of officials, Zhao Junchen continued: "It is precisely because of this that Huang Ge Lao has been criticized a lot these days, and many officials have ignored Huang Ge Lao's many achievements, just staring at Huang Ge Lao's several wrong things and chasing after him, as if Huang Ge Lao is purely a mediocre and incompetent official, and Huang Ge Lao's life has been ruined because of this!" But the minister thinks that such an evaluation is really unfair, the old Huang Pavilion is an official in his life, there are still a lot of merits, Your Majesty, it is impossible for you to appoint a dumb and busy person to serve as the elder of the cabinet, for an old courtier like Huang Ge Lao, working for the court all his life but only in exchange for the end of being ruined, it is really a little unfair, therefore, the minister thinks that the court should let the officials play separately before the official tribute of the old Huang Ge, and comment on the merits and demerits of the old Huang Pavilion over the years, so that the world can understand the merits and demerits of the old Huang Ge, also took the opportunity to correct the name of the old Huangge and end up with a good end! ”

As he spoke, Zhao Junchen's face was full of kindness, as if he was sincerely thinking about Huang Yourong.

However, after hearing Zhao Junchen's "goodwill statement", Huang Yourong's face suddenly changed, and a trace of irrepressible resentment and horror flashed in his eyes.

At the same time, people like Lin Wei, Zhang Cheng and others turned their heads and looked at Zhao Junchen viciously, eager to swallow Zhao Junchen alive!

After all, although Zhao Junchen said it well, but now Huang Yourong is a situation where the wall is down and everyone pushes him, at this time, summarizing Huang Yourong's merits and demerits is actually to encourage hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China to continue to impeach and attack Huang Yourong, in the end, Huang Yourong will only be the end of "too much more than merit", and even many major crimes will be involved, at that time Huang Yourong will never be able to return to his hometown safely.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen ostensibly wants to correct Huang Yourong's name, but in fact, he wants to liquidate Huang Yourong!

Seeing that Huang Yourong was obviously planning to leave the temple, but Zhao Junchen still didn't intend to let go, he actually planned to kill Huang Yourong, how could Huang Yourong, Zhang Cheng, Lin Wei and others not be angry?

On the other side, Shen Changmao also frowned.

Although Huang Yourong has lost its use value, Shen Changmao once assured Huang Yourong that he would shelter Huang Yourong to leave the temple safely and soundly, Zhao Junchen's current insidious statement will undoubtedly make Shen Changmao lose his trust in Huang Yourong, and the positions of Lin Wei, Zhang Cheng and others may change at that time.

At the same time, after seeing Zhao Junchen's statement, many officials also felt a chill in their hearts, only feeling that Zhao Junchen was narrow-minded and too vindictive.

It's just that before they could refute Zhao Junchen's point of view, Emperor Deqing had already preemptively said: "What Zhao Aiqing said is reasonable, the old Huang Ge has worked hard and made great achievements, and he should indeed be corrected, so let's do it according to Zhao Aiqing's proposal." ”

After speaking, Emperor Deqing's eyes turned to Huang Yourong, and his expression was also "full of kindness", and said: "Huang Ge Lao, you are an old minister, since you want to sue the old man and return to his hometown, I will not force you to stay, but you have been doing your best for me all these years, but you can't just let you leave the court controversially, so you still stay in the capital for a while longer, and after I receive the advice of the hundred officials, I will announce your merits and demerits to the world, and then let you return to your hometown, which is also for the sake of your future generations." ”

After hearing Emperor Deqing's decision, Huang Yourong's face was discouraged, but he also knew that things could not be reversed, so he had to bow to Emperor Deqing again and bowed his head and said, "Old minister...... Compliance. ”

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Looking at Huang Yourong's depressed back, a trace of envy flashed between Zhao Junchen's eyes.

Yes, although Huang Yourong is unusually depressed now, Zhao Junchen is very envious of his situation.

After all, Emperor Deqing didn't really want to rectify Huang Yourong, but just wanted Huang Yourong to spit out his money.

Therefore, if it is not unexpected, in a few days, Huang Yourong will make up his mind and obediently offer most of his family property and savings to Emperor Deqing, in exchange for a conclusion that "merit outweighs fault", and return to his hometown safely and soundly, and since then he has stayed away from the center of the capital, a place of right and wrong, and has also stayed away from the calculation and competition of the Huan Hai, and has become an insignificant rich man.

Such an ending is of course extremely bleak for Huang Yourong, but it is the result that Zhao Junchen dreamed of.

If Zhao Junchen only needs to give most of his family wealth, he can stay away from the temple calculations, get rid of Emperor Deqing's positioning of himself, and become an ordinary rich man from now on, then Zhao Junchen will definitely do this.

It's a pity that Emperor Deqing's positioning of Zhao Junchen is completely different from Huang Yourong, Huang Yourong is just a servant with unclean hands and feet, but Zhao Junchen still has to carry the black pot for Emperor Deqing, attract public resentment for Emperor Deqing, and deal with some things that are inconvenient for the world to know for Emperor Deqing, and it is still the poor rooster left by Emperor Deqing to the next emperor - a rooster used to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys!

Therefore, even if Zhao Junchen sacrifices most of his family wealth, Emperor Deqing will never let Zhao Junchen leave, and Zhao Junchen can only continue to fight in the sea of eunuchs.

What's more, many of Zhao Junchen's plans have been carried out to this point, but they are also involuntary and unable to stop.

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In this way, Huang Yourong certainly lost the position of the old assistant minister, but unfortunately he still couldn't leave the temple as he wished, and he had to continue to sit on wax for a while.

However, in today's morning, Huang Yourong's situation is just an insignificant appetizer.

The really important thing is Huang Yourong's replacement!

The vacant position of cabinet elder will be blushing to anyone, and the various factions in the DPRK and China also have their own plans, which will trigger countless changes in interests, and naturally it has attracted the attention of hundreds of officials.

So, with Emperor Deqing's inquiry, the officials shifted their attention one after another.

I saw Emperor Deqing open his mouth and ask: "Since Huang Yourong is already a Zhishi, there is a vacant position in the cabinet, for the candidate to succeed, can the Jiuqing of the Central Committee of the DPRK have a suitable candidate to recommend?" ”

After Emperor Deqing's words fell, there was a moment of silence in the Imperial Palace.

Then, as if a boulder had been thrown into the calm lake, countless bright waves and undercurrents were set off in an instant, and the major factions in the DPRK and China began to recommend their own candidates.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were two main ways for officials to enter the cabinet, namely Tejian and Tingtui.

The cabinet was originally only to assist the emperor in handling government affairs, and it was naturally decided by the emperor in one sentence, but with the increasing influence of the cabinet, this method has become less and less rare.

The court push is by Jiuqing (the Ming Dynasty Jiuqing refers to the common name of the nine yamen chiefs of the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Division, and the Dali Temple, which is different from the Qin and Han Jiuqing) and the supervision officials stationed in the six ministries and thirteen provinces of the Metropolitan Procuratorate jointly negotiated and recommended the candidates. Each major yamen has the right to speak, but it is presided over by the Ministry of Officials, among which the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the largest number of participants, in addition to the left and right imperial history, there are also six departments to the matter, thirteen to supervise the imperial history and others.

The final result is summarized by the Ministry of Officials, reported to the cabinet for a vote by the General Political Division, and submitted to the Emperor for approval and final effect, and the General Political Department will also send a copy of the discussion process to the Hanlin Yuan and the Guozijian for public opinion supervision.

Nowadays, even the Deqing Emperor can only determine the cabinet assistants through court push, and the power game during this period is not generally complicated.

At the beginning, the reason why Emperor Deqing was able to support the "crown prince. party" Cheng Yuandao entered the cabinet, in addition to Zhao Junchen's statement, but also because of the "prince. The party "was still in control of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which had always been the main force in Tingtui.

But now, "Prince. The party's momentum has suffered repeated setbacks, and it is no longer possible to continue to control the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and whether the newly vacant position of cabinet veteran will fall into the hands of which party will depend on the level of the means and interests of the major factions.

It is foreseeable that a wonderful political game is about to begin.

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…… (To be continued.) )