The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

In Wenyuan Pavilion, Shen Shoufu asked the scholar in the bookstore expectantly: "Is there any memorial to impeach Lin Tailai?"

He deliberately sent a copy of the memorial about Lin Tailai's attack on the governor's headquarters to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Sixth Section, which were all areas hardest hit by the Qingliu forces.

Zhongshu Sheren replied: "There are only three letters, and they are all here."

"Only that few?" Shen Shoufu was very disappointed.

It may be that the hook was too perfunctory this time, or it may be that the vigilance of the courtiers has generally increased, and I am afraid that straight hook fishing will not work well in the future.

What does this mean? It shows that people cannot rest on their laurels and must continue to learn and make progress, so that they can achieve greater heights. Otherwise, it will be abandoned by the times sooner or later.

But Zhongshu Sheren put forward his own opinion: "According to the observations of my subordinates, there is actually another possibility. They are all afraid of Lin Tailai, or they are afraid of being beaten."

Shen Shoufu has been in a high position for a long time, and it is inevitable that he will be a little out of touch. He asked doubtfully: "Are they still afraid of being beaten?"

In Shen Shoufu's perception, many high-ranking people don't care about physical pain for the sake of fame, so why would they care about being beaten.

Imagine if a minister could be beaten by Yan Song, would he immediately become famous all over the world?

"Lin Jiuyuan is different. There are too many tricks behind beating people." Zhongshu Sheren explained, "So after being beaten by Lin Jiuyuan, not only does he lose prestige, but he often becomes a laughing stock. As the saying goes, killing people is heartbreaking, so who would want to be beaten by him? Fight?"

Shen Shixing, who was already the chief assistant, suddenly felt a little envious of Lin Tailai. This son's power to intimidate officials was even greater than that of his own chief assistant.

After that, Shen Shoufu picked up three memorials to impeach Lin Tailai. He could only say that it was better than nothing. Something was better than nothing.

Before reading the content, he looked at the signature first. After reading the first two memorials in succession, the first assistant felt even more disappointed.

What kind of small fish and shrimp are these? Why would a man from Guanglu Temple, who was in charge of cooking, and a man from Shanglinyuan, who was in charge of grass planting, come to join in the fun?

It wasn't until he glanced at the signature of the third memorial that Shen Shoufu's eyes lit up! The surprise came so suddenly!

It's Gu Xiancheng! The absolute backbone of the Qingliu force, Gu Xiancheng, who dominates the Department of Civil Service Examination, is in charge of official evaluation, is an academic star, and has made great contributions to the development of the Qingliu force!

As we all know, one of the characteristics of the Six Ministries of the Ming Dynasty is that each department has great authority, and the average assistant minister is not even as powerful as the doctor in the core business position.

Lang Guan, the two core departments of the Civil Service Department and the Examination Department, are controlled by Qingliu forces. Chen Younian, Zhao Nanxing, Gu Xiancheng and others are all in these two departments.

So in Shen Shoufu's eyes, Gu Xiancheng is a big fish! A breakthrough has emerged to break the Qingliu forces’ monopoly on key core business positions in the Ministry of Civil Affairs!

There’s nothing to say, get ready to challenge him! To impeach Lin Tailai is to protect Governor Xu!

Today, I will send someone to send a message and ask Ke Dao's gangsters to prepare Gu Xiancheng's dirty materials first!

Just as Shen Shoufu was thinking about it, someone from Zhongshu House took out another memorial at an inappropriate time and reminded him: "Actually, Gu Xiancheng has already left."

"What's the point of leaving?" Shen Shoufu asked in surprise.

Zhongshu Sheren replied: "Gu Xiancheng received the funeral report that his mother passed away, so he also submitted a memorial and went home to observe the order. He is probably on his way today.

Therefore, his subordinates speculated that Gu Xiancheng's superior scolding Lin Tailai was probably just to have fun before leaving. "

Shen Shoufu: ""

According to official ethics, we cannot continue to engage in political pursuit for a few words at this time. Others have suffered the loss of their mothers, so it would be extremely unethical to kick people in and cause trouble.

In the end, all Shen Shoufu received today was disappointment, and it was basically all in vain.

In the pavilion on the outskirts of the east city, Gu Xiancheng was saying goodbye to Chen Younian, Zhao Nanxing and other colleagues.

The moment officials receive the news of their parents' death, they must immediately put down their official duties, go to the office to resign, and hit the road home.

A gentleman who prides himself on morality cannot neglect the details.

In order to avoid being noticed by interested people and "catch them all", Gu Xiancheng did not ask all his colleagues to see him off, only three or five people as representatives.

Zhao Nanxing was worried. Since this year, the Qingliu forces have been really in trouble.

The leader Shen Li was so angry that he ran away. There is still a vacancy in the Ministry of Rites. Today, the academic figure Gu Xiancheng has to go home to abide by the rules. How embarrassing!

But the problem is that the catastrophe of the national struggle has already begun. It is impossible for the Qingliu forces not to speak up, to rush forward, and even to pretend to be stupid, otherwise the theoretical foundation of the establishment will be lost!

At that time, I don’t know how many people will be lost, and everyone present may fall into it.

Thinking of this, everyone suddenly felt that Gu Xiancheng was very lucky, and he happened to be able to avoid this national disaster.

As the best behind-the-scenes think tank in Qingliu, Gu Xiancheng decided to give some advice to his friends before leaving.

Lest when he returns to the court, his comrades will be in disarray, and he will be alone by then.

Therefore, Gu Xiancheng sighed, looked at the white clouds in the distance, and said: "The current situation is like this. If I leave the court, I really won't worry about you."

Zhao Nanxing glanced at Gu Xiancheng in surprise and exclaimed: "Gu Jun wants to steal his love? This is absolutely impossible!"

How much trouble did Zhang Juzheng cause when he stole his love? Can you, Gu Xiancheng, be more responsible than Zhang Juzheng?

Gu Xiancheng: ""

How come comrades in the same trench have such no tacit understanding? How can people continue to show their wisdom?

Or Chen Younian, the old Jianghu, realized that Gu Xiancheng might have something to say, so he took the initiative to ask: "Gu Jun, what do you have to say?"

Gu Xiancheng then replied: "People of the Ming Dynasty do not speak secretly. If a catastrophe is unavoidable, you might as well find one or two people who take the overall situation into consideration and sacrifice yourself to protect your comrades."

Chen Younian: "???"

You call this "people who are clear don't tell secret words"? Can it be more subtle? Is it because I am getting old and can’t keep up with new ideas?

Zhao Nanxing continued to ask a little impatiently: "What is self-sacrifice? How to protect comrades?"

He was also convinced. Gu Jun always liked the mysterious and unpredictable look when he spoke.

Gu Xiancheng had to put it more bluntly: "If one or two direct ministers, Shangshu, exhorted the emperor, and their tone was extremely fierce or even abusive, which angered the emperor, they would probably be imprisoned as a crime.

Then you can all go to the media one after another to appeal for help from these two direct ministers, and the focus will all be on these two direct ministers.

In this case, you will avoid facing the country's fundamental issues directly, and you will not fall because of directly expressing your stance to offend the emperor.

At the same time, you will not be criticized by public opinion. After all, you are working very hard to rescue your comrades from prison.

And those one or two comrades can also gain great fame because of their direct remonstrance. Isn't it the best of both worlds? "

After Gu Xiancheng finished speaking, he looked at Chen Younian and Zhao Nanxing. Now that we have gone into detail at this point, it would be unreasonable to pretend to be stupid, right?

Chen Younian and Zhao Nanxing looked at each other. They didn't expect that Gu Xiancheng could come up with this strategy to overcome the disaster. Based on their experience, this strategy could really work.

We just need to select one or two sacrifices and induce them to become sacrifices for the great tribulation, no, iconic heroes.

But this is not difficult. Most of them are young and energetic people who are easy to get ahead of themselves.

Gu Xiancheng further pointed out: "When these two victims commit Yan Zhijian, they must include Lin Tailai!

In the future, they and their memorials will become the focus, and even when his name is left in history, the mentioned Lin Tailai will also be repeatedly criticized by public opinion! "

Zhao Nanxing and Chen Younian looked at each other again, and I have to say that this move was quite vicious.

There is no shortage of similar examples. For example, Zhuge Liang scolded Wang Lang and tried to treat Wang Situ, a high-ranking official, but in the end he was turned into a clown and could not be reversed.

Could it be that the main purpose of Gu Xiancheng's coming up with this strategy was to discredit Lin Tailai?

Finally, Gu Xiancheng emphasized: "The other thing is, you must win over Huang Hongxian who lives in Zhan Shifu!

This person is Lin Tailai's rural examination tutor. He has a unique identity and is dissatisfied with Lin Tailai, so he will definitely come in handy!

Regarding Lin Tailai, I still have some immature opinions, which I will leave to you for discussion."

Chen Younian and Zhao Nanxing confirmed at the same time that the person Gu Jun cared about most in his heart was not his comrades, but Lin Tailai.

Gu Xiancheng is gone, but the operation of the court's government affairs will not stop. Memorials from the Xuanfu are sent to the capital at a frequency of one piece a day.

The officialdom of the capital has never seen such a mutiny memorial. There is new content every day, and the twists and turns are full of suspense. It is like a serialized novel.

On the first day, Qin Envoy Lin launched a mutiny and arrested Governor Xu, taking with him the commander-in-chief and the third lady, the female chieftain of the Beilu tribe!

The next day, Wang Shenzheng bravely broke into the rebel lair and rescued Sanniangzi!

On the third day, Sanniangzi told Wang Shenzheng that Governor Xu asked her for a bribe and a kickback on the price of horses and silver in the border market!

On the fourth day, Wang Shenzheng bravely broke into the rebel lair and rescued the chief soldier Li Yingen!

On the fifth day, General Li told Wang Shenzheng that Governor Xu ordered Zhang Zhencheng to organize a mutiny, besieged Imperial Envoy Lin, and burned down the Imperial Envoy's temporary residence!

On the sixth day, Governor Xu was suspected of attempting suicide, but was saved by Wang Shenzheng, who bravely broke into the rebel lair again.

Seventh day Eighth day

As the protagonist of a long storytelling, Wang Shenzheng's popularity in the capital skyrocketed.

Just reading the literal meaning, I thought he was riding a horse and spear, and killed seven people in and out of the rebel lair.

Shen Shoufu, who has so many things to do all day long, is already impatient to continue reading this long and stinky serial storybook. It’s already May, will it be finished?

It ends when it's time to end, there's no point in dragging it out!

So at the cabinet meeting, Shen Shoufu said to other cabinet elders: "Today, we must decide on the outcome of Xuanfu affairs!"

Then Shen Shoufu made an explanatory speech: "What we know now is that the governor, Xu Shouqian, engaged in bribery and bribery, and even tried to collude with the female chieftain, the third wife, to embezzle horse-priced silver.

Imperial envoy Lin temporarily sealed the bank treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs and suspended the launch of the horse market, which aroused Xu Shouqian's dissatisfaction.

Xu Shouchian then ordered Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zhang Shicheng to launch a mutiny and besiege the imperial envoy's residence.

As a result, the imperial envoy Lin Mou became angry and led his troops to fight back and attacked the governor's camp. "

In order to prevent others from having stress reactions and causing uncontrollable consequences, Shen Shoufu also took great pains.

He only referred to him as Lin, the imperial envoy, and did not mention Lin Tailai's name directly at all.

Xu Er and Wang San from the cabinet both played the role of fun-lovers on this issue and both looked at Wang Si.

Is Xu Shouqian a member of Qingliu’s line, or Wang Si, the spokesperson of Qingliu’s forces? Let’s speak!

Wang Si said very objectively and impartially: "This information is actually one-sided, right?

So far, we have not received any statement from Xu Shouqian himself, and there is no solid evidence. "

Shen Shoufu dismissed it and retorted: "I think that Lin, who has only been in Xuanfu for a few days, can collude with the female chieftain, the chief military officer, and a commanding officer with outstanding military exploits to create a trap in Xu Shouqian, who has been in Xuanfu for three or four years?

In terms of evidence, do those rebel soldiers who participated in the siege of the imperial envoy count as evidence? "

Wang Si didn't want to defend Xu Shouqian, a rotten person who had no self-awareness at all, but he had to defend himself. This was a formality for the Qingliu forces.

So I still tried to show my respect by saying: "We must give Xu Shouqian a chance to speak before we decide what to do."

Shen Shoufu added: "You have also read the memorial of Wang who participated in politics. He said that Xu Shouqian had a tendency to commit suicide. You can speak after you understand it."

The implication is that if you let go now, Governor Xu can still save his life.

If you don't let go, I'm afraid Governor Xu will lose his life. Don't you doubt that Governor Xu is incapable of committing suicide?

The resourceful Wang San suddenly said thoughtfully: "Perhaps some people want to see Xu commit suicide by collecting money?"

Shen Daye looked at Wang San in surprise. Could it be that, Wang Xijue, you are trying to perform one step at a time? Are you starting to think about what will happen after Xu receives money and loses his official position?

At this time, Wang Si's balls were hurting and he could no longer defend himself. What kind of person would expect Governor Xu to commit suicide?

"If there is no objection, we will draw up a vote to remove Xu Shouqian from his post on the memorial of Mr. Wang, the right political strategist! Adjourn the meeting!" Shen Shoufu said with the final word.

Without Lin Tailai disrupting the cabinet meeting outside, the chief minister would be so domineering and have such strong control!

The cabinet can also propose to the emperor that a certain governor be removed from office; as for who to nominate as governor, that is really not the business of the cabinet.

According to the system, the governor of the interior was jointly recommended by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Husbandry, while the governor of border towns such as Xuanfu was jointly recommended by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War.

After the news came out that Xu Souqian, the governor of Xuanfu Town, was dismissed from his post, Wang Situ of the Household Department had mixed feelings.

Fortunately, his son Wang Xiangqian made the right move by going to the border town.

If he is still hanging out in the mainland, he should avoid suspicion when the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household Affairs recommend that the governor involves his son.

The worry is that the opportunity appears too early and too suddenly.

My son's qualifications are still very low. He has only been a right-winger in politics for a few days, and it is a bit reluctant to become governor again.

In the past, the governor of Xuanfu Town was a very dangerous position. He had to fight bad wars with the Northerners every year. It was not a particularly good official position.

But now that there is no war, and the horse market has been open for 20 years, the governor of Xuanfu Town has a real job.

The imperial court and the right wing of Beilu opened four horse markets, one each in Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town, and Yulin Town.

However, the transaction share of Zhangjiakou Bao Horse Market in Xuanfu Town accounts for about 45% of all horse markets, almost half.

As the Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Situ knew very well that the amount of horse price silver that the court planned to use at the Zhangjiakou Bao Horse Market this year was as high as 185,000 taels!

This is only official market transactions, plus private transactions, the flow of money in and out of Zhangjiakou Baoma City will be hundreds of thousands of taels.

If smuggling is added to the list, it will become even more innumerable. It will definitely be a battleground for military strategists in the smuggling industry.

Therefore, the competition for the position of governor of Xuanfu Town is so fierce that you don't have to guess how many people in the court are already thinking about it.

It would be a pity to miss such a good opportunity. Wang Situ sighed secretly, it would be great if Lin Tailai was still in the court, he would definitely be a powerful help.

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