Chapter 178: A storm
In fact, it is really too polite to say that Yan Song is a dragon-slaying sword, because officials like him who have been raped have neither been a local official nor have they undertaken the specific work of any administrative department... It is no exaggeration to say that this power-minded master Yan, who can rank among the top five among the successive prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, has the ability to govern as the last, undisputed since the founding of the country.
Xu Jie and Yan Song actually had no selfless grudges. On the contrary, Yan Ge Lao still had a favor to him, but his experience was contrary to Yan Song. He could experience the sufferings of the people and feel the decline of the empire. So he was worried and burned all over the country. So when he was shameless and unbearable to Yan Song's position, Xu Jie finally broke up with Yan Ge Lao.
The Jiajing Dynasty, which had been quiet for a few years, finally had a storm again.
In September, Altan invaded and gave Xu Jie an excellent display platform. He used his superb diplomatic skills to rigorously slap Altan. The Mongols, who were not very smart, really rewritten a letter of nationality as required. Before they were sent to Beijing, they learned that the army in the northern Zhili area had arrived in Beijing... The army outside the city alone reached 80,000.
Only then did Altan realize that he had been fooled, but the situation was better than others, so he had to curse his mother and retreat.
As the only winner of this incident, Xu Jie was named Prince Taibao, was given a bullfighting suit, and was given a waist carriage in the West Garden. He was almost on par with Yan Ge Lao in his position. But these false names were not the most important - the most important thing was that his status in the emperor's heart was getting higher and higher - for example, the emperor originally only asked Yan Song to go to Yuxi Palace, and now he had something to do and asked him to chat and report on the situation. Moreover, because he was indeed more talented than Yan Song, he could do anything without any leakage, which saved the emperor a lot of worries, so even if he was cautious by nature, he felt that it would be a matter of time before he replaced the elderly Yan Ge Lao.
The ministers in the court were sensitive. When they found that Xu Ge Lao was becoming more and more favored, especially after replacing Yan Ge Lao to stand guard for the emperor this time, they became more and more sure of this judgment. So many people with flexible minds and some truly loyal people secretly approached him, and Xu Ge Lao's wings became more and more full.
He also expected that Yan Song's counterattack and revenge would definitely come, but he never expected that this crazy and selfish old man would ignore the safety of the southeastern Ming Dynasty and began to attack Zhang Jing, the governor of the Southeast, who was responsible for the heavy responsibility of fighting against the Japanese... Although on the surface, it was because Zhao Wenhua had a personal grudge with Zhang Jing that he submitted a memorial to impeach him to "hold his troops and be timid in fighting against the Japanese."
But the genius believed that if Yan Song had not made trouble behind the scenes behind the scenes, Zhao Wenhua would have been appointed as the Southeast Army Supervisor after the sea sacrifice, and he would not come back in Zhejiang for several months... By the way, the imperial edict to appoint Zhao Wenhua as the Supervisor was issued a few days after Xu Jie showed his power. In fact, the reason was not complicated. It was just because Zhang Jing was recommended by him by Xu Jie, and the emperor was most concerned about the war in the south, so Yan Ge Lao lost a game in the north and wanted to win the game back in the south.
But Xu Jie was not afraid at first because he had been in court several times and found that apart from Zhang Jing, he could no longer find a suitable official to control the overall situation of the Japanese war. From this, he came to a conclusion that before the Japanese invasion in the southeast was pacified, Zhang Jing was safe, so he did not take Zhao Wenhua's attacks seriously.
Until tonight, when he heard Jiajing say "I am the one who loves you", he was finally shocked to find that the emperor was going to attack Zhang Jing... because this sentence means that for the sake of past contributions, I will not pursue your responsibility. There is another subtext that is, but I will pursue the responsibility of some people very much!
Without guessing, Governor Zhang is the leader of some people.
Xu Jie wanted to argue for Zhang Jing a few words, but saw His Majesty wave his sleeves and said, "Li Fang, bring up the memorials participating in Zhang Jing."
When Xu Jie heard the word "有", he raised his head and saw Li Fang and Huang Jin carrying a bright yellow wooden box. The box was not covered and full of memorials of power.
The heavy wooden box was placed between the emperor and Xu Jie, making a muffled bang, which made Xu Jie's heart break.
Emperor Jiajing picked up a memorial and looked at it, "Ma Gan, the chief minister of the Husband, was involved in Zhang Jing's deceitful deeds." After saying that, he threw it at Xu Jie's feet; he picked up another book and looked at it, "Xu Qian, the Censor of the Censorate, should participate in Zhang Jing's delay in military opportunity" and threw it at Xu Jie's feet; he picked up another book and said, "The Ministry of War is responsible for the chief minister of the Fangsi, and Zhang Jing intercepted military expenses." After saying that, he threw it at his feet. He read seven or eight books, all of which were memorials impeached Zhang Jing, and the emperor's anger came. When he came, he reached into the box and copied the memorials, threw them at Xu Jie, and scolded, "I give him trust, what else did he give me? He respects his own troops, spends military funds, is corruption and abuses the law, and avoids the enemy's cowardly battle? Are there any such ministers in the world?" Speaking of this, Jiajing's voice became extremely sharp, and he finally said the most unacceptable sentence: "So there is a folk proverb saying 'Bei Jiajing, Nan Zhang Jing'. I think he wanted to build Nanjing and share the world with me!"
A series of memorials with hard shells hit Xu Jie, and each stroke felt extremely painful. He had to bend down and kneel in front of the emperor in the humblest way to reduce the parts of the beating. Gradually, the memorials were about to drown him, and the emperor's roar stopped and asked him coldly: "What should Zhang Jing do with it?"
Xu Jie sighed in his heart: "Yan Song, Yan Song, you are so cruel!" He knew that Yan Song was sure that he would definitely save Zhang Jing, so he launched a fierce attack. If he didn't want to be implicated, he had to say: "Let Your Majesty deal with it." But he couldn't say this. Although he had given up his dignity in order to climb up, Xu Jie had not lost his principles. He knew that Zhang Jing was the only one who could solve the crisis in the southeast. If he didn't support him, then Zhang Jing would have no hope at all - what would the southeast coast look like at that time? Xu Jie couldn't imagine it.
So he raised his head and begged with tears on his face, "Your Majesty, the Southeast cannot be in chaos..."
Jiajing still said coldly: "Without him, Zhang Butcher, I will not eat a pig with hair!"
Xu Jie said in a humble voice: "It is very likely that Zhang Jing has made other arrangements..."
"Then why didn't he report to the cabinet? I won't let me know?" Jiajing said angrily: "So many impeachment memorials have been uploaded, why don't he see his self-defense?!"
"He may be patrolling military aircraft on the front line, but he was unaware of it for the time being." Xu Jie whispered: "I can guarantee my wealth and life. Zhang Jing is absolutely unparalleled. However, talented people are a little arrogant. At this time of crisis, in order to use his talents, I beg Your Majesty to tolerate him." He felt that as long as the emperor could bear it for the time being, and when Zhang Jing quelled the Japanese turmoil, these impeachments would naturally be left unresolved.
Otherwise, if you want to do things, you will never be able to do it when there is no one in the court.
Xu Jie's few words at the critical moment finally made the emperor feel angry for the moment and said in a muffled voice: "I'm a bargain!" As he said to Huang Jin, "I'm planning!"
The atmosphere was so cold that Huang Jin did not dare to say a word. He took Huang Ling's pen and knelt on the ground with his pp sticking out.
"I'm asking the Jinyiwei to arrest Zhang Jing immediately and go to Beijing!"
Huang Jinxin said this was still a cheap one. She looked up at the emperor and blinked and said, "I'm so proud?"
"I'm so proud!" The emperor nodded with a sinister face and said to Xu Jie: "Go down."
Xu Jie knew that this was already the limit of giving in to the emperor. Although he was very unwilling to accept it, he still bowed and bowed and retreated.
After he left, the stars in the sky had already covered the dark clouds, and the heavy clouds were pressing down very low, making people breathless. Looking at the sky with thick clouds, Xu Jie sighed quietly: "The black clouds pressed against the city and were about to destroy..."
The follower behind him put on a cloak and whispered: "Gei, please leave quickly, it's going to snow."
Xu Jie nodded and then walked away from Yuxi Palace. After walking away, he whispered to the person who was following: "As soon as the sky is dawn, you go out of the palace and find Zhang Taiyue, and let him send a message to Zhang Jing as fast as possible, tell him..." Then he said slowly: "From the beginning of seeing the letter, stay in the mansion obediently, don't act rashly, and don't resist the orders, follow the imperial envoy back to the capital, everything is complete." After thinking about it, he was afraid that Zhang Jing was under too much psychological pressure, so he added: "Tell Zhang Jing again, Your Majesty just wants him to come back and ask questions. As long as he explains it clearly, he will still let him go back to the southeast... Have you recorded it?"
"Yes." The person who followed me softly retelled, Xu Jie nodded and stopped talking. When he passed by a courtyard near Wuyi Hall, he couldn't help but look inside. It was the residence of Master Yan Ge in Xiyuan - because the house where the ministers worked and lived in Xiyuan was low-lying and narrow, and they were all east-west rooms, which were exposed to the sun in summer and cold in winter, and living in it was extremely painful. Yan Song also lived in it at first, but a few years ago, the emperor gave a generous gift and ordered a residence near Wuyi Hall to build a separate residence for it. The halls and rooms all face south, and the kitchens of other museums and kitchens were all utensils. Since then, Master Yan Ge no longer suffered from the suffering of cold winter and hot summer, which made the ministers envious and jealous.
Seeing that the lights had turned off in the yard, Xu Jie slowly shook his head and walked towards the cold and cold Julu in the distance.
Scattered snowflakes fell from the top of his head, gradually covering the entire Western Garden, the entire Beijing, and the entire North China in a vast white area.
Chapter completed!