Chapter 364: Li Mo's death...

Soon, the emperor ordered the meeting of the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites to be ordered to decide where Li Mo should be punished. The meeting was convened and presided over by Zhao Zhenji, the Minister of Rites.

Zhao Zhenji sympathized with Li Mo. He gave the meeting a statement that "discussion is not a crime". In addition, many people feel that "the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the thing hurts the species". Therefore, in the end, he only focused on his words and reported that he was "parametric and self-use, and he was injuring the etiquette of ministers; the story of the Han and Tang Dynasties was not appropriate."

In other words, this guy is arrogant and has no way of keeping a door in his mouth. His words are not in line with the rules. He should be beaten or scolded, but that's all.

As soon as the report was published, Emperor Jiajing Longyan was furious and said that Zhao Zhenji and others were Li Mo's accomplices and intended to protect him. Not only did they give up the imperial edict, but they were fined each of them for half a year to show punishment. As for Li Mo, they were still arrested and imprisoned and handed over to the Ministry of Justice to convict.

This is really a mistake! He Ao, the Minister of Justice, retired from home after he was sick a year ago. Now he is the Left Minister of Justice Wang Xueyi, who is the minister of the Ministry. He is originally a member of Yan Song, and he took this opportunity to completely eliminate Li Mo.

In fact, the charges that Zhao Wenhua has woven were enough to kill Li Mo... Emperor Jiajing has always been stubborn and cannot tolerate any objection from the ministers. How can anyone who ridicule can be easily let go? Moreover, the Japanese invasion in the southeast has always been the emperor's heart disease. Just as he was about to inquire about the reason why the Japanese invasion was not destroyed, Zhao Wenhua pushed the charges on Li Mo with the "governor-governor-governor-in-human" all the time. How could Li Shiyan escape?

The Ministry of Justice was sentenced to death soon and reported to Xiyuan again. After reading it, Jiajing had no objection, but he was unable to finish the final decision for a long time.

Because his breast brother Lu Bing has been kneeling outside the hall for five days and five nights, he is willing to give his grandmother a glory in exchange for his mercy outside the law and let his teacher go.

Jiajing was originally angry with him and did not intend to see him, but after all, he was a brother who had been playing with him since childhood, and he always felt a little more than the feelings of the monarch and minister. After a long time, his heart became soft. He first ordered Chen Hong to leave with a ruthless look on his face. Then he ordered someone to call Lu Bing in and sighed to the kowtowed brother: "After working in this industry for a long time, his heart will be as soft as you do. Why do you become softer as you do..."

Lu Bing bowed his head and cried, "When I was a child, I asked Your Majesty what is 'loyalty and righteousness'; Your Majesty said that never forgets 'heaven, earth, king, relatives and teachers', which is loyalty and righteousness. I have kept Your Majesty's words in my heart for more than 30 years, and I have been unable to change them."

Jiajing remembered that when he was a child, he played with him, caught birds, and peeked at the palace maids to take a bath. His mouth was no longer tightly pursed, and his heart could not continue to be hardened. He shook his head and said, "Forget it, law is nothing more than human favors. For the friendship we grew up with breastfeeding, I don't want his life."

As he said that, he picked up the red pen, wrote a handwritten letter on the paper, and handed it to Lu Bing.

Lu Bing stepped forward with his knees and placed his black hat at the emperor's feet. Then he took the handwriting and bowed three times and nine times to the emperor, and then he was about to retreat.

Jiajing kicked the golden-winged black veil of the first-class official at the foot and cursed: "I can't give up the pick! I'll pick it up and put it on, and do whatever I should do!"

Lu Bing burst into tears and said, "There is no joke in front of you, and I dare not accept it!"

Emperor Jiajing walked over and took out a yellow handkerchief from his sleeve, handed it to Lu Bing and said, "Damn it, the 40-year-old and fifty-year-old are crying so hard that he can't even make you feel embarrassed." Lu Bing grinned embarrassedly, but he didn't dare to take the emperor's handkerchief, so he wiped his face clean with his sleeve.

Jiajing patted his shoulder and said, "I am the only son, no brothers..." He said, "I'm afraid even if there are brothers, there will be no relatives between us."

Lu Bing was moved and shed tears. Jiajing continued, "The most trustworthy person in this world is you. If you quit your hands, I will not even sleep well."

Lu Bing quickly expressed his opinion: "Then continue to do it so that Your Majesty can sleep peacefully."

"How great this is." Jiajing nodded and smiled, "Actually, I am very pleased that you can speak for your teacher... In the final analysis, I still like loyal and righteous people. Just like when I was silent and could take risks to write a letter to my teacher, I liked it very much, which made you get close to him, because such a person can protect your descendants from danger."

Lu Bing cried again.

Jiajing laughed and scolded, "Why do you look like a woman? Get out of here, go and pick up your teacher and let him go back to celebrate his old age." The handwriting said the eight words "Send back to your hometown, never use it."

Lu Bing left Xiyuan excitedly and headed to the Dongchang Yamen outside Donghuamen east of the Forbidden City.

What he never expected was that Li Mo had committed suicide by taking poison!

Holding his master's cold body, Lu Bing started howling like a wounded beast. He was already exhausted, and he was in a hurry and even spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot.

Almost at the same time, Chen Hong had gone back and kneeled in front of the meditating emperor.

After Jiajing finished transporting Zhoutian, he slowly finished his work and asked lightly: "Is it done?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, everything is done." Chen Hong whispered.

"Will you show off?" Jiajing asked, "My breasts are experts."

"I know that as long as there is a trace of coercion, Governor Lu will notice it." Chen Hongmei smiled and said, "So I said to Li Mo directly, Your Majesty takes care of you, and I will not publicly execute the punishment. Let you take poison here and leave a whole body."

"What did he say?" Jiajing asked calmly.

"He believed it, and bit his finger and wrote three words of hatred. He took the bottle of crane red and committed suicide." Chen Hong said proudly: "Don't move a single finger from beginning to end, please rest assured, Your Majesty."

"Well..." Jiajing nodded slowly and said, "I did a good job, but I can't reward you for this."

"I know." Chen Hong Xiaoyi said: "If this matter is spread, I will definitely be swallowed alive by Governor Lu."

"It's good to know, I'll save my instructions." Jiajing said lightly: "I'll deal with all those servants who know the truth. From now on, you won't leave the palace anymore. Leave the errands to Chang San..."

"Yes..." Chen Hong said a little depressed.

"Don't be unhappy, I'm for your own good." Jiajing looked at him and said, "Now, I will definitely be killed by Lu Bing when I go out... Li Fang is old. After a few years, I will send him back to Anlu's hometown to retire." The implication is that the position of the eunuch in charge of the seal is yours. Of course, the meaning of the meaning is that the final explanation lies with me.

Chen Hong was excited and retreated happily.

Only Emperor Jiajing was left in the cultivation room. He breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "You are the easiest person to offend me." Then he continued to meditate.

The news of Li Mo's suicide caused all the undercurrents in the capital to surface!

On the day Li Mo was imprisoned, Jiajing issued an order to remove Wang Gao, who had not yet taken office, and promoted Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian to serve as the Left Minister of the Ministry of War and the Left Censor of the Censorate, and the Governor of the Military Affairs of the Six Southeastern provinces.

The next day, Li Ben, a Grand Secretary, was also in charge of affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, and promoted Li Chunfang as a Hanlin Bachelor. He began to work in two ways to thoroughly clean up Li Mo's two major teams.

For a moment, the people in the capital were panic and all officials were in danger, fearing that this tragic struggle would spread to them.

Some families are happy and some are sad, and the Yan Party is naturally proud and arrogant. Among them, Zhao Wenhua is the most. Although his IQ is not enough to outline such a sinister and fatal conspiracy, the memorial is signed by his name after all! After this memorial, Li Mo was cleared, and the charges were cleared for himself and the emperor's suspicion was eliminated. He won the trust of Jiajing again. How can you not make Lord Zhao excited?

Moreover, Ge Lao Yan said that His Majesty intends to let him go south again and supervise Jiangnan to guide Hu Zongxian's work. Although he cried and shouted that he would come back, once and for another time, now Yan's party is dominant in the court, and there is no one who can threaten him anymore. There is no need to worry about someone suing him. You can do your best to go to the southeast to be a hero, so it is naturally much better than pretending to be a grandson in Beijing.

With a dream of Jiangnan, Zhao Butang shook his way out of his father's study in one step and saw the Grand Secretary Li Ben and a small official who was not very handsome was waiting outside.

He bowed to Li Ben casually, Zhao Wenhua smiled and said, "Old Li, who is you?"

Li Ben shook his head and smiled, "I didn't know you at first," and said, smiling at the dark-faced official, "You're your surname?"

The official saluted and said, "Report to the Lord, the new chief of the Ministry of War Military Selection Department Yang Jisheng." Although he was a small official from the fifth rank, he still made the eyes of the two first rank officials lit up... The civil servants were promoted to the Ministry of Personnel's Wenxuan Department, and the military officers were promoted to the Ministry of War Military Selection Department. All fools knew that they were all first-class fat people. Moreover, the military generals deducted military pay and took a lot of empty quotas, which was even more ruthless than the civil servants. Therefore, the chief of the military election department was the fattest chief of the six ministries, and I believe no one would object.

"Wuxuansi," Zhao Wenhua said in his heart: 'It seems that he was here to offer sacrifices.' Then he said: "You should go to the little master, whose study is in the next yard."

But Yang Jisheng took out a piece of the name and said, "It was Mr. Yan who asked me to come."

When he saw that it was the person his godfather wanted to meet, Zhao Wenhua no longer had much trouble and waved his hand and said, "Then go and see you back." The latter sentence was told to Li Ben.

Yan Song saw Yang Jisheng first, not trying to take the opportunity to humiliate Li Ben... He had ordered Yan Nian to tell Li Ben that our affairs are more important, and I will let this guy be dismissed first.

In the study, after Yang Jisheng gave a regular salute, he sat upright and waited silently for Yan Song to speak.

There was no expected gratitude, and I didn’t even hear a word of thanks, which disappointed Mr. Yan very much... Because Yang Jisheng was able to achieve today, it was all thanks to his promotion!

Yang Jisheng was born in the 26th year of the famous Jiajing Dingwei Certificate. The top scholars in this subject were Li Chunfang, Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shizhan, Wang Shizhen, etc., and were regarded as a group of people who were destined to make achievements in the future and were famous in history.

Compared with these people, Yang Jisheng had almost no merit. The three-year-old and Jinshi who were from poor peasants of three generations were not good-looking, had average literary talent, and had no bright future.

The only thing better than them is that he once sat in the legendary imperial prison... because he was imprisoned, ate a stick, demoted to the remote border area because he opposed the unresisting general Qiu Luan who had opposes to dealing with Altan.

Later, Qiu Luan fell, and all those who opposed him were reborn, and Yang Jisheng was no exception. He was restored to the magistrate of the county magistrate, and a few years later he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, and a month ago he was promoted to the Ministry of Justice...

After returning to the capital to report to the Ministry of Justice, people told him jealously that you have changed your place and go to the Ministry of War Military Selection Department to be the head of the Ministry of War.

Wuxuansi is called "idle and rich, fat and fat". The reason why Yang Jisheng, who had no background, was able to get this position was entirely because of Yan Song's recommendation.

The reason why Master Yan recommended Yang Jisheng was mainly because this person has a good reputation... After the past six months of torture, Master Yan learned from his mistakes and decided to reshape his image and support several reputable officials to serve as a storefront.

Moreover, this person once opposed Qiu Luan. Qiu Luan was also the enemy of Yan Ge Lao. In Yan Song's view, the enemy of the enemy was his friend. So he believed that he could use this to buy this person with his official position and interests and take him for himself.

So it is no surprise that Ge Lao Yan was disappointed at this moment.

He let him hinted that it was himself who made him what he is today. Yang Jisheng was like a wood without any response. Soon Yan Song lost interest and waved his hand to let him retreat. He thought to himself: "No wonder the emperor doesn't like Zhichen. These people really don't understand the charm."

But he didn't know that this person was not just as simple as not understanding the charm. On this person's list of enemies, the dead ghost Qiu Luan could only rank second, and the first position would always belong to him, Ge Lao Yan!

What kind of hatred do the two have? There is no personal hatred, only public anger!

Recruiting this person into the capital was like finding myself a explosive pack...

Master Yan Ge has no eyes and can't imagine how much trouble it will be. Otherwise, he would definitely let Yang Jisheng evaporate directly.

After calming down his mind, he invited Li Ben in... Li Ben, whose real name is Lu Ben, is a surname of Mao, and is from Yuyao, Shaoxing. He was a Jinshi in the 11th year of Jiajing. He entered the cabinet after Xia Yan abandoned the market in the 28th year of Jiajing. Under Yan Song's power for many years, he had already bowed his head and obeyed his orders and did not dare to disobey at all.

After the unnutritional greetings, Yan Song expressed his purpose to find him and asked him to write a letter to the Beijing Office.

Li Ben said in surprise: "It's September now, and the Chinese New Year is a routine Beijing inspection. Is it necessary to take this effort?"

"Yes." Yan Song nodded, but it did not explain the reason. Emperor Jiajing, who knew very well, "impulsive and emotional, transformation and intelligence", knew that if the emperor did not continue his anger and struck while the iron was hot, he would create a faita accompli. I am afraid that after a while, the emperor would disappear and come back to his senses, he would still find a minister of the Ministry of Personnel who opposed him. At that time, he would try to eliminate dissidents and cultivate his followers.

Of course, the reason why I can’t wait is that the stern party has lost too much blood in the past six months and urgently needs to recover.

Li Ben was just a puppet, so there was no need to explain everything to him. Yan Song picked up a memorial from the table and said, "You go back and take a look. If there is no problem, copy it and hand it over. The emperor will definitely approve the memorial... and praise you."

Li Ben knew that Yan Song was just borrowing his position, so he saluted helplessly and took the item and went out.

The next day, Emperor Jiajing saw a memorial from Li Ben, a Grand Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel, and requested to inspect the officials of the two capitals, the Changerfu Temple and other yamen halls and the governors... The governors of this dynasty were all Beijing officials, but they were just stationed in the local area for a long time.

Jiajing looked at the memorial and wrote: "The ministers who are involved in the matter (i.e. Li Mo) use people inside and outside, regardless of whether they are virtuous or not, and use their love and hate as their own, and accept bribes for personal gain, and only take full advantage of the position. Therefore, the common people's achievements are lost every day, and the north and south are in chaos. Your Majesty's saint's wishes have changed many times, and there are filthy people who protect themselves, and few people who can divide their worries. When I heard that the zither and zither were not adjusted, the strings were changed; if the wolf and the weeds were not removed, the Jiagu would not be born. Therefore, the use of people was to get rid of unworthy. Ministers were the horse heads of the little ministers. If the ministers were not in charge, the little ministers followed them. Therefore, the unworthy ministers would be the ministers first.'

This memorial was actually original by Yan Shifan. He pointed the finger directly at the high-ranking red-robed officials in the two capitals and 13 provinces, and found that they were dissatisfied. But he cleverly pulled Li Mo in, saying that the court was in chaos in the past because Li Mo appointed people to be nepotistic and used non-human things.

The angry Emperor Jiajing believed this bullshit statement. He also praised Li Ben for his "loyalty to serve the country" and ordered him to handle the matter with all his power.

So, Li Ben divided the 113 senior officials in the court into the third grade. The top 28 were Wu Peng, Zhao Wenhua, Yan Shifan, etc.; the middle 70 were Yan Maoqing, Xu Luxiang, etc.; the lower 15 were Yang Xingzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing, Ge Shouli, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, Ma Quan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Jun, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Zheng Datong, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, Guo Yun, and others. Only half of the fifteen were promoted by Li Mo, and the rest were upright people who refused to rely on the Yan Party.

Li Ben had never been in charge of the Ministry of Personnel before, and now he has only been in charge of the affairs for a few days. Why did he understand the 113 officials clearly at once? There is nothing secret about it, it is just a matter of being ordered to act.

But it was just that it was not Jiajing, but Yan Song.
Chapter completed!