evening.
Lu Tiaoyang led Shen Shixing to the cabinet and stopped outside Zhang Juzheng's duty room.
The latter glanced at the former doubtfully: "Master?"
Lu Tiaoyang shook his head and said softly: "Yuan Fu wants to see you alone."
Only then did Shen Shixing realize why Lu Tiaoyang kept chattering along the way and gave so many instructions.
His movements were a bit reserved, as if he was about to go in.
Lu Tiaoyang patted his shoulder and turned back to his check-in room.
Shen Shixing carefully opened the door and entered.
When he entered the room, he saw Zhang Juzheng taking a nap on the table. He seemed to hear some movement and then raised his head.
Shen Shi bowed: "Yuanfu."
Zhang Juzheng rubbed his brows tiredly and stretched out his hand to motion for him to sit down.
When Shen Shixing sat down, he opened his mouth and said, "Did He Qing tell you about today's face-to-face meeting on the way here?"
Shen Shixing shook his head: "The teacher said Yuan Fu would tell me."
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said bluntly: "Jia Daiwen, Hu Zhuo fabricated prophecies, talked about death, and the three tribes were exiled."
"Bi Qiang, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhang Daoming from the engineering department were reviewed and exiled to Shen Yiguan and other eight people."
Shen Shixing was surprised.
Zhang Juzheng briefly told what happened when he met the saint.
Shen Shixing still didn't come back to his senses and murmured: "Yuan Fu, most likely this was not done by Jia Daiwen."
Whether based on his understanding of Jia Daiwen or Jia Daiwen's reaction afterwards, he believed that this was not what Jia Daiwen had done.
Zhang Juzheng nodded: "I believe what you said. Not only do I believe it, the emperor can also believe it."
Jia Daiwen didn't have any soldiers, so why did he dare to be so crazy? If he said it was Zhang Siwei, he would be more confident.
Shen Shixing understood this sentence and suddenly realized: "So, Jia Daiwen is asking for death because of the other 20% possibility!?"
How is this different from Mo Xu?
Zhang Juzheng’s meaning is difficult to understand: “If Wang Chonggu hadn’t still been at Xuanda University, Zhang Siwei and Yang Bo would have died.”
Shen Shixing's surprise and doubt stopped abruptly, and his body felt inexplicably cold.
Zhang Juzheng patiently explained to the rising star: "It's not what you thought."
"Princess Qixia died, if it was an accident, that's all. If it was man-made... a suspicious person, in the eyes of His Majesty, it just so happens that someone deserves to die."
"This is an excuse to play on the subject, and it is also a grudge."
Shen Shixing was relieved a little.
After thinking for a moment, he sighed and said, "After all, I have a young spirit, and I'm afraid it will hinder my moral aspirations."
In the four months since he ascended the throne, everything the emperor has done can be described as smooth and silent.
Among the courtiers, there was also a reputation for being a benevolent king.
But if you really want to punish Yan Guan, you have to deal with a third-grade official, which is such a drastic act.
The reputation he had built before for being a benevolent gentleman fell by the wayside.
Zhang Juzheng, however, had a complicated look on his face and said slowly: "So, in order to clarify the canonical punishment, the cabinet and the Three Justice Departments must make this matter a solid case."
The reputations of Emperor Sejong and Yan Song are bound.
Just like the reputations of the late emperor and Gao Gong are inseparable.
Now Zhang Juzheng, and even the entire cabinet, are in the same situation.
When one is prosperous, both are prosperous; when one is lost, both are harmed.
When most of the courtiers reached a consensus, it was not that the emperor was not benevolent enough, but that these people had committed extremely evil crimes.
Shen Shixing understood: "What do the officials need to do?"
Zhang Juzheng did not answer directly, but asked: "Rumo is only thirty-seven, right?"
Shen Shixing nodded: "I'm thirty-nine years old."
Zhang Juzheng approached and poured tea for Shen Shixing with his own hands: "He Qing values ​​you very much."
Shen Shixing stood up quickly, held the cup in both hands to receive it, and said, "Thanks to Yuan Fu and Master for their respect."
Zhang Juzheng nodded: "Now that Lu Shusheng has not come to take up his post, even if you are in charge of the official department, you are actually a heavenly official, so you should take charge of your role on your own."
"So, it's not what I want the officials to do, but what do you think about this?"
Shen Shixing was startled and could not recover for a moment.
Zhang Juzheng looked at Shen Shixing with encouraging eyes.
Shen Shixing was silent.
I went through everything that happened today in my mind.
Thousands of thoughts.
There was no movement in the room for a moment.
Waited for a long time.
Shen Shixing finally came to appreciate it.
He put down the tea, cupped his hands and said, "Yuan Fu, this matter is too harsh for me, the people of Nanzhili Township, and I cannot sit idly by."
Zhang Juzheng nodded appreciatively.
No wonder Lu Tiaoyang admired his disciple so much.
Many times, when one's official rank does not reach a certain level, many things are unexpected.
But Shen Shixing had not yet entered the cabinet. When he heard what happened today, he immediately understood its impact.
The impact of killing officials and dealing with high-ranking officials of the third rank is naturally not small. Internal and external disputes, the hostility of the Southern Zhili Township Party, etc. cannot be underestimated.
What Hai Rui said is right, but it needs to be said in a different direction.
It is the emperor's duty to move forward without hesitation and the cabinet to fill in the gaps.
Previously, there had been disagreements between the cabinet and the emperor on whether to move Southern Zhili, so it seemed that the level of cooperation was not that high.
But now that the emperor has persuaded him by pressing his head, if the emperor wants to kill someone, the cabinet will have to wipe his ass.
How to smooth out the impact is something the cabinet must consider.
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said to Shen Shixing: "Why can't you sit back and watch?"
Shen Shixing said without hesitation: "There are still many outstanding officials from Southern Zhili. I will simplify some of them."
This is the value of being the top pick in high school at the age of twenty-seven.
Zhang Juzheng only mentioned one sentence, and Shen Shixing immediately grasped the context.
The cabinet wanted to please the emperor and appease the dissatisfaction of the court officials. It could be said that the daughter-in-law was coaxing both sides of the family.
Since we want to reconcile yin and yang, we must implement it in a practical way.
As the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Shen Shixing was actually the courtier in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. He was already the highest-ranking court official from Southern Zhili.
After the ministers of the Ministry of War were all punished by the officials, the people of Nanzhili Township were bound to be leaderless and panicked.
However, the number of officials from Southern Zhili is the largest in the court - the fairness of the imperial examination does not mean that the level of each place is the same, and now the educational resources of Southern Zhili are unparalleled.
Therefore, in order to appease this group of people, Shen Shixing must step forward and be the talker.
In this way, we can cooperate with the cabinet to minimize the impact of this matter, and at the same time, we can act as a ballast stone on the Lianghuai issue.
Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but smile with relief when he saw that Shen Shixing really understood.
He said in a relaxed tone: "If you draft a memorandum for the person you want to promote, you can decide how many times the cabinet will reject it."
Shen Shixing handed over his hand.
Zhang Juzheng patted him on the shoulder: "You don't have to work under my door in the future. If anything happens in the cabinet, He Qing will tell you."
"You're only thirty-seven, it's a good thing to be on your own earlier."
Shen Shixing was silent.
This is the path that the first assistant must take.
There are no factions in the government, and there are all kinds of strange things. It is impossible for all kinds of township parties to gather under the chief minister's seat.
Just like the original Gao Gong, he relied on Yang Bo to command the Jin Party and Zhang Juzheng to command the Chu Party.
Now that Shen Shixing wants to be the spokesman for the Nanzhili Township Party, he can no longer run around in front of the chief minister all day long, otherwise it will be difficult to explain when the cabinet wants to cut the flesh of Nanzhili.
Zhang Juzheng mentioned his age twice, and his meaning was obvious.
If he can really take on his own role, and while mediating the conflicts between the Zhili Township Party in North Korea, Central and South China, and at the same time be able to take the helm of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and steadily implement the new law, then he will not be hopeless as the next Chief Assistant.
Of course, there was still unfinished business, and neither of them mentioned it... If Shen Shixing didn't have this ability, he would no longer have the final say as the minister in the Ministry of Personnel.
Shen Shixing bowed his head in obeisance and gave a big salute: "Yuan Fu's teachings, Shi Xing can save you."
Maintaining the salute posture, Shen Shixing exited the check-in room backwards.
The room was silent again.
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November 4th.
Ge Shouli, the censor of the capital, had a report, and all were asked by the officials involved in the matter. Hu Zhuo, the censor, fabricated prophecies and subverted the country's foundation. It was almost the same as treason. The nine tribes should be punished for the crime;
, reviewed Shen Yiguan and other eight people, who secretly connected with Jia Daiwen and Hu Zhui, played prophecies, formed cliques for personal gain, and punished the three tribes for their crimes.
The officials were in an uproar and looked around, only to realize that these people had not come to court at all.
Without giving room for court discussion, all the nine ministers agreed. The first assistant, second assistant, and group assistants of the cabinet drafted a vote to approve it and petitioned the emperor.
After the emperor read it, he sent back a memorial saying that all ten of them were ministers, so how could they be easily convicted? He ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Dali Temple to examine the matter.
November 5th.
Hai Rui, the censor of Qiandu, reported that Wang Ruyan's case involves serious harm to the Huaihe River and Huaihe River. Please allow yourself to go to the Huaihe River to investigate in detail.
The emperor gave Hai Rui, the censor of Qiandu, a talisman to supervise the salt administration of Lianghuai and Chen Dong, the young minister of Dali Temple, to thoroughly investigate Wang Ruyan's case.
The two left Beijing that day.
November 7th.
Thirty-six hours after the three judges held an overnight meeting to interrogate Hu Wei and others, the ten people confessed in person and signed their signatures. The guards in Jinyi searched the ten people's houses and found letters written in them. Many of them contained words criticizing the public and plotting against the emperor.
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With all the personal and material evidence available, the three judges submitted the crime of prophecy and rebellion to the country, and conspiracy to rebel, and asked the emperor to make a decision.
The emperor thought that the implication was too much and was not the fault of a wise king, so he sent down the cabinet to discuss it again.
At that time, the cabinet and the nine ministers, impressed by the emperor's holy virtue, reduced the culprit to three clans and punished the eight accomplices with death.
On the same day, the military department sent memorials to Cai Ruxian, the official in charge of the matter, Chen Tang, the censor of Huguang Road, and Luo Zun, the official official in charge of the official affairs, and others, begging for forgiveness from Hu Chui.
It is said: There are many things a ruler can do well in governance, none more than rewarding and admonishing ministers; there are also many flaws in governance, none more than deposing ministers who admonish him. Hu Chui is the official censor, and correcting mistakes is the proper duty. Today's sentence involves prophecy
, then decided to plot rebellion and immediately carry out executions. I am afraid that from now on, there will be more people who obey the orders and fewer people who violate the rules.
There is no other way to think wildly and absurdly, and it is terrifying to be blocked by thoughts. If you punish him lightly or reinstate him, your saintly virtue will be great, and this is what the minister wishes.
The Minister of Civil Affairs, Shen Shixing, attached a note and asked for petitions for ten people.
When the emperor heard about it, he was greatly moved.
Decree again.
There was a man from Huating, Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili, who was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing's reign. Cai Ruxian was assigned to Shizhong in the military department.
I will reward you with five taels of silver for your comments on the official regulations, and one year's deduction for grinding.
He also thought that the killing was too heavy and harmed the benevolence. According to the words of various officials and ministers, the ten people who rebelled were changed to rebels. Only the two chief culprits were sentenced to death, and the rest were exiled.
At this point, the dust has finally settled.
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Imperial College.
"Si Ye."
"Li Siye."
Along the way, doctors and teaching assistants from the Five Classics came to greet Li Zhi one after another.
Li Zhi returned the gift perfunctorily and went straight to the room where the wine was offered.
He pushed open the door and shouted: "Tao offers wine, His Majesty said at that time that his salary would be doubled, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Isn't this the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
When the emperor tricked him into coming here, he said, "If you don't care, your salary will be doubled, and you can study with peace of mind."
Nowadays, no one really cares about him - his only boss, Tao Dalin, is cautious and never offends others easily, and his subordinates will not scold him.
Apart from not being a troublemaker and retreating behind everyone when there is a problem, he has almost no other shortcomings.
As for studying, it is indeed quite peaceful.
The Imperial College was not busy with affairs, and almost no one would disturb Li Zhi.
But again, the problem was that his salary was not doubled as promised.
The Imperial College was a Qingshui government office, and when it came to arrears of salary, the Imperial College was the first to bear the brunt. When he was a doctor of the Five Classics, he owed salary for several months at a time, and he always had to pay with peppercorns.
He really didn't want to make the same mistake again, being penniless and starving his wife and daughter to death.
When Tao Dalin saw the door being pushed open, he stood up and relaxed when he saw it was Li Zhi.
I'm used to being annoyed by Li Zhi these days, so I naturally know what's going on.
He said warmly: "Li Siye might as well go to the Ministry of Household Affairs and ask? The salary of our Imperial College is set by the Ministry of Household Affairs. If Li Siye troubles me, I can't change the money."
Li Zhi was speechless: "You said this the day I came to the Imperial College to report. After that, I went to the Ministry of Revenue to ask, and the Ministry of Revenue asked me for the voucher from the Ministry of Personnel."
Tao Dalin remained calm: "Then Li Siye goes to the Ministry of Personnel to ask?"
Li Zhi curled his lips and said, "I went there yesterday and the officials asked me for His Majesty's edict."
Tao Dalin stood up, closed the door, and turned around and said, "Yes, where is the edict? The officials cannot give you two cents of salary out of thin air."
Li Zhi took off his crown, revealing a small crew cut: "That's an oral edict! Where does the clear edict come from?"
Tao Dalin quickly comforted him: "Then why don't you ask your father-in-law to be a witness?"
Li Zhi said angrily: "Didn't I go there today? I just came back."
"They say the Forbidden City is in the Qing Palace recently and they are so busy that they have no time to talk to me!"
Tao Dalin followed the same enemy and said: "It's hard for Li Siye."
But Li Zhi refused to give up: "Tao Jijiu is a court official. What arrangements does your Majesty have for me? Why don't you ask for me?"
The emperor summoned him, and most likely he couldn't be allowed to stay in the Imperial College to eat.
When he saw the emperor running a new newspaper, he was immediately aware that the sage was competing for scholarly status, the language of prestige among the people.
If the salary is doubled for him, then there will probably be a job for him.
He could not imagine that besides his status as a deviant disciple of Xinxue, there was nothing else worthy of the emperor's attention.
The problem is that I heard that there has been a big incident in the court recently. It is estimated that because of this, the emperor is too busy to deal with him.
This made Li Zhi feel a little uncomfortable. He was afraid that the emperor would forget about him.
The expenses he brought were not enough to pay him a few months' salary in the Imperial College.
Previously, he went to a new school to get a part-time job, but was kicked out by Cheng Dawei, saying that he had no talent, which made him very angry.
Now we can only hope that the emperor will remember him soon.
The old god Tao Dalin was there and said calmly: "Li Siye, don't be anxious, the capital is not what you think now."
"After the trial implementation of the examination law in September, His Majesty and the Cabinet made it clear that officials who have passed the examination this season will not only make up their arrears, but will also receive another performance point, which is enough for Li Siye to live in peace."
Li Zhi said helplessly: "Tao Jijiu, don't try to coax me. I've seen the Imperial College's examination standards. It would be great if I can pass the exam."
It is naturally not easy for Qingshui Yamen to achieve results.
Tao Dalin said warmly: "It's good to be qualified. At least I will be able to make enough and real payments every month, and I won't break any more treasure notes or Sichuan peppercorns."
The salary of the Ming Dynasty was actually sufficient - provided that no salary was owed and the salary was actually paid.
Li Zhi couldn't stand Tao Dalin doing Tai Chi.
Don't complain to him anymore.
He stood up and was about to leave. He took two steps outside and finally couldn't help but ask: "If Tao Jijiu has time, you might as well ask His Majesty for me."
Tao Dalin smiled and nodded.
Li Zhi took the Maitreya Buddha to his boss, but there was nothing he could do, and he left the room full of depression.
Along the way, he encountered students who came to greet him. Li Zhi forced a smile and returned the greetings one by one without any ambiguity.
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Zhi was just about to go out for a late dinner.
Just as I was passing by the Dianbook Hall, I suddenly saw the Supervisor of the Shengzhen Hall running towards me.
"Li Siye! Someone is looking for you in the palace. They are waiting for you in the Shengzhen Hall!"
Li Zhi said nothing and went straight to the Shengzhi Hall.
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