The day before Zhang Zhou returned to Beijing.
In the Yamen of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Xie Qian, as the special envoy of the cabinet, came to discuss the results of the Beijing inspection and assessment of the officials in Beijing that year with Tu Fu, the outgoing Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The conversation was normal at first. Later, Tu Fu took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xie Qian.
"This is" Xie Qian did not open it rashly. He didn't know the purpose of the piece of paper Tu Yu gave him, so he had to ask in advance.
Tu Jun said, "These are the candidates who were discussed among the current officials of the six departments, as well as the official department and various government offices, and were changed before the end of the year. Because they have not been discussed by the court, they are not counted. Among them are not You just have an alternative plan. Yu Qiao, take a look." Xie Qian frowned and opened it.
A number of people were listed on a piece of paper, headed by the current officials of the Sixth Department of the Kadu Procuratorate.
Tu Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Lin Han, the left minister, and Han Wen, the right minister.
Xu Qiong, the Minister of Rites, Fu Han, the left minister, and Zhang Sheng, the right minister.
Ma Wensheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhang Zhou, the left minister, and Xiong Chong, the right minister.
The Minister of Punishment Bai Ang, the left minister Tu Xun, and the right minister He Jian.
The Minister of Household Affairs Zhou Jing, the left minister Xu Jin, and the right minister Li Mengyang.
Xu Guan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zeng Jian, the left minister, and Shi Lin, the right minister.
Min Gui, the censor of the left capital of the Duchayuan, and Zhong Zhong, the censor of the right capital.
Xie Qian said, "What's the point of listing these for me?"
Tu Jian sighed and said, "There are discussions outside, and the candidates for the six ministers to be replaced are the main topic."
Xie Qian looked back and saw a list of the Ministers of the Ministry of Personnel. The person who had the most speculation was Ni Yue, who had been squeezed out by Xu Qiong to be the Minister of Nanjing and was now the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.
The Minister of Hubu is Zhong Zhong.
The minister of the Ministry of Industry is Zeng Jian.
The Minister of Punishment is Min Gui.
The Minister of War is still Ma Wensheng.
The Minister of Rites is Lin Han.
The censor of Zuodu is Dai Shan. < /p>
Tu Fu asked, "Yu Qiao, don't you think that only if Ma Futu is still serving as Minister of War, can you suppress that person?"
The so-called "that person", naturally He is talking about Zhang Zhou.
Xie Qian also knows this very well.
If Ma Wen is promoted or relegated, or is transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it seems that the only way for the vacant Minister of the Ministry of War is to let Zhang Zhou ascend. Zhang Zhou was promoted to Shangshu, and the Ministry of War itself was the "hardest hit area" for the upstarts headed by Zhang Zhou.
"Your Majesty will not agree." Xie Qian almost threw the drafted list in front of him on the table.
Tu Feng asked, "Is that because he didn't take Zhang Bingkuan seriously or that in some places, he failed to arrange it according to His Majesty's vision?"
Xie Qian's face was silent, and after a while he said, "Let's talk about your Majesty's transfer of Zhang Bingkuan first. If you have to suppress him with a negative plan, can't you choose other ways, such as transferring him to Nanjing or, continue? Asking him to supervise the official vacancies in various parts of the capital is not prepared for him."
"Yu Qiao, look at this again"
Tu Yu heard Xie. If he moved, it would be equivalent to the cabinet's plan for Zhang Zhou's future career. Only then did he come up with the second thing.
Xie Qian was not polite this time and opened it directly. After reading it, his expression changed greatly. "You guys"
It was a memorial to jointly impeach Zhang Zhou.
The words are fierce, almost like a "rebellious statement."
Tu Yu said with a calm expression, "I am about to leave the court, so I have nothing to worry about. Before I leave, I can still do something for the court. Even if I make a little noise, it is considered a success." "It's time for me to speak."
Xie Qian said angrily, "I won't say it at any other time. I have to wait until this year to make a sound. Do you think your Majesty can hear it?"
Tu Jingdao said, "In the past two years, everyone was waiting for the cabinet elders to take the lead and suppress Zhang Bingkuan's rise. Until the middle of last year, after Zhang Bingkuan passed the Jinshi examination, he repeatedly served as an official abroad. There are few things that interfere with the DPRK. For all the officials in the DPRK, they are waiting. But until now, the cabinet has not taken action, so it can only be initiated by the officials below. "
"Humph"
Xie Qian was very angry.
Tu Feng's words were clearly blaming the Iron Triangle of the Cabinet for not being able to suppress Zhang Zhou enough, which allowed Zhang Zhou to rise rapidly in the court, to the point that it was beyond control.
Xie Qian said, "So now the whole government is afraid that after this group of old people go down, the new ones will not be able to stop Zhang Bingkuan's overwhelming power, and they want to take the opportunity to suppress him."
"Yes." Tu Tong didn't hide it, and nodded directly, "Now that we old people can't suppress him, do you expect those on the list who are just ministers and censors in the future to be able to suppress him in the future?" Will it have an impact on Zhang Bingkuan’s holy pet? Zhang Bingkuan’s harm is far greater than that of Li Guang, but no one dares to touch him until now. This is the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty.”
“Unable to succeed” Xie Qianyi. His face looked irritable.
In the cabinet, Xie Qian himself was the vanguard in resisting Zhang Zhou, but after the past two years, even he, Xie Qian, felt that resisting forcefully was not a good strategy.
But it seems that the people below don’t think so.
Tu Fu said, "In the past, the chance of success might not have been great, but this time the government and the public were almost united. Whether it was the six ministries and five temples, as well as large and small yamen such as Hanlin Academy and Duchayuan, almost all Everyone will sign this joint signature, not to mention."
"What do you want to say?" Xie Qian heard some clues.
In the past, it was impossible to fight against Zhang Zhou, maybe because the civil servants were not cohesive enough, but this time it seemed that everyone who could be mobilized was mobilized.
"AlsoThere were people from the Dudu Mansion, as well as princes and nobles from the royal family and sects. " Tu Yan added.
The muscles on Xie Qian's face jumped a few times and he said, "The people in the Governor's Mansion are easy to understand, especially the British Duke. They know that Zhang Bingkuan's rise will not be of any benefit to them. But how could Zongfan be possible?"
Tu Yu said with a smile, "This is because Zhang Bingkuan wanted to attack Zongfan. This news came from the palace. The credibility is very high. In addition, the palace With the help here, Yu Qiao, you think that your majesty is a sycophant in the eyes of the government and the public, and your majesty really interfered with the affairs of the government to protect one person." , What is important is to be justified. If even the vassals and all the ministers in the court believe that Zhang Bingkuan relies on alchemy to make speeches and endangers the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty does not care about the safety of the Ming Dynasty Zuo."
"You are simply doing this. Forced into the palace. "Xie Qian said fiercely.
Tu Yan sighed, "Yu Qiao, there are some things I haven't told you yet. Have you never thought about who will be in the cabinet after this year? Zhang Bingkuan has been here until now. They are all still bachelors. Your Majesty wants him to join the cabinet, and he will soon replace you. With him in the Shangting Department, the cabinet will soon be replaced. This is what you cabinet ministers want to see."
Xie Qian remained silent.
Tu Yu said: " I didn't mention this matter to Xixian and Binzhi. I told you first because I know that you have always had your own opinions about Zhang Bingkuan. "
"You want to say that I am persistent and want to suppress Zhang Bingkuan, so you think I am in the same party with you?" Xie Qian asked angrily.
"Could it be that I am in the same party with you? Don't you want to?" Tu Jian asked back.
Xie Qian slapped the table and said, "Your Majesty has some imperfections in employing people. In the past few years, first Li Guang and then Zhang Zhou, both of them were Being close to Ren is favored, but Zhang Zhou is different from others. He was born as a Jinshi, and what he did did not go beyond the scope of a civil servant. He made military exploits for the Ming Dynasty. Now he has not done anything wrong, but you want to persecute him with unanimous support. Your Majesty will punish him without fear of backlash."
Speaking of this, Xie Qian suddenly seemed to realize that how could Tu Yu, a man who was about to step down as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, still care about this?
< p>I really want to get out, and I don’t care about the life and death of others."Just tell me, how many of the people who want to sign a joint name are sincere and how many are being coerced?" Xie Qian gasped. He was angry, as if his anger was hard to calm down.
Tu Feng looked very calm and sighed, "This is the last chance, Yu Qiao. ”
Xie Qian had to remain silent again.
He seemed to understand that he could not persuade Tu Fu, nor could he persuade the group of civil servants and military officials behind him who wanted to bring Zhang Zhou down. Xun, and those relatives of the emperor.
Tu Yu said, "Even if this can be done, it will not kill him. "
"Humph" Xie Qian snorted softly, as if to say, you still know that there is no reason to kill Zhang Zhou now
But you are afraid that the matter will get bigger by then. Many People want to label Zhang Zhou as a traitorIf you rebel against the party and slander any reason for rebellion, you will force the emperor to kill someone.
"Now that he is the Duke of the country, and based on his military exploits, he was transferred to a local place as a guard. His Majesty made a promise that he would not be transferred to the capital for more than ten or twenty years. He took more than a year as a guard. The official experience in exchange for these can be regarded as his good fortune, isn't it?" Tu Yu seemed very confident, as if this matter would definitely be accomplished.
Xie Qian said, "What if His Majesty disagrees?"
"It all depends on man-made efforts." What Tu Yu probably meant was that he wanted everyone in the government and the public to remonstrate to the end, "This is the last chance, Zhang Bingkuan's party members He has begun to spread all over the nine borders. His people are increasingly recognized by His Majesty and the soldiers, and even the foreign barbarians are beginning to be afraid of him. Do you just want to see him, Yu Qiao, use a military force within this year? The war destroyed the stability that Ming Dynasty had gained in the past decades of recuperation."
Xie Qian thought about it again.
The move by Tu Fu and the ministers below not only involves a struggle for power, but also involves a debate over whether the future of the Ming Dynasty will be civilized or martial.
Obviously, these ministers in the DPRK, including those who were waiting to die, also hope that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will continue to "maintain success" as it does today, and complete a "promoting ZTE" that everyone has supported and praised. , but ignored the crises in Beiguan and the rise of the grasslands that the Ming Dynasty had encountered for more than 100 years.
It is tantamount to watching others rise while choosing to be a coward.
We must also strangle Zhang Zhou in the cradle.
Even Xie Qian looks down on this group of people.
But when he thought about it again, it seemed that what he had done in the past was no better than Tu Fu and the others.
"Yu Qiao, I think it's best for you to tell Xixian and Binzhi. This matter must be led by the three of you, otherwise we will always be united as one. There's something missing." Tu Yu said.
Xie Qian said angrily, "Isn't it enough for you to take the lead?"
Tu Yu smiled and shook his head.
The civil servants in the DPRK will be greatly changed, and some may even be exiled, and the situation in the DPRK will even change drastically."
Tu Fu asked with a smile, "Then it depends on whether there are three of you cabinet ministers. Take the lead. The people below have nothing to lose, especially those who do not rely on Zhang Bingkuan. Their future is bleak, and this move must be made."
Xie Qian raised his hand and said, "No need to say it. Let’s pretend that the cabinet doesn’t know about this for now, and we’ll discuss it after I get back.”
Xie Qian felt huge waves in his heart.
Regardless of the fact that it was already sunset that day, he hurriedly went to Liu Jian's house to meet him, but was told that Liu Jian was meeting visitors from the palace.
Xie Qian waited for a long time in the Liu Mansion before waiting Liu Jian out.
"It's Eunuch Xiao, the Supervisor of Ceremonies." Liu Jian said with a gloomy expression.
Xie Qian said, "He's comingWhat to do?"
Liu Jian asked, "What did Chaozong tell you?"
As soon as Xie Qian heard this, he understood that Tu Yu was not actually "fighting alone" in this matter. ”.
What kind of situation would enable Tu Yu to contact the courtiers and even gain the support of so many vassals, civil servants and military officials without skipping the cabinet?
There must be someone secretly cooperating.
And this person is obviously the "internal minister" of the Ming Dynasty, the three chief ministers
Xie Qian sat down with Liu Jian. , give a rough summary of what Tu Yu said.
Liu Jian's face was gloomy, and he seemed not surprised at all by Xie Qian's words. Finally, Liu Jian continued, "There is only one opportunity left. . "
Xie Qian asked, "Did you know about it before, or did you just learn about it?"
Liu Jian felt that he was being suspected by Xie Qian, so he looked over and said, "Did you just learn about the details?" , I had vaguely noticed it before, but I expected that His Majesty would not be unprepared. But now that more and more people are in contact, and even members of the clan are involved, the situation will be different. ”
“Do we have to go to such a field?” p>"That's it." I want to fight with him and put him to death."
Liu Jian smiled and said, "Hasn't this kind of thing happened less often since ancient times?"
Xie Qian shook his head and said, "But I'm not that kind of person." kind of people. ”
“Haha. "Liu Jian is laughing again.
The Ming Dynasty used to quarrel the most with Zhang Zhou in the court. Even the court officials thought that Xie Qian, who was Zhang Zhou's mortal enemy, seemed to be trying to protect Zhang Zhou at this time. Liu Jian found it quite interesting.
Liu Jian smiled and said, "Yu Qiao, you are sincere and have helped the younger generations a lot, but you talk too much and can easily offend people. Zhang Bingkuan has no ill intentions. Do you think Zhang Bingkuan has a good attitude towards you? Does he regard you as a mortal enemy that cannot tolerate two tigers in one mountain?" I don’t know much about Zhang Zhou’s character.
Who knows if Zhang Zhou is a coward? Xie Qian, who was still a tolerant and generous gentleman, thought about it and found that this seemed to be a bit too much for Zhang Zhou.
Liu Jiandao said, "According to what Eunuch Xiao said, natural and man-made disasters have occurred continuously in various parts of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years. Talking about disaster is the work of a traitor who is favored by Your Majesty. And Li Guang has passed away, who is the person who has the greatest influence on the court now?"
Xie Qian shook his head, "The theory of disaster is far-fetched. ”
“But Your Majesty believes it. "Liu Jian replied very directly.
I am afraid he has forgotten how Zhang Bingkuan started his career
Didn't he just rely on those disasters to gain the emperor's absolute favor?Trust
Now let him taste the consequences of being attacked by the disaster.
Xie Qian asked, "So the opportunity you mentioned is to wait for another big disaster, someone sets fire to the palace, or wait for a folk epidemic, or wait for Jianghuai before autumn. Floods and droughts everywhere."
"Yu Qiao, calm down." Liu Jian felt that Xie Qian's reaction today was a bit excessive.
Xie Qian didn’t want to have a direct conversation with Liu Jian.
He turned his head away, not even looking at Liu Jian.
Liu Jiandao, "Now everyone in the government and the public are at odds with Zhang Bingkuan. At this time, do you want the cabinet to stay out of the matter?"
Xie Qian shook his head. He understood that the cabinet was not responsible for this matter. Even if you are coerced, you must also participate.
This can reflect the leadership role of the cabinet.
"Even if you really think that Zhang Bingkuan is a talent that can be developed, you should give him some lessons and experience. Now in two years, he has become the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, and even has to serve as the Imperial Academy. , Six Ministry errands, and have the qualifications to aspire to the Six Ministry Hall. If it goes so smoothly, shouldn't we be afraid that he will pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty in the future?"
Liu Jian can be considered open and honest.
Let’s not worry about whether those people took us with them when they did big things, or whether Zhang Bingkuan really did something wrong.
It has only been less than a year and a half since this person passed the Jinshi exam, and he is already so awesome.
This is a good thing for a young junior
No matter how capable he is and no matter how trusted the emperor is, we are still convinced of his ability. Aren’t we afraid of what will happen in the future?
"Your Majesty used Zhang Bingkuan to the point of insisting on not listening to other people's opinions. This is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty, the government and the opposition, and even Zhang Bingkuan. This is what the government and the opposition are doing." The reason why everyone from top to bottom is united."
Liu Jian is explaining and paving the way for people from both the government and the opposition to jointly participate in the impeachment.
Xie Qian asked coldly, "What if Zhang Bingkuan counterattacks and he succeeds?"
Liu Jiandao, "Then he will never be able to gain His Majesty's complete trust again. For his own benefit. Privately, he goes against the civil and military forces of the Manchu vassals. How can such a person still want to gain His Majesty's favor? Why wouldn't Your Majesty be wary of him?"
Xie Qian frowned upon hearing this.
"Yu Qiao, you will understand if you think about it. Regardless of success or failure, it is a warning to His Majesty. Even if His Majesty did not understand it for a while and felt that we failed the court, time will explain. Your Majesty will understand our painstaking efforts."
Liu Jiandao, "There is only one chance for this matter. Who knows what your Majesty has planned for Zhang Bingkuan's return to the court?" Keep in mind to collect, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft