In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, it was early morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Liu Jian and Li Dongyang arrived outside Zuoshun Gate early, waiting to enter the palace to greet the New Year, but only a few people came that day. Among the six ministers who came early in the morning, only Lin Han, the minister of rites, came .
When everyone met, basic New Year greetings were indispensable, and then Liu Jian called Li Dongyang aside.
Li Dongyang opened his mouth first and said, "Why is it that even the negative plans are in the future?"
In Li Dongyang's view, yesterday Liu Jian went to Ma Wensheng first, and the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs provoked today's kneeling to remonstrate, but he Even Ma Wensheng, the initiator, seems to have become a deserter.
"Wait a minute." Liu Jiandao, "Sooner or later, he should be here."
Li Dongyang then told about his meeting with many ministers in the court yesterday, "What should be met, also I have seen them all, or asked someone to send a message, and they all gave the same answer. I must respond today, but"
"Nothing." Liu Jian frowned.
Li Dongyang sighed and said, "I heard that early this morning, His Majesty issued an edict, saying that today's New Year's Eve celebration is cancelled, and everyone is left to decide whether to come. I'm afraid that His Majesty already knows our intentions and has already To guard against this, some people will not come because of this." Liu Jiandao said, "If there are only a few people, it doesn't matter to the overall situation."
" Hiss." Cheng Minzheng took a breath and said, "Binzhi, this matter is a bit difficult. Don't you know that your Majesty's attitude is very determined this time and he asked people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to block him along the way. There are many people today. As soon as they left the house, someone told them that today's meeting was cancelled. They were also told that if they came, they would be responsible for the consequences. Why did you ask everyone to come?"
After they walked away, Liu Jian stared at Li Dongyang and asked, " I didn’t look for it.”
Liu Jian was also wondering which link had gone wrong.
Liu Jian was unable to respond for a while.
"Two pavilion elders, in this new year, the government and the public will have to rely more on us." Lin Han smiled with a smile on his face, and his face was full of spring breeze, "I heard that His Majesty is still in poor health today, why don't we go back early ”
Cheng Minzheng looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping, then he walked over and said, “Everyone is afraid. Many people can’t see the impeachment of Cai Guogong.” In a real sense, if it is just about Yu Qiao's matter, it should be left to the Ministry of Justice to fight for it. After all, Yu Qiao's case has not yet been settled, which does not mean that there will be no improvement. If you have to drag Cai Guogong to talk about it, this will not offend the emperor. Are you going against the scale?"
Cheng Minzheng said, "It means that at today's court meeting, I have something to report to His Majesty. Is it related to speaking out for the official, or continuing to participate in the impeachment?"
That's right. Then, someone not far away wanted to pay Lin Han New Year greetings, and Lin Han could only turn around and deal with it in embarrassment.
"What?" Lin Han looked confused.
It is impossible for Lin Han not to know the implication.
Now the emperor is using fair and honest means to punish Xie Qian, who formed a party for personal gain and participated in the impeachment of frontline generals, which had a negative impact on the war situation.Your traditional civil servants want to use some tricks to put the fire on Zhang Zhou
Li Dongyang said, "What if he deliberately pretends to be confused?"
To put it bluntly, that's Lin Han and other relatively neutral people were brought to today's kneeling remonstration occasion, so that they would be too embarrassed to leave even if they wanted to.
Li Dongyang walked over and called Cheng Minzheng aside. The people in the Hanlin Academy also wisely got out of the way, but at the same time, Wang Hao, Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu and others had just arrived, and Li Dongyang was not there yet. time to deal with them.
Liu Jiandao, "Hengda, you don't know what day it is today, do you?"
The emperor didn't want Zhang Zhou to be involved, and he didn't even let Zhang Zhou come out to participate in the discussion. You are simply putting yourself in the opposite position of the emperor.
Liu Jian said, "With Lin Hengda's popularity and ears, he can't know what's going on today."
Liu Jian frowned.
Time is gradually passing.
This matter was indeed discussed privately between him and Li Dongyang.
He really wanted to stand by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, but they didn't regard him as one of their own. He also wanted to be a good old man and mediate.
"Keqin, what's going on today?" Li Dongyang asked.
"Haha." Cheng Minzheng smiled bitterly, "It doesn't sound good, but it's almost the same. Who made the people Yu Qiao participated in the impeachment have made contributions in the Northwest War? Recently, the Hanlin Academy has also been discussing for peace. The matter of Lu Bo’s promotion to the nobility, and if Xin Xin Bo continues like this, I’m afraid it will be a disaster.”
As a relatively neutral person, how could Cheng Minzheng fail to see the emperor’s partiality for Zhang Zhou?
This also makes Cheng Minzheng no longer a human being.
Looking at Lin Han’s appearance, he did seem to know nothing, but it could also be that Lin Han was pretending to be confused. Otherwise, why would he invite them to leave so early in the morning?
Cheng Minzheng said, "In other court affairs, people in the court may not hesitate to stand here, but when it comes to Yu Qiao and Cai Guogong, this matter is difficult to classify. Some people actually find it difficult to balance both sides. "
In this matter, Cheng Minzheng was sincerely trying to persuade Li Dongyang to stop.
Cheng Minzheng arrived relatively late. As soon as he arrived, he got together with a few people from the Hanlin Academy, talking and laughing, as if he didn't know what happened today.
But on this kind of issue, how could he possibly convince Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, the leading civil servants? So he would rather take the risk of being criticized and come today, and even persuade some people to come. The result is Li Dongyang will feel that he has not done enough.
"There will be such a thing" Li Dongyang was also shocked.
While talking, Lin Han also came over to say hello to Li Dongyang and Liu Jian.
Originally, Liu Jian thought that more and more people would come to the palace gate, but when the sky was already bright and the sun was rising in the sky, there were still only a few people arriving. Less and less.
Li Dongyang said, "Have you forgotten? You also said before that some people are not invited here."Yes, it comes from fighting. Some things you said yesterday are completely different from those you say today. Some people came today and had to stay. If they were notified in advance, they would find various excuses to evade. "
Li Dongyang quickly gave Liu Jian a hand, probably to remind Liu Jian that there were some things that he didn't even say hello to Lin Han.
Li Dongyang said with a straight face, "Both. "
Li Dongyang frowned and said, "As you think, some people helped Yu Qiao during Tingju just because of their feelings, but in fact their hearts are towards Zhang Bingkuan"
The waiting was still going on.
When Li Dongyang returned to Liu Jian, he roughly counted the number of people present. Compared to the more than 400 people from the capital, today. Not even 10% of the people were present, and almost none of the middle- and lower-level officials were present.
Liu Jiandao said, "We still haven't informed you enough, why can't we tell each other?"
Li Dongyang looked sullen. He said helplessly, "They don't even want to come, let alone get involved, and ask them to tell anyone."
"Ahem. ”
Liu Jian might have been choked by the wind, or it might have been that what he saw in front of him had hit him so hard that he couldn’t help but cough.
Li Dongyang waited until he calmed down before saying "Your Majesty has been on guard for a long time and sent people to greet each house. Just on the way here today, many people were blocked. Some people have no choice but to do so. ”
He said this politely.
He was embarrassed to say that they didn’t like to come in the first place, but it just happened that the emperor sent people to stop them, and each of them just happened to I also felt that I didn’t need to attend the court meeting or pay New Year greetings to the emperor, so we all went back.
"Bin Zhi. ”
Not far away, Ma Wensheng also came.
Coming with Ma Wensheng was Fu Han, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who came to support Liu Jian and Li Dongyang. , but it was a long time coming.
Ma Wensheng came over. There were people who wanted to wish him a happy new year, but he reached out and temporarily stopped him.
Ma Wensheng came with a very purpose. Qiang, walked straight forward and said, "You may not know that someone came to the door of the mansion this morning to bring out what the palace said. Or it will have a big impact on today's events. "
"What about the co-signature?" Liu Jian asked.
"There are also fewer co-signers. Originally, there were many people who could co-sign, but after they heard that they need to come today, If they come here to give advice, they will shrink back. In front of you two, they may be embarrassed to say it openly, but from my side."
Ma Wensheng has no choice but to do so.
In fact, even people like Ma Wensheng don't really want to come today.
To kneel down and remonstrate, or even to confront the emperor, just to get the emperor to suppress Zhang Zhou and intercede for Xie Qian, how can this be heard? None of them are reliable.
Everyone in the government and the public knows about the emperor’s attitude. If you want to impeach Zhang Zhou, you must first show what Zhang Zhou did not do well. As a result, Zhang Zhou is now in the spotlight., and no one is in Beijing, and there is no head-on conflict with you. It is inappropriate for you to regard Zhang Zhou as your enemy. From any angle, you want to suppress Zhang Zhou.
Fu Han came over and said, "I also walked over to the Qintian Prison and said that there have been no corresponding weather events recently."
This involves another kind of situation. A way to suppress Zhang Zhou.
If there is any bad astronomical event happening now, you can blame Zhang Zhou, or someone is responsible for the disaster. But the problem is that Zhang Zhou himself is a great expert in this field. If there is any big event this time, Zhang Zhou’s predictions are ahead of anyone else’s. A half-immortal who has prepared people’s disaster prevention plans in advance will use astronomical matters to attack. This is not to point a finger at the gun.
Ma Wensheng looked around , sighing, "But I didn't expect that there would be so few people here."
Obviously Ma Wensheng also overestimated the unity within the civil service.
As for the six ministers, even the initiators like Ma Wensheng were unwilling to kneel down and remonstrate. As a result, today’s event was not successfully organized. After he heard that it was very deserted, he hurriedly dared to came, but it was of no avail.
No one else will come to help you just because Ma Wensheng is here.
"No matter how many people submit the memorial, this memorial should be submitted." Liu Jian seemed very insistent.
This is the first time in all his years in office that he has felt so frustrated.
Others could hardly stand.
In the past, no matter how fierce the fight with Zhang Zhou was, at least the civil servants were unswervingly on his side. Even when Tingju moved to Xie, in addition to Shangtingchu and Yanwutang, They all supported Xie Qian, which gave him the illusion that he could still control the situation of the court, so he launched today's general attack on Zhang Zhou.
As a result, the emperor pulled the ladder away before the attack even started. In addition, those who opposed Zhang Zhou were not so determined in the first place, which led to many people temporarily changing their minds and quitting the job.
Li Dongyang also hurriedly persuaded, "In the current situation, I'm afraid a joint signature will have no effect. Instead, some people will make use of the topic."
"Yes." Ma Wensheng also hurriedly persuaded, "It is better to take a long-term view. Don't rush to the moment."
This tells Liu Jian that originally we still occupied a base of public opinion, but now even the public opinion has gradually turned, how can you still attack Zhang Zhou rigidly? , I’m afraid you can’t even protect yourself.
When you retreat, who will be able to fight against Zhang Zhou?
Fu Han said, "This would not have been the case a few years ago."
Li Dongyang said "A few years ago, Zhang Bingkuan would not have covered the sky with one hand like he is today. Now the only words that His Majesty can listen to are his words. His Majesty rarely even goes to court now, and only listens to his words. His remarks made it difficult for us to admire Tianyan."
Ma Wensheng smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is indeed ill recently. There is no doubt that no one is deliberately trying to stop him."
< p>Ma Wensheng is relatively neutral on this point.Because of himYou know, Zhang Zhou did not mobilize all his resources to fight against them. If he had mobilized, it would not be just them taking action like it is now.
"Several pavilion elders and ministers are still waiting."
At this moment, someone from the palace finally came.
The ones who came were Chen Kuan, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, and Li Zhang, the eunuch who held the pen. Of course, Li Zhang was also the "sinner" who blocked the ministers from coming to the palace gate today.
Liu Jian led the people forward to greet him, first cupping his hands.
Chen Kuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty heard that you are all still there, so he specially ordered to come down and give a banquet here. You don't have to wait until noon, you can go back first after taking advantage of the banquet. If there is anything important, , Let’s wait until ten days or after the Lantern Festival. Your Majesty also wants to have some leisure recently.” As he said this, he waved his hand and Li Zhang left first.
"This is" Li Dongyang asked.
Chen Kuan said in surprise, "Mr. Li Ge, do you still need to ask? Each imperial tomb has to be worshiped. His Majesty got up a little late today, and specially asked people to get the decree and send it to each family. , the people in the capital camp jointly paid tribute to the imperial mausoleum and other matters. In addition, it was decreed that everyone in the court should rest for ten days, and the court meeting would not resume until after the Lantern Festival. In other words, within fifteen days, Your Majesty. Basically, they won’t interfere with the affairs of the DPRK.”
Liu Jiandao, “Don’t do anything?”
“No,” Chen Kuan said with a smile, “Like Mr. Xie Ge. Your Majesty has approved the case."
"What?" Liu Jian became nervous.
I was still working hard for Xie Qian, but it turned out to be in vain
Chen Kuandao said, "To be honest, your Majesty understands Xie Ge's dedication to serving the country, and does not intend to delay or hinder the war. But the impact has been very bad. Your Majesty does not pardon his death penalty, nor does he need to be exiled. He will only be sent to the seaside as an official for three years, and then he can resign and return to his hometown."
It's just a demotion. It's not even a distribution.
As for whether he is a minor official, there is no need to care, but he is not allowed to resign within three years.
Three years later, Xie Qian will get out. In short, from now on, there should be no Xie Qian in the court.
End of this chapter
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