My life skills in Daming Liver

"Uncle, that Su Ze refused." A young man somewhat similar to Yan Maoqing told Yan Maoqing about Su Ze's rejection.

Yan Maoqing didn't raise her eyes, but said calmly: "Got it."

"Uncle! This Su Ze is too arrogant! He is just a jury, and he dares to refuse your request!"

Yan Maoqing didn't know if he had done too many bad things and had no children. This nephew of the family was named Yan Lubai, and he had been working with Yan Maoqing.

It stands to reason that Yan Lubai should adopt Yan Maoqing as his son and become Yan Maoqing's heir.

But Yan Maoqing has not continued until now, but continues to prostitute this nephew for nothing.

Yan Lubai has been working with Yan Maoqing for nearly ten years, but he has not received any benefits from Yan Maoqing.

Even his own nephew was exploited, Yan Maoqing is worthy of being a corrupt official who can leave his name in history books.

Yan Maoqing was not as angry as his nephew, he raised his head and said:

"No, I tested Su Ze this time to test Eunuch Tao's attitude. Since Su Ze is like this, Eunuch Tao's attitude is very obvious."

Yan Lubai looked at his uncle suspiciously.

Yan Maoqing looked at this nephew, and couldn't help frowning. The reason why he didn't accept Yan Lubai as his stepson for so long was because this nephew was too stupid.

If you can't see such a simple thing, let alone participate in political struggles at the level of party struggle, I am afraid that Yan Lubai will not even be able to do a good job as a county magistrate.

But Yan Lubai is already the most successful nephew of the younger generation of the Yan family, Yan Maoqing could only feel emotional again, and explained:

"Su Ze is just a mere recruiter, but behind him stands Eunuch Tao."

"I have investigated. When Eunuch Tao came to Fujian to mint coins, Su Ze worked for him. Eunuch Tao prepared all the new naval forces. He is Eunuch Tao's man."

"Su Ze's attitude represents Eunuch Tao's attitude. If Eunuch Tao intends to turn to our strict party, Su Ze will dare not refuse to train the opera troupe for Mr. Ge. But now Eunuch Tao is not going to turn to us, Su Ze naturally stiffened his waist and flatly rejected us."

Yan Lubai finally understood, he quickly asked: "Then what should we do?"

Yan Maoqing covered her face and said, "Check the accounts of the Shibo Department carefully, carefully, but if you just look at the accounts, you probably won't see any major problems."

Yan Lubai had an innocent expression again, Yan Maoqing was almost speechless, he could only continue to explain:

"The account books of the Shibo Division are to be sent to the palace and to the household department. No matter how courageous Eunuch Tao is, the accounts must be leveled. It is difficult to find out the problem."

"If you want to find problems, you have to find them on the Ryukyu envoys!"

"Ryukyu envoy?"

Yan Maoqing said: "Last year, the silk traded by Fuzhou's shipping department was worth 500,000 taels of silver. How can a mere Ryukyu country eat so much silk? These silks must have flowed to Japanese merchants and Nanyang and Western people. gone."

"As long as we find evidence that the Ryukyu merchants transited and traded with the Japanese country, we can say that Mr. Tao communicated with the Japanese, and the case will be handled easily."

Yan Lubai's eyes lit up, as expected, his uncle is brilliant!

"What about Suze?"

Yan Maoqing picked up the "Surprise" in his hand and said: "Go and collect the newspapers of these years, and then look for the books published by Su Ze to see if he has any outrageous remarks."

"Back then, Su Ze went to Beijing to rescue Yu Dayou, and gave lectures in Lingji Palace. Observing his remarks, he should have inherited his knowledge from King Gen of Taizhou."

"This Wang Taizhou's knowledge has a lot of remarks against the emperor. As long as you catch these, you can play to the court, saying that he disobeyed the words of the sage, and have his crown (fame) removed."

Yan Lubai immediately said excitedly: "Nephew, let's do it now!"

Seeing his nephew going out, Yan Maoqing lowered his eyes again, and he suddenly sighed.

"Why!"

In the Zhejiang Governor's Mansion, Hu Zongxian also sighed heavily.

Xu Wei walked in with big strides, and said with a happy face, "Department! No matter how victorious Taizhou is, it has already won four battles and four victories! This Yu Zongyuan recommended by Su Rulin is really a famous general in the world!"

When Hu Zongxian heard the news, there was no expression on his face. Xu Wei quickly asked:

"Hu Butang, what's the matter?"

Hu Zongxian sighed again, he turned away from the left and right, and said to Xu Wei, his confidant:

"I still remember that last month, Yan Maoqing went south to Fujian and stayed in my residence for half a day."

Xu Wei nodded, Yan Maoqing went south to Fujian, naturally he had to go through Zhejiang.

Yan Maoqing once lived in Hu Zongxian's residence for half a day, and had a long time of secret talks.

However, Hu Zongxian did not tell Xu Wei about the content of the secret talk, and Xu Wei almost forgot about it.

Hu Zongxian said: "Yan Maoqing brought a message from Enxiang."

The kindness Hu Zongxian mentioned was naturally Yan Song.

Xu Wei also became serious. Yan Song was Hu Zongxian's biggest supporter in the court, and Yan Song's secret message must be very important.

I only heard Hu Zongxian say: "En Xiang told me: 'The Ming Dynasty cannot live without the southeast, the southeast cannot be without Hu Zongxian, the Japanese pirates must be suppressed, and they cannot be completely suppressed. If you Hu Zongxian stay in the southeast for one day, I, Yan Song, will not be able to fall."

Xu Wei was startled when he heard this.

Since the spring of this year, the Japanese riots in Zhejiang and Nanzhili have been calmed down a lot.

Yu Zongyuan led his troops to four battles and four victories in Taizhou, Zhejiang. The largest Japanese pirate group in Zhejiang has been beaten to fear.

Hu Zongxian also established a series of outposts in the coastal areas of Zhejiang to rectify Zhejiang's maritime guards. From the perspective of Zhejiang's Japanese invasion, Zhejiang's Japanese invasion is about to be put down.

But Xu Wei understood what Yan Song asked Yan Maoqing to bring to Hu Zongxian, and immediately said:

"The imperial court wants to be strict? No, it is His Majesty who wants to be strict!"

After a long time, Hu Zongxian nodded and said: "Xu Wenchang's words are very true, Enxiang should have sensed that His Majesty is going to do something."

Xu Wei paced back and forth. Although he failed the imperial examination, he was well versed in the world.

"Yan Ge has been in Bingguo for twenty years, and he is the person who knows His Majesty best. He said that His Majesty is going to be strict, and it is definitely not groundless."

Hu Zongxian nodded and said: "Ever since I entered Zhejiang, En has been very supportive of the anti-corruption. This year, I suddenly said that, it seems that the direction of the court has changed."

Hu Zongxian was in a complicated mood. He was someone who wanted to do things. In order to be able to lead the anti-Japanese war, he did not hesitate to frame Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong, and presented a petition to the strict party to seek a future.

Since presiding over the Zhejiang Anti-Japanese War, Hu Zongxian could abandon Yu Dayou in order to protect himself, and quickly pushed the fault to Yu Dayou.

It stands to reason that this is a villain.

However, Hu Zongxian was in Zhejiang, and he devoted himself to fighting against the Japanese. Zhejiang's fighting against the Japanese was indeed effective. Now the Japanese pirates in Zhejiang and Nanzhili are almost extinct.

But just when Hu Zongxian was about to finish his work, Yan Song actually brought such a letter.

Even Xu Wei was confused.

It stands to reason that Xu Wei is from Zhejiang, so naturally he wholeheartedly supports the anti-Japanese war.

However, he has followed Hu Zongxian for many years, and he has already been tied to Hu Zongxian and Dongnan Kangwa. Xu Wei was also very entangled in Yan Song's letter.

"What do you think, Minister?"

Hu Zongxian said in confusion, "I don't know."

Hu Zongxian stood up, looked out of the window and said: "It is my long-cherished wish to fight against the Japanese. Since entering Zhejiang, you and I have been sleeping all night just to fight against the Japanese. Now it is almost at the door, but Enxiang asked me to take it back." , how can I be willing."

"The Japanese riots in Zhejiang caused the people of Zhejiang to suffer. Changing rice into mulberry and flooding dikes and flooding fields have already caused the people of Zhejiang to suffer too much. Do they have to suffer more because of the rivalry between the two parties in the imperial court? "

Hu Zongxian looked at Xu Wei and said: "Mr. Wen, when I personally sent Ma Ningyuan's prison car into Beijing, I once told him that he didn't understand the sage's books and was not suitable for being an official. I promoted him and harmed him."

"But now I ask, do I understand the sage's book?"

Xu Wei was silent for a long time and said: "I understand, is the department hall confused?"

Hu Zongxian nodded and said, "Which of the officials in my Ming Dynasty didn't read the sage's books, why did the court become like this?"

Xu Wei suddenly understood Hu Zongxian.

Under the banner of anti-Japanese war, the means and tactics used by Hu Zongxian can still be explained by "contingency".

That is to say, all those things he did, fawning over Yan Song, and helping the Yan Party change rice into mulberry, can all be covered up with the banner of "to fight against the Japanese".

This banner is Hu Zongxian's fig leaf and the last moral high ground in his heart.

"I'm fighting against the Japanese, all of this is just a means."

But now Yan Song's letter can be said to have completely torn the banner, and almost collapsed the faith of Hu Zongxian, a minister who was determined to resist the Japanese.

In order to protect himself, he deliberately supported the pirates and let the pirates go. So what has Hu Zongxian been doing all these years?

Xu Wei was also confused for a long time, and then said: "Hu Butang, why don't you write to Su Rulin?"

"Su Rulin?"

Hu Zongxian was stunned for a moment, he thought of the young man he had seen on Fang Wanghai's boat. Over the years, Su Ze's reputation in Zhejiang has become higher and higher, and he is already a great master of Confucianism.

Xu Wei nodded and said: "In my opinion, Su Rulin's knowledge over the years has formed a school of his own, and has become a generation of Confucianism. He should be able to solve the confusion of the department."

Hu Zongxian froze for a moment, Xu Wei seemed to be right.

Among today's Confucian masters, only Su Ze is still telling new knowledge, and his influence is constantly expanding.

Yangming's theory of mind has become empty talk metaphysics, Taizhou school is going out of the way, Su Ze's theory of morality of the four peoples, but with the rapid development of industry and commerce in Zhejiang, there is more and more market.

Even most academies in Zhejiang are talking about Su Ze's knowledge.

But Hu Zongxian still had a knot in his heart and said, "Chaoguan Hall?"

Xu Wei cupped his hands and said: "I don't think Su Rulin would mind this matter, or let Xu go to Fujian in person and ask Su Rulin's opinion."

Hu Zongxian nodded and said: "Then there will be Mr. Lao Wen!"

Just when Xu Wei set off from Hangzhou and went south to Fujian, the situation in the capital really changed.

The censor of the Qingliu faction impeached Yan Shifan for five illegal deeds and three he could kill, causing a sensation in the government and the public.

The censor impeached Yan Shifan for embezzling the timber from the construction of Dagong to build his own house, and also used the money from the treasury of the Ministry of Industry to build his family's ancestral grave.

This is the first time Yan Song and his son have been impeached after Yang Jisheng's death.

But this time the palace's reaction shocked Yan Song, Yan Shifan and his son.

The last time Yang Jisheng impeached Yan Song and Yan Shifan, the emperor rejected the memorial immediately and asked Jin Yiwei to arrest Yang Jisheng and put him in prison.

But this time the emperor just kept the memorial and replied "no report".

When the emperor received the minister's memorial, he usually replied "news", which is equivalent to the leader signing "read" on the document.

If the emperor rejects it, it means that the emperor is not satisfied with the content of the memorial.

But "not reporting" has a profound meaning, which means that the emperor has read the memorial, but has not made any statement.

This is different from the meaning of "staying in the middle and not sending out".

If the memorial is not issued, the memorial will be sent to the emperor, and the emperor will withhold the memorial. This is equivalent to sending a document to the leader in later generations. The leader said to put the document down and look at it, indicating that there is still room for discussion on the memorial.

The attitude of "not reporting" is even more ambiguous than staying in China and not sending out. This is something that has never happened since the strict party came to power.

Even Qingliu were frightened by Emperor Jiajing's strange attitude this time, Qingliu's censor did not continue to impeach Yan Shifan.

In Prince Yu's mansion, the lights were brightly lit.

Wang Yu looked at Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, the two lecturers, and asked with an expectant expression:

"Two masters, isn't it time to be serious!"

Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng fell silent.

"For the first time, the father did not report the impeachment of Yan Shifan, nor did he punish the impeachment censor. Isn't this a signal of Yan Yan?"

Looking at King Yu, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help sighing, this prince is too, too "sacred as ever" in politics.

In order to prevent King Yu from doing stupid things, Zhang Juzheng could only say: "My lord, it's not the time to be serious yet."

"why is that?"

Gao Gong was short-tempered, so he didn't hesitate and said directly:

"Nowadays the Japanese invasion in the southeast is still unresolved, and the rice has not been converted into mulberry and sold as silk. Your Majesty still needs to use Yan Song and his son."

King Yu finally understood, and he sat down slumped.

Gao Gong said: "The key to the strictness lies in Hu Zongxian."

"Hu Zongxian?"

Gao Gong said: "Hu Zongxian fought against the Japanese in Zhejiang, and there is still a gang of 5,000 Japanese pirates near Taizhou in Zhejiang who are making trouble. As long as there is a good news in Taizhou, it will be the time for the downfall of the strict party."

King Yu stood up again, but Zhang Juzheng poured cold water on him: "What if Hu Zongxian supports the bandits?"

King Yu was stunned again, he looked at Gao Gong.

Gao Gong said, "That's what I'm worried about, Uncle, I want you to go to Zhejiang."

"Zhejiang?"

"On behalf of the prince, persuade Hu Zongxian to go anyway!"

On Chuanshi Island, Su Ze once again received an invitation from Qi Jiguang to jointly exterminate Japanese pirates.

Su Ze said to Lin Mojun: "It's just in time, the new navy army needs a battle to clear the sea routes!"

Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the court birds will hide their bows?"

Su Ze said with a smile: "I'm afraid, why should I be afraid? I'm not a 'running dog' of the imperial court. How can the imperial court deal with me?"

"Anti-Japanese pirates is the overall situation, and the inside must be settled outside. First destroy the Japanese pirates, and then rejuvenate the Jinyang division!"

He Qiao was dear to Emperor Wu, Yu Qiao said: "The East Palace seems to be more developed, please try to see." He also asked how. The answer was: "The Crown Prince's sanctity remains the same as before." ps: This prince is Emperor Hui of Jin