My life skills in Daming Liver

The news of Zhang Juzheng's resignation quickly spread from the capital to various places.

Li Chengliang also set up an intelligence point in the capital. On the day Zhang Juzheng resigned as prime minister, a horse rushed out of the capital and sent the news to Shandong.

Li Rusong received the news and immediately rushed into Li Chengliang's mansion.

At this time Li Chengliang was listening to the play.

At this time, what Li Chengliang was listening to was "A Dream of Yellow Liang" written by Su Ze.

"Endless generosity, endless power; endless delicacies to eat, endless money to spend; endless carols to listen to, endless gifts to receive; endless wealth to enjoy, endless years to live."

He only saw people on the stage shaking their heads, and Li Chengliang couldn't help laughing.

When people around him saw Li Chengliang smiling, they also gave out rewards.

The atmosphere on the stage became more lively.

During this period, as the civil service court in the capital fell into disgrace, this early work by Su Ze became popular in the north again.

"Huang Liang Meng" is one of Su Ze's three dreams. It tells the story of a scholar who came to a country in a dream, gradually became the prime minister of the country, and was finally executed.

Several of these lyrics that satirized this "prime minister" were also widely spread under the promotion of thoughtful people, and became a drama that satirized Zhang Juzheng.

The main reason is that the people of Ming Dynasty were too disappointed with Zhang Juzheng.

In the war, they suffered consecutive defeats, and Huguang was captured by the Southeast within almost a month.

However, Zhang Juzheng's family was safely sent to the capital, and rumors began to spread among the people that Zhang Juzheng and Su Ze were colluding.

The big explosion at Wang Gong's factory caused problems in the supply of gunpowder in various places and caused dissatisfaction among local military leaders.

Coupled with the loss of North Korea, an important market, the new class of Ming Dynasty was also dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng.

Li Chengliang often rehearsed this play on the stage in his mansion in order to weaken the authority of the civilian government.

This song is more widely spread in Shandong, and Li Chengliang is also indispensable.

Seeing his son's expression, Li Chengliang knew something big was going on.

He quietly left the stage and went to the study with Li Rusong.

Li Rusong immediately said: "Father, Commander-in-Chief! Zhang Juzheng is out of office!"

Hearing the news, Li Chengliang was not as excited as he thought.

Zhang Juzheng stepped down, which seemed to be expected.

After the destruction of the Huguang New Army, it was only a matter of time before Zhang Juzheng stepped down.

But when the day finally came, Li Chengliang still felt a little unreal.

In today's Ming Dynasty, the only person with the strength and skill to suppress Li Chengliang is Zhang Juzheng.

Those who were in charge of Li Chengliang in the past have basically withdrawn from the political stage of the Ming Dynasty.

As for people like Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin, they are nothing but insects, not Li Chengliang's worthy opponents at all.

Li Chengliang has always been very submissive, mainly due to Zhang Juzheng.

Now that Zhang Juzheng has finally left office, Li Chengliang's suppressed ambition has finally swelled.

"Father, do you want to go back to the capital?"

Li Rusong asked excitedly.

Although Shandong is good, it is far behind compared with the capital.

Upon hearing the news of Zhang Juzheng's resignation, Li Rusong's first reaction was to return to the capital to fight for Zhang Juzheng's rights after his resignation.

But Li Chengliang shook his head and said: "You can't enter Beijing now."

"Father, the Deputy Prime Minister of Zhongshu, Li Chunfang, is very close to Chen Yiqin. The old man has made things difficult for us time and time again. If Li Chunfang is allowed to take over as the Prime Minister of Zhongshu, we will be passive!"

Chen Yiqin is the governor of Henan, which is adjacent to Shandong and is jointly responsible for the defense of southern Zhili.

There are many conflicts between Shandong and Henan. Li Chengliang and Chen Yiqin still have old grudges, so they are naturally at odds with each other.

Now that Li Chunfang and Chen Yiqin have formed an alliance, it is bad news in Li Rusong's eyes. Li Chunfang has a loud voice. If he can become the new Prime Minister of Zhongshu, the Shandong New Army will definitely be suppressed by the court.

That's why Li Rusong wanted his father to come to Beijing as soon as possible to compete for some benefits when Zhang Juzheng resigned.

But Li Chengliang said: "The capital is now a pit of fire, and I cannot go there as a father."

Li Chengliang continued: "Your views on the government are still too immature. How about the things I asked you to do?"

Li Rusong immediately said: "The new army commanders in several towns in Henan are also dissatisfied with Chen Yiqin, a rotten scholar. They still respect their father commander very much."

"But food and logistics, Chen Yiqin is stuck around their necks, so."

Li Chengliang immediately waved his hand and said: "That's no problem. We have a lot of arsenals in Shandong, so it's okay to support them. Also, if you ask someone to give them more money, don't be stingy!"

Shandong has an outlet to the sea, and Li Chengliang also made a lot of money from his previous trade with North Korea and Japanese pirates.

Although trade with North Korea has been cut off now, he had accumulated a lot of money before. Among the military leaders of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang was the richest.

Li Rusong still said uneasy: "Commander Father, are you really not going to send someone to Beijing now?"

Li Chengliang shook his head and said: "The capital? What's so good about the capital? Times have changed!"

"Zhang Juzheng couldn't control the situation in the capital. How can those scholars in the capital now control the situation?"

"Instead of going to the capital, it is better to stay in Shandong and manage this three-acre land well."

"In addition, we will send people back to western Liaoning to contact the Nine-Border New Army. We in Shandong are willing to bear part of the military supplies, as long as they invade North Korea."

Li Rusong wanted to remind his father, but when he saw Li Chengliang's appearance, he could only say: "Yes."

In the capital, Zhang Juzheng took the prescription and his health improved slightly.

After the imperial court approved his resignation, Zhang Juzheng immediately asked his son to take him to Tianjin.

Unlike the eight horses pulling him into the capital, Zhang Juzheng left the capital in a very hasty manner.

He didn't notify anyone, he just took his family and whatever property he could take with him, and he didn't even sell his house.

Zhang Jingxiu was also a little confused. Why did his father leave the capital and go to Tianjin when his father could go to the countryside to recuperate at home?

Their family has no relatives in Tianjin.

But Zhang Juzheng ordered, so Zhang Jingxiu naturally had no choice but to obey. The whole family left the capital overnight. By the time the officials from the capital came to their senses, Zhang Juzheng and his family had already settled in Tianjin.

Zhang Jingxiu discovered that Zhang Juzheng had bought a house in Tianjin at some point, which made Zhang Jingxiu wonder if his father had maintained an outhouse in Tianjin?

But the house was very clean. It was just cleaned regularly, and there was no trace of anyone living there.

It seems that this is the retreat Zhang Juzheng has prepared long ago?

Just why Tianjin?

Zhang Jingxiu was puzzled. In his opinion, although his father resigned due to illness, there was still a chance of recovery.

Among the ministers in the court, Li Chunfang was incompetent, and the rest had no qualifications or prestige to serve as prime minister.

However, the young emperor was young and the two queen mothers, Queen Mother Chen, were quiet and inactive and ignored the government affairs at all.

Although Empress Dowager Li wanted to listen to politics behind the curtain, she came from a small family and had little political ability and no political capital at all, so she was unable to effectively exercise imperial power.

My father must leave the capital at this time. Doesn't this mean that he has completely given up the opportunity to return to the court?

Zhang Juzheng also noticed his son's doubts. His health has improved a little and he can now sit up on his own.

Sitting on the bed, Zhang Juzheng said:

"Da Ming is hopeless."

"ah?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "Every day I am in power for my father, I envy Su Rulin."

"It's not that I envy him for his large territory, or that his army can fight, but I envy him that he put aside the burden of the Ming Dynasty and started anew to promote reforms."

"When my father was in power in the Ming Dynasty, he felt that there were constraints everywhere and no policies could be implemented."

Zhang Juzheng snorted again and said: "If Gao Suqing and I can't do something well, how can the rest of us do it? If these people hadn't been thinking about internal fighting all day long, how could the current situation have reached this point?"

"Let's watch them perform."

Zhang Jingxiu suddenly understood why Zhang Juzheng came to Tianjin after resigning. It was probably because it was the closest to Dagu.

Is his father really connected with Su Rulin as rumored?

"From today onwards, the whole family should not go out at will. My father should learn from Gao Suqing and study at home."

After Zhang Juzheng left the capital, as everyone expected, the Ming court launched a fierce battle around the power vacuum left by Zhang Juzheng.

Among them, the most frightened ones were naturally the disciples who followed Zhang Juzheng.

Those who have positions are fine. These people only need to take their official positions to join the new people in power.

In the Imperial College, the most powerful advocates for Zhang Juzheng were Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing, the two new leaders of the study association.

After confirming that Zhang Juzheng had resigned, Zou Yuanbiao immediately wrote an article in the newspaper, enumerating Zhang Juzheng's mistakes in power, and especially attacking Zhang Juzheng's examination method.

If Zou Yuanbiao only criticized Zhang Juzheng's policies and considered matters as they were, Zhao Nanxing directly attacked Zhang Juzheng's character and believed that there was something wrong with him as a person.

The trend in the Imperial College also changed, and there were more and more criticisms of Zhang Juzheng's excessively harsh governance.

However, Zhang Juzheng's reforms of the Ming court institutions, including the restoration of the Zhongshu Province, were retained as the advantages of Zhang Juzheng's governance and were highly praised in newspapers.

"Damn it! These scholars are going too far!"

Li Wei, the uncle of Qingyuan who had just restored his title, slapped the newspaper and left Prime Minister Zhang. Now the civil servants want to introduce another Prime Minister Li Chunfang!

It was clearly stated in the late emperor's edict that the empress dowagers of the two palaces should listen to politics behind the curtain, but these civil servants still wanted to control the government and ignore the royal family.

As a relative, the Li family's prosperity and wealth came from the royal family, so Li Wei was naturally angry.