The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

This time the imperial meeting happened very suddenly. After Lin Tailai's petition was read out, the entire situation changed completely!

Before Xin Zongxian and Fang Wanshan could react, they were already defeated.

This scene gave other ministers a sense of familiarity.

Just about a month ago, the Tianshou Mountain Palace was in a similar situation!

At that time, Shen Shoufu and Li Zhi, who was still popular, were at loggerheads, and the emperor himself was hesitant.

After Li Rusong's memorial sent from hundreds of miles away was read out, no one reacted at all, and the situation also changed suddenly!

The key is that Li Rusong also mentioned Lin Tailai in his memorial and quoted Lin Tailai's remarks.

Before the ministers could figure it out, Emperor Wanli took the lead in regaining his indifference, and without consulting others, he directly issued an order:

"Censor Fang Wanshan, under the guise of serving the imperial edict, colluded with the royal family, manipulated examinations, corrupted discipline, and was immediately dismissed from his post and reduced his status to the people!"

Everyone knew that the emperor wanted to kill the chicken and scare the monkey, because just now Yushi Fang strongly opposed the special canonization of the Zheng family.

In other words, Fang Yushi was punished by the emperor for colluding with the Zheng family because he opposed the emperor's reward for the Zheng family.

It sounds ridiculous, but it happens, and that’s politics.

If it were normal circumstances, and the emperor severely punished a certain speech official who committed a crime, there would definitely be another group of speech officials holding high the banner of "unimpeded speech", rushing to remonstrate, plead for mercy, and slap the imperial staff.

But today, no one came out to speak for Fang Yushi, because the emperor punished Fang Wanshan for "colluding with the imperial relatives."

Anyone who helps Fang Yushi agrees with "colluding with the imperial family", and even fellow Qingliu dare not come forward.

Especially since this royal relative belongs to the already very sensitive Zheng family, no civil servant dares to bear the reputation of colluding with the Zheng family at this time.

In the end, only Fang Yushi had to bear all the pain, without any comrades to share it with.

It's just that Emperor Wanli was in a weird mood. This was a completely new experience. This is the first time I have encountered such a calm situation after severely punishing Yan Guan who contradicted me.

"Xin made a mistake in his self-study and was fined one year's salary! He was demoted and retained!" Emperor Wanli said again, but no one stood up to object.

So Emperor Wanli felt happy again, and was thinking about whether to take advantage of the opportunity to recruit a few more people. Shen Shoufu quickly reminded: "Your Majesty will first allow Fang Wanshan to express his gratitude."

Thunder, rain and dew are all your kindness, even if you are punished, it is still a kindness.

After Fang Yushi thanked him, his status became a commoner and he lost all political treatment. He left Wenhua Hall in despair.

When he criticized Lin Tailai and Wang Shao Situ just now, no one came forward to speak for Lin Tailai.

He once thought that he was done and was only one step away from sending Lin Tailai to prison.

As a result, a shallow and naive petition completely changed the emperor's mind.

The ministers looked at Fang Wanshan's back. They could all see that Fang Wanshan wanted to use the Zheng family to elicit the emperor's mood of "helping relatives but not helping others", severely punish Lin Tailai and implicate Wang Zhiyuan.

In the end, Fang Wanshan was backlashed, or played with fire and burned himself.

If Fang Yushi did not take advantage of Zheng Guotai at the beginning, but simply opposed the emperor's reward for the Zheng family, the emperor might not be so angry.

However, Fang Yushi first promoted Zheng Guotai for profit, and then he set up a memorial arch to vehemently oppose the award to the Zheng family. This behavior completely angered the emperor, and even Qingliu colleagues could not help him to speak out to save him.

All the ministers once again felt as if there was a pair of invisible hands hanging over the Wenhua Palace, manipulating today's situation and driving Fang Yushi to a dead end.

But this feeling is vague, relying entirely on experience and intuition, and there is no clear idea.

The first assistant Shen Shixing, who had been keeping his head down to control his emotions, raised his head at this time. He may be the person with the most understanding of the current situation in the palace.

After all, among all the ministers, Shen Shoufu was the one who had the most dealings with the emperor, and he was also the one who knew Lin Tailai best.

But even he, the first assistant, just thought that Lin Tailai's complaint was deliberately funny, but unexpectedly, murderous intent suddenly came.

Just like how I dealt with Li Zhi last time, a few casual words at the critical moment completely destroyed Li Zhi.

Looking back carefully, Lin Tailai's petition seemed to have a magical power, tempting the emperor to move step by step in the designated direction.

The more Lin Tailai yelled, "Your Majesty, please don't confer the title of Zheng Guotai without any principles." The more the emperor thought about it, what happened to the conferment?

Shen Shoufu understood very well how serious Emperor Wanli's rebellious psychology was.

And just now everyone was laughing in their hearts that this petition was too rustic, but now thinking about it, the childish tone of the low-level peasants in the petition has actually become a kind of protective color.

How could the emperor, who ruled the world and ruled all directions, care about a naive little peasant? He was only preoccupied with the interests of his own three-quarters of an acre of land, but he actually had no evil intentions.

When there was silence in the hall, Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who was over seventy years old, seemed to have just woken up and said: "Previously, the imperial edict was issued to recommend the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, and the Ministry of Personnel nominated Song Hu and Wang Zhiyuan."

Everyone was speechless. You, the Heavenly Official, are quite good at seizing the opportunity.

The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel ranks first in the outer dynasty. If something is to be done, the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Personnel should be the first.

But just now you, the old heavenly official, was dozing on the side and said nothing from the beginning to the end. Now you jump out and start making trouble?

Emperor Wanli suddenly heard about this and asked casually: "Who does the court recommend?"

Yang Wei reported seriously: "Wang Zhiyuan was impeached by eighteen memorials, two of which were written by Fang Wanshan."

"What about Song Qi?" Emperor Wanli frowned and asked again when he heard Fang Wanshan's name.

Yang Wei replied: "I don't know why, but no one in the entire dynasty impeached Song Qi. I am also surprised by this. Maybe it is because of public expectations."

Emperor Wanli, who was still in a rebellious mood, sneered: "It's so popular."

Then he spoke without any doubt: "Promote Wang Zhiyuan to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs! Draft an imperial edict from the cabinet!"

In addition to Fang Wanshan, there are still some people from the Qingliu forces in the palace, but at this time they no longer dare to fight for the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance.

Even their most powerful weapon, moral kidnapping, has been lost at this time.

Shen Shixing hurriedly represented the cabinet and went out to receive the order, but his heart was in turmoil again.

Lin Tailai once said that when taking part in the martial arts test, you can hunt rabbits and get a minister of household affairs.

At that time, due to various considerations, I did not want to participate in the fight for the Minister of Household Affairs, and I did not think Lin Tailai had the ability to intervene in such a matter.

After all, this is the top level of the game. How can you, Lin Tailai, get on the table and participate in the game if you don’t even have a place to start?

Unexpectedly, Lin Tai did what he said and simply brought the Minister of the Ministry of Finance over.

There are many people who blow their pussy, but there are only a handful of people who can always achieve it after blowing their pussy.

Emperor Wanli asked again: "Let's not talk about other trivial matters. The Zheng family has been conferred the title of imperial concubine, and the Zheng family has been promoted to governor and magistrate. What do you think?"

This time Emperor Wanli asked "what do you think" rather than "is it possible", which showed that he had made up his mind.

Still, several people stood up and objected: "Please, Your Majesty, first canonize the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son, and the family of the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son!"

Anyway, no one stood up to support them. They all knew that the emperor's award to the Zheng family and the Zheng family was just asking for advice, paving the way for the emperor's third son to be crown prince. This is a major matter of ethics and cannot be compromised easily.

Emperor Wanli looked at his chief minister and asked by name, "Mr. Shen, what do you think?"

Shen Shixing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and replied: "Although Lin Tailai is called a guest of the minister's family, he is actually regarded as a junior.

Nowadays, Lin Tailai and Zheng Guotai are at odds with each other. When it comes to the Zheng family's affairs, I feel that I should avoid suspicion and not express my opinion. "

This answer was full of deception, but what the chief assistant needed now was deception.

In the Ming Dynasty political game, the cabinet is the buffer zone between the emperor and ministers.

In this sharp confrontation, what the chief assistant fears most is that he doesn't even have a reason to fool around.

Emperor Wanli snorted dissatisfiedly, but there was nothing he could do. It was good that the chief minister did not directly contradict him.

If the chief minister is really forced to disobey the wishes of the courtiers and publicly support the emperor in breaking etiquette, the result will definitely be that the chief minister asks to resign and quits his job.

Now Emperor Wanli is quite satisfied with Shen Shixing and does not want to force Shen Shixing to leave.

Seeing that he couldn't get the answer he wanted today, Emperor Wanli was not interested in saying anything else, so he stood up and left.

Shen Shixing sighed secretly. Today's test is over.

Lin Tailai once said: "It is not that I am willful, but that you are willful for the sake of Prime Minister Shen. When Prime Minister Shen understands what benevolence and righteousness is, he will come back and be willful with me."

Because when I criticized Lin Tailai for deliberately targeting Zheng Guotai, he was too willful.

Now Shen Shixing finally understood what Lin Tailai meant.

To put it simply, if you make enemies with the Zheng family first, then you will have an excuse not to support the Zheng family on issues of national origin and etiquette.

Compared with those ministers who were staunchly opposed to the Zheng family, at least they had one more reason.

So I would also like to thank Lin Tailai for deliberately turning against Zheng Guotai and giving him an excuse to fool the emperor.

Did Lin Tailai plan to reach this point when he heard that Zheng Guotai was going to take the martial arts test?

The emperor left, and the court meeting ended. But everyone knows that the emperor is likely to make trouble on national issues, and today is just the beginning.

Someone asked Zhang Dasima of the Ministry of War: "Is Lin Tai the number one in the martial arts test?"

Zhang Dashima asked back: "Could it still be Zheng Guotai?"

The man asked again: "If Jinke wants to increase the palace examination, will there be another martial arts champion in the end?"

Zhang Dashima said with a pun: "God knows."

The ministers were discussing in small groups, feeling that none of the people who went to the palace today were well-placed. If you think about it carefully, you will find that the biggest beneficiaries are not in the Wenhua Palace.

For example, Wang Zhiyuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who has been impeached eighteen times recently, today is another day to thank guests behind closed doors. In the afternoon, he sat by the pond and drank tea under the willow tree.

Suddenly, Wang Zhiyou, the official of the Ministry of Etiquette, rushed over from the Moon Gate. His turban and hat were askew and he didn't care to straighten them. He showed no manners at all.

Wang Zhiyuan said angrily: "What's wrong? Did the Jin Yiwei come to ransack the house? Or was someone in our family sent to the army? Or was Lin Tailai's enemies knocking on the door?"

"The Minister of the Ministry of Finance!" Wang Zhiyou breathed out four words first, and then added: "The Emperor has decreed that you should be promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and from now on you will be Wang Situ!"

This is the first person from the Wang family in Shandong Xincheng to reach the level of Qiqing and become one of the ten or so core members of the imperial court.

After Wang Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, he said subconsciously: "I don't seem to have done anything."

This is not because he is humble, but because he is sincere.

Wang Zhiyou corrected: "No, you said two words of the line - don't even think about it!"

Wang Zhiyuan didn't know how to express his joy, so he stood up and said, "I'll tell Lin Tailai personally."

It was almost afternoon, and Lin Daguan was still sleeping in the room.

Wang Zhiyuan patted the door hard, and Officer Lin was woken up and opened the door with a yawn.

Wang Zhiyuan asked with concern: "Are you sick? Why are you so sleepy?"

Official Lin replied: "I have been going out every day to beat people. Yesterday I was in the Metropolitan Procuratorate wielding gongans to fight against dozens of guards. It was very draining of my energy, so I am exhausted."

Wang Zhiyuan felt that his questions were unnecessary, so he added: "The emperor has already issued an order to promote me to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

But Official Lin yawned again and said a little disapprovingly:

"If Wang Situ had listened to me earlier, he would have become the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue last month. Why did he go through so much trouble to delay it until today?"

Wang Zhiyuan: "."

Maybe I came too much, and there was no way I could share the joy with such an inhumane god!

That night, the male and female owners of the Wang family sat together, closed the door, and held a family banquet to celebrate the transformation of Wang Shao Situ into Wang Situ.

This kind of internal celebration in advance cannot invite outsiders. Originally, they wanted to invite Lin Tailai over, but after Lin Tailai woke up, he slipped out and didn't know what he was doing.

Wang Zhiyou, the number one Lin Chui in the Wang family, sighed: "This Lin Tailai is really a banished immortal. I'm not just talking about his poetic talent."

Wang Xiangmeng said thoughtfully: "Are you talking about Wu Quxing?"

Wang Shiwu interjected: "You are exaggerating. Mr. Lin's methods are actually just like that. It's not surprising."

Wang Zhiyou joked: "Not surprising? You are the fifteenth sister who dares to say this, or are you showing humility on Lin Tai's behalf?"

Wang Shiwu explained: "The most powerful thing about Mr. Lin is that he can accurately guess the emperor's thoughts. This is the foundation for success.

As for other methods, compared to guessing the emperor's mind, they are just trivial and unremarkable. "

Wang Situ, who was smiling, said, "I have just reviewed carefully and found out that all of Lin Tai's seemingly arrogant and mindless actions before he came were actually just deliberate attempts to show off his flaws.

The main purpose is to seduce the other party, making the other party mistakenly think that they have grasped the handle, found the opportunity, and decisively sided with Zheng Guotai. "

Wang Shiwu also said: "Lin Jun told us earlier that Zheng Guotai who participated in the martial arts test was fake, just to reassure us.

In fact, Jun Lin has not planned to expose the fake Zheng Guotai so far. He has deeper thoughts. "

Wang Zhiyou asked: "Will Lin Tailai eventually expose Zheng Guotai's use of someone to take the exam?"

Wang Shiwu replied very definitely: "It depends on whether the Zheng family is honest or not, and whether it will hinder Mr. Lin from winning the martial arts championship.

Lin Jun kept this handle and refused to use it against Fang Yushi, just for the sake of the Zheng family. "

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