The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

Lin Tailai couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Wang Tianguan had been in power for too short a time and was not yet proficient in many tricks.

As it is now, why bother talking to Lu Guangzu? Just take off your official hat in front of the emperor to express your resignation!

The emperor obviously thought Wang Tianguan's speech just now was very interesting, and he would definitely not accept his resignation on the spot.

Then the outrageous accusations about Lu Guangzu have been completely resolved?

However, it is normal for an old man who has been dissolute and artistic for more than thirty years to feel a little uncomfortable when he suddenly rises to the top of the political scene.

I have no choice but to support the heavenly official I chose through gritted teeth.

Therefore, Lin Tailai had no choice but to go out in person again and reported to the emperor: "Important personnel matters in the imperial court are often decided through court referrals!

Just now Lu Guangzu opposed Wang Shizhen's proposal and advocated that all eight nominees should be retained. He might as well ask the other ministers for their opinions. "

Then he went on to say: "Now that the main hall of the Household Department is vacant, we should start from the Department of Rites."

If you tell the details of such specific implementation, your superiors, who are indispensable, will usually agree to it as a matter of course.

After Yu Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, hesitated for a moment, he replied: "I agree with Lu Guangzu and retain the nomination of eight people."

This answer surprised everyone a little. You Yu Shenxing made the decision to change the ceremonial song, obviously starting to help Lin Tailai. How come you are suddenly on the opposite side of Lin Tailai now?

Wang Yi'e, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, does not have much factionalism. Under normal circumstances, he does what the chief minister says and remains consistent with the chief minister.

But this time his statement was rather sudden, and he did not have time to communicate with the chief minister. He could only follow his subconscious and say: "The nominations of the eight people should be retained."

After all, half of the eight people were arranged by the chief assistant, so it was hard to deny it.

Sun Piyang, the Minister of Punishment, was supposed to escort the captured chieftain to the West Market and supervise his execution, but he was also called to the Meridian Gate.

Being promoted to power by the Qingliu forces, he had no choice but to support Lu Guangzu at this time. He replied: "The previous nomination should be retained and should not be invalidated without reason."

Zuo Tongzheng Xu Shen's mentality was similar to that of Wang Yi'e, Minister of the Ministry of War. He also subconsciously followed the chief minister and replied: "The nominations of eight people should be retained."

There are three missing members of Jiuqing who are qualified to participate in major personnel promotions, and the remaining six are all here.

Except for Wang Tianguan, Zuo Du Yushi, Minister of Rites, Minister of War, Minister of Punishment, and Zuo Tongzheng all agreed.

The cabinet academicians, who theoretically did not participate in the personnel selection process, remained silent and watched as bystanders.

Perhaps because of the clear-mindedness of bystanders, the more the bachelors looked at it, the more something was wrong, and their expressions varied.

Here we go again, here we go again! The familiar routine appears again!

Some time ago, Lin Tailai was pretending to be weak like this, shrinking constantly as if he was being beaten.

It was like this again today, it seemed like everyone in the court was collectively bullying him!

Perhaps it was because the pavilion elders were standing closest to the emperor, so from the corner of their eyes they could see the emperor's brows frowning slightly.

At this time, after listening to the speeches of the ministers, Lin Tailai couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. He beat his chest and feet very unbecomingly before the king, and growled in a low voice to Lu Guangzu: "Why, why is this?

What heinous crime could a hero like me commit?

Why am I, a meritorious official, being targeted by almost all the courtiers even after I have only returned to court for more than a month? "

Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to answer Lin Tailai's words, and everyone could only curse inwardly.

The heroes who returned from the bloody battle were miserable in court, and whoever answered the call would be unlucky.

However, Zhao Zhigao, the elder of the Fourth Pavilion, suddenly said: "Perhaps it is you, Lin Tailai, who has misbehaved on weekdays and caused public outrage."

This shocked everyone again. The sun was almost setting in the west today, and Zhao Zhigao actually criticized Lin Tailai in public!

Lin Tailai immediately retorted: "This is a matter of nomination and election of a foreign court and has nothing to do with the cabinet! Sir, please don't say too much, lest you be suspected of overstepping your authority!"

King Shen II Wang San: "."

Do you mean to criticize Zhao Si or the three of them?

If you can't speak, how can you control the situation?

Emperor Wanli looked at the "initiator" Lu Guangzu and asked, "What else does Lu Qing have to say?"

Lu Guangzu took a deep breath and said sincerely: "Your Majesty! Among the eight nominees, there are many honest and upright people who deserve to be promoted.

How could everything be invalidated for some inexplicable reason? If word spread like this, it will ruin their reputation, which is not in line with the way the country employs people!

Your Majesty certainly cares about the heroes who contributed to the great victory, but doesn’t he care about other ministers who have contributed to the great victory? "

Now there is no other way. Reasoning is useless. We can only find ways to influence the emperor's mood.

Unexpectedly, Lin Tailai interrupted from the side and said: "Listen to what you, Lu Guangzu, mean, apart from these eight people, our Ming Dynasty can't find anyone who is honest and upright and should be promoted?

If you want to select honest and upright people, shouldn't someone else do it? For example, I, Lin Tailai, am very honest. "

Lu Guangzu: "."

The emotions that had finally been gathered together suddenly became deflated.

Poof! Suddenly someone couldn't help laughing.

Everyone was wondering who was so bold, but when they heard the laughter seemed to come from the direction of the throne, it was okay.

"How dare Lin Tailai talk nonsense!" Emperor Wanli scolded him again after he finished laughing.

Lin Tailai said in a more sincere tone than Lu Guangzu: "Your Majesty's previous intention to dismiss officials was to protect the meritorious officials and ensure their safety.

But now it seems that there are too many dissatisfied people in the DPRK, and I am afraid that even His Majesty will take action. I beg you to let me retire and return home, so as not to cause further embarrassment to Your Majesty. "

Everyone: "."

Retiring at the age of twenty-four? Can you, Lin Tailai, be more pretentious?

Emperor Wanli weighed it again in his mind, made up his mind and issued an edict:

"No need to say any more! The previous nominations for the Minister of Household Affairs, the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Dali Temple, and the Minister of Taipu Temple are all invalid!"

Lu Guangzu, who had been opposing Lin Tailai today, was really anxious and remonstrated:

"This must not be the case. Please take back your Majesty's decree! Otherwise, the reputation of these eight people will be ruined. How can they still have the face to stand in the court?

I hope Your Majesty will remember that most of them are veterans who have worked hard for many years and save them some dignity! "

At this moment, Lin Tailai jumped out again and said: "Lu Guangzu! At this time, you still don't forget to fight for power and profit, do you want to remove Wang Shizhen, the Minister of Civil Affairs?"

Wang Tianguan: "?"

I finally kept a low profile again, why was I mentioned again? What does Lu Guangzu's desperate remonstrance have to do with him?

Lin Tailai continued: "Just now you, Lu Guangzu, thought that if all the eight people nominated by the Ministry of Personnel were invalidated, it would be a serious dereliction of duty by the Minister of Personnel.

Now you might as well talk about it again, how to punish the officials who have neglected their duties? Is it a dismissal? Or, what do you want to blackmail with this? "

Lu Guangzu was immediately choked. He just hit someone with a big hat and suppressed Wang Tianguan, but he didn't think about how to implement it.

Without occupying the moral high ground, and in front of the emperor, trying to protect the eight nominees while forcing the Minister of Personnel to resign would appear to be very overbearing and would definitely arouse the emperor's extreme disgust.

Seeing this, everyone could finally confirm that Lu Guangzu had no power to recover.

He is not as venomous as Lin Tailai in trolling people, not as hypocritical as Lin Tailai in selling misfortunes, not as accurate as Lin Tailai in criticizing people, and not as able to stir up troubled waters as Lin Tailai. What do you win?

Lu Guangzu couldn't help but lost his mind and stopped talking.

He suspected that if the fight continued, even his leftist censor would not be able to save himself.

He doesn't care about the official position, but the Qingliu forces need this Zuodu censor!

Song Qi, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, has passed away, and Sun Piyang, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, is not a staunch faction and may not be reliable at times, so thousands of colleagues must not lose themselves as the censor of Zuodu!

Everyone thought they were about to leave, but then they heard Emperor Wanli say to Lin Tai:

"Now that I'm thinking about it, the imperial court's reward for your meritorious service is indeed too small, so I should add more. If you have any other ideas, feel free to tell me."

Anyone who has worked in the court for more than a year will understand that if the answer is not good, it will be a question!

If Lin Tailai had just taken advantage of the emperor's doubts about forming cliques, he had successfully attacked a large area.

So now the emperor also had some new doubts about Lin Tailai, who had won a great victory.

This question of asking Lin Tailai what kind of reward he wants may be a test. It doesn’t matter if it does, it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t.

As the saying goes, a man who accompanies a king is like a man who accompanies a tiger.

Under the gazes of the cabinet ministers, the ceremonial supervisor, and the eunuchs, Lin Tailai seemed to be beating a snake with a stick, and said: "I do have two ideas!"

Emperor Wanli chuckled, "Come on!"

Lin Tailai continued: "First, I would like to ask your Majesty to grant you leave to visit relatives and temporarily return to your hometown to honor your parents.

It will take two months for the minister to establish the Communications Department, and he can go south in October and return to Beijing next spring. "

Emperor Wanli asked back: "Isn't it true that you can't participate in the two major dynasties of Winter Solstice and New Year's Day?"

Lin Tailai: "."

If your majesty can work diligently to attend court, especially the biggest court meeting of the year, Lin Tailai will dare to eat the ivory official badge on his waist!

Everyone understood. It seemed that the emperor was in a good mood and even told cold jokes.

Lin Tailai added: "The second thought is, I heard that there is a spear enshrined in the Wufeng Tower of Meridian Gate, which was used by Emperor Chengzu in the past.

If your Majesty is interested, you may wish to give Chengzu's spear to your ministers so that they can boost their morale if they go on another expedition in the future. "

The ministers were very surprised. How did you, Lin Tailai, know?

Even these veterans heard about it for the first time today. They had never been to the Meridian Gate before, let alone the Five Phoenix Tower.

Eunuch No. 4 Chen Ju is even more confused. Why does Shen Shoufu always think of yourself? Could it be that he told Lin Tailai himself?

Emperor Wanli was also surprised and asked the eunuchs on the left and right: "Is there really such a spear in the building?"

The throne of Emperor Wanli was located in front of the Wufeng Tower, and he summoned ministers in front of the building instead of entering the building.

Zhang Cheng, the palm eunuch who had previously inspected the building, replied: "There is indeed a spear enshrined upstairs, which was passed down from Chengzu. It is said that Chengzu personally held it during the expedition."

Emperor Wanli, who was fat and had poor legs and feet, was too lazy to go into the building to see for himself, so he told Zhang Cheng:

"Since ancient times, swords are given to heroes, and the same goes for spears. Go take them down and reward Lin Tailai. It's also a good story!"

Such a reward, which is extremely sacred in name but of little use in reality, can be regarded as worthy of the hero who conquered seven battles and conquered the city first, and no one in the world can tell him otherwise!

"No!" Sange Lao Wang Jiaping blurted out a little rudely.

Lin Tailai already had the imperial armor. If he got another imperial spear, would he be able to do anything in the capital?

Facing the emperor's gaze, Wang Jiaping quickly said: "It is extremely inappropriate to hold a weapon before the emperor!"

Emperor Wanli said magnanimously: "It's okay, just get the spear and go down!"

Not long after, No. 1 Zhang Cheng and No. 2 Sun Xian came out of the building holding a rusty iron spear and stood far away from the emperor's throne.

Lin Tailai took a few steps forward, performed the salute, and solemnly took the rusty iron spear.

Then Emperor Wanli said: "Lin Tailai, go down first! I still need to talk to the cabinet ministers about the gathering of mine thieves in various places!"

Fuck! Lin Tailai ran down with the iron spear! The emperor wants to open a mine, so he ran away quickly!

The big pits in the Wanli Dynasty are not only the dispute over the national foundation, but also the mining and mining taxes, which are the kind of big pits that are not pleasing to both sides.

Thinking of this, Lin Tailai suddenly felt that it seemed not to be a bad thing for Wang Situ to be in mourning at this time.

If the dispute over the national foundation is a big pit of the Ministry of Rites, the Minister of Rites was forced to rush to the front line.

Then the mining tax and commercial tax are the big pits of the Ministry of Revenue. The Minister of Revenue must be opposed by public opinion to the emperor's direct dispatch of mining supervisors to mine and collect taxes.

If Wang Situ continues to be the Minister of Revenue, I am afraid that he will not be far from stepping into the pit.

As for why the emperor is thinking about mining and making money at this time, Lin Tailai can also understand.

Speaking of the palace finances, in addition to the more than one million gold and silver in Jiangnan every year, as well as other income from the imperial farms and pastures, the simplest and most convenient way is to move silver directly from the Taicang Treasury to the inner treasury.

But the Taicang Treasury has been short of silver since the past two years, and this year's military deployment in Ningxia has cost hundreds of thousands.

So even if the emperor wanted to move silver directly from the treasury, he couldn't move it, and he had to find another way.

While thinking about the treasury problem, Lin Tailai subconsciously wanted to quickly move away from the Meridian Gate, so as not to be called up to discuss the "mine thieves gathering" problem.

So Lin Tailai subconsciously trotted all the way from the Meridian Gate to the Zuoye Gate.

So the court officials who were still lingering under the Meridian Gate and waiting to eat melons saw from a distance that Lin Tailai rushed out of the Zuoye Gate holding a dark red spear that seemed to be stained with blood.

Recalling Lin Tailai's martial arts on the streets of the capital and the rumors that he had fought in the palace, the more than 100 ministers who stayed here were furious and turned to move to Duanmen.

Could it be that Lin Tailai had killed his way down from the Meridian Gate? What happened on the Meridian Gate? Why didn't other ministers come down?

The Jinyiwei officers and soldiers on duty at the Meridian Gate drew their swords and shouted, "Put down the weapons!"

The imperial guards also raised their weapons and were on high alert.

Lin Tailai was stunned, then raised his spear and said loudly, "This is the spear of Emperor Chengzu, which is enshrined in the Five Phoenix Tower and was awarded to me by His Majesty!

In addition, His Majesty has an order, and the eight people who were nominated earlier come out!"

The crowd that stopped moving was in chaos again, and some of them were so weak that they couldn't stand.

Lin Tailai came to announce the order with the imperial iron spear. What does this mean? Revenge according to the order, stabbing the named people on the spot?