As an important counselor of the Donglin Party, Wang Wenyan laughed: "What Zuo Gong said is absolutely true. Directly impeaching the Fang thief will inevitably be hated by His Majesty. I think it is better to cut off his wings first!"
"What's the meaning of this statement?"
Zuo Guangdou therefore asked.
Wang Wenyan continued: "Now His Majesty intends to reuse Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong. Both of them are dissatisfied with Fang Congzhe. Therefore, it will not be difficult to persuade these two people to participate in the 'subversion' matter in the future, and there are currently many people on the stage to advise." Everyone, if you want to get rid of Fang Congzhe, you don’t have to worry about not having a chance in the future, but right now the one you need to get rid of first is not Fang Congzhe but Xiong Tingbi.”
"Liaodong Economic Strategy Xiong Tingbi?"
Wei Dazhong also asked curiously.
Wang Wenyan nodded calmly and confidently: "That's right, it's Xiong Tingbi. This man has not accomplished anything in his campaign in Liaodong, and he has not yet wiped out the Eastern captives. He is extremely incompetent! His Majesty is young and mature, and he is determined to govern. Naturally, he will not tolerate Liaodong. The matter has been delayed to this point, and Xiong Tingbi is still in charge of Liaodong economic strategy because of Fang Congzhe's support!
Therefore, from Wang's point of view, it is better to impeach Xiong Tingbi on the grounds that he is incompetent and delaying the Liao Dynasty, and then recommend our capable minister Donglin to be the Liaodong manager. Once this capable minister takes over as the Liaodong manager and regains the lost territory, he will inevitably become a new noble of the court. , for the appreciation of His Majesty who hopes for ZTE, and then this person will join the impeachment of Fang Congzhe, and if we and other ministers from Taiwan and Sun Xu join the impeachment, then Fang Congzhe will be besieged on all sides and no one can protect him! "
Zuo Guangdou nodded after hearing this: "Mr. Yang (Yang Lian) has always been dissatisfied with Xiong Tingbi's behavior of blindly wasting money and food and staying in the city. If he can be replaced by someone more capable, it will also be beneficial to the country!"
Wei Dazhong also said: "There are many people in the court who are dissatisfied with Xiong Tingbi, such as Yao Zongwen, Liu Guojin, Gu Zhen, Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, Guo Er, etc. It is not difficult to impeach Xiong Tingbi!"
Wang Wenyan looked at Wei Dazhong and laughed: "I heard that Mr. Wei had a close personal relationship with Feng Sanyuan, and that he and Wei Yingjia were both civil servants. I wonder if I can recommend him to Wang! As long as Wang can persuade these two men to impeach him. Xiong Tingbi and make Xiong Tingbi resign, then the impeachment of Fang Congzhe will be successful in the future! Once Fang Congzhe leaves, the day when Wei Gong returns to the court can be expected!"
Wei Dazhong agreed because this matter was closely related to his career.
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Liu Mansion.
Liu Yisui, the second assistant to the cabinet, was bringing a cup of tea to the corner of his mouth, touched his thigh, and then glanced at a maid. The maid hurriedly knelt in front of Liu Yishui's knees and gave Liu Yishu a beauty hammer. Xin beat his legs.
At this time, Liu Yishen slowly asked Wang Wenyan opposite: "How are things going?"
Wang Wenyan, who was half-sitting on the chair, quickly stood up, half-bent, and said with a flattering smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Ge, it's been done. The censor Feng Sanyuan will first go to the office to impeach Xiong Tingbi for delaying the Liaodong war, and then give the case to Wei Yingjia." I will follow Shangshu, these two are not from the senior sect of the pavilion, but from the high sect of Ye Xiang, so Your Majesty will not be suspicious."
Liu Yishen nodded after hearing this: "I am also thinking about the Ming Dynasty. Xiong Tingbi has been training the army and working hard for the people in Liaodong. He only knows how to ask for money from the imperial court, but has not accomplished anything. It is really unjustifiable. He can afford it. The imperial court I can’t afford to delay it!”
At this moment.
Fan Yuqing, who was sitting under Wang Wenyan, stood up with a smile: "We all know that Mr. Ge is loyal to the country. My husband has always regarded Mr. Ge as a role model and wants to imitate Mr. Ge in seeking peace for the country. Once Xiong Tingbi leaves office, he will surely It's Yuan Yingtai and Mr. Yuan who is the new manager. I don't know if my father can take over the governor's position at that time. I don't know how much money it will cost. Please let me know."
"You have to ask Mr. Wang about this. He knows the Prime Minister Wang An internally and is friendly with the gentlemen in Donglin externally. He will know how much money is needed."
Liu Yishen kicked the ball to Wang Wenyan.
Wang Wenyan really calculated it carefully: "Except for Mr. Ge, if we manage everything, it will still be thirty thousand taels!"
"Ah! Isn't it a little too much, Mr. Wang?"
Fan Yuqing started bargaining.
"When your father, Wang Huazhen, was serving as the Right Senator of Liaodong, he and your uncle Fan Yongdou and other Shanxi merchants must have made a lot of money by reselling grain and ironware to Jiannu. They should not be short of money. If you can't bear to give up these 30,000 taels of silver, , then don’t blame us for exposing this matter.”
Instead, Wang Wenyan directly threatened him.
Fan Yuqi said with embarrassment: "Mr. Wang doesn't know something. After Xiong Tingbi took office, he strictly investigated smuggling and sent money and food directly to soldiers and refugees. As a result, our master and the generals in Liao were greatly reduced. Now they send filial piety to Beijing every year." It has become a difficult problem, and we really can’t spare much money. However, don’t worry, if we can really bring down Xiong Tingbi and fulfill the wishes of our civil and military officials in Liao, we will definitely give 50,000 taels of silver in the future! But can we do it now? Only take out ten thousand taels?"
Wang Wenyan glanced at Liu Yishen.
Liu Yishen nodded.
Wang Wenyan then replied: "Okay! Don't default on your debt then. You have to know that if we can get Xiong Tingbi down, we can also get him up."
"Understood! How could I not understand, little one!"
Fan Yuqi laughed.
Liu Yishen said at this time: "Okay, Fan Yuqi, you go back. By the way, I want to tell your master that doing more meritorious deeds is the right thing to do. Don't just get money and give it away! The same goes for you Shanxi merchants. You need to know what's appropriate." , don’t work with the Liaodong generals to raise the bandits to the point of changing dynasties, when the time comes it won’t be my reputation that will stink, but your own reputation!”
"I remember, little one, I will resign now!"
Fan Yuqi left Liu Yishen's place.
Wang Wenyan looked at Liu Yishen and took out a meeting ticket: "Mr. Ge, this is five thousand taels of silver. Feng Sanyuan and the others want to move their positions. In those days, the temple (Wanli) was lazy and left many vacancies in the capital. , I wonder if Mr. Ge can give them a promotion?"
Liu Yishen did not look at the number of votes and only said: "Taichang Temple, Dali Temple, Taipu Temple and other places are still short of officials, but there are plenty of positions."
Wang Wenyan beamed with joy: "With these words from Mr. Ge, I will feel relieved!"
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Qianqing Palace.
It didn't take long for Zhu Youxiao to receive the imperial censor Feng Sanyuan's memorial to impeach Xiong Tingbi.
Moreover, after Zhu Youxiao read it, he found that Feng Sanyuan's words to impeach Xiong Tingbi were very sharp. He directly listed eight instances of Xiong Tingbi's lack of strategy and three instances of deceiving himself as the emperor.
Zhu Youxiao had to admit that these civil servants were indeed masters of eight-part essays, and the impeachment memorials they wrote were very convincing.
If Zhu Youxiao hadn't had a clear understanding of the historical development of later generations because he was a time traveler, he would have really believed what Feng Sanyuan said and believed that Xiong Tingbi was a man who had no strategy and even deceived the emperor and was greedy for money.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao had already known the trajectory of history and knew that Xiong Tingbi was not the incompetent person described by these officials.
So Zhu Youxiao just wanted to laugh secretly and thought to himself: "I have attacked Xiong Tingbi so quickly. I don't know who is so eager to get Xiong Tingbi to step down!"
