After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said "hmm" and asked, "What exactly is going on?"
Wei Zhongxian truthfully reported that Li Zhizao went to see Ye Xianggao and let him fall into the water in Dongchang.
"Li Zhizao?"
Zhu Youxiao asked subconsciously.
Then, Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Very good! This is a good job. You go to the Political Affairs Hall to pass the decree to Fang Congzhe, and ask him to draft the decree immediately, and ask Xu Guangqi to join the cabinet as a bachelor of Dongge to prepare for machine maintenance."
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied happily.
Because his method of getting rid of Ye Xianggao was approved by his own emperor.
Zhu Youxiao really had to admit that Wei Zhongxian was a master of conspiracy and a very good executor. He knew how to play conspiracy to maximize the interests of his master.
Because this time Li Zhizao was used to get rid of Ye Xianggao when he went to see Ye Xianggao, it would obviously make the world mistakenly believe that Ye Xianggao's fall into the water was related to Xu Guangqi.
After all, everyone knows that Li Zhizao and Xu Guangqi have a good relationship, and they are both people who love to study various miscellaneous subjects.
And once the people of the world mistakenly believe that Ye Xianggao's fall into the water is related to Xu Guangqi, it will naturally prevent the people of the world from directly targeting Dongchang, and then force Xu Guangqi and the scholar-bureaucrats who have interests in the scholar-official class to further increase their dissatisfaction.
In this way, Xu Guangqi had to need the emperor's protection and stand with the emperor even more.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to let Xu Guangqi enter the cabinet, just like Wei Zhongxian took advantage of Li Zhizao to be resurrected by the court and went to see Ye Xianggao when he attacked Ye Xianggao.
Zhu Youxiao did this to create the fact that Ye Xianggao's death was really related to Xu Guangqi, so that everyone in the world would have to believe it.
Because Zhu Youxiao really needs more people on his side and maintains a hostile relationship with the entire scholar-bureaucrat class, so that some people have to betray their current class.
Xu Guangqi used to be a civil servant with a Jiangnan literati background. Although he was disdainful of the Donglin Party, he did not hate the entire Donglin Party. Therefore, he would intercede for Yang Lian and others before, but now Ye Xianggao's matter will undoubtedly make him Many scholar-bureaucrats who supported the interests of the Donglin Party and those who supported Ye Xianggao became even more hostile to Xu Guangqi, forcing Xu Guangqi to have deeper and deeper conflicts with them.
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"I obey the decree!"
Fang Congzhe got the intention from Wei Zhongxian to supplement Xu Guangqi's appointment to the cabinet. Naturally, he guessed what might have happened in the court, otherwise Xu Guangqi would not have suddenly been promoted to the cabinet. However, he did not ask any more questions and returned with this suspicion. Mansion.
"Father! News came from the south that Ye Jinqing suddenly fell off a cliff and fell into the water after climbing a mountain with Li Zhenzhi. Now he is dead. I'm afraid the report from local Fujian officials will reach the capital soon."
As soon as Fang Congzhe came back, Fang Shihong hurriedly informed Fang Congzhe about the matter.
Fang Congzhe was stunned for a moment after hearing this.
After a while, Fang Congzhe unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, then sighed and said, "I won!"
Fang Shihong nodded: "Father, you are still powerful. Being loyal to His Majesty can preserve wealth and power better than obeying the opinions of the public at home and abroad. How come he, Ye Jinqing, has been the chief minister twice? Why didn't he think of this?"
"Of course he thought of it, but everything is not up to him. It is the people behind him who want him to be like this. Otherwise, how could he have such a great reputation? He, Ye Xianggao, is also burdened by his fame!"
Fang Congzhe replied. For a moment, he felt some sympathy for Ye Xianggao: "It's really difficult for Ye Jinqing, and now he has died in such an unclear manner. The person your Majesty uses is not simple."
"Father, are you talking about Eunuch Wei?"
Fang Shihong asked.
"Let the people in the world mistakenly think that Xu Zixian did this. Such a person is extremely sinister! People in Donglin don't want me to stay in the court. However, from my point of view, if I am not in the court, there will be no civil servants in the world." Whoever is this person’s opponent will even have to follow this person’s lead!”
Fang Congzhe said something.
"Since my father said so, if you were not in the court, could your majesty ask Ye Xianggao to come back to the court to check and balance this person?"
Fang Shihong asked.
"Ye Xianggao will only collude with this person to control His Majesty, and will not check and balance this person as His Majesty wishes. Then the whole country will be damaged."
Fang Congzhe replied.
Fang Shihong nodded and said with a smile: "No matter what, this time my father will not be scolded by people in the world."
Fang Congzhe also smiled.
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"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"
The next day, Xu Guangqi received the order for him to join the cabinet. He was not surprised by this because Li Zhizao had already written to him about Ye Xianggao.
Xu Guangqi knew that as an official in the court, many things were beyond his control.
What's more, now that Xu Guangqi's family has business cooperation with the royal family, the Xu family has made a lot of money, and is now the leading wealthy family in Shanghai. The Xu family, which had been in decline since his father's generation, has been revitalized again, and even Far more than before, so the elders of the Xu family, the Qian family elders of Xu Guangqi's mother's family, and the Yin family elders of his grandmother's family all wrote letters asking Xu Guangqi to be loyal to the emperor and not to care about the family business, as if they felt that Xu Guangqi would die from exhaustion as the emperor. Glorious as well.
Therefore, Xu Guangqi can only accept this result now and cannot raise objections, because now the entire family force behind him requires him to be absolutely loyal to the emperor.
And if he takes the initiative to deny killing Ye Xianggao for the sake of Shilin's reputation, even if he gets Shilin's forgiveness, he will lose the support of the entire family, and will also cause his entire family to lose the huge benefits bestowed by the emperor.
"Bah! Despicable people, assassinating Zhongliang!"
"I only know how to flatter my superiors and conspire to seize the interests of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. Now I have killed the old ministers of the country. Their treachery is unprecedented!"
"It's really shameful to frame a loyal minister to gain the opportunity to join the cabinet!"
Many civil servants who admired Ye Xianggao cursed loudly when they saw Xu Guangqi leaving the house.
Naturally, Xu Guangqi could only pretend to turn a deaf ear to this.
But because of this, some grumpy civil servants even got excited. Among them, Zuo Yude and Gu Xigong couldn't help but roll up their sleeves because Xu Guangqi ignored them, and wanted to come over and beat Xu Guangqi. So he shouted: "Traitor! Today Gu Xigong If I don’t avenge Ye Gong, I will be a useless person!”
Fortunately, other civil servants hugged Gu Xigong.
But because of this, Xu Xianchun happened to hear the voice and brought people from Dongchang over.
"What are you yelling at? Do you still have the decency of a court official?"
Xu Xianchun shouted. Seeing Xu Guangqi here, he quickly cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Xu Ge."
Xu Guangqi nodded and got into the sedan.
"The man surnamed Xu colluded with Li Zhizao and others to kill Mr. Ye. Why did your Dongchang ignore it at this time and stop investigating?! But now you are yelling at us, do we have any decency? What does it have to do with your Dongchang?!"
Gu Xigong answered even more excitedly because Xu Xianchun shouted.
Xu Xianchun therefore replied: "Dongchang didn't say that it doesn't care about this matter. It's just that Dongchang is still investigating. But what is clear is that this matter has nothing to do with Mr. Xu Ge and Li Butang. Don't speculate on yourselves. If you dare Those who wantonly slander important officials of the imperial court will also be punished."
"What do you do in Dongchang? You can't find out such a serious murder case, and even the culprit is not arrested when he is nearby. You are more active than anyone else in investigating corruption!"
Gu Xigong got angry again.
Xu Xianchun was furious, and then ordered: "Come here! Arrest this person! If you dare to rebuke Dongchang and slander the court officials, how can I, Dongchang, tolerate it! I can't do anything to the people behind the scenes, but I can deal with you!" "
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