"Is there a letter from Jiangling?"
Songjiang Mansion.
Although Xu Jie, who was over seventy years old, had been an official at home for many years, he never relaxed his attention to the political situation.
Now, especially after hearing that Hai Rui was about to be appointed, and that his two sons were blocked from reinstatement and required to fulfill their filial piety at home, he vaguely seemed to smell a different trend in the court, and gradually became worried. Therefore, after the news that his two sons' reinstatement was blocked returned to Songjiang, he immediately wrote a letter and delivered it to Zhang Juzheng in Beijing, asking Zhang Juzheng to reply to him.
The Jiangling mentioned by Xu Jie naturally refers to Zhang Juzheng.
In the Ming Dynasty, a cabinet minister, especially the chief minister, was often referred to by his place of origin.
Although Zhang Juzheng was a student of Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng was now the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the minister of Gu Ming Fu Bi appointed by the late emperor.
Therefore, Xu Jie, who has always been an official, will no longer regard himself as a teacher, but will directly refer to Zhang Juzheng by his name. Like everyone else in the world, he will only refer to Jiangling by his place of origin. Knowing that he did not deliberately show that he had a different relationship with Zhang Juzheng just because Zhang Juzheng became the first assistant.
But secretly, Xu Jie still corresponded with Zhang Juzheng, and more or less used his personal relationship with Zhang Juzheng to achieve some of his own political goals.
For example, after knowing that Hai Rui was going to be appointed as the deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he quickly wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng, hoping to prevent Hai Rui from being reused.
The fact that Xu Jie doesn't tolerate Hai Rui now is naturally related to the fact that when Hai Rui was the governor of Yingtian, the Xu family suffered a lot and lost a lot of land interests.
It's just that more than two months have passed. Xu Jie didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng hadn't replied yet, so he often talked about it in front of Xu Fan in the past few days.
"Father!
Xu Fan called out impatiently, then handed over his hands and reported, "Jiang Ling has already forgotten about Songjiang Huating! Why do you need to ask again? Hai Rui is probably almost at the capital now."
"Did a letter come from Jiangling?"
Xu Jie only asked one more question.
Xu Fan did not answer.
Xu Jie knocked his crutch on the garden ground covered with jade-white stones: "Reply!"
Xu Fan couldn't hide it anymore: "Here comes the letter!"
"Bring it!"
Xu Jie ordered.
Xu Fan said: "Father, it's better not to read it. The content in the letter is not good. I'm afraid you will be offended if you keep reading it."
"If you don't show it to me, I'll be even more angry! If you don't show it to me, how can you do anything to him Jiang Ling? Let me tell you, except for me, no one can be his opponent to Jiang Ling! I personally selected him Man, if he really feels sorry for my Xu family, I can only deal with him!"
Xu Jie said in a stern voice.
Xu Fan took out Zhang Juzheng's letter and read it to Xu Jie.
"My sincere greetings, Mr. Enfu Mr. Xu, my uncle is here in Beijing to say hello to Enfu. The day before yesterday, Shi Difan sent a letter saying that Hai Rui is not available, but my disciple disagrees..."
After Xu Fan finished reading, he said: "You know now that people don't listen to you anymore and insist on asking Hai Rui to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be the deputy constitution! You have cultivated a good student, a person who is not greedy for power and has found one just for you. A good student of the balancer! If the Xu family asks him anything in the future, he can refuse it on the pretext that Hai Rui is being watched by the Metropolitan Procuratorate."
Xu Jie said nothing for a long time, only listening to the sound of the banana being blown by the fan outside the window.
Bang!
Suddenly, Xu Jie threw the crutch violently, and his chest heaved violently.
"Father!"
Seeing this, Xu Fan came over to help Xu Jie.
Xu Jie waved his hand and did not let Xu Fan support him. He only murmured: "I knew that he was determined to reform the system and continue the country's destiny, but unexpectedly, he insisted on this and was determined to this! I thought he was just taking advantage of the people. Now that I think about it, he wanted to spread Hai Rui's affair in Yingtian to the whole country! I was actually deceived by him!"
"What does father mean by this?"
Xu Fan asked.
Xu Jie looked at his eldest son with some annoyance: "If you were half as smart as Donglou, you wouldn't ask such a question! Nor would you be punished by Hai Rui to the point where I had to take action!"
"The child is dull and the father is at ease."
Xu Fan hurriedly replied dejectedly.
Xu Jie said: "Forget it! While my father is still here, let's pave the way for you. You take my letter and go to Puzhou in person and meet Zhang Ziwei with the gift of a junior! Then tell him the content of Jiangling's letter."
Zhang Ziwei is Zhang Siwei.
However, Xu Fan did not agree directly at this time, but asked dissatisfiedly: "Father, why do you want your child to perform the junior courtesy to see Zhang Ziwei?"
"My father has become an official, and you still want to put on airs like Mr. Xiaoge? Today's Mr. Xiaoge is Zhang Jingxiu, not you!"
Xu Jie glared at Xu Fan and said.
Xu Fan had no choice but to say yes, and promised to set off north to Puzhou to meet Zhang Siwei tomorrow.
Xu Jie was obviously preparing to find another spokesperson for him in the court, and planned to abandon Zhang Juzheng, and intended to use his political resources to promote Zhang Siwei into the cabinet in the future to replace Zhang Juzheng as the first assistant.
Of course, the premise is that Zhang Siwei is willing to guarantee the interests of his Xu family, so he needs to first let his son come into contact with Zhang Siwei, who is currently complaining of illness at home.
As a veteran of the cabinet for many years, Xu Jie still has a vicious vision. The Zhang Siwei he values is indeed a master of maneuver who successfully deceived both Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in history.
Xu Jie is planning ahead.
But Xu Jie still knew how to avoid Zhang Juzheng's sharp edges. This was also his experience of being able to compete with Yan Song in the cabinet for many years and finally win, so he specifically told Xu Fan: "In addition, follow what Jiangling did, let the people in the government do it in the future. People are restrained, and they still have to go out with Jiangling during the holidays."
Xu Fan took a deep breath after hearing this: "How long will it take to avoid it?"
Xu Jie sighed: "Wait until the emperor grows up, and when Ziwei becomes the ruler of the country!"
…
In June of the first year of Wanli, it was summer and the heat was unbearable.
Outside the capital city.
Hai Rui stepped on a pair of straw sandals, rolled up his trousers, wore a bamboo hat and blue cloth clothes, and walked towards the city gate.
Although Zhu Yijun's decree for Zhang Juzheng to appoint him as the deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was issued in early February, Hai Rui's home was far away in Qiongzhou, later Hainan Island. In this era, it took nearly two months to travel by horse one way. So even if he hurriedly traveled all the way, he still didn't arrive in the capital until June.
"Brother Gomine!"
And just as Hai Rui was walking towards the gate of the capital, a shout attracted his attention.
Hai Rui Xun Sheng smiled when he saw it.
"Brother Runlian!"
It turned out that this was a good friend Hai Rui met when he was governor of Yingtian, named Wang Yongji.
This Wang Yongji was much younger than Hai Rui, but because in this era, scientific titles were very important, and Wang Yongji was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing, while Hai Rui was just a civil servant, so although Hai Rui was older and had a higher official position, He is still friends with Wang Yongji.
Hai Rui admired Wang Yongji for not being afraid of the powerful in Yingtian in the past, and he fell in love with Wang Yongji at first sight. Now that they were reunited in Beijing after many years of separation, Hai Rui was very happy and couldn't help calling him after him.
"Counting the days, you should arrive in Beijing within these few days, so you will come every day. I didn't expect that you would be here today."
Wang Yongji came over with a smile and said.
Hai Rui came over with a smile and held his hands in his hands: "Thank you for remembering me, I never thought that Jiangling, the ruler of the country, would think of me!"
Ahem!
"It's not your uncle who's thinking about you, it's your Majesty!"
At this time, after a cough ended, Tan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of War, wearing a cotton-padded coat with arrow sleeves, came up and said something.
