In Su Yonglin's view, Yelujin played a great role.
Cleaning up the Shandong Clan is of course a step in the plan, but then, it is also within the plan to use this trend to launch the first wave of attacks on the Yanyun Clan and the Foreign Clan that are gradually gaining a foothold in the court.
Both the foreign clan and the Yanyun clan will be purged, and then there will be a thorough cleansing of the Guanzhong area where the powerful landlords and the old bureaucracy are the most serious.
The factions in Zhongdu can be purged by political means, but the Guanzhong area, where the feudal remnants are the most serious, requires bloodshed or even the outbreak of small-scale wars to be purged.
Therefore, before taking action against Guanzhong, Su Yonglin needed a stable court who would not question him to support him, so that he could have enough appeal and trust without doubt.
The Shandong Clan, the Foreign Clan, and the Yanyun Clan will not sincerely help themselves.
And with Yelujin as a double agent, he had a particularly good excuse for what he wanted to do.
Obviously, Yelujin was very competent and provided Su Yonglin with what he needed.
When he noticed that the foreign faction had turned their attention to the emperor, he decisively told Yelu Chenghui about the Shandong faction's stupidity.
This approach successfully diverted Yelu Chenghui's attention and contributed to the complete hostility between the Shandong faction and the foreign faction. As a result, they did not do what they should do before Su Yonglin rushed back to Zhongdu. Instead, dog bites dog and the last bite hair.
Moreover, as a person whom Yelu Chenghui trusted, Yelu Jin did not intend to help him with anything. He was just pretending to be a coward, allowing the Shandong Clan to successfully collect black information from foreign families and even the Yanyun Clan, and even secretly provided black materials to facilitate them. Dog eat dog.
They are dog-eat-dog. Isn’t the final winner the emperor?
If the emperor wins, isn't it him, Yelujin, who wins?
Win-win!
Yelujin was very happy.
Yelu Chenghui and Yelu Yuanyi were completely unaware that Yelu Jin had completely rebelled and had completely become the emperor's knife.
They nervously devoted their energy to countering the Shandong clique and collected large-scale evidence of violations of laws and disciplines committed by Shandong clique central officials after they arrived in Zhongdu.
Because of the rush of time, not much could be collected, and they did not commit many illegal and disciplinary acts.
The past few years have been very busy, and there are many people involved in local troubles. However, Su Yonglin has issued too many decrees, and central officials have been running around every day. They are exhausted and do not have much time to make troubles.
Therefore, in desperation, Yelu Chenghui and Yelu Yuanyi even ordered to make reasonable guesses and extended creations based on the existing intelligence, taking some fictitious things as real things, and conducting literary creations, trying to achieve the point of confusing the fake with the real.
No coincidence.
Yelu Chenghui and Yelu Yuanyi ordered things to be done in this way. Kong Zheng, Zhou Jiang and others were also faced with the same dilemma of not being able to find much useful information. In desperation, they also decided to activate their literary creativity and use some of the existing materials on their hands. Extend creation.
For example, a jar of wine given to each other by friends is "created" as a gift, but in fact the jar is filled with gold.
Or the simple act of giving birthday gifts to friends on their birthdays is called bribery, and some books, calligraphy and paintings are called gold, silver and pearls.
Or they may slander a party where some people meet to drink in a restaurant as drinking wine together, or they may be jealous of a certain famous prostitute and fight with each other, causing a scandal.
Or some more reasonable official transfer issues are described as political transactions within their factions, without hesitation to involve the staff.
In any case, they just wanted to muddy the water and amplify the problem, so that they could deceive others and give the emperor a headache, thereby achieving their purpose of concealing the truth.
However, none of them expected that after Su Yonglin captured the Kong family and asked his subordinates to liquidate the Kong family, he rode horseback and galloped around the clock in person at the end of May. He spent five days rushing back to Zhongdu and arrived on the evening of the first day of June. Return to Zhongdu and secretly return to the palace.
Su Yonglin completely seized the opportunity.
That night, Su Yonglin summoned Yelujin, and also summoned Kong Maojie, Zhao Zuoliang, Shen Ge, Jiang Chengyue, Xin Qiji and other important ministers. He took the lead in communicating with them and getting them ready.
On the morning of June 2nd, Su Yonglin issued an order to hold a court meeting.
The so-called court meeting is different from the great court meeting, which can be attended by all officials above the seventh rank in Beijing.
The Great Court Meeting is held twice a month, one in the middle of the month and the other at the end of the month. It is a half-monthly summary of the government affairs. The participants are all officials of seventh rank or above in Beijing. The venue is the Wanmin Hall, the main palace of the Ming Dynasty Imperial City.
The general court meeting was held at least once every three days. It was a mechanism for holding state affairs meetings between the emperor and the ministers, the Privy Council, the General Staff Council and the main officials of the ministries. Only senior officials from the Ming Dynasty's high-level decision-making team could participate, and ordinary minor officials were not allowed to participate.
Depending on the emperor's diligence, the three-day court meeting may be once or even twice a day, or it may not happen once every ten days.
Su Yonglin has always been diligent in his work, and usually holds court meetings every day, in the study room where he handles government affairs. Of course, sometimes it happens once every two days or every three days, depending on whether there are important matters at that time.
Su Yonglin also pays attention to the balance between work and rest, and will spare some time for himself to practice martial arts, horse riding, archery, and hunting. While keeping fit, he can also entertain his body and mind.
However, the court meeting was still an important way of communication between Su Yonglin and ministers. It was a meeting that basically decided the national policy of the Ming Dynasty and was of great significance.
But this time, all the officials who received the news of Su Yonglin's court meeting were almost stunned.
The reason is simple. Didn't the emperor leave Zhongdu to work in Shandong?
Why did you come back suddenly?
No news at all?
How did he come back?
Flying back?
Except for a very few officials who knew it in advance, most of them did not know about Su Yonglin's return, which of course included officials from the Shandong, Foreign, and Yanyun factions.
But they knew very well that it couldn't be fake.
Except for Su Yonglin, no one dared to hold a court meeting in the Ming Dynasty.
So after a brief shock, they quickly packed up and headed to the palace to prepare for the court meeting.
Yelu Chenghui, Yelu Yuanyi, Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang, they all quickly stabilized their emotions after a brief shock, and brought with them the "black materials" they had created exclusively for each other, which they had not yet fully prepared, and prepared to give them to the court meeting. A fatal blow to the opponent.
At this moment, the ones who are under greater pressure are undoubtedly the Shandong team, Kong Zheng and Zhou Jiang, as well as Cao Kai, Chen Jichang and others.
Compared to other factions, they still don't know what role their family plays in this change in Shandong, and they don't know much about their family's situation.
The person who asked for the news has not come back yet, so they know nothing. They have never been as unsure and insecure about the future as they are now, so they are very worried.
"His Majesty came back suddenly, without saying hello to anyone, and no one knew about it. This is an extremely abnormal situation, which has never happened before. I am worried that the matter in Shandong is very big and serious, and His Majesty is extremely angry, so this time must be careful."
Kong Zheng said in a low voice: "Even if the problem is serious and we are all accused by His Majesty, we will never let Yelu Chenghui and Yelu Yuanyi's gang have an easy time. We will fight to the death to bring them down. We will never let them Just reap the benefits!"
"I know, everything that needs to be prepared is ready."
Zhou Jiang showed a handful of important "evidences" he had brought, and said: "But I am still worried that our strength may be severely damaged this time, but in the most difficult situation, we must keep your position as the Minister of Etiquette." , as long as this position remains, there is still hope for everything.”
"I hope this doesn't happen."
Kong Zheng was silent for a while and continued to move forward.
