The four people said in unison: "I am sure!"
Emperor Wanli laughed and said: "Okay, these envoys have made great achievements. When they return, they will be rewarded by each ministry as appropriate! Is there anything else? If you don't report it, just leave the court!"
At this time, many courtiers wanted to grab He Xianli and question them, so no one spoke to them. Upon seeing this, Emperor Wanli immediately announced his resignation.
When they heard the eunuch shouting "Retreat from the court", He Xianli and others rushed out of the hall quickly as if they had been granted amnesty, without giving the courtiers a chance to stop them. However, they also knew in their hearts that they could escape the first grade of junior high school, but not the fifteenth grade. Soon there would be a disaster waiting for them inside the Yamen!
As for Zhang Juzheng and others, they naturally came to the end, and at this time, Zhang Juzheng was really surprised! Originally, he thought of taking this opportunity to conquer Liu Haojia, but he didn't expect that he could easily resolve this disaster!
At this moment, Zhang Siwei walked quickly to him and said, "I wonder what the chief assistant thinks about the investigation of Tianjin?"
Zhang Juzheng said: "How else can we look at it? All the people sent to check the accounts and inspect the troops reported that there were no problems, which means that there are really no problems and this matter is over!"
Zhang Siwei frowned and said, "How could they come back like this? These people are all veterans of accounting, how come they can't find any faults?"
Zhang Juzheng stopped and said, "It's not difficult to find out the problem, but the question is, is there something wrong with the person who checked the problem?"
Zhang Siwei also stopped and said, "What does the chief assistant mean that they have been bribed? But this is unlikely. The greater possibility is that they were blackmailed!"
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "Now it doesn't matter whether they were blackmailed or bribed, because since they reported nothing to the court, it can only be nothing!"
Zhang Siwei said one day: "What a pity! It seems we have to figure it out slowly!"
Zhang Juzheng didn't say anything but just walked forward. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of Zhang Siwei. On the one hand, he knew that Zhang Siwei was coveting the throne of his chief minister. On the other hand, he also knew that the family behind Zhang Siwei was too close to the people of the Dominion Association. This was already a semi-open secret!
In fact, Zhang Juzheng didn't have a good impression of the people in the Master Association. If the people in the Master Association hadn't been very cooperative with him during this period, he would have dealt with them long ago! But what Zhang Juzheng didn't know was that the reason why the people in the Dominion Association cooperated with him so much was because they had discovered a better way to exploit the people!
One of the cores of Zhang Juzheng's whipping method is to uniformly use silver and copper coins to collect taxes, instead of collecting taxes in kind as before. Collecting physical goods is troublesome for the government and can easily lead to losses and corruption, and is not conducive to financial turnover. But collecting silver is different. It reduces the administrative links of the government, and the collected silver can be directly invested in financial operations. ap.
But the people who dominate the association have discovered the secret of it, that is, as long as farmers sell grain to raise silver and copper coins, they join forces with grain merchants to lower the price of grain, and the price difference in the middle will be enough to make them fat! Otherwise, given their nature, how could they cooperate with Zhang Juzheng's actions?
And Zhang Juzheng also knew what Zhang Siwei meant by Xu Tuzhi? That is a common method used by civil servants, to put it bluntly. It means constantly throwing dirty water on the target to be eliminated, and constantly treating small problems as big problems!
Then some public opinions that are unfavorable to this particular person are released from the public, triggering heated discussions among the people. As time goes by, no emperor will believe that this person is innocent! At that time, they can use the emperor's hand to get rid of the people they don't like! This is the flexible application of three people becoming a tiger! Civil servants have used this method to kill countless nobles and military attachés!
After Zhang Jizheng returned to the duty room, he absentmindedly dealt with the government affairs, but his mind kept thinking about what happened in the morning.
After sorting it out over and over again, he had roughly sorted out the root causes, but he didn't know the specific reasons that played the core role. But that didn't stop him from sorting out the ins and outs.
To be honest, he thought Liu Haojia would be in bad luck at first. He was already preparing to
When he was sinking to the bottom, he reached out and gave him a hand to subdue this young man who could fight and make money! But the fact surprised him. He actually turned over! This actually made him more interested in Liu Haojia!
Not long after, he heard a note from his servant. Zhang Juzheng took it and saw that it was indeed a message from You Qi. He knows that You Qi will do what needs to be done without his instructions!
He opened the note and read it slowly. It read in simple language: "... everything was normal, but then because He Xianli and others targeted the navy, Wu Ninghou was furious!"
"Then Marquis Wu Ning asked his servants to take them into the room one by one. Everyone immediately changed their tune when they came out. What must have happened in the room? It is very possible that Liu Haojia has some of their privacy!"
"The evidence is that He Xianli voluntarily changed his story and did not enter Wu Ninghou's room, but his servant gave him a document. After reading it, his expression changed drastically, and..."
After reading the note, Zhang Juzheng already understood everything. He handed the note to the servant to be disposed of, and then he recovered his mood and began to deal with official duties. At the same time, he still lamented in his heart that he underestimated Liu Haojia!
This kind of behavior is indeed out of order and does not deviate from the nature of a warrior! But he also knew that Liu Haojia did not have such good prerequisites as him. Facing the superior civil servants, for him to resort to such methods is already shocking!
Moreover, this method does have consequences, and it can easily arouse the common hatred of civil servants! Because who doesn’t have a few pigtails? What will you do if someone grabs your pigtails? But no matter what, as Zhang Juzheng said, this matter is over!
But the aftermath of this incident is not over yet! He Xianli and Jiang Yuzhong wrote a letter requesting release on the same day, and their request was approved in the blink of an eye! However, after they left the capital, they did not get promoted or leveled up like their previous colleagues. Instead, they dropped down a level! But even this is enough for two people to be happy!
But Wu Yunshan was reluctant to part with wealth and wanted to persevere in the capital with gritted teeth. He thought his master would help him! As a result, his teacher avoided seeing him! He was also shunned by his colleagues as a god of plague! By the time he woke up and wanted to seek a job abroad, it was already too late, and in the end he could only resign sadly!
