In the Palace of Qianqing, sandalwood curls up. After Li Yu encountered a soft nail in Xu's house, he came back as soon as possible.
Perhaps because he was worried that Zhu Youtang would be furious, Zhang Sheng, who originally planned to come to thank him, also followed him in.
It happened to be a coincidence that after the interrogation of Xie Ke, the Prime Minister of Jin Yiwei Qianhu came over to report, and followed Li Yu and Zhang Sheng to kneel here in a polite manner.
Since the Qiuxiang incident yesterday, the palace maids who stayed in Dongnuang Pavilion today obviously knew the rules better. When the three officials came in, they all retreated quietly.
Liu Jin was now under intensive training and was standing beside Zhu Youtang with Buddha dust in hand. The light reflected from the window fell on his gorgeous eunuch costume.
The four people here seemed to be brave and did not dare to breathe, and they had obviously felt the emperor's anger. Holding the 12th battalion of the Beijing Army, the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the young emperor with wisdom and skill, but now there are ministers who dare to openly sing against the emperor and offend the emperor.
"Refuse the favor? Very good, really great!" Zhu Youtang was about to read the memorial of Jiang Hong, the censor of Huguang, impeaching Wang Yue. When he heard Li Yu's return, he was so angry that his veins stood out. Be authentic.
Perhaps sensing the emperor's anger, Li Yu and Zhang Sheng lowered their heads.
"You all should get up and discuss it! Xu Pu refused the imperial conferment. How should we deal with this matter?" Zhu Youtang suppressed his burning anger and asked calmly.
Li Yu and Zhang Sheng found that Hongzhi was more stable than they thought, so they couldn't help secretly exhaling a sigh of relief and stood up to thank him.
The king's prime minister had a typical young man's mentality, and he couldn't help but express his position immediately: "Your Majesty, since Xu Pu is so ignorant of praise, this is blatantly against your Majesty, and I think he should be removed from his post!"
"Master Li, Master Zhang, what do you think?" Zhu Youtang didn't actually want to ask Prime Minister Wang for his advice, so he directly targeted Li Yu and Zhang Shengdao.
Zhang Sheng, who had just been promoted to Hanlin's Lecturer, saw that Li Yu didn't seem to have thought clearly, so he took the lead and said: "Your Majesty, I think this matter should not make too much noise. Du Ming, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, can take over as the Minister of the Ministry of Etiquette to quickly calm down this matter. The criticism caused! Du Ming, thanks to Long En, will not dare to refuse the order!"
"If we don't deal with Xu Pu, the courtiers may think that I'm afraid that Xu Shi will use it!" Zhu Youtang put down the memorial in his hand, seeming unable to swallow it.
In fact, now he is not only angry, but Xu Pu is now clearly asking him to abolish him.
"Promotion by imperial order" was changed to the Jiuqing court promotion system in the Yingzong period. This group of civil servants kept saying they were loyal to the emperor, but in the end they tried every means to steal money and power from the Zhu family, and now they still have the nerve to show off the nine ministers' system established during the eight-year-old emperor's reign.
At this moment, he discovered that Zhou Lie's rebellion case really needed to be implemented as soon as possible. There were no heads of people to scare these young men, and he really thought that he was a good man and a believer.
Wang Xiang's reaction to Zhu Youtang was that he felt the same way, and even expressed his stance again: "Your Majesty, there is no need for a rebellious minister like Xu Pu. I think I should be ordered to serve, and I also request that Xu Pu be investigated for his corruption!"
"Your Majesty, I think it is not appropriate to deal with Xu Pu immediately now! What Xu Pu provoked this time was the dispute between the emperor's appointment and the nine ministers. However, the emperor's appointment came first and the nine ministers followed. If your majesty immediately Dealing with Xu Pu will make the world think that His Majesty has a guilty conscience, so it is better to argue so that he can return to the custom of the Great Ancestor!" Li Yu took a deep breath and immediately stood up to express his position.
Zhu Youtang was naturally aware of the mystery, but he still had a bad breath in his heart and said: "What I want is to counteract the hand-cutting!"
"Your Majesty, I thought that the position of the Minister of Rites could be left vacant for the time being. On the one hand, it was naturally left blank for the debate between the imperial appointment and the promotion of the Nine Qings. The other hand, I thought that your Majesty had already dug a hole!" Li Yu glanced at it! Zhu Youtang seemed to have something genuine in his words.
Huh? Neither Zhang Sheng nor Wang Xiang understood why Li Yu was so dumb, and they couldn't help but look at Hongzhi in confusion.
"What hole did I dig?" Zhu Youtang asked calmly.
"If Xu Pu accepts the emperor's favor and is appointed today, then Cheng Minzheng, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, will take over as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Xie Qianchaoqian, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will hold court nominations. However, Xu Pu will not be appointed today, and the following two people will be elected. The appointment cannot be carried out, Xu Pu has blocked the way of these two people! There is a saying in official circles: Those who block people's promotion are like killing their parents!" Li Yu analyzed.
Prime Minister Wang's eyes lit up slightly, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "That's true! If the position of Minister of Rites is left vacant, wouldn't Cheng Minzheng, Xie Qian and others hate Xu Pu to the core!"
"If the court is to promote the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the current right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Liu Xuan, was a concubine in the second year of Jingtai, so he can definitely be promoted. Now that Xu Pu refuses to accept the post, he is also blocking Liu Xuan's way! Your Majesty , now we are immediately issuing an order to order Xu Pu to become an official. On the contrary, it will make Xu Pu famous in history, and it will also undermine the legitimacy of the emperor's appointment. Therefore, please be patient and let the post of Minister of Rites remain vacant!" Li Yu observed Zhu Youtang's expression. In response, Dang Ji proposed while the iron was hot.
This... Zhang Sheng suddenly realized that it was a bit abnormal for him to take over Liu Jian's bachelor's degree, and Xie Qian to take over Cheng Minzheng's bachelor's degree. It seemed as if everything had been settled a long time ago. He couldn't help but look at this person in shock. Unfathomable student.
"Master Li, what do you think is Xu Pu's real motive for rejecting the emperor's favor?" Zhu Youtang's face softened slightly, but he wanted to hear Li Yu's opinion.
Li Yu pondered for a while, then slowly shook his head and said: "I can't say for sure! It's just that in Xu Pu's current situation, a minister of the Ministry of Rites is really not as good as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel!"
"I still have some tolerance for others! Now that Xu Pu refuses the emperor's favor for his own selfish reasons, I don't have to punish him for the sake of the overall situation. However, I hope that the three of you will help me get rid of the traitors in the future and restore the great rule of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Youtang No longer delving into Xu Pu's true motives, he made a decision immediately.
Li Yu, Zhang Sheng and Wang Xiang immediately expressed their stance together: "I swear to be loyal to your majesty to the death!" Liu Jin glanced at Zhu Youtang thoughtfully, vaguely feeling that the emperor had murderous intentions.
I'm afraid Xu Pu was really confused this time. Even if he was greedy for power and wanted to stay in the position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he chose to decline politely, but he still did it like this. Isn't this asking for death?
"Wang Xiang, why are you leaving?" When Zhu Youtang saw Li Yu and others leaving, he couldn't help but said to Wang Xiang, who turned around and was about to leave with him.
"Ah? Look at Wei Chen's memory!" Wang Xiang appeared belatedly and patted his forehead, and immediately reported: "Wei Chen just personally interrogated Xie Ke, and Xie Ke did not disclose the whereabouts of the account books! It's just that he He said that if His Majesty could stop the raids on the Xie family's old house, he would be willing to write down the account books silently, and there would be evidence of Xu Pu's corruption in ink!"
"Writing silently? Can this be credible? It is impossible for Xu Pu to bribe Xie Yikui, let alone act so carelessly!" Zhu Youtang found that Mr. Xie was cutely stupid and laughed sarcastically.
"I feel the same way!" Wang Xiang actually saw this, but it was his duty to report truthfully, so he said seriously: "I have been tortured today, but I don't know whether Xie Ke is being stubborn or he really doesn't know. Love, but still refused to speak, just..."
"Just what?" Zhu Youtang had already picked up the memorial again and said calmly. Wang Xiang hesitated for a moment and then reported the truth: "He did trick him into something: he said that Xie Yikui asked him to write down a number, saying it was thirteen thousand two hundred and thirteen!"
"What does this mean?" Zhu Youtang looked confused. The king looked at the smart Zhu Youtang and didn't know, so he shook his head bitterly and said: "I am also puzzled. I am incompetent, please punish me!"
"Xie Ke is probably not an insider, please do one more thing for me!" Zhu Youtang wrote down the number casually, but suddenly an idea came to his mind.
The Wang Xiang's face suddenly straightened up, and he immediately raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please make it clear!"
"I heard that Xu Yuangai, the fourth son of the Xu family, is deeply favored by Xu Pu and often hangs out in the land of fireworks. Find out where his silver comes from!" Zhu Youtang made a decision in his heart and ordered calmly.
Wang Xiang knew that Zhu Youtang was venting his anger and was also inspecting him, so he raised his hands and said: "Yes!" Fusi, Beizhen, was in prison.
"It's time to eat!" Xie Ke woke up in a daze. At this time, his stomach was already ravenous. When he saw the dog food that he had dismissed at the beginning, he pounced on it with gleaming eyes, and then wolfed it down. Eat up.
But when he was halfway through eating, he suddenly felt a cramp in his abdomen.
