There is no need to elaborate on how Pang Bao contacted Concubine Zheng that night and how Concubine Zheng reacted. But he said that early the next morning, something big happened in the court.
A pragmatic supervisory official whose name he had never heard of, impeached Zhang Xueyan's personal friend Huang Mengyu, a bachelor of Wenhua Palace, and dug up a lot of old materials from more than ten years ago to settle old scores.
For example, an "old account" from the third year of Wanli is as follows: "In Renxu... Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, and others reported that there were more than 200,000 thieves planning to invade Liaodong, and the outposts had arrived in Daling. They were asking for troops and food, and they were eager to spark a fire. The Holy Spirit is concerned."
This incident indeed shocked the court at the time, because the "big thief" Zhang Xueyan mentioned at the time was Chahar, and the news that Chahar's army "conspired to invade Liaodong with more than 200,000 people" was naturally extremely shocking, so Zhu Yijun, who was still young at that time, was frightened and summoned a group of important ministers in person.
Fortunately, it was Gao Gong who was actually in power at the time. Of course Gao Gong was well aware of Chahar's strength and knew that the so-called "more than 200,000" was definitely not a real number. In fact, the population of Mongolia has never been large, not to mention after it was divided. If Chahar really "conspired to invade Liaodong with more than 200,000 people", unless we include the infants in the swaddling clothes and the dying old man on the bed, otherwise it will be absolutely impossible. It is impossible to make up this number.
Then in front of the little emperor, Gao Gong made all the arrangements, including immediately contacting Qi Jiguang and others on the Jiliao front line, consolidating the entire defense line, and also focusing on exploring the movements of Tumut, Ordos and other departments. It turned out that Chahar's actions were just a feint, probably because the Ming Dynasty made Tumote king and ignored Chahar.
Sure enough, the facts proved that the truth was almost the same. Chahar finally sent about 50,000 troops to make an illusion of attacking Jinzhou, in order to force the Ming Dynasty to be crowned king (note: crowning king is not the key, the key is after granting tribute) can trade).
As a result, this incident really upset Zhang Xueyan, who had "lied about the military situation." "The military department reported that Cai Ruxian was bluffing about the situation of the captives in Liao Town, and referred to Zhang Xueyan, the assistant minister. According to the order, Xueyan was ordered to serve. "
When the matter was brought up this time, the censor thought that the treatment at that time was too light: it made the capital excited, but in the end there was no actual punishment, and it was just a matter of "recruiting and serving"? He thought it was very inappropriate.
Another example is that in the eighth year of Wanli, "questioning guard Shen Dong was promoted to guerrillas." Story: Due to the fact that the officials consulted the officials and the Second Department of the Army, they stopped being promoted to occupy the teaching ground and asked questions. Therefore, I had to make a presumption and was rectified by the official Hao Weiqiao. Xuexue Yan will report his crime and deal with it. I will forgive him."
This incident was classified as "recommendation oversight". Zhang Xueyan recommended "Garrison Shen Dong" before he was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the official position he recommended was guerrilla general. As a result, during the "pre-appointment announcement" period, the Metropolitan Procuratorate discovered that this person had "occupied a teaching ground" - that is, he used the land that was originally used as a military training ground for farming - so he was ordered to question Zhang Xueyan, and Zhang Xueyan "self-reported" "Waiting for guilt" means that the evidence of guilt is conclusive. However, the final result turned out to be nothing more than nothing: "Excuse me."
The censor believed that this was wrong. He believed that the recommendation of an official was due to the imperial system. Zhang Xueyan served successively as governor of Liaodong, governor of Jiliao, and minister of Rongzheng before he was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs. This cannot be excused by ignorance of the situation. Therefore, the censor believed that Zhang Xueyan's failure was either due to dereliction of duty or there was something hidden behind the scenes - which of course was an allusion to Zhang Xueyan's bribery.
If talking about two things is a bit too much to reconcile old scores, and the matter itself is not very big, at least it is impossible to defeat a bachelor, if it seems to be a bit of a fuss, then the next one is more worth pondering. .
The third old account that the censor dug out was "Wang Xiao, the eunuch of Jiaziku, reported that there was a lack of silver and vermillion on the forehead."
Zhang Xueyan, then the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, immediately responded with a summary: "The materials in the warehouse have a fixed quota for each year. If there are too many horned sheep, they will not be collected according to the period. If the fee is small, use it yourself; if the fee is too much, it will be exhausted."
Respectfully seeing the late emperor's edict, all the money and food in the palace are carefully saved, and the amount is often cut within the amount. My emperor has issued an imperial edict, and all unnecessary expenses will be waived. Over the past few years, various floating expenses have decreased in the past but are now returning to the same level, some were less in the past and then increased later, and some were non-existent in the past but are now increasing.
I asked the ministers and other questions to urge me to study, and the moon was not stopped, and I was caressing and pressing the report, and I was writing about the horned sheep, and there was no empty day in the year. They put it into various treasuries, but they regard it very lightly and consume it very easily, but they don't realize how difficult it is for people and merchants to supply it. Emperor Fuqi ordered the supervisory bureaus to stop using the utensils according to the creator's measure, and to pay attention to the provinces and budgets for those that should be updated. When inspecting the materials, do not lead to scarcity due to false pretense, uphold frugality, and do not indulge in beauty for the sake of wonder and obscenity. "
The result of this incident is: "If you don't come in, stay and read it." - This means that the emperor read it, but there was no follow-up and no response.
At first glance, this matter seems even more insignificant than the previous two things, but as a gunman, oh no, as a supervisory censor, you have to have the ability to pick out the bones from the eggs.
For example, the censor discovered Hua Dian: Wang Xiao, the eunuch of Jiaziku, and others discovered that there was a lack of materials such as silver and vermilion on the forehead. Then what did Zhang Xueyan answer? In fact, he did not seriously respond to why there was a shortage. Instead, he changed his tone and talked about the court-especially the emperor's expenses, which should be frugal.
In this case, it is understandable that the emperor did not respond. However, the censor believed that there was a big problem with this matter: Why was the missing thing missing? How many are missing? Why didn’t Zhang Xueyan, who was the Minister of Household Affairs at the time, answer directly? Is there something wrong here?
Then the censor took advantage of the topic and suddenly gave an example of Gao Pragmatism, the current Minister of Household Affairs. He said that since Gao Situ took office, he has been paying close attention to the warehousing problem. In less than a year since he took office, he has already arrested a large number of warehouse management officials and officials. Since then, there has never been a "lack of materials in the warehouse".
It can be seen that Zhang Xueyan's behavior at the time was at least perfunctory, and he may even have deliberately failed to report the information, which in turn was related to the problem itself.
The censor finally mentioned that when a king governs a country, the superiority and inferiority of his ministers and subordinates should not affect the justice of the government. The mistakes and oversights he cited for Zhang Xueyan were only part of them. He hoped that the emperor would understand clearly and depose Zhang Xueyan.
It was not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty to impeach a cabinet minister as a seventh-rank censor, but the emperor's reaction was also very common. "When he was alienated, his superiors were angry and issued an edict to reprimand the official for making irresponsible remarks about his assistant ministers. He even slandered the three ministers of the Yuan Dynasty and demoted the third-level foreign minister."
Of course, at the same time, Zhang Xueyan immediately defended himself and asked to retreat, and at the same time took the initiative to stay behind closed doors.
Two big problems arise here: First, although the emperor's reaction was as usual, actively defending his ministers, the emperor mentioned one thing while defending his ministers: "...and even slandered the three emperors. "Assistant", where do you start talking about this? What does it mean?
The reason for "slandering the three ministers of the Yuan Dynasty" is that the above three incidents occurred during the period when Gao Gong, Guo Pu, and Zhang Siwei were the chief ministers of the cabinet. If the censor's words are reasonable, it means that Gao Gong and Guo Pu were protecting Zhang Xueyan at that time. Although Zhang Siwei did not show up in the third incident, as the chief assistant, he had no reaction to it. It seemed that It can be regarded as condoning Zhang Xueyan's actions.
So the root of this matter is: the censor did not explicitly say the above about shielding, connivance, etc., but the emperor discovered this problem very sensitively and immediately issued a stern warning.
From this perspective, it proves that the emperor is very satisfied with the "three Yuanfu" and does not tolerate any remarks that question the three of them.
But there is a question here: Generally speaking, as long as the ministers do not explicitly state such a hint, the emperor will usually just pretend to be stupid, because it is easier to pretend to be stupid to turn a big deal into a trivial one. What's more, these things happened some years ago. According to the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, it is almost impossible to find out anything if we go back and investigate now.
From the emperor's point of view, if he wants this matter to disappear, the easiest way is to just not reply - just treat it as a fart and let it go.
However, he replied, and it was "angry", and he made the decision to demote his official position. This is a bit strange.
The second problem is that Gao Pragmatic is still staying behind closed doors, and Zhang Xueyan has been subjected to another wave of inexplicable impeachments. The things mentioned in this impeachment are not big things in the final analysis, but they are enough for him to defend himself. Stay behind closed doors.
Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui, the two cabinet ministers, have always been Gao Jingshi's two strongest assistants in the cabinet. Just when Gao Jingshi himself was staying at home, Zhang Xueyan was also forced to stay at home. This means that Among the cabinet at this time, only Wu Dui could still play a role.
But Wu Dui is definitely unable to support himself. This can be seen by looking at the current cabinet rankings: Shen Shixing, a bachelor of Zhongji Palace, Xu Guo, a bachelor of Jianji Palace, Zhang Xueyan, a bachelor of Wenhua Palace, and Wu, a bachelor of Wuying Palace. Dui, Wang Jiaping, a bachelor of Wenyuange, and Wang Xijue, a bachelor of Dongge.
Originally, from a "theoretical" point of view, the cabinet composed of six ministers, among which Xu Guo, Zhang Xueyan, and Wu Dui, were all from the practical school; Wang Jiaping basically belonged to the neutral school, but relatively speaking he was biased towards many things. Support the practical school; Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, who are ranked first and last, are from the heart school.
In this pattern, it seems that the real school has an obvious advantage, but in fact it is not the case: First of all, Shen Shixing is the chief assistant. Although the authority of the chief assistant is related to the chief assistant's personal prestige and his status in the emperor's mind, no matter what, Unless there is a serious reversal in the status of the first and second assistants in the cabinet between "Li Chunfang and Gao Gong" after Gao Gong returned to Beijing, the authority of the first assistant is unshakable.
Secondly, although Xu Guo, as the second assistant, came from the Shi School, he and Gao Wuzhen have now gone their separate ways. If he does not oppose Gao Wuzhen, it may be because Gao Gong is his benefactor and he is not very Convenience and direct confrontation with high pragmatism. In fact, he did not actively support many of the things Gao Pragmatic proposed, and mostly did not express his position. His attitude can only be said to be that he has not yet strongly opposed it.
Therefore, the actual situation in the cabinet is actually that Xu Guozhong, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Zhang Xueyan, and Wu Dui need to influence Wang Jiaping's attitude to a large extent and win Wang Jiaping's support before they can reluctantly cooperate with Shen and Wang. contend.
However, now that Zhang Xueyan was suddenly forced to stay behind closed doors, Wu Dui was the only one left with voting rights in the cabinet from the pragmatic school - or the pragmatic school. In this case, even if Wu Dui can influence Wang Jiaping and get Wang Jiaping to support him, he is already at a disadvantage - if the number of votes is the same, Shen Shixing, as the first assistant, can make the decision with one word.
However, even in this situation, Gao Pragmatic remained calm and unhurried. Even if Wu Dui secretly sent someone to see him, he advised Wu Dui not to worry.
It's not that Gao Pragmatic didn't know the meaning of Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue's move. He knew that Shen and Wang were indeed here for Zhang Xueyan - and now Jin Yiwei's "counterattack" caused Zhang Cheng to eat him before he even opened his mouth. After delegating power, he might act at any time because of the emperor's persuasion.
In this case, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue must be worried about the long nights and dreams. If they don't take the opportunity to win back the game in an important position, then they will completely miss this unexpected opportunity.
Shen Shixing might be able to tolerate it, but Gao Jingshi knew that with Wang Xijue's temper, he would definitely try to win back the victory after he thought he had been tricked by Gao Jingshi. Although Gao Pragmatic did not expect that they would take action on Zhang Xueyan, from their point of view, if they could take down Zhang Xueyan, it would indeed be the biggest gain they could get at the moment.
Maybe Wang Xijue's temper was worse than he had expected, or maybe his mentality changed after being provoked. In short, he became more and more aggressive, so he was so direct.
But Gao Pragmatic is not very worried. The actions of Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue will definitely make Concubine Zheng, who was deceived by their strategy yesterday, more nervous and more proactive "counterattack".
Secondly, Zhang Xueyan has repeatedly explained to Gao Yingshi that his health is not very good and he is getting older, and he solemnly asks Gao Yingshi to consider his successor.
In other words, Zhang Xueyan is actually ready to take up the official position - of course, Gao Pragmatic will not let him take up the official position in such a disgraceful way. Even if he takes up the official position, he can only resign on his own initiative without being impeached. But in any case, Gao Pragmatic is prepared for this.
As expected, things did not go as Gao Pingshi expected. Someone in the harem had already taken action: Pang Bao and Liu Cheng quickly found out the identity of the censor who had gone to Shangshu in the morning. This man's name was Hu Kejian, whose given name was Gongzhi. He was from Guangshan. He was a Jinshi in the 14th year of Wanli and was changed from a Shujishi to a censor.
This person is more interesting. He is from Guangshan County, that is, from Henan. At this time, probably nine out of ten officials in Henan were from the practical school, and this person's usual behavior seemed to be more inclined to the practical school. But it happens that he is also an "angry young man" who can't get rid of the sand in his eyes at all, and he can act like rain whenever he hears the wind.
So, he "listened to the wind". It is said that a few days ago, when he was on duty at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he chatted with his colleagues about the past of cabinet ministers, and heard some "rumors" from his colleagues - about Zhang Xueyan. As a result, this man acted resolutely and immediately checked it out. He thought he had gained a lot and immediately went to the public to criticize it.
Now it’s fun, it seems like there’s internal strife within the Real School. Obviously, this man, like all the valuable angry youths in the past dynasties, was used as a gunman.
However, Concubine Zheng didn’t care what he was treated as. She had already determined that Wang Xijue’s reason for doing this was to suppress the pragmatic school who insisted on “waiting for the queen’s legitimate son”, and then took advantage of the pragmatism and Zhang Xueyan to stay behind closed doors. The opportunity arises again for the "Early Zhengguoben" incident.
Therefore, Concubine Zheng suddenly "fell" in Yikun Palace at noon. The news immediately spread to Qianqing Palace. Zhu Yijun, who was so anxious that he didn't know the specific situation, didn't even finish his lunch, so he hurriedly drove to the harem to visit. , and on the way he scolded Liu Cheng who came to report the news, scolding him for not taking good care of the imperial concubine.
At this point, the change of the entire situation depends on the performance of the Imperial Concubine.
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