Qi Jiguang lost his reputation in the Quanchu Guild Hall, which led to a series of impeachments. As a result, His Majesty always has some tricks that are eye-catching and refreshing.
If you want to scold, if you want to impeach, go to Jizhou and see for yourself, and then speak, instead of talking in vain.
Let the impeachment officials, Qingliu officials, Hanlin officials, and court officials personally go to Jizhou to endure hardships for three months. After gaining an in-depth understanding, they can then produce evidence to correct the impeachment and use facts to speak for themselves.
The main reason is that the content of the official impeachment is really ridiculous, making the ten-year-old emperor laugh.
The first charge of impeachment is that Qi Jiguang killed good people and took credit for their merits. This is a completely untenable conjecture. The Southern soldiers commanded by Qi Jiguang really killed good people and took credit for their merits. They have fallen long ago. They will definitely not wait until now. How many people regard Qi Jiguang as a thorn in their flesh?
Qi Jiguang pacified the Japanese, but he offended many people. The disappearance of the Japanese invaders meant that the situation had become stable. How could those gentry annex land? How can those maritime merchants fish in troubled waters? Why do those officials use military disaster as an excuse to ask for money to build cities and coastal defenses and line their own pockets?
In the war against Japan, the Nan soldiers often made astonishing achievements with dozens of casualties and more than a thousand heads killed. This kind of battle loss ratio was incomprehensible to some civil servants. Therefore, Yan Guan felt that Qi Shuai was killing Good things come at the expense of merit.
Battle reports will lie, battle losses will lie, but the battle lines will not lie. Japanese pirates are rampant and the disaster has spread to three provinces. Now in the three southeastern provinces, are there any signs of Japanese pirates rampant?
The people's thoughts don't lie. There are shrines to living people all over the three southeastern provinces. Will the people commemorate the generals who killed good people and took credit for their merits?
If you kill good people and take merit, the people who will be killed are the common people.
If the journey to the south is long, what about the north?
Qi Jiguang led the troops to fight with many contradictions. In the first year of Wanli, Qi Jiguang defeated Dong Hu. The Ming Dynasty relied on the location of the Great Wall and suffered no more than ten casualties, while the northern captives suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
The Japanese pirates were rogues, and the northern pirates were powerful enemies. Doesn't such a fierce record prove Qi Jiguang's bravery?
How many victories will Qi Jiguang need to prove his bravery?
The second charge of impeaching Qi Jiguang was embezzlement of huge sums of money. Zhang Juzheng had the best say on this charge.
Every year at Bing Jing and Tan Jing, the silver coins that Qi Jiguang sent to the Quanchu Guild Hall were all broken pieces of silver. Occasionally, he would not make up the money, and would use salt to make up the number. The broken silver instead of neat silver ingots, Qi Jiguang was really greedy for money, so he gave When you give gifts backstage, do you give away these scraps of silver?
The Jin Party came in the name of building the Great Wall, building forts, and building passes, and everyone was so happy that they subconsciously thought that Qi Jiguang was the same.
The third charge of impeachment was that he was a slave to a powerful person and wanted to please him. This charge was a real crime because Qi Jiguang had worshiped under Zhang Juzheng before. Qi Jiguang was indeed a member of the powerful person and wanted to please him.
The weird thing about this matter is that when Qi Jiguang was attached to the powerful, no one dared to impeach him. When Qi Jiguang stopped being attached to the powerful, these officials all jumped out.
How does the cabinet obtain part of its decision-making power?
Through the floating vote, the floating vote not only contains the cabinet's analysis of state affairs, but also how to deal with it. The emperor makes decisions after referring to the opinions of the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
Many times, the cabinet's decisions are the emperor's decisions, which means that the cabinet has obtained part of the decision-making power. Although it is not as powerful as the prime minister in the early Ming Dynasty, it can already intimidate the emperor.
But this time, it was the little emperor who came up with his own solution.
It has nothing to do with Zhang Juzheng's floating tickets. After Qi Jiguang returned his waist card, Zhang Juzheng could only analyze Qi Jiguang's matter from the Ming Dynasty's standpoint and could not provide any solutions.
And His Majesty's method is effective.
Zhang Juzheng put away the memorial and said: "After the ministers returned, they told the court officials that if they still insisted on impeaching Commander Qi, they would send him to the Jizhou camp to practice for three months and find evidence before impeaching him."
In order to collect evidence of the crimes of the border general Zuo Dudu, Qi Jiguang went to the territory of the border army to search for evidence. Fortunately, Qi Jiguang was not a military leader. He would not do anything to these censors. But if these censors kept chattering without conscience, the emperor would But in the next chapter of Jizhou, Qi Jiguang expressed his love.
It took half a year to go back and forth, and it would be over after a while. This is a typical example of taking advantage of the rigidity of the system, turning big things into small things, and turning trivial things into small things. Civil servants are best at this.
It seems that the little emperor is also good at this kind of wrangling.
Isn't it just nonsense? Who wouldn't?
As for whether the Qing gossip officer is willing to go, he probably won't.
They left the capital and went out to work, but when they were appointed as officials and left the center of power, their positions were replaced by others. It would be difficult to come back again.
After Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he looked at Ge Shouli and said in a very stern tone: "Mr. Ge, I want to remind you that where the artifacts of Fengtian Hall and Wenhua Hall are located, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the eyes and ears of the minister. Impeachment is a national matter. It is to curb the habits of Zhiwei, to increase the spirit of the bones, to open the eyes of upright men, to speak out for loyal ministers, for the great interests of the country, and to enforce the rules that are contrary to the ears."
"Are the officials deliberately distorting the facts and blustering, are they making fun of national affairs and the great interests of the country? Fengtian Hall and Wenhua Hall are solemn places, and impeachment is a just act, not an unfounded accusation, let alone A weapon of party strife.”
"Ge Zongxian, I am here to tell you that you are the censor of Zuodu and the general constitution of the Procuratorate. You must abide by the Constitution, clarify your responsibilities, be loyal to the emperor, the country, and yourself, and speak with factual evidence. This is right. The minimum requirement for every censor working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"
"You are the General Secretary, and you have a clear and clear censorship style. Do you have to wait until Haigangfeng returns to the court?"
Zhang Juzheng rarely lectures people in such a tone and in such harsh terms. Usually, when Zhang Juzheng is dissatisfied with anyone, he will directly use some means to drive the person out. Now, it is really for Ge Shouli's benefit that he is scolding him like this.
In the conflict between the Jin Party and the Zhang Party, if Ge Shouli continues to charge into the battle, the unlucky one will be Ge Shouli.
"Yes." Ge Shouli was scolded so he couldn't reply, he could only agree. Ke Dao Yan Guan's performance had been bad for more than a day or two, and Ge Shouli had no choice but to be scolded.
Ge Shouli could not control the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and he, the General Secretary, was about to become the mouthpiece of the Jin Party. How could the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Ministries truly respect Ge Shouli, who served as a powerful official? Who would take his words seriously? People's hearts were shattered. How could Ge Shouli lead a good team?
Zhang Juzheng nodded at the table and said, "If Hai Rui were in court, would he bark so blindly and ignore the facts?"
"No!" When Ge Shouli heard Zhang Juzheng talking about Hai Rui, he couldn't say anything. He sighed and agreed.
Discipline means rushing to poke people's lungs and scold them to wake them up.
Hai Rui is the culprit of Ge Shouli, the leader of the Ming Dynasty. The chief of the Ministry of Education ignored his words as the general constitution. Instead, he took Hai Rui, who was living idle in Hainan, as an example and had no respect for him as the general constitution. .
The reason why Zhang Juzheng mentioned Hai Rui.
In fact, I want to tell Ge Shouli that face, dignity, and dignity are all earned by oneself. In this round of impeachment of Qi Jiguang, even if the emperor does not come up with a solution and Zhang Juzheng does not speak up, there will still be ministers writing letters to defend Qi Jiguang, and Qi Jiguang can still Pass.
Because Qi Jiguang had just won the battle and annihilated Dong Hu's tribe, and the Huyukou Pass of the Great Wall of Datong had just been easily penetrated by the northern captives.
Qi Jiguang has face, dignity, dignity, and strength. Of course, he also has power and backing. In the past, it was Zhang Juzheng, and now the emperor is Qi Jiguang's backing.
That's all Zhang Juzheng said. It's hard to dissuade the devil with good words. Zhang Juzheng's bad words have all come to an end. How Ge Shouli will go in the future depends entirely on Ge Shouli's own destiny.
The second thing that the court discussed was to send the censors headed by Li Le to inspect the border censors to go to Huyukou and other places to inspect the Great Wall.
Li Le was a member of Zhang Juzheng, and he was accompanied by officials such as the Shanxi Road Censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry. There were also eunuchs sent by the Superintendent of Liturgical Affairs, and representatives of honorable nobles also went there.
Eunuchs, officials from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and eunuchs from the Ministry of Ceremony all showed their true intentions. This was also the first time in the Ming Dynasty that a non-Jin Party official from the Ministry of Science and Technology went to the Xuanfu of Datong in the forty years of Jiajing. , patrolling the border and inspecting the Great Wall.
"Who has any opinions?" Zhang Juzheng held a memorial in his hand.
If no one objects, he will send the letter to His Majesty for sealing.
On paper, Tan Lun, the Minister of War, Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Household Affairs, Yang Bo, the Minister of Personnel, Ge Shouli, the General Secretary of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Wang Chonggu, the Governor of the Military Affairs Bureau of Jingying, are all members of the Jin Party.
Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Shusheng, the Minister of Rites, and Wang Zhigao, the Minister of Punishments, were members of the Zhang Party.
The Jin Party was fully opposed, and Zhang Juzheng's "Asking the Censor to Inspect Xuan Da to Review the Great Wall and Ding Jian Shu" was definitely not going to pass the court.
However, Li Le was recommended by Ge Shouli in the case of military affairs. Tan Lun, the Minister of War, had parted ways with the Jin Party because of his promotion of generals in the capital. A clear-cut traitor.
Lu Shusheng and Zhang Juzheng were in the same class, and Zhang Juzheng recommended Lu Shusheng. As a result, Lu Shusheng had an affair with the Jin Party.
Wang Chonggu thought for a while and said: "The censor's inspection has made people's hearts turbulent. If Anda Khan goes south and there is another military disaster, and the soldiers have no intention of fighting, what should we do?"
Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Chonggu and asked quite calmly: "Wang Shaobao, do you want to listen to what you are saying? Repeat it yourself?"
Cultivating bandits to respect themselves is a very common way of playing, but Wang Chonggu couldn't directly say: You can't just check everything, maybe you will find something.
Wang Chonggu was stopped by a word and looked at Yang Bo helplessly.
Yang Bo sat up straight, hesitated and said, "The capital examination will be completed as soon as possible. My body can't hold it anymore."
No matter what the censor finds out this time, it has nothing to do with Yang Bo. Yang Bo's words are very clear. He intends to stay out of the matter. He does not intend to interfere with the affairs of the Jin Party, and he cannot.
For Yang Bo, it was a great success to successfully complete the pilot test of the imperial examination method in the capital and not end up in ruins.
"Since no one objects, let's do it." Zhang Juzheng signed the memorial and handed it to Zhang Hong, who took it and placed it on the imperial case.
Zhu Yijun picked up the treasure of Wanli, covered it with the memorial, and returned the memorial to Zhang Hong, indicating that he could start the next chapter of the official department.
Zhu Yijun was not optimistic about this border inspection. Zhang Juzheng's attack hit the heart of the black tiger and hit the vital point. However, if the Jin Party was defeated so easily, it would not be a deep-rooted Jin Party.
"Your Majesty, please leave." After the meeting, the ministers bowed respectfully and left the Wenhua Hall.
Officials who attended the emperor's studies, such as exhibition officials, attendants, lecturers, and saluters, came in one after another.
Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng's serious expression and asked, "Mr. Yuan Fu, do you think we will gain much from this inspection of the border areas and inspection of Dingjian?"
