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Wei Guangde, the initiator of the impeachment storm, has been in glory in front of his colleagues these days.

He impeached two of them casually, and both of them were easily successful. Wei Guangde was naturally proud, but Chen Ju never sent any further news.

This news is naturally whether he can go to Junzhou to verify the bad deeds of King Hui.

Wei Guangde no longer expects to continue to rise.

In this era, he was already a cadre promoted in a rocket style, so he just pursued the position of a seventh-rank censor of the same level. His goal should not be large, and it is still possible to achieve it.

Geng An quietly set off for Junzhou two days ago. He also wanted to go back to prepare more evidence of King Hui's illegality. After all, many families were forced to leave their hometowns and hide from their hometowns.

Now Junzhou is already half an empty city, and it is all ruined by King Hui.

Those who study and have daughters at home have already run away.

King Hui likes to play tricks on scholars too much. Scholars are very proud of their faces. They are afraid that they will lose face by being entangled by King Hui, so they can only hide because even if they sue the government, it is useless, and the magistrate will have to walk around the Hui palace.

In addition, we need to arrange evidence of the King of Hui's suspense. Some are OK, and some of them need to go back and look for evidence first.

However, when leaving the Wei family, Geng An knelt in front of Wei Guangde and thanked him with great gratitude. He also said that as long as Wei Guangde went to Junzhou, Geng An would contact his relatives and friends and local prominent families to jointly send Wei Guangde the umbrella of the people.

Think about it, it seems that it would be impossible to give the people of Junzhou apart from the great harm of King Hui. Although Wei Guangde did not take charge of Junzhou, it naturally did not exist to shelter the people of Junzhou from the wind and rain.

Over the years, officials have left office, whether they are resigning or promoted, and it is common for people to gather and send them together, but they have never heard of them sending umbrellas and plaques.

Wei Guangde couldn't help feeling itchy when he thought about this. It was so shameful.

The so-called umbrella of the people is actually to make a large umbrella with many small silk strips on it, and a letter is given to the person's name.

In ancient times, when local officials left office, local gentry and merchants had to express a little bit of retention. The more common method was to give "Wanmin Umbrella", which means that the parent official covered the common people in one place like an umbrella. The more umbrellas he sent, the more face the official was.

If someone else in the local area sends umbrellas or even stops sedan chairs when this official is dismissed or demoted, it means that the official is definitely a clean or good official, and the locals are also affectionate and righteous.

Of course, such rituals will definitely deteriorate in the later stages.

In fact, in the beginning, in the land of China, the people often invited local famous teachers to engrave inscriptions and carve monuments for the departed officials to commemorate him.

However, when it was developed into the Tang Dynasty, local officials often forced local gentry and people to establish monuments for their merits to their own people in order to gain vanity and to benefit the people.

Things had developed completely changed when things had developed here, forcing the Tang Dynasty regime at that time to issue an order to inform the world, prohibiting the engraving of officials from leaving names.

If the people cannot engrave steles, in order to express their reluctance to officials, the umbrellas of the people and the plaques of merit came into being. If the steles cannot be engraved, I will send the umbrellas and the plaques.

Of course, for officials who are really worth remembering in the local area, local gentry often asks to write to the court and asks special orders to allow local governments to engrave monuments for them, which is just a very troublesome procedure.

At this time, the umbrella of the people and the merit plaque had not been played by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, so it was quite attractive to Wei Guangde.

But back to reality, Wei Guangde has known in the past two days that many people in the court have begun to take the lead and want to take the position of the imperial envoy to investigate the case.

Wei Guangde's hope of taking this position ahead at the beginning was dashed. Chen Ju said at that time that Emperor Jiajing had no intention of cutting the mess quickly, so neither Huang Jin nor Gao Zhong dared to take this matter in the imperial stand.

Now, Wei Guangde's initiative must be gone.

In the past, most of these errands would fall on the people of the Ministry of Rites and the Censorate. After all, it was their job. There was little hope that Wei Guangde of the Hanlin Academy would be selected.

Based on this, Wei Guangde was too lazy to go and go for a walk.

Perhaps giving Yan Shifan a silver might have a glimmer of hope, or getting a deputy envoy or something, but Wei Guangde dared not.

It’s not that you dare not give money, but that you gave money and got the job of a deputy envoy. When you came back from Junzhou, the envoy did not get the Wanmin Umbrella. You got the deputy envoy. Didn’t you hit someone in the face?

Wei Guangde didn't want to do the job of offending people, so naturally at this time, he didn't want to argue with him after becoming a little rational.

No matter what, the first person who bombarded King Hui was himself. Everyone saw this credit, although it was a bit like a dog taking a rat.

At this time, the political trend of the capital had spread all over the world, and the news spread to Henan, and the Henan officialdom was also boosted.

In recent years, Henan officials have regarded Junzhou magistrate as a tiger's den, and no one is willing to take office.

There is nothing else, because that is the territory of King Hui.

Although the court restricted the right of the royal family to interfere in the local area, King Hui did not interfere in the local area, but violated the law and discipline in the local area, and the local officials had no place to deal with it.

To deal with the royal princes, you must have the emperor's imperial edict.

Since the previous generation of Hui King Zhu Houyu had conflicts with the prefect Chen Ji due to the "beheading Qin" case, and wrote a letter to the court to impeach Chen Ji. At that time, the chief censor Luo Ang and the censor Wang Sanpin tried to prove the facts and wrote a letter to seek justice for Chen Ji. Emperor Shizong was furious and arrested them all. Among them, Luo Ang was killed by a stick, and Wang Sanpin and Chen Ji were demoted to the border guards.

Later, the current King of Hui, Zhu Zai-tung, was repeatedly impeached, but the result was nothing. Since then, the Henan officialdom has to choose to circumvent the King of Hui and cannot fight others.

Now the wind direction in the capital has changed. King Hui obviously fell out of favor with Emperor Jiajing, so he naturally has to calculate the new and old hatreds together.

Soon, officials of Henan Governor Paine also began to write letters to impeach King Hui's illegal business, and wanted to uproot the King Hui's roots in one go. The opportunity now is not to be missed.

Henan's impeachment memorial was sent to the capital and handed over to the cabinet, and several officials in the cabinet were also arguing about who went to Henan to investigate the case.

Seeing the Minister of Rites and the Censorate of the Censorate of the Censorate, Yan Song and Xu Jie looked through the newly sent memorials on it.

"Pan En? This person seems to have been the governor of Junzhou?"

Yan Song suddenly put down the memorial in his hand and said to Xu Jie next to him.

"Henan Governor Paine?"

Xu Jie heard Yan Song seem to be asking him, put down his memorial, took the memorial from Yan Song and looked at it and smiled: "He was the governor of Qizhou before, and he had this experience because of his diligence in his work."

"We are already the governor of Henan and are still so concerned about Junzhou, haha."

Yan Song smiled with a point of view.

"I guess I'm very angry with King Hui in Junzhou, so I've caught a chance this time."

Xu Jie approached Yan Song and whispered.

Yan Song just smiled when he heard this and stopped answering.

"The Censorate proposed that the Right Censor Dang Yiping go, and the Ministry of Rites proposes that the Right Minister Yan Ne go, so it is better to report the names of the two people directly to see how the emperor chooses. It is meaningless to always argue like this. Both of them are qualified."

Xu Jie looked back at the argumentative officials below, and then turned around and muttered to Yan Song.

"Actually, it is reasonable to hand it over to the Censorate. Just look at it and give it a memorial, it's not okay to drag it all the time."

Yan Song nodded and responded.

"Yes, put what the Censorate proposes first and the Ministry of Rites behind?"

Xu Jie nodded understandingly when he heard this.

In his opinion, to investigate and deal with the prince of the dynasty, at least one fourth-rank or above must be on a patrol, so that he can be worthy of the imperial envoy.

The other party is a super prince, and he may not be able to suppress his position if he has a low official position.

However, when Xu Jie finished saying this, he saw a hint of mockery in Yan Song's yellow eyes.

When Xu Jie found this, he felt a sudden sudden heart.

He understood that Yan Song didn't have to be poor in his ability to do business as an official, but he lacked his understanding of Emperor Jiajing.

Perhaps, Yan Song had already seen Emperor Jiajing's true wishes, so that he had that look on his eyes at that moment.

But at this time, Xu Jie could only bury his mind in his heart, nodded and sat back on his original position.

The debate in the East Pavilion continued, but the two cabinet ministers in the cabinet did not focus on their arguments. They handled the memorials sent slowly.

After the cabinet minister's salary, Xu Jie was still thinking about the momentary changes in Yan Song's eyes.

Xu Jie had already realized that he seemed to have made some mistakes, so he wrote the question book. Although he did not submit it immediately, there must be some problems.

After thinking about the people in the question book carefully, whether it is Yan Ne or Dang Yiping, they seem to be very suitable candidates.

If you have to say that there is any problem, it is that Dang Yiping is also from Henan, and he is of the same family, but this is not an unusable official.

When I returned to Xu Mansion, I didn’t have to go to the Xiyuan Pay-off Room tonight, and Xu Jie had a rare time to rest.

Not long after I returned to the inner courtyard and sat down, a housekeeper came over, holding a letter in his hand.

"What's the matter?"

Xu Jie asked casually.

"Master, I've sent a letter from my family. This year, all tenants said they had been pirates and were added to corvee by the government. They couldn't bear it anymore. I asked the government to reduce the rent."

While speaking, the butler handed the letter in his hand to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie didn't say anything, took the envelope and opened it, took out the letter and read the contents on the letter, then sneered: "It's all the will of the court, what can I do?"

I went down and wrote a letter to tell my family that those who could not afford to pay the rent will not plant them next year.

Those at home are not at all responsible, so do you still want my grand cabinet minister to explain to the tenants? I am not going to add their corvee service, and I have the ability to complain to Hu Zongxian."

"Yes, yes, the master said yes."

The housekeeper naturally would not have any different opinions from Xu Jie on this matter. Although he felt that the tenants were indeed suffering enough, the rent could not be reduced. What would the Xu family eat and drink after the reduction?

"I'll bother me if I have a little bit of it. If you have any similar things in the future, you will just go back."

Xu Jie said casually.

Watching the butler go out with the letter, Xu Jie retracted his gaze and looked at the bookshelf.

Readers have become a habit for reading books.

When I was in the cabinet, I read the memoirs from all over the world all day long. When I got home, my hands and eyes were still a little itchy, and I always wanted to read something.
To be continued...