Chapter 282 281 Dismissed

"How long has it been since Dongyang went to Nanjing?"

After Emperor Jiajing asked Yan Song, he asked Xu Jie next to him.

"It's been four or five years."

Xu Jie quickly bowed and replied.

"This person still has the ability, and he has been in Nanjing for a long time."

Speaking of this, Emperor Jiajing paused for a moment, seemed to have made the final decision, and then he spoke: "Strike Minister Zhao Wenhua returns to his hometown, and replace him with the Minister of Justice Ouyang Bijin, and the Minister of Justice will be made by Jia Yingchun, so there is no need to discuss it anymore."

After hearing the arrangements of Emperor Jiajing, although Yan Song's eyes were slightly disappointed, it was very obscure and no one noticed it, and Xu Jie next to him had a flash of light in his eyes.

In the past, the six ministries were occupied by Yan Song's followers. Although the Ministry of Justice was not very important, it was still an official position in Shangshu.

"Tell Ouyang Bijin that the main responsibilities of the Ministry of Works are the three main halls, the palace gate, and the Zhengyang Gate Tower, the assistant minister Lei Li and the eunuch Yuan Hengguan, and the project is huge. They are also sent to the supervisor Zheng Guobin and the censor Song Yiwang."

Although there were eunuchs in the palace to supervise, Emperor Jiajing was still worried about the trouble caused by the Ministry of Works. He arranged for the Qingliu to supervise the progress of the project like the censor.

After making such an arrangement, Emperor Jiajing finally felt much more relieved.

After Yan Song and Xu Jie retired from Yongshou Palace, Emperor Jiajing turned to Huang Jin and ordered: "Send the message to Donghu and verify the matter reported the day before yesterday as soon as possible, and no delays shall be made."

"yes."

Huang Jin lowered his eyebrows and agreed with pleasure. Although Yan Song was still polite when he saw him, Zhao Wenhua also looked for opportunities to often send him money and property, but the words that Emperor Jiajing had just ordered actually killed Zhao Wenhua.

A few days ago, perhaps some smell was smelled. The left governor and commander of the Jinyiwei Lu Bing reported secretly that the Minister of Works Zhao Wenhua, Liansui, believed that he would be punished for the redeem of Jiangnan and the people.

In fact, the sued Zhao Wenhua went to Zhejiang two years ago. During the process of commanding the Japanese suppression of the Japanese, he forced himself to buy and sell in Jiangnan, and bought land, houses, silk, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other objects at a low price. He even occupied other people's military merits and rewarded them with greed for ink, which aroused dissatisfaction among soldiers at the lower level.

Emperor Jiajing was angry when he saw Lu Bing's memorial.

The redemption of the people is aimed at the local government, but the forced contribution of the officers of the garrison are different.

The vassal center is the foundation of the rule of the old Zhu family. As the emperor, he naturally knew the problem of the vassal center, so he couldn't easily interfere.

Finally, there were generals and soldiers in the garrison army who made great contributions, and their main contributions and rewards were occupied by you, Zhao Wenhua. This would have a very bad impact on the long run.

The big reason why the coastal garrison now uses his life in the war to suppress the Japanese is Hu Zongxian's continuous improvement in rewards. A real Japanese head is valuable, and most of this money is earned from the extra local government, which should have been the money of the court.

In recent years, most of Jiangnan's wealth has remained in Jiangnan to suppress the Japanese, and the transfer of wealth into Beijing has dropped drastically, which is also one of the reasons for the serious financial deficit of the court.

Immediately, Emperor Jiajing ordered Lu Bing to verify the details and submit a memorial.

Now, he needs Lu Bing to check the results carefully.

In fact, even Huang Jin has heard of these things. After all, the imperial court still has a large number of eunuchs, middle officials and others in Jiangnan. They are the spies that extend to the local area of ​​the inner court. Just like the Jinyiwei deployed Jinyiwei in various provinces, they were all to collect local intelligence.

However, the inner court will not take the initiative to sue for the matters of the outer court before the emperor has sued him.

Because once the inner court writes a letter to impeach civil servants in the outer court, it will easily evolve into a battle between the inner court and the outer court, causing turmoil in the court.

As long as there is no crisis in the imperial power, the eunuchs will choose to turn a blind eye, and even the palace servants stationed in the local area will get a share of it. They will only consider whether to inform the news when they miss the signs of rebellion.

As the saying goes, "The wall is falling and everyone pushes it" makes a lot of sense. When Zhao Wenhua was in power, all these things happened and no one reported them.

After this incident, the Jinyiwei reported that after Zhao Wenhua's crime was made public, Qingliu in the court would write letters to impeach him one after another. At that time, even if Yan Ge Lao controlled the Tongzheng Envoy, it would be useless and would be difficult to block the world's long and wide mouths.

Soon, the news of Zhao Wenhua's resignation and returning to his hometown to recuperate was completely spread, and the official position was also released.

After Zhao Wenhua's resignation, the position of Minister of Works was replaced by Minister of Justice Ouyang Bijin, while the position of Minister of Justice was transferred to Nanjing's Minister of Revenue Jia Yingchun.

After Prince Yu's Mansion received the news, the whole mansion naturally celebrated with great enthusiasm, and finally won the position of Shangshu. Prince Yu's Mansion was no longer isolated and helpless in the court.

In a flower hall in Prince Yu's mansion, Prince Yu, Gao Gong and other officials were present. They sat down after congratulating each other and gradually calmed down their excitement.

"Prince, the first contribution to this matter depends on Wei Guangde. If he hadn't discovered the clues in advance, Zhao Wenhua's incident has only been a few days since the outbreak of the situation, and we would not have time to make arrangements."

Gao Gong said to King Yu with a smile on his face.

"Yes, yes, yes, the teacher is right. If I hadn't known that Zhao Wenhua had lost power in his father's place, I would never have thought that my father would replace him directly and let him return to his hometown to recuperate. I thought I would send an imperial physician to give medicine to the palace to show my favor."

Speaking of this, King Yu shook his head with emotion to express his feelings at this moment.

"He is not an official from the royal palace, so it is not convenient for me to come to my place. I will ask the teacher to hold a banquet to thank him. Don't make people feel that we are slow."

King Yu continued to say to Gao Gong, "Actually, I really want to see him as a priest."

"Haha, there is time in the future, so don't worry."

Gao Gong smiled.

By this time, the outer court did not know that Zhao Wenhua could no longer return to his hometown, and his fate had been ruled by Emperor Jiajing.

Wei Guangde naturally didn't know, but was surprised that the two ministers were appointed as the position of Shangshu once, and when the efficiency of the court became so efficient.

Wei Guangde did not expect that he would not succeed in seizing the position of Minister of Works, but he was appointed as Minister of Justice.

Well, they are all second-ranked persons, but there is actually not much difference. Anyway, they are all senior officials of the court and the kind of person who have the right to speak.

When can I compete for such a position?

Wei Guangde no longer had the heart to read books at this moment, and he supported his head on the desk, and was just thinking about it.

In the evening, Wei Guangde went to the restaurant again. Gao Gong, Li Fang and other senior officials of Prince Yu's mansion arrived. The only thing that was missing was that Prince Yu did not attend in person.

The treatment was already very high, and Wei Guangde did not dare to see King Yu at this time. He knew that King Yu must have spies from Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and even Prince Jing's mansion beside him.

Although Wei Guangde made up his mind to lean on Prince Yu's mansion, he did not want to openly stand before the dispute over the throne was settled.

As for being close to Prince Yu's Mansion and alienating the Prince Vision Mansion, it is naturally only a ancestral system to talk about it. Anyway, I just don't want more people to know what he has determined.

After the banquet ended, Wei Guangde returned home drunk. After Zhang Ji sent the sobering soup, he also handed a letter from home.

"Come from Jiujiang?"

Wei Guangde was a little surprised. He took the envelope and opened it, took out the letter and started to look at it. After a while, the expression on his face became exciting.

"The twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month is more than three months left."

After reading the letter, Wei Guangde smacked his lips, folded the letter paper and put it in the envelope.

For this matter, I have to write a memorial to Emperor Jiajing. It is quite troublesome, and it is indeed too much to do with the future market.

Think about how many officials in the world are asked for leave and have to submit a memorial to the emperor. Can the emperor see how many officials there are?

The main holidays of officials in the Ming Dynasty included period leave, granted leave, sick leave and casual leave.

The first three types of holidays are easy to understand. Menstrual vacations are holidays set by the court. Giving leave depends on the emperor's mood. Of course, there are also special reasons for the court leave. As for sick leave, I won't mention it. They all fall ill and naturally cannot work.

As for leave, all kinds of things that require time delay are included, but the main things are weddings and funerals, and the court also has regulations.

However, what Wei Guangde is worried about now is that he is going back to his hometown to get married, and he has to write a memorial to report to Emperor Jiajing for his imperial examination. It feels awkward to think about it.

Yes, the letter from my family this time was nothing else. The only explanation was that Wei Guangde would go to Nanjing to meet the bride on the twelfth lunar month, and then take the bride back to Jiujiang to get married.

This marriage leave is eliminated according to the system, and the time spent on the trip can be spent at home for two months.

Wei Guangde silently calculated his itinerary and returned to Beijing in October. He should be able to catch up with the last passenger ship heading south before the canal was frozen and suspended.

Whether to meet Xu Bangrui first when passing by Nanjing, Wei Guangde dared not think about whether he met Xu Jianglan first.

The ceremony system has been highly regarded these days. Except for special circumstances, couples cannot meet in advance. In ancient times, blind dates were actually sneaky and peeking. Unlike now, when the time and place are determined, the two parties gathered together to meet and have a meal for a phone number.

Forget it, now that he is drunk, Wei Guangde doesn't think about it. He goes to bed first and then talks about it. He has time to worry about how to write this memorial.

On the second day, the cabinet drafted an edict and sent it to the Chief Secretary for the Ministry of Education for approval. It was sent to the Sixth Department early in the morning. The personnel changes of the imperial officials were promoted by the Ministry. Naturally, the Sixth Department would not be blocked at all and passed, and the cover was printed and issued an order.

Just when everyone thought that since this drama surrounding the Ministry of Works has ended, a bigger storm has quietly come.

Wei Guangde was still a little slower to receive the news from Chen Ju. Before Emperor Jiajing chose to send Zhao Wenhua aside, those who knew about this were the eunuch Huang Jin, who had been staying by the emperor, even the eunuch Chen Ju, who had known about it, only when Lu Bing presented evidence of Zhao Wenhua's corruption and abuse of power.

He took the time and hurriedly arranged for his godson to send messages to Wei Guangde.

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Zhao Wenhua naturally knew that the Censor of the Court interrupted the impeachment of his corruption and abuse of power, but he could not do anything at this time.

The Yan family did not take action to protect themselves, so they could only escape from the capital with their tails stomped in.

Only then did Zhao Wenhua deeply realize the chess he played back then, as if he had offended his godfather.
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