Chapter 428 427 Secret

"Look at Your Majesty's current dynasty, there are ministers who can monopolize the government. Although Yan Song was favored, Xu Ge Lao was still in charge of the cabinet, and Wu Shangshu, Yang Bo and others formed a force in the court.

To maintain stability in the court, it is not possible for the two factions to control it, but to form a triangle relationship."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde unknowingly brought out the theory of "triangle stability" in later generations.

"If the important officials in the court are divided into two factions, what will happen at that time? It will be a struggle between the left and right, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.

Although Your Majesty often lives in Xiyuan, he can still use his arms to the court. The fundamental reason is that the assistant Yan is the strongest, followed by the elder Xu Ge. In order to maintain the struggle with Vice President Yan, Xu Ge can only win over the strength of third parties such as Wu Shan, Yang Bo.

It seems that the two factions are still fighting, but in fact it represents stability. No faction can resist the pressure of the other two factions. This is the essence of it.

If the strategy proposed by either side is wrong, it will naturally be opposed by two other forces. No matter what the fight is, it can at least represent the views of most ministers, which will maintain the stability of the court."

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, he shut up his mouth, while King Yu was frowning and pondering, and Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng were also feeling enlightened.

Fortunately, at this time, the officials in the royal palace had not yet truly entered the court and had not yet formed their own factions. If there was one, it was the Xujie faction where Zhang Juzheng was located.

But here, the hat on their heads was: King Yu's hidden minister.

At this time, the three of them still made teaching King Yu the first goal, and had not considered their own interests. Otherwise, Wei Guangde's words would be immediately backfired.

Of course, if Gao Gong was here, Wei Guangde would never have said these words.

After a long time, King Yu stammered: "Shan Dian's words make a lot of sense. I still have to go back and think about it carefully. It's too deep."

It would be fine if King Yu could understand it. This was also the foreshadowing that Wei Guangde prepared in advance for the future that he might face Gao Gong's one-man rule. At least by that time, King Yu would not trust and support Gao Gong unconditionally.

King Yu's words also awakened Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng who were still pondering, and both of them nodded slightly.

"If you want to divide the tripod into three parts, you should also determine the time."

Zhang Juzheng's lips moved slightly and read a passage from "Book of the Later Han Dynasty". This is actually the source of the three-legged tripod.

Afterwards, Yin Shidan also spoke: "Shandai's words are very insightful, but I think Shandai is contacting the palace and ask His Majesty if anyone has chosen the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Personnel."

Yin Shidan's words naturally require them to face reality.

Emperor Jiajing has already taken away two ministers, and these two positions naturally cannot be left empty for a long time. People must be arranged to take office, but who to send to take office is the key.

Now it is not to ask for someone to win the opportunity to rise to power. Wei Guangde said before that, it seems that Emperor Jiajing is prepared this time, and perhaps His Majesty already has a candidate in his mind.

At this time, naturally, don’t stretch out your hands to avoid being taboo by Your Majesty.

"Yes, Zhengfu said it very well. If the father has a candidate, we must support it with all our strength."

King Yu spoke at this time.

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Chen Ju always felt that Huang Jin's eyes were a little deep when he ordered him before. This was the first time Chen Ju saw Huang Jin being called out of the hall by Emperor Jiajing. He didn't know what kind of secrets Yan Shoufu wanted to show the emperor.

Standing in front of the hall, Chen Ju was calm and calm. The conversation between Emperor Jiajing and Shougong Yan in the hall seemed to be floating into his ears.

Although he knew this was a taboo, he was curious and Chen Ju took a small step back slightly, and even gently touched the door panel under the hall door before giving up.

He stood in the middle of the hall door. Although the two hall doors were closed, there was a small gap. When he arrived at this position, the conversation between the two people in the hall could be heard a little clearly, but it was still intermittent.

That is, words and sentences with heavier pronunciations can only be heard, while some lighter ones cannot be heard in a true way.

That is, Huang Jin asked him to guard the hall gate, otherwise Chen Ju would not dare to eavesdrop on the conversation inside even if he had 120 courage.

In the afternoon, Chen Ju received a note sent by someone from Wei Guangde. He just thought about it for a while and nodded to the appointment.

When the eunuchs were rotating in Yongshou Palace, Chen Ju took the time to ask for leave for Eunuch Huang. Then he left Xiyuan and went to Gao Zhong, the godfather of Silijian, before leaving the palace gate.

Not long after walking, Gao Zhong saw the carriage driven by Li San, then went up, held the shaft and jumped up, lifted the curtain and entered the carriage.

After Chen Ju got on the car, Li San waved his horse whip and made a green sound. The horse pulled the carriage and walked slowly along Chang'an Street.

"Brother Chen, I have made an appointment today. I really have to ask about some things."

In the carriage, Wei Guangde and Chen Ju sat opposite each other, and as the carriage bumped, their bodies were also shaking gently.

"What's the matter?"

Chen Ju asked curiously.

In the past few days, nothing happened about Prince Yu's mansion in the palace. Moreover, King Jing has left Beijing, and Prince Yu's position is as stable as Mount Tai. According to what he and Wei Guangde said before, King Yu now is enough to be stable.

In front of Chen Ju, Wei Guangde was too lazy to beat around the bush and said bluntly: "In the past two days, Your Majesty has asked Wu Shan Shangshu Guan to live in vain, and asked the Minister of Personnel to retire. I heard that Wu Shangshu's resignation memorial has been submitted."

"Have Wu Peng's resignation document been handed over?"

Chen Ju smiled and asked casually.

"It has been delivered to the Department of Tengmatsu."

Wei Guangde replied.

"Then why are you looking for me?"

Could it be that Wu Peng was buried in the Yan family by Prince Yu’s mansion?

When Wei Guangde heard about Wu Shan and Wu Peng, a person like Wu Shan would definitely not be able to rely on King Yu. Even if the title of King Yu has been basically decided, it would not be possible, and Wu Peng is not easy to say.

Outsiders all say that Wu Peng is Yan Song's mansion, is it that Prince Yu's mansion?

Wei Guangde found that Chen Ju's face was strange. Although he didn't know what he was thinking, he still hurriedly explained: "No, Your Highness actually wants to know if Your Majesty has a candidate for the Second Secretary."

After hearing Wei Guangde's words, Chen Ju's face became even more weird, and he understood that he had just thought it was wrong.

Think about it, that's right, how could Wu Peng be from Prince Yu's Mansion?

"Brother Wei, brother said something inappropriate here. His Highness Yu wants to get involved in these matters, so he should be blocked. How can he get involved in the court?"

After only a moment of silence, Chen Ju spoke.

Wei Guangde understood that Chen Ju's words made sense, but King Yu had to pay attention to the changes in the court, so he had to answer: "People are in the world, and they can't help themselves."

"Well"

Chen Ju was a little surprised by Wei Guangde's answer, but after thinking about it carefully, he roughly understood the meaning.

In Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower Notes", the most famous sentence is naturally the sentence "Worry about the world first and worry about the world first and enjoy the world later." However, for people in the officialdom, there is actually another sentence that they prefer.

"When you live in a high temple, you worry about your people; when you live in a far away world, you worry about your king. If you advance, you worry about your progress, you worry about your retreat."

"hehe."

Chen Ju smiled casually and pointed at Wei Guangde with his fingers, but he did not speak up, but fell into deep thought.

Wei Guangde was thinking at first that today, he actually wanted to ask Chen Ju to bring a message. You must know that the answer will definitely be until tomorrow.

Because of Chen Ju's ability, Wei Guangde felt that he should not know, and perhaps only Huang Jin or Gao Zhong could guess some.

Emperor Jiajing would definitely not discuss the personnel arrangements of important officials in the court. He would definitely not have a slander in his heart, but he would never tell others about it.

However, when Wei Guangde saw Chen Ju's appearance, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be a chance.

After a long time, Chen Ju said with a slight hesitation on his face: "If you ask me a day in advance, I really can't answer this."

Then, Chen Ju told Wei Guangde about the fact that the chief assistant Yan Song entered the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan at noon today to meet him.

"Brother Chen, who did you hear that you were going to be the Minister of Personnel?"

After listening to Chen Ju's story, Wei Guangde naturally became anxious when he knew what happened in Yongshou Palace today.

Chen Ju thought about it and said, "This is my mouth and you. Even if it is King Yu, he will not be allowed to express a single word before the sage is brought down."

Speaking of this, Chen Ju shut up again and looked at Wei Guangde in a daze.

Wei Guangde nodded, knowing the situation at that time, everyone in the hall was driven out, which shows how much Emperor Jiajing attaches importance to it.

If the will is really spread before it is delivered, I am afraid that the emperor will get angry, and the one closest to the hall will be unlucky.

Immediately, Wei Guangde nodded without hesitation.

He had already thought about it. As long as he was sure that someone had chosen, he would just report back to King Yu and tell him not to have any unreasonable thoughts.

In fact, it doesn't matter who it is.

"It seems that Shoufu Yan recommended Ouyang Bijin, the Minister of Works. I didn't listen to it very seriously at that time, but I had any ministers named Ouyang in the court, so I can be sure it was him."

Chen Ju said in a low voice.

"How could it be him? He is sick?"

Wei Guangde was a little surprised at the name Chen Ju said.

"Although Ouyang Shangshu is sick, it's all a minor problem. It can't be cured and can only rely on maintenance. However, he doesn't want to be as serious as Censor Zhou, and he can hardly be unable to work."

Chen Ju replied.

Wei Guangde thought about it, even though he and Ouyang Bijin belonged to different camps, there were really people in Prince Yu’s Mansion who were specifically focused on them.

Relatively speaking, the most likely lack of the Censor of the Zuodu Censor of the Censorate is because Zhou Yan has not been to the yamen for three months.

Wei Guangde thought in his mind that according to what he had discussed at Xu Jie's mansion last time, the Yu's mansion obviously had Xu Jie's Taoist.

That time, Mr. Xu told Prince Yu's mansion that he had arranged for people to compete for the title of Zuodu Censor of the Censorate and was willing to help Prince Yu's mansion fight for the power of the Heavenly Officials of the Ministry of Personnel.

Yan Song submitted the report in the form of a secret cabinet, and Mr. Xu probably knew it beforehand.
Chapter completed!