Chapter 83                                                             �

After Zhou Mengchen sent the disciples away, the servant brought a bowl of sobering soup. Xu Wei said, "Sir, you are ready to do it."

Zhou Mengchen took a few sips of sobering soup, sour and sweet. He felt a refreshing feeling rushed straight into his forehead. He suddenly became much more awake and said, "One move, two decline, three deaths. Never underestimate Xu Jie. Now Xu Jie is in a passive state, so we are so smooth. After the spring exam, it is time for me to make a big noise, so we naturally have to rush."

Xu Wei was still a little worried. He said, "Sir, isn't it too hasty?"

Zhou Mengchen shook his head and said, "My years of experience tells me that everything is ready and only the east wind is not ready, but most of the time, we will never be prepared. Especially for opponents like Xu Jie, how should we prepare? Do you have a charter?"

Xu Wei opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't say anything?

Zhou Mengchen used the newspaper as an emerging medium to kill the master. Now, newspapers are no longer new. Although Xu Jie is not as good as Zhou Mengchen, he will not be able to fight back. The longer the time, the faster Xu Jie's progress in this area will be.

Although it is an exaggeration to say that the same move cannot be used twice. After all, it takes time to crack the move. However, if a trick is used repeatedly, you will definitely encounter a gutter capsized in the future.

So, strike while the iron is hot. Take advantage of the momentum and enter the cabinet first.

Because only after entering the cabinet can Zhou Mengchen have the opportunity to be on par with Xu Jie. Zhou Mengchen only has the status of a Grand Secretary, plus his old subordinates all over the world, as well as allies such as Gao Gong and Yang Bo. He can compete with Xu Jie from the front.

Xu Wei said: "Since you have decided to pay attention, I can only cooperate."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Just just want to write a good article with the help of Brother Xu."

Xu Wei pondered for a moment and asked someone to spread the pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Then he wrote a memorial. King Jing asked him to let him have a lot of flesh and blood.

The content is nothing else, please ask King Jing to be a vassal.

It was already the general trend that King Jing was in the vassal state. However, Zhou Mengchen needed this general trend to be more violent. Once King Jing left, Yuan Wei's status would be shaken. In history, Jiajing liked Qing Ci very much, and Yuan Wei was the famous Qing Ci Pavilion Master. He had a place in the cabinet to write Qing Ci for Jiajing.

Even for Qingci, he is extremely exploited for his students.

For example, in history, the three A, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and Yu Youding were three people who were locked up by Yuan Wei in a small dark room, and they were not allowed to eat and could not write the green poems, so they were not allowed to come out. The three people were hungry.

Now that Zhou Mengchen is the chief examiner, these people are still enjoying themselves. At least Zhou Mengchen cannot do such a thing. It also proves that the tradition of trying to keep the author in a small black room has historical origins.

Jiajing now does not have a good preference for Qingci. Yuan Wei is completely a backup. So once King Jing leaves, Yuan Wei's life will not last long. If Yuan Wei is removed, the cabinet will have to be replenished.

This is what Zhou Mengchen wanted to see.

Sure enough, Zhou Mengchen's writing style is so wonderful that Zhou Mengchen will never be as good as that in his life. Hundreds of words, King Jing's words are reasonable and touching. It seems that King Jing's words are the best way to solve various problems of father, son, brother, and monarch and minister.

Xu Wei's article is just an appetizer.

Gao Gong decided not to fall behind on the matter of stabilizing the position of the prince. Gao Gong even wrote a letter to support King Jing to follow the vassal state. After that, officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty wrote letters to support this matter.

After all, the order of the superiors and inferiors and the difference between legitimate and illegitimate is the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty. Even Xu Jie was not easy to speak out in this matter.

It was impossible for him to stand on the side of King Jing just because Zhou Mengchen stood on the side of the prince. This did not conform to his political concepts, but also insulted his political wisdom. Yan Shifan was arrogant and felt that he could make a fuss about the foundation of the country.

When you look at the battle between the princes in Wanli Dynasty, you can see how stubborn the civil servants are.

Faced with such a situation, Jiajing naturally did not think about King Baojing.

Jiajing was a bit cold-hearted by nature. He valued the prince, not much affection between father and son. What he valued more was that the prince was his political successor. He really liked the former prince, and he also had some feelings for the grandson who was raised by now. However, he did not have much affection for the prince and King Jing at the beginning. Now he did not.

Many arrangements are more politically oriented.

Now King Jing’s political value is gone. Naturally, Jiajing will not keep him.

But it was a father and son fight, and Jiajing called King Jing to the palace and comforted him for a long time.

King Jing had no other reaction, but just burst into tears and wanted to show some pure filial piety, so that Jiajing could soften his heart and stay in the capital. But how could it be that Jiajing had only given 200,000 taels of silver extra and sent King Jing away.

King Jing could only go to Anlu crying.

Speaking of which, King Jing's treatment is also good. An Lu is the Qiandi residence of Jiajing. It is the original King Xing Mansion. There is also the tomb of Emperor Xingxian here, which is more than ordinary King Xing's mansion in terms of specifications. In addition, some money given by Jiajing is already quite good.

But how could King Jing be convinced?

After thinking about it, he felt that the reason for his failure was not the other way, that was, his son was not allowed. So, after he arrived in Anlu, he thought about one thing wholeheartedly, that was, to have a son.

So I accepted women, and there was no need to mention the sheng and flute every day.

Unfortunately, King Jing seemed to be poisoned by mercury. He never had a son in his life, but instead died in front of Jiajing because of overwork.

Of course, this is not mentioned later.

The matter of King Jing leaving Beijing was settled just now. Zhou Mengchen was in power and began to collect various problems of Yuan Wei.

Although Yuan Wei’s elimination has become a foregone conclusion, the process that should be followed still has to be followed.

Yuan Wei was eliminated because his political foundation was broken. But it was impossible to say so on the surface. Naturally, we had to find some suitable reasons to do it. As mentioned before, the official atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty was like this, and many people could not withstand the investigation like a magnifying glass.

Zhou Mengchen himself dared not say that his golden body was not bad, and Yuan Wei was not as noble as a person. Zhou Mengchen was looking for it so targetedly that he naturally found a lot of black materials.

Just as Zhou Mengchen was about to launch an impeachment against Yuan Wei, Zhang Juzheng suddenly came to visit.

When Zhang Juzheng saw Zhou Mengchen, he was not polite and said, "The teacher asked me to pass on the message and said I wanted to see you."

Zhou Mengchen was a little surprised and said, "Prime Minister, I want to see me. Just send someone to pass on the message and ask me to go to the cabinet. Why invite you here?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "Teacher, you are not going to meet you in the cabinet, but in Lingji Palace."

"Lingji Palace?" Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said in his heart: "There is a problem."

It is a taboo for ministers to give private gifts. There is another hostile relationship between Zhou Mengchen and Xu Jie, which is simply like the same force. Now Xu Jie invites Zhou Mengchen to Lingji Palace to discuss secretly. There is a very strange feeling.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen was not worried about his personal safety, and Xu Jie was not that kind of person. He just couldn't touch Xu Jie's pulse.

Zhou Mengchen asked, "Uncle, what did the chief minister ask me to go over and say?"

Zhang Juzheng said, "I don't know. The teacher didn't say that. I think it's related to Master Yuan."

Zhou Mengchen said in his heart: "This matter is an arrow on the string." He said: "If it is this matter, please tell the chief assistant and I won't go."

Zhang Juzheng said: "No matter what, you should go there. Even if there is some dispute between you and the teacher, it is a dispute between a gentleman, and it will not be so."

Zhou Mengchen sneered in his heart: "The battle between gentlemen? Haha!" However, he also felt that Zhang Juzheng was right. On this point, he wanted to learn from Xu Jie and wanted to play the pig's brain in private. However, the superficial skill was not at all.

Legend has it that after Yan Song was imprisoned, Xu Jie was polite and did not vent any humiliation. But this did not prevent him from making Yan Song's life worse than death.
Chapter completed!