After Li Yanzhi was worried, all the kings of the Zhu family were dancing and a public opinion began to appear in the market, believing that Li Yanzhi's "resignation" was due to the pressure of the kings and the power of Emperor Hongwu. Some old-school storytellers beat "submerged dogs" in tea shops, and blamed Li for keeping the emperor. This argument has a big market in a conservative base camp like Beijing, even among the people.

The kings seemed to have been encouraged by this public opinion, thinking that as long as Xu Jie was driven down from power, the Ming Dynasty would restore order. However, there were different voices among the kings. After Li Yanzhi was in trouble, the King of Shu began to change his previous thinking, believing that instead of trying to restore the past, it would be better to take advantage of the new situation to seek another path of development.

The royal family reform promoted by Li Yanzhi and Xu Jie not only cut off the support of the royal family, but also relaxed the constraints on the royal family and even allowed the royal family to do business.

In fact, most of the royal family have huge incomes and a high social status. If they do business, even if they don’t have privileges, their starting point will be much higher than others. However, most of these people are used to the days of having sex, so they do not want to fall from a state of stable income from drought and flood to a self-bearing profit and loss.

Only the King of Shu was different. Among Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants, the King of Shu was obviously a very good seed. There were many scholars who were interested in learning and literary in the past dynasties. Zhu Xuanqi, the prince of the King of Shu, began to enter the business circle with huge capital. However, Sichuan was too far from the sea, so Zhu Xuanqi did not join the fun in Shanghai. Instead, he turned to the southwest and took the ancient tea and horse road in Yunnan to make profits, and had plans to extend his power to Myanmar. Therefore, his actions were secretly accepted by enlightened ministers, but were looked at by the kings and conservative ministers.

These princes of the Zhu family did not intend to "degenerate" into merchants, because although they can get rich through business, they will only last for three generations and will always have a day of decline. Only by enjoying privileges is the benefit of eternal eternity!

In the six months after Li Yanzhi's death, more than 20 riots occurred in various parts of the country. The causes of the riots were varied, either because of murder, lawsuits, or because someone took the lead in digging Xu Jie's ancestral grave, which was suppressed by officers and soldiers.

The instigators of these riots were mostly rogues, but after the government conducted a thorough investigation, it was found that most of these riots were involved in the royal palaces in various places. Some gangsters even ran to the royal palace to hide after the chaos.

Before the royal family reform, the kings did not dare to be so arrogant, because the emperor and the kings were suspicious of each other at that time. If the kings were not careful, they might be charged with treason, so they all lived tremblingly. But now the situation suddenly changed, and the kings became on the same front as the emperor because they had a common enemy: Xu Jie!

Since the overall situation is basically stable and no one starved to death in the countryside, these small riots cannot be expanded, but although the scale of the chaos is not large, it disturbs people's hearts. Today, Hunan newspapers will be together, tomorrow Guangxi newspapers will be together, and then Shandong will report together, as if the world is already in trouble. Even Emperor Zhu Zaiye often sighs on the dragon throne: "Why is the world so noisy?" But he said this sentence with a purpose, and the purpose is to ask the chief assistant Xu Jie to confess his guilt! It is best to ask for retirement after pleading guilty!

But Xu Jie was really thick-skinned. Faced with the emperor's doubts, he analyzed it all, saying that these riots were just large in number and loud, but in fact they did not cause much damage. Finally, he pointed the finger at the kings: "The disasters in various places have the shadow of the princes..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Zai'er cried: "Master Ge, do you want to take the opportunity to kill all my uncles and brothers? Although these rebellious people shouldn't be, they all have the name of loyalty and filial piety. If it is the fault of the kings, it is better to say it is mine!"

Xu Jie said ah. After all, he was a traditional scholar-official in his bones. The emperor said this so severely that he had to answer: "The old minister is frightened, the old minister is frightened..."

Zhu Zai's words were actually exonerating the kings, and even revealed the meaning of "If you want to move them, I will move first!"

Xu Jie is currently trying to adjust his relationship with the emperor, but he doesn't want to touch him.

More importantly, he still had a deep-rooted concept of monarch and ministers in his heart, which made him dare to exercise power and even force the emperor to give in, because the Confucian political evaluation system requires that those who are ministers can violate the difficulties of the king for the people of the world. But if he really pulled the emperor off, Xu Jie was worried that history books in the ages would include him as treacherous ministers. Because of this concept, Xu Jie never dared to force the emperor too much. His power and strategy may be better than Li Yanzhi, but he did not act unscrupulously like Li Yanzhi. Li Yanzhi regarded the word "loyalty to the king" as a bullshit, but Xu Jie did not dare to completely overturn these two words, at least he did not dare to express them blatantly.

This is not just Xu Jie's fault. Almost everyone in the cabinet and six ministries led by him had this fault. When Li Yanzhi was still in power, Xu Jie's faction seemed to be steady and balanced because of his boldness and even "nonsense". Therefore, radical forces were willing to cooperate with Xu Jie, and conservative forces also believed that Xu Jie was the doctrine of the mean that the country was stable.

Now that Li Yan left, he pushed Xu Jie to the forefront. Conservative forces began to think that he had done too much and treated him as a radical representative to fight him.

Because of this, when the emperor played the card of "Zodiac", Xu Jie and others could only play "For the world" to compete with it. But the emperor could also say "For me, I am for the world". This cannot be reversed by a few words of clever arguments, because this is an unchangeable "rule" that exists in the minds of Shilin! Therefore, although Xu Jie's faction currently holds the key to the regime, he is quite passive in the existing political discourse.

The political atmosphere in Beijing suddenly became a little depressed. When Li Yan was alive, Xu Jie and Ding Rukui thought he was too arrogant and worried that he would threaten the stability of the Ming Empire in the future when he grew stronger. But now they miss Li Yanzhi again.

This is really: "I am thinking about my evil, and I am leaving, and I am thinking about my crazy!"

In the fourth year of Longqing, something major happened in the capital. A group of thugs rushed to the official road in the early morning, attacked Ding Rukui's sedan chair, dispersed the servants of Ding Mansion, dragged Ding Rukui out and beat him half to death. Ding Rukui even saw the silver-cold sword light in the dim candlelight!

"It's over!" He thought, this is murder together!

At this moment, someone whispered: "Oh no! I'm wrong! This is not the surname Xu!"

Ding Rukui's heart moved: "They want to deal with the chief assistant!"

It turned out that the weather was wet on that day, and the core of the lantern in Ding Mansion was not lit. Ding Rukui rushed to court and asked his family to go on the road in the dark. He was the second assistant, and his appearance was almost the same as that of the first assistant, and he was on the same path, so he was mistaken and attacked.

When the thugs heard that they had made a mistake, they left Ding Rukui, who was beaten to death, and they dispersed with a shout. Ding Rukui's servants hurriedly rescued him and sent someone to report to the court.

When the news came out, Xu Jie and others were furious! At the foot of the emperor, the area of ​​the best, not far from the imperial city, this kind of thing actually happened! Even the safety of the secondary assistant cannot be guaranteed, so what should the officials do? What should the people do?

Of course, more importantly, I called Ding Rukui wrong this time, and if I did not call it wrong next time, it will be Xu Jie's turn himself!

"A thorough investigation! Must investigate thoroughly!"

But the emperor's attitude was ambiguous.

Although he didn't do this, he was not willing to investigate thoroughly.

But Xu Jie no longer cared about the emperor's objection at this time, because this had already threatened his personal safety!

The Ministry of Justice and Shuntian Prefecture took action that day, and under high pressure, they quickly did things. They found clues in less than half a day. At dusk, they found the thug's den.

But what they saw was a room of corpses - the group of thugs who caused the accident were all poisoned to death afterwards!

"It's obvious that this is planned quietly."

Half a month later, Li Yan, who was sitting in his hometown for a steam bath, said to his wife beside him: "Those people are so despicable that they actually use this method."

"But what other means can they use besides this? They have no military power and cannot hold political positions. They are not opponents at all when they fight with the right moves, so they can only do these despicable things." Lu Errong replied casually, but she has recently lost interest in these major events in the world. After dealing with her husband, she stared at Yier next to her with hatred. Both wives and concubines have had children. After that, she began to gain weight like her husband. Yier can still maintain a slim figure, and even her stretch marks are not obvious! Even when she was in the steam bath, Li Yanzhi always unconsciously glanced at Yier.

"A bad guy who is unpromising! I thought the water vapor was hazy and I didn't see it!" The wife thought hatefully.

Li Yanzhi was not in this way: "Beijing was chased like this by the idiots in the Zhu family, and things were probably about to be done."

Others are in Youxi, and many things are done by their subordinates, but this does not mean that Li Yanzhi doesn't know. If there is a mistake in the direction of his subordinates' work, he will definitely try to stop it. There is no stop now, because things are developing in a direction that is beneficial to him.

This kind of terrifying riots from the local area to the capital, and then from the capital to the local area. Although the thug who beat Ding Rukui was destroyed, such a major event could not be without traces. The Ministry of Justice quickly found clues, but it was easy to find the mastermind based on these clues, but the evidence was not strong enough. Moreover, from various signs, this incident may involve seven or eight vassal kings. In other words, if Xu Jie really wanted to investigate thoroughly, the result might be to destroy all the princes into death row! Uproot the vassal king system set by Emperor Hongwu!

This is a fundamental matter involving the Ming Dynasty!

When the evidence is not strong enough, those who Xu Jie wanted to plan the matter would either get unanimous approval from Shilin or withstand the pressure and make arbitrary decisions!

As a result, when the case was finally found, everything returned to political struggles, not judicial procedures.

If you insist on your own initiative now, the conservative forces will definitely oppose it. Even the cabinet, the "people" of the six ministries may not dare to stand on his side because the risks are too great.

But if they were not dealt with, the kings would think that Xu Jie was indeed afraid of the imperial power, and those literati who were waiting and watching would turn to the emperor's side! Things would become very unfavorable to the open forces.

This is really a dilemma.

"Oh..." Xu Jie sighed in Wenyuan Palace: "That knife that dares to chop people is too early!"

Zhu Zai'er sat in the palace, but secretly felt a little pleasure. Xu Jie was in chaos, and he was at ease, and Xu Jie was in pain. His desire for power was not as good as Jiajing, and he did not say that he had to completely control his subjects and the world. But after all, he was the emperor, and since he was the emperor, he could not tolerate being completely obsolete. He vaguely saw that the situation in the court was tending to be tilted towards him.

Recently, since Zhu Zaiwa has grown up, the conservative ministers have begun to propose "returning power to the king".

This is a dignified proposal, and the person who made this motion was also a loyal minister with a decent style. But Xu Jie scolded this loyal minister in his heart!

The scholars and officials in the world, and even most ordinary people, agree with this idea.

After all, in history, most of the periods when those ministers usurped the throne were turbulent and uneasy and life was in a period of misfortune. After the powerful ministers "stole the power" for a long time, they will definitely have disadvantages! Therefore, everyone inertially believes that if Xu Jie continues like this, not only will he not end up well, but it will not benefit the world.

Therefore, many censors expressed their support to the clerk, and even Ding Rukui and others believed that it was time to gradually return the power to the king.

Xu Jie was secretly annoyed, thinking that Ding Rukui and others were all traumatized by studying! But when he remembered what Ding Rukui advised him, he couldn't help but feel moved.

After being beaten, Ding Rukui said to him: "Huating, now we will gradually arrange to return the power to the king, then you will be Yi Yin and Duke Zhou! If you unfortunately become Huo Guang in the future, it will only be a temporary disaster. For more than a thousand years, history books will give us justice." This old minister did not arouse his ambition after being beaten, but instead made him have the idea of ​​"a good ending and a good ending."

Yi Yin, Duke Zhou...

This is the highest honor in the Confucian evaluation system! Even Xu Jie couldn't help but be moved after hearing this!

It was this kind of heart-warming that made people like Xu Jie feel a step back.

Now he is in power. If he is determined, who else in the world can move him? His interests are also attributed to the new system, but deep in his heart, there is a recognition of the old system and the old principles.

This is an undercurrent lurking in people's hearts, invisible and intangible, but sometimes it is more powerful than a million troops!

However, those businessmen who have never read books, or who have read books, who have completely regarded the principles in the books as bullshit, can see clearly based on their nature: they must not compromise!

But now Shilin's public opinion is still firmly controlled by gentlemen who have the concept of loyalty to the emperor in their hearts. Although the villains have wealth, they do not have much say in politics.

Zhu Zai'er smiled in the harem.

"Your Majesty, you...why are you laughing at..."

The concubines under him were very strange that the emperor was laughing when he was doing business.

"Hahaha, haha, you don't understand..."

But just when Zhu Zaiye was in a good mood, something extremely bad came out of the south!
Chapter completed!