eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 467
With the emperor's approval, Jin Yiwei began to arrest people, led by three people, Jiang Tongzu, Ma Yiqian, and Lu Meng.

There is no direct evidence that these people were involved in the assassination of the emperor.

However, the grievances that they dissipated in private are enough to catch them.

As soon as the news of the assassination leaked out, it immediately alarmed the ministers of the whole court. The three cabinet elders plus six ministers, as well as important ministers of the court such as the Dali Temple Minister and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, either gave advice to the emperor, or Just hand over the note and enter the palace to face the saint, not to mention other courtiers.

This is also where Zhu Houzhao was irritated. He encountered this kind of thing once when he was out of the palace, and these Confucian old men will probably get annoyed with him even more in the future.

In the past few days, the harem has been restless because of this matter, and so is the Qianqing Palace.Even Wang Jia, who has always 'indulged' him, spoke a little bluntly.

"Your Majesty belongs to all the people in the world, shoulders the responsibility of the ancestors, the country, and the country. Since the imperial court, he has done a lot of good governance and has always been prudent, but for some reason, he is always obsessed with traveling outside the palace. He was only in the palace before, and gradually moved away from the capital. The country, if there is a slight difference, the earth will be shaken. The minister sincerely begs and begs, and I hope that His Majesty will put the country as the most important thing, and this kind of thing will not happen again!"

"Sir, don't worry, I have brought a lot of people with me when I traveled a long way, the so-called assassination is just a surprise."

"His Majesty!"

"Okay, okay. I promise sir, at least this year I won't leave the palace at will again."

Wang Jia knew the emperor well. Hearing such a sentence, he stopped bothering him too much. He just said: "Your Majesty, you really scared the old minister to death. If there is anything wrong, the old minister will also abandon this old minister." It's fate!"

"Shenwuwei, Jinyiwei, and Dongchang have all been asked to bring them. What can happen? And speaking of it, it's a blessing in disguise. If these people don't make a fuss, I don't know that there are so many hidden in the capital." A rebellious person!"

"When Wei Chen entered the palace, Jin Yiwei was already arresting people."

"But I haven't seen a few memorials about the harm of factory guards."

"Assassinating the Son of Heaven is a heinous crime."

"Sir, I never worried that I would intensify the harm of factory guards."

Wang Jia cupped his hands, "Your Majesty treats the old ministers as national scholars, and the ministers also understand His Majesty's ambitions. The so-called harm of factory guards occurs when the monarch is weak or fatuous. It is absolutely impossible to happen in the Zhengde Dynasty."

Zhu Houzhao felt at ease, "The one who knows me, sir."

"However, I implore Your Majesty, try your best not to get involved too much."

"I have already told Jin Yiwei to say this." Zhu Houzhao stopped mentioning this matter and asked instead: "I have been away for two days, what else is there?"

Wang Jia nodded, "About Mr. Binzhi."

"Old Li Ge? What happened to him?"

"The minister has tried his best to keep Mr. Binzhi, but he seems to have made up his mind. Over the years, he has lost his son one after another. It's okay to take on the heavy responsibility of the cabinet. Once he is relieved, his will will wither."

Zhu Houzhao pursed his lips.

"A person must have a purpose in life. He has no children and nothing else. One year is like ten years old. Besides, isn't this heavy responsibility still unloaded?"

"Yes, but he really has no intention of going to the temple."

"Where is he from?"

"The ancestral home is Huguang, but he has lived in the capital with his father since he was a child."

"The capital city is not good. Many people feel uncomfortable when they look up and see those who look down. If I find him a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, it is better to let him go to Yingtian. He Jian, the current governor of Yingtian, is transferred to Beijing. Announcing his entry into Beijing is the highest."

He Jian is a traditional Confucian scholar-bureaucrat.

But he used practical actions to maintain his innocence.I'm not the type to catch fame, so in fact, the so-called fame is the sense of existence, and it's not that strong.

He used to be a magistrate in Henan Province. In times of famine, he opened warehouses for relief. The warehouses were not enough and he raised food everywhere. It is better to teach a man how to fish than a fish.

The governor of Yingtian is also a relatively important position. Under his rule, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture have the highest annual money and food in the two capitals and 13 provinces.In the past two years, he has done well. Farming can’t produce a society with extremely rich materials, but he cares about the suffering of the people, pays attention to agriculture, mulberry and water conservancy, and has no bad reputation. In the feudal era, he has already benefited one side.

At the beginning, he was sent to Yingtian as governor because he valued his rich experience in performing duties in Henan, Shandong, Sichuan and other places. , The governor sat up all the way.In fact, it is an official that Zhu Houzhao values ​​more.

Now that the local officials have reached the level of governor, it is almost the same.

"Where does His Majesty prefer him to serve?"

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while, "Transfer to the left servant of the Ministry of Industry."

As soon as this remark came out, Wang Jia understood that it was actually for him to take over the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

The current Ministry of Industry Minister Zeng Jian is 73 years old.Above the full court, he is the oldest.The other Minister of Rites, Lin Han, was born in the ninth year of Xuande, just like Zeng Jian.

However, Lin Han's health is much better, and Zeng Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, has reported illness several times, 7384. If he keeps getting sick at this age, his body will not be able to bear it.After all, even if young people get sick, they will be weak for a while.

The question is will Li Dongyang change his mind?

Zhu Houzhao was still a little concerned about this, and he said to Wang Jia: "If you can't persuade me, then I will come to persuade you. The three of them are veterans left to me by the late emperor, and even if you don't mention this section, Liu, Li The three of them, Xie and Xie, are all virtuous ministers, but sometimes they have some disagreements with me, and I don’t really blame them for this, as the cabinet, they are sometimes helpless.”

To be the leader of a country must be broad-minded. How many wise kings sometimes endure the grievance even if they are very dissatisfied with a certain minister.

This is still needed.

If you are narrow-minded, and you must retaliate, that would be cool at the time, but you will definitely be divorced in the end.

Furthermore, he is a person from later generations, and many of the things he does are bound to be incomprehensible to the great Confucians of the day, so it is normal for some disputes to arise.Quite old men, it's hard to separate all the grievances in my heart.

"Furthermore, in the court, after you sing and we come on stage, there will always be a fierce fight between each other. But I still hope that there will be a bottom line under the fight. One step old, one step imprisoned, this kind of extreme I don't like the political atmosphere. As the old saying goes, there is hard work without credit. People who go down from the cabinet are all gray-haired and old. They have worked hard for the country for decades. If they are always liquidated in the end, I will I can't bear it."

After listening to the emperor's words, Wang Jia was really moved and touched. The emperor's heart is so broad-minded. They are ministers, so they don't need to say anything else, they can only follow it to death.

Even Wang Jia had a sour nose and red eyes, and praised: "My emperor is really a benevolent king of a generation."

"Even so, there are still some people who want to commit assassinations."

Having said that, Wang Jia felt angry suddenly, that is, the fucking assassination failed, and it was about to happen. Daming lost such an emperor, that would be a great disaster!

"Assassinating the monarch is already an unfaithful and unfilial person! Everyone will surely get it and kill him!"

Speaking of which, Li Dongyang's incident really happened just right.

a few days later.

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, the chief ministers of the cabinet, submitted their resignations to beg for bones.

According to normal etiquette, even if the emperor agrees, he will refuse, so it will be good for everyone to keep it.Wait until the ministers continue to beg for bones one after another, then agree at this time.

Basically, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian also went through this process.

But by the third time,
The emperor took the initiative to mention Shandong governor Liu Jian and Liu Xixian above Fengtian Hall.

"Duke Xixian was also begging for bones back then. I couldn't bear the late emperor's leaving his lonely ministers to the countryside, so I ordered him to be the governor of Shandong. In the past two years, although there have been disasters in Shandong from time to time, since the governor has dealt with them every time, the victims of the disaster have been treated effectively. It is also often properly settled. The East Three Mansions were originally prosperous, and Jin Yiwei and I reported that now there are fields connected with rice paddies, but millet is planted, and the water is full of ponds to play frogs. The West Three Mansions are slightly worse due to inconvenient transportation, but Xi Xiangong also I have been to prefectures and counties in person many times, one is to promote water conservancy, and the other is to brighten prisons. Every time I hear about it, I am very relieved. Mr. Li Ge, like Mr. Xixian, is a minister of the late emperor. I was reluctant to bear Mr. Xixian back then, just as Today I can't bear to see Li Ge begging for bones."

"Kuang Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of territory and hundreds of trillions of people. Only one Mr. Xixian is not enough, so what I have in mind is that even Mr. Li Ge can govern another place for me. Just take it, I am acting on behalf of there. The common people and Mr. Li Ge entrusted such a sentence."

These were the words spoken by the emperor in a whisper, little by little, in the early days of the dynasty.

On the court hall, there are all civil and military officials on the left and right, which can be said to heighten the warmth between the monarch and his subjects to the extreme.

Li Dongyang is the one who can make the decision, but the emperor said so, he can't be too high-profile.

And if there is no precedent like Liu Jian, you can still say that the emperor has other motives or thoughts, but because of Liu Jian, this matter has become very pure now.

It's just that the emperor is reluctant to part with a virtuous minister, it's as simple as that.

Li Dongyang knew that Wang Jia's words meant what the emperor meant, but he didn't expect that the emperor would give him such a big face when Wang Jia's persuasion failed.To be honest, his relationship with the emperor is not comparable to that of Liu Jian, and there are no fewer disputes in these years.So he didn't dare to think about it.

But I didn't expect that things would really get this far.

So this emperor... When you are sensible, you will be moved to death, but if you are stubborn, it will make your teeth itch.

But no matter what, at this point, the emperor can meet each other with a smile, let alone him as a courtier?
Li Dongyang knelt and kowtowed, trembling, "Your Majesty, the emperor's virtue is far and wide, with a long and boundless history. Our country's ten thousand years of Taoism are based on these."

The occurrence of this incident can be regarded as adding a bit of warmth to Jin Yiwei's quest for the entire city.

But this warmth did not slow down Jin Yiwei's footsteps. Jiang Tongzu was found in Shuntian Mansion, and Mao Yuwen had already ridden himself to arrest him.

(End of this chapter)