People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 310 The poem was written last year, but the person did not exist this year

Only now did Xu Cunren realize that His Majesty had hidden so many secrets in his attack today?

Thinking about it carefully, it is true, from taking Shen Wansan away from the school to explaining everything, how could this be done in a court meeting?

In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang was just waiting for the evidence to be collected and for Yang Xian to be arrested.

"Old Xu, have you finally figured it out?"

Liu Ji turned around and smiled:

"You're a bit slow-witted, but in fact, whether it's Li Shanchang or others, most of them are aware of it.

That's why everyone's complexion is not very good-looking!

Yang Xian has been in the limelight recently, and even Li Shanchang has been overwhelmed by him.

His rise is inseparable from His Majesty's hope that he will bring up the northern faction. His Majesty has high hopes for him.

Even if he made mistakes a few times, he might have been taken by someone else, but His Majesty still endured it.

Li Shanchang and the old man didn't understand His Majesty's intentions at first, but after we figured it out later, we stopped provoking him!
That's because we saw that Yang Xian has a gold medal for avoiding death! "

Liu Ji revealed the process of Yang Xian's rise for Xu Cunren, and then Xu Cunren suddenly realized.

He was in the Guozijian, and he seldom paid attention to the affairs of the court.

If it hadn't been for being thrown into prison by Yang Xian and rescued by others this time, he might not have looked at Chaotang more.

Xu Cunren felt a little headache just thinking about the turbulence here.

Yang Xian's fall from the horse was indeed his death.

If he didn't buy life money in the pirate case, even if he suppressed dissidents, the emperor would probably turn a blind eye.

Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good-tempered person, but he has many advantages of a wise monarch, that is, he can be very restrained if it is for the overall situation.

But Lao Zhu would rather turn the tables and deny his strategy.

From this we can see how Yang Xian broke through his bottom line this time?
When he fell, he admitted on behalf of the emperor that he had misjudged the person. For a king, this was a great blow to his prestige.

A powerful emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang can take the initiative to admit that he misunderstood someone. Why are Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang unhappy?

Xu Cunren was puzzled.

The Zhedong faction was seriously injured in the pirate case. Not only did Yang Xian imprison many officials of the Zhedong faction, there were also many officials who did not belong to the Zhedong faction but naturally had similar interests to them. loss.

The downfall of Yang Xian means that these people will be reactivated. This should be very good for Liu Ji?

As far as Li Shanchang is concerned, Yang Xian fell, and he returned to the situation where he was alone in charge of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. What is there to be unhappy about?

He raised his question, and Liu Bowen sighed:
"If you only talk about one person and one party, his downfall is a good thing!
But what Li Shanchang and I saw was His Majesty's actions behind,
Have you ever thought about a question, how did His Majesty know that Yang Xian was buying money for his life? "

Xu Cunren shook his head, Liu Ji said:

"Under normal circumstances, if Yang Xian or the officials under him broke the law, how would the emperor know?
First, we censors impeached him to the emperor, but in this pirate case, everyone in our Zhedong faction is in danger, so there is naturally no such channel.

Second, the local officials handed over the memorials layer by layer, but this channel needs to go through the Ministry of Education, and it is impossible to hide it from Li Shanchang.

The old man Yang Xian knew about it. Although he was short-tempered, he might not be weak.

He did this matter secretly enough, but the emperor just knew about it?

Why? "

"Check!"

Xu Cunren said his answer, Liu Bowen nodded:

"Yes, it is the inspection, but there is another problem.

How powerful is the school? "

The existence of the school inspection is almost a semi-open secret, and Xu Cunren himself knows it.

The emperor used censorship to supervise all officials, and all officials would also study how to guard against censorship.

In the battle of wits and courage, everyone has long formed a set of their own cognition.

Xu Cunren also understands that the influence of school inspection is not that great.

Among the officials in the capital, the emperor will not arrange for a school to monitor you if he is below a certain rank. If he has no real power, he probably doesn't have one.

At least Xu Cunren didn't have one around him.

What does this mean?
The manpower and influence representing the inspection school are actually not that great.

At best it is a snitching agency.

However, the ability that this institution has recently demonstrated has exceeded the perception of all officials.

First of all, the fact that they were able to go to the coastal provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to handle cases meant that the emperor had spread the influence of the school inspection to the local areas, which was a bad signal.

Second, the procuratorate has recently independently investigated several cases.

The Taibu Temple Qing case was one, and Yang Xian was also taken away by the prosecutor.

This means that the emperor seems to want to give more authority to the inspection, so that this institution can move from the dark to the bright.

"Handling the case, the power of torture rests with Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice... the power of supervision rests with Yushitai.

His Majesty bypassed the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the three divisions of Yushitai, which proved that he no longer trusted officials in the court.

It is not a good phenomenon that the monarch and ministers are centrifugal!

If His Majesty wants to put us aside and set up another system, it will definitely be a disaster for us courtiers.

The existence of the inspection school was already criticized by the officials and opposed...

If His Majesty gets worse..."

"What must we do?"

Xu Cunren saw Liu Bowen's eloquent and long-winded speech, and asked tentatively.

"Do it, it should be Li Shanchang who takes the lead, and the old man will follow him when the time comes!"

Liu Bowen shook his head, and the two walked out of the palace gate while chatting.

Xu Cunren stopped and did not leave.

Liu Ji turned around and asked:

"what happened to you?"

Xu Cunren looked strange:
"You still remember last year, Zhang Yi's prophecy..."

"The son is a Zhongshan wolf, and if he succeeds, he will be rampant. Virtue is not worthy of his position, and he will go to Huangliang!"

The dispute between Zhang Yi and Yang Xian last year is well known in the city.

And Yang Xian was named Zhongshan Wolf because of Zhang Yi's doggerel.

Liu Bowen didn't even think about it, so he read this very popular poem, when he thought of the sentence "I will go to Huangliang for a lifetime."

His expression also changed slightly.

The poem was written last year, but the person is gone this year.

Counting Yang Xian's imprisonment, if all goes well, it will take about a year.

That kid Zhang Yi's prophecy finally came true despite the disapproval of a bunch of people.

"That wicked boy..."

Even though Liu Bowen was well-informed, he couldn't help but complain.

Speaking of Zhang Yi, the two thought about his recent interaction with Hu Weiyong.

"I feel, if it's okay, it's better not to provoke him..."

Xu Cunren nodded silently upon hearing this.

"I haven't seen him for a while, come back and talk to him!"

After Xu and Liu finished speaking, one went to Yushitai, and the other went back to Guozijian.

……

The sudden fall of Yang Xian caused a storm more violent than the pirate case itself.

King Lei Ting was furious, and the school inspector was dispatched.

Many officials who took refuge in Yang Xian fell down one after another.

Not to mention, Jiangnan, which had already been bloodbathed once by the emperor, ushered in a new round of bloodbath again.

Those wealthy households who paid Yang Xian for their lives were ransacked one after another.

Jiangnan's blood was flowing, and the smell of blood in Yingtianfu was not weak at all.

The common people in Yingtian discovered that every day they could see officials and masters being arrested, and then being escorted by some people who were obviously not ordinary officials to make trouble.

Under this kind of storm, everyone in Baiguan was in danger and did not dare to take the lead for a while.

Under the storm, Hu's family held a funeral quietly, and few people paid attention to it.

Mr. Hu, that Hu Weiyong took the risk to save his son, and finally died of a wound infection and pain.

Hu Weiyong couldn't afford to be sick.

When the Yang Xian case was in turmoil, few people came to the Hu Mansion to pay homage.

But today, at dusk.

But there was a carriage slowly approaching.

"After all, this Hu Weiyong listened to the persuasion and did not rely on those merchants to raise money to save his son. Otherwise, he might not be able to get away from the emperor's fury in the case of Yang Xian, just remember.

Our Majesty has always been wary of his courtiers. Corruption is absolutely unacceptable, at least...

Cunyi, do you understand? "

In the carriage, Li Shanchang was teaching the people around him earnestly.

That person is somewhat similar to Li Shanchang, but younger.

After listening to the other party's words, he lowered his head and said:

"Brother, younger brother has been taught!"

The person who came with Li Shanchang was his younger brother Li Cunyi.

Li Cunyi showed enough humility for this elder brother who was an extremely human minister.

The two brothers arrived at the gate of Hu's residence and got out of the car.

Li Shanchang raised his head, the Hu Mansion at this time was decorated in black and white.

Sadness permeated the air.

Hearing that Li Shanchang had arrived, the butler hurried out to greet him:

"Li Xiang, my master is sick in bed and can't go out to meet him. Please forgive me, Li Xiang!"

Li Shanchang had a pleasant face and replied:
"It's okay, let's burn incense to Mr. Hu first, and then go to see your master!"

"Please!"

The butler brought Li Shanchang and his brothers into it.

There were endless crying voices inside, and the most eye-catching one was Hu Weiyong's wife. She wanted to cry for a round, and now she was weak.

When the prime minister came, Mrs. Hu struggled to see her, but Li Shanchang comforted him softly.

He burned incense for others, leaving Li Cunyi behind, and then went to the backyard led by the housekeeper.

Hu Weiyong was lying on the hospital bed moaning and moaning, and when he saw Li Shanchang coming, he forced himself to get up.

"Don't move, take good care of your wounds! The imperial court still needs you to make great efforts..."

Hu Weiyong asked others to go out, and there were only two people in the room.

When he heard what Li was good at, his heart skipped a beat.

"Presumably you also know that Yang Xian is dead!

Sooner or later, someone will take the seat of Prime Minister he vacated!

Now the one who still has the qualifications and ability to sit in the court is probably Wang Guangyang.

As soon as he goes up, the old man will recommend you, and your position can be moved up, it's still okay..."

When Hu Weiyong heard this, his expression was complicated, and he replied:
"Thank you Li Xiang for your help, but I just lost my son, so I need to rest for a while!"

"It's good to rest, it's easy to get bad if you go out now, the emperor is angry at this time, and he is too murderous.

Even the old man has something to say, but he still hesitates for a long time, accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger..."

From Zhu Yuanzhang's accession to the throne last year to the present, all the officials have only seen the murderous intentions of Emperor Hongwu since the pirate case. Since ancient times, unless there is a major treason case, few people have killed people like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Did he really kill everyone so frightened that they couldn't sleep at night?

How many officials recently woke up to find that they had been shackled and rushed to the execution ground at home.

"Your Majesty, what a great way to hide all the birds..."

Hu Weiyong was silent for a while, and said something inexplicably.

Li Shanchang squinted his eyes and smiled, he felt relieved with these words.

He was not mistaken about Hu Weiyong, even at home, he could still see the schemes of the man in the palace.

Hu Weiyong has talent, and if he is used well, he will be his right-hand man and political successor.

"Using Yang Xian first to wash Jiangnan bloody in the pirate case, how many former local tyrants were washed away by the emperor in this turmoil.

Some of them had sponsored Zhang Shicheng and were already feared by His Majesty. Although they surrendered, they have always been His Majesty's thorn in his heart.

With this reason, His Majesty would not hesitate to kill people, but after killing so many people, the hearts of the people must be taken care of.

When Yang Xian is almost killed, he will take Yang Xian down and kill Yang Xian, which is enough to appease people's hearts.

Rescue a group of people and let those people promote his kindness.

Then, we need His Majesty to do it himself, and kill another wave...

After this visit, the surname of the coastal area is completely Zhu.

People are killed, and reputation is also earned. I admire His Majesty's move even thinking about it! "

Li Shanchang didn't care much about the emperor's power to clean up the coast.

According to Zhang Yi's political spectrum division, he belongs to the inland faction.

However, although he didn't feel sorry for the deaths of those people in Jiangnan, as the head of a hundred officials, Li Shanchang smelled a political crisis.

"Those people killed as soon as they killed, the truth doesn't matter.

However, His Majesty has made some moves recently, but they are very dangerous...

About calibration! "

He told about the school inspection, and then advised Hu Weiyong earnestly:
"So, get well soon, the truth still needs you to work together for the imperial court!"

Hu Weiyong nodded silently, and Li Shanchang patted him on the shoulder.

He seemed to remember something and said to Hu Weiyong:

"That little Taoist priest, you'd better not provoke him, think about what he predicted to Yang Xian last year!

Recently, he has become famous in Yingtian Mansion. In the case of Yang Xian, this son can be regarded as the one who has made the most money! "

Zhang Yi.

The face of that little Taoist appeared in Hu Weiyong's mind, and a surge of hatred surged from his heart.

At the same time, there is also a trace of fear.

"If Yang Xian hadn't presided over the pirate case, he probably wouldn't have died!
This is the so-called uncoordinated virtue, he can't bear the opportunity His Majesty gave him, so...

Fortune and misfortune, life and death are unpredictable!
like……"

Li Shanchang didn't say the following words, he knew that Hu Weiyong understood.

Patting Hu Weiyong's body, he turned and went out the door.

The steward of the Hu family led Li Shanchang out all the way, and Li Shanchang saw Li Cunyi at the door.

The two brothers bid farewell to Mrs. Hu and got into the car.

Li Cunyi seemed to think of something interesting, and laughed to himself.

Li Shanchang has a straight face:
"What are you laughing at?"

"My brother is wrong!"

Li Cunyi first apologized to Li Shanchang, and then said:

"When my brother met Hu Weiyong in the backyard, I was bored in the front, because I went to the toilet in a hurry, but I overheard the conversation of the servants of the Hu family!
Then Hu Weiyong seems to be pretending to be sick? "

Li Cunyi originally thought that Li Shanchang would be surprised if he uttered such explosive news.

He waited for a long time, but he couldn't see any change in Li Shanchang's expression, and he seemed to understand:
"Brother, you already knew he was pretending to be sick?"

(End of this chapter)