The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 366 Xie Qian's Counterattack and Xu Pu's Resignation

Children's education must not be too rigid.

If it wasn't for the prince's special status, Xie Shen even hoped to make up some comic strips for the little prince to read.

It is very important to entertain and teach, and it can increase a lot of enthusiasm for learning.

Of course, in the face of Prince Kunimoto, it is better not to play dead.

Such things as comic strips will definitely be regarded as strange and obscene skills, and will not be recognized by orthodox Confucianism.

This is equivalent to actively showing the handle to the opponent, which is not a wise move no matter how you look at it.

"Thank you sir."

The little prince looked at Xie Shen gratefully, his big eyes flickered and his long eyelashes fluttered, it was so cute.

Xie Shen swallowed, coughed and said, "Your Highness is also an evil minister, how dare you receive such courtesy from His Highness for his merits at the end of a ruler."

The teacher, the student, the monarch and the minister exchanged pleasantries, and Xie Shen left.

The afternoon is the little prince's rest time, so it's not good for him to continue disturbing him.

When Xie Shen came out of Wenhua Hall, he felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

Many civil servants gathered together to discuss something.

He is not a gossip character, but he can't help listening to both ears.

"Have you heard that Mr. Xie Ge's good friend, Liu Yushi of the procuratorate, originally impeached Mr. Xu Ge. This is really a wave of unrest!"

"Hey, I said earlier that Mr. Xie Ge is not someone who can be manipulated by others. If you don't fight back to save face after suffering such a great humiliation, how can you mess around in the cabinet!"

"This time, Liu Yushi's memorandum is really murderous. Xu Ge's old Qingming I, unexpectedly, was destroyed by his disciples."

"If you want to blame, you can blame the governor of Fujian, Yao Fuzhi, for being too inexperienced. If the routine and fire consumption are not wiped off the account, it will cause disaster for yourself, and even Xu Ge will suffer along with it."

Although these people spoke cryptically, Xie Shen had already heard the implication.

Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the official salaries of the Ming Dynasty were meager.Not to mention eating and drinking in the mountains, even tightening the belt may not be able to support the whole family.

In this case, local officials will weave a variety of additional taxes called fire consumption or common practice.

This kind of behavior is naturally prohibited by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but the court also knew that the official salary was too low, so they turned a blind eye.

Most of the local officials' income comes from this, so they can live a fairy-like life during their tenure.

Beijing officials can't eat fire consumption and routines, so their income depends on the gifts and filial piety of local officials.

This kind of private gift was more common in the year of Jingcha, and it even became an unchangeable social atmosphere.

Xu Pu could not accept the gift, but what about his family?

Xu Pu has served as the chief examiner of the examination several times, and he is a veritable veteran of the examination field.

In this case, it is normal to have many students.

Yao Fuzhi, governor of Fujian, was Xu Pu's favorite student.

But this guy's EQ is very low, he didn't wipe his ass clean, and directly donated part of the routine to his teacher Xu Pu.

Unexpectedly, Xie Qian had already seen this matter in his eyes, but he just kept holding back.

This time Xu Pu's attack completely angered Xie Qian.

It was Xie Qian who made Xu Pu embarrassed by revealing these things about Chen Zhima and rotten millet.

One is the chief assistant of the cabinet, and the other is the group assistant of the cabinet. The duel between the two is definitely an annual drama.

If Xie Shen can stay out of the matter, he can watch the play leisurely.

But now that he has obviously been involved, it may be very difficult for him to be alone.

However, he has already published a memorial to support Mr. Xie Ge, so he doesn't have to worry about making a decision in the short term.

In his view, Xie Qian's instigation of his friends to impeach Xu Pu this time is considered embarrassing.

Now that the face is torn, there is no possibility of reconciliation as before.

Therefore, both Xie Qian and Xu Pu will do their best to put each other to death, and the Ming cabinet has always been a bloody battlefield.

Xie Qian broke the news, Xu Pu will definitely not show weakness, and will definitely make a big fuss about Xie Qian's loss of morality and family fish and meat.

To put it bluntly, the buttocks of both parties are not clean, and it depends on what the emperor wants.

Politics is a terrible game, and once you're in it's hard to get out.

There are only winners and losers in this game, there is no right or wrong.

Xie Shen's prediction was right. In the next few months, the battle between Xu Pu and Xie Qian became intense.

At the beginning, both sides tried their best to restrain their friends and relatives to come forward, but in the end, they could not take much care of it and wrote a letter to defend themselves.

Emperor Hongzhi was very troubled by the two academicians.All memorials were suppressed.

But the problem is that the memorials still flew to the imperial court like snowflakes, and the emperor had no choice but to summon Li Dongyang and Liu Jian to inquire.

From the beginning to the end, the two kept silent, and did not express any opinions on the struggle between Xu and Xie.

The emperor was very dissatisfied until they were summoned by the emperor to ask about policy.

In fact, the silence of the two is not difficult to understand.

Liu Jian was the second assistant, and when Xu Pu became an official, he was the rightful first assistant.Under such circumstances, there was no need to accompany Xu Pu to upset the emperor.

Although Li Dongyang's qualifications are still young, he has outstanding virtues after all.In addition, he was very close to Xie Qian, if he expressed his opinion at this time, he might be included in Xie Qian's party.

There is not much to criticize for being wise and safe.

But the emperor was disappointed.

The two great scholars whom he valued so much attacked each other like shrews.

The other two cabinet ministers acted like turtles, and kept silent.

The cabinet team praised by foreign ministers is actually like this?

For the first time, Emperor Hongzhi felt hopeless.Not only Xu Pu, Xie Qian, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang.

He is desperate for the entire civil service system.

But who else could he use without civil servants?

Do you use eunuchs?

Naturally, there is no obstacle for the eunuchs of the chief of ceremonies to handle government affairs, but they are eunuchs after all.

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't get out of the limitations of history, and it was impossible to completely kick out the civil servants and use them as a thigh.This may be the most painful thing in the world.

The things Xu Pu and Xie Qian were exposed to were disgraceful. As the emperor, he naturally didn't want to see the two academicians criticizing each other regardless of face.So in the end he adopted a compromise method, which was to suspend Xu Pu and Xie Qian's salary for half a year.

This can be said to be lifted high and put down gently.

You must know that courtiers at the level of Xu Pu and Xie Qian don't live on that little salary at all. This symbolic behavior of each paying [-] big boards is just to calm things down.

But this is obviously wishful thinking of the emperor.

Xu Pu got emotional again this time.

He wrote to resign, but Emperor Hongzhi refused.

Xu Pu wrote another letter, this time the furious emperor agreed to the request of the old chief assistant and asked him to beg for bones.

Xu Pu was completely dumbfounded.He was just putting on a show, why did Emperor Hongzhi take it seriously?

But it was a done deal, so Xu Pu had no choice but to take his Beijing family back to his hometown.

A year later, the frustrated old Shoufu died of illness, but that's for later.

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