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Chapter 397 Very lively

Seeing Yang Tinghe's back, Jiajing trembled with anger.

His voice was hoarse with anger: "Yang Tinghe, Yang Tinghe..." He couldn't continue.

And at this moment, Sun Dan saw that Zhang Cong's eyes were frighteningly bright.

After thinking about it, Sun Dan immediately understood what Zhang Cong was thinking.Today, Zhang Cong is already a widow. He can be said to be hated by everyone in the court and does not belong to any camp.All he needs to do now is to keep up with the emperor. As long as the emperor conflicts with the minister, he will be able to bind himself tightly with Jiajing.

However, Yang Shoufu was so tough that while making Jiajing furious, he was also flustered. He felt a little depressed in his heart, and murmured: "Sun Dan, look... what should I do now?"

Sun Dan was silent for a moment, and said perfunctorily: "Your Majesty, I feel that this matter needs to be discussed with Mr. Shoufu. Mr. Shoufu is also a person who understands the general situation. He should be able to reach a consensus with His Majesty." On one side is the emperor, There are scholars all over the world, no matter which side they stand on, it will be a big trouble. Sun Dan knows that once this matter is put on the table, it will be entangled for several years. In the end, there will be a political reshuffle. It's best to stay neutral.

"Consensus?" The emperor sneered, the blush on his face had receded, and he looked pale and gloomy: "Sun Dan, is there anything else I can talk about with Yang Shoufu? I know you are very shrewd, and you don't want to do sinner things." Besides, Yang Shen, Wang Yuanzheng and others are both your friends and your colleagues. Qiao Yu and Zhao Jian are very close friends with you. You, Sun Dan, want to be a famous person, you don’t want to be scolded, you want to gain a good reputation. Let’s go Well, I won't embarrass you either."

He pointed to Zhang Cong: "Zhang Cong, you are not bad, you are a person who dares to speak, Sun Dan is timid, but you are very courageous, I ask you, what good idea do you have."

No matter what the emperor said, Sun Dan pretended not to hear it.But when the emperor asked Zhang Cong, Sun Dan had an idea.In order to deal with Huang Jin, he directed the wrath of the civil servants on that dead eunuch, naturally hoping that this incident would get bigger and better.

Sun Dan naturally has a thousand ideas, but this idea cannot come out of his mouth.

Listening to the emperor asking Zhang Cong, Sun Dan looked at Zhang Cong sideways, with his back to the emperor, made a handwriting appearance, and pointed to Jiajing quietly.

Jiajing noticed Sun Dan's abnormality and said angrily, "Sun Dan, what the hell are you doing?"

What a shrewd person Zhang Cong was, seeing Sun Dan's gesture, how could he not understand what Sun Dan wanted him to do.Immediately knelt down in front of Emperor Jiajing, with tears streaming down his eyes: "I... I just said what people in the world wanted to say but didn't dare to say it. I don't deserve such a compliment from your majesty. Your majesty is the son of heaven, and he speaks golden words. In fact, The imperial examination questions are not so troublesome. Your Majesty only needs to directly issue an order to make King Xing and Queen Mother Xing the emperor and empress."

"That's right, why didn't I think of this? I'm the emperor, so I just need to issue an imperial decree for them to carry out." Jiajing immediately became excited, and without delay, he picked up a pen and started writing quickly on the case.

After finishing writing, the emperor shouted: "Sun Dan, you use the seal and hand it over to the cabinet."

"Yes." Sun Dan took Jiajing's letter and Zhang Cong looked at each other again, knowing each other clearly.

In fact, both he and Zhang Cong understood that Jiajing's imperial decree would be zero even if it was sent to the cabinet.With Yang Tinghe's character, he dismissed it directly.The cabinet itself has the power to refute, and any order from the emperor, as long as the cabinet does not nod, is nothing more than a written article and is useless.

If ordinary people have grievances, they can still file a complaint level by level. Although the poor Emperor Jiajing is the Ninth Five-Year Lord, he has no place to appeal when encountering such a thing.

To use an analogy, Emperor Jiajing is like the constitution of the Ming Dynasty. It is superior, but it has little to do with real life.The cabinet is the regulations and laws, which are directly related to the daily life of ordinary people.Even in later generations, it is normal for lower-level laws to override higher-level laws, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception.

However, both Zhang Cong and Sun Dan wanted to make things bigger.It's just that Zhang Cong wanted to fish in troubled waters, while Sun Dan wanted to pull Huang Jin down.The more chaotic the situation, the more in line with the interests of the two.

"When is it the turn of a treacherous villain like Zhang Cong to speak about important national affairs?"

Yang Tinghe's words can well represent the views of the vast majority of courtiers on the incident of Zhang Cong's letter, some with disdain and some with resentment.But no matter what, the event of the Great Ritual Conference finally came unintentionally, and divided everyone into two irreconcilable camps, pros and cons.

Not surprisingly, the emperor's edict was quickly thrown back by the cabinet, which naturally greatly refuted the emperor's face.

By now, the ministers seem to understand.Although the emperor of the Ming Dynasty bears the name of a patriarch, in fact, he can't make decisions on everything.In the Ming Dynasty, the ministers were very strong.There has always been a delicate balance between Xiangquan, or the privileges of scholar-bureaucrats and imperial power.Today, the emperor is actually paying attention to the public opinion in the world, and he is arbitrary, which may not be a good thing for the country.

This is a big issue of right and wrong, and everyone should naturally stand firm.

So, different from the silence of the previous few days, this time Chao Li was in trouble.All of a sudden, the memorial to impeach Zhang Cong flew like snow.Everyone thinks that Zhang Cong's treacherous remarks are just to please the emperor.One after another, they went to Shushu to demand that Zhang Cong and his accomplices be punished.As for who Zhang Cong's accomplices are, it's self-explanatory. Naturally, it's Huang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies.

Huang Jin was also shot while lying down, feeling a little dejected.

And Zhang Cong also became a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat him.However, Zhang Cong is also a very powerful political player, and he is not afraid in his heart. In three days, he made three memorials in a row, presenting the facts and reasoning. Please honor King Xing as the emperor.Perhaps, in his heart, Zhang Cong also hopes to see this kind of situation, so excited that he can't contain it?
Naturally, the cabinet reprimanded Zhang Cong as much as possible on the note, but when the note was transferred to Huang Jin, the supervisor of ceremonies, it was a different situation.Huang Jin wanted to please Jiajing, so the approval in the memorial was naturally a big compliment, and then he wrote "accurate", "very good", and "according to it".As for whether the cabinet will follow through on the approval from the supervisor of ceremonies, that is another matter.

The emperor and his ministers fought together, and the court situation became chaotic.

Sun Dan stayed in the capital for seven days at a stretch, sitting and watching the excitement. Every day, he either went to the emperor to deal with official affairs, or went to the Imperial Academy to read the mansion newspaper and chat with everyone. It has nothing to do with him.

However, within two days of the leisure time, the emperor ordered him to go back to Tongzhou immediately, and he was not allowed to return to the capital if he did not pick up the queen mother.

During these seven days, another major event happened in Tongzhou: the queen mother fell ill.

(End of this chapter)