Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality
Chapter 26 The official was imprisoned and Prince Yu made a promise!
Chapter 26 All officials are imprisoned, Prince Yu promises!
"The clouds in the cabinet are the wind in the palace."
These are two proverbs that were well known to all officials in the capital during the Jiajing period.
If an official wants to be promoted, the cloud in the cabinet must make it rain. As for whose head the cloud will finally fall on, it depends on where the wind in the palace blows the cloud to. This is one meaning.
There is another meaning. No matter how confidential a matter is, news will spread in the palace in a moment. Wherever the wind blows, whoever knows the direction of the wind can seek fortune and avoid danger.
The struggle among the cabinet elders in front of Yuxi Palace officially surfaced, and everyone turned to the side of Yan Song, Xu Jie and Yan Shifan.
Today, Yan Song and Xu Jie submitted a memorial with the Qingci to the emperor, and within less than half an hour, the news spread from Yuxi Palace to all parts of the court and the country. Before dawn, the morning breeze was already blowing.
Yan Shifan, the young cabinet minister who was keen on excitement, would certainly not remain unknown at this time. An order in the name of Yan Song and Xu Jie immediately spread throughout the capital, and then radiated to the entire Ming Dynasty at an astonishing scale.
"All the censors and officials of the six ministries who have noticed the crimes of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng should immediately submit a petition to impeach them!
As for the officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, those who usually rely on Gao and Zhang, I hope you will wake up and fight back! "
The words used are so harsh and the intentions so vicious that no other document has been able to match them since the 24th year of Jiajing, when the Chief Minister of the Cabinet, Xia Yanzheng, ordered all officials to avoid Yan Song.
For a time, the whole court was in an uproar.
But it is not difficult to choose between Yan, Xu, Yan, and Gao, Zhang.
Countless memorials impeaching Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng immediately floated into the Western Garden like heavy snow.
Gao Gong was unwilling to be outdone, and also responded with a 169-word poem to attack Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Yan Shifan for ganging up on dissidents and bringing disaster to the country and the people.
After being sent to Yuxi Palace, he was still not satisfied, and wrote a ten-thousand-word memorial, in which he pointed out that Luo Longwen, the Tongzhengshi of the Tongzhengsi, Yan Maoqing, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and others who were attached to the Yan father and son were biased for personal gain and corrupt, and Xu Jie's sons Xu Fan, Xu Kun, and Xu Ying were rampant in the village and caused trouble.
Yan Song and Yan Shifan were former enemies, and Gao Gong wrote with divine power when he impeached them.
After all, the person who knows you best is often not yourself, but your enemy.
Xu Jie was an old friend. Gao Gong knew that what Xu Jie cared about most was his family and his three sons. When he impeached Xu Jie, he hit the nail on the head.
One versus three.
Gao Gong was not at all inferior.
For several days, Gao Gong stayed awake and worked tirelessly, yet he was full of energy and strength, like a ferocious fighting cock. Whoever dared to come forward would have his flesh pecked off.
Impeached and sent to the palace.
There was no movement in Yuxi Palace, but the Jinyiwei, who had regained the emperor's trust, took action again and again.
As the saying goes, "When gods fight, mortals suffer."
It is difficult to catch the cabinet ministers and the six ministers of the six ministries, but the Jinyiwei do not have so many concerns about the civil and military officials in the court.
The charges, and even the evidence, were all ready-made. Gao Gong's memorials impeaching officials basically contained some concrete evidence, so the Jinyiwei did not even have to think of a reason when arresting people and putting them in the imperial prison.
Hundreds of Beijing officials entered the imperial prison.
This is why Zhu Houcong stopped attending court after the 21st year of Jiajing. Otherwise, one would have found that half of the seats in the court were empty.
The civil service group headed by Yan Song, Xu Jie and Yan Shifan suffered heavy losses, and Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng also suffered considerable losses.
Jinyiwei Commander Lu Bing sent people to Nanzhili to arrest Nanjing Minister of Rites Ge Shouli, Nanjing Guanglu Temple Junior Secretary Xu Yangzheng, Yingtian Prefecture Governor Liu Ziqiang and others who were gentleman friends of Gao Gong and escorted them to Beijing.
Zhao Qian, the prefect of Jingzhou Prefecture, and other new officials from various counties in Jingzhou Prefecture were all dismissed from their posts, stripped of their honors, and waited to be escorted to the capital by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Ling Yunyi and other military generals were responsible for protecting the country, so they escaped. In this court with redundant officials and redundant personnel, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng became lonely ministers.
And this is not the end. Yan Song, who has been in charge of the central cabinet for twenty years, is capable of impeaching others far more than this.
Within the Ming Dynasty, Lingnan, the farthest place from the capital, was nearly 6,000 miles away, and one had to travel by sea in between. However, with express delivery at a speed of 800 miles, one could arrive there in ten days and make a round trip in twenty days.
Almost all the officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty who received the joint letter from Yan Song, Xu Jie and Yan Shifan wrote memorials impeaching Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng on the spot. Even those who were really reluctant to write signed the impeachment memorials of other officials as a joint document.
In the twenty days following the seventeenth day of the first lunar month in the fortieth year of the Jiajing reign, memorials impeaching Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were continuously sent to the capital and to the Yuxi Palace from all directions.
Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were like two small boats in the vast ocean, which could be sunk in the sea at any time due to the beating of strong winds and heavy rains.
And at this moment, the Prince Yu's Mansion, which had been silent for a long time, finally chose to take action.
Prince Yu ordered that masters Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng be invited to the palace to answer questions.
Gao Gong was Prince Yu's tutor, and Zhang Juzheng was also Prince Yu's tutor.
The king has given an order and I dare not disobey it.
The Yan family immediately issued an order to suspend impeachment for one day.
According to regulations, officials' memorials would first be sent to the Ministry of Public Security, and the Minister of Public Security was Luo Longwen, who was "Yan Song's bookboy" and "Yan Shifan's close friend."
The memorials impeaching Gao and Zhang were naturally just what the Yan family ordered. The "blizzard" was still heading to the capital, but suddenly it stopped going to Yuxi Palace.
……
Prince Yu's Mansion.
Perhaps Zhu Yijun was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and was very fond of lanterns. Even though he was not even a full moon yet, he liked to stare at the lanterns all day long.
Although the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had passed so long ago, the palace was still filled with colorful lanterns, which made Zhu Yijun giggle.
Whenever Zhu Yijun laughed, his companion and other eunuchs would laugh along with him.
Of course, Prince Yu Zhu Zaihou heard the noise in the yard, and he knew that this was Concubine Li's intention.
But Prince Yu's mind was obviously not here. He slowly stood up and walked to the window. He did not look at Zhu Yijun, but looked in the direction of the gatehouse so that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng could see him at first sight when they arrived.
Perhaps because he had been looking for too long, his eyes were a little tired. Before Prince Yu could blink, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were led into the courtyard by the gatekeeper.
Seeing Gao and Zhang coming, Concubine Li shouted at the window: "Ma Daban, carry the prince to bed."
Ma Daban took the order, holding Zhu Yijun in his arms, and led the eunuchs to the bedroom.
Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng walked into Prince Yu's palace and saw Prince Yu sitting on the chair in the middle. After paying their respects, the two of them walked to the chairs on both sides and stood there. They had not seen each other for more than 20 days, and when they met again, no one spoke a word. You could hear a pin drop in the hall.
After the Yan Party and the Qing Party merged, Xu Jie reached a consensus with Yan Song that the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty should be His Royal Highness Prince Yu.
Prince Yu, with the support of Yan Song, had an unprecedentedly stable position. It was said that Yan Song and Xu Jie were preparing to join forces with civil and military officials to petition the emperor to appoint Prince Yu as the crown prince.
One peck, one drink.
Yan Song was so eager to establish Prince Yu's position because he had received Prince Yu's promise that when he ascended the throne, the Yan family would remain prosperous...
(End of this chapter)
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