Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 33: Shifan lifts weights, the arrow of destiny!
"Gao Suqing!"

Yan Shifan's loud voice did not lower even in a place like Xiyuan. "After fighting for so long, you pulled me off my horse. I thought the emperor was so happy that he would reward you two to carry the sedan chair. It turns out that you are still walking."

"People are born with two legs. My legs are for walking. Could it be that the young minister's legs can't even walk without people to carry him or horses to ride on?" Gao Gong's hot temper meant that his voice and tone would not be low, and the sound echoed within the deep palace walls, adding a bit of golden and jade sound.

"'Leave home when young and return when old'. If you really want to walk, you should know tonight that you can walk."

Yan Shifan sneered and stared at Gao Gong, determined to expose Gao Gong's hypocrisy. He laughed in anger and said, "If you still want to wait for the position of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, I tell you, you can't sit on it.

Zhang Juzheng next to you has now been given a real task, and has been appointed as the second assistant minister of the cabinet. He will eventually be promoted if he can hold on.

Do you think that you will have a good life once Zhang Juzheng sits on that chair?

His position will never fall to you!"

Sour and sharp!

play off!

Heart-breaking!

Gao Gong was not at all moved by the young cabinet minister's words.

Deep down, Gao Gong looked down on Zhang Juzheng. Since he was his junior, he always felt that they were not of the same kind and there would be no possibility of harmony between them.

In personality.

He is arrogant and self-righteous.

Zhang Juzheng was kind to others and tactful in his dealings.

In terms of stance.

He divided people into three colors: black, gray and white.

The Yan Party in the past was black, the Qingliu and Silijian in the past were gray, and only his close friends were white.

Black is the enemy, an enemy that needs to be dealt with urgently.

Gray is both an enemy and a friend. When it is useful, it is a friend, and when it is useless, it is an enemy. But in the final analysis, the gray people are also tainted with black, and are enemies that are slowly plotting against them.

But true friends need no words.

Zhang Juzheng was different.

In Zhang Juzheng's eyes, there are no good people or bad people. Good people with good intentions may also do bad things.

Everything should be dealt with based on facts, regardless of friend or foe. If it is beneficial to the country, use it; if it is harmful to the country, forget it.

of course.

The two have one thing in common, which is the "exclusivity" of power.

Although there are always several people in the cabinet, the real power is concentrated in the prime minister.

If it weren't for the emperor's partiality, he and Zhang Juzheng would have been defeated in the previous cabinet struggle, and even in danger of being beheaded.

This is the charm of being at the peak of human power.

Gao Gong never considered himself a friend of Zhang Juzheng, nor did he regard Zhang Juzheng as a friend. Instead, he regarded him more as an opponent.

Compared with the description of how Zhang Juzheng was treated when he became the Prime Minister of the Cabinet by the Young Minister, if he had sat on that chair, even the position of Minister of the Cabinet would not have been left for Zhang Juzheng.

"Young Lord, I still say the same thing, I don't have a father who is a prime minister, and I have never wanted to be a prime minister!"

Gao Gong's heart was as calm as water. "What I do is for the country and the people. I don't care about anything else."

The most uncomfortable thing is that he takes it easy while you are furious.

It was like using all your strength to punch cotton. The feeling was indescribable.

"You are not qualified to talk to me about serving the country?" Yan Shifan's temples were beating. "The treasury is empty, and we are trying every way to save money and increase revenue. We are increasing military pay, fighting against the Japanese pirates, opening up the sea, and replacing rice with mulberry. Which one of these are not what we are thinking about?
What about you? You all stand on the dry shore, criticizing others and cutting off the firewood from under the pot. When have you ever thought about this country, when have you ever thought about our great Ming Dynasty, when have you ever thought about the people of the world?
The two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty are on my shoulders. It is not your turn to talk about the people of the world!"

After saying this, Yan Shifan was already out of breath.

Gao Gong walked straight towards Yan Shifan who was blocking the road. Their arms bumped into each other within a foot of each other.

After all, he had married a third wife, and the collision caused Gao Gong to knock Yan Shifan off balance.

Gao Gong walked over.

Xu Jie, who was watching the whole process, looked at Gao Gong who was walking further and further away, then looked at Yan Shifan who was about to vomit blood, and turned his worried gaze to the moonlit water in the lake.

Yan Shifan returned to the Yan Mansion at the beginning of the night. When he heard that Yan Song had gone to bed without even having dinner, he immediately lost his appetite.

In the study.

The disfigured Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Yan Maoqing, had been waiting for a long time.

Luo Longwen, the Minister of Public Security who controlled the opinions of all officials, has disappeared.

Yan Maoqing and Luo Longwen brought all the officials to Yuxi Palace to ask the emperor for advice, but they were knocked unconscious by the eunuch Chen Hong. When Yan Maoqing woke up, Luo Longwen was gone.

After asking the officials who were present when the man cried and made his appeal, I learned that someone saw it and that the Jinyiwei took the man away during the chaos.

But no one knows why the Jinyiwei took Luo Longwen away and where they took Luo Longwen.

Yan Maoqing had a bad premonition, so he simply had someone apply some medicine and rushed to Yan's house.

Only then did they know that the cabinet had been summoned to Yuxi Palace, and Yan Song and Yan Shifan were among them.

I thought that the return of Lord Yan and Little Lord Yan would bring some good news, but Lord Yan refused to see anyone when he returned home, and even stopped reading at night.

The young cabinet minister's face became extremely gloomy again. After thinking for a long time, Yan Maoqing told the truth.

"Okay, okay..." After listening to Yan Maoqing's words, Yan Shifan said "Okay" twice in a row.

As he spoke, his mouth was trembling, and his head and beard were shaking, showing the symptoms of a stroke.

Yan Maoqing showed a panicked look, walked to Yan Shifan's side, supported him, and stroked his back: "Young Lord, Young Lord, don't be anxious, don't be anxious..."

Yan Shifan slowly stopped trembling, but his eyes were still staring straight ahead.

Nowadays, anyone who goes to the Jinyiwei to ask for someone will be rejected without an imperial edict. The imperial prison is like a den of wolves and dragons. No one who went in these days has come out upright.

After the Strict Party and the Clean Party merged, they had already defeated two of the Nine Ministers, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate and the Minister of Public Security of the Ministry of Public Security.

The former are the tongue and the latter are the eyes. Without them, they are just like dumb or blind people. Even if they have great strength, they can hardly be of much use.

Yan Maoqing seemed to think that this was not exciting enough. He stroked Yan Shifan's back and said indignantly, "There's news from Zhejiang, saying that those unruly people have planted rice seedlings on their land and are unwilling to sell it. They sent a message to ask if you're going to buy land this year?"

"Why did I use these fools?"

Yan Shifan gritted his teeth, his anger burning in his head, "The government has already set the tone of increasing military pay, suppressing the Japanese, and opening up the sea. The opportunity to make a lot of money is right in front of me, and you're still asking me if I want to buy land?

If you don't buy this year or next year, will you wait until the Japanese pirates are pacified, the sea is stabilized, trade with the West is opened, and the land price in Zhejiang goes up before buying?

They all take my bowl but are thinking of smashing my pot!
The rice seedlings have been planted, so won’t they find a way to destroy them? Zhejiang has so many floods, and the dikes are repaired every year, but they are still flooded every year. Can’t there be a big flood this year that overflows the dikes and floods the fields?

When the fields are flooded and those unruly people have nothing to eat, I won’t believe that I won’t sell the fields!”

(End of this chapter)