.Chapter 825 Relatively Silent (Part 1)

The atmosphere in the capital officialdom in the second year of Longqing can be summed up in one sentence, that is, "shock, incredible, incredible"!

The prestigious chief minister of the two dynasties, the old minister of Dingcey who held high the title of "The Last Order of Jiajing", and the old officials all over the world, and was almost invincible in the world, Xu Ge Lao, who fell down because of a mere impeachment from the clerk.

Of course, the official statement is to retire. However, the so-called washing hands in golden basin and retreating bravely, which exists only in history books, is the beautification of political struggle by historians. Even the people in the capital who set up the dragon gate formation in the teahouse know that Mr. Xu actually didn't want to leave, but actually wanted to stay... but I don't know what happened in one day, which caused the emperor's attitude to change suddenly, and changed his sincere resignation to Mr. Xu from being sincerely resigned to being happy, which is something that ordinary people have no way of knowing.

In fact, it is not just the people, but even the officialdom is in the fog, and there are many different opinions. However, officials know more and can always touch the edge of the truth. There are three more reliable ones. First, the emperor was really tired of Xu Jie and wanted to go as far as he could. The so-called retention was just a gesture. There are also other people who said that Xu Jie's retirement was closely related to the case last year, including Hu Zongxian's death, the scandal of the Censorate, the gathering in front of Zuo'an Gate, Wang Tingxiang's bizarre suicide, and the emperor's attitude kept adding pressure to Xu Ge Lao, exhausted and exhausted. In addition, he was old, so he naturally wanted to leave.

There is another bizarre saying that Zhang Juzheng felt that Xu Jie blocked his position, so he took the initiative to persuade Xu Jie to take the position, but passed the news to the emperor through the eunuch. Only then did Long Qing feel assured to confirm Xu Ge Lao’s invitation... Although this kind of thing is spread with a nose and eyes, everyone doesn’t believe it. First, the emperor is not at this level; second, Xu Ge Lao is like Zhang Juzheng’s biological father. What are the benefits for him when his father leaves?

No matter how many speculations there are, no change is made. On the 22nd day of the first lunar month of the second year of Longqing, the Tongzheng Department forwarded the copy of Xu Ge Lao's resignation, accompanied by Longqing's imperial edict - "Agree to retire, give platinum coins, order to take an official boat, send Jinyiwei back to his hometown, etc.... Those who are interested compare the emperor's rewards when Gao Gong retired with Xu Jie's income, and found that the latter was far inferior to the former, and the emperor's distantness to the ministers was fully demonstrated.

Of course, at that time, the officials of various yamen were immersed in shock, and no one could notice these details... The officials who were dependent on Xu Jie had their past confidence and pride shone out, and they all lowered their heads at this time, their faces were gray, frightened and confused, not knowing what fate would be in the future.

All yamen are shrouded in an atmosphere of sadness and worry, among which the Censorate and the Sixth Institute are the most...

In the Censorate, the censors who were already worried about their fate, heard the biggest backer falling down, and they felt extremely sad. I don’t know who was the first to cry loudly. Then everyone burst into tears. Many people cried to the ground, touching the wall with their heads in pain, saying that they were like losing their parents, and they could not describe their sadness.

The people in Liukeling were also dissatisfied. Just half a month ago, Mr. Xu held a meeting for them, asking them to unite and maintain stability. After the meeting, they even wrote books one after another, asking the emperor not to make things difficult for Mr. Xu and quickly ended the chaos. Unexpectedly, after only one of the New Year, their leaders, mentors and protectors were impeached by one of them.

The fear of the future turned into extremely angry. The section chief and clerk of the Sixth Corps wanted to eat the damn Zhang Qi. However, Zhang Qi had expected such an ending. After the Chinese New Year, he was sick at home and did not come to ask for excitement. However, today, it was useless to hide. The angry censors rushed to his house and dragged him out of the room and beat him up. They still couldn't relieve their hatred. They wrote eight big words "Dog Leg House, Devil's Stinky for Ten Thousand Years" on the wall outside his house. Then they came to the Xiangfu Hutong together and asked to meet Mr. Xu, hoping that he could change his mind.

In fact, the section chiefs knew that this was impossible, because after seeing the imperial edict, they detained it first, preparing to exercise the right of refutation and reject the imperial edict; while quickly sending representatives to Xu Jie's house to notify them. However, Xu Jie told them that this was his own idea and the emperor was just respecting his choice.

The section chiefs put their hot faces on their cold butts. Since Xu Jie had clearly informed that this was from his original intention, there was naturally no reason to refute them, so he was allowed to transfer to Tongzhengsi... Since he had the opportunity to reject them, Mr. Xu gave up, and of course it was even more impossible to resist after the imperial edict was announced.

Sure enough, Xu Jie politely invited the censors into the house and explained to them kindly that it was not someone who was forcing him to retire. He was old and tired, and it was time to retire, it was that simple.

How the censors persuaded each other, Xu Jie repeated the arguments and refused to waver. Seeing that the censors had decided to leave, they couldn't help crying loudly, which made Xu Jie cry with them...

The censors cried: "You encourage us to speak up for justice and protect us from revenge. Now you leave us alone. Those who we offended will definitely seek revenge for us!"

Xu Jie burst into tears when he heard this, "I am ashamed of you. I originally planned to let Zhang Taiyue continue to protect you after I left, but things in the world were unpredictable. My sudden departure made you shudder." The old man didn't want to be kind anymore! The previous sentence also said that it was his own voluntary, and the next sentence did not slap himself, but there was a sense of injustice in his words... It's not that I don't want to protect you, it's someone who forced me to leave.

When he cried and complained, the censors' emotions changed from "worrying about the future" to "hate villains"...

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Finally, under the persuasion of Mr. Xu, the staff did not give up, but vented their anger on the investigation of the villain behind the scenes. Soon, they found out the details of Zhang Qi, a former colleague and today's mortal enemy, and also came up with the reason why Zhang Qi framed Xu Jie.

Then, five general vocational colleges of the Criminal Department jointly submitted a memorial to the clerk, exposing Zhang Qi's crimes, saying that he impeached Xu Jie as intentional revenge. The memorial said: "When Zhang Qi was ordered to reward the army on the Xuanda front, there was a salt merchant named Yang Sihe, who was a friend of his father Zhang Lian, who bribed Zhang Lian thousands of gold. Therefore, as soon as Zhang Qi came back, he endorsed the interests of the salt merchants, and suggested that "compassionate with the side merchants, open the side merchants, and remove the remaining salt, etc. However, the border affairs were complicated and most of these things were difficult to implement, so they were placed under Xu Ge Lao. However, the salt merchant Yang Sihe saw that the matter could not be completed, so he asked Zhang Qi's father for bribes. However, the money had been squandered by the Zhang father and son for several years and could not be returned.'

The memorial also said: 'Yang Sihe and other salt merchants were dissatisfied with Xu Ge Lao's border plan, so they had long wanted to rush him to step down. So they used this as a threat and ordered Zhang Qi to write a letter to attack Xu Ge Lao. Zhang Qi was afraid that the matter would be exposed and was questioned by the court, so they would impeach Xu Ge Lao. Zhang Qi and the salt merchants should be held accountable for the crimes of the country to rectify the law." After the memorial, the emperor immediately ordered the Jinyiwei to arrest Zhang Qi and his son and other people involved in the case and put them in prison and sentence them to severely interrogation.

In fact, the reason why Longqing agreed to the arrest so quickly was that Xu Jie was relieved and did not cause trouble, which made the emperor feel very guilty... and even began to doubt himself. His previous judgment of Xu Jie came. Of course, he finally invited this god away, and he had no idea of ​​remorse. He just wanted to appease the Xu Jie's retirement and the Xu Party officials who were greatly hit were considered to have corrected Mr. Xu.

However, he never expected that this move would involve a major case... When he was raiding Yang Sihe's house, he found that in the letters he had, there were many places involving Shanxi merchants smuggling prohibited materials from the Mongolians, unscrupulously and without any concealment. Naturally, the merchants mentioned in the letters also had names and surnames, and were also not concealed. As long as you follow this line, although the smuggling system of Shanxi merchants cannot be completely destroyed, it is still possible to seriously damage his vitality.

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This incident alarmed Yang Tianguan from Beimei Hutong. Faced with the fellow villagers who asked to come to the door, Yang Bo could only take over the big bag. He turned around and said to Yang Mu: "I just said that they can't let our family make money alone. Find ways to get in touch and talk about the conditions."

As the only remaining one of the three heroes in the world, Yang Bo, who became famous before Xu Jie, was indeed an unfathomable master. When playing conspiracies and plots, he was familiar with it without any craftsmanship. From beginning to end, he did not participate in the destruction of Xu in depth. He just promoted it at some key points and completed the seemingly impossible tasks.

He knew very well that after a series of slandering by himself and Shen Mo, Xu Jie's image was no longer as pure as the Virgin of the White Lotus, especially for the emperor, he was even more uninhibited, and he didn't want to see him again.

However, it is still impossible to directly remove Xu Jie from office if he wants to make public. Lord Yang, who is good at thinking in the opposite direction, took the method of cutting off the firewood from the cauldron and cutting off the way out... He thought that as long as Xu Jie submitted a memorial and resigned, the emperor approved it, and Old Xu's career would be over, which was that simple.

As for how to make Xu Jie resign, of course there are opportunities... Because according to convention, generally speaking, those who are impeached, or who have conflicts with, and who think they are no longer trusted by the emperor, such as the suggestion they make is not adopted, will voluntarily request to resign. Of course, it is the same convention and he will also be comforted. In other words, this is generally just a harmless procedure.

There are too many things about going through procedures. Everyone is used to it and doesn’t think there will be any surprises. For example, when he was fighting with Gao Gong the previous year, Xu Jie once resigned eight times in a row! As a result, he didn’t leave even after Gao Gong left.

Yang Bo saw this opportunity and asked Xu Jie to go through the program again inadvertently, and as long as the emperor refused to keep it, the program could become a reality!

As for how to get the emperor to approve Xu Jie's resignation, it was his third step. From the moment Xu Jie was impeached, he tried all his strength to start arguing for Xu Jie, and secretly mobilized all officials to petition the emperor to retain Xu Ge Lao.

Let the emperor see that the higher the prestige of Xu Jie, the more lethal the sentence in Zhang Qi's memorial. No emperor could bear it. All officials only had the prime minister but no one himself, so Long Qing finally made up his mind to expel Xu Jie. Although there were some accidental factors in it, it was also a result that would inevitably occur.

With three simple moves, the endgame left by silence was solved, and Xu Jie was completely dead. It was a bit exaggerated to say that Yang Bo had already achieved great success, but the assessment of being wise and foolish is affordable.

But his opponent was Xu Jie, so it was impossible for him to be beaten in vain. After coming to his senses, Xu Ge Lao decisively took retreat as an advance, completely reversed the unfavorable public opinion, and then grabbed the opponent's 'bird" through Zhang Qi, the leader, and then regained the situation.

Their moves are absolutely steadily and accurately than Yang Bo.

Yang Bo knew very well that Xu Jie just wanted to find the place and gather the people's hearts that were about to disperse, and did not really want to fight him to the death... At this time, any desperate fight would benefit the fisherman.

Yang Bo has made a lot of money. He knew that if he wanted to do a long business, everyone would have to make money, at least not lose their lives. So he did not take countermeasures to intensify the conflict, but took the initiative to ask for peace from Xu Jie and silently offered a price... Others didn't know his relationship with the Jinyiwei, but Yang Bo knew it very well... The boy must have blamed himself for using Zou Yinglong and giving excuses to his political enemies, so he instructed the Jinyiwei to fully cooperate with Xu Jie's orders.

So the representatives of the three parties began a fierce and difficult tug-of-war to re-dividate the sphere of influence before Gao Gong came back... This is also the practice after every fierce struggle.

Why do you want to hang out with you? It’s just because you can hang out with you and do well, otherwise who would like to touch your stinky feet? I thought you were the beautiful girl’s three-inch golden lotus?

At this time, if you look at the few people sitting at the negotiating table, you will suddenly find that it was the largest three parties in the court before the fight began. It can be seen that all political events are essentially power struggles, and the few people who can really control their own destiny are still the only ones who provoke this struggle.

The only difference between the beginning and the end is probably that what I originally wanted to be able to survive, but now I am asking to be able to survive better; but I originally wanted to be able to survive, so I could only seek to survive first, and stay useful in order to wait for a turnaround in the future.

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Chapter completed!