Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1821, unyielding

"Liu Gong, Shen Huai, the imperial censor, impeached, slandered, and criticized you so much, why didn't you say a word?"

After the morning court, when everyone was on their way to the minister's study for a small meeting, Han Wen still asked puzzledly.

"The body is not afraid of the slanting shadow, and the mouth grows on other people. If they want to say something, I can still seal their mouths."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"However, we can't let this Shen Huai slander Liu Gong so much, we are really angry."

Han Wen looked extremely angry and angry, like this Shen Huai was like a mad dog biting people and labeling people indiscriminately.

"Aren't there many ministers in the court defending me?"

"Let's leave it at that."

Liu Jin was very generous, which made a minister around him couldn't help but look at Liu Jin again.

In terms of Liu Jin's previous behavior style, this seems a bit unreasonable, and no one can calm down about this matter.

You can say that I am self-willed, you can also say that I suppress dissidents, but you can never say that I am plotting wrongdoing, forming a party for personal gain or something.

Conspiring against others is a serious crime to exterminate the Nine Clans. If you let him open his mouth and tell the truth, the Nine Clans will be wiped out. What a deep hatred this is.

If it were them, they would definitely kill Shen Huai. If it got serious, even the whole family of Shen Huai would be killed.

Political struggle is a very cruel thing. To be slandered like this is a situation of tearing one's face and fighting to the death.

But Liu Jin in front of him showed such generosity, with a calm look, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

This stomach is really big, the prime minister can take a boat in his belly, that's probably the case.

Liu Jin didn't take this Shen Huai to heart, and of course he didn't really have a big belly.

As a time traveler, a person who came from a later life has always believed in the principle that if people do not attack me, I will not attack others, and if people attack me, I will attack others.

Back then, Zhang Cai asked Liu Jin to stay with the polar bears in Beibing Mansion, and he is still there now. It is said that he has suffered from severe wind-cold disease.

This Shen Huai, in the past, Liu Jin would definitely kill him. If you put such a big hat on yourself, you dare to talk nonsense if you plan to do something wrong.

But now, Liu Jin is the chief assistant of the cabinet, and he has to look like the chief assistant of the cabinet. This kind of thing that must be reported must not be too obvious, and it will make people hold on to it.

Now there are too many, too many eyes staring at Liu Jin. Many people are actually waiting for themselves to make mistakes, waiting for them to make mistakes, and then trying to find a way to bring themselves down.

Emperor Hongzhi was also paying attention to himself all the time, and he didn't trust himself, but he was also always paying attention to whether he got carried away after becoming the chief minister of the cabinet, whether he formed a party for personal gain, and so on.

Every emperor hates his subordinates forming cliques for personal gain. Of course, not only the emperor, every boss is like this, and he also hates people who get carried away.

When people get carried away, it is easy to make huge mistakes. Once they make a mistake in the officialdom, one wrong step may be irreversible.

Keeping this Shen Huai and ignoring him, on the one hand, he can show his big belly, he can ride a boat in his prime minister's stomach, and he is tolerant, which can be seen by the world.

On the other hand, it is a good thing that someone criticizes and impeaches himself. This can make the emperor feel more at ease.

Of course, Liu Jin also has his own plans. Shen Huai, who impeached him, will sooner or later deal with him, but not yet.

If he impeached himself, he would be able to follow his impeachment to retreat from the court smoothly in the future, and when he didn't want to do it anymore, he would clean up this Shen Huai and go back to his hometown directly to live up to his old age.

So this also means that I have to tolerate this Shen Huai for a long time to come.

Liu Jin didn't pay attention to this Shen Huai, but this Shen Huai had a kind of indomitable drive, and in the next few days, he would write a letter to impeach Liu Jin every now and then.

Sometimes they focus on one or two points of Liu Jin to impeach him, and other times they just label Liu Jin indiscriminately like crazy, labeling everything on Liu Jin.

Liu Jin was still indifferent and indifferent to him, but many ministers in the court were indignant about this and defended Liu Jin one after another. More radical officials also attacked and impeached Shen Huai in turn.

Later, the number of impeachments increased, and Emperor Hongzhi was also very upset.

The censor has the power to impeach all officials, and rumors play out, that is, they can be impeached casually after hearing the wind, without any real evidence at all, and they do not need to bear any responsibility.

Not only the princes in the court, but also the emperor himself is under the supervision of the censors and officials. What emperor, you can't trust your concubine every day, you have to pay attention to your body, what emperor, you can't just like one concubine, you want to be exposed to rain and dew, what? Emperor, you can't eat too many dishes in one meal, you have to be thrifty or something.

Many times, these censors wanted to spit on the emperor's face, so that they could appear to be upright ministers.

Therefore, censors often become an important tool in political struggles. When the bigwigs above the court fight each other, they will let their censors and the like impeach each other.

Anyway, they can make rumors, and they don’t have to bear any responsibilities anyway. This is their power and obligation. The rank and official position are very small, but many times, the emperor and important ministers in the court will be afraid of these censors’ words. official.

They are shit-stirring sticks, the key is reasonable and legal shit-stirring sticks, the emperor often has nothing to do with them.

It’s fine to impeach once or twice. Emperor Hongzhi has seen too many impeachments. Has that minister ever been impeached?
Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian in the past were all impeached, and so are Liu Jin, Qi Zhong, and Wang Shouren now.

Like Wang Shouren, who is still impeached by people in the market saying that there are too many miscellaneous taxes and the people have no means of living. In fact, it is the ghosts of those who want to reduce taxes and do not pay taxes. Emperor Hongzhi is very clear in his heart.

In the past, I believed it more or less, thinking that if taxes were reduced or not levied here, the lives of the people below would be better.

As a result, bullshit, when it rains heavily here, there may not be a drop when the people come here, and there are corrupt officials in the middle, who can eat everything clean.

The same is true for this tax. If you collect the tax yourself, you can do some major things in the form of the country, such as expanding territory, immigration, and infrastructure construction. Only these can truly benefit the people.

If you don’t collect taxes, the country has no money, and the cheap ones are not those gentry and powerful businessmen. They continue to exploit the people as they should, but the country can’t do anything.

So, Emperor Hongzhi didn't like these censors and officials, they were just a bunch of dogs that bit people.

If they really believed them, the court would not know how chaotic it would be.

You can impeach Liu Jin today and bring Liu Jin down, and tomorrow you can also impeach Qi Zhong and Wang Shouren and bring them down, and then it will be exchanged.

Who will do the work for them?
Who will govern the country of Ming Dynasty for him?
Change some corpses and vegetarian meals, officials who can only flatter horses, or officials who only please civil servants and gentry businessmen come up?
Emperor Hongzhi is not the young emperor who just came to the throne. It has been Hongzhi for [-] years. He has seen too many things and understood many things.

This Shen Huai impeached Liu Jin in such a random way, and put on his hat indiscriminately, he himself, the emperor, couldn't stand it anymore.

On the contrary, Liu Jin has always been indifferent to this Shen Huai, with a big belly, which made Emperor Hongzhi look up to Liu Jin again.

Of course, he also has more confidence and trust in Liu Jin. A person who is able to get pregnant in the face of such impeachment and criticism is naturally a person who is not afraid of the shadow.

So Emperor Hongzhi came forward and reprimanded Shen Huai severely, but he didn't do anything to Shen Huai, because this was his job responsibility, and it was determined by his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang.

The emperor sometimes has nothing to do with these censors and the like, they can't beat them, they can't kill them, and sometimes they wish to be killed by the emperor, so that they can be famous in history and last forever.

I can only reprimand him, let him know something, and don't bite people like a mad dog.

But who knows that this Shen Huai, not only did he not restrain himself at all, on the contrary, he became more serious. In the past, he used to impeach Liu Jin every two days, but now he has simply written a letter to impeach Liu Jin every day.

Every morning, Shen Huai stood up to impeach Liu Jin, and the reasons were different every day. Today, it was wrong to criticize Liu Jin for stepping into the Golden Palace with his left foot first. to the palace.

In short, he was persistent, and kept impeaching Liu Jin in different ways every day, as if he would not give up until Liu Jin was brought down.

(End of this chapter)