prosperous age

Chapter 576 Chapter 575
Before the general envoy sent the memorial, Xu Jie had already received the news in the cabinet.

Sighing, he knew that Ouyang Yijing's performance must have been arranged by Wei Guangde, and the matter was irreversible.

This matter is not big or small, but what I am most afraid of is making it public.

As long as the news can be blocked, it's not a big deal.

Isn't there a saying in later generations, "If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person. As long as no one makes trouble, the problem will never happen."

Although he didn't dare to deal with the insider, he could still fight for it if he could lure him.

But now that the news has been made public, Dong Fen is naturally very dangerous.

If Dong's official position is not guaranteed, is it necessary for him to protect him?
After all, greed still hurts people, this matter is too passive, Xu Jie has already made up his mind to stay out of it.

Xu Jie didn't intend to test Emperor Jiajing's attitude, it was really unnecessary.

With Yan Shifan dead, the Yan family would have no chance, and they were no longer worthy of being his opponent.

When Dong's position goes down, all the officials in the government and the opposition are full of plans, that is, Gao Gong has the opportunity to be the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the wish of Prince Yu's Mansion is fulfilled, so there is no need for him to continue to be a villain.

It's not worth offending King Yu at this time.

At this time, in King Yu's mansion, King Yu had already heard the news from Li Fang.

When she was just washing up, Li Fang told her what she had heard.

"I just said, your letter has been given to Wei Guangde for two days, and he hasn't seen any action. It turns out that he left the matter to his fellow villagers."

King Yu yawned and spoke lightly.

Who is Ouyang Yijing?
who knows.

If Li Fang hadn't specifically mentioned that he was from Pengze, Jiangxi during his report earlier, King Yu would still be wondering why Wei Guangde wasn't on the show, but this man named Ouyang Yijing jumped out.

Ganqing and the two are fellow villagers.

However, King Yu thought about it and said: "You said, I entrusted this matter to Shandai, but he entrusted it to his fellow villagers. Is he dissatisfied with me?"

At the beginning, Wei Guangde objected to this matter, but in the end, after several repeated requests from him, Wei Guangde reluctantly agreed.

But what about the result?
Wei Guangde did not play, but asked his fellow countrymen to do it.

King Yu didn't want to have a estrangement with Wei Guangde, just like he didn't want to have a deadlock with Gao Gong.

It was really Gao Gong's idea to let Wei Guangde take action.

King Yu didn't want to understand the official orifice at the time, but he could more or less guess it afterwards.

He has never flattered him before, but there are quite a few people who are vying to flatter him, and he can clearly see the relationship between these people.

It's not that Wei Guangde and Gao Gong are flattering him, it's just a metaphor.

As far as Wei Guangde is concerned, he really never said anything bad about others in front of him, he always discusses things according to the facts and never involves others.

This is what King Yu valued most about him.

Of course, the status of the son-in-law of Duke Wei's mansion also gave him a lot of points.

"It shouldn't be."

Li Fang just replied uncertainly.

In the past, Gao Gong was a very noble person in his eyes, and he thought of King Yu wholeheartedly.

However, at some point, Li Fang felt that he could not understand Gao Gong, felt that he was a little selfish, and even used his friendship with King Yu to make King Yu do things that he should not have interfered with.

It seems that it started when the emperor asked King Jing to go out of the capital.

Li Fang thought about it, but he could think about it but couldn't say it.

Ordinarily, it must be something to be happy for King Yu to get the emperor, but obviously with the establishment of his status, these officials began to fight among themselves.

Wei Guangde didn't seem to have such an idea, but it was a pity that Gao Gong regarded him as an opponent.

However, he now needs to come up with a reason to convince King Yu so that he doesn't think too much.

"Your Highness, I think Master Wei entrusted the matter to Ouyang Yijing for His Highness's sake."

Li Fang said tentatively.

"How?"

King Yu asked in wonder.

"As long as Dong Fen is dismissed from office, the most likely person to be in the position is Mr. Gao Gonggao. With the relationship between Mr. Gao and the palace, if Mr. Wei came forward on this matter, then it is not true that this matter was done by the Yu Palace, and the purpose is to support him. Mr. Tall."

While Li Fang was speaking, his eyes were fixed on King Yu, and seeing that he couldn't help nodding his head in approval, he continued, "This Ouyang Yijing should be someone that Master Wei trusts more, so he quietly entrusted him with the errands." .

Although speaking seriously, as long as someone investigates, they will know that [-]% of them have something to do with Mr. Wei, but after all, it is an explanation to the outside world.

This Lord Ouyang is working in the Sixth Division and has not been promoted in Beijing for several years.

I think Wei Guangde's intention to let him act is also to support him. "

"My countryman, it's possible."

King Yu kept nodding when he heard what Li Fang said. In fact, he didn't want to really make trouble, so he just wanted to get some comfort from Li Fang's mouth. Even if Li Fang was talking nonsense, he would nod.

What's more, what Li Fang said sounds quite reliable.

"This man named Ouyang, what kind of official was he before, and what kind of official is he now?"

Earlier Li Fang talked about Ouyang Yijing's situation, but obviously Yu Wang didn't take it to heart.

"He used to be a seventh-rank county magistrate. It seems that because of the relationship with Wei Guangde a few years ago, he was transferred back to the capital and entered the sixth division to take up the post of Shizhong until now."

Li Fang had no choice but to speak again.

"Give it to Shizhong, give it to Shizhong, but the seventh-rank official, is it possible to operate it in the near future?"

King Yu said.

In any case, this Ouyang Yijing has helped Wei Guangde and Prince Yu's Mansion, and it is necessary to give some sweetness.

Moreover, since Wei Guangde thinks this person is useful, he can support him vigorously, maybe he will be useful in the future.

The current officer is still a little smaller.

"I'll go down and ask."

As for the official position of the imperial court, Li Fang was so talkative, she just put it in a perfunctory way.

However, when we met Wei Guangde later, we could mention this matter. These civil servants seem to be very interested in it, so maybe there is a way.

With what King Yu said before, Wei Guangde will have the confidence to operate, and he can take the opportunity to repair his relationship with the palace.

Dong Fen has entered the cabinet and met Xu Jie.

But this time, Xu Jie's attitude towards him was very cold, and he just told Dong Fen what he knew.

"I can't stop the memorial here. I can only look at His Majesty's intentions. Presumably, it is already known by the government and the public. You should first consider what His Majesty should say when asked."

"Master Shoufu, is there really nothing you can do?"

Dong Fen asked unwillingly, his meaning was actually very clear, and he hoped that the cabinet could suppress this memorandum.

He thought well, but Xu Jie didn't want to accept this.

Pressing down on the memorial, it is still this kind of memorial that has been passed down throughout the court. I really think that Xu Jie is Yan Song's second.

Even when Yan Song invaded the government and the opposition, he didn't dare to press the memorial to the cabinet. At most, he would delay it for two days and find a suitable opportunity to send it.

Many people think there is a trick to this.

Yes, there are.

For example, if there is bad news, Yan Song will hand over the memorial when Emperor Jiajing is happy. Although it will spoil the emperor's interest, it will not make His Majesty angry and punish him.

For his memorial, he will report to the palace, while tidying up the beginning and the end, preparing his speech in front of the emperor.

It can only be said that Yan Shifan is really powerful, and he has really figured out Emperor Jiajing.

As long as it is the solution given by Yan Shifan, it will definitely be passed by His Majesty the Emperor.

Even Xu Jie had to admire this point.

Otherwise, how could he marry his granddaughter to Yan Song's grandson as a concubine? In fact, at that time, he was not sure that he could bring down the Yan family, so he had to keep a hand for the family.

Whether it was out of extra preparation or to get closer to the Yan family and make the Yan family less wary of him, he did it anyway.

It can be said that the first half of Xu Jie was controlled by Yan Song, and later by Yan Shifan. The Yan family father and son are really difficult to deal with.

But he, Xu Jie, hadn't cultivated to such a degree, so naturally he didn't dare to take care of this matter.

Perhaps, if Yan Shifan is still there, there is a way to solve similar problems.

Inadvertently, Xu Jie thought of this powerful opponent again.

However, he was already dead, and died under the cooperation of him and Prince Yu's Mansion.

In the afternoon, Chen Hong sent Ouyang Yijing's memorial to Xiyuan Yongshou Palace.

"How is Gao Zhong doing now?"

Seeing today's memorial sent by Chen Hong, Emperor Jiajing asked.

"Eunuch Gao's health is getting worse, I'm afraid"

Chen Hong possessed acting skills at this time, he seemed hesitant to speak, but his suddenly red eyes actually told Emperor Jiajing the truth.

"Oh, everyone is getting old."

Emperor Jiajing murmured a few words in a low voice, and then asked loudly: "Is there any important business to deal with today?"

"My lord, today the Minister of General Affairs sent the Criminal Division to Ouyang Yijing to report on the matter, to impeach Dong Fen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, to collect Yan Shifan's money, in order to exonerate him for his activities."

This is also a habit of Emperor Jiajing's handling of affairs. He asks about the most important matters first, and then reads the rest of the unimportant ones. If he doesn't want to read them, he will leave them to Huang Jin and Gao Zhong.

"Dong Fen took money from Yan's family and exonerated him?"

Emperor Jiajing frowned when he heard the words, and then stretched out his hand, asking to read the memorial carefully.

The time, place, people involved, and property collected are all very detailed, and it doesn't look like a fake.

However, he has always been skeptical of the censor's words. They heard rumors, and most of the things they reported were unfounded, so don't look at Ouyang Yijing's writing in such detail. To be honest, Emperor Jiajing still doesn't believe what Shuzhong said. stated.

"Huang Jin, do you have an explanation for this matter?"

Yan Shifan was dead, so Emperor Jiajing naturally didn't want to get entangled in this matter.

It's just that he didn't think he didn't want to pursue the matter anymore, but he was still chasing him fiercely. It seemed that during the interrogation of Yan Shifan, many things happened in the capital that he didn't know about.

"My lord, according to the factory guard's report, at that time Yan Song asked Yang Yusun, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and Fan Weipi, the head of the Ministry of War, to help him make a statement, but it is said that most of the officials stayed away from him, and the Dongfen matter needs to be investigated again."

Huang Jin immediately stepped forward and replied.

"Order to go down and check it out for me."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Jiajing did not return the memorial to Chen Hong, but put it aside, and then asked about other memorials.

After roughly finishing those memorials, Chen Hong took people away from Yongshou Palace. Emperor Jiajing saw the impeachment memorials and asked, "Who ordered this Ouyang Yijing to impeach Dong Fen?"

Dong Fen was promoted to Minister of Rites by him only two months ago. Logically speaking, ordinary people would not dare to touch this bad luck, but in reality, some people have played it.

Emperor Jiajing was well versed in the ways of officialdom struggles, so he naturally knew that Ouyang Yijing would not write this memorial for no reason.

Facing Emperor Jiajing's question, Huang Jin didn't know how to answer.

In fact, he also heard the news in the palace, even asked about it, and guessed that it might have something to do with Wei Guangde.

In fact, Wei Guangde was blamed for this matter. Ouyang Yijing himself planned to impeach him, but he was always wavering.

Minister of the Ministry of Rites, it is better not to be offended.

It's just that Wei Guangde pushed him from behind and handed him the knife.

The thing that censors are most afraid of is actually the impeachment of high-ranking officials. The bigger the official position in the court, the less afraid they are, because they cherish their feathers, and they often don't take revenge on them, censors.

After struggling for a moment, Huang Jin decided to tell the truth, but it was just his own guess.

"The factory guard has not reported this matter, but according to my guess, it may have something to do with His Royal Highness King Yu."

"how do I say this?"

Emperor Jiajing was surprised when he heard that, and asked strangely.

"Ouyang Yijing and Wei Guangde are from the same hometown, and they have a good relationship. Even if this matter was not instigated by Prince Yu's House, Wei Guangde and Prince Yu's House should know about it.

Of course, the above is just the minister's guess, there is no real evidence, and it is necessary to arrange for the factory guards to conduct a detailed investigation. "

Huang Jin replied.

"How did Dong Fen offend King Yu?"

Emperor Jiajing asked out his doubts.

This question stumped Huang Jin.

How to say?
Said that King Yu wanted Gao Gong to come to power, so he had to win the position of Dong?
Dong Fen has never offended King Yu on the face of it, so how do you say this?
Putting it on Wei Guangde, it seems that the two of them don't have much to do with each other.

After thinking quickly, Huang Jin still didn't intend to make too much of the matter, and kept it simple, so he turned his eyes and thought of a reason, anyway, it was all guesswork, and the factory guard didn't notice it at all.

What he knew was that only Yu Wang wanted to win Dong's share, and it was the report of the spies in Yu Wang's mansion.

"My lord, Yan Shifan offended His Royal Highness Yu Wang a bit harshly, probably because he paid close attention to the trial of the case, so he found clues from it."

If you get rid of Prince Yu's Mansion and just say that Wei Guangde did it, there is no way to lie, and you can only find out the evil things about Prince Yu's Mansion and Yan Shifan back then.

Although it was a long time ago, as long as it was mentioned, everyone in the capital would know about it.

It was so sensational that Zhu Xixiao had no choice but to write the matter into a secret report and send it to the palace.

However, he vaguely remembered that Emperor Jiajing's attitude at that time was very strange, and he didn't get angry, as if he knew it long ago.

No matter how big the gap was between Huang Jin's guess and the facts, finally, if Emperor Jiajing had some understanding, he would be able to understand the matter.

Not to mention, King Yu can really bear it.

He was wronged so much back then, so he didn't even run into the palace to make trouble.

As for King Yu's worries back then, Emperor Jiajing had never experienced it, so he would have thought that in the heart of young King Yu, he was a child without a mother, and he would not love his father.

Pulling Yu Wang in, this matter also makes sense.

King Yu wanted to take revenge on Yan Shifan, so he sent someone to keep an eye on the matter.

It was discovered that Dong Fen had received money from the Yan family, so he passed the news to Ouyang Yijing, the speech officer, through Wei Guangde.

"Check and report as soon as possible." Emperor Jiajing just said lightly.

Huang Jin glanced at the emperor and bowed his head in agreement.

(End of this chapter)