I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 59 broke the news!

Wu Chang understood that Xu Wei was asking him to persuade Hai Rui, not to persuade him not to write an impeachment memorial, but to persuade Hai Rui to make a big deal out of it and impeach even those mysterious practitioners who the emperor liked.

It’s too dark and too dirty!
But the effect is good!

Everyone knew that Yan Shifan was guilty of many crimes and deserved to be put to death, but countless impeachment memorials were submitted, but nothing could be done to him.

why?
Because this guy is smart, once he was caught, he rolled over on the ground and tried to put the blame on the emperor.

I am working for the Emperor. To impeach me is to impeach the Emperor.

Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for me!

The emperor is a man who protects his own people and cares about his reputation. If you dare to hit him in the face, he will beat you until you become half paralyzed.

So Yan Shifan used this trick to avoid countless fatal impeachments over the past decade.

Until he offended the prince
The Crown Prince’s Party is using the same tactic now.

You want to impeach my Coordination Bureau, right? Don’t you all know what my Coordination Bureau does?

What Xu Wei meant was that he should instigate Hai Rui to take the big one.

It directly pointed out that the emperor's large-scale construction, misguided politics, and waste of money and labor were the long-standing problems. In the face of these problems, the Coordination Bureau was just a small shrimp, just a passing mention.

Once this memorial is submitted, Hai Rui is guaranteed to become a loyal minister famous throughout the world, and the most popular figure in the Jiajing Dynasty!
But whether he can save his life is hard to say.

Emperor Jiajing has no shortage of wronged souls of officials in the Ministry of Revenue under his command.

Wu Chang swallowed his saliva and said hesitantly: "Once I mention this matter, Gangfeng will be angry and will naturally make it happen. But once this petition is submitted, it is hard to predict whether it will be good or bad. As a good friend of Gangfeng, I cannot watch him fall into the fire pit."

Xu Wei understood.

There is still some humanity in Wu Chang, not much, but enough.

"Brother Wu, rest assured. We also have great respect for Mr. Gangfeng. We had no choice but to do this, but we will never put him to death. Otherwise, we would not be able to justify it to the world."

Can't get over it?
Conscience, do officials have conscience?

Ha ha!

However, what Xu Wenchang said was a guarantee.

The Crown Prince's Party will provide a guarantee and at least save Hai Rui's life.

That's it.

Brother Hai, if you want to become the most loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, how can you grow without paying some price?
As long as I can save my life.

Keeping the green hills, you don’t have to worry about having no firewood.

Besides, being imprisoned and beaten by the emperor is also a quick way to become famous!

"Okay, I will go and persuade Hai Gangfeng tonight. Since I want to make a remonstrance, I must point out the root causes of the long-standing problems. Persuading the emperor to become a wise ruler is the most important thing."

Seeing that Wu Chang had fully understood his meaning, Xu Wei smiled slightly and raised his glass.

"Okay, then we'll wait for good news from Brother Wu."

Wu Chang and Xu Wei drank a cup together, full of anticipation.

And me?

What about my benefits!
Xu Wei took a bite of the food and said calmly, "Yesterday, a eunuch beat up the censor at Wumen Gate. Have you heard about this, Brother Wu?"

"I heard about it. It's really lawless."

"Yes, it's too lawless." Xu Wei sighed, then deliberately lowered his voice and said, "But I heard that this matter was deliberately caused by someone who was trying to stir up trouble and sow discord between the inner court and the outer court, in order to deceive the emperor, the prince, and Lord Xu."

Wu Chang's eyelids twitched. "Ah, is there such a thing?"

"Emperor Xu hasn't even had time to warm up to his position as Prime Minister, but someone has set their sights on him." Xu Wei pointed out, then said, "But this kind of thing is not something we can get involved in."

"Yes, we can't get involved in this kind of thing."

"But when this happened, everyone looked at the Censorate and found that it seemed to be short of a Right Assistant Censor-in-Chief. Brother Wu, do you want to move from the Imperial College to the Censorate?"

Wu Chang's little heart was beating wildly!

I don't want to move! You Qiandu Yushi is a fourth-rank official, one rank higher than the fourth-rank official of the Imperial College. Besides, how can the Censorate be compared with the Imperial College, a simple government office?
Wu Chang also tasted the flavor.

The Crown Prince suffered an unprovoked disaster when a eunuch at the Meridian Gate beat up the Censor.

Looking back, I found that there was no one in the Censorate, so I couldn't hear about many things and couldn't get involved in many things.

He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to place his own people in the Censorate.

The situation is now very clear. If he can get Hai Rui to turn the spearhead of his impeachment memorial towards the emperor, the Prince's Party will accept him and arrange for him to be assigned to the Censorate as the Right Censor-in-Chief.

Can the Crown Prince's Party do it?

The Right Censor-in-Chief, in the Censorate, ranks after the Left and Right Censors-in-Chief and the Left and Right Deputy Censors-in-Chief. He has a say, but not much. The Cabinet and the Censorate do not take this position too seriously.

Besides, since the Prince’s party dares to say so, it means they are at least sure.

"Please ask Brother Wenchang to tell the Crown Prince that Wu Chang is willing to go through fire and water for the Crown Prince in the future, no matter what happens. I will definitely do what happened to Hai Gangfeng!"

"Okay! I will definitely report Brother Wu's words to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

A few days later, Emperor Jiajing began to review memorials at night again, and Zhu Yijun studied beside him.

Emperor Jiajing picked up a memorial, read two lines, frowned, and his face turned pale.

The people around, Huang Jin, Li Fang, Chen Hong, Teng Xiang and others, all held their breath and were extremely careful.

Zhu Yijun was still reading the memorials and reports forwarded by Emperor Jiajing.

"Bastard!" Emperor Jiajing threw the memorial away and cursed angrily.

Huang Jin and the others all fell to their knees, not daring to breathe.

Only Zhu Yijun sat on the chair and turned to look at Emperor Jiajing.

"What a bastard who has no respect for his king or his father! He is pointing his finger at me and scolding me! He wants to be a loyal minister and speak out directly to gain fame, so he is poking my spine and scolding me!
"The whole world is your Majesty's home. No one should neglect his own home." You are calling me a prodigal son, right? You are calling me a loser, right? You are calling me a loser of the foundation left by our ancestors, right?

"The peace and unrest, order and disorder of the world are determined by me. I will repent and look at the right court every day." I still repent? I have done something that is against heaven and earth, and I must repent!"

Emperor Jiajing's roar echoed in the side hall, like the roar of an extremely angry tiger.

Huang Jin couldn't help but glance at Zhu Yijun.

My dear prince, what a bad idea you have! Look how angry the emperor is. Why don’t you comfort and persuade him quickly?
If things don’t turn out well, let’s see what you’ll do!
"Hai Rui, you are a bastard who has no respect for the emperor or his father! You want to be a minister of remonstrance? I will make sure you die without a burial place! Come, arrest this Hai Rui, throw him into the imperial prison, and punish him for being disrespectful to the emperor and his father!"

Zhu Yijun stood up, stroked Emperor Jiajing's back, picked up a cup of hot tea from the table and handed it to Emperor Jiajing.

"Grandpa Emperor, there's no need to get angry with him. He's clearly risking his life to leave a name in history."

"Leave a name in history?"

"Yes, I heard that Hai Rui had been saving money recently, bought a coffin and placed it in the yard, and entrusted his mother, concubines, and children to his good friend.

It is clear that he wants to die to make a remonstrance. If you really kill him, Grandpa Huang, he will get what he wants and leave his name in history, but he will bring trouble to Grandpa Huang. "

Emperor Jiajing slowly calmed down, thought about it carefully, and felt something was wrong.

"Huang Jin, give me the manuscript of Hai Rui's memorial that the Eastern Depot copied a few days ago."

Sweat broke out on Huang Jin's forehead.

The emperor is too shrewd, Prince, you can't fool him.

This time the sky has been pierced!
Emperor Jiajing took the manuscript and laughed angrily after reading it: "Okay, okay, who asked Hai Rui to change the memorial?"

Zhu Yijun cupped his hands and said, "Grandpa Emperor, it was my grandson who asked someone to instigate Hai Rui to change the memorial."

Emperor Jiajing stared at Zhu Yijun, shaking with anger. He wanted to lose his temper but didn't know how.

If you don't express it lightly, you won't be able to relieve the hatred in your heart!

If the hair gets too heavy, I’m afraid my grandchildren won’t be able to bear it.

He sat down on the chair angrily and said in a stern tone: "Little bastard, explain it to grandpa clearly. If you can't give a reason, you can't escape this beating!"

(End of this chapter)