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Chapter 69: Cabinet Fierce Fight, Gao Gong vs Zhenji

Lunch was eaten in the ward. Pang Xian and other hospital staff said goodbye with tactful farewell. Only Mr. Zhao and two old Lords Pan sat around a small square table to eat and chat.

Of course, Panbutang ate while lying down.

Because of the injury, lunch is mainly light in the fire. Fortunately, Chaoshan cuisine is light in nature and the flavor is very different from Suzhou cuisine. At least Zhao Hao prefers the former.

He scooped a bowl of clear olive lungs, handed them to Pan Zhongqi, and then served them to Pan Jixun.

"Why are you in a hurry to serve the soup? Pour wine for me first." Pan Jixun didn't appreciate it.

"Budou was not so addicted to alcohol before." Zhao Hao poured him a glass of local wine, pearl red. "Drinking your sorrow with wine?"

"I'm so worried, I'm not that big-name official!" Pan Jixun groaned, picked up the wine cup and drank it all, and said angrily: "I'm just angry. I'm right, and I have proved that the method of shaving water and rinsing sand is feasible. Why do those people in the court turn a blind eye and insist on mobilizing the troops and spending ten times to open a river of shaking?!"

"You are stupid. After two hundred years of founding, when will you cure the Yellow River? It's not all that you have flooded every year!" His second brother criticized without mercy.

"I just don't believe in evil!" Pan Jixun said with his neck straight.

"You can do it, but you don't believe in evil!" Pan Zhongqian sneered: "When I was in Beijing, I heard why Yan Shifan, the old master of the small cabinet, wanted to manage the Ministry of Works? Most of them were heading for the Yellow River. How much money does the imperial court spend every year to control yellow? You know better than anyone else. And all of this money was thrown into the Yellow River and wasted water. Afterwards, I had nowhere to check the accounts! If you really cure it, what would those borers eat?"

"..." Pan Jixun held it in a while after hearing this, he shook his head slowly and said, "No, at least Gao Beizi is not such a person. He doesn't love money, he wants to be famous in history."

"Hmph, I am the same year as Gao Suqing, and I don't know him better than you?" Pan Zhongqi sneered: "He just doesn't love money, but he lacks constraints on the people below. Whether it's corruption or personal morality, he will be able to do things for him. Then Yin Zhengmao is the best example! Gao Suqing has no son to be noble, but the people below want to make money. If you want to cut off other people's wealth, of course they have to cut off your retreat and send you back to their hometown!"

"Forget it, it's useless to figure it out now. The ministry will be in the wild for a few years. Why is Chaozhou Prefecture so good?" Mr. Zhao smiled and filled Pan Jixun with a smile: "Now that your arms can't force your thighs, why bother to compete with this?"

"Hehe, that's right." Pan Jixun nodded and said, "Now that Mr. Li has retired, Mr. Zhao has been driven away by him. The newly-entered Mr. Yin also has a straight temper, so I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the life he drove away."

Yes, after Li Chunfang retired, Zhao Zhenji was also eliminated in the late spring and early summer tide.

But unlike Li Gancao, who knew he was defeated by himself, took the initiative to give up the virtuous and ended with decent curtain call, Zhao Ge Lao, who had always been violent and violent, knew that he could not defeat him, he dared to draw his sword and staged a fierce death battle with Gao Gong!

Without Li Chunfang's protection, Zhao Zhenji was alone, so Gao Gong completely ignored him. After the first year of external inspection, Gao Gong immediately issued an order in the name of the emperor to inspect the censor of Kedao! Moreover, all officials who were promoted and left Kedao during their term of assessment must undergo severe inspection!

In fact, the fifth year of Longqing was not the year of the capital inspection, so we should not have examined censors. Moreover, as long as we leave the Kedao system, we can no longer examined censors. But Gao Gong was already full of resentment towards censors. During the Pavilion Tide, censors, under the command of Xu Jie, attacked him together, and he would never forget!

After he recovered, he pinched his nose and promised the censors that he would not blame him for the past in order to calm people's hearts and stabilize his status. Unexpectedly, these Wangwang teams were not willing to serve, but instead were ungrateful and rekindled their behavior. In the matter of Altan's tribute, and under the instigation of Zhao Zhenji, they attacked him!

For the sake of the overall situation, Gao Gong endured it until Li Chunfang got out of here and became the chief minister and the official, and his status was completely unshakable, he finally wanted to settle the old and new debts together!

Zhao Zhenji also served as the left censor and was regarded as the leader by the leader of the Kedao. Therefore, when the tall bearded butcher's butcher's knife came, he knew he had to stand up to protect the censor even though he was defeated. So Zhao and his son led the report and said:

‘Not long ago, because the censor Ye Mengxiong was inappropriate in his discussions, he violated His Majesty. His Majesty harshly instructed the censors to assess the censors, and even the ministers who were promoted during the assessment term were not spared. Now there were nearly 200 people who were subject to non-verbal investigations, and rumors were everywhere and people were in panic. The ancestors set up censors, and their posts were to refute and refute, to help the king. Therefore, the vast majority of selected people were loyal people who served the country and dared to speak out for justice.’

'Now the court wants to treat them all as presumptuous and evil people to review them. The ministers and others are really worried that there will be public use and attack loyal ministers with great force. This will block the way of speech, which is not a blessing for the country!'

Zhao Zhenji and his censors are worthy of being professional players. They brought up the previous episode of Gao Gong's disciple Ye Mengxiong and impeached his rank. Not only did they slap Gao Gong in the face, but they emphasized that this person's arrogance and domineeringness made his own students unable to bear it.

The treatment he was impeached by his disciples, but even the treacherous minister Yan Song had never enjoyed it!

Moreover, Zhao Zhenji also pointed out that Gao Gong was actually attacking loyal and kind, hoping that the emperor could stop him from using public instruments and avenge his private revenge. It also had a very sinister hint that Gao Gong, as the chief minister of the cabinet and the official of the heaven, had already covered the sky and shaken the country!

If it were Emperor Jiajing, it would probably be scared and sweating, and then he would directly knock his beard. Unfortunately, Emperor Longqing is now in power. His Majesty laughed at the accusation and did not doubt his Master Gao's motive at all.

As a result, the investigation began as scheduled. Gao Gong dismissed all the censors who had offended him in the past and present, leaving no one behind.

Seeing that Gao Gong could not be stopped, Zhao Zhenji simply started a massacre. The investigation of officials was the common responsibility of the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate. Zhao Ge Lao could naturally attack the censors who surrendered to Gao Gong. As a result, the remaining censors were cut off again.

It turns out that losing both means losing twice to the slogan of the Kedao censor...

It’s okay for Gao Gong. For him, the fewer censors, the better, and all of them are gone. But his confidant disciple, the number one maid, the head of the official department, Han Ji, quit. Because Zhao Zhenji cut off all of them, he was the subordinates of his hard-working commander, and how could he be arrogant and dominate as a commander... Oh no, how can he serve the teacher better?

So Han Ji personally went on the battle to impeach Mr. Zhao's mediocre and tyrannical ones, and he avenged his personal revenge during the inspection.

Seeing that the Gao Party thief shouted to catch the thief, Zhao Zhenji was furious and resigned as usual, he submitted a memorial to defend himself:

'Han Ji impeached his ministers and behaved, but this is contradictory. Because a minister is mediocre, he cannot be tyrannical, and being tyrannical is not something that a minister can do! For example, Gao Gong is really tyrannical! And he has the minions and wings of Han Ji, and he will be uncontrollable in the future!'

Then he asked the emperor to "After the ministers were released, fortunately, they still returned to the cabinet, so that they would not be able to impose power for a long time and build up all the parties! Later, those who wanted to steal the authority and do their own personal gain would not be allowed to support this as an example."

It would be fine to let Gao Gong continue to be the chief minister, but he could not be in charge of the Ministry of Personnel again. Otherwise, once this bad start was started, the treacherous ministers would definitely follow the example in the future!

Mr. Zhao's counterattack was powerful, and every time he was on the scales of the monarch's power. Moreover, he was very self-aware... He knew that his weight in the emperor's heart was far from being able to catch up with Gao Gong. It was unrealistic to try to pull his beard and die together. He felt a little humble and wanted to self-destruct Gao Gong's Minister of Personnel and cut off one of his arms.

The power of a cabinet master's self-destruction was really terrifying, so Gao Gong naturally had to submit a memorial to resign...

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In the ward, Pan Zhongyan took the latest mansion report and read Gaoge's confession:

"I have been in the court and saw the gentry talking about Zhenji, and they always looked at him with great fear of suffering. I always said that Zhenji was upright and generous, and he also used it briefly, so it should not be possible to attack him. Because the old friends said few words, Zhenji also thought that he was aware of me."

The ministers have been suffering from Zhao Zhenji for a long time. It was my eldest son who said good things for him, which suppressed the criticism. At that time, Zhao Zhenji also regarded me as a confidant, right?

"Now, with Han Ji's report, he slandered his ministers. If he was asked to be a minister, the officials of Zhang Lu, the censor Wang Youxian and others had said that they had said that? The reason was clear, and the ministers were not too much to argue."

As a result, because Han Ji impeached him, he suspected that it was my commander. Before, when I was not around, many people impeached him. Could it be that I was not instructed? Han Ji is the head of the six departments, and his duty is to supervise and impeach all officials. He will also impeach those who should be impeached without being instructed by anyone. This principle is very simple and does not need to defend his ministers.

By this time, Zhao Hao and Pan Jixun still looked normal. They should eat and drink soup.

But what happened next shocked the two of them and they were so angry that they squirted about their meals.

"I only remember that I and Zhenji were in the Hanlin Department for more than 30 years, and I was in the cabinet together and were in charge of the affairs of the court and the department, and I was with them day and night. However, I was sincere and could not feel the desire of Zhenji. Once I was angry, I would be very fragile! The cabinet praised the emperor's plan and the Ministry of Personnel commanded all the positions. Even those with virtue would still be unparalleled, let alone those with virtue could not be satisfied?'

But I thought that Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji were in Hanlin for 30 years and entered the cabinet together, taking charge of state affairs, and facing each other day, but still could not influence his heart. It can be seen that I am really a failure in being a human being. With such an important position as the cabinet and the Ministry of Personnel, only virtue is not competent, let alone I am not virtuous, so how can I have the attitude to continue to stay?

So I also want to resign to prove my innocence.

"Master, why is this smell so irritating?" Pan Jixun smiled so hard that he patted the hospital bed, like an old turtle paddling: "I'm sure it wasn't written by Mr. Xu for him?"
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