The news that the second assistant to the cabinet, Lu Diaoyang, Jin Jianji Hall, caused considerable trouble in the court.

Everyone knows that the title of Grand Secretary in this year is four halls and two pavilions, with a total of six different titles. When you first enter the pavilion, you are mostly Grand Secretary of the Dong Pavilion, and then after a period of time, you are promoted to Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion, followed by Grand Secretary of the Wuying Pavilion, Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Pavilion, and Grand Secretary of the Jianji Pavilion. There will be occasionally skipping grades, but whether you will be promoted to Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Pavilion depends on whether you can reach the Prime Minister. This depends not only on your own ability, but also on the official fortune and lifespan of the cabinet masters in front of you.

As for the titles of the ministers of a certain department, most of them are empty titles, which are just beautiful. They are not really Gao Gong, who once served as the chief minister, but also controlled the power of the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Zhao Zhenji, who also led the Censorate after entering the cabinet. The former is also regarded as a symbol of Gao Gong's domineering and arbitrary title. The same is true for the titles of the State of the Pillar and the Three Dukes and Three Young Masters, but it is just to make the ministers appear more honorable. After all, the feeling of being in the second rank and the first rank of the official position is still a bit different when you go out.

Since the love affair between Zhang Juzheng last year, Lu Diaoyang has been asking for resignation due to his old age and illness. There have been at least seven or eight times. If Zi did not allow him today, he first added a young tutor to Lu Diaoyang at the end of last year, and now he has promoted Lu Diaoyang to the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall. The significance of this is naturally enough for those who are interested to think about it for a long time.

Although Emperor Wanli had already appointed Wang Xijie, who was only thirteen years old, as the queen, because of Empress Li's repeated requests, was appointed as the queen. The queen, not only had a festive name, but was only twelve years old when she was selected among countless candidate women last year. For this reason, Zhang Juzheng also wrote a letter to advise, thinking that the emperor and empress got married too early, so it would be better to postpone it. However, Empress Li, who had always followed Zhang Juzheng's advice, rejected this proposal and forced the couple who were less than 30 years old to marry in the first lunar month. Although it was meaningless to favor a thirteen-year-old yellow-haired girl, Emperor Wanli did not object because he believed that he would be free after the wedding.

After the wedding in the first month of the year, Empress Dowager Cisheng, officially withdrew from the Qianqing Palace and returned to the Cining Palace. Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun had already taken charge of the government. However, Emperor Wanli soon discovered that he was sixteen years old and was not familiar with the government at all. He had to look at the memorials and slowly learn and ponder.

Therefore, everyone knows that behind the edict of Lu Diaoyang to be promoted to the title of the Celestial Auxiliary, it must be Zhang Juzheng's instruction. In this way, should Zhang Juzheng keep Lu Diaoyang, or should he send Lu Diaoyang away for a high-ranking official?

When this speculation spread to Wang Fulin and many people came to test it out indirectly, the now popular Guangdong Dao Zhengdao Wang Shiyu was suddenly a little amused.

Last year, when Zhang Juzheng returned to the 77th season, he came a comet. He thought that someone would take this opportunity to continue writing letters one after another, but only one civilian civilian became a leader, and was taken to serve as a military officer after being stole. Most of the officials in the court remained silent, especially Ke Dao was even more silent. After his plan to call out the Censorate was completely failed, he became his master's censor. Even the chief superior Zuo Du Censor changed from Chen Zan to Chen Xu, he never shook his status in the Censorate.

At this moment, in the lobby of the Censorate, he sat on the first chair in the lower left of the new Lord Zongxian, and once again experienced the completely different styles of Chen Yu and Chen Zan. The old man was not very good at speaking and was not used to long-term discussions. He always said that he would leave and never drag on the mud. This attitude of not being flattering or close to him was quite in line with Chen Zan's appetite. Even if some of the things he did made the old man frown, it would not prevent the old man from leaving a good evaluation on his exam book before leaving. But now Chen Yu makes everyone who comes to see him feel like spring breeze.

But even so, among the Thirteen Supervisors of the Censorate, the new Left Censor was mixed. For example, although Wang Fulin was treated as a guest, he did not say anything as if he was in front of Chen Zan. Especially when Chen Yu asked about Lu Diaoyang about the matter, he was even more sleek.

"Although the second assistant Master Lu Ge often takes leave recently, the cabinet still goes there often. When I was ordered to go to the cabinet for business, I have seen it twice. Although the spirit is not the best, it is still acceptable."

Chen Xu also knew that it was difficult to ask any useful news when he was in a lobby of the Censorate, so he had to change the topic. But when Wang Fulin reported the matter and stood up to say goodbye, he said with a smile: "Shiqing, I'll have a rest tomorrow. My grandson has a hundred-day banquet. But I have invited some relatives and friends to have old friends. Are you willing to come and have a gathering?"

Your boss has invited you, can I say no?

Wang Fulin complained in his heart, and secretly muttered that Chen Zan would not accept anything at all after three or two years of life. It can be said that he would not be able to get into the market. The new Zuodu Censor has been in office for four months, but he is good at dancing. He is in sharp contrast with Chen Zan's personal relationship. Now he even invited him to the 100-day banquet. You must know that he is not familiar with the Chen family at all! If you don't know, you would think that Chen Xu was the same year as Zhang Juzheng for the first and second Zuodu Censors!

Chen Yu was actually Gao Gong in the same year. In the 20th year of Jiajing, he ranked among the top three. In terms of ranking, he was not very prominent. He started out as the chief executive. After three years of examination, he became the chief censor and served as the chief censor. Then he became the chief censor of the Salt Censor. Under Yan Song's authority, he once reported illness and returned to his hometown to avoid disasters. He went around in the Censorate for several times. Finally, because his seniority as a censor was too far-reaching, he was promoted to the fifth-rank Guanglu Shaoqing in one fell swoop. He was often promoted to the senior chief censor or to the senior chief censor who was used by the minister and was transferred to the Taichang Shaoqing of the Siyi Pavilion. Finally, he arrived at the position of the third-rank chief censor, the chief censor of the Nanjing Taipu Temple, but he was also in the governor of Sichuan, the governor of the grain transportation, and was in a foreign affairs for several years.

It is precisely because he was an official in the capital but never had to be with the Six Ministry Censorate and wasted many years of work abroad. Now Chen Yu is over 60 years old, but he has finally settled as the position of Zuodu Censor. Naturally, he feels that his foundation is unstable, and he must think about the candidates for the Six Ministry Secretary and the Pavilion Master.

The Minister of Personnel, Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Revenue, Yin Zhengmao, and Li Youzi, these three are all the closest friends of Zhang Juzheng. Although Fang Fengshi, the Minister of War, had been recommended by Zhang Juzheng, his relationship was not that close, and it is very likely that Zhang Xueyan Teng's position. The Minister of Justice changed two last year, and now the Minister of Justice Wu Baipeng is not far away from Zhang Juzheng. However, the Minister of Rites Ma Ziqiang, instead, offended Zhang Juzheng because he wrote a letter to plead for Zhao Yongxian, Wu Zhongxing of the Hanlin Academy. As for the cabinet masters, Lu Diaoyang obviously couldn't hold on. Zhang Siwei seemed to be in the same rank with Zhang Juzheng, but at the end of last year, Zhang Juzheng gave him a look for something for a while.

Chen Xu knew that he had no military achievements and could not be involved in the Minister of War; the position of Minister of Justice was not as good as that of the Zuodu Censor; although the Minister of Rites was the most likely to be vacant, the Qingguiya was the private land of the Hanlins most of the time. The cabinet was not bad and Hanlins were incomparable, so he had no chance at all. It was confirmed that the Zuodu Censor was his last stop in the officialdom. Of course, he hoped to firmly control the Censorate and eliminate the hidden danger of the former supervisory Censor's firecrackers, so that Zhang Juzheng could hand over the Censorate to himself with confidence. Since this was the case, he was of course willing to win over Wang Fulin, who was rumored to be highly valued by Zhang Juzheng.

He has more than one son, but he has only one second son who is an official in the capital. The so-called grandson who holds a 100-day banquet is the only one among his second son's second son's second wife, and he is also the only one among all his grandsons. Although Chen Zongxian, who is a illegitimate son, doesn't care much about the illegitimate son, it is better to hold a 100-day banquet for the illegitimate son than to use those illegitimate sons as excuses.

When Wang Fulin found out these joints, he was carrying a five-color gift box and putting a golden lock in his purse as a gift. He pinched the time to Hu, where Chen's mansion was located, but he ran into a guest whom he had never thought of. Seeing Wang Zhuan picking up the curtains of the sedan, he looked surprised when he saw him, Wang Fulin smiled and said, "Chen Zongxian also told me that he invited some relatives and friends, but Wang Siko came too."

Wang Zhuan is now in and out of Zhang Juzheng's mansion very frequently, and even surpasses some ministers. Therefore, when he came to the door today, Chen Yue repeatedly invited him. He thought that the person was specially selected by Zhang Juzheng to suppress the roles of the censors of the Censorate, so he had to give him face. Now he is late, but he still meets Wang Fulin here. He only thought for a moment and realized what was going on.

Seeing that Wang Fulin asked his entourage to take a step first, and to the Chen Mansion to send the gift in, but rode his horse with him. When he arrived at the Chen Mansion, he came over to help him get out of the sedan chair with great care. He said angrily: "I'm not that old yet, so you don't need to show your respect!"

"Isn't this too late? I'll borrow Wang Siko Huwei to avoid anyone criticizing me?"

Wang Zhuan smiled at the moment of taking advantage of such a refreshing and frank manner. Although he is now the Minister of Justice, Zhang Juzheng has already sent a letter. Wang Guoguang is old. Although he relies on his daily experience in the Ministry of Personnel, he still needs a more capable Minister to go to the Ministry of Personnel to take charge of daily affairs. Now he has not yet been freed up. Therefore, he was not afraid of Chen Yu, a senior who is higher than his official rank but still seeks from him. He immediately nodded and said, "Since that's the case, we are all the way."

The 100-day banquet in Chen's mansion was indeed not big. Men gathered in the front yard and women gathered in the back yard. As for the children of the protagonist, they just carried them out for people to see. Especially the men just gathered together to talk about things outside, and they really care about a child. As the banquet was about to start, Chen Yu found that the two most important guests today had not arrived for a long time, so he was naturally very unhappy. The chief class had come up to ask for instructions several times to start the meal, and even tactfully stated that the women inside had some small complaints, so he became even more irritable.

Just when he was determined and was not waiting, the housekeeper outside the lobby bowed and said, "Master, Wang Siko from the Ministry of Justice and Wang Zhandao from the Censorate."

They actually came together?

Chen Xu was a little suspicious, and then he smiled and said, "It seems that the guests are here. Let's continue and prepare for the meal."

Except for the two Chen Xu who came today, the rest are mostly old friends of the Chen family. The eldest is Taichang Shaoqing, and the youngest is only a junior with scholars and fame. So even though he knew that Chen Xu was waiting for others, no one dared to say anything. When he learned who Chen Xu was waiting for him, no one had any objections. Since Wang Zhuan was transferred to the capital last year, it was rumored that he met Zhang Juzheng, who was guarding Qiqi at home, and then immediately promoted from the right assistant censor of Nanjing to the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Juzheng was confidant. Not to mention Wang Fulin, who didn't know that he was a close friend of the Zhang family brothers?

So, when the old and young stepped into the hall one by one, they were immediately treated like a star. Everyone who knew or didn't know came forward to flatter him and introduced himself to make himself familiar. Fortunately, Wang Fulin had come out to socialize in his early years and was very familiar with this situation. Not to mention Wang Zhuan, let alone Wang Zhuan, how could he not have such ability after being together in the officialdom for more than ten years? This situation of talking to people and talking to ghosts did not last long, because Chen Yu quickly came forward. He suppressed others with the majesty of his elders and high-ranking officials. For a moment, everyone could only surround the side, pricked up his ears, and tried to find out some news from the conversation.

But who would reveal the secrets of the court on such occasions? After a few gossips, Chen Xu naturally welcomed Wang Zhuan to the head of the main table, but put Wang Fulin on the seat beside him. After sitting down, the young people who were about the same age as Wang Fulin but had to sit behind him looked at Wang Fulin, who was chatting and laughing at the main table without any fright. In addition, some people muttered in a low voice: "If I also passed the Jinshi exam and became an official, I would naturally not be inferior to him."

"There are also serious Hanlin Academy editors on the main table, and their grades are higher than Wang Fulin. But how many times did that Hanlin have spoken? There are more than 300 Jinshi in each subject, but how many people have this opportunity?"

Wang Fulin wished he would not have the opportunity to cause trouble. After three rounds of drinking, he found an excuse to leave the lobby to go to the clean room, but was invited by a seemingly honest and honest book boy to a house that was obviously a study room. Although he was not in a hurry at the moment, he was still angry when he saw the scene in the room. However, when Wang Zhuan was also lured in a while, the young and old stared at each other, and he felt very angry at the same time. Even though Chen Yu followed one after another, he smiled and said no, Wang Fulin still disagreed.

The three of them fled the seat one after another. Isn’t this obvious telling the other guests during the seat? They sneaked out and had a secret talk?

But just as Chen Yu seemed to be thinking about how to speak, Wang Zhuan said bluntly: "Yuan Fu planned to return to his hometown in March."

These simple eight words made Chen Xu forget all the original purpose! Is Zhang Juzheng just going back to his hometown to bury his father, or did he really go back to his hometown to mourn, or just reveal a rumor, and then clean up a group of officials?
Chapter completed!