The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua - Chapter 136

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With the death of Li Zilong, most of his men were arrested, and Bailianjiao collapsed completely.

Even though there are a few fish that are missing from the net in exile, those people are hard to sing, and there is no threat to the court.

The silver that Bai Lianjiao was going to pack and carry was intercepted. Later, Jin Yiwei found many silver tickets from Li Zilong’s body.

These silver tickets were all stored in several money houses by him in the past few years. He did this to ensure that he has money for him no matter where he is, because of this, Li Zilong Only then have enough manpower and material resources to fight against the court.

In addition, the Xu family and the Fang family were also cleaned because they colluded with the white lotus religion. The Fang family only found out that their smart, capable and proud owner was actually the second leader of the white lotus religion.

The real Fang Huixue was killed by Li Zilong a few years ago. The latter not only dressed up as Fang Huixue, but also received everything from Fang Huixue. He also completed the things that Fang Huixue ca n’t do for his children and grandchildren. Family.

With the identity of Fang Huixue, Li Zilong was in the wind and water in Ji’an. On the one hand, he used this layer of cover to covertly mine and cast money. Make things that you do in secret more smoothly.

With the support of money, Fang’s family business is naturally getting bigger and bigger, and the rebellion of Bailianjiao can continue, which can be said to serve two purposes.

Although Tang Fan broke the good things of Bai Lianjiao several times and also exposed several layers of Li Zilong’s identity, making Bai Lianjiao treat him like a nail in his eyes, but in fact, Li Zilong was meticulous and tricky, and it was very difficult to deal with. Force, it is impossible to deal with each other for so many years, but also repeatedly missed.

Without Ji Min ’s temporary repentance, Tang Fan had already died at the moment, and Li Zilong had already calmly escaped, and when Suizhou arrived, it was estimated that Tang Fan could only collect his body.

Tang Fan did not forget his commitment. With his efforts, Ji Min concluded that he was in office to cover the coffin, and the court presented him with a counselor, amended Shu Yin, and his mother sealed five good grades. .

Over the Xu family, due to the inextricable involvement of the two businesses of the Xu Fang, the Xu family was detained for confounding the party, which was also at stake. Although Xu Bin was far away from the capital, his reaction was very keen, but he was in a bad mood. , Immediately donated all of his family’s wealth, and directly contributed to the emperor through the Wan Party, so he held a life.

Of course, with Xu Bin’s cunningness, it is unclear whether he donated all his wealth.

Let’s not mention the matter of Bailianjiao for the time being. The case of fraud in the court trial is falling into place. Xu Sui and Shen Si are responsible for 50 and 30 respectively. —Shen Kunxiu was sacked as a citizen because of his merits in reporting, and because of Tang Panshang ’s enthusiasm. For him, his son was able to save his life, which was already a great fortune.

In any case, all this is finally over.

No matter the Fang family or the Xu family, they will eventually become history.

The flowers bloom and fall, the autumn goes and the spring comes, and two or three years pass by in a hurry.

Bailianism no longer makes waves, and the world seems to be too peaceful, at least for Tang Fan and Suizhou.

After returning to Beijing, the two finally lived a quiet life that did not need to be exhausted.

But calm is only relatively speaking.

There is no major event in the world, but it does not mean that Chaotang is calm.

On the contrary, in the past two years, the emperor’s body has been deteriorating.

Before the prince’s name was changed, the concubine Wanshi had strict control over the harem as he had nowhere to go.

For example, Zhu Youji, the eldest brother of today ’s crown prince, was crowned crown prince when he was two years old. However, two months after the crown prince was conferred, the little crown prince died of a violent illness. At that time, there were many rumors inside and outside Gong Wei, among which most people agreed that the little prince was poisoned by Wan Guifei.

Even the current crown prince Zhu Youqin had suffered a lot before being sealed. After several years of displacement in the palace, he almost failed to survive. When he recognized the emperor, he was five years old. The most fragile and easiest age to die, and after that, Princess Wan seemed to have broken the pot, and the harem woman was no longer prohibited from giving birth to heirs.

So after the crown prince Zhu Youqin, Hou Gongzi was born one after another. Now, there are dozens of princes and queens under the emperor’s knees. This does not include the unborn in the belly of the concubine. Emperor Chenghua worked hard.

Right now, the harem is full of prosperity, with branches and leaves scattered, and no longer looks cold in the early years of Chenghua.

But the consequence of excessive efforts must be that the emperor Jingyuan suffered excessive losses and fell ill.

His body was not strong at first, but he was not restrained, and even the doctor was helpless.

As a result, the emperor saw that the medical technique could not completely heal himself, so he began to put his hopes on the illusory immortal technique. He became more and more trusting in Li Zi Province and Ji Xiao, and almost reached the point of partiality and deference. So far, it has reached a point where it is almost completely unquestionable.

The only good thing is that although the emperor refused to work, the cabinet was still working. Although the cabinet did not necessarily work together, but depending on the system established by the ancestors, the empire was able to maintain daily operations.

However, this does not mean that it is really peaceful. At least Tang Fan has had a wonderful life every day in the cabinet, which is stimulating.

Two years ago, due to the Suzhou case, the fraud case, and the suppression of the Bailian religion, etc., after returning to Beijing, Tang Fan was transferred from the Metropolitan Academy to the Criminal Department due to hard work, and officially served as the Zuo Shilang, and because of the vacancy of the Criminal Department at the time, By the way, he took the place of the punishment of the punishment department of the Penal Department. Although he had not yet been renamed, he was actually the punishment of the punishment department.

According to Tang Fan’s age, this rate of promotion has been very alarming. In the first year of his existence, he took the position of the second-ranking servant with the third-ranking servant, and it is estimated that there are few in the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the other 40 or 50 years old on the officialdom For those who are still struggling in the position of Zhifu or Zhizhou, it can be said to be a step in the sky, young and promising.

At that time, the situation in the cabinet had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Wanan, Liuhun, and Liuji, who were originally dubbed as “paper-patriotic three pavilions” by the courtiers, actually left Wanan and Liuji. As early as a few years ago, Liu Hun was squeezed out by Wan An and Liu Ji.

After Liu Hun left, Wan An recommended Peng Hua and Yin Zhi to join the cabinet one after another. Liu Ji was weak and gradually fell out of favor. Then he recommended Liu Jian, Xu Pu and Qiu Jun to join the cabinet. In order to compete with Wanan.

At that time, Tang Fan had not returned to Beijing, and the fact of entering the cabinet had nothing to do with him, but Qiu Jun encountered a lot of resistance when entering the cabinet.

Because Old Man Qiu was upright and would n’t want to bend when he was in trouble, Liu Ji recommended him to join the cabinet, not because he liked him, but just wanted to use him to deal with Wan An. Of course, Wan An would not agree to find such a problem for himself, and both sides were deadlocked. Not down.

It was at this time that Tang Pan had settled Ji’an’s affairs and returned to the capital, and temporarily took the post of Shangshu, Liu Ji took a step back and said that it would be better to let Qiu Jun’s student Tang Pan enter the cabinet. Far better than its teacher.

Since the establishment of the cabinet, due to the limitations of its system, even though it is the first assistant, the power is not as good as that of the Tang and Song prime ministers, so even if Wan’an is the first assistant, it is impossible to cover the sky with one hand. When it came out, the so-called slight upper hand was nothing more than the emperor’s favor.

For Liu Ji, he recommended Liu Jian, Tang Fan and others, not because he appreciated Liu Jian and Tang Fan.

It has been said earlier that the top impeachment by the imperial court officials was not imperial impeachment Wanan, but Liu Ji Liu Ge old, because the thick skin of the heart is not afraid of playing, Liu Ji was even crowned “Liu Mianhua” “Good reputation”.

But Liu Ji was thick-skinned, and faced with continuous impeachment and impeachment, his heart was also melancholy and sad. As a person, who would n’t want to have a good reputation?

So this time he recommended Liu Jian and others to enter the cabinet, in fact, because Liu Jian, Xu Pu, Tang Fan and their official voice were upright, and everyone hoped.

Liu Ji recommended Xianneng, and naturally he can also scrub his not-so-famous reputation.

In order to avoid both injuries, Wanan finally agreed with Liu Ji’s proposal, so after the court push, Tang Fan also entered the cabinet.

But his ranking is still behind Liu Jian and Xu Pu.

That is to say, in the cabinet, Tang Fan belongs to the oldest youngster.

But Lao Yao is better than not entering the cabinet.

As the core of power in the Daming Empire, the cabinet has always been the ultimate pursuit of all courtiers.

Regardless of how the seniority is discussed in the cabinet, from the outsider’s point of view, being able to enter the cabinet means becoming a Ming dynasty assistant. From other people’s name to Tang Fan, you have to use the “Tang Pao Lao” to be more respectful. Zaifu’s cabinet is also unique.

It was only five or six years since he was a small principal in the Criminal Department.

The speed of Tang Pan’s promotion is really staggering, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty can have such an encounter.

However, as long as other people carefully think about what Tang Fan did, it seems not surprised.

Wherever one wants to go, one has to have the corresponding ability to match.

Otherwise, even if he is in luck, there will be times when he is not alive.

In the Longtan Tiger Cave like the cabinet, the mediocrity can only be reduced to the fish meat on the knife and let anyone slaughter.

Tang Pao, who was envious and jealous of his colleagues, actually lived in the cabinet not as moist as outsiders imagined.

When you did not enter the cabinet, everyone looked up here, and it is inevitable to bring a mystery caused by ignorance. When you are really in the middle, you will find that this day and the taste of it are really not good for outsiders.

When the emperor is indifferent, the cabinet needs to process important documents from all over the country every day and make corresponding decisions and instructions. The territory of Daming is vast, which means that every day there is an urgent need for urgent treatment. On the desks of the elders.

Sometimes the rivers in the east flooded the farmland, and people in a government in the west were under the scourge of drought locusts. The local government was crying and tears were screaming, and it was impossible for the cabinet servants to visit in person. It needs assistance, but the money in the treasury is limited. Which side of the relief should be allocated first, and which side can be placed first. These all need to be judged by the cabinet. Sometimes if the judgment is wrong, it means that there will be thousands. Tens of thousands of lives died away due to their mistakes.

After Tang Fan et al. Entered the cabinet, the manpower of the cabinet increased accordingly, and each person shared a part of the work. It is reasonable to say that the workload has been reduced as much as possible, but everyone still enters the value every day until dawn, until the various offices in the afternoon have dispersed. Most of the time, cabinet members will stay here to discuss official affairs and criticize the performances. Among them, the hard work cannot be done in one word.

Despite being criticized by many people, Wan An, as the first assistant, is not as ordinary people think. Just by flattering the emperor every day and then doing nothing, he can secure his position as the first assistant.

When the cabinet ministers discuss political affairs, the first and second assistants need to preside over the meeting, and more importantly, they need to discuss and decide on matters that are inconsistent, and make final decisions; some important matters, even if they have been approved by other cabinet ministers, Shoufu still needs to review it again in order to confirm that the opinions are feasible and that there are no mistakes.

Since the emperor is now focusing on repairing immortals instead of dynasty politics, the responsibilities and workload of the cabinet have virtually increased a lot. After many decisions have been implemented, the courtiers will think of the responsibilities as the cabinet when they are dissatisfied. , Wanan must bear more blame than other cabinet ministers.

These are the other aspects that Tang Fan has not seen before.

Originally, when he was outside, he always felt that Wan Dang had nothing to do with himself all the time, but now he sees with his own eyes that Wan An can be the first assistant. Better than others.

And he also knows that the core of Wandang is not Wanan.

To be precise, the reason why Wandang can stand in Chenghua depends on the emperor’s favor for Wan Guifei.

Without Wan Guifei, there would be no Wan Party.

Although Wan did not directly intervene in North Korea ’s politics, her influence was everywhere. The most direct manifestation was that Princess Wan was extremely unhappy with today ’s prince, and hoped that the prince would replace him all the time. of.

But these things at best only made Tang Fan’s understanding of Wanan deeper, which does not mean that he had a good impression of Wanan Liu Ji and others.

Due to the great influence of Wan Guifei, in order to consolidate her position, Wanan spared his post as a subordinate and climbed relatives with Wan Guifei and Wantong sisters, and another cabinet minister Liu Ji also got married with Wan Guifei’s family, which made Their interests are firmly **** with Wanshi, and they act with the joy of Wanshi and the evil of Wanshi, and completely lose the principle and skill of Minister Zaifu. This is why we hate Wandang. The real reason for the inside of Li’an and others.

Not to mention the sound of this place in the cabinet. In fact, the office environment is worse than that of the Sixth Department. Everyone shrinks into a small Wenyuan Pavilion, and the cabinets of the cabinet ministers work alone. They are connected to each other. The spacious and bright ministries cannot be compared at all.

Moreover, Tang Fan is now also the responsibility of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, not only to deal with the cabinet, but also to take the time to go back to the Criminal Department every day, can be described as busy.

Fortunately, there are not many things that the Criminal Department needs him to make a final decision, most of them are done by You Shilang, Peng Yichun. As early as Tang Fan, when he was the principal of the Criminal Department, the old gentleman had a good relationship with him, and later Tang Fan After leaving the penal department, he also kept in touch with him.

After Tang Fan returned to Beijing to re-enter the penal department, the reason why he could get started so quickly was also inseparable from Peng Yichun ’s support, so after he entered the cabinet, he recommended Peng Yichun to serve in the penal department, so that he could never end his official duties. Part of the liberation.

The position of the Criminal Department in the six Departments is not very important, so Tang Fang entered the cabinet and served as the Criminal Department’s Shangshu, no one objected.

Ordinary people have several jobs, and I ’m afraid that I ’m too late to be happy. Pakistan had to hand over power. It happened that the cabinet and the six departments had two burdens. However, Tang Fan did n’t even sit on the position of Dai Shangshu, so he busyly recommended others to share, even Wang Zhi All laughed that he was in bliss and did not know the blessing.

Even so, the cabinet meeting once every three days is still a headache for Tang Fan.

Tang Fan alone felt that all members of the cabinet felt the same with him.

For example today.

In the meeting room of Wenyuan Pavilion, Shoufu was at the top, and everyone sat in two rows.

Seeing that the hourglass had arrived at Shen, the matter of the deliberation was almost the same. Everyone was secretly relieved. I thought I should be able to disperse on time today.

Wan An said: “There are two things in the end, I want to come up and discuss with you.”

Upon hearing this, everyone subconsciously straightened their backs and waited for Shoufu to follow.

Wan Andao: “There are four rooms in Wenyuan Pavilion, and there were not many original cabinet ministers. There was just one room per person, but now the number of people is increasing, it seems a little crowded. Your Majesty is kind. When the Zaifu labored for the state, and even the duty place was so narrow, they had to fund the Neiku to repair and expand the Wenyuan Pavilion. “

Everyone nodded as soon as he heard what he said.

Liu Ji even said: “Your Majesty has a lot of kindness, and he has never forgotten to show compassion to his subjects. It really makes me impressed by these officials!”

The Wenyuan Pavilion was originally built in the Yongle period. It was originally used for book collection. Later, it added another function and became a secret place for cabinet officials to enter the office.

Today, with the increasing power of the cabinet, Wenyuan Pavilion is still the small Wenyuan Pavilion. Now there are seven people in the cabinet, Wan An, Liu Ji, Peng Hua, Yin Zhi, Liu Jian, Xu Pu, Tang Fan, Except for the single room of the first assistant, the rest of the people, even the second assistant Liu Ji, can only have one room.

Outsiders only knew about Zaifu’s scenery, but didn’t know about Zaifu’s bitterness. If they could see the value room of Wenyuan Pavilion, they would be stunned.

So the emperor’s words really speak to everyone’s heart.

Who doesn’t want to be able to change a spacious value room? Everyone’s eyes sparkled, waiting for Wan’an to follow.

Wan An deliberately paused for a while and waited for everyone to digest this paragraph before continuing: “But now we have to use money for everything, and the Nuku is not generous. We are courtiers, we should share the worries for your majesty, not The situation is even worse, so I made it possible for Her Majesty not to allocate money from the internal treasury, but to use the national treasury to repair it. “

Everyone: “…”

See, this is one of the reasons why Wan’an hates people.

The money in the internal treasury is separate from the national treasury. The emperor can use the internal treasury at will, but if he wants to call the national treasury money, he must obtain the consent of the court.

The Daming Treasury has a certain amount of money each year, which should be allocated to the military department as funds, and which should be left for disaster relief. After the distribution, there is little left. If you want to use the money to repair the Wenyuan Pavilion, it is basically impossible. .

Although Wenyuan Pavilion lived as a cabinet minister, in the final analysis, it was still a building in the palace. It should be repaired with the money from Neiku, but the emperors of all generations rarely mentioned this. Nowadays, the emperor of the emperor finally found out conscience and wanted to pay for it himself. , But the result was rejected by Wan An.

You said that it doesn’t matter if you want to please the emperor, but you have to drag everyone into the water and refuse this rare benefit. Can you not hate it?

The most frustrating thing is that everyone ca n’t raise an objection. You have to say that Wanshoufu refused, because no one in the past has forced the emperor to pay for repairing his office.

So everyone looked weird, but they were speechless. They had mixed tastes in their hearts, and they didn’t know how many times they had greeted Wanan.

Wanan looked around: “Why do you think it’s wrong?”

He was waiting for someone who couldn’t help jumping out to say that it was inappropriate, and then he could buckle the other’s unfaithful hat and sue in front of the emperor.

However, it is a pity that everyone on the scene is more calm than one, and even if the house is small and uncomfortable, it is definitely not a good bird.

Liu Ji even smiled and said: “Yuan Weng said even, we are courtiers, we should share the sorrow for your majesty. How can you trouble your majesty, I wonder if the second thing you want to say is?”

Wan An coughed: “This second thing is also related to money. Your Majesty wants to rebuild Chongzhen Longevity Palace.”

This Chongzhen Longevity Palace is actually a Taoist temple. It was as famous as Baiyun Temple in the Yuan Dynasty, but now only Baiyun Temple is left. During the war in the late Yuan Dynasty, Chongzhen Longevity Palace was gradually abandoned, and it is now under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Court. Under the pasture.

However, the emperor wanted to rebuild on a whim, and there were reasons for it. Everyone on the scene didn’t need to ask and know, and this must be instigated by Li Zi Province and others.

Since the emperor has been in poor health, he has become more obsessed with opponents’ skills. This is not a day or two.

The upswing is good, and the downswing is very serious. People like Li Zi Province and Zhao Yuzhi have been reused as a result, and they have even been placed in important positions like the Department of Public Affairs.

Nowadays, there are not many people colluding with it. The reason why Peng Hua was able to sit here is because he took the road of Wanan by meeting Liz province.

Liu Ji asked: “Dare to ask Yuan Weng, why have I never heard from His Majesty?”

Wan Andao: “I also heard of His Majesty when I entered the palace yesterday.”

Liu Ji said with a smile: “How to support Neiku’s money is naturally up to His Majesty. If your Majesty wants to use this money to repair the Chongzhen Longevity Palace, we can’t stop us as courtiers. I don’t know why Yuan Weng specially I will talk about this later? “

Wan An scolded the pretending old fox with a calm look on his face: “Your Majesty means that it is not a simple matter to rebuild the Chongzhen Longevity Palace. I would like to ask you what you mean. Youzhi, you are in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In your opinion, how do we respond to Your Majesty? “

To put it bluntly, the emperor wanted to use the money from the treasury to cultivate Taoism, but he was embarrassed to open this mouth, so he turned the corner and asked Wanan to consult the cabinet.

As soon as Wan An said, everyone looked at Liu Ji.

Liu Ji didn’t want to agree, because he now valued his reputation more and more. If he nodded and asked the emperor to take money from the Hube to practice Taoism, his cabinet minister would be scolded by the officials, but if If you do not agree, you will offend the emperor.

Thinking about this, he smiled and said: “Although I am in charge of the household department, this matter is of great importance, but it is not up to me to decide, but it is up to Yuan Weng and you to decide.”

Wan An was very dissatisfied with his evasive attitude toward Tai Chi: “How many deposits are there in the Treasury?”

Liu Jidao: “Less than one million.”

Wan Andao: “That’s not too much. Since His Majesty’s ascension to the throne, he has been frugal everywhere. There has never been any work done by the laborers and the people. He now rarely wants to rebuild a palace. This is not a big deal. ? “

Liu Ji smiled bitterly: “Your majesty’s business is a matter of courtiers. If you can rebuild the Chongzhen Longevity Palace with half a million twos, how can I have the reason to not agree? Next, I said that I would buy winter clothes for the northern garrison, and I ca n’t do it! “

Liu Jian is in charge of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He heard the words and said: “Yes, there is indeed such a thing. Yuan Weng, these 500,000 two, I said to Liu Gong half a year ago.”

Wan Anyin didn’t speak, and finally Peng Hua said: “Yuan Weng, why don’t you let everyone think about it and discuss it tomorrow?”

After being refuted by Liu Ji and Liu Jian one after another, Wan An felt very upset. He glanced at the crowd and dropped the sentence “then let’s get together”, then he hurried away.

Such a meeting is neither efficient nor meaningful, but Tang Fanjing is the last one, and he is in charge of the most unspeakable penal department. Under normal circumstances, he ca n’t take the time to express his opinion. Seeing everyone has left, He also packed up things and walked out after Liu Jian.

After going out of the palace, Liu Jian took a step first. Tang Fan saw that it was rare to get out early today, and wanted to go to the wonton stall to buy some scallion pancakes to go home. Just a few steps away, he heard someone call him.

“Old Tangge!”

Tang Fan looked back, it was Wei Mao.

“Old Tangge!” Wei Mao hurried over a few steps.

Tang Fan smiled and said: “I said Lao Wei, just call someone Tang Ge Lao. Whatever you call, you shouted me embarrassingly and promised you!”

Wei Mao also smiled: “This is how respectful, I can’t tell you, the villain came by the order of Wang Gong. Wang Gong said that he would invite you to eat the dishes of Xianyunguan in the evening, so that you don’t leave after leaving your job. , Go directly to Xianyun Hall and wait for him. “

After changing the weekdays, Tang Fanding wanted to shine his eyes. At this time, he smiled and said: “That’s right, I have to go back to dinner tonight, otherwise the family Hedong Lion is angry, I want to kneel the washboard of!”

Wei Mao was stunned for a moment, thinking that you were not married, where is the Hedong Lion, and then thought again, could not help but look speechless.

But before he could react, Tang Fan had turned on the sedan chair and left.