Zhu Youtang closed Han Junyan's first memorial and said calmly: "Pass out the contents of this memorial as well."

A few days later, Liu Dang was shocked when they learned that the Minister of War, Han Junyan, whom they had worked so hard to elect to power, was not grateful, but actually wrote a letter of impeachment to the emperor.

Liu Dang thought that he must not sit still and wait for death, so everyone gathered in the house of Liu Ji, the chief minister of the cabinet, to discuss countermeasures. Liu Ji was also very troubled now. He just went to the Xinuang Pavilion of Qianqing Palace to meet Zhu Youtang not long ago. What Zhu Youtang said It was still vivid in my mind. I wanted to have a few days of peace and quiet to sort out my thoughts, but I didn't expect that trouble would soon come to my door.

As the leader of the Liu Party, everyone came to discuss countermeasures, and also asked him to come forward and write a letter to fight back. Everyone agreed that the emperor had to give face to the chief minister of the cabinet.

When Liu Ji learned that all the core members of the Liu Party came to the door, he did not meet them directly. Instead, he arranged for them to have a quarrel in the lobby to relieve their anger, while he sobered up in the study.

"I have already said that a young man like Han Junyan is not worthy of supporting him, but you still don't believe it! Now it's okay, he has exposed everyone's bottom, brought trouble to His Majesty, and our image will be smeared again Come on!" The person who spoke was Wei Zhang, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple.

"Brother Wei, calm down. What's the use of talking about this now? The urgent matter now is to discuss what to do." Zou Mo, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said.

Wei Zhang was impatient and became even more angry when he heard this. He cursed: "This is nothing to discuss. I will go back and write to your Majesty to impeach Han Junyan now. Can he alone be able to speak out against a group of us?"

Li Guang, the Minister of Rites, had been following Liu Ji during this period, and the city was deeper than before. He calmed down and analyzed the situation, shook his head and objected: "No, according to what I have known about him for many years, this person is stubborn and stubborn. It's a bit pedantic. If we write a letter to impeach him, he has never seen such a battle. In a hurry, he went to ask Xu Pu and others for help and joined Xu Pu and others. Isn't this making wedding clothes for others? "

"Li Shangshu means not to attack him too hastily, but to take his time. First, stabilize Han Junyan so that he will not write a petition for impeachment, and then find a way to deal with him?" Lu Ling, the left minister of the Ministry of War, asked.

Li Guang sighed: "Exactly, this matter can only be slowed down and not rushed. Of course, this is also my personal opinion. In the end, I have to wait for Mr. Ge's decision."

In his heart, Lu Ling looked down upon Han Junyan, who had been the censor before and then became the Minister of the Ministry of War. He couldn't wait for Han Junyan to be laid off, and then directly take over as the Minister of the Ministry of War. So he remonstrated: "What Li Shangshu said It's reasonable, but I'm afraid Han Junyan doesn't buy our account. It's better for the elder Ge to come forward and write to Your Majesty to transfer him out of the capital, preferably to a border area like the southwest."

After speaking, Lu Ling looked at Li Guang quietly. At this moment, Wei Zhang could no longer bear it. He slapped the table and shouted: "What's wrong with the pavilion today? You haven't come out for so long! Why should such a thing be delayed?" , I am more powerful than any of you in impeachment, so you have to wait, I will go back and write to Your Majesty overnight to impeach Han Junyan, and let’s see whose writing skills are better!"

After saying that, Wei Zhang rolled up his sleeves and left. Everyone shook their heads and sighed. At this moment, Liu Ji, the chief assistant of the cabinet, walked out of the side hall.

When everyone saw Liu Ji finally coming out, they all stepped forward and saluted: "I've met Mr. Ge."

Liu Ji waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down. At this time, Li Guang stepped forward to pour a cup of tea and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Ge, that Han Junyan..."

"Needless to say, I just heard it in the side hall, and I understand what you are thinking. Li Guang is right, this kind of thing can only be done slowly and not hastily. A dog will jump over the wall when it is anxious, and a rabbit will bite when it is anxious.

Woolen cloth!"

Liu Ji took a sip of tea and continued: "Although Han Junyan is pedantic, he is an honest man, but if you are planning to write a letter to impeach him, he will be desperate. At this time, if Xu Pu and the others take the opportunity to hand over an olive branch, saying to help him out of the predicament.

, do you think Han Junyan will accept it or not? The Minister of War is very big, how can the person who worked so hard to help him be given to Xu Pu and the others so easily?"

Lu Ling, Zou Mo and others asked: "Then what should we do according to what Elder Ge said?"

"Have you all read Han Junyan's memorial? The main person impeached in the memorial is Wei Zhang. I have reminded him long ago that when it is time to make money, he will make money, and when it is time to stop, he will stop. Fortunately, not only did he not

He restrained himself and got worse. All the officials in the court had known about his dirty deeds! Yan Guan never impeached him, but it was just because of my face! Now that the incident has happened, the only choice is to abandon the car to protect him.

You are so handsome, make your position clear and let Wei Zhang and Han Junyan quarrel with each other."

As soon as Liu Ji said this, everyone was shocked. After all, Wei Zhang had worked with him for more than ten years, how could he just give up?

Lu Ling said: "Mr. Ge, it's me who Han Junyan is impeaching." In Lu Ling's view, he didn't care at all whether Wei Zhang was alive or dead, he only cared about his own interests.

Liu Ji smiled slightly, pointed at Lu Ling and said: "What are you impeaching? Are you impeaching you for marrying the wife of the seventh wife? Your Majesty doesn't even look at these things about you. Besides, every hero has three wives and four wives.

Concubine, there is nothing to be afraid of! But Wei Zhang is different. The evidence of his corruption crime has probably already reached the Jin Yiwei. If we continue to lose our relationship with Wei Zhang, everyone will have no choice but to be buried with him.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so please calm down and calm down. Even if you don’t think about yourself, you should think about your wives, children, and children. Zhang Peng died only a few days ago, and you have all forgotten?"

Liu Ji's words deeply touched everyone's hearts. It is true that officialdom is ruthless, and people are even more ruthless! Compared with the relationship between everyone and Wei Zhang for more than ten years, their future interests are so small. Friends in officialdom only have interests.

is eternal!

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In the evening, Zhu Youtang had just come out of Su Yin's room, and before he returned to Qianqing Palace, he heard Wei Zhang's letter impeaching Han Junyan.

Looking at Wei Zhang's sharp memorial, Zhu Youtang wanted to laugh. In the memorial, he was confronting Han Junyan. If you impeach me on six terms, I will reply to you on seven. But compared to Han Junyan's wording, Wei Zhang

Most of the charges against Zhang for impeachment were fabricated out of thin air!

After Zhu Youtang read it, he threw it aside, intending to keep it in mind. The final result would have to wait until Mou Bin investigated. But what Zhu Youtang couldn't understand was that didn't Wei Zhang claim to be Liu Ji's right-hand man?

Liu Ji didn't have anyone to speak for him? I had planned to use this incident to give Liu Dang a hard blow, but it seemed that I still overestimated Liu Ji, an old fox.

In the past few days, Wei Zhang and Han Junyan wrote at least four or five memorials every day. The two of them would say one sentence to the other, and no one would give in to the other. At first, Zhu Youtang thought it was quite interesting and would open it and read it.

I didn't even look at it and threw it aside.

Under this situation, except for the other members of the Liu Party who did not participate as usual, Xu Pu and others have been quietly observing the development trend of the matter.

After quietly observing for a few days, Xu Pu and others came to the conclusion that Wei Zhang had now become an abandoned son of the Liu Party and had no backing to speak of! Wang Shu had always disliked Wei Zhang, how could Xie Qian

He missed this opportunity and began to write letters to impeach Wei Zhang.

When Wei Zhang saw that the matter was starting to get complicated, Han Junyan was no longer the only one to impeach him. Even Xie Qian, a newly appointed minister in the cabinet, and the prestigious Wang Shu also joined the battle. Along with several leaders

The impeachment of Wei Zhang began, and some low-level officials who had offended Wei Zhang in ordinary times also took advantage of the situation to add insult to injury. For a time, the Nuan cabinet was full of memorials to impeach Wei Zhang.

He was quarreling in the court, but none of his good "teammates" came out to speak for him. Seeing that the pressure was increasing, Wei Zhang couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to his chief assistant Liu Ji for help.

"Master Wei, please come back. My master is not feeling well and will not see guests today." Liu Ji's housekeeper said indifferently.

Wei Zhang had no choice but to find someone else, but others, like Liu Ji, declined today with various reasons. Anyway, they just wanted to see him.

It was like this for several days in a row. Wei Zhang couldn't bear it any longer. He remembered that he had talked about government affairs with them before, drinking and talking about everything. In just a few days, these people's faces had changed, and they had become so disgusting.

I feel a little strange.

A few days ago, the housekeeper of Liu Ji's house came out and politely refused him. Today, the door was closed and the housekeeper didn't come out. Wei Zhang was already angry. When he saw such a situation again, a surge of anger surged in his heart and he slapped the door.

He scolded: "Liu Ji, you ungrateful person, without my help, could you have brought down Wange Lao? How many things have I done for you and how many names have you been blamed for, don't you know? You're better off now.

You have become the chief minister of the cabinet and have turned your back on me. Since you are ruthless, don't blame me for being unrighteous!"

Suddenly the "door" creaked, and a dozen servants with sticks came out from inside. They beat Wei Zhang hard and killed them all. Wei Zhang was a scholar, how could he suffer such a situation. In the end,

Wei Zhang was beaten to death and sent back to his home.

At the same time, Mou Bin had searched for various evidence of Wei Zhang's crimes and submitted them to him. Zhu Youtang read it and cursed: "I have always wanted to rectify the administration of officials. I thought that corrupt officials were in the local area, but I didn't expect that they were in the imperial court."

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"Instruct Mou Bin to arrest Wei Zhang immediately, and anyone who colludes with him in corruption and bribery will be sent to prison."

As soon as the imperial edict came out, the Tiqi immediately went out. Some of them had committed fraud by giving gifts to Wei Zhang, and now they were hiding in the northwest, Suzhou and other places, and they were all captured by the Tiqi.

Zhu Youtang knew that Wei Zhang had many disciples in his hometown, so he decided to publish his corruption story as the first issue of the Beijing News. First, let the people of the world know what Wei Zhang was and whether the emperor should deal with him.

he.

After the position of Dali Temple Prime Minister became vacant, Xu Pu, the second assistant, immediately recommended a person, and Zhu Youtang readily approved it. Liu Dang knew that there had been recent tensions and the rise of prisons. After the fall of Wei Zhang, his own strength was reduced, and again
Chapter completed!