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Chapter 50 Good News Enters Beijing

The Minister of Personnel is the head of the six ministers, and he is in charge of personnel appointments and removals, so he is also called the Heavenly Office. Although the Minister of War Li Chunye and the Minister of Personnel Wang Shaohui are both first-rank officials, the Minister of Personnel is higher in the ritual system, so Li Chunye packed up his clothes and walked out of the study room quickly and listened to him from a distance: "Oh, what gust of wind blows Wang Shangshu? It's really a radiant."

Wang Shaohui stood in the lobby with his hands behind his back. He heard Li Chunye's voice and turned to him and said, "Well, Li Shangshu, why not go to your inner study room to talk."

Li Chunye was stunned and quickly agreed, "Please!" As he said that, he made a gesture of invitation, and turned around and ordered Li Yingshi, "Easy, go to the top of a pot of good rain, and bring it to yourself."

"Oh, I got it, father."

According to the Ming Dynasty etiquette system, the inner study rooms of wealthy families were generally only accessible by distinguished guests or superiors, and they had to be invited by their masters. However, Wang Shaohui came up and asked Li Chunye to talk to him to the inner study room, which was actually very rude. However, Wang Shaohui and Li Chunye's status in the eunuch party cannot be compared. Wang Shaohui followed the example of Liangshan's 100-8 generals to sort out the list of people who opposed Wei Zhongxian and made a record of Donglin Party Generals, so that Wei Zhongxian could kill Donglin Party members one by one according to this list.

After Wei Zhongxian obtained this list, he felt like he was treasured. In a very happy mood, he promoted Wang Shaohui, the left assistant censor, to the top, to become the Minister of Personnel. It can be said that Wang Shaohui's status in the eunuch party is not much higher than that of Li Chunye. Li Chunye can only be said to be a puppet who acts completely according to Wei Zhongxian's wishes, and there is no excellence. He has been the Minister of War for several months and has not done anything to win Wei Zhongxian's favor. It can even be said that Li Chunye joined Wei Zhongxian just for his own official career. Li Chunye is very smooth, and it doesn't matter who is loyal and who is traitorous, so he was promoted to twelve levels in just a few years and wandered among various parties. Naturally, Wang Shaohui didn't take Li Chunye's slut in his eyes, and there were naturally some rude things in his words.

The two of them came to the inner study room and after the guests and guests sat down, Li Yingshi personally brought a pot of brewed rain front Longjing and said to the two: "Father, Lord Wang, please use tea. This is the best rain front, and it was also bought by the boy for a lot of money. Please ask Lord Wang to taste it." After that, he went down.

Li Chunye specially asked his son to serve tea himself. This small detail made Wang Shaohui very useful. Although he had something big in his heart, the expression on his face was much more relaxed. Seeing Wang Shaohui's expression change, Li Chunye knew that his little tricks had worked. He didn't speak at the moment and quietly waited for Wang Shaohui to speak first. Since he came to find him on a snowy day, he would definitely not go to the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble.

"Shangshu Li, time flies so fast. I have been in the position of the Minister of Personnel for almost a year. Thanks to the protection of the factory, you and me are here today." Wang Shaohui took a sip of the tea ceremony. "Yes, yes, Shangshu Wang is right. We are all just the leader of the factory stallion." The two of them had a few words here, and the atmosphere was very awkward. Li Chunye thought to himself, since you can tell that you must have something to come to me, why should I ask in a hurry? He lost the initiative in vain. Wang Shaohui cursed in his heart, "Can the old fox ask me what I did when I came here.

In fact, this is the case in the officialdom. If others ask you to ask others, even if you talk about the same thing, it is a relationship between initiative and passiveness. The right to ask others to take the initiative is naturally dependent on you. Once you ask others, you will not be able to refuse it in one go.

Seeing that Li Chunye was so calm, Wang Shaohui was not an idle person to be able to be the Minister of War. Forget it, the situation is serious, so I won’t care about these details for now.

Wang Shaohui cleared his throat and said, "Shu Li, I have taken the opportunity to visit you today. There is indeed something I want to discuss with you. If we can figure out some ideas, we will go to see the Prime Minister and the Factory later. This is a big deal, so I would like to ask Mr. Li to help me."

Li Chunye hurriedly said, "I dare not, I dare not, you and I are both under the factory office, and we are colleagues, so why should we ask for a name?"

"Okay, then I'll just say it. That's right. I received a secret report that the Donglin bastards were plotting to impeach. We were falsely accused of being eunuchs in the outside world. It's really outrageous. These Donglin party members don't do anything, and they like to think about other people's privacy matters when they have nothing to do, so they can be the handle for their rude words in the court."

When Li Chunye heard that it was probably Wang Shaohui who was in trouble. It was the middle of the twelfth lunar month. The year-end dynasty will be over in a few days. To summarize the pros and cons of the year's policy. I'm afraid the Donglin Party has set its sights on Wang Shaohui and is preparing to impeach him in the dynasty.

Thinking of this, he said: "These Donglin Party are really ungrateful. Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou have only been dead for a few months. Who is so unafraid of death and dares to jump out and cause trouble? He is really tired of living. Gao Panlong, Zhou Shunchang and others have the Donglin Party in the local area. Are these people so unafraid of death?"

Wang Shaohui continued: "Who said that is not? These thieves are hateful to be killed. This official recently received a secret report. The Censor Yuan Jing was planning to impeach this official and sell official positions at the end of the month. It was simply nonsense. He also wanted to count the severe drought in Shaanxi and the local governments' poor handling of the civil unrest, which caused the civil unrest. Especially the matter of adding salt tax in Lianghuai. There was a big trouble there, and some people gathered to stir up trouble. Yuan Jing actually wanted to impeach me without paying attention to the employment of people, buy officials and sell officials, use waste to supervise the salt tax, and intensify the civil unrest. Li Shangshu, you know that since this year, the Liao incident has become worse. The emperor's Liao salary to Liaodong has increased to 10 million taels, and he still lost land in a row. Now the national treasury has no money, Shanxi and Nanzhili

If the matter cannot be resolved, the court will not only not collect money, but also provide relief to the victims and prevent civil unrest. Everyone knows the emperor's character. If it is really pursued, I am afraid that the factory will not be able to protect me. If Donglin takes advantage of the situation, I am afraid that the factory will be defeated again... Liaodong was defeated again a few days ago. If the people from Donglin continued to bite, I am afraid that Li Shangshu, you, the Minister of War, will have an uncertain future." I was afraid that Li Chunye would be fooled again, so Wang Shaohui also calculated Li Chunye himself. The implication is that I canvass the votes one by one. You, Li Chunye, are second only to me among the six ministries. If you don't vote for me and shrank and didn't speak, I will have to hold you back.

Why couldn't Li Chunye hear the cleverness in Wang Shaohui's words? He took a sip of tea, put down his cup and smiled: "I think it's a big deal. It turns out that the insignificant censor like Yuan Jing is going to cause trouble. It's just a matter of impeaching Lord Wang to use people. But if Lord Wang uses the right person, can they shoot themselves in the foot?"
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