There is actually no secret to Wenyuan Pavilion, especially for this kind of meeting. As long as other people’s eyes are not blind, they will know which cabinet master has met whom.

Chen Jingbang is not only the Chief Secretary, but also the eyes and ears of Lin Weiran.

Although he is in the safest Hanlin Academy, he is always paying attention to changes in the situation in the court. Now that he sees Gao Gong leaving, Xu Jie is about to make a comeback, and he is also worried about his teacher.

When he was delivering new tea to Lin Xu Ran, he revealed the news that Xu Jie had just received Lin Feng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Bengu, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and Wei Shangchun, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, and a look of worry surged on his face.

Lin Junran was finalizing the candidate for the senior general of the cavalry battalion, and said with a clear heart: "Ge Xu is afraid that I will interfere with it. This is to ensure that his favorite disciple Zhang Juzheng takes over as the Minister of Personnel without any mistakes!"

"Teacher, what should I do?" Chen Jingbang knew the seriousness of Zhang Juzheng's position as Minister of Personnel, so he immediately asked worriedly.

Lin Qingran continued to be busy with his work, and said calmly: "Of course: soldiers come to block the enemy, and water comes to cover the earth. Why do you stand stupidly? Go and go!"

"Abide by the order!" Chen Jingbang saw the teacher so calm, but had to bow respectfully.

This time, he couldn't understand his teacher anymore. Now he was already in a state of turmoil. Xu Jie was trying his best to win over all forces to seek the throne of the Minister of Personnel, but the teacher was still so calm.

For a moment, he suspected that the teacher seemed to have given up struggling and planned to return to his hometown in Guangdong to cultivate land and farm.

As night falls, the entire capital is shrouded in a faint night.

An autumn wind blows from the north, gently swaying the rare trees on both sides of the road, and a simple sedan chair is walking in a hurry on the blue brick street.

Pan Sheng, wearing a third-rank official uniform, sat upright in the sedan chair, closed his eyes to rest, but was thinking about the rumors he had just heard: there was a fraud in the Yingtian Provincial Examination hosted by Zhang Siwei, and Zhang Shouzhi's son passed the joints, and this Yingtian Provincial Examination will definitely be a high school student.

Although these rumors spread every time, especially when the results were released, they reached their peak, but he vaguely felt that this matter was not simple.

However, he also knew in his heart that it seemed not easy to do something with his current energy. Now the court does not talk about right and wrong, but is about status or background.

He was the second place in Jiajing for 20 years, and he was undoubtedly in full swing when he entered the officialdom. However, unlike the opportunistic officials, he did not devote himself to writing Qing Ci, but was willing to be a ci minister with qualifications.

However, in his same year, Yan Ne, Gao Gong, Dong Fen, Gao Yi and Chen Yiqin all emerged and walked to the forefront of him, even to the point where he could only look up to him.

When he was promoted step by step in the same year, he was not promoted to Hanlin Secretariat until the 33rd year of Jiajing, but two years later he was sent to Nanjing as the Imperial College Priest.

After ten years of waiting, it was not until Jiajing passed away that he returned from the Nanjing nursing home and became the little left minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Nowadays, what he lacks is not only status, but also background. Even if he can join the cabinet and become a minister at this moment, he is actually just a cabinet master without foundation.

Even though he found that there was fraud in the provincial examination, he suspected that Zhang Siwei and even Xu Jie were not able to continue investigating.

Walking through the streets and alleys, the sedan chair slowly fell down in the front yard of an ordinary house.

As soon as Pan Sheng got out of the sedan chair, he heard the butler coming to report: "Teacher, Xu Shaoqing is here to visit today and has been waiting in the living room for a long time!"

"Which Xu Shaoqing?" Pan Sheng was slightly stunned and asked in confusion.

The butler looked towards the living room, lowered his voice and reminded him: "Master, Xu Fan, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, is the eldest son of the Yuanfu family in the dynasty!"

"Why did he come to the door on his own initiative?" Pan Sheng couldn't help but mutter in confusion when he learned that Xu Fan had actually come to the door on his own initiative.

He and Xu Fan had no interaction, and they didn't even have personal relationships, and now they were even more unlikely to have contacts in official business. But after all, he was the eldest son of the chief minister of the dynasty, and maybe Xu Jie's spokesperson, so he went to meet him as soon as possible.

In fact, he had guessed Xu Jie's intention to call Lin Xuan to the cabinet today. Although Lin Xuan said that Xu Jie asked him to discuss the autumn festival, he knew that Xu Jie was working as the Minister of Personnel for Zhang Juzheng.

Xu Fan was using tea in the living room. When he saw Pan Sheng coming in from outside, he immediately stood up and bowed: "The official has met Zuo Zongbo, and he has come to disturb him!"

"I dare not, Xu Shaoqing, please sit down quickly!" Pan Sheng looked at Xu Fan, who had a completely different figure from Xu Jie, and greeted him politely.

Xu Fan took his seat, but was thinking about how to speak.

Given the lesson that he learned from the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works last time, he planned to make an advance plan this time, so today he also visited the big bosses from all sides.

But facing this relatively low-key Pan Sheng, and he and Pan Sheng had never met several times, they didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Xu Shaoqing, I wonder what instructions did Lord Yuanfu have?" Pan Sheng saw Xu Fan playing deep in front of him, and immediately asked straight to the point.

Just as Xu Fan wanted to deny that he was not sent by his father, he immediately said with an idea: "Zuo Zongbo, can't I come here without invitation?"

"Of course we welcome it, but I, Mr. Pan, like to speak quickly. It's okay to just say anything!" Pan Sheng was not a joke-like personality, but responded seriously.

The matter was already clear, and Xu Fan came for his father to persuade him to support Zhang Juzheng as Minister of Personnel.

Xu Fan found that Pan Sheng was not easy to deal with, so he directly said straight to the point: "Boe Zuo Zong, Mr. Gao Ge has left now, and the court may be changing again this time!"

"I know!" Pan Sheng nodded gently with tea in his hand.

Xu Fan followed his earlier words and said with certainty: "Zuo Zongbo, the position of the Minister of Personnel must belong to Zhang Taiyue!"

Pan Sheng frowned slightly, but he didn't expect that the Xu family had been so sure that the position belonged to Zhang Juzheng, and responded ambiguously: "Maybe!"

"If the Minister of Personnel is taken over by Zhang Taiju, the personnel below will definitely change again!" Xu Fan expressed his intention, but was worried that Pan Sheng would not understand what he meant, so he added: "If there is a vacancy between the Ministry of Justice or the Ministry of Revenue, please give a few words to the lower-ranking official. The lower-ranking official will definitely live up to Zuo Zongbo's kindness!"

Huh?

Pan Sheng looked at Xu Fan unexpectedly, and said a lot in confusion. This time, he was not going to seek the position of Minister of Personnel for Zhang Juzheng, but to seek the position of Minister of the Six Ministers for him.

Thinking about the earlier incident of Guo Jianchen, the Minister of Personnel, electing Xu Fan to take over as the Right Minister of Works, he thought the matter was over, but he did not expect Xu Fan to give up.

Pan Sheng took a sip of hot tea and asked calmly: "Xu Shaoqing, but I don't know if this is what Mr. Xu means or what you mean?"

"This is what I mean, and it is also what my father means!" In order to increase his chances of winning, Xu Fan also raised his father's banner and said.

"I understand!" Pan Sheng nodded lightly when he heard the answer.

With Gao Gong leaving, the court has started a new round of competition.
Chapter completed!