Wu Shan sighed sadly in his heart and glanced at Yang Bo with complicated eyes.

He knew in his heart that although this seemingly neutral Minister of War had not formed a party with Xu Jie, he had already formed a tacit understanding with Xu Jie.

But I have to admit that Xu Jie is very good at winning people's hearts. Yang Bo and Xu Jie didn't have a deep friendship at all, but since Xu Jie became the first assistant, he almost never interfered in the affairs of the Ministry of War, which made Yang Bo support him in turn.

This "good old man" is the chief assistant.

Now that Xu Jie is going to deal with Lin Haoran, Yang Bo will definitely want to "repay the favor" so that he can get greater support from Xu Jie next time, or in exchange for Xu Jie continuing not to interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of War.

It is this kind of invisible tacit understanding that makes these two people quietly stand on the same front when facing many things, even though they have no clique or personal relationship.

Although Wu Shan saw through the tacit understanding between the two people, at this time he could only fight "one against three", and stood up to defend his son-in-law: "Your Majesty, I think Lin Haoran will not act like this for no reason, please Your Majesty

I have ordered him to tell his superiors!"

This is actually a common process. When a local official is impeached by a local speaker, he or she will usually defend the local official and will not bring the local official to justice just because of a certain speaker's remarks.

Of course, if the evidence for some matters is conclusive or the matter is of great importance, the emperor will directly choose to order the Jin Yiwei to escort the local officials back to Beijing to await trial.

For example, Hu Zongxian, the former Governor-General of Zhejiang Province and Minister of War, was impeached by Chen Fengyi. He did not give Hu Zongxian a chance to defend himself, but directly ordered him to be escorted back to Beijing.

Xu Jie's throat felt itchy, but he coughed slightly, as he didn't want to go through this process.

Yang Bo's ears moved slightly, his eyes kept looking forward, and he immediately followed Wu Shan and continued to argue: "Wu Shangshu's approach is inappropriate! Military affairs are related to local stability. Nowadays, it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. Something happened in Songjiang Mansion.

Who is responsible? As far as I know, the Japanese pirates have been eyeing the southeast. Once they take advantage of the situation, enter the Huangpu Waterway from the Yangtze River Estuary, and directly attack Songjiang City, they will surely destroy all lives and even repeat the tragedy of Xinghua Fucheng in Fujian Province!"

With the fall of Fucheng in Xinghua, Fujian, the officials in the court no longer believed that Fucheng was monolithic. Now, Yang Bo has thrown out the safety of Songjiang City, which has a certain degree of lethality.

"Yang Shangshu, you are talking alarmist. Not to mention that the Japanese invasion in the southeast has stabilized, but just mobilizing a part of the Songjiang Guards caused the fall of Songjiang City. This is not a novel!" Wu Shan did not expect that Yang Bo would add insult to injury like this.

He said in an angry voice.

"Wu Shangshu, you can say that I am being alarmist, but you did not lead the troops to fight, and you do not know that the military situation has always been unpredictable. There is a saying in the art of war: attack the unprepared and take it by surprise. This military victory cannot be passed on first. The Japanese pirates are right.

They are watching the southeast and will definitely send spies to hide there. Who knows that they will not take advantage of the emptiness of Songjiang Prefecture to launch an army and invade Songjiang? "Yang Bo followed Wu Shan in a tit-for-tat argument, and looked towards Jiajing with a righteous look and said: "

Your Majesty, there must be no more chaos in the southeast. In order to maintain local stability, Your Majesty, please order Lin Haoran to be dismissed from his post and dismissed from the capital immediately for investigation!"

Wu Shan was afraid that the Jiajing Council would deal with Lin Haoran, so he immediately interceded and said: "Your Majesty, what Yang Shangshu said is really alarmist. Now Lin Haoran is rectifying the salt policy. The salt policy is related to the country. Please think twice and allow Shangshu to defend himself!"

"If Lin Haoran really wanted to rectify the salt policy for the imperial court, why would he need to flee to Songjiang and mobilize the Songjiang Guards to suppress the bandits? His actions clearly disregarded local stability!" Yang Bo seemed to be quarreling with Wu Shan, accusing him again.

Jiajing's brows frowned slightly, and he was weighing it in his heart for a while.

Salt administration, this is a heart problem of his. For example, why is it so difficult to build Ziwei Palace? It is because of the financial problems of the imperial court that he can no longer do whatever he wants as before.

It's just that the southeast cannot be in chaos again. Once the southeast is in turmoil again, military expenditures will have to be allocated every year, which is another huge amount of expenditure, and he has no money to use.

Faced with this difficult problem, Jiajing sighed heavily, and finally looked up at the silent Xu Jie and said, "Xu Aiqing, what do you think?"

Wu Shan listened to this question and knew that things were not going well. However, thinking of what Xu Jie had just said, it was estimated that Xu Jie would not shoot himself in the foot, and his anxious heart relaxed a little.

Yang Bo and Yan Ne turned to look at Xu Jie, also full of curiosity as to what Xu Jie would answer like this.

Xu Jie faced everyone's gaze and said with a sincere face: "I don't want to get involved in this matter, but since the emperor wants to ask me, I would like to ask: Does your Majesty think the stability of the southeast is more important, or is it more important to rectify the salt policy?

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Hearing this, Yang Bo and Yan Ne couldn't help but raise the corners of their mouths slightly, and looked at Wu Shan proudly.

Wu Shan's face immediately turned pale, knowing that he was really going to be in trouble this time.

Jiajing nodded slowly, already making a decision in his heart. After Xu Jie's analysis, he already had a clear orientation in his heart and knew what to do for the best result.

It was at this moment that Feng Bao came in hastily.

Upon seeing this, Huang Jin stepped forward to ask about the situation. After chatting briefly with Feng Bao, he held a letter in his hand and looked at Jiajing hesitantly.

Jiajing noticed the movement here, turned around and said, "Huang Jin, what's the matter?"

"Master, Lin Haoran, the left deputy imperial censor, has just sent an urgent shipment from 800 miles away!" Huang Jin reported honestly, holding an envelope in his hand.

Jiajing frowned slightly when he heard that it was Lin Haoran's eight hundred miles, then he raised his hand and said directly: "Bring it over!"

Xu Jie and others were slightly stunned, but they didn't know whether it was Lin Haoran's foreknowledge or whether it was just a coincidence. However, this seemed to be unimportant. Lin Haoran would be escorted back to the capital as soon as the emperor gave the order.

Wu Shan was also full of confusion and his eyes fell on the urgent document.

Jiajing opened the urgent letter, and his face gradually turned from sunny to gloomy. After a while, he slowly put the letter down, his face looking carefree and joyless, and then he raised his eyes to look at the four important ministers.

The atmosphere immediately became tense, and it seemed like a pin drop could be heard.

Xu Jie and others looked at Jiajing without saying a word and couldn't help but look at each other, but they didn't know what the content of the letter was, and what kind of mood the emperor was in now.

Yan Ne glanced around and bravely asked, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Xu Jie and others looked at Jiajing, wondering what was going on.
Chapter completed!