The raindrops as big as soybeans fell in the streets and alleys of the capital, and soon formed a stream of water. Due to the overwhelming burden of the drainage system, many streets were flooded by rain, and water accumulation areas appeared.

Whenever this is the advantage of the south of the city is clearly reflected. When the north of the city is a "popular ocean", the streets in the south of the city appear very clean, and rainwater can always be discharged in time, and there are even soldiers working hard to clean the canals.

In the Xu Mansion of Huaishu Hutong, heavy rain poured down.

This ordinary house outside has already shown its foundation. Even if the heavy rain lasts for more than an hour, there are so many rooms in the whole house without a single leak.

Unlike the Yan Mansion's ostentatiousness back then, the Xu Mansion has always seemed very restrained and even the food was very simple. If it were not for those who knew the truth, they would definitely think that Xu Jie was a role model for an honest official.

The rain in the yard was still falling, and the soybean-sized raindrops hit the roof and the rain kept falling from the eaves, and the water quality seemed very clear.

In a loft next to the water pavilion, there is a large group of officials discussing matters. Since the doors and windows have been closed, the noisy rain outside cannot affect the place, and the fragrance of tea scents float in the air.

Xu Jie, wearing home clothes, sat on the head seat, and did not show too strong power. Instead, he was like a polite and thin teacher, listening carefully to the opinions of all parties.

There are many officials here, including Wang Ting, the left censor of the Ministry of Personnel, Zhang Juzheng, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Huo Ji and other tyrants of the dynasty, as well as Taichang Shaoqing Lin Run, the clerk of the criminal department, Xu Gonglin, and

Wu Shilai waited for officials.

Although it has been cleaned by Gaogong, the lean camel is bigger than a horse.

If it were other factions, after so many important officials fell, they would have already fallen into pieces. However, the Xu Party had a pyramid-like building, and the backbone of the new life should not be underestimated.

In addition, due to the Jiajing imperial edict, Wu Shilai and others were successfully restored, and they were allowed to return to their position as a censor of Kedao, which was already Xu Jiexin's weapon of attack.

"Master Yuan Fu, now the three of them cultivate their cliques and appoint others as nepotism is simply a disaster for the government! If you continue to indulge them in doing evil, there will be endless troubles. This Ming Dynasty will be over!" Huo Ji, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, said sincerely.

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With Yang Bo's fall, the actions of the Shanxi merchants did not stop. When the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War appeared to have a vacant position, the Shanxi merchants' operations were carried out, but Huo Ji was pushed back to the headquarters from the three borders of Shaanxi.

It is worth mentioning that Zhao Bingran, the former Minister of War, did not fall due to the party struggles. After all, he is a fellow villager in Henan with Gao Gong and Guo Pu, and he also has a close relationship with Xu Dang.

However, Zhao Bingran suffered from stomach problems, but was unable to continue to serve as the Left Minister of the Ministry of War, so he had to submit a memorial to Longqing and resigned from his post and returned to his country.

Huo Ji did not choose Gao Gong and Guo Pu's New Taipei Party, but resolutely turned to the arms of Xu Party and became one of the core members of Xu Party, and even placed his target on the throne of the Minister of War.

It is precisely because his current position is also clear-cut, preventing the continuous growth of the New Taipei Party and the Lin Party.

"Master Yuan Fu, Mr. Huo is right! Gao Gong is now simply responsible for the appointment and removal of officials. Although this promotion is not all the Northern Party, many of the people who are valued are from the Lin Party! That Yang Futian is the one with the least qualifications.

The Minister of Revenue, who was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang, is probably the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing!” Wang Ting, the censor of the Zuodu, agreed with resentment.

Taichang Shaoqing Lin Run and the clerk of the Criminal Director Xu Gonglin sighed silently. These days they seemed to have returned to the period when the Yan Party was in power, but they were overwhelmed.

Although Gao Gong was not the chief minister, relying on his identity as Teacher Longqing, he became the Minister of Personnel to strictly enforce the administration of officials and introduced a strict assessment system.

The monthly situation of each official must be summarized. Once an unqualified person is found, Gao Gong will handle it strictly without any mercy, resulting in a large number of people from their Xu Party being dismissed and demoted.

If this continues, even if they can continue to stay in this position, their voice will become weaker and weaker, and this official will be despised.

That's why they had already complained in the Xu party and hated Gao Gong to the core.

Xu Jie picked up the teacup, and a gleam flashed across his eyes. He lost the friendship just now, and there was a hint of scheming.

In this party, he played the role of the audience very well. Now, listening to these people's grievances, even the Zuodu Censor Wang Ting was no longer silent, but he knew that the time to wait had come.

He was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but looked up at his favorite student Zhang Juzheng and said gently: "Uncle, you are now in the Ministry of Personnel. What do you think of Gao Gong?"

Wang Ting and others also looked at Zhang Juzheng one after another, and Zhang Juzheng is now different from the past.

Now Zhang Juzheng not only has the status of an imperial sect, but also serves as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Personnel with extremely powerful authority. If the cabinet had not been close to the full membership, this person would have had the chance to join the cabinet and become the prime minister.

"The teacher and prime minister, Gao Gong is arbitrary in the Ministry of Personnel, and students dare not fight against it. It is just that he cultivates a large number of pro-party members, and the students do not have enough evidence. After all, he has a basis for the removal and promotion of officials.

But it is difficult to attack this!" Zhang Juzheng bowed bitterly.

He is now the Left Minister of Personnel, and is also considered a high-ranking position and power, but he just met such a strong boss. Gao Gong didn't even take him seriously at the current emperor, so how could he take him Zhang Juzheng seriously?

Many times he was simply called as a servant, and he was one of the most depressed left ministers of the Ministry of Personnel in history.

But we have to admit that the assessment system introduced by Gao Gong is indeed fair, but it does not firmly protect his Jin Party and Xu Party like Yang Bo, but survives the fittest without distinction.

Of course, the butt determines everything. Even if Gao Gong is fair now, it is still unforgivable. He is a treacherous minister like Yan Song who is chaotic and chaotic, and everyone can kill him.

Xu Jie nodded gently, then looked at another proud disciple Wu Shilai and said, "Wei Xiu, what do you think?"

"The high-tech policy seems to be done with reasonable and evidence, but in fact it is also selfish, but it is just a little hidden. Liu Tao, the governor of Ji Liao, had a mistake of underestimating the enemy, but was dismissed from his post and investigated it, but he and Lin Qingran were shielded.

Liu Ziqiang, the new right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was mediocre, and he had no resume from the Ministry of Revenue. However, because he was a fellow villager with Gao Gong, he was recommended by the Lin Party and promoted directly from the governor of Sichuan to Beijing. This time, the governor of Yingtian Xie Dengzhi was promoted.

When he arrived at the Tongzheng Envoy, he was selected from the two capitals, but Gao Gong gave Zhang Wei of the Lin Party. These three items alone were enough to prove that Gao Gong was ineffective in cultivating cliques. "Wu Shilai was already there

I was staring at Gao Gong for a long time, but I talked with justice.

Wu Shilai was a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Jiajing. He was first appointed as the Promoter of Songjiang Prefecture. After gaining the favor of the Xu family, he was quickly promoted. He first returned to Beijing to serve as a criminal department chief, and soon attacked the Yan Party.

Governor Yang Shun of Xuanda won the victory, and finally colluded with Zhang Chong and Dong Chuance to impeach Yan Song.

However, in this impeachment, the three of them had already given a iron plate. Yan Song, who was deeply trusted by Jiajing, was not only safe and sound, but also was imprisoned and questioned the envoy behind the scenes. In the end, he was demoted to the sect of Hengzhou, Guangxi.

The guard serves as a small guard.

From the high-ranking criminal department to the soldiers in remote places, this is undoubtedly an unbearable gap for ordinary people, but Wu Shilai got through it.

With the death of Jiajing and the rehabilitation of the officials who submitted a memorial to them and made suggestions, Wu Shilai resurrected with the help of his mentor Xu Jie, and returned to Beijing directly as a minister of the official department, becoming a noble and prestigious official.

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Hard training is a wealth. Wu Shilai, who returned from the Elephant Taming Guard, was very determined to fight. He has not been timid because of Gao Gong's strength these days, but he is silently collecting Gao Gong's "evidence" of "crime".

Wang Ting and Huo Ji exchanged glances, as if they had discovered a treasure, and they couldn't help but look up to the vicissitudes of the officials, Wu Shilai.

Lin Run and Wu Shilai have no intersection, but now they do not seriously examine the official secretary who returned from the wilderness.

Xu Jie gently stroked his beard and said happily: "Yi Xiu, you really have insight!"

"Thank you for your praise!" Wu Shilai was secretly happy and bowed in a humble manner.

Zhang Juzheng frowned slightly, and looked at Wu Shilai with complicated eyes. However, he didn't know whether Wu Shilai was an official with a clean personality or pretending to be confused because he knew it. This way of finding faults was simply nitpicking.

Xu Jie is the smartest politician in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but he kept calm and said: "Although Gao Gong is indeed arbitrary and has many inappropriate things in his responsibilities. However, now he is a saint-faithful disciple, and Guo Pu is in the court.

It is very difficult to help Lin Qingran, but it is difficult to defeat Gao Gong now!"

When Wang Ting and Huo Ji heard Xu Jie's analysis, they also sighed secretly. To get rid of Gao Gong, it still requires one blow to kill him. This kind of insufficient evidence attack is indeed not very effective.

Xu Jie saw the frustration on everyone's faces, and then changed the subject and said, "Of course! Gaoxinzheng is arrogant and has a perverse personality, but it is not worth worrying!"

Wu Shilai and others' eyes lit up slightly, and they all looked at Xu Jie who was holding Zhizhu. It turned out that Xu Jie had a way to deal with Gao Gong.

Xu Jie seemed to be frightened, but said solemnly: "What I am worried about is Guo Pu. This person is calm and deep, and I am afraid he has already been eyeing my position."

Wang Ting and Huo Ji exchanged a glance. They thought Guo Pu was a peace-siding minister as much as Li Chunfang, but they did not expect that they had such ambitions.

Xu Jie looked up at everyone, but said bitterly: "But what I worry most is always... Lin Ruoyu! This boy is as deep as the sea and has unparalleled wisdom. With him in the court, it will be difficult for us to beat him up.

Gong. If you want to be quiet in the court, you must start with Lin Ruoyu, otherwise it would be futile!"

"The plan is deep like a sea? Unparalleled wisdom? The master, the disciple has been back to the court for several months. According to the disciple's observation, Lin Qingran is just a middle-aged man. Do you look too high at him?" Wu Shilai immediately proposed

Dissent authentic.

Wang Ting and others looked at Wu Shilai in a complicated manner. It turned out that this was a fool. Although Gao Gong was the one who was the most popular in the past few months, Lin Weiran was the one who was really hiding from counting money. Many of his cliques occupied important positions.

As for why he no longer showed his sharpness, first of all, he no longer needed to take action himself, and secondly, he was constantly moving in secret.

But I don’t know where the confidence came from, but Wu Shilai actually regarded three steps as a middle-class posture, which was simply a big deal of the world.

The rain outside has turned from heavy to rain, and the sound is no longer so noisy, making the attic more quiet.

"Brother Wei Xiu, although I have been working in Nanjing in recent years, I have taken Lin Ruoyu's various actions into my eyes. Lord Yuan Fu's evaluation is true!" Lin Run, the young minister of Taichang Temple, always seemed silent, and at this time, he also

Said seriously.

"Disciple's eyes are clumsy, please don't blame me!" Wu Shilai saw everyone's reaction and apologized solemnly.

"After you say this, Lin Ruoyu is really too low-key recently!" Xu Jie nodded as if he had some understanding, and then looked at everyone and said, "If you really want to fight this time, then you can't bypass Lin Ruoyu,

We even have to start with Lin Ruoyu!"

Wang Ting and Huo Ji couldn't help but look at each other. The one they always held the most hatred was Gao Gong, so they thought the most about how to defeat Gao Gong. Instead, they didn't care much about Lin Qingran, who was becoming increasingly low-key.

"Everything is up to the teacher's arrangement!" Zhang Juzheng's heart moved slightly and immediately bowed to his mentor Xu Jie.

Lin Run and others also reacted. Xu Jie's analysis was so thorough that he must have already had a solution, otherwise he would not have analyzed it so carefully with them.

"Mr. Yuan Fu, these three people colluded with each other to cause trouble in the court. Please find a way to make things right and restore the court to a clear and clear manner!" Huo Ji also expressed his solemnly.

To make things right, this is naturally a slogan.

What they wanted was to get rid of the alliance led by Gao Gong, Lin Junran and Guo Pu, so that their Xu Party would re-take the government and then let them control the giant ship of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, a legitimate slogan was needed.

Wu Shilai suddenly felt a little dazed, as if he was back to the time when Yan Song controlled the court, but now his target was changed to Gao Gong, Guo Pu and Lin Qingran.

However, he is no longer the passionate young man of the past, and he will not be able to knock himself out of his head for the sake of so-called justice, but he has already seen the selfish desires under this justice.

The so-called correction of the situation is just a means to remove the stones that blocked one's career in order to gain greater power.

Xu Jie reached out and picked up the teacup, very satisfied with the reaction of Zhang Juzheng and others.

The reason why he called these people over today was that he had already made a decision in his heart, and he also felt that the time had come, and he would take these people to launch a big counterattack, kick Gao Gong, Lin Qingran and Guo Pu out.

The court even brought to the guillotine like he treated Yan Shifan.

That's true, he no longer hid it and immediately began to make arrangements seriously.

A window in the attic was pushed open, but the sky outside was already clear after rain, and a rainbow appeared in the distance.
Chapter completed!