Shen Shixing felt that such a conversation was not possible. He had to say something that was not convenient for Wang Xijue to hear.
So he said to Wang Xijue: "Jing Shi will go back first. If there is anything else to say, we will talk to Wenyuan Pavilion tomorrow."
The fact that Wang Xijue took the initiative to visit Shen Mansion tonight is enough to show his attitude of bowing his head, and there is no need to say anything else.
After Wang Xijue left, Shen Shixing said to Lin Tai: "Have you discovered today that the emperor's attitude towards you is actually very tolerant?
It wasn't until you exposed the emperor's deception that the emperor became really angry.
But looking at your imperial staff later, after the beating, it can still give you the strength to go on a parade. Without the emperor's acquiescence, how could the factory owner be so free?"
Lin Tailai replied proudly: "That's because my loyalty can be judged by the sun and the moon, and even the emperor within the ninth level can feel it!"
In fact, Lin Tailai was also very curious deep down in his heart. Why was the emperor so "suppressive" and "tolerant" to him? Did he have the aura of a protagonist?
Or was it because he had never submitted a memorial "please appoint the emperor's eldest son as the East Palace", which aroused the emperor's favor?
"It's full of nonsense!" Shen Shoufu couldn't help but rebuke, and then added: "That's because the emperor sent a secret letter asking me before, what do you, Lin Tailai, think of the establishment of the throne."
Is there such a thing? Lin Tailai immediately asked curiously: "How did the old man play back?"
Shen Shoufu said with some concern: "I secretly reported that Lin Tailai doesn't care who is the East Palace."
This means, if I hadn’t laid the foundation first, how could the emperor be so tolerant to you? Lin Tailai, don’t be ungrateful!
Lin Tailai seemed to be surprised, "It turns out that the elders who betrayed me to the emperor were not just the other three, but also senior Qi! You were even the first one!"
Shen Shoufu: ""
I really don’t want to talk about anything today, so get out!
After coming out of Shen Mansion, Lin Tailai suddenly understood and solved the previous mystery.
It turned out that the emperor judged that he had high "united front value" through information from various channels, so he thought of using small means to win over him.
For example, you might bring yourself along with you when you summon the Grand Scholar; or you might use the Grand Scholar to suppress yourself first and force you to break with the cabinet, and then you may be favored and promoted.
Just like when Zhang Juzheng needed to be liquidated, the emperor first encouraged and promoted the "Three Reds".
And now, the emperor needs someone to stand up and share his worries, to counter the momentum of supporting the emperor's eldest son.
It's just that today, Concubine Zheng and the third son of the emperor have been working hard to "force" themselves, the object of the united war, to rebel, and the emperor has nothing to do.
From this point of view, it was indeed the right thing to continue to enmity with the Zheng family.
In the future, as long as you are careful and don't jump too much, your situation will be much more stable during the great calamity of the country.
After all, in the eyes of the emperor, he was "forced to rebel" by Concubine Zheng and the third son of the emperor, and he was fundamentally different from those ministers who tried to support the emperor and use the emperor's reputation to increase his reputation.
When Lin Tailai came home, it was supposed to be a quiet time at night, but tonight the number of pedestrians in the area where Xicheng officials' residences were located increased significantly.
It seems that tonight is not peaceful. I don’t know how many people are visiting in series to prepare for the upcoming political storm.
The next day, the cabinet issued an edict to punish Lin Tailai based on the emperor's oral instructions yesterday, including dismissal from office, reduction of status, and exile to the border areas.
After the imperial edict was printed and sent to the Sixth Section, it was refuted in the process and was not sent out.
In order to appease Concubine Zheng, the emperor bypassed the cabinet and sent the decree directly to the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War. However, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War still resisted and repeated the memorial.
The emperor again issued an edict to punish the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, but this time the cabinet returned the order and the edict was still not issued.
As a result, regarding the issue of Lin Tailai's punishment, after several rounds of push and pull, the monarch and his ministers temporarily reached a procedural deadlock.
As Lin Tailai said, the emperor needs to maintain his authority, but the ministers cannot easily let the emperor succeed. After all, Lin Tailai is now almost equal to political correctness.
At this time, the emperor had another method, which was to directly send the Jin Yiwei to arrest the person, and then lock him up before forcing the ministers to negotiate terms before releasing him.
But Emperor Wanli didn't want to go to this point. The current situation was chaotic enough, and the emperor didn't want to cause any more trouble.
Because in the past few days when the monarch and his ministers were fighting for Lin Tailai, a large number of officials took the initiative to impeach the three cabinet elders below the chief minister.
There are those who criticize Mr. Yige in order to protect Mr. Jiage, some who criticize Mr. Bingge in order to protect Mr. Bingge, some who criticize Mr. Jiage in order to protect Mr. Bingge, and some who criticize both at the same time.
There are various offensive and defensive combinations, each with its own purpose, but essentially they all want to pull down others and protect their own people.
After all, the Ming Dynasty had its own system and did not allow ministers to comment on their virtues. Therefore, they could not praise their own people but could only protect their own people by criticizing other ministers.
This resulted in an unprecedented melee situation. It could be said that the court had turned into a complete mess.
Lin Tailai, who was in the eye of the storm, was very quiet, always thanking guests and staying at home to deal with his sins.
Like Lin Tailai, there are three great bachelors, Xu Guo, Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping.
Under this intensity of impeachment, it was impossible for them to still go to work. They could only hand in their resignations as usual, and then pretend to be at home waiting for their crimes.
So only Shen Shoufu was left in the cabinet, and he had to shoulder all the troubles alone.
At this moment, he missed his colleagues especially, even Xu Er, who had drifted away, and Wang Si, who always played the opposite tune, were no exception.
As for those memorials to impeach other cabinet ministers, Shen, who became the independent prime minister, did not dare to specialize, so he could only send them all to the emperor for personal judgment. There were a lot of them every day.
Emperor Wanli was almost driven crazy by this messy situation, especially when ministers and officials went to court, they would always talk about national issues.
After all, the source of this situation is still due to national issues.
This morning, Emperor Wanli just got up from Concubine Zheng and saw Zhang Cheng, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, waiting outside the palace gate with a large stack of seals.
Emperor Wanli couldn't help complaining to Zhang Cheng: "Recently, I have seen a lot of discussion, using righteousness as evil and evil as righteousness, confusing each other!
I haven’t even finished reading one of the essays, but there is another one that is about debates. I am overwhelmed with them, and I couldn’t finish them even at night!
When I turn on the lantern, I can’t read the characters clearly. How can I read them one by one?”
Zhang Cheng also responded helplessly: "It's a troubled spring, just let it go."
Emperor Wanli was still dissatisfied and said: "What's even more annoying is that there are so many comments and comments, but no one really shares my worries and completely helps me to speak!"
It was difficult to tell the truth, so Zhang Cheng could only deal with it with silence.
After the squandering of successive emperors, how much political credibility and sanctity of imperial power do your old Zhu family have left?
Far away, there is Emperor Yingzong who killed Yu Qian, near there is Emperor Shizong who is making nonsense of the ceremony, and even more recent is your majesty, you liquidate Zhang Juzheng.
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To this day, among the current ministers, who dares to risk all their wealth and life to stand by the emperor wholeheartedly?
People like Lin Tailai and Shin Shixing are pretty good if they can remain relatively neutral.
The above words will make you lose your head, and Zhang Cheng can only rot in his stomach.
So Emperor Wanli sent another secret letter asking Shen Shoufu what should be done.
Shen Shoufu replied to the secret memorial and said: "If you want to pacify the court, please pacify the cabinet first; if you want to pacify the cabinet, please pacify Lin Tailai first; if you want to pacify Lin Tailai, please consult your secretary first."
Then Emperor Wanli issued an edict, ordering the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to conduct a joint trial and sentence Lin Tailai, who acted violently in the palace, injured the prisoner, bullied the relatives of the country, and disrespected the emperor!
Generally speaking, the highest level of trial is the joint trial of the three divisions, which refers to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Dali Temple.
This time, Lin Tailai was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his standards were higher than those of the three departments.
The next day, officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Department of Wenxuan, the Ministry of War, the Department of Military Affairs, and the imperial censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate all attended and gathered in the lobby of the Ministry of Personnel.
But Yang Wei, the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wu Shilai, the censor of the Left Capital, and other members of Shen Shoufu's party were all very strange, because they did not receive any greetings from Shen Shoufu.
I don’t know what the chief assistant was thinking, but he didn’t care at all.
Lin Tailai, who was shut up at home, was also brought over and stood on the platform for trial.
It must be that Tingzhang has recovered from his injury, and Lin Tailai is now full of energy and energy.
He looked at the officials in the hall and greeted him warmly: "Hey! Mr. Chen, you are here too. Thank you for your resistance the past few days!"
Chen Younian, a doctor in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Personnel, has been an official for many years, with many ups and downs, but he has never been so disgusting.
In recent years, countless comrades have been harmed by Lin Tailai, but this time the emperor issued a decree to punish Lin Tailai severely, but he had to fight for Lin Tailai and prevent the emperor from punishing Lin Tailai severely!
Chen Younian could only sneer and say, "Your injury heals so quickly."
Lin Tailai said "haha" and said: "The medicine is good, the medicine is good! After all, our Lin family has accumulated rich experience in treating injuries over the years, and the medicine has become more and more sophisticated."
The host, Yang Wei, Tianguan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said: "Stop talking about idle talk! Let's get down to business!"
Zhao Zhigao, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, said: "There is no need to discuss the crime. The emperor's decree is very clear. What is debatable is the punishment.
In the face of the Nine Heavens Thunder, dismissal from office and reduction of membership can be regarded as mental tempering, but only the exile of the army is the most damaging to morale and the most unacceptable.
If a person like Lin Tailai, who is wounded by the staff and has a weak constitution, often has nothing left after being sent to the army, is this a way to preserve morale? How can he explain it to Shilin?
Therefore, I think it is enough to dismiss him from office, reduce his status, and order him to return to his hometown, but it is not necessary to send him to the army."
Yang Tianguan said: "If you just dismiss the official and reduce his status, it will be treated lightly, and the emperor will definitely not allow it!"
While I am waiting for the trial here, I have to consider how to make the emperor accept it, otherwise it will just be a waste of time!"
Zhao Huan, the censor of Zuoqiandu, suddenly said: "The main reason why the exile of the army damaged morale was that the road was difficult and the garrison was difficult.
We might as well retain the penalty of being expelled from the army, but instead of sending them to the border areas, how about the place of exile is in the capital?
With so many guards in the capital, can there be no room for even one criminal?
In this way, it can calm the anger of thunder and maintain morale, isn't it possible to have both worlds?"
Yang Tianguan didn't care about his position on this issue. He just wanted to resolve the matter as soon as possible, so he agreed: "Very good!"
Then he turned to Wang Yi'e, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and said: "The specific location of the troops after they are exiled is the matter of your Ministry of War. It's up to you to decide!"
Chen Younian, a doctor in the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Personnel, immediately said: "I remind you all, this distribution place should not be located anywhere in the city, but should be far away from the yamen, so as not to regret it too late!"
Everyone imagined that if someone like Lin Tailai was allowed to serve as a soldier in the city, he would definitely be able to show off, and the consequences would be disastrous.
For example, if you ask Lin Tai to patrol the Imperial Street, I'm afraid all the yamen will be visited every day!
Also, Lin Tailai's identity is so eye-catching. Walking around the city, you don't know what the consequences will be.
"Then go and guard the city gate!" the official of the Martial Arts Department said after careful consideration.
This should limit the adverse effects to the greatest extent, because the guard gate cannot be moved casually.
Upon hearing this, Lin Tailai immediately said: "Then I will apply to go to Chongwenmen!"
"Dream!" Chen Younian shouted unceremoniously, "If I ask you to go to Chongwenmen, I'm afraid I won't have to set up a private checkpoint to force you to collect taxes!"
Chongwenmen is the most prosperous gate among all the gates in the capital, and Chongwenmen Tax Customs is also one of the most famous tax customs in the world.
Then Chen Younian made a suggestion: "Let's go to Yongding Gate!"
Lin Tailai refused without thinking: "It's too far from home, so I won't go!"
Then he added: "Xuanwumen or Chaoyangmen!"
"No!" Chen Younian still firmly objected.
Xuanwumen's commercial nature is second only to Chongwenmen, and it is close to Xicheng. There are many dignitaries passing through, so it would be troublesome for Lin Tai to guard Xuanwumen.
Chaoyangmen is the most important food transportation channel, how could Lin Tailai be placed there?
Lin Tailai asked again: "What about Deshengmen or Andingmen?"
Chen Younian still firmly opposed: "No!"
There are only two gates in the North City. Because the imperial mausoleum is in the north, there are many envoys, nobles and eunuchs who come and go to worship various late emperors throughout the year.
Besides, the Imperial College, where thousands of desperate scholars gathered, is in the north. How can we rest assured that Lin Tai, who is extremely good at inciting people, can come and go to the north?
Lin Tailai said again: "Fuchengmen?"
"No!" Chen Younian still said these two words.
Lin Tailai was angry, "This won't work, that won't work either, what on earth do you want?
Anyway, the Seven Gates of the Outer City are too far, so I will never go there!"
Chen Younian snorted coldly: "There is no need to go to the outer city. Among the nine old gates, I only agree to send Lin Tailai to Xizhimen!
If it were another city gate, we would definitely not agree and would file a separate report to impeach you for violating the law!"
Because in this era, Xizhimen was the city gate with the lowest political and economic attributes, and the population density outside the city gate was also very low.
No matter how you look at it, there is nothing sensitive about Xizhimen.
Moreover, Xizhimen and the main Yamen area in the southeast of the Imperial City are almost diagonal. This distance is very safe. I am definitely not afraid of Lin Tailai acting like a monster again!
Therefore, taking into account all aspects of the situation, only Xizhimen, the quietest place, meets everyone's requirements.
Lin Tailai was speechless and scolded: "You are planning too much!"
Chen Younian sneered: "I can never have too many plots against you!"
"That's it!" Yang Tianguan made the final decision.
He was also a little annoyed with Lin Tailai, and the chief assistant hadn't said hello, so there was no need to take sides.