At this time, seeing that the civil servants finally started to quarrel, eunuch Bingbi Chen Ju breathed a sigh of relief.
Otherwise, if he and the civil officials continue to quarrel, this court trial will be abandoned.
No matter from a technical or theoretical point of view, he is really noisy.
Looking at Zhao Zhigao who suddenly stood up, everyone was thinking, and they were constantly calculating and deducing in their hearts.
In fact, Old Man Zhao is not very used to this atmosphere of being the center of attention, but he has to step forward.
Previously, I thought that the road had been paved by Lin Tailai, and with the help of Shen Shou, I could make progress by myself.
However, the officialdom was unpredictable, and Shen Shoufu, who had placed great hope in it, failed to do anything, so he had no choice but to fight for his future in person.
However, Lin Tailai is right in saying that it is a good thing not to owe Shen Shoufu any favors this time, and then he will not have to be controlled by others in the future.
After hearing Li Xianke's "support" from Li Xianke, Zhao Zhigao immediately said: "Since you support Lin Jiuyuan, you must also support Lin Jiuyuan's pardon and reinstatement, right?"
Since we are talking about pardoning Lin Tailai, we have to mention Ge Laowang Shanyin! After all, he was the first to advocate Lin Jiuyuan’s guilt.”
This logical chain was very clear, and Li Xianke was temporarily speechless.
Zhao Zhigao said to everyone again: "As for the disaster, in my opinion, it was also caused by Wang Shanyin!
Previously, after Wang Shanyin accused Lin Tailai, several provinces began to report drought; but after Wang Shanyin returned to the cabinet unscathed, stars fell immediately!"
While everyone was still considering Zhao Zhigao's statement, Lin Tailai suddenly stood up again.
He also argued: "This is all just a coincidence. Don't be too far-fetched, and there is no need to blame it all on Mr. Wang Sange.
Otherwise, there is Mr. Wang Erge, who participated in the trial of my crime with Mr. Wang Sange that day, and returned to the cabinet at the same time. What is the explanation?"
Second Pavilion Lao Wang Xijue in the other corner: ""
But thank you so much for Lin Tai coming, I can still think of him at this time.
"Then I'm leaving!" Wang Xijue made a decisive decision and was about to leave the place of right and wrong. At the same time, he said harshly: "I'll just resign later and apologize!"
However, after Wang Erge took two steps, he suddenly couldn't move any further. A strong and powerful hand pressed firmly on his shoulder.
"Don't leave, Mr. Erge! I have no other intentions!" Lin Tailai shouted, "I'm just using you as an example."
Wang Xijue struggled secretly for a few times, but still couldn't walk away, so he had to turn around and go back to the corner.
Zhao Zhigao glanced at Lin Tailai: "You are a person awaiting trial. When no one asks you questions, what qualifications do you have to speak here?"
Lin Tailai retorted: "If my crime is being discussed, I will naturally plead guilty and have nothing to say.
But if you arbitrarily expand the scope of your crime and use disasters and strange phenomena to accuse others, of course I will say something."
After Lin Tailai's interruption, others finally reacted.
For Wang Jiaping, the Qingliu forces must also be protected, otherwise there will be no nails in the cabinet.
After Li Xianke organized his words, "The reason why the disaster appears is to warn the emperor to cultivate virtue. How can it be attached to Wang Shanyin?"
This is the main method used by the Qingliu forces to determine the calamity at present, and it is impossible not to use this to satirize the emperor.
However, according to the current political situation, this caliber has some reservations.
It is just that "the emperor needs to cultivate his virtue", rather than directly accusing "the emperor's lack of virtue", and does not want to be as intense as "Public Security" or "Drunk, Sex and Wealth".
Zhao Zhigao retorted without thinking: "Even if, as you said, the disaster was to warn the emperor to cultivate virtue, it has nothing to do with Wang Shanyin!
Lin Tailai met the emperor in the palace that day, and he went to the court a few days ago. Was what he said was to advise the emperor to cultivate virtue?
So by Wang Shanyin's accusation against Lin Tailai, did he prevent Lin Tailai from admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue?
Is Wang Shanyin, who stopped Lin Tailai from admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue, the source of the disaster warning?"
Li Xianke choked up again. He proposed that "the emperor needs to cultivate virtue" just to take away the issue of disaster and abnormality from Wang Jiaping.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhigao came up with the story "Wang Jiaping stopped Lin Tailai from admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue" and connected the disaster with Wang Jiaping.
It’s not really that Li Xianke’s eloquence is not as good as Zhao Zhigao’s, it’s mainly because Mr. Wang Jiapingge has “original sin” on his body.
Therefore, as long as there is a debate surrounding Wang Jiaping, the people on the side of Qingliu forces will naturally be at a disadvantage!
At this time, smart people have realized that technically only the victim Lin Tailai himself can truly exonerate the "murderer" Wang Jiaping.
As soon as everyone thought of this, they saw Lin Tailai jumping out again and living up to expectations.
Then he yelled at Zhao Zhigao: "You are just messing around and applying mechanical tricks! Why did Mr. Wangshan Yin Pavilion have anything to do with the disaster?
I, Lin Tailai, did indeed admonish you to cultivate your virtue, and then I was punished.
But just because Wang Shanyin Pavilion Master stopped me from admonishing the Emperor to cultivate virtue, we cannot arbitrarily connect Wang Shanyin with disasters!"
The old bureaucrats present actually have a deep understanding and understand that officialdom is a very magical place.
But they all feel that today has simply refreshed the lower limit of magic!
Qingliu forces are trying their best to protect Lin Tailai, and Lin Tailai is trying his best to protect Wang Jiaping!
Even if there are more northern soldiers attacking outside the city, the two sides with such deep hatred will not be so united, right?
Zhao Zhigao seemed unaffected and said without giving in:
"No matter how you defend yourself, the facts are the facts! Didn't Wang Shanyin do such a thing?"
Lin Tailai seemed to be furious and defended loudly:
"Then you just said that Wang Shanyin caused a disaster because he prevented me, Lin Tai, from admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue.
If you follow your theory, it would be better to say that it was because I, Lin Tai, advised the emperor to practice virtue and was expelled that caused the disaster!
Compared with your arrogance in blaming Wang Shanyin, it saves a layer of relationship!"
The people who can stand here, even if I dare not say that they are the smartest people in the Ming Dynasty, can be called a relatively smart group of people.
Lin Tailai's words went over and over in the minds of these smart people several times before they understood what Lin Tailai wanted to express.
Compared with "Wang Shanyin stopped Lin Tailai from admonishing the emperor to practice virtue", "Lin Tailai admonished the emperor to practice virtue and was expelled" is closer to the logical relationship with disasters, at least one level is saved.
Under normal circumstances, it may be suspected of boasting, but in the context of "being out of breath and talking without hesitation", it is not so abrupt.
While everyone was still brainstorming about interpretation, Lin Tailai turned to Wang Xijue again and asked directly:
"Mr. Wang Taicangge! After I finish speaking, do you agree or disagree?"
Wang Xijue thought to himself that he had called him "Old Wang Erge" when he was not using it, but now he started calling him "Old Wang Taicangge" when he was in need.
But Wang Xijue still respected the facts without hesitation and said: "I agree."
The reason is also very simple. If Wang Jiaping is "convicted", how will Wang Xijue deal with himself?
After all, Lin Tailai reminded him just now that Wang Xijue had also done what Wang Jiaping had done, so protecting Wang Jiaping was to protect himself.
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Without Shen Chief Assistant, Mr. Wang Erge was the highest-ranking civil servant, so his statement carried a lot of weight.
After hearing Wang Xijue's answer, Lin Tailai boasted about himself: "I will say that compared to Mr. Wang Shanyinge, I, Lin Tailai, am closer to the disaster. Mr. Wang Taicangge also agrees with me!"
Then he quickly looked at Li Xianke and asked the same question: "Does Li Shiyi think so?"
As the main force of the Qingliu forces today, Li Xianke's mind is now a mess.
He felt that he needed some time to sort it out carefully.
But Lin Tailai's barrage of questions left him little time to think carefully.
I just subconsciously repeated it like a repeater: "The disaster is a warning to the emperor that he needs to cultivate his virtue."
Zhao Huan, the censor of Zuoqiandu, suddenly said: "That's right, it's about cultivating virtue!
So Lin Tai came to persuade the emperor to cultivate virtue, but Wang Jiaping stopped Lin Tai from admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue!
Who do you support? Just now you said that you support Lin Tailai."
Everyone was a little surprised. Zhao Zhigao could no longer perform, so he was replaced again?
It's right to think about it. Zhao Zhigao has been complaining that Wang Jiaping is related to the disaster just now, so it's really hard to force a change.
So someone needs to be replaced to "support" Lin Tailai.
When did you, Zhao Huan, get involved with the "Lin Party"? Why was there no news about it before?
But after a little thinking, I probably have the context. Zhao Huan is from Shandong and usually has a good relationship with Wang Situ, so it is "excusable".
After hearing Zhao Huan's question, Li Xianke subconsciously said: "Of course I support Lin Tailai.
But when I say that the emperor cultivates virtue, I refer to the cultivation of virtue itself, not the matter of Lin Tailai admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue."
He just felt that he was completely confused, and he didn't understand what the expression meant.
Anyway, we can’t push Wang Jiaping into the fire pit again, right?
"That's it!" Zhao Huan, the censor of Zuoqiandu, said, "If the public opinion has come out, what is there to argue about?"
Then Zhao Huan said to Chen Ju, the eunuch of Bingbi: "Just now, the etiquette department was assigned to the official Li Xianke, and the etiquette department was assigned to the official Zhong Yuzheng who opposed Lin Tailai's conviction. I also second the proposal!"
Eunuch Chen, who had been watching the excitement for a long time, finally had something to do and asked Zhao Huan: "They resist the imperial edict in the etiquette department, do you want to resist the edict too?"
Zhao Huan replied: "Just now, the court officials unanimously agreed that the cause of the disaster was that Lin Tailai was expelled for admonishing the emperor to cultivate virtue!
So this time Lin Tai came to the court to remonstrate, he must not be accused again, otherwise he may continue to cause disasters!"
Huh? Eunuch Chen finally felt that he was awake and seemed to see the essence under the fog.
Most people have realized it at this time, and they are also defending Lin Tailai, but in fact there is an essential difference!
Previously, the Qingliu forces defended Lin Tailai on the grounds of "confident innocence."
But this time Zhao Huan defended Lin Tailai on the grounds that "it may cause disaster again."
One is not directly related to the disaster, and the other is directly related to the disaster.
Forget it, forget it, life is rarely confused, so why should you be so clear?
If you act as a "bad guy" at this time, you will offend many people, including the emperor and the elders, so why be thankless?
Only Li Xianke struggled for a moment and wanted to say something else, "It is better to cultivate virtue despite disasters."
Zhao Huan asked: "Don't you hope that Lin Tailai, who has been outspoken for many times, be pardoned?
He is Lin Tailai, and he is also Lin Tailai who has repeatedly advised the emperor to cultivate virtue!
If you can't even save Lin Tailai, how can you advise the emperor to cultivate virtue?"
Li Xianke: ""
Now that the matter has come to this, there is nothing left to say!
By this time, everyone present had a complete understanding of the situation and Lin Tailai's intentions.
In the past half day, the discussion of crime led from Lin Tailai to Wang San, from Wang San to the identification of disasters, from the identification of disasters to Lin Tailai's discussion of crimes.
It seems that it has gone all over the place and finally returned to the original point. In fact, it is a process of "public opinion brainwashing".
A simple summary is: first let everyone admit that Lin Tailai's remarks are correct, and then for the sake of political correctness, they must support Lin Tailai.
In order to protect Lin Tailai, it is necessary to create public opinion and associate the disaster with Lin Tailai.
Because as long as the disaster was related to Lin Tailai, the emperor would definitely pardon Lin Tailai in order to "eliminate the disaster".
Otherwise, the emperor would have to continue "sinning himself" and "cultivating virtue".
In the process of creating public opinion, the elders of Erwang Pavilion were taken out as a backstop.
The Six Sections have great powers and responsibilities. They supervise the implementation of the imperial edict externally, and can seal back edicts that are considered unreasonable internally, which is called refutation.
The reason why Li Ke is the main force this time is because the emperor issued an edict to accuse Lin Tailai, and Li Ke has certain qualifications to "resist the edict".
Now even Li Xianke and Zhong Yuzheng from the etiquette department have nothing to say, so others will have nothing to say.
Eunuch Chen asked again: "Is this what the public opinion is? If there are no other opinions, I will respond like this."
Lin Tailai jumped out again: "I still have something to say to Your Majesty!"
Eunuch Chen was very satisfied with today's results, and he believed that the emperor would also be very satisfied.
Therefore, Eunuch Chen just wants to return to the palace as soon as possible to "report the good news" and does not want to cause any more complications.
If someone else came out and wanted to say something at this time, it might just be a few gossips, but Lin Tailai was definitely looking for nothing.
Eunuch Chen didn't want to talk to Lin Tailai at first, but he found that Lin Tailai was blocking the door of the east room, and there was no way around him except by jumping out of the window.
For the sake of Eunuch Bingbi's face, Eunuch Chen did not choose to jump out of the window. He frowned and said, "It's getting late. If you have anything to say, hurry up!"
Lin Tailai said casually: "Since my teacher left the court, the three cabinet ministers are all around fifty-five years old, and they were even younger when they joined the cabinet.
Therefore, the cabinet is really a bit too young, not normal, and not mature enough. My Ming cabinet has never been so young.
Things have been turbulent recently, the cabinet has been shut down repeatedly, and it has been unable to appease the situation, and its performance has been extremely poor, which is evident from this.
Therefore, I boldly suggest that we please elect mature people to replenish the cabinet!
It is best to be someone over sixty-five years old to balance the youth of other cabinet ministers.
By the way, it can be regarded as making some small changes to the inner court in order to cope with the disaster."
Everyone: ""
It sounds so reasonable that it is completely impossible to refute.
Why do you, Lin Tailai, always find such strange and tricky angles?
And the person who said this is the person who shoulders the responsibility of "eliminating disasters".
While thinking about it, he looked at Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Zhao Zhigao, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The so-called elders over sixty-five years old and qualified to join the cabinet are these two old men, right?
