Lin Tailai couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Wang Tianguan had been in power for too short a time and was not yet proficient in many tricks.
As it is now, why bother talking to Lu Guangzu? Just take off your official hat in front of the emperor to express your resignation!
The emperor obviously thought Wang Tianguan's speech just now was very interesting, and he would definitely not accept his resignation on the spot.
Then the outrageous accusations about Lu Guangzu have been completely resolved, right?
However, it is normal for a literary and artistic old man who has been dissolute for more than thirty years to suddenly rise to the top of the political situation and feel a little uncomfortable.
I have no choice but to grit my teeth and support the heavenly official I chose.
Therefore, Lin Tailai had no choice but to go out in person again and told the emperor: "Major personnel matters in the imperial court are often decided by court referrals!
Just now Lu Guangzu opposed Wang Shizhen's proposal and advocated that all eight nominees should be retained. You might as well ask the other ministers for their opinions."
Then he went on to say: "Now that the main hall of the Household Department is vacant, we should start from the Department of Rites."
If you tell the specific implementation details like this, your superiors who are indispensable will usually agree to it as a matter of course.
After Yu Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, hesitated for a moment, he replied: "I agree with Lu Guangzu and retain the nomination of eight people."
This answer surprised everyone a little. You Yu Shenxing made the decision to change the ceremonial song, and you obviously started to help Lin Tailai. How come you are suddenly on the opposite side of Lin Tailai now?
Wang Yi'e, Minister of the Ministry of War, does not have much factionalism. Under normal circumstances, he does what the chief minister says and remains consistent with the chief minister.
But this time his statement was rather sudden, and he did not have time to communicate with the chief minister. He could only follow his subconscious and say: "The nominations of the eight people should be retained."
After all, half of the eight people were arranged by the chief assistant, so it’s hard to deny it.
Sun Piyang, the Minister of Punishment, was supposed to escort the captured chieftain to the Western Market and supervise his execution, but he was also called to the Meridian Gate.
Being supported by the Qingliu forces, he had no choice but to support Lu Guangzu at this time, and said in reply: "The previous nomination should be retained and should not be invalidated without reason."
Zuo Tongzheng Xu Shen's mentality was similar to that of Wang Yi'e, Minister of the Ministry of War. He also subconsciously followed the chief minister and replied: "The nominations of the eight people should be retained."
There are three missing members of the Jiuqing who are qualified to participate in major personnel promotions, and the remaining six are all here.
Except for Wang Tianguan, the Censor of Zuo Du, the Minister of Rites, the Minister of War, the Minister of Punishment, and Zuo Tongzheng all had the same opinion.
The cabinet academicians, who theoretically did not participate in the personnel selection process, remained silent and watched as bystanders.
Perhaps because of the clear-mindedness of bystanders, the more the bachelors looked at him, the more something was wrong, and their expressions varied.
Here it comes again, here it comes again! The familiar routine appears again!
Some time ago, Lin Tailai was pretending to be weak like this and kept shrinking, as if he had been beaten.
It was like this again today, it seemed like everyone in the court was collectively bullying him!
Perhaps it was because the pavilion elders were standing closest to the emperor, and from the corner of their eyes, they could see the emperor's brows frowning slightly.
At this time, after listening to the speeches of the ministers, Lin Tailai couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. He beat his chest and feet very unbecomingly before the king, and growled in a low voice to Lu Guangzu: "Why, why is this?
What heinous crime could a hero like me have committed?
Why am I, a meritorious official, being targeted by almost all the courtiers even after I have only returned to the court for more than a month?"
Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to answer Lin Tailai's words, and everyone could only curse inwardly.
The hero who returned from the bloody battle was miserable in court, and whoever answered the call would be unlucky.
However, Zhao Zhigao, the elder of the Fourth Pavilion, suddenly said: "Perhaps it is you, Lin Tailai, who has misbehaved on weekdays and caused public outrage."
This shocked everyone again. The sun was almost setting in the west today, and Zhao Zhigao actually criticized Lin Tailai in public!
Lin Tailai immediately retorted: "This is a matter of nomination and election of a foreign court, and has nothing to do with the cabinet! Sir, please don't say too much, lest you be suspected of overstepping your authority!"
King Shen II Wang San: "."
Do you mean to criticize Zhao Si or the three of them?
If you can't speak, how can you control the situation?
Emperor Wanli looked at the "initiator" Lu Guangzu and asked: "What else does Lu Qing have to say?"
Lu Guangzu took a deep breath and said sincerely: "Your Majesty! Among the eight nominees, there are many honest and upright people who deserve to be promoted.
How can they all be invalidated for some inexplicable reason? If word spread like this, their reputation will be ruined, which is not in line with the way the country employs people!
Your Majesty certainly cares about the ministers who contributed to the great victory, but doesn’t he care about other ministers who have contributed to the great victory?”
Now there is no other way. Reasoning is useless. We can only find ways to influence the emperor's mood.
Unexpectedly, Lin Tailai interjected from the side and said: "Listen to what you, Lu Guangzu, mean, except for these eight people, my Ming Dynasty can't find anyone who is honest and upright and should be promoted?"
If you want to select someone who is honest and upright, why not someone else? For example, I, Lin Tailai, am very honest."
Lu Guangzu: "."
The emotions that had finally been gathered together suddenly became deflated.
Phew! Suddenly someone couldn't help laughing.
Everyone was wondering who was so bold, but when they heard the laughter seemed to come from the direction of the throne, it was okay.
"How dare Lin Tailai talk nonsense!" Emperor Wanli scolded him again after he finished laughing.
Lin Tailai said in a more sincere tone than Lu Guangzu: "Your Majesty's previous intention to dismiss officials was to protect the meritorious officials and ensure their safety.
But now it seems that there are too many dissatisfied people in the court, and I am afraid that even His Majesty will throw a taboo at him. Please let me retire and return home to avoid further embarrassment to Your Majesty."
Everyone: "."
Retiring at the age of twenty-four? Can you, Lin Tailai, be more pretentious?
Emperor Wanli weighed it again in his mind, made up his mind and issued an edict:
"No need to say any more! The previous nominations for the Minister of Household Affairs, the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Dali Temple, and the Minister of Taipu Temple are all invalid!"
Lu Guangzu, who had been opposing Lin Tailai today, became really anxious and remonstrated bitterly:
"This must not be the case. Please take back your Majesty's decree! Otherwise, the reputation of these eight people will be ruined. How can they still have the dignity to stand in the court?
I hope Your Majesty will remember that most of them are veterans who have worked hard for many years and save them some dignity!"
At this moment, Lin Tailai jumped out again and said: "Lu Guangzu! At this time, you still don't forget to fight for power and profit, do you want to remove Wang Shizhen, the Minister of Civil Affairs?"
Wang Tianguan: "?"
I finally kept a low profile again, why was I mentioned again? What does Lu Guangzu’s desperate admonishment have to do with me?
Lin Tailai continued: "Just now you, Lu Guangzu, thought that if all the eight people nominated by the Ministry of Personnel were invalidated, it would be a serious dereliction of duty for the Minister of Personnel.
Now you might as well talk about how to punish the minister who has neglected his duties? Is it to remove him? Or, what do you want to blackmail? "
Lu Guangzu was immediately choked. He just hit someone with a big hat and suppressed Wang Tianguan, but he didn't think about how to implement it.
Without occupying the moral high ground, and in front of the emperor, trying to protect the eight nominees while forcing the Minister of Personnel to resign would appear to be very overbearing and would definitely arouse the emperor's extreme resentment.
Seeing this, everyone could finally confirm that Lu Guangzu had no power to recover.
He is not as venomous as Lin Tailai in trolling people, not as hypocritical as Lin Tailai in selling misfortunes, not as accurate as Lin Tailai in criticizing people, and not as able to stir up troubled waters as Lin Tailai, so what are you going to win?
Lu Guangzu couldn't help but lost his mind and stopped talking.
He suspected that if the fight continued, even he, the censor of the left capital, would not be able to save himself.
He doesn't care about the official position, but the Qingliu forces need this Zuodu censor!
Song Qi, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, has passed away, and Sun Piyang, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, is not a staunch faction and may not be reliable at times, so thousands of colleagues must not lose themselves as the censor of Zuodu!
Everyone thought they were about to leave, but then they heard Emperor Wanli say to Lin Tai:
"Now that I'm thinking about it, the imperial court's reward for your meritorious service is indeed too small, so I should add more. If you have any other ideas, feel free to tell me."
Anyone who has worked in the court for more than a year can understand that if the answer is not good, it will be a question!
If Lin Tailai had just taken advantage of the emperor's doubts about forming factions, he had successfully attacked a large area.
So now the emperor also had some new doubts about Lin Tailai, who had won a great victory.
This question of asking Lin Tailai what kind of reward he wants may be a test. It's either a yes or a no.
As the saying goes, a man who accompanies a king is like a man who accompanies a tiger, that's how it goes.
Under the gazes of the cabinet ministers, the ceremonial supervisor, and the eunuchs, Lin Tailai seemed to be beating a snake on his stick, and said: "I do have two ideas!"
Emperor Wanli laughed and said, "Come on!"
Lin Tailai continued: "First, I would like to ask your Majesty to grant you leave to visit relatives and temporarily return to your hometown to honor your parents.
It will take me two months to establish the Communications Department, and I can go south in October and return to Beijing next spring."
Emperor Wanli asked in return: "Isn't that the case of the two major dynasties of Winter Solstice and New Year's Day? You can't attend the Nine Yuan Dynasty in this dynasty?"
Lin Tailai: "."
If your majesty can work diligently to attend court, especially the largest court meeting of the year, Lin Tailai will dare to eat the ivory official badge on his waist!
Everyone understood. It seemed that the emperor was in a good mood and even told cold jokes.
Lin Tailai added: "The second thought is, I heard that there is a spear enshrined in the Wufeng Tower of Meridian Gate, which was used by Emperor Chengzu in the past.
If your Majesty is interested, you may wish to give Chengzu's spear to your ministers, so that you can use this to boost morale when you go to war again in the future."
The ministers were very surprised. How did you, Lin Tailai, know about this?
Even these veterans heard about it for the first time today. They had never been to the Meridian Gate before, let alone the Five Phoenix Tower.
Eunuch No. 4 Chen Ju is even more confused. What does Shen Shoufu always think of you? Could it be that you told Lin Tailai yourself?
Emperor Wanli was also surprised and asked the eunuchs on the left and right: "Is there really such a spear in the building?"
The throne of Emperor Wanli is located in front of the Wufeng Tower. He summoned ministers in front of the building and did not enter the building.
Zhang Cheng, the palm print eunuch who had previously inspected the building, replied: "There is indeed a spear enshrined upstairs, which was passed down from Chengzu. It is said that Chengzu personally held it during the expedition."
Emperor Wanli, who was fat and had inconvenient legs and feet, was too lazy to go into the building to see for himself, so he told Zhang Cheng:
"Since ancient times, swords are given to heroes, and the same goes for spears. Go take them down and reward Lin Tailai. It is also a good story!"
Such a reward, which is extremely sacred in name but of little use in reality, can be regarded as worthy of seven battles and seven victories, and the hero who conquered the city first, and no one in the world can say otherwise!
"No!" Sange Lao Wang Jiaping blurted out a little gaffefully.
Lin Tailai already had the imperial armor. If he got another imperial spear from his ancestors, would he be able to do anything in the capital?
Facing the emperor's gaze, Wang Jiaping quickly said: "It is extremely inappropriate to hold a weapon before the emperor!"
Emperor Wanli said magnanimously: "It's okay, just get the spear and go down!"
Not long after, No. 1 Zhang Cheng and No. 2 Sun Xian came out of the building holding a rusty iron spear together and stood far away from the emperor's throne.
Lin Tailai took a few steps forward, saluted, and solemnly took the rusty iron spear.
Then Emperor Wanli said: "Lin Tailai, please go down first! I also want to talk to the cabinet ministers about the gathering of mine thieves in various places!"
Damn it! Lin Tailai ran down with the iron spear! The emperor wanted to open a mine, so he ran away!
The biggest pitfalls that have existed for tens of thousands of dynasties are not only the disputes over national origin, but mining and mining taxes are also one of them. They are all big pitfalls that cannot be thanked by either left or right.
Thinking of this, Lin Tailai suddenly felt that Wang Situ and Ding You didn't seem to be entirely bad at this time.
If the dispute over the foundation of the country is a big pitfall for the Ministry of Rites, the Minister of Rites is forced to be on the front line.
Then the mining tax and commercial tax are a big trap for the Ministry of Revenue. The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue will definitely use public opinion to oppose the emperor's direct appointment of mining supervisors to start mining and collect taxes.
If Wang Situ continues to be the Minister of Household Affairs, he is probably going to be in trouble.
As for why the emperor was thinking about mining to make money at this time, Lin Tailai could understand.
Speaking of the palace's finances, in addition to the more than one million gold and silver coins in Jiangnan every year, as well as the income from other royal estates and pastures, the simplest and most trouble-free way is to move the silver directly from the Taicang treasury to the inner treasury.
However, Taicang's treasury has been in deficit since the past two years. This year's military deployment in Ningxia cost hundreds of thousands.
Therefore, even if the emperor wanted to move the money directly from the treasury, he had no choice but to find another way.
While Lin Tailai was thinking about the treasury issue, he subconsciously wanted to stay away from the Meridian Gate quickly to avoid being called up to discuss the "gathering of mine thieves" issue again.
So Lin Tailai subconsciously ran all the way from the Meridian Gate to the Zuoye Gate.
So the courtiers who were still lingering under the Meridian Gate and waiting to eat the melon saw from a distance that Lin Tailai rushed out from the Zuoye Gate holding a spear that was dark red in color and seemed to be stained with blood.
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Reminiscent of Lin Tailai's illustrious martial arts on the streets of the capital, and the rumors of a fight in the palace, the more than a hundred ministers who stayed here exploded on the spot and turned around to move to Duanmen.
Did Lin Tailai kill all the way down from the Meridian Gate? What happened at the Meridian Gate? Why didn't other ministers come down?
The Jinyiwei officers on duty here at the Meridian Gate drew their swords one after another and shouted quickly: "Put down the weapon!"
The Imperial Guards also raised their weapons and were on high alert.
Lin Tailai was stunned, then raised his spear and said loudly: "This is the spear of Emperor Chengzu, enshrined in Wufeng Tower, and was given to me by His Majesty!"
In addition, His Majesty also has a decree for the eight people who were previously nominated to come out!"
The crowd that had stopped moving was in chaos again, and some people's legs were so weak that they couldn't stand.
Lin Tailai came to announce the decree with an imperial-given iron spear in hand. What did this mean? In retaliation for the decree, did he stab the person whose name was called to death on the spot?
