Lin Tailai's trip to Huizhou in the 24th year of Wanli was very smooth. Lin Tailai was already a familiar hand at writing epitaphs and funerals.
After all, according to the world's concept, the epitaph should be written as much as possible by people with respect and honorable status, and Lin Tailai is almost the most respected person in the world.
So Lin Tailai, who had just returned from Huizhou with the "Su-Hui Trade and Navigation Treaty", received another order to write an epitaph for Chen Yubi, the Minister of Justice.
When Lin Tailai first entered the court, Chen Yubi was a bachelor's degree in the Hanlin Academy. He often dealt with him and was quite tolerant of Lin Tailai.
In original history, Chen Yubi joined the cabinet as a Grand Secretary, but because of the butterfly effect, this time and space were stopped as the Minister of Justice.
Lin Tailai, who is about to die in his old friend, gradually became numb. In fact, this is normal.
He was not very old when he came out and had already entered the superstructure of the court in his twenties. Most of the people who deal with him at the same level were middle-aged and elderly people.
Nowadays, as time goes by, the elderly are naturally the first to disappear one by one.
For example, Zhao Yongxian, who became the Minister of Rites the past year and then broke up for the sake of the country, also passed away, but his family did not invite Lin Tai to write an epitaph.
When the 24th year of Wanli passed, Lelang Tongshan and the Suzhou-Hangzhou Weaving Bureau donated more than 300,000 taels of silver to the emperor's inner treasury.
This has not increased much compared to the 23rd year of Wanli. Lin Tailai felt that Emperor Wanli should not have the illusion that the number would continue to increase.
The 25th year of Wanli came, Lin Tailai was thirty years old, and the 25th year of Wanli in this time and space was even more stable than the 24th year of Wanli.
Even the year of the Grand Competition is not even the same, nothing big happened.
In original history, the war against Japanese aid to Korea was delayed and could not end, which brought heavy burden to the court.
Then there was endless debate over issues such as war, finance, and so on, and some turmoil occurred.
For example, Shen Weijing and Governor Xiaoxi joined forces to fool the Ming and Japanese courts, which led to the failure of peace talks. Therefore, the Minister of War Shi Xing, who advocated peace talks, was imprisoned and died this year.
However, in this time and space, due to the rapid end of the aid to Korea and the anti-Japanese war, the financial situation of the court also improved greatly, resulting in much calmer than the original history in the past two or three years.
Although the court had no major issues, Lin Tailai did not relax his deployment of the Lin Party forces.
After eight years of working in Xuanfu Town, Wang Xiangqian, was unexpectedly transferred to Sichuan as the governor.
Logically speaking, after the governor of Xuanfu Town was appointed for a long time, the general way to rise was to be promoted to the Governor of Xuanda.
But this time, Wang Xiangqian, who had a "deep background", was only transferred to Sichuan Governor, which unexpectedly happened to most people. Some people speculated that it was to avoid suspicion.
Then Wang Xiangmeng, who had passed through the senior censor of the Great Perfection and served as the two doctors of the Wenxuan Department, also went out to be the governor, referring to Chen Younian, the backbone of the Qingliu Party.
So a wonder of three governors appeared in the Wang family in Shandong Xincheng, but the resumes of the three were very solid and others could not find fault.
The person who succeeded Wang Xiangmeng as the doctor of Wenxuansi was Chen Yunjian, the doctor of the Jiaogongsi, and others would definitely not be able to compete with him.
When the 25th year of Wanli passed, Lelang Tongshan and the Suzhou-Hangzhou Weaving Bureau still contributed more than 300,000 taels of silver to the emperor's inner treasury.
When the time came to the 26th year of Wanli, the court suddenly became lively again.
First of all, the beginning of spring is the imperial examination competition once every three years, and the imperial court welcomed a group of new people.
In original history, this exam was not very famous.
Because the palace examination paper of the top scorer Zhao Bingzhong of undergraduate students was completely preserved and was publicly exhibited more than four hundred years later, future generations intuitively felt the comprehensive skills of the top scorer.
However, in this time and space, the examiner was replaced by the chief assistant Zhao Zhigao who had given him twice, and the result was naturally beyond recognition.
Wen Zhenmeng took the exam with his "skill" and wiped out the bad luck of the Wenjia for decades. He also formed a "good story" of the imperial examination with his master and apprentice, three masters and apprentices.
There are also Lin Tailai's other disciple Feng Menglong, as well as Lin's family's disciple Zhou Daodeng, who also ended up having a hard time and finally got high school this time.
As for the top scorer, it was very shocking. He was a candidate from Jiangxia, Huguang.
This person seems to have no connections and has nothing to do with the elders. He was not within the world's predictions before, so he won the top scorer for some reason.
This candidate named Xiong Tingbi is tall, has a strong aura and a loud voice. He has passed the martial arts exam before before he changed from martial arts to literary talent. He has strong physical strength and skillful martial arts. He is also the first in the Huguang liberal arts provincial examination last year.
Then there were reliable rumors in the capital that Xiong Tingbi was like a marquis in all aspects, and was ranked first by the chief assistant Zhao Zhigao and Wu, and his palace test papers were ranked first.
Later, the emperor also loved Wuwu, so he chose Xiong Tingbi as the first place in the first place according to the recommendation of the chief minister.
So the people of the capital gave Xiong Tingbi a nickname, called "Kobayashi Jiuyuan", which made Xiong Zhuangzhuo extremely depressed.
After the competition, the court was still lively because the first demon book case broke out.
Originally, Lin Tailai thought that this time and space were becoming more and more unrecognizable, and the demon book case might not break out.
But human nature really has the most powerful inertia, and the demon book case still broke out.
Regardless of whether he is Lin Tailai or not, these people are just fighting. It seems that everything can be changed, and only human struggles are eternal.
Simply put, the source of the first evil book case was when a minister named Lu Kun compiled a book called "The Book of the Bouquet Fan Tu", which mainly contains the deeds of virtuous women in history.
Then after the book was seen by Concubine Zheng, the Zheng family was reprinted and some private goods were stuffed, starting with Empress Mingde of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Concubine Zheng herself as the final.
After Lu Kun submitted a memorial this year, the Qingliu Party members attacked Lu Kun to please Concubine Zheng and made a big fuss.
Originally, Emperor Wanli didn't want to deal with this matter, but the storm started to spread in the capital, and a big-character poster called "Ask of Worry and Danger" began to circulate in the capital.
The big-character poster made a detailed "interpretation" about Lu Kun and "The Book of Bouquet Fan Tushu", saying that this was all about Concubine Zheng's public opinion propaganda for the throne of the Empress of the Central Palace, and at the same time accused Lu Kun, Zhang Yangmeng and nine others of being Zheng's party.
Therefore, this inexplicable article "A Discussion on Worry and Danger" caused Emperor Wanli's thunder and anger, and secretly investigated the original author.
Many people in the court suspected that this was done by some people in the Qingliu forces. The angry Emperor Wanli also sent a "suspect" who recently submitted a memorial to impeach Concubine Zheng.
Later, the censor revealed that the cabinet Grand Secretary Zhang Wei was the mastermind of this evil book case, and Zhang Wei's followers all planned it together.
The purpose is to arouse the Qingliu forces and the Zheng Party’s defeat and take the opportunity to expand the party and feudal forces.
Under the suspicion of Emperor Wanli, Grand Secretary Zhang Wei was forced to submit a memorial to resign and stayed at home.
The case of the Demon Book is full of doubts. When Emperor Wanli was still unsure of his mind, something happened to happen in Guizhou, which completely ruined the political career of Grand Secretary Zhang Wei.
Two years ago, Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Bozhou who was requested by Lin Tailai to encircle and use a large army to attack, became more and more rampant, and began to invade surrounding provinces such as Sichuan and Huguang, and successively killed the chieftains and military officers appointed by the Ming Dynasty in Guizhou.
This situation has been a large-scale rebellion, and the Ming Dynasty court can no longer pretend to be invisible, and the comforting strategy has completely failed.
Zhang Wei, a Grand Secretary who had tried to block Lin Tailai's "encirclement and suppression proposal" two years ago, was taken out and questioned again.
In view of the decentness of the prime minister, Emperor Wanli did not put Zhang Yi in prison and interrogate him, but dismissed Zhang Yi as an official and deprived him of all fame and honor.
Then Emperor Wanli asked the chief assistant Zhao Zhigao if he could use Lin Tailai?
Zhao Zhigao replied that the Communications Department reported that the Japanese Regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi passed away this year, and Lin Tai should be allowed to keep an eye on the situation in Japan; Sichuan Governor Wang Xiangqian has been preparing for the incident in Boshu for a year and can be used.
Then Emperor Wanli appointed Sichuan Governor Wang Xiangqian as the governor, who was fully responsible for pacifying the Yang family in Bozhou.
In original history, the Battle of Bozhou was the last of the three major battles in Wanli. It took about a year and a half to fight. It was not until the 28th year of Wanli that the Yang family of Bozhou was wiped out.
This period is also a time when the situation in Japan is changing, and Lin Tailai thinks that the direction of Japan is more important.
Therefore, he gave the credit for pacifying Bozhou to Wang Xiangqian, laying a solid foundation for Wang Xiangqian's future advance to the Ministry of War.