"One word about greenhouse trees, but few willows in Wuchang. How young is Xun Xie? Wei Ping has been looking forward to it for a long time."
The imperial court's renewed purge of officialdom was like the wind, following a certain trajectory, and quickly spread from Kanto to Kansai. Those Kansai governors who stood by and watched the excitement were quickly criticized because they were not keeping their feet firmly on the ground.
A lot of impact.
This was Huang Wan's secret push. Since we want to clean up the administration of officials, why not treat everyone equally?
Next, as if there were no traces, various misdeeds of Guo Gong, the governor of Anding and a native of Yingchuan, were exposed during his tenure. It turned out that Guo Gong was in collusion with local wealthy people. He not only participated in hiding people's households, but also
A group of Qiang Di who surrendered to the imperial court and were to be included in the household registration were canceled from the register and given to the Han people to serve as slaves in wealthy houses.
Once the matter was found out, the emperor immediately gave Guo Gong the severest punishment, without any regard for the identity of the Yingchuan scholar. He took this as an opportunity to require Liangzhou to strictly register households from the governor to the governor, and carefully
Case investigation.
Seeing that the emperor's purge of officials was gradually expanding from targeting one party to another, many people could not sit still and began to anxiously try to get this matter to an end as soon as possible. This was exactly the situation Huang Wan wanted to see, as long as everyone
Everyone felt that their interests were at stake, and that he, the Situ, and the minister who recorded the affairs of the Shangshu could be useful.
No matter how many times he has seen it up close, Huang Wan's methods of stirring up the situation and steering the situation in a direction that is beneficial to him always make Huangmen Lai sensitive and amazed. Whether it is heartfelt admiration or flattery, in the
In Huang Wan's mansion, he still praised: "You are not worried about the lack of numbers but about the inequality. Your Majesty wants to purge the officials, so why limit yourself to Guandong? Naturally, the world must be unified, and the sea must be mixed. In this way, more people will be purged.
Naturally, more people are unwilling to carry out stricter purges."
Huang Wan's relative, Shang Shulang Huang She, only wondered at the side: "I remember when Anding Diannong gave money to Guo Gong, but Guo Gong angrily rebuked him. Now just a few years later, how come he is hanging out with the wealthy Anding family again?
Were we together? Could it be that we are Liangzhou local people, and once the benevolent and righteous people come here, they will lose their nature?"
"That's when Anding Diannong and the Xiliang army plundered Yingchuan and bribed Guo Gong with gold cakes bearing the mark of the Guo family in Yingchuan. How could Guo Gong accept such gold?" Lai Min chuckled and quickly returned to the topic.
: "Ming Gong, what should we do next? Will those Yingchuan people come forward?"
Huang Wan was leaning on his forehead in deep thought. After thinking very slowly, he came back to his senses: "Not necessarily."
"Not necessarily?" Lai Min said in surprise: "The sword of the imperial court to purge officials is pointed at them. Guo Gong was born in the Guo family of Yingchuan. He fell. If he ignores him, how will others see him?"
"Xun Gongda cannot be judged by ordinary theories." As the instigator, Huang Wan was not as confident as Lai Min, but said very cautiously.
Lai Min seemed to want to ask again, but after seeing Huang Wan's thoughtful expression, he felt inconvenient to say any more.
Since the fall of the Song family, Huang Wan has been trying to review the whole incident. First, the Song family took advantage of the Song capital's pregnancy to gain favor, and behaved wildly. Not only did they disobey the imperial decrees, but they also annexed local lands, which greatly offended them.
A group of powerful nobles from Right Fufeng were formed.
In the end, the Kansai scholars and the Dong family joined forces and worked together to eradicate the Song family, and almost brought the Yang family into a conspiracy.
But there must be a person in charge behind all these reasons. If the Dong family is half the queen, then the only one who has the ability to integrate the Kansai scholars, except for the late Ma Rixi, is probably the extremely talented one.
Sun Rui, a Fufeng person...
"Shisun Junrong..." Huang Wan whispered this name that had not appeared for many years. Unexpectedly, after so many years, the other party still didn't give up after withdrawing from the court.
"But why is this?" After listening to Huang Wan's thoughts, Lai Min said in confusion: "I heard that once upon a time, before Empress Dong entered the palace, the government and the public debated the choice of empress. Guandong and Guanxi
The scholars were respectively optimistic about Fu and Song... The Song family was originally the candidate for queen supported by the Kansai scholars, not to mention that since she became pregnant, the country has continued to favor her, but now the Kansai scholars are in trouble because of things like Fufeng...
"
"That's what I'm confused about." Huang Wan sighed softly, wondering what the Song family did wrong to make the Kansai scholars choose to abandon him and choose their former rival Dong family.
Huang She on the side suddenly said with some uncertainty: "Could it be that, in the name of Shangshutai, I asked You Fufeng Dong Feng to investigate the Song family's hiding in private households, and then the Dong family discovered the situation..."
Is this indeed the case, or Huang Wan ordered Huang She to do this. At that time, he just wanted to use this to divert attention, let the Song family and the Dong family fight each other, and mix in the Kansai scholars in the middle, so that the court would have no time to worry about the Kanto investigation.
Households. Who knew that something would happen in the palace in the end? The emperor was responsible for almost all the subsequent incidents, with Dong and others following closely behind, leaving Huang Wan no room to intervene...
Just after Huang She mentioned this, Huang Wan suddenly understood something in his heart. Maybe the root cause of the matter was in his head. If he hadn't secretly instructed Pang Tong and others to drag Su Ze in, and provoked a war against the Kansai people.
The county was extremely strict in conducting household surveys, and the Kansai scholars would not be under pressure, especially seeing that the Song family and the Yang family gradually became very close, and the Yang family had always been Huang Wan's supporter.
Perhaps the cause of the matter was that the Kansai scholars mistakenly thought that the Song family was getting closer to the Yang family, and wanted to use the Kansai household case investigation as a way to invite people to be better friends. Therefore, when the Kansai scholars were under pressure everywhere, they chose to abandon the Song family and go with the Yang family.
Dong joins hands.
Huang Wan thought that even though many of these were coincidences and unintentional, the general context was as he had guessed. Dong Cheng had already stood together with Shisun Rui and others.
Shi Sunrui must not be allowed to come back!
Even if Yang Qi has withdrawn, there is no spare room in the court now. There is no suitable position for Shi Sunrui to come back and compete with Huang Wan again, unless he has to drive Huang Wan away first.
Before they could discuss the plan with Lai Min and others, a servant suddenly came to report that something had happened in Jingzhou, and the emperor sent a regular attendant to question him face to face.
As soon as he heard about the incident in Jingzhou, Huang Wan immediately felt that something was not good. He had no time to say more, so he temporarily asked Lai Min and others to avoid him, and then he anxiously received the visitor into the main hall.
This visitor's surname was Tian, and he was from the Zuo Fengyi family. Naturally, he did not show much kindness to Huang Wan after he arrived. Precisely because he came to 'question' on behalf of the emperor, Huang Wan, the Situ, in turn, had to show respect to him: "
What kind of person is Zhang Xian, the governor of Jiangxia?"
"Although this man has a stubborn temperament, he is good at governing the people. He first built Lingling and Guiyang, and he was very popular among the people of Jiangxiang. In the past two years, the imperial court attacked Buchen in the east. This man sent troops to the south to respond, helping Gan and Ning to go down the river and attack
"Po Chai Sang." Huang Wan didn't know what happened, so he carefully crafted his words: "Later, Your Majesty made him a marquis for his meritorious service, and changed his position to the prefect of Jiangxia to this day...Did this person commit anything?"
The visitor ignored him and asked sternly: "It was you who recommended him to be the governor of Jiangxia, right?"
Huang Wan quickly tried to get rid of the relationship: "I am just giving advice to Your Majesty out of convenience. As for whether to appoint him or not, it all depends on the superior..."
"What do you mean, the reason why he is not doing well in registering cases, shielding wealthy families, and so on is because His Majesty is unclear about hiring people?" The visitor immediately grasped a sore foot.
"Don't dare, don't dare." Huang Wan panicked and explained: "If this person has committed a crime, it is natural that he has betrayed the trust of the court."
The visitor didn't say anything further. He said 'hmm' and continued: "What kind of person is Lai Gong, the prefect of Nanjun?"
Now Huang Wan became more cautious and said simply: "I heard that this man is quite talented and has a reputation as a chivalrous person in Jiang Biao. When Liu Biao was in charge of Jingzhou, he recruited him to work."
Huang Wan didn't know what the other party meant by comparing Zhang Xian to Lai Gong. At this time, he still hadn't turned around because Zhang Xian's affairs in Jiangxia were exposed.
I only heard the visitor say: "This man is now the governor of Nanjun. He has always wanted to obey the edict and check the household registration. However, Nanjun's strong and powerful coercion made him unwilling to do it. Now he feels that he has no face and has taken the initiative to report to His Majesty.
I impeach myself and ask for punishment."
"What?" Huang Wan said in surprise. A dignified county guard with two thousand stones was ignored and intimidated by the local powerful family. This kind of thing has happened before, but Lai Gong was also from Lingling. Even if
It was because of the case investigation of household registration that the local powerful were offended, so why did it get to this point?
Unless the other party deliberately committed misfortune and revealed the local tycoons' arrogance and disregard for the current situation of the government, it would not only draw the emperor's attention to Jingzhou tycoons, but he could also avoid being held accountable for not completing the case investigation this time.
Huang Wan immediately understood why the emperor wanted to interrogate these two seemingly unrelated people at the same time. They both encountered obstacles in checking their household registrations, and they were both from Jingzhou powerful people. The current Jingzhou governor Chang Qia was contacted.
Zhao Wen's people, and behind Zhao Wen is directly the emperor...
In this chaos, Zhao Wen's sudden attack on Jingzhou frightened Huang Wan so much that he was in more danger than ever.
"Your Majesty ordered me to interrogate Mr. Huang. It is a strict order of the imperial court to check the household registration of the case. Nowadays, Guandong is making excuses to delay the government order, which is not satisfactory. Why?" The visitor smiled politely: "Since Mr. Huang has nothing to say, then
It is inconvenient for me to stay for a long time. It is time to go back and report to His Majesty."
Huang Wan was not sure how the other party would respond to the conversation. Shortly after the other party left, he was so frightened that he quickly collapsed under Lai Min's support. Before Lai Min could ask anything, Huang Wan just raised his hand.
He hurriedly ordered: "Quick, prepare the carriage and horses!"
In his eagerness, Huang Wan had already quickly thought about what he was going to do. He decisively made a request to the emperor to resign. It would be better to leave early than to leave late. At this moment, he understood very clearly Yang's decisiveness at that time.
Naturally, the emperor would not let him retreat easily: "You want to retreat before the matter is completed? As a minister of the imperial court, is Huang Gong so afraid of difficulties?"
What he said made Huang Wan so embarrassed that he couldn't even lift his head. Because he had arrived in such a hurry, he was still out of breath and his face was a bit uglier than before. He could only hear him say in a heavy tone: "I have done so many things over the years.
It is all my fault that I, the Prime Minister, have not achieved anything! Now that I am old and decrepit, I sleep in my sleep. I know that my time is short, so I ask Your Majesty to see that I have worked so hard in the past and be willing to let my body go..."
"Mr. Huang is serious!" the emperor said seriously, and raised his hand slightly: "I regard you as a weakling. So many things in the court can't be done without you!"
Huang Wan didn't even raise his head, and insisted: "Your Majesty, please appoint another wise minister to shoulder the important task."
The emperor suddenly heard something and followed his words and said: "After Huang Gong, I really can't think of anyone else who can take on this responsibility."
In fact, there were many such people, but the emperor deliberately ignored them just because he wanted to hear the name from Huang Wan's mouth.
"Your Majesty, do you still remember Sun Rui, the former Shangshu?" Huang Wan didn't mention anyone else, but he chose from among the ministers who had long been excluded from the court. Although his attitude was serious, it was not considered sincere.
"Him?" The emperor slowly remembered this veteran minister who had cooperated with Ma Rixi and was highly respected by Yang and other scholars, and asked softly: "After Ma Gong died of illness, I actually forgot to inquire about this person's current situation."
Huang Wan continued: "Although the scholar Sun Junrong is resting in the countryside, he is always thinking about the imperial court. Whenever there is news about imperial edicts, he will seek to inquire about it so as to get closer to the Ming Dynasty and hope to serve your majesty again. I heard that the imperial edict has not been issued this year.
He has already started to clean up his family's household registration for filing. If this person is so loyal and diligent, Your Majesty might as well..."
"He knows what the imperial court is going to do even before the imperial edict is issued?" The emperor asked immediately, with a somewhat ugly look on his face: "How did he 'snoop' the news?"
"This..." Huang Wan looked embarrassed, as if he had said something wrong, and he was a little trembling: "The Chengming Palace has always kept a strict tone, and there will never be any leaks."
"That's what came from me? Who is so bold!" the emperor shouted in a low voice.
Mu Shun and others beside him had already knelt down tremblingly.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Perhaps I made a blunder. Scholar Sun Junrong is familiar with the laws and allusions of the court and has a noble character. How could he do such a thing?" Huang Wan advised unconvincingly.
The emperor's tense face did not lighten up much because of these comforting words. He took a deep breath and suddenly returned to the original topic: "Huang Gong has been an official for so many years, and he must have a beginning and an end. When it comes to begging for bones, it is better to settle the case first."
We will discuss it after the household registration check is done. Nowadays, there are many powerful people in Jingzhou who are crazy and rebellious. I know Huang Gong's virtue, but I am afraid that others will talk about this matter, so I send you a few words to remind you... If Huang Gong takes it, he will be wrong.
If I blame you, it will be my fault."
Huang Wan immediately bowed his head and thanked him, saying that he did not dare.
The emperor continued: "The matter of checking the household registration of the Guandong case should start in Jingzhou first. Everyone in the world must understand that Huang Gong is dedicated to the country, and then he will not take any chances."
"...I promise." Huang Wan was as happy as he was after the disaster, but he was very troubled in his heart and agreed to this order.
But as soon as he thought that he had successfully blocked Shisun Rui's intentions and might even defeat him, Huang Wan felt that the risk he took was worth it.