Yan Shifan was sitting in the building, listening to songs and drinking wine. When Lu Bing arrived, it was already dark.
When Lu Bing wanted to start "getting involved in politics", he had already dealt with the second generation of Xia Yan's son-in-law Wu Chun and Yan Ge's only son Yan Shifan, so they were considered acquaintances.
After Lu Bing sat down, Yan Shifan asked everyone else in the room to go out.
After a few words of greeting, Lu Bing asked: "Master Yan invited me here, what advice do you have?"
Yan Shifan didn't hide it, "Mr. Lu, have you ever heard of Qin Dewei's recent evil deeds?"
Qin Dewei is a celebrity. Once a celebrity does something outrageous, especially negative things, it attracts more attention and becomes a topic more easily.
Therefore, things like the clever pretext for extorting huge sums of money from the Ministry of Industry, and the criminal department whipping officials for breaking the law before they knew it were widely circulated in the official circles of the capital.
Not to mention that Lu Bing, as the commander of the Jin Yiwei, is responsible for monitoring rumors, and it is even more impossible that he has not heard of it.
"Of course I've heard about it." Lu Bing replied.
In order to show that he was well-informed, he continued: "It is said that Qin Dewei destroyed some of Wuding Marquis' farmland today by the Yongding River in the name of testing firearms, and caused some fires."
Yan Shifan: "."
He also thought about going through a process, accusing Qin Dewei of beating people at the gate of the Criminal Department, and then leading the topic below, but he did not expect that there would be even worse things later.
After adjusting his thoughts, Yan Shifan asked again: "What does Mr. Lu think of Qin Dewei's evil deeds?"
Lu Bing said calmly: "How do we, the Jin Yiwei, take care of Qin Zhongtang's affairs?
Besides, this is a matter for your civil servants. If Qin Zhongtang did something wrong, it is you who should impeach him, so why bother asking me? Or, you can’t find the person to write it? "
Although Yan Shifan received two whips, he was still very sober and said: "It's not that we can't find someone, but if the censor or others are mobilized to impeach Qin Dewei, it will play into his hands!"
It is very likely that Qin Dewei deliberately acted so domineering for some purpose! Maybe he wanted to attract officials from various yamen, especially the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Works, to impeach him!
Then he pretended to be isolated and retaliated against the emperor, and then in turn took advantage of him!"
I have to say that Yan Shifan's analysis is very reasonable, and it is a routine summarized from Qin Dewei's past deeds.
Lu Bing was stunned. Have all civil servants become so involved? Not only do they need to predict, but they also need to predict the other party's predictions?
In the future, will we have to evolve to predict the other party's prediction of our own?
Yan Shifan finally concluded: "So we can't be fooled by Qin Dewei, and we can't impeach and siege him!
But it is necessary to let the emperor know this, and Qin Dewei’s evil deeds must be heard from heaven."
Although they did not explain it clearly, both Lu Bing and Yan Shifan knew it well. Countless examples can prove that Emperor Jiajing was very sensitive to the behavior of powerful officials. If a powerful official showed a domineering side, he would definitely be suspected, and even Yan Song was no exception.
As for why Yan Shifan said this in front of him, Lu Bing smiled and said nothing, picked up the jug and poured wine.
Finally, Yan Shifan said: "Since we cannot let the emperor have the illusion that Qin Dewei is besieged by the courtiers, we can only ask Mr. Lu to deliver the news to the emperor.
I think all the hope for the civil and military affairs of this dynasty lies with Mr. Lu! I ask Mr. Lu to stabilize the court, and be sure not to refuse!"
As one of the most trusted commanders of the Imperial Guard, Lu Bing certainly had the right to submit intelligence.
A few months ago, Lu Bing might have been deceived by Yan Shifan and become so enthusiastic that he would have taken over the matter in one fell swoop.
But in recent months, Mr. Lu has become much more mature after undergoing the influence of Qin Dewei and Guo Xun.
He first shied away and said: "Perhaps it is not as exaggerated as Mr. Yan thinks. It will be the same if you find someone to impeach Qin Dewei."
Yan Shifan made sure that there were no outsiders in the house and no one was eavesdropping on the door, and then he said to Lu Bing:
"I would like to tell Mr. Lu a few words of sincerity. We cannot impeach Qin Dewei. I will even stop everyone from impeaching Qin Dewei. I have another intention.
It is to create a situation in the emperor's heart that although Qin Dewei has done many evil deeds and committed many evil deeds, no one dares to speak out!
Otherwise, how can the emperor truly understand Qin Dewei's face? How can the emperor give up his tolerance for Qin Dewei?"
Lu Bing: "."
If you don't accept it, Yan Shifan has already learned a bit of "unfounded" taste in his skills.
Seemingly doing nothing, but out of thin air leading the emperor to make assumptions and create suspicion.
It turns out that the real point is not to accuse Qin Dewei of doing evil, but that no one dares to speak out after doing evil.
Yan Shifan saluted Lu Bing: "Other aspects are easy to deal with, but the only aspect of letting the emperor know about Qin Dewei's evil deeds can only be entrusted to Mr. Lu, who is a royal guard!
After the matter is settled, we, the Yan family, owe Mr. Lu a favor!"
After returning home that night, Lu Bing wrote a letter, and then rushed to Renshou Palace the next morning and asked the eunuch to deliver the letter to Emperor Jiajing.
This is not a memorial, just a piece of information. After Emperor Jiajing read it, he ordered Huang Jin beside him: "Go to Wuyi Hall and ask Yan Song whether there has been any memorial to impeach Qin Dewei recently?"
To be honest, Emperor Jiajing couldn't believe the few things about Qin Dewei recorded in Lu Bingzhao's poems. It was really rare for the officials of the Ming Dynasty to be so lawless.
But Lu Bing shouldn’t be making things up, and if he was making things up, it would be too easy to expose.
Not long after, Huang Jin came back from Wuyi Palace and reported to Emperor Jiajing: "There has been no memorial to impeach Qin Dewei recently."
Emperor Jiajing's face immediately turned ugly. His original intention was to find a few memorials to impeach Qin Dewei and compare them with Lu Bingcheng's papers to distinguish the right from wrong.
But Emperor Jiajing did not expect that Qin Dewei would whip officials at the gate of the Ministry of Justice, and there was not even a single impeachment memorial against Qin Dewei!
At this moment, Eunuch Qin, the governor of Dongchang, came in. He also took a note and reported daily intelligence information to Emperor Jiajing.
Just as Eunuch Qin read the beginning, Emperor Jiajing interrupted Eunuch Qin and asked: "Do you have any news about Qin Dewei here?"
Eunuch Qin realized something, but he could not commit the crime of deceiving the emperor by making random remarks.
Because the note has already been taken out, there is no time to make corrections on the spot, and any wrongness can be exposed immediately.
So Eunuch Qin could only say: "There is no news about Qin Dewei."
Emperor Jiajing suddenly stared at Eunuch Qin and said sarcastically: "Is it difficult to understand that your Dongchang has also learned to keep taboos for his lord?"