At this time, in the Forbidden City, intelligence from Jiangnan was pouring in. Since Zhu Yijun came to power, he regarded Jiangnan as the top priority in transforming the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the intelligence department was divided into three parts.
The first is to guard the eunuch mansions everywhere, with Li Xiushan taking the overall responsibility. The focus of his own responsibilities is in Nanjing, focusing on monitoring the civil and military trends of the Nanjing faction and the political situation in the south; the second is the Jinyiwei. Different from having one bureau in each province, the Jinyiwei also has a bureau in Nanjing.
The Jiangnan General Administration, an intermediary organization, has jurisdiction over the entire intelligence departments of Huguang, Nanzhili, Yingtian, Susong and other places. All matters are summarized in Nanjing first, analyzed and reported in categories; the third part is the secret——
Feng Bao was in charge of the six families in the south of the Yangtze River, and he secretly spied on, disturbed Shilin, controlled public opinion, and monitored the eunuchs and royal guards in various places.
The leaders of the three major intelligence agencies all know each other and know that this is the emperor's method of containment, but they dare not join forces to deceive - the chain of suspicion involved is too long and there are too many people. And whether the emperor has a back-up plan?
No one knows.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun decided to use the Xu family to defeat the Jiangnan Bureau, all three parties reported detailed information on the movements in the south. Hai Rui asked Wang Yixiu to find evidence that the big family was secretly leading the uprising.
His ability is so low.
Just as Hai Rui said, the Xu family's move to retire their land and servants was intentional.
Xu Jiezhi was a man in power, and he was best at taking advantage of the situation. During Yan Song's reign, as the second-in-command of the cabinet, he was able to take advantage of the contradictions in Yan Song's group and smooth over Emperor Jiajing's temperament to maintain a lot of vitality and righteousness in the court. This was because of his "
Kindness and Tolerance".
The focus of "kindness and tolerance" is not the word "forbearance", but refers to Xu Jie's ability to use "withdrawal of tolerance" to gain sympathy and support when he is disadvantaged, and to turn his own disadvantages into advantages. Two
The key point of the word is "good", which means good at utilizing.
Zhu Yijun was sharpening his sword this time, and Xu Jie had already felt the emperor's malice towards the Xu family. If ordinary ministers were faced with such a majestic pressure from the emperor, most of them would lie down and let the hammer go, and then they would be full of complaints.
It's just a disgusting thing that talks weird things.
Although Xu Jie retired to live in the forest, Tuisiyuan was still the leader among scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Xu Jie used his family's huge financial resources to gather literati and Qingke, and edited "Shijingtang Collection" and other books with him, and
He held a large cultural gathering and raised his hopes in Shilin.
Occasionally, he would be interested, and he would give lectures in person. Every time the news of a lecture came out, the southern scholars followed the news. These situations were repeatedly mentioned in the intelligence reported by Feng Bao, Li Xiushan, Jin Yiwei and other channels? Zhu Yijun
It's impossible not to take it seriously.
Xu Jie is a disciple of Wang Xue and the successor of Nie Bao, a disciple of Duke Yangming. Although he is not as upright as his teacher Nie Bao in his life, Xu Jie believes that his achievements are not inferior to his teacher, and he consciously obtains the mantle of Wang Xue, which is the most authentic.
, so there is no shame in giving lectures.
It’s not that Zhu Yijun dislikes the form of lecturing. But Xu Jie’s influence in the opposition will inevitably become a resistance to the New Deal. Therefore, Xu Yuanchun was deposed for no reason? In fact, the first meaning is that Zhu Yijun is warning Xu Jie to shut up at home——
But it didn't work, so Cai Guoxi came back.
What gave Xu Jie great influence in the south was that his protégé Zhang Juzheng was now in power. Although the relationship between the two was not as harmonious as they appeared, the history books vaguely recorded it? Xu Jie's downfall? Zhang Juzheng
He also made some small moves. When Gao Gong and Xu Jie were idle at home, Zhang Juzheng recommended Gao Gong to Emperor Longqing, not Xu Jie.
Did Xu Jie know that Zhang Ju was messing with him? Of course he did. But despite this, he still handed over all his political power to Zhang Juzheng? He didn't resent it at all. Because he knew that he would still use this "good student"
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Sure enough, in the third year of Longqing, Hai Rui and Cai Guoxi returned home in defeat in Songjiang. Ju Zheng and You Dali Yan. Afterwards, Zhang Juzheng said in a letter to Xu Jie: "Stay as a servant for one day, and protect the good people for one day."
And wrote to the Songjiang magistrate, asking them to "comfort" Xu Jie.
It can be seen from these things that in the triangular relationship between Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng, everything is done from the perspective of a politician, not the "teacher-student" relationship or the "Qiandi" friendship that the world sees.
In the second year of Longqing, both Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong believed that the administration of the "Licorice State Elder" could not save the Ming Dynasty's increasingly declining situation, so they worked together, one charged into the battle, the other made a stumbling block behind his back, and drove Xu Jie back to his hometown.
Now that Xu Jie has returned home, Zhang Juzheng cannot tolerate Gao Gong continuing to deal with Xu Jie. Therefore, Dai Fengxiang, as one of Xu Jie's lackeys left to Zhang Juzheng, can directly interfere with Hai Rui and Cai Guoxi. Zhang Juzheng is indeed the middle man.
Zhang Juzheng also used the matter of protecting Xu Jie to draw a bottom line with Gao Gong - you can't touch my people!
Closer to home, because of Zhang Juzheng's relationship, after the Wanli Year, those who were appointed officials in the south of the empire did not feel confident when they crossed the river and did not go to Tuisi Garden to see the old prime minister. Therefore, Tuisi Garden was filled with guests every day, and poems and poems were sung, which really made a difference in the literary world.
Good place, Gao Shiyuan Sou.
What these people brought were the latest news from the imperial court. In the past two years, Xu Jie had watched Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng administer policies with cold eyes, and he had already given them so many bad marks in his heart. He did not say it, but "Meng Lang", "what a great achievement"
"I don't know how many times these words went back and forth in my mind.
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What puzzled Xu Jie was where did the emperor's ill will towards him come from? What he did was nothing out of the ordinary. The three sons were unworthy of the law, and Xu Fan, the most capable, had long been convicted by Hai Rui. Although he had not
He was really exiled, but he had no chance of officialdom in this life. Although the eldest grandson was good at studying, by the time Xu Yuanchun grew up, the Xu family's influence in the political arena had long since disappeared.
Under such circumstances, why did the emperor treat him in an almost humiliating manner, the man who had brought order to the chaos and helped Emperor Bao Longqing ascend the throne smoothly? This was completely unreasonable! Moreover, the emperor's move seemed sharp, but in fact it was ridiculous. In the south,
Among the scholars, the emperor was almost completely devastated. What good would it do the emperor to wear the label of "recruiting people based on their talent rather than humiliating the meritorious officials due to their ignorance"?
Not to mention that Xu Jie didn't understand, Zhang Juzheng didn't understand either. Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun also had quarrels over the teacher's family affairs. After all, Zhu Yijun carried the big article about rebuilding China, and many policies cannot be announced to him now.
In his opinion, Xu Jie at this time was not even a pebble blocking the road!
However, the chief assistant was having trouble and would not report his thoughts to him. He also lacked the sense of closeness and unity in his daily work. Zhu Yijun found out that Zhang Juzheng had a problem with his thoughts, so he had to comfort Zhang Juzheng and give him some advice.
A seemingly reasonable explanation.
At the end of the second year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun took advantage of Zhang Juzheng's opportunity to report on his work alone. He asked him: "The old man wants to measure the world and implement a whip method. When do you plan to do it?"
Zhang Juzheng replied: "I want to do it in the fifth or sixth year of Wanli. At that time, the emperor must have married and taken charge of the government, and the development of the Northeast has been successful. It is the right time - by then the emperor will organize Jiangnan.
Not too late."
After Zhu Yijun heard this, he said with a warm smile: "Then next year and the year after tomorrow, Pan Ji will be used to control the rivers, Huaihe Rivers, and rivers, and the country will develop water conservancy. Where will the biggest resistance be?"
Zhang Juzheng was silent after hearing this. The imperial court had to spend a large amount of money every year to manage the river. In addition to normal expenses, corruption was also a headache for the officials who managed the river. In addition, a large amount of resources had to be used to redeem the homes of wealthy gentry.
Otherwise, many projects will inevitably fail. On the one hand, the cooperation of these workers is needed to organize labor; on the other hand, we must prevent them from causing mischief.
Why do they want to cause trouble? Because in all river basins across the country, these wealthy gentry families have the most polder fields. The government does not recognize the polder fields of ordinary people. Who dares to plant land without property rights? But the wealthy gentry families are not afraid. They often build water conservancy projects at the court.
They left some unnecessary gates or even deliberately built some slag dams so that the flood could pass. They used the polders in the flood control project to divert water easily.
Zhu Yijun said: "I am not against polders, but against polders within flood discharge and flood control projects! You have also read Pan Jixun's report. The 'Hengtang Zongming' in the south of Taihu Lake can not only divert mountain torrents, but also be used during the dry season.
The canals divert water for irrigation, which is really a convenience."
"However, Pan Jixun also reported that random polders are also very harmful. Take the Xihe River, a tributary of the Wanjiang River, as an example. There were originally three estuaries of the Wanjiang River. I don't remember the specific names of the places. Now the two estuaries of the river have been poldered. When the flood peak comes, if
The dams of those two polders collapsed - hundreds of thousands of people were built into the Zeguo!"
Zhang Juzheng heard sweat on his forehead. Hearing Zhu Yijun continue: "Now use the Xu family as a target because of its great influence! From Lianghe to Jiangnan, whose family has the largest land? Who has the greatest influence? As long as this monkey
If you kill them, will the other fighting cocks still dare to crow? They will all turn into quails for me and be at the mercy of Pan Jixun!"
Seeing the wry smile on Zhang Juzheng's face, Zhu Yijun calmed down and said earnestly: "Old sir, the imperial court sold the world's salt fields last year and got 16 million taels of silver - one-third of which was my silver. I'm not an idiot.
Foolish king, if this money is used to build gardens, it will be ruined in ten years! Now, using this large sum of money to build water conservancy projects across the country is to have a coordinating effect - otherwise, patching up every year will be a waste of money.
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"I didn't use Pan Jixun last year. When I asked him to conduct a comprehensive investigation, I repeatedly warned him to be 'big-minded' and consider all things [pencil novel www.qbxs.me] to control the Huaihe River, the river, and the river, without considering the cost. I guess.
Didn't he expect that the imperial court could spend 12 million to control the river?" After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng said to himself, "I didn't expect that either."
When Zhu Yijun said this, he became a little excited: "The nationwide overhaul of water conservancy is a century-old plan. Anyone who obstructs it will be killed. I don't mind the heads of those who are ugly in the south of the Yangtze River. I just want to stand in front of you first!"