Although Cao Sicheng could not see Li Mingrui's serious face like a carved wood through the curtain, he could also feel the concern of this cabinet master in his tone of heavy weight!

Li Mingrui asked slowly, "Mr. Cao, please tell me truthfully about this matter, have you ever had any contact with His Highness King Xin, not just political connections, but also poetry and lyrics among ordinary literati, or even gifts to each other or mention them in front of others?"

When Cao Sicheng heard Li Mingrui's question, he felt that there was no place to say anything and no place to complain. He couldn't help but explain anxiously: "Oh, I can't hide it from you. Even if you borrow the courage of the lower-ranking official, the lower-ranking official would not dare to get involved with His Highness King Xin. The lower-ranking official indulged in ignorance and knew that this master was a thorn in the heart of the current emperor, so how could he dare to make friends? Even then, the lower-ranking official followed Wei Zhongxian and was not at all late with this high-ranking official, and even had some rifts. Now that His Majesty suddenly said this, he couldn't wash it out even if he jumped into the Yellow River."

"It's good if you don't have it. Since Your Majesty mentioned it, it means that this matter is not empty and wind. I can't guarantee that you are in that place and you can't take care of it. Pay more attention in the future," Li Mingrui said lightly.

Cao Sicheng didn't know where he was negligent, so he had to ask almost in a pleading tone: "Please give me some advice on how to tell me the way. What should I do next?"

"Respond to changes with the same change!"

Li Mingrui suddenly replied.

Cao Sicheng had to bow again and prayed: "Please forgive the ignorance of the officials, and I would like to ask the elders to speak clearly."

"You just need to remember that Your Majesty is not a person who regards things so simply. Anyone's ghosts and monsters are revealed in front of His Majesty. If your Majesty wants to target you, the Zuodu Censor, otherwise it would not be so troublesome. You must also mention it in the court. You must know that with Your Majesty's personality, not to mention that you are the Zuodu Censor, even the cabinet master will say that you will be executed if you are the cabinet master. If you are still alive, it means that Your Majesty is not you, but me! Maybe it is Qian Qianyi!"

Li Mingrui's words seemed like a thunder falling from the sky blew up above Cao Sicheng's head. Cao Sicheng did not expect that Li Mingrui would suddenly mention him and Qian Qianyi.

Li Mingrui said again: "Now everyone knows that Qian Qianyi and I fought the most fiercely, and the officials were probably divided into two factions. Your Majesty did not expose it because the battle between Qian Qianyi and I had not yet caused a party-finishing dispute that was so serious that it affected the national decision-making. Now someone suddenly framed you, a dignified left-level censor, and it was obviously at the point where you would affect the major changes in the court. Your Majesty would probably hit the side that wanted to escalate the struggle."

Cao Sicheng also suddenly realized and couldn't help asking: "Gei Master, are you talking about someone trying to frame the lower officials? I deliberately slander me with the matter of believing in front of His Majesty?"

"Don't talk nonsense! I'm just guessing, just guessing!"

Li Mingrui resolutely scolded Cao Sicheng, his tone was a little angry, as if he was blaming the Zuodu Censor Cao Sicheng for being a little rude!

Cao Sicheng also realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he kept silent, but his heart was still like a turbulent person. He even had the urge to retire and return home. After staying in this court for a long time, he found that the more he was in a high position, the more struggles and plots he faced. It was no wonder that any official since ancient times wanted to retire to the countryside. The reason was not that they all liked to be farmers who farmed but yearned for a life without struggle.

At this time, without waiting for Cao Sicheng to ask, Li Mingrui took the initiative to say, "You'd better stay in the door these days. Your Majesty is afraid that you have not found any real evidence. Otherwise, you wouldn't stand in the court safely now. As long as you don't act rashly and continue to maintain the neutral attitude that was before, and assuming that this matter has not happened, Your Majesty will not do anything to you, at least you won't take your life, because Your Majesty is not going to hit you, the left censor, but if you show a little uneasy at this time and even seek help from others, especially Qian Qianyi and I, then you're afraid that you will not only lose your life, because Your Majesty is the most unwilling tolerant of the officials of the key departments such as the Six Ministry and Nine Ministers, and also participate in the party dispute!"

After Li Mingrui said that, he ordered the sedan chairwoman to take the lead, and Cao Sicheng also hurriedly ordered the sedan chairwoman to walk around in the opposite direction to show that he had nothing to do with Li Mingrui's sedan chair.

But Cao Sicheng, who was hit by the five thunders, still couldn't feel at ease after returning, so he had to wait for illness at home without seeing anyone.

After Zhu Youxiao found out, he just smiled and said nothing. It is true that as Li Mingrui expected, ministers like Cao Sicheng would not move easily, at least they would not become tools in the hands of other civil servants and be used by other civil servants to let him, an emperor, execute the helmsman of the Censorate. But if ministers like Cao Sicheng really disregarded the government affairs and major policies of the court and served the small group, then Zhu Youxiao would never be polite!

If officials such as the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial College, and other five temples who do not have important administrative functions participate in the party struggle, Zhu Youxiao will not be too harsh. However, important functional departments such as the Six Ministry and Nine Ministers must think that the Ming Dynasty is the first priority. Although Zhu Youxiao also knows that it is difficult to let them not participate in the party struggle, at least the starting point of interests and the overall direction cannot be wrong!

After Qian Qianyi returned to the mansion, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Today, there were many officials in the court who were gloating in his heart, and he, the chief minister of the cabinet, was just one.

Qian Qianyi was very upset that Zuodu Censor, who was in charge of the Censorate of the Censorate, was actually Li Mingrui's man. He also spent a lot of effort to remove Cao Sicheng from the position of Zuodu Censor.

King Xin Zhu Youjian suddenly returned to Beijing and was detained again, and the person who brought him back was Li Mingrui, the second assistant to the cabinet, which made Qian Qianyi, who had a sensitive sense of party struggles, think of an excellent conspiracy.

Of course, he knew how difficult it was to frame a decent Zuodu Censor, which would at least make Your Majesty very dissatisfied, so he deliberately did not do things too much and did not directly frame the Zuodu Censor Cao Sicheng and Xin Wang Zhu Youjian to intend to rebel. However, when he was the emperor in the court today, he mentioned Xin Wang and praised Cao Sicheng in person, Qian Qianyi found that his Majesty might have known that Zuodu Censor Cao Sicheng had signs of making friends with Xin Wang Zhu Youjian, and seemed to be deliberately hitting, which gave Qian Qianyi an illusion that his Majesty had begun to become dissatisfied with Cao Sicheng, and it might even know that Cao Sicheng's butt was sitting on Li Mingrui's side and deliberately hitting Li Mingrui.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi secretly met his favorite disciple Jiang Dejing that night, who is now the chief of the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Representatives, and asked Jiang Dejing to prepare to memorialize the left censor Cao Sicheng, who was wrong, and strive to use the help of King Xin Zhu Youjian who was imprisoned by His Majesty again. This hot topic is that the Zuodu Censor Cao Sicheng was defeated by the emperor.
Chapter completed!