The first month of the 20th year of Wanli is destined to be an uneasy month. This month is summarized as the emperor is very annoyed.

It was not the imminent war, but the fact that the country's foundation was in trouble again.

It was the first month of the year, and Li Xianke, the Left Minister of the Literature Department, submitted a memorial to the emperor on behalf of the ministers of the six subjects to request the title of the crown prince.

There is a comment in the commentary that the Yuanzi year was one 10 years, and the Yu religion was held in the first spring. If it is said that the inner court can be recited and read, and the nearby servants can also be guided, then the doors are quiet and leisurely, which is not as clean and honest as the outer court; the inner ministers are loyal and respectful, how can they be as dignified as the teacher protects?

This is to remind the emperor that you said that you would be appointed as the crown prince after the beginning of spring and you should not keep your word anymore.

Seeing that it was not enough to punish so many people before, and someone came to die, could he still feel good? He immediately stumbled on Li Xianke's memorial and said that you had written the Hongzhi year name wrong and you would be given a salary and demoted to the official position.

Shu Fang went to the cabinet, and Shu Hongxu led a group of ministers to block the cabinet and "talk" to Wang Jiaping.

After Wang Jiaping talked, he immediately returned the emperor's memorial.

This is not the first time that Wang Jiaping has granted the emperor's imperial edict. Before Lin Yanchao returned to the capital, the Minister of Rites Yu Shenxing submitted a memorial to request the enthronement of the crown prince. At that time, Shen Shixing, Xu Guo and Wang Xijue were "ill" at home together.

Wang Jiaping was alone in the pavilion and returned the emperor's imperial edict, supporting Yu Shenxing's request to be enacted.

The six departments and the cabinet have the power to return the emperor's imperial edict. The cabinet is the first process and the six departments are the second process.

After only three months as the chief minister, Wang Jiaping returned the imperial edict to the emperor.

Although Wang Jiaping had no choice but to force him, it was the first time that the emperor and the prime minister were head-on.

Of course the emperor was furious. Wang Jiaping also knew that the emperor was angry, so he wrote a memorial to the emperor, "It is advisable to enthrone the crown prince in spring to block the way of talking." He was in poor health and was not well handled this time. He felt guilty and became sick. Please ask the ministers to take care of him at home.

The emperor ordered Wang Jiaping to return to his house temporarily to "repair" and then ordered Zhao Zhigao to carry out the order of the beating Li Xianke.

While Zhao Zhigao submitted a memorial to ask for treatment with Wang Jiaping when he was sick, he honestly demoted Li Xianke.

Wang Jiaping was "renovated" at home for returning to protect the censor. This move was equivalent to stabbing a hornet's nest. Without Wang Jiaping in order to reconcile, the censor directly confronted the emperor.

The censors of these six subjects were really powerful, and the Ministry of Personnel immediately submitted a memorial to the chief clerk Shu Hongxu: The censors can be punished, but the Yu Cult must be punished. The imperial edict was issued to "spread this guy to Nanjing."

Just after one fell, the Ministry of Revenue submitted a memorial to the clerk Meng Yanghao, "The emperor sat down and watched the eldest son lose school, which insulted the ancestors of the clan and society..."

Meng Yanghao was a Jinshi in the 11th year of Wanli and Li Xian, who wrote a memorial before, and he was a Jinshi in the same year. He was also a grandson of Mencius's 61st generation. From his name, we can see that it is derived from Mencius's words, "I am good at cultivating my noble spirit."

But the emperor was scolded for being humiliated by his ancestors. How could he tolerate it? He simply touched his reverse scale and ordered the Jinyiwei to stick a hundred sticks, cut off his posts for the people, and never use them.

However, the emperor did not know that after he ordered the court to be a censor, the fact that happened next was rare in ancient and modern times.

After Meng Yanghao was sceptered by the court, Zhao Zhigao, the only Grand Secretary in the Pavilion, felt that he might be scolded to death if he didn't plead, so he wrote a memorial to plead and was scolded by the emperor.

Chen Shangxiang, the head of the official position, submitted a memorial to plead with mercy and was dismissed from office for the people.

The censor Zou Deyong, the chief minister of the Hu Department, Ding Maoxun, the chief military department, Zhang Dong, the chief criminal department, Wu Zhijia, the chief engineering department, Yang Qixiu, and the chief literary department, and the chief literary department, Ye Chuchun, the chief military department, jointly submitted a memorial to plead with his mercy.

The emperor demoted these six people and sent them to the office.

In just a few days, more than ten censors were punished by the emperor.

The emperor thought he could hold back, but he did not expect that after just dismissed these more than ten people, Dong Sicheng, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, Jia Mingru, and Chen Yumo, the censor, had another memorial. The emperor had already been red-eyed, and the one who seized the official position, the one who demoted the position, and the one who took the salary to seize the salary.

Li Zhouce of the Official Affairs Office submitted a memorial to plead with mercy and was dismissed.

Nanjing Minister of Personnel Cai Guozhen, Minister of Personnel Yang Shiqiao, and Zhao Yongxian submitted memorials.

Before, all the ministers of the Ministry of Science and Technology submitted memorials, but Cai Guozhen and others entered the court, and the senior officials of the court also joined the ranks of opposing the emperor.

This really fits the saying, it’s good to submit memorials for a while, and it’s good to submit memorials for a while. What these officials are thinking at this moment is that at worst, they can stop doing an official position, and submit memorials to confront the emperor, so they will be happy first.

At this point, the emperor was also afraid and finally did not dare to punish the officials again.

What is Lin Yanchao doing at this moment?

In fact, these things happened in the first month of the year. From Li Xianke's memorials to the ministers' memorials being scolded by the emperor one by one, it only took more than ten days.

Lin Yanchao was busy with Haicao, and there was busy arranging examinations. He was also concerned about the situation in Japan, North Korea. Now Lin Yanchao disliked other things to bother him the most. Even after Li Xianke submitted a memorial, he asked his disciples and followers not to interfere in this matter.

In another time and space, Zhong Yuzheng, who was the official and ministers, was dismissed from office because of this, and now he was spared because of Lin Yanchao.

However, some things are still unavoidable. For example, Dong Sicheng, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites' Host and Guest Department, was Lin Yanchao in the same year. The two of them were very close to each other on weekdays. He had come to Lin Yanchao because of the eldest son of the emperor. Lin Yanchao repeatedly advised him not to interfere in this matter, after all, behind him represents Wu Cheng Dong's family.

Wu Cheng Dong's family started as the former Minister of Rites Dong Fen. At that time, Yan Shifan mentioned that there were seventeen wealthy people in the world with a property of more than 500,000 taels, and Wu Cheng Dong's family was one of them.

Later, even Shen Shixing became in-laws with Dong.

However, the Dong family has a very bad reputation among the people, because the Dong family has many slaves. Shen Shixing was impeached for his slaves to occupy people's wealth, and Shen Shixing's affairs are simply a slim compared to Dong Fen.

At that time, Wucheng's public grievances were already extremely serious. Not that no one complained about the grievances, but they were suppressed by the court.

Dong Sicheng and Dong Fen also had conflicts about how to deal with it. Dong Sicheng advocated severe punishment of family slaves and gave some of the family wealth to these people. Anyway, his family's money was enough. Dong Fen denounced him as naive, saying that if these ordinary people retrieved some of them, others would come to ask for it when they saw it. It was so difficult to average, but the more they needed it. Once it was difficult to satisfy, it would lead to greater public grievances, and this would inevitably lead to major events.

Dong Sicheng asked back, what should you do to calm the public grievances? Because the court had already severely punished such officials at that time, and even Shen Shixing was dealt with. Faced with such a situation, Dong Fen certainly had a way. As a big bull who was in charge of the dynasty with Xu Jie and Yan Song, although his reputation was not obvious, his methods were far from comparable to officials like the Wanli Dynasty who were "born in peacetime".

At that time, Fan Yingqi, the Imperial College Priest, was a fellow townsman of Dongfen. After returning home, he also occupied people's wealth, so that the officials would block the road and call for injustice as soon as they arrived at the local people. The inspector and censor could not stand it, so he ordered the local magistrate to take Fan Yingqi to the yamen for interrogation.

Fan Yingqi was humiliated and was hanged in prison. Dong Fen decided to make a big fuss about this matter. He asked Fan Yingqi's wife to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit, and bribed the emperor and stabbed the matter to the imperial court. After hearing this, the emperor was furious and said, "Who dared to kill my good lecturer (Fan Yingqi was the top scholar in the 44th year of Jiajing and served as a Japanese lecturer). Finally, he issued an order to punish Fan Yingqi's inspector and magistrate, one of whom was dismissed from his post and the other exiled him. Once these two people were severely punished, other officials in the officialdom would know the power of the Dong family.

However, Dong Sicheng was dissatisfied with Dong Fen's approach and believed that even if he used such means to save his family's wealth, he would be very shameful.

Lin Yanchao repeatedly advised Dong Sicheng to at least consider his family again and again, learning from Zhang Taizheng and Yang Junmin. They were so obedient in the court that they could not cause trouble, so that they would not cause trouble. This was the way to preserve the wealth of the family.

However, Dong Sicheng did not listen, thinking that the matter of the country was the basis of righteousness. After he submitted a memorial, the emperor dismissed him from office without saying a word.

Lin Yanchao was helpless about Dong Sicheng being dismissed from office and could not help anything.

If something else was changed, Lin Yanchao would have submitted a memorial to him, but he could not say anything about this matter.

However, Lin Yanchao can take the initiative to not interfere, but it does not mean that he can stay out of the matter.

Now Lin Yanchao is in the study room of the mansion, and there are thick stacks of posts in front of him.

Chen Jichuan reported to Lin Yanchao: "Master, these are the officials who came to the mansion to visit today, including three doctors from six departments, seven servants, twenty-two officials from the chief, and twenty-five officials from the Qing Temple."

Lin Yanchao picked up the thick post and flipped it out, then asked: "Why are there no official from the Department?"

Chen Jichuan said: "I heard that the officials of the Department of the Ministry of Personnel are led by Zhong Yuzheng to the office of the Minister of Personnel, Lu Taizai, today. After hearing that it was explained, it was his turn to visit you, Master."

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but reach out to hold his forehead when he heard this.

Chen Jichuan said to Lin Yanchao: "Master, now Yuanfu is at home, and the second assistant is alone, but he is unable to support the overall situation. One is that he does not take charge of the overall situation, and the other is that he cannot take charge of the overall situation. So now all the officials in the capital can only rely on you, Master."

Lin Yanchao sneered and said, "Why can I take charge of the overall situation?"

"At present, in the matter of the country and in the current court, only Master, you and Dazai Lu can speak well on the priest."

Lin Yanchao was also helpless. As the Minister of Rites, he intended to promote the affairs of the sea grain in the court, but this was not his duty. As for the matter of establishing the country, Lin Yanchao was unwilling to take care of one million people, but it was his duty.

Now Wang Jiaping is recuperating at home, but Zhao Zhigao can't stand it as usual. He looks at him and Lu Guangzu in the whole court. At this time, he also learned to submit a memorial to request the establishment of the country. If he doesn't, he will still enter the cabinet?

But it is not a solution to face the officials who come to block the door.

"Good tea and good snacks are served, so I'm tired today." Lin Yanchao threw a thick stack of posts on the table.

It was not good to have so many officials turned aside. Although it was not good to spread, this was the only way to do now. Lin Yanchao could only temporarily hope that Lu Guangzu could take the lead for him and share the firepower.

This time, Lin Yanchao was helpless.

During the day and night, Lin Yanchao fell asleep shortly.

Hearing an urgent knock on the door outside the house, Lin Yanchao comforted his wife and children a few words, then got up and walked to the door and asked, "What's the matter?"

But when Chen Jichuan saw outside the house, he said anxiously: "Master, something big happened, there was a fire in the palace!"
Chapter completed!