The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

The next morning, the young prisoner Sun Yong stood under the porch of Huiji Gate in the clerk's room of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, looking up at the sky.

The weather is very sunny today, and it seems to have some crisp autumn weather. It is a good day.

Of course, Eunuch Sun's mission here was not to observe the celestial phenomena, but to receive memorials from ministers on behalf of the emperor and the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

Then most of the memorials were thrown to the cabinet first, and a few that were particularly sensitive were taken to the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

The essence of Eunuch Sun's job is actually to perform a trick. It may seem redundant, but it has indispensable procedural significance.

Because he accepted the memorial on behalf of the imperial power, and then sent the memorial to the cabinet for approval on behalf of the imperial power.

If there was no procedure like Eunuch Sun and the memorial was submitted directly to the cabinet, wouldn't it mean that the minister directly submitted the memorial to the cabinet?

Every day, the General Administration Department would collect Chinese and foreign memorials and send them to Huiji Gate, and sometimes ministers would go to Huiji Gate in person to deliver memorials.

A senior attendant gently touched Eunuch Sun, who was studying the celestial phenomena, and reminded him: "Lin Jiuyuan is here!"

Eunuch Sun trembled and immediately looked warily at Lin Tailai, who was walking slowly from the Meridian Gate.

Lin Tailai is not a minister on duty in the inner court. His only purpose here must be to submit a memorial.

Such a person's memorial must be given the highest level of attention, and there is no room for any negligence.

Lin Tailai said hello and handed the memorial in his hand forward, "Good morning, Eunuch Sun! This is the memorial I will submit today!"

Sun Yong stared at Lin Tailai's memorial, his face twitching.

I don’t know how many copies of these memorials there are, but they are half a foot high.

Who is a good person who can deliver memorials up to half a foot long at a time?

Eunuch Sun tentatively said: "Emperor Taizu Gao has decreed that memorials must be straightforward and to the point, and no piling up of superficial words is allowed."

Lin Tailai smiled heartily and said: "These memorials of mine are all about things. I just talk about a lot of things, and I am definitely not deliberately piling them up."

Eunuch Sun asked again: "What's going on?"

Lin Tailai said loudly: "When Lu Guangzu was impeached as Minister of Punishment, the case files were stagnant and the prisoners were flooded!

Yu Zhan, a member of the imperial examination department, was impeached for favoritism and neglecting public affairs, and helped Lu Guangzu pass the exam!

The impeachment minister Song Qi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, borrowed the emperor's grace to gain fame when building the Longevity Palace!

Impeachment of Taipu Temple Minister Aimu, he is old and fatuous, and his talents are not up to his standards!

There are also eight officials who were impeached, who had connections with foreign countries, colluded with the pirates at sea, took refuge in the rebellious Kuaibai, and deliberately slandered the ministers and generals who went to war!

Also impeach ministers such as Sun Piyang and Yang Junmin and leave their bodies to eat! "

Damn it! Eunuch Sun was really shocked. Lin Tailai's memorial, regardless of its content, only said that the explosion was comparable to Hai Rui's "Public Security"!

It is impossible for the clerk's office to reject memorials from ministers. So Eunuch Sun knew it was a big bomb, but he still wanted to take it and hold it in his hands.

According to the rules, an explosive memorial like this should be quickly taken to the Supervisor of Ceremonies and then forwarded to the emperor, who should read it first.

Therefore, Sun Yong did not hesitate and ordered others to stay at Huijimen. He personally held Lin Tailai in his arms and quickly ran to the Yangxin Hall, where many priests and supervisors, Da Yuan, lived here on a daily basis.

Zhang Cheng, the chief minister of rituals, was talking to Chen Ju, the eunuch of Bingbi. After turning over Lin Tailai's memorial, he did not dare to delay and stood up to forward it to Emperor Wanli.

However, Chen Ju stopped Zhang Cheng and suggested: "Don't take these memorials directly to the emperor. It is better to send them to the cabinet first and let the cabinet draw up votes."

Zhang Cheng thought for a while, nodded and said, "It makes sense."

If this kind of memorial were directly in the hands of the emperor, wouldn't it cause problems for the emperor?

The essential job of the ceremonial supervisor is to help the emperor solve his problems, rather than add trouble to the emperor.

Then Zhang Cheng told Sun Yong: "Just like ordinary memorials, send these to the cabinet first!"

At this time, in the middle hall of Wenyuan Pavilion, all the pavilion elders gathered for a meeting.

Chief Assistant Shen Shixing looked at the other three bachelors and said, "There is no need to delay the reward for the Ningxia Campaign. It must be negotiated as soon as possible and implemented as soon as possible."

Wang Jiaping, the elder of the Three Pavilions, said dissatisfied: "We should implement the reward as soon as possible so that we can reward our merits with rewards!

Otherwise, some people would be misbehaving outside every day, relying on their merits of winning seven battles and seven victories and ascending to the city to defeat the enemy! "

Zhao Zhigao, the elder of the Fourth Pavilion, immediately argued: "After all, he is a hero who fought bloody battles and killed enemies for his country. After the war, he needs to relax his mood. It is understandable that he went a little bit out of line. Why should Wang Shanyin be too harsh?"

Wang San retorted: "Relying on your merits to show off your power and use violence wantonly, is this called slightly out of line?"

Zhao Si also said tit for tat: "It's really not a big deal, Wang Shanyin, you are really making a fuss out of a molehill.

If you deliberately deny a meritorious figure because of a small problem, then who will be willing to work bravely to make meritorious deeds? "

Wang San couldn't help but sneer: "You beat people openly in places like the Imperial Procuratorate and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and send servants to set up access control at the Hanlin Academy. Do you think this is a small matter?"

Zhao Si looked blank, "I have never heard that he did these things."

Wang San sarcastically said: "You pretend you haven't heard of such a loud thing, how is it any different from hiding your ears and stealing the bell?

The cabinet is not a place for pretending to be crazy or acting foolishly. "

Zhao Si was very serious and said categorically: "I can guarantee that Dayun has never done anything like beating anyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the Ministry of Civil Affairs!"

Wang San was stunned, "Da Yun?"

Zhao Si asked a little strangely: "Are the heroes you just mentioned who were responsible for seven battles and seven victories, who climbed the city and defeated the enemy, not Gansu Town Counselor Da Yun?"

Fuck! The deputy assistant Wang Xijue was originally drinking tea and watching the play. Hearing this, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.

It turned out that the hero of the seven victories in seven battles was not only Lin Tailai, but also Dayun who had always followed Lin Tailai!

Even when climbing the city wall, which was very risky, Dayun was the second one to climb the city wall, following Lin Tailai.

Bang! Wang San was so angry that he slammed the table and was about to say something.

But then he saw the chief assistant Shen Shixing shouted: "Stop joking! Discussing rewards is important, let's talk about generals first!"

If we discuss around Lin Tailai, I'm afraid it will take a whole morning to finish the argument, so we might as well start with the easy ones and then the difficult ones.

The rewards for the generals who participated in the war were easy to decide. Those who were originally deputy generals were promoted to generals, and those who were originally generals were given a higher rank.

For example, Ma Gui finally got the general he had always dreamed of, and Li Rusong, who was originally a general, was promoted from the first-rank governor-general to the first-rank left governor-general.

Li Rusong had reached the top of his career as a military officer.

With his father Li Chengliang, who had guarded Liaodong for 20 years, and his brother Li Rubai, who served as the deputy general in Jizhen, it was no wonder that some people said that the Li family had too much military power and was surrounded by the capital, which was potentially dangerous.

Shen Shoufu shook his head. Someone would definitely impeach Li Chengliang soon, but he really couldn't continue to protect him this time, for Li Chengliang's sake.

After talking about the generals, Wang San, who had been holding back, quickly proposed:

"The Ministry of Personnel's Seal Examination Department submitted a memorial and suggested that Lin Tailai could be granted a title for his merits.

The title is planned to be Ningxia Earl or Shuofang Earl, and I agree with this."

After Wang Sanjiaping put forward this proposal, Shen Da, Wang Er, and Zhao Si fell into silence for a long time.

So far, Lin Tailai has not made a clear statement on the title, either publicly or privately.

Therefore, whether it is Shen Da, Zhao Si, who are close to Lin Tailai, or Wang Er, who is very smart, they can't figure out Lin Tailai's thoughts, so they don't know how to express their opinions.

Under normal circumstances, if you are given a title, you will be on the side of military officials and nobles.

On the side of civil officials, even if your future is not completely cut off, at least it will be difficult to make any progress.

In the court meeting, you can only stand in the west class, opposite the civil officials in the east class - if there will be court meetings in the future.

And there are many important court meetings, and the nobles will not be invited to participate in the decision-making.

Therefore, in the context of civil officials holding real political power today, giving up the future in the civil service system is equivalent to giving up the power to govern.

But being given a title is not without benefits. The glory of being noble for generations and sharing the same fate with the country is not something that ordinary people can resist.

The descendants of civil officials may not be able to hold high positions. There are many cases of family decline after two or three generations.

But the descendants of the earl will definitely still be the earl. As long as the Ming Dynasty is still there, the family can be guaranteed to be rich.

Moreover, the earl is more "detached" than the civil officials. He may not be able to climb up in the civil official system, and he may fall down if he climbs up.

Anyway, both options have their own advantages, and no one dares to be sure what Lin Tailai will choose.

Zhao Zhigao sighed secretly. Lin Tailai has never expressed his thoughts clearly, and he doesn't know how to express his opinion at all.

Although he tried to delay the rhythm by making jokes, he couldn't delay it forever.

At this time, a Zhongshu Sheren came to report that Sun Yong, the junior supervisor in the document room, came to deliver the memorial.

Seeing Sun Yong walking into Wenyuan Pavilion, Prime Minister Shen asked in confusion: "There are only so few memorials today?"

The number of memorials is usually in the three digits, but why is the memorial in Sun Yong's hand only half a foot high today?

Sun Yong smiled bitterly and said: "These are just Lin Tailai's memorials. Do you think they are not enough?"

The elders: "."

Maybe I heard it by hallucination, and heard the sound of thunder rolling in the sky.

Although they hadn't read the contents of the memorials yet, they knew from experience that these memorials were not good stuff!

When they were still discussing how to arrange for Lin Tailai, Lin Tailai actually took the initiative to overturn the table!

Shen Shoufu suddenly shouted: "Close the door!"

The Zhongshu Sheren on duty outside the door was very quick and quickly closed the door of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Sun Yong, who came to deliver the memorials, just turned around and almost bumped into the tightly closed door.

"?" Sun Yong looked at Shen Shoufu in confusion.

Shen Shoufu pointed at the memorials on the table and said to Sun Yong with a smile:

"Sun Shaojian! Don't leave in a hurry. These memorials must be very sensitive. It is inconvenient for us, the outsiders, to deal with them.

I hope Sun Shaojian will take these memorials away and send them directly to the Silijian, and ask the eunuchs to present them to the emperor for judgment."

Sun Yong: "."

You didn't even open them to read them, and you know that these memorials are "inconvenient"?

"I sent these memorials to the cabinet, which was exactly what the eunuchs wanted." Sun Yong explained.

The cabinet elders simply flipped through the memorials, so Shen Shixing said again: "Now that the cabinet has read them, the memorials can be returned to the eunuchs."

Sun Yong felt that it was too difficult for him to be a tool person responsible for delivering memorials.

Bureaucracy permeated the palace, and when encountering difficulties, they would only pass the buck. The worst thing was that he was the ball!

As a person with countless bad precedents, Lin Tailai's every move after returning to Beijing was carefully studied.

Not only was there a meeting in Wenyuan Pavilion, but there were also small meetings targeting Lin Tailai in other places.

After Lu Guangzu, the Left Censor-in-Chief, arrived at the Censorate, he immediately convened a group of key censors to hold a meeting to study and deploy the next step of political struggle work.

Lu Zongxian pointed out incisively: "Lin Tailai's crazy performance yesterday shows that he wants to further seize power by virtue of his merits!

We must be highly vigilant against this trend, and we must quickly take the most powerful measures to curb Lin Tailai's rampant momentum! "

All the censors said in unison: "What the General Xian said is true!"

Lu Guangzu nodded with satisfaction, and then continued: "Next, there are three planned directions!

The first direction is to rekindle national issues and set off a new climax!

The emperor promised last year during the spring disaster that he would establish a prince during the winter solstice this year!

Now that autumn is about to begin, it’s time to start preparing for the Lidong Palace Ceremony in advance!

Is there anyone willing to use the fiercest words to ask Shu to establish the East Palace? "

Before Lu Guangzu finished speaking, a censor named Feng Congwu stood up and said impassionedly: "I am willing!"

Another censor also stood up and shouted: "I am also willing!"

"Brilliant! Very good!" Lu Guangzu motioned for the two of them to sit down, and then continued: "In the second direction, who is willing to come forward to strongly criticize the chief assistant Shen Shixing? I have already listed more than a dozen crimes, which is enough!"

Lu Guangzu hadn't finished speaking. Immediately, three or four more censors stood up and said loudly: "We are willing."

"Very good! How magnificent!" Lu Guangzu encouraged him a few more times, and finally said: "The third direction is to criticize Lin Tailai! We will discuss the skills and intentions behind this later."

Lu Guangzu's words didn't fall, second fell, third fell

Still no one stood up, and the scene was a little awkward for a while.

Lu Guangzu: "."

Is this still the upright comrade he knows who is not afraid of rape and indomitable?

Where is your passion? Where is your courage?

Everyone is also very helpless. When Lin Tailai is not in the capital, it may not be a big deal to impeach him for fun.

But now that Lin Tailai has returned to the capital, and has obviously entered a violent state, what is the difference between impeaching Lin Tailai and touching a tiger's butt?

Finally, Lu Guangzu set his sights on two people, two old censors who had been in trouble for two years.

One is named Qian Yiben and the other is named He Zhuo.

Two years ago, Luo Yuren published "Drunk, Sex, Wealth and Qi", which angered the emperor.

Qian Yiben rescued Luo Yuren during the court trial, but was confused by Lin Tailai with "Jin Ping Mei".

Then He Zhuo broke up with Qian Yiben at the court meeting. As a result, He Zhuo was given the honor of presenting "Jin Ping Mei" to the emperor.

Later, fellow countryman Wu Zhengzhi bribed Lin Tailai with "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" so that Qian Benn could be let go.

Since then, the two key censors, Qian Yiben and He Zhuo, have both fallen into ruin and have been inactive for two years.

Seeing Mr. Lu's earnest eyes, Qian Ben stood up and gritted his teeth and said, "I will be responsible for impeaching and attacking Lin Tailai!"

"Brilliant!" Everyone present applauded Qian Yiben.

Brother Qian’s spirit of self-sacrifice is so great!

Qian Yiben smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that he was not that great.

Because he was certain that he could escape Lin Tailai's hands no matter what!

So it seemed like he had a narrow escape, but he was actually not in danger!

Another He Zhuo suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I am willing to go with Qian Yiben to defeat the enemy!"

Warm applause rang out again, those who have the courage to sacrifice themselves will always be welcomed!

Qian Yiben sighed to his fellow sufferer He Zhuo, he was sure to escape unscathed, but why are you suffering, brother He?

He Zhuo looked at Qian Yiben and nodded firmly.

Brother Qian! If you are really in danger, brother, I have a magic weapon in my hand and I will definitely save you!