Chapter 436 After the strike, the bureaucrats panicked!

The civil and military officials in the capital are still waiting for Uncle Zhang Guo to return to the capital, so that Zhang Gui's impeachment of Liu Tingyuan for building a shrine without authorization is still pending and has not been voted on by the cabinet.

The reason is naturally that the bureaucrats want to wait for Zhang Guojiu to come back to deal with it. Whether they really do not allow officials from all over the world to build shrines, or whether they allow it as an exception, the bureaucrats are willing to let Zhang Guojiu make this decision himself.

Emperor Tianqi still stayed in the palace and ignored the government affairs.

The prince was still taking classes under professors Fan Jingwen and Jiexuan, and was looking forward to his uncle's return soon.

Because he had to admit that his uncle's teachings were more interesting.

But he didn't expect that his uncle, who was supposed to have returned from a great victory, would suddenly have to recuperate in Lushun, and would even wantonly ask for the king's title.

In the prince's mind, it seemed that actively asking for things from his father was a disrespectful act that was rejected by civil servants.

Basically, one can only passively accept rewards and cannot take the initiative to ask for them, otherwise it will violate the loyalty and filial piety of a son of man or a minister.

However, after waiting for a long time, there was no news of Zhang Gui returning to Beijing.

Fortunately, the emperor lives deep in the palace, obsessed with major breakthroughs in physics and chemistry-related research. He feels anxious many times every day just because of the failure of new experiments. He wants to hit the wall, feels that he is too stupid, and has the urge to jump into the moat.

Naturally, he has no time to take into account the low-level political games in the court.

Tianqi actually knew what Zhang Gui was afraid of and why he was so willful, even better than many courtiers.

It was precisely because he knew it that he didn't bother to ask more questions.

After all, he understood that Zhang Gui was not doing this against him, but against the entire empire's bureaucracy.

Therefore, Tianqi just cooperated with the bureaucrats and issued an edict for Zhang Gui to return to Beijing, and then continued not to ask anything about it, and just let the bureaucrats go on their own.

The bureaucrats are really anxious.

Because Zhang Gui has not returned to Beijing yet, he obviously disobeyed the order.

However, the bureaucrats do not want to completely break with Zhang Gui now, so it is not easy to directly say that Zhang Gui is disobeying the decree. After all, they are still waiting for Zhang Gui to come back and give them a promotion.

Although Wen Tiren is the first assistant, he has not yet advanced to the university sergeant title that the first assistant should have. He is still a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, not a bachelor with the prefix "dian".

Liu Hongxun and Cheng Jiming, who were newly appointed to the cabinet, both still held the titles of Dongge University Scholar and Vice Minister. They were still waiting for Zhang Gui to come back and discuss their merits and reward them, so they also joined the Secretariat.

Wen Tiren was also waiting for Zhang Gui to come back and reward him for his merits. He would be given the title of "Sangu" and "Grand Master" prefixed with "Dian", and even be given a python robe to show his dignity as the chief minister.

Needless to say, military commander Li Zhou Yuji, based on his merits, should be granted the title of uncle instead of marquis. But now that Zhang Gui, the most important contributor to the destruction of Jiannu, has not come back to be granted the title, how can he be granted the title first?

Sun Chuanting was also waiting to become the Minister of War due to his meritorious service.

In addition, Wei Zhongxian is also waiting to use this great achievement to get his nephew a title.

Not to mention, there are still a lot of local governors and general soldiers waiting for Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji and others to follow after they are promoted to the capital as officials and nobles.

For this reason, Liu Tingyuan, the governor of Liaodong, built Zhang Gui's birthplace first, just to put himself higher on the promotion list.

Other governors also knew that Liu Tingyuan was building a shrine in order to curry favor with Zhang Gui, so they organized the gentry and common people to build a shrine for Zhang Gui.

Some have already completed raising funds and split accounts with the gentry, and are waiting to build a shrine for Zhang Gui.

Some of them had already built the temple in advance, and brought the money from the temple as generous gifts to Beijing, preparing to meet Zhang Gui.

Therefore, it can be seen how much the bureaucracy needs Zhang Gui now.

As a result, the rightful owner has not come back now.

They also impeached Liu Tingyuan, who was the first person to build the Sheng Temple. Everyone didn't know whether they should send people back to Beijing to destroy the Sheng Temple and return the money.

Therefore, there are many political brokers who are entrusted by many bureaucrats to come to Suiguo Gongfu and various ministries and yamen every day to inquire about information. They are all asking when Zhang Guojiu will come back, whether he will come back, and whether it is really forbidden to build a temple for students.

Since it is not allowed to give gifts in other ways, what kind of official channel is it? Is there an intermediary?

So much so that because there were too many people who were eager to learn these secrets, some smart people actually committed fraud. Some said they were the right servants around Uncle Guo, and some said they were the right servants around Uncle Guo.

Following the scam, and using some form of stock raising to collect money, many people were immediately deceived, and the amount of money defrauded was quite large, almost as high as one million taels.

This made Dongchang Jinyiwei very worried about this. They didn't expect that the country's uncle would cause such chaos if he didn't return to Beijing.

At this time, Liu Zongmin quietly returned to Beijing. After meeting some people, he swaggered back to the Duke of Sui's Mansion with a group of servants.

As soon as Liu Zongmin came back, he immediately caused a sensation in the city.

Many governors and generals who stayed in Beijing, even the ministers of the Sixth Ministry, and even the chief minister Wen Tiren and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian came to the Duke of Sui's mansion in person, wanting to meet Liu Zongmin and inquire about the situation.

There is no other way. Now that the emperor is on strike and Zhang Gui is also on strike, the entire bureaucracy is in a state of confusion.

Just like the Wanli Emperor went on strike during the Wanli period, panic! Confusion! Anger! Disappointment! Anxiety! All kinds of emotions mixed together!

But what these bureaucrats didn't expect was that when they arrived at Sui State Mansion, they found that Zhou Neng, a member of the Imperial Guards, had actually arrived in advance to arrange many Imperial Guards around the Duke's Mansion, blocked the roads, and maintained order.

In addition, what the bureaucrats did not expect was that Liu Zongmin, the uncle's most trusted confidant, had not shown up since his return.

"What's going on? What are you, Beizhen Fusi, doing here?"

Since Wei Zhongxian was the eunuch who supervised the East Factory and was considered Zhou Neng's leader, he asked about Zhou Neng.

Zhou Neng replied: "Report to the Duke of the factory. According to reports from the people of the Duke of Sui, there are often unscrupulous people in the area of ​​the Duke of Sui, which seriously affects the safety of the people in the Duke of Sui. The Jin Yiwei is responsible for the bandits in the capital.

Something happened, so I had to send an extra flag school here to maintain order."

"Aren't you going to escort people from the Duke's mansion out of the capital?"

Wen Tiren asked at this time, and then hurriedly asked: "Did you know some news about Uncle Guo in advance?"

Zhou Neng could only deny it and said: "Yuan Fu misunderstood! I don't know anything about this. I just performed my duties as usual."

Wei Zhongxian, Wen Tiren and other bureaucrats looked disbelieving.

But there was nothing to be done about it. Although Zhou Neng was Wei Zhongxian's subordinate, Wei Zhongxian knew that Zhou Neng was Zhang Gui's man. When he recommended Zhou Neng to be the commander of the Jinyi Guards and to take charge of the Beizhen Fusi, it was just a favor to Zhang Gui.

Wei Zhongxian and Wen Tiren were the bosses after all, and they didn't have the energy to wait outside all the time. Seeing that Liu Zongmin didn't come out, they could only go back temporarily, leaving only the people around them waiting here.

Liu Zongmin didn't leave the house until the third day.

As soon as he left the house, many bureaucrats swarmed up and asked Liu Zongmin all kinds of questions.

Sun Chuanting also asked Liu Zongmin directly at this time: "How is Uncle Guo's illness? When will he return to Beijing?"

He Ruchong also followed up and said: "That's right! Hasn't the imperial approval been issued? Regarding the matter of fengwangshizhen and Lushun outside the customs, let's go back to the capital first. If he doesn't come back, how will we handle the matter?"

Bi Ziyan also followed: "Yes, if nothing else, the 30 million kilograms of coal that has been mined in the Hanhai Coal Mine are still waiting for my uncle from other countries to find a way to turn it into silver. How can it be given to the royal family and the royal family if it is not turned into silver?

The government and the people all over the world share dividends? Didn’t it mean that the Sui State Government’s own railway operator company wants to purchase 20 million kilograms? If he doesn’t come back now, how can he purchase it?”

Other dignitaries and bureaucrats also asked anxiously because they thought that if the coal in the Hanhai Coal Mine invested by them was not realized in time through Uncle Guo and received dividends, they also asked anxiously. They did not want to cut off their financial path, knowing that they had already invested.

A lot of money went in.

At the end, even Fan Jingwen, a lecturer in the East Palace, said: "His Royal Highness is also asking, when will my uncle return to the capital?"

Liu Zongmin only said at this time: "Uncle Guo is indeed ill, but it is not clear whether he will come back. Please come back."
Chapter completed!