Shenfu.

"Let Uncle Wang go to Jiangnan to solve the problem?"

Cao Ke frowned slightly and said in confusion: "This is really strange. Since all the negotiations have been made, as long as Your Majesty restores Tang Wenxian's official position and severely punishes those officers and soldiers of the grain transport, the ministers in the court will naturally understand Your Majesty's meaning. In addition to the cabinet and the six ministries, this matter can be calmed down. Why does Your Majesty have to do this more? This is probably another disaster!"

Generally speaking, whenever there are two factions in the court, there is actually a hidden hidden danger in the emperor. He doesn't know how to make a choice, but the emperor is the one who makes the final decision.

Since your emperor has made a decision, you should stand up and make the final decision.

But Wanli did not do this, so he chose to let the cabinet solve it himself, just hinting that as long as you go, the problem can be solved.

Cao Ke couldn't help but wonder if there was any conspiracy hidden in it.

Shen Shixing looked at Cao Ke and sighed: "Oh, Your Majesty is so hidden!"

Cao Ke said curiously: "Why did your father-in-law say this?"

Shen Shixing sighed softly: "Your Majesty has long seen your Uncle Wang's purpose, but Your Majesty does not want the cabinet to have too much power. If Your Majesty stands up to support the cabinet and suppresses those powerful and censors, then the power of the cabinet will inevitably be greatly enhanced. This is not what Your Majesty wants!

But if the cabinet is still dealt with, at least on the surface, His Majesty does not firmly support the cabinet. What should be opposed will continue to oppose it. This mainly depends on how Guo Dan deals with it."

"So that's it." Cao Ke nodded thoughtfully.

Although the fat man is only in his twenties, he was trained by Zhang Juzheng after all. This unique experience also gave him his own understanding of power and must be firmly held in his hand and not allowed to give up a single trace.

Since Zhang Juzheng's death, no one, or any force, has had too much power.

Whether it is a eunuch or a minister.

This is different from Zhengde, Jiajing, and Tianqi.

Although Zhengde killed Liu Jin, he still handed over many affairs to Liu Jin before. Liu Jin had great power at that time, and Jiajing also relied heavily on Yan Song, not to mention Tianqi, the eunuch could work until nine thousand years old.

But in the Wanli period, except for Zhang Juzheng, there was no human rights in the court. Nowadays, Zhang Jing, Zhang Cheng, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian are incomparable. Shen Shixing, Wang Jiaping, and Wang Xijue are capable, ambitions, and passionate, but they are not doing anything.

It's because they don't have the power.

Therefore, Wang Xijue has always wanted to strengthen the power of the cabinet.

Therefore, once Wanli starts to be lazy, the entire court will almost fall into a state of paralysis, and can only maintain the status quo and can do nothing. However, if Wanli wants to do something, it can basically be carried out to the end. For example, the three major battles are what Wanli wants to fight.

But without Wanli's nod, even an official above the fourth rank could not be appointed.

This is why Wanli is unwilling to come forward.

He still hopes that all forces will maintain a state of checks and balances against the cabinet.

Simply put, it is unwilling to break the balance between the court and the middle

.

However, there is no airtight wall in this world, and the intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty was so developed that the ministers soon learned about the secret meeting between Shen Shixing and Wanli.

Although they didn't know what they had discussed, it immediately aroused the ministers' alertness.

They began to mobilize and report together to put pressure on Wanli.

Taking advantage of the public's opposition, Wanli demanded that the new tariff law be abolished immediately.

And this time, Wanli finally responded and ordered the cabinet to quell the public grievances immediately.

That's all.

This response is very interesting.

Because Wanli still did not make any statement on Tang Wenxian and did not make any judgment, he just asked the cabinet to quickly calm the public grievances.

As for how to calm down?

There are only two ways: first, abolish the new tariff law; second, suppress them by means.

It can be seen that Wanli does not favor the cabinet.

The ministers believed that this might be the last chance Shen Shi had won for the cabinet. If it could not be done, Wanli would definitely abolish the new law.

The cabinet's actions also fulfilled their ideas.

After Wanli issued the order, Wang Xijue rushed to Nanjing to deal with the matter specifically.

In fact, other places have mixed opinions on the new tariff laws, and many places have better praise than criticism. The key is that the Jiangnan region is very opposed to it, because Guo Dan beats Jiangnan.

When everyone knew that Wang Xijue went south, they immediately wrote letters to officials or literati in Nanjing.

Brothers, as long as we withstand this wave, we will win. The cabinet is at its end and is making a final counterattack.

And they were quite confident in this, because Wanli just asked Wang Xijue to deal with this matter and did not give him any power. He did not have the power to kill life and death like Zhang Juzheng. If they even opposed it, Wang Xijue would have no choice but to do anything to them.

Therefore, as long as they firmly oppose it, they will win.

They even told the officials there that the emperor actually supported the abolition of the new law because it hurt the interests of Weihui Mansion.

In addition, there is another point that is the source of their confidence, which is that Guo Dan is now in Nanjing.

Guo Dan must be against the new tariff law, which is used to deal with him.

You should know that Guo Dan was their enemy before, and in a blink of an eye, Guo Dan had become their closest ally.

Politics is so interesting.

But two people knew that this matter was definitely not that simple. These two people were the grandsons of the Liu family who followed Wang Xijue to the south.

After all, this tariff was set by Liu Zongcheng, so he had to follow him.

At this time, they had reached the border of Nanjing. Since it was getting late, they rested in the local inn.

"Grandpa, are you really going to do this?"

Liu Chengbian looked at Liu Zongcheng in extreme horror.

Liu Zongcheng nodded and said, "Nanjing is ahead, it would be too late to not make a decision!"

"But this is too dangerous. If you anger the adults, then our Liu family will." Liu Chengbian's body was trembling slightly when he spoke.

Liu Zongcheng said: "If we don't do this, we may become weeds beside the toilet, which will become worthless to anyone and will only be slaughtered by others. Besides, if Guo Dan is unkind first, then don't blame us for being unrighteous."

After saying that, he came out of the door with the help of his old servant Fusi and came to Wang Xijue's house.

After the news, Liu Zongcheng entered the house and saw Wang Xijue sitting on a chair, looking tired, and a maid was helping him pinch his shoulders.

"Caomin has met Lord Wang."

Liu Zongcheng bowed and bowed.

Wang Xijue glanced at Liu Zongcheng and asked in a very cold tone: "What's the matter?"

You old man is so useless, I trust you so much before.

Liu Zongcheng looked around and looked around.

Wang Xijue frowned secretly, his eyes full of confusion, but he still called the maid to leave.

"Sir, Caomin is apologizing to you."

Liu Zongcheng suddenly knelt down.

Wang Xijue looked at his age and felt really pitiful, and sighed: "It's no wonder that this matter has become like this. Who would have thought that Guo Dan could take out a million taels, get up."

"The Caomin did not apologize to the Lord for this matter." Liu Zongcheng said with a shame.

Wang Xijue frowned and said, "Why is that?"

Liu Zongcheng said: "The master doesn't know anything. In fact, Guo Dan secretly instructed the people to offer advice to the court."

"What did you say?"

When Wang Xijue heard this, he suddenly stood up, his eyes wide open, and he stared at Liu Zongcheng.

This is really a big surprise!

Liu Zongcheng told Wang Xijue everything in detail.

Of course, he was not greedy, but that after Guo Dan eradicated the four major officials, he agreed.

Wang Xijue was sweating all over his body.

"So, it turns out that all this is a conspiracy."

Wang Xijue was angry and wanted to slap the old guy to death. A murderous aura flashed in his eyes and asked, "Why are you telling me about this now?"

Liu Zongcheng said: "When I say that, Caomin was also deceived by Guo Dan. At that time, he just said that he was afraid that the court would borrow money from the court to target Weihui Mansion. Because Weihui Mansion relied too much on trade with other prefectures, he took a risky move and pushed Caomin forward first.

But Caomin thought that as long as Caomin won the trust of the court and handled the matter well, there was no need to be afraid of him. But Caomin was deceived by him in the end. It turned out that he wanted to use Caomin to deal with you. In fact, Caomin wanted to inform the adults of this matter very early, but Caomin was afraid of Caomin and was really ashamed of the adults!"

Speaking of the latter, he burst into tears.

Wang Xijue glanced at Liu Zongcheng with a slanted look, pondered for a while, and said, "You get up first."

"grown ups."

Liu Zongcheng looked up at Wang Xijue in surprise.

Wang Xijue smiled bitterly and said, "You can't blame you for this. Isn't there all the smart people in the court who are all played around with him? If you want to blame him, you blame him for being too smart. Get up, get up."

The tone also became gentle.
To be continued...