In his opinion, after Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Gao Gong would soon become the chief minister of the cabinet. However, he did not expect that Xu Jie had such ability to create a situation where he could compete with Emperor Longqing through the layout of the will. And now, Xu Jie still had the possibility of suppressing Emperor Longqing in the future, or even undermining Emperor Longqing.

Of course, this is a great difficulty. After all, the cabinet is not Xu Jie's ironclad piece, and there are Gao Gong and Luo Xin.

However, now he was really a little disappointed with Gao Gong. After thinking about it carefully, after Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Xu Jie created a new situation, and Gao Gong actually had no innovation in his personal ability, and did not receive much favor from Emperor Longqing. It was this Shangzhu Kingdom that Luo Xin fought for him.

But, look at Luo Xin again.

In more than half a year after Emperor Longqing succeeded to the throne, he walked from the Minister of Rites to the Minister of Rites and entered the cabinet. He became a member of the decisive position, and there was indeed a group of officials gathered around him. Although those officials were still very weak, they were also stronger than Ma Fang.

Did you make the wrong choice?

What if I didn’t choose Gao Gong, but Luo Xin?

Ma Fang's heart couldn't help but move. At this time, he suddenly realized that Luo Xin was not only a victorious general in the war, but never lost in political struggles. Even if he was forced to the cliff, he was safe and safe and eventually turned defeat into victory.

"Can I defect to Luo Xin now?"

This thought suddenly emerged from Ma Fang's heart. With his friendship with Luo Xin, and even if he defected to Gao Gong, he had never done anything to sorry to Luo Xin. He felt that Luo Xin would definitely accept him happily. After all, he was also a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and would not have little help to Luo Xin.

What I am thinking about now is whether I should change my family and join Luo Xin?

Ma Fang sat there completely distracted.

The conference room was silent, and no one spoke because no one knew what to say.

In the end, Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, had to speak, and his eyes swept across everyone and said:

"Today everyone will go back and think about it carefully. Tomorrow everyone will come up with a solution. Let's break up."

Everyone stood up and left, and everyone's face was not good-looking. They seemed to be worried.

Luo Xin returned to his room alone, sat on his chair, looked up at the empty chair opposite, and knew that Zhang Juzheng must have gone to Xu Jie's room, withdrew his gaze, and his face looked solemn.

He is in a very bad mood now. Today, Xu Jie's division of labor made him feel the innate advantage of the cabinet chief minister. He gave the work part to Luo Xin, which directly cut off the relationship between Luo Xin and the Ministry of Rites. He was assigned to the Ministry of Works, which was the least valued Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Works, which had the least rights.

In fact, this Ministry of Works is the worst-hit part of the six departments.

When they returned to the mansion in the evening, Zhang Xun, Tao Xingyan, Yun Zhiqiu and Haizheng came to the door soon. Today, the incident happened at the cabinet meeting, and the incident had spread throughout the officialdom. Several people silently finished their meal at Luo Xin's house, and then followed Luo Xin into the study, silently holding a teacup and drinking tea. The atmosphere was very solemn.

After a while, Zhang Xun put down the teacup and said, "No, I think Xu Jie has made up his mind to squeeze you out of the capital."

Luo Xin raised his eyes and glanced at Zhang Xun, and said confidently: "As long as I don't want to leave the capital, even if Xu Jie is the chief minister of the cabinet, he will not be able to drive me out of the capital."

"Yes!" Zhang Xun nodded and said, "But Xu Jie can keep you hanging in the air and accomplish nothing. You have no say in the cabinet, everything goes well, and you are uncomfortable everywhere. If you have an opportunity to take charge at this time, such as being in the south or being in the north, will you go or not?"

Yun Zhiqiu spoke, "No, we all know that you and Xu Jie have a deep grudge. Your purpose is to squeeze him out of the cabinet, and Xu Jie's original purpose was to dismiss you from office. Now that I can't do it, I also want to squeeze you out of the cabinet. You two can only stay in the cabinet."

"Yes!" Hai Zheng also said, "It is the openness of the contradiction between you and Xu Jie that makes you at a disadvantage against Gao Gong. Because he can join forces with Xu Jie at any time, but you cannot join forces with Xu Jie. He has a choice, you have no choice. This is also your weakness. Just like last time Gao Gong and Xu Jie joined forces tacitly and cheated your Minister of Rites."

Tao Xingyan sighed and said, "Xu Jie started to make arrangements since the will of the will, and now he will restore Ge Shouli, Zhao Zhenji and other old ministers, and the general situation has been completed."

"It may not be?" Yun Zhiqiu said: "As Luo Xin said in the cabinet, Xu Dang and others have not had a good reputation now. Xu Jie is a person who flatters the late emperor. In order to flatter the late emperor, he embezzled disaster relief funds and built the Yuxi Palace for the late emperor, which forced smoke to spread. Zhao Zhenji was definitely shooting himself in the foot.

More importantly, they still have no way to solve the money shortage, which is a fatal crisis. Now that the crisis of war between the central and southern regions is approaching, his Xu Jie's position may not be stable."

"Then how can we break the deadlock?" Luo Xin asked softly.

The four people were silent for a while, and Hai Zheng sighed: "One force is to subdue ten times. Now Xu Jie's general situation has been completed. In the face of absolute strength, no strategy is useful. Anyway, I can't think of a way to break the situation."

"Then I have to hide in a low profile!" Yun Zhiqiu said with an ugly expression: "Just make a clay-sculpted Bodhisattva in the cabinet."

"That's right!" Tao Xingyan said: "Now Xu Jie is nearly seventy, and he is less than thirty. He will always push Xu Jie down."

"No!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "Yan Song was the prime minister of the cabinet until he was 82 years old. Who knows if Xu Jie would do this? It would be better to let me wait for more than ten years. However, if Xu Jie really gave him more than ten years, he would manage the Ming Dynasty's officialdom like an iron barrel. By that time, even if he retired and returned home, he would definitely support Zhang Juzheng as the prime minister of the cabinet. The iron barrel he managed would be handed over to Zhang Juzheng, and I still had no chance."

"Not bad!" Zhang Xun said: "We must squeeze Xu Jie out of the cabinet, instead of letting him retire and return home by himself. Otherwise, we will never have a chance in our lives."

"However, the gap between our strength is too big." Hai Zheng sighed.

"Don't be discouraged." Zhang Xun stood up and said, "If we lose confidence, even if we have plans, we will fail. But if we have confidence, even if we are dead, we will find a new path.

When His Majesty inherited the treasure, everyone thought that Xu Jie had already entered a dead end. But looking at Xu Jie, he created a new situation. Why can't we do it?"

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