Volume Four, Chapter One, Unreliable
In the past two days, a storm is brewing in the Ming Dynasty, a storm that impeached Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet.
Yang Jisheng, the Censor of the Censorate, took the lead and submitted a memorial to impeach Nanjing Minister of Revenue Yan Maoqing, corrupt and abuse the law, embezzled salt to attract income. Immediately afterwards, the memorial to impeach the cabinet chief Yan Song was overwhelmed and out of control.
At the beginning, there was a little bit of memorials impeaching Yan Song. Although it was heard, most of them were based on some evidence. However, later, the memorials impeaching Yan Song became a bit unreliable and became increasingly unreliable.
Yan Song took bribes and took bribes, relying on bribes Xia Yan to become the throne. In order to become the Minister of Rites, he stuffed more than 100,000 taels of silver to Xia Yan, and in order to become the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, he stuffed more than 100,000 taels of silver to Xia Yan!
Yan Song deceived the emperor and secretly promoted his son Yan Shifan. Yan Shifan was a supervisor. In just over ten years, he was promoted from the seventh-rank fifth-rank governor's office to the third-rank Taichang Temple Minister.
Yan Song had an affair with the Tartars, secretly colluded with Altan Khan through Qiu Luan, attempting to subvert the Ming Dynasty, change the dynasty, etc.
These are obviously nonsense.
Can Xia Yan accept bribes?
Even if Yan Song stuffs money to others, he won’t accept it!
When Xia Yan was beheaded and his family was confiscated, and his family was exiled. That guy, a cabinet chief, had no food in his family, and his mansion was similar to ordinary families. Can he be a corrupt official?
What a joke if you accept bribes of millions of taels!
There is also Yan Shifan's promotion, which Jiajing has agreed to. How can he start with deceiving the emperor?
As for Yan Song's affair with the Tartars, that's a bit of a deal. Yan Song's affair with the Japanese pirates is right, because affair with the Japanese pirates can bring him a lot of benefits. What benefits will an affair with the Tartars be for him? He can't make a penny, so why do he have to affair with the Tartars?
In short, the officials in the court were impeaching Yan Song like crazy, as if they were going to overthrow Yan Song in one go.
Among them, many of them were deliberately made by Yan Shifan mobilized the new members of Yan Song's party. Of course, some fencemen misjudged the form and thought Yan Song was about to collapse, so they followed the news.
Yan Song looked at the memorial that was half a person tall, and a gloomy smile appeared on his face.
These are enough. I believe that Jiajing will be bigger than his after reading these memorials!
He sat there and smiled for a while, then he struggled to pick up the memorials and slowly walked towards the Qianqing Palace.
Jiajing was still practicing and practicing seriously, because Tao Zhongwen kept hinting that he had hope of immortality, so he naturally had to practice hard.
Although there is no prince or governor at this moment, he no longer manages political affairs. He simply abolished the morning court and rarely read the memorials. Basically, the cabinet wrote the bill, and then Huang Jin brought a group of trusted eunuchs to criticize the money. Only when something really big happens will Huang Jin ask him to decide.
Huang Jin has never looked for him these days, which means that nothing major happened in the court.
At this time, Yan Song came to the door again.
He was so strange that he had nothing to do now. Why did Yan Song disturb his cultivation again?
He called Yan Song in and saw him, and was stunned.
What a good guy, Yan Song actually held a lot of memorials, and his face was buried in the back of the memorials.
What's going on?
Yan Song struggled to put the memorial on the ground, and respectfully performed the rituals of the king and his subjects, and then pretended to be frightened and said, "Your Majesty, I deserve to die for the crime!"
Jiajing was confused by Yan Song's trick. He couldn't help but say curiously: "Weizhong, what's wrong with you? Why are you carrying such memorials?"
Yan Song was still frightened and said, "Emperor, these memorials are all impeachment of the empress. The empress, the empress, have no choice but to carry it over in person and apologize to the empress."
Oh my god, so many memorials are impeached Yan Song. What did Yan Song do?
Jiajing said in a daze: "Who impeached you? Why did they impeach you?"
Yan Song still said in panic: "Wei ministers, we don't know what to say. In short, there are impeachments and other things. As for why they impeach Wei ministers, it is probably related to Lord Yang Cong and Yang."
Yang Cong?
Upon hearing this, Jiajing couldn't help but suddenly said, "What's wrong? Have you had a conflict with Qingfeng again these days?"
Unexpectedly, Yan Song shook his head and said, "How could I provoke Lord Yang for no reason?"
Then what's going on?
Jiajing couldn't help asking: "Then why did you say this matter is related to Qingfeng?"
Yan Song pretended to hesitate for a moment, and then he hesitated: "This, it is rumored that since Lord Yang came back from the northwest, he often lamented the unfairness of the world. He said that he said that he had made many great achievements but was just a minister of the Ministry of Rites. The weak minister did nothing, but was the chief minister of the cabinet. This world is too unfair!"
Yang Cong wants to be the chief minister of the cabinet?
This is really possible.
At least, Jiajing thought so.
However, this cabinet chief minister cannot be achieved by just making achievements. Age, qualifications, experience, etc. are indispensable.
He shook his head slightly and said, "This breeze is too urgent. You don't have to take it seriously. Are you young? There are always times when you are impulsive."
Yan Song pretended to be generous and said, "I don't care much about this, but Lord Yang kept impeaching me, and I was also afraid. After all, everyone's words can make money and slander it and destroy the bones!"
Upon hearing this, Jiajing shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Don't I understand you yet? I won't read these memorials anymore, let him go."
Unexpectedly, Yan Song insisted: "Your Majesty, no, if you don't read these memorials, you probably would have organized someone to force the palace!"
Is there such a thing?
Jiajing asked seriously, "How could Qingfeng really do this?"
No emperor likes to force the palace, that is, the court officials want to kidnap Shengyi. After hearing this, Jiajing naturally became a little angry.
It seems that the emperor must have been trapped.
Yan Song couldn't help but feel proud in his heart. On the surface, he pretended to hesitate and said: "This should be very likely. After all, he spent some time, and he was already a little uneasy. If the emperor ignored him, he would be so angry that it would be normal for him to do something unwise."
Well, this kind of thing is indeed possible. After all, Yang Cong is young and energetic, so it is not surprising that he makes reckless actions.
Jiajing reached out helplessly and said, "What are they impeaching me? Let's see."
Yan Song calmly picked up a stack of memorials and handed them to Jiajing respectfully, and explained: "Most of these memorials are absurd, so don't be angry if the emperor reads them."
What he handed it on was what Yan Shifan asked someone to "slander" him later, which looked a bit ridiculous.
What is Yan Song bribing Xia Yan, what is Yan Song promoting Yan Shifan, what is Yan Song's affair with the Tartars? What's all this mess?
Jiajing looked at it and frowned.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Song picked up Yang Jisheng's memorial and handed it over and said respectfully: "This is Lord Yang's favorite student, Yang Jisheng submitted it. This memorial was delivered by the Transportation Administration yesterday morning, while other memorials were delivered yesterday afternoon and this morning. I guess that the reason why so many people impeached Weichen this time is because of this memorial."
What he meant was that Yang Cong instructed his disciples to take the lead in impeaching him.
Jiajing took the memorial and looked carefully, his brows became deeper.
He couldn't help asking, "Isn't this Yan Maoqing so unbearable?"
Yan Song nodded repeatedly and said, "The emperor is wise. The reason why they impeach Yan Maoqing in this way is probably because Yan Maoqing is closer to Weichen."
Chapter completed!