Xiyuan Zhilu.

Xu Jie frowned and looked at Gao Gong with a face as if it was as bottom of a pot, and whispered: "Suqing, dozens of magistrates, prefects and even governors, censors may either report illness or retire, but the Beijing inspection has been delayed for several months."

It was indeed a long time to delay. It has been four months since the Beijing Inspection Commission started in June. There has been no precedent for Beijing Inspection in the history of the Ming Dynasty that has lasted more than two months.

But Gao Gong seemed to have not heard it, and turned his head and listened to the whisper of the sirens beside him. He looked suspicious and his eyes flashed. After hesitating for a moment, he suddenly stood up and pushed the documents on the table aside.

"Suqing?"

The question was about Wu Shan. A few days ago, Gao Gong was forced to hide in his home, and Xu Jie, the old coin, refused to take over the ticket, so he used the means to get Wu Shan, who had been sick since the start of the Beijing inspection.

Facing Wu Shan, Gao Gong reluctantly replied, "If you have any discomfort today, go back to your house first..."

"Suqing?" Xu Jie walked over with concern, "The Imperial Hospital has an imperial doctor stationed in Xiyuan, so..."

Not finished speaking.

"Bang!"

A dull sound.

The 49-year-old cabinet assistant Gao Gong raised his right arm, clenched his right hand into a fist, and slammed hard on the face of the 60-year-old cabinet assistant Xu Jie.

Wu Shan and Chen Hong, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor who had just walked to the door, looked at the scene in amazement.

Although fighting between civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was not rare, even the commander of the Jinyiwei was beaten to death by civil servants in the hall. Li Dongyang carved a hammer and chased the relatives of the foreigners, not to mention that during the Jiajing period, there were Yang Shen in front and Suiyuan in the back, all of whom were the best among civil servants.

But the second assistant of the cabinet beat the chief assistant of the cabinet?

It's so long to live!

Well, if Qian Yuan hadn't had the butterfly that traveled through time, this scene would have been staged in the cabinet about five or six years later, but Gao Gong beat Yin Shidan that time.

After the tall Gao Gong punched the short Xu Jie with a punch, he turned around and left, and his steps... were all trotting.

At this moment, there were nearly two hundred middle and low-level officials gathered by the Jinshui River. Zou Yinglong shouted at the top of his lungs over and over again, which made the officials below excited.

The political gang of the Longqing Dynasty was mainly divided into four branches, one was Xujie, one was Gaogong, one was Suiyuan, and the other was Qiandi Old Minister headed by Chen Yiqin and others.

In fact, there are too many officials in Beijing, including Kedao, Six Ministry, Hanlin, various temples and courtyards. The so-called political forces can only be said to be influential, but it is difficult to gather at such a scale.

But today, Xu Jie's disciples from Zou Yinglong, Lin Run and others did it.

Why?

The reason is the letter in Zou Yinglong's hand.

When Zou Yinglong recited this letter loudly on the Jinshui Bridge, Gao Gong's fate had already been decided... If Sui Yuan had not intervened.

Because the content of this letter is Gao Gong's main idea for future governance, to put it simply, it is the performance assessment system... If Qian Yuan is present, he will blurt out and "take the exam to achieve the method."

The most critical sentence of the letter is, "If you set the deadline, set up a document book, and cancel it at the end of the month. If you are polite, the department will be promoted by the court; if you are hiding and deceived, the department will be promoted by the ministers; if you are not aware of the ministers, the ministers will be promoted by the ministers."

To put it simply, Gao Gong tried to let the cabinet pass the six departments and the Censorate to completely control the six departments, and the six departments commanded the governors of various provinces to achieve the goal of centralization.

The root of the excitement of the crowd lies here.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the only grassroots founding emperor in history, made a series of slutty actions because of his life experience.

In history, there has never been a shortage of ministers who advised him, but no emperor has ever given such power to advise him... using small to control the big.

The six departments and officials, the censors of the Censorate, have always been independent of any court organization. In theory, they only need to be responsible to the emperor... or in other words, they can bypass the six departments and cabinets and deal with the emperor directly.

This system has been circulating for more than a hundred years. How many people benefit from this system? How many people are eager to benefit from this system... Now, Gao Gong wants to completely abolish this system.

Can those Kedaoyan officials not be angry?

The censor was sent to inspect the local area, and he was lucky enough to be directly transferred to the governor of the province as a senior official of the court; all six departments were always on par with the five ministers and even the ministers of the Shangshu level.

Why?

It is because they have been qualified to see memorials delivered directly to the imperial case, but Gao Gong wants to deprive them of their power and let those memorials be handed over to his own case.

Can those middle and low-level officials not be excited?

Most of them are second-class Jinshi and are from Jinshi. They are not qualified to take the Hanlin Road. The most likely path to rapid promotion is the Kedao road, but Gao Gong wants to block this road.

Gao Gong said, you just do things, your Majesty, I am alone.

Countless officials said no, this is the root of the violent feelings.

Under the agitation of those who are interested, no one doubted the authenticity of the letter from beginning to end. The atmosphere became more and more angry as Zou Yinglong and other censors with strong incitement.

It’s not that no one has doubted the authenticity of the letter. After all, why Gao Gong, the second assistant to the cabinet, wrote such a secret matter in the letter, and was obtained by Xu Jie’s disciples.

But countless officials subconsciously chose to believe.

Why?

In history, Zhang Juzheng stayed dormant until Gao Gong got out before officially standing on the stage of history. In this life, the grandson of Taiyue completely cut off his connection with Xu Jie and devoted himself to Gao Gong.

Therefore, the reform measures that Zhang Juzheng had been thinking about for a long time were revealed bit by bit, and he secretly discussed with Gao Gong. In the past year, they did not try to stab the two honeycombs of Kedao, but chose to attack the six minions.

Over the past year, under the premise that Gao Gong completely controlled the power of the cabinet, the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of War, and Ministry of Works successively handed over power. The Minister of Justice was Gao Gong's confidant Feng Tianyu, and the Ministry of Revenue was temporarily stagnant because of Sui Yuan's intervention.

The four parts have been collected, which is the result of Gao Gong, but at this moment, this is evidence created by Gao Gong himself.

From another perspective, this is also a consequence of high tribute.

Since Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Gao Gong has never stopped taking power.

He did not say that he dominated the Minister of Rites, but he did not say that he was the second assistant to grab the votes, and even robbed the right of the Silijian to approve the prize... In fact, in the original time and space, Gao Gong wanted to stop the Silijian, which led to the scene of Feng Baocai and Zhang Juzheng's cooperation with each other.

Forget all of this, you also have to control the Thirteen Censors and Six Censors of the Censorate.

The Six Departments have strong ability to check and balance the Six Departments in actual government affairs, and the Censorate sends various inspections to the outside world, which makes you Gao Gong supervise?

Then this emperor is better than you, Gao Gong, to let it go!

Gao Gong's long-term power-taking action has long become a volcano ready to go with Xu Jie's deliberate tolerance. Now a few interested people waved their hoes to break the thin layer of peaks, and hot magma gushed out.

It is not Xu Jie's proud work, but it is not a killer weapon.

Zou Yinglong on the Jinshui Bridge looked indignant and raised his right arm to point diagonally. The direction was Xiyuan.

"Let's go, go and ask him Gao Xinzheng!"

"He Gaoxin Zheng must have a disobedient heart. He should bow to the West Garden and ask Your Majesty to make a clear decision!"

"Huo Guang of the current generation, Huo Guang of the current generation!"

Walking in the front was Zou Yinglong, with a brisk pace, excited expression on his face, and shouted: "Everyone, Emperor Taizu set up a Censorate, six departments, and aimed at opening up the road to speech..."

Sun Jian, who watched this scene from afar, calculated silently. Although some officials found out that the matter was getting big and wanted to slip away, they could not escape... He saw with his own eyes a head of the Ministry of Justice dragging his feet and trying to escape, but was caught by two censors in charge of the Ministry of Justice.

"This is to block Gao Xinzheng at the gate of Xiyuan." Xian Yu finally understood and couldn't help but smack his tongue: "Okay, this is the time to release the yamen."

Apart from hiding at home a few days ago, Gao Gong has never missed Xiyuan in the past year except for holidays... After all, he firmly held the right to vote in his hand.

Sun Yan sneered: "Gao Xinzheng's personality... In Zhancai's words, it is better to break the steel than to hook, and never get out of the side door in shame, and he will definitely come out of the main door..."

After leaving the main entrance, there will be a fierce conflict with these nearly 200 officials.

Once a conflict breaks out, Gao Gong will lose. He is covered in his mouth and cannot refute it. After all, the cabinet has been dominated by Gao Gong in the past year, and there are also plans to control the six departments of the cabinet and the Censorate.

There are only two possibilities for conflict.

The first possibility is that Gao Gong was beaten up.

Just kidding, the second assistant to the cabinet was beaten up by two hundred officials at the gate of Xiyuan. Not to mention how embarrassing it, but only talking about the number... Two hundred officials, is Gao Gong still possible to continue to rule?

You can't order all these two hundred officials to retire afterwards?

Gao Gong's reputation for revenge is not as good as Qian Yuan, but he is also famous.

The second possibility is that Emperor Longqing came forward.

But the problem is that Emperor Longqing's power is far from being compared with his elders, Emperor Jiajing, and he has no ability and prestige to control the situation at all. So what if he orders a court stick?

Those censors of Kedao were eager to get a shot and become famous all over the world!

Once Emperor Longqing comes forward, the matter will only get bigger and bigger, and until the end of the incident... Gao Gong's escape is almost inevitable.

So, this is Xu Jie's killer move.

He was heartbroken and forced into another head-on conflict. Emperor Longqing had no choice but to do anything. Gao Gong could not hold on, no matter how thick the face was, he could not hold on.

When Zou Yinglong led the crowd to block the gate of Xiyuan, Sun Jian also realized Xu Jie's vicious intentions and couldn't help but wipe the sweat beads on his forehead. "It's because Wen Chang's brain is turning quickly..."

"Yes, and you can find a way to break the deadlock." Xian Yu nodded repeatedly after he understood.

Xu Jie's plan has two loopholes.

First, Zou Yinglong did not block directly at the gate of Xiyuan.

This is impossible. It takes time to gather a large number of officials. The Jinyiwei guards guarding the gate of Xiyuan will not watch it, and Gao Gong will also be vigilant.

Of course, Jinshui Bridge also had profound meanings because of Yang Shen's raising arms and shouting back then, and it was also a good choice.

But the second loophole is Xu Wei who suddenly came out.

Xu Wei is so smart that he has been thinking about where Xu Jie's killer move is these days... When he leaned over and heard the sentence, he immediately speculated about what might happen later.

The most likely and most lethal thing is that more than 100 officials including Gao Gong and Zou Yinglong met on the narrow road at the gate of Xiyuan.
To be continued...