Xu Jie thought about it all night, but in the end he really came up with a solution, that is, Hu Zongxian dereliction of duty.

If Hu Zongxian could destroy the pirates, all this would not be a problem. There would be no less tariffs, and the Xu family would make a big profit.

So, the next day, he began to summon his subordinates to go back and write a memorial to impeach Hu Zongxian.

The next day.

The memorials impeached Hu Zongxian were sent to the cabinet like snowflakes, and the Xu family took these memorials to pay homage to Emperor Jiajing.

cabinet.

Gao Gong looked at Xu Jie's back and locked his eyebrows tightly.

If you want to say that Gao Gong still has the ability and is honest as an official. However, his flaws are obvious now. He has not much ears and ears and ears, and his information is not well-informed. Although he also knows a little about the matter of the Southeast Maritime Warehouse, he only understands the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, he suddenly saw so many memorable notes of impeaching Hu Zongxian. He could only ask someone to inquire about the news in depressed manner, and he sat in the cabinet waiting for the news.

However, before he waited for a long time, the prefect of Shuntian came in a hurry. He looked embarrassed and held a stack of paper in his hand. Gao Gong looked at the paper and his eyes lit up and asked hurriedly:

"What are the identities of those people?"

"It's true!" Shuntian Prefecture was Gao Gong's man. Today, when he received these papers, his eyes lit up. This directly grabbed Xu Jie's handle. With these papers, he would definitely improve in Gao Gong's heart, so he immediately asked the yamen runners to protect those who complained and came to Gao Gong in a hurry.

Gao Gongwen was overjoyed and grabbed the stack of paper and said, "Let's go and see me."

The prefect of Shuntian was delighted. Looking at Gao Gong's surprise expression, his skill should be quite good. But his vision was not that high and he didn't think so far. He just thought that he had grabbed Xu Jie's handle, but this handle was obviously not enough to make Xu Jie. Why was Gao Gong so surprised?

On the way to Yuxi Palace, he looked at Gao Gong happy and said:

"Grade Gao, this matter is probably not harmful to Xu Jie, right? At most, he will be scolded by His Majesty."

"What do you know?" Gao Gong whispered: "This is not simple corruption, nor is it simply bullying the market. This is to affect the tariffs of the Maritime Bureau. Just imagine that the Xu family can take advantage of one trick, but may they keep taking advantage of it like this? Without the target of tricks, they will have no source of goods. Without the source of goods, they will not be able to trade with merchants of the vassal states. Without the transaction with merchants of the vassal states, the Maritime Bureau will not be able to collect tariffs. Without the tariffs, what will happen to the Ming Dynasty? Think about it yourself? What will your Majesty have? Think about it yourself?"

The prefect of Shuntian was stunned. Gao Gong patted his shoulder and said, "You should think more about it in the future, otherwise how can you be suitable for a higher position!"

"A higher position..." The prefect of Shuntian was ecstatic: "Am I going to be promoted?"

He laughed so hard that he couldn't stop smiling all the way and came to the outside of Yuxi Palace. Gao Gong asked him to wait outside, and he went in alone to meet Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing's health was still not good. At this time, he was sitting on the chair with a tired face, listening to what Xu Jie was saying. Listening to Xu Jie impeaching Hu Zongxian, Emperor Jiajing's eyes showed a cold look, and at the same time he also had a faint anger.

He is indeed angry.

Angry: He gave Xu Jie the position of chief minister of the cabinet, but Xu Jie instigated his son to take advantage of the rules, breaking the rules, and making the Maritime Bureau messy.

Angry 2: Hu Zongxian is extremely useless. If Hu Zongxian could wipe out those pirates, there would be no so many troubles.

Yes!

Just trouble!

In the view of Emperor Jiajing, these are all troubles. If Hu Zongxian could defeat the pirates, regardless of whether the Xu family had embezzled or robbed them, as long as he could collect the tariffs, he would not care about anything.

So his greatest anger was that these troubles were finally found and solved by him!

If he, the emperor, solves everything, what else do these ministers do?

Why did you promote Xu Jie to be the chief minister of the cabinet?

If you, Xu Jie, can only cause trouble but not solve the problem?

Then what use do I want you?

Do you really think I don’t know anything? I impeached Hu Zongxian to fool me?

At this moment, a eunuch reported that Gao Gong asked for a meeting. When he heard Gao Gong asked for a meeting, Xu Jie's heart thumped. Emperor Jiajing glanced at Xu Jie indifferently and said:

"Prince!"

Gao Gong walked into Yuxi Palace and bowed to Emperor Jiajing and said, "My minister, Gao Gong, pay homage to Your Majesty."

"Forgive it!" Gao Gong said lightly: "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, look at this."

Huang Jin stepped forward and took the paper and put it on the imperial desk of Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing picked up the paper and looked at it one by one. He became more and more angry. Finally, he threw the paper at Xu Jie and shouted:

"You can see it yourself!"

Xu Jie was so scared that he immediately knelt down, picked up the papers and looked at them one by one. The more he looked, the more he became more scared, and the cold sweat on his forehead flowed down. The heart was so loud that it was:

"These people actually ran from the southeast to the capital to sue the emperor, and there were many of them. Anyone who was robbed by the Xu family came as long as there were some living ones.

How is this possible?

Where did these people get the money to come to Beijing?

Someone must have secretly organized them to send them to the capital. Who is it? Is it Gao Gong? It is very likely.

But, what should I do now?"

"This is the cabinet chief minister I chose, haha..." Emperor Jiajing sneered.

"I am guilty!" Xu Jie was prostrated.

Emperor Jiajing looked at Xu Jie coldly, feeling inexplicably irritable. He really wanted to withdraw Xu Jie, but it was easy to withdraw Xu Jie, but there was no suitable person to replace him. Otherwise, Gao Gong's family would dominate, and with Gao Gong's temperament, he would constantly trouble Emperor Jiajing. This was not the result that Emperor Jiajing wanted. He took a deep breath and said:

"This incident was caused by your Xu family. Tell me how to solve it?"

"I will definitely try to solve it as soon as possible."

“How to solve it?”

"minister……"

Xu Jie stammered and couldn't express his ideas. If he had an idea, why would he impeach Hu Zongxian?

"Xuan Liu Shouyou!" Emperor Jiajing shouted in a deep voice.

Xu Jie's heart was trembling. Emperor Jiajing wouldn't have asked the Jinyiwei to arrest him, right?

Just as he was trembling in his fear, Liu Shouyou came in. Emperor Jiajing said coldly:

"Liu Shouyou, what's going on with the Maritime Service? Your Jinyiwei should have similar information, right?"

"Go back to Your Majesty!" Liu Shouyou said calmly: "After Zhang Juzheng and Xu Shixing head to the southeast, the Maritime Bureau was operating well under Xu Shixing's rules."

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Chapter completed!