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The day after the knocking case, three officials hurriedly left Beijing to go to the former Minister of Revenue, Governor of the Grain Transport, and Governor of Fengyang Li Sancai's house in Tongzhou.

All three are Li Sancai's disciples, namely Jie Xuelong, the Censor of the Criminal Department, Xia Zhiling, the Censor of Sichuan Dao Supervision, and Zhou Shunchang, the Chief of the Ministry of Personnel.

Li Sancai was exposed for stealing the imperial tombs two years ago. The emperor was angry and ordered to demote him to a civilian. However, in the past two years, although Li Sancai's figure has disappeared from the court, his influence has always been there.

People from Zhejiang, Chu and Qi also knew that Li Sancai had a huge influence on the Donglin Party and still posed a threat to the three parties. Therefore, the censors of the Three Party wrote letters to impeach Li Sancai, intending to completely suppress Li Sancai so that he could never make a comeback.

For example, the Chu Party Censor Liu Guangfu impeached Li Sancai and the resigned doctor of the Ministry of Justice and the right and the left and right official Wenxuan Department appointed him. Anyone who elected him, the Wenxuan Department would be elected, which was a full underground minor official.

There were also Zhejiang Party chief Liu Wenbing, censor Li Zhengyi and others impeached Li Sancai to embezzle the official factory for his garden, and forced the land of Tongzhou at a low price. The servants even relied on their power to be domineering, which led to the resentment of the people of Tongzhou.

Under all kinds of impeachments, although the emperor did not issue an order to reprimand or to investigate the officials, Yu Li Sancai was under great pressure. He could hardly make a comeback. He could only rely on his own identity as a founding elder in Donglin, and he could instruct his party members to secretly influence the government affairs as much as possible.

Every month, Li Sancai would send his confidants to Beijing to meet with the chief minister Ye Xianggao, and he would continue to write letters with Zhao Nanxing and Zou Yuanbiao and other party veterans.

Li Sancai knew about Yang Lian and others writing a letter to impeach Wei Liangchen, the chief garrison in Jiangnan, who was in charge of the Jiangnan garrison, and he felt that Yang Lian and others were making trouble and did not know the severity. However, the matter had happened, he was powerless to stop it and could only watch the development of the situation.

At noon, he received an urgent report, saying that Yang Lian, who was leading the censor to knock on the door, actually called an old gang in the palace to be injured. Li Sancai was angry at the time and said to his family: "Yang Lian was self-reliant and did not know the importance of the matter of knocking on the door. He did not discuss with important officials in the party in advance, and made his own decisions! ... Now that the attempt to knock on the door failed, he called an old eunuch injured. It was not that Yang Lian became a laughing stock in the world, but that my Donglin Party was going to make people laugh at me!"

When Jie Xuelong, Xia Zhiling, and Zhou Shunchang arrived at the mansion of his mentor, Li Sancai was writing to another veteran of the party. Zhao Nanxing, who was dismissed from office in his early years, wrote a letter to Zhao Nanxing, who was dismissed from office because of his impeachment in his early years. Most of the letters were accusing Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others of the words, saying that these new members of the party chose their reputation and acted freely regardless of the interests of the party. If they were not restricted, they would be very likely to implicate the ministers, which made His Majesty even more disgusted with Donglin.

This letter was explicitly accusing Yang Lian and other radicals, but Li Sancai was also dissatisfied with Zhao Nanxing between the lines. Because it was Zhao Nanxing that radicals within the party were increasingly occupying important positions. Li Sancai hoped that Zhao Nanxing could understand his painstaking efforts and make up the atmosphere within the party. Otherwise, if everyone learns from Yang Lian's actions, the balance within the party and the political structure of the court would be easily broken through and a great struggle.

"Whether the whole court is full of people, it's all the people in the Eastern Palace, and the rest are not worth worrying about."

At the end of the letter, Li Sancai wrote this sentence. When he heard that the students were coming, he quickly put down his pen and asked the servant to invite them into the study.

"Teacher!"

Jie Xuelong and the other two stepped forward to salute the teacher one by one. Li San waved his hand and asked the three of them to sit down and talk.

Zhou Shunchang, who was most impatient, first asked: "The teacher must have known about the knocking case?"

Zhou Shunchang was from Wuxian, Suzhou Prefecture. He was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli. Later, he was appointed as the Fuzhou Promoter. At that time, a local tax supervisor was ordered to collect taxes. Zhou Shunchang secretly instructed the merchants not to pay taxes, and hired several rogues in the market to incite merchants to violently resist taxes, causing the situation to change violently.

In order to protect himself, Gao Cai took Lu Chunru, deputy envoy of Fujian's political participation, as a hostage, and asked Fujian officials and gentry to send troops to protect him. The incident reached Zhou Shunchang's ears. Some officials who knew the inside story believed that this incident was caused by Zhou Shunchang. Now Lu Chunru is the unlucky guy. For public and private, Zhou Shunchang should replace the innocent Lu Chunru.

But Zhou Shunchang was afraid that Gao Cai would harm his life, so he disagreed with Lu Chunru. Later, Lu Chunru was released by Gao Cai, but the two of them formed a gang. Zhou could not stay in Fujian, so he wrote a letter to his teacher Li Sancai for help. With the help of Li Sancai, the Wenxuan Department of the Ministry of Personnel, controlled by the Donglin Party, promoted Zhou Shunchang to the head of the Ministry of Personnel Jixun. This position is not of high rank, but its value is no less than that of the technician. He is truly powerful and can determine the performance evaluation of officials below the fourth rank.

"Teacher, Yang Lian called me Donglin to lose all his face this time, and he was really a bastard!" Jie Xuelong firmly opposed Yang Lian's letter and knocked on the door, so he refused that day when Fang Kezhuang found him.

"Yang Lian is not good at doing well. Wang Wenyan, who was a prisoner, is not a good thing. She has made all kinds of bad ideas. Now, she is just asking me to become the laughing stock of the traitor... They all say that Yang Lian is called a pig's head." Xia Zhiling said gritting his teeth.

"Yang Lian is really, why was he persuaded by Wang Wenyan in a few words? He didn't think about what kind of virtue Wang Wenyan is? With this person here, I, Donglin, will suffer from it!" Zhou Shunchang looked down on Wang Wenyan, who was a prisoner.

Li Sancai said, "That Wang Wenyan is Yu Youli's man."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shunchang was a little surprised, but he didn't say anything else. Because both inside and outside the party knew that Yu Youli had a relationship with his teacher. If he said Wang Wenyan's fault, he was afraid that the teacher would be unhappy.

"Mr., you once told the students that the most important thing in the party is to try to retain Fuqing's grandfather, so as not to make the position of the chief minister fall on the head of the Zhejiang Party. But now Yang Lian and others put the cart before the horse and try to kill Wei, intending to use impeachment of Wei eun to defeat the Zhejiang Party. If this matter is done, it would be fine, but it would be a tiger but not a cat... The teacher knows that the capital is laughing at me now, saying that we are not as good as the other generation now." Jie Xuelong said hatefully.

"It's not enough to succeed, but it's more than enough to fail! That Yang Lian, I've met several times in Donglin Academy in my early years. At that time, I felt that this person was impulsive and happy when things happened. He was very unstable... I don't know how the Lord admired him, so I must support him... If the Lord knew about it underground, I knew that my Donglin Party was now ridiculed by Yang Lian alone, but I don't know what to think." Speaking of this, Li San, who had already hated Yang Lian's Hu, came up again, and his body trembled.

Seeing this, Jie Xuelong hurriedly stepped forward to support the teacher and comforted him: "My teacher will relieve his anger, don't get angry. You are the pillar of my Donglin's sky. If you get angry, our Donglin will have no leader."

Xia Zhiling also said, "Yes, mentor, don't be excited. There is always a solution to the problem. The students are here to ask the teacher for advice. Yang Lian and the others can't really miss my big incident."

Zhou Shunchang also said with concern: "Since the teacher retired, his body was not as good as before. Now that the Lord Donglin has left, the party still has to rely on the reputation of the teacher. With you, you will be like Mount Tai."

Seeing that the students cared about him so much, Li Sancai couldn't help but feel comfortable. He nodded and cheered up and said, "I have been a teacher for many years, and I haven't seen any storms before. I'm also a little anxious for a moment, so I won't get sick."

After saying that, he asked Zhou Shunchang: "When you come, will there be any movement on the Fuqing husband's side?"

Zhou Shunchang frowned and said, "Old Ye Ge stayed in the door and refused to leave."

"I see that Master Ye also knows that Yang Lian and the others are making trouble and embarrassing, so they are so angry that they are unwilling to come forward." Jie Xuelong guessed.

Li Sancai thoughtfully and asked, "Can you know who was hitting Yang Lian?"

Xia Zhiling hurriedly said, "Mr. The man is named Li Jinzhong. I heard that he was the mate who burned the stove for Li Xuanshi in the East Palace."

"Gentleman in the East Palace?"

Li Sancai was stunned. The murderer turned out to be from the East Palace?!

After a while, Li Sancai asked, "Does Eunuch An, the Eastern Palace, have something to hand over?"

The three of them shook their heads and didn't know.

Li Sancai had a deep brow. The Donglin Party was the biggest supporter of the Eastern Palace. Why did the people in the Eastern Palace beat Yang Lian? He couldn't figure it out for a moment.

Zhou Shunchang said: "When Li Jinzhong hit Yang Lian, why did he call me the world to be the thief? Now many people in the city think Yang Lian is a traitor."

"Yes, there are a lot of discussions in the city, and the treacherous party is deliberately adding fuel to the fire and turning the black and white. Many ignorant people regard Li Jinzhong as a good person." When they think of this, Jie Xuelong was so angry that his teeth were itchy.

"My teacher, if you can't justify Yang Lian, then knocking on the door this time will be injustice. Your Majesty certainly doesn't like me Donglin. If the traitor seizes this opportunity, I Donglin will definitely be taken advantage of by the traitor." Xia Zhiling said with a worried look on his face.

"The Duke of Fuqing refused to come forward to preside over the meeting, so the students and others could only ask their mentor to preside over the matter." Zhou Shunchang begged.

Li Sancai didn't comment and just pondered for a long time. After a long time, he said, "The article is about Li Jinzhong," he paused and sneered, "How can a mere East Palace mate have the courage to hit the imperial officials? Someone must be instructed behind this person!"

Zhou Shunchang and the other two agreed with each other, Xie Xuelong inquired: "The teacher means to pry open Li Jinzhong's mouth."

"Not only do you have to pry it open, but you also have to find out the person behind the scenes." Li Sancai made the decision, glanced at the three students, and reminded him: "This case alone must not implicate the East Palace."

Zhou Shunchang and the other two understood this powerful relationship very well.

Li Sancai asked Jie Xuelong: "Who can take this important task?"

Jie Xuelong thought for a while and said, "The head of the Ministry of Justice, Wang Zhike."

Wang Zhili, Li Sancai, had heard a little about it. He knew that he was a doctor in the Ministry of Justice and had great means to investigate cases, so he nodded in approval.

Xia Zhiling reminded: "It's just that Your Majesty sent an order to imprison Li Jinzhong in the Imperial Prison. Without Your Majesty's order, it would be difficult for Wang Zhili to go to the Imperial Prison to be interrogated. Li Jinzhong."

"It's okay."

Li Sancai waved his hand and said lightly: "Liu Qiao, the Northern Governor, received my help back then. You just asked Wang Zhicai to see him with my name, and said that everything was the intention of being a teacher, so Liu Qiao would never dare to refuse. Moreover, Yang Lian was appointed as an official in the court, and was beaten by the palace slave for no reason. The Ministry of Justice should send an investigation."

After hearing what the teacher said, Zhou Shunchang and the other two were enlightened.

"But there in Tianjin?" Xia Zhiling was a little worried.
Chapter completed!