When Wang Wenyan came out of Wang An's residence in Liutiao Hutong excitedly, the chief assistant of the dynasty, Ye Xianggao had just arrived at the Xihunting Pavilion of the Ganqing Palace under the guidance of the eunuch.

The Ganqing Palace is the main hall of the emperor. Although Wanli has lived in the Yikun Palace of Concubine Zheng on weekdays and never attends court, he still meets important officials every year, especially the cabinet ministers.

The place where you meet the ministers is unchanged and is fixed in the West Warehouse Pavilion. There is also an alias here called Yangxin Temple.

At this time, three days had passed since the Shunmen Army. During these three days, Ye Xianggao invited the emperor several times, but there was no news.

His cabinet public housing was surrounded by officials every day, and he asked his assistant to quickly obtain the constitution. Li Hualong, the Minister of War, was so anxious that he almost pulled him to the palace.

The memorials of the Governor of Ji Liao, Wang Xianggan, and the Governor of Liaodong, Li Bing, on the military changes have long been sent to the capital, but the court has not yet come up with a specific solution.

In this way, not only did the six ministries and nine ministers dissatisfied, but Kedao also caused a lot of discussions. The three party members who had always been disagreeing with the Donglin Party even spread rumors that Ye Xianggao had accepted Gao Huai's bribes, so he was delayed. Some three party members even ran to the cabinet to scold, almost pointing at his Fuqing Gong's nose and scolding.

Ye Xianggao endured these things, but a little bit of tolerance would cause big plans, because in his opinion, closing the army was of course important, but one thing was more urgent than this.

After solving this big thing, other things are all subtle matters.

Fortunately, in addition to the troublesome things, there is still good news. That is, the rioters in Shanhaiguan have never raised the anti-flag flag and have also opened the ban. Now the flood roads and business roads outside the jail are open.

It is said that this is because the emperor sent people to Shanhaiguan without telling the situation.

News from the palace said that the emperor sent the Zheng family.

Ye Xianggao was very alert. For a long time, the Zheng family had never intervened in major affairs except for making trouble for the demon book and thinking about the national transfer. But now, the Zheng family suddenly got into trouble with the military transformation of the closed doors. What was the idea of ​​being content?

Ye Xianggao had to be on guard. As the chief minister, he considered not only the interests of the one party, but also the interests of the country. The country is now determined, as long as the Eastern Palace survives and waits for the emperor to die, the overall situation will be settled, and there is no need to cause trouble.

On the contrary, as long as the Eastern Palace is peaceful, no matter how much Concubine Zheng wins the emperor's favor, no matter how much she makes trouble, she will end up in a sad end.

But we must also be careful that the Zheng family cannot follow the right path and think about some evil ways to come out.

Years of official career have allowed Ye Xianggao to keenly connect the closing of the Zheng family with the recruitment of military morale. Although this matter seems impossible, some things are the more impossible, the more likely they are.

With the support of the army, it is difficult for anyone to be the emperor to guarantee something.

In view of this, Ye Xianggao wrote letters to Wang Xianggan, the governor of Ji Liao and Li Bing, the governor of Liaodong, respectively, asking someone to send them quickly.

This is also a preventive measure. Ye Xianggao did not send anyone to deliver a letter because he knew that the closing of the army had nothing to do with the old coach.

Now, the court wants to make big things worse, Li Chengliang also wants to do it.

Ye Xianggao’s confidence and Li Chengliang have the same view on how to view Gao Huai.

So, just have this consensus.

………………

When Ye Xianggao arrived, Wanli had not come yet.

Helplessly, Ye Xianggao had to wait in the pavilion. He did not come empty-handedly, but a memorial was placed in his sleeve, which he wrote last night.

Ye Xianggao is fifty-one years old this year. He is from Fuqing, Fujian. He is a Jinshi in the 11th year of Wanli. When his mother was born, it was the year when Japanese pirates in Fujian. Ye Xianggao's mother Lin's mother gave birth to Ye Xianggao in a broken toilet by the roadside, so his nickname is "Ti Zai". A poor child born in the toilet has become the chief assistant of the current dynasty today, which is not a miracle.

However, Ye Xianggao's career was not smooth. After he passed the Jinshi, he was awarded the position of Shujishi and served as editor of the Hanlin Academy. Later, because the emperor's mining and tax supervision envoy, he submitted a memorial to oppose it and was sent to Nanjing as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites.

All official positions in Nanjing were idle. Ye Gaoxiang stayed in Nanjing for ten years. He finally survived until Zhou Yin, the priest of the Imperial College in Beijing, retired. According to his talent and qualifications, Ye Xianggao took over. However, he was rejected by the leader of the Zhejiang Party and the then chief minister.

Ye Xianggao was repeatedly frustrated in his career and was disheartened. He asked for retirement many times but failed to obtain approval. Two years ago, the chief assistant Chen Yiguan and the second assistant Chen Li retired one after another because of the "demonic book case", and Zhu Geng was the only one in the cabinet. However, Zhu Geng stayed in the door and refused to work. There was no way, and Wanli had to order the foreign court to add additional cabinet ministers. In this way, Ye Xianggaocai and Yu Shenxing and Li Tingji entered the cabinet together.

Zhu Geng and Yu Shenxing died one after another, Li Tingji stopped the party and refused to report, so the cabinet affairs were only under the leadership of Ye Xianggao, so the court called him "the only prime minister" inside and outside the court.

Because he worked in Nanjing for many years, Ye Xianggao had close contacts with the Donglin Party members and had close friends with Gu Xiancheng. The same unsatisfactory career and expectations for the future made Ye Xianggao the backbone of the Donglin Party. After he became the only prime minister in the cabinet, he became the leader of the Donglin Party. His prestige within the party was no longer weaker than another general Li Sancai.

Last month, after Ye Xianggao's struggle, Li Sancai was finally able to enter Beijing as the Minister of Revenue. Now Li Sancai is rushing to the capital.

Ye Xianggao has decided that after Li Sancai takes office, he will mobilize the efforts of his colleagues in the party to promote the addition of cabinet ministers, so that Li Sancai can enter the cabinet to assist him. After he retires in the future, the government will be completely taken over by Li Sancai. In this way, no matter how conspired and tricked the traitors of the three parties, they will never be able to make a fuss.

Ye Xianggao is a pavilion master and is a unique figure. He will never stand in the warm pavilion. There was a long time when an eunuch brought a brocade stool for him to sit down and served fragrant tea.

Ye Xianggao savored the fragrant tea while waiting quietly.

Since he entered the cabinet, there have been only a few faces when he saw the emperor. It is not that he does not want to see him, but that the emperor does not see him.

Three days ago, after learning that the army of the closed gate changed, Ye Xianggao wanted to go to the palace to face the king at night, but unfortunately he was blocked. In the next few days, he submitted memorials every day to ask for the face the king, but the emperor did not make any noise.

Today, the emperor is finally willing to see him.

Ye Xianggao cheered up and prepared to take this rare opportunity to deal with the difficult and difficult things in his hands.

Finally, the emperor, who was unable to move, finally stepped into the warm cabinet with the help of the internal prison.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

When Wanli saw Ye Xianggao asking for a stand, he hurriedly signaled to give up the gift. After sitting on the imperial chair, he handed over several memorials that had been approved by the Sili Supervisor to Ye Xianggao.

Ye Xianggao took a rough look and found that they were all memorials about disasters in various places recently handed over by the Tongzhengsi Department.

"Your Majesty, you have been stormy and it has not rained for many years. From the capital to the east and west of the mountains, north and south of the river, and to Western Shu, there are serious disasters in many places. According to reports from various places, several counties have been displaced and hungry, which is so hard that they hear it and cannot bear to see it. I beg Your Majesty to pardon the disaster-stricken places for several years so that the victims can rebuild their homes."

"I've approved it. The cabinet master drafted a charter for specific matters. You don't have to submit it to me. Just send it to the local area to deal with it." Wanli never vaguely about disaster relief, otherwise he would not have approved these disaster memorials alone.

Seeing that the emperor was willing to accept his opinion, Ye Xianggao was happy and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the world has always been in chaos, all due to the upset of human feelings. Today, the upset is abnormal, and there will be abnormal changes. The official of the Department is known as the way of speaking, not only the court's ears and eyes, but also the throat. Once the throat is blocked, there will be no food. Now the censors have impeached the articles and will not report any response. I think that if this continues, the speech will be blocked, which is not a blessing for the country."

Ye Xianggao wanted to take the opportunity to persuade the emperor to open up a message, encourage the scholars to submit memorials, and respond to them indifferently, rather than ignore them as before.

As a result, Wanli fell silent after hearing this.

Ye Xianggao sighed in his heart, knowing that the emperor's prejudice against Kedao was too heavy and it was difficult to change for a while. So he stopped talking and was anxious to do another major event, saying: "Your Majesty, in the past, the prince gave him only 4,000 hectares of land at most, but now the gift of King Fu is ten times. However, even so, Your Majesty did not allow King Fu to return to the country, and I am afraid that Your Majesty will break his trust in the world."

Wanli was stunned. Unexpectedly, Ye Xianggao turned to the topic and talked about the fact that King Fu gave the field. He frowned and waved his hand and said, "There are 40,000 acres of ancestral system, and I have only followed the ancestral system."

Unexpectedly, Ye Xianggao said, "Your Majesty, I have investigated, there is no such thing as the ancestor system."

“….”

Wanli was suddenly embarrassed and his face turned a little red.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, you must be at peace and stability in order to last for a long time. Duke Zhuang of Zheng loved uncle Duan and Empress Dowager Dou loved King Xiao of Liang, and they all gave him great fiefs and vassals. But what about the ending of these two people?"

Ye Xianggao advised him kindly, and he always believed that the emperor gave King Fu too much land. Although he had tried his best to urge the Ministry of Revenue and the local government to handle the land affairs of King Fu's land, it was not more than half of it until now. Therefore, he wondered if he could advise him to reduce the number of King Fu's land.

Wanli understood what Ye Xianggao meant. He pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you think my husband?"

Ye Xianggao hurriedly said, "I think Your Majesty's order is reduced by 10,000 acres, and Your Highness, King Fu, will he say he will give up another 10,000 acres."

After hearing this, Wanli was very unhappy and said unhappily: "Sir, do your best to serve the Eastern Palace, can you take care of King Fu?"

Ye Xianggao said seriously: "This is exactly what the old ministers are thinking about King Fu. In the past, people said that long live a thousand years old, or that we can live a hundred years old, that is a false saying. Now that the emperor is nearly fifty years old, he still favors King Fu. If King Fu takes advantage of this time and gives gifts, the treasures in the palace will be like a pile of mountains, making arbitrary choices. As the saying goes, there will be unexpected changes in the sky. If King Fu fails, the King Fu may not even get the share he deserves. In this way, the old ministers will not think about King Fu, and can they still not do their best?"

"I have issued an order, King Fu knows, Concubine knows, everyone in the world knows, and asking me to change the order now is a big deal." Wanli didn't want to reduce the land to King Fu's farmland because he felt that his father was too sorry for his son.

"If this is the case," Ye Xianggao paused and decisively said: "Then please give your majesty the order to return to the country."

"This..." Wanli suddenly felt shocked, "How can this work!"

"Your Majesty, how can the ancestral system be violated by the country of vassal kings?" Ye Xianggao looked unconventional. He was the chief minister, and the court affairs needed his chief minister to maintain them, and the emperor's chief minister also asked him to nod. If he did not cooperate, to put it bluntly, the emperor would not be able to play with it.

Wanli was a little anxious, and Ye Xianggao was the first person in the cabinet. If Ye Xianggao had a falling out with him again, who would take care of the government affairs for him?

"Next winter will be the 70th birthday of the empress dowager. King Fu should stay to celebrate his birthday. I see, I won't call King Fu to return to the vassal state for the time being, so I'll push it to the next year." Wanli was petty and would be soft if he was too hard. Even if the emperor was embarrassed and embarrassed, he could be humiliated.

Ye Xianggao was as clear as a mirror about the emperor's little abacus. He was unmoved and insisted: "The King of Fu is able to celebrate the birthday ceremony in advance and return to the vassal state as scheduled next spring."

"There is no need to be so anxious, right? I only have these sons, so I really can't bear to leave them." Wanli was very uneasy, and looked at Ye Xianggao with a pity.

"The outer court has long been legendary that Your Majesty intends to leave the King of Fu in the name of birthday celebrations. If Your Majesty really does this, the court will be uneasy. If the Empress Dowager hears it, he will feel unhappy. Besides, the emperor's younger brother, Prince Lu, is now living in a foreign vassal, and the Empress Dowager misses him very much. King Lu cannot come, why should King of Fu be there?" Ye Xianggao's words were very sharp, which made Wanli unable to speak of it.

"As long as your Majesty can determine the date of King Fu's return, I will always have an explanation to the court officials. But if you have asked me before, your Majesty should think twice." Ye Xianggao said calmly.

"Then let's rely on my husband."

Wanli felt that he had Ye Xianggao's condom, but he had to stretch his neck in this condom again. Otherwise, Ye Xianggao's head was outside and forced himself to drive King Fu back to the country, which would be awful.

Ye Xianggao nodded, one could cut off half of King Fu's land, and the other was to determine the date of his return. These two things seemed to be two, but in fact they were one - to drive King Fu into a vassal country.

As long as King Fu leaves the capital, there will be nothing wrong with the East Palace!

Ye Xianggao was very satisfied with the emperor's request so readily.

Wanli secretly scolded Fuqing's husband in his heart, as cunning as the rumors, but he couldn't say anything about his suffering. After all, the prince must be the ancestral system of the country, and he insisted on not doing it, which was a real loss. Moreover, it was really unreasonable to give Fuwang 40,000 acres of land at one time.

"Is there anything else to do with my husband? If not, I have something to do with it..." Wanli said.

Ye Xianggao said, "I have something to do."

Wanli was stunned and said embarrassedly: "Let me say that, my husband."

"This is my memorial, please read it with Your Majesty!"

After Ye Xianggao finished speaking, he took out the memorial from his sleeve and handed it to the internal supervisor. The internal supervisor respectfully submitted it. Wanli took it and saw a few words of title name - "The memorial of the Liaodong Mining Supervision if I ask you to impeach Liaodong Mining Supervision"

"Your Majesty, Gao Huai has been the lieutenant of Liaodong Mining Supervision and Taxation..." Ye Xianggao was about to file Gao Huai's crimes, but Wanli waved his hand to interrupt him and said to him: "I have decided to call Gao Huai back."

Ye Xianggao Yidai and was immediately overjoyed: "So, is His Majesty Liaodong Mining Supervisor willing to withdraw?"

Wanli shook his head: "My husband misunderstood. I just asked Gao Huai to come back, Liaodong Mining Supervision Tax Envoy, I will not give up for the time being."

"This..." Ye Xianggao hesitated for a while and wanted to persuade the emperor to completely stop the Liaodong Mine Supervisor.

Wanli stared at him and said slowly, "My husband, I have responded to you a few major events, so you can't let me know one or two?"

Ye Xianggao hesitated for a moment. Today, several major events have been completed, and Gao Huai is just right. It is rare to rely on the emperor's usual personality, so it would be better not to force him anymore. Otherwise, it would be even more troublesome if the emperor turned against him and took back his previous promise.

After all, the emperor used to be rebellious.

Ye Xianggao did not dare to take this risk, so he stopped saying a word.

Wanli nodded slightly and said, "There is a small matter. My husband asked me to do it. I want to give me a personal name as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat and ask him to take a look in Liaodong for me."

"Who?" Ye Xianggao asked.
Chapter completed!