The censor uses a pen to kill people without a knife.

A pen turns black and white into a crime. No matter how bright your tongue, you can't argue with a lotus.

Cui Lu is such a person.

As a military officer, Cui Lu's most important responsibility is to impeach the supervisory officials.

Not long ago, Zuo Tongzheng and Zhao Wenhua found him, hoping that he could impeach the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang Zhu Wan.

Cui Lu was of course very happy. You should know that he had put a lot of effort into currying favor with Zhao Wenhua. This is the godson of Yan Party’s direct lineage and current chief assistant Yan Song.

Cui Lu was eager to show his feelings and used all his strength to write a memorial, which was to scold Zhu Wan as a thief without a monarch and father.

When Cui Luzhi was so proud that he was eager to offer treasures, Zhao Wenhua found him and said he would not impeach Zhu Wan, at least not for the time being.

Of course, Zhao Wenhua didn't need to give a reason, and Cui Lu didn't dare to ask. Although it was a little awkward, things were delayed like this.

Now Cui Lu is waiting for the opportunity.

The four major families of Liu, He, Lin and Wu in Hangzhou also attacked Zhu Wan and instructed their nephews to write letters to impeach them.

These four major families are all powerful families in Zhejiang, and there are many sons and nephews in the court.

For a time, all the memorials impeached Zhu Wan were gathered in the Tongzheng Envoy Department. Zhao Wenhua, who was the left Tongzheng, naturally smelled the opportunity.

The reason why Zhao Wenhua dared not impeach Zhu Wan was because he had the handle in Zhu Wan's hands.

If impeachment is forcibly, it is likely to end up in a desperate situation.

But now the form is very different.

There are countless officials who impeach Zhu Wan, and even if an extra memorial is issued, it will not attract attention.

Zhao Wenhua naturally decided to take advantage of the troubled waters and took the opportunity to learn from Zhu Wan's book.

And the person he entrusted was Cui Lu.

Cui Lu was originally from Zhejiang, so he naturally understood why Zhu Wan offended so many local wealthy families.

The so-called "living the mountains by the mountains, and eating the mountains by the sea".

Zhejiang is adjacent to the ocean, and fishing and sea are the most important business.

But one of the teachings of the Ming Dynasty was to ban the sea. Ordinary people were not allowed to go to sea to fish, let alone do business.

But rules have always been effective only for ordinary people. Those rich and powerful merchants, noble families, wealthy and powerful naturally do not take the rules of the Ming Dynasty seriously.

Not only did they collude with Japanese pirates, but they sometimes even rob merchant ships to do unsolicited transactions.

The commanders of Zhejiang have all been aware of this, but no one offended these local prominent families.

They ignored the smuggling behavior of the prominent people in Zhejiang and only caught some fishermen as Japanese pirates to seek credit.

Only Zhu Wan made drastic reforms as soon as she took office. Not only did she build ships and train troops, rectify the administration of officials, but she also sent navy troops to patrol the coast, and took the initiative to attack when smuggled sea ships were encountered.

It would be fine if it was just like this, but Zhu Wan turned into an even more violent attack on Shuangyu Island.

This is a hornet's nest.

You should know that Shuangyu is the largest smuggling port in Ningbo and even Zhejiang. Basically, 90% of these maritime merchants have to trade, load and unload in Shuangyu.

Shuangyu was destroyed, and it is impossible to find a suitable harbor in a short time.

Walking in the sea is a huge profit, and it hurts a lot if you delay it for a day, let alone a few days and a month?

Under such circumstances, these maritime merchants who suffered huge losses naturally wanted to cut Zhu Wan, the culprit of all this.

Although Zhu Wan was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and a magistrate arrested by the military and political affairs, they were not a good deal.

It is better if they are at peace. But if they really touch their vital interests, they don’t mind fighting with Zhu Wan to the end.

This is the reason why the censors have recently crazily impeached Zhu Wan.

Cui Lu felt that this was a god-given opportunity.

First of all, this impeachment trend gave him good cover.

One piece mixed with many memorials is not too eye-catching.

Secondly, he can take the credit that belongs to everyone on himself.

As long as Zhu Wan falls down Zhao Tongzheng will be happy.

Zhao Tongzheng didn't care too much about which memorial Zhu Wan was dismissed from office. He would only pay attention to the results.

Fortunately, Cui Lu still remembers the general content of the impeachment memorial. Otherwise, if he had to write it again, it would be a death.

Cui Lu raised his pen and dipped it ink with confidence, and wrote quickly.

This battle was the moment when he became famous.

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Emperor Jiajing generally did not believe the four words "Zhongzhengying Chao".

In his eyes, people in the world are greedy. The ministers are naturally no exception.

So how can we talk about the common people in the court? The so-called ministers are nothing more than a group of people who pursue fame and fortune.

In the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, the world is naturally owned by the Zhu family. Therefore, every grain of rice and every penny should also belong to the Zhu family.

The ministers not only ignorant of eating the Zhu family’s rice and taking the Zhu family’s money, but they even embezzled money.

All the money stole was from the Zhu family.

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing was guarding against his ministers as he was guarding against thieves.

If there is anything that doesn't suit his wishes, he will be arrested and interrogated.

The misdemeanor was reprimanded by the court, and the serious crime was beheaded and the house was confiscated.

The so-called harmony between the king and the minister is just a joke.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing still needed his ministers to work for him.

Otherwise, he would not be able to deal with the complicated government affairs if he was exhausted.

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Sometimes Emperor Jiajing even instigated his ministers to impeach each other, so that he could rest assured.

This is called the emperor's mind, and it cannot be easily used as a way for outsiders.

There have been many memorials impeaching the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang recently, but Emperor Jiajing did not take it seriously.

This is because he just read a book called "The Anti-Japanese War".

Although the book is a bit extreme, it is still thought-provoking.

Among them, the description of real Japanese and fake Japanese is the most touching Emperor Jiajing.

He always thought that the vicious Japanese pirates were all Japanese ronin.

Now it seems that it is wrong.

Many Japanese pirates are actually his people and their people!

This made Emperor Jiajing feel mixed feelings.

Why are there so many fake Japanese?

This is clearly stated in "The Anti-Japanese War".

Local merchants colluded with Japanese pirates to smuggle, and there was not enough manpower to hire seamen. This led to the phenomenon that fake Japanese were several times more likely to be real Japanese.

Emperor Jiajing thought it made sense after some thought.

Human nature seeks profit.

The huge profits of smuggling made these maritime merchants take risks regardless of their national justice and violate national policies.

At this point, Emperor Jiajing had a thorough understanding of these maritime merchants' faces.

Zhu Wan destroyed Shuangyu, and the most serious damage to their interests was naturally these local maritime merchants.

Is it possible that so many officials impeached Zhu Wan at this time?

Emperor Jiajing is not stupid, so how can’t I see the connection?

Nowadays, there are the most officials from Jiangxi in the court, and they belong to Fujian and Zhejiang.

Officials in Fujian and Zhejiang are all family mouthpieces, so it is natural to make some premeditation when they speak out together.

How can you hide such a trick from Emperor Jiajing?

He is the saint who claims to be a sacred king who has doubled his pupils.

Emperor Jiajing decided to keep these memorials impeaching Zhu Wan and not publish them, and first let these "loyal and good" ministers be left untold.

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Chapter completed!