Yang Cong or Yangming's lineage's power in the capital is really far behind Xia Yan's party.

Behind Xia Yan is the leader of the Left Censor of the Censorate, a lot of people, including the Six Divisions, the Chief of the Five Temples, and Nie Yuan is not even a person of the Six Divisions, and behind him, there is no such thing as the Six Divisions, and the strength of both sides is simply incomparable.

Isn’t this a sure loss? Why did Yang Cong instigate Yangming’s lineage to take action?

Nie Bao should also know this situation, why did he stand up stupidly?

It's very simple. They are all gambling, based on the temperament of Emperor Jiajing.

Jiajing likes to watch internal struggles among the ministers, which is not a secret in the court.

As soon as he ascended the throne, he initiated a dispute over the rituals and "looked" Zhang Cong, Huo Tao, Fang Xianfu and others defeated the then cabinet chief Yang Tinghe and the cabinet grandson Yang Yiqing.

At this moment, he was instigating Xia Yan and Yan Song's party to fight against Zhang Cong, the chief assistant of the cabinet. In history, he also instigated Yan Song to fight against Xia Yan and Xu Jie to fight against Yan Song. In short, the entire Jiajing court struggle never stopped, and Jiajing not only did not stop it, but also fueled the fire behind it.

Yang Cong and Nie Bao were betting on this point. Didn’t Jiajing like to watch internal struggles among the ministers? Then, he definitely hoped to see the Yangming lineage and Xia Yan fight together.

As for strength comparison, this is not the point.

At the beginning, Zhang Cong was just a Jinshi in the political circle and didn't even have a position. He even made the cabinet chief Yang Tinghe and cabinet grandson Yang Yiqing both step down.

At that time, Xia Yan was just a seventh-ranked person and was in charge of the ministers. He had already fought to get the cabinet Grand Secretary Fang Xianfu and Huo Tao backed down. Now the cabinet chief Zhang Cong was so fierce that he could not continue to fight.

So, strength is not the point, the point is that Jiajingxi doesn't want them to fight.

As long as Jiajing hopes that they will fight, the weaker side will have a better chance of winning.

The examples of Zhang Cong and Xia Yan are proof that Jiajing likes to "swalking the strong and supporting the weak"!

Therefore, when Nie Bao wanted to make a big splash and let the prince's grand tutor, the prince's son-in-law, the Duke of Jingshan, Cui Yuan, the Marquis of Wuding, Guo Xun, and even the Duke of Wei, come forward to support him, Yang Cong persuaded him to stop.

He wanted to make himself seem weak, so that Jiajing would lean towards them.

So, what will Jiajing think and what will he do?

Jiajing understood as soon as he saw this attitude. This was Yangming's challenge to Xia Yan's party.

The Yangming lineage's power in the capital is really a bit shabby now. Except for Nie Bao, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War and Zhang Shiche, the other one with the highest positions is Mu Konghui, the Hanlin Academy's attendant lecturer, which is far from Xia Yan's party.

The ministers are fighting in the middle, okay!

Whether it is Xia Yan's one party fighting against Zhang Cong, or Yangming's one lineage fighting against Xia Yan's one party, it is a good thing for him. As long as the ministers fight, they will not think about fighting against him, the emperor. Moreover, once the ministers fight, they will definitely seek help from him, the emperor, so that his authority will be even worse.

What should I do if the Yangming lineage is too poor?

It doesn't matter, I'll give you a chance!

He likes to "swallow the strong and help the weak", but what he thinks is not "swallow the strong and help the weak", but to play the technique of balance.

This balance technique can be said to have always been a treasure trove of governing the country pursued by the royal family of Zhu Ming.

In the Hongwu Dynasty and Yongle Dynasty, military generals and nobles were too strong, so they trained civil servants to fight.

In the Hongxi Dynasty and Xuande Dynasty, civil officials were growing increasingly, and they supported military generals and nobles to fight against civil officials.

During the Zhengtong period of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Wang Zhen, the confidant of Emperor Yingzong, led the army to the expedition, resulting in the defeat of Tumu Fort, and all the military generals and nobles were killed and injured. The emperors of the subsequent dynasties not only did not deal with the eunuchs, but instead trained eunuchs to fight against civil servants!

Why is this?

It's very simple, to play the technique of balance!

If the military generals and nobles are no longer able to do so, then train eunuchs to deal with civil servants!

This balance technique is used to play with more eunuchs from the Ming Dynasty than in any dynasty in history. Later on, I don’t know whether the world belongs to the Zhu Ming royal family or eunuchs!

However, Jiajing did not like to use eunuchs to deal with civil servants, he liked to use civil servants to deal with civil servants.

He can be said to be able to play this balance technique with perfection. At the beginning, his vision was quite good.

Although Zhang Cong and Xia Yan, the "fighting generals" he selected, were both aggressive, they were not the kind of corrupt officials who fought for power and profit for their own selfishness.

They were all relatively honest officials, and their abilities were quite good, so the entire Ming Dynasty developed quite well in the early stages of Jiajing, and even there were signs of Jiajing's revival.

Unfortunately, later he was obsessed with the art of immortality and misunderstood the "well-written" Yan Song, who was "well-written" in Qing Ci, which led to the corruption of the court, and the prevalence of corruption, and the revival of Jiajing came to an abrupt end.

Of course, it is hard to say whether that scene in history will be repeated at this moment, because Yang Cong is already the top scorer in high school and has stepped forward to attack Xia Yan and Yan Song's party.

Jiajing looked at his teacher Mu Konghui, and then looked at the new top scorer Yang Cong whom he mentioned. He hesitated for a moment, then said loudly: "Well, Liu Aiqing and Zhang Aiqing are both pretty good. I still need to think carefully and leave the court."

ah!

When Xia Yan heard this, he couldn't help but feel confused.

At this moment, Yang Cong showed a smug smile on his face. Sure enough, Jiajing just likes to watch internal struggles among the ministers.

In fact, Xia Yan also knew quite well that Jiajing liked to watch internal struggles among the ministers because he relied on this to rise to power.

However, many people will gradually lose themselves once they have power. Xia Yan is a little bit arrogant now, and he is a little unaware of who he is. He thought Jiajing could only rely on him now!

After the morning court, he actually ran to the imperial study room and urged Jiajing to organize a court discussion immediately, convene important officials of the court, and determine the candidate for the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing.

Court discussion was a unique deliberation system in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the emperor issued an order to allow important officials of the court to discuss major national affairs, and those who participated were generally Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Secretary of the Six Ministry and Chief of the Five Temples.

When Jiajing had just succeeded to the throne, Xia Yan used a memorial to persuade Jiajing to listen to the opinions of ministers more in major national affairs and not trust eunuchs easily, thus gaining the appreciation of Jiajing.

However, today is different from the past. Jiajing is no longer the little emperor who has not yet settled in the position, and Xia Yan is not the one who has no power to be the one who has no power.

At this moment, Jiajing can control the ministers without his support, and he, Xia Yan, does not need greater power, because at this moment, Xia Yan is almost in power!

Of course, Jiajing knew why Xia Yan suggested organizing a court discussion, because no one from the Yangming lineage entered the cabinet, nor did the six ministers and the five temple chiefs. Moreover, Zhang Cong's group was obviously no longer able to do so, so the court discussion was still not up to him. Xia Yan had the final say.

Do you think I'm idiot?

Isn’t the court’s discussion the world of your Xia Yan? What a nonsense!

Jiajing simply put his face on his face, his legs on his face, closed his eyes, and started practicing.

When Xia Yan saw this attitude, he finally woke up a little.
Chapter completed!