After Shen Yishi's account books were transported to the capital, the cabinet, the highest power center of the imperial court, changed, and the "Qingliu Party" gained the upper hand; the Zhejiang officialdom also changed, and Zhao Zhenji, then the "Inspector of Southern Zhili" and xu Ge's old student, was transferred to the "Inspector of Zhejiang".
Zhejiang was inferior to the southern direct subordinate; coupled with this mess in Zhejiang, Zhao Zhenji was not satisfied with his official transfer, and even directly blamed this responsibility on Hu Zongxian, who had already driven back to Zhejiang. For Zhao Zhenji's complaints, Hu Zongxian has his own views:
"Zhejiang is a mess now, and if you don't do well, you will fall into it." What if it's done? You Zhao Mengjing may enter the cabinet to worship! Saint Shang is looking for a candidate for the next cabinet. ”
Hearing these words, Zhao Zhenji's eyes clearly lit up, but he quickly regained his calm:
"I don't think so! Merit is always done together, I do not seek merit, no fault is a blessing. ”
Zhao Zhenji, Hu Zongxian, and even every feudal official's ultimate dream was to enter the cabinet to worship the chancellor, and now, Zhao Zhenji's teacher, Xu Jie, was ready to take over as the "first assistant of the cabinet", the Jiajing Emperor asked Zhao Zhenji to clean up the mess in Zhejiang, the "fall of yan" had begun to prepare, and the cabinet with the "Qingliu Party" as the backbone had also opened the formation process. As Hu Zongxian said, if Zhao Zhenji could really clean up the mess in Zhejiang into the heart of the Jiajing Emperor, it would only be a matter of time before he entered the cabinet to pay homage to him.
However, Zhao Zhenji was a student of Xu Jie in the end, cautiously and carefully for the way of officials, learning extremely thoroughly, in the face of such a crucial career promotion news, Zhao Zhenji's reaction, full score!
Hu Zongxian went on to say:
"Meng Jing, quickly calculate Shen Yishi's family property according to the holy edict, thoroughly investigate the bribes of greed in the Zhejiang officialdom, and confiscate all of them and return them to the state treasury.
This was the will of the Jiajing Emperor and the result of the cabinet meeting, and Hu Zongxian was not wrong to explain Zhao Zhenji in this way. But the development of the matter did not follow Hu Zongxian's statement.
Zhao Zhenji simply explained what was happening in Zhejiang:
1. Shen Yishi's family property was originally supposed to be handed over to the state treasury, but at this time it was sold exclusively to Huishang as the private property of the Weaving Bureau;
2. These emblem merchants are Hu Zongxian's hometown friends, and some are even Actual Relatives of Hu Zongxian.
In this regard, Zhao Zhenji has his own understanding:
It seems that Zheng Bichang He Maocai knew that things had gone big, and he wanted to save it in his dreams. So he came up with the idea of buying Shen Yishi's family wealth, thinking that as long as you can quickly get some silver to supply you with war, and at the same time, you can avoid this disaster by collecting the half a million silks that the palace wants to sell to Western merchants this year and handing over the difference to the emperor. It's just a dog jumping off the wall. The pass is the weaving bureau that just uses this medium to burn the fire on your head. ”
That is to say, Zhao Zhenji believes that this is the last effort of Zheng Bichang and He Maocai to protect themselves, but why did the Weaving Bureau involve Hu Zongxian?
In fact, the meaning of the weaving bureau is the meaning of the palace, and the meaning of the palace is the meaning of the Jiajing Emperor.
First of all, if Shen Yishi's family property was handed over to the state treasury, it would become the public property of the imperial court; if it was sold to someone else and continued to hand over silk for the palace, it became the private property of the Jiajing Emperor. More importantly, the weaving workshop that received Shen Yishi did not have to pay taxes, which was equivalent to the Jiajing Emperor using the conditions of tax exemption to ensure his own income.
In a word, the Jiajing Emperor wanted money, so he transferred Shen Yishi's family property from the national treasury to his own private treasury!
Moreover, if the Jiajing Emperor wanted to "overthrow Yan", it would inevitably involve Yan Song's student, Hu Zongxian, but Hu Zongxian did not want to be a knife to "overthrow Yan", nor was he willing to give an attitude of supporting "falling Strict", so The Jiajing Emperor could only destroy Hu Zongxian. After destroying Hu Zongxian, the Jiajing Emperor's overall plan to uproot the "Strict Party" could be smoothly advanced.
However, Hu Zongxian was not greedy, did not take into account the overall situation, and still had great merits in resisting the Wu on the front line, so how could he destroy Hu Zongxian?
You are not greedy, does not mean that your relatives and friends are not greedy; you are not stained, does not mean that your relatives and friends do not have a stain; under the instruction of the Jiajing Emperor, the Weaving Bureau will resell Shen Yishi's family property to Hu Zongxian's hometown relatives, smear Hu Zongxian, and then destroy Hu Zongxian.
This big chess game in Zhejiang has always been at the mercy of the Jiajing Emperor!
The Jiajing Emperor made a move, Hu Zongxian could not sit still, but Hu Zongxian could not make a clear move on his own, and could only pin his hopes on Zhao Zhenji's body:
"Meng Jing, at this time, the emperor sent you to Zhejiang with the intention of filling the deficit in the national treasury. In the past, they amassed wealth in the name of the emperor, but now they still transfer the property that should be returned to the national treasury to the Weaving Bureau in the name of the emperor. The fact that the family and the country are not divided is the fatal drawback of my Daming! Meng Jing, you are a person in science, and you are ordered to be in times of crisis. You have to give the emperor a chance to do this. ”
The Weaving Bureau wanted to change Shen Yishi's family property from the public property of the imperial court to the private property of the emperor, which was naturally the instruction of the Jiajing Emperor; but if this matter was made clear, the Jiajing Emperor, who paid attention to the name of the Qing Dynasty, naturally would not admit it, and could only issue a decree to stop it. In this way, Hu Zongxian could be saved and Shen Yishi's family property could be guaranteed to return to the state treasury.
However, Zhao Zhenji is definitely not the master who took the initiative to come out, and he also has his own views on Hu Zongxian's proposal:
"You are the governor of Zhejiang, you know all these things, why don't you go up to the slack?" You have seen the emperor twice this year, why don't you show your performance to the emperor? ”
You think I'm stupid, behind the Weaving Bureau is the palace, and the palace is the Jiajing Emperor, so I shouldn't be the wronged boss!
Hearing his friend say this, Hu Zongxian became angry:
"Zhao Mengjing, when you ask me like this, do you suspect that I am using you as a gun, or are you worried that Shang Shu will cover up for me?"
First of all, Zhao Zhenji's worries were spoken out directly, and his possible justification was cut off, laying the foundation and laying the environment for his continued persuasion.
Then, Hu Zongxian gave a large paragraph of explanation, in a word:
In this matter, you are unjust and public, and I am selfless and selfish.
Hu Zongxian carries the label of "strict party" on his body, and no matter how he says it, he protects the "strict party"; Zhao Zhenji carries the label of "Qingliu party" on his body, and even if he protects the "strict party", he only discusses things on the basis of facts and treats the public with justice. This is the difference between Hu Zongxian and Zhao Zhenji, and it is also a great harm in the feudal imperial power social partisan dispute.
After saying this, Hu Zongxian planned to leave angrily, but was stopped by Zhao Zhenji and gave a promise:
"Others don't know you Hu Ruzhen, after all, we have been friends for twenty years." Without talking about our friendship, for the sake of state affairs, in order to make you concentrate on pacifying the Wokou in the front, I will also send military supplies for you, and I will also free those fellow villagers for you. The treasury is short, and I will find a way to raise money. The Weaving Bureau must sell Shen Yishi's workshop to other merchants, unless there is a Mingfa edict or a cabinet court mail. Otherwise, I will be sparse, I will fight. ”
At the meeting, he would fight for Shen Yishi's family property for the national treasury; he would speak and liberate Hu Zongxian's fellow villagers; and he would firmly support Hu Zongxian's major anti-Wu affairs and help him pacify the southeast. In public and private, Zhao Zhenji can give such a promise, which can also be regarded as worthy of Hu Zongxian.
In fact, this was also an important reason why the Jiajing Emperor had appointed Zhao Zhenji as the "Inspector of Zhejiang" in the first place, and if he wanted to thoroughly investigate Zhejiang's greed, he must use the "Qingliu Party" people; but in this way, the "Qingliu Party" was likely to hinder Hu Zongxian's major anti-Wu affairs, which was definitely not the situation that the Jiajing Emperor wanted to see. Therefore, the Jiajing Emperor sent Hu Zongxian's close friend, Zhao Zhenji, a member of the Qingliu Party.
However, did Zhao Zhenji really fulfill his promise? After knowing that this was the holy will of the Jiajing Emperor, would Zhao Zhenji still save Hu Zongxian? Let's look at a conversation between Zhao Zhenji and Yang Jinshui.
After Zheng Bichang and He Maocai were arrested and imprisoned, and Shen Yishi's family property was successfully resold to Hu Zongxian's compatriots, Yang Jinshui handed Zhao Zhenji a silver ticket of 500,000 taels:
"I don't say that Lord Zhao should also understand that this is a deposit for the resale of Shen Yishi's family property."
At the very least, shen Yishi's family property was not taken into the personal pocket of the Jiajing Emperor, and he also knew that he would take out some of it to supply Hu Zongxian's anti-Wu military supplies. After all, if the southeast is chaotic, the dragon chair of the Jiajing Emperor will not be able to sit steadily; what's more, the sea in the southeast is uneven, and the silk business of the Weaving Bureau cannot be carried out, which will delay the Jiajing Emperor's money.
Zhao Zhenji promised Hu Zongxian, naturally he would not agree to monopolize Shen Yishi's family property, giving a clear attitude:
"I can't do this without a new edict or a cabinet delivery!"
Zhao Zhenji's meaning is very clear: I do not agree with the resale of Shen Yishi's family property!
Yang Jinshui is not Hu Zongxian, he will not tell you about the overall situation of the imperial court, let alone use the set of science and mind to suppress people, but will only explain the actual situation to you and speak with facts.
"Then Lord Zhao must have another way to raise military salaries for the front, and there must also be a way to weave out the half a million silks that the imperial court sold to the West this year?"
There is no money, there is no way to make money, give you money to take, don't do so much!
Let's look at Zhao Zhenji's answer:
"The purpose of recovering the stolen money is to raise military salaries. As for the half a million silks sold to the West, whether the imperial court has another motion, we only have to wait. ”
Recovery of stolen money? Zheng Bichang and He Maocai's mouths can't be pried open, how to chase? The silk business of the Weaving Bureau is to earn money for the Jiajing Emperor, absolutely will not change, still use the waiting order? This rebuttal reason given by Zhao Zhenji is obviously untenable.
Yang Jinshui replied:
"Don't wait, the will has already been there. The southeast resisted the Tatars, the north resisted the Tatars, and this year there were still so many places that were affected, and the imperial court all pointed to the south of the river. Half a million silks must be sold to the West this year, and HuButang's cleaning of the southeast sea is also to be able to transport the silk out of the sea. Does Lord Zhao really not even understand this? ”
Hu Zongxian's resistance to the Wu dynasty was actually for the business of the Jiajing Emperor, not for the safety of the lives and property of the people in the southeast, was it not the inevitable attitude of the Ming Dynasty in the face of the invasion of the Wukou? Why, if the Jiajing Emperor didn't do business, The Wokou could invade at will?
What is even more helpless is that What Yang Jinshui said is the truth, which is in line with the true image of the Jiajing Emperor!
Yang Jinshui's sentence has one meaning: Hu Zongxian's southeast resistance to the Wu is also to make money for the Jiajing Emperor, and the resale of Shen Yishi's family property is also to make money for the Jiajing Emperor.
Zhao Zhenji understood that reselling Shen Yishi's family property was the meaning of the palace, but after all, he still had a promise to Hu Zongxian, and could only carry out the final struggle:
"Can Gonggong Yang show me the will of the palace?"
With the Holy Will, he did not have to bear the responsibility, but also had an account for Hu Zongxian!
However, such a holy will, the Jiajing Emperor will certainly not issue, don't forget, both money and face is the basic principle of the Jiajing Emperor.
"I don't have the will now, would Duke Lü's letter from Lord Zhao be willing to look at it?"
Who does Lu Fang represent? Isn't it the Jiajing Emperor? Lü Fang's letter is basically the holy will of the Jiajing Emperor!
Lest Zhao Zhenji not understand, or deliberately pretend not to understand, Yang Jinshui gave an additional explanation:
"The Great Ming Dynasty is the Emperor's Great Ming Dynasty, not the Great Ming Dynasty of Duke Lü. If it were not for the will of the Emperor, the Old Patriarch would not have told us to do so. Lü Gonggong's letter Lord Zhao has now read it, and if there is still any objection, I will reply to the old ancestor, and it is a big deal for the old ancestor to ask the emperor to bow down and personally give Lord Zhao another will. ”
Yang Jinshui's sentence has both explanations and threats:
Shen Yishi's resale of family property is the meaning of the Jiajing Emperor, and I have Lü Fang's letter as proof!
If Lü Fang believes it and you don't believe it, then I will tell Lü Fang and ask Lü Fang to ask the Jiajing Emperor to issue another order?
If you don't believe in Lü Fang, you will offend Lü Fang, can you afford to offend? Let the Jiajing Emperor personally issue a decree, and still use you to clean up the mess in Zhejiang?
Well, Yang Jinshui's words made Zhao Zhenji waver, and he promised Hu Zongxian's first promise and failed.
"Since there is a will in the palace, of course I will do it." The relatives who could resell Shen Yishi's family property to Hu Butang clearly showed that it was Zheng Bichang And He Maocai's intentions. Yang Gonggong, the major events in the front of the anti-Wu are on hu butang's shoulders, and this matter cannot be tied to Hu butang. We could resell our possessions to other silk merchants. ”
This is zhao Zhenji's cleverness, and it is also the obvious difference between him and Hu Zongxian, and it is also one of the important reasons why he can enter the cabinet and worship the chancellor.
Everything was based on the will of the Jiajing Emperor, who wanted to make changes and change immediately, without hesitation; more importantly, even if he was transferred according to the will of the Jiajing Emperor, he could still learn Yan Song's skills and skillfully throw this black cauldron to Zheng Bichang and He Maocai.
How could the Jiajing Emperor accumulate wealth for himself, Xiu Xian Wu Dao did not have to spend a penny, this was all Zheng Bichang and He Maocai deliberately framed the Jiajing Emperor in order to save themselves! Zhao Zhenji's rapid change of thinking, the skill of throwing pots, and entering the cabinet are also inevitable results.
However, the friendship between Zhao Zhenji and Hu Zongxian is still there after all, and it is impossible to hand over Shen Yishi's family property to the state treasury, but Hu Zongxian's compatriots still have to be protected.
What Zhao Zhenji did not expect was that this matter was even more the meaning of the Jiajing Emperor, and it was a big move in the process of "falling strict".
"Shen Yishi's family property can only be sold to Hu Butang's relatives!"
First explicitly reject your request, leaving you no room for negotiation, so that you can only wait for me to continue to give reasons.
"Lord Zhao, you are also aware of the recent changes in the cabinet. The emperor handed over the real power of the cabinet to Xu Gelao. You are an old student of Xu Ge, why do you have to tie this word for others? ”
As he spoke, Yang Jinshui wrote a "strict" word on the table.
The meaning is clear, the Jiajing Emperor wants to "fall strict", Hu Zongxian is bound to be implicated, you are about to enter the cabinet of big man Miaozi, you must see the situation clearly, stand in a correct position.
When there was a conflict between the loyalty of the subject and the grace of the acquaintance, Hu Zongxian wanted to take care of both, and even "would rather be a traitor than a villain"; but when there was a conflict between the prospect of his career and the love of friends, Zhao Zhenji did not hesitate, directly abandoned Hu Zongxian, and ran to the arms of the Jiajing Emperor.
With this performance, Zhao Zhenji was naturally able to enter the cabinet smoothly, but he only failed Hu Zongxian, but only harmed Hu Zongxian!
(This article is only based on the specific interpretation of the plot and human analysis of "Daming Dynasty 1566", and is not based on historical facts, personal views, welcome to put forward criticism!) ）