Shen Yicheng now had a better understanding of the Emperor's thoughts and routines. In short, it was to use Xiao Ruxun's momentum to suppress the officials, making them unable to raise their heads and feel confused.
After all, they had never met a general who was beyond the rules in their official career. The two leaders of the previous golden generation of generals, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, were tamed by Zhang Juzheng and became Zhang Juzheng's right-hand men. The civil officials had never met a strong general who was beyond the rules.
Therefore, they could not find a way to deal with Xiao Ruxun at the moment, nor did they know how to guide public opinion. After all, Xiao Ruxun killed Northern Barbarians. Could they say that killing Northern Barbarians was wrong?
Just the Northern Barbarians' attack on Beijing during the Jiajing period and this time's invasion of Zijing Pass made it impossible for public opinion to support them. For a government like Daming who insisted on a tough foreign policy, political correctness was to kill the enemy. Those who spoke for the enemy could be killed by the civil officials, let alone the army.
Although the civil officials did not dare to go into battle to kill the enemy, they dared to show their iron fist of justice to anyone who violated the rules of political correctness. There was no doubt about this.
If you dared to do such a thing and say that Xiao Ruxun had killed too many people, Xiao Ruxun could be killed in the Song Dynasty, but it would be difficult in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that Xiao Ruxun had the Emperor's favor.
The civil officials were not unfamiliar with this. It was not that the Emperor did not favor a specific general during the reign of the previous Emperors. For example, Zhao Fu who almost destroyed the Jurchen people during the Chenghua period, and Li Rusong, the valiant general of Liaodong before Xiao Ruxun. The Emperor would never punish them. Instead, he would find trouble with the civil officials.
For this, the civil officials could not do anything.
No one was willing to go for wool and come home shorn. However, Shen Yicheng was not an ordinary person. He was well versed in the rules of the political game. He knew the Emperor's psychology and routine.
Emperor Wanli was far inferior to his grandfather, Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing used his intelligence to toy with the officials for decades, while Emperor Wanli had the attitude of Emperor Jiajing and a stronger will, but he didn't have the ability.
Shen Yicheng had speculated more than once that if the intelligence of the Jiajing Emperor could be passed on to the Wanli Emperor, then the Wanli Emperor might really be able to regain his lost imperial power and completely reorganize the Daming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, Emperor Wanli was just a normal person and didn't have the monstrous intelligence of Emperor Jiajing.
However, even with Master Jiajing's monstrous intelligence, he could not help but show signs of fatigue after his old age when he was faced with the elite civil officials who continued to fight generation after generation. He, who had his tricks seen through, could no longer smoothly control the situation in the imperial court.
In the last few years of his life, he was completely controlled by Xu Jie. As soon as he breathed his last, Xu Jie asked Zhang Juzheng to draft a posthumous edict to scold him. His son was also disappointing. His father died, but his reign title was actually Long Qing. How ironic.
Zhu Yijun was a decisive ruler. However, he, who had lost his power, still held the supreme power of the world in name. In reality, under the situation of the civil officials rejecting the old routine together, he couldn't play any new tricks. What he could do was very limited.
So in the end, he, who was completely disheartened, could only use the method of not going to the court to protest passively.
In fact, he was also very clear that the shortage of officials could not be filled, and the promotion could not be replaced without his orders, which made the court a mess. The land of China could not produce heroes or scum, but it would never be without bureaucrats. There would never be a shortage of officials!
The emperor alone really couldn't deal with the group of officials. In the face of the situation of the court gradually going bad, he couldn't make substantial adjustments. The memory of being suppressed by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in the early years was too deep, so he couldn't trust the Eunuch Supervisory Commission to really help him. Therefore, he had no helpers and was alone.
It should have been a hopeless situation, but now there was a new variable. No wonder the emperor was so excited, even a little … excited!
After careful consideration, Shen Yicheng was fully aware of the emperor's intentions and roughly analyzed the emperor's thoughts. Coupled with the scattered information that Xiao Daheng got from Luo Sigong these days, a more complete meridian map slowly formed in Shen Yicheng's mind.
This was a political decisive battle outside the battlefield, and the result of this decisive battle would determine the future direction of the Daming Dynasty. Whether it would be dragged back to the Yongle era by the emperor and the generals, or be successfully set right by the civil officials and continue this rare glory.
At this time, Shen Yicheng had a feeling that he was the only sober person among the others. Looking at his confused colleagues every day, Shen Yicheng could feel a sense of superiority from his intelligence.
"You idiots, you still don't know what I'm doing, right? When you know, you'll know how to thank me.
What I'm saving is the fate of you idiots! "
Shen Yicheng picked up his pen and wrote his memorial, requesting for Xiao Ruxun to replace Zhang Weixian as the Commander-In-Chief of the Middle Military Commander-In-Chief's Office and to take charge of the security of the capital.
Just as Shen Yicheng was writing furiously, the Mad Dogs of the Great Ming Dynasty's strongest group, the Verbal Cannon Heavenly Group, had already charged aggressively toward the entrance of the Cabinet under the leadership of four people.
They were Shen Li, Yu Jideng, Wen Chun, and Xu Zuo!
Four righteous and righteous gentlemen with the equally righteous mad dogs rushed to the cabinet like wild horses out of control, scaring the gatekeeper who guarded the door of the cabinet to the point that he was stunned.
"You …"
Before he finished his words, Shen Li pointed at him and said, "Don't cause trouble! Let me ask you, is Shen Yicheng on duty? "
The gatekeeper saw that it was one of the two Minister Shen, but he didn't want to offend her. He knew that he couldn't get involved in the fight between the immortals, otherwise he would definitely become the most miserable cannon fodder. After all, as the saying goes, mortals suffer when the immortals fight.
After hanging around in the palace for a long time, these small fries were full of survival skills. They put all their potential points into survival skills, and all of them were survival masters. The gatekeeper immediately admitted defeat.
"The vice chief is on duty."
After saying that, the gatekeeper stepped aside decisively. Watching more than 30 elite verbal cannons enter with the four big shots, he thought for a moment and decisively ran away.
If he didn't run, would he be waiting to be cannon fodder?
Just now, Shen Li, Yu Jideng, Wen Chun, and Xu Zuo had reached an agreement. They had reached a consensus on the matter of Shen Yicheng's flattery and flattery. They believed that this was the best time to bring down Shen Yicheng.
Those with discerning eyes could already see that on the surface, the turmoil in the imperial court was to crack down on the Jin party and sweep them clean. In fact, it was also to clear the way for Shen Yicheng to become the Prime Minister of the Cabinet.
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