In a blink of an eye, it was the twelfth month of the eighth year of Jiajing. This year's winter seems particularly cold. Since the beginning of winter, there have been several heavy snowfalls, or it is raining continuously. The older people are most afraid of this weather. They cannot survive this cold winter because of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, and they will never see the spring flowers blooming in the coming year.

Since Hu Shining, the Minister of Justice, went to the capital, the officialdom in the capital has also entered a cold winter. In the past six months, the Ministry of Personnel has purged a large number of officials in the name of the Beijing Preceptor. There is no doubt that most of them are opposed to the chasing of Emperor Xingxian as the guardian ritual sect of Emperor Ruizong.

The top leader of the Ministry of Personnel is Fang Xianfu, and among the four cabinet assistants, except Xia Yan, the other three are upstart factions of Zhang Cong, so it is too easy for Fang Xianfu, who holds the power of the Beijing Prefecture School, to crack down on the Protective School. He used the excuse that the other party failed the assessment results and demoted him if he wanted to demote him, and demoted him if he wanted to demote him. The Protective School had no power to fight back.

For example, Luo Hongxian, the new top scholar who proposed to transfer Xu Jin back to Beijing, was demoted from Beijing. Now, the court is almost all Zhang Party. Although it is not a solid piece, it is not far away. It is also worth mentioning that Zhang Cong himself has replaced Hu Shining as the Minister of Justice. His promotion speed is really shocking, not much better than Xu Jin.

Now only the cabinet assistant Xia Yan, the Minister of Revenue Qin Jin, and the Minister of War Wu Wending are struggling to support it, but it is estimated that it will not last long, because the upstart not only has an absolute advantage, but also the referee Jiajing, who is a crooked butt, stands behind him.

If Jiajing hadn't agreed, Fang Xianfu wouldn't dare to be so famous and bold, and take advantage of the Beijing Cha's large-scale rejection of the stranger. It is obvious that Jiajing was a little crazy in order to achieve his goal. He would rather let Zhang Cong become a party and use the price of serious imbalance in the court to exchange for the opportunity to posthumously grant his biological father the emperor and establish the Xingwang lineage as the authentic royal family of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, with the cleverness of Jiajing, he obviously realized that it was not appropriate to allow Zhang Dang to be too arrogant, so he never touched Xia Yan, Qin Jin and Wu Wending, among which Qin Jin had submitted his resignation less than five times, and he never allowed it.

It is worth mentioning here that in addition to purge the officialdom of the rituals, Jiajing also took action to suppress the opposition from the people, and the main targets were naturally those passionate scholars.

No matter what dynasty, students are often the easiest to stir up. In the past six months, some students from the Imperial College and students from various academies have connected each other and held many petition marches. The largest number of people has reached 10,000 people. They chanted opposition slogans and walked through the streets and alleys, and even sat quietly outside the imperial city. Even Empress Dowager Jiang was alarmed, and seemed to be scared.

Jiajing was shocked and angry, and then he called Lai Yi and Bi Chun, the heads of the East and West Factory, and scolded him hard. Then the men of the East and West Factory showed their fangs and arrested the backbone members of the scholars in various names. Even the Imperial College Prison was arrested, and many of the mountain leaders and teachers in various academies were arrested.

Lai Yi, the supervisor of the East Factory, is a good man, so the practice of the East Factory is relatively "civilized". However, the supervisor of the West Factory, Bi Chun, is a ruthless man, and is also a ruthless man who has made great contributions and power. Moreover, the three fires that the new official has taken office have not been burned yet, so this guy arrests people like crazy and even kills the company. As long as he goes to the prison of the West Factory, he will have to lose his skin even if he doesn't die.

In just a few months, he was tortured and beaten to death by the Western Factory. None of the total people committed suicide because they could not stand torture. A student from the Imperial College was even forced to destroy his family. His parents hanged him and his wife and children jumped into a well. How could he be so miserable!

However, Bi Chun's cruelty was immediate. The scholars' marches gradually disappeared, and no one dared to publicly discuss the transfer of Emperor Xingxian to the Taimiao to worship. All the voices of opposition turned into a silent under Bi Chun's cruel butcher knife.

Although Jiajing did not agree with Bi Chun's approach, he was quite satisfied with the effect, so he used Bi Chun more seriously. The latter worked harder like a chicken blood, spreading his subordinates' anime, using all their strength to dig out black materials, and even framed them, which made the whole city panic and all the plants and trees. From officials at all levels to ordinary people, everyone was in danger.

Bi Chun was still satisfied, and kept recruiting troops and replenishing his troops, extending his minions to prefectures and counties across the country, and his power gradually surpassed the Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Bi Chun was originally the Queen Wu, and now he has received support from Jiajing. Although his power is not as good as Liu Jin, he has become the second best in Liu Jin. Even Zhang Cong and Fang Xianfu are polite in front of him.

On the third day of the twelfth lunar month of the eighth year of Jiajing, Master Lan Daoxing returned to the capital. As soon as he entered the city gate, he realized that the atmosphere was wrong. The scholars who used to talk loudly on the streets disappeared. Although the peddlers continued to do business, they all spoke carefully, looking like they were walking on thin ice, obviously for fear that they would be caught by the secret detectives of the factory guards if they said the wrong words.

"Master, we have only been away from Beijing for a few months. Why is the capital city like a changed land? No one likes to talk?" The little Taoist Qingfeng whispered in a strange expression.

Lan Daoxing frowned and said indifferently: "Maybe the weather is cold, so save breath and warm your stomach. Don't be troublesome, let's go."

After Lan Daoxing finished speaking, he dragged his disciple's hand and walked straight back to Chaotian Temple. The next day, he visited the Zhang Mansion.

When Zhang Cong saw Lan Daoxing, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed and said, "Lan Shenxian, you are finally back."

Lan Daoxing stroked his beard and smiled and said, "Congratulations to Lord Shangshu."

Zhang Cong felt a little proud. Now he is one of the six masters. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be a foregone conclusion to enter the cabinet in the future.

"The Blue God Fairy is well-informed." Zhang Cong said with a full face: "I wonder what the result of this trip to the Blue God Fairy?"

Lan Daoxing stroked his beard and pondered for a moment before he said, "According to what I saw, Xianling Feng Shui is unique, and Tianshou Mountain Dayu Valley is far away, so it is not suitable to move."

Zhang Cong suddenly felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on his head. If the relocation of Xianling could be accomplished, it would have been a great achievement for him. Now that the relocation is not successful, the contribution will naturally be ruined, and it may even make Jiajing unhappy.

Zhang Cong frowned and said, "It's better for Master Lan to go to Tianshou Mountain to catch the geography. Perhaps there may be a more suitable auspicious acupoint."

Lan Daoxing shook his head and said, "Tianshou Mountain is originally the dragon vein. The tombs of the emperors of all Ming dynasties were built here except Taizu. Therefore, the location and arrangement of Jizu have been made. Dayu Valley west of Changling is the most suitable for Emperor Xian of Daxing, and there is no better one."

Zhang Cong was silent after hearing this, and after a long time, he said, "That's a pity, so he troubled Lan Zhenren to go to the palace with his official tomorrow to report to the emperor."

The little Taoist Qingfeng couldn't help but curl his lips secretly, but Lan Daoxing said calmly: "It should be so. Lord Zhang is busy with business, so I will say goodbye first and come to the door tomorrow."

Zhang Cong nodded, too lazy to send Lan Daoxing out, so he just asked the butler to do it for him.
Chapter completed!