Peng Ze, the most knowledgeable person in Yang's party and Yang Tinghe's absolute confidant.
In terms of appearance, this guy does not look like a civil servant, but more like a military general. He is tall and tall, with big shoulders and a round waist. History records that his waist circumference is twelve meters. There are two conversion methods, one with a waist circumference of 1.8 meters, and the other with a waist circumference of 1 meter.
One, it looks very scary anyway.
The belts of officials in the Ming Dynasty were all loose. Let's assume that Peng Ze's waist was close to one meter. If he only had a thick waist, he would be a fat man, but coupled with his burly figure, it would be huge.
Ancient famous generals all had this model, not the inverted triangle shape of modern bodybuilders.
Modern bodybuilders have too low body fat to endure months of fighting. Generals and soldiers must have sufficient fat reserves.
In the court hall, Peng Ze pointed at Xu Zhong, the imperial censor, with a loud voice and asked: "You said that I killed good people in Sichuan and took credit for it. Which military attache did it? In which county and village did I kill the good people? What was the surname of the good people I killed?"
Whose name is it?"
Xu Zhong showed no expression and replied: "As a royal censor, I should take it upon myself to hear about the incident. As for whether it is true, someone will check it. If it is found out, President Peng can be cleared."
Peng Ze said angrily: "In other words, you don't know anything, and you just heard a few nonsense words and came here to impeach me!"
Xu Zhong sneered: "Mr. Peng Xian has such great official authority. He was impeached and did not know how to defend himself. Instead, he challenged the person who impeached him. As a censor, if I have found out everything before going to court, then I will still have to do it."
What’s the use of being on guard against the Inquisitors? What’s the use of having thirteen censors? What’s the use of having a Ministry of Punishment?”
Peng Ze is now the top leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, while Xu Zhong is just a minor censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Just because Yang Tinghe recommended Peng Ze to be transferred to the position of Minister of Household Affairs, Peng Ze was immediately targeted by his subordinates, and all kinds of messy things were taken care of.
Due to Pengze's bad temper, he really wanted to make the other party angry in public.
Peng Ze's irritable character comes from his father.
When Peng Ze married his daughter, he made dozens of pieces of exquisite lacquerware, which were very expensive. After sending people to his hometown, his father smashed all the lacquerware. He believed that Peng Ze had been corrupt as a local official, and ran to meet his son with his luggage on his back.
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After the father and son met, Peng Ze quickly asked the servant to carry the luggage. His father scolded: "I have carried it for thousands of miles? You can't even carry it for a few steps? What's the use of you!" Entering the official residence, Peng Ze immediately knelt down.
Say hello. His father picked up a stick and beat him? After the beating, he carried his luggage back to his hometown.
Peng Ze inherited his father's violent temper. In the early years of Zhengde, he had an affair with a local eunuch and prepared a coffin for himself.
When Qian Ning gained power, Peng Ze competed with Wang Qiong for Minister of War. Wang Qiong invited Peng Ze to drink and deliberately induced Peng Ze to talk nonsense? Then he asked Qian Ning to hide behind a screen. The result? Qian Ning heard Peng Ze scolding himself.
, went to the emperor to make a report, and Wang Qiong also befriended Jiang Bin, so he immediately grabbed the position of Minister of War.
Is Peng Ze really not greedy? And the city is not deep? But he is a fanatical official fan.
At this moment, Peng Ze held up the wat board and raised his voice loudly, shaking the roof: "Fellow colleagues in science and technology, what else do you want to impeach? Say it all! I won't defend myself, I will investigate it if it is changed?
I walk upright and sit upright, and I am not afraid of Xiaoxiao’s plot!”
Xu Zhong, the censor, said calmly: "I am fulfilling the responsibility of the censor? I made an action after hearing the news. How come I am considered a minor in the mouth of Peng Zongxian?"
Zhu Houzhao sat on it and yawned: "Send someone to investigate this matter? Stop messing around."
Xu Zhong immediately said: "Until the investigation is clear, it is not appropriate for Mr. Peng to be transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Peng Ze's face was livid, and he was staring at Wang Qiong in front of him. Wang Qiong's eyes were not squinting like an old monk in meditation.
Apart from Wang Yuan and Wang Yangming, Peng Ze and Wang Qiong were the civil servants with the most military merits. The two of them had become sworn enemies. Even if Wang Qiong had joined the cabinet, he would still hold Peng Ze in check to prevent the other party from successfully taking over the Ministry of Household Affairs.
When Xu Zhonggang finished impeaching Peng Ze, the imperial censor Zhu Shichang jumped out again: "I impeach Wang Shouren, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Nanjing. He used the name of Qingtian in Jiangxi to instigate his disciples and old officials to seize civilian fields. He also advocated fallacies and tampered with
Zhu Xi's words caused a proliferation of evil opinions among scholars. Such behavior makes it inappropriate to be transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs!"
Before Zhu Houzhao could say anything, he reported to Cai Jing and the imperial censor Gao Shikui at the same time: "In the 19th year of Zhengde, the Ningxia General Arms Service bribed the capital, and the investigators were listed on it. Jin Xianmin, the censor of Youdu, was also named on the list. This matter
It’s absolutely true, there’s no need to check, just read the files on this case. How could Jin Xianmin be in charge of both the Hanlin Academy and the imperial office when he colluded with military generals and accepted bribes?”
If the first two impeachments were just rumors and did not pose a strong threat, then the impeachment of Jin Xianmin hit the target directly.
Jin Xianmin's vest was sweating, and he went out and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I have not been strict with my servants, which has led to them accepting bribes from military officers. Please resign from the post of censor of the capital and return to your hometown to recuperate!"
Yes, the serious crimes of colluding with military generals and accepting bribes were directly blamed on the domestic servant. As for the domestic servant, when the case occurred two years ago, he had already been exiled to the Western Regions.
Yang Tinghe now has a headache. He recommended Jin Xianmin to be in charge of both the Hanlin Academy and the imperial office. He thought that the matter had been over long ago, and he didn't expect that he would be brought up by the officials again. But he had to recommend Jin Xianmin because this person had very high qualifications.
The old man was Yang Tinghe's best confidant and was once pushed out to Nanjing by Liang Chu.
After Yang Ting and Ding You returned to the court, they managed to get Jin Xianmin back to Beijing and kept him in the Imperial Procuratorate as the censor of the capital. Now they have to recommend him to be the Minister of Household Affairs. If Jin Xianmin is not promoted, many people in the Yang Party will feel chilly.
He even came up with the idea that there would be no future in following Yang Tinghe.
Cabinet minister Mao Ji quickly helped to speak: "Your Majesty, the case of the 19th year of Zhengde's reign has been settled long ago. That was Kim Zongxian's domestic servant. He acted arbitrarily against his master. How can one case be punished twice?"
During the incident, Cai Jing sneered: "Cultivate yourself, organize your family, govern your country, and bring peace to the world. If you can't even regulate your family, how can you still be a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and in charge of the imperial palace?"
Censor Gao Zhankui also said: "In the third year of Zhengde, the Huguang warehouse was found to have a grain deficit; in the fourth year of Zhengde, the Liu Daolong murder case in Liuyang was found to be untrue. Jin Zongxian, what is your explanation for these two cases?"
Jin Xianmin had already planned to resign, but he jumped up in anger when he heard this: "In February of the third year of Zhengde's reign, he was dismissed from his post because he offended Liu Jin and was accused of making false accusations about Tianjin Qingtian. In June, he was arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges. Fortunately,
Colleagues came to the rescue. The Huguang warehouse grain case in July was actually the work of eunuchs. They insisted on contaminating me and put me in jail! Are you trying to overturn Liu Jin's case by finding these things now? "
All the ministers stood up one after another to defend Jin Xianmin.
Wang Yuan was speechless after hearing this. You Gao Zhankui is unprofessional. You have nothing to do to stir up trouble in those old accounts. Once Liu Jin is implicated, even if Jin Xianmin is guilty, he will immediately become innocent.
Gao Zhankui still wanted to catch him: "These are false accusations, but what about Liu Daolong's murder case? That was an unjust, false and wrong case that you tried!"
Jin Xianmin hesitated to speak, and was speechless for a moment. He was the prosecutor of Huguang at that time and tried numerous cases. The Liu Daolong murder case was indeed tried wrongly. However, this unjust case was not done intentionally by Jin Xianmin, but was deceived by his subordinates.
It became a stain that Jin Xianmin could never wash away in his life.
Not to mention the high-ranking officials in the Hanlin Academy, whoever takes the local hard-working route to get promoted, who can be a central minister who is not awesome?
What's more, Jin Xianmin was a Jinshi at the bottom of the third list, and his first position was Zhengbapinxingren (the emperor's messenger). This position is very embarrassing. It seems that he is delivering orders for the emperor, but in fact he has no contact with the emperor. He is just a seemingly glamorous person.
It's just the eighth-grade official position.
It took him nine years before he was promoted to the imperial censor, making Yunnan's official system clear. Then he patrolled the capital, and the nobles and powerful officials avoided him one after another, and he was known as the "iron-faced censor".
When Jin Xianmin was preparing for Tianjin, he organized Tianjin in an orderly manner. You must know that in the entire northern Ming Dynasty, Tianjin was second only to Beijing in complexity, and its economic interests were even more involved than Beijing. Jin Xianmin's political achievements at that time could dazzle people.
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The once iron-faced censor, the once capable minister and official, were actually bitten by two petty officials when they were old.
Jin Xianmin was saddened by this and took off his official hat: "I have failed the emperor's favor. I went to Huguang for an unjust case. I request to resign and return home!"
Cabinet minister Jiang Mian pleaded: "Your Majesty, no one is a sage, how can anyone be without fault? The case that Kim Zongxian misjudged that year was not intentional, and he had already been dismissed from office once because of it. Kim Zongxian served as an official for three dynasties.
After decades of hard work and brilliant political achievements, how can he be expelled from his hometown because of one oversight?"
However, Jin Xianmin was determined to resign and said to Jiang Mian: "Mr. Jiang Ge does not need to say too much for me. I have been bright and open all my life, and I have only two things that I have regretted. One is the murder case of Liu Daolong, and the other is the Zhongxun bribery case. Since someone has found out,
, that old man has no shame in being an official anymore." After saying that, Jin Xianmin bowed his head, knelt on the ground and shouted, "Your Majesty, please allow me to retire and return to my hometown!"
"It doesn't have to be like this." Zhu Houzhao insisted.
Jin Xianmin still knelt on the ground and shouted again: "Your Majesty, please allow me to resign and return to my hometown!"
Zhu Houzhao could only scold the two officials: "You all stand down!"
Jin Xianmin shouted for the third time: "Your Majesty, please allow me to retire and return to my hometown!"
At this point, anyone who is not blind knows that Jin Xianmin has decided to leave. Even if he fails to resign today, he will resign another day. He is really frustrated.
Zhu Houzhao said: "If you are correct in your speech, you will be promoted to official position with the title of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs."
This was approval of Jin Xianmin's resignation and temporary promotion to the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The house in Jin Xianmin's hometown can also be called the "Shangshu Di".
Jin Xianmin shouted: "Thank you for your grace!"
Although the two officials, Cai Jing and Gao Zhankui, achieved the purpose of impeachment, they always felt panicked. They seemed to have stirred up a hornet's nest, and the ministers all looked at each other angrily, because Jin Xianmin, a veteran of three dynasties, was very prestigious.
Yang Tinghe turned to look at Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan shook his head slightly, indicating that he had not instigated this matter.
However, Peng Ze was reluctant to resign and shouted at the top of his voice: "You people forced Kim Zong Xian to resign, but a certain family is not afraid. If there are any other impeachments, tell them all together. Today we must argue the right and wrong."
There’s nothing wrong with it!”
The officials stopped talking.
There were major vacancies in the three top positions, and Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe recommended six candidates. Jin Xianmin was impeached until he resigned, Peng Ze was so provoked that he roared in the court, and Wang Yangming was also falsely accused of robbing people's land.
The remaining three, Wang Zan and Xi Shu, had perfect personal ethics and could not find any weaknesses in their attacks. Wang Junze had been in the Hanlin Academy for a long time, and later he was transferred to the Sixth Department, which was quite satisfactory. There was also nothing to impeach.
Zhu Houzhao made a decision on the spot: "Xishu, the Minister of Cangchang, was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Revenue; Wang Jun, the left minister of the Ministry of Justice, was promoted to minister of the Ministry of Works; as for the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and the person in charge of the imperial office, Wang Hong, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, took over.
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There are three seats, one for Wang Yuan, one for Yang Tinghe, and one for the imperial party.
Wang Hong, an imperial party member, was so frightened that he immediately came out of the queue, knelt on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, I have been promoted to Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. I have been blessed by His Majesty's grace. How can I dare to take over the Hanlin Academy? Mr. Yang Ge and Wang Shangshu
The recommended people are all great sages with both talent and virtue. How can I compare with them in virtue? Your Majesty, please take back your orders!"
Wang Hong really didn't dare to take the lead. His qualifications and prestige were too low. Once he accepted this appointment, he might offend both Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe.
Wang Yuan didn't speak, and Yang Tinghe didn't speak either.
Zhu Houzhao was a little upset: "That's it."
Wang Hong kowtowed crazily and said: "If your Majesty insists on promotion, I can only resign to express my feelings!"
Zhu Houzhao wanted to rush down and kick Wang Hong away. He worked hard and took the opportunity to promote the imperial party. Unexpectedly, the imperial party would not cooperate.
Yang Yiqing came out and said: "Your Majesty, Wang Shilang is indeed not qualified enough."
Wang Qiong then came out and said: "Wang Shouren, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Nanjing, is well known to the world for his talents and virtues. Please call your Majesty back to the capital."
"Quit the court!" Zhu Houzhao turned around and left in anger.