Chapter 475 Resigning from humble position!
As the saying goes, the person who knows the opponent best is often the enemy, but in fact this sentence is not entirely accurate.
Just like Zhao Wenhua now, is he Yan Shifan's enemy?
At least in Yan Shifan's view, Zhao Wenhua seemed not worthy of being his enemy.
But for such a person who was not regarded as an enemy by Yan Shifan, he offended this person to death, and at the same time as he was offended to death, Yan Shifan was beaten to death with a stick by Zhao Wenhua.
So Zhao Wenhua, who was already suffocating in his heart, gradually revealed his cold and sharp side after finding a new backer, like a poisonous snake.
It is not easy for Zhao Wenhua to collect evidence of Yan Shifan's crimes. He can easily find a lot of them.
But even so, Zhao Wenhua was not stupid enough to rush forward after collecting Yan Shifan's evidence. Zhao Wenhua also wanted to find a horseman to ask for directions to see if anyone would really cooperate with him.
So after Zhao Wenhua collected evidence of Yan Shifan's crimes, he quietly found an official in the Ministry of Industry who had been severely bullied by Yan Shifan. This official was considered to be somewhat talented and was very good at palace construction.
However, when Yan Shifan was the minister of the Ministry of Industry and the person in charge of supervising the construction of the New Wanshou Palace of Emperor Jiajing, he did not like others to give him advice.
Therefore, whenever the chief executive raised a question about the construction of the New Wanshou Palace to Yan Shifan, Yan Shifan would severely rebuke him, and even made a few loudmouths of the chief executive in front of everyone, and threatened: "Who do you think you are? Gen Cong? Do you think you are the Minister of the Ministry of Industry? Even if you are the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, you are just a dog in front of me. How dare you order me to do things? If you dare to talk nonsense, I will put you under the palace. ”
Yan Shifan's arrogant attitude has been obvious to all in the Ministry of Industry over the years. Whether it is the former Minister of Industry Ouyang Bijin or the current Minister of Industry Zhao Wenhua, in fact, they all have to look at Yan Shifan's face before he can do anything.
The newly promoted director of the Ministry of Industry thought that he had talents and thought that if he found a problem and raised it with Yan Shifan, he would be taken seriously and seriously.
Turns out he was still too young.
Is there any problem with the Wanshou Palace project? Yan Shifan has been the minister of the Ministry of Industry for so many years, how can he not worry about it?
Does Yan Shifan know the quality of this Wanshou Palace, which cost nearly three million taels of silver? Is there any need for a small head of the Ministry of Industry to do all the tricks in front of him? This is really unreasonable!
So when the director of the Ministry of Industry pointed out that the beams of the Wanshou Palace were not the golden nanmu used to build the palace, Yan Shifan became angry. Could he not know whether it was golden nanmu? Do you still need people to tell you?
Moreover, the beam was shipped from Yunnan. The shipping fee alone cost Yan Shifan more than 50,000 taels of silver. Now someone actually jumped out and said that the giant wood used to make the beam was not golden nanmu. Isn't this just throwing the blame on Yan Shifan? ?
How could Yan Shifan tolerate it?
Therefore, this unlucky head of the Ministry of Industry not only received a few big words from Yan Shifan, but was finally kicked out by Yan Shifan and was thrown to a warehouse of the Ministry of Industry in the suburbs of Beijing to guard the door. He was almost ruined in his life. .
Now Zhao Wenhua doesn't need to do anything else. He just needs to inadvertently let it appear by letting the director of the Ministry of Industry accuse Yan Shifan of using other giant trees to pass off as golden nanmu for the beams of Emperor Jiajing's new Wanshou Palace. Above the court, this is enough.
Therefore, during this period of time, Zhao Wenhua also began to pretend that nothing happened, and without even looking at it, he piled up the memorials that were to be sent to the Ministry of Works into a large pile and sent them to the General Affairs Department. One of them was a memorial written by the director of the Ministry of Industry who had been suppressed by Zhao Wenhua for a long time and who went to see the warehouse door unjustly to expose Yan Shifan's illegal activities.
Zhao Wenhua looked at the pile of memorials from the Ministry of Industry that were sent away, and couldn't help feeling nervous and a little excited.
However, Zhao Wenhua is still an old man who has been in high and low officialdom for decades, and his psychological quality is definitely not comparable to that of Yan Shifan, the second generation ancestor who is prone to anger and impulsiveness.
So after Zhao Wenhua was briefly excited, he calmed down and continued to pour a cup of tea in his own office of the Minister of Industry as if nothing had happened, and then grabbed the latest issue of "Da Ming Dynasty" on the desk in front of him. Fenghua magazine started reading leisurely.
Usually, Zhao Wenhua felt that the magazines in "The Ming Dynasty" were either overly pretentious nostalgia essays or exaggerated political opinions, and the only thing that might interest Zhao Wenhua was the last "Novel Serial" column.
In this column, Zhao Wenhua also saw many high-quality new works, and the one that impressed him the most was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Zhao Wenhua felt that he was Yang Kang in it, and his destiny was full of ups and downs.
Although he struggled wholeheartedly and wanted to be a good person, when facing reality, he had to accept the thief as his father and continue to enjoy the infinite scenery of the young prince of the Kingdom of Jin.
Therefore, when seeing this character, others may scorn Yang Kang for his disloyalty and unrighteousness, but Zhao Wenhua resonates with this character. He does not think that Yang Kang is a bad person from the beginning. He feels that Yang Kang is so called bad because he was Obsessed by other people's morals, he has been an extremely noble young prince of the Jin Kingdom since he was a child. He enjoys the love of his father and mother, and enjoys the glory and wealth that belongs to the young prince of the Jin Kingdom.
But just when he thought that his life should follow the wealthy life of the young prince of the Kingdom of Jin, someone suddenly jumped out and told him that his father was not his father, but a poor street performer. Who can bear the feeling of disparity?
And in the subsequent struggles, Yang Kang also thought about accepting his fate and being an ordinary person's son, but everyone around him did not let him go. Everyone wanted to compare him with Guo Jing, and everyone also used Look at him with the mentality of guarding against thieves.
But in the end, only Wanyan Honglie still regarded him as his own, and regarded him as the prince and heir of the palace regardless of everything. Under such kindness, could Yang Kang not be confused? Can he simply be like an emotionless puppet, changing his father when he says he wants to, and changing his position when he wants to change his stance?
Therefore, in Zhao Wenhua's view, Yang Kang's tragedy is all his sins, and he has been able to reach this point. Although he is not as legendary as Yang Kang, he can still understand Yang Kang in terms of a certain emotional belonging.
But understanding was just understanding. After all, Yan Song didn't regard him as one of his own, and that bitch Yan Shifan was picky and picky about him, and bossed him around. He simply didn't regard him as one of his own.
So under such a mentality and situation, how could Zhao Wenhua be willing to stoop down and be small?
Moreover, now Zhao Wenhua has also found a new thigh. As long as he can really embrace Prince Yu's lap this time, he may not be able to ride the wind and waves again in the future.
After all, Prince Yu's status is extraordinary. In the future, Prince Yu will be higher than Yan Song, and supreme people like Xu Jie need to win over their cronies to exert their influence.
So in the future, Prince Yu will definitely not employ people as obviously as Yan Song, Xu Jie and others. Prince Yu will definitely employ people for the sake of balance and meritocracy.
Therefore, Zhao Wenhua is not afraid at all that he will be treated differently by Zhu Zaijing after joining Zhu Zaijing's sect.
And in fact this is indeed the case.
Zhu Zaijing will definitely not use black and white people, and he will definitely not only use people from one side.
For example, there are actually three forces with different political views under King Yu's family now.
One of them is the "Yu Wang Party" headed by Gao Gong, who will give priority to Yu Wang's interests in everything;
The second one is that the influence of the "Qingliu Party" headed by Zhang Juzheng is mainly based on people from Xu Jie's side;
The third of them is the "Excalibur Party" headed by Hai Rui. Its meaning is self-evident. It is to make a peerless divine sword that can clean up the turmoil of the Ming Dynasty. Who dares to violate this purpose, even King Yu himself? , Hai Rui responded correctly.
Therefore, this faction now has a relationship of competition with each other, and Zhu Zaijing, as their leader, is naturally happy to see this happen. After all, if all the ministers were enjoying themselves, then it would be Zhu Zaijing's turn to be unable to sleep.
So now Zhu Zaijing doesn't care at all that his subordinates have many interests and factions. What Zhu Zaijing cares about is only whether these people are useful.
If these people are only good at internal fighting but cannot make timely and effective solutions to foreign affairs, then Zhu Zaijing will mercilessly banish them.
Therefore, if Zhao Wenhua is really capable, if he can really hold Zhu Zaijing's thigh and enter the small group of Prince Yu's palace, then he must be capable, otherwise, he will be quickly abandoned by Zhu Zaijing It's like worn out shoes.
The memorial sent by Zhao Wenhua to the General Affairs Department was quickly reviewed, classified and inspected by officials within the General Affairs Department.
After one of the counselors looked at this pile of memorials belonging to the director of the Ministry of Works, he couldn't help but smile at the counselor on the other side: "Brother Meng Chen, do you think these memorials sent by the Ministry of Works this time will have to be requested from the imperial court?" How much silver? ”
After hearing the laughter, the counselor named "Brother Meng Chen" couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, "I bet it's five hundred thousand taels!"
"Five hundred thousand taels? Brother Meng Chen underestimated Xiaoge, right? Who doesn't know that the Ministry of Industry is the confidant of Mr. Xiaoge. Starting from Ouyang Shangshu, the Minister of Industry has become a decoration. How can he be in charge of the Ministry of Works? So stingy? I bet it’s 1.5 million taels!”
"Haha, Brother Dequan, I really dare to guess. Now the Ministry of Industry has no big projects, and His Majesty's Wanshou Palace has been repaired. Recently, Qin Tianjian and Chaotian are being asked to observe the auspicious days of the zodiac. Where can there be so many Overhead? ”
The two of them were chatting and laughing, and they were going to pre-examine the memorials that were given to them.
The counselor named "Brother Dequan" read one memorial and then another, but soon he was stunned in place.
"Brother Meng Chen! Something big happened!"
"What happened?"
The counselor called "Brother Meng Chen" couldn't help but become suspicious. He had rarely seen "Dequan" with such a panicked look.
"Brother Dequan" quickly closed the memorial in his hand and said, "This matter must be reported to Zhongcheng!"
After saying that, he hurriedly went to find Cao Dewen, the current general affairs envoy of the General Affairs Department.
At this moment, Cao Dewen was also leisurely drinking tea and reading magazines. His work was also assigned to his subordinates. He would only come to him when he encountered some memorial contents that the subordinates were unsure about.
"Brother Dequan" entered Cao Dewen's office and bowed to Cao Dewen, "Zhongcheng, Liu Shanshui, a humble official, has something important to report."
Liu Shanshui is the official full name of "Brother Dequan", and Dequan is his alias.
Cao Dewen looked at Liu Shanshui who came in to pay his respects, and asked kindly: "What's wrong, Dequan?"
Liu Shanshui held a copy of the memorial from the director of the Ministry of Industry and respectfully handed it to him, "Zhongcheng, please read it."
Cao Dewen put down the magazine "Da Ming Feng Hua" in his hand and took the memorial from Liu Shanshui.
Cao Dewen opened the memorial and took a look. Then he took a sharp breath and looked at Liu Shanshui in disbelief, "Is this true?"
Liu Shanshui said worriedly: "I don't even know about this, but this matter is very important, and I don't dare to make the decision easily, so I came to ask Zhongcheng Jun to do it."
Cao Dewen felt that the memorial in his hand was very hot. He really wanted to throw away this memorial from the director of the Ministry of Industry without hesitation, but at this moment, it seemed as if it was stuck in his palm. No matter how he thought about this memorial, he could not Dare to act rashly.
Cao Dewen looked at Liu Shanshui and asked: "Who else has seen it besides you?"
Liu Shanshui immediately replied: "Apart from the humble position of Zhongcheng, no other person has seen it."
Cao Dewen couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, "That's fine, that's fine. You don't have to worry about this matter. I'll handle it."
When Liu Shanshui heard what Cao Dewen said, he felt relieved. He was afraid that Cao Dewen would not respect martial ethics and asked him to leave his mark on the memorial and then send it to the cabinet or Xiyuan. If that was the case, no matter what Whether this is true or not, he will be hated by Yan Shifan.
He didn't know whether Yan Shifan would be imprisoned by then, but he would definitely be killed before Yan Shifan was unlucky.
Liu Shanshui quickly bowed to Cao Dewen again, "I resign from my humble position!"
After saying that, Liu Shanshui quickly withdrew, fearing that Cao Dewen would regret it.
Cao Dewen held this memorandum from the head of the Ministry of Industry, which he did not know whether it was true or not, and his face was extremely serious. He knew very well that if what was said in this memorandum was true, what would happen to Emperor Jiajing who was waiting to move now? No one dares to express this kind of rage, and no one dares to bear this rage.
After all, there are only a few things that the current imperial court can prioritize for Emperor Jiajing to pay attention to. Among them, the relocation of the New Wanshou Palace is one of the important events that Emperor Jiajing is thinking about. It can even be said that Emperor Jiajing is very concerned about this matter. The degree of conscientiousness is far more important than the selection of new officials.
So at this time, Cao Dewen was also paralyzed. He never expected to receive such a memorial at this stall. He couldn't help cursing in his heart: "This bitch wants to report Yan Shifan's black case, so just Won’t it be mailed directly to Xiyuan?”
But how can a small sixth-grade master handle secret folding? Therefore, it is inevitable that this memorial will go through the channels of the General Administration Department, but this kind of necessity will really cost people's lives!
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