Chapter 280 Let the young people fight
The last time was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was too stupid. After being impeached, several prime ministers naturally spoke for the censors. However, this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had become much more at peace, and it was a bit too much for these censors to write to the memorials.
Now that the title of the prince has been determined, the other princes should be born peacefully and should not take any action, but now the court moves frequently, most of them are the work of the fourth prince.
This is a bit too much.
Zhang Qu stood up and bowed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"Your Highness, I will go to the Censorate and talk about this with Mr. Yan."
His Royal Highness was a little angry: "What else can I say? Those people maliciously slander the court for their own selfishness!"
Zhang Qu looked back at His Highness the Crown Prince, lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Highness, it has been 19 years since the Chengde Dynasty. As the eldest son of the emperor, you can see some of His Majesty's actions even if you don't have the opportunity to observe politics."
"Those who hold the country must be calm."
These words are teaching the prince a lesson.
Originally, this kind of words should not be said by Zhang Qu, but by the role of the prince and the Grand Tutor. However, as the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe, Zhang Qu is qualified to say such a sentence.
His Highness the Crown Prince opened his mouth and did not continue to talk in the end.
After Zhang Qu paused, he sighed: "And His Highness the Crown Prince has just supervised the country. If a prison is raised at this time, those people will have even more reasons to say that Your Highness has lost his morality."
His Highness the Crown Prince gritted his teeth and said, "Then let those people continue to talk nonsense?"
Zhang Qu sighed.
"I went to the Censorate to resolve this matter with Your Highness."
Only then did the Crown Prince understand what the words of Haoran Gong meant, and immediately stood up and bent down to Zhang Qu: "It's time for Haoran Gong to be here."
Zhang Qu sighed slightly, walked out of the Eastern Palace with his hands behind his back, and walked towards the Censorate.
Although the old man is nearly seventy years old, he is still quite strong. After walking for a while, he will arrive at the Censorate.
At the gate of the Censorate's Office, two squids guard the gate, majestic.
The slaughter is very good at litigation, and two are usually placed at the door of the yamen with a prison. Although the Censorate does not have a prison, it is one of the three judicial departments, so two are naturally placed.
Here is the yamen in charge of the Great Jin Dynasty who supervised all officials and the mouthpiece of the Great Jin Dynasty's court.
These censors are not of high rank, but their authority is not small. They all have the power to go directly to the Tianting. Therefore, many subordinates of the court masters will "raise" or recruit a few censors to attack political enemies.
Over time, the Censorate, the clear water yamen, has become a place with abundant oil and water.
The prime minister of the dynasty arrived in person, so the people from the Censorate naturally had to go in and report. After a while, an old man who was about the same age as Zhang Qu walked out of the Censorate's yamen with a cane.
The old man's hair and beard are all white and his face is full of smiles.
"What order does Zhang Xiang have? If you leave a note, the lower official will naturally go to the Shangshutai to see Zhang Xiang. How can you do it for Zhang Xiang to go there in person?"
The old man's surname is Yan and his name is Xu. He is the current censor of the Censorate and one of the bigwigs in the court. However, because the Censorate is not included in the three provinces, he claims that he cannot be prime minister and cannot go to the Eastern Palace to discuss matters.
"Mr. Yan was joking."
Zhang Qu smiled bitterly and said, "When it comes to the Academic Department, Mr. Yan is still a senior of the old man, let's go in and talk."
Yan Qi smiled and reached out to inspire him: "Please ask Zhang Xiang inside."
The two old men walked almost side by side and sat down at the main hall of the Censorate. After a servant served tea, Zhang Qu coughed and said, "Mr. Yan, I have a reluctant request."
Yan Qi lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, and asked with a smile: "Because of those censors' affairs?"
“That’s right.”
Zhang Qu's face became serious and said in a deep voice: "The Censorate is the mouthpiece of the country. He has the right to report the news. No matter what book is written, it is reasonable to say. However, the censor of the Censorate is clearly instructed by someone to maliciously attack the prince. This book has nothing to do with it. After all, there is no real evidence, and there will be no result."
Zhang Qu smiled bitterly and said, "But our Crown Prince is a petty prince. He is about to be punished by the censors. If this matter is a big deal, it will not be good for anyone. Your Majesty may be angry. Please ask Mr. Yan to restrain his subordinates a little and let them take a break."
Speaking of this, Zhang Qu smiled bitterly and said, "Otherwise, once Chengde is in a precedent, there will be a precedent for being convicted for his words."
Yan Qi shook his head and his voice was calm: "Zhang Xiang, you can't control this matter, and the subordinates can't control it, so you can only let it go."
Zhang Qu frowned and said, "Donald Yan is the chief official of the Censorate. The censors have to pass through Duke Yan to write a letter, so why can't they control it?"
Yan Qi shook his head and said, "There are many factions inside the Censorate. Which force in the capital has not installed a few people in the Censorate? If the officials seized their memorials and refused to give them to the Chenchen, they would not know how many people they would offend!"
"Zhang Xiang, Xiaguan is already at the age of begging for bones to beg for old age. You can't let Xiaguan offend people at this time, right?"
Zhang Qu was a little angry: "I don't want to offend anyone, so I can't let the court in Dajin get in chaos!"
The censor took another sip of tea and whispered: "Haoran Gong, no one wants to make the court chaotic, but now the momentum of the war between the princes is unstoppable. You and I are all old. Let's sit down and watch the fun, so don't interfere in."
"I am so arrogant that I am the left servant. How can I see the chaos in the court? "
"You can't handle it."
Yan Qi shook his head and sighed: "Haoran Gong, you are a very smart person, but some people in his position are fascinated by the authorities. Haoran Gong might as well think about it. The title of the prince has been decided, why have the other three princes not yet settled in the vassal?"
According to the rules of the Great Jin Dynasty, if a prince loses his inheritance rights, he will be enfeoffed to various places and becomes a vassal king. The more than ten sons of Emperor Chengde, except for the four princes who remained in the capital, the others went to various places early to go to the vassal.
Zhang Qu's face looked ugly.
"Yan Gong means..."
"It's good if Haoran Gong knows it, so don't say it out."
Yan Qi squinted his eyes and smiled: "Let them make the young people fight and make trouble. Even if the prince loses his temper, he will be angry. The Censorate, the people under his command, have their own ideas. I can't control them, even if I suffer from prison, they will take it upon themselves."
Zhang Qu glanced at Yan Feng with some envy.
"I admire you if you see the fire."
Yan Qi shook his head: "The subordinates have always been much inferior to Haoran Gong. It is pure luck to be able to see further than Haoran Gong this time."
As he said that, he took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Qu, and smiled and said, "Zhang Xiang, this is a memorial for the lower officials to beg for bones to return home. I was originally going to send it to the Shangshutai today. Now it's a coincidence that Zhang Xiang will bring it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhang Qu stood up and looked up and down at Yan Qi.
"Mr. Yan is stronger than me, so why should he retire and return home?"
Yan Qi shook his head and smiled: "It is just while you can walk a few steps to take off your errands, go back to your hometown to take a look, and you can calmly choose a grave for yourself in your hometown, so as not to die in a foreign land in the future."
Yan Qi looked at Zhang Qu with a smile.
"Haoran Gong, we have been in the same dynasty for decades. I would like to advise you, I wonder if you can listen to it?"
The current Shangshu Zuo Pushe stood up and bowed to Yan Xu solemnly: "Please tell me if you are a man."
The censor of the Censorate also stood up and smiled loudly.
"Young people have a big temper and always like to fight. Now that someone wants them to fight, Haoran Gong will be useless to stop him."
Yan Qi sighed.
Chapter completed!