Chapter 436 After the strike, the bureaucrats panicked!
All civil and military officials in the capital are still waiting for Uncle Zhang Guo to return to Beijing, so that Zhang Gui’s impeachment of Liu Tingyuan’s arrogance in building a shrine has not been drafted by the cabinet.
The reason is naturally that the bureaucrats want to wait for Uncle Zhang to come back to deal with it. Whether it is true that officials from all over the world are not allowed to build a shrine, or an exception is allowed once, the bureaucrats are willing to let Uncle Zhang make this decision by himself.
Emperor Tianqi still lives in the palace, ignoring government affairs.
The prince is still taking classes under the professors Fan Jingwen and Jie Xuan, and is looking forward to his uncle's return soon.
Because he had to admit that his uncle taught him more interestingly.
It's just that he didn't expect that his uncle, who was supposed to return from a big victory, would suddenly have to recuperate in Lushun, and wouldfully ask for Wang Jue.
In the prince's mind, it seems that asking for something from his father is a disrespectful behavior that is denied by the civil servants.
Basically, one can only accept rewards passively, and cannot ask for them actively, otherwise it will violate the way of loyalty and filial piety of a son or minister.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no news of Zhang Gui returning to Beijing.
The Son of Heaven is fine, living deep in the palace, obsessed with major breakthroughs in physics and chemistry-related research, every day just because of the failure of new experiments, I have to worry many times, I can't wait to hit the wall, I feel that I am too stupid, I have the urge to jump the moat, Naturally, he has no time to take into account the already low-end political games in the court for him.
Tianqi actually knew what Zhang Gui was afraid of, and why he was so self-willed, even better than many courtiers.
It was also because he was clear that he didn't bother to ask more.
After all, he understands that Zhang Gui did this not against him, but against the bureaucratic group of the entire empire.
Therefore, Tianqi just cooperated with the bureaucrats and issued an edict to let Zhang Gui return to Beijing, and then continued not to ask about everything, but only let the bureaucrats go on their own.
The bureaucrats are really in a hurry.
Because Zhang Gui has not returned to Beijing yet, it is obvious that he has not complied with the order of resistance.
However, the bureaucrats don’t want to completely break with Zhang Gui now, so it’s not easy to directly say that Zhang Gui is resisting the edict and not obeying. After all, they are still waiting for Zhang Gui to come back and give them a promotion.
Although Wen Tiren is the first assistant, he has not yet advanced to the rank of a bachelor's degree that the first assistant should have.
Newly joined the cabinet, Liu Hongxun and Cheng Jiming still have the titles of Dongge University Bachelor and Minister of Servant, and they are still waiting for Zhang Gui to come back to discuss meritorious service, and they will also be added to the Shangshu.
Wen Tiren also waited for Zhang Gui to come back to discuss meritorious deeds, add the title of Sangu and the title of Grand Bachelor, and even give him python robes to show the dignity of the chief assistant.
Military commander Li Zhou Yuji needless to say, according to his merits, he should be granted the title of uncle if he is not a marquis, but now that Zhang Gui, the number one hero in destroying Jiannu, will not come back to be granted the title, how can he be granted the title first?
Sun Chuanting is also waiting to become Minister of the Ministry of War due to his meritorious service.
In addition, Wei Zhongxian is also waiting for his nephew to get a title with this great achievement.
Not to mention, there are still a lot of local governors and generals waiting for Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji to be promoted to the capital as ministerial officials and nobles, so they can follow suit.
For this reason, Liaodong governor Liu Tingyuan built Zhang Gui's ancestral hall first, just to put himself at the top of the promotion list.
Other governors also knew that Liu Tingyuan was building a shrine to curry favor with Zhang Gui, so they organized gentry and ordinary people to build a shrine to Zhang Gui.
Some of them have already raised funds and finished sharing accounts with the gentry, and they are just waiting to build a shrine for Zhang Gui.
Some of them have already completed the construction of the Shengsheng Temple ahead of time, and brought the money from the construction of the Shengsheng Temple to make generous gifts and went to Beijing to meet Zhang Gui.
As a result, the Lord is not coming back now.
Also impeached Liu Tingyuan, who was the first to build the Shengci Temple, so that everyone didn't know whether to send people back to Beijing to smash the Shengci Temple and return the money.
Because of this, there are a lot of political brokers entrusted by many bureaucrats to come to Suiguo's government and various government offices every day to inquire about news. They are all asking when Uncle Zhang Guo will come back, whether he will come back, and whether it is really forbidden to build a shrine Since it is not allowed to give gifts in other ways, what kind of channel is it for running officials, and is there an intermediary.
As a result, because there are too many people who are eager to learn these secrets and are too eager, some smart people actually engage in fraud. Those who followed, and collected money by means of stock offerings, many people were really deceived by this at once, and the amount of defrauded was quite a lot, almost as high as one million taels.
This made Dongchang Jinyiwei very anxious about this. They never thought that if the uncle of this country did not return to Beijing, the world would be in such a mess.
And at this time, Liu Zongmin quietly returned to Beijing, and after meeting some people, he swaggered back to Sui Guogong's mansion with a servant.
As soon as Liu Zongmin came back, he immediately caused a sensation in the city.
Many governors and generals who stayed in Beijing, as well as ministers of the sixth department, as well as the chief assistant Wen Tiren and the chief **** Wei Zhongxian all came to Sui Kingdom's mansion in person, wanting to meet Liu Zongmin and inquire about the situation.
No way, now the emperor is on strike, and Zhang Gui is also on strike, which makes the entire bureaucracy feel helpless.
Just like Emperor Wanli went on strike during the Wanli period, panic! Confused! indignation! disappointment! anxious! All kinds of emotions are intertwined!
But what these bureaucrats didn't expect was that when they arrived at the Sui State Mansion, they found that Zhou Neng of Jinyiwei had come in advance to arrange many Jinyiwei around the Duke's Mansion, and blocked the roads to maintain order.
In addition, what the bureaucrats didn't expect was that Liu Zongmin, the most trusted confidant of the uncle of the country, never showed up after returning.
"What's going on here, what are you Beizhen Fusi doing here?"
Because Wei Zhongxian was the **** who supervised the East Factory, he was regarded as Zhou Neng's leader, so he asked Zhou Nenglai.
Zhou Neng replied: "Report to the factory. According to reports from the Sui government, dubious people often appear in and around the area of the Sui government, which seriously affects the safety of the people in the Sui government. Therefore, Beizhi had to send additional flag schools here to maintain order.”
"You are not going to **** people from the Duke's Mansion out of Beijing, are you?"
Wen Tiren asked a question at this time, and hurriedly asked: "Did you know some news about Uncle Guo in advance?"
Zhou Neng just bowed his hands and denied it: "Yuanfu misunderstood! The lower officials don't know about it, they just perform their duties as usual."
Wei Zhongxian, Wen Tiren and other bureaucrats were full of disbelief.
But there was nothing he could do. Although Zhou Neng was Wei Zhongxian's subordinate, Wei Zhongxian knew that Zhou Neng belonged to Zhang Gui. He recommended Zhou Neng to be the commander of Jinyiwei and also to be in charge of Beizhen Fusi. It was just as a favor to Zhang Gui.
Wei Zhongxian and Wen Tiren are big bosses after all, and they don't have the energy to wait outside. Seeing that Liu Zongmin didn't come out, they can only go back temporarily, leaving only the people around them waiting here.
And Liu Zongmin didn't leave the mansion until the third day.
As soon as he left the mansion, many bureaucrats swarmed up and asked Liu Zongmin in one go.
Sun Chuanting also asked Liu Zongmin directly at this time: "How is Uncle Guo's illness? When will you return to Beijing?"
He Ruchong also followed suit: "Exactly! Didn't the imperial approval come down? What about sealing Wang Shizhen and Lvshun outside the customs, let's go back to Beijing first. If he doesn't come back, how will we deal with the matter?"
Bi Ziyan followed suit: "Yes, among other things, the 30 million catties of coal that have been mined by the Hanhai Coal Mine are still waiting for uncles from other countries to find a way to turn them into silver. How can they be given to the royal family and the royal family if they don't turn into silver?" Dividends for the government and the people? Didn’t you say that the Sui State government’s own railway operator company needs to purchase 20 million catties? If he doesn’t come back now, how can he purchase it?”
Other dignitaries and bureaucrats also asked anxiously because they thought that if the coal in the Hanhai Coal Mine they invested in would not be cashed out through Uncle Guo in time to get dividends, they also asked anxiously. A lot of money goes in.
At the end, even Fan Jingwen, the lecturer of the Eastern Palace, said, "Your Highness is also asking, when will Uncle Guo return to Beijing?"
Liu Zongmin but at this time only said: "Uncle Guo is indeed ill, but it is not clear whether he will come back, everyone, please come back."
(end of this chapter)