My Portable Ming Dynasty

Chapter 45: Making Trouble in Heaven
After stuffing the memorial into the [Portable Ming Dynasty Court], the system began the simulation.

——[Simulation Start]——

A day later, the "Petition to Issue a New Report of Yuefu" was sent to the cabinet. The Prime Minister Li Chunfang rarely expressed his opposition, and Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng did not explicitly express their support. The memorial was sent to the Silijian.

Two days later, the "Petition to Issue a New Report of Yuefu" was kept by the emperor and not sent out.

Two days later, six departments and thirteen departments jointly submitted a memorial to impeach Su Ze, and all the memorials were retained.

Ten days later, the emperor could no longer withstand the pressure from the court and the public, and he rejected the memorial from the Ministry of Education and reprimanded Su Ze.

——[Simulation End]——

As expected, the right to public opinion is the most important power in the hands of Kedao. Faced with Su Ze's root-digging attack, Kedao naturally opposed it to the death.

Emperor Longqing, who was not a strong character, no longer supported himself under pressure from the Ministry of Education.

Even in this matter, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet did not express their support for him.

If there were no cheat, this memorial would definitely fail.

But I have a cheat!
[Do you want to spend 100 prestige points to ensure that the "Petition to Handle the Yuefu New Report" is executed?]

Looking at the 110 prestige points he had accumulated, he found that the prestige points required to execute this memorial were the highest in history, which also meant that the resistance to this memorial was the greatest.

"implement!"

When 100 points of prestige are deducted, the system will pop up a prompt:

[Host, please complete the petition in reality. ]

A smile appeared on Su Ze's lips. He had been severely criticized by the censors these days, and it was finally time to fight back.

However, this memorial would definitely cause a storm, so Su Ze called Xu Wei again.

"Mr. Qingteng, this memorial will inevitably make me the target of criticism from the censors. I'm afraid those students will come to surround my house again. I will live in the History Museum for the time being, and you should find a stable place to live."

Xu Wei looked at Su Ze in surprise. Did he think that his boss had gained experience from being blocked at home?
Xu Wei knew that he was crazy, but he didn't know that his boss was so crazy that he wanted to destroy the Kedao system right away.

However, when Xu Wei thought about how miserable those censors who had falsely accused and attacked Hu Zongxian would be if the "Yuefu Xinbao" was really published, he resisted the urge to persuade Su Ze and let Su Ze submit the memorial.

Xu Wei felt ashamed towards Su Ze. He bowed and said:
"Don't worry, Mr. Dong, I will find a place to go."

Su Ze took out the last bit of silver from his sleeve, gave it to Xu Wei to find a place to live on his own, and then hurried to the History Museum.

Xu Wei smiled slightly, and used the change to buy wine and meat at the entrance of the alley. However, he did not look for another place. Instead, he moved the wine and meat back to the yard, brought out a chair, and sat down facing the gate.
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On August 2, the weather in the capital had begun to get hot.

Li Chunfang, surrounded by his close entourage, arrived at the edge of the imperial palace.

Although Li Chunfang was a good man in the cabinet and had a reputation for leniency in official circles, he was very strict with the servants in his mansion, and anyone who behaved in the slightest way would be severely punished.

Many attendants lifted the curtain and helped Li Chunfang get off the carriage. Entering the Zuoshun Gate was the imperial palace area. Li Chunfang had to walk to the cabinet.

As soon as he arrived in front of the cabinet, Li Chunfang saw Feng Bao, the chief secretary of the Imperial Household Department, who was ordering a group of young eunuchs to work busily beside several big trees, holding tall poles.

Seeing Li Chunfang, Feng Bao came over and said with a smile, "Lord Li, Your Majesty was disturbed by cicadas in his dreams, and he is worried that the other ministers will be disturbed by these ignorant pests, so he has given you sticky sticks to clear the cicadas around the cabinet."

Li Chunfang was a traditional scholar-official and was not very friendly to eunuchs. Feng Bao, in particular, was famous for his flattery, so he was even less friendly to him.

"For such a trivial matter as sticking the pole together, Feng Bingbi has to personally supervise it."

Li Chunfang's words were neither positive nor negative, completely different from his usual image of a good guy in the cabinet.

Even Feng Bao, who was very cunning, was briefly surprised, then he smiled and said:
"Cabinet affairs are the major affairs of the court. How can they be considered minor matters? Besides, when it comes to working for His Majesty, there's no such thing as major or minor matters."

Li Chunfang cursed him inwardly as shameless, unwilling to continue his conversation with the eunuch. He simply said hello and walked into the cabinet. Feng Bao's eyes flashed. He had dealt with several cabinet ministers, from Yan Song to Xu Jie, but he was the first one to have such a despised and unwilling to defend him like Li Chunfang.

Feng Bao shook his sleeves and scolded the eunuchs who were catching cicadas:

"Be quick and don't disturb the elders from working!"

Li Chunfang walked into the cabinet, but found the atmosphere today a bit strange.

Generally speaking, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng would arrive at the cabinet in advance and read the important memorials in advance.

Zhao Zhenji attached great importance to health preservation and usually arrived on time. After arriving, he would also review the memorials that Gao and Zhang had read.

Li Chunfang was the Prime Minister and was also old, so he usually arrived late. At this time, Gao, Zhang and Zhao were usually arguing.

Sometimes Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng quarreled, sometimes Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji quarreled, sometimes Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng quarreled with Zhao Zhenji together, and sometimes Gao Gong quarreled with Zhang Juzheng and Zhao Zhenji.

Well, Gao Dapao lives up to his reputation, he is always present in every quarrel.

But today the cabinet was very quiet, and the three of them were all in their seats.

Seeing Li Chunfang enter the cabinet, the three cabinet ministers all stood up and bowed to him. Then Gao Gong said in a hoarse voice:

"Master Prime Minister, please review this memorial."

It seems that they have already had an argument.

Li Chunfang took the memorial and saw Su Ze's name, and his head started to hurt again.

Li Chunfang thought of what he had just written yesterday. This Su Ze was just like Monkey King, making trouble in the Heavenly Palace all day long!
Then again, if it weren’t for Su Ze, Havoc in Heaven wouldn’t have been written well!
Thinking of this, Li Chunfang still opened the memorial. After he finished reading it, he pinched his throbbing temples with his hands.

This time, Su Monkey did not make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, but went to Lingshan.

Li Chunfang anticipated the sudden storm in the Ministry of Justice and said to the remaining three people in the cabinet:
"Are none of you three going to vote?"

Gao Gong was a little hesitant.

Emotionally and logically, he was willing to support Su Ze, as he was also one of Kedao's victims.

However, the sword of Kedao is a good weapon to suppress political enemies. Others can use it, and you can use it too.

These days, relying on his position as the Minister of Personnel, Gao Gong has also placed some of his own people in the Ministry of Censors and Officials.

The difficulty of reforms throughout the dynasties is not that the blade is turned outward, but that in many things, you are in me and I am in you.

If you want to carry out drastic reforms, the first blow will be stabbing yourself.

So Gao Gong hesitated.

Similarly, Zhang Juzheng hesitated.

Li Chunfang picked up the peeling paper, quickly wrote down his opinion, handed it to the official from the Ministry of Public Security next to him, and said:

"It is the ancestral rule that officials are allowed to speak out against rumors. Su Ze is not a censor, and he is making irresponsible remarks about state affairs. I ask Your Majesty to punish him. Do you have any objections?"

Gao, Zhang, and Zhao, the three cabinet ministers, all said "Yes" in unison. After Li Chunfang finished handling this government matter, he sat back in his seat and wrote:

"The Great Sage escaped from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and the Monkey King settled under the Five Elements Mountain."

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