Due to Zhao Hao's inaction, Shao Daxia successfully obtained Cao Daye's signed confession, rushed to Gao's house in the rain, and presented it to Lord Gao for review.

After reading the confession with the ink still wet, Gao Gong's hands and feet turned cold and he stood there in a daze.

All the disciples were furious. They jumped up and down and cursed Zhang Juzheng for being despicable and shameless. They shouted that they would go back and gather the officials to impeach this shameless villain!

Han Ji was even more excited, and shouted in a shrill voice: "What did I say earlier? The people of Jing are liars, villains, and ambitious people who appear once every five hundred years! If Master had listened to me earlier, the situation would not have been so chaotic! "

Before he could finish his words, Gao Gong slapped him hard in the face. His face, which had just swelled up, became swollen again...

Han Ji was stunned, covering his face and looking at Gao Gong aggrievedly. "Master..."

"Is this the situation you want to see?!" Gao Gong stared at Han Ji with his eyes blazing with fire, gritting his teeth and saying, "When have I ever owed you guys anything? Why do you want to make me so deserted by everyone?!"

Han Ji's face turned pale. He didn't expect Gao Gong knew everything.

"Why do you say that, Master?" Luo Zun and the others were also confused, and hurriedly asked with courage.

"Stop pretending to be confused!" Gao Gong slammed the table and said angrily, "At the beginning, I warned you many times not to deal with Zhang Juzheng! You promised him in person, but now you spread the word that I want to have him impeached. Is Uncle Zhang going to sit there and wait for death? Can he not fight back?!"

"..." All the disciples fell silent. Apparently, someone had disclosed what they had discussed in Han Ji's duty room to the Master.

"Master, we are worried about you too. Zhang Juzheng is ambitious and wants to replace you. But Master is always thinking of their old friendship and is soft on him. If this continues, Master will be in danger!" Han Ji complained, "As a disciple, I have to consider Master!"

"You asked Yang Sihe to tell Wang Guoguang to tell Uncle Zhang about this. Is this also for my sake?!" Gao Gong asked angrily. In one day, when he learned that his most trusted disciples and comrades were not of the same mind as him, he felt that his whole world was about to collapse.

"This..." Han Ji was dumbfounded. He just thought that a fellow disciple had informed the master. But from what Gao Ge Lao said, the spy was actually in the small courtyard of the Sanjin Guild Hall!

"I saw that you were too kind to Uncle Zhang, so I made a stupid move in a moment of anxiety. I did this all for your sake!" He knelt down and explained.

"Get out, all of you!" Gao Gong roared and overturned the coffee table beside him. He now felt that the whole world had betrayed him.

The disciples knew that the master would not listen to anything now, so they had to leave first.

Han Ji wanted to explain further, but Gao Gong ignored him...

After coming out unhappily, Han Ji interrogated Gao Chao about who had told the secret to the master.

Gao Chao told him that before they came, someone sent a letter to the gatehouse, addressed to "Written personally by Mr. Yuan", and the problem might be with this letter.

Who betrayed me? Is there a traitor among the top leaders of the Jealous Party? !

Han Ji racked his brains but couldn't figure it out.

~~

Dashamao Hutong.

Zhang Juzheng was called back to his residence by You Qi from the palace in the rain, saying that Zhao Hao had an urgent matter to report.

Feeling that his body was a little wet, Zhang Xianggong said unhappily: "What is it? Do you have to tell me in person? I have a lot of things to do in the cabinet!"

"Father-in-law, don't worry about that for now!" Zhao Hao reported anxiously, "Gao's men have already pried open Cao Daye's mouth! He has betrayed the three provincial governors!"

"What?!" A bolt of lightning struck down, and amid the thunder, Zhang Juzheng could not help but shiver and stood there in a daze. After a while, he asked quietly, "Are you serious?"

"Really!" Zhao Hao hurriedly said, "That day, I followed my grandfather's order to warn my father-in-law, and then I sent people to monitor Cao Daye. As a result, today, taking advantage of the heavy rain and wind, Gao Ge Lao's men came to his house and got a confession in a short time... After hearing the news, it was too late to stop it, so I could only hurry to inform my father-in-law."

"The hero of Danyang..." Zhang Juzheng immediately thought of a name, and his eyes flashed with hatred.

"Father-in-law, what should we do now?" Zhao Hao asked with a serious face.

"Why are you panicking?" Zhang Juzheng glanced at him and said, "In times like this, you need to stay calm in order to accomplish great things. Do you understand?"

"Yes." Young Master Zhao hurriedly said respectfully to accept the instruction.

"Don't worry, your father will support you even if the sky falls!" Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice, "Lord Gao may seem impulsive, but he is actually very sober. Your father believes that he will not break up with me..."

Of course, the prerequisite is that Bu Gu must be shameless first...

Mr. Zhang asked his son-in-law to go back first, and then he sat there thinking for a while before making up his mind.

He had his scarlet dragon robe taken off and replaced with a coarse gauze robe and a six-in-one hat. Immediately, his handsomeness was reduced by half, his idol temperament dropped by 80%, and his prime minister's demeanor was completely gone.

Only then did he order a humble brown sedan to be prepared, and left Dashamao Hutong in the pouring rain.

The sedan chair arrived at West Chang'an Street and landed a hundred feet away from Shichang Street. Zhang Juzheng got off the sedan chair and walked to Gao Ge Lao's residence.

You Qi hurriedly held up the umbrella for his master, but was stopped by Zhang Xianggong, who said, "Put it away!"

He had no choice but to put away his umbrella and let the heavy rain soak Mr. Zhang into the most handsome drowned chicken in history.

~~

When Gao Chao came in to report that Zhang Xianggong had come to see him in the rain, Gao Gong was pacing anxiously in the study.

"He is well-informed!" Gao Gong snorted and said, "Let's meet him. I am also curious about how he will act next."

Gao Gong came to the flower hall to meet the guest, but was frightened by the appearance of Mr. Zhang.

Zhang Juzheng's clothes were soaking wet, his beard was stuck together, his melon-shaped hat was dripping with water, and his lips were frozen blue. Since the first time they met, Gao had never seen Zhang Juzheng so embarrassed.

"Hey, uncle, how did you get into this state? What are you standing there for? Why don't you take Mr. Zhang to change his clothes!" Gao Gong scolded the servant.

"Mr. Yuan, you have misunderstood. It was I who insisted on doing this." Zhang Juzheng bowed his body and said, "I am here to apologize to Mr. Yuan!"

"Alas..." Gao Gong sighed, as if he had aged a few years. He slowly sat down on the coffee table and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Although I was not the mastermind behind Cao Daye's incident, I cannot say that I was completely unaware of it..." Zhang Juzheng hesitated and said, "Now that things have come to this, I only ask Mr. Yuan to forgive me."

"Okay, okay..." Gao Gong's lips moved a few times, suppressing his anger, and raised his finger to the sky and said loudly: "Heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, and the spirit of the late emperor, I have always treated you well. Why are you so unfaithful?!"

"I only want to protect myself..." Zhang Juzheng said with red ears, "When I heard that Mr. Yuan was going to harm me, I was scared and did some stupid things. Thinking about it afterwards, it was obviously a trap set by the bad guys to alienate me. But no matter what, Mr. Yuan blamed me for this and I have nothing to say. I only ask Mr. Yuan to forgive me this time. I will punish myself severely and change myself. If I dare to betray you again..."

As he said this, he pointed to the sky and swore the most poisonous oath: "If you dare to betray me again, my seven sons will all die in one day!"

There was a loud thunderclap, and the roof was struck. Zhang Juzheng was so frightened that he shuddered violently and thought, "Oh my God, don't take it seriously..."

By the way, the book "Nature Knowledge" says that thunder is a natural phenomenon. We should believe in science...

Gao Gong did not believe in science, but he also did not believe in the binding force of an oath.

But he didn't want to make a big deal out of it...

The reason is simple, because he has no chance of winning. After all, Gao Ge Lao is too shallow, and the alliance between Zhao Zhenji and Xu Jie can make him panic. What if Zhang Juzheng and Zhao Hao, the father-in-law and son-in-law, form an alliance?

If these four parties get angry together, they will definitely bring him down. Even if he is favored by the emperor, he may end up repeating the mistakes of the last cabinet crisis...

As soon as Gao Gong heard the truth that Shao the hero had forced him to confess today, he really wanted to launch all his attacks at once and drive Zhang Juzheng out of office to vent his hatred.

However, the previous letter of denunciation kept him rational at all times - since everyone was plotting against him, any impulsive action of his could be a sign of being plotted against by one of the parties!

Therefore, the best strategy is to keep the troops in place.

After calming down and thinking about it, I really can't be impatient. I need to calm them down and then take it step by step...

So since Zhang Juzheng has come all the way to apologize, breaking up is the worst option. The best strategy is to take advantage of the opportunity to force him to sacrifice his car to save his master and consolidate his own advantage.

So Gao Gong once again asked Zhang Juzheng to go to the back to change his clothes first. This time, Zhang Xianggong did not refuse because he was almost frozen...

After Zhang Xianggong dried himself and changed into Gao Gong's half-worn robe, Gao Gong couldn't help but sneer at him, "Sorry, I only have four sets of casual robes, and I have to change them dry and clean them wet, so I only have this one as a spare. I can't choose. Hehe, I have never lived a day of the extravagant life that Yan Fenyi has."

"Mr. Yuan, that impeachment was not written by me. I also wrote a letter to blame Zhao Dazhou afterwards, saying that he had gone too far in smearing Mr. Yuan." Zhang Juzheng said embarrassedly.

Gao Gong waved his hand, signaling him to stop putting the blame on Zhao Zhenji. He was almost doing a hat trick. Gao Ge Lao asked calmly, "So, Pan Shuilian was wrongly accused, right?"

"The matter about Minister Pan was indeed told to me by Feng Bao. If it is a lie, I have seven sons, and one day they will..." Zhang Juzheng hurriedly denied it.

"Okay, stop stressing. I know you have many sons!" Gao Gong rolled his eyes at him and said, "But it's hard for me to trust you now. You have to win back our friendship with your actions."

"Please give your instructions, Mr. Yuan." Zhang Juzheng said hurriedly and respectfully.

"How about you join me in impeaching Feng Bao and expel him from the palace?" Gao Gong looked at Prime Minister Zhang steadily.

"Okay!" Zhang Juzheng nodded without hesitation and said, "I will go back and submit the report right away."

"No rush, let's go back to the cabinet to discuss it tomorrow." Gao Gong said lightly.

"Ah!" Zhang Juzheng was shocked when he heard this, and quickly said happily: "Mr. Yuan finally agreed to come back?!"

"Your Majesty has issued three decrees to persuade you to stay, and you have come to ask me to stay again and again. What else can I do?" Gao Gong said with a half-smile, "I can only do it with reluctance and come out of retirement."

"This is truly a blessing for the Ming Dynasty!" Prime Minister Zhang said happily.

p.s. Write another chapter.