Chapter 1213 Flowers and willows are coming!

After hearing Ye Mingsheng's instructions, Song Haibo did not dwell on Muto Masaaki's problem and continued:
"Marshal, the second memorial was sent by Director Wang Xuecheng of the Coordination Office. Director Wang reported that Minister Cui has contracted syphilis..."

"Are you talking about Cui Zibo?"

"General, it is Cui Zibo, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice!"

After getting Song Haibo's confirmation, Ye Mingsheng immediately sat up from the bed and instructed Song Haibo:

"Bring Wang Xuecheng's memorial here!"

Taking the memorial from Song Haibo, Ye Mingsheng read it carefully. After a cup of tea, Ye Mingsheng learned the whole process from the memorial, and his expression was still a little surprised. He really didn't expect that Cui Zibo actually had this disease, and it seemed that the disease was very serious!

According to what Wang Xuecheng said in his memorial, ever since the Fengwu Army conquered Jiangnan, some Jiangnan merchants went north to Beijing to start planning!

People like Cui Shao, Yuan Song, Gu Sansi, Li Jian, and even Ye Cheng all have many people trying to curry favor with them. Among them, Cui Shao is the actual prime minister of the Yijing court and a royal relative, so he has the most people trying to curry favor with him!

However, Cui Shao was already accustomed to such things, and he also knew that Ye Mingsheng was watching him, so he always closed the door to these people!

Although Cui Shao ignored these people, they were still longing for the power of the Cui family. They instinctively believed that as long as they had a connection with the Cui family, their business would be greatly facilitated and they would earn more money!

It was with this idea in mind that those who were rejected by Cui Shao set their sights on other members of the Cui family. Among these people, the most coveted one was Cui Shao’s eldest son, Cui Zibo, the current Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the Yijing court…

The experienced Cui Shao had anticipated such a situation. For this reason, he had repeatedly told Cui Zibo that the Cui family had no shortage of money or property, and that he should not get involved with these people. At the beginning, under his father's instructions, Cui Zibo did so and rejected the temptation of many people and interests!

This made Cui Shao feel relieved and he relaxed his vigilance against Cui Zibo. At the same time, some people discovered Cui Zibo's weakness, which was that Cui Zibo was lustful and easily influenced. As long as a beautiful woman acted pitiful, he would feel pity for her.

After discovering Cui Zibo's weakness, these people took advantage of it and launched a fierce attack on Cui Zibo. With his weak spot exposed, Cui Zibo could not resist the other side's beauty offensive. He soon collected five or six women and lived a life of luxury outside the Cui Mansion.

As the saying goes, if you don't want others to know, you had better not do it yourself. Cui Zibo had not been living a life of debauchery for a few days when his wife Gongsun discovered his affair. Gongsun was also from a noble family. Although she felt aggrieved and angry about Cui Zibo's infidelity and had a big fight with Cui Zibo, she still planned to compromise and let Cui Zibo take a concubine!
However, two of Cui Zibo's women outside were from brothels, so Gongsun believed that these two people were of unclean backgrounds and that taking them as concubines would bring disgrace to the Cui family. Therefore, she not only refused to allow these two people to enter the house, but also asked Cui Zibo to kill these two women!

Faced with Gongsun's resolute attitude, Cui Zibo had no choice but to make concessions and said that he would cut off contact with the two women and would not contact them again in the future!

In this way, Cui Zibo’s other three women entered the Cui family and became Cui Zibo’s concubines. Originally, the matter had come to this point, at most it was Cui Zibo’s romantic affair, and it was not something that was not worthy of Wang Xuecheng’s special report to Ye Mingsheng...
But the bad thing was that Cui Zibo was a lustful man. Although he promised Gongsun that he would cut off contact with the two women from brothels, after the two women's pleading, Cui Zibo finally broke his promise and continued to keep the two women outside!
Cui Zibo originally wanted to keep his mistress in his mansion, but the truth could not be hidden. Gongsun Shi eventually got the news. Seeing that Cui Zibo had broken his promise and was taking advantage of her, Gongsun Shi was so angry that she found her father-in-law, hoping that Cui Shao could do justice for her!
In fact, Cui Shao knew about such a big thing a long time ago. He was also very dissatisfied with his son Cui Zibo's actions and was disappointed with Cui Zibo. However, this matter was related to Cui Zibo's own work as a barista, so Cui Shao also wanted to train Cui Zibo to see if Cui Zibo could clean up his own ass!

After all, Cui Shao is in his fifties or sixties. Although he is in good health, he is also an old man. He may die at any time. It is impossible for him to take care of Cui Zibo all the time. Cui Zibo needs to be able to stand on his own.

So Cui Shao pretended not to know, but after being found by Gongsun, Cui Shao could no longer pretend. He directly wiped out the two women. At the same time, in order to express his dissatisfaction and disappointment, Cui Shao transferred his nephew Cui Hang to the Ministry of Personnel as a doctor!

Cui Shao's move was to tell Cui Zibo, don't think you can sit back and relax just because you are my son. The Cui family does not rely on you alone. If you don't work hard, there are others in the Cui family!
I don’t know if Cui Shao’s move was a bit too much, or if Cui Zibo’s ability to bear it was not good enough, but Cui Zibo simply gave up and spent a few days in a life of feasting and revelry. However, he was soon taken home by Cui Shao...

However, it was too late. A month later, Cui Zi Bo found out that he had syphilis. He was very panicked. He immediately wanted to find a doctor for treatment, but he was afraid that the news of his syphilis would spread and would have a negative impact on him.

So he didn't dare to go to the medical school to see a doctor. He could only secretly find a prescription for treating syphilis and take medicine. After taking the medicine, the symptoms almost subsided. Cui Zibo thought he was cured and was very happy about it, thinking it was a false alarm!
However, a month later, the symptoms of syphilis reappeared, and this time rashes appeared on his hands and feet. Cui Zi Bo wanted to hide it at first, but his wife Gongsun found out. Gongsun was very angry and felt that Cui Zi Bo was irresponsible. She immediately wanted to tell the news to her father-in-law Cui Shao!
However, Cui Zi Bo knew that once his father Cui Shao knew that he had this serious disease, he would be completely finished, so he knelt down in front of Gongsun and begged her not to tell Cui Shao. Under Cui Zi Bo's pleading, Gongsun softened her heart and did not tell Cui Shao about this matter. She also secretly found a doctor to try to cure Cui Zi Bo!

However, Cui Zibo's syphilis had already spread to his bones and was difficult to treat. At the same time, Gongsun also found that she was showing symptoms of syphilis. It turned out that when Cui Zibo's symptoms subsided at the beginning, he had no scruples about having sex and passed it on to Gongsun Qiaoqing!

Gongsun Shi could not accept such a change. On a dark night, this poor woman committed suicide after crying bitterly.

Gongsun's departure also completely exposed the fact that Cui Zibo had syphilis. Cui Shao was very angry after learning about this series of events, and he was so angry that he almost fainted!
After Ye Cui learned about this, she not only directly ordered the doctors from the medical school to go to the Cui family for treatment, but also went to the Cui Mansion in person to visit her third brother.

The doctor from the medical school also made a report after examining Cui Shao and his son. Cui Shao was fine at the moment, but he was just angry. He needed to rest for a while and take some medicine to recover. During this period of rest, the Ministry of Revenue, which Cui Shao was in charge of, was handled by Zhang Juning, the left assistant minister. As for other court masters, they were handled by Gu Sansi, the minister of personnel, Li Jian, the minister of punishment, and other ministers to ensure that the Yijing court could operate normally without any chaos.

Although Cui Shao was not in serious condition, his son Cui Zibo had a big problem. His syphilis had begun to affect his eyesight.

After consultation, several doctors from the medical school determined that the toxin had already penetrated into his heart and brain. They would try their best to treat Cui Zibo, but they could not guarantee that they would be able to cure him. Now they could only leave it to fate and do their best!

Ye Mingsheng was also very surprised by this sudden change. Through some channels, he knew that Cui Zibo was close to those Jiangnan businessmen and participated in some drinking parties. In fact, it was not just Cui Zibo. Those Jiangnan businessmen tried to establish connections with many ministers...
But Ye Mingsheng really didn't know that Cui Zibo had fallen to this point. As for Cui Shao's son, Ye Mingsheng's usual impression of him was that he was mediocre in talent and made many small mistakes, but not big ones. In view of Cui Shao's merits and face, Ye Mingsheng promoted him to the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice!

As for the job of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, although Cui Zibo did not make much contribution, he was generally diligent under Cui Shao's request and encouragement. Originally, Ye Mingsheng was considering whether to wait for a few years until the situation in the world stabilized and let Cui Shao retire, and then let Cui Zibo make further progress.

However, he did not expect Cui Zibo to be so disappointing that he got this disease because of a woman. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng asked Song Haibo:
"Is there a doctor in the Ministry of Justice named Zhang Mang?"

After a moment's thought, Song Haibo gave a positive answer.

"There is a doctor who is in charge of the affairs of the Yunbing Qingli Division. He was previously the county magistrate of Pinghai County in Liaoyang. Later, he was selected in the selection of the Ministry of Personnel and transferred to the Qilu Qingli Division of the Ministry of Justice as a deputy director. Later, because of his outstanding performance in the Qilu Qingtian case, he was promoted to the doctor of the Yunbing Qingli Division!"

After hearing Song Haibo talk about Zhang Mang's resume, Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly and was quite satisfied. The reason why he promoted Song Haibo to the deputy director of the Guard Department was that Song Haibo's extensive knowledge and strong memory were one of the important reasons.

Ye Mingsheng’s memory is actually quite good, but he has to deal with a large number of official documents every day, and the court has hundreds of officials, so it is inevitable that some omissions will occur sometimes. With Song Haibo around to remind himself····················

After a pause, Ye Mingsheng said:

"Since his illness is so serious, let Cui Zibo rest at home and recover. The job of the Left Assistant Minister will be temporarily handed over to Zhang Mang. At the same time, send a message to the medical school to treat Cui Zibo well. As long as Cui Zibo is cured, there will be a huge reward!"

Ye Mingsheng paused for a moment, and then thought for a few seconds before continuing:
"Also transfer Cui Hang to the Ministry of Personnel's Selection Department!"

After saying this, Song Haibo intended to remind Ye Mingsheng that the current doctor of the Ministry of Literature was Wang Xiude, a direct descendant of the Minister of Personnel Gu Sansi. However, seeing that Ye Mingsheng seemed to have thought it over carefully, Song Haibo also realized something and immediately swallowed the words on his lips and quickly accepted the order:

"As ordered!"

After making the decision, Ye Mingsheng asked again:

"Anything else?"

"There is another piece of news reported by the Coordination Office. Anqing Governor Wei Qing has also contracted syphilis. It is said that his symptoms are better than Cui Zibo's, but he is older, so the situation is not optimistic. According to the Coordination Office, Wei Qing has begun to consider resigning!"

Upon hearing the news, Ye Mingsheng's expression showed a hint of anger. How could an assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice and a provincial governor not control their own pants?
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng also ordered in a deep voice:

“Dismiss Wei Qing. As for the successor to the Anqing governor, let Gu Sansi come up with a plan…”

"Yes!"

After reporting the news, seeing that Ye Mingsheng was not in a good mood, Song Haibo was also afraid of offending Ye Mingsheng, so he immediately bowed and left the room.

After leaving the room, Song Haibo, the deputy director of the Guards' Department, began to draft the order. This work was originally the job of Ye Cheng, the director of the Guards' Department, but because Ye Cheng did not accompany Ye Mingsheng on the southern tour, it was carried out by Deputy Director Song Haibo. Although it was his first time doing it, Song Haibo was no stranger to this work because he had seen Ye Cheng do it so many times before.

After a cup of tea, Song Haibo finished drafting the order. Looking at his own handwriting on the order, Song Haibo did not immediately stamp it with Ye Mingsheng's seal and send it back to Yijing, but fell into deep thought.

As the deputy director of the Imperial Guards' Department, although Song Haibo's official position is not high, he is a close minister of Ye Mingsheng and is therefore at the center of power in the Yijing court. Therefore, he is well aware of the Cui Zibo incident. Although on the surface it is just a scandal for Cui Zibo, it may actually trigger a new round of turmoil in the court!
Currently, Ye Mingsheng is the actual controller of the Yijing court, and Cui Shao, who is the Minister of Revenue, is the chief executor. Although Ye Mingsheng is wary of Cui Shao, he still trusts Cui Shao's abilities. Cui Shao's past achievements also give him a very high prestige in the Yijing court!
Therefore, Cui Shao had a great say in all affairs of the Yijing court, and had a considerable influence on Ye Mingsheng in government affairs.
(End of this chapter)