One stone stirred up a thousand waves, Jiang Zhongming's excerpt caused an uproar in the court, not to mention how Shen Zhuo could afford the heavy responsibility of the prince of the country with a small gesture, just talking about the unspeakable secrets of him and Concubine An, Emperor Jingwen put him under his nose, didn't he find it for himself? The ministers couldn't help but secretly speculate in their hearts, in order to pave the way for his son, could it be that Prime Minister Jiang was so confused?

Elected Shen Zhuo as the Guozi Priest Wine, the first to jump out and vigorously oppose the natural An's faction, the Guozi Priest Wine is in charge of Taixue, all literati and scholars are proud of entering Taixue, and the sacrificial wine is particularly respected by it, the important ministers in the cabinet of the past dynasties, from the Guozijian countless, Jiang Zhongming's actions inevitably make An Ruhai sit on pins and needles.

In just a few days, the impeachment of the An Party was full of Emperor Jingwen's imperial cases, some accused Jiang Zhongming of being a fake public and private benefit, and some people even brought up the old case of the Dali Temple imperial examination fraud case, saying that he had premeditated, as if he had not put the current saint in his eyes, and for a while, Jiang Zhongming became the target of the public, but he did not move, and he wrote and played the table for three consecutive days, and each fold must be tens of thousands of words, and he explained the reason why he recommended Shen Zhuo.

First, Li Ya, the former wine sacrifice in front of the Guozi Prison, was guarded by himself, and the top and bottom were in the same stream, and the current Guozi Prison urgently needs a clear stream to appease the world's scholars. Second, there were many civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty who coveted the position of the prince of the country, but just after the fraud case, everyone was brave and courageous, and now there is no suitable candidate. Third, he thinks that he is virtuous and does not avoid relatives and enemies, Shen Zhuo studied under everyone Xie Bai, looking around, and his knowledge can be compared with him.

In addition to the An family, there are many people who are skeptical of Shen Zhuo, Shen Zhuo's qualifications are vacant, if he is the prince of this country, it is not a talent selected □□by the imperial court, it is just a cronie appointed by Jiang Zhongming, An Ruhai even publicly ridiculed Jiang Zhongming's Sima Zhao's heart, which is known to passers-by.

Jiang Pai said, the most important thing is virtue and learning, the emperor of Tai / Zu happened to meet the countryside scholar Shao Yuandong, was impressed by his knowledge, so he sincerely invited Shao Yuandong to serve as the son of the country to supervise the wine, Shao Yuandong thanked the emperor for his kindness, selected countless talents for the imperial court, the virtuous ministers of later generations Guo Huai, Fu Boan are all students of Shao Yuandong, after his death, the emperor of Tai / Zu personally gave the title of "Wenzhong", if the emperor blindly valued the qualifications, where did the Wenzhong Gong come from?

An Pai replied, at the beginning of the founding of the Tai/Zu Emperor, it was a time when a hundred wastes were waiting to be rebuilt, and the imperial court was in urgent need of employing people, how could today's situation be the same, and besides, how could Shen Zhuo dare to compare with Wen Zhonggong, wouldn't he be afraid of being ridiculed by the world?

The Jiang faction retorted again, to know if Shen Zhuo had any knowledge and virtue, and only let him be this sacrificial wine, and he was afraid that he would not be able to see it?

The two sides fought with each other, you came and went, almost overturning the roof of the cabinet, and even the scholars spontaneously divided into two factions, one faction stood in the Jiang family, and the other faction stood in the An family, but it was Emperor Jingwen, but all the excerpts related to this, he would not send them.

At this time, the rumors of the An family suddenly spread in Beijing, the cause was that a poor scholar made a crooked poem that was not understood, saying that the An family had a woman who was beautiful and fell into the city, and the first marriage was difficult to settle.

This poem spread all over the streets and alleys within a few days, the poem not only satirized Concubine An's strange thoughts, seduced Emperor Jingwen with the body in the room, but also ridiculed the An family for relying on nepotism to ascend to the top, and incidentally despised Emperor Jingwen for indulging in monasticism, which was simply a great rebellion, and he was looking for a dead end.

In Jiang's mansion, Jiang Zhongming frowned deeply, and he said: "There is support from the Marquis of Anyang, the Marquis of Yong'an and others in the court, and it is only a matter of time before the emperor nods and agrees. ”

When Jiang Zhongming reviewed the fraud case, there were many people in the court who fell into his hands, and Li Ya became a substitute for the dead ghost that day, and those people knew that sooner or later they would have to do things for Jiang Zhongming, of course, in this game, Jiang Zhongming also made a regression, in the cabinet, it has always been one master seven times, Emperor Jingwen in order to divide the power of the cabinet, once advocated changing the cabinet to one master nine times, the cabinet dissuaded on the grounds of not conforming to the ancestral system, and now Jiang Zhongming brings up the old things again, once Emperor Jingwen should come down, the two new auxiliary must be people from the An Party, Who knew that the prince had caused trouble for no reason and disrupted his plan.

Shen Zhuo was reading a chess game, and he replied without raising his head: "The chips in the prince's hand are pitiful, he doesn't take the opportunity to mess up the situation, but I think it's strange, the emperor already has a deep prejudice against you, and he uses this to provoke, first, to make the emperor disgusted with the Jiang family, and second, to make you have to fall to the prince, it is really a strategy to kill two birds with one stone." ”

Jiang Zhongming snorted lightly, and he said: "He is a good deal, just to avoid being a little clever." ”

Shen Zhuo put down the book in his hand, he looked at Jiang Zhongming and said: "The heirs of the royal family are thin, not to mention the four princes supported by the An family, the second prince is weak and sickly, and the third prince's mother and concubine are just a lowly tea palace maid, in addition to the prince, do you have a better candidate?" ”

Jiang Zhongming sneered and said nothing, among the princes, including the crown prince in the East Palace, he couldn't look down on any of them, so Jiang Zhongming always turned a blind eye to the prince's overtures.

The two didn't say a few words, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, Youwang's family, walked in with the medicine in her own hands, and she whispered: "Master, the medicine is here, please take it while it's hot." ”

Jiang Zhongming said in a deep voice: "Let it be here." ”

Youwang lightly put the medicine bowl on the table, and quietly withdrew, Shen Zhuo's eyes staring at the book were slightly provoked, he quickly glanced at Jiang Zhongming, only to see that his face was dark, compared with a few days ago, the symptoms of illness were getting more and more serious.

When the bowl of soup and medicine was cold, Jiang Zhongming took it up and drank it all, and then said to Shen Zhuo: "I should take care of this matter, even if I have to choose the prince, I need to cold him for a few days, so that he knows not to be smart but be mistaken by cleverness." ”

After saying this, Jiang Zhongming turned around and went back to the house, and Shen Zhuo lowered his head and looked at the book again.

On this day, Shen Zhuo and Gu Sanniang were talking in the house, Gu Sanniang was doing the work in her hands, she glanced out the window, and said to herself: "I don't know where Brother Yu'er and Jin Sanye have gone, such a little person, bumpy all the way, and his body can't stand it." ”

Shen Zhuo was helping her sort out the silk threads for embroidery, and when he heard Gu Sanniang's words, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, although Jin Sanye is a little pedantic after reading too many books, he is quite decent, and he will take care of Brother Yu'er." ”

Gu Sanniang glanced at him and said, "Do you arrange people like this, people still take care of your son for you." ”

After that, she snatched the silk thread from Shen Zhuo's hand and said angrily: "You are a big man, who wants you to do the business of these women's families, if you are idle, just go to read and write, don't come to disturb me to do work." ”

Shen Zhuo smiled, he took Gu Sanniang's hand and said, "I see that you are always worried, I am afraid that you will be cranky, so I want to talk to you more." ”

He was so considerate, Gu Sanniang's heart was as sweet as drinking honey, but he said duplicitously: "There are many people who talk in this house, you are a gentleman, the family revolves around the woman every day, and you are not afraid that people will laugh at you?" ”

Shen Zhuo didn't think so, he leaned over and whispered: "It's not that any woman can get into my eyes, I only revolve around you." ”

"It's getting out of shape." Gu Sanniang's face turned red, and she turned around and walked out of the room, leaving Shen Zhuo alone to play secretly, Shen Zhuo hummed a tuneless tune in his mouth, got up and lay down on the beauty couch where Gu Sanniang was sitting just now to read a book.

Who knew that before he saw half a page of his book, Gu Sanniang came in from outside in a panic, Shen Zhuo saw that her face was anxious, and asked repeatedly, "What's wrong?" ”

Gu Sanniang took two breaths, and she said, "There is a family member outside who sent a message, saying that Concubine An has issued an edict to summon us into the palace, and the eunuch who passed the decree is still waiting for us to receive the finger outside." ”

Shen Zhuo frowned, the smile on his face gradually faded, Gu Sanniang looked at him with no master, and said aggrievedly: "I don't want to kneel her!" ”

The matter of Shen Zhuo and Concubine An is not only the knot in Emperor Jingwen's heart, as long as Gu Sanniang thinks about it, she can't help but have a blockage in her chest, and now that Concubine An has ordered to summon her, she will not be looking for her to talk about family affairs.

Shen Zhuo held Gu Sanniang's hand, and he reassured: "Don't worry, let's go outside and take a look." ”

Although Gu Sanniang was angry, she could also distinguish the weight, she nodded, and went to the main hall with Shen Zhuo.

At this time, Princess Jichang and the servants in the house of the Sun family have knelt on the ground, just waiting for Shen Zhuo and Gu Sanniang to arrive, the eunuch who announced the decree began to read, it turned out that when the peony was in full bloom, three days later, Concubine An wanted to hold a Kao conference, and specially invited Mrs. Hui Ming, who had a face in the capital, to enter the palace for a banquet, according to the identity of taking care of Sanniang, it was not enough to enter the palace, however, Concubine An's edict asked Gu Sanniang to go together, and now she can't even refuse.

The steward of the mansion wrapped a red envelope for the eunuch and sent them out of the mansion, Gu Sanniang's face was flushed with anger, Shen Zhuo felt sorry for Gu Sanniang, he was afraid that she would be humiliated when she entered the palace, so he said: "If you don't want to go, just say you're sick." ”

Princess Jichang was also invited, she said: "Concubine An is in the limelight, the lord and the An family in the previous dynasty had a lot of trouble, the emperor is quite dissatisfied with our family, it is not appropriate to clash with Concubine An head-on at this time, there are many ladies again when enjoying the flowers, I think Concubine An will not do anything humiliating for herself." ”

Gu Sanniang smiled reluctantly, she said to Shen Zhuo: "You are a gentleman, and you are not as decisive as the princess, don't worry, the princess will definitely take care of me." ”

Shen Chu's heart was stunned, and he looked at Gu Sanniang silently.