To say that the most sinister place in the world is to say that it is in the snow-capped mountains of the Western Regions of the Miaojiang Swamp, it would be a big mistake. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe most sinister person in the world is the hearts of the people, and the most calculated in the hearts of the people is power, and the place where this power is most concentrated is above the court. **Concubines compete for favor in a variety of ways, and it is not uncommon for former ministers to form parties and run private interests with each other.

Fortunately, the emperor regarded peace as the precious, and stabilized the country for him for decades, leaving a rich treasury, but also leaving all kinds of hidden dangers. The smallest trouble he found in the princes of the fiefdom was to ask for tax exemption on the grounds of poor grain harvest, and the smallest thing that the kings of the three bordering countries gave him was to knock on the customs and disturb the people every autumn and winter, and run away after robbing things. These outsiders are not enough, and the ministers in Beijing do not stop: the military department asks for money, and the household department pretends to be dead; The Ministry of Rites wants to repair the temple, but the Ministry of Industry says that it is against the system; The list of officials who have been examined by the criminal department is accused of having private ...... For a while, true and false, noisy and endless.

Although he is in the ninth five-year, the emperor is not as free as the peasants at the head of the village think, he is careful everywhere, always cares, for fear that if he is not careful, it is just a matter of picking on the civil servants who say that they are sick, and those generals who have military power in their hands are always a trouble. It's not that I didn't think about asking Wenchen to supervise the army, but back then, Wenchen supervised the army, because he was too cautious and delayed the military aircraft, resulting in the defeat of Hulu Valley, which really left a deep shadow in his heart as the prince at the time.

Before his death, his father told him that for the sake of the superior, he must know people well, leave a way back, let his ministers check and balance each other, and have his own henchmen. He understands all these truths, but he hasn't had time to ask how to implement them, or give an example. The old emperor left the old emperor to the west, leaving him alone to deal with the chaos in the court.

The first time I felt unbearable, it was the war at the border that was tight, so that the vassal kings from all over the country donated food, and there were few responders, only the king of Duan alone gave 2,000 taels, and the rest of the vassal kings all said that natural disasters were repeated, and there was really no money and no food. Therefore, he only got two thousand taels, which is really a drop in the bucket in terms of huge military spending, but he has to praise Wang Zhongjun's consideration.

At this time, he remembered his father's saying that "you must have your own henchmen", took the list of officials, checked them one by one, and finally stopped at a person's name - Du Xianyan, the character Shuyan. The son of the former household department Shangshu, he was named the champion in the autumn of last year, and is currently the editor of the Hanlin Academy. "Du Shuyan ......" is no stranger to this name, the emperor is no stranger, many years ago when he was studying in the study room of the South Courtyard, he was the prince to accompany the study, and he had been a classmate for several years. I remember that he was like a log, reading and writing honestly, and never participated in all kinds of trouble-making activities. As a result, all the punishment for the naughty boy did not fall on his head, and he remembered that once it was really unbearable, and Taifu was furious and wanted to resign from the post of emperor. The consequences were serious, except for Du Shuyan, the rest of the people, including the crown prince, each of the holy judges received fifty precepts.

The power of the bronze ring ruler is amazing, and the children of the military generals, the sons of the hussar generals and the nephews of the military generals who have been beaten in front of them, are all beaten and cry wolf, and the prince is secretly frightened, and he can't help but tremble slightly.

Finally, it was his turn, and his heart was crossed, and he closed his eyes tightly and stretched out his hand. But he felt that someone was in front of him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Du Shuyan who was carved in clay and wood. Taifu frowned and looked at him: "You get out of the way." Du Shuyan knelt down on his knees: "As the prince's accompaniment, the student did not say anything to stop the prince when he violated the courtesy, but only kept himself alone." It is against the teachings of the saints, and it is even more guilty of dereliction of duty. Ask the teacher to scold the student. Taifu looked at him: "The prince behaves, you can't ban it, what's the crime?" ”

"Even if you can't ban it, you should also admonish each other, but Du Xianyan didn't do anything, it is against the way of the minister, please punish the teacher." The little body knelt straight.

The prince was arrogant at this time, and stretched out his hand straight over: "Lone can't lead by example, he deserves to be punished." ”

Du Shuyan leaned over and kowtowed at the moment, and he was bleeding all over his face: "When the ministers hear it, they are ministers, the king is worried about the ministers, and the king humiliates the ministers to death." The prince was punished, and the minister was the only one who died. ”

Seeing him like this, everyone was in an uproar, and Taifu had to abandon the copper ring ruler in his hand and quickly ordered someone to treat this stubborn boy's injuries. The prince's fifty precepts were finally temporarily hung on the account, until the prince ascended the throne and became the supreme, where did anyone mention it again.

By the way, where did this kid go later, it seems that within a few years, he said that he was weak and was taken back by his family to recuperate. I have also heard of his later "deeds", I think it is because the family is too well recuperated, the body is strong, to the age of fourteen or fifteen, actually linger in the book and prostitution hall all day long, those girls in the green building heard that Du Gongzi is coming, all of them are overjoyed.

Later, I heard that it was Lao Shangshu who passed the family law and forced him to take the meritorious test, otherwise he would be expelled from the door. He really has the ability, he has been fooling around for so long, and after studying for a year, he actually let him get a champion and go back. I thought that someone was cheating selfishly and sold better than Lao Shangshu, but who knew that the Golden Palace played a duet, and he also answered without leaking. From his face, he didn't have the decadent color of a drunken man. Maybe the rumors in the market are wrong, but it is the young man's temperament that spreads so badly.

I don't know what he's done with this Hanlin revision now. If it is indeed a usable material, then slowly test whether he is really loyal and upright, and it can be used for confidants.

The merit records of the officials prove that Du Shuyan has always been loyal to his duties and his work has been completed to the letter. It's just that there is a comment later: "Uninhibited by nature, unmanageable, and unbearable." Looking at the handwriting, it should be written by Cao Lei, who is known as the "iron-faced straight pen" in the ministry, after this champion Lang entered the Hanlin, no one in the court has ever mentioned him again, which aroused the interest of the emperor and ordered the Hanlin Academy.

In the afternoon of this summer day, most of the officials looked for a shady place to rest, bursts of cicadas came from the thick shade, the lotus flowers in the pond bloomed brightly, there was no wind, and the emperor, who was only dressed in light silk cumulus veil, could not help sweating on his forehead, and pointed to the closed door in front of him and said, "Your Majesty, Du Hanlin is here." ”

It's strange, in this weather, everyone can't wait to sit in the pavilion and leak the wind on all sides, but he closed the doors and windows, isn't he doing something unseemly? Thinking of this, the emperor asked people not to report, and one person quietly passed, and suddenly pushed the door open with both hands: "Du Xianyan!" But I saw that the man was neatly dressed, and he didn't know what was written in front of the desk, and when he looked up, he saw that it was the emperor, and he hurriedly stepped forward to see the driver. The emperor stared at him condescendingly: "What are you doing with the door closed in broad daylight?" ”

"The flowers and plants here are flourishing, and there are many mosquitoes, so after lighting bitter fat incense in the house to repel mosquitoes, close the doors and windows to avoid being bitten again." Du Shuyan replied respectfully, and there was indeed a smell of bitter fat in the air in the room. Come to think of it, what he said was true.

"Get up." The emperor casually picked up what he had written, "Loyal Ministers? Interesting, why are you writing this? ”

Du Shuyan lowered his head and said: "There are loyal ministers in the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Li of the previous dynasty finally fell into the country, but he punished the virtuous ministers and the traitors around him. And the Taizu of this dynasty replaced him because of the founding ministers, the civil officials were loyal to the country regardless of personal gains and losses, and the military attaches fought bravely and were not afraid of death. The minister wants to record these famous generals and good ministers for future generations to ......."

The emperor looked at him with interest: "If there is a Ming monarch, there are loyal ministers, so if I can't be the Ming monarch in your mind, are you going to be disloyal?" ”

This was said so badly that Du Shuyan lifted his robe and knelt down: "If Your Majesty is wrong, those who are courtiers should be loyal and straightforward, and if you dare not touch Your Majesty's scales because you are worried about yourself, it is disloyal." If Your Majesty does not want to hear it, then please ask Your Majesty to give the ministers a death, in the name of serving the country as the loyal monarch of all the ministers. ”

"That's it, I just said that, don't live and die, say so heavy." The emperor was quite satisfied with his answer, and made him get up, "Since you like to record these things, and deal with the piles of old papers here all day long, and you know only the things that have been recorded by your predecessors, if the books of your predecessors are biased or even full of errors, will it not be in vain for you to sort them out, and spread false rumors." ”

Du Shuyan raised his head and wondered: "Then Your Majesty means ......"

"I want you to go out and visit in person, and record what you have heard and seen, and report to me."

"Then what does Your Majesty need the ministers to listen to and see?"

The emperor got up and looked out the window: "What do you say?" He stepped out of the door and left a mystery for Du Shuyan.

Seeing the Ninety-Five Supreme leave, Du Shuyan breathed a long sigh of relief, made sure that there was no one, took off his official boots, dragged out a large wooden bucket full of water from the bottom of the case, and soaked his feet in it. Otherwise, the sin of the king's ceremony will be settled.

He leaned on the side of the desk, thinking carefully about the emperor's words, what did this mean? Let him go out to find out the news and then report back? Isn't that a news dealer on the rivers and lakes, and it seems that the people who often do this are the children of the beggar gang.

"Huh." Du Shuyan laughed dryly, it's just that, the will of heaven is unpredictable, he holds the six grades horizontally and vertically, what does he do.