The ban on the crown prince is a major event of the country, how can the courtiers sit idly by? There were courtiers above the court, saying, "The prince is the prince of the country, and the ban for no reason may shake the foundation of the country, please take back the destiny of the saint." In the inner palace, the highest-ranking concubine also personally led a group of concubines to intercede with the saint and asked the emperor to allow the prince to leave the East Palace. And the second prince, who has always been loyal and honest, knelt outside the Chengming Hall for a night, only asking the saint to take back his fate.

Helplessly, the saint's heart was extremely strong, and he was not moved at all, and only said lightly, "The prince is not the king", which made all the people who interceded in a cold sweat, and then they all closed their mouths and didn't dare to say anything more.

A few days after the prince was grounded, the saint threw a bombshell again, throwing a bunch of evidence materials to Tang Lin of Dali Temple, and at the same time ordered the three law divisions to try the case of river embezzlement, and the saint personally supervised the case.

Since the Holy Lord personally supervised the case, how could the three legal divisions dare to delay and slack off in the slightest? That's really an all-out all-out night investigation. And because the evidence materials given by the saint are very detailed, but in the past two days, Master Lang Wu, the former prince and the current prince and prince, Lord Zhan Shishi of the Zhan Shifu, Lord Pan, the governor of Jiangxi, and no less than dozens of officials, large and small, were sent to prison one after another.

Subsequently, the Holy Lord issued another holy decree, and the dragon guards entered the official mansions of the criminals to copy and inspect them. It is said that the silver confiscated from the homes of Lord Wu and Master Pan added up to millions of taels, and all of them were filled into the national treasury.

It is precisely because of this case that shortly after the beginning of autumn of the following year, in the season of chrysanthemum crab fat, a group of people in the capital fell to the ground, and dozens of families were punished or flowed. From then on, he was far away from the political center of the Han Dynasty and became a commoner and even a cheap slave.

The North Market Square of Jinling City is the place where the heads of death row prisoners are displayed to the public. In those days, the cry of Beishifang shook the sky and people's heads fell to the ground. At the same time, dozens of officials were promoted, changing their fate and embarking on the road to prosperity. And the direction of the political wind in Beijing has also changed several times.

However, none of this qiē is as shocking as an incident that happened in early June of the 14th year of Yuan He.

Half a month after Fu Sanlang returned to Beijing, the Pingnan Hou Mansion located in Yongning Lane, Chongwufang, held a happy event in a low-key manner. The hero of this happy event is not someone else. It is Tanhua Fu Saburo.

Fu Saburo continued.

And what surprised and even sighed the people in Beijing the most. is the object of this Fu Saburo's continuation, neither a noble lady nor an official lady, but a woman who dips again.

If you ask the reason for this. Just go to one of the teahouses in Beijing and sit for a day. Listen to a few books from the storyteller. You can know a thing or two.

It turned out that Fu Sanlang was appointed by the Holy Lord to receive the secret decree to go south to Jiangxi. Thoroughly investigate the case of river embezzlement. In the process of investigating the case, Fu Sanlang was dangerously murdered because he found the key place. Just when Fu Sanlang's life was hanging by a thread, Lord Cheng Yucheng, who was the county magistrate of Pixian County at the time, resolutely gave up his life, pretended to be Fu Sanlang and went to the embankment, and was pushed into the water by the traitor and died. However, Fu Sanlang was able to sneak back to the capital with the evidence and uncover this shocking case in one fell swoop.

Because of the loyalty and righteousness of Lord Cheng who sacrificed his life and forgot his life and sacrificed his life for the country, the saint not only posthumously named Cheng Yu as a loyal general, but Fu Geng also married Cheng Yu's wife Zheng back home, and his daughter Cheng Ke was also written into the family tree of Pingnan Houfu by Fu Geng.

It is said that Fu Geng, in front of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, knelt down to the Holy Lord to ask for marriage, and said: "General Zhongyi died for me, and it is already unkind for me to steal my life alone, if I can't treat his family well for the rest of my life, it is really better to be a pig and a dog." However, the orphans and widows of the Zheng family, if the ministers take care of them, they may damage their reputation. Therefore, the minister is willing to marry the Zheng family as his wife, and write the daughter of Lord Cheng into the genealogy of my Fu family, and hope that the saint will give marriage. ”

The folk customs of the Han Dynasty are open, and there are not a few widows who dip again. However, how many widows like the Zheng family were personally begged for by the "Chunwen Smile Fu Saburo", and were personally married by the Holy Decree, and married into the Houmen in a beautiful manner? How many lifetimes of blessings do you have to cultivate to have such a happy marriage?

The sensation caused by this incident in the capital far exceeded that of the crown prince being imprisoned and the beheading of Beishifang. The loyalty of Cheng Yu who sacrificed himself to die, Fu Geng's sincerity in repaying his kindness, and the implied fragrance and romance of remarrying and dipping the woman made this matter ferment for a long time in the capital of the 14th year of Yuan He and even the entire Han Dynasty.

And Fu Geng's reputation among scholars has suddenly become louder because of this, and everyone says that he is a person of great benevolence, kindness, wisdom and courage, and he is also broad-minded, far more comparable to others. Even Fu Geng's master, the Great Confucian Solution, also came to attend Fu Geng's wedding, and also dipped in thick ink, spread snow paper, and personally wrote a big "benevolence" character to Fu Geng.

Because of his first contribution in the river corruption case, before Fu Geng got married, the saint rewarded Fu Geng heavily, and also promoted him to the prefect of Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang.

Fu Geng didn't even jump two levels, but still went to the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River as an official, and the saint loved and cultivated him, as long as people with eyes would not see it.

On the grounds of Fu Geng's appointment as the prefect of Ningbo, a new turmoil was triggered in Beijing. However, the people of this turmoil do not know much, and its shock to officialdom is extremely huge. Later historians called it "Yuan and Zhizhi".

The cause of this turmoil was that after Fu Geng was unusually promoted, the son of his mentor Xie Fang, who was the official at the time, gave Xie Jun in the matter, and handed an excerpt to the saint on the argument that the court should appoint more young officials and disciples of the poor sect and implement the "liuguan system".

In the excerpts, Xie Jun lamented the shortcomings of the rule of the officials of the Chen Dynasty, such as appointing people as relatives and entrenched clans, and the officials in the wealthy areas to stay in office for a long time by various means, and the orders of the central government could not be effectively implemented after they arrived at the localities. Taking the river corruption case as an example, he pointed out that officials in Jiangxi Province were colluded to form a "nest case", and the local power and power were intertwined, which eventually led to the largest corruption case since the founding of the Han Dynasty.

In addition, there is no way for the disciples of the poor family to be promoted, the protégés of the non-family clans have no hope of becoming officials, and how many talented people can only spend their lives at the bottom and have no hope of promotion because of their humble backgrounds.

Finally, Xie Jun pointed out that if we want to break the vague confrontation situation formed between the local government and the central government, and get rid of the bad habit of various localities joining forces to become powerful, we must promote talents exceptionally, appoint more courageous and knowledgeable young people like Fu Geng, and let more poor disciples who have no family power behind them become officials. At the same time, the "system of retaining officials" is implemented for officials above a certain level, and officials may not be re-elected for more than three years. Only in this way can we break the stereotypes and reform the rule of officials, so as to avoid the recurrence of the river corruption case.

This excerpt, which is only more than 500 words, was handed to the saint, like a boulder entering the water, setting off a monstrous wave in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty. The Cabinet was the first to jump out and oppose it, saying that the appointment of officials should only be based on the evaluation of political performance, and if it was discussed in other matters, it would be unfair to those who have served conscientiously as officials. Regarding the sensitive topic of promoting the children of poor families, the cabinet bypassed and did not mention it.

After all, that Xie Fang is a generation of Confucianism, and he is not an official, and he has a lot of protégés, and he is very confident. Although he has a son who works in the sixth department, he is only a petty official of the seventh grade, and it is not a pity to say that if he doesn't do it, he won't do it. However, these old ministers had to rely more or less on the strength of their families, so they were unanimously silent on this matter. (To be continued......)