Seeing that there are still a few days before the New Year's Festival, and the city of Beijing is getting colder and colder, the north wind is howling, blowing off the tiles on the roof of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the crisp cracking sound spreads, making the passing officials detour one after another.

Wenyuan Pavilion was first built in Nanjing by the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancient and modern Tibetans, it is a royal library, and later Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, and also built a Wenyuan Pavilion, and the famous "Yongle Canon" was written here.

During the orthodox years, Nanjing Wenyuan Pavilion was destroyed by a fire, and since then, there is only one Wenyuan Pavilion in the world.

In fact, the most important role of Wenyuan Pavilion is to serve as a place for the office of cabinet ministers, of course, Wenyuan Pavilion covers an area of not small, and it is not just a building, the emperor, important ministers, and Hanlin are here to read books and talk about scriptures and history.

Put down the scroll, rubbed his eyebrows, Zhang Juzheng handed the scroll to the little official, since Emperor Jiajing moved to Xiyuan, the actual office of the cabinet was moved to Xiyuan Zhilu, and Wenyuan Pavilion was empty, so he was here all year round, not inconspicuous at all.

Through the gap in the bookshelf, he saw a middle-aged man copying at the desk, Zhang Juzheng knew that it was Gu Congli, a native of Huating, who was proficient in calligraphy, and was copying the "Yongle Canon" by order.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth with an arc, next year's township test, the next year's test, and I don't know if that guy can enter the Hanlin Academy and enter the Wenyuan Pavilion to see this "Yongle Canon".

Thinking of his old friend, Zhang Juzheng's eyes were a little complicated, although he was still a small talent, but several big victories in the southeast in the past two years were closely related to him, and he may even have been involved in the court.

Out of the Forbidden City, Zhang Juzheng went to the Hanlin Courtyard for a turn, and happened to pick up two letters that had just been delivered.

There are still six days to Chinese New Year's Eve, five days of seal rest, and then seven days of rest for the Lantern Festival, which is one of the few holidays for Ming officials.

The first letter was a family letter, Zhang Juzheng put it in his sleeve for the time being, opened the second letter and swept his eyes, Huating Qian Yuan.

After quickly browsing it, Zhang Juzheng was full of doubts in his heart, hesitated for a moment and changed directions, and went straight to find Wang Shizhen in the same year.

"Hey, uncle, long time no see." Wang Shizhen looked like a spring breeze and a horse's hoof.

For him, this year is a good year, first of all, his father Wang Chen entered the right squire of the military department to reunite in Beijing, a few days ago Sima Nie Bao was dismissed from office, Wang Chen may be directly on the military department Shangshu, Wang Shizhen's eldest son Wang Shiqi was born last month, just did the full moon wine.

The two were originally in the same year, and they met in Hangzhou last year, so naturally the relationship was not bad, Zhang Juzheng asked in a low voice after a few greetings: "How is Jiaoshan in Zhaojiao?" ”

Wang Shizhen's face darkened, "I just visited yesterday, Jiaoshan has been severely punished in the past two years, his leg injury is not good, he is swollen and hard, he can't bend and stretch, but his spirit is still good." ”

On the eighteenth day of the first month of the thirty-second year of Jiajing, Yang Jisheng impeached Yan Song in "Please Punish the Thief and the Minister", and counted his "five traitors and ten crimes", and was imprisoned in Zhao Prison for nearly two years.

"No one has mentioned Jiaoshan in the DPRK recently, right?" Zhang Juzheng asked tentatively.

"Nope." Wang Shizhen was a little puzzled, she and Yang Jisheng had a close relationship, but Zhang Juzheng and Yang Jisheng had never had any contact, and they didn't care about it for the past two years, so why did they care so much today.

Faced with Wang Shizhen's doubts, Zhang Juzheng found an excuse to prevaricate in the past, wondering why Qian Yuan mentioned Yang Jisheng in the letter.

Although they have been separated for more than a year, the contact between the two is quite sophisticated, Zhang Juzheng knows Qian Yuan's temperament very well, and will never mention the name Yang Jisheng for no reason.

"By the way, do you remember the Qian family?" Wang Shizhen smiled with interest: "At that time, I only thought he was a scholar, but I didn't expect that there would be a general, and the battle of Linpingshan in Hangzhou is said to have come from his handwriting." ”

"The capture of more than 400 Japanese is indeed a big deal, but the good news says that it is Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, the prefect of Hangzhou, right?"

"Hey, where do you know this news?" Wang Shizhen said with a smile: "The Japanese are rampant, and the younger brother is now in Hangzhou, and it is said that Qian Zhancai has become a Buddha in ten thousand families." ”

After chatting for a while, Zhang Juzheng was about to find an excuse to leave, but before leaving, he hesitated again and again and asked in a low voice: "Yuanmei, Banzhou Gong...... Can the DPRK and China be disposed of? ”

"It has been arraigned twice, the first time was the court interrogation, Banzhou's public nature was as fierce as fire, saying that in the past six months, more than 5,000 Japanese people have been killed, and Wang Jiangjing has won a great victory in the first battle, just because of the villains in the court...... His Majesty was furious. ”

"It is said that Your Majesty asked Xu Ge Lao and Lu Ge Lao?"

"I don't know." Wang Shizhen stopped his mouth vigilantly, this person returned to Beijing in the same year for more than a year, buried in the book, and today he asked mostly about taboo things in the court.

Zhang Juzheng smiled and said goodbye, and when he left the palace, he did not go straight home, but went around to the six yamen not far away.

There is no purpose, and he is not here to find anyone, Zhang Juzheng is just a little sad, three days ago, it was here that he and Nie Bao in cloth clothes met for the last time.

Nie Bao is nearly seventy years old, and it will be difficult to meet again in the future, although Zhang Juzheng is in Beijing, he is not well-informed, but he faintly feels something strange.

First of all, Zhao Wenhua wrote to impeach, and then Jiaxing was victorious, Nie Bao, who went south to supervise the war, suddenly returned to Beijing to ask for Zhishi, and His Majesty issued an order to summon Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong to return to Beijing and go to prison, and then Nie Bao was dismissed from office.

Zhang Juzheng has a feeling that all this seems to have something to do with the friend who is far away in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, this speculation comes from so many letters in the past six months, and also from Yang Jisheng who Qian Yuan suddenly mentioned in this letter in his sleeve.

Suddenly, the dull sound of horses' hooves woke Zhang Juzheng from his thoughts, and he turned his head to see that the tired soldier jumped off his horse, holding a sealed letter and shouting: "Don't stop the military report!" ”

There was no need to go specifically to investigate, Zhang Juzheng, who was standing at the door of the Sixth Yamen, soon heard the news.

Six days ago, a small group of Japanese pirates invaded Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jiaxing, and Taizhou, and the officers and soldiers in various places resisted unfavorably, many of them fell to the hands of thieves, and even the guerrilla general Zongli died in ambush in Yuyao.

Not only that, the wolf soldiers of Yongshun Prefecture plundered in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, and the whole family of Shiju was slaughtered, and the south of the Yangtze River was shaken.

Zhou Xuan, the newly arrived governor of Zhejiang, was at a loss, and Hu Zongxian, the prefect of Hangzhou, urgently asked the wolf soldiers of Tianzhou to go south to sweep away the small group of Japanese robbers who had invaded Haiyan and Haining, and beheaded two hundred.

The first to receive the news was not the military department, but the Jinyi Guard.

Lu Bing, who was tall and long, stroked his long beard in his hand, frowned, and said: "Although he has a lot of military exploits, he is only a yellow-mouthed son after all, I didn't expect his vision to be so accurate." ”

"This guy has a great reputation in the southeast." Zhou Hongzheng, a thousand households of Zhejiang Jinyi Wei who escorted Zhang Jing to Beijing, nodded and said: "Go into battle to kill the Japanese, sort out internal affairs, make suggestions, and have a long-term vision, and are known as the most outstanding heroes in the southeast of this generation." ”

"There is no shortage of talented people in the southeast, but this Qian Zhan has a pure heart." Lu Bing looked at the court news record again, "Zhang Banzhou also fulfilled his promise and did mention it...... Yongshun, Guishun, and Baojing wolf soldiers were all undisciplined, and the wolf soldiers of Weitianzhou fought bravely and did not commit any crimes. ”

Lu Bing sighed slightly, although the Tianzhou wolf soldiers happened to show their faces, but after Wang Jiangjing's victory, the Japanese invaded ashore before the New Year's Festival, and the Yongshun wolf soldiers plundered Tongxiang again, only afraid that Zhang Jing and Li Tianpet would not escape this catastrophe.

"Your Excellency!" The guards outside reported loudly: "Your Majesty has summoned your lord to the palace." ”

"Someone." Lu Bing immediately got up, raised his arms to let the entourage serve and change clothes, turned his head to Zhou Hongzheng and said: "I'm afraid that this matter will be resolved before the New Year's Festival, you will go back to Zhejiang tomorrow, and if there is any news about Naxiu in the future, you can send a copy over." ”

"Yes."

Zhou Hongzheng bent down and withdrew respectfully, muttering in his heart that he was afraid that he would be polite to the Qian family in the future.