After defeating Zhou Yanru and taking over as the first assistant, Wen Tiren realized such a "truth": no matter how big an official is, no matter whether he can make political achievements, as long as he is still an official, he must have political enemies.

If you want to do a good job as an official, in addition to coaxing or deceiving or pulling your tail, so that your boss is unwilling or unwilling or afraid to attack you, the most important thing is to hide your tail and knock down your political opponents cleanly, thoroughly, and neatly.

The fact is also that after taking over as the first assistant, there are countless people who have impeached Wen Tiren. Instead of bringing him down, these men set themselves on fire, or were dismissed, exiled, or even killed with a rod on the spot.

Therefore, every once in a while, Wen Tiren must comb it again in case a political opponent slips through the net.

At this time, he was obviously combing again, thinking of Zheng Jun, the former Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, and because of this, Zheng Zheng returned to August of the same year.

Because Zheng Zheng was a member of the Zheng family of the Yimen and had never heard of him intervening in the party dispute, Wen Tiren wanted to see if Zheng Zheng could be used for his own purposes, so he took the opportunity of his courtesy visit and asked tentatively: "What is the Southern Qing Discussion?" ”

Zheng Zheng said without thinking: "The country needs talents, but the temples have not seen talents." ”

What does he mean by that? Isn't it blaming us for our inaction in employing people? Secretly dissatisfied, Wen Tiren defended: "If you don't use talents, there is no talent in the world." ”

Zheng Zheng only thought that he was discussing his knowledge with himself, and said truthfully: "Only when you use people will you come out, and if you don't use people, you will be able to subside." Fang Jin's defense of the border is the most urgent, can be like Xiao Xiangguo's knowledge of Han Huaiyin, and the knowledge of Zong Liu's head Yue Wumu, why can't he succeed? ”

"Hmph, this kid is too uninteresting, if you keep him, he will be as sharp as a blade, and he will correct me and shake my phase."

Thinking of this, Wen Tiren stood up angrily, walked quickly in the house, and when he saw the sweat, he stopped, turned to his personal slave and said, "How did that happen?" ”

Wen Tiren is often so strange, and his personal slave is used to it, but he really doesn't know what he means, and hesitates: "I don't know what the master is referring to?" ”

Wen Tiren didn't want anyone to peek at him, naturally including his personal slave, Su Rili's favorite expression of personal slave, today because of his anxiety, he said impatiently: "It's Zheng Zheng's matter." ”

The personal slave suddenly realized, paused slightly, and said: "It is said that as long as you are still a person, you should have shortcomings and mistakes, but we have been following and monitoring Zheng Zheng for a long time, but I have found nothing. Nothing was found in the follow-up surveillance, and there were not even bad rumors from the outside world.

Thanks to you, master, I heard that Wu Zongda, who was promoted to a scholar of Dongge University with you, was Zheng Zheng's uncle, and got the words 'cane mother steaming concubine' from Wu Zongda. ”

"Hmph, you dog minion, how do you know, that's my lord. That Wu Zongda is even more ignorant of the world, how can I get it? Well, I can't tell you about that. ”

Thinking secretly, Wen Tiren said: "If it weren't for Zheng Zheng's disrespect to his uncle, the master would not be able to spend money, you know, I didn't spend less money." ”

The personal slave echoed: "Yes, it's a loss to the master." However, with only one sentence, it is not easy to bring down this Zheng Zheng. We waited and followed the master's prompt and found Xu Xi, a scholar from Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture.

This Xu Xi, who is still an acquaintance, immediately impeached Zheng Zheng for 'unfilial piety and adulterous sister', and finally put Zheng Zheng, a disgraceful guy, in prison.

I thought that this matter would be over, but I didn't want Feng Ying, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to have a lot of trouble, and I didn't think that the evidence was insufficient. I can't help it, I'll have to look for it later. It's strange that I can't find it.

Fortunately, when we were discouraged, we found out that his neighbor Yang had fought with Yan's father to buy a house and settled a grievance. I waited until I found her, persuaded her bitterly, and promised a lot of money before she was willing to come out to testify. ”

As he spoke, seeing Wen Tiren's eyes staring at him, he hurriedly said: "In this process, of course we didn't mention the master, and we didn't even expose our identity, and the clues and evidence were naturally gradually extracted by the government step by step." ”

"This old fellow is quite sensible, but he must have sensed something when he said this. Hmph, we'd rather bear people, never let people bear me, wait for this matter, except for him, we can't leave the slightest hidden danger for ourselves. ”

After making up his mind, Wen Tiren said: "Well, this thing is done well, and it should be praised." ”

The personal slave didn't know what he was thinking, he was happy in his heart, and said more and more pretentiously: "I thought that Zheng Zheng was dead this time, who would have thought that Wen Zhenmeng, Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and other celebrities would actually jump out and defend it, especially Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou, their words were very polite, saying that Zheng Zheng was in prison, or sat on false accusations, how could he show Dunlun's transformation?" ”

Wen Tiren was thinking: "These people, they look like scholars, but they can't mix with officialdom, and they are not as good as three-year-old children." Just like Zhou Yanru went to beg Xu Guangqi back then, hmph, it's good not to use him, but it's bad to use it.

However, after all, these people are too famous, and their incitement and demagogy are also great, and sometimes the emperor can't do anything to them, if they are allowed to talk about it non-stop, the result is really difficult to say.

But how do you shut them up? Alas, it's hard to shut them up. These people have just made a little reputation, but they don't eat hard and soft. What to do? ”

Wen Tiren couldn't think of it, his heart became annoyed, and when he saw that his personal slave suddenly stopped talking, he said with a slight reproach: "Say, why don't you say it?" ”

When the personal servant saw that he was silent in thought, thinking that he was tired of listening to it, lest he attract reproach, he stopped and looked at him. I didn't want to attract reproach again, I didn't want to do it, but I didn't dare to show it, and said truthfully: "Now, Feng Ying, the secretary of the Criminal Department, has the most important attitude, if he can close the case as soon as possible, there will definitely be fewer gossip." ”

"Although this guy is hiding it, we can also see that he is dissatisfied with us, before, he never dared to do this, he must have consciously known a little secret, and became bold.

Hmph, now is not the time to kill you, when the time comes, we will not keep you. Well, since we are determined to kill you, we will no longer hide it from you. ”

Thinking about it, Wen Tiren smiled and said: "What he said is very true, but this Feng Ying is also stubborn, I have repeatedly hinted to him, but he dares to pretend not to understand." ”

The personal family said unevenly: "The adult is the first assistant today, and a criminal department Shangshu dares to do this, and the adult still doesn't want to get him?" ”

Wen Tiren sighed helplessly and said, "What you don't understand, things in officialdom are complicated and ever-changing, not what you think." ”

The personal slave wanted to say more, but a family member came in and said: "Master Qiqi, someone sent a letter, saying that the master must be opened in person." ”

This is the way Wen Tiren arranged the informant to contact Wen Tiren, so Wen Tiren hurriedly took it and took it apart, but saw that it was written:

Feng Ying reported to the emperor with the closing report of "Zheng Zheng faked the illusion of the immortals, bewitched his father Zheng Zhenxian for no reason, and faked the criticism of the immortals, forcing his father to use the cane mother".

Wen Tiren looked at it, and was furious in his heart: "Feng Ying dares to do this, Tiren will not let you." There was nowhere to vent, so he looked at it close to the slave, and couldn't help but think: "Since Feng Ying has played, we must go out in person, this guy's mission is over, well, let him go." ”

Thinking about it, he poured the poison hidden in his sleeve into the teacup while he was unprepared, and said with a mockery: "No matter what, you have done your best, without you, there would be no ending today, after talking for a long time, your mouth should be thirsty, drink a cup of tea." ”

As he spoke, he gently pushed the teacup.

The personal slave did not doubt him, and was flattered to pick up the teacup and drank it all. After only a while, he was foaming at the mouth and died.

Since he became the first assistant, Wen Tiren has been secretly hiding poison in his sleeve, and today it finally came in handy.

When the personal slave fell to the ground, Wen Tiren kicked lightly with his foot, and when he saw that the fruit was dead, he said, "Liu San'er died of overwork, buried heavily, and showed compassion for his family", and went to see Chongzhen.