Xin Er said: "I know it has nothing to do with you. ”

Song Pian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ming Gong is wise! ”

Xin Er said: "I hope to have something to do with you. ”

Song Pian was stunned and said, "What does Ming Gong mean by this? ”

"Don't you understand?"

"Foolish, please make it public."

Xin Er smiled and said, "Think about it, think about it, think about it, and you can understand." ”

Song Pian thought hard, as if he understood, but he didn't seem to understand, and he said in horror: "Ming Gong ......." ”

"Old Song, you go out first, I have something to say to Jing Huan."

Just like after begging to vigorously accept the task of investigating the source of the rumors yesterday, because he felt that the task was very heavy at that time, when he said goodbye and left the hall, his steps were slightly heavy, and Song Pian also dragged his heavy steps and went out of the hall backwards.

When he reached the verandah outside the hall, he straightened up, raised his face and raised his eyes, and met the eyes of the people in the hall.

Xin Er still had a smile on his face, seemingly amiable, but the two were separated by a long distance between the hall and the outside of the hall, one was in the deep hall, and the other was in the corridor painted with colorful paintings. Song Pian couldn't help but think: "Is this still the same Xin Youshu when he was in Jiankang County in the past?" ”

In the past, when he was in Jiankang County, he was actually a person and treated people and things, and there was not much difference between him and today, they were all the same city government was deep and polite, and there were very few times when he was angry with thunder, on the surface, it seemed that there was no change, but for some reason, it made Song Pian no longer like before, daring to act casually in front of him, and now he only felt that he was unfathomable and terrifying.

Xin Er smiled slightly and nodded to Song Pian.

Song Pian hurriedly lowered his head in panic, half-bowed, saluted again, and exited the corridor, and then turned around and walked along the bluestone road in the courtyard towards the outside of the mansion.

Only Xin Er and Huang Rong were left in the hall.

Huang Rong and the others withdrew their eyes from Song Pian, cast them on themselves, and said in a timely manner: "Ming Gong, I summoned Rong here today just for Song Xian to spread rumors and rumors, right?" ”

"Not bad."

"What is Ming Gong going to do with this?"

"I was about to ask your opinion."

Because Huang Rong likes to wear green robes in his spare time, whether at home, or visiting friends or attending banquets, he often wears green clothes, and his words and deeds are reserved, so those noble-born scholars in Beijing who look down on him ridiculed him in private and gave him the nickname "Bi Goose".

At this time, Huang Rong sat on the couch, his waist was straight, and his neck was high, although he had just come out of the official office and was not wearing a green robe and civilian clothes, but his sitting posture was really like a goose, and this nickname was really not wrong at all.

When Fang Xin Er was talking to Song Pian, Huang Rong had already had a brain teaser, and he had thought about Song Xian's matter, and when he heard Xin Xian's question, he didn't hesitate, and immediately replied, saying: "Ming Gong, Rong's foolish opinion, first, it's best not to rush to catch Song Xian!" ”

"And the second?"

"Second, Rong thinks that he can secretly investigate Song Xian's correspondence in recent days, and who he has met."

These two points are exactly the same as Xin Er's decision, Xin Er did not move, and asked, "Is there a third one?" ”

"Yes."

"What's the third?"

Huang Rong's gray-brown eyes, revealing a gloomy light, said: "Third, the investigation of Song Xian's recent letters and the people he has met can focus on whether there are scholars from Xijun, Qilian and other counties, and if so, then see if these scholars have anything to do with Zhongzheng in Xijun, Qilian and other counties." ”

"What if it matters?"

"If there is a relationship,...... Ming Gong, isn't this a great opportunity to take the opportunity to replace all the counties in Xijun, Qilian and other counties and replace them with overseas Chinese? ”

Xijun is the ancestral home of the Song family, and the county guard of Qilian County was previously Song Hong's second son Song Jian, and the Song family was very influential in the local area; On the other hand, the Zhongzheng of these two counties are currently indigenous celebrities who are biased towards the political positions of the Song and Pan clans.

"Zhongzheng" this thing, holding the evaluation of the township products, to put it simply, determines the career prospects of all the scholars in the township, to the emphasis on the Zhongzheng, to give the high-grade township scholars, must be more consistent with their political position, at least not contrary to the word, or "the same kind", so, when the scholars they appreciate enter the official career, because these scholars have high rural quality, high reputation, whether it is the official position, the subsequent promotion, are the middle and low-class rural scholars can not be compared, in other words, Compared with other scholars, it is obvious that these scholars are on the fast track, and they can rise to the top and take power more quickly and quickly, and as a result, they will be the key factor in determining the formulation and implementation of imperial policies.

Due to the limited political and economic resources, the contradiction between the native and the frequented scholars is very intense, which can be seen from the fact that Huang Rong was called "Bi Goose" by the indigenous scholars of Beijing. ——As early as Jiankang County, Xin Er already had a deep and personal feeling about this, so in the subsequent political struggle with the Song Dynasty, Fan and other families, Xin Er chose to rely on Yushi and Hanshi as his political basic plate, such as Sun Yan, Tang Ai, Huang Rong, Yang Fu, and Yang Chao, all of whom were born from Yushi, and Zhang Gui was the representative of Hanshi.

Through the military power in his hands, and the support and assistance of Sun Yan and other scholars and Han scholars, of course, there are also the correct reasons for the strategy adopted by Xin Er to divide and win over the indigenous scholars, Xin Er has successively won the victory in the struggle against the Song family and the Fan family, but it can be said realistically that at the bottom, in the counties, Xin Er's political power is still relatively weak.

Since taking power, Xin Er has always wanted to change this situation, and has done something about it.

On the one hand, it set up martial arts and athletes' camps to expand its influence among the common people.

On the other hand, even in the appointment of the "zhongzheng" in each county, up to now, some changes have been made, and most of the zhongzheng of the overseas Chinese county have been replaced by yushi, but the indigenous counties such as Xijun have not yet had the opportunity to reform, and the "zhongzheng" of such counties are still all indigenous scholars.

If the "three provinces and six ministries system" is regarded as Xin'er's reform at the top of the political structure, "replacing at least half of the county's zhongzheng with scholars" is the reform that Xin'er wants to carry out at the grassroots level of the political structure.

And compared with the former, the latter is more important to Xin Er in the long run.

Only all the time, there is no chance.

Now, as Huang Rong said, the opportunity has come.

In fact, this is also the root cause of why Xin Er did not ask for begging to vigorously arrest Song Xian, and Xin Er also thought of this.

However, thinking of this and thinking of this, check Song Xian's correspondence and the people he has seen recently, this matter can be handed over to Qi Dali to do, after finding out, how to find out the content, involving the Zhongzheng of Xijun, Qilian and other counties, and how to write to the court, the matter of changing Zhongzheng, this major matter, Qi Dali is not capable of doing it, and he has to choose another person, this is the reason why Xin Er summoned Huang Rong to see.

Xin Er said calmly: "Jing Huan, the correspondence and the people and things that I have seen in recent days have been vigorously investigated. It is estimated that it will not take long to find out clearly, and when it is cleared, the rest of the things will be handed over to you, how about it? ”

Some people are officials, and they are delicate in all directions, and they are afraid of offending people; Some people are officials, brave and diligent, and are not afraid of offending people.

Huang Rong is the second kind of person, and Xin Er's words are exactly what he wants.

If the matter of replacing the indigenous scholars as the scholars to serve as the Zhongzheng is done by him Huang Rong, then it is conceivable that the image of his Huang Rong in the minds of the county scholars and Han scholars will inevitably be improved by a leap, and his Huang Rong's fame in the domestic scholars will naturally rise and become a "leader".

In the Qin Dynasty in the previous generation, there was a code of "Leaping Dragon Gate", and his Huang Rong's home gate was unspeakable, and it would become the Dragon Gate in the eyes of many scholars. Those indigenous "celebrities" who hated Huang Rong deeply, mocked him, and called him "Bi Goose", at that time, Huang Rong wanted to see what kind of look they would look like! He stayed down and said, "Ming Gong, please rest assured, Rong, this matter will be done steadily!" ”

"'Too much', this is a wise saying. Jing Huan, you have to remember that you can't implicate too much, and you can stop in moderation. ”

If the implication is too large, the resistance will be great, and the resistance will be great, so it is necessary to "stop in moderation".

Huang Rong said: "Rong knows. ”

"Xijun is the hometown of Song Gong, and the Zhongzheng of this county must be won!"

It can't be implicated too widely, but the focus must be there, and the focus is West County. Xijun is the hometown of the Song family, as long as the Zhongzheng of Xijun can be brought down and replaced by Yushi, this is a weather vane for the Zhongzheng and scholars of the entire Dingxi counties.

Huang Rong understood and said, "Yes, Rong understands." ”

"Song Pian is expected to be waiting for you outside, so you should go first."

Huang Rong responded: "No." ”

Song Pian walked out of the hall with heavy steps, but Huang Rong came out of the hall, but with a brisk step.

He was very excited, walked out of the hall, and said in his heart while walking towards the door of the house: "The indigenous scholars control the counties and the righteousness, promote the local scholars, and belittle the overseas Chinese, for a long time. Now that I am in a high position, I am still despised and humiliated by Song and Fan, hateful and hateful!

"On the day of Jiankang County, I once said that Ming Gong would change Jiankang Zhongzheng to take on the role of overseas Chinese. In the following, Jiankang and other overseas Chinese counties are mostly overseas Chinese, but the public opinion and township comments of the rest of the counties are still controlled by the so-called indigenous masters, and now take advantage of Song Xian's rumors and rumors, even if it is not possible to replace all the county Zhongzheng with overseas Chinese in one fell swoop for the time being, but as long as the Zhongzheng of the West County can be replaced first, the others can be done slowly! The completion of this matter will not only benefit our generation of overseas Chinese, but more importantly, it will be of great benefit to the future governance of the Ming Duke and the foundation of the country! ”

When he came out of the door of Duke Xin's mansion, Huang Rong saw that Song Pian was standing on the side of the ox cart parked on the road in front of the door, as Xin Er expected, waiting for him.

Huang Rong just didn't see him, went to his car by himself, and was about to board the car, when he heard Song Pian's shout: "Huang Gong, Huang Gong, please don't hurry up." ”

Huang Rong paused, pretended to see Song Pian, and said, "Song Gong, why haven't you left yet?" ”

There were many officials from various prefectures waiting outside the door to see Xin'er, since Huang Rong stood still, Song Pian had no choice but to go to him in front of him, let people look at him, full of humility, and said: "Huang Gong, the lower officials have something unclear, I want to ask Huang Gong." ”

"What's wrong?"

Song Pian looked at the surrounding officials and said in embarrassment: "Huang Gong, this seems to be not a place to talk. ”

"Get in the car."

Huang Rong entered the car first, Song Pian hesitated, and finally ignored the eyes of the surrounding officials and followed in.

Two people sit opposite each other in the car.

Huang Rong asked, "Song Gong, what do you don't know?" ”

Song Pian said: "Huang Gong, in the Shicai Hall, Ming Gong said to me that I hope Song Xian's rumors have something to do with me, what do you mean by this?" I thought about it and thought about it, I couldn't figure it out, so I begged Huang Gong to teach me. ”

Huang Rong is more than forty years old, with this age, his current official position, he is honored as a "Gong", but it is also well deserved, only Song Pian has a different background, he is the son of the Song family of the first-class valve family in Dingxi, and is the highest representative of the Song family in the court, this "Gong" in his mouth, the gold content is far greater than others, just in front of so many officials, he got his sentence "Huang Gong", Huang Rong's heart is quite comfortable, and the shelf is enough, after all, this matter is related to Xin Er's subsequent major planning, and Huang Rong will no longer take it big, Knowingly, he asked, stroked his beard, and said, "What is so difficult to understand when Ming Gong said this?" Ming Gong's meaning is very clear. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Why did Song Fang go to prison, doesn't Song Gong know?"

Song Fang was imprisoned for more than one crime, causing someone to poison Ji Wei is one, bribing An Chong, intending to assassinate Xin Yi is one, and the latter crime was exposed by Song Pian. The meaning of Huang Rong's words is obviously referring to this verse.

When Song Pian was in the hall, he vaguely guessed this, but with the psychology of luck, he hoped that it was not this, and when he heard Huang Rong's words, the only remaining illusion was punctured, and his face was suddenly discouraged.

He said in his heart: "It's not enough to sell Song Fang, does Xin Youzhu really want me to sell Song Xian again?" ”

I was speechless for a while.

Huang Rong said: "What? Song Gong still hasn't understood, or is he unwilling? ”

Song Pian cried and said, "Song Xian and I are brothers of the same clan, Huang Gong, this ......"

"Oh, it's not that Song Gong didn't understand, it seems that he didn't want to."

"It's not that I don't want to, it's just that Song Xian ......"

Huang Rong said lightly: "Song Xian and Gong are brothers of the same clan, so what is the relationship between Song Fang and Gong?" ”

Song Fang and Song Pian are also brothers.

Song Pian was speechless.

"Duke Song, why didn't Duke Ming punish you for your bribery? Don't you have a count in your heart? That's because Ming Gong is a person who values old feelings, Ming Gong has old feelings for you, affection, Song Gong, do you have Ming Gong? ”

Song Pian's face was red and white, and at the end, he gritted his teeth and said, "Xia Guan understands!" He added, "However, Song Xian and Song Fang's brotherly relationship is very deep, and since Song Fang was imprisoned and executed, Song Xian and Xia Guan have never seen each other." Even though Xia Guan wanted to do this for Ming Gong, he was cut off from contact with Song Xian now, but he didn't know, how could he contribute to Ming Gong? ”

"What does 'longitudinal be' mean? Song Gong, listening to your tone, you are still reluctant. ”

“…… The lower official lost his words, and the lower official was very reluctant. ”

"It's good if you want to. As for Song Xian not associating with you, Song Gong, this is your family matter, I can't help, but as long as you have a sincere heart to serve Ming Gong, I think you will always be able to come up with a solution to this problem. ”

But why did Song Pian betray his clan again? Because the matter of changing the Zhongzheng is very important, it must be conclusive, so that the opponents have nothing to criticize, who are the scholars who have been exchanged letters and seen recently, this is certainly a piece of evidence, but this is only superficial evidence, and it may be said to be "far-fetched", and someone from within the Song family must come out to testify, which can be regarded as "conclusive".

Song Xian has broken off friendship with Song Pian, this is indeed a trouble, but this trouble is not in Xin Er's consideration, he has already gotten on Xin Er's ship, and now he can't jump ship, how to solve this trouble, it is indeed only Song Pian himself who can figure out a way.

In Jiankang County back then, Song Pian was very chic, looking at the empty office, ignoring official business, daily drinking, traveling, talking about Xuan, and taking five stones, but now, one wrong step, one wrong step, but it is chic and early, like falling into a deep quagmire. Judging from the changes in his current situation, he has always been greedy for money and bribes, happy in time, and hoping to "take care of his family" with this, but it can be understood.

Song Pian got out of Huang Rong's car, his steps became heavier and heavier, returned to his car, logged in and sat down, and after Huang Rong's car went first, he also ordered to set off.

……

Seeing Huang Rong and Song Pian, Xin Er met with more than ten officials waiting to be seen, and in the evening, the government officials led a medical officer in.

This medical officer is the head of several medical officers who went to Xin's house to diagnose Ling Huyan on the order of Xin Er.

Entering the hall, the medical officer bowed to the ground and said, "Congratulations to Gong Xin! ”

Xin Er stopped writing, his heart moved, and asked, "What are you happy about?" ”

The medical officer said: "Tell Gong Xin that Lord Xin is not infected with a disease, but is happy!" ”