Pan Lian's expression darkened suddenly, and he nodded and shook his head in distraction while holding the tea cup.

It seems that Pan Lian has encountered some major incident!

Shang Cheng thought for a while, weighed his words and said, "I shouldn't have asked. However, Yu Qinggong, if you don't get in the way, can you tell me about the matter, maybe I can help you with some ideas? ”

Pan Lian raised his eyes and glanced at Shang Cheng. Shang Cheng's sincere tone still made him feel a surge of gratitude in his heart. But he himself knew that no one could help him with his family affairs at this time. And he knew that Shang Cheng didn't really help him by saying this, but just wanted to use the excuse of the matter to make him vent the resentment in his heart, so as not to hold back something wrong in his chest.

He smiled dryly, "It's not a big deal. This matter has already spread in Shangjing, even if I don't say it, you can ask someone else to inquire......" At this point, there was no more follow-up. It's one thing for Shang Cheng to ask someone to inquire, and it's another thing to hear him say it with his own ears, so he was worried that if he complained to Shang Cheng was known by someone with a heart, would it bring any trouble to Shang Cheng's promotion. He and Shang Cheng just nodded and dealt with each other in general, although he secretly contributed to the trouble when Shang Cheng was in Yanshan at the end of last winter, but it was not out of public intentions, so it was not a favor from people, and he never thought of asking Shang Cheng to repay one or two; At present, it is the juncture of the imperial court to decide the candidate for the governor of Yanshan, and if he lets Shang Cheng be an outsider involved for no reason, and then suffers some twists and turns in his career, he is really a little worried about the past.

Shang Cheng didn't think as far as Pan Lian thought. Whether things are said or not, they are all in Pan Lian. Pan Lian said, he listened, helped Pan Lian if he could, and said a few words of enlightenment if he couldn't help him; Pan Lian doesn't say it, he doesn't care; As for asking someone to inquire about it, he still has a lot of things to do, so how can he have the time to eat radishes and worry about it. He saw that Pan Lian didn't seem to want to dwell on this topic, so he lifted the teapot and filled the bowls of the two with hot tea, and asked casually: "I went to the army a few days ago, but I didn't see Cao Zhang and Cao Shilang, and he was also assigned to the place?" ”

Cao Chunde...... He has been deposed as a citizen. ”

"Cao Shilang has been dismissed?" Shang Cheng looked at Pan Lian in surprise. He immediately realized that he was not right. It is more serious to be deposed from the people than to be dismissed! The dismissal of an official is only a relatively severe punishment, and after two years, if there is an appropriate opportunity, there is a good chance that he will be reinstated. But dismissal is another matter entirely, it means "dismissal from public office and never hiring", in a way, even more serious than beheading, a person who receives this kind of punishment will have to bear a bad reputation for the rest of his life, and his children and grandchildren will be dragged down, and several generations will be banned from entering the office! He couldn't help but wonder, what did Cao Zhang do and would be punished so severely?

He didn't bother to correct his speech, and hurriedly asked, "When did this happen?" ”

"Not long ago, at the end of August and the beginning of September......" Pan Lian was even more surprised than him. Cao Zhang's dismissal was due to a reason, and the summary of the edict of the deposition was included in the "Chao Pao", which was compiled by the three provinces every ten years, and the full text of the edict and a detailed explanation of the reasons for the case were also included in the "Di Bao", which was printed and distributed by the Inscription Yuan on a monthly basis. Could it be that this person never looked at these two official books? He didn't even think carefully about the big and small news in the court newspaper and the Di newspaper, so how did he become an official?

Pan Lian didn't know, in fact, Shang Cheng also read these two "newspapers", but most of the time he glanced at the topic and put it aside. In Shang Cheng's eyes, both the "Chao Bao" and the "Di Bao" were newspapers that were issued to officials and the people at the same time, and their content was either singing or praising virtue, or reporting the personnel changes of the imperial court and local officials, or recording the emperor's daily life, words and deeds. His main focus was on the military newspapers published by the Ministry of War. The military newspaper of the Ministry of War has a high level of secrecy and more detailed content, and the military conflicts between Dazhao and neighboring countries will also be announced in a timely manner, which is very beneficial for him to improve his military accomplishment and understand the situation around Dazhao.

"What did Cao Shilang do?" Shang Cheng asked.

"He didn't do anything wrong, but his family was not careful......"

"What's wrong with his family?" Shang Cheng is even stranger.

"It's all caused by Cao Chunde's youngest son."

Cao Zhang has three sons, the first two are raised by concubines, and only the youngest one is born to his wife, so this doll has been very precious to his two children since childhood. This child was born smart, four years old can read and seven years old can poetry, at the age of nine with his mother to Ganlu Temple to worship the Buddha, but also with the abbot of the temple monk on the seat of Zen, was surprised by the monk as a prodigy, since then famous. It was because of the young son's fame that Cao Zhang's worries. He was afraid that his son would be proud and complacent and then scorn his studies and end up with nothing, and he was worried that he was too busy with official work to take care of and teach, so that the child would be contaminated with the habit of being contaminated in the capital and miss the future, so when the youngest son was ten years old, Cao Zhang and his family sent the doll back to their hometown in Xuzhou to be handed over to their strict father and mother to discipline. Cao Zhang's calculation is exquisite, but there is one thing that he didn't think clearly, one by one, he and his two children love the doll so much, so his parents must not dote on this in-law's grandson? No one knows what happened after this, and no one in the capital has seen Cao Xiaosan for five or six years, but when people heard about the little prodigy of the Cao family, it was already in a major case of human life revealed by the Yushitai This spring, Cao Xiaosan killed someone in the local area for the sake of taking the **, and afterwards the old lady of the Cao family came forward to deal with the aftermath, and the local state and county officials in Xuzhou colluded to conceal it, and as a result, the bitter master's family handed the paper all the way to the Huanghuai West Road to supervise the imperial history......

“…… Huang Huaixi's imperial history Yang Yi is famous for his iron-faced selflessness, more than ten years ago when he started Daqing Palace, because the inner court occupied more than one street of the people, even the saint was swept away, how to talk about a Cao family? A volume of impeachment was handed to the imperial court with a plea of the Xuzhou magistrate, and on the same day, Cao Chunde was dismissed from his duties and returned home to listen to the investigation, and was immediately dismissed from all official positions. ”

After listening to Pan Lian's account, Shang Chang fell into silence for a long time. He didn't ask how the case ended up. Since that Yang Yushi even dared to lose the emperor's face, the fate of the Cao family's junior can be imagined, and those officials who colluded and covered up probably did not have any good results. He had reviewed the cases involving officials in the Yanshan Patrol Division, and knew that the Da Zhao Criminal Law was still very harsh in prosecuting officials for dereliction of duty and breaking the law, and the officials of those prefectures and counties in Xuzhou were at least sentenced to prison or exile, and it was very likely that one or two heads would be cut off......

After a long time, Pan Lian sighed and said, "It's a pity for Cao Chunde." In fact, he is also a person with both talent and virtue, but he was affected by his son. ”

Shang Cheng did not nod in agreement with Pan Lian's words. He did not agree with Pan Lian's evaluation of Cao Zhang. Family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, Cao Zhang can't even handle his own housework, so how can he deal with state affairs and world affairs?

Pan Lian didn't expect Shang Cheng to say such a thing at all. In his impression, Shang Chengcheng is a fake monk who is greedy for a hundred zhang red dust and abandons the Buddha to return to the world, and he has martial arts and bravery, which is the strength of Shang Blind, but if he leaves the sword and spear of the Bing Ge battle array, he is nothing! is such a reckless military man, but he suddenly said such a thought-provoking sentence, which is also in line with the "Analects of the University" in the "Heart is right, and then the body is cultivated; Self-cultivation and then family Qi; The family is united and then the country is governed; The core idea of "the rule of the country and then the peace of the world", which simply makes Pan Lian feel incredible!

A monk who has not worn a robe, but summed up a very incisive Confucian truth, which is really unbelievable!

He glanced at Shang Cheng casually, picked up the bowl and took a sip of tea, held the cup and said with a smile: "Zida has read the Analects? What you just said about 'family affairs, state affairs, world affairs' is sonorous and concise, with a faint sound of gold and stone, which makes people feel deafening and deafening, which is really a very rare epigram. One by one, it seems that this is only half-talked...... Is there any more sentence above? ”