Zhou Zheng turned a blind eye to Hu Qingzheng's resentful expression, and left the Metropolitan Procuratorate after simply handling the matter.

The salt merchant's dishonesty was expected by Zhou Zheng, but now that he has too many things to do, he has no time to pay attention to them, so he will knock it first and give a warning.

After Zhou Zheng returned home, he pondered the impeachment of Zhou Yingqiu in the study.

This recital was not only to prevent Zhou Yingqiu from abolishing the eight towns, but also to cut off the eunuch party, so as not to be affected by the great liquidation after Chongzhen came to power.

If you want to stop a eunuch boss like Zhou Yingqiu, especially when you win a big victory in Liaodong, you will undoubtedly be very difficult when you are crazy about winning merit and glory.

Perhaps knowing the news of the reward in the imperial court, Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui and others arrived in Beijing three days earlier than expected, and then moved around the capital.

On July 13, Zhou Zheng asked Man Gui to drink tea in a teahouse.

Man Gui is still bearded, tall and mighty, but his expression is a little not good-looking.

"What are you looking for me to do?" Man Gui came up and went straight to the point.

Zhou Zheng saw him directly, so he said: "Zhou Yingqiu wants to remove the other eight towns outside Shanhaiguan, what do you think of Liaodong?" ”

Man Gui looked at Zhou Zheng a little strangely and said, "What does this have to do with our Liaodong?" ”

Zhou Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Man Gui with enlightenment.

Man Gui is just a military general, and he can't get involved in these major events in the imperial court, so it's a bystander's attitude. But what about Yuan Chonghuan, what is his attitude? Will he be happy to see it happen and increase his status in Liaodong, or will he oppose it knowing the importance of it?

Man Gui was now full of irritability because of the reward, and looked at Zhou Zhengdao: "Is there a turning point in this matter?" ”

Man Gui knew very few people in the capital, and he had some incense with Zhou Zheng, so he asked directly.

Zhou Zheng knew what he was asking, shook his head and said, "It's difficult, the decree of the reward has been prepared." ”

Most of the people who rewarded the holy decree were the Wei family, and then the eunuchs, and these people in Liaodong were just stained with a little soup.

Man Gui became more and more irritable, and his eyes were resentful. desperately saved Ningyuan and Jinzhou, but in the end they were bullied like this, which is really hateful!

Zhou Zheng knew the anger of the group of people in Liaodong, muttered for a moment, and said: "General Man, the water in the capital is deep, especially recently it seems very unpredictable, don't move around, try to leave Beijing as soon as possible." ”

Man Gui looked at Zhou Zheng, snorted coldly, got up and left.

Zhou Zheng knew that this cold snort was not coming at him, and when he saw Man Gui leaving, he pondered in his heart, stood up and left, and went straight to Honglu Temple.

Most of the generals in Liaodong did not have a courtyard in the capital and were arranged to live in Honglu Temple.

The doorman took Zhou Zheng's greeting post in, and not long after, the doorman took it out and returned it to Zhou Zheng, saying, "Zhou Yushi, Governor Yuan said that he didn't have time to see you." ”

Zhou Zheng didn't expect that Yuan Chonghuan would not see him.

"Okay, thank you." Zhou Zheng took back the prayer post as usual, looked at Honglu Temple again, and turned to leave.

Yuan Chonghuan should also be enraged, and he has no time to care about anything else.

This stingy reward of the imperial court will inevitably have a huge impact on Liaodong, and this influence can be seen now, and the impact in the future will be more and more terrifying.

Zhou Zheng did not pin his hopes on Yuan Chonghuan and the others, left Honglu Temple, returned to the Duchayuan, and sent the manuscript that had been prepared a long time ago.

Zhou Zheng refuted Zhou Yingqiu's proposal, and at the same time angrily condemned the matter of Liaodong's reward, accusing the court of being full of henchmen, abusing power to manipulate the country, causing chaos in the government, competing for merit, treating meritorious heroes harshly, and even bluntly saying that it would not take long for the country to be gone.

Zhou Zheng's recital almost bluntly said that the party was fighting for the country.

This recital first went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate Experience Division, and then transferred to the General Political Envoy Division.

The next day, Zhou Zheng went to work as usual, sitting in the class room, listening to all directions.

Yao Tongshun was in front of Zhou Zheng and said, "My lord, the villain heard that Governor Yuan went to visit the nine thousand years old yesterday, but he didn't enter the door. ”

Zhou Zheng hummed and took the teacup in front of him casually.

Perhaps, in Wei Zhongxian's eyes, Yuan Chonghuan is a border guard, and now that Liaodong is completely stable, it is not so important to recruit Yuan Chonghuan or not.

Yao Tongshun looked at Zhou Zheng and said, "The villain also heard that Governor Yuan met with Huo Tangbu of the Military Department and threatened to resign, and Huo Tangbu only prevaricated vaguely. ”

Huo Tang Department, that is, Huo Weihua, the new Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

Wang Zhichen was still on an equal footing with Yuan Chonghuan before Liaodong Jingluo, and in an instant he became the secretary of the Ministry of War, and after he resigned, Huo Weihua quickly became the new secretary of the Ministry of War, in fact, he is Yuan Chonghuan's junior, no matter in which aspect he can not compare to Yuan Chonghuan.

However, Yuan Chonghuan has made great contributions, and he has defended the line of Ningjin twice, and he has only been promoted from the 'right attendant rank of the military department' to the 'left attendant rank of the military department', and nothing else is there, it is really stingy and can no longer be stingy.

Zhou Zheng put down the teacup and said, "Is there any reaction to my playbook?" ”

Yao Tong said: "No, the envoy said that it was sent yesterday, but I don't know if it arrived in front of the emperor." ”

The transcript of the general political envoy should be sent to the cabinet, and then go to the celebrant and then to the Qianqing Palace.

Zhou Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "I'm going to go to court tomorrow, ready?" ”

Yao Tongshun hurriedly said: "It's all arranged, in addition to Hu Yushi, there is also the Chengshang Festival Cheng Yushi of Quzhou Mansion." The six departments are the officials, the four elders of the cabinet, the six Shangshu, the squire, the nine temples and the temple, etc., all have to go to the court, this time the number of people in the court is particularly large, and there are three people from Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, Zhao rate to teach ......"

Zhou Zheng listened and nodded slightly.

There are actually a lot of generals in Liaodong, but there are still people left, Wu Xiang, Zu Dashou and others did not come, and Mao Wenlong did not arrive. Mao Wenlong has not been in Beijing for many years, and once the court recruits him, he pretends to be sick, probably because he is afraid that it is a trap of the imperial court, and he will not be able to go back when he comes.

After a while, Zhou Zhengdao said: "Li Guopu still hasn't moved?" ”

Yao Tongshun understood the meaning of not moving, and said: "No, Li Zhanshi still entered the palace today, and I heard that he scolded the nine thousand years old in front of the emperor for half an hour, and returned to the house after coming out." ”

Zhou Zheng's expression became more and more weird, puzzled, Wei Zhongxian is not such a good-tempered person?

"Keep watching." Zhou Zhengdao.

Yao Tong complied, and seeing that Zhou Zheng had no other instructions, he quietly exited the class.

Zhou Zheng took a piece of paper in his hand, and while reading it, he pondered.

The immobility of the eunuchs made him very uneasy, and he did not know what conspiracy was brewing. If the eunuchs rise up in prison again, with his script, the Zhou family will have to go in.

Zhou Zheng looked at the official document in front of him, and his heart kept flashing with various thoughts, especially when he was about to go to the court tomorrow, he didn't know what kind of scene it was.

Zhou Zheng was in a mess in his heart, and he couldn't calm down until he got off work.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Zheng cleaned up and got up to leave the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Zhou Zheng went to Jiujiang Pavilion, inspected the progress and quality, talked with Master Liu for a while, and then turned to Zhou Ji.

On the way, he met Meng Hezhou and was pulled into a corner by him.

Meng Hezhou looked at Zhou Zheng, his expression was somewhat unkind, and said, "Zhou Yushi, you don't really want to harm Lord Wei, right?" ”

Zhou Zheng said as usual: "What good can I do if I harm him?" ”

Meng Hezhou looked at Zhou Zheng suspiciously, speechless for a long time.

Zhou Zheng not only prevented Wei Xizhuang from accepting the knighthood three times with a 'stern' attitude, but also let Wei Xizhuang hide in the edict, which is not the way a normal friend should get along, right?

But Zhou Zheng calculated that Wei Xizhuang would do no harm and no benefit, and it didn't make sense.

Zhou Zheng knew that there was really no way to explain this matter to outsiders, so he looked at Meng Hezhou and said, "I am for the good of Lao Wei, and I will not harm him." In this way, you keep an eye on him for me these days, and don't let him out of prison, and let him do the rest. ”

Meng Hezhou also heard the rumors about Wei Xizhuang outside, Zhou Zhengming wanted Wei Xizhuang to cut off with the Wei family and Wei Zhongxian, he didn't understand Zhou Zheng's purpose, and said with a warning look: "Zhou Yushi, Lord Wei has been kicked out of the Wei family now, and you have no backer, I hope what you said is true." ”

Zhou Zheng not only did not get angry, but nodded approvingly, and said: "People can only see the people around them clearly when they are down, you are good, rest assured." ”

Meng Hezhou had been carefully examining Zhou Zheng, and when he saw that he couldn't see any flaws, his heart was a little relieved, and he said, "I'll tell you a piece of news, Wei Zhongxian and others have been haunting the palace a lot recently. ”

Zhou Zheng was stunned, isn't this normal? Immediately, his heart moved slightly, and he said, "Is there anything special?" ”

Meng Hezhou shook his head and said, "Lord Wei said, it's just a little abnormal, although Wei Zhongxian often goes in and out of the palace, but it has been very frequent recently, and some have passed. ”

Zhou Zheng frowned, and suddenly thought of a certain possibility in his heart, and said solemnly: "I know, you tell Lao Wei that something may happen in the near future, let him find a way to keep an eye on the palace." ”

Meng Hezhou was puzzled and said, "Something's wrong? What's going on? ”

Zhou Zheng remembered the last time he saw the apocalypse, the apocalypse had been coughing, his face was pale, his expression was tired, and he had a bad premonition, and said, "It's hard to say for the time being, let's find a way to stare at it first." ”

Zhou Zheng didn't say it thoroughly, he thought that the apocalypse accident was after August, but now it seems that it may not be. The recent inaction of the eunuch party is likely to have something to do with this.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was possible, and Zhou Zheng couldn't help but pull his legs and was about to leave.

Meng Hezhou grabbed him, looked at his sudden expression, and asked, "Zhou Yushi, what's wrong?" ”

Zhou Zheng looked at Meng Hezhou, pressed a trace of panic in his heart, and said, "It's hard to say now, you transfer the words to Lao Wei, I'll go back first." ”

Meng Hezhou could only nod his head in response, watching Zhou Zheng go out of the corner and leave in a hurry.

Zhou Zheng did not go to Zhou Ji again, but went home.

After returning home, I didn't go to the back hall to eat, and sat in the study all the time.

If the apocalypse falls ill at this time, the impact on the court situation will be even more unpredictable, and too many things may not be as Zhou Zheng expected.

Zhou Zheng didn't go to eat, nor did he let Liuzhen deliver food, so he sat in the study, his eyes were faintly scrutinizing.

Tomorrow is about to go to court, what will happen in the court? How has the court bureau changed at this time, and how did he deal with it?

I don't know how long it took, Zhou Qingli pushed the door in.

Zhou Zheng was stunned, got up and said, "Dad, why are you here?" ”

The corners of Zhou Qingli's face were already dark, and it was even darker at night, he looked at Zhou Zheng's study There was only one candle, which looked very faint, and said, "You didn't eat dinner, is something wrong?" ”

Zhou Zheng's expression moved, walked to the hall, picked up the teapot and poured tea.

Zhou Qingli sat down and kept looking at Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng handed him the teacup, sat down and was silent for a moment, and said tactfully: "There has been something abnormal in the palace recently, and there are rumors that the emperor may be seriously ill." ”

Zhou Qingli remembered the last time she saw the apocalypse, her expression immediately changed, and she said, "Is it true? ”

Apocalypse is only twenty-seven years old, and when he is young, even if he is a little sick, he should be safe from his life, right?

Zhou Zheng knew the history, paused for a moment, and said, "It's hard to say." ”

Zhou Qingli looked at Zhou Zheng's expression, sitting there, her brows furrowed, and her expression gradually became solemn.

If there is really something wrong with the Apocalypse, it is the biggest variable, whether it is for the court situation or for the entire Ming Dynasty, it has an unpredictable huge impact!

It's unimaginable!

Zhou Zheng looked at Zhou Qingli's expression and said, "I will go to court tomorrow." ”

Zhou Qingli's brows tightened, and her expression became more and more solemn.

If the apocalypse really doesn't last long, tomorrow's court situation may not be just a simple reward conference, and there may be other variables.

Zhou Qingli said to Zhou Zhengdao word by word with an unprecedented seriousness: "Be cautious in words and deeds!" ”

Zhou Zheng secretly took a breath, nodded, and said, "I know." ”