Chapter 237: The Position of the Ming Officials
Cui Chengli loves money very much, listening to 100,000 taels, her eyes are shining, this is equivalent to giving it for nothing!
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng with a strange smile on his face, and said, "I want 100,000 taels, and I want to beat you!" ”
Before the words fell, he waved his mallet and hit Zhou Zheng fiercely.
Zhou Zheng knew that he couldn't avoid this beating, so he hurriedly held his head in his hands, shrunk together, and gritted his teeth silently.
This mallet hit him firmly, it was called a pain, Zhou Zheng had never done heavy work a few times in his life, he could stand it, fortunately, his willpower was good, and he gritted his teeth and carried it.
Cui Chengli hated Zhou Zheng very much, and he was naturally merciless, a dozen times in a row, he was weak and weak, and he was out of breath after a few blows, holding a mallet, and his face turned red.
Zhou Zheng bared his teeth, and the pain was unbearable.
Cui Chengli rested for a while, picked up the mallet again, and looked at Zhou Zhengdao, who was huddled together, with a happy face: "Lao Tzu must beat you up today." ”
Zhou Zheng raised his arm slightly, revealing his face, and said, "Just now it was twenty-five times, two hundred and fifty thousand taels, you have no objection, right?" ”
Cui Chengli's eyes opened, and she swung her mallet again, and she was about to hit Zhou Zheng again!
Zhou Zheng was startled, and hurriedly hugged his head and shrank together.
"Stop!"
Before Cui Chengli could fight, someone outside the door suddenly kicked the door open and shouted loudly.
Cui Chengli was extremely sensitive to this voice, staggered, and turned her head to look.
Cui Chengxiu came in expressionlessly, looked at Zhou Zheng huddled together, obviously beaten, looked gloomy, and shouted: "Get out!" ”
Cui Chengli was stunned, looked at his brother and said, "Brother, what's wrong?" ”
Cui Chengxiu looked indifferent and said, "I'll let you get out!" ”
Although Cui Chengli was not in the officialdom, he knew his brother very well, and when he saw him like this, he knew that things were not good, so he didn't dare to ask more, so he hurriedly said, "Okay, good." ”
So saying, he took the mallet and ran out.
Cui Chengxiu suppressed his anger, looked at Zhou Zheng, who had slowly sat up, and said to He Qitu: "Guarding at the door, no one is allowed to approach!" ”
He Qitu hurriedly responded and said, "It's my lord." ”
As he spoke, he glanced at Zhou Zheng, closed the door, and stood outside the door.
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng, who was sitting on the chair, rubbing his shoulders, pulled over a chair, sat opposite Zhou Zheng, and looked at it with a scrutinizing gaze.
Zhou Zheng didn't seem to see him, kneading his body up and down, it really hurt.
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng for a while and said, "You are really bold." ”
Zhou Zheng rubbed his arm, looked at Cui Chengxiu and said with a smile: "In this way, I don't have to go to Dongchang." ”
Cui Chengxiu's dry hands were crossed in front of him, and he said lightly: "I just came out of the palace, and the emperor comforted me for a long time. I can sit in front of you now, don't you think you need to die? ”
Zhou Zheng was still in pain, but the more he smiled, he said: "If the adult is put in prison now, then I will die, and since the adult is back, it means that I don't have to die." ”
Cui Chengxiu frowned slightly, and then said, "You are indeed a smart person." ”
If Cui Chengxiu is really put in prison, he will definitely be broken with Zhou Zhengyu. But if he is not dead now, then he will be jealous, and he will not really do anything to Zhou Zheng, lest Zhou Zheng will be desperate to pull him to die together.
"Don't dare." Zhou Zheng put down his hand and moved his shoulders slightly.
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng, there seemed to be a puzzled expression on his face, and said: "I have been in officialdom for decades, and I have seen all kinds of people, but you are very different, different from everyone. ”
Zhou Zheng was slightly stunned and said, "What's the difference?" ”
Cui Chengxiu was shorter than Zhou Zheng, but sitting there, he had a kind of senior posture, and said: "Whether it is the dispute over the country, the palace transfer case, or the Donglin party struggle in the back, whether they are for private or public, they all have a position, which is the fundamental reason for the party dispute." However, you don't. ”
Zhou Zheng really didn't think about this, thought about it seriously, and said, "I don't have a position? ”
Cui Chengxiu said: "I can't see your position, you have offended everyone, you have isolated yourself, if it weren't for the sudden death of the emperor, you would have died without a place to bury." Tell me, what exactly do you want? ”
Zhou Zheng was puzzled before, but now he understands.
Cui Chengxiu's position is actually 'private first and then public', and the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all like this, while Zhou Zheng is different, he is 'establishing public and doing private', which is different in nature.
Regarding Cui Chengxiu's words, Zhou Zheng didn't answer, but asked: "What I want to do has nothing to do with the adult, the adult just came back from the palace to see me, I guess there is something in mind, right?" ”
Cui Chengxiu folded his hands together, looked at Zhou Zheng quietly, and said, "Who is the person behind you?" ”
How long has Zhou Zhengcai been supervising the imperial history? What kind of family is his Zhou family, how can he have so much evidence of Cui Chengxiu?
There can only be one explanation - there is someone behind Zhou Zheng! And the identity and status are very unusual, so that you can get so many detailed things!
Zhou Zheng looked at Cui Chengxiu, his expression did not move, and said, "Why do you bother to ask, shouldn't you think about where to go?" ”
Cui Chengxiu's face sneered for the first time, and said, "You even beat the drum, and you haven't been able to do anything to me, do you think you still have a chance?" ”
Zhou Zheng looked at Cui Chengxiu and said, "My lord, why do we have to say dark things in front of the Ming people, you have broken out so many things in a short time, it is already the end of the crossbow, and now there is a wind and grass that can kill you, why don't we have a chance?" ”
Cui Chengxiu looked at Zhou Zheng with a floating killing intent, and said, "Do you really think that I don't have the power to fight back?" For example, if I kill you now, do the people behind you dare to tear their faces with me? ”
Cui Chengxiu is Wei Zhongxian's most powerful arm, he is a eunuch boss, and he has a huge influence in the imperial court, it can be seen that he can force away the first assistant Gu Bingqian, if he is desperate, who can not be afraid of three points?
Zhou Zheng raised his eyebrows and said, "I shouldn't dare, but I can." ”
The corners of Cui Chengxiu's face twitched, and her eyes became even more gloomy.
This Zhou Zheng is right, he is indeed very dangerous now, whether it is the subtlety of the court situation or the speculation of the emperor in the palace, it is like a frightened bird.
If Zhou Zheng really continues to make a move, let alone the emperor in the palace, I'm afraid that Huang Liji and even Wei Zhongxian will invite him to leave.
Perhaps, it's not walking, but the prison, it's death!
Cui Chengxiu hated in his heart, and his eyes were even more murderous.
In the past few years, what has not been smooth sailing for him, and when has he been forced to such a point!
If it weren't for the death of the first emperor and the new emperor's ascension to the throne, the situation was sensitive, why would he be so restrained and cautious!
Cui Chengxiu took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said, "What are you going to do?" ”
Cui Chengxiu knew that the people behind Zhou Zheng didn't dare to tear their faces with him, but he couldn't figure out what these people were plotting and why they kept targeting him?
Zhou Zheng took out a few letters from his arms, handed them over, and said, "It's very simple, I want my lord to resign within seven days." ”
Cui Chengxiu's eyes were full of murder, but he didn't say anything, and reached out to take the letter in Zhou Zheng's hand.
He opened it and saw that all of them were his handwritten letters, some of them were traitors, some were fraudulent in the imperial examinations, and a few were from the division of the money and grain for disaster relief in the northwest.
These are his handwritten letters, if they spread outside, it will inevitably be an uproar, then it is really not a question of whether he can leave or not, it is a question of how he died!