This day is the day when Liu Jian and Xie Qian return to their hometowns.

Both of them went south, so they also left Beijing together.

But Liu Jian and Xie Qian were a little disappointed that the weather when they left Beijing was too unpleasant, for them, now it is also the two ministers who have left the court, and since then there has been no righteousness in the court, even if it is not a bleak and rainy day, at least it should be gloomy, but who knows that it is actually a bright sun and a cloudless sky!

"Even the sky is so unkind!" Xie Qian couldn't help but complain first, and waved his brocade sleeves.

"It's not the same as the one in the noon gate, let's go, people go to tea and cool!" Liu Jian responded and ordered the servant to drive away.

When they arrived at the Shili Long Pavilion for a while, Liu Jian and Xie Qian returned to their hometowns, but they were not people who went to tea and cool.

Li Dongyang, Ma Wensheng and other civil officials in Beijing were all sent here.

Needless to say, Li Dongyang was a former ally in the end, although he did not fulfill his promise to resign together, he believed that Liu Jian and Xie Qian would definitely understand him.

Ma Wensheng felt that although they were political enemies of each other, they had now clearly distinguished the winners and losers, and they had been colleagues who had been officials in the same dynasty for many years, so they had to come to see each other off, and only in this way could they appease the hearts of Liu Jian and Xie Qian's other party officials in the DPRK, and also for the sake of the stability of the Zhengde Dynasty.

Xie Qian saw that Li Dongyang did not fulfill his promise to resign together, and saw that Marven was promoted to the cabinet and added to the first rank, he was not very happy, and he did not hide it, but said: "The old man is not with the eunuchs!" After saying that, he hurriedly instructed the servant to drive away directly.

And Liu Jian got out of the car and came to Li Dongyang, ignoring Ma Wensheng, who took the initiative to say hello, and only asked Li Dongyang: "Binzhi, why didn't you suddenly leave this smoky miasma with us, and you are a person in love with the power of the stack?" ”

Li Dongyang didn't want to say that the original purpose of his proposal to resign at that time was to let Liu Jian resign so that he could be the first assistant of the cabinet, so he was busy bowing his hand:

"Liu Gong misunderstands the painstaking work of Binzhi! It is not that Li is obsessed with the position of Zaifu, but for the Ming Dynasty to prevent the society from completely collapsing, and for the common people in the world not to be poisoned by traitors and thieves in the court, so they have to endure humiliation in order to maintain one or two, and only in this way can Liu Gong and Xie Gong return to their hometowns safely to retire! ”

"That's it! Old man, I hope what you do is what you say, and don't pass by! ”

Liu Jian only glanced at Ma Wensheng as he spoke, and said coldly: "It's a pity that although some people invite the holy family to marry eunuchs with a shy face, they can't enter the cabinet as the first assistant in the end!" ”

Immediately, Liu Jian also brushed his sleeves away.

Ma Wensheng, who was about to comfort Liu Jian and Xie Qian, was angry for a while, but at this time, he was not easy to attack, so he had to endure it, and immediately looked at Li Dongyang: "Li Gong, from now on, you are the Yuanfu of my Ming Dynasty, I hope to be the first to plan for the world, let go of old grudges, and devote yourself to the country!" ”

"Ma Gong is really loyal to the country, but I don't know if Ma Gong is angry, there is Li in the court for a day, and you don't want to be the first assistant! What about the majesty of the saints, you ask the world, how many people are served! ”

Li Dongyang smiled coldly as he spoke, and walked away.

Ma Wensheng was already depressed and angry when he knew that Li Dongyang did not resign and he could not be the first assistant, and now for the unity of the entire civil official group, he forced himself to hold back his unhappiness and show some high-spirited style, but he didn't expect that he was kind but not understood, but was stimulated by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang successively, and suddenly became emotional and his blood was open, and then he felt a sharp pain in his heart, covered his chest for a long time and couldn't speak, and then fell directly to the ground.

Li Dongyang had already sat in his sedan chair at this time, and when he heard someone shouting outside, he opened the sedan curtain and found that Ma Wensheng had fallen to the ground, so he couldn't help but laugh secretly, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, as Yang Tinghe expected, this Ma Wensheng is just Chibi Zhou Lang, and he can't be stimulated!" ”

At this time, it happened that Ma Yongcheng and Wang Yangming went out of the city with the brocade clothes of the Absolute Voice, and met Li Dongyang, Li Dongyang changed the cold arrogance in front of Ma Yongcheng in the past, and hurriedly stopped the sedan chair, only got out of the sedan chair, stood aside, and asked: "Where is the governor going." ”

Ma Yongcheng is different from Ma Wensheng, he does not hide his dislike for Li Dongyang and others, snorted and rode away without answering.

And Li Dongyang was not angry, and only instructed the housekeeper beside him: "Li Hong, go and inquire, why did Ma Yongcheng, the overseer of the East Factory, suddenly take so many brocade guards out of the city?" ”

This Li Hong hurriedly agreed to go to the city first.

And Li Dongyang entered the sedan chair with a puzzled face, and at the same time couldn't help but say proudly: "Although I have become the first assistant of the cabinet, it seems that I still can't avoid the situation of being overturned by His Majesty, Liu Jin and Ma Wensheng, so that I don't know what happened to Ma Yongcheng, the commander of the East Factory, went out of Beijing, and if Wang Yue and the prince were still in the ceremonial supervisor, it would not be like this." ”

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Zhu Houzhao also guessed that Ma Wensheng and other civil officials might send Liu Jian and Xie Qian, but he did not interfere arbitrarily, he did not object to Ma Wensheng and other civil officials maintaining the balance within the civilian group, as long as Ma Wensheng did not want to hook up with Liu Jin and other ministers.

Even, Zhu Houzhao was wondering if Liu Jian and the others would release their suspicions against Ma Wensheng, but he guessed that they should not really be broad-minded people as the book said, after all, they were political enemies of each other, how could they shake hands so easily.

Zhu Houzhao didn't have the leisure to care about who was upright and who was humble about these civil officials, and what he was most concerned about now was how to ensure that there would be no mistakes in the process of investigating and prosecuting the evidence of Emperor Hongzhi's murder.

In order to avoid foolproof, Zhu Houzhao asked the celebrant to draw up a decree, and sent an urgent letter to Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, and asked him to obey the dispatch of Ma Yongcheng, the commander of Dongchang, if necessary, so as to ensure that Ma Yongcheng could directly use the border army if he encountered an emergency when escorting the prisoners into Beijing.

"That should be a fool's errand! Now let's see if Gu Dayong can pry out the empirical evidence about the murder of Emperor Hongzhi from the mouths of Wang Yue and others, and Tang Bohu has not yet entered Beijing, and he is not afraid of ****! Okay, Luo Xiang, you first find a few storytellers to listen to in the leopard room, the more the better, and find a few literati who can write jokes, and stay in the leopard room to listen to them! ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly remembered someone as he spoke, and couldn't help but pat his forehead: "I almost forgot him!" ”

So, Zhu Houzhao hurriedly ordered: "Luo Xiang, you send someone to the person named Wu Chengen in Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture, whose father's name is Wu Rui." ”

"The ministers are going to do it", Luo Xiang retreated, and at this time, Gao Feng hurriedly ran again: "Emperor! The big thing is not good, Ma Gefu suddenly had a heartache, people seem to be useless, and they are almost out of breath! ”

"What!"

Zhu Houzhao stood up suddenly, as if there was a scorching thunder in his ears!