After Cui Chengxiu got into the carriage, his relatives casually closed the door gently, and then skillfully ran to the front of the carriage and sat next to the coachman.

Although several lanterns were hung on the outside of the carriage to illuminate the perimeter of the carriage, the interior of the carriage was not equipped with such kerosene or whale oil fuel lamps for safety reasons. So when Cui Chengxiu entered the carriage, he fell into darkness instead.

Of course, if lighting fixtures are also installed in the interior of the carriage at this time, you can really see a bit of Cui Chengxiu's temperament. Maybe he found a sense of security in this dark carriage, Cui Chengxiu, who looked a little arrogant in front of Wu Chunfu tonight, now took off his whole body and showed his fatigue for a while.

After sitting quietly in the carriage for nearly a minute, Cui Chengxiu, who was familiar with the darkness in front of him, could finally see the scene in the carriage through the faint light through the window, and when the carriage started, Cui Chengxiu, who listened to the sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground, subconsciously turned his neck at a slight angle, which made him just able to see the gate of the Wu Mansion outside through the glass on the window.

Standing on the steps of the gate, it was naturally Wu Chunfu's son, and Wu Chunfu himself did not send him out of the house. Cui Chengxiu didn't have to think too hard to figure it out, and although the cautious Wu Chunfu accepted his request, he didn't plan to have anything to do with him anymore.

For Wu Chunfu's posture, to be honest, Cui Chengxiu is extremely dissatisfied in his heart. After all, in the past, the other party came to see him when he had nothing to do, and the other party was not respectful and smiling at that meeting, when it was his turn to visit the other party, the other party could still put on such a clear posture.

However, as the scene in front of the gate of Wu Mansion outside the car window slowly disappeared, Cui Chengxiu couldn't help but sigh deeply in his heart, and thought silently: "This time is not as good as in the past after all, who would have thought that the young Emperor of the Apocalypse would go away because of a fall into the water and cold, which made Wei Gong lose his position, and even the characters who took refuge in Wei Gong were implicated."

On the one hand, they took refuge in Wei Zhongxian, on the one hand, because of the aggressiveness of the Donglin Party after they took charge of the government, and they intended to sweep away all the officials in the court who were not from the Donglin Party, which made them have to fight; On the other hand, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is still young, and his health looks much better than his short-lived father, and everyone thinks that maybe the life span of this emperor will not be lower than that of the two emperors of Jiajing and Wanli, so he can at least stay in power for more than ten years after taking refuge in Wei Zhongxian.

With more than ten or twenty years of suppression, at least it can stop the career of the younger generations of the Donglin Party. And with such a long period of time, it will be difficult for those descendants of the Donglin Party to overturn the case to them.

However, the plan still couldn't catch up with the changes after all, and when they relied on Wei Gong to suppress the Donglin Party in the court, the Emperor of the Apocalypse would actually fall ill and return to heaven because of an accidental fall into the water, which completely disrupted the plan they made with Wei Gong, and their group also dispersed with themselves and Wei Gong out of Beijing.

Fortunately, the new emperor did not completely fall to the Donglin party and scholars who hated them to the core, so he was able to pick up a life. However, he still knows very well in his heart that if he does not settle for a while, it does not mean that he will never settle in the future. As long as these descendants of the Donglin Party can one day overturn the case for their predecessors, then he and Wei Gong will not be able to avoid being politically liquidated.

Even if the emperor recalled him to the court in order to offend those landlords and gentry, he still accepted it without hesitation. As the second evil of the eunuch party in the mouth of the Donglin Party and Qingliu, no matter how careful he is in his hometown, as long as these people come to power, they will inevitably use his head to stabilize his position.

Now that he had formed a mortal enmity, he naturally did not mind offending these landlords and gentry again with the land reform policy. In this way, at least you can use this to obtain the protection of the new emperor.

Of course, he himself knows that time can no longer go back to the era of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, when his power leaned towards the government and the opposition with the support of Duke Wei. Therefore, although he pretended to be salivating in front of Chongzhen, he had lost the sharpness that he had when he returned to the court, and he was just using this to show his strong image to the outside world, so as to intimidate those political enemies who wanted to attack him.

Although the system of the Ming Dynasty has changed a lot, the officialdom is still the wild jungle like a wild beast hunting, once the hunting beast shows a bit of timidity, then soon this beast will be regarded as food by other beasts.

Cui Chengxiu, who was aggressive in the court in the past, if he becomes cautious after returning to the court, he will naturally be considered as lacking in confidence, and he will try to move him.

So even if he thinks that he has lost the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, when Qian Qianyi's position under his ass is shaky, he has to show a look of eagerness to try it, so as to calm the hearts of the people around him. What's more, now some people have also released their mouths, wanting to use Wang Hanru's case to bring out the case of the persecution of the gentlemen of Donglin, which makes him even more intolerable. ”

When the carriage turned from the dark alley to the brightly lit street, Cui Chengxiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and at the same time, he also noticed that it was snowflakes falling outside again, and the dense snowflakes that kept falling from the sky blurred the scene of the street outside the window, as if he could not see his future clearly.

After Cui Chengxiu's carriage disappeared into the darkness, the son of Wu Chunfu, who went out to send him off, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't wait to turn around and enter the mansion, trying to inquire from his father about Cui Chengxiu's intentions tonight.

Wu Chunfu, who was still standing in the atrium, seemed to be thinking about something, and when he heard his son's rather reckless whispering, he glared at him coldly and said, "Inquire about what this is for." You know, the Father will tell you. You shouldn't know, what are you asking? Help me back to the study. ”

Although Wu Chunfu's son is also about 40 years old, he still has no temper in front of Wu Chunfu, so he can only swallow the questions back into his abdomen, and carefully support his father to the backyard. However, after just walking back to the backyard, he also noticed that his father seemed to have something on his mind tonight, and he almost fell down several times.

Wu Chunfu actually has only one thing in mind, and that is the coming storm. Even if Cui Chengxiu pretended to be calm in front of him, he still noticed the panic that the other party was hiding at the beginning.

Unlike Cui Chengxiu, who was regarded by those Donglin Party members as the culprit in the persecution of the Donglin gentlemen, he could only be regarded as an accomplice in the eyes of the other party. Of course, after the other party liquidates Cui Chengxiu, the next target will inevitably fall on him, but now there are still Cui Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian in front of him. In this way, as long as Cui Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian are not liquidated for a day, those so-called righteous gentlemen will naturally not focus their firepower on other people, so he and other eunuch members are still safe now.

It is precisely because the threat to his family is not very great that Wu Chunfu can calmly regard himself as a half outsider, and he can find Cui Chengxiu's hidden uneasiness. In his opinion, Cui Chengxiu's actions today are obviously a bit wrong. If those righteous gentlemen just wanted to attack Cui Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian, the former eunuch members would probably be able to stand by and watch, but if they wanted to overturn the case for their teachers, friends, relatives and friends, everyone would obviously not be silent.

Therefore, Cui Chengxiu actually didn't need to make this trip, this was obviously because he was upset, so he had such a faint hand. The tacit mutual opposition and the private conspiracy are obviously not the same thing in the eyes of His Majesty today. Not to mention, the other party also revealed in tonight's conversation that he wanted to plan the court pattern after Qian Qianyi stepped down, which looked a little dizzy.

However, in order for the other party to continue to resist on the front line, Wu Chunfu also had to promise something to reassure the other party, lest Cui Chengxiu jump over the wall in a hurry and cause a big storm. For him, who has a short career to come, he just wants to be able to retire safely now, instead of thinking about taking advantage of the chaos to make profits, naturally hoping that the court can continue to maintain the current stable pattern.

Wu Chunfu, who was about to enter the study, suddenly stopped, subconsciously glanced in the direction of the palace, and couldn't help thinking: "There has been no movement in the palace for a long time, what is waiting for?" ”

"What exactly does Your Majesty want? These lawless and sour rotten literati don't dare to criticize Your Majesty, so they take the old man as a target, it's really unreasonable..."

The angry Qian Qianyi was angry at Liu Ru in his study, although he had always been cautious and sent his subordinates out of this courtyard, he still unconsciously suppressed his voice, lest something be heard by outsiders.

Although this study already has several charcoal stoves, it is extremely warm to dry the room. But Liu Ru, who has always been afraid of the cold, still held a hand warmer stove in her arms. For Qian Qianyi, who was walking in a hurry in the study, Liu Ru, who was sitting on the circle chair, didn't even raise her eyelids, but said lazily: "Can you sit down and talk well, you walk around like this, my head is dizzy for you." ”

Qian Qianyi glanced at her and opened his mouth to say something, but finally sighed helplessly, and slowly walked back to the back of the desk and sat down.

"Isn't I anxious, but Your Majesty has never treated me like this. I asked myself if I acted in accordance with the rules on weekdays, and I didn't have any differences with Your Majesty, why did Your Majesty treat me like this..."Qian Qianyi was complaining, and suddenly Huo stood up, as if he had thought of something, and said with a blue face: "Could it be that the rumors outside are true, Your Majesty really intends to let me take responsibility for this year's great famine?" ”

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