When everyone in the center was discussing Song Yingxing, Song Yingxing, who was praised as a great talent, was still at a loss.

Why did he alarm the central government with a small county school teaching?

After reading the edict several times, he finally found the key point and asked him to bring the upcoming "Heavenly Creation" to Beijing.

In the Ming Dynasty, or all dynasties, although everyone knew that the people took food as the sky, the status of the peasant family was never really high. Not to mention, in the past, Song Yingxing's unwritten "Heavenly Creations" was denounced by many rotten Confucians as the existence of strange and obscene skills. Because of this, Song Yingxing had no way to print the books he had worked so hard to write, and it was not until he recently received funding from his friend Tu Shaoxuan that he had the hope of printing.

Since Dong Zhongshu deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, the status of learning other than Confucianism has dropped greatly. When Kong Yingda compiled the "Five Classics of Justice" and annotated the strange and obscene skills, the more pragmatic the knowledge, the more it was condemned as strange and obscene skills.

The Tang Dynasty takes scholars, and Jinshi is more than Ming Jingke, and there are more poems, although I don't understand the relationship between poetry and governing the country at all.

Since then, China has entered a strange system of governing the country with righteousness for more than 1,000 years, and it is even more disdainful of the so-called strange and obscene skills.

Not to mention that the Ming Imperial Examination is the Four Books and Five Classics, and he has never cared about other studies.

Song Yingxing read the edict for a long time, and then determined that the edict did not denounce "Heavenly Creations" as a strange and obscene technique and banned. On the contrary, he seems to be very concerned about his unpublished book.

Song Yingxing never believed that the Ming Dynasty would change the imperial examination system based on the Four Books and Five Classics, and instead took the "Mengxi Written Talk". It's not realistic.

How could such a court attach importance to its own "Heavenly Creation"?

After thinking about it for a long time, I barely came up with a possibility that the imperial court was short of money to spend because of the frequent disasters and turmoil that broke out in recent years, so it didn't care about competing with the people for profit, and was ready to use the strange and obscene skills in his book to raise money.

The edict was urgent, and Song Yingxing didn't dare to delay more, no longer thought deeply, packed his bags, handed over the matter of the county school to the two instructors, and followed the summoned official to Beijing.

Because of this confusion, Song Yingxing was worried along the way, and there was no joy of promotion, most of the time, he proofread "Heavenly Creation" in the car and boat, in the hope that when he waited in the capital, there would not be too many omissions in it.

In the capital, Cao Huachun, who had seen Wang Xiangjin, returned to the inner court, and saw the hesitant Luo Yangxing in Qianqingmen. Apparently had been waiting for him for a while.

Luo Yangxing, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, although he has the authority to enter and exit the palace, he is a healthy man after all, and he will not enter the inner court at will unless he encounters special circumstances, especially when Chongzhen is not in the palace.

"What is it difficult for Luo Dudu to decide?" Cao Huachun stepped forward to ask.

"Father-in-law, someone has contacted the doctor." Luo Yangxing's face was serious.

Cao Huachun's face did not change: "Is it internal trouble, or external trouble?" ”

Luo Yangxing hesitated: "It's hard to say." But external damage is more likely. ”

Cao Huachun wondered: "What do you say?" ”

"Today, a shopkeeper came to the Jin Chamber of Commerce, saying that a batch of precious medicinal materials would be transported back from Liaodong, and asked if the Tai Hospital needed it."

Cao Huachun was stunned, didn't he inquire about the news? Then he realized: "This is a temptation for us." ”

Luo Yangxing nodded: "But the other party uses Yangmou." If it's really as they guessed, we're going to eat it. ”

Cao Huachun smiled: "That's going to disappoint them." ”

Luo Yangxing also laughed a few times, and then hesitated again: "Then we can't do without it, right?" ”

Cao Huachun didn't understand, and just wanted to say "Of course not" before he reacted, wouldn't it be clear that he was tested by the other party?

After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Who is standing behind you?" ”

"It stands to reason that based on the number of times the Jin Chamber of Commerce leaves the customs every year, as well as the direction of the so-called source of medicinal materials, they should be behind them. That's why I say it's more likely. But it is not impossible for Jin merchants to collude with certain people. After all, those are the ones who are more concerned about His Majesty's personal situation. and not outside the gates. At most, outside the customs took advantage of the fire to rob, but those few people may directly take advantage of the situation. ”

"Is there anything unusual in the Jin Chamber of Commerce?"

"Yes. A few people came at noon yesterday, saying that they were the shopkeepers and guards of the Shanhaiguan business, and they brought the news of the medicinal materials. At a glance, those guards knew that they had lived in Liaodong all the year round, but they didn't know if they were Jianyu or some people who had been trained outside the gates. ”

"Isn't there a way to identify several people?"

"Yes. Create conflict, remove their clothes. Or force them to talk more. In this way, it is clear whether it is a prisoner or an internal thief. It's just that these will startle the snake, do you want to start? ”

"That's still not necessary, just keep an eye on it."

The two men looked at each other, some not knowing how to respond.

If something really happened to Chongzhen, they didn't have any worries, everything was for Chongzhen.

But now that Chongzhen has no accident, they need to intrigue with each other and hide the true news. I was worried that because of the misjudgment, the other party would hit the right side and cause other accidents.

The easiest way to deal with it is definitely to take it directly, but they still have concerns about directly breaking with the Jin Chamber of Commerce, which is not in line with the tone set by Chongzhen.

Neither of them is a wise man, they have achieved a high position completely by virtue of the loyalty recognized by Chongzhen, and now they are quite helpless in the face of this kind of thing.

After a while, Cao Huachun asked Luo Yangxing: "You Jinyiwei don't have a think tank that can analyze the situation?" ”

Luo Yangxing nodded, and shook his head again: "Yes!" Yes! But each has its own opinions, and my head is too big to analyze. ”

"How is it analyzed?"

"One told me, of course you can't let the other party know the truth, this medicine must be wanted."

"Makes sense."

"The second one said, you're too obvious, people guess you're pretending to be like that."

"It's not unreasonable."

"The third one is much more reliable, he said that no matter what His Majesty is, the reaction we want to take medicine is certain. The other party's plan is not at all whether we want it or not, but how we react after we want this batch of medicinal materials. ”

"What's the reaction?"

He said that the other party would definitely not actually send the medicine. Otherwise, wouldn't it be self-defeating to cure His Majesty, who they thought might be sick? ”

"If you don't send it, we'll grab it! Is this there for them? I can't find a reason not to startle the snake, didn't he send it to the door? ”

"The other party must have said that he hadn't arrived in the capital yet, and there was an accident on the way to deliver the medicine."

"Shall we send someone to meet us?"

"It's going to be a fork in the road."

"Containment?"

He said it might be just playing into the other side's hands. The other party just wants us to send Jinyiwei out of Beijing. ”

"Then does the other party want to do something in the capital, or does he want to set a trap to bury the Jinyi guard who left the capital?"

"The desire to do things in the capital is stronger. Especially when some of our people are not in the capital. ”