Jin Ruzuo saw that the guards had withdrawn, but the soap was still in place, and finally understood his situation, so he wanted to rub oil on the soles of his feet, and smirked as he moved back, "Lord Fu Yin, if there are no other orders, the last general will retire." ”

Yuan Keli's soap is not the original poor people of Songjiang Mansion, but the Jinyi Guard who accompanied the guards, so he was not afraid of his escape, and motioned for the two people caught in the soap to come out, "Before this mansion was ordered to leave Beijing, there were people who participated in the ten major crimes of corruption and cowardice such as your salary and poor preparation, and these two Jinyi Guard Banner Officers were ordered to arrest you and return to Beijing to ask questions about the recovery of stolen goods." ”

Jin Ruzuo, as a third-grade general, knew that he was going to be a judge with honor and disgrace, and when he saw the two people who were originally hiding behind the soap, he seemed to have his whole body strength taken away, and he took a step back to stabilize his figure.

I saw that the two people who were not smiling were six feet tall, wearing eight-petal hats, a silk moon pattern helmet on the top of the helmet, a neckkerchief around the necklace, wearing a long body armor with a placket, and an official knife decorated with azure thread and gilt silver on the silk belt around their waists.

"Since the two of you are under order, can you have a driver's certificate as a basis?"

Jin Ruzuo knew that he was not clean, and he had not done things such as deducting military salaries and falsely reporting soldiers, but according to the convention, he was only handed over to the Law Division, and felt that it was a bit of a fuss to send Jinyi Wei Qianli to take people, and seeing that the two of them were expressionless, he thought that his heart was weak, so he continued to threaten, "Otherwise, I will definitely participate in you and others to bully the king, this is a big crime of extermination." ”

In order to prevent fraud and counterfeiting, after the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that the Jinyi Wei was given a driver's post to take the process - the Jinyi Wei official was approved by the red song and the driver's post went to the criminal department, and he signed it against him, filled in the reason, signed the name and approval of the department, and closed the door when he left the imperial city, and stipulated that one offender had a driver's post, and two flag officials per post.

In addition, if you go to the prison of the Criminal Department, you must get the approval of the Metropolitan Procuratorate; If the Dengwen Drum (located in the north of the right gate of Chang'an) is related to military affairs, it must be named by the military department; If you purchase birds and large trees, you must have an engineering department before they can be implemented. All in all, although the execution varies from dynasty to dynasty, the driving post can be regarded as a miniature version of the divine decree that has been certified by the six disciplines.

After Zhu Youxiao received the impeachment medal from the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate, in addition to ordering Xiaoqi to lead 50 people to guard Yuan Keli, he also ordered the banner official to accompany him to the south to take people to clear the obstacles.

Zhang Daoan, one of the flag officials, saw that Jin Ruzuo was very inward, and his heart was sunny, and he didn't put the Sanpin in his eyes, and spread the driving post with both hands, "Look at it, the celebrant and the criminal department will sign Wei Yingjia in the matter, and Chaoyangmen will be closed." ”

When Jin Ruzuo saw the bright red seal on it, he knew that there was no room for maneuver, and subconsciously touched his hand to his waist, "My lord, who is framing him...... What are you doing, get out of the way? ”

The soaps on both sides have been carefully guarding against Jin Ruzuo, and when they saw his abnormal movements, they immediately rushed forward and threw him to the ground, tossing and turning.

"Whether it is framed or not, go back to Beijing and talk to the three law divisions." Yuan Keli didn't come to curb corruption, and didn't want to listen to his defense, so he waved his hand and instructed Zhang Daoan, "Take it down." ”

Jin Ruzuo quickly understood why Fu Yin couldn't help but be enthusiastic about himself before, knowing that he was not heinous, according to the convention, it was just a demotion to make meritorious contributions, so he no longer struggled and let him hold him hostage.

……

In the back hall of the office, after looking at the taxes of Songjiang Mansion for a long time, Yuan Keli planned to call Yang Jiang, a fellow acquaintance, to go to the tax department under the Dongzhen Bridge in the east of the mansion, and the entourage reported outside the door, "Master, there is an old man who calls himself Dong Xuanzai outside the mansion, and he handed over the post, you see?" ”

"Ah, please. …… Oh no, it's better to go to the house in person. Yuan Keli raised his head and stood for a moment when he heard this, knowing that it was his classmate and friend of the same year, Dong Qichang, so he personally led him out.

Outside the Yimen, Yuan Keli finally saw Dong Qichang after a few years of absence, "Brother Nian, I didn't expect you to come in person, and you missed the welcome, and the welcome was lost." ”

Dong Qichang is more than sixty years old, wearing an old man's turban, wearing a narrow-sleeved collared robe, dressed as a Confucian scholar, and smiled when he saw Yuan Keli, "When Brother Liqing arrived at the cold house a few days ago, my brother was fighting with Zhong Alcohol (Chen Jiru) at the foot of Dongshe Mountain. ”

It turned out that Yuan Keli visited Dong Qichang in Guyang Garden outside the southern city (that is, Zuibaichi in Songjiang District) on the second day of his arrival in Songjiang, but he was in vain, so he left a post and said that he would go another day.

Yuan Keli stepped forward to hold his hand, and said with a smile while leading to the back house, "Zu He treats people kindly, but it is not like Brother Nian who always rejects people thousands of miles away." ”

"Yes, a few years ago, when the scholars challenged their younger brother, the ancestral mansion and the ancestral mansion were burned down, but the eldest son's house was undamaged, and he treated people peacefully."

The two of them walked together for only a few steps, and the feeling of being reunited after a long absence disappeared, as if the two of them were just a small farewell, Yuan Keli sighed, "I just said that rejecting people for thousands of miles is just a joke, and the young brother is tired of fame." ”

"Brother Liqing also protects the name, which is better than fame."

"Haha......"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the others didn't know why.

Dong Qichang and Yuan Keli were not only classmates, in the same year (the seventeenth year of Wanli), but also returned to their hometowns for more than 20 years due to the dispute over the country's capital, but Dong Qichang did not seem to be as lucky as Yuan Keli.

In February of the 22nd year of Wanli, when Zhu Changluo went out of the pavilion to give a lecture, Dong Qichang was one of the lecturers, so at the beginning of Zhu Changluo's reign, in order to reflect his 'dedication to the old ministers', he followed the 'tired old system, the officials of the class, the incumbent were promoted, and the retired were called for preferential treatment'. But when Zhu Changluo died, the will had not yet been issued from the Sixth Branch, so the matter of summoning Dong Qichang to return to the dynasty was also shelved.

After greeting all the way, the two came to the prefect's mansion behind the back hall of the government and sat down, Yuan Keli asked, "Now that the new lord is young and has many things at the border, it is the time for the court to employ people, why does the young brother indulge in the mountains and rivers......"

"It's a disappointment, isn't it?" Dong Qichang's expression was gloomy, "In the early years, when he was the younger brother of Huguang Xuezheng and the deputy envoy of Fujian, because he did not want to show favoritism, he was resentful of the powerful family, and if he did not retreat, he would have to worry about his life, so he retreated and devoted himself to calligraphy and painting, and indulged in landscapes. Later, the cold house was bewitched and burned, and he was even more disheartened......"

"Brother Nian, would you like to be a leader?"

Dong Qichang believes in Mingzhe to protect himself, saying that the officialdom is false and wait-and-see is true, and he still doesn't know what the situation in the DPRK and China is, so he shook his head and said, "There are also important ministers and younger brothers who have served, and the younger brothers have refused with 'I have done it, and I am willing to settle for fat escape', and Brother Liqing should not be difficult to be strong." ”

"Today, I worship Ma Xing Cijing as a formal official, I don't know if Brother Nian has ever heard of it?" Yuan Keli felt that it would be better to provoke the general, so he took his best calligraphy and painting as the topic, and continued, "At that time, the cabinet ministers and officials in Beijing violated the ancestral system, and repeatedly admonished, but now they are all unmoved, and instructed, 'Ministers of the court and the central government can replace those who have better penmanship and charm'. ”

Dong Qichang listened quietly, his heart moved slightly, he nodded Yuan Keli with his hand, and smiled, "Mrs. Ma helped her husband's coffin to return to the north with a weak body, and worked tirelessly, Your Majesty's intention is just to show chastity, how can Brother Liqing not know?" Although my brother has been obsessed with calligraphy and painting for decades, he also knows that there are mountains outside the mountain, and he competes with a woman, and he is not martial, and he is shameless when he loses, so why should my brother bother himself......"

Yuan Keli saw that he was stubborn, and knew that Dong Qichang had a wide range of contacts and close contacts with the princes of Donglin, so he was not worried about no one in the court, so he gave up with a smile.