However, Luo Yangxing's interrogation in Daxing was blocked, but Xiao Mu didn't know at all. www.biquge.info In Xiao Mu's opinion, Luo Yangxing, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, the chief leader of the Ming Dynasty's secret service, interrogating a prisoner is simply a matter of getting caught, and giving him three days is completely enough, maybe it won't take three days to report the results of the trial, so Xiao Mu didn't take this matter too seriously.

At this moment, Xiao Mu was talking to Lin Yi about Zhou Yanru's question.

"Twenty-one years old, even two yuan, you must know such a powerful character, right?" Xiao Mu asked, thinking that he could learn about Zhou Yanru's life from Lin Yi.

"I'm sorry." Lin Yi spread his hands again, and said with regret, "With my understanding of the ancient imperial examination system, it is indeed very powerful to be able to win two yuan at the age of twenty-one, but I really don't know much about this Zhou Yanru's life......

"Oops, I forgot, you only study literature, not history, it seems that this Zhou Yanru has no place in the history of literature." Xiao Mu patted his head, said regretfully, and then complained: "Obviously, you can get the top prize, why don't you write some good articles and poems to pass on to future generations?" ”

"There are champions in history, and I don't see a few champions who have too high a status in the history of literature." Lin Yi took Xiao Mu's words and analyzed for him, "Moreover, people who can generally win the top prize will naturally get official positions and be reused by the imperial court, and it is too late to be busy dealing with government affairs and intrigue all day long, where is there time to ponder those flowers, birds, fish and insects, poems and songs?" ”

"Not bad." Xiao Mu also recalled his previous understanding of ancient literature: "Most of those famous writers, poets and other characters seem to be politically unambitious 'emigrants', like Du Fu and the like." ”

"However, although I don't know much about Zhou Yanru himself, he seems to have had some trouble with Qian Qianyi in history." I seem to have seen it when I learned about Qian Qianyi's life, and I still have a little impression now.

"Oh? What's the holiday? Hurry up and hear about it? Xiao Mu asked curiously.

"It's probably when Chongzhen was in his early years, and I don't know if it's before or after now, the imperial court wants to elect the elders, Qian Qianyi is on the list, but Zhou Yanru is not promoted." Lin Yi recalls diligently.

"So Zhou Yanru was disgruntled and had a holiday with Qian Qianyi?" Xiao Mu Shunteng asked.

"Hmm... Things don't seem to be that simple, and it seems that an official named Wen Tiren is also involved. Lin replied.

"The two of them have a holiday, why did a third party come out?" Xiao Mu asked puzzled.

"I don't remember very clearly, in short, this Wen Tiren also wanted to join the cabinet as an elder, so he turned over an old case of Qian Qianyi and pulled Qian Qianyi down," Lin Yi said while recalling.

"Then shouldn't this be a festival between Wen Tiren and Qian Qianyi? What does it have to do with Zhou Yanru? ”

"I haven't finished talking yet, don't just interject!" Lin Yi replied impatiently, indicating that Xiao Mu had interfered with her thoughts of recollection.

Xiao Mu had no choice but to close his mouth and wait for Lin Ye to continue.

Lin Yi sorted out his thoughts again and continued: "Well, it was Wen Tiren who found the case of Qian Qianyi's cheating when he presided over the imperial examination before, and turned this matter over, none of the ministers in the court agreed to punish Qian Qianyi, only Zhou Yanru responded to Wen Tiren's proposition. ”

"Well, Qian Qianyi is really a celebrity in Wenyuan, and his friends in the court are ......" Xiao Mu muttered, and then carefully summarized, "That means that Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru brought Qian Qianyi down, so there was a festival between them?" ”

"Well, that's about it."

"According to what you said, the strength of Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru is too strong, right?" Xiao Mu raised his own question again, "When the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are all opposed, can only the two of them bring down Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Qingliu?" ”

"Of course, there is a reason for this, don't forget, who is the biggest in the Ming Dynasty!" Lin Yi explained, "According to the most common statement, it is that Emperor Chongzhen himself was very optimistic about Zhou Yanru and wanted to let him enter the cabinet, but the result of the imperial court did not include Zhou Yanru, which made Emperor Chongzhen very dissatisfied. Wen Tiren guessed the emperor's thoughts, so he single-handedly contributed to the overthrow of Qian Qianyi, and naturally won the support of Emperor Chongzhen, so that Zhou Yanru successfully became the elder. ”

"So, Wen Tiren has been busy for a long time before and after, just to help Zhou Yanru's voluntary dedication?" Xiao Mu was a little unable to understand Wen Tiren's motives.

"Of course not, Wen Tiren was also appreciated by Emperor Chongzhen through this matter, and later entered the cabinet and became a cabinet elder." Lin Yi replied.

"I'll just say, this Wen Tiren is really unprofitable!" Xiao Mu suddenly realized.

"And in the end, Wen Tiren repeated his old tricks, and suddenly knocked down Zhou Yanru, who was already the first assistant at the time, and became the first assistant of the cabinet." Lin Yi finally explained the ending of Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, and put an end to the whole story, "But I don't know much about the specific details, and what I said before was just seen in passing when I learned about Qian Qianyi's life." ”

"Political disputes are so ......complicated," Xiao Mu listened to Lin Ye's story, first stunned for a moment, and then said slowly, "Judging from the history you know, this Wen Tiren is clearly a capricious and shameless villain!" ”

Lin Yi thought that Xiao Mu's views were too one-sided and extreme: "I can't say it completely, after all, ancient political struggles are always full of intrigues and tricks, aren't you reading "Zizhi Tongjian", there must be a lot of this kind of thing written in this book." Moreover, Qian Qianyi is not a perfect person, the case of scientific research fraud that Wen Tiren turned over should also be true, Qian Qianyi himself must have tried to bring down Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, but it just failed. ”

Lin Yi said for a long time, in short, it was to express that as a bureaucrat of the feudal dynasty, few people were completely upright gentlemen, and they would participate in some political battles to some extent.

"No matter how much is written in the "Zizhi Tongjian", it is not as shocking as the 'contemporary history' you said." After Xiao Mu listened to Lin Yi's words, he said with emotion, "The court is really full of intrigue, the officials study these things all day long, and it would be strange to be able to write masterpieces that have been handed down to the world!" However, not being able to write poetry is secondary, if all the officials in the court and the central government are concerned about how to exclude dissidents, then the demise of the Ming Dynasty will be a matter of time. ”

"That's right, so the 'amnesty for the world' policy you have engaged in is still very good, at least it can temporarily suppress their party's impulse to fight against differences......," Lin Yi rarely praised Xiao Mu.

However, Xiao Mu didn't care about Lin Yi's praise, he sat there alone and meditated for a long time, and then suddenly jumped up and said loudly, "Well, I decided!" "It took Lin Ye by surprise.

"What are you doing in a daze!" Lin Yi also complained loudly, and then couldn't help but ask curiously, "What did you decide?" ”

"I have decided, from today onwards, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty will always be to come to the sect, unless he dies, or he is too old to be confused, he will never be replaced." Xiao Mu said.

"Moreover, the other members of the inner family must also be fixed, even if someone has a corpse and a vegetarian meal, it is not easy to replace, anyway, the level of officials who have passed the imperial examination is not much worse, and no one is much better than the other. I also have to find Zongdao and other pavilion elders from time to time to chat and talk about my heart, so that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will know that I, the emperor, trust Shoufu and the cabinet elders very much, so as not to let them have any bad thoughts. Xiao Mu added.

"This is also a good method, but it is a bit overkill, and I am afraid that it will make the situation more and more rigid in the future. However, in the short term, stability in the cabinet is still very necessary. While Lin Yi expressed the worry in her heart, she also reluctantly agreed with Xiao Mu's plan.

"Well, people have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. Now I don't have that much capital to worry about the future. Xiao Mu said. Then he thought that Lin Yi had brought him in this time, and he had listened to her talk about the battle in the court for a long time, but he didn't know what she was looking for him, so he asked again, "By the way, you came to me this time, is there something wrong?" ”

"Of course there is something, it's all your fault, asking about this Zhou Yanru's matter, it almost made me forget about business." Lin said.

"So, what's the matter?" Xiao Mu asked, feeling in his heart that Lin Ye must not be doing anything serious.

"I came to you, of course, to care about your studies, listening to Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru in the past two days, how effective is it?" Ringo asked.

This crazy woman has taken the wrong medicine again? Still concerned about my studies? Xiao Mu felt that Lin Ye's words were a little too hypocritical, so that he didn't even believe a single punctuation mark, but he still followed Lin Ye's words and replied: "The effect is not bad, especially now that I read everything that Emperor Chongzhen read before, I can basically 'never forget'." ”

"Well, do you think you need to find a classmate to study with you?" Lin Yi then asked.

Schoolmate? What classmates are you looking for? Xiao Mu's mind was full of questions, and the answer of "no" was just about to be spoken, but suddenly he seemed to understand the meaning of Lin Yi's words.

"It turns out that she is still bored by herself, and she wants to find something to do, after all, as a future person, it is not a way for her to play mahjong and cards all day long." Xiao Mu recalled that a few days ago, Lin Yi even asked Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua to study the cannon, and he completely understood Lin Ye's thoughts.

"Well, yes, it's all about books anyway, so it doesn't matter if you have one more person to listen to it." Xiao Mu pretended to weigh it, and then said, "I wonder if the queen is interested in listening to it together?" We can also learn from each other and make progress together. ”

"Since the emperor has said so, then I can't shirk it, so I'll reluctantly go and listen to it together." Lin Yi tried to restrain the joy in his heart and said lightly.