Feng Bao was furious, only felt that his younger brother Feng You and nephew Feng Bangning were simply incompetent, so he simply let Xu Jue live in the Feng family, help manage the housework, and check everyone. Therefore, the head class of the Zhang University Scholar's Mansion, who was familiar with this, naturally found this place straightforwardly and relayed the master's words to Xu Jue.

After sending people away, Xu Jue squinted his eyes and groaned. In the past, when You Qi was there, although the two had open and secret fights, but as the agents of the master behind them, they could manipulate the connection between Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng to a large extent, after all, as Shoufu and Shouyu, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were not good at meeting each other openly and frequently on weekdays, so as not to fall behind, and many things had to be done by them.

However, now that You Qiyi is dead, Yao Kuang, the chief class who was once very favored by Zhang Juzheng, is guilty again, even if the people sent by Zhang Fu to contact him are selected, they are not used to this stubble after all, and they are cautious and trembling, and it is even more difficult for him to discuss opportunities with people he is not familiar with. For example, in this matter right now, if You Qi is here, the two of them can discuss a strategy with ease and dexterity, but now he can only make up his mind!

"You Qi is dead...... It's me going to sue again, and Yuan Fu doesn't say it on his face, but God knows if he has any opinion on me...... However, my benefactor is Gonggong Feng, and I can't just consider Yuanfu's position, but also Gonggong Feng's position. ”

Xu Jue knew that he had to learn the lesson of You Qi, no matter whether Feng Bao listened to him or not, he had to make a posture of wholeheartedly serving Feng Bao!

Thinking of this, Xu Jue quickly made a decision, and immediately wrote a handwritten letter, summoned Feng Bao's apprentice grandson in, and asked him to enter the palace and hand it over to Feng Bao in person.

When Feng Bao, who was in the celebrant office, saw this letter carefully concocted by Xu Jue, he couldn't help but groan.

Xu Jue clearly said Zhang Juzheng's request in the letter, but at the end he said vaguely that Zhang Juzheng obviously wanted to be a **** and set up an archway - of course the words would not be so vulgar, but it would mean so - Moreover, in case Zhang Juzheng spread the matter that Feng Bao wanted to execute the court staff and he dissuaded, he earned himself the burden of forbearance and humiliation, and did not care about the reputation of being attacked by others. Although it is not surprising that the dignified Shoufu wants to earn a good reputation, but Shoufu and Shouyu have a white face and a black face, and Feng Bao bears the stigma, or for Zhang Juzheng's own business, which is too unfair.

In this case, it is better to instigate Emperor Wanli and make him bite the court staff and not relax, Zhang Juzheng expected that there was no other way, Feng Bao only had to say that it was the Son of Heaven who was unhappy for Mr. Zhang, and he couldn't persuade him, so that's it.

The court staff is not the court staff, Feng Bao doesn't care, even if it is an emperor like the first emperor Mu Zong, who seems to be benevolent and delegated power, hasn't he used the court staff a few times? What he cares about is whether Xu Jue is like You Qi, who only has selfish intentions and forgets who gave him glory and wealth. Moreover, between him and Zhang Juzheng, no one can do without anyone, he is not worried about others being the first assistant, why is Zhang Juzheng not worried about others being the palm seal of the celebrant who is in charge of approving red? If it weren't for him coaxing the Empress Dowager Cisheng Li in the palace and looking at Emperor Wanli, the matter of criticizing the red would never refute Zhang Juzheng's face, where would Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, be so easy!

Even so, Xu Jue's suggestion is also worth it. He wiped Zhang Juzheng's buttocks, Zhang Juzheng was still timid, how could there be such a cheap thing! What's more, Zhang Juzheng cleaned the road before, how many officials were swept away, and what was the effect of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger? Look at these guys who popped up from the Hanlin Academy and the Six Divisions this time, if they don't make an example, how can they overwhelm those guys who claim to be gentlemen of the clear stream?

And Wang Fulin, who sent a letter to Zhang Sixiu, gave him a preventive injection, and clearly said that he was going to find Liu Yingjie, was outside Liu Yingjie's private house in the evening. He had already made people find out that this criminal department secretary had returned from the yamen, so he went straight forward and handed over the name of the person he wanted to see. Compared with the busy traffic in front of Zhang Juzheng's house, here is the door is cold and sparse, the only porter is very puzzled by Wang Fulin, a visitor, and sees the signature clearly, so he changes color slightly, politely said please wait, and ran inside.

While waiting for the news, Wang Fulin couldn't help but pinch his fingers again and count the party in the same year in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, just when he reached the level of the six Shangshu Zuodu Imperial History, there were Yin Zhengmao, Liu Yingjie, Chen Zhan, Shilang at the level, Wang Daokun in the past, and now I have to count the former waiter Li Youzi, who has just ordered the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate and has not yet taken office, and finally this fellow countryman who is also Zhang Juzheng. This is not counting Ling Yunyi, who is still serving as the governor of Liangguang. I have to say that in addition to Zhang Juzheng's personal affairs in the same year, that session was indeed full of talents and heroes.

After waiting for a long time, the porter came out with his name post, but he said with some embarrassment: "The master said that he and Wang Shiyu have no personal friendship, nor are they relatives and friends......

"It is precisely because I have no personal friends and I am not a friend or relative that I came to see him. If it were a junior of the world, I wouldn't dare to come. I bother you to go in and report it again, and say that Wang Fulin is not here for Liu Butang, but for a little heart. Liu Butang is a senior in the court, please take the time to see it, just for a moment. ”

The porter hesitated for a moment, but finally went in again to run an errand, and when he came back, he bowed and saluted: "The master is in the study, please come with the little one." ”

Although Liu Yingjie once served as the governor of Jiliao and entered the court as the secretary of the criminal department, in the residence of the capital master in this inch of land, it is not quite in line with the status of a book. Wang Fulin only found that he simply bypassed the wall and entered a side door, and the gatehouse pointed to a room facing north and south, which was Liu Yingjie's study. There was a boy in front of the door who was still in the main corner, he thought it was a scholar of Liu's Mansion, but when he heard the doorman come forward and call Young Master Sun, he was stunned.

Dare to ...... This is Liu Yingjie's grandson?

The little guy was about eight or nine years old, about the same age as Jinbao that Wang Fulin saw at first sight after waking up, and at this time he saluted very obediently and called Wang Shiyu, and personally opened the curtain to let him in. After entering the door, Wang Fulin saw Liu Yingjie sitting behind the desk in a homely cloth robe, except for the bookshelves, desks, chairs, and cabinets, there were almost no furnishings in the entire study, which could not be said to be simple, but could only be called shabby! When he retracted his gaze and stepped forward to salute, Liu Yingjie directly threw a book in his hand on the table, and immediately said angrily: "Say, why did you come to see me?" ”

"Liu Butang and my uncle are the same year, and they have worked together with Qi Dashuai in Jizhen for many years, you should know that my uncle and Qi Dashuai used to fight against the Japanese in Fujian, and they have a very good relationship with each other, right?"

Liu Yingjie frowned with some doubts, and then sneered: "You and your uncle have already turned against each other, and you still want to use him to persuade me?" ”

"No, I just want to say, because of what I said, I don't know what Liu Butang's political achievements are in other places, but in Jizhen, the more than 1,000 hollow enemy platforms alone are already better than 100,000 soldiers, so I have always admired Liu Butang very much. Compared with some people who only talk about things but can't do things, Liu Butang has been the head of the household department in the capital for a short period of time, and the rest of the time is a step by step in the foreign office, and he has made political achievements in a down-to-earth manner. Especially in the military affairs in the north, I can't find a few people who are as familiar with Liu Butang as possible. ”

Even though Liu Yingjie put on a posture of rejecting Wang Fulin's visit today, his face softened a little when he heard such an affirmation.

"Although I have already been declared a minister in the north, and Duoyanwei has also stopped, but Taining Weifu Yuwei plus the Chahaner Department, the Liaodong Frontier is still troublesome, not to mention that Zhang Buyuan has entered the military department, and the newly transferred officials can compare to him? Since Liu Butang is still at ease, instead of telling his illness to show weakness, why not invite himself to patrol Jiliao, and then go to Xuanfu Datong, Ningxia Shaanxi and Gansu? With Liu Butang's upright personality, he will definitely not alarm the local people, but can really pick out those mistakes! ”

Liu Yingjie almost didn't stare out of his eyes. He wants to resign from his illness, naturally because he can't get used to Zhang Juzheng's ridiculous love turmoil - Zhang Juzheng just looks like a funeral, just don't move this step, stay in the Jingshi Mansion, what's the matter with waiting for the emperor to win the love? However, Wang Fulin's two words of weakness hit him deeply. He is the most powerful person, although he is now sixty, but sixty years old has never been considered an advanced age for a high-ranking official in the imperial court!

He glared at Wang Fulin, and suddenly sneered: "Then if I don't listen to you go out and go around, and I don't get sick, I will rely on the position of the secretary of the criminal department and not leave?" ”

"That's for the best." Wang Fulin said with a smile, "In the six ministries of the cabinet, there must be some different voices, otherwise wouldn't it be said that Yuan Fu is a hall?" ”

Liu Yingjie, who was teasing in his heart, was almost choked to death by Wang Fulin's understatement. He suppressed his anger and shouted word by word: "Isn't that a word hall now? ”

"Of course." Wang Fulin didn't blink his eyes, burst out these three words, and then said unhurriedly, "However, the new entry into the court is easy to defeat after only a few months, is this Liu Butang's temperament?" It's easy for you to walk away, but who will take over the position of the secretary of the Criminal Department? If it's a person like you, it's fine, but what if it's someone who is not familiar with criminal names? ”

"You also know that the Guangdong Road of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been surveyed in the Criminal Department before, but the result is really not ideal. Liu Butang is different from Wang Chonggu, you have never regarded the criminal department as a place of transition, not long after taking office, you have personally been to the prison twice, raided a lot of criminal files, and eliminated three old malpractices, I am not wrong, right? If you just got up and walked away, not afraid of the old evils and relapse? ”

Liu Yingjie didn't expect that Wang Fulin rarely seemed to meet with him alone, and it was the first time that such a deep conversation was made, but he coldly saw his achievements in just a few months as the secretary of the Criminal Department. For a while, he couldn't help but close his eyes, not wanting this junior to see his struggle.

Zhang Juzheng is rigid and does not allow any objections, if he, the secretary of the criminal department, refuses to be an echo worm, even if he is barely in power, he will have his own science and technology in the future, it is better to take advantage of Zhang Juzheng's love to go to the position himself! But as Wang Fulin said, after he took office as the secretary of the Criminal Department, he didn't just plan to be a Taiping scholar, but also wanted to do something.

But of course he won't completely follow Wang Fulin's pace: "I have no relatives with you and no reason, when your uncle was about to sue for illness before, why didn't you persuade me, but now you come to persuade me?" ”

Although Liu Yingjie's question was very tricky, Wang Fulin felt that the other party's tone was loose. Knowing that there was only one last introduction left, he simply said bluntly: "Because in my uncle's eyes, I have always been just a junior in the clan, and I should listen to his elder's arrangement in everything, but I have my own insistence on people and things, this is an irreconcilable contradiction, he can't listen to my big truth, and I can't convince him." And when I see Liu Butang today, it is for justice. Take 10,000 steps back and say, Wang Chonggu is not so clean, Zhang Han's so-called attitude towards Shoufu is not enough, but it is only the old fight, does Liu Butang want others to compare you with them who have or are about to withdraw from the court? ”

Wang Chonggu's military exploits, Liu Yingjie was convinced, but Wang Chonggu's official ethics, Liu Yingjie scoffed; And Zhang Han is not to mention, although he has also served as a governor in the foreign office, but in his eyes, it is lackluster, and this official is even more bullshit! Therefore, Wang Fulin's last sentence really hit his heart. Liu Shangshu, who was ruthless all of a sudden, slapped the table case and said sharply: "Okay, then I'll stay, but you don't want me to please Zhang Taiyue!" ”

Well, that's it!

Wang Fulin suddenly smiled. He wouldn't persuade Liu Yingjie and Guang Tongchen to say something like that, he smiled and raised his hand, and he just said goodbye. When he crossed the threshold with one foot and was about to go out from under the curtain, he only heard Liu Yingjie's cold voice from behind.

"I won't take your affection, don't let me grab your pigtails!"

"It's best for Liu Butang to forget about today's events." Wang Fulin turned sideways slightly, bowed slightly, and then went out. Seeing that the young master of the Liu family, who was guarding the bottom of the steps, hurriedly stood up, he touched the little guy's head with a smile, looked back at the house where the curtain fell, and then said, "Your grandfather is a bad talker, and I don't dare to give you any valuable gifts." This fan is for you. ”

Wang Fulin couldn't help but say that even the fan bag and fan in his waist were all untied, seeing Liu Yingjie's grandson's eyes flickering, and he wanted to excuse but couldn't find a reason, so he smiled: "It's not a valuable thing, white fan, my uncle inscribed, Uncle Zhongyan painted, left as a souvenir." Study hard and get a jinshi in the future! ”

The little guy picked up his things and watched Wang Fulin stride away, and then hurriedly rushed into his grandfather's house. Liu Yingjie, who had already heard the conversation outside, waved his hand and said without waiting for him to speak: "Wang Nanming is a celebrity, what else can be said about their brother's calligraphy and paintings, just send it to you and keep it." ”

Saying this in his mouth, chewing on Wang Fulin's words just now, thinking that people had fallen out with his uncle, but he still carried Wang Daokun's true handiwork, Liu Yingjie unconsciously tasted a little taste.

Staying for a while is a moment, and you can't just stop doing what you need to do in order to be angry with others...... Unless he can find a more dedicated successor, let's not pick on them for now! (To be continued.) )