Outside Liu Jin's private house in Shajia Hutong at night, there was a carriage and horses parked. When the night is quiet, even the Shajia Hutong, which is busy with traffic during the day, rarely presents such a scene as tonight, but this has always been a forbidden place for the soldiers and horses of Beicheng to patrol, but no one cares about this idle matter.

And the land of this entire alley has been eaten by Liu Jin one after another, and he is even more afraid of being watched, eavesdropped, and peeped at. At this moment, the two old men who arrived late glanced at each other, smiled and said hello.

After saying hello, one of them, who was a few years older with a thin face, glanced sideways at the carriage that stopped in front of him, and then said with a smile: "Jiao Shoujing is really fast, it seems that he came back with Gonggong Liu nine times out of ten." ”

"Brother Yizhen, didn't you just know about Jiao Ge Lao? Don't look at his age than us, this leg has always been faster than us. Liu Yu said sarcastically with a sneer, and then made a gesture of invitation to Cao Yuan with a smile, "It's just that there is no particular order in this court, Jiao Ge is old after all!" ”

Cao Yuanwan smiled, and even entered with Liu Yu. When Liu Yu saw them in the hall, as soon as he entered the room, he saw that the lights were bright, except for Liu Jin and his closest Zhang Wenmian and Sun Cong, Jiao Fang and his son Jiao Huangzhong were sitting beside Liu Jin, Cao Yuan and Liu Yu raised their eyebrows in unison.

"Father-in-law Liu."

Although Liu Yuguan is still in the military department, Cao Yuan is now transferred from the governor of Gansu to return to Beijing, and he is the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, and they are both high-ranking officials of the second and third grades, but the two of them are obtained by settling with Liu Jin, so they can't help but be respectful, but they are a little perfunctory when they meet Jiao Fang, the old assistant of the pavilion. When the two of them sat down one by one, Liu Jin coughed dryly and said bluntly: "Our family is looking for you tonight, which means very simple to get Yang Tinghe down!" ”

Everyone present knew what kind of character Liu Jin was, so when they heard the concise meaning, several people glanced at each other, knowing that this time was not to persuade Liu Jin how to take back this meaning, but how to help Liu Jin achieve his goal. After all, whether it is Jiao Fang, who is already in the cabinet, or Liu Yu and Cao Yuan, who are looking at the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, a stalwart of Shilin who seems to have a low official position but is extremely popular, was originally a thorn in the flesh.

However, this occasion, which should have been a sinister idea one after another, was stalled for a while. Under Liu Jin's increasingly impatient eyes, Cao Yuan coughed lightly and said: "Father-in-law Liu, Yang Tinghe has not only taught history for the emperor for many years, but he is also a quiet and steady person...... No, or almost never did anything wrong. ”

For Cao Yuan's answer, Liu Jin was naturally extremely annoyed, and although Liu Yu knew that this was an opportunity to show himself, he had to think about it, so he had to smile bitterly: "Brother Zhen's words are not bad Yang Ting and this person are not in the oil and salt, there are many people who are good friends with him in Shilin, if there is the emperor's trust, I am afraid it will not be so easy to drive people out of the capital." ”

Seeing that Liu Jin's face was getting darker and darker, and finally looked at himself, Jiao Fang smiled calmly: "Although Yang Ting and this person are extremely difficult to start, they are not without weaknesses. The last subject of the first emperor's life is his deputy chief exam, according to this reason, he is also a person who is full of peach and plums. He is not easy to start, but his protégés are not always innocent. Besides, I have asked people to check that the reason why Yang Shen would talk about the rights and wrongs of King Ning is because of the bewitchment of Jiangxi scholars. Jiangxi has always been famous, but in fact, it is not worthy of the name! Since the beginning of our dynasty, there have always been more southerners and fewer northerners, and most of the southerners, especially Jiangxi scholars, are famous! And in this subject of Yang Tinghe's main exam, how many Jinshi are among the people in Jiangxi? ”…,

Whether it is Liu Jin, Cao Yuan or Liu Yu, they are all northerners, so they all resonated with Jiao Fang's words, and Cao Yuan slapped the armrest and said: "Jiao Ge Lao said this very much, before Liu Jianjian was the first assistant, but the employment was biased towards the southerners, and I don't know how to promote the outstanding talents among the northerners, it is simply putting the cart before the horse!" ”

"What else does the old guy say!" Liu Jin snorted impatiently, "If you want to say that he has the same surname as our family, and he is also the same clan as Lao Jiao, but he is very hard!" Don't talk about him, Lao Jiao, you keep talking! ”

Although Liu Jin was an old Jiao with a very commanding attitude, Jiao Fang knew that Liu Jin was now in this style after his position was firm, so he didn't think it was wrong, and glanced at Jiao Huangzhong, who had an uncertain look on his face, so that he could not be impatient, so he took out a fold from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Jin with a smile. And Liu Jinhu glanced at Jiao Fang suspiciously, and immediately said impatiently: "Don't play dumb riddles for our family, just say it!" ”

"This is an excerpt that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs has just sent to the cabinet." Jiao Fang didn't pay attention to the different colors of Liu Yu and Cao Yuan, and said with a smile, "Why Tu Xun is in the book, let's not talk about it for the time being, just talk about the gist of it." Didn't a wave of thorny envoys come a year ago? One of them is named Ya Liu, originally a native of Wan'an, Jiangxi, named Xiao Mingju, who fled the country because of his crimes, betrayed Manchu Thorn Jia, and turned himself into an envoy to come back. But he was greedy enough to seek the reward of our dynasty, and wanted to enter the mud country to ask for treasure, and killed Duan Yazhi, a man from the Manchurian country who came with him before, and now he was arrested and is being detained in the criminal department. ”

It doesn't matter if these words are regarded as drunken chatter, Cao Yuan and Liu Yu are both puzzled when they say it, and Liu Jin frowned and asked, "What does this have to do with what you just said?" ”

"Father-in-law, there are such people in Jiangxi, not to mention the far ones, and most of the people in the court are not worthy of the name, and the nearest ones are Peng Hua, Yin Zhi, Xu Qiong, Li Zixing, Huang Jing and others. Didn't my father-in-law always want Shilin to obey? Now there is a best opportunity to reduce the quota of Jiangxi Province by 50, even if the general nationality is obtained from the Jinshi, they are not allowed to choose the Beijing post, and from now on this will be a permanent system! Yang Ting and his disciples have a lot of Jiangxi protégés walking around, and this stick is the most ruthless! ”

Whether it is Cao Yuan or Liu Yu, they were confident that their methods were ruthless enough, but at this moment, compared with Jiao Fang's suggestion, they had to sigh to themselves. Even Liu Jin, who was the same as Jiao Fang in his attitude towards the southerners, gasped at this moment, and then seriously thought about Jiao Fang's proposal.

"Well, it's Liwei's way,...... It's just how to get the emperor to agree, but we have to let our family think about it again. ”

When Liu Jin said this, Liu Yu, who was about to open his mouth to persuade one or two, suddenly died down. After glancing at Jiao Fang vigilantly, he had to cautiously mention the news that Xu Xun was going to use troops to suppress bandits in Jinan, and that the 12th Regiment Battalion was sent to Shaanxi, but to his disappointment, Liu Jin only raised his eyebrows.

"The thing to suppress bandits is to use the young army of the avant-garde of the government army, the emperor doesn't hurt, how do you care about Xu Xun to toss? Besides, today our family also heard that Xu Xun actually wanted to let those three gentlemen toss, obviously trying to win over their fathers, and he was also carrying it if something happened to him, and he had nothing to do with you, the secretary of the military department! After a pause, he laughed again, "As for the Shaanxi side, he called the two words of the compound set in the court so loud that Li Dongyang and them were all said that they didn't even dare to let go of a fart, you want to stop it...... Can you stop it! Besides, there is such a thing in the way, Yang Yiqing can't come back, otherwise it may not be known whether you can sit firmly in the position of the secretary of the military department! ”…,

This was said extremely unkindly, even though Liu Yu had been used to Xu Xun's attitude of scolding like a soap, he still couldn't help but have a purple face at this moment. And although Cao Yuan's friendship with Liu Yu is not ordinary, he still said cautiously: "What Father-in-law Liu said is indeed not a trivial matter. Xu Xun is now gaining momentum, if there is any more benefit......"

"If there is any benefit, it will be the national prince, our family still wishes that he was the national prince, and when the time comes, public opinion will be mobilized to let him retire!"

Liu Jin took a sip angrily, and then said lazily: "Okay, let's discuss here today." The two of you go back to our house and keep Lao Jiao to talk for a while. ”

It didn't take long to sit because of Jiao Fang's words before and after, Liu Jin actually drove them away, leaving Jiao Fang alone to talk secretly, and for a while Liu Yu and Cao Yuan couldn't help but hold back the fire in their stomachs. However, seeing Jiao Fang sitting with his feet crossed, the old god was there, and Jiao Huang on the side was also proud, although the two of them gritted their silver teeth, they didn't dare to attack in person, and immediately stood up and retreated. And although Jiao Fang knew that the two of them must hate him, but he was not afraid of biting the two of them as soon as he left, he owed a debt and whispered: "Good to teach Gonggong Liu to know, I saw Li Rong and Gonggong Li a few days ago......"

In the Liu Mansion, when Liu Jin summoned several powerful people in high positions to discuss secretly, the study of the Xing'an Hou Mansion was also brightly lit. Tao Hong and Ah Bao coaxed Jin Hong to sleep, and the two sat on the steps and guarded them personally, listening to the words that could be faintly heard from time to time, both of them were vigilant with their eyes dripping, constantly paying attention to whether there were any high-ranking guys in the drama to spy on intelligence, until they noticed the figure of Cao Qian standing on the nearby wall, and then they were relieved.

In addition to Kang Hai and Tang Yin, who Xu Xun had informed earlier, there was Zhang Cai in the study. Kang Hai and Tang Yin felt outrageous about the many charges that Xu Xun had brought out about the late grandfather of King Ning, but they couldn't help but be a little hesitant. After all, the imperial court is always very close to the pro-feudal domain, except for not allowing them to leave the fiefdom without permission, everything else is a big thing and a small thing. No matter how heinous King Ning was in the forefront, if he made such a big fuss, it was not fun. However, Xu Xun's words in the next moment gave them a reassurance.

"Don't worry, this is different from the scene like Jinling Mengheshuo's tragic song Peony Pavilion, you just write this script, and you won't sign your name, and you won't be flexible, don't expose the word King Ning? In the play, as long as it is said that it is the traitor king, the traitor king is enough, and the insinuation is done thoroughly. Also, you don't have to be as elaborate as the previous dramas, just sing it all over the city, and do it shoddy, elegant and vulgar. The other thing is, you don't have to worry about it after it's written, I'll take care of everything! ”

This kind of attitude of leaders taking responsibility when something happens is undoubtedly what subordinates are most willing to see. So, in the face of such a task, although it was added horizontally, it didn't take much effort, Kang Hai and Tang Yin all agreed to one champion and one Xie Yuan. When the two of them were sent out to conceive and create, Xu Xun looked at Zhang Cai with a smile and said: "Xilu, I haven't had a chance to praise you before, what is called a stroke of genius, it is your hand!" ”

"Where is it, it's just a small skill of carving insects, how did it get into the eyes of adults?" Zhang Cai humbly said, knowing that Xu Xun didn't like this, he explained with a smile, "I really didn't mean it, it's Yang Shen's kid who is famous enough, and he will move if he is anxious and righteous, and his identity is too sensitive, so he naturally chose him, but I didn't expect it to be a great success, I was still sweating before." But the adults are really kind, and the success of the work has made people out of the capital to try in Sichuan Township, and if he is left in the capital, there may be bigger troubles. ”…,

"No need, I'm forcing Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe to stand in line. Before, I needed them to help me put away those in the court who refused to attach me and Liu Jin, and by the way, I would have a good and thin mud, so that I wouldn't have a conflict with Liu Jin at all times. But now that the situation has come to this, there is only one or the other, and there is no room for left and right. sent Qian Ning to Jiangxi, also for the final end. I don't want the snipe and the clam to fight, but the fisherman who comes out to clean up the mess! ”

Zhang Cai couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Xu Xun's clear statement. Before, he picked a person like Yang Shen who had a big relationship, just to push the situation forward and let Xu Xun make a painful decision. Now that he had finally waited for such words, he was secretly relieved, and then he stood up and arched his hand solemnly.

"That being the case, the adults now have to seek not only one step, but five steps, and even ten and a hundred steps! It must be known that if the adults really succeed in one fell swoop, they will really be the target of the public, and what kind of policy and strategy should be used at that time must now be considered carefully. And, with all due respect, it's time to let go of the adult curfew. ”

"It's not that my curfew should be let go, it's you." Xu Xun sat down slowly, just leaned back in the chair and looked at Zhang Cai who was standing there, and said with a smile, "Although you are not a year old and three times now, you have been promoted several levels in the past year." Are you interested in taking the main exam next year? ”

Although Zhang Cai appreciated Ma Wensheng in his early years, and he was immersed in the Ministry of Officials for many years, he has always been promoted step by step, but unexpectedly, after the fall of Ma Wensheng, he moved a few years old, and now Xu Xun puts such an infinitely beautiful prospect in front of him. He was so excited that he said after a while: "Naturally, I am interested, but I am not an official ...... Hanlin official."

"Xie Shangshu was able to use the country's prince to supervise the wine and serve as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and you, the waiter of the Ministry of Officials and the priest of a country, should also make it. Moreover, isn't Liu Jin trying to win you over and let your family's pet blow some wind to him. Xu Xun lightly tapped the handrail with his fingers, and then said conclusively, "As for the Guozijian Division, I will transfer He Jingming over!" He doesn't want to be in the company of these bosses in the center, so let's go and teach some prisoners with good bones! ”。 ）