As a military attaché, and a top military attache in charge of the Beijing camp, Xing'an Bo Xu Liang naturally did not know about the turmoil in the court. Now his father is more expensive than his son, and after half a day of practice, countless colleagues are rushing to invite each other, please eat and drink, please listen to the play, please go to the Qinglou to play...... There are many invitations of all kinds. He couldn't push it all, so he could only choose one or two to go to the appointment, but he mostly left at one point. However, he was asked to watch two new plays within a few days, and as soon as he got home, he went straight to Xu Xun's courtyard, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Tao Hong, who had been back in Nanjing for several months, standing in front of Xu Xun.

Tao Hong just said that Zhang Mao has now returned to Nanjing Guozi to supervise the matter, and found that Xu Liang came in, Xu Xun got up and saluted, and he hurriedly followed suit, seeing Xu Liang waving his hand at himself, he said in a proper manner: "Although the sixth master is still experiencing the division experience now, I heard that Lord Wu raised a copy before he died, and about ten ** can be moved up again." The sixth master entrusted the young master to bring a lot of Yingtianfu's specialties to the old master and the young master, if he knew that the young master had been knighted again this time, maybe how happy he would be......"

After all, Xu Xun was Tao Hong's old master, so when he heard Tao Hong say good things for Xu Hong, Xu Xun just smiled and didn't interrupt him. When Tao Hong said that Fu Rong, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, was in much worse health than before, he became solemn and asked before he remembered it. After asking Wei Guogong Xu Li and other acquaintances one by one, he sent Tao Hong down to rest, and then stood up and made a cup of tea for Xu Liang, because he smiled and said, "Dad came back early today." ”

"I was invited to a drama garden on the other side of Tongjiaqiao, listened to half of the play, and then slipped back halfway." Xu Liang took the tea and took a sip, then raised his head and looked at Xu Xun with blazing eyes and asked, "Xun'er, let me ask you, did you toss this uproar this time?" ”

Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, although Xu Xun had not talked to Xu Liang before, since his father asked at this time, he naturally would not hide it, and nodded calmly and said, "Dad is right." ”

"But you must know that Min Shangshu's official reputation has always been very good, it is said that the management of the prison is quite fair, and the reputation is flawless, even those prisoners are also grateful to him, you are playing with fire like this now, in case you eat people and expose that you did it, what's the matter!"

"The reputation is flawless...... Why, Dad thinks I framed him? ”

Facing Xu Xun's calm gaze, Xu Liang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and pondered for a while before shaking his head and saying, "I don't believe you will use such a despicable method...... However, although I don't even have a nodding friendship with Min Shangshu, just looking at that person, I don't believe that he would do such a thing as sending his henchmen to kill people! ”

"I know people and faces, but I don't know my heart, Dad, you know me very well, but outsiders are much worse! The matter of Jiang Shanfei intimidating Xu Jing and the assassination of Zhang Cai have no clear proof that Min Qi did it, and it can be regarded as having no evidence, but he sent that Jiang Shanfei into the East Factory, but he did it. This method alone is by no means the work of pure ministers. Of course, I am not a pure minister myself, and of course I can't expect others to be loyal and pure ministers, but just based on the case files that Li Yifeng gave me, this Min Jue's so-called benevolence and fairness and flawless reputation seem ridiculous in my opinion! ”

Xu Xun paused when he said this, and then said lightly: "Dad, do you know that the imperial examination fraud case in the twelfth year of Hongzhi is just a big joke!" Thinking that the seat of the Ministry of Rites was vacant, Fu Han, who was still a waiter, in order to compete with Cheng Minzheng for that position, took advantage of Cheng Minzheng's main examination and instigated Cheng Minzheng to sell the exam questions to Tang Yin and Xu Jing. As a result, the first emperor sent someone to investigate, and Tang Yin and Xu Jing were not among Cheng Minzheng's admissions at all. Then the Golden Palace confronted him, and Cheng Minzheng even refuted Hua Chang and others to the fullest.

But it was such a case that could be simply tried and decided at that time, because Cheng Minzheng rose too fast, which touched the selfishness of a large group of bigwigs, and one by one he sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and instigated the imperial history to jump up and down in the matter, among them, Min Jue, who had just been transferred from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the Criminal Department, was fueling the troubles and making waves, Dad, do you know? The scholars have studied hard for decades, and it is easy to get fame, but they don't care at all, and Tang Yin Xu Jing was reprimanded as a small official and never hired, and Cheng Minzheng died of anger! Cheng Minzheng also posthumously gave a book, but what about the two in our house? ”

Since he said it, Xu Xun sneered: "Since they used this method at the beginning, then now I also use this trick, and that is to treat others in the way of others!" In the same year of the eighth year of Tianshun, the party was invincible, and the township party of the bigwigs was even more powerful, but there were more people in the court who had no chance and could not get ahead. If you really want to talk about talent, they may not be as good as the bosses who firmly occupy every seat and guard against every new person like a thief! Since I have managed to earn a future, this time I will give them a chance! ”

As Xu Xun said, not everyone is happy to see the immutability of those powerful faces in the court, even the officials who are attached to the bosses have their own plans in their stomachs. However, the turmoil in the twelfth year of Hongzhi came with a thunderous blow, which really shocked many people. Cheng Minzheng served on the side when Emperor Hongzhi was still the crown prince, and he was deeply trusted to be promoted all the way, and he was about to be promoted to Shangshu, but he was defeated by both fists, and finally even lost his life.

But this farce is different, although there are only human witnesses and no physical evidence, but all of them are people from the criminal department, and in addition to intimidation and assassination, it is much more thrilling than the last time. In addition, the new monarch ascended the throne, and it was inevitable that there would be those who dared to gamble, and the fold of the impeachment of Min Jue in this book was half a foot thick. However, for Min Jue, who submitted a letter twice within two days but was rejected, sitting in the lobby of the Criminal Department, which is the most familiar with Pingyue, is not pleasant.

When he finally finished the day's trial and dragged his tired body down from the sedan chair, the old servant who was waiting on the side stretched out his hand to help, and then whispered: "Master, Wang Shilang has already come, please wait in the study." ”

"Got it."

In the past few days, all kinds of friends in the same township have avoided him, and when he heard that Wang Hua was coming, Min Jue's face showed a smile, and then he nodded. After going back to the room and changing into civilian clothes, drinking water and eating some snacks to cushion the mat, he went straight to the study, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Wang Hua standing up.

"Brother Chaoying."

"I didn't expect you to have the courage to come to the door at this time, not afraid of being sprayed on the face?"

Min Jue is also nearly eighty years old, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face, especially in the past few days, the deep horizontal lines on his forehead have been tightly piled together, making him even more old and miserable under pressure. At this moment, he smiled bitterly and asked Wang Hua to sit down, and then sat opposite him. However, after the guest and host sat down, there was a long silence, Min Jue was confused and didn't know where to start, but Wang Hua didn't know how to speak.

After a long time, it was Wang Hua who broke the silence. He took a breath and said sincerely: "Brother Chaoying, things have come to this point, Yu Shihe is rushing to the middle of the matter, you really can't help it?" ”

"I am not in his position, I am not in his politics, I have been away from the Metropolitan Procuratorate for five years, and I am no more than when I first left there, there are still a group of capable people below." Min Jue shook his head, with endless gloom on his face, "Besides, there are talented people from generation to generation, and a generation of new people replace the old, and now these imperial histories have been promoted by Jinshi over the years, and they are ambitious and want to climb up, so how can they listen to me again?" At this time, there are not many people who have written to avenge me, but compared to those more bizarre and more exciting and angry statements, the judgment is high. ”

Although this was expected, Wang Hua couldn't help but be disappointed, but he immediately cheered up and asked: "Brother Chaoying, forgive me for taking the liberty to ask again, I believe that this so-called intimidation and assassination is too ridiculous, but that country is flying ......."

As soon as he mentioned this name, Min Jue felt deep remorse, and his spirit was even worse for a while, and after a while, he said happily: "One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred, I just thought that the West Factory was a disaster in the past, so I thought that since he had this heart, let him go inside to touch the situation, who knows...... I don't know who instructed him to do these two things in my name, and I don't know who took such a big hole in the criminal department to let people kill people. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't say a word when I tried him in court for the past two days, I wouldn't have known......"

Seeing Min Jue's disheartened look, Wang Hua couldn't help but understand in his heart. It is not uncommon for ministers to write to Shi, but Emperor Hongzhi likes to use old ministers, and the older a person is, the more he can respect the Son of Heaven, so even if he writes to Shi three or four times a year, he is often immovable. At that time, I still didn't want to leave after all. But now, whether it is the public opinion of the court or the little emperor's strange retention and rejection, it is by no means a good sign.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say in one fell swoop: "Brother Chaoying, there is only one way to do it now." You are seriously ill and ask for a retreat! ”

Although Xie Qian told him that he would try his best to help him find a position as the secretary of the Criminal Department, if there was a 1 in 10,000 chance, Wang Hua hoped that Min Jue would stay in his position. After all, the Hongzhi Emperor who appreciated him the most is no longer there, and although his son Wang Shouren is quite loved by Emperor Zhengde, he is not the right way after all, and it does not help him to govern the first department with low qualifications. But is there any other way?

Serious illness and retreat...... Min Jue's eyes widened suddenly, as if he knew Wang Hua for the first time. Seeing that he had unnaturally avoided his gaze, he suddenly burst out laughing, and that laughter was full of bitterness. People are in officialdom, and they can't help themselves, how many famous ministers have been as innocent as they say in the history books? The ups and downs of officialdom and the collapse of personnel, he has done these things, and he doesn't take them to heart, but now at this time, he can't help but think of Cheng Minzheng, who died of carbuncle poison after being ordered to be released from prison four days after being released.

is also a trumped-up crime, is this a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is unpleasant?

(To be continued)