Although the person who congratulated Lu Tiaoyang almost broke the entire alley, in the end, the second assistant who came up directly closed the door, lived in the cabinet and did not come back, and ordered Zhang Juzheng's straight room to be closed, no one was allowed to enter or leave, and moved his own chair in the cabinet chamber back to its original position, but, since Liu Ji and Liu Mian, in the past eighty or ninety years, there has never been an old case of the first assistant winning love. Even Yang Tinghe, the first assistant in the Zhengde period, was forced to stay at home for 27 months and was completely mourned. Therefore, the courtiers who have been suppressed by Zhang Juzheng for many years seem to see the hope that the mountain above their heads will be moved.

Even if Lu Tiaoyang and Zhang Siwei immediately wrote a book, citing the old example of Yang Pujin Youzi and Li Xian, and asked Zhang Juzheng to make love, they still did not stop a certain momentum.

Therefore, since Lu Tiaoyang could not be blocked at home, three days after Zhang Juzheng wrote to ask Ding Wei to abide by the system, that is, three days after the de facto first assistant was removed, according to the usual practice, many of the cabinet officials and the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, as well as the revisionists, editors, and scholars, came to congratulate the second assistant Lu Tiaoyang in ceremonial dresses. Although this was a privilege that the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet were naturally close to, Lu Tiaoyang still only felt anxious.

After all, he had only picked himself up by encouraging Zhang Siwei's protégés to go to the ring to fight with his protégés, who knew that Zhang Juzheng would suddenly be worried at such a time!

He and Zhang Juzheng have worked together for more time than Zhang Siwei, from picking up and filling gaps to tactfully admonishing, he is willing to do anything, and he does not fight for anything, so he knows best the information hidden under the closed door of Zhang University's Scholar's Mansion.

Although it was only two years and three months in the middle of the year, the DPRK and China may change the sky and the moon, will Zhang Juzheng take that risk? Can he let go of the decrees he is trying so hard to promote, and the power he holds in his hands?

In his heart, he was very reluctant to be pushed to the position of the first assistant at such a time, Lu Tiaoyang knew that if he asked Zhang Juzheng to win the favor, the folk style would put the word unfilial piety on his head, but he really couldn't bear some people who were too enthusiastic. Therefore, after he was silently on duty for another two days, he simply asked Shi Shu to report his illness together, and left all the cabinet affairs to Zhang Siwei, the third assistant, and went home to "recuperate".

However, Zhang Siwei easily seized such a good opportunity and roasted Lu Tiaoyang completely on the fire, where would he be willing to take such a hot potato? As soon as Lu Tiaoyang went home on the front foot, the doctors from the Tai Hospital on the back foot chased after him. Of course, this does not include Zhu Zongji, who only cares about Zhang Juzheng's family situation in the past two years, regardless of outsiders. For this situation, Lu Tiaoyang can't wait to pour a bucket of cold water on his head to the end, and save others from forcing him to come up again, but he knows that since this picky move has been squeezed into the current situation, even if he suddenly becomes seriously ill, it is just tossing himself and fulfilling others, so he can only say a lot of good things to the imperial doctor.

But he still promised to return to the cabinet the next day. But this did not prevent him from returning to the cabinet at the same time, and at the same time, he went to the court to ask for illness.

Seven days have passed in the blink of an eye. In the past, Wang Jiguang impeached Meng Fang, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, but now it seems to have passed without a trace, and no one has mentioned the six science corridors involved in the matter and the imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate. Everyone's eyes were all staring at the reaction of the Zhang University Scholar Mansion in Dashahat Hutong, and all staring at the words and deeds of Lu Tiaoyang, the deputy assistant to the cabinet, for fear of missing this historic moment.

After all, on the third day after Zhang Juzheng's funeral, the emperor in the palace rewarded a large number of items from silver taels, treasure banknotes, silk, white rice, sesame oil to linen, incense and candles, and this is only the emperor, the Empress Dowager Chen and the Empress Dowager Li also have similar rewards. On the fourth day, the palace sent the eunuch Wei Chao to escort the eldest son Zhang Jingxiu and several brothers back to Huguang, leaving only Zhang Sixiu, who still had an official position, still in the capital.

However, on this day, except for some people who saw that the palace was slow to react, and had some speculations in their hearts, or Wang Fulin, the demon of the subsequent changes of the "unpredictable prophet", the holy decree of love that was unexpected by some people was sent directly to Zhang's mansion from the palace, and the Tao was to ask Zhang Juzheng to return to the cabinet after the seventy-seventh. Emperor Wanli did not use others, personally wrote a neat edict, in which "the patriarchy should be guarded, the monarch father is especially important" this heavy eight words, Yuer spread all over the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, I don't know how many people are in an uproar. But before some Qingliu turned righteous indignation into practical action, Zhang Juzheng's "Begging for Grace and Guarding the System" was handed over.

For this kind of gesture like when the first assistant asks for a minister, repeatedly invited, and repeatedly stayed, it is completely a cognacy of face-to-face effort, and many people naturally know it. Just like Zhang Siwei, although he and Lu Tiaoyang originally helped him write to ask for love, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that Zhang Juzheng would hate Lu Tiaoyang and kick him out, and then in order to raise hope, Ding was worried about the system and gave up the position of first assistant to himself, but now he has completely extinguished the hot charcoal-like mind.

But even if the best wishful thinking has failed, he coldly watched Lu Tiaoyang vote hard, conscientious, but his spirit was obviously very bad, and he knew that even if his previous plan with Wang Chonggu failed, Zhang Juzheng lost his father and saved the plan.

Otherwise, how could Lu Tiaoyang be like this, seeing that he was about to lose Zhang Juzheng's trust, and was even suspicious of the Empress Dowager and Feng Bao in the palace?

And when Zhang Juzheng and the emperor insisted on worrying about Ding and the other on life and death, after three rounds of coming and going, the previous hustle and bustle of the capital was strangely quiet. beat his chest and feet to congratulate Lu Tiaoyang, and secretly regretted betting on the wrong treasure; Seeing that Zhang Juzheng was worried, he didn't go to Dashahat Hutong to brush up his presence in the candidate officials from other places who entered Beijing and were annoyed that they should not have miscalculated the situation; As for some bureaucrats who have suffered losses because of Zhang Juzheng's decree and are ready to wait for Zhang Juzheng to leave, they are more like wilted cabbage.

However, unlike them who dare to be angry and dare not speak, there is a wave of righteous indignation among the real Qingliu gentlemen!

Shen Maoxue and Feng Mengzhen naturally clearly perceived this emotion, because they were also part of it. Almost and Wang Daoguan, who chose the Shanyin Order, was just the front and back feet, Tu Long chose the Yingshang County Order, and had a meeting in the Shen family for several days before, and sent him to Shanyin to take office, just because Zhang Juzheng lost his father, they were just a small-scale gathering of seven or eight people, some were in the same year, and some were just friends they made after entering Beijing, and they were like-minded with each other.

Because Zhang Sixiu's grandfather was newly deceased, and Wang Fulin was on the cusp of wrestling with the imperial historians in the matter before, they didn't invite the two, who knew that as soon as Tu Long was sent away, the situation took a sharp turn in a blink of an eye.

And when Emperor Wanli issued an edict for the first time, when Xu Guo, a bachelor of Hanlin Attendant, met Shen Maoxue once, he euphemistically said something like not to be rash, which made Shen Maoxue even more angry and confused. But such a big thing, he could only hold it in his heart, no one said it, but in the dead of night, he often thought about it in his heart.

On this day, seeing that Emperor Wanli issued an order for the third time, he finally couldn't help but find Feng Mengzhen, a Shujishi. As soon as he opened his mouth to say this, Feng Mengzhen was silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "I heard that Wang Zhongyan is going to Shanyin to take office today, Wang Shiqing will personally go to see him off this uncle, I asked the entourage to investigate, why don't we also go outside the city to have a fun?" ”

Shen Maoxue's face changed greatly: "You mean, Master Xu came to me to say those words, it was Wang Shiqing......"

"Lao Xu is a well-known person in Hanlin Academy who is silent when encountering problems, how can he remind you for no reason? Don't guess, go to Wang Shiqing and ask clearly. Master Xu's son is his brother-in-law, and the matter must have something to do with him. ”

Although Feng Mengzhen asked people to stay at the door of Wang's house to watch Wang Daoguan and his party go out, after all, it took time for the entourage to inform him back and forth, when he and Shen Maoxue went out of the city to the pavilion that was often borrowed by the official road, they saw only Wang Fulin standing there, but he didn't see Wang Daoguan, as if someone had already left. When he stepped forward with Shen Maoxue a little unnaturally, Wang Fulin glanced back at them, but said with a smile: "You guys are here?" Uncle had just been gone for a while. He wanted to wait until the dust settled before going to work, but I forced him away, and I didn't know how unwilling he was. ”

Feng Mengzhen finally couldn't help but ask: "When you say that the dust has settled, do you mean that Shoufu Ding is worried about love?" ”

"That's right." Wang Fulin didn't sell it at all, and nodded directly, "The uncle in my family who fell out with me has objections to winning love. ”

Shen Maoxue didn't expect Wang Fulin to say so directly, and he was stunned for a moment before he exclaimed: "If you don't persuade your uncle, why do you still let Master Xu persuade me?" ”

"Because my uncle is in the third grade, even if he offends the first assistant because of this, that is, he is dismissed from office and returned to his hometown on the basis of being found guilty, which is the most serious punishment, but he is only dismissed and returned to his hometown, but others still praise him for his loyalty and filial piety. However, Jundian you and Kaizhi, one is the champion of the current department, and the other is the current branch of the yuan, although it is not the protégé of the first assistant, but you are all called a teacher on weekdays, right? And in the eyes of others, you can have today's status, but you are the first assistant to appreciate the talent. If you turn against each other, do you think Shousuke-sama will be severe, or will he be light? ”

Feng Mengzhen is a conceited celebrity who intersects with each other on weekdays, it can be said that he talks and laughs with great Confucianism, and there is no vain contact, how have he ever heard someone make such a utilitarian analysis in such a calm tone, and he was immediately indignant: "What about you, as the head of Guangdong Dao in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, are you ready to be silent and not say a word?" ”

"Of course I'm not going to be silent." Seeing that Feng Mengzhen suddenly showed an apologetic expression, obviously thinking that what he said just now was too rushed, Wang Fulin changed his words and said, "If necessary, I will help keep Lord Shoufu." ”

"You ......" This time, Feng Mengzhen was angry enough, but Shen Maoxue grabbed his friend of the same year who was about to get angry, looked at Wang Fulin and said, "Shiqing, you and I are friends in trouble, and we are in-laws, please say what you have to say, don't beat around the bush like this." I know that you are a person with big ambitions, and even more disdainful of talking and doing practical things. We can say things differently, but I don't want to be in a war of words. ”

Shen Maoxue is really a gentleman, if he didn't know each other in the wind and snow in Jizhen, if he didn't know each other in the time of danger in Liaodong, I'm afraid that these two people will cut off their robes and break their righteousness with themselves at this time, right?

Wang Fulin thought so in his heart, and then smiled and said: "At the beginning of the first assistant to ask Ding Wei, how many people went to Lu Ge's hometown to congratulate, and how many people wanted to move the house and seat in the cabinet, but now I heard that there are people in this group of people who want to write to discourage them?" No, these people have been at home for a long time, am I right? ”

Seeing that Feng Mengzhen snorted coldly and didn't make a sound, Shen Maoxue looked thoughtful, so he continued: "Now it is not these people who have been on the wrong side of the queue who are unhappy, but the conceited gentlemen in the clear stream and abide by the etiquette and law, let's count you two." If you really want to write a book to discourage the first assistant from winning love, then go to the book as soon as possible, even if some people will scold you for being ungrateful, but more people will secretly applaud in their hearts. Because he is the first person to eat crabs, even if the emperor and the queen mother are thunderous and angry, and move the court staff, it is also a knock on the mountain and a tiger, and there are many deterres. ”

Shen Maoxue took a light breath and asked in a deep voice, "If you fall behind, so what?" ”

"If you fall behind, that is, you will conspire with the forerunners, form a party to create momentum, and in the end, you may exchange your life for justice and justice, and change your name in history. Some people will even say that it was because they saw that the one in front of them had been beaten by the court staff, and if they wanted to invite the name, they would follow! Have you thought about it, just like the big etiquette dispute in the early years of Jiajing, can this matter be persuaded? Now in the eyes of Lord Shoufu, someone is planning to take advantage of his worries to abide by the system, seize his power, ruin his government, and ruin his years of hard work, do you think he can listen to those sincere advice of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness? On the contrary, he will only feel that it is not enough to suppress his words before, and it will only intensify in the future. ”

"You know, he has always felt that as long as the goal is good and right, it doesn't matter what means he uses. You should always hear him say that those who are courtiers should be the first to think about the country, and they should not be informal. ”

Feng Mengzhen only felt that it was the first time he knew Wang Fulin - even if he did plan to dissuade Zhang Juzheng from taking love, of course it was not so direct, but planned to persuade Zhang Sixiu first, but he definitely would not comment on Zhang Juzheng like this behind his back, which was really sharp and explicit. He glanced sideways at Shen Maoxue, who was also shocked, and his tone was not as fierce as at the beginning.

"But after all, someone has to tell Shousuke-sama that filial piety is family, and it's wrong for him to do this."

"If you don't stand up, someone else will stand up and someone else will tell him. But if you dissuade you, will Shousuke-sama think that I am so sincerely appreciative, and the person who is truly simple still treats me like this, and I am so puzzled, how many people can be trusted and entrusted in the future? In the future, when he employs people, won't anyone dare to persuade him, and those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will die? ”

"But let's not say it, there will still be public opinion in the world!"

"That's right, the world is full of people, and it is definitely difficult to stop. However, in the past, Lord Shoufu had gone to the rectification of academic politics, will he ban the destruction of private learning in the world because of public opinion, and even reiterate the old Hongwu policy, prohibit Xiucai from commenting on the government, and even like I met in Guangdong, there is a mention of learning and figuring out his meaning, and only one or two people in each county will be selected, so as to clamp down on the world's corporans? ”

Seeing that Shen Maoxue and Feng Mengzhen had been stunned by the scene they had described, Wang Fulin thought in his heart that Zhang Juzheng was already arbitrary and self-righteous before he won the love, but compared to the big stick policy after the love, it was a big deal. Is it because he found that his students, fellow villagers, and people who had been promoted and trusted turned against him at a critical moment, and the first assistant of Wanli simply went to the other extreme, adopting a completely high-pressure policy in the implementation of the new policy, employing people only according to his own preferences, and even when treating the Wanli Emperor, he unconsciously put that kind of incommodating attitude out?

"Everyone has a scale in their hearts, and I don't want to persuade my uncle, and I don't want to persuade the two of you. The two of you are for the sake of justice and justice in my heart, and I want to save more vitality for Shilin, and more importantly, ...... I hope to be able to stay and persuade a little bit of Lord Shoufu's thunderous methods, which can be regarded as accumulating some virtue for the Zhang family in the future. There is a way, go and leave the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun, whether the two of you will cut your robe with me in the future, or scold me behind your back Wang Fulin only knows that it doesn't matter if you tend to be inflammatory. Speaking of this, Wang Fulin paused, then looked at Shen Maoxue and said, "No matter what Brother Shen chooses, how he angers Lord Shoufu, Jinbao's marriage, I will not regret it." ”

After all, he still didn't say a deeper meaning - the conceited and outspoken Qingliu is too easy to be used by some bigwigs with ulterior motives!

And when these clear streams are also pinched into a united party, and oppose for the sake of opposition, it will be even more infinitely harmful!

Seeing that Wang Fulin arched his hand, went straight to meet the two entourages, and then got on his horse and returned to the city, Feng Mengzhen couldn't help but look at Shen Maoxue as if asking for help.

Wang Shiqing said this...... Is it really possible? ”

"Perhaps...... No, it should definitely happen. Shen Maoxue didn't know whether to cry or laugh on his face, thinking of when Wang Fulin was in Liaodong, he also had some assertions.

So far, is it retreating or advancing?

PS: When I go out tomorrow, I will change it (to be continued.) )