The Jinyiwei Yamen is at the intersection of Jiangmi Lane and Jinyiwei Back Street, however, the Yamen and the Beizhen Fusi have two reading doors. Civilian, official, and military generals have always deliberately stayed away from here unless necessary, and Li Dongyang, as an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, is naturally no exception. At this moment, as soon as the carriage stopped at the gate of Fusi in Beizhen, not to mention that the coachman shuddered, even when he opened the curtain and looked at this seemingly inconspicuous yamen, he always felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, and suddenly lost his original intention of going in and talking.

So, after a while, the Jinyi Guard, who heard the news, commanded Ye Guang, who knew the same thing, and hurriedly walked out. With a calm face, he was very surprised in his heart, you must know that these civil officials are all afraid of the factory guards to the bones, even if he is finally praised by these civil officials as a fair prison, but no one is willing to deal with him more, let alone Li Dongyang, the second assistant of the cabinet.

He walked to the carriage, but Li Dongyang didn't get out of the carriage, but only told the coachman to avoid it for the time being, and immediately beckoned Ye Guang to get in the car and talk. However, this conversation was nothing more than a stick of incense, Ye Guang got out of the car, and after arching his hand, he watched the carriage leave. It wasn't until the carriage left Jiangmi Lane that he turned around and walked back, but when he arrived at the door, he saw Li Yifeng coming out without a straight face.

"My lord, what did this great god Li Ge come to do with you? In the past few days, our Beizhen Fusi has not caught any important people, even if he intercedes, he can't make sense? ”

"If you talk about favors, you need to come in person with Elder Li Ge? He's here to inquire. Ye Guang had already thought it through at this time, and said lightly as he walked forward, "You should have heard about the lawsuit of the Ministry of Officials today, right?" I heard that the three people in the cabinet accompanied the prince to listen to it, and thought that there was something in Li Ge's heart, so he came to inquire about Zhao Qin when Ying Tianfu tried Zhao Qin's case, so how did Xu Xun question Zhao Qin. Fortunately, I remembered my surname well, and I said that if I wanted to check it carefully, I said that there was also a file that could be accessed, so he went satisfied. ”

Li Yifeng smacked his tongue when he heard it: "Isn't it just an Earl of Xing'an, how can it be so fanfare?" ”

The gray-haired Ye Guang looked up at the full moon above his head, and said with a slight smile: "It would be so simple." Look at it, the palace is lively tonight! ”

Ye Guang has been in Jinyiwei for decades, and he naturally knows the system of the center well. As if he had said a prophecy, even in the middle of the night, most of the people had already gone to bed early, and it could be seen that the most personable celebrant in the Ping Yue was shuttling between the cabinet and the Qianqing Palace at a rapid pace, and the imperial records and secret revelations were constantly coming and going.

It is completely different from the speculation of the small talk book, since Xuande, the emperor does not easily summon the ministers outside the court to lecture and read, just like the Hongzhi Emperor, who is known as the lord of Zhongxing, and at most summons the ministers two or three times a year. If there is a consultation, most of them are passed on to the palm print or pen of the celebrant, and then the palm print and pen are passed on to the master of ceremonies and the writing of the secretary, and they convey it to the cabinet, and if the cabinet has something, it is also up to heaven to listen. In addition to such a cumbersome exchange of opinions, there is also a slightly easier way, that is, the Son of Heaven grants the holy will, and the celebrant sends the sealed imperial document to the cabinet counselor, who then submits it to the cabinet in secret, and vice versa. But this kind of often has a back and forth at most, where is it like tonight's scene?

It's already the third watch, and the lights in the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace are still bright. After seeing the report, a middle-aged eunuch came in panting, knelt down and presented another secret disclosure with both hands, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and asked nonchalantly: "Which gentleman entered this time?" ”

"Long live the Lord, it's Mr. Li."

"Oh, Mr. Li is resting today and tomorrow, and he actually returned to the palace again?"

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows, and immediately bowed his head to present it. When the secret was revealed, he personally used a paper cutter to cut open the envelope sealed with the imperial silver medallion, and took out two pieces of letterhead from it. At first, because of the secret revelation of Liu Jian and Xie Qian, he inevitably had the previous displeasure, but looking at it, his brows, which had been locked for a long time, gradually relaxed, and finally he smiled happily.

"It's Mr. Li."

Several Qianqing Palaces, who were unusually close to Emperor Hongzhi, agreed to accompany them, and the four leading figures of the celebrant and supervisor, Xiao Jing, Li Rong, Chen Kuan, and Wang Yue, were all present, but none of them tried to visit or inquire. Ping said that the cabinet was not as close as they were to the Holy Driver, but this kind of secret was as close as them, and no one wanted to inquire about the hidden secrets. Sure enough, after Emperor Hongzhi read it, just like the previous two times, he threw the two pieces of letterhead into the charcoal basin at his feet, and personally leaned down and pulled them twice with a small bamboo stick, until the two pieces of paper turned into ashes, and then he straightened up.

"Polishing ink, serving pen and paper!"

Although several Qianqing palaces promised to immediately go up to grind the ink, lay the paper, and take the pen, but when the Hongzhi Emperor sat there with the pen dipped in the ink, they all retreated knowingly, seeing the emperor writing hard there, sometimes pausing for a moment, sometimes raising eyebrows and thinking hard, but after all, it was completed in less than a quarter of an hour. Seeing that the emperor personally sealed it with the treasure of the imperial front and held it in his hand, the celebrant who had just been sent to the secret seal immediately bowed his head and stepped forward, knelt down and took it with both hands.

"Send the three gentlemen of Wenyuan Pavilion."

The Bunyuan Pavilion Cabinet Straight Room in the northeast of Miyagi is also brightly lit at this moment. After Li Dongyang went and returned, there was a dispute between the three auxiliary ministers, and finally Liu Jian helplessly watched Li Dongyang send the secret exposed. At this moment, when Lord Shoufu saw that Xie Qian was still staring at Li Dongyang, he finally coughed.

"Mu Zhai, don't be angry with Xiya, when it is said that the meeting is going today, those few Liuke Corridors are almost clinging to Lao Ma's recent mistakes, plus he has seen the wrong person this time, if this situation is allowed to develop, even if the Earl of Xing'an is excepted, the next troubles will not be over. You also know the emperor's surname, Jiao Fang's excerpts several times are very sageful, plus he is younger than the old horse, and he is really stiff, and the old horse can't keep it. ”

"But Ma Sanfeng is already at this age, if he doesn't take the throne today, he will have to go tomorrow, so it is better to simply pull Jiao Fang down, lest he be so lightly and skillfully handed over later, isn't it better than us trying our best to cater to the meaning of the emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with such a title, and then leave Ma Sanfeng?"

"The question is, Jiao Fang has been suppressed by others for many years, and now that he has received the holy will, how can you suppress him again?" Li Dongyang asked slowly, and seeing that Xie Qian was choked by himself, he said slowly, "Of course, you can refer to him as a servant of the ministry, and he actually inquired about other people's secrets, but he can say that because Ma Shangshu is already old and faint, in order to avoid his mistake, he went to investigate carefully." After all, it has been a month since Xing'anbo's funeral, and this time was originally enough. ”

Seeing Xie Qian slamming the table in annoyance, Li Dongyang stood up and arched his hand at Liu Jian: "Yuanfu, I still say the same thing, even if Xu Liang attacks the Earl of Xing'an, Xu Xun can be justified and close to the prince, but loyalty is annihilation, and you have to watch it slowly." At worst, he will not be worse than the eunuchs around the prince now. I went to Beizhen Fusi once before entering the palace, and I heard Ye Guang say what he said about interrogating Zhao Qin in front of the Yingtianfu Ya, and his words were sharp. Even though their father and son are newcomers to Beijing, they have the help of the celebrant and supervisor, and Xu Liang was not young when he left home, what Jiao Fang said, they really didn't know? Therefore, today in the public court of the Ministry of Officials, Xu Xun did not give an inch to Xu Yi at first, which shows that the silence behind him is just kind. ”

"Three gentlemen, long live the Holy Will!"

As soon as Li Dongyang said this, he only heard a loud voice outside. Liu Jian hurriedly stepped forward to open the door in person, and saw that it was the sweaty celebrant standing outside the door, he hurriedly let people in, and then took the imperial document with a deep bow, and then walked to the desk and cut it himself. took out the letterhead and glanced at it, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Li Dongyang, then sighed deeply, and motioned for Li Dongyang to move forward. Li Dongyang stood on Liu Jian's left, but in a few moments, he browsed from beginning to end.

"If the holy will is like this, Yuanfu should still vote." Li Dongyang sighed, and when he saw that Xie Qian's face was quite gloomy, he persuaded him, "You have also seen Ma Sanfeng's recital, he wrote as a secretary of the ministry, and bluntly said that the previous time was wrong, please use Xu Liang to attack Xing Anbo, and then ask Zhishi to be old and faint." The emperor kept him and ordered him to continue to inspect the Beijing officials with Dai Songyu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and supervise the six department corridors, just so as not to catch Lao Ma in these things and impeach them endlessly. In this case, Yuan Fu's ticket was approved as the candidate for Xing'anbo's raid, and the matter was over. After Xu Sheng's seventy-seven is not reached, this will will not be issued. ”

"What about Jiao Fang?"

Seeing that Xie Qian was still holding Jiao Fang and was not finished, Li Dongyang couldn't help but sigh in his belly, and then said lightly: "Mu Zhai, Jiao Huangzhong, Jiao Fang's son, should be about to try in the township, and the emperor gave him four new imperial books, which is already very clear." It is common for the son of the shadow minister to be imprisoned, and it is also common for the son of the shadow minister to be an official, but this kind of book is rare. The emperor looked at Jiao Fang as Ma Shangshu's successor. Instead of thinking about how to press him down, Mu Zhai should think about why you won't let him enter the cabinet in the future. ”

Li Dongyang did not say that this gift was his idea on the secret disclosure, the last sentence was just a casual talk about unraveling Xie Qian, when he saw that the older colleague really frowned and thought about it, although he knew that he was not a person who only cared about personal enmity, but he understood this person's stubborn surname, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

And Liu Jian took the fluttering imperial notebook and returned to his desk in silence, hesitated there for a long time, and finally left the first stroke. I only hope that Ma Wensheng will live a long life, and it is best to boil Jiao Fang to death!

(To be continued)