In addition to cultivating history, there is another extremely important thing in the silent heart...... The day after the champion in the middle of last month, he wrote a recital, begging His Majesty to pardon the teacher Shen Lian, it has been almost half a month now, it is said that His Majesty has given permission, but he has not received a letter of approval until now, how can he not be worried?

But when he first arrived, he had nowhere to inquire, and there was originally a Zhu 13 to ask, but that guy went out of Beijing on a business trip and has not shown up so far, so he can't count on it for a while. There was no way, so I had to go to Zhang Juzheng, who is also Hanlin, and ask him to help inquire.

Zhang Juzheng was a little angry at him for changing his course in the palace examination, so Shen Mo came to the Hanlin Academy for a long time, and he didn't come to see him. But one yard to one yard, he still sincerely admired Shen Lian's righteous deeds, so although he still didn't give Shen Mo a good face, he also agreed to help inquire.

A few days later, a letter was passed through, saying that His Majesty had written a note ordering Shen Lian to be pardoned, and now the cabinet is discussing whether to reduce his status to the people or reinstate the official. Although Yan Ge Lao did not say it explicitly, he hinted that he could not leave him in Jingli.

"This means," Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice: "Elder Yan Ge has given up the pursuit of the commander, so what Elder Xu Ge means is to transfer the commander to the other place as an official ......" said and sighed: "It's just that the appointment and dismissal power of officials is now in the hands of Li Mo alone, and the specific situation will have to wait for the officials to talk about it." ”

"That's ......" The silent face was hard to look at, he had an ominous premonition that the official secretary would not act impartially.

Zhang Juzheng also has the same concern: "Li Shiyan is a small and narrow-minded person, and he will report it if he sees it, and it is said that because of the matter of Lingshi, he has a very unpleasant quarrel with Lu Dudu, and he is afraid that there will be some trouble." ”

"I have to think of a way," said silently, "but he has a very bad impression of me, and if I come forward, it will only backfire." ”

Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said, "Li Mo has been calling Wang Chen for more than a year......

"But it turns out that our governor of Zhejiang?" Shen Mo asked.

"Yes, he is now the right deputy imperial envoy and the squire of the military department," Zhang Juzheng said: "He can be regarded as Li Mo's biggest supporter." ”

"Can you ask him for help?" Shen Mo was pleasantly surprised: "That's great." ”

"How can I have that ability," Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly: "People are in high positions and powerful, how can they pay attention to us little Hanlin...... However, his son-in-law is also in the Hanlin Academy, so I can take you to ask him for help. ”

The person Zhang Juzheng said is called Wang Shizhen, this person is amazing. According to Zhang Juzheng, anyone who gets his praise will become famous; Any calligraphy and painting antiques, as long as he says it is good, everyone thinks it is really good, but he is a great talent like Xu Wei, known as the king of the south and the north, and can be regarded as the leader of the northern literary world, with great social influence.

If this person can help, Shen Mo feels that the problem is not big. prepared the gifts, followed Zhang Juzheng, and went straight to the Xiangshan Villa where Wang Dacai was studying...... Finally, in the middle of a large area of pine and cypress in the mountains, I found an inconspicuous courtyard. The mud-walled huts, small doors and paper windows in the courtyard are original, without any decoration, but the courtyard is full of lush pines and cypresses, and the trees in the courtyard are hooked and hung with leaves, echoing each other from afar.

There was no one in the courtyard, Zhang Juzheng pushed away the firewood, along the path overgrown with grass, and walked to the courtyard with Shen Mo, and saw a plaque hanging on the lintel, with two ancient and clumsy characters written on it, quite a bit of moss marks on the steps of green, and the grass color into the curtain of green Burrow style. Shen Mo couldn't help but smile secretly: 'What age is this, this great talent still plays the style of celebrities?' ’

"Where is the host?" Standing in the courtyard, Zhang Juzheng said with a joking smile.

"Come in, the door isn't closed." A pleasant voice sounded inside.

"He's not small," Zhang Juzheng reminded in a low voice: "People are also arrogant, you have to show some skills to talk to you well." ”

nodded silently, and went into the hut with him, and saw a man of the same age as Zhang Juzheng and the same appearance, sitting in front of the window in his clothes, writing something on the desk. When the two of them came in, he didn't look up, but just said: "The water is in the tank, you have to boil it with yourself, and if you are not thirsty, you can sit down first." ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly and motioned for Shen to sit down silently, and waited for Wang Shizhen to finish his work. Shen Mo had no choice but to sit down and look at this talent, not to mention anything else, just looking at the appearance of people with red lips and white teeth, and a suave appearance, he was much stronger than Mr. Dong Yan's Xu Wenchang. Therefore, Shen Mo did not hold out any hope that Xu Wei would be able to occupy the Yanjing literary scene in one fell swoop.

The two looked at it for a long time, and then Wang Shizhen put down his pen, looked up and smiled: "Zhang Taiyue, Shen Shuyan, the two of them came together, and the burrow is full of brilliance!" ”

Shen Mo hurriedly returned the salute and said: "I have heard the name of the king of the north, and today I have taken the liberty to visit, please Fengzhou brother Haihan." "Wang Shizhen's word is beautiful, and the number is Fengzhou.

Wang Shizhen said with a smile: "I also wanted to visit Shen Zhuoyan, who could connect the six yuan, but I was used to being lazy and didn't want to enter the city, so I have been delaying until now." ”

The two of them were polite there, Zhang Juzheng walked to the front of the case, looked at what Wang Shizhen had just written, and said: "What are the good works recently, let's have a sneak peek?" ”

"What a masterpiece? Do your homework. Wang Shizhen sighed and said: "My one is not as studious as yours, next month is my "Historical Records", if you don't talk about it more interestingly, I'm afraid he will have to play tricks on me again." Just as Zhang Juzheng taught King Yu his homework, there was also another group of people who taught King Jing, and Wang Shizhen was one of them.

"It turned out to be a handout," Zhang Juzheng looked at the top page and said, "Will be reconciled, this story is indeed very exciting." ”

"Yes," Wang Shizhen nodded: "Lin Xiangru is both wise and brave, not afraid of power, and maintaining the dignity of the country, which is really admirable." ”

Zhang Juzheng gave Shen Mo a look and asked him to show it, Shen Mo had no choice but to smile and said: "I don't dare to agree with Brother Fengzhou's point of view, I feel that Lin Xiangru is just an outlaw who sells his reputation, and his behavior has always been to be in the limelight for the sake of becoming an official and a knight, which is harmful to Zhao Guo and should be spurned." When he came, Zhang Juzheng had already told Shen Mo that Wang Shizhen admired people with unique insights the most, so he decided to prescribe the right medicine.

"What's the high point of humble words?" Hearing that he was going to overturn Lin Xiangru's case, Wang Shizhen really asked with interest.

"Let's start with the return to Zhao, the Qin State pretended to use fifteen cities to deceive Zhao and threaten him. At that time, I just wanted to obtain He's Bi, not to create an incident to attack Zhao State, you all agree, right? ”

The two nodded, "Not bad." ”

"What about Zhao Guo? If you are afraid of the Qin State, you will hand over the Heshi Bi, and if you are not afraid of the Qin State, you will not hand it over, and it stands to reason that there are only these two situations. In fact, Zhao also knew that it was impossible for Qin to give up fifteen cities. Shen Mo said eloquently: "If you are afraid of the Qin State, you should decisively abandon it and not give him the excuse to start a war." ”

"In fact, Lin Xiangru brought Qin to prove that Zhao was obviously afraid of Qin, but he provoked the anger of King Qin several times, and finally lost his morality and gave Qin an interface to go to war, I really don't know why King Zhao still appreciates Lin Xiangru." Shen Mo smiled: "Instead of being so reluctant, why not just not give it to the Qin State and concentrate on strengthening the border defense!" ”

Zhang Juzheng understood a little, and slowly bowed his head and said: "You mean that Lin Xiangru's performance in the Qin State is based on his own interests, not the interests of the Zhao State?" ”

Shen nodded silently and said: "It's not just the complete return to Zhao, but also the 'Michi Society', and the 'General Xianghe' are all for his own reputation, and trample on the safety of the Zhao State and the reputation of the general Lian Po," he said and sneered: "What he did was just the power and ingenuity of the Warring States Zongheng family, and there was no morality at all." ”

The more Zhang Juzheng thought about it, the more it was like this, he originally just wanted Shen Mo to show his talent, but now he was impressed by him, and said that he could see people's hearts so thoroughly, this person was extraordinary.

Wang Shizhen is also a very smart person, but his surname is Zishan, and he is a little difficult to accept: "Is Lin Xiangru really that kind of person?" ”

"Brother Fengzhou, do you think," said in a deep voice: "After the first confrontation between Lin Xiang and the King of Qin, pointing out that the Qin State wanted to defraud the Heshi Bi, the King of Qin was forced to be helpless, and he had already given the city according to the plan, and set up nine bins, fasting and receiving the bi, this is a solemn and incomparable etiquette, in the eyes of the people of the world, it is bound to be given to the city." But Lin Xiangru made people secretly send Bi back to Zhao State, didn't he give up the truth to Qin State? As a result, the State of Qin had a reason to attack the State of Zhao, pull out the stone city, and kill more than 20,000 people, but the King of Zhao had to beg the King of Qin for mercy in Michi, and was humiliated by the King of Qin, and this account can be counted on Lin Xiangru's head. ”

"That's right," Zhang Juzheng nodded and smiled: "The same is true of the Michi Society, since Zhao Guo wants to forgive, but he wants to coerce and anger the King of Qin, leaving a pretext for another attack in the future, which is very unwise." ”

"You can't say that, can you?" Wang Shizhen said: "What if the king of Qin still doesn't give the city after fasting and receiving the bi? ”

"Lin Xiangru can say to the King of Qin," Shen Mo smiled faintly and said, "Chen Gu knows that the King's Fu Yu City is also." Now the king is dishonest in the world, and the ministers will die in the country, so as to show the king's dishonesty. I wonder which prince will dare to believe in your promise again, and I wonder what other virtuous person is willing to serve the king? ”

"In this way, it is possible that King Qin will hand over Bi." Wang Shizhen did smile and said: "Humble words are indeed much more powerful than Lin Xiangru, let's say, what's the matter with me?" Just for your wonderful subversion, as long as I can do it, it's fine. ”

(To be continued)