Everyone understands the truth that the day is moving, and the moon is lacking, and everyone knows that Xu Ge always has a curtain call. But there is still half a day before the curtain in the middle of the day, and there is still half a month from the moon to the moon, and there is Yan Ge Lao, who did not retire until he was eighty-five years old, and Xu Ge Lao, who is only sixty-five years old and has a good health, in everyone's opinion, it is really normal to work for another ten or eight years. So everyone is crowded under the clouds of Xu Jie, praying for rain, and there are not many people for the time being, taking the gust of wind of Emperor Longqing seriously.

If Xinfeng still had some awe, how could a courtier dare to call his monarch "xiǎomìbee," under the sī?

Of course, everyone doesn't take the emperor seriously, and everyone has their own reasons, because compared with the first emperor who can be called a tornado, the wind volume of the current Longqing Emperor is probably a chūn wind level ......, and it seems that from the day he ascended the throne, he realized that his talent is not up to the heavy task of governing the country, and if he wants to do it, he must be more and more helped, and the more he does it, so he still gives the minister the major affairs of the state and concentrates on living a good life.

The lord of weakness, the capital of metrics, and self-knowledge...... This is the evaluation of the ministers of the Longqing Dynasty on their own emperor. Therefore, everyone believes that the possibility of expecting this emperor to exert his might and solve the problem of Xu Ge Lao hanging over his head is not much greater than the success rate of personally carrying a knife, stopping on the road on Xu Jie, and waiting for an opportunity to assassinate.

However, Shen Mo did not see it that way, as a minister close to Longqing, he knew the emperor better. In fact, Longqing is not stupid at all, and can even be said to be wise and foolish, but this wisdom is a little too vulgar...... Careful study of leaders and future leaders is a compulsory basic lesson for every public servant, and at the age of twenty-nine in his previous life, he was able to rely on his profound attainments in this homework without relying on his father's promotion...... Speaking of this, this is also a kind of vulgar wisdom, but it is one level higher than that of Longqing, probably the gap between xiǎo citizens and xiǎo cadres.

To study the cultivation of Emperor Longqing, it is natural to study his upbringing, this sad prince has always been deeply suspicious and wary of his father, and has never enjoyed his father's love.

Because the emperor deliberately ignored him, he deprived him of the opportunity to enjoy the imperial education since he was a child, and even did not begin to read and write under the guidance of Gao Gong until he was more than ten years old...... The late education led to Longqing's intellectual development being too late and receiving knowledge slowly, and even the reflection was slower than ordinary people. But the more serious impact on Longqing is not this, but the inability to make him develop a good acquired personality.

The xìng grid is divided into congenital and acquired, in fact, it is still the dominant acquired, and the acquired xìng grid is developed in childhood. Like the two first emperors, Zhengde and Jiajing, if you take into account their status as only children, it is not difficult to understand the absurd behavior of these cousins. Long Qingyuan is far less fortunate than his father and his uncle, it is better to have a father than to have a father, a mother is equal to no mother, and a brother is not as good as no brother. Not only did he not enjoy his father's love, but he was also deprived of his mother's love, and there was no family affection between his brothers, so Longqing's desire for affection and his deep insecurity were very similar to those of orphans. Usually orphans go to both extremes, or become extremely strong and extremely successful, in order to overcome the insecurity in their hearts; Or they are completely captured by insecurity, and become weak and have no motivation to forge ahead.

When Gao Gong came to Longqing's side, Zhu Zaili, who was still King Yu at the time, had already fully formed. Even Gao Suqing, who is just and yang, can only make him feel warm, and will not become biased, but it is impossible to change his xìng character.

When you understand the formation of this emperor's xìng case, and then look back at him, you will understand that behind his indulgence in pleasure, he is actually evading responsibility............ The first is that he has no motivation to fulfill his obligations as an emperor, and the second is that he has always lacked confidence in himself and did not dare to assume the responsibility of governing the country. However, while withdrawing from state affairs, the insecurity hidden in the bottom of my heart began to swell.

Especially after Gao Gong was driven away, the pain of losing his heart especially aggravated Longqing's insecurity. In addition, the officials relied on Xu Jie's protection and expelled Gao Gong, and determined that he was different from the previous emperor and was a weak and deceitful goods. Since then, he has become more and more unscrupulous, and he has to fight with him in everything.

Some of these controversies are reasonable admonitions, such as restricting the eunuchs' dictatorship and admonishing eunuchs; More often, however, it was interference in the life of the emperor. For example, it was forbidden for him to go to Yudi for nostalgia, forbade him to go to the suburbs of Beijing to relax, suspected that the emperor had the intention of taking the opportunity to travel, and forbade him to go to Mount Tai to worship and so on, and there was a momentum of wanting to raise the emperor in captivity. Even, even the affairs of the palace had to be discussed by the court, which made the emperor lose face.

And Xu Jie's partiality towards the speech officials gradually lost his principles, and he even did not hesitate to confront the emperor to protect the interests of the speech officials. In July this year, the emperor ordered the cabinet to inspect Kedao. Officials are upright and competent, and they are not afraid of assessments, which is not too much to ask, but Xu Jie admonished the emperor in order to protect the officials.

It was these jīmáo garlic peel and even vexatious xiǎo things that gradually wore down the emperor's patience, gave him a strong fear of being controlled, and greatly exacerbated the insecurity in his heart. There is a basis for this............ In September, due to the reopening of the imperial store by the internal officials, Kedao once again talked about it, and Xu Jie, as always, expressed his support on behalf of the cabinet. The emperor could not bear it, and he issued an edict to complain about the cabinet, and he was extremely aggrieved between his words: , such a little thing, the official also said that I am not, and your cabinet also said that I am not, what do you want? , of course, Xu Jie will be sad by the emperor's emotional changes, but the officials who have been dizzy believe that the emperor is weak and deceitful, and they are becoming more and more violent, making trouble for nothing, and completely attacking the emperor as a shortcut to gain fame.

has been repeatedly attacked by the subject, the emperor has actually reached the extreme of patience, but if he wants to endure it, he doesn't need to endure it anymore. It's not as simple as quantitative change causing qualitative change...... As an emperor who knows that state affairs are important, he will not affect the normal operation of the country because of his personal likes and dislikes. He can even think about the overall situation and would rather grieve himself. From giving up and retaining the high arch, to swallowing his anger again and again, there are certainly reasons why he is weak and obedient, but why not be the reason and demeanor that a mature monarch should have?

It seems simple to make such an indecisive and unmasculine emperor make up his mind to break with the powerful ministers who control the court, but it is actually difficult to do as much as the sky, but he is Shen Mo's only chance to win" If he never dares to say no, then Shen Mo can only pack his bags and go home.

From beginning to end, Shen Mo has been doing two things, one is to urge the emperor to make up his mind to reverse Xu, and the other is to protect his reputation and not end up being spurned by thousands of people. These two things are another thing, that is, they continue to demonize Teacher Xu.

As for how to do it, in fact, Wang Yin has long taught Shen Mozi that "that is" goodness is like water! There is no weaker person in the world than the water, and the strong one can win, this is Roude. Well, we must defeat the strong with the weak, and this is the only way to overcome the strong with softness. Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Shen Mo adhered to the principle of showing weakness and not fighting, and the plans formulated were linked one by one, and the progress was smooth step by step, which led Xu Jie to step into the Yan, and today, it is no longer possible to chōu himself.

Now that Shengdan is pure and ugly, all of them are in place backstage, and when that day comes, the real drama will start!

However, before the opening, he had to face the anger of a person, if he couldn't appease this brother, he would definitely be smashed by him" This scene doesn't have to be staged.

That is, after hearing that he intended to turn Hu Zongxian's case into a major matter, he pulled Yang Yushu to the cabinet and asked him for an explanation......"

Shen Mo hadn't closed his eyes all night, and he had planned to squint for a while after breakfast, but he hadn't returned to work for several months, "The official documents waiting for him to sign have long been piled up, and there are not a few of them who are burning their eyebrows, anxious and tight.

Forced to beat the jīng god was busy for most of the day, and even ate lunch in the room, and the silence finally couldn't support it, and drove away the urging ghosts around him, and didn't care about anything, "I have to sleep first."

Who knows that after lying down, the brain is still spinning like a marquee, this feeling of extreme fatigue but high sleeplessness "is really not human." It took a long time of silence to toss and turn, and then gradually passed.

"He heard someone arguing outside, muttered irritably, and then stopped his head with the quilt, cut off the noise, and continued to make up for his sleep.

He fell asleep, but after all, it was work time, and after two quarters of an hour, he woke up, pulled the quilt on his head, and saw two officials in scarlet robes, sitting on the chairs opposite...... Shen Mo was stunned at that time.

Seeing that he was awake, the two officials stood up and saluted together: "See Zhongtang ......" One of the third-grade officials also said apologetically: "It's too abrupt, Zhongtang forgives the sin." And the other fourth-rank official just stood there expressionlessly, without the slightest sense of guilt.

The so-called, "Zhongtang" means to sit in the middle of the hall, which was called in the Tang Dynasty and was the honorific title of the prime minister. When he arrived in this dynasty, he naturally belonged to the university scholars, but it was not called by luàn, generally only when the university scholars supervised the affairs of a certain ministry, the officials of this ministry mén would call him so, and the rest of the ministry mén was still called "Ge Lao, or, a certain phase."

Shen Mo is a bachelor in charge of military affairs and criminals, and these two are the chief and deputy hall officials of Dali Temple, and there is nothing wrong with calling him a middle hall.

The secretary of the collection was also in the house at the moment, knelt on the ground and said: "The elder of the pavilion forgives the sin, these two people go straight in, and the xiǎo people can............'t stop it" Shen Mo entered the palace in the early morning to meet him, and then came to the cabinet, so he didn't bring his family, but let the cabinet secretary serve shì.

"Can you stop this man?" Shen Mo looked at Haigang Peak, who was unharmed, lifted the quilt and sat up and said, "Why don't you report it?" ”

"You said that you can't disturb ...... when the sky falls," the secretary said, "And the xiǎo people listened to you, and it took a long time to fall asleep." ”

"Forget it this time, remember to report next time." Silent heart said, is it important to sleep, or is my image important? It's just that I can't talk to the book, so I can only pretend to be generous and say, "Go out." ”

After the secretary office withdrew, Shen Mo also stood up, put on his shoes and said, "The conditions are simple, so I can make you laugh." "The duty room where he sleeps is two rooms, inside and outside. Shen Mo carried forward his style, gave the inner room to the older Chen Yiqin, and lived in the outer room himself, and as soon as he entered the mén, he could see chuáng"... Originally, it didn't matter, anyway, his reception office was in the main hall, which was just a place to sleep. It's just that I didn't expect Hai Rui to be able to break in, which is a little embarrassing.

Yang Yushu and Hai Rui also saw the scholar's duty room for the first time, and they were surprised by the simplicity of the place, the cabinet scholar who was so high in their minds was so self-denying and bitter in the office, so that the resentment in their hearts was slightly reduced, and they retreated outside to wait for the silent freshening up.

Suddenly, Shen Ge Lao, who had regained his dignity, came out wearing a sable fur, stretched out his hand and said, "Sit in the reception room." "There were several elegantly decorated clean rooms in the cabinet for the scholars to meet with the officials of the various ministries, and Shen Mo led the two to the largest room in the middle. After inviting the two of them to sit down, the clerk served tea, and Shen Mo told him to withdraw and close the mén.

"The two of you are here together, I don't know what you are doing?" Shen Mo picked up the teacup and asked with a sip.

"Excuse me, Zhongtang, when will you continue to ask questions?" Hai Rui had already exhausted his patience in waiting, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he went straight to the Zhongjun Road.

"What's the hurry? I just finished interrogating Meng Chong and Teng Xiang yesterday", and said lightly: "You have to give me some time, and then I will give you nòng people to go to the hall." ”

Hearing that he meant to delay, Yang Yushu also said anxiously: "Dare to ask Zhongtang, did the emperor read the confession we submitted yesterday?" ”

"Looked." Shen Mo nodded.

"Sacred Heart......... What's the opinion? At this time, even Hai Rui held his breath and waited for him to reply.

"The emperor has a high opinion of your achievements", Shen Mo first answered the question, and then informed the two of them in a flat tone: "You two can not avoid the powerful and do errands, and you have a lot of achievements." After returning home, the case should be submitted to the imperial court as soon as possible, and the cabinet will discuss the meritorious awards. ”

"The case has just been tried on the periphery", Hai Rui's face pulled down at that time. Yang Yushu gently pulled his sleeve and signaled him not to be impulsive, but Hai Rui said without any slightness: "Where did the achievements come from, and what kind of merit awards?" ”！。