Li Dongyang came to see Xu Xun today, originally to see if Xu Xun's claim that he would be raised at home was true, but now in the face of such a master who pretended to be stupid and had an open heart, he only felt that if he stayed here and listened to others, it would be full of food and support. Therefore, after sitting for a while, he stood up and said goodbye to the house under the pretext that the cabinet still had important matters to be dealt with. Xu Xun just symbolically sent him to the door of the study and stopped.

Seeing Li Dongyang disappear from sight, Xu Xun asked without looking back, "Mi An, what did Lord Yuanfu say to you?" But crying that Zhang Xilu has no one to control, let you know the depth of the responsibility on your shoulders, unite the strength of the majority of colleagues, share the same hatred of the enemy, and suppress Zhang Xilu's arrogance? ”

Xia Yan had only seen Xu Xun Zhizhu in his hand, but he had never seen him so casually, and he was surprised for a while. After being stunned for a moment, he knew that it was not appropriate for him to keep it at this time, so he hurriedly resigned. When the closed disciple left, Yang Yiqing looked at Xu Ning, whose head was resting on Xu Xun's shoulder, and his dark eyes were looking at him curiously, and he was a little helpless for a while, and then he responded: "That's right, and I told him the truth, I really can't believe that Hou Ye would let Zhang Cai go to Liu Jin, and now let him have his own faction." ”

"Oh, so I think so." Xu Xun turned around slowly, but he gently slapped his daughter's buttocks twice on the buttocks of his daughter who was playing with his hair, and then said unhurriedly, "Zhang Xilu is not an ordinary person, he has his own furrow in his chest, and he can't bear the situation that the corrupt and incompetent people in the court are stealing his position and there is no survival of the fittest, but Liu Jin's radical style has entered his eyes." Since he fell out with me without a word, and Liu Jin solicited him again, he leaned over with the intention of doing things, which is understandable. You must know that he followed Liu Jin in those days, but he never said a word about anything involving me, and I can't be so insignificant. Not to mention. Fall out to fall out. I also admire his bold character and methods. ”

In other words, Xu Xun actually agrees with Zhang Cai's political views?

Yang Yiqing's heart moved, and he immediately asked: "Master Hou has been closed these days, and he has released a rumor that he is physically and mentally exhausted and wants to be raised, I don't know what ......it is."

"You think I'm pretending?" Xu Xun smiled and showed his snow-white teeth, and pinched Xu Ning's baby-fat pink cheeks lovingly, and then said with a smile, "Those outsiders who only know speculation." I would say, Zi Fei Fish, how do you know the joy of fish? But since I'm dealing with you, I might as well tell the truth. Liu Jin is dead, but Zhang Xilu has integrated his manpower, and there is no disadvantage of Liu Jin and the benefit of Liu Jin. And since you have returned to the court, you will rely on your reputation and reputation, and naturally there will be just as many people who will take refuge in you. As for me...... I've been tired for years. Take a break, take a break, take a break. It's human nature, isn't it? ”

At this moment, if he couldn't understand the meaning of Xu Xun's words, Yang Yiqing would be in vain for many years. He is not a clear stream like the four gentlemen of Nandu who is bent on seeking the right path, and he is not only familiar with certain techniques, but also proficient in them. So, he almost took a deep breath, and then he spoke: "It would not be surprising if it was an old man who retreated bravely. But Hou Ye is only in his early twenties now, isn't it too early? ”

"Who says I'm a rapid? When I really have to roll up my sleeves one day, I will naturally charge into battle, but then I am afraid that the situation is the most dangerous. ”

Xu Xun yawned lazily, and then said with a smile: "In addition, I learned that you and Li Xiya are incompatible. But because you and I have some friendship, when Li Xiya was thinking about the successor earlier, he thought of Yang Shizhai instead of you. But firstly, Yang Shizhai has always been a little inexplicably hostile to me, and secondly, he has been in the capital all over the world, and he has never experienced the tempering of foreign appointments, so I naturally tried my best to resist you. I don't say this to ask you to beware of Li Xiya and anything like that, I just want to say that most of these cabinet elders have been promoted from the position of Beijing officials, and I only hope that you, who have stayed in the northwest border of Shaanxi for many years, have seen more people's livelihoods, and experienced more wars, can see farther and less power than them! ”

When Yang Yiqing left from the Xing'an Hou Mansion, it was already evening, and the smoke curling from the cooking was curling from every house, just looking like a happy family. Remembering that Xu Ning had called himself Uncle Yang a little inarticulate under Xu Xun's coaxing, and Xu Xun was so elated, his face suddenly showed a little gloom.

He has been in the sea for many years, and in the near future, he may even reach the top of Shoufu and achieve the highest peak of civil officials, but there are no heirs behind him, but it will always be an eternal pain in his heart. Those ridiculed faces don't need to wait for gossip, he doesn't care about it, why hasn't he been entangled in his heart? But these years, the longest days in Shaanxi, so that husband and wife are often separated, now the old wife is old, and he doesn't want to take a concubine, how can he give birth to a son? Xu Xun knew when he was young that he would spend more time with his wife and children at home, but others were still suspicious, how could he know that the Ming Dynasty from foreign officials to Beijing officials, how many had no descendants, and how many wanted to raise and teach and their children died young, so that the white-haired people sent the pathos of the black-haired people? Among them, there is Li Dongyang......

In the middle of the night, Zhang Cai returned to his mansion. From the official of the Ministry of Officials to the Heavenly Officials of the Six Divisions, the time he experienced was far shorter than others, but he was peaceful. He got off the four-person sedan chair and glanced at the carriage and horses in the alley, as well as the various people in the concierge who nodded and grabbed out, he didn't even nod his head, and just walked in with his hands behind his back. When he sat down in the study, he listened to the old butler's report on the various people he had asked to see today, as well as the various prayers he had picked out, and he hurriedly browsed them and put them all down.

"You go out and say, I don't have time to see the outsiders today, let them all go back."

Every day, Zhang Cai only sees one or two people at most, and they are all people he paid attention to when he was in the Ministry of Literature and Selection, but outsiders don't know it, and they are still waiting outside day by day. Although the old housekeeper knew it, he naturally wouldn't break it, so he immediately agreed to retreat. It wasn't until there were no outsiders in the room that Zhang Caifang took out a stack of unopened letters from another box on the table. Some of these are the talents he selected when he was selected, and some are his fellow villagers in the same year, a total of only a dozen people, compared to the Liu Party he received those figures, these are his real backbone, the only regret is that there is no Beijing official who has passed the hurdle of the four grades, and the foreign officials who have passed the four grades are the prefect's political envoys, and it will take a lot of effort to transfer back to Beijing.

After reading three or five letters. He pressed the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes to rest for a moment. I took another letter and opened the seal and looked at it, but I was immediately stunned. Familiar handwriting is not something that is vague and unclear and requires a different mechanism to understand, but directly writes the time and place. If it was someone else's invitation, he would naturally think twice, but at this time, he made a decision in a moment.

On the first day of June the next day, when Yang Yiqing entered the pavilion early in the morning, the Dongyue Temple two miles outside the Chaoyang Gate was the season when pilgrims gathered. In addition to those devout believers who bowed and worshipped, many young daughters-in-law were pinching the copper in their hands and throwing the huge money in front of Emperor Dongyue. But everyone in the middle cheered and smiled. Faced with this scene, Zhang Cai, who was dressed in civilian clothes, looked at the Taoist priest who was bewitching the women next to the money, and couldn't help but smile.

"Fortune Tricks!"

"Xilu is still so cynical."

Hearing the voice from behind, Zhang Cai hurriedly turned around, and saw that Xu Xun was also alone, he hurriedly bowed his head slightly, and when he was about to speak, he saw Xu Xun slightly waving his finger in a direction. He understood. Immediately quietly followed. In such a place where dragons and snakes were mixed, Xu Xun was obviously extremely familiar with the terrain and turned around in front of him, and after a while, he took him to a secluded courtyard. I saw a lush locust tree in the center of this courtyard, with a stone table and stone bench at the bottom, tea sets on it, and a pot of water boiling on the copper stove on the side, which looked extremely elegant.

"Sit down. I've arranged all the people outside, so I don't risk leaking out. After this time, there should be no more such an interview. ”

Although Zhang Cai had already guessed Xu Xun's plan after Qian Ning's defeat before, he still couldn't help but jump in his heart when he heard this clear indication at this moment. Thinking that when he was determined to tarnish his reputation and go to Liu Jin, he had already planned that it was very likely that he would never come out again in the future. Now this kind of situation has never been thought of, he couldn't help but say: "I just want to ask one thing, whether it is the Hou Ye ...... that Gonggong Liu assassinated King Ning."

"What do you say?"

Although Xu Xun only asked rhetorically, Zhang Cai still had a deep conviction. Liu Jin is such a life-sparing person, if he didn't know that he didn't have the slightest hope, how could he be so open-minded? Thinking about it again, it was because of this that Liu Jin was able to save his reputation and family after King Ning's rebellion, and he was able to accept his henchmen justifiably, he saw Xu Xun sharing tea one by one, and unconsciously asked: "But because I took refuge in Liu Jin, Hou Ye made this decision to let Liu Jin keep his reputation and family?" ”

"Half and half. Being able to do this is half a coincidence, and half is that Liu Jin and I have been friends for many years after all, and I know this person very well. It's all in the past, and I don't need to mention it now. I came to see you today because I have a few things to tell you. Xu Xun paused, then slowly spoke, "Your ambition is strategic, I know, with your age, it will not be a problem to be in charge of the Ministry for another one or two decades." And Yang Di'an is also in the prime of life, but the two of you complement each other, as long as the emperor trusts, the longer this pattern can be maintained, the deeper the decree you hope to implement. ”

Since Zhang Cai understood Xu Xun's painstaking efforts to keep Liu Jin's name and allow him to receive most of his political legacy, how could he not understand what Yang Yiqing could understand now? However, the next moment, thinking of the various rumors about Xu Xun recently, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Could it be that the Hou Ye is really ready to withdraw?"

"Yang Di'an asked, you asked too, don't worry, I'm just resting for a while, and I'm not going to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests as an idle cloud and wild crane from now on, don't be so nervous!" Speaking of this, Xu Xun motioned to Zhang Cai to take a cup of tea that had been divided, and then said with a smile, "The infinite scenery is in the dangerous peak, since I have already climbed it, instead of finding the way down, it is better to live on the dangerous peak, don't you say?" ”

PS: Pinch your fingers, there are still seven or eight chapters, I can't finish it before the New Year, dizzy......