The air inside the hall was about to freeze, but outside the hall there was a lot of wind and rain, and the southwest wind carried a sharp whistling sound, slapping the doors and windows of the hall from all directions, making an unpleasant creaking sound.

"Wu Shan is not familiar with you......" In the Yan family's father and son, Jiajing's voice was even more uncomfortable, and he only listened to his sarcastic words: "Then your father's godson, your brother Yan Maoqing, aren't you familiar with it either?" ”

"Cooked." Yan Shifan nodded and said, "Naturally, I am familiar with Yan Maoqing." ”

Jiajing slowly closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Suzhou is the first important fiscal and tax place in the Ming Dynasty, and last year alone, I paid five million taels of silver in taxes, so that I could help the whole country, and its significance cannot be overstated. As he spoke, he opened his eyes, looked at Yan Shifan coldly and said, "Now I trust you, and I use the Yan Maoqing you recommended, I really expect to make Suzhou's finances and taxes go to a higher level, but who knows that it has fallen by half...... From last year to June, 2.3 million taels of silver had already been released into Beijing, but this year it was only 1 million taels. ”

Yan Shifan opened his mouth to defend himself, but Jiajing raised his hand to stop him: "Don't tell me those rhetorical words, I only know that while escorting one million taels to Yanjing, one and a half million taels were sent to you and Yan Maoqing's hometown, how do you explain this?" ”

Yan Shifan was stunned, his big face was already white, but when he heard the emperor, it became even whiter, miserable and white...... He didn't expect the emperor to even know this, so damn Yan Maoqing, how could he be so careless in doing things?

He was silent for a long time, and Yan Song on the side shouted: "Yan Shifan, talk back!" ”

Beads of sweat from Yan Shifan's forehead came out, he propped his hands on the ground, supported his weight, and said in a low voice: "Even if the minister is bold, he will never dare to do this kind of thing......

"There is already conclusive evidence from the North Town Fuji!" Jiajing snorted and said, "Do you really think that my Jinyi Guard eats dry rice?!" ”

"The minister immediately investigates thoroughly, if Yan Maoqing really dares to hide this kind of thing from me," Yan Shifan said with difficulty: "I will definitely let him eat all the silver." ”

"Do you still need to look it up? More than half of the silver has been sent to your hometown, can Yan Maoqing show you merit? Jiajing laughed and said: "I only heard that there are good deeds that do not leave a name, but I have not heard that there are people who give money and do not leave a name." ”

Yan Shifan hurriedly said: "Weichen really didn't receive news from Yan Maoqing, even if he went to his house to drink the day before yesterday, he didn't mention it to me. He raised his voice and said: "Wei Chen earnestly asks for a thorough investigation of this matter, if this is really the case, the minister please immediately correct this fang on the spot, and the minister is willing to accept the guilt together!" ”

......There were a few applause in the hall, it was Emperor Jiajing applauding Yan Shifan, but this applause, no matter how it sounded, it was like cheering. I only heard the emperor say expressionlessly, "Today, I really understand it, what is a clever tongue, Xiaoge Lao said back to this part, I don't seem to be able to disapprove." As he spoke, he said coldly: "But if I let you go, where will I place the laws of heaven and the country?!" ”

Jiajing's gaze turned to Yan Song on Yan Shifan's face again, and he said bitterly: "I handed over the world to your father and son to take care of, but you have made losses year after year, and even hundreds of officials have issued a fortune. In order to make up for the deficit for you, I agreed to open the sea ban and raise the market! I don't understand, why do others do a good job, and as soon as your father and son intervene, they will be allowed to cook cold? Yan Ge Lao, do you know why? ”

Yan Song shook his head blankly, and said in a low voice: "The minister is foolish and reckless......"

"No, you're not stupid, not stupid at all, and you're even smarter than most people," Jiajing shook his head and said in an accentuated tone: "But you're too selfish!" When encountering problems, he just wants to keep his high-ranking officials and lords, and he does things for his own glory and wealth. As long as it is good for you, you will do it desperately, even if it hurts the people of the court, it doesn't matter if it hurts me. As long as it is not beneficial to you, you will push back and slack off, even if it is beneficial to the people of the court, you will not do it for thousands of generations. Saying that, he sighed heavily, and said bitterly: What is the benefit of such an auxiliary minister to the country?!"

After listening to the emperor's words, Yan Song immediately took off the black veil on his head and put it on the ground, and his head touched the ground to plead guilty. Yan Shifan also took off the black yarn and pouted his ass to plead guilty.

"Raise your head!" Jiajing said in a deep voice.

Yan Song raised his head in obedience, his face was already full of old tears, and he said in a trembling voice: "Thousands of mistakes, all of them are the fault of the ministers, and they are all the fault of Yan Shifan." As long as His Majesty can calm his anger and let Daming be safe, the minister will ask the emperor to cure the sins of our father and son now. ”

Yan Shifan was extremely stunned, and said in his heart, could it be that his father admitted defeat like this? But I didn't know what to do, and my hands and feet were cold.

Jiajing was also a little caught off guard by Yan Song's resignation, he hadn't imagined that there would be no Yan Song, so he waved his hand irritably: "If you see something bad, you want to pick a son, what kind of hero is it?" ”

No one saw that Yan Ge's hand in his sleeve finally loosened...... He knows that Emperor Jiajing is a master who is leading and regressing, the more you beg for mercy, the more he will not give face, but it is better to be single, take the initiative to take the responsibility down, so that the emperor can move a little compassion, and the result may be better.

There was silence in the hall, and the sound of wind and rain outside could be clearly heard. The Yan father and son knelt there, looking at the emperor high above with anxiety, waiting for the final verdict.

Jiajing closed his eyes and thought for a long time before he opened his eyes and said to Li Fang on the side: "Otherwise, let's just believe them again, and leave this matter to Yan Shifan to investigate, you send someone to watch on the side, and give me an explanation within 7 days and seven days." ”

Li Fang said respectfully: "The slave knows." ”

The father and son of the Yan family were shocked when they heard this, raised their heads and looked at Emperor Jiajing pitifully.

Jiajing glanced at them with a sinking face, waved his hand a little bored, and said, "The cabinet is still in charge of you, what should you do!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Longen......" Yan's father and son kowtowed together.

"Don't be grateful, don't trouble me anymore." Jiajing threatened: "As long as there is one more time, Yan Shifan, you have to implicate your father!" ”

"Remember...... Yan Shifan was completely out of temper, holding the black yarn and putting it on, getting up from the ground, wanting to leave this ghost place quickly.

He quickly stood up, turned around and left, but he didn't see his father, and he was holding his hands on the ground, but he couldn't stand up at all.

"Stop!" Seeing this scene, Jiajing said unhappily: "Help your father up." ”

Yan Shifan looked back, only to find that his father, lying there like a big toad, said in his heart, What do I want to do? Hurry over and help Daddy up from the ground.

Jiajing watched the father and son slowly disappear into the rain, and suddenly sighed: "It's really boring......

Listening to the emperor's clueless words, Li Fang said strangely: "Master, what's really boring?" ”

"I'm saying it's boring to be a father." Jiajing slowly leaned on the soft couch and muttered: "The Book of Songs" cloud 'mourns my parents, and I work hard'...... speaking of life, the most difficult thing to repay in life is the kindness of parents. Saying that, he sighed and said, "But how many sons have this consciousness?" I'm afraid that nine out of ten people think that their parents should be good to him, so the kindness of parents to their children has become deserved, where have you ever seen a person who treats his parents like they do to themselves? ”

Li Fang smiled embarrassedly: "The slave maid grew up in the palace since she was a child, but she has never experienced the relationship between father and son...... said with a smile: "But the slave maid knows that what the master said is a bit absolute, at least I know that there is a son who is filial to his parents." ”

"Oh, who are you talking about?" Jiajing said curiously: "It seems that there are still sages around me." In Emperor Jiajing's view, if a person is not filial to his parents, how can he be expected to be a loyal minister?

Li Fang smiled and said, "It's Your Majesty, ......"

"I?" Hearing this, Jiajing finally smiled and said: "I am the emperor, and the people of the world are role models, so I naturally want to do better." Although when King Xingxian was there, he did not make the old man angry, but since he became the emperor, Jiajing has been fighting for the status of the dead ghost father, so he did not hesitate to fight with the ministers for several years, and finally let the king of Xingxian also pass the emperor's addiction, and entered the temple to become the emperor Xingxian, so Jiajing felt that he was definitely the most filial son in the world.

Let Li Fang make such a joke, Jiajing's heart finally soothed a little, and looked at the clock, it was already night, so he wanted to lie down and sleep for a while. I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and I was still in unbearable pain, and finally couldn't help moaning.

Li Fang slept outside, heard the sound and quickly put on his clothes and got up, ran to the bedside of Emperor Jiajing, and saw that the emperor's face was sallow, and his head was full of beads of sweat the size of soybeans, he knew that the big thing was not good, and quickly said outside: "Quick, quickly pass on the imperial doctor......

With such a fuss, the palace is destined to be another sleepless night...... There are also the Yan family's father and son who have stayed awake all night...... Coming out of Xiyuan, the father and son ignored no one, and they did not ease up in the slightest when they returned home.

This is a bad Yan Nian, he has heard that the old master and the young master have been kneeling in the rain for more than an hour, so he has already ordered someone to boil the ginger soup, boil the bath water, prepare clean clothes, and wait for the two masters to come back to drive away the cold.

But who knew that after the two came back, they all had elongated faces, as if everyone owed them 800 yuan, which made people dare not approach. With the support of the maids, Yan Song entered the study and slowly lay down on his recliner, without even taking off the python robe on his body and the black yarn on his head.

Seeing his father like this, Yan Shifan couldn't change his clothes immediately, but he didn't have the slightest smile on his face, and sat on the chair next to him without saying a word.

As soon as he saw this situation, Yan Nian hurriedly drove out all the people who were waiting, personally served ginger soup to the two masters, and then retreated himself.

There was only father and son left in the study. Yan Shifan finally didn't have to endure it anymore, and vented the resentment in his heart and said: "Dad, you have sheltered the emperor from the wind and rain for more than 20 years, how much infamy have you borne for him?" After a series of comparisons of his obsessive cultivation, ignoring the government and politics, being stupid and suspicious, rigid and cruel, selfish and vain, and ......", he finally concluded: "The way the Ming Dynasty is today, he is the real culprit." Now all the blame is being put on our father and son? Isn't this unloading the mill and killing the donkey? ”

"He also said that the deficit in the treasury was caused by us, but if you don't look at the fact that there are so many vassal kings in his Zhu family, and there are so many servants in the palace, they have to account for more than half of the expenses every year. He is still cultivating, which time is the consumables for alchemy not priceless? Now that the state has no money, it puts the blame on us, saying that we have fallen behind. Speaking of which, Yan Shifan, who had been holding his neck stiff all this day, had red circles in his eyes, shed tears, and choked up: "Doesn't his big and small affairs in the Ming Dynasty rely on his son to support him?" If I don't do it one day, his world will be in chaos immediately! ”

Yan Song slowly turned his head to look at his son, opened his eyes, as if he had never known this person, looked up and down, until he saw that he was hairy, and then said slowly: "Yan Shifan, let me tell you, there is a permanence in heaven, not for Yaocun, not for ruin." This Ming Dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty without anyone, and it is the same without you, maybe it's even better! ”

"Daddy......" Yan Shifan said dissatisfiedly: "Even if the child is not in a thousand ways, but all these years for you to shelter from the wind and rain, and do your best, how can you treat me as an enemy?" ”

"You're sheltering me from the elements?" Yan Song smiled and said, "Yan Shifan, you must be too arrogant." Saying that, he raised his voice and said: "There is only one person in our Yan family who can shelter from the wind and rain, but it is not you Yan Shifan, but your father and me!" You and your useless minions, no one can protect our Yan family from the rain, they are all stirring up the rain! The more he spoke, the more angry he became, pointing at Yan Shifan's nose and scolding: "I've seen arrogance, I've never seen you like this, if you don't put my father in your eyes, even the emperor dares to contradict it?" Dare to roar the Golden Palace! Have you forgotten how Xia Yan died? You've lived enough, don't bother our family!! ”

Yan Song's accusation split his head and covered his face, which made Yan Shifan, who had been aggrieved for a day, completely explode, the green tendons on his neck burst out, and the person also bounced up from the chair, looked at his father angrily, and said loudly: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I work hard all day long, it's all for myself!" From now on, I don't care about anything, it's okay now! ”

Yan Song thought that he was hallucinating, he never imagined that his son would dare to roar Lao Tzu, and he was stunned for a while, his lips moving and he couldn't speak.

Yan Shifan thought that his father was refuted by himself, and he still vented to himself: "This time, the matter is not about any fraud or greed at all, but that someone wants to rectify me and let our father and son step down and hand over power!" At this time, we should unite sincerely, gather all forces, and fight to the death with the other party, instead of digging up the foot of the wall and burying all the forces that are easy to support! ”

"Someone!" Hearing him roaring endlessly, Yan Song finally broke out and screamed.

Yan Nian outside immediately pushed the door in and said, "What does the master command?" I saw Yan Song stretch out his finger tremblingly, pointed at Yan Shifan and said, "Give me this...... The son of a son has been expelled from the house, and I don't want to see him again! ”

"The old man is angry, angry, but don't be angry." Yan Nian peeked at Yan Shifan, and when he saw that his face was pale, he hurriedly whispered: "Young master, hurry up and apologize to the master, but you must not be angry with the master." ”

But Yan Shifan felt that he was more wronged than Dou E, and he didn't pay attention to his kindness at all, and said with his head held high: "Just go, who is rare!" "I cried out in my heart, 'Let's see who needs whom more!'" As he spoke, he really walked out.

Yan Nian hurriedly grabbed him, sweating profusely and said, "Young Master Shao'an, don't be impatient, if there is anything you can talk about slowly......"

But listening to Yan Song's expressionless face: "I, Yan Song, should not raise this son, it is better than being beheaded all over the house!" ”

Yan Shifan's original struggle was still a little fake, but as soon as he heard this, he immediately turned fake into true, shook off Yan Nian's arm vigorously, and strode out.

"If you have the ability, don't come back for the rest of your life!" Yan Song used his last strength to put the last nail on the board.

"Who is rare!" Yan Shifan didn't play the umbrella, and disappeared into the rain, leaving only a loud roar full of resentment: "God, do you have long eyes......

Hearing his son's injured beast-like howl, Yan Song's heart twitched violently, but he still hardened his heart and ignored it.

"Master, what's not to discuss," Yan Shifan couldn't be recovered, so Yan Nian had to whisper to persuade Yan Song: "Young Master is your only son after all......"

"It's because he is the only ......" Yan Song said slowly: "I had to make this decision, and today I said that I would kick him out of the house just to save his life." ”

"Really?" Yan Nian said happily: "Originally, I thought that the elder was really angry. ”

"Of course I'm really angry." Yan Song sighed and said, "If he weren't for my son, I would have had him beaten to death with a stick." Saying that, his face was vicissitudes and he said helplessly: "But who made me his father?" Alas, what he owed in his previous life was only a father in this life, in order to pay back his previous life, and the old man had already accepted his fate. ”

(To be continued)