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On one side, the emperor fell into a morbid fanaticism, and on the other hand, the people who were about to become homeless, silently remembered a song: 'Left and right, embarrassed yourself.' Since you say that the feng shui here is the best, then I will say that there is a problem, anyway, the feng shui has always been said to be justified, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law is reasonable, but there is a little silence that can be determined - as long as there is a dispute, no matter how stupid the emperor is, it is impossible to agree to start the construction. Because the people of this era are the most particular about public opinion, especially the dragon veins related to the fortune of the country, feng shui or something, it is the overriding top priority.

Breaking ground in Beijing is a taboo thing, so I believe that even if I talk nonsense, it will cause many people to be uneasy, which will make this matter uncertain. What's more, as Tang Shunzhi's heir to the torch, he also has a lot of attainments in "Zuo", at least it is enough to be blind.

However, he will definitely not talk about it here. Facing Wang Jin's questioning, he said silently: "The real person is joking, there are many people here, how can it be a confidential place?" ”

Wang Jin still didn't give up and said, "Then let's talk about it alone." ”

"I don't have to." Shen Mo smiled faintly and said: "After I go back, I will immediately explain this matter to the emperor, and then how to decide will be up to the Holy Judgment, and the real person does not have to worry." ”

Wang Jin only then discovered that this soft-spoken Lord Shen is more difficult to deal with than the sharp-tongued Hai Rui, in their hometown dialect, it is 'wilted and wilted', which makes your good deeds yellow, and makes you unable to get angry.

Now, before the conclusion is reached, no one dares to start work again. Seeing that it was getting dark, the officials and messengers retreated one after another. Wang Siqi whispered to Wang Jin: "Immortal Master, that's it for now, after the emperor tomorrow, I'll make a plan, right?" ”

Wang Jin was unwilling, but he also knew that he couldn't do anything, so he shook off the dust depressedly, and said to Shen Mo: "Lord Shen, our green mountains will not change, and the green water will flow for a long time, and we will ask for your tricks in front of the saint another day......"

"Accompany ...... at any time," he returned the salute with a silent smile.

"Let's go, ......" Wang Jin turned around angrily and walked towards the sedan chair. At this time, it was dark, and the ground was full of rubble, Wang Siqi and Zhou Defu hurriedly reminded: "Immortal master should be ......" Before the word 'heart' could be spoken, they saw Wang Jin stepping on a piece of tiles and falling to the ground.

Wang Erren and a group of little Taoist priests hurriedly stepped forward, picked up Wang Xianshi, who was screaming, stuffed him into a sedan chair, and slipped away with a disgraced face.

"Phew!" In the direction they left, Hai Rui spat fiercely: "A group of ghosts! ”

"Brother Gangfeng is angry." Shen Mo said softly: "In this capital, there are endless dirty things like this, and if you are angry, you won't be angry?" ”

Hai Rui was about to say something, but when he saw the residents in the alley rushing over, he stopped.

"If it weren't for the two adults to rescue ......" The white-haired old man who went to ask for help stepped forward and said deeply: "We are really ruined today...... The people behind him, although it was dark and they couldn't see their expressions clearly, but they thought silently, they must be full of grief and indignation.

"The poor family is broken, and there is nothing to thank the adults," the old man knelt on the ground tremblingly, kowtowed, and said, "Let's kowtow to the two adults......

"I can't help it, I can't help it......" Hai Rui hurriedly went to help the old man, but he couldn't stop the other people from kneeling.

"Hurry up, everyone," Shen Mo felt a fever on his face, and tried to dodge it sideways, but there were kneeling people on all sides, and it was useless for him to turn anywhere, so he had to blush: "You kneeling, we can't stand it, it's because the court didn't do a good job that let you suffer this catastrophe, it should be us to apologize to you on behalf of the court." He bowed deeply and said, "If I don't get up again, I'll kneel down too." "I really want to kneel.

The old man hurriedly said, "Everyone get up, you can't let the adults kneel for us." Then all the people stood up and spoke.

Shen Mo reassured them that he would always pay attention to this matter, and whether it was demolished or not in the end, they would not be disadvantaged. After getting Lord Shen's promise, everyone felt a lot more settled, and only then did they realize that it was past the meal, and they invited him to eat at home.

"No, no," Shen Mo declined, "I've already cooked at home, waiting for me to go back and eat." ”

Everyone still insisted, but the old man came out and said: "Okay, okay, the family is cold pot and cold stove, please adults don't know how long they will be hungry, adults are not bad for our meal, it would be good to have this heart......"

"Yes." Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "Uncle is very right. Then he said to Hai Rui: "Brother Gangfeng, let's go." Hai Rui nodded, and the two of them said goodbye to everyone. When parting, the old man asked in a low voice: "My lord has formed a bond with the demon path for us, will they retaliate?" ”

"Revenge?" Hai Rui said expressionlessly: "I haven't finished settling it with them......"

Seeing that the old man was stunned, he smiled silently and said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, the old man doesn't have to worry, evil is invincible." ”

Hearing this, the old man nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, evil is invincible!" Said with emotion: "Old man, I am sixty-eight this year, I have seen Liu Jin and Yan Shifan, haven't they all fallen?" But they all have harmed the common people......" and said in a low voice: "I hope this time, I can still see these demons finished......"

"It won't be too long." Shen Mo smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Believe what I say, this time they are rabbit tails that can't grow." ”

"Of course I do." The old man smiled and said, "I'm waiting for that day, when the two adults come to us, drink a glass of celebration wine!" ”

"Definitely, definitely." Shen Mo and Hai Rui bowed their hands together, made an agreement with the old man, and waved goodbye.

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Back on the street, it was already the willows on the moon, the lights were blooming, and the two walked side by side for a while, Hai Rui worried: "Should the adults hurry up and face the saint, lest the wicked sue first." ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "Confused, isn't it, the palace gate has been locked early now, unless Wang Dazhen can penetrate the wall, otherwise he will have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest." ”

"I see." An official at Hai Rui's level has nothing to do with the palace, and he has just entered Beijing, so he naturally doesn't understand the rules of the palace. "Then, adults will go early tomorrow morning, don't let them take the lead." Hai Rui hugged his fists and said: "Xiaguan's house is in front, the alley is too narrow, the sedan chair can't be carried in, and there is no place to sit down, so I don't invite adults to sit in." ”

"Well, passing by your house without entering." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "The old lady will blame me." He said with a smile: "I happen to have some tonic here, and I happened to visit the old lady." "Those things are honored by the eunuchs, but Shen Mo estimated that if he said it, Hai Rui would throw it away.

Hearing him say this, Hai Rui had no choice but to say, "My lord, please." ”

The two of them entered the alley one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the penultimate door was Hai Rui's house. The courtyard door was hidden, Hai Rui pushed the door in, and said loudly: "Mother, Lord Shen has come to see you." ”

Seeing that the courtyard was extremely small, he silently ordered the guards not to follow up and wait in the alley. He walked in quickly, and before he had taken two steps, he crossed the courtyard and came to the front of the house.

At this time, Mrs. Hai pushed the door out, and when she saw that it was really silent, she couldn't help laughing and said, "Which gust of wind blew the adults here?" ”

He smiled silently: "It's the south wind, blow the little nephew back to Beijing for a while, and come to see the old lady first when he lands." ”

"Hurry inside, please." The old lady was still in good spirits, deaf and bright, and smiled happily: "I said why do I always listen to the magpie's call, and sure enough, there is a noble person who has arrived." ”

After entering the house, Shen Mo asked Mrs. Hai to take a seat, and then retreated to the hall to kowtow to her, which was a common practice, so the old lady was not humble, but still asked Hai Rui to return the salute for herself, and kowtowed to Shen Mo.

Hai Rui invited the Hun family to come out and see it, and Shen Mo hurriedly saluted his sister-in-law's wife, and Mrs. Hai smiled and said: "Thank you to the Imperial Doctor Li invited by my lord, so that my Hai family's incense has ......been renewed" It turned out that after three years of careful recuperation, Hai Rui's wife finally became pregnant.

"Mother, it doesn't have to be a man or a woman." Seeing his wife's blushing face, Hai Rui couldn't help but whisper.

"Tell me what you're afraid of?" Mrs. Hai said nonchalantly: "The doctors who have seen it all say that this baby must be a child." Seeing that her daughter-in-law's head was about to drop to her chest, she waved her hand and said, "Take your daughter-in-law down, she is now a hero, we have to be careful." Hai Rui answered and helped his wife down.

Shen Moxin said that the old lady was kind-hearted, but she was unforgiving. But of course I don't want to talk about other people's family affairs, just blindly congratulate and coax Mrs. Hai to smile. When Hai Rui came out, the old lady instructed: "You talk to the adults here, I'll go to the kitchen to heat the food, cut some cured meat, and scramble an egg, Lord Shen is not an outsider, I know that our family is this food." ”

"The old lady knows me," said with a silent smile: "It's just a mouthful of coarse tea and light rice, and the whole table of delicacies from the mountains and seas, I can't enjoy it." ”

"I almost forgot, adults love to eat old body baked vegetable cakes," Mrs. Hai was coaxed to be happy, and got up with a smile and said, "Wait a while, I'll do it." ”

"Don't bother." Shen Mo hurriedly said.

"No trouble, no trouble." Mrs. Hai said happily: "The old man is very happy that the adults can come to eat." After that, I went to the kitchen to cook.

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As soon as the old lady went out, the room suddenly fell silent, Hai Rui squatted by the stove to boil water, and looked at the main room silently, only to see that the furnishings inside were extremely simple. There was a chair to the left of the stove, a few chairs to the right, and nothing else. There was no decoration on the walls, and the skin of the walls was still very lazy.

Seeing Shen Mo looking around, Hai Rui said softly: "I received the appointment in April, and I only entered Beijing in June, and it was already August when I found this house. ”

"How much rent does this house cost a year?" Shen Mo asked, "Is it difficult to live in Kyori?" He estimated that with Hai Rui's clean style of sleeves, he originally had an official office to live in, and his family could still live. Now that I have entered Beijing, I have to spend my own money to rent a house, which will definitely be a little unbearable.

"Eight taels of silver a year, I still looked for a long time to find it." Hai Rui said with a deep head: "As soon as I entered Beijing, I felt that my life was sad, my annual salary as a five-grade official was thirty taels, but the imperial court always issued a part of the banknotes, and it was two taels per month. Although he never said it, he actually regarded Shen Mo as a friend, otherwise he would never say this.

"It is said that in three years, the Qing Governor's Mansion will have 100,000 snowflakes of silver." Shen Mo couldn't help but shake his head and said: "It's good for you, you've been a parent for eight years, and you're still living like this." ”

"Ill-gotten wealth is not mine." Hai Rui said lightly: "You can't get fat because everyone else is greedy, I think it's right to be greedy, right?" ”

"You can't overturn a boatload of people with a single rod." Shen Mo smiled embarrassedly, "There are many people who have a solid family background, and they may not be greedy and rich." ”

"I don't deny that there are such exceptions as adults." Hai Rui said: "But the officials from wealthy families may not be greedy, or even more greedy," he said and sighed: "There are always one or two white crows, but it does not affect the black crows in the world." ”

"Alas," Shen Mo couldn't fight with him anymore, and sighed: "Corruption is the disaster of the country, I really don't know how to solve it." ”

"I have to be punished harshly!" Under the reflection of the fire, Hai Rui's expression was a little hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said: "If you want me to say, the punishment for corrupt officials is too lenient now, and it is even equivalent to nothing!" The Ming Dynasty has no officials and is not greedy, this is already known to women and children, but you see how many officials are investigated and prosecuted for corruption every year? Saying that, he angrily slapped his knee and said, "There is no one in a thousand! Such a relaxed environment, of course, makes people's greed unscrupulous, bold and greedy, cowardly and greedy, a good Ming country, let this gang of moths eat up! ”

"There is a way to use the code in troubled times." Hai Rui continued loudly: "If you want to succeed in eliminating corruption, you have to regain the strict punishment law of Taizu, embezzling sixty or seventy taels of silver can be sentenced to death, and two percent of the confiscated family property will go to the whistleblower, and the big embezzler will be stripped of the skin and filled in the grass, and hung in the county office, see which one has the courage to try!" ”

Silent this sweat, although Hai Rui said that he was an exception, but he still felt the cold air swishing behind him, and said in his heart, good guy, if you really want to do this, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will all become scarecrows. couldn't help but laugh dryly: "This method is inevitably a little rash." ”

"There are priorities." Hai Rui said with a straight face: "I am in the most dangerous situation now, if I don't impose heavy punishments, lenient sentences and simplified administration, and save people's hearts, I am afraid that the country will really not be a country." He said with a gloomy face: "But these are just my thoughts when I was in the place, and my views have gradually changed since I became a Jingguan. ”

"That's good, that's good......" Shen Mo said secretly wiping his sweat, and said in his heart that it was really good to be able to give up this dangerous idea. Who knew that he was happy too early, and listened to Hai Rui's voice like a golden stone: "Now I understand where the root of the chaos in the world is. If the root cause of the scourge is not cured first, there will be batch after batch of corrupt officials in the world, and they will not be killed. ”

Silent heart was about to stop beating, he could vaguely guess Hai Rui's spearhead, although he had never been in awe of that person, and even had a stomach full of resentment, but he never dared to show the slightest hint to anyone. He believes that not only himself, but also people of insight in the world who do not resent that person, but no one dares to say it, but they have to praise him and please him, and they dare not criticize him in the slightest.

But now, Hai Rui unceremoniously pointed out the crux of the world, and said: "As the saying goes, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the top is a turnip, and the bottom is a fart. A group of Taoist priests and ministers...... It made the court full of smoke and miasma, and tigers and wolves were all over the ground. This is still the case in the central pivotal place, and the place is naturally even more unbearable! As he spoke, he looked at Shen Mo with blazing eyes and said, "I believe that adults must understand this truth; The Manchu Dynasty must also understand! ”

Shen Mo was stunned to see it, this state was almost never there, he only felt his heart beating fast, beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, his throat was like a fire, and he couldn't say a word.

"If you don't deny it, you admit it." Hai Rui was aggressive: "Why didn't the Manchu Dynasty minister give advice, and didn't let the emperor repent!" ”

Shen Mo came back to his senses, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "Who dares to say it? Is it still fatal? Said and sighed: "Today's saint is resolute and decisive, saying one or the other, in the past two years, it has been even more unpredictable, who dares to be a little disobedient, the light will be sixty court rods, and the heavy responsibility will be exiled to the army, this year there will be more than a dozen officials in distress, don't complain that everyone dare not speak." ”

Hai Rui was not convinced: "I heard the folk song of the people singing: 'Jiajing Jiajing, every household, clean." The common people are complaining like this, how can we, as officials, be alone? He sighed heavily: "Could it be that in order to save the lives of his family, he didn't care about the people's suffering, and let his father be wrong again and again?" Is this what a courtier, a father or a mother should do? ”

The words were silent and red-faced, for many years, he has always taught others, but today he let Hai Rui cut it, and he didn't have a temper yet. Only then did he know that a person's confidence in speaking not only comes from his official background, but also from his thoughts and morals. At least in front of Hai Rui, he is completely defeated......

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I'll write another chapter right away......