Chapter 5 -

After a brief fainting, Shen Mo regained consciousness, and he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and he couldn't help but snort.

"His subordinates were seriously derelict in their duties, and they almost fell into a catastrophe," Yu Yin knelt in front of him and said, "Please punish your lord severely!" ”

"I can't complain about this," after a long time, he came back to his strength for a long time, and said silently caressing his chest: "There is still a gap in Baimi, not to mention that no matter how many dark lines we have, we must not keep an eye on the emperor all the time." ”

"The emperor is simply unexpected this time, and his subordinates really didn't expect that the so-called poisoning turned out to be a disguise, and he actually used assassins." Yu Yin said ashamedly.

"The young man was moved by the transmutation," the silent voice turned cold, "this is the most difficult to estimate." ”

"Yes, even the people around him don't know, it should be the emperor's temporary idea." Yu Yin bowed his head and said: "But this hand is really powerful, if it weren't for the adult wearing three layers of armor, he would really succeed." "Since the beginning of the previous year, as long as Shen Mo enters the palace, he will definitely wear armor under the official uniform, and today he knows that the emperor will assassinate himself, so he naturally has to protect himself tightly, and he will wear it correctly.

"If the emperor hadn't asked me to use his gold bottle, which would have made my hair stand on end, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to escape this catastrophe." Recalling the scene just now, Shen Mo was a little scared and said: "It is recorded in the records of Taizu that in the past, when Emperor Gao feasted and drank meritorious heroes, he once said two sentences, 'The golden cup is drunk together, and the white blade is not forgiven', and later those ministers really died under his knife. ”

"The golden cup is in front, and the white blade is behind......" Yu Yin was shocked when he heard this: "Will the emperor not know this allusion." ”

"No, Taizu recorded it he didn't know how many times, and he was already familiar with it Yu Xion Mo shook his head and said.

"That's weird." Yu Yin was surprised: "The emperor has nothing to do before he gets rid of it, and he has to remind the adults like this." ”

"I don't know, maybe the emperor wants me to die clearly......" Shen Mo shook his head and said.

"My lord, leave this issue to the historian to study." Yu Yin said: "Now it is a life-and-death situation, the emperor's life and death are still in our hands, how to deal with him, you have to have an idea." "In the pre-plan, there was no plan for this, everything was a reaction after the assassination.

"It seems that it has always been right...... Shen Mo finally had no illusions about the emperor, and coughed violently: "I have figured it out when the ghost door is closed tonight." With a light sigh, he said: "To break this predicament, the only way to break this predicament is to have no king and no father......"

"My subordinates can let the emperor die tonight!" Yu Yin said in a deep voice.

"No, it's not that the emperor can't die, but not now." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "Although the assassin speaks a word, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the golden bottle is in front and the white blade is in the back, this is the emperor's placement." In the same way, if there is any accident with the emperor today, I will not be able to get rid of it no matter what. ”

"When will you get rid of it?"

"After killing the king, how to clean up the consequences." Shen Mo said softly.

"Emulate the Martial Temple!" Yu Yin's face was stiff and said, "Choose another sect to set up!" ”

"Are people stupid?" Shen Mo held the kang table, shook his head and said, "Not this first." I've been thinking a lot lately, why am I so tired, what do I think? ”

"All directions of Kyushu in the Ming Dynasty are on the shoulders of adults, and you still want to explore an unprecedented road," although he didn't know why Shen Mo said this, Yu Yin still replied: "And now the emperor is eighteen years old, and he has long crossed the age when he should be in power." When an adult is in power, it is equivalent to the emperor losing his position, and it becomes a situation where he cannot stand side by side. The emperor is cultivated in the path of the previous emperor, but the emperor imitates Sejong everywhere, and the monarch and the minister are not harmonious, and your psychology will inevitably fall into a state of extreme contradiction, until today......"

"Sure enough, it's a bystander." Shen Mo bowed his head and said: "It's white, my pain comes from not measuring my own strength, and I can match the thousand-year-old imperial power with the strength of one person, how can I not have the pain of Mount Tai?" Even if I win by luck, it will be my victory alone. And after victory, where do we go from here? If you are confused, you can do Huo Guang. If you are a little more courageous, you can be Wang Mang. But no matter which one of them, they are still the same old-fashioned change of dynasty, and they can't jump out of the trap of emperors and generals. After a pause, he smiled bitterly and said: "What's more, in this era of loyalty and filial piety, Wang Mang and Huo Guang are not allowed to be presented. ”

"What do you mean?" Yu Yin could feel that after experiencing life and death, the silent mood had changed a lot.

"Take a step back, maybe the sea and the sky." Shen Mo let out a long sigh and said, "The emperor can't retreat, but I can." Just take this opportunity to go to the book and beg for bones. ”

"My lord......" Yu Yin's face changed suddenly and said, "You're not joking, are you?!" ”

"It's not." Shen Mo shook his head, feeling that his chest was not so stuffy, so he sat up straight and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I used to be obsessed with martyrdom, thinking that since I have determined it, there is no turning back. But now that I have figured it out, knowing that there is a dead end ahead, but still holding on, that is not attachment, but stupidity. I don't want to be Huo Guang, nor Wang Mang, I don't want to compete with the imperial power alone, if I continue like that, one day I will become the villain in the hearts of the people of the world. ”

"The things of the world should be done by the people of the world. Whoever wants to get something, he must fight for it personally, and what others have won for him, he will not cherish it, let alone maintain it! On his silent face, he said with a relief that he hadn't seen for many years: "I took care of them too well before, so that they couldn't feel the pressure of the imperial power, which is not right." I'm going to step back, go home, serve my father, and live a few days of leisure. Let's see if they're still so happy without me. ”

"Over the years, adults have really been very good to officials and large industrial and commercial households." Yu Yin said softly: "But aren't you worried, once you retreat, will your years of hard work be ruined?" ”

"If all the changes over the years, the city goes back to square one because I'm not there." Shen Mo laughed and said, "Then what I have worked hard for all these years is just an unrealistic dream." He slowly stood up and said: "It's a dream that always wakes up, rather than being counterattacked at that time, it will connect the world." It's better to go into the wilderness with dignity and reduce the impact on the country."

"My lord......" Yu Yin didn't have such a state of mind as silence, and after making sure that silence was not a joke, he only felt that the sky was falling: "Do you really want to throw it away?" ”

"How could I leave it?" Shen Mo looked at him directly and said: "Being able to advance but not retreat is my mindset in the officialdom." But in fact, standing in a high position, everyone flatters and seems to be of one heart and one mind. I can't see how many people are like-minded, how many people tend to be inflammatory, and how many people are just vain and wronged, and they actually want to die. Only by retreating can we see more clearly. ”

"What about when you see it?" Yu Yin asked in a hissed voice.

"If people's hearts are useless, and restricting imperial power is just wishful thinking on my part, then let's admit it......" Shen Mo said lightly: "I will write books and lectures in the second half of my life to open the door for the future of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"What if the human heart was available?"

"If the human heart is available!" Silent and said in a deep voice: "What's the point of killing the king, what's the point of civil war?" Why should I be infamy?! ”

"Do you expect that the human heart can be used?"

"Beijing is not a place, every grass and tree here is contaminated with the smell of decaying imperial power." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "So I'm going back to the southeast, where is our hope." In the past, the literature was practiced on Hook, ten years of life and ten years of lessons, and I have also worked hard in the southeast for 20 years, but I want to see how effective it is! He looked at Yu Yin and said: "The big pomp and circumstance must be opened in the big era, Beijing, there is no such environment!" ”

"Your Excellency has convinced me again." Yu Yin sighed and said, "I hope you are right this time." ”

"This time, you can't go wrong." Shen Mo said firmly.

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This night, the Wanli Emperor spent the night in infinite terror, and he was worried that Shen Mo was not dead, and he would immediately take revenge on himself. Although he let the people of Jinyiwei and the inner factory take care of the Qianqing Palace like making zongzi, he was still frightened, lest he would shoot cold arrows somewhere, and his life would result.

I didn't close my eyes for a whole night, and when it was dawn, Sun Hai, the commander of the inner factory, asked to see him.

Wanli can trust, only these eunuchs who have accompanied him from the beginning to the greatest, lost his arm and turned his eyes red into rabbits, he hurriedly announced it.

As soon as Sun Hai came in, Wanli asked, "How is it, are you dead?" ”

"It shouldn't be yet," Sun Hai replied, "I've been carried home by this time." ”

"Is there any change in the capital?"

"This, the incident happened suddenly, and the officials didn't have time to react."

"Don't wait for them to react." Wanli stood up, used the key he carried, opened the drawer of the imperial case, took out a gold medal of 'Ru I am here', and said: "Take over the five cities with this card, declare martial law in the whole city, and close the city gate." I drafted an edict to the four guards of the forbidden army again, and immediately sent someone to announce the decree, without an order, one soldier and one soldier were forbidden to leave the barracks, and those who violated it were plotted against each other! ”

"Yes......" Sun Hai took the order and left.

After Sun Hai left, Wanli found that it was already bright outside, which gave him a great sense of peace. His Majesty the Emperor, who didn't know that he had already walked through the Ghost Gate, felt that he was extremely powerful!

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The first assistant of the cabinet was seriously injured in the assassination of the palace banquet, which brought a strong atmosphere of tension to the government and the opposition. The martial law continued in the capital, and the people of the hundred officials were panicked, and they lined up to visit the chessboard alley, but the Shen Mansion closed the door tightly, and no one could enter. In the end, the emperor sent a eunuch to visit the palace, and only then did he bring out the news that Lord Shoufu was seriously injured and unconscious, and he has not yet woken up.

When he was silent, although the government and the opposition knew his importance, they didn't have any real experience, and now that he was lying down, and it was likely that he would never get up again, people immediately felt that the sky was falling, and they all panicked...... For a time, there were hundreds of temples and palaces in the capital, all of which were contracted by various yamen officials to pray for the blessings of the first assistant, some of whom held altars and some of whom made dojos. There are both second-grade hall officials here, and there are also officials who can't handle chopsticks, one by one they took off their official robes and put on the horn belt of green clothes, took off the black yarn and wore corrugated hats and rushed to the temple to chant the scriptures, and they were so busy that they were dark and dizzy. As the saying goes, blessings come to the soul, but disasters come to the gods. At this time, the hundred officials in the capital did not explore the blessings and disasters of misfortune, and they did not dare to imagine what this officialdom would become after the loss of the first assistant......

Soon, the news arrived in Nanjing, and the officials in Nanjing were even more loyal to Shen Mo, and it was Shen Mo who handed over part of the power of the six departments in Beijing to the six departments in Nanjing, and ordered them to govern the finance, military, criminal and criminal lawsuits of the six southeastern provinces, etc., so that the officials in the capital had the qualifications to sit on an equal footing with the officials in Beijing. If something happens to Shen Mo, they will probably be beaten back to their original form and continue to sit on the cold bench. Therefore, Nanjing officials were more active in praying for the blessing of the first assistant. What Qingliang Temple, Jiming Temple, Yongqing Temple, Jinling Temple, Lulongguan, Bao'en Temple, Tianjie Temple, Ancestral Hall Hall and so on...... Everywhere there were Dharma tents and incense lamp mantras; The officials don't sit on duty anymore, and live directly in the temple to fast.

If this is still the case in the two capitals, how can the emperors of the provinces fall behind? First Tongyi Dadu, and later spread to the border counties, all of them established dojos and prayed for the first assistant to eliminate disasters; The people either spontaneously or led the organization by the leading figures, and set up a shrine dojo for the first lord...... If, the blessing activities in the officialdom still carry the political color of loyalty, then the folk prayers that spread to the township can only be the life of the farmers, businessmen, and squires, and everyone is not looking forward to his death, but hoping that he can continue to live, which is the greatest affirmation for a chief assistant who has been in power for many years.

As high as the tide of praying for the first assistant between the government and the opposition is, the call for finding out the real culprit behind the scenes is as high as it is. The day after the incident, hundreds of officials in Beijing jointly signed a letter demanding that the case be strictly investigated. Within more than 10 days, more than 10,000 chapters were published across the country, and 10 of them were required to be strictly investigated. And most of them are joint concerts, in other words, almost all of the country's officials have signed them......

In the face of unprecedented crowd sentiment, even if it is to avoid suspicion, Wanli must confess his attitude. He soon issued an order to imply condolences to Shen Mo, and ordered the inner factory to take the lead, and Jinyiwei and the law department jointly investigated the case. However, the hundred officials did not promise, they thought that the assassin could disguise himself as a eunuch and infiltrate the imperial palace, and the inner factory responsible for the defense of the palace could not be involved, and if they were allowed to take the lead, it would inevitably obstruct the case. Because of the request of the civil officials, the three legal divisions will handle the case on their own.

Although Wanli feels that there is no evidence left, he is a thief, how dare he come from the civil officials? He rejected the request of the civil official on the grounds that it involved the palace ban. The emperor's decision was acceptable, but it caused an uproar in the court, because before that, there was a legend of the emperor in the court and the opposition that the emperor 'drank the golden cup together, and the white blade did not spare each other', and the Wanli Emperor was the culprit who murdered the first assistant. This time, the emperor forbade foreign ministers to inquire and visit, which confirmed this expectation. Under the impetus of well-intentioned people, rumors spread for a while, and the suspicion of the emperor was very loud, and even Wanli in the deep palace couldn't stand it, and openly wrote an article in the newspaper to refute this 'nonsense'!

The result gets darker and darker......

Friends

There will be no helpless and tragic ending...... It's really not good to write lately, so forgive me, this was last night, and I'll give it later today