"Do you carry it together?" Xu Jie looked at Shen Mo and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Shen Mo also looked at Xu Jie, and said heavily: "This confession, except for the two chief judges" Shi Xiang is the fourth person he has ever seen, the emperor and Old Man Chen don't want to make a big fuss, and the teacher and the students don't want to make a big deal either" As long as Yang Yushu and Hai Rui can keep silent, no one can make a big fuss. This attitude was so resolute, Xu Jie was naturally satisfied, he looked at Shen Mo carefully, although his eyes were dim, but he revealed the god of judging the truth and falsehood, and said slowly: "Yang Yushu said well, that is your senior brother, but that Hai Rui, although he has a relationship with you, I'm afraid it's useless." Xu Jie has actually prepared the foreshadowing, as long as Hai Rui makes a big fuss, someone will portray Shen Mo as the mastermind behind the scenes, but Shen Mo shows such a compromised attitude, who will believe that he and Hai Rui are the same party?

Hai Rui's performance this time was so fierce, "Even Elder Xu Ge completely believes that with such a sharp blade like a lone star, I'm afraid that no one has the ability, so take it for your own use, right?"

"The students will try their best to persuade them." , said silently and softly: "They are all high-ranking officials in scarlet robes, you have to understand what the overall situation is." ”

"I hope so" just wants to wronged you. Xu Jie sighed: "So many people appeared on the stage" It turns out that you are the only one, who is dedicated to the good of the court. ”

"The teacher praised it falsely." Shen Mo said humbly: "The student is just learning from you." ”

"I'm ashamed", Xu Jie wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "Let's eat quickly, it's going to be cold." ”

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Although the sound insulation of the inner canteen is good, after all, there is a wall between it and the outer canteen. And everyone outside today has also tacitly kept quiet, so I heard the bursts of cries coming from the inside, especially the heart-rending cries of Shen Ge Lao, "like a cuckoo crying blood." Hearing it, those Si Zhilang and the people all muttered in their hearts, "What did Yuanfu do to Shen Ge Lao to hurt him like this?"

"In just one morning, the news spread all over the capital, and the officials had no intention of working, and they all put down their work and gathered together to discuss what was happening in the palace and the cabinet today.

What the officials were most concerned about was naturally why the emperor summoned Shen Ge Lao into the palace when he read the file of Hu Zongxian's case? This extremely unusual state of affairs "must be related to the facts of the case, and the person involved must be of a very high rank and close to the emperor...... Why? Because Yibaiguan knows that today's saint is a person who can get by by "driving horses down to the fields", and the master "has a problem with the six departments and nine qing, and he can't be shocked until he can't sleep all night."

In the memory of the hundred officials, there have only been two such performances today, once last year when the Mongols slaughtered Shizhou City and Bī near Beijing City, and the other time was last year when the defeat of Gao Gong was decided and he was determined to leave. So they have reason to believe that this time another emperor's henchman "was involved in this case."

In fact, there are only a few people who come and go, "it's really easy to guess", but for the time being, I don't know where the wind direction in the palace and the clouds of the cabinet will drift. The officials were worried that the disaster would come out of their mouths, so they unanimously used "that, or" Mr. So-and-so, instead of "as for who it refers to", it is actually tacit.

And the most enthusiastic discussion among the hundred officials was that the emperor issued an order early this morning, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to immediately agree on Hu Zongxian's mourning and honor...... As an extremely complex character, "Hu Zongxian's identity as both an anti-Japanese hero and a henchman of Yan Song has made him controversial since the day he stepped onto the stage of history" and even criticized. Of course, in different historical periods, its severity is differentWhen he and Zhao Wenhua jointly framed Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong, although the court and the central government were angry and did not dare to speak, the people and the scholars in the opposition scolded him as a jiān evil person who aided and abused; However, when he shouldered the seven provinces, the ten-year war of resistance, and turned the tide, the praise and praise of him gradually overwhelmed the criticism, until the Japanese plague was basically calmed down and the southeast was restored, "his reputation also reached the peak of glory." At that time, criticism of him was like a sunspot "completely obscured by a thousand rays of light."

However, its rise and fall are so sudden, rapid, and full of inevitability...... After the pacification of the imperial court, the court no longer needed a king of the southeast with high prestige and heavy troops, and the story of the birds hiding the bow and the rabbit and the dead dog cooking was staged again. Of course, the reason why it was cooked so quickly had a lot to do with his relationship with Yan Bo.

, the king will prosper with this, and he will die with this, the historical law is staged again, and the help and backing of the past have now become original sin and disaster. Hu Zongxian was "regarded by the anti-Yan fighters as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the middle of the fast, and soon became famous, and doubts and criticisms quickly raised their heads, making his immortal achievements gradually dim." Hu Zongxian also faded out of people's field of vision.

But a few years later, the forgery of the holy decree case broke out, pushing him to the forefront again, his personal fate and reputation, also like a stormy sea làng sharp ups and downs, first arrested by Dongchang, escorted to Beijing for trial, "by Shilin's unanimous verbal criticism: and then in Shandong bizarre trial, tortured and died, Shen Ge went to Beijing to cry out for his injustice, "after seeing his remains, his heart ache and vomited blood, all of which caused great sympathy ...... Shilin and the people. tradition, not to mention a national soldier who contributed to Sheji and was tortured to death by the Dongchang and Jiān 佞xiǎo people? Public opinion quickly turned its head, and the affirmation of Hu Zongxian's merits and sympathy for the encounter "occupied the absolute upper hand!"

However, there have always been discordant voices, after all, those who conspired to persecute Hu Zongxian, those who believed that meritorious service was xiǎo, and that the failure of morality was great, and the speculators who thought they were looking at the direction of the wind, did not want to see Hu Zongxian ascend to the detective, and they still had to spare no effort to continue to smear him.

A fact is that in the 40 days since the news of Hu Zongxian's death came, the General Administration Department has received more than 70 letters and more than 30 impeachment denunciations against him.

People said, "Thanks to this time, the Imperial Procuratorate is deeply involved in right and wrong, those imperial historians have no face to speak, and the remaining six departments are difficult to speak out of, otherwise there will definitely be another uproar for Hu Zongxian's praise and disapproval, and it will never be as one-sided as it is now."

Now the emperor ordered Hu Zongxian's mourning and epithet, which naturally indicated that the emperor was ready to forgive his sins and "give him recognition and compensation." However, it does not mean that the debate over Hu Zongxian's rights and wrongs can end here...... Because the Ming Dynasty called the officials "although nominally ordered by the Ministry of Rites to the Hanlin Academy, after listening to the public opinion, it was agreed upon, and then awarded by the emperor." But in fact, because the power to vote for the chapter is in the hands of the cabinet, and there are no very special circumstances, the emperor will not reject the decision of his assistants, so what kind of nickname to give is "even whether to give a nickname" is still in two words.

The same is true for mourning and sealing the shadows, the power is actually in the hands of the cabinet, or to put it bluntly, in the hands of Xu Ge Lao", and Xu Ge Lao came to power by overthrowing strictness, and his attitude towards Hu Zongxian has always been very clear, and he is even considered to be the mastermind behind his series of tragedies. So what the outcome will be, the officials are talking about it while waiting to see.

The more mainstream view is that in the end, it may be out of the golden mean, "give him a positive and negative name for the merits and demerits of half Hu Zongxian", which is not against the holy will, but can also be accepted by Xu Gelao.

Even at this time, Baiguan still held that opinion...... Although the holy will is difficult to disobey, the emperor still has to listen to Xu Ge Lao after all! This is the terrifying prestige that Xu Ge has accumulated over the years, brick by brick.

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However, what the officials talked about the most was the cries coming from the cabinet cafeteria. The simple material has been processed, passed on with nose and eyes, and what is even more amazing is that it is not far from the truth," ......

"The Record of Taizu" is not a confidential document, at least those talented people in the Hanlin Academy can memorize it backwards. Therefore, if Xu Jie wants to drink with Shen Mo early in the morning, it will naturally remind them of that classic joke, so the story is extended from this, they said, "Shen Mo is the best talent, and he doesn't know how many times he has read "Taizu Record" is all familiar in his stomach. When I saw the wine glass, I had already remembered Taizu's two sentences: , The golden cup is drunk together, and the white blades are not forgiven,"

This is to bī Shen Mo to make a statement, Shen Mo was of course frightened" immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and asked, what did the student offend the teacher? ,,The old man gave up two big members" is enough to give you jiāo generation.

, Xu Ge Lao said: , but you still hold on to the case, let that Haigang Peak bite like a mad dog, what kind of heart do you have? Do you have to wipe out the old man's people, so that you can replace them? , such heart-wrenching words, of course, caused silence and tears, "Kowtow, please forgive Lao Xu." Then he first reviewed his uncalm behavior in the recent period, and later swore a poisonous oath and promised that he would "make the case a big thing, which made Xu Xiang's understanding."

In addition, there are rumors in the market that Xu Jie's response to Shen Mo is actually knocking and pulling, first using it, the wine is white, scaring him, and then the teachers and students hug their heads and cry again, "It will be reconciled as before." It's not that the officials want the story to have a happy ending" but they all saw that the other two students of Xu Ge Lao fell into the crotch of their pants this time, anyway, it's not but, even if they are lucky enough to escape this catastrophe, "But it's also chōu brand, how can you win the throne of Shoufu again?"

It is impossible for Xu Jie's silence to be silent, so he has to leave a disciple with all beards and tails for the future, right?

The reason why the officials can guess is actually very simple, because they all believe that with the prestige and status of Xu Ge Lao, it is the prosperity of the good and the death of the disobedient, and even the emperor has to give three points. So in front of him, Shen Ge always has to be coiled by a dragon, and he has to lie down even if he is a tiger, even if he occupies all the principles of the world, he will not dare to make Xu Ge Lao's rebellion.

The so-called, the shadow of the tree, the name of the person", this is the prestige of Xu Gelao. Prestige seems to be formless, but when it accumulates to a certain extent, it can be invincible in the world. Wang Mang has been looking forward to it for twenty years, "he can jump to the Han Dynasty and almost no one opposes it; Wang Anshi has been looking forward to 20 years, and no one dares to do anything with him, this is the power of prestige after reaching a certain level.

And Xu Jie's biggest reliance is not that mén was born all over the world, not the people's hearts gathered by the "Jiajing Edict", nor the power of the prime minister in his hands, but his own prestige. This powerful prestige made all enemies dare not confront him head-on, and made people believe that he was invincible, even if the opponent was the emperor.

Only by recognizing Xu Jie's strong prestige can we understand why Shen Mo "still did not dare to act rashly, but continued to adhere to the bitter line unwaveringly" when he established the great superiority of the scene. It was because he knew that "once a head-on conflict broke out" under Xu Jie's prestige, his advantages would be like boiling soup and pouring snow, and they would disappear in an instant.

This is not alarmist, he is facing his own teacher, and he is a powerful and invincible imperial prime minister, except for a few hardcores, "no one will support him, everyone will leave him." In the end, this battle can only become a battle for him alone, and the outcome is naturally doomed.

It's still that, the story of the poor skills of the donkey, in the face of a powerful enemy, rash moves are tantamount to self-destruction"............ This has been since the day Shen Mo decided to pull Xu Jie off the horse," he kept a clear understanding of this.

However, Shen Mo and Xu Jie have been grudging for a long time, "The Hu Zongxian incident was the fuse for printing and dyeing the yào barrel, and when the crazy idea of deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors took over, he had to do it............ Otherwise, how can he be worthy of Yang Bo's comment, the most rational madman?

The so-called "most rational madman" is to use the most rational actions to realize the craziest thoughts. For Shen Mo, "How to defeat Xu Jie, this big question, he has repeatedly checked it countless times in his heart, and he already has a complete set of dragon slaying strategies!"

I admit that you Xu Ge Lao is really invincible ......in the world, but after all, you are not an emperor with a demigod body, and you also have your own weaknesses!

Your weakness is that you're too strong! Already unconsciously, beyond the rules of today's absolute monarchical society, this Ming Dynasty "only has a piece of heaven" is the emperor and not you Xu Jie. No matter how dense the dark clouds are, if you want the clouds to disperse, it is just a gust of wind.

Where does the wind come from, the proverb of the officialdom of Beijing is clear~, the wind in the palace, the clouds in the cabinet", this is the true meaning of these eight words, but it seems that with the tornado, after the Jiajing Emperor rose during the day, everyone didn't take this meaning seriously......!