After Wang Fulin politely "escorted" Zhang Taizheng back to Zhang's mansion, he didn't care about this Zhang Dagongzi anymore, because he didn't have to do anything, but he could make the other party more uncomfortable than death. Sure enough, with Feng Bao's connivance, the gossip spread within two or three days. And the opportunists among the officials of the science and Taoism naturally tasted a little taste, and one after another, some people wrote to impeach Zhang Siwei for not being careful in governing the family, the eldest son was looking for pleasure outside when his father was sick, and some even swore to describe the details. is even more well-informed, even Zhang Taizheng's wife and step-grandmother have a gap, and then run away from Jingshi.

In this regard, Wang Fulin said that he was very innocent in front of several colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate who had a fairly good relationship, and that the few branches of the book had nothing to do with him, and he said that he didn't know anything about the family affairs of the Zhang family. The reason why I was able to go to the inn to bring Zhang Taizheng back to Zhang's mansion so accurately was that it was not easy to advise, and it was recommended that you consult Qin Yiming, the head of Huguang Road.

Some people may be confused by this vague mention, but some people think of the case of cheating five years ago jointly played by Qin Yiming, the head of Huguang Road, and Wang Fulin, and it also involves a white-clothed bookstore in Guangdong Province under the jurisdiction of Wang Fulin.

came and went, perfunctory one after another, Qin Yiming was so angry that he choked, but he knew that it was Wang Fulin who made it bad, but he couldn't say it.

In the past few days, the three law divisions have joined forces to investigate, involving a young secretary of Dali Temple at that time, a waiter in the criminal department, and seven or eight petty officials of all kinds. Although if he played alone, the credit must be won by one person, but the risk and the resentment of so many people must also be borne by him alone. Especially that Shaoqing is now released as the governor, and he has made some political achievements over the years. And although the squire has become a servant, the family is famous for having many daughters, and the in-laws are all over the court. He really couldn't bear it.

Therefore, even if Wang Fulin used this to sneer and vent his anger, he could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and he insisted that he didn't know Wang Fulin before, and now he is completely a good friend.

So, after experiencing this series of blows, on the day when Zhang Siwei came back to the cabinet, the nominal third assistant, but actually the second assistant, was full of countless silver hair, described as haggard, thin, as if he was really sick. The long-established scholars in the cabinet were all embarrassed when they saw him in such a situation. And when Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing saw Zhang Siwei, they were even more surprised.

Both of them are newcomers who have just entered the cabinet, Zhang Siwei has not been there these days, and the big and small affairs have to be divided into those that can be considered and sent to Zhang Juzheng to be the master, plus the pressure from all sides, both of them are also exhausted. Therefore, even if they felt that Zhang Siwei's mental state was quite bad now, they still had to send the sorted out notes to Zhang Siwei first.

In the cabinet, such a thing as ranking is an iron-clad convention most of the time, and it cannot be surpassed, how can there be so many people like Gao Gong, who can rely on the emperor's trust to squeeze out their predecessors and blatantly cut in line!

Shen Shixing knew that Ma Ziqiang and Zhang Siwei were sons and daughters, so he took a moment before saying goodbye. However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as he returned to the straight room with his front foot, he heard Ma Ziqiang's voice talking outside, as if people had also returned. And in a few moments, the man went straight into his room, and instead of sitting down, he came to him and slammed the table in front of him.

"There was such a uproar, and in the end, Jinyiwei and Dongchang caught a few thieves inside and outside the Beijing Division, and the palace killed five small firefighters with a cane in one go, and this matter was over. It is said that someone used the name of Gaoxin Zheng Gong to send a post to Zhang Gelao, but it was caused by internal and external collusion, hoping that the celebrant and the cabinet would have a suspicion. The palace is now being purged, and in the future, the cabinet and the chamberlain of the Six Science Corridor will change a group of people, and what else do you say let us also check ourselves. This is too much, you can see Zhang Ge Lao's appearance just now, he ......"

Shen Shixing knew that Ma Ziqiang had always been not afraid of people's words, but he was quite friendly with Zhang Juzheng, but his relationship with Zhang Siwei was mediocre, so he pretended to be stupid and said at this time: "The matter has passed, didn't I say that when Yuanfu returned to his hometown to bury his father, he also deliberately passed through Xinzheng and visited Gaoxin Zheng Gong, which is enough to show that he also doesn't believe those rumors." Since the inner court has even changed the close attendants around the emperor, I heard that this time it was Gonggong Feng and Gonggong Zhang who jointly invited the emperor to comfort Zhang Ge Lao and invited him to come back as a director, so it is not interesting for us to hold on to it. ”

Ma Ziqiang knew that Shen Shixing had always been submissive, and seeing that he was still in such a situation at this time, he couldn't help but stomp his feet angrily and said: "Someone caught Zhang Taizheng and splashed a basin of dirty water, where is the past?" ”

"That's simple, let's go up to the last post to say a few words for the son of Zhang Ge Lao, and ask the emperor to reprimand those grandstanders, won't we?"

Shen Shixing said this in his mouth, but he was quite unimpressed in his heart. Zhang Siwei's two sons are said to have planned to participate in the next year's and the next year's examination, so next year's township examination has already been prepared. But now that he has experienced such an experience, the eldest son Zhang Taizheng has an indelible stain on his body, but who can blame him? Now that he has arrived in Jingshi and knows that his father is recuperating at home, even if this recuperation is a little mysterious, he should go home instead of jumping up and down outside. In the case of the first assistant going out and the second assistant recuperating, where can Feng Bao easily say expelled or dispose of?

As long as he goes home and crosses the Ming Road, Zhang Taizheng is not a patient like Zhang Siwei, can Feng Bao still lock people up in the house? Zhang Taizheng appeared in a dignified manner, ran around the houses, pulled a few people to visit Zhang Siwei, lifted the Zhang family's curfew, and then went home to serve the sick, which could make Feng Bao throw himself into the mouse. Even if you are afraid that you will be caught in the net and served by someone, you don't need to exaggerate if you don't go out and don't go home.

Moreover, listening to the rumors, Zhang Taizheng obviously calculated what Wang Fulin was, which made the latter angry and personally "escorted" people back to Zhang's mansion. Since everything has been done, is it not deserved to be caught by someone?

Ma Ziqiang was beaten back again by Shen Shixing with softness, and his face suddenly lengthened. Zhang Siwei didn't leave him to talk privately, but he couldn't help but think that after Zhang Siwei went home to "recuperate", he was left by Feng Bao for several days on the grounds that the cabinet could not lack people, and Shen Shixing also went home twice in total, so he didn't know much about all kinds of inside information, so he could only be secretly exposed one by one and sent to the celebrant supervisor, and the result was sunk in the sea. Now that Zhang Siwei has returned, the palace's explanation of this is so weak, he naturally breathes a sigh of relief. Moreover, this is not for Zhang Siwei, but for the status of the entire cabinet.

Seeing that he couldn't win Shen Shixing's support and support, he could only snort coldly and said: "It's not that we haven't sent a secret disclosure before, how can there be a response?" ”

"Before, there were only the two of us who entered the cabinet, but this time there is Zhang Gelao returning, naturally it is different......" Although Shen Shixing knew that Ma Ziqiang was a dead brain, but thinking that after all, he was a colleague who entered the cabinet together, and he was three seniors in the Hanlin Academy three years earlier, he had to persuade Ma Ziqiang for a while, and finally persuaded people, and he, the former champion, breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when he got up and personally sent Ma Ziqiang to the door, he saw a Chinese scholar lead a red-robed eunuch he was very familiar with to come here, but it was Tian Yi, the head of the clerical room.

Tian Yi, who was in his early forties, saw that it was two elders, and saluted very respectfully, so he said with a smile: "The emperor heard about the impeachment of the eldest son of Zhang Ge before, and some people talked about Zhang Ge Lao because of this, and the emperor was quite angry about this, saying that these officials of science and Taoism have nothing to do, which is really hateful, and should be reprimanded immediately." Therefore, the emperor asked me to comfort Zhang Ge Lao a few words, and by the way, he gave three boxes of snacks and sweets to the three Ge Lao. ”

Persuaded Zhang Siwei, but the snacks and sweets given were all shared by the three elders, and Shen Shixing, who had always been as careful as a hair, listened to it in his ears, but he quickly thought about the mystery in his heart. And when his eyes saw several little eunuchs behind Tian Yi carrying food boxes, definitely more than the so-called three boxes of dim sum sweets, he couldn't help but move his eyes. At this time, Ma Ziqiang had already asked directly: "Father-in-law Tian should still go to other places to give gifts, right?" ”

Tian Yi snorted and said politely: "It is precisely the official who will also award the Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and then the Imperial History of Chen Zongxian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the two who wrote to expose the fraud case five years ago." It's just that the three elders of the pavilion were carefully selected by the emperor in the imperial dining room, and there are more walnut cakes......"

Such polite words, no matter whether Ma Ziqiang or Shen Shixing, no one will take it to heart, but the two still had to accompany Tian Yi to Zhang Siwei's side, and waited until a piece of thank you for the reward and sent Tian Yi away, Shen Shixing saw that Ma Ziqiang really had something to say to Zhang Siwei this time, he thought about it and retreated, and instructed a Chinese scholar to send his share of the food box to the straight room, but he pulled out his legs and went to chase Tian Yi.

Shen Shixing, who is only 44 years old this year, is quite young among most Beijing officials, not to mention in the cabinet. If it weren't for the fact that he had a good personal relationship with Zhang Juzheng, and had a reputation for being well-versed in articles and knowledge in the Hanlin Academy, it would be impossible for him to become an official in the 41st year of Jiajing, and then enter the cabinet in one fell swoop. In the cabinet, he was at the bottom of the list, and he knew that his qualifications were far inferior to the first three, and he never argued, and after catching up with Tian Yi at this time, he once again expressed his gratitude euphemistically, and then asked carefully: "Bestow so many people, the second assistant Lu Ge is ...... over there."

Tian Yi entered the palace at the age of nine, and was fortunate to be selected to study in the inner study hall because of his cleverness, and then climbed up step by step, and now he has reached the important position of the head of the clerical room, which is in charge of the hundred official chapters and the emperor's will, and he does not need to come to the cabinet in person, but he is named by Feng Bao or the little emperor from time to time to run this trip, and naturally he takes a fancy to his tight-lipped temperament.

However, what should be kept tight-lipped, what can be revealed, he can still grasp this measure, and he has a certain understanding of the character of most court officials from the head of the Liuke Corridor to the head of the clerical room, and knows that Shen Shixing's words are not so much an inquiry as a reminder. So, he smiled and said: "Elder Shen Ge, don't worry, Zhang Rongzhai and Father-in-law Zhang went to see Elder Lu Ge in person." ”

Shen Shixing was relieved. After all, although Lu Tiaoyang said that he resigned from illness, he basically did not come to the cabinet, but his name was still hanging, and if there was something to be given but Lu Tiaoyang was missing, it would be a little embarrassing to spread the word that they were new to the cabinet. So, he smiled and accompanied Tian Yi to say a few more words, and then turned around and left.

And Tian Yi, who left the cabinet, took the little eunuch out of Donghua Gate first.

Although he is still one step away from the head of the twenty-four yamen, that is, the real eunuch title, he has already been given the inner palace to ride a horse, but the distance from the noon gate to the Chengtian gate is not the scope of the imperial city in the ordinary sense, and the left and right gates of Chang'an are mostly for court officials, and he has to go out of the palace like him, but it is the Donghua Gate that walks the most. However, the Ministry of Officials is in the thousand-step corridor on both sides of the Chengtian Gate, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is in Xicheng, so the order of his award today is naturally the last of the Ministry of Officials. At this moment, he did not go to Xi'an Gate to leave the imperial city, but got on his horse and turned to the north, went straight out from Bei'an Gate, and made a big circle from Beicheng.

In the place where the three law divisions are located, the people say that the yin qi is too strong, so although Tian Yi is also considered to have a head and face in the palace, it is rare to come here, and several small eunuchs behind him are his apprentices and grandchildren, all of them are less than twenty, and it is the first time to go to this place, although his head does not dare to turn around, his eyes are looking around.

Hearing that it was here to give it, the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate immediately welcomed Tian Yi and his party in respectfully. And when Qin Yiming, who hurried to the main hall, saw the food box, his fiery eyes were eager to swallow the food box, and Wang Fulin, who was one step later, glanced at Tian Yi from time to time. The first time he saw Tian Yi, he felt kind at first sight, but after thinking about it, he finally determined that he had never seen each other. It wasn't until he bowed and tossed for a while, and when Tian Yi smiled and talked to him, that he realized where that familiarity came from.

This person is very similar to Zhang Hong's words and deeds!

Although Chen Wei was also quite surprised by this "generous gift", after all, he was the first leader of the dignified Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it was impossible to do anything to send Tian Yi, the head of the clerical room, so he handed over this task to Wang Fulin, selectively ignoring Qin Yiming's eager gaze. And Wang Fulin was also a little curious about the relationship between Tian Yi and Zhang Hong, and besides, he didn't have any big rejection of eunuchs, so he immediately agreed.

However, what he didn't expect was that after leaving the main hall, Tian Yi sent the accompanying little eunuch to the gate to wait first, and when he and Wang Fulin walked out side by side, he said softly and slowly: "Wang Zhangdao, this imperial gift of dim sum sweets was originally given to the cabinet elders, but the emperor happened to see Song Shu and remembered you, so he added Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and Chen Zongxian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as your colleague. ”

Hearing this, Wang Fulin secretly thought about what kind of expression Qin Yiming would have if he was here, and heard that he had become a certain colleague in Tian Yi's mouth, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up. However, for Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, his consistent approach is to stay away from him and avoid relationships, so at this time, although he looked flattered on his face, he didn't think so in his heart.

Even though I'm a foodie, can I be bought by giving me a box of sweets? (To be continued.) )