When the three brothers Zhang Jingxiu returned to the Zhang University Scholar's Mansion in Dashahat Hutong, it was already evening. Although Zhang Juzheng disciplined his son strictly, they still occasionally went out on weekdays, but it was the first time they came back so late, and coincidentally, they met Zhang Juzheng who came back from the palace. When Zhang Juzheng got down from the eight-carried sedan chair and saw his three sons standing aside and saluting in unison, he nodded slightly and didn't say anything. It wasn't until the three brothers followed him into the second gate that he gave an order without looking back.

"Come to my study."

With these words, even Zhang Maoxiu, who heard You Qi's words at first, muttered the most in his heart, did not doubt that today's trip was really his father's instructions. When they entered the study, they saw that their father was retiring from the idle people, and they actually asked who they had met in the Wang family, and the three brothers didn't know that Zhang Ju wanted to hear about Shen Maoxue's situation, but they thought that their father also knew that Zhang Taizheng and his brothers were going to make trouble, so Zhang Jingxiu gave a lecture, Zhang Sixiu and Zhang Maoxiu added, and described all the things before and after in detail.

Zhang Juzheng originally heard that in addition to the uncles and nephews of the Shen family, the Wang family also came to three counties to raise people, and all of them were talented and experienced in travel, but he had some calculations in his heart, but when he heard that Zhang Siwei's two sons actually ran to make a big fuss, and were squeezed by Wang Fulin so much that they had to take over the big burden, he immediately frowned.

To say that he invoked Zhang Siwei into the cabinet, firstly, to show that he did not have the heart to monopolize power, so he added another person to the cabinet. The second is because Zhang Siwei is very good at being a man. Since entering the cabinet, unlike Lu Tiaoyang, he doesn't hum or ha, and often does some tune-up things. Instead, they kept up with him. But these two sons are really inferior! And this hostility towards Wang Fulin may not be simply jealousy, but some of the attitudes revealed by his father's elders intentionally or unintentionally may also be inducements.

Zhang Jingxiu saw that Zhang Juzheng's face was not very good-looking, and thought that his father was annoyed that they were mixed in in a good manner, so he asked cautiously: "Father, after all, it is likely that last year's Jinshi was involved, if it really makes a big fuss." Maybe it will damage the reputation of the court, if it is inappropriate, why not let the two brothers do it? ”

"What to do? I was going to rectify the study and politics, and the dignified scholars are still so despicable, not to mention the talent at the bottom? If it's really a fake name again, and it's really last year's top three jinshi, then I'm not afraid to let the world know that such a cold and incompetent person. is not worthy to stand above the court! ”

The three brothers Zhang Jingxiu dared to tell Zhang Juzheng about today's events, but Zhang Taizheng and Zhang Jiazheng never dared. Zhang Taizheng was just reprimanded by his father Zhang Siwei yesterday. Zhang Jiazheng caused such a catastrophe today, and brought his eldest brother with him, if they say it, they dare to protect the family law, and they don't want to go out for a few months. Therefore, they can only hope that Wang Fulin and the others will keep their promises and be able to keep today's matter completely confidential, and Zhang Jingxiu and the others will not tell Zhang Juzheng about it. So, their anger was naturally poured out on Qin Sanniang and the negative man.

But Qin Sanniang, a witness, was protected, and she had been photographed by Zhang Jingxiu and the others, and they couldn't do anything to her, so they could only do their best to let people search for the handwriting of last year's top three jinshi for verification. Fortunately, most of the people with the title of this kind of palace test gold list, even if they are only top three jinshi, have left a lot of literature and ink outside, which is really not good, relying on their father's old relationship in the Hanlin Academy, they can still find the text of the palace examination of these people as a comparison. The only thing that is a little troublesome is that the work requires veterans of the criminal department who are proficient in this kind of affairs, and at this time, the role of Wang Chonggu, the secretary of the criminal department, comes into play.

When the son-in-law of Chao Sanfu and the grandson and nephew of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department want to investigate, who can not cooperate?

And when they hurried up to investigate, Wang Fulin also ushered in the gift from the palace. His own distribution issue continued to be pending because of the sloppiness handed over, but everything he asked for for Shen Yourong and the others was approved. This time, each person was awarded one of the four books engraved by the celebrant and the warp factory, and it is said that the best edition was selected, as well as two jars of imperial wine, but an additional steel knife was added to each person, which made everyone below Shen Yourong overjoyed. Although that knife is not a thousand-choice boutique, far inferior to the sword that Tan Lun gave to Wang Fulin, the symbolism is incomparable after all.

In the future, if you say it, you will also be the one who carries the Imperial Treasure Sword!

As for Wang Fulin, what surprised him even more was that the person who came to give it was none other than Zhang Hong, the eunuch of the palace who was the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of Bingbi! He knew very little about the eunuchs in the palace, but he had also heard Wang Daokun mention that this was the second person in the palace eunuch after Feng Bao, older than Feng Bao, older than Feng Bao, very decent in front of the queen mother of the two palaces, and deeply respected by the little emperor, laughing like Maitreya Buddha, but Wang Fulin dared to take this lightly, and asked someone to reward his attaché, he had to personally politely invite people to the main hall to sit down.

Zhang Hong, who was nearly sixty years old, looked left and right at the place like an ordinary old man, and finally nodded at Wang Fulin with a smile: "Wang Gongzi is young, but he has responsibility, courage, and the most important thing is that the emperor will let you enter the Imperial Palace, and you dare to write a book to resign, which is really called letting the emperor remember you." ”

If it were possible, how would I want a narrow-minded person like Emperor Wanli to remember! When it is used up, it is thrown away, describing this emperor, and there are almost no honorable subordinates under him!

Wang Fulin was slandered in his heart, and hurriedly defended: "Gonggong Zhang's words make me really embarrassed. It is a great honor for the emperor to favor me, but I am young, and I have at most offset my merits and demerits in Liaodong before, how can I withstand a sudden promotion? What's more, there are many talented people in the world, I was just lucky to get into the Jinshi, but after the palace test, there was a lot of turmoil, and after arriving in Liaodong, I was accused of only knowing how to cause trouble, and even said that it was a disaster. also asked the father-in-law to play the emperor on his behalf, and the gentleman's grace could not be reciprocated, and the minister could only understand it. ”

Give such things. Look at how valuable things are. Naturally, there are eunuchs of different ranks in the palace who can do this kind of thing. To put it mildly, even if Emperor Wanli gave Zhang Juzheng something, he didn't need Zhang Hong, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, to go out in person, and he came in person today because he heard Feng Bao say a few "gossip".

Since Feng Bao drove away Gao Gong and drove away Meng Fang and others, who were closest to Emperor Longqing, and became the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, he ignored the old rule of the second person of the ceremonial supervisor to supervise the East Factory. I still hold the East Factory in my hands. Zhang Hong is not a person who likes to fight with others, even if the East Factory that should have been in his hands was robbed by Feng Bao, he still had no complaints, and always maintained a good personal relationship with Feng Bao, so Feng Bao often told him about the things that the East Factory had spied on.

This time, what he heard was nothing else, it was Wang Fulin who provoked Zhang Taizheng a few days ago, and then the Zhang brothers joined forces to find the field at the Zhang family, but they failed miserably. Feng Bao instructed others not to leak it, but he told him as a joke. Thinking of that time, Zhu Yijun was picked up by Zhang Whale, Zhang Cheng and other close attendants, and went to the Wenhua Hall to watch the excitement. As a result, the big incident that happened, Zhang Hong pondered this time again, and naturally was a little cautious about Wang Fulin.

What exactly does Zhang Juzheng plan?

Therefore, when he heard Wang Fulin take out the word disaster star as a prevarication, he quietly took a sip of tea, and then raised his eyebrows and said: "Wang Gongzi's tea for hospitality seems to be from Huizhou?" ”

This old guy has such a powerful mouth!

"It's the tea of Qimen." Wang Fulin owed, and then added, "If my father-in-law is a son again, I'm afraid I won't be able to sit still anymore, and my father-in-law will call me by my name." ”

"In this case, our family will ask you directly, what official do you want?"

If I hadn't been urged to go to the imperial examination every day, I wouldn't have wanted to be an official at all! There is a title of Jinshi on his body, where can he not go all day? And I said what kind of official I want to be, you can give it to me?

Even if he thought so in his heart, Wang Fulin understood better that there was nothing wrong with complaining about this in front of his own people, but he must not say it to outsiders. Therefore, for Zhang Hong's straightforward question, his answer was still slippery: "Back to my father-in-law, to be honest, I didn't expect to be able to be a jinshi last year. But after going to Jiliao and returning to the dynasty, he became the target of public criticism again. I just want to go to a cold yamen that is not in the limelight, and I can't afford to provoke those guys who find fault, can't I still hide? ”

Zhang Hong has been in the palace for 40 years, has entered the inner study hall, read countless people, and has seen many people, but today I really feel breathtaking. In front of him, the eunuch of the celebrant and the pen, Wang Fulin did not try his best to behave, or pretended to be high, or desperately made friends, or kept his distance...... On the contrary, he has been gossiping from beginning to end, and now he is even more willing to go to the cold yamen to hide! It was really difficult for him to judge whether this was true or false, so he simply put down his previous expectations at the moment, and also asked about the situation in Wang Fulin's family as if he were gossiping, and then completely opened the other party's chatterbox.

Therefore, when Zhang Hong left the Wang family, Zhang Hong, who originally knew some of the population of Wang Fulin's family through Feng Bao's East Factory, had a clear understanding of the situation of the Wang family. After entering the Donghua Gate, he changed to a stool and couldn't help but start in a daze - because when Wang Fulin finally got close to him, he cautiously proposed, anyway, now that the election of officials has not yet been decided, can he go back to Huizhou, first handle the marriage of his sister-in-law at home, and then take his wife to his hometown Ningbo Mansion to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Ye. Until this moment, he couldn't help but mourn for Zhang Taizheng and Zhang Jiazheng brothers.

If you get into trouble with such a guy who doesn't play cards according to common sense, don't look at the two brothers who are the sons of the elder Ge, they will also suffer!

However, when he returned to the celebrant supervisor, he had not yet entered his straight room, but he was stopped by Feng Bao, who happened to come out of it. The two have known each other for many years, Feng Bao smiled and bowed his head, signaling his subordinates to guard everywhere and not let people in, so he said bluntly: "What Taiyue means is that he plans to clean up the Kedao." As for Wang Fulin's matter, when the matter between him and the five sons and brothers of the Zhang family on both sides is over, he will find a name for him to go home for a while to avoid the limelight. ”

It took Zhang Taizheng and Zhang Jiazheng ten days and eight days to find out, and it was in the hands of Dongchang, but it would only take two or three days to get results! When he found out that the name belonged to the trial imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he naturally immediately told Zhang Juzheng, this time it was really an unexpected joy!

Zhang Hong didn't pay much attention to such a serious matter as purging the Daoist officials, because he knew very well that he had no room for opposition to this matter, and the little emperor didn't have a good impression of those indiscriminate officials, but he didn't care about Wang Fulin's measures...... Can he tell Feng Bao that his wish is exactly what he wants?

PS: I found a pun on the name of this chapter. Two more nearly 7,000 words, continue to ask for a monthly pass ^_^ (to be continued.) )