In front of the gate of Xiyuan, Wang Shizhen knelt and cried on the ground, begging the adults of the court, who could help, but people were afraid of the Yan Party's Yinwei, and they no longer dared to act rashly except for sympathetic eyes.

Shen Mo took two steps forward, but was pulled by the people behind him, left and right, he looked back and saw that it was Wu Dui and Sun Ling, the two of them shook their heads at him secretly, signaling him not to act rashly.

Seeing that no one responded, Wang Shizhen finally ripped off the last trace of dignity, he raised his hand violently, slapped himself hard, and only heard the sound of 'pop', which made everyone's faces hot, as if this slap was on his face.

After beating herself with her right hand, Wang Shizhen didn't stop, and then slapped her left cheek with her left hand, and then alternated her hands and kept slapping herself hard...... Like a desperate beast, it uses self-harm to resist its doomed fate.

His cheeks soon became red and swollen, and he cried out, "Please be kind...... Save my dad......" The sound is like a cuckoo crying blood, which makes people cry.

His younger brother also followed suit, and the scene was unacceptable to everyone, and everyone turned their heads away, not daring to see this terrible scene.

Shen Mo couldn't watch it anymore, of course he knew that going to deal with Wang Shizhen at this time would inevitably cause the displeasure of the Yan Party, but Wang Shizhen once helped him rescue his teacher Shen Lian, and he was kind to him. Even if you can't help him now, you can't sit idly by, otherwise can you still be considered a person?

Thinking of this, he forcibly broke the hands of the two people behind him, broke free from their pulling, strode to Wang Shizhen's side, and stretched out his hand to pull him up.

Everyone's eyes moved to Shen Mo, and before they could see who he was, they heard a deep voice say, "Humble words, why are you still stunned?" Come on, Fengzhou help up? ”

The silent movements were slightly stunned, and when he looked up, he saw Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet, standing in the middle of the road, looking at himself with a serious face, his eyes full of admonition.

In the flash of light, Shen Mo understood what Xu Jie meant, nodded and said, "Yes." Then he stretched out his hand again, held Wang Shizhen's shoulder and said, "Brother Fengzhou, let's get up, let's just find a way slowly." ”

Wang Shizhen looked up, he was also stunned, and after a while, he remembered that he was silent when he met a few years ago, and his lips moved a few times, but he didn't say anything.

Hearing the order of Lord Cifu, other officials also came over, half-supported and half-pulled, and took Wang Shizhen's brothers aside, Shen Mo also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Xu Jie: "You want to meet today, and you won't enter the palace with me." ”

Silently hesitated, then finally nodded and said, "I know." Looking back at Wang Shizhen, who was surrounded by everyone, he took a deep breath and followed Xu Ge into the Xiyuan Gate.

Entering the West Garden, there were suddenly fewer people, Xu Jie slowed down slightly, glanced at him and said softly: "How can I go to the local area to hone for a few years, and I have also been a feudal official, but I am not as calm as when I was in the cabinet." ”

Shen Mo smiled bitterly and said: "Elder Ge is so disciplined, I am like this, the matter falls on me, and it is no problem to endure it in every way, but I can't see others being wronged." ”

"I don't think you can believe it." Xu Jie snorted lightly and said: "You have made great contributions to the imperial court, but you have been treated unfairly, and you are holding your breath in your heart, so you have repeatedly done some outrageous actions to vent, right?" ”

Shen Moxin said that it was really not, but he would not deny it...... Since Xu Jie is preconceived, he also saves himself the matter of explaining it as the Yangming Public Ancestral Hall.

Seeing that he was silent, Xu Jie thought that he had acquiesced, and sighed: "I'm still too young, and I give up on myself after a little setback, how can I become a big deal like this?" As he spoke, he glanced at him and said, "Your Majesty is going to summon you alone today, so you might as well think about how to deal with it." ”

Shen Mo nodded, and said softly: "What the teacher taught is that students must be cautious in their words and deeds in the future, and they will be restrained. ”

"I hope so." Xu Jie's head said, and when he arrived at the duty room of Yuxi Palace, the two of them entered in silence, and at this time they were already waiting for Wu Peng, the secretary of the ministry, Fang Blun, the left servant of the criminal department, He Bin, Dali Qing Wan Cai and others, and when they saw Xu Ge Lao coming in, they got up and saluted, and Xu Jie politely returned the salute to them, and sat on the second chair.

After silently saluting the adults, he stood behind Xu Jie, and at first he was fine, but after a while, another old acquaintance, Zhao Zhenji, came in in a hurry, and said loudly: "I came late today, I only heard about the incident that happened in front of the Xiyuan Gate, now I ask you, is there such a thing?" ”

Everyone in the room knew his fiery temper and nodded, but no one dared to speak, lest they be sprayed with saliva.

Zhao Zhenji said angrily: "Is your heart still fleshy? Wang Fengzhou is like that, can you still turn a blind eye and come straight in? "Okay, squirt everybody.

Everyone didn't squeak, they didn't want to bite the 'Zhao mad dog', so Zhao Zhenji was so angry that he grabbed Wan Cai and said: "You are the Dali Siqing, it is your duty to convict the officials, but you can tell me, what is Wang Sizhen's capital crime?" "Thinking is Wang Chen's number.

Wan Cai tried his best to break his hand, but he couldn't break it, and said with a wry smile: "I don't have the final say in this matter, I have to report to the cabinet for approval after discussing with Lord He, Lord Zhou, and all the officials, and then report to the cabinet for approval......

"You don't have to give me an official here." Zhao Zhenji said angrily: "I don't want to ask you what the final conviction is, what I'm asking is, is he enough to be guilty of capital crimes?!" ”

"You let go, let go and talk!" Wan Cai was not caught in a hurry, but forced by him, how can this be answered, no matter how you say it, it is a troublesome ten thousand.

Fortunately, Xu Jie relieved him of the siege, and said lightly: "Dazhou, let go of Wan Daren, what kind of system will it become?" ”

Teacher Xu's words couldn't be ignored, Zhao Zhenji had no choice but to let go of his hand and said indignantly: "You killed Yang Jisheng, and now you want to kill Wang Chen, and you will kill Wang Shizhen in the future, I think you will kill yourself if you do too much injustice!" ”

Before he finished speaking, a yin and yang strange voice sounded: "Zhao Dazhou, who do you say will kill himself?!" ”

Zhao Zhenji Huo Ran looked back, and saw Yan Shifan, who was wearing Shangshu clothes, helping the old Yan Ge Lao, and slowly entered the duty room.

Everyone hurriedly got up and saluted Yan Ge Lao. Yan Shifan snorted, helped his father to the top spot and sat down, stood aside and glared at Zhao Zhenji and said, "Zhao Dazhou, you made it clear to me, who wants to kill himself?!" ”

Facing Yan Shifan's fierce eyes, Zhao Zhenji couldn't help but think of this person's famous name, swallowed and foamed: "I didn't say anyone." ”

"Hmph......" Yan Shifan snorted again, his eyes swept over the people in the room, and finally landed on Zhao Zhenji's body, and said coldly: "They are all forty or fifty people, there should be a door guard on their mouths, if anyone dares to be nonsense again, Lao Tzu will tear his mouth!" ”

The atmosphere in the room froze suddenly, and he silently expected that Yan Shifan would be crazy, but he didn't expect that this guy was already crazy.

looked at Yan Song again, as if he had fallen asleep, and let his son shout unscrupulously.

The atmosphere froze for a long time before the inner supervisor came over and said, "Elder Yan Ge, Elder Xu Ge, as well as Lord Wan and Lord Fang, Your Majesty has summoned you." The five of them hurried out with him...... Of course, Yan Song was still supported by Yan Shifan.

As soon as they left, the atmosphere in the room was relaxed, and everyone secretly looked at Zhao Zhenji, who had been reprimanded, and saw that Old Master Zhao's face was pale, sitting there with both hands tightly grasping the handrails, and he didn't know that his nails were white.

looked at Zhao Zhenji silently and sympathetically, and sighed secretly in his heart, he didn't feel at all that Old Master Zhao was anything to be ashamed of, at least he dared to say it, and he still had a sense of justice, but he really didn't have the ability to do it against Yan Shifan...... He was thinking about his thoughts, and Wu Peng, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials on the side, opened his mouth and said: "Shen Mo, you are obviously a fourth-grade official, why do you wear blue?" ”

Shen Mo hurriedly turned around, hugged his fists and said: "If you go back to Dazai, the lower official has already changed from the right to the imperial history of the capital to the division of the bureau to wash the horse......"

Wu Peng frowned slightly and said, "I remember that you are still the imperial history of the capital, but you are no longer the governor of Su Song, and you have not been demoted to your grade, right?" ”

"Oh, the lower official is just not sure, so he wears a blue robe." Shen Mo laughed and said, "Now that I have the approval of Lord Dazai, I will go back and return it." ”

Wu Peng looked at him and didn't speak again.

After waiting for a long time, it was the end of the hour when the shadow opened, and then the inner supervisor came over and said, "Lord Shen silent, Your Majesty has summoned you." ”

Shen Mo hurriedly followed out, hurriedly walked to the Yuxi Palace, and after entering, the inside was still the same - the door was closed in the summer, and it was not airtight at all, and as soon as he entered, he was already sweating with white hair, and he didn't know whether it was nervous or hot.

Kneeling silently in the hall, shouting long live, it took a long time for an indifferent voice to say, "Raise your head." ”

As soon as he looked up silently, he saw that there was no one on the Sumeru seat in front of him, and he highlighted a plain white central hall behind the seat, and saw a line of thin gold script written on it: 'I have three virtues: said kindness, said thrifty, said dare not be the first in the world! "This is Emperor Jiajing's imperial pen, Shen Mo has seen it before, but he is a little frightened when he sees it at this moment.

The four big pillars on both sides are about two zhang equidistant from each other, there is a long case of red sandalwood between the two pillars on the left, and there is also a long case of red sandalwood between the two pillars on the right, and the case is full of account books, documents, eight lines of empty notes and pen inkstones. Strangely enough, there are no seats behind the two long tables, only an embroidered pier on the top of the long table on the right.

There was a sound of footsteps in his ears, and he couldn't help but squint and peek, only to see a pair of black cloth shoes with soft soles, turned out from behind the curtains, and said lightly: "We haven't seen each other for a few years, right?" ”

Shen Mo hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, since September 26, the 35th year of Jiajing, Your Majesty has taught Weichen earnestly, and it has been four years and eight months. ”

"It's hard for you to remember clearly." Emperor Jiajing smiled and said, "Get up." ”

"Yes." Shen Mo hurriedly got up, and then saw that Emperor Jiajing was wearing a thick Nine Dragons Dark Flower Songjiang cloth robe...... I'm not afraid to get prickly heat. His face was as clear as he had been a few years ago, but he was thinner.

An uncontrollable smile appeared on Shen Mo's face, which made Emperor Jiajing a little confused and said, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Shen Mo's eyes turned red, and he quickly wiped the corners of his eyes and said: "Since the separation of Weichen, I have thought about His Majesty's voice and smile, and now I see His Majesty's dragon and horse spirit, which is better than in the past, Weichen...... Wechen is overjoyed. As he spoke, he burst into tears.

Even though Emperor Jiajing has been tested for a long time, he was also dizzy by the sycophants of silence, and said with some emotion for a while: "I haven't changed, and you haven't changed, very good, very good." As he spoke, he pointed to the Jindun under the imperial stairs and said, "Sit down." ”

"I don't dare." Shen Mo knew that among the ministers, only Yan Song and Fang Yu had seats, and Xu Ge Lao was only standing...... Of course, his news is outdated, since the first month of last year, Xu Ge Lao has also joined the Youza clan, but he doesn't know.

"If you want to sit, you will sit." Emperor Jiajing waved his hand, sat on the Sumeru seat, and said with a smile: "Today is not a debriefing, nor is it a court, and it doesn't mean anything to sit down." ”

Shen Mo had no choice but to sit down on his side of his ass and said, "Your Majesty." ”

Sycophants are indeed a good medicine to cushion the atmosphere, but sometimes, what should come will still come, and it can't be stopped.

I only heard Jiajing tilt his head and say: "You are the champion of Bingchen appointed by me, and you are the first six yuan in Lianzhong, so I ordered someone to set up another tablet next to the inscription tablet of Bingchen Jinshi in Guozijian, do you remember what is written on it?" ”

"The minister will never forget until he dies," Shen Mo said with a slight excitement: "Your Majesty wrote: 'Two hundred years of the dynasty. The literary fortune is magnificent. Hugh said that there are six songs, and I have a champion Shen. ’”

"I have a champion Shen ......" Emperor Jiajing nodded slowly, "What does this mean?" Although every Jinshi can be called a protégé of the Son of Heaven, in my heart, you are the real protégé, understand? ”

Shen Mo hurriedly knelt down with a grateful face, and said, "The minister is scared ......."

"You really should be afraid...... Emperor Jiajing said: "There is a way to be a strict teacher and a high apprentice, I have high expectations for you, and the requirements must be strict, no matter what you are asked to do, you have to be conscientious, you know?" ”

"Remember." Shen Mo hurriedly answered, but he complained bitterly in his heart, in the face of the powerful emperor, he was too weak, and he had to work hard and complain, milking and grazing like an old ox.

"Get up, don't kneel at every turn," Jiajing raised his chin slightly: "Back then, I sent you to Jiangnan to experience the experience." How's your training going? ”

When the drama came, Shen Mo was secretly nervous, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen is ignorant, crossing the river by feeling the stones, many things have to be done, and there is no one around to ask for advice, so I can only do some things hard-headed, but the time is still short, and I dare not say which one is right and which one is wrong...... "The reason why he put his posture so at the bottom is to shirk responsibility in case he is asked."

Sure enough, Emperor Jiajing's back move was unable to be released, and he held his breath for a long time, so he had to start another conversation and say: "I don't know if it's right or wrong, so I dare to do it blindly?" ”

Shen Mo hurriedly got up and was about to kneel down again, but he heard Emperor Jiajing say: "Stand and reply!" He had no choice but to stand still, and then heard the emperor say, "Raise your head!" ”

Shen Mo raised his head again, looked at the emperor with a worried face, and saw Emperor Jiajing's narrow eyes shining with a faint light, and looked at him expressionlessly and said: "Such an adult, I don't know what is right and what is wrong, I am really a derelict teacher." As he spoke, he glanced back and said, "What do you see on a line?" ”

"I have three virtues, said kindness, said thrifty, said dare not be the first in the world." Shen Mo said softly.

"I have three virtues, said kindness, said thrifty, said dare not be the first in the world." Emperor Jiajing repeated it and said in a deep voice: "It is right to be kind, thrifty, and not dare to be the first in the world; It is wrong to be unkind, not thrifty, and dare to be the first in the world! ”

Silently knelt on the ground when he heard this, sweating his clothes, and couldn't bend over.

Jiajing looked at him coldly and said, "Know what you did wrong?" ”

Shen Mo raised his head suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "Return to the emperor!" The minister knows, the minister is the first in the world! ”

"What's the first in the world?" Jiajing's complexion softened slightly.

"The opening of the sea ban is the first priority; Zhao'an Xu Hai is the second first...... The construction of Yangming Temple is the third first. Shen Mo said without a slurr.

"It's good to know!" Emperor Jiajing frowned deeply and said: "There is a way that is repeated again and again, and you have no other way to think about the first two things, and you don't say anything, but this third thing is ...... Is that what someone of your stature should do? ”

"The minister......" was silent and frightened: "When the minister was in Suzhou, the people around him were all Wang Xuemen, and they lobbied all the time, so they agreed in a daze, but I didn't expect such a consequence......"

"Really?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Shen Mo and said, "Is there no one behind the scenes?" ”

"Absolutely not!" Shen Mo denied it: "The minister is young and reckless, and His Majesty will not give up it, and he will be entrusted with the important task of sealing the territory." But once he was appointed as a feudal territory, he only listened to His Majesty in everything he did, and no one could instruct me. Saying that, he said with a face full of shame: "I was fooled this time and caused such a big incident, and Weichen is willing to bear all the responsibility...... Request a Tribute. ”

"Zhishi?" Emperor Jiajing's face suddenly turned weird.

(To be continued)