Chapter 265: Retreat is advance
"Wen Xuan, what you've done recently has gone a little too far." Zhu Youzhu tried his best to suppress the anger and pretended to be relaxed.
The person in front of him is very important to him and to Daming, only he knows. In addition, he once said that unless it was a rebellion, he would never move Zhang Ru. If Zhang Ru is angry with Zhang Ru for the sake of a small Qin Ji and a few Dongchang fans, it is difficult to guarantee that Zhang Ru, who has experienced some physical and mental suffering not long ago, will not choose to retire again.
Zhang Ru said lightly: "The minister doesn't think that the minister's actions are excessive. ”
Looking at his light and breezy appearance, a nameless fire rushed up from Zhu Youjiao's lower abdomen: "This is not overkill, what is overkill, dozens of heads of Dongchang's head are so bloody on the desk of the celebrant Qin Ji." Only 12 out of 10 of the thousands of Dongchang fans can return to Beijing, and you can tell me when you arrive, what is considered excessive. ”
Zhang Ru said coldly: "Could it be that Your Majesty only saw a few thousand people die in Dongchang, but didn't see hundreds of people die in the elite of my Jinyi Guard?" If it weren't for Qin Ji sending people to obstruct Jingcha, why would the minister make a big move.
From childhood to adulthood, the person who knows the minister best is His Majesty, except for the first emperor, and His Majesty should know what kind of person the minister is.
He Qin Ji doesn't want to kill the person who can touch me, I don't want his life, I already have enough affection for His Majesty's face. ”
Zhu Youzhu didn't expect Zhang Ru to be so stiff, and his tone was lowered: "Brother Hu, you know, the Ming Dynasty is very big. ”
Zhang Ru said unceremoniously: "It is precisely because the minister knows that the Ming Dynasty is very big, so he did not bother His Majesty because of these bullshit trivial things." Qin Ji can ignore such a big national event as Jingcha for the sake of me and his personal grievances today, and he can ignore the national affairs of the Great War of the Three Armies for the sake of personal grievances with others.
The minister gave him a lesson this time, just to make him remember that the public is the public and the private is private. ”
"But after all, my wife has been with me for so many years, and there is no credit and hard work, he." Zhu Youzhu just wanted to argue for Qin Ji, but was interrupted by Zhang Ru.
"Your Majesty is too merciful, and what the minister is talking about now is a major matter of the state, a public matter, not a personal feeling. Personally, the minister has never been evil with Duke Qin, and as for why he treats me like a thorn in his side, the minister doesn't know. Wrong is wrong, Father-in-law Qin dares to let Dongchang Fanzi spoil my Jinyiwei's good deeds, so I must be prepared for Jinyiwei's revenge. The character of the minister, he should be very clear. Now that the matter has been done, His Majesty will be beaten and punished, and the ministers will obey the order. Zhang Ru's words were very polite, not at all like what a courtier said to the king.
Even if the relationship between him and Zhu Youzhu is not ordinary, even if he has been hit badly recently, he should not talk to an emperor like this.
But Zhu Youzhu couldn't get angry, but lowered his head like a child who made a mistake and admitted his mistakes: "Okay, okay, Brother Tiger, this time the thing was done, and the wife also knew that it was wrong, so don't say it again." ”
Zhang Ru snorted coldly: "Liang Fang is shameless, confusing the first emperor with the likes of Fang Shi, and he is still afraid. What the first emperor did not allow, Liang Fang did not dare to make decisions without authorization. Father-in-law Qin let the ministers see what it means to be a gentleman. ”
After learning the news that the emperor had summoned Zhang Ru, Qin Ji, who had finally recovered from his contemplation, stumbled to Dongnuan Pavilion as soon as possible. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard Zhang Ru's words, and he chuckled in his heart, and immediately felt cold.
Not daring to slack off in the slightest, Qin Ji fell to the ground with a thud on his knees, knelt down step by step and walked inside, and let out a loud wail from his mouth: "Your Majesty, the old slave should die, the old slave should not be the enemy of Jinyiwei, and he should not offend Marquis Zhang." ”
This is true, but it is very skillful, he does not say that he sent someone to obstruct Jinyiwei's work, but he should not offend Zhang Ru, and he clearly told the emperor: Your Majesty, the old slave is right, and he is the one who is at fault.
Zhang Ru sneered, and Zhu Youzhu was very embarrassed.
Just now he pleaded with Zhang Ru to tell him how his wife was, and Qin Ji immediately gave Zhang Ru a knife.
At least on the surface, it is not that Zhang Ru refuses to let go of Qin Ji, but that Qin Ji is bent on going against Zhang Ru.
On the spot, Zhu Youzhu lost his good face, but there was an agreement between him and Zhang Ru, although he has a soft temperament, although he is very gentle, although he attaches great importance to love and righteousness, but nothing, it is not as good as Zhang Ru once painted a cake called the prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, there has basically been no eloquent Ming monarch, even if there are occasionally a few kings who do not toss the people, they are all the kings of the guard. Whether it was his grandfather Emperor Yingzong or his father Emperor Xianzong, the years he had experienced were not prosperous.
And Zhu Youzhang's only goal is to create a prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhang Ru was the only one who had said such things to him so far, so he boldly appointed the officials recommended by Zhang Ru, and boldly adopted the opinions put forward by Zhang Ru.
Under such a premise, let alone one Qin Ji, even if there are two more Qin Ji, he will not tolerate it.
"Is the show over?" After Qin Ji cried bitterly, when he looked at himself with pitiful eyes, Zhu Youzhu said with a cold face.
The cold words made Qin Ji fall into the abyss, and he thought to himself, it's over, now even Your Majesty doesn't dare to me.
"You can continue to sit in the position of the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant eunuch, I won't let you go, no one can let you go, you can hand it over from the East Factory!" Let's see if there is any suitable person who can control the East Factory. Zhu Youzhu said expressionlessly.
Qin Ji was overjoyed, and was about to speak, but he heard Zhang Ru already say in advance: "Your Majesty, the ministers of the inner court don't know much about it, but the ministers have a good candidate." ”
Zhu Youzhu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh, Wenxuan has a suitable candidate?" I wonder who this candidate is? ”
It's okay for anyone to propose a suitable candidate, as long as this person is a eunuch, but Zhang Ru, a foreign minister, proposed a suitable candidate, which made Zhu Youzhu instinctively a little unhappy.
As an emperor, who wants the eunuchs around him to collude with the foreign minister, plus this foreign minister is also a nine-sided governor who controls millions of border troops on the nine sides.
But immediately, the trace of displeasure in his heart quickly dissipated after Zhang Ru said the name of the candidate, because the name Zhang Ru said was not any eunuch around him, but a person who once called for wind and rain in the year of Chenghua, and finally provoked the Manchu Dynasty to attack each other - Wang Zhi.
Zhu Youzhang, who knew that there was an irreconcilable contradiction between Zhang Ru and Wang Zhi, was full of questions: "Wang Zhi? Wen Xuan can let him go to Yingtianfu to survive any longer, why do you still recommend him to return to the ceremonial eunuch to be a eunuch? ”
Zhang Ru smiled: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, do you hate Wang Zhi?" ”
Zhu Youzhu thought about it, it seemed that everything before was not from Wang Zhi's original intention, and many bad ideas were said by Concubine Wan. I don't seem to have much resentment towards this eunuch with military merits.
"As soon as you said this, I realized that I really don't have any hatred for Wang Zhi." Zhu Youzhu said with relief.
Zhang Ru said: "That's right, Your Majesty has no hatred for him, but the minister has hatred for him, such a person is the most suitable person to restrain Jinyiwei." ”
Zhu Youzhu hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that. ”
Zhang Ru waved his hand and motioned to Zhu Youzhu to listen to his explanation: "The minister knows that His Majesty has no intention of hindering the Jinyi Guard, but the minister himself is worried that the Jinyi Guard will be powerful, and one day it will form a tail that will not fall." In one day, the minister can guarantee that the brocade guard will not have any excesses, but what about the minister after a hundred years?
Jinyiwei is the guard of the Son of Heaven, and it is the order of the Son of Heaven to listen to it, and it is not a bad thing to have Dongchang to hinder Jinyiwei.
What's more, the minister also had to admit that although Wang Zhi was a bad person and had a bad reputation among civil officials, he was a brave, resourceful and ambitious person. Such a person, once he can be used by His Majesty, will be beneficial to the Daming Society. ”
Zhu Youzhu had his own considerations, so naturally he wouldn't agree because of Zhang Ru's words, and turned his face to look at Qin Ji: "Wife, do you have any good candidates?" ”
Qin Ji snorted: "What the old slave thinks is similar to that of Dingbianhou, and it is also Wang Zhi. ”
He chose Wang Zhi but not from the standpoint of official business, it was completely because Zhang Ru and Jinyiwei were too arrogant, he couldn't hold it down, and the only one who could fight with Zhang Ru was afraid that only Wang Zhi who was only thirty years old and went to Nanjing to retire.
He and Wang Zhi are both eunuchs, and he thinks he can have a common language with Wang Zhi, so he chooses Wang Zhi.
The position of Governor of Dongchang, even if he can't get it himself, he has to find a powerful person to give Zhang Ru eye medicine.
I can't say this, but it is Qin Ji's truest thoughts.
Zhu Youzhu glanced at Qin Ji deeply, and said in a deep voice: "Originally, I still wanted to think about it, since both of you proposed to let Wang Zhi come back, then let him come back!" The two of you are the people I trust the most, and you should be of the same heart and mind in the future, and there should be no such conflict of will. ”
Zhang Ru arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, as long as Gonggong Qin does not provoke the minister, the minister will definitely not take the initiative to provoke Gonggong Qin." ”
Zhu Youjiao's tone was suffocated, and he shook his head and said, "Alas. I don't even know what to say about you, so let's do whatever you want! Qin Ji, intended to recall, Wang Zhi. ”
Zhang Ru thought to himself: Your Majesty, I'm afraid that your will is a little late, and now Wang Zhi is afraid that he has already arrived on the road.
When Qin Ji sent people to Nanjing, he also sent people to Nanjing, and his envoy even arrived in Nanjing to guard the eunuch's mansion before Qin Ji's messenger. Wang Zhi is of great use to his plan, and it is very likely that this capable eunuch will be a good arm for him.
How difficult the next road is, only Zhang Ru himself knows that the changes in the past have to pay the price of blood. And this time, Wang Zhi entered Beijing, just to prepare in advance.
He is not afraid of the spittle stars in the court, the emperor does not doubt it, he is not afraid of anyone who is careful, what he is afraid of is the gold of the people. And Wang Zhi happens to be the supreme magic weapon to restrain those civil officials.
Walking on the avenue of the palace, Zhang Ru thought while walking: Wang Zhi, don't let me down!