Shaanxi Provincial Inspector Liu Tingyuan is the leader of the Zhejiang Party, has experienced three Beijing inspections, in the treacherous Li Sancai case, Xiong Tingbi case, Han Jing Zhuangyuan case, can be described as a long-tested experience, rich experience in party struggle, the surname of the person, the world is very thorough, said: "Zhang Yuan now has a good reputation, just entered Beijing to ask for the life of the victims of Shandong, and won the general sympathy of the Beijing Shishu in the imperial examination fraud case, the people in the fang said that the original Huiyuan was also Zhang Yuan's, was lost by the fraud case, Zhang Liuyuan only left Zhang Wuyuan, so that the dynasty is missing an auspicious rui, regrettable, Now that the turmoil of the Jade River North Bridge has spread, most of the people in the world have preconceived ideas, if we argue, when Zhang Yuan's reputation is at its peak, he will only tarnish himself, this kind of thing is no longer clear, he will only smear himself more and more, and we can't send Zhang Yuan down to the criminal department to torture him to confess——"

Zheng Yang's surname was annoyed: "In this way, we will watch Yao be aggrieved, but there is nothing we can do about Zhang Yuan!" ”

Liu Tingyuan said: "Of course there is a way, that is, to divert attention, this is also used by Zhang Yuan in the bridge, we are now still giving his body, Ming said that he united several people to impeach Wu Daonan again in the matter, Yushi again, this Wu Daonan is really thick-skinned, the previous time Liu Wenbing, Zhou Shidan, Li Song and other Taiyuan officials took turns to impeach, but he only lived at home for two days and then entered the cabinet again, will try two fraud cases, as well as the previous Shuntianfu fraud case, Wu Daonan as the president, how can he be responsible, he must be forced to become a leader, Wu Daonan is the last reliance of the Donglin Party, is also Zhang Yuan's teacher, as long as he leaves, then Brother Yao's matter is nothing, impeaching Wu Daonan can help Brother Yao relieve the siege, as for Zhang Yuan, he can use Binghe to impeach him, this is a fallacy that defies the mandate of heaven and etiquette, causes the monarch to neglect his government, and makes the ministers shirk the blame, and the elder Fang Ge is very dissatisfied with Zhang Yuan's Binghe theory——"

Zhou Yongchun nodded and said, "Elder Fang Ge once asked Zhang Yuan to delete Binghe when he published Tingce, but Zhang Yuan actually refused. ”

Hu Shixiang of the Criminal Department said: "The elder of Fang Ge is dissatisfied with Binghe, but the emperor obviously appreciates Binghe, otherwise he would not have appointed Zhang Yuan as the champion, so as to impeach Zhang Yuan's fallacies and heresies, I am afraid that it is useless at all, and the emperor will stay in the middle and not send it, we are helpless." ”

Liu Tingyuan said: "Don't expect an impeachment to remove Zhang Yuan from office, Zhang Yuan is a new branch jinshi, since Emperor Taizu Gao, the court is more tolerant of the new branch jinshi, although Zhang Yuan has been awarded the official, but it is still the same as those who watch the politics of the jinshi, the main responsibility of the Guan Zheng jinshi is to learn various laws and regulations, be familiar with government affairs, and assist officials in handling general affairs, but they don't need to sign the copy, that is to say, they don't have to be responsible for administrative mistakes, and now the impeachment of Zhang Yuan has no practical effect, he has a shield——"

Zheng Yang's surname interjected: "Since it's useless, why do you say that you want to impeach him?" ”

Liu Tingyuan said: "Zhang Yuan is a hope in the Hanlin Academy, the most important reputation of the forest official, to impeach him with Binghe theory as a fallacy and heresy, no matter whether the emperor is an edict to comfort Zhang Yuan or stay in the middle of the country, you can sit on the truth Zhang Yuan Binghe said that he is contemptuous of the mandate of heaven and flatters the king, but he is a minister, once public opinion is formed, Zhang Yuan will not be able to stay in Beijing, and he will be demoted out of the capital next year. ”

Yao added: "Zhang Yuan also blackmailed a garden of Wang Ruqian, a wealthy merchant in Huizhou, in Hangzhou last year, and this matter can also be impeached. ”

Liu Tingyuan frowned and said: "As far as I know, the garden was brought by Zhang Yuan to the Wang family, and the silver that the Wang family compensated Zhang Yuan was also donated by Zhang Yuan to the Hangzhou Nursing Home, which is not to blame." He added: "Don't rush to hit the opponent, you must grasp the real flaw, otherwise it is easy to be counterattacked by the opponent." ”

Yao Zongwen's face was just a little normal, but when Liu Tingyuan said this, his face turned red again, and he said: "Zhang Yuan is using power to suppress people, otherwise how could the Wang family lose money and garden." ”

Liu Tingyuan said: "Focus on a little bit first, and then decide the next step after seeing the progress of the situation." ”

Zhou Yongchun, the leader of the Qi Party, has not spoken much, and after coming out of Yao's mansion, he went to see Like overnight to give the matter of Qi Shijiao, these two Shandong fellows of course talked more heart-to-heart, Qi Shijiao is Fang Congzhe's protégé, is the vanguard of anti-Donglin, Wanli forty-one years have criticized Gu Xiancheng for "opening the door to competition, widely spreading the order of ostentation, and rampant shrouded technique", so that "the ignorant fall into its art by mistake, and the unscrupulous are willing to return to its curtain", and more "rely on celebrities, pay important money, meet with the powerful, and spread the party with." Feathers put aside the road, the minions are listed in Zhucao, the organs are connected to the inside, the cabinet is under its command, the mound is fooled, and the general constitution is to be raised", attacking the Donglin Party in order to monopolize the power of the court to exclude dissidents, so that the government and the opposition "but know that there is Donglin but do not know that there is an emperor", the wording is extremely harsh, it is inevitable to exaggerate, and the Donglin people are incompatible, but Qi Shijiao this person has an advantage, he takes great care of Xiangzi, last year's drought in Shandong, he deliberately went back to Shandong, and he was anxious to see the serious disaster in his hometown, Came back and wrote a series of letters to ask the emperor to issue a decree for disaster relief - after listening to Zhou Yongchun said about the trip to Yaofu, Qi Shi taught: "I have always had a good impression of Zhang Yuan last year to contact the students to write a letter for the six counties of Shandong to request disaster relief, the Qingzhou son Chen Qiyou who painted the "Hungry People's Map" once came to visit me, speaking of Zhang Yuanqi's people, Chen Qiyou was very admired, saying that Zhang Yuan was erudite and talented, concerned about the people's livelihood and suffering, Chen Qiyou and Zhang Yuan walked for more than half a month, Zhang Yuan talked about not how to take the imperial examination high school, but the disaster situation and the hardship of the displaced people in various places, Zhang Yuan didn't talk about generalizations, he went ashore to inquire about every place he went, and made notes——"

Speaking of this, Qi Shijiao looked at Zhou Yongchun: "It's a pity that we take such a person as an opponent, Zhang Yuan's Zhejiang Party is very deeply imprinted, Donglin people are not in power now, if they are in power, such as [***] stars, they may not be able to tolerate Zhang Yuan, Wang Langzhong, the former Ministry of Literature and Literature, once said to me, Zhang Yuan can be wooed, Zhang Yuan's Han Society climate has been completed. ”

Zhou Yongchun nodded slowly, but said: "It's just that now Yao Zongwen, Zheng Yang, and others have a deep grudge with Zhang Yuan, and they can't be resolved, what should I do?" ”

Qi Shijiao said in a dissatisfied tone: "Yao Zongwen is at odds with Zhang Yuan because of his brother, isn't this pushing Zhang Yuan to Donglin's side, it's very unwise." ”

In the past few years, the Donglin Party oppressed them too hard, and they could not gain a foothold in the DPRK without joining forces with Zhejiang and Chu, but the political concept of the Qi Party and the Zhejiang Party is still very different, and the Zhejiang Party has a close relationship with King Fu and Zheng Guifei, and the Qi Party has seen that the country has been decided, and still supports the prince Zhu Changluo, Qi Shijiao has written to ask Emperor Wanli to let the prince out of the pavilion to study, so the three parties will unite with the outside world under the oppression of strong external forces, But now it is the time when Donglin is in decline, and the rift between the three parties is also showing - Zhou Yongchun said: "Liu Tingyuan and Yao Zongwen have decided to violently impeach Wu Daonan, and denounce Zhang Yuan's Binghe theory as a fallacy and heresy, can we still stay out of it?" ”

Qi Shi taught: "I think the glacier is very reasonable, Zhang Yuan put forward this theory is not to flatter the emperor, but based on the actual disaster considerations, because Zhang Yuan's response strategy, his construction of water conservancy, the promotion of drought-tolerant crops is feasible, and the so-called heaven and man induction, the disaster is said to be caused by the monarch's immorality, although there is a sense of vigilance against the monarch, but often used by the subordinates to attack and dispute each other, but can not take into account the real disaster, just like now, the disaster in Shandong is still serious, if there is no actual response to the policy, It is what good it is to let the emperor of the deep palace eat fast and cultivate himself! ”

Zhou Yongchun is in the middle of the ceremony, and Qi poetry is in the middle of the matter, but Zhou Yongchun often teaches the horse to look forward to the poem, asking: "Then what should I do?" ”

Qi Shi taught: "I want to ask Zhang Yuan to have a long talk, to see what kind of mind this person is, whether he can make friends, if not, then make plans." ”

Zhou Yongchun said: "If we can make friends, then wouldn't we have a dislike with Yao and Liu Zhuren?" ”

Qi Shijiao frowned and said: "This is really tricky, whether it is a friend or an enemy, only in the blink of an eye, no matter what, this Zhang Yuan I want to talk to him, let's talk in secret." ”

…… On May 14, it was the second time of the turmoil at the North Bridge of the Jade River, Zhang Yuan's "Shu Ji Shi Storage and Cultivation Training Shu" was signed by Guo Shu and sent to the cabinet. "Fang Congzhe was quite troubled at this time, Yao Zongwen was so ugly in front of the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department, and Taichang Temple, it was simply discredited, and the Donglin Party people reflected very quickly, Yang Lian in the household department and He Shijin in the engineering department had been sent to him in front of the case, which made him very difficult to vote, for these two pieces he was very willing that the emperor would stay in the middle of the note, but the holy will is unpredictable, and he must vote first as the first assistant, Fang Congzhe hesitated again and again, or decided to vote again and again Ming said to draft these two notes, Ming said, The counterattack of the Zhejiang party should come - Wu Daonan drafted the handling of the "Shu Ji Shi Storage and Cultivation Training Shu", needless to say that it was supported, and in the evening it was sent to the Si Li Jian together with other concerts, and the eunuch Lu Shou, the original palm seal eunuch Lu Shou was old and sick, and the Wanli Emperor ordered him to retire, and the original Bingbi eunuch Li En was promoted to the palm seal, some of these concerts can be approved in three or five days, and some have to wait for ten days and half a month, and a large part of the music is like a stone sinking into the sea and there is no news, many courtiers think that the 100,000 urgent things Wanli Emperor is still dragging on, It seems that the sky has not fallen, and the Ming Empire is operating as usual - this evening, Zhang Yuan and his eldest brother Zhang Dai went out of the Hanlin Courtyard, and when they passed the North Bridge of the Jade River, Zhang Dai smiled and said: "Jie Zi said yesterday that he deliberately provoked Yao's cousin." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "It's still the eldest brother who knows me." ”

Zhang Dai praised: "Clever plan, Yao Zhiba's cousin is unlucky this time, we are making fun of him, this person has been ruined." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "How can it be so easy, big brother wait and see, Yao's counterattack will be very fierce." ”

Zhang Dai said: "Our new science and technology jinshi has a practice of exempting from responsibility, what are you afraid of, and you don't have any handle in their hands." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "If you want to add crimes, there is no excuse, they will always find my so-called crimes, yesterday Yao Zongwen said, I formed a society to discuss politics, gathered people to make trouble, it is a crime." ”

Zhang Dai smiled: "This is a matter known to everyone, let them impeach." ”

While speaking, he walked to the middle of West Chang'an Street, Zhang Dai to the south, Zhang Yuan to the north, followed by Zhang Yuan is Mu Zhenzhen and Wu Ling, Wu Ling is eighteen years old, the first two years have not grown, that is, last year and the first half of this year, jumped up five or six inches, although it is still half a head shorter than Zhang Yuan, but looking like an adult man, Wu Ling asked: "Young master, young grandmother, when will they leave from Shanyin, do you want to send someone here to pick it up?" ”

Zhang Yuan glanced sideways at Wu Ling and said with a smile: "Why, Xiao Wu is so anxious to see Yun Jin." ”

was recognized by the young master, and Wu Ling smiled "hehe".

Zhang Yuan said: "There is no need to go back to pick it up, it is difficult to travel eight thousand miles back and forth, my Uncle Ertao will send them to Beijing, and they will leave at the end of July." ”

Uncle Er Tao is Zhang Dai's father Zhang Yaofang, and he has written a letter to personally send Zhang Dai's wife Liu to Beijing, so he naturally walked with Liu - the master and servant walked to the West Square Gate of the East Fourth Archway, but a carriage caught up from behind, and one person leaned out of the window and said with a smile: "Zhang Xiu, I haven't seen you for a long time, hasn't the house in Li Ge's old alley been lived in yet?" ”

When Zhang Yuan looked at it, it was Wang Dazhi in the Ministry of Officials, and he hurriedly greeted him.

The carriage stopped, Wang Dazhi got out of the car and bowed to Zhang Yuan: "Although we are officials in Beijing, it is rare to see each other. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I accepted the love of Lord Wang last time, and I have always wanted to invite Lord Wang to drink a glass of wine to thank you, but I haven't had the opportunity. ”

Wang Dazhi smiled: "Then it's a bother, I also want to talk to the champion in the future." ”

Zhang Yuan asked Wuling to rush to Heshou Restaurant to book a seat, he and Wang Dazhi talked while walking, Mu Zhenzhen followed behind Zhang Yuan, and then Wang Dazhi's carriage and servants.

Another carriage came, and a man beckoned, "Wang Langzhong, where are you going?" ”

Wang Dazhi turned his head and said, "Give me something, I will be lucky, Zhang Xiushu said that he owes me a drink, and he must invite me." Said to Zhang Yuan: "This is Lord Like." ”

Zhang Yuan knew that it would not be such a coincidence, first met the king of the Chu Party, Dazhi, and then met the Qi Party Qi Shijiao, and arched his hand: "Lord Qi, I am fortunate to be happy, if Lord Qi is willing to appreciate his face, how about going to the restaurant over there for a drink?" ”

Wang Dazhi also said: "Give me something, let's go together." ”

Qi Shijiao got out of the car, this Shandong man is not tall, long eyebrows and long beard, ancient appearance, nearly sixty years old, healthy body, immediately with Wang Dazhi, Zhang Yuan went to the Heshou Restaurant, the wine and food were quickly served, at first only said some gossip, Wang Dazhi asked Zhang Yuan why he did not live in the old alley of Li Ge, could it be that the house is not good?

Zhang Yuan said: "Wait for Humble Jing to come to Beijing in September and then move in." ”

Qi Shijiao began to talk about the disaster in Shandong, saying that the drought in the six counties of Shandong has not been alleviated so far, the people are displaced from the road, the dead and injured are all over the field, and the children are eaten, which is unbearable.

(To be continued)