Chapter 35: Seeing the True Chapter in the Red Sleeves (2)
In the study, Hu Zongxian asked Xu Wei to sit down, looking worried.
"As you know, the money that I embezzled on the impeachment note didn't actually go into my pocket. The military affairs in the southeast have been losing money one after another, and where do the soldiers' salaries come from? Where does the money come from to honor the officials in the capital!? Hu Zongxian walked around on the ground, then turned back to sit down on the rattan chair, and said with a heavy heart, "The important officials of several ministries and yamen in the capital, I have also been courteous and courteous all these years, and I have received my heart of offering celery. I don't know why there was a thunder on the ground, and when the emperor came to such a will, they were all dumb! β
Xu Wei is a person who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, how can he not know the seriousness of this matter, but Hu Zongxian himself did not mention it, and he is not easy to say. Now that I see that Dong Weng has the intention of asking for advice, the words that have been held in my heart for several years have a chance to vomit.
Xu Weiqing coughed and said first: "The emperor hangs down the arch nine times, and he lives deep in the interior, how can he know about this southeast." What's more, the emperor's will is all drawn from the cabinet votes, according to my humble opinion, Dong Weng sent a letter to the government this time, and the problem still comes from the cabinet. β
Hu Zongxian lowered his eyelids and pondered for a while, and said suspiciously: "This is strange, Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, is my lord, and I will give him a protΓ©gΓ© salute, this is a well-known thing in the world, will he fix me?" The year before last, the imperial history of Guangxi Province impeached me, saying that I rejected Qi Jiguang and was ineffective in suppressing bandits. As a result, the emperor issued a decree to transfer Qi Jiguang to Jizhou, and Yan Ge's old relatives sent a letter to comfort me. Since then, there have been several impeachment excerpts, all of which have been resolved by Yan Ge one by one. This sudden change in the situation really puzzled me. β
Saying that, Hu Zongxian lowered his bitter gourd face, stroked his cheeks with one hand, and looked irritable.
Xu Wei has long understood that Hu Zongxian thinks that he is a member of the Yan Party, but Yan Song may not regard him as his own, let alone after the fall of Zhao Wenhua. Thinking about it, he said: "Dong Weng has spent a lot of money in the past few years to make the important yamen in the capital clear. It doesn't seem to end up like this. At this point, I see that there are two steps, the first is to seek peace, don't poke out the things here, according to the "Da Ming Law", how to punish the crime we have done is not too much, but the matter is man-made, those high-ranking officials in the capital who have benefited from Dong Weng will not stand idly by and see death for their own safety. As long as he escapes this catastrophe, Dong Weng's second move is to reinvigorate the activity, and he still has some connections in the capital, I entered Beijing with Dong Weng, and among my friends in the same department, Wang Shizhen and Li Chunfang still have some ways! β
Hu Zongxian became angry and rudely interrupted Xu Wei's words: "The catastrophe is coming, who can take care of the friendship of the same department, Wen Qing is confused!" β
Xu Wei was not annoyed by this, he was used to seeing Hu Zongxian's face anyway, and said with a smile: "To get through the difficulty, just use those seven words, and you have to tie the bell to the bell." β
"You mean Yan Ge Lao?" Hu Zongxian was stunned.
"It's not!" Xu Wei smiled and lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Dong Weng has spent five or six hundred thousand taels of silver on the Beijing officials in the past two or three years, but you have not spent a cent on the emperor. β
"This ......" Hu Zongxian was in trouble, and the official of Kedao was about to talk about him, and now he was asking for a gift to the emperor.
As for the current situation, Xu Wei still knows better, so he asked Hu Zongxian straight to the point: "Zhao Wenhua has fallen, Dong Weng has no backstage, think about who should be relied on now?" β
Hu Zongxian was stunned for a moment, and replied to him ponderingly: "It's down, it's not a big deal, as long as the emperor supports it, no one can touch me." β
When Xu Wei heard this, he smiled, and asked Hu Zongxian disappreciably: "Dong Weng is confused! Who does Dong Ong think you are? If it wasn't for a reason, why would the emperor support you? β
Hu Zongxian was stunned, and his face was confused: "Wenqing, don't sell Guanzi, you want me to give gifts to the emperor, who do I rely on if I don't rely on the emperor?" β
Xu Wei thought of many countermeasures along the way, but the current emperor said that he was a virtuous monarch, but it was not true, saying that he was a faint monarch, and he was still a little clear, so after thinking about it, there was only one way to save the country with a curve, and the emperor Lao'er didn't advocate Taoism? Don't you like auspiciousness? Then we'll make a fuss about it!
Thinking about Xu Wei, he said unhurriedly: "Dong Weng doesn't have to worry, now Dong Weng has already got a treasure, as long as he dedicates it to the emperor, he won't worry about big things." β
Hu Zongxian didn't understand what Xu Wei was talking about, and looked at Xu Wei without knowing why.
Xu Wei didn't sell Guan Zi either, and pointed it out bluntly: "Didn't Dong Weng receive the gift from the Zhoushan magistrate a year ago - Bailu. That white deer is rare, one in a million, if it is given to Emperor Jiajing, it may be able to save Dongweng. β
When Hu Zongxian heard this, he pondered in his heart, not to mention that this is really a good idea, that Emperor Jiajing has been cultivating for decades, just to become an immortal. But the matter of becoming an immortal is uncertain, Jin Dan has eaten countless pieces, and he can neither become an immortal, but he can also eat the dead, and slowly Jiajing himself has no confidence. So in recent years, I have fallen in love with "auspicious".
Xu Wei saw that Hu Zongxian agreed with his suggestion, and couldn't help but smile: "Bailu is naturally the best, but the recital dedicated to the emperor is more important." β
Hu Zongxian knew that this was an extremely important article, and it had a bearing on his own future, on the great plan to resist the Japanese, and on the tranquility of the people along the southeast coast. couldn't help but look at Xu Wei, presumably he was ready, and couldn't help but smile: "Although the world is big, only you can write this article." β
Hu Zongxian looked at Xu Wei with a solemn expression, he rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to polish the ink for him personally.
Xu Wei knew on the way to come, what he was going to do, how important this article he wrote was actually a sycophant, this sycophant was filmed, Hu Zongxian couldn't help but live, and the anti-Japanese plan in the southeast was also lived, so he picked up the pen.
This night is destined to be an extraordinary night, Xu Wei has generously injected his natural talent and lifelong learning into the most absurd article in the history of the Ming Dynasty, which is the famous "Offering White Deer Wen".
In the eyes of Minister Xu, it is the only failure in the life of the talented Xu Wei, because it is full of humility and inferiority, and it has lost the integrity of the literati.
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On the day that Xia Mu received the holy decree in the capital, he moved into a new home, Luo Kedi took Ah Sang to work for an afternoon, and everything that should be put aside was also put up, and the big gold plaque was written on the seven big characters of the governor Jingying Rong government, which looked bright.
Xia Mu asked Ah Sang to buy some wine and food, and waited for the guests to come to celebrate his ascension, but he started waiting from noon, except for Zhang Juzheng who asked Mo Qi to send two catties of bacon, there was not a single figure in sight.
Although he is not well-known, and many of the court officials have not seen him, it is not that no one has come. Why is there no one in Jinyiwei?
It's weird!
Xia Mu hurriedly asked Luo Kedi to go out to investigate, and it was too late for Luo Kedi to come back.
Luo Kedi looked a little indignant, and said angrily: "It's really infuriating, that Yan Shaoting will sit in Beizhen Fusi this afternoon, and all the Jinyi guards are not allowed to go out for a step, Yan Shifan clearly ordered, whoever dares to go to Xia Mu is the enemy of their Yan family's father and son!" The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there is no one! β
Xia Mu's eyes flashed, and he sneered twice: "If they don't come, I'll save food, come, don't spoil a table of wine and food, let's eat it ourselves!" β
Before he finished speaking, Li Mo's voice came from outside the mansion: "Xia Rongzheng's new mansion is magnificent!" β
Xia Mu was very surprised, how could this Li Mo come, but he didn't stretch out his hand and hit the smiling person, and when he came, he was a guest.
Xia Mu hurriedly saluted: "Elder Li Ge came to my small mansion, but it made me shine!" β
Li Mo smiled, handed over the jujube cake and some gifts he bought to Ah San, and smiled kindly at Xia Mu: "Lord Xia is a busy man, the saint asked Lord Xia to assist the old man in investigating the case of Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, the old man was sitting in the yamen of the Ministry of Officials and waiting, but he didn't see Lord Xia for three days. β
Xia Mu smiled awkwardly, and secretly said that Old Man Li Mo stumbled on himself, although the emperor of Zhao Wenhua's case asked him to assist, but the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials is not you, Old Man Li has the final say, and he will not go in vain!
Thinking that the smile on Xia Mu's face did not diminish in the slightest, he hurriedly invited Li Mo to sit down, and asked Ah Sang to make a pot of hot tea for Li Mo to ward off the cold.
At the moment, the two sat opposite each other, but Li Mo was on official business, and directly took out the incriminating evidence of Zhao Wenhua's case and handed it to Xia Mu to take a look.
In fact, Li Mo himself has almost done it, but Xia Muming is a person from the Son of Heaven on his face, when he meets the Son of Heaven in this face, if Xia Mu says that he doesn't know how to investigate the case at all, isn't this looking for death? So Li Mo came, let Xia Mu look at the case on one side, and save the time to say that he was dictatorial.
Xia Mu took the thick pen and secretly said that Li Mo had worked hard, and Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian were not dead, and Yan Lao Bangzi was involved again.
The biggest evidence in this document is the case of Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong, the governor of the southeast in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing.
In the twenty-fourth year, Zhao Wenhua was ordered to go to the southeast to worship the sea.
But the emperor asked you to sacrifice to the sea, you just honestly sacrifice to the sea, and bring some local products back to Beijing after the incident, but Zhao Shilang is an ambitious person, he has a great interest in the Japanese and wants to get involved.
Generally speaking, when Beijing officials go to the locality, most of the local officials greet him with a smile, but Zhang Jing, the governor of the southeast, is an iron-faced and selfless guy, who does not buy Zhao Wenhua's account at all, ignores him, and is very cold.
The reason is very simple, Zhang Jing's official is bigger than him.
In the Ming Dynasty, the governor was not a local official, but a senior military general stationed by the central government, all of whom were born in the capital.
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