Zhao Zhenji was scolded by Xu Jie, but he lowered his head and stopped talking.

Xia Mu glanced at Zhao Zhenji, and then at Zhang Juzheng, who was thoughtful, and smiled at Xu Jie: "Teacher, don't worry about this matter, if Li Mo chews his tongue on this matter, let's bear with it, let Hu Zongxian be handed over to the three divisions for trial, no matter what the result is, Xu Dang will never get involved in this matter, if the emperor asks, the teacher just says that his subordinates are disobedient, and they are out of proportion. ”

Xu Jie felt that Xia Mu's analysis made sense, but he still said without worry: "Such a disposition was originally given by the emperor to order Li Mo to deal with it with full authority, but now that the problem is raised, how can Li Mo stand by and watch, wouldn't he let those officials who are good at right and wrong have a place to chew their tongues?" ”

"This is exactly Li Mo's insidiousness," Xia Mu shook his head helplessly, and said with a sigh, "If the teacher really saves it, he will offend the emperor, and if he doesn't save it, he will offend Hu Zongxian and a group of old ministers who are good friends with him. ”

Zhang Juzheng on the side thought for a while, and interjected: "It seems that the teacher can only watch the fire from the other side, and he has lost his pawn to protect the car." ”

Xu Jie smiled bitterly and said, "If I lose Zhao Zhen's guitar and can save Xu Dang's car, I will let it go." The problem is that the trap designed by others wants to make the car and the pawn die together! ”

"As the saying goes, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, as long as the teacher can sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, Zhao Zhenji's pawn will have a comeback." Xia Muwen soothed.

"I hope so," Xu Jie took a long breath and glanced at the thoughtful Zhao Zhenji, his brows furrowed.

Zhao Zhenji saw that the teacher was going to lose him, and he panicked in his heart, and the joy of taking the silver a moment ago was completely gone, and he knelt in front of the teacher Xu Jie, and said everything in one go.

Xia Mu gasped when he heard this, good guy, this Xu Wei is so big that he even counted the whole big fish of Xu Dang, and even Zhang Juzheng didn't run away.

When Xu Jie heard that Zhang Siwei was involved at this time, he suddenly became angry in his heart, and glared at Zhang Juzheng fiercely.

At that moment, Xu Jie asked the porter to go to Zhang's mansion and invite Zhang Siwei to come: "You will pass on my instructions now and order Zhang Siwei to come to the mansion quickly." ”

Xia Mu pondered, as the old saying goes, no matter how bad Qin Hui is, he still has three friends! What's more, Zhang Juzheng?

That Zhang Siwei was born in a family of salt merchants in Shanxi, and his father was a wealthy man in Puzhou. This is nothing, the key is that Zhang Siwei's uncle Wang Chonggu is the right servant of the Ministry of War, the governor of Shaanxi, and the in-laws of Yang Bo, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Later, Zhang Siwei took the township test in Jiajing in the 28th year and won the second place. In the thirty-two years, because of his excellent articles and calligraphy, he entered the Hanlin Academy as the first Shujishi. Thirty-four years of the Hanlin Academy. It is a backward school that goes later than Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng is called a brother, and because of the relationship between his uncle Wang Chonggu and Yang Bo, Zhang Juzheng is also close to him, and over time, this Hanlin Academy has become two factions.

One faction is the Yuwang official faction headed by Gao Gong and Yin Shizhan, and the other faction is the Hanlin Xu Party faction headed by Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Siwei.

Thinking about it, Xia Mu glanced at Zhang Juzheng, who was secretly unhappy, and then looked at Xu Jie, who was worried, and asked with a smile: "I heard that in this year's examination, although Boss Yuan Wei is the main examiner, the actual person who wrote the question is Li Mo, and the saint asked Zhang Siwei and others to edit and assist the examiner in copying the "Yongle Canon"? ”

"Yes, the Holy Lord attaches great importance to the "Yongle Grand Canon", and specially ordered the Hanlin to edit and copy it with the current scientific examiner, but this has been a matter of several years, and it seems that the Holy Lord has begun to order since the last time the Lin Yuan was fired."

In less than an hour, Zhang Siwei walked into Xu Jie's study out of breath.

He was also a protégé of Xu Jie, the reason is that in the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, Xu Jie was appointed as an academician of Hanlin and the supervisor of the country, which is equivalent to the president of Central University, and the students are naturally all over the world, so as soon as he received the instructions of the old master, he did not dare to slack off, so he rode a fast horse and ran over.

Xu Jie didn't ask much, Zhang Siwei said it himself, he thought it was not a big deal, there were people in Beijing who received money from Hu Zongxian, so he followed the crowd and secretly accepted a total of 30,000 taels of silver from Hu Zongxian three times.

However, when Xia Mu learned from Zhang Siwei's mouth the fact that Hu Zongxian "ate empty quotas" and embezzled huge military spending, the nature of this matter became different again.

"The three divisions will interrogate, and they will definitely ask where this gift money comes from, even if the southeast governor is much higher than other feudal officials, but hundreds of thousands of silver at every turn, it will also be true, and catch up with the truth of 'eating empty quotas' and embezzling huge military spending, I am afraid that people will make a big fuss."

………

After Zhang Siwei listened to Xia Mu's description, he also felt the seriousness of the problem, and his two thick and black eyebrows suddenly locked into a pile.

Xu Jie looked at the protégé in front of him cowering, and he didn't get angry, and couldn't help but count him down a few words: "You Ziwei, tens of thousands of taels of silver will buy the soul." A few days ago, I also discussed with Yang Bo that I want to promote you to the six departments to serve as officials, and you also know the weight of this official position, the head of the world! This is good, the carp did not jump the dragon gate, but jumped into the ghost gate. ”

Zhang Siwei was ashamed and couldn't wait to find a crack to get into. After twisting for a while, Fang opened his mouth and said: "The teacher is like a huge thunderbolt, and the student is already guilty." As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket from his sleeve cage and respectfully handed it to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie did not reach out to take the silver ticket, but got up and took out a copy of "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries" engraved in the Song Jiaperiod from the bookshelf, flipped to the middle of the "Greed Chapter", handed it to Zhao Zhenji and Zhang Siwei, and said: "You read this paragraph." ”

Zhao Zhenji took the book and stumbled to read it......

"Okay" Xu Jie interrupted Zhao Zhenji, and said mockingly: "You are also a Jinshi who has passed the township examination and will be tested all the way, don't you know that the inspectorate is so powerful?" He didn't wait for Zhao Zhenji to answer, and continued, "Tang Taizong's generation of British masters, hard-working ideological and political, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Xiao He and other cadres are honest and honest. In this way, the meeting of monarchs and ministers created a prosperous Tang Dynasty. Although today's saint is not like Tang Taizong who immediately won the world, he is also the emperor in the heart of Jian, the dictatorial son of heaven, who does not say everything in his mouth, but knows everything in his heart. ”

When Xu Jie said this, he was no longer thunderous and angry, but eloquent and emotional. I could hear that he was a little choked up after talking about it, and Xia Mu, Zhang Juzheng and others who were sitting were all very moved. Zhao Zhenji wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "After listening to the teacher's words, the student has no place to be ashamed, and tomorrow I will give the emperor a fold and impeach myself to ask for punishment." ”

"Fool, stunned, tiger." Xu Jie stared at Zhao Zhenji angrily, and said with hatred, "As long as you have the heart to admit your mistakes, the old man will forgive you this time, and this matter will end here." You still have to go to the fold, do you want everyone in the world to know what you have done? ”

Zhao Zhenji saw that the teacher had changed his poisonous attitude and suddenly became so tolerant, he was unexpected, and then he was grateful. He knew that Xu Jie, Xia Mu and the others still had something to discuss, so he hurriedly said goodbye.

"Come back" Xu Jie called out to Zhao Zhenji and Zhang Siwei, pointed to the silver ticket that Zhang Siwei put on the coffee table and said, "You take this back first, how to deal with it, and then talk about it after you have the charter, when the three divisions are tried, Li Mo may not be in charge of the overall situation, whether Hu Zongxian is dead or alive or the charter of the two determinations." ”

Xia Mu heard Xu Jie's words, and knew that he didn't really want Hu Zongxian to die at the hands of Yan Song, and according to the regulations he knew, I was afraid that Hu Zongxian would not die this time, the matter was man-made, and the key was how Xu Wei moved.

That Wang Shizhen has some ability, his father is a state soldier, and he is deeply appreciated by the emperor, if you want to say that some of the people came forward to protect Hu Zongxian, only Wang Shizhen is the only one.

And Li Chunfang is a good person, and he may not come out, Guo Pu is more upright, and he said whether he took Xu Wei's silver or not.

After Zhao Zhenji left, Zhang Juzheng seemed worried: "The teacher's mouth is like a knife, but it turns out that he is still a bodhisattva." Zhao Zhenji and Ziwei did something foolish unintentionally this time, and almost implicated the teacher. ”

When Xu Jie heard this, he laughed at himself: "Uncle doesn't know what to do, the old man is not like this, what can he do?" According to the old man's analysis, Hu Zongxian has given gifts to various yamen in the capital in recent years, and the empty food and salary of tens of thousands of soldiers in the southeast is enough for him to give how much silver? Think about it, who will he give it to? The officials of the yamen, and then the head of the Langzhong of the critical department, how many of these people were not pulled up by my hands? I have been in business for many years, and I finally have the current situation, and now I am at the juncture of competing with Yan Song and Li Mo, so it is impossible for people to catch them all. ”

Xu Jie's worried layer, and said worriedly: "Hu Zongxian's embezzlement of ink is so large, it is impossible that there is no trace in the account books, now that Tan Lun has taken over, will he follow the vine and find out this big case?" ”

"Probably not!" Xia Mu waved his hand and analyzed, "Although Tan Lun is not as famous as Hu Zongxian, he has stayed in the southeast longer than Hu Zongxian, and now the situation in the southeast is about to erupt, although Wang Zhi and Xu Hai are dead, but those Dongyi Japanese slaves are even more arrogant. That Tan Lun knows that the court is now an alternate era of green and yellow, among the two kings, King Yu is honest, and the door god of the high arch is blocked, and it has stopped, but King Jing is full of strength, and it has not been peaceful recently, once the court is caught in the dispute between the princes, and the southeast is caught in the case of Hu Zongxian's greed for ink, the Ming Dynasty is in danger, and I am not a vegetarian, and the Jurchen guys have also been fighting recently. ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded, agreed, and said: "Guangzhong said it well, but in the opinion of students, there are two possibilities here, one is that Tan Lun is also greedy for ink, like Hu Zongxian, he is a corrupt official, and the other is that he is vigilant, and he follows Li Mo with an iron heart to expose Hu Zongxian, if this is the case, the situation is precarious." ”

"I knew that Hu Zongxian was involved in this way, and I regretted that I shouldn't have let Tan Lun take over."

Zhang Juzheng said bluntly, although Xu Jie also regretted it in his heart, Yan Song did not want Tan Lun to succeed Hu Zongxian, but he advocated Tan Lun's succession.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng say this at this moment, the whole person was also stunned, but said: "A few days ago, the old man also received a letter from Tan Lun, thanking the old man for his grace, between the lines he was neither close nor estranged, and it can be seen that he is still observing the direction of the wind." At this time, it is better for the old man to pull him again, Hu Zongxian is the governor of the southeast with the title of the imperial history of the capital, this Tan Lun I think he will be mentioned at the first level, and the right deputy capital of the imperial history will lead the governor of the southeast, and the uncle will write a public fold tomorrow and send it to the old man, and the old man will present it to the emperor to explain this meaning. ”

As soon as Zhang Juzheng heard that Xu Jie's strategy for Tan Lun had changed somewhat, he immediately asked: "Li Mo Bingchen's foreign inspection sent to supervise the imperial history is our people, and now that he has arrived in the southeast, can Tan Lun's affairs in office still be investigated?" ”

"Check! Not only must we find out, but we must also find out something. Xu Jie replied categorically, "If he follows Li Mo to expose Hu Zongxian, we must also hold his handle in our hands." If he stops, the old man will also stop, if not, make a fish die and the net will be broken, and no one will be good. ”