The city of Nanjing is hotter than the city of Beijing.

The city of Beijing is scorching, the heat of the fire; The city of Nanjing is sultry, humid and hot; Close-fitting clothes can squeeze out water when you take them off and twist them.

A little man in soap clothes bowed down and said, "Enxiang, there is news from the palace, Your Majesty summoned Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong and Feng Qin in the Qianqing Palace, and talked for nearly an hour. ”

"Three people? Feng Qin also went? ”

"Exactly."

Zong Mao's white hands were clenched into fists, and there was an extra evil aura in his eyebrows.

"Chen Zilong relies on the old and sells the old, with his identity as the prince's father-in-law, he should not be mixed with the court again. Is this a brain missing strings? ”

Zong Mao's nervousness and anger were obvious, which surprised the guards in front of him slightly. Since he came to work for the prime minister, he has never seen the prime minister perform like this.

"Have you found out who played the Jiangnan slaves to Your Majesty?"

The guard arrived: "Not yet, I don't know if it's Jinyiwei or Dongchang." ”

Zong Mao pondered for a moment, and said sharply: "Jinyiwei is not external and internal, who dares to stumble me behind my back" is full of domineering, this is his usual posture

"Didn't find out what His Majesty talked to the three of them?"

"No, but the chamberlain said that after the three left, His Majesty checked the resumes of two people, Zhang Ying, the governor of Huguang, and Yu Chenglong, the governor of Shaanxi."

Zong Mao was stunned, he was silent for a long time, waved his hand and said, "You go down." ”

"Obedience"

A person who has been the prime minister for fifteen years has the power above 10,000 people under one person, and it is natural that he can quickly perceive the crisis in the court.

Some of the emperor's five chamberlains were willing to join the Prime Minister's Mansion. That means endless wealth, and there will be countless merchants and workshops willing to send money to your door without taking money from the prime minister.

"Zhang Ying and Yu Jackie Chan?" Zong Mao's face was cloudy, and the mountain rain was about to come, and the wind was full of buildings.

For the first time in fifteen years, he felt a crisis looming over him.

When the three founding ministers met His Majesty, he only passed it in his heart and didn't take it seriously. Because, no one can accurately grasp His Majesty's mind better than him, and neither can Liu Suifeng.

His Majesty seems to be lazy, but in fact he has a heart to create a prosperous era of the Great Zhou. In the past fifteen years, I don't know how many people have attacked the emperor for his mistakes, and even more than once someone has admonished him with death, but to no avail.

Because, His Majesty can't do without him.

But this time it was different, from the time he was forcibly sent to Nanzhili to clean up the mess, to the three important ministers meeting His Majesty when he left the capital, to His Majesty reviewing the resumes of these two governors.

Everything is different.

There are dozens of governors in the Great Zhou, including the Western Regions Protectorate, Liaodong Protectorate, Mobei Governor, and Nanyang South China Sea Protectorate, the identities of these two governors are too special.

These two literati were not from his prime minister's mansion, and these two people never called him Enxiang.

His Majesty just asked one, and the two people who were transferred were people who didn't deal with him much.

Zhang Ying, Zhang Bingyin and Fang Yizhi are Tongcheng factions and get close to the remnants of Donglin. Yu Chenglong did not enter the oil and salt, and when he was the governor of Henan, he once arrested the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion and threw them into prison.

"Does Your Majesty distrust me?" A trace of panic arose in Zong Mao's heart.

Back then, he forced Zhang Mingzhen to death and promoted His Majesty to the position of general, but he was ruthlessly relegated to Ningbo to think about it behind closed doors. For a whole year, he took the "Diamond Sutra" that His Majesty threw to him, and panicked for a whole year, thinking that His Majesty did not believe him.

How could a person like him be able to read the Diamond Sutra.

"I want to return to Jingshi as soon as possible" Zong Mao made a decision in an instant.

He can't take care of Nan Zhili and these people, even if he kills and obeys His Majesty's wishes.

The situation of the workers and slaves in Nanzhili is indeed very serious.

There were 30,000 or 40,000 Kunlun slaves working in the mines, and the mines were only paid for their meals. Once these blacks escaped and were caught, they were directly killed and buried in the mountains. Kunlun Nu is not a human being in the eyes of the owners, but a livestock they bought.

In the past two years, some bold and reckless owners have treated the Han people equally, and now there are no hundreds of well-equipped guards in any workshop.

"Someone is coming," Zong Mao beckoned outside.

"In"

"Call Wang Yuekui to me"

"Obedience"

After less than a cup of tea, Wang Yuekui panted and trotted in from the gate of the mansion: "Enxiang, you summoned the lower officials?" ”

He came so quickly, Zong Mao was surprised. Since he came to Nanjing, the governor of Nanzhili has not done anything, just waiting for the summons

"The Li family in Yiwu, the Cai family in Suzhou, and the two Xia families in Songjiang," Zong Mao thought for a while, "and the Ding family in Taiping, that's all, detain the heads of the five families." ”

"Ah......" Wang Yuekui grew his mouth and his face was full of surprise.

Zong Mao didn't look down at his expression, he shook his head, and said, "No,... Well, put the whole family in jail. ”

"Enxiang" Wang Yuekui "pounced" and knelt on the ground, "Enxiang, don't do it"

"Get up" Zong Mao was furious and kicked Wang Yuekui on the shoulder: "Why not?" Can't you move these people? ”

Wang Yuekui knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move.

Zong Mao instantly figured it out: "How much did you charge them?" ”

Wang Yuekui didn't dare to say it directly, he just kowtowed and said: "As soon as these people are arrested, Jiangnan will be in chaos, and the two or three hundred thousand young people have nowhere to go, and those people are not good people, and they all hide the shortcomings of the lower officials." ”

"Waste" Zong Mao kicked him hard again, "As a second-class member of the imperial court, being held by a few owners is really a shame." ”

Wang Yuekui gritted his teeth and endured. For more than ten years, the prime minister has taken good care of his subordinates, but once the matter is in front of the emperor and can't be covered, it is also this minister who is the most ruthless.

He knew that the prime minister was reprimanded by the emperor when he went south this time, so he was restless these days. As soon as the lid on the slavery was lifted, he was dead.

Wang Yuekui said what he had thought about for a long time: "Enxiang, only talk about Kunlun Nu, Your Majesty probably won't care, and those people are actually not called people." The people in Jiangnan were forced to become slaves, and the officials ordered those families to solve it as soon as possible, even if they gave those people some compensation. ”

"Compensation?" Zong Mao sneered: "If you have several people who have died, can you compensate for it?" ”

Wang Yuekui was stunned and said, "There are not many such people, or it will be solved directly." It was a matter of life and death for thousands of people, and he said it lightly, "and he took the matter under the pretext of the workers' and slaves' riots." ”

Zong Mao really regretted how he found such an idiot protégé: "What you have in your head is, Your Majesty asked me to come to Jiangnan to see how I deceived him?"

He said coldly: "This matter is not negotiable, if you really can't get out, I will save your life." ”

"Enxiang" Wang Yuekui was on the verge of collapse and wanted to cry without tears.

Zong Mao has made up his mind, and he will not change it: "Okay, you will do it in a few days, if anyone dares to resist the imperial court, you can ask the governor Jiang Rou to send troops."

Wang Yuekui retired.

Zong Mao is the prime minister, and the efficiency of local governments is not picky.

Five days later, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty left the panicked Jiangnan and stepped on the big ship returning to the north.

This is the safest way, he just needs to throw the charge on Wang Yuekui. His Majesty wants to rectify the dynasty, he will rectify the dynasty, and no one can do better than him in whatever His Majesty wants, and this is the secret of his fifteen-year standing.

He had just returned to the capital, and before he had time to enter the palace to meet the emperor, news came out from the inner house: "Your Majesty summoned Yu Chenglong, the governor of Shaanxi, to enter Beijing and serve as the secretary of Dali Temple."

This is really a slap in the face, Dali Siqing's supervisor of the world's prison, this is Zong Mao's death hole. If Yu Chenglong, a reluctant person who doesn't know how to advance or retreat, becomes the secretary of Dali Temple, he will not only have no peace from now on, but also have so many old cases in the past.

What does this mean, Your Majesty?

Zong Mao hid in the prime minister's mansion and did not go out for two consecutive days, did not go to Shangshutai, and did not enter the palace.

Before Yu Chenglong entered Beijing, the tone of Beijing changed.

The sensitivities of the ministers of the court and the central government are not bad, and a series of actions after the emperor forced the prime minister to go south made many sharks smell blood.

Only the Academy, as always.

Huang Zongxi was saying: "The harm of the world lies in the king" He saw the figure of Fang Yizhi outside the door.

"That's all for today," he waved his disciples back.

Fang Yizhi walked in shaking the folding fan: "You have scolded Your Majesty for many years, and you haven't scolded enough."

Huang Zongxi wrenched his face and said, "Is there anything more pleasant in the world than scolding the emperor?" It's ready to be served as an appetizer. ”

"No matter how delicious the appetizer is, won't you get tired of eating too much?"

The two walked into the back room side by side.

"I'm here today to tell you that I'm going to resign," Fang Yizhi was stunned, "Your Majesty wants to let the Prime Minister give a speech, and the academy won't need me." ”

"You're leaving? Where are you going? ”

"I have been friends with John Tong for more than ten years since I translated Geometry, and he often talked to me about Europa, and I always wanted to go to Europa

Huang Zongxi seemed to have been struck by a thunderbolt, and was scorched by the thunder: "Europa? What are you going to do in that barbarian land? ”

Fang Yizhi said: "The place where the book "Geometric Original" can be left thousands of years ago is not a barbarian land. ”

Huang Zongxi was anxious: "At your age, you have to cross the ocean, aren't you afraid of dying in a foreign land?" ”

Fang Yizhi looked out the window and said leisurely: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." When I was young, my heart was a little smaller than Your Majesty, and I wanted to compile a book in the world and leave a name for eternity, but now I know that I was arrogant and ignorant, and I can do so many things well in my life, and this is the last thing I can do for myself. ”

Huang Zongxi was silent, and when he came to his lips, he couldn't say the words of dissuasion. He suddenly found that he had been friends with Fang Yizhi for decades, and he had never really understood this friend.

For so many years, he has been sheltering himself. Without Fang Yizhi's mediation, Zong Mao would not be able to tolerate him to make a lot of nonsense.

"You've really figured it out?"

"I've thought about it a long time ago," Fang Yizhi raised his eyebrows, "Your Majesty summoned Jackie Chan to enter Beijing, it is to give the prime minister a step down, and the ten ** who will be the prime minister again is Zhang Ying, who will only take care of the academy and will not trouble you, is it because I stayed here to suppress Zhang Ying." He laughed lightheartedly.