Xiong Mingyu is like this, the ministers present all know it, and it is not the means of letting the marquis of the town be afraid. More than a dozen of his subordinate officials, from Zuo Shilang to the Dushui Qing Officials Division, have been arrested because they are involved in the case, and there has been a lot of uproar in the "Bulletin" recently, and basically as long as the name of someone is named, he can only wait at home obediently for the soldiers to come to the door to arrest him. Not to mention the lawsuits and officials of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, even the other yamen have been panicking these days, for fear that one of them will be accidentally implicated.

So far, the entire Nanjing Ministry of Industry has been cut down by the Hou of the Town, but Xiong Mingyu is okay with this Nanjing Ministry of Industry, if there is no ghost behind it, it would be strange. Until he stood up for Li Xin uncharacteristically today, everyone already knew it in their hearts, and no one was willing to wade into this troubled water, so they slipped out of the political hall under the pretext of no longer paying attention to Zhang Fangyan's impeachment of asking Wallace to be killed.

In the end, Zhang Fangyan was the only one left in the entire political hall, he never thought that he would be so cold and ridiculed in exchange for raising his arms, and he was speechless and desolate in his heart. He already vaguely understood that the officials in Nanjing were almost all obedient to Li Xin's tidying up, and even if he was full of guts, what waves could he make?

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Fangyan burst into tears, and intuitively felt that the world was difficult, and the world of the Ming Dynasty was already stormy, and the day was precarious. In fact, the world of the Ming Dynasty has long been festering, but by virtue of the emperor's authority, it has also created a false impression that the country is still stable, and now the Jiangnan region is cut off from the Beijing Division, and the warriors deter the important ministers in the court, and no one dares to stand up to maintain the discipline of the imperial court, which is really how sad.

"Pavilion Elder, Pavilion Elder Ge?"

Just as he was worried, Zhang Fangyan suddenly heard someone calling him, but when he looked closely, a head poked out of the side hall of the political affairs hall. However, he was so nervous that he had never seen this person.

"Xiaguan Nanjing Hanlin Academy edited by Yu Zhaoqing, please take a step to speak."

Zhang Fangyan entered the side hall according to his words, but saw that there were still several idle officials sitting in it, so they got up and bowed their hands.

"The elder may not know something, and now the official rich gentry who dared to oppose the marquis of Zhenyu has been convicted and imprisoned if he is not expelled from Nanjing, if the elder insists on doing so, he may also be retaliated against by the marquis of Zhenyu......"

Several idle officials present echoed Na Hanlin's editing, and at the same time they respectively concisely and concisely described how Li Xin dealt with Ruan Dacheng, the great monk Jingran of Linggu Temple, and officials at all levels below Zhen Shu of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and the methods were vicious and ruthless. Just saying it made these officials shudder.

"The lower officials have admired the elder of the pavilion for a long time and can't bear to bear you, and you stepped into this bottomless pool of muddy water, so you reminded you."

Zhang Fangyan thanked these officials for their kindness, but this aroused the anger that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time. He is already in his old age, and he has long been in the last years of his life, and what he did at the beginning of his comeback by the Holy Order was only to keep the name of the late festival, but as the situation developed, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and he was already deeply trapped in it and could not extricate himself. Now that the defeated army has lost its territory, the name of the late festival has long been shattered, and the mood has changed greatly compared with before. He has nothing now, and the reason why he has survived so far is that he is unwilling. The restraint of the past has been swept away, and it has been replaced by a belly full of untimely grandeur and fierceness.

He held back his breath, hoping to see the day when the Jianghuai thieves were swept away, so that he could smile at Jiuquan and follow the first emperor with confidence. But how can such thoughts be related to these few Hanlin who have not yet dried up? If it didn't work, he had already made the worst plan, and it was a big deal that he had died Mingzhi, so that everyone in the world could see through Li Xin's disobedience.

Since Li Xin left Beijing, he has been able to feel the change in this person's mentality, and after arriving in Fengyang, he is even more unscrupulous, because of his personal feelings, he can condone his subordinates to capture and stay in the capital, and then go to Nanjing, all kinds of behaviors are incompatible with the imperial court, he has written to the court several times to express his feelings, but after all, they are all lost in the sea......

Out of the political hall, Wu Zhen, the prefect of Yangzhou, greeted him outside, he had already seen the sedan chairs of the big officials leaving one after another, and Zhang Fangyan had not been out for a long time, and he was in a hurry. Now the identities of him and Zhang Fangyan are no longer as good as when they were in Jiangbei before, and everyone has to be respectful when they see them. Now, if they are punished severely, they will all be treated as sinful, who will look at them with a straight eye?

Take it as an example, several officials who came out of the political hall have always been good friends with Wu Zhen, but after seeing the old man who was dressed in cloth and haggard with vicissitudes of life, they all hid their faces and avoided it, just like hiding from the plague. Wu Zhen, who was harmed, sighed again and again, the world was hot and cold, and today I know what it tastes like.

Zhang and Wu are in a photo, Wu Zhen is desperate, but Zhang Fangyan is persuading him: "You don't have to blame old friends, it's not that they are unkind, it's really the old man who has burdened you, under Li Xin's obscenity, not everyone dares to give up their wives and children......"

Zhang Fangyan told Wu Zhen what he had heard from Hanlin. "Now the only person in Nanjing who can match Li Xin is Wei Guogong!"

Wu Zhen was also greatly surprised by these words, he never imagined that Li Xin would be so methodical, but in just half a year's effort, he would be able to clean up the officials in Nanjing. Hearing Zhang Fangyan mention Wei Guogong, he sighed: "Wei Guogong is still difficult to protect himself, how can he have the energy to compete with Li Xin?" "Since Jiangbei fell into the hands of the five battalions of the left of the revolution, the Taiping Mansion was attacked on three sides, if the Duke of Wei really had the intention to be the enemy of Li Xin, this son might have taken the risk and borrowed a knife to kill, so that no one in Jiangnan could balance Li Xin. Wu Zhen voiced his worries.

The two of them walked into Taiping as they spoke, but Zhang Fangyan sneered: "I am very worried, but didn't Li Xin and Sun Ji refuse the old man's request to send troops to Jiangbei last night on the grounds of sending troops to Jiangxi?" Since he is willing to send troops, it will be beneficial to Wei Guogong, who is sticking to the Taiping Mansion! ”

"Unless he falls into ......the well," Wu Zhen further speculated, it was not unheard of before for the Ming officials and troops to collude with thieves, and Li Xin would definitely do such a thing if he wanted to get rid of Wei Guogong. This speculation obviously angered Zhang Fangyan: "I will be bright tomorrow, and I can't allow him Li Xin to cover the sky with one hand, if he dares to do such things that people and gods are angry about, how can he deceive the eyes of the world and the mouth of Youyou, he has his own ......" He wanted to say that God came to collect this chaotic minister and thief, but then he thought about it, when the last days were in chaos, the history of chaotic ministers and thieves was endless, how could he ever see that the public mouth of Youyou worked? When did God strike again? It's not that the whole country is dead to the head of the thief, and the heavenly family is in trouble and dust......

The allusions he is familiar with have poured out, Cao Cao in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhu Wen in the late Tang Dynasty, and even Taizu in the Northern Song Dynasty, which one is not a chaotic minister and thief? In the end, isn't it self-reliant and self-reliant?

If you can find the most suitable person to compare Li Xin among these chaotic ministers and thieves, Zhang Fangyan thinks that it must be Zhu Wen. This son was the beginning of the Huangchao rebellion, and after rebelling against Qi and descending to the Tang Dynasty, he had evil intentions, pretending to kill the courtiers of Zhaozong's faith, and killing all the nine sons of Zhaozong to obtain the throne, and finally replaced him with the Tang Dynasty, which was the Later Liang Taizu.

But Zhu Wen, who started in Wanqu and the thieves, was unscrupulous after all, and was eventually killed by his parents and children, which is also the reciprocal way of heaven and retribution. But did this retribution come a little too late? If Li Xin also developed in this direction, he couldn't imagine what the Daming country would become in the future.

"Elder Ge, let's go, where are we going?"

Both of them used to be government officials, and whenever they traveled, they opened the road with flags and sounded drums and gongs. Where has there ever been such a situation where there is no such thing as walking from man to man? Zhang Fangyan came to his senses at this time, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The military camp outside the city, I won't go if I die, it seems that you and I will be sleeping on the streets in a few days!" ”

Sun Ji was afraid that Zhang Fangyan would make noise again, so he sent troops to Jiangbei, so he simply did not arrange for Zhang and Wu to live in the city, and stayed in the military camp outside the city and handed over to Li Xin to monitor nearby, which also saved these two people from making trouble again. Li Xin took these two hot potatoes, although he was courteous to them, but he didn't know that people didn't appreciate them.

So Zhang Fangyan Zhenzhen is ready to live on the streets again, in the past few months of exhaustion, what kind of suffering and sin have not been suffered, just sleeping on the streets, it is really not worth mentioning. At this time, Wu Zhen had long lost the grandeur of the Yangzhou prefect, and completely defended Zhang Fang and was strict and looked forward.

The two of them were homeless and were wandering around, but they suddenly heard someone calling them. Wu Zhen's ears were sensitive, and when he turned his head, he saw that it was a soldier wearing the uniform of the Three Guards, and his face couldn't help but change, and he signaled Zhang Fangyan how to deal with it, this is not to arrest them, right?

Zhang Fangyan looked at Wu Zhen's appearance of a frightened bird, so he hated that iron could not become steel: "The soldiers will block, the water will come to cover the earth, where are you afraid!" So he dragged Wu Zhen to meet him.

"Elder Zhang Ge and Wu Fuzun, I can be regarded as looking for you. The Marquis of Zhenyu gave a death order, if you can't find you two today, the brothers will inevitably be beaten with military sticks today! ”

"How? Li Xin is going to forcibly arrest us, can't we go back? ”

"Where did the elder of the pavilion say, the marquis of the town said, I am afraid that the elder of the pavilion and the mansion are not used to living in the military camp, so they have rented a house in the city, please rest for the time being."

The soldier's words made the two of them stunned, Zhang Fangyan wanted to refuse, but Wu Zhen took the first step and replied: "I am ashamed to accept the good intentions of the marquis, and please lead the way in front of the brother!" ”

After all, sleeping on the street is an expedient measure in a desperate situation, since Li Xin arranged a place to live in the city, Wu Zhen would not be stupid enough to really sleep on the street with Zhang Fangyan, so he agreed to come down before Zhang Fangyan.

Zhang Fangyan moved his mouth a few times, and finally didn't say anything against it.

The group turned around in the city, and finally came to a secluded courtyard, after entering the house, Zhang Fangyan and Wu Zhen were startled, Li Xin had already stood in the courtyard, waiting for them for a long time!