After Zhong Li Kuang's side was blocked, Lin Shuhan did not give up, and suddenly had a plan, and turned to find Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, who went south with the emperor.

Zheng Hua has always been obscure and does not ask about government affairs, and of course he will not participate in military government affairs after arriving in Jiangnan, but has found a group of so-called Jiangnan talents to travel the mountains and rivers every day, which can be regarded as a happy life. Therefore, when he heard that it was "Mr. Bansong" Lin Shuhan who came to visit, he immediately came to be interested, and actually came out to greet him in person as the emperor's younger brother.

After welcoming Lin Shuhan into the study, he repelled left and right, and was about to talk about poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Lin Shuhan didn't talk to Zheng Hua, the king of Heluo, about Yaxing, who was windy and moony, and after telling Zheng Hua about Qiu Yizhi, he asked Zheng Hua to come forward and play Qiu Yizhi's protection.

Zheng Hua is a person who understands, and knows that with Qiu Yizhi's own identity, the emperor will not easily punish ordinary mistakes, and now being imprisoned by the emperor must be a mortal crime.

Originally, with Zheng Hua's temperament, he was unwilling to participate in such a major event that broke the sky, but Lin Shuhan was in a strong mood to rescue Qiu Yizhi, and promised that if Zheng Hua helped, he would hand-copy a copy of "Analects" for Zheng Hua and engrave a seal.

These two things, in Zheng Hua's eyes, are priceless treasures, and after weighing the left and right, he simply asked his subordinates to take out the upper number lake pen, Duan inkstone, Hui ink, and rice paper, and let Lin Shuhan copy it here, and he immediately went to the emperor's side to protect Qiu Yizhi.

However, the emperor's anger did not subside, Zheng Hua ran over recklessly, except for spraying a hard nail solidly, only took back the emperor's reprimand, "You can only enjoy the scenery and chant poetry in the south of the Yangtze River, this kind of thing is not something you can mix", and then returned to his residence in a gloomy manner.

At this time, Lin Shuhan only copied the Analects from "Xueer: First" to "Yongye Sixth", and saw that Zheng Hua's face was gloomy and not half happy when he came back, and he knew that this thing was not done, so he had to leave this half of "Analects" here with Zheng Hua, so he took his leave and went back.

These two people have a bad face, and even the resourceful Lin Shuhan doesn't know how to rescue Qiu Yizhi. After thinking about it, in addition to writing a letter and sending it to Zheng Miao, who was in charge of the country in Luoyang, the capital, and asking the third prince who had an excellent shutdown with Qiu Yi to speak as a guarantee, he could only sit in the study and let the situation develop.

When Lin Shuhan, who was outside, was running up and down, looking for a way to rescue Qiu Yizhi, Qiu Yizhi himself was as calm as water.

Originally, Qiu Yizhi's identity was placed here, and even if he committed a crime, he would not be put into prison, but would be placed under house arrest by an official of the Criminal Department. However, this time it was the emperor's own decree, and the officials of the criminal department did not dare to make their own opinions, so they could only follow the emperor's decree and close Qiu Yizhi in the prison of the Jiangnan Provincial Mansion.

Even so, with the personal advice of Prime Minister Zhong Likuang, and the personal care of Yu Chi Lianghong in the Criminal Department, Qiu Yizhi did not suffer at all in the cell - the thirty-six killing rods that entered the door were naturally exempted, and the cell head did not dare to make it difficult and tortured even if he was full of guts, and his diet and daily life were also very useful, and even the single cell where he lived was cleaned twice a day by a special person.

Compared with intrigue and walking on thin ice outside, Qiu Yizhi was in this airtight cell, and his heart was much more steady, but in the face of the solid wall made of four blue bricks, he was really bored, so he opened a book list and asked the cell boss to go outside to purchase.

Since Qiu Yizhi was intervened between the big businessman Zhou Cijing and the old shipowner Li Zhi, he took both sides, and the monthly income was more than 10,000 taels of silver. Up to now, Lin Shuhan, as Qiu Yizhi's strategist, has spent this money very generously, and with the face of Wei Chi Lianghong, the cell bosses and jailers up and down, inside and out, have been checked by him, and there is no difficulty in buying a few books. To put it mildly, Qiu Yizhi wants to see the Oiran in the Qinglou on the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the cell boss can find a way to send him in.

In this way, Qiu Yizhi stayed in the cell in a daze, slept until he woke up naturally every day, and after a full meal, he played a set of boxing techniques taught by Yu Chi Lianghong in the cell, skimmed and read, slept well after lunch, and woke up reading, eating, and sleeping, so that he was much fatter than when he was in prison.

In this way, Qiu Yizhi was locked up in prison for more than half a month, and in a blink of an eye, it was mid-spring and early summer.

The weather in Jiangnan is hot, and the climate is already very hot at this time, and it is even more scorching in the airtight cell.

There are no Sven people in this prison, Qiu Yizhi simply took off his shirt and pants, shirtless, wearing only a pair of loose pants, piled the futon on the bed to the corner of the bed, and crossed Erlang's legs to hold a book to read.

He was reading intently when he heard someone reprimanding him outside the cell door: "Yizhi, what kind of body have you become?" ”

Qiu Yizhi was stunned by these words, hurriedly rolled out of bed, bent down to pick up the robe that was thrown on the ground and hung it up with his hands and feet, and then arched his hand towards the door and said, "The master taught me a lesson." ”

It turned out that Zhong Li Kuang, who was the prime minister of the dynasty, came to visit the prison.

Zhong Li Kuang came alone, and the cold temperament exuded by his body still scared others by an inch. I saw him pout, and said to the cell boss who was standing behind him, "Open the door, and I will speak to him." You all fight farther away, if you dare to eavesdrop, watch your head! ”

The old man quickly picked one out of the large bunch of keys at his waist, opened the door with a shudder, and walked away. The cell boss was so anxious that he forgot the keys at the door and did not take them.

Seeing this, Zhongli Kuang shook his head, called the old man back again, and said with a stiff face, "Don't you even want the key?" How do cell bosses be? You go down, go to your boss, and say that I said it, and you will be fined for three months, understand? ”

When the cell boss heard Zhong Likuang tell him to leave, he seemed to have forgotten the fact that he had been punished, and actually retreated with great gratitude, as if he had just escaped death after a great ordeal.

Zhong Likuang personally closed the door, and when he turned around, he saw that Qiu Yizhi was still sorting out his clothes, so he said, "Yizhi, do you know? The Central Plains was called 'Huaxia' in ancient times, and one of the 'Xia' characters speaks of a vast area, and a 'Hua' character speaks of gorgeous clothing. You are so untidy, what kind of court official system do you have? ”

Qiu Yizhi has been informalized since he was a child, and he doesn't know how many times he has experienced things like this because of trivial things, and he has been counted down by Zhong Likuang in person, although he didn't pay much attention to it, but he has already admitted his mistake in his mouth: "The student knows that he is wrong." It's just that seeing that this prison is very stuffy, and there is no need to taboo the opinions of others, so he let loose his bones. ”

Zhong Li Kuang shook his head, walked to the side of Yizi and sat down, and said, "You think that you are the emperor of the sky, and how many lawless and reckless things have you done to cause you to be in prison today. After such a catastrophe, don't you still understand the truth of 'gentleman prudence'? ”

Qiu Yizhiman thought that he was resolutely unwilling to lead the army as an official, so he angered the emperor, which made the emperor angry and caused him to go to prison, but he was woken up by Zhong Likuang's words - if he hadn't done those things in the first place, then the emperor wouldn't have been able to catch his handle, and he wouldn't have arrested himself......

Thinking of this, Qiu Yizhi hurriedly bowed deeply to Zhong Likuang and said, "Yizhi is really a stupid person, if he could have realized this meaning earlier, why would he have fallen here." ”

Zhong Likuang didn't answer, changed his words, and said, "I know your thoughts. After becoming famous, it is a good destination to be able to retire to the mountains and forests, study and cultivate the fields. It's better than those who intrigue in the court and eat vegetarian corpses. But since you intend to do this, you should keep your eyes on it, so that you are sharp, and where is the way out behind you? ”

Qiu Yizhi sighed and said: "Wei Chi Lianghong often tells students that 'people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves'. In fact, 'people in the temple' are the same, 'involuntarily'. When some things come to the students, the students have to take care of them, and they really can't pretend to be deaf or dumb! ”

Hearing this, Zhong Li Kuang sighed more deeply than Qiu Yizhi and said, "You have such thoughts...... Alas...... It's your misfortune, and it's a blessing for the court. It seems that you are afraid that you will not be able to survive in the mountains and forests in this life, and you are destined to serve the court for a lifetime. ”

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he suddenly found that Zhong Li Kuang's words were all about persuading him to come out to be an official, and he was immediately a little displeased, but because of his awe of Zhong Li Kuang, he didn't come out, and only said: "After this turmoil, the emperor asked me to go out to be an official again, and the students didn't dare to shirk anymore." It's just that the students are shallow and exhausted, and I'm afraid that if I can't do a good job as a big official like Youyan and Lingnan, I'm afraid I will live up to the emperor's trust. ”

Unexpectedly, Zhong Likuang diverted the topic again and said: "Yizhi, the hundred officials of the imperial court, are roughly divided into several types, do you know?" ”

Qiu Yizhi was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "This is difficult to distinguish, it can be classified according to civil officials and military generals, classification of ranks, classification of Beijing officials and local officials, classification of imperial examination officials and miscellaneous officials, and so on......"

Zhong Li Kuang shook his head: "This kind of division doesn't get to the point, I think it's nothing more than this." One is a petty official who has just entered the officialdom, and he is full of thoughts about how to soar and get ahead, but he doesn't know the rules of officialdom, he wants to do things, but he is afraid of doing the wrong thing, so he is disrespectful and cautious all the time.

"One is the officials from the old Youyan Palace, these people know that they are the emperor's descendants, just by virtue of their background, they can be added to the rank of knight, so they do things on weekdays but seek no fault, do not seek merit, now it seems that although this kind of person is loyal, but the harvest is more than enough and the development is insufficient.

"One is the old officials and ruffians who have been in the mix for a long time, they are more or less familiar with some of the methods run by the imperial court, but they also know that it is more difficult for them to go further at their age, so they are either muddy or corrupt, and the most hateful thing is this group of officials.

"There is also a kind of bureaucrat who is extremely human, these people have come to this point after a lot of officialdom, but they are in a high position, there are countless eyes staring at them below, and there are British lords like the current emperor watching above, and they are actually walking on thin ice like a new dim petty official in the officialdom."

Qiu Yizhi listened to Zhong Li Kuang's words in just a few words, and he sketched the officialdom vividly, and couldn't help but be amazed, but he fell into deep thought, and asked after a while: "Master, what kind of student should he belong to?" ”

Zhong Likuang nodded: "You can ask such a question, which shows that you can teach a child." If you want to classify it, you are the only one in this world, and you don't belong to any category. You don't seek to be promoted and make a fortune, you don't want to form a party for personal gain, and you are not even afraid of being punished by the law of the country if you make a mistake, which can be described as an anomaly. ”