Zhao Xin hurried to the palace, and when he saw Li Lan, he asked to see the emperor immediately.

Li Lan looked at Zhao Xin with a strange expression, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhao, although you are a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and an important minister of the imperial court, how can Your Majesty be what you want to see." ”

"Father-in-law Li, can I come to see Your Majesty if there is nothing to do?" Zhao Xin arched his hand and said: "I really have something important to see Your Majesty, please ask Father-in-law to help tell Your Majesty." ”

"I don't have that face, Your Majesty is resting now, you wait. Li Lan left Zhao Xin and left directly.

After waiting for more than an hour, Li Lan came over and took Zhao Xin to see Wang Mang, Wang Mang saw Zhao Xin, and said: "Listen to Li Lan, you have been waiting for me for a long time, if there is anything, tell me." ”

In fact, Wang Mang didn't rest at all, he was just too lazy to see the minister as soon as he came, so where is his emperor's shelf, you go to the yamen to do something, and you have to queue up, and you have to let the officials find fault with the queue, I am the lord of the world, how can I see it casually, besides, Wang Mang has already guessed what Zhao Xin came to report, just a trivial matter, wait.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to report to Your Majesty. Zhao Xin gave Wang Mang a salute, and then he couldn't wait to speak.

"Didn't you say it?" Wang Mang glanced at Zhao Xin,

Zhao Xin hurriedly said: "That's your majesty, Zhang Jian Zhang Shangshu asked people to hand a letter to the minister, and asked the minister to help arrange for a person to participate in the examination that will be held in the palace immediately, Your Majesty regards the imperial court as the top priority of the current imperial court, how can the minister dare to do such a thing, think about it, feel that it is inappropriate, and come to report to Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Xin really thought about it for a long time, and did a long ideological struggle in his head, on one side was his old leader Zhang Jian, and on the other hand was the unfathomable emperor, but Zhao Xin was in a dilemma.

It wasn't until later that Zhao Xin suddenly thought that not long after he went to see Wang Qinian, Li Lan ran to pass on the decree, and immediately alerted that the emperor might have known about Zhang Jian's letter to him, so he hurriedly rushed directly to the palace without stopping, for fear that he would be late and make the emperor unhappy.

After listening to Zhao Xin's report, Wang Mang just said lightly: "That's it?"

When Zhao Xin heard this, he was shocked in his heart, the emperor did not mean to be surprised at all, this is a long time ago, he came in time because he was lost, if he waited, what was waiting for him was the holy decree of dismissal and exile.

After a careful thought in his heart, Zhao Xin said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Shangshu rests at home in accordance with His Majesty's will, and generally does not interfere in the affairs of the court, so that he can deliberately ask someone to directly find Weichen to arrange people, indicating that this person who was arranged is very unusual, Weichen deliberately found someone to check, and found that Zhang Shangshutuo's person is very mysterious, and the file is simply forged, and the minister immediately felt that the matter was very important, so he hurriedly came to the palace." ”

Zhao Xin is worthy of being an old man in the officialdom, with a lot of flowers, and he explained to Wang Mang in a few words that he did not deliberately delay time and did not come to His Majesty, but took the time to investigate and understand the situation before coming to His Majesty, and secretly boasted to Wang Mang that he worked meticulously, and finally put all the pots on Zhang Jian's head, and truly achieved the goal of not dying and being poor.

Wang Mang glanced at Zhao Xin with a smile, he understood Zhao Xin's meaning, he didn't expect this guy to think so much, so he smiled and said: "Zhao Xin, you are a person, I understand, I don't take this matter to heart, don't worry!"

"Your Majesty Xie!" Zhao Xin secretly relieved himself, he now completely understood that letting himself wait outside for an hour was not Li Lan's meaning at all, it was the emperor's own intention.

"Also, you're doing a good job. Wang Mang said again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Zhao Xin hurriedly thanked him, and then said, "I don't know about this, what should Weichen do?"

"What to do, how to do it. Wang Mang said: "Zhang Jian is your old leader in the end, he pulled down his face to ask you to do something, you still have to give him this face, but you can't give it as soon as he says it, do you understand what I mean?"

Zhao Xin's face was confused at first, then suddenly, and finally the chicken nodded like a peck of rice: "Your Majesty, rest assured, Weichen understands." ”

"It's good to understand, let's go!" Wang Mang waved his hand and drove people away.

Waiting for Zhao Xin to leave, Wang Mang sat on the chair and pondered for a moment, and then instructed Li Lan: "Go and call Zhang Jian to the palace, I have something to ask him." ”

Li Lan looked startled, and then didn't say anything, and left the palace directly to find Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian received the holy decree, his face was full of surprise, and then he hurriedly changed his clothes and followed Li Lan into the palace.

As soon as he saw Wang Mang, Zhang Jian knelt on the ground with a puff and said loudly: "The criminal minister Zhang Jian knocked to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

"Sinner?" Wang Mang looked at Zhang Jian with a playful look and said, "What are you guilty of?"

"The criminal minister asked him to find Zhao Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, with a handwritten letter, and asked Zhao Shangshu to help the minister arrange a person to participate in the exam, which destroyed the imperial court's ceremony of taking scholars and violated the laws of the Great Qin, which is the minister's sin!" Zhang Jian kowtowed.

On the way here, Zhang Jian carefully sorted out his recent behavior, and found that he had not done anything other than offending the emperor in Shiziyuan at that time, and now that the emperor is looking for himself, he must not ask about his sins in Shiziyuan, and the matter of Shiziyuan is not on the table.

Thinking about it, Zhang Jian felt that there was only one thing that would make the emperor find him, that is, Li Wenjun entrusted himself to arrange for Chen Chusheng to participate in the exam.

I have to say that Zhang Jian is indeed an old fox, with great wisdom, and it was just a moment of hard work that he thought of the ins and outs of the matter.

Wang Mang did not deny Zhang Jian's charges, but sighed: "Aiqing, you are a smart person!"

Smart people do foolish things!

Zhang Jian understood the meaning of Wang Mang's words, and immediately cried: "Your Majesty, the criminal minister is also helpless!"

As the official of the imperial court, the first emperor entrusted the minister of Gu, and the master of today's son, Zhang Jian of course knows what will happen if he offends the Son of Heaven, and he knows that with his position, he should always be consistent with the Son of Heaven, and he must always be in line with the Son of Heaven in his actions and thoughts.

But he Zhang Jian is helpless!

He is the official of the ministry, the official of the imperial court, the first person below the Son of Heaven, countless ministers of the court regard him as the leader, as the spokesman for the interests of the officials, in some things, he must be consistent with the officials, speak for them, but in this way, if you are not careful, you will definitely offend the Son of Heaven, after all, the interests of the officials and the interests of the Son of Heaven must be inconsistent at some point.

But can he be blamed for this?

Zhang Jian also understood that he knew these helplessness, and the Son of Heaven also knew, so after the incident of Shiziyuan, the Son of Heaven just asked him to go home to support the elderly, and he didn't say anything else, and he didn't even remove him from the position of the secretary of the ministry.

But this time, it was indeed a taboo!

Great Qin established the country with scholars, and examiners were the foundation of the Great Qin state, not everyone could do anything wrong in it, Wu Yong did it, so Wu Yong committed suicide with his father and son, and his family was exiled, which is one crime; the two hundred officials are the courtiers of the Son of Heaven, and only the Son of Heaven has the right to appoint and dismiss them, not some officials can be privately granted and accepted, and this crime is also two.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jian sighed and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the guilty minister knows that he is guilty of death, but can I ask Your Majesty to let the guilty minister go home and decide on his own for the sake of Weichen who has taught His Majesty how many days of writing!"