Wang Chengen shouted by the door: "You traitor dare to betray the master? Throwing out the dust in his hand and calling him, Xu Yingyuan smiled cruelly: "Whoever doesn't teach us to live, we won't teach him to live!" One hand took the dust, and with a mistake in both palms, the dust was suddenly broken into several knots and scattered together with the white ponytail. It's just a slight slowdown, Chongzhen has already hid under the imperial case, Xu Yingyuan leaned out, his five fingers were like hooks, and grabbed the back of the case, and several figures flashed out behind the bookcase, shouting: "Xu Yingyuan, don't stop!" Xu Yingyuan raised his eyes and looked, his right hand couldn't help but stop in mid-air, and it was difficult to fall, dozens of birds pointed at his eyebrows in unison, and the muzzle of the gun was like the boundless night outside the hall with no end in sight. The first lean man in a black gauze scarlet robe, holding a one-foot-long handcuff, stepped forward to help Chongzhen out, "The emperor is frightened, and the minister is guilty of death!" ”

Wei Zhongxian pinched the handcuff on his waist that had not left him day and night, and had the courage to return to the Dongnuan Pavilion. How do you know that Chongzhen pointed to the magnolia six-petal pot and said: "What I gave you is not good, why don't you take it?" ”

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly removed the left hand on his waist, held the clay pot in both hands, and thanked him. Wang Chengen looked at his distant back and said, "It's a pity that that good pot is cheaper than this traitor!" ”

"It's just a few days to save for me! Hiding in his private residence is no different from this Qianqing Palace. Chongzhen smiled.

Wang Chengen nodded and said, "That's nature." When does the Lord of Long Live want it, the slave and maid will hold the holy decree to get it back for you. ”

Chongzhen scolded with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, how can you get back the reward?" When did I become so stingy? ”

"If you don't want to give it to him, why do you want to call him back?" Wang Chengen was very puzzled.

"Hit the grass and scare the snake." Chongzhen gently spit out four words, with an unpredictable murderous intent in his eyes.

Wang Chengen said: "But the snake will bite when it is in a hurry." ”

"I'm just going to drive the snake out, and if I keep hiding in the hole, I'm afraid I won't be able to hit it!" Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen's dazed appearance and explained: "As long as it dodges the snake's head, won't its entire body be full of loopholes?" Naturally, I can do whatever I want. ”

"So what is a snakehead?"

"The head of the snake is big! The cabinet, the six ministries, and the Quartet governors are the brains, the Zhukedao is the mouthpiece, and the Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and the inner court are the minions. ”

"What is a snake body?"

"It's just some people who tend to be inflammatory. I have been fighting against each other for a long time! This day has finally come, so why not miss it? Chongzhen's eyes sparkled, like a lackey chasing a rabbit, and he saw the cunning rabbit crash into the open rope net in panic.

"What if you can't get away from the snake's head?" Wang Chengen faintly felt a little frightened. Chongzhen raised his eyes to look at him and asked with a smile, "What do you say I should do?" ”

Wang Chengen shook his head at first, but he didn't want the Pope to say that he was stupid, so he said: "What if the slave maid made a suit of iron armor and let it bite, but not lose its fangs?" ”

"You idiot! Do you have to wear that heavy armor all your life and never take it off when you sleep? It's really a philistine's strategy, a lazy man's strategy. ”

"Then you can't teach it to bite, can you?"

"How can it be allowed to be presumptuous! If you want to sit back and relax, it's not impossible, but it's the only way. ”

"The slave is confused."

"Pull out the snake's teeth!" Chongzhen said majestically.

"How do I pull it out?"

"Didn't I pull it out a long time ago? first appeased the soldiers of the Nine Sides, and then allowed Cui Chengxiu, the head of the 'Five Tigers', to return to his hometown Ding Wei, quit the internal exercises, and ordered Xu Yingyuan to assist the East Factory, and installed the old man of the letter mansion in the palace. Not only are these teeth already unbearable, but I am afraid that they will also self-phagy! Chongzhen picked up the teacup and sniffed: "Good tea!" When it's cold, it still has a cool aroma. This is the real fragrance, Yinghua is introverted, and it is inexhaustible. ”

Even more drummers, in the Wenyuan Pavilion, Chongzhen still did not feel sleepy, repeatedly flipped through the chapters, and couldn't help but read silently: "The shame of the world is extinguished, the vitality of the world is exploited, the creatures and fish of the world are exhausted, and the material resources of the world are exhausted." It's hateful! He slammed the fold on the imperial case, and Wang Chengen, who was standing by the door, looked around in shock, and saw that his face was full of anger, so he hurriedly turned his face away, not daring to look more.

"Little Enzi, long live the master is still reviewing the chapters?" A slightly shrill voice came into his ears, and without waiting for a response, a ghostly figure fluttered in front of him, and the person who came was Xu Yingyuan, who had recently been promoted to the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi.

Wang Chengen smiled: "It turned out to be Xu Ye." Then he lowered his voice and said, "Long live the fire inside!" ”

Xu Yingyuan said: "What else is there to worry about?" Let's go inside to comfort you for a few words, but we can't waste our tongues and help in vain. ”

"What did Xu Ye say, is the little one who doesn't know how to be polite? If Xu Ye really taught Long Live Ye to open his heart, the little self will want to honor your old man. Ming'er teaches the imperial dining room to prepare a few fine dishes, and find a few beautiful little palace maids to serve you to eat and drink? Wang Chengen laughed.

Xu Yingyuan opened his eyes and smiled: "Long live the Lord has really grown in knowledge around him, and his heart valve is also a lot more psychic, so he actually knows our thoughts." ”

"But Xu Yingyuan? But when you come to see me, you just care about laughing there? Chongzhen didn't know when he paced to the front. Xu Yingyuan hurriedly greeted him and said, "Long live Lord, how dare the slave forget the etiquette?" It's been a long time since I saw the Lord of Long Live for many days, I was happy for a while, I couldn't help it, my voice was high, I really damn it! ”

"But I don't believe that you came to Wenyuan Pavilion at night just to see me?" Chongzhen asked with a smile as he walked behind the imperial case. Xu Yingyuan looked at Wang Chengen, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and respectfully presented it: "The slave maid collected some military salaries for the Long Live Lord, but there is a lot of gold and silver!" ”

"Isn't there someone begging you to do something and lose to you? How can there be so many! Chongzhen couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and saw that it was neatly written with 500,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold.

Xu Yingyuan stepped forward and said: "This is not won by the slave maid, and no one bribed the slave maid, it was Wei Zhongxian who took it out and dedicated it to the Long Live Lord." ”

Chongzhen said unhappily: "You will make the decision for me?" Have you ever heard that all dynasties and dynasties have used money to buy the lord of the world? ”

"The slave didn't dare. The slave maid also said this about him, and he said that he wanted to teach the Lord to understand his heart, so that he could ask for a good death. ”

"What kind of good death do you want?"

Xu Yingyuan nodded and said: "Wei Zhongxian is the first minister of the dynasty, if he abandons it, it seems to go against the will of the first emperor, and it also colds his heart for the country." The slave and maid thought that it was better to redeem him for his lack of money, and still stayed in the palace to drive, so as to show that his grace was as deep as the sea, and to take care of his face. ”

Chongzhen said with a solemn face: "How much silver did you take to intercede for him overnight?" ”

"The slave maid didn't take any money from him, but only for the sake of the Lord of Long Live Lord."

Chongzhen sneered: "How can you think about me? ”

"The slave doesn't read much, but she knows that the poor are not chasing, and the long-lived lord is well-read, so he must understand it more thoroughly." Xu Yingyuan's eyes couldn't stop rolling and swept around Chongzhen's body.

"Are you saying that I can't force him to fight for a difficult sale, and the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry? How could I not understand, and still need you to be reminded by this minion? What's going on with Zhao Jinjiao of the Fu Domain? Chongzhen asked.

Xu Yingyuan's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly said: "The slave maid met him in the palace in his early years, gambling and drinking, and since he left Beijing and went to Luoyang with King Fu Lao Chitose, the slave maid has never seen him again. ”

Chongzhen snorted: "Haven't seen it again?" Is Xiao Bixuan's banquet still delicious? So Xue Runniang still looks like she did back then? Do you still want to hide it? ”

Xu Yingyuan's face turned pale, and he said in horror: "How did Long Live Lord know?" The slave maid should die, but she is an old friend who has not been seen for many years, and she can't refute her feelings, so she went to meet her. ”

"Then Wei Zhongxian and Zhao Jin taught the ambition of the wolf son and conspired to welcome King Lifu back to Beijing, which is also the face of old friendship? Why do you, a minion, know about it, and still bend to cover it up? ”

"The slave and maid really didn't know the inside story, they just ate a flower wine and didn't participate in it." Xu Yingyuan's knees weakened and knelt at Chongzhen's feet.

"Who lives in the house north of Xishi Street? Who was in Wei Zhongxian's sedan chair yesterday? Take people's money and eliminate disasters with people, do you still have me in your heart when you see a slave who forgets your righteousness? Chongzhen kicked him down under the imperial case, and scolded sharply: "You must be thinking about how I know at this moment? Hum! If I didn't have eyes and ears, how could I have thought that the minions who were born and died with me would have changed their minds! I promoted you to an official, and allowed you to collect some money to make a fortune, but you still don't have enough snake hearts, and you want to eat all the good things inside and outside, where can it be so cheap? That Zhu Yousong Zhen had ordered him to return to the domain and never enter Beijing. That Zhao Jinjiao had already ordered someone to interrogate him secretly, and he had already recruited him. Among Wei Zhongxian's palanquins, I have already arranged eyeliner, and I can know his whereabouts at any time, do you still want to hide from me? ”

Xu Yingyuan saw that the matter was revealed, and cried: "Long live the master, the slave maid was confused for a while, and the desire for profit was consumed, and he accidentally fell in love with Wei Zhongxian's way, and begged the long live lord to see the slave and maid's past labor, spare the slave and maid this time, the slave and maid will never dare again." ”

"What else do you say about the hard work of the past! Do you remember being beaten by Wei Zhongxian on the night I entered the palace, but do you remember being scared and starving in the Wenhua Palace? If I forget, how can you and Wang Chengen forget? However, after a few dozen days, you will heal your scars and forget the pain, and you will lose your identity for a few taels of silver, and let them be driven. I hate the most honest bones in my life, since you forgot Wei Zhongxian's torture and sacrificed your life and money, I will teach you to have a long memory and teach you to have both people and money. Someone came, dragged Xu Yingyuan out of the door, and beat a hundred! Tomorrow, Nanjing Xiaoling will be assigned to serve as a clean army. ”

When Xu Yingyuan heard this, he was like snow pouring on him, and his heart was extremely miserable. That filial piety mausoleum in the east of Nanjing, the southern foot of the Purple Mountain, Dulong Fu play under Mount Everest, on the west side of Maoshan Mountain, is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang and the queen Ma Shi burial mausoleum, located in the wilderness, where can compare to the prosperity and magnificence of the palace, every day sprinkle to remove filth, how to suffer themselves? He wept bitterly: "The slave maid wants to stay in the palace and serve the Lord Long Live for the rest of her life, and she doesn't dare to have two hearts anymore." ”

Chongzhen's tone was still cold: "I also warned you not to despise the errand and lose your identity; and thou shalt not be proud of one's dignity and domineering. Previously, I had the intention to hand over Dongchang to you, and promoted you to be the commander of Dongchang, but I didn't want you to help you abuse and act for the tiger, how could I tolerate you? It's all your own doing, and you can't complain about my cruelty. ”

"That's good, even if the long-lived lord doesn't teach the slaves and maids to live, the slaves and maids can't take care of the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers, and today they will either die or the net will be broken." As he spoke, Xu Yingyuan jumped up and threw himself at the back of the imperial case with a wave of his palm. Chongzhen shouted: "Escort! ”

Wang Chengen shouted by the door: "You traitor dare to betray the master? Throwing out the dust in his hand and calling him, Xu Yingyuan smiled cruelly: "Whoever doesn't teach us to live, we won't teach him to live!" With a mistake in both palms, the dust suddenly broke into a few sections, and the white ponytails were scattered. It's just that this is a little slow, Chongzhen has already hidden under the imperial case, Xu Yingyuan leaned out, his five fingers were like hooks, and grabbed the back of the case, which was caught, and several figures flashed out from behind the bookcase, all blocking in front of the imperial case, shouting: "Xu Yingyuan, don't stop!" ”

Xu Yingyuan raised his eyes and saw that dozens of birds were pointing at his eyebrows in unison, the muzzle of the gun was like the boundless night outside the hall with no end in sight, and his right hand couldn't help but stop in mid-air, and it was difficult to fall again. The first lean man in a black gauze robe, holding a one-foot-long handcuff, stepped forward to help Chongzhen out, "The emperor is frightened, Weichen is slow to escort, capital crime!" Chongzhen Tie had a blue face, his heart was beating wildly, he still sat behind the imperial case, and said to the man in the scarlet robe: "Zhang Zhizhi, give me a real fight against this dog minion!" ”

The man in the scarlet robe is the right deputy capital Yushi, the commander of the Jingying Rongzheng Zhang Literacy, he agreed, turned around and slapped Xu Yingyuan's face with a palm, and scolded: "You pig and dog are not as cheap as a pig, the emperor is kind to you, but you don't want to repay." If it weren't for the emperor's clever calculation, the secret edict Shenji battalion guarded the left and right, wouldn't he have been poisoned by you! Then he sneered: "Isn't your palm technique subtle and abnormal, unique in the world?" See if your hands are fast, or our guns are fast, tied up! ”

Chongzhen saw that Xu Yingyuan was tied up by the five flowers, and looked back at him with pity and resentment, and said hatefully: "How can I allow others to snore next to the couch?" Wang Chengen, I will send the Qian Jiazheng Shu book approved by Zhu Zhu to the six departments early tomorrow morning to be transcribed, transcribed into a newspaper, and made public to the world. ”

Wang Chengen said: "Long live the lord, Xu Yingyuan, a thief, should be guilty of Ling Chi, but it is cheaper for him to go to guard the mausoleum." ”

Chongzhen sighed: "Although I have warned him, it is just that at that time, Wei Zhongxian was inclined to the government and the opposition, and he was afraid of startling the grass and snakes, so that his words were unknown, and it was difficult for him to understand my true intentions, and I also had the responsibility of negligence. It's better to leave him a way to live and go to Hubei Xianling instead! ”

"Long live the Lord of Leniency, compassion to chase the Buddha." Wang Chengen praised from the bottom of his heart. Outside the hall, there was a muffled sound of sticks hitting the flesh, and the convict's mouth was still making a hoarse sound.

The drum was beaten twice.

The next day, Wei Zhongxian couldn't wait for Xu Yingyuan's news, so he had to put the fold of retiring from illness, Chongzhen browsed it, and criticized Zhu Dao: Wei Zhongxian was allowed to go back to his private residence to recuperate, and Dongchang was handed over to Wang Tiqian to take charge of it, and when he was promoted, he was the eunuch in charge of the seal. All the seals of Wei Zhongxian were withdrawn together. He also demoted Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing, Duke of Ningguo, to the commander of Jinyiwei, Wei Liangdong, the Marquis of Dong'an, to the commander of Jinyiwei, and Wei Pengyi, the commander of Anpingbo, to the commander of Jinyiwei. As soon as the news of Qian Jiazheng's sparse book and Wei's demotion spread, the excerpts of various branches flew into the capital like snowflakes, and Chongzhen issued orders one after another to reduce Cui Chengxiu to the people, and dismissed Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Bai Taishi, the Taifu Siqing, Wei Fumin, the eunuch of Shangbao, Zhang Tiqian, the eunuch of Dongchang, and Tu Wenfu, the eunuch of the palm seal of the imperial horse supervisor. In the past few days, personnel changes, clouds and rain, Wei Zhongxian has been living in a private residence, restless, seeing that the surrounding party members have left their posts, only Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, and Yang Huan are left, and it is difficult to get any news on weekdays, let alone say greetings. I was used to the days of hugging before and after, and suddenly it was deserted, and I couldn't go out of the house, and I went to the restaurant to have fun and play, and several people around me were tired of being familiar with each other, and they were lonely and unbearable, so they threw a few days of dice, fought a few days of crickets, and played a bright scene. That's the case, Chongzhen couldn't tolerate him, first dismissed Tian Ergeng, and then ordered Wei Zhongxian to be placed in Fengyang Xiaoling Sixiang, Wei Zhongxian knelt in the lobby and listened to the holy decree, "I read the ministers who have repeatedly listed the crimes of rebelling against Wei Zhongxian, and they all have insight." Because of the service of the first emperor, he took a little leave of grace, while Wei Zhongxian did not repay the country's reward, and he deliberately planted the party, stole the national power, and acted as a prestige, which is difficult to enumerate, and briefly counted...... I Si Zhongxian and others not only peeped into the famous vessels, disordered the criminal chapter, and embezzled and stole the treasures of my ancestors, such as treasures and treasures. The second offender was a family property, and his nationality was not entered into the government. Its indiscriminate relatives are all smoked and miasma. Wei Zhongxian's eyes were dark, and he almost fainted to the ground, but fortunately, after the holy decree was read, he kowtowed and thanked him, and he couldn't stand on the ground. Seeing off the eunuch who announced the decree, Wei Zhongxian sat alone on the eunuch's chair in a daze.

It's October, the weather is getting cooler, and the sun is setting fast. The red afterglow shines through the flower window, reflecting Xiao Bixuan more magnificently, Wei Zhongxian's body is shrouded in golden light and shadow, like a mud fetus statue in the ancestral hall, he slowly got up and walked to the west flower window outward? Look, the willow tree is yellow, the wind is gradually rising, a piece of gray and black cloud curtain floats from the northwest, the sunset will inlay it with a layer of dazzling gold edge, the sunset of the West Mountain does not know when it can come back to look at it, Wei Zhongxian's heart welled up with a sadness that he has never felt before, "I saw him rise up Zhu Lou, I saw him feast guests, I saw his building collapse." This moss and green tile pile, I have slept ...... the wind and sleep", he remembered the drama, and sighed long, the prosperity will decline! Outside the window, a gentle autumn rain is coming.

The autumn rain is so urgent, the rain hits the residual lotus, and it tinkles. A man with rain cloth and oil boots came to Xiao Bixuan and cried on the ground: "Son, please stay with your father." ”

Wei Zhongxian was distracted from the chair, he heard crying, and when he looked down, he realized that Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry, was kneeling at his feet, and said with a wry smile: "Why do we want to leave, but the holy will cannot be violated." ”

"Daddy will go and beg the emperor again, just like he did when he begged the emperor, maybe the emperor will take back the holy order."

Wei Zhongxian shook his head and said, "Are you still so obsessed? I'm afraid that our family will not have the previous saints, and it will be useless to ask. ”

Zhou Yingqiu knelt and climbed two steps, hugged his legs, wept for a long time, and cried sadly: "If Daddy leaves Beijing by order, teach his son how to live?" ”

Wei Zhongxian stretched out his hand and pulled him up and said: "You don't have to be too sad, although our family is not as powerful as before, and most of the powerful subordinates have been deposed and returned home, but once the storm comes, it can still make a comeback, but you can't lose your heart and lose your will." ”

Zhou Yingqiu said dejectedly: "Without the shade of my father, I don't know how long my son can sit in this position?" It's hard to protect yourself, what else can you do? ”

"Keep one by one, and think about it slowly." Wei Zhongxian soothed: "You can come to visit your father at this time, it's also a matter of affection, but you must be careful of the Dongchang sitting, now there are people everywhere." Zhou Yingqiu was shocked when he heard this, looked out of the door, and saw a person standing under the eaves of the corridor, and was so frightened that he wanted to scream, but he saw the face of the person clearly, it was used by the head of the dynasty. Wang Chaoyong had already arrived, but he was afraid of interrupting their words, so he waited under the eaves of the porch, drenched in pieces of wet stains, and came in to report: "Grandpa, everything is packed up." What you can bring is loaded into the car, and what you can't bring is hidden. ”