Zhang Tingyu's resignation, or avoidance, is not so much that the case of his eldest brother Zhang Tinglu forced him to make such a choice, but rather that he was wise and obscure, watching the development of the situation coldly. Since Tinglu left him that night, under his doubtful and stern questioning, he finally admitted that the third elder brother Hongshi had revealed to him the questions of the emperor's imperial seal test, and asked him to open the "convenient door" for the three lifters who Hongshi greeted. At this point, Zhang Tingyu has been clear at a glance.

The Burlun Restaurant sells test questions, and it is completely certain that Hongshi secretly passed them out after he stole the test questions in his father's golden treasure in the Heart Cultivation Palace. And Gongyuan and Bolun Restaurant, Cheng Biting Jin, who was killed halfway - Li Wei, a guy who is not afraid of "ghosts and difficult problems", intervened, and Hongshi will be stabbed out sooner or later. Yongzheng will face an endless brotherly dispute and the "prince dispute" of the three princes, how the future situation will develop, even Zhang Tingyu, the old minister of the two dynasties, is not sure. This is a continuation of the dispute between the princes of the Kangxi Dynasty, which will be more complicated and acute than the dispute over the "national prince", and it will be more life-and-death. What's more, his own brother was involved, at this moment, Zhang Tingyu retreated bravely and stood by, recognized which side the weight would lean toward, and then determined his own strategy for dealing with the world, of course, it was the most sophisticated choice.

Li Fu received the holy decree, went to the Ministry of Officials to hand over the envoy, and took a sedan chair to the palace of Prince Lian outside Chaoyang Gate to listen to the training. Since the resignation of Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister of the two dynasties, Prince Lian Yunxi has been in power for a while. Now that he is the chief minister of the upper study, and is also in charge of the four departments of rites, officials, households, and workers, Li Fu ordered the Shuntianfu school difference, which is the number one difference in the Ministry of Rites, and it is unreasonable not to go to see Yun Xu, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. In the capital, Prince Lian's Mansion is second only to Prince Yi's Mansion Mansion in the big mansion, the majestic palace, the white marble eight-story stone steps, the three Ying inverted vermilion lacquer gates, Li Fu got off the sedan chair, reported his name, and the middle-aged eunuch He Zhu'er led him in. was about to enter the second gate, but saw Yun Xiang and Yun Yu brothers coming out of the second gate together. Yun Xiang clapped his hands from afar and smiled:

"Ah, our new chief exams are here! At the emperor's place just now, Ma Qi also said that there have always been two people in the main examination of Shuntian Mansion, and now there is one Li Fu, which seems to be out of place. What do you think the emperor said? He said to be greedy, and the same is true of the ten exams. I used Li Fu alone this time, and he knew before I could do it that he was a decent person, and his character was not bad. Do it well, the emperor appreciates you! ”

Li Fu had long known the heroic and righteous Thirteenth Master Yunxiang, but he had no chance to meet Yunyu, who was once the general Wang. Yun Yu gave a storm after the old emperor's banquet and the new emperor's accession to the throne, and he was already disheartened. Li Fu asked the second prince for peace seriously, said a few decent words, and made Yunxiang smile embarrassedly:

"You go, the Fourteenth Master and I are going to the Ministry of War."

After that, the two of them went on their own. Only then did Li Fu follow He Zhu'er through the Yuemen Cave and enter the West Flower Hall. But seeing the twists and turns of the corridor, the pavilion is uneven, and the people who come and go are full of young ladies and maids. When I looked up and came to "Yi Zhixuan", I saw the water pavilion outside the window, and the window was full of bookshelves, decorated with some treasures and antiques.

Li Fu has been cold for ten years, how have he ever seen such a gorgeous scene? I didn't feel that I was secretly groaning, and my intention was suddenly extinguished.

"Is it Li Xuezheng? No registration required, please come in! ”

"Chen Li Fu!" Li Fu agreed, stepped in and saluted, "Say hello to the eighth master." "On the carved coat Taishi chair next to Yun Yu, there is also the Ninth Master Yun Yu, and there is another person who is reading if no one is reading, and there is a foreign official dressed by the governor. Although Li Fuzhong has been a jinshi for five years, he has been immersed in his studies in the capital, and he has not heard anything outside the window, and he is very unfamiliar with officialdom. Yun Yu is known as a virtuous king, and he introduced Li Fu one by one with a courtesy corporal:

"This is the ninth master, this is the tenth master, this one...... It was Li Wei, a big celebrity in the dynasty and a political envoy in Shandong. You sit down for the time being, finish talking to Li Wei about the prison, and then talk about your mission. He turned back to Li Wei and said, "As I said just now, I didn't plan to keep you in Beijing." But Nuomin's case involved officials from Shanxi Tong Province; In the case of the science field, there were twenty officials on the surface, but I didn't know what royal relatives and nobles were involved, and now Zhang Tingyu avoided it. Counting up, it has been almost 80 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there has never been such a big shocking case. Ma Qi couldn't be busy alone, one was deep in the figure, and the other was you, so he had to stay. Who doesn't know that you, Li Wei, are the world's first and most capable officials? You don't have to shirk! ”

"At the emperor's place, I have already resigned!" Li Wei said unshowily, "The prince knows that the thief place in Shandong, without Yu Jackie Chan in the past ten years, has become a world of robbers, and it is a good thing." The hungry people rebelled, occupying the mountain as the king, and there was an iron crown Taoist who contacted Gan Fengchi, Lu Siniang, a martial arts master in the rivers and lakes, and met people from all walks of life, ready to move. It's really 'the pit is not cold and the Shandong is chaotic' - no matter how difficult the case of Jingshi is, it can always be handled calmly......"

"Li Wei, you don't have to be angry!" Yun Yu knew that Li Wei was a member of the Yongzheng Domain, so he spoke without proportion, and he didn't take it to heart, so he smiled and said, "It's not my idea to keep you in Beijing, it's Ma Qi's request to keep you." I know the errand in Shandong, and someone has already gone to resist it for a while, so don't you have to go to the blind man under you! You're a shrewd man, and you don't need a hammer to beat the drum, don't you know why Marzi wants to keep you? It's not good to have some things broken, isn't it? ”

Li Fuyuan also wondered: The three departments of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, plus the Shuntianfu and the Infantry Army Command Yamen, Ma Qi is the main one, and there is Yun Xi sitting on the top, and he can't ask about the two cases? After such a reminder, it seems to be enlightened: Nuo Min is Ma Qi's protégé, Yang Mingshi is the protégé of Zhao Shenqiao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu have been colleagues for many years, Zhang Tinglu is Zhang Tingyu's younger brother, the eighteenth room examiner and the examiner are not old friends in the same year, the court is opposite, life and death are at stake, not to mention the long-term grievances between Long Keduo and Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu, and the feud between the Long Keduo family and the thirteenth master Yunxiang in the forty-seventh year of Shangshuo to Kangxi...... In this life-and-death battle, who wouldn't want to pull an extra backer?

Li Wei didn't say anything anymore and promised to take office. But when he got up and said goodbye, he said with a foul mouth: "These two cases are not good, the criminal is tried and the chief judge is there, a candle is lit at both ends, how can it be thoughtful?" Pluck my hair and plant other people's beards, hehe-" He walked up to Li Fu, who was sitting precariously, patted him on the head, and said, "Hey, a sect, it's your turn!" ”

"What is a sect?" Li Fu looked down on Li Wei, who was born as a child, and when he saw him so presumptuous, he said, "I am Jiangxi Li, you are Jiangnan Li, how can it be 'a sect'?" ”

"Our Laozi's surname is Li, and your surname is Li, let's join the sect! Haven't you heard of Zhang Xianzhong's sacrifice to Zhang Fei Temple? Li Wei said and laughed.

Li Fu went to see the eighth master Yunxi, which was originally a purely courteous formality of officialdom. He, a Sven man who has always been based on Taoism and Confucianism, was ridiculed and left by Li Wei of "One Sect", and he was unhappy; In addition, Yun Yu is the leader of the "Eight Masters Party" that the emperor is afraid of today, and he happened to meet several important figures of the Ninth and Tenth Masters here, and he is the emperor's Qincha, why should he get involved with his brother, and he will be ashamed if he doesn't eat mutton. Therefore, after "listening" to the eighth master's instructions, he left, and he thanked the eighth master for leaving dinner.

Seeing that Li Fu had resigned, Yun Yu got up and said:

"This person is excellent in learning, and his conscience is not bad, how can you do your best to treat this Li Fu officially?"

While speaking, the fourteenth brother Yunyu came in with a curtain, and took the words of the ninth master and said:

"I saw Li Fu go out just now, starling, how is this person?"

Yun Yu took a picture of the military division, slowly walked to the window, grabbed a handful of bait and threw it into the pond below, clapped his hands and said, "Li Fu is not a thing in our pool." Are you paying attention? There were these pearl and jade antiques in the study, Li Wei came in and looked at this and that, and he was envious but put them down one by one; But Li Fu does not squint, and sits upright from beginning to end, this kind of person is not tempted by material desires, and uses restraint skills. What use can this kind of false Taoism come in handy? ”

"When it comes to employing people, we are not as good as the fourth." Yun Yu pointed to the bag of fish that was still bouncing on the ground, and instructed the eunuch, "Fix the fish and give it to the master to drink-just look at Li Wei just now, you can know that a man named Huazi was made a great weapon by him, and he is now Bao Gong." Ahem, let's ...... Starling, no, you can dig the foot of the wall. Dig up other people's people. ”

Yun Zhen laughed and said:

"Brother Jiu's idea is good, but is it so easy to dig up other people?"

"It's a good day," Yun Yu said proudly, "I dug up a big fish for Starling, a very useful evil god." ”

"Who?" Yun Yu and I asked in unison.

"Guess what! A pivotal figure in the DPRK. ”

Yun Yu frowned, stretched out again, and suddenly said in good spirits: "Isn't it Long Keduo?" Yun Yu didn't answer, just a smirk. Yun Zhen jumped up with joy and asked:

"Ronkodo will come to us—where? Go and meet you! ”

"Don't be busy yet, I've already brought Long Keduo to the Starling Mansion." Yun Yu said mysteriously, "But Brother Starling, Brother Ten, you don't come forward for the time being, let me and the Fourteenth Go First, with a red face and a white face, catch this freshly hooked fish into the urn." ”

"That's all right! That's good. Yun Yu paced back and forth in the study, his face flushed. He knew that now was the best time to challenge the fourth child: Zhang Tingyu, who held the real power in the upper study, farted on horseback because of the case - the two were not clear, and he slipped away obediently; Shanxi Nuomin's case, killing two birds with one stone - sealed Ma Qi's mouth and swept Nian Qianyao's face; Maybe the three sons of the fourth child will be brought out in the fraud case, if Long Keduo is dealt with again, won't the court be all under the control of his "Eight Masters Party"? He waved his hand excitedly, "Go ahead!" ”

Yun Yu and Yun Yu brothers went out of the study, bypassed the pond of weeping willow fireworks, came to the bottom of the platform of a water pavilion, and listened to the urgent orchestra upstairs, like crying and complaining. A woman's crisp voice is singing along with the sound of the lute:

Drunk and drunk,

The wind is soft and the moon is in the sky.

When the resort is a festival,

The pavilion was reopened.

The rise and fall of old things,

The little girl sings the sequel.

A house full of nobles,

Fireworks ripple with tears.

The concubine's body is dewed,

Sunrise turns to ash.

……

Yun Yu stepped into the building, clapped his hands and laughed:

"What a Wushan cloud and rain, such as morning dew! Lao Long, can you listen attentively? ”

When Long Keduo suddenly saw the former majestic general Wang Yunyu, he walked in, and his body shook in fright, and then he saw that the ninth master was also standing in front of him, and he hurriedly jumped up and sang forward, and said with a thousand words:

"Say hello to the two masters."

"Ouch, don't dare to be," Yun Yu hurriedly put his hands together, still joking, "You are the authentic uncle of the country, the minister of Tuogu, and the person who sees the Son of Heaven is still incomprehensible, how dare our two little brothers accept the uncle's low-frequency gifts?" Sit down, sit down. ”

Yun Yu had already sat in the first place with a big grin, and he didn't look at Long Keduo, and waved his head at the woman in both sides and ordered:

"You go down!"

Long Keduo saw that the ninth master was neither yin nor yang, and Aili ignored sitting there, and the fourteenth master also lowered his face and sat down, and asked anxiously: "What about the eighth master? Didn't you say that the eighth master had something to do with me? ”

The two elder brothers deliberately did not answer, only the self-striking bell in the corner of the wall kept clicking, and it became more and more obvious that there was an invisible pressure in the silence, which hit Long Keduo's head. Yun Yu deliberately jingled the bell and knocked the teacup to the lid for a while, took a sip of tea, and put the cup on the tea, his eyes changed sharply, like a blade, staring coldly at Long Keduo:

"Uncle, do you know what you are here for today?"

"I know," Long Keduo was stunned by the behavior of the two brothers, and hurriedly replied, "It was the eunuch and minister from the Ninth Master's Mansion who came to the Eighth Master's Mansion and said that he wanted to discuss the matter of the draft girl." ”

"The Internal Affairs Office is now in the hands of the Thirteenth Master, and the Eighth Master has no leisure to take care of any kind of ** bird affairs," Yun Yu bombarded it like a cannon, "It's the Ninth Master and I, who specially borrowed the treasure land of the Eighth Master to talk to Lao Long, and they talked well, shook hands and made peace, everyone is good; If you can't talk about it, that's nothing, we'll see! ”

Long Keduo's head exploded with a bang, after all, he was also an old sparrow from the army, and suddenly let out a bird-like sharp laughter: "The fourteenth master can really joke!" Our Tong family has always had close contacts with the eighth master, the ninth master, the tenth master, and the fourteenth master, and there is no enmity in the distant days, and there is no injustice in the near future. ”

After that, he stood up and waved it, and said, "If there is nothing serious, the minister will leave." ”

As soon as Yun Yu came to get off the horse, he saw that the treacherous and cunning Long Keduo was about to slip away, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

Yun Yu shook him up and said:

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, don't stop you, fourteenth brother. Uncle is now anxious to go to Li Wei to fight some court lawsuits, let him go! ”

Roncodo's leg was pinned in place, and he couldn't help but shiver. Yun Yu lit the fire medium with a "horn", smoked a hookah, and pounded the water in the cigarette warehouse so that Ho Luo Ho Luo said:

"What kind of transaction did my uncle make with the examiner surnamed Qian in the Eighteen Mansions, and if you can hide it, can you hide it? You have four of the top ten, you have the ability! But ......"

The more Yun Yu failed to provoke, the more Long Keduo felt that a great disaster was coming. These elder brothers' magical powers are so vast that he is ashamed. After thinking about it, it was even more amazing to come back to the muddy waters of the Eight Masters Party, so he sat down again and settled down:

"What the Ninth Master said is good, but don't forget, the four first-class jinshi mentioned, one is said by the tenth master, one is the relative of the eighth master's house, and the other is the face of Nian Qianyao...... I understand, there are some things that I have to do. ”

"Ah, you're so clean?" Yun Yu sneered, revealing a hideous face and said in a sharp voice, "Nian Qianyao's slave doesn't talk about him, just say that the dragon son and phoenix grandson of the eighth master and the tenth master, if you want to be an official, do you still need to do your tricks and feet in the field?" You framed Prince Beizi for nothing, what evidence do you have? These may not be able to defeat you, the minister of Tuogu, hehe-" Another knife-like sneer, and the hoarse voice shot like a bullet, "Let me ask you, how did Tong Guowei die?" Who did the poison, and why? Well? Why don't you answer? What are your hands shaking? How did your face become like a dead man? You're a thief! Hee Hee often says, if people don't know, unless you don't do it, the wall has ears, the emperor has eyes, who can you dodge? Well? ……”

Like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, the sky collapsed, and Long Keduo was suddenly almost colorless, sweating through his heavy clothes, and sat down on the chair with a sigh, muttering in despair:

"How did Uncle Six die...... Me, how do I know...... He's my cousin, how could I hurt him......"

"Yes, I have to ask you, why do you want to hurt him?" Yun Yu jumped up suddenly, and said without giving Long Keduo a chance to breathe, "What kind of secret agreement do you have with your cousin Tong Guowei - for example, Tong Guowei helps the eighth master, and you Long Keduo helps the fourth master, and wins the country, no matter who wins or loses, your Tong family will not suffer from the left and right." ”

"Another example-" Yun Yu took over the conversation and said, "You Long Keduo has won this treasure, or rather, you Long Keduo took despicable means and changed the words on the edict of succession, so that the fourth child took the big position, but the note fell into the hands of Tong Guowei, which was not very appropriate, so Tong Guowei got sick, he had to take medicine, and he had to bleed from seven holes, and his limbs were blue and purple...... Don't look at me like that! You look weird and pitiful, strange - once Tong Guowei dies, as long as you find that secret agreement, you can sit back and relax and be your prime minister......"

"You never thought of it-" Yun Yu started a new round of bombing, a new round of heart-digging warfare, "Tong Guowei's mansion, the fourth child just rewarded his son Hongshi. You are afraid that Hongshi will find out about that 'fatal contract', so you burned the monkey's butt and hurriedly took refuge in Yuqing Palace, and begged him to transfer Tong Guowei's mansion to you. Of course he can't give it to you in vain, you have to get on his 'thief ship' and help him fight with Hongli for the power to inherit the country. You think you can be the Minister of Orphans again—"

"Haha, Roncodo!" Yun Yu's duck let out a gloomy and miserable laugh, "You didn't expect Tong Guowei's 'coffin coffin' to be inferior to you, just this loyal master, a hundred times stronger than you." Just when he was dying, I happened to be there, and he took out this piece of paper from his chest pocket with trembling hands and asked me to hand it over to the starling brother - you see, is it this palm-sized piece of rice paper? There are words on it, and there is a painting of you and Tong Guowei! Haha, it's this thin piece of paper, which can actually be worth a bloody head of a minister in the upper study, the crown prince, the minister of the guard, the minister of military aircraft, the head of the Kyoto Imperial Forest Army, and the admiral of the Nine Gates! He laughed and scolded angrily, very proud, and suddenly held the piece of paper high, and said to the old fourteenth, "Fourteenth brother, you are leading soldiers outside, prancing horses and horizontal guns, killing Mongolian soldiers on their backs, and bleeding like rivers, do you know that in the Beijing division, you can kill people without using knives and guns, and you can also capture the candle shadow axe of the country?" ”

"Say no more!" Roncodo suddenly raised his head, his eyes showed a fierce light, and suddenly the fierce light dimmed and extinguished like a burning tear candle, and he finally bowed his head and whispered, "You, what do you tell me to do?" ”

"That's right!" Yun Yu glanced at Long Keduo, who was completely defeated, and smiled with Yun Yu knowingly, "If you are interested, you are still our uncle, and you don't want your uncle to do anything." Don't worry, we are all working for starlings, starlings are the most trustworthy and never lose their trust. Starling asked me to invite my uncle over to drink and talk, and he picked a few beautiful ones from the show girls, especially for my uncle. Fourteenth brother, do you say? ”

"Exactly!" Yun Yu clapped his hands and smiled.

Long Keduo looked dazed, he didn't know whether it was a curse or a blessing to fall into the Eighth Master's Mansion.

In May, Yongzheng and Yunyu's biological mother Renshou Empress Dowager collapsed, Feng'an Zi Palace in Ningshou Palace, Yongzheng comforted his deceased mother, and Fengbeizi Yunyu was given the king of Suijun to help the thirteenth master Yunxiang run errands. The affairs of the court seemed to be calm, and Yongzheng began to drive the Taihe Palace to the court, listen to the courtiers' participation, and discuss the major affairs of the court and the opposition.

The trial of the two cases of Shanxi Deficit and Fraud in the Science and Technology Farm has been concluded, and the three judicial divisions have drawn up the names of each crime and the punishment they deserve. Because there were a lot of people involved, big and small, for fear of causing too much shock in the officialdom, Li Wei and Tuli thought deeply, and did not worship the chapter for the time being, nor did they play in the early dynasty. Only the details of each case were written into a secret fold, and the yellow box was handed into the Heart Cultivation Palace, which was personally cut by Yongzheng after reading it, and then praised the edict of invention.

Li Wei and Tu Lishen came to Chaoyang Gate, met with the minister of the upper study, Yun Xu, and replied to the reasons for the final trial of the two cases. Yun Yu was busy with Enke Chun's list, and he had to agree with the Fourteenth Master to be selected for the list of show girls in the emperor's harem, so he asked Li Wei and Tu Lishen to go directly to the emperor to reply. The reason why he is reluctant to intervene in two major cases is because no matter who he kills or not, it is a matter of offending people. What's more, Nuo Min is the royal prince, Zhang Tinglu is the Viscount of Enxi, and Zhang Tingyu's younger brother. From the former prime minister Zhang Ying to the Zhang family, there are more than 70 people who are officials in the imperial court or in other provinces, and asking him to express his stance to kill Zhang Tinglu offended by a "official website" woven by more than 70 people. No matter who is the emperor, Zhang Tingyu, the prime minister of the two dynasties, will use it, if he can pull the "net" of the Zhang family under his command, why not? Stay in favor and meet in the future. This is the demeanor and courage of his eighth master.

Li Wei and Tu Lishen came to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Xing Nian introduced the two, and Yongzheng was eating. While chewing the rice, Yongzheng said, "Your envoy is done, I listen." ”

Li Weiyuan was a slave of the Yongzheng Domain, so he naturally felt Yongzheng's spleen and stomach, he glanced at Tu Lishen, and then pretended to take out a long script. He didn't read the original text—and he couldn't read the original text, because he didn't know most of the words, but he had an amazing memory, and after Tu Lishen had written the abridged text, he read it to him, and he memorized the main content. Now he picked up the important ones one by one, talked about half a meal, and without the slightest obstruction, he vividly and thoroughly explained the main situation of the two cases. Yongzheng began to listen silently until Li Wei finished speaking, he put down the dishes and chopsticks, slipped off the kang, kicked his boots and just lowered his head and paced. Li Wei and Tu Lishen have been kneeling there, their knees are hurting, and Li Wei has to ask:

"Master, these two cases involve more than 180 officials, and the following 20 members of the ministry to deal with Nuo Min, Luo Jing, Zhang Tinglu, and Yang Mingshi are all on display to the public, and the servants think that the imperial court has a system of discussing relatives and nobles, Nuo Min is the imperial prince, and Zhang Tinglu is the Viscount of Enxi, such a killing seems to be a bit heavier......"

"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people." Yongzheng frowned and thought, "As long as I should be killed, I don't have pity for 1,800!" It's just that according to me, the case of fraud in the field has not yet been clarified, and it is too hasty to close the case in this way, and some people will not accept it. ”

Li Wei and Tu Li knelt there and didn't dare to say anything, they had to be amazed at the depth of Yongzheng's view.

"It's obvious," Yongzheng continued, "The imperial title was prepared by me, and I watched Li Dequan put it into the prepared little gold cube, and Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi saw it on the spot." What's more, Yang Mingshi bought the test questions in the Bolun Building the day before the test questions were taken away from Xiao Jinkui. So, who stole the test questions? Is it a palace maid? Eunuch? Prince or Brother? ”

Li Wei is a master of handling cases, where did he not expect this layer? In order to maintain the royal dignity, he hoped that the emperor would cover it up the most, but Yongzheng pointed it out as soon as he opened his mouth. Li Wei hurriedly kowtowed three times and said:

"The minds of the minions cannot escape the holy lessons. But the matter has alarmed the government and the opposition, and the slave thinks that the affairs in the palace are related to Tianwei, and it is not appropriate to study them in depth. Zhang Tingyu said that the illness was suspected and avoided, but in fact, it meant thinking about the overall situation of the imperial court. ”

"Yes," Yongzheng nodded and continued, "Nuo Min, Luo Jing and others have defied the laws and regulations of the imperial court and ruined my reputation. If they can't punish doctors, do they deserve to be called 'doctors'? Seeing that the money was open, the full executioners of the city, Zhenyi, Nuo Min, and Luo Jing, several Shanxi giant greedy, were all cut in half, and Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi were temporarily detained in the prison and decided after the autumn. ”

Li Wei and Tu Lishen stared at each other. "Beheading" is second only to Ling Chi's torture, according to the regular ministerial decision, it is already serious, I just want to "be kind from the top", and give the mercy of commutation to the emperor, but unexpectedly, Yongzheng added it instead. Li Wei felt that it was too heavy and wanted to admonish, but at this time, a little eunuch came in and reported:

"Long live, Fang Bao handed over the sign at Xihuamen, please see you."

"Mr. Fang is here? When did you arrive in Beijing? Yongzheng's face was overjoyed, and then he lowered his face and said, "Since I have passed, all the officials have called Linggao 'Mr.', and the first emperor still calls Mr. in the world and does not call him by his name, so can you call the name directly?" Go quickly, settle my husband at the military plane and rest, and I will pick him up myself later. ”

"Piercing!" The little eunuch was gone.

Since Kangxi's gift to go into seclusion, Fang Bao has been living in seclusion in a quiet temple in the Zhou family garden in the deep canyon behind the Reclining Buddha Temple in Xishan. Except for Zhang Tingyu, who occasionally went to see his father's best friend and old fellow countryman, few outsiders knew that the "Prime Minister of Buyi" still lived in the suburbs of Beijing, and secretly thought that he had returned to Tongcheng. Before the case was discovered, when Yongzheng chatted with Zhang Tingyu, he also inquired about the situation after Mr. Fang's retirement, and said that when the time was ripe, he must summon this great Confucian to return to the court to participate in the affairs of the court. Zhang Tingyu's answer was always vague, and he did not say whether he lived in seclusion in the suburbs of Beijing or returned to Tongcheng. The three divisions discussed the two cases of Nuo Min and Zhang Tinglu, and 20 Qin criminals were executed, and an old official of the criminal department, when his father-in-law Wang Shizhen was alive, sent the news to Zhang Tingyu. The prime minister of the two dynasties, who was over half a hundred years old, had most of his hair gray overnight.

Zhang Tingyu has four brothers, the eldest brother Tingzan died young, and the younger brother Tingzhen, although he has participated in the scientific examination, but the yellow list has not been released, I don't know if he can be promoted to the jinshi, and the future is still uncertain; The eldest brother Tinglu, who is the first and second place in the palace examination in the 57th year of Kangxi, is a talented and knowledgeable person among the brothers, in his forties, he is making contributions to the country and the family, and when he shines in the court, watching his younger brother being beheaded, how can Zhang Tingyu not move his muscles and bones, and it hurts his liver and intestines? When Ding Wei returned to his hometown and held a funeral for his father, he heard his mother say that his father did not close his eyes for a long time when he was dying, and he muttered about Tinglu and Tingyu's knowledge and career, and he instructed his mother to tell Tingyu that he must urge his two younger brothers to study in high school, be a good person, be a good official, and not insult the Zhang family style of two generations of prime ministers. Now that Brother Tinglu is going to be tortured for nothing, how will he meet his parents' heroic spirits under Jiuquan in the future?

He knew that Tinglu was innocent. As the chief examiner, there was a major fraud case in the field, and both he and Yang Mingshi were at fault for negligence, but once they found that the test questions were leaked, they immediately stopped the exam, sealed the tribute court, and handed over the medal, so they did their duty as ministers and recovered greater losses. Tinglu wanted to say that he was guilty, but he didn't report it immediately after knowing that Hiroshi had revealed the test questions. However, how dare a courtier and a slave report the prince who lives in Yuqing Palace? Even if he goes to explain to Yongzheng now, it will also cause an uproar in the government and the opposition. Thinking about it, Zhang Tingyu had no other way, he couldn't watch Tinglu's younger brother die like this, he had to go to Fang Bao. This is the scene where Fang Bao handed over the sign to the emperor and invited him to see him.

After Li Wei and Tu Lishen left, Yongzheng took out the gold watch in his arms and looked at it, it was just noon, he changed his clothes in a hurry, changed into a blue cotton gauze robe, put a purple Jiang silk jacket on the outside, carefully wrapped a gold-inlaid ancient money thread tie around his waist, wore a gold silk crown, and instructed Xing Niandao:

"Let's go!"

At that time, it was April Mengxia, the weather was getting hotter, Yongzheng was too neatly dressed, and he felt hot after walking for a long time. He was very particular about his appearance, of course he couldn't undress, so he had to shake a Xiangfei bamboo fan non-stop. When he came to the palace gate, he saw the old eunuch Li Dequan walking over in a hurry, Yongzheng stopped and asked:

"You don't wait in the Queen Mother's Palace, what are you doing here?"

"Back to the master's words," the old eunuch with white hair was still in good spirits, and said to Qian'er, "The Internal Affairs Office sent more than 200 show girls, and they came in before the sky was clear, and they were all waiting in Kunning Palace, and the queen mother called the servants to come over to see when the long live passed." ”

"Did the Queen Mother choose?"

"Back to the master. Lafayette said that she had enough people around her, so she didn't choose it. ”

"Then let them stay, and I'll pick them up in the evening." Yongzheng said that, he had already waved his hand and walked towards the military aircraft on the west side of Yongxiang in the Longzong Gate. The Military Aircraft Department is the first institution of the Yongzheng Dynasty, which was opened not long ago, in name of helping the emperor deal with military affairs, but in fact it later became the head of the department as important as the study to deal with military affairs. The young officials who were waiting here did not know Fang Bao, the famous prime minister of the previous dynasty, and when he saw such a bad old man who was untidy and dirty, he thought that he had gone to the wrong place.

These new officials were talking there, leaving Fang Bao aside and no one paying attention. Some people talked about Su Shunqing, a famous prostitute in Gyeonggi, some people talked about Sun Jiagan, who fought with Shangshu, and Liu Molin, a talented man who came to Beijing to try this time. In the midst of the chaos, a shout was heard outside:

"The Holy Driver has arrived—"

Everyone was stunned, and there was a chaotic sound of tables, chairs and benches, so that everyone knelt on the ground and forgot to salute. Fang Bao got up, and was about to kneel down with the corner of his robe, but Yongzheng strode in, picked up Fang Bao, who was no more than ten years older than him, with both hands, and said in a loud voice: "Mr. don't have to be formal, please get up, please get up!" ”

Fang Bao still bowed and said:

"Buyi Fangbud, please long live the emperor Jin'an!"

The ministers who knelt on the ground trembled with fright, only then did they know that the bad old man turned out to be Fang Bao, the leader of the literary world and the prime minister of cloth.

Yongzheng was about to go out with Fang Bao's arm, turned around and said to the ministers kneeling on the ground: "This is the Military Aircraft Department, which is the pivotal place for dealing with military aircraft affairs, who let you come here to mess around, and what are you talking about the powder-headed prostitute?" Well? ”

Among them, there was a slightly larger official product, kowtowing and replying:

"The ministers were commissioned by the Ministry of Officials, and their Majesty resigned before taking office, and they didn't know that this was the military engine room, so they were here to rest and laugh, and begged for forgiveness!"

Yongzheng stopped talking, walked towards the Yangxin Palace with Fang Baojing, turned back to Xing Nian and said: "You send an edict to the Internal Affairs Office, erect an iron sign at this gate, no matter the princes and ministers, nobles and relatives, they are not allowed to enter the military aircraft without following the order, let alone peep in." Also, select a group of people from the guards of the Qianqing Gate to guard here. Then the Ministry of Officials selected six officials with four qualities of ability and political integrity as the military aircraft Zhang Jing, who was on duty here day and night. ”

Yongzheng said a word, and Xing Nian agreed. Xing Nian was about to go on an errand, Yongzheng turned around and smiled at Fang Bao: "I want to talk to Mr. here, but I don't expect it to be so cold, let's go to the Heart Cultivation Palace-" and to the eunuch, "Xing Nian, you go to the imperial dining room, ask the cooks to cook a few good dishes with their hearts, and wait for me to accompany Mr. Fang to dinner." Mr. Fang, let's go in with my Luanyu! ”

"How dare you," Fang Bao said in a loud voice, "The minister is a cloth cloth, how dare he blasphew the king of ten thousand times?" The minister walked with Luan, don't fold the minister's longevity. ”

Yongzheng laughed and said: "Mr. is a master of Confucianism and a disciple of Confucius, do you still believe this?" It's okay, I and my husband can go in the car together. ”

"Minister, be the ...... of the Holy Driver" Fang Bao was so excited that he didn't know what to say. At this time, there were hundreds of officials waiting for Jin to see and enter the study on Tianjie, coming and going, bustling, seeing Yongzheng and Fang Bao walking together, talking while walking, they all knelt down like a hurricane blowing down the wheat field.

Yongzheng took Fang Bao into the Heart Cultivation Palace, then sat on the dragon chair, asked someone to move the embroidered dragon magnetic pier, invited Fang Bao to sit, and the monarch and ministers urged each other to talk.

"Mr. Linggao," Yongzheng said with a smile, "as soon as I ascend the throne, I hope that Mr. will return to the court as a counselor, why are you delaying the future?" ”

"yes, it's been almost two years." Fang Bao said lightly, "The first emperor simply pulled out the micro ministers in the grassy countryside, not reused, words must be heard, plans must be followed, and there is no right in ancient and modern times." The scholar doctor reported to the monarch and prepared for the country, and he should do his best. However, the ministers are ashamed of the first emperor, how dare they hope for the grace of the two worlds? ”

"It's been said, it's been said."

"The minister came to see the emperor this time because he asked for the wise holy lord."

"Mr. Linggao," Yongzheng seemed to realize that Fang Bao took the initiative to ask for a meeting, and he must have said something, and suddenly sat down in danger, "But it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”

"Your Majesty," Fang Bao said straight to the point, "The two cases of Shanxi and Kechang have shocked the government and the public, and everyone at home knows about them. It is said that the three divisions and ministries, Nuo Min, Zhang Tinglu and other 20 officials discussed and decided, I don't know what the saint will do? ”

"Nuo Min and Luo Jing ignored the laws and regulations of the imperial court, and they willingly abandoned the city!"

"What about Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi?"

"If you discuss it after the autumn, you can't help but ask about it!"

"Your Majesty, the ministers thought they were all set heavy. In the case of Nuo Min, it is obvious that officials from Shanxi Tong Province colluded to cheat, and Nuo Min, as the chief official, invited the lord to take credit, which is a serious crime. However, subordinate officials have rarely pursued it, and it seems that Nuomin's sentence should be slightly lighter. It is not only a Shanxi official, but also a rare dignity for the imperial court, so that it is appropriate for him to commit suicide. Fang Bao had no scruples, and said to himself, "As for Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi, the minister thought that it had not been examined. Among them, there are twists and turns, right and wrong, which can only be understood, not spoken. In particular, the party Zhang Tinglu, in order to protect the Longwei of the Heavenly Family, would rather plead with himself to be aggrieved and say nothing in the lobby......"

"Oh? Is this true? Yongzheng was stunned.

"It is true." Fang Bao paused, and said carefully, "In order to protect the third prince Hongshi, Zhang Tingyu blamed His Majesty, and Zhang Tinglu would rather die than say it." They did this because they were afraid that the emperor would know the truth, move the anger of Longwei, hurt the third elder brother, and cause the dispute between the princes of the Kangxi Dynasty and the disaster of the national prince! ”

"Hmm, got it, got it!" Yongzheng stood up and paced excitedly and said, "Zhang Ying father and son, prime ministers of two dynasties, and loyal ministers. I didn't expect Zhang Tinglu to take into account my dignity and the overall situation of the imperial court, and he would rather ......" He walked back to Fang Bao, held his hand tightly and said, "Thank you, Mr. for coming to remind me, otherwise it will be a big loss for me!" Someone's coming! ”

"Piercing!" Xing Nian had just entered the door and immediately greeted him.

"Immediately pass the decree, release Zhang Tinglu and Yang Mingshi out of the prison, and go home to temporarily recuperate."

"Pierce." Xing Nian agreed, and said, "Long live the lord, the imperial meal has been delivered, do you want to eat now?" ”

"Good. Mr. Fang, you're hungry! He walked towards the East Pavilion with Fang Bud in his hand. Fang Baowu was full of joy.