Chapter 205

A banquet was set up on the water pavilion, Zhang Mao's self-respecting identity was naturally not at the same table, Zhang Lun was the east to accompany him, Song Nan wanted to call Wan Zhi and Wang Yong, the personal guards of Beizhen Fusi, who followed him, to come up and drink two glasses of water and wine, but these two people were very interesting, and said that the duty of protecting Shangguan was important, and they resolutely did not go to the table to drink, and only ate some meals in the hall outside with the brothers of the personal guard, so they stood outside the water pavilion in twos and threes.

Song Nan also had the intention of temptation, Wan Zhi and Wang Yong were the people of the Zhenfu Division after all, and they deliberately called them here today, just to take advantage of this temptation, and these two people didn't know whether they were sincerely loyal to their duties or deliberately avoided suspicion.

Zhang Lun was diligent in toasting, although Zhang Mao did not appreciate it, but Zhang Lun still thanked Song Nan from the bottom of his heart, after all, because of this matter, Zhang Lun got the position of concurrently leading the Shenji Battalion, if he didn't have this merit, even if he got this position, I am afraid he would be criticized.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian jointly came to meet with the British public Zhang Mao, and they came to ask Zhang Mao to give a reasonable explanation for Zhang Lun's involvement; Although Zhang Lun claimed to have led his troops to the West School Field to practice and passed by, and it was purely accidental to save Song Nan, but this reason is obviously untenable, Zhang Lun led the Fenwu Battalion to be stationed in Dongcheng, and to practice is to go to the Dongcheng School Field, and it is nothing to go to the West School Field, but it happened to meet Song Nan and them outside the Daming Gate on time, which is a little suspicious.

Zhang Mao naturally appeased the two cabinet scholars, assuring that it was pure coincidence that the British government would never participate in the inner court struggle, and Zhang Lun would never support Liu Jin and lead troops to participate; With the guarantee of Grandpa Guo, the two scholars left with peace of mind.

Song Nan faintly smelled an unusual smell from this incident, that day the cabinet of the palace impeached Liu Jin failed, and it was not Xingshi to come to the Guogong Mansion immediately afterwards to ask about the crime, the real purpose was to ask Zhang Mao's position. This shows that the civil servants are not willing to lose, if the British government represents the nobles and magnates are still neutral, if they support Liu Jin, the civil officials are afraid that the next round of attacks against Liu Jin and others is unlikely to succeed.

The actions of the cabinet scholars revealed a dangerous signal that the foreign court officials would carry out the next attack, and it is unknown when, where, and when.

Song Nan understands that with his current strength, he is basically alone, and he has almost no helpers in the court, and once he is attacked and impeached, he will not even come out to speak; Zhengde may excuse himself, and it may be Liu Jin and a few of them, but if Liu Jin is also under the spearhead, he is too busy to take care of himself, how can he help himself exonerate?

Song Nan asked himself more than once, if the civil officials launched a recital against Liu Jin again, would they help or not? helped, put himself on the cusp of the storm, and the result of the good was to thwart the civil officials' proposals, Liu Jin's status was the same, and he could also be preserved; As a result, Liu Jin fell and he was implicated.

Zhang Mao said very clearly, many people have regarded themselves as Liu Jin's party, and Liu Jin has fallen, and he has no luck. I'm afraid that many people already know the Tao of the Tao between themselves and the Guogong Mansion, not to mention anything else, Mu Bin and the upper echelons of Jinyiwei must all know the Dao, and the little county lord never shy away from suspicion when he comes to his house, plus Zhang Lun's unexpected coincidence this time to help himself, once these things are connected, how can they not hide from those officials who are extremely shrewd. Song Nan was a little suspicious that Li Dongyang and Xie Qian's other purpose in coming to the British Mansion was to find out what the relationship between himself and the Guogong Mansion was.

To help or not to help? The answer seems to be obvious, if you don't help, Liu Jin will be finished, and she will be finished, and there will be a glimmer of life if you help; Song Nan suddenly realized that he seemed to be invisible, but in fact, he had already been deeply involved in it.

Song Nan had a headache, the choice was a dilemma, there was a huge risk in how to choose, the only thing that could be expected was that the inner and outer courts were safe, and there was no need to make this choice by himself.

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However, the fact is developing in a situation that Song Nan does not want to see, on October 19, the coffin of the former emperor Hongzhi was moved to the Tai Mausoleum chamber that had completed the underground Xuangong for burial, and before that, the coffin was temporarily placed in the Taimiao Temple for worship. With the coffin of Emperor Hongzhi ceremoniously buried in the Tailing, everyone realized that the era of the first emperor was indeed over, and the name of the eighteenth year of Hongzhi will forever become a thing of the past, and the year will be the first year of Zhengde.

The civil and military officials were all in tears on the day of the burial, and the most fierce ones who cried were the civil officials of the outer court. People with a heart can naturally read a deep meaning from these poems, and such a grand reminiscence of the former emperor, from another point of view, is the dissatisfaction with the new emperor since his accession to the throne.

People are not as good as they are old! When the emperor was alive, the civil officials were very moisturized, the first emperor was very respectful to the civil servants, and most of the reasonable or unreasonable requirements of the civil officials were satisfied.

When the old and new emperors are compared, they know that the difference is like the difference between heaven and earth; The first emperor was diligent, and he was summoned to the court and the platform in the morning and evening, and he could go straight to the Qianqing Palace to play if he had something, but the new emperor was not even on time in the early dynasty, whether he was sick and lazy, and he didn't see a shadow for a few days.

The emperor participated respectfully at the feast, listening to the Confucian scholars preaching the classics of history like a well-behaved primary school student, rain or shine; The new emperor, the feast has become an ornament, often verbally promised, swearing, when the time comes, there will be no trace, and there is no one in the palace; The teachings that had been thought of were held in the stomach and nowhere to preach, and a group of people stared at each other from the morning bell to the dusk drum, and finally had to sigh helplessly.

In government affairs, after the original fold was submitted, the emperor would carefully annotate, and if there were differences of opinion, he would summon the ministers to discuss, seek common ground while reserving differences, and the wind of harmony, the eunuch Wang Yue, the former eunuch of the master of ceremonies, rarely made an obstacle from it; And now, the fold is handed over, there is no news for a few days, several major events have been shelved or dismissed, and the news from the palace says that most of the emperor's folds have been handed over to Liu Jin to deal with, and it is Liu Jin's idea to be shelved and dismissed.

On October 23, when the news came that the construction of the Xiyuan Leopard House had finally started and the budget had reached 650,000 taels, the anger of the cabinet and the civil officials of the ministries could no longer be suppressed.

That night, Li Dongyang gathered in his mansion the three major scholars of the cabinet, the six ministries and nine secretaries, and the left and right servants of various departments, and dozens of civil servants from the six departments to discuss countermeasures, and reached a consensus almost without objection.

The Hangul of the Hubu Shangshu wrote a chapter to impeach Liu Jin and others, and synthesized the eunuchs who followed Liu Jin, Zhang Yong, Gao Feng, Qiu Ju, and others from the East Palace, and now all hold important positions, into the 'Eight Tigers'; that is, they alluded to the tigers and wolves around the emperor, and counted dozens of Eight Tiger crimes, including instigating the emperor to have fun and playing, abandoning government affairs, squandering the treasury property, disrupting government affairs with dictatorship, forming a party and crowding out loyal ministers, and other major crimes.

This time, the civil officials made up their minds to force Zhengde to make amends, to eliminate all evil, let Zhengde kill the Eight Tigers and punish his comrades, and restore the government and government.

Once the civil officials initiated, it was also very terrifying, and a group of people racked their brains to make a list of the Eight Tigers' comrades, and Song Nan's name was among them.

At the fourth watch of the night, Liu Jin, who stayed in the palace, was awakened by Qiu Ju's hurried footsteps, and Qiu Ju also stayed in the Dongchang Yamen outside the Donghua Gate, but a captain outside the palace entered the palace late at night and told him an explosive news, which almost scared Qiu Ju out of urine, so Qiu Ju hurried to see Liu Jin.

Liu Jin didn't say a word, and hurriedly left the palace and returned to his outer house outside the Dong'an Gate, in the dark courtyard of the outer house, Jiao Fang, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was pacing back and forth anxiously waiting for him.

didn't even have time to greet him, Jiao Fang brought out the actions discussed by Li Dongyang, Han Wen and others earlier.

Liu Jin, who was sweating because of the news, calmed down after the news was confirmed.

"Master Jiao, will you launch it against them tomorrow morning?"

"Yes, Father-in-law Liu, this time they are iron-hearted, Han Wen said, let the emperor order to behead a few of you, and swear not to give up until the goal is achieved, Father-in-law Liu, but be careful, all I can do is pass the news, and I will follow them to seconded the proposal tomorrow morning, otherwise they will suspect me, Father-in-law Liu should not be surprised."

Liu Jin nodded and said, "Of course I won't blame you, you have already done your best for our family." ”

Jiao Fang said: "Does Father-in-law Liu have a way to deal with it?" ”

Liu Jin said coldly: "Want to kill me? Is it that easy? I will have a way, our family is not Wang Yue Fan Heng, and when the matter comes, he stretches his neck and waits for death. ”

Jiao Fang nodded and said: "It's okay to do it yourself, Gonggong Liu, this time a lot of people were involved, let me tell you, Mu Bin was also present tonight, hiding in the side room and not showing up, but I saw it." ”

Liu Jin exclaimed: "Mu Bin? Jinyiwei is also involved? ”

"Yes, the cabinet scholars are not growing up, in order to deal with the father-in-law, even the usually disdainful Jinyiwei has been brought in, and there is a person named Song Nan in the list of implications this time, isn't it the one who helped you bring down Wang Yue and Fan Heng last time? He is listed as your comrade, and I am afraid that he will not be able to escape. ”

Liu Jin suddenly laughed, nodded and said: "It's good to be implicated, it's good to be implicated, I'm still worried that he will be a turtle with a shrunken head, you go back earlier, Mo Jiao is suspicious, and if you have inside information, tell me immediately." ”

Jiao Fang left worriedly, Liu Jin wanted to discuss the matter with Qi Bahu immediately, but after thinking about it, he suddenly got up and shouted: "Prepare the horse, our family can't sleep peacefully, and someone can't have a good dream." ”