Seeing that Yu Qian made his own choice, Liu Zhongfu could only shake his head and sigh, he knew very well the temperament of his old friend, he was definitely not a sycophant, and his choice of silence was more from the perspective of his family and country.

Now there is no room for silence, he can only be loyal to the etiquette and Taoism in his heart.

"Tingyi, I still remember that you once wrote these two sentences, the heart of the hard to bully, the fearful of the sky."

"There are very few people in the world who can do these eight characters, but if they really do it, will they definitely end well?"

Liu Zhongfu's rhetorical question has become a reality in history, and Yu Qian, who was restored to Nangong as the secretary of the military department and the governor of the world, is fully capable of stopping and changing the trend of history.

At that time, as long as he stopped the actions of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, and then waited for Zhu Qiyu to succeed him, whether he let Zhu Jianshen succeed to the throne or find a younger prince to succeed him, he could almost ensure his powerful position, and at least his life was worry-free.

But if Yu Qian did this, it would be equivalent to interfering with the imperial family's imperial inheritance with the power of his courtiers. In the eyes of the people of the world, he is Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao and the like, supporting the young emperor to ascend the throne and monopolize the power, I am afraid that he will not be subordinate!

If such a situation evolves, all the forces in the court will not be convinced, and a powerful relative like Shi Heng will definitely oppose it. In addition, will the local clan princes, such as the highly respected King Xiang, rise up and maintain Zhu Ming's family inheritance in the name of "Qing Jun's side"?

At that time, Yu Qian was very aware of the consequences of his meddling in the succession to the throne, and he couldn't bear the fact that the world was full of disasters and the lives of the people, and finally stood by and acquiesced in the restoration of Nangong, which led to his own death.

In many cases, being loyal to the principle and heart is morally noble, but the benefits for the individual are far less than those who know the times.

Liu Zhongfu didn't want to see Yu Qian standing on the opposite side of the emperor, and now the ceremonial supervisor and the cabinet have been completely controlled by Zhu Qiyu, the Jingtai Emperor, and the disobedient six ministries have installed He Wenyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Yiming, the secretary of the Ministry of War, will also take office immediately.

At that time, both inside and outside the government and the opposition will be the emperor's cronies, and you alone Yu Qian will follow the rules of etiquette and law, what is the use of opposing Yi Chu?

"Good end?"

Hearing Liu Zhongfu's words, Yu Qian smiled, and smiled very freely and calmly.

"Ziji, I've never considered the end of the game as an official, what about broken bones, innocence will stay in the world."

In the same situation, Yu Qian and Shen Yichen's trade-offs are completely different, one can be more treacherous than a traitor, to achieve the ideal in his heart. The other one, but he would rather die uprightly, and he would have been perfect, and Gu Yi would have died to protect the society.

That's why, Shen Yichen knew that he couldn't become Yu Qian.

But in the same way, he also knows that a pure idealist like Yu Qian can't change the world!

On the other side, Shen Yichen withdrew from the duty room of Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, and came to his duty room and pushed open the wooden door, but unexpectedly found that Shang Zhen was already sitting inside, and Zhao Ranyuan, a member of the middle school, happened to be making tea.

Seeing Shen Yichen come in, both of them were overjoyed, and then Shang Yuan got up and greeted him and said, "To the north, I have been looking forward to you for a long time, and now I finally hope that you are coming from Monan Mongolia!" ”

"Hongzai, you haven't been so hypocritical before, where did you learn this set in two years?"

Shen Yichen replied with a smile, the two are too familiar, so there is no need to make some false politeness.

"Zhao Ranyuan, a scholar in the lower officials, meet the elder Shen Ge."

Compared with the casualness of the business, although Zhao Ranyuan, a scholar in the middle school, was also looking forward to happiness in his heart, his identity and status were too far apart from Shen Yichen, and he had not seen him for a long time, so he subconsciously prepared to perform a big gift in accordance with the "Daming Huidian".

But at the moment when he was about to kneel, Shen Yichen held up Zhao Ranyuan and said: "Zhao Zhongshu, didn't this cabinet say it a long time ago, seeing that I don't need to make a big salute, did you forget it after a long time?"

Listening to Shen Yichen's slightly ridiculous tone, Zhao Ranyuan smiled honestly, and did not insist on this matter, but arched his hand and said: "Then the lower official will not bother Shen Pavilion and Shang Pavilion Elder to talk about the old days, and retire first." ”

After Zhao Ranyuan walked out of the duty room, Shen Yichen and Shang Zhen sat in front of the small table, and Shang Zhen spoke first: "Xiangbei, you have suffered a lot in the past few years, and the whole person looks a lot of weight loss." ”

"It's not hard, compared with ordinary soldiers, my treatment is much better."

As soon as he heard Shen Yichen say the word "soldier", a worried look appeared on Shang Shi's face and said: "To the north, I didn't participate in the celebration banquet in the cabinet, but I heard that you openly asked Your Majesty for military merit silver. ”

"Maybe you have been out of town in the past two years, and you don't know much about the situation in the DPRK and China, it can be said that natural disasters are frequent, and even the cabinet minister Miao Zhongtang has been impeached and resigned in order to bear the fault. In addition, in order to raise military salaries, the head of the household department almost fell ill at the beginning of last year and almost didn't survive, and the treasury really couldn't make ends meet, so he still had to do what he could. ”

Shang Shi seemed to be talking about the financial difficulties of the DPRK and China, but Shen Yichen heard the other party's voice, so he quietly poured a cup of tea, and after tasting it, he said slowly: "Hongzai, did you hear some news and come to warn me?" ”

"Where, I'm just afraid that you will anger Your Majesty in a hurry, so I will briefly remind you."

After the Yichou Science Hall exam, Shang Yu passed the official election of the Hanlin Academy, and studied books and studies for several years, and was not very familiar with the sleek and false officialdom. Even if he has been in the cabinet for nearly three years now, he is still not good at disguising his emotions, at least Shen Yichen can see at a glance that it is very fake.

"Hongzai, let's make it clear, I've been used to going straight in the past two years."

Shen Yichen's words have come to this point, and Shang Yu understood that there was no need to go around in circles again, so he nodded and said: "There are already rumors in the palace that you discussed with Your Majesty in the imperial study yesterday, and you are ready to deduct the clan as military merit silver again. ”

"To the north, this is not feasible, you will become the one who loses everyone!"

Shang Chen has been in the center of the cabinet all these years, and naturally knows how much turmoil the DPRK and China caused when Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was the queen of Bintian. Yanguan Qingliu collectively impeached Shen Yichen, and the clan vassal kings all came up to admonish Zhu Qiyu.

Later, he still relied on the household department Shangshu Jin Lian, and forcibly took out the salary from the Xuanda military expenses and distributed it to the emperor's relatives, and Shen Yichen won a great victory against Wuliang Ha Sanwei, which suppressed the turmoil.

Two years have passed, the hostility of the Qingliu in the DPRK to Shen Yichen still exists, and the act of killing the monarch has trampled on the principles and morals, and subverted the lifelong belief in etiquette, law, and Taoism of the scholar class, how can it be easy to accept such rebellious ministers and thieves?

If Shen Yichen offended the vassal princes again, Shang Yu couldn't imagine how he could gain a foothold in the court!

"Rumors?"

Hearing this, a playful smile appeared on the corner of Shen Yichen's mouth, he discussed with Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu about the matter of deducting the clan's wealth, and there was no one else in the imperial study, how could it be spread so quickly?

By the way, there is still a celebrant at the door who is in charge of Xing'an, but as a veteran of the Five Dynasties, the official residence is at the level of "internal minister", what should be said and what should not be said, didn't he count it in his heart?

"Hongzai, when you can hear this rumor, it means that His Majesty is putting pressure on me, and I have to do it, understand?"

Shen Yichen's words made Shang Yan stunned for a moment, and with his intelligence, he instantly figured out the intention behind it, and indeed only the emperor wanted everyone to know that the conversation in the imperial study could be spread so quickly.

"Your Majesty, in order to pass through Yi Chu smoothly, let you bear the fire of the clan relatives and ministers!"

Shang Zhen said this sentence word by word, his face was a little painful, as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and he can be regarded as a personal experience at this moment.

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"No, Xiangbei, you can't afford this Qianfu's finger, even if there is a grandfather behind him to rely on, he can't withstand the pressure of his relatives!"

The idiom of the emperor's relatives and relatives, placed in other dynasties, refers to the relatives of the descendants. But in the Ming Dynasty, it can be replaced by Xun Qi, who in many cases have replaced the role of clan relatives in a sense and are closely bound to the emperor.

For example, in an institution that manages the affairs of the royal clan, the position of the supreme governor is always held by the Duke of the Imperial Family. In addition, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the decline of the real power of the military generals, they did a lot of things that were all kinds of "sacrifices".

What Temple of Heaven, Taimiao, suburban temple, the tombs of the first emperors, etc., these things were originally done by the royal family, and they were all replaced by Xun Qi.

If the clan is moved, it is impossible for the Xunqi group to be alone, you must know that their income can be different from the dozens of stone of civil officials, and even far exceed the ordinary clan and county kings at the level of the national prince, second only to the prince of the Ming Dynasty, up to 5,000 stones.

Shen Yichen can still rely on the military power in his hands outside, in addition to the slowly rising "same party" in the court, he relies more on the Xun Qi group headed by Cheng Guogong, and deducting the clan means betrayal!

In the face of the dissuasion of the merchants, Shen Yichen said with a wry smile on his face: "Hongzai, I know that you have the ambition and mind to help the world, but after joining the office, you have always been in the center of the Beijing Division, and you have not gone out of the town to witness with your own eyes what kind of life the lowest-level people live." ”

"Shandong controls the water, I saw that the land of the three provinces and eight provinces was starving all over the wilderness, and the officials led by King Lu were thinking about how to annex these ownerless fertile fields to become the palace after ten rooms and nine emptiness."

"Fujian put down the rebellion, and the officers and soldiers of the guard post were defeated in successive battles, and they could only lie in the dim camp tent and wait for death, without even the most basic treatment. But the camp tent of the guards across the wall is doing daytime prostitution with delicious food and wine! ”

"Many people inside and outside the government and the opposition compliment me on my ability to be a general, but do you know why I was able to win the battle?"

"It's not that I use soldiers like gods, it's just that I don't deduct the salaries of the border soldiers, so that they and their families can eat a bowl of full rice, and the Ming Tiger Ben are willing to fight to the death for me!"

"Now that they have given me their lives, and I can't buy them money for their lives, what kind of face do you think I will have in the future to face those soldiers who fought for the country and pay tribute to the souls of the heroes who died on the battlefield?"

Shen Yichen faced the courtiers and even his family, he couldn't say these words, and now facing him, a like-minded person, he could finally say what was in his heart, and tears couldn't stop falling under the emotional impact.

In the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, this military merit silver is only hundreds of thousands of taels of money, and if there is no money, it will be owed first, and the battle will be over anyway. But Shen Yichen can't take this simplicity as a penny, he has too much trust and expectations on him, and he can't live up to it!

Looking at Shen Yichen's tearful appearance, the psychological impact on Shang Zhen was also extremely huge. In his impression, Shen Yichen has always been a big husband who stands up to the sky, even in the face of a powerful eunuch like Wang Zhen and an arbitrary king like Zhu Qizhen, he did not show his weak side.

Now he is crying like a child for hundreds of thousands of taels of military merit?

Shang Shi didn't know what Shen Yichen had experienced over the years, but he understood the reason why Shen Yichen had to do it.

"To the north, since you are determined to do so, then I will join forces with you."

"As an official for one term, for the benefit of one party, I do lack the experience of going out of town, but I have not forgotten the original intention of becoming an official!"

At this time, Shang Chen's expression was extremely firm, and he watched the concerts of various state capitals in the Ming Dynasty in the cabinet every year, how could he not know how the people were doing?

In order to distribute the clan money, it led to the crushing defeat of the Xuanda border army, and this situation must not be repeated in the future. Shen Yichen went up alone, if there was really a group attack and caused turmoil inside and outside the government and the opposition, the emperor was likely to make a move to abandon his son.

Shang Chen made up his mind to join forces to advance and retreat, and the influence brought by the two ministers would be stronger than one after all.

Hearing the words of Shang Yi willing to fight side by side, Shen Yichen felt an indescribable relief in his heart, I am not alone!

But Shen Yichen didn't want to involve Shang Chen, since Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu wanted to use his own sparseness to deduct the clan's superiors to attract the hatred of the clan vassal kings and share the pressure against Yi Chu.

Then he can also take advantage of the "momentum" and use the imperial power to take the opportunity to make trouble, ignite the war on Zhu Qiyu's body, and see what price he is willing to pay for Yi Chu.

I saw Shen Yichen with full indignation, came to the front of the book table to lay paper and polish ink, and then under the gaze of Shang Yuan, he wrote four big characters on the far right of the chapter - the theory of the disadvantages of the sect!

Seeing Shen Yichen using this as the title, Shang Yu immediately had an ominous premonition in his heart, and Shangshu asked the emperor to temporarily detain the clan and give priority to the soldiers of the conscription army, is it necessary to use this kind of "alarmist" word?

Unless Shen Yichen wants to be sparse, it's not just as simple as deducting the clan's fortunes, he also has a bigger plan!

That's right, Shen Yichen was willing to cooperate with Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu to be the first bird from beginning to end, not to deduct more than 400,000 taels of silver from the clan. He wanted to fundamentally reverse the parasitic blood-sucking nature of the Ming Dynasty clan and reduce the burden of exploitation for the people of the world.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to cause a shock in the government and the opposition, and all aspects of the emperor's ministers will choose to silence and minimize the influence of the spread. But Shen Yichen is now Mu Xiu Yulin, countless pairs of eyes are staring at him, and Emperor Jingtai still needs him to shift his gaze smoothly.

The degree of sensation of the content of "The Disadvantages of the Sect and the Domain" is not known whether it will be "unprecedented" Shen Yichen in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but at least there should be no problem with "unprecedented", and Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu can attract any attention he wants, it depends on whether he dares to send it out for Yi Chu.

As a double-edged sword, if you want to use it to hurt others, you have to have the consciousness of hurting yourself!