Ye Xianggao bowed down in front of Zhang Gui: "Please ask Uncle Guo to intercede for the old decay, so that Your Majesty will only treat the old decay as a common person or a frontier, and keep the old decay and remnants!" ”

Zhang Gui was both disappointed and helpless when he saw this: "Why do you want to do this! No matter how you say it, he is also the first assistant of the dignified and the leader of Donglin, but he is so humble in front of one of my relatives, which is really detrimental to the spirit of this dynasty's scholars! Could it be that the Hongzhi Dynasty is like Li Mengyang, who holds papaya and smashes his relatives, and is no longer in my Ming Dynasty? ”

Saying that, Zhang Gui said again: "What's more, now Your Majesty needs to use your life to warn the ministers behind you, if you only seek your life and not the country, and even do not allow others to seek the country, then the end is not as good as those who seek the country, so you must die today!" The people of the world also need extremely selfish ministers like you to use their lives to wake up the ministers behind them, to govern for the world, not for the people of the world, it is really better to fall into mud and nourish the people of the world. ”

Half an hour later, without waiting for Zhang Gui to pick him up in person, Ye Xianggao stood up trembling by himself, staring at Zhang Gui with a pair of cloudy eyes with heavy eyelids, and sneered: "Your Majesty is young and too sharp, so you want to reform the evils of the world, and the old man understands." ”

As he spoke, Ye Xianggao asked Zhang Gui again: "But why is Uncle Guo also worried about all the people in the world?!" ”

"I really don't understand the old decay, after all, you are a relative, and you are already rich and noble, so why do you care about the government?"

"Even if you want to be favored, you don't have to worry about the life or death of people in the world. But now, you are concerned, and every sentence seems to be blaming the old decay for misleading the country and the people, just like in Xiyuan before! ”

There is only one reason why you say this. That is, you must think that my Ming Dynasty is going to die in less than twenty or thirty years! ”

"Yes and no?"

Ye Xianggao then asked.

Zhang Gui laughed: "You are the first assistant, you can see through my mind so quickly." ”

"But it's still too late, and the servant should have seen it a long time ago."

Ye Xianggao smiled bitterly and said, "At the beginning, the servant thought that you were flattering Your Majesty, just like your relatives in history, just to have greater power. It was only after Xiyuan was blamed by you that His Majesty forced His Majesty to speak with a knife, and it was after you took the initiative to restore Jiangling's reputation that the servant realized that it was wrong, and now listening to your words, the servant knows more clearly that you are different from other relatives, and other relatives will not speak for Jiangling. ”

Zhang Gui nodded: "So you shouldn't have prejudices against me from the beginning, you should first find me to take the initiative to communicate, maybe you won't be the end now, instead of forcing the emperor to drive me back to my hometown at the beginning because I offered a new carriage, and even instructed the official to impeach me, or even put me to death." It can be seen that it was you, the scholar, who hurt yourself from the beginning. ”

Ye Xianggao only looked up to the sky and sighed: "Things in the world, things in the world are unpredictable!" ”

Then, Ye Xianggao suddenly asked Zhang Gui with a serious face: "Why do you think that the Ming Dynasty is not far away?!" ”

Zhang Gui thought for a while and replied: "Because I found that there are too many people like you now!" shrewd but extremely self-interested, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but only thinking about how to eat more of the people in the world. ”

Ye Xianggao was speechless.

After a while, Ye Xianggao asked again: "Uncle Guo must have come here not only to send servants on the road, right?" ”

Zhang Gui nodded: "That's right, you Ye Fuqing is the leader of Donglin, Yang Dahong and Qian Muzhai can't compare with you, and there are too many people in Donglin, all over the government and the opposition, you can't be completely slaughtered because the dragons have no leader after you Ye Fuqing leaves, right?" ”

"Although I don't like you Donglin people, I still have to admit that some of you are still available, while some of you are extremely evil and a great scourge to disrupt the imperial court."

"And you know these people best, because they are almost all your protégés and relatives and friends."

So, you write a list of people who are available and who are not, who are not only unavailable but even used for copying, and who are not only available but even reused. To write clearly, this is the last contribution that you Ye Xianggao can make to the imperial court over the years. ”

"Yu Gong, the next innovation and elimination of fraud in the imperial court needs talents, and even those who are familiar with the situation in Jiangnan are from Jiangnan. Yu Private, you shouldn't want your protégés and former officials to be expelled from the court because of your departure, so who will rehabilitate you in the future? ”

After Zhang Gui said this, Ye Xianggao sighed: "Anyway, for the country and the people, the servant should indeed write out, who should be protected in the future and who should not be protected." ”

As he spoke, Ye Xianggao shouted, "Bring the pen!" ”

Zhang Gui gave Yang Huan a look.

Yang Huan personally handed over the pen, and consciously left Ye Xianggao's cell with the official school present.

Ye Xianggao strode forward, sat on the bench, and pressed the white paper on the desk to write.

"Among the ministers, Han Yi and Liu Yixie, the servants will not mention it, Uncle Guo must be clear: Han Yidun is knowledgeable, and he can use it, but let him govern to reform the world's shortcomings, I am afraid that he will be powerless, and this person will not be able to suppress the world's officials; Liu Yixian is short-sighted, greedy and cunning, and should be copied! ”

"And among my Donglin people, the one who can be used, Yuan Keli, is a great talent!"

"Li Sancai, you can be punished and raided, you are greedy, I am about to die, but I don't have to cover it up for him."

"Sun Chengzong can be reused and has a big mind, but he can't be considered a big country."

"Yang Lian is honest and outspoken, but he often doesn't know the general situation, and when he is degraded, staying in Beijing will only harm him and the country."

"Lu Xiangsheng, I am in the East Forest, and I am both civil and military, and I have a strategy, which can be of great use!"

"Qian Qianyi, it can only be used for Hanlin, it can be used but not greatly."

"Hou Xun, forming a party for personal gain, the portal is quite important, and it is not available."

"Zhou Yanru, love money like life!"

"Li Banghua, from a humble background, has the ambition to rectify the world, and can be of great use!"

……

Ye Xianggao listed all the Donglin Party officials seriously and wrote his own evaluation.

Zhang Gui has to admit that people are good at dying, and the people mentioned by Ye Xianggao are basically very consistent with their performance later in history.

In addition, he had to admit that Ye Xianggao was actually knowledgeable, and it was no wonder that he could make Donglin people respectful, but he just didn't want to be the second Zhang Juzheng.

"You said that you, if you want to seek the country, with your ability to know people, you don't have to worry about not being able to get the name of a master in your lifetime."

The last person in the Ming Dynasty to be crowned a master was Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Gui's words are self-evident.

Ye Xianggao just smiled and honestly continued to write the Donglin list.

"Yuan Keli, Li Banghua, Lu Xiangsheng, these people who can be used, you write them a handwritten letter, let them follow the emperor in the future, the time is still early, it will be delayed until tomorrow morning, and it will not be too late for you to go on the road again."

Zhang Gui commanded again after he finished writing.

Ye Xianggao glanced at Zhang Gui after hearing this: "Wei Zhongxian just wants my Ye family's money, but your uncle wants the Ye family, and he is even more ruthless than his surname Wei!" ”

Zhang Gui really wanted to take away Ye Xianggao's political legacy and squeeze out his last bit of value, and said: "Not only them, but your wife and children, I will also take care of them." ”

"You!"

Ye Xianggao looked at Zhang Gui in surprise, gritted his teeth and said, "The servant is only ten years old!" ”

Zhang Gui smiled: "It seems that you are not old!" No wonder there is a greedy love for life. ”

Ye Xianggao asked again: "The servants wrote, they may not necessarily listen." ”

Zhang Gui said: "It doesn't matter, those who are really available will personally come to investigate and see how the emperor acts." ”

"Okay, just write it."

Ye Xianggao replied.

With the sound of a rooster crowing into the edict, Ye Xianggaocai carried a pair of sore hands on the road and was hanged in the edict.

……

Zhang Gui, who stayed up all night, went to Xiyuan with the Donglin list, and coincidentally, he saw Wei Zhongxian carrying many large boxes with people.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian saw Zhang Gui, he hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "Uncle Guo, you can now ask our family for silver, guess how much our family copied, the silver is more than 300,000 taels!" ”

Zhang Gui said lightly: "It's average, believe it or not, I can copy ten million taels for you at one time in the future." ”

Zhang Gui knew that Wei Zhongxian wanted to prove himself, but he deliberately didn't give Wei Zhongxian any praise.