After Zhang Guimeng woke up, he didn't call anyone in, but continued to sit in place and ponder.

Because it was late at night, everything was silent, and all the attendants had slept peacefully, except for the sergeant who was on duty outside the tent, there was only a full moon to accompany him.

Zhang Gui suddenly missed Shang Jinghui and his own children, Shang Jinghui's soft and fair body, and the way he smiled with his son.

And this thought made Zhang Gui also want to live his own small life comfortably, and he was unwilling to go into the whirlpool of political struggle.

But in this country where the power can guarantee the safety of life and property, Zhang Gui knows that he may not be able to escape.

The people can be destroyed by the officials.

And his own uncle will also be copied by the emperor.

Even the emperor himself was overboarded, strangled or hanged by the bureaucracy that abandoned him behind his back.

A sense of insecurity arose spontaneously in Zhang Gui's heart.

Zhang Gui knew that the root cause was because he was not a member of the scholars, but he had more power than any scholar in the scholarly class.

Because if you want to talk about who are the most secure people in this era, that is the scholars!

There is no way, who makes the scholar class the most powerful among the bureaucratic landlord class.

Until now, the operation of the Ming Empire and the implementation of any policy still had to rely on the bureaucratic system composed of thousands of scholars and doctors across the country.

As long as these people don't go too far, they can live a quiet life without worrying about changing the dynasty, and they can even do some charity and change some good reputation.

And he Zhang Gui is a relative, if he is not in power, although he is not a scholar, but because of the relationship between the scholar and the emperor, coupled with the marriage between his family and the scholar class, he can also live a quiet life.

But now that he is in power, he is relied on by the apocalypse, and he can manipulate the rise and fall of all the bureaucrats in the world, even life and death.

It can be said that his rise to power gave the world a great sense of insecurity.

Originally, this insecurity was brought to them by the emperor.

Now it's not the emperor who rents power to Zhang Gui, so Zhang Gui has become a person who can bring insecurity to the world's corporal doctors.

Therefore, if they want to make themselves feel safer, they naturally have to find ways to pull Zhang Gui off the horse.

If you really can't pull off the horse, then you can only hold it first, and when there are more and more uneasy nobles and doctors, you will naturally pull Zhang Gui off the horse.

Zhang Gui made him realize through Liu Tingyuan's establishment of the ancestral hall that he was now in the stage of being killed by scholars.

And this is often the precursor to being completely pulled down.

This kind of phenomenon often exists in this Han civilization, which often presents the phenomenon of periodic law in history.

Therefore, there are also concluding words such as "climbing high will fall heavy", "the moon is full, it will be lost, and the water will overflow".

Zhang Gui naturally wants to break this rule.

Therefore, Zhang Gui decided to strike, that is, to retreat bravely.

He didn't want to carry the thunder for the apocalypse.

After all, the apocalypse is the emperor of the eight classics.

As long as he doesn't toss anymore and is at ease the mascot in the hearts of the scholars, the entire bureaucratic class represented by the scholars will continue to respect him and will not criticize him to death!

But Zhang Gui is different, his power is not legal, it is rent-seeking, so he is not qualified to be a puppet or mascot.

Unless, Zhang Gui rebelled and became the emperor directly.

But that's too risky.

After all, the rebellion was to bring greater insecurity to the corporal doctors in the world, and they would definitely try their best to prevent Zhang Gui's success before Zhang Gui showed signs of success in the rebellion.

Therefore, Zhang Gui can only choose to strike now.

"Ma Shiying! In the name of this Taishi, he immediately drafted a letter of impeachment to Liu Tingyuan, the governor of Liaodong, saying that he built the ancestral hall of this Taishi without the permission of the report, and also pretended to ask the gentry and the people to petition, which was undoubtedly ignoring the rules of the imperial court, doing things of self-reliance, and was suspected of plotting misdeeds. Please ask the court to investigate! ”

Zhang Gui therefore issued a new order to Ma Shiying early the next morning.

Ma Shiying was shocked when she heard this.

Zhang Gui saw that he was stunned, so he said more: "What you said before is right, a lucky villain like Liu Tingyuan can't be offended." But Ben Taishi would rather offend them than be roasted on the fire by people like them! ”

Then, Zhang Gui instructed again: "Therefore, after you finish preparing this recital, you will draw up another recital, and say that this Taishi has been out of the customs for a long time, and he has become ill from hard work, so that he has to go to Lushun to recuperate first, and he cannot return to Beijing for the time being, and he is willing to resign from the post of Minister of Policy and Cabinet Wuyingdian University, just to take care of Lushun with an idle lord, and beg Lushun to be the land of the world, such as the example of Mufu in Yunnan." ”

Ma Shiying didn't expect Zhang Gui to do this, thinking that he finally wanted to follow your Uncle Zhang Guo to get a chance to rise to the top, after all, your Uncle Zhang Guo is now the most favored and powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, and he is also a person who is willing to promote the military officials below, but now why do you suddenly want to retreat bravely.

Ma Shiying was naturally reluctant to take a step back and give up the power, and began to think about how to persuade Zhang Gui to continue to be a cow and a horse for the Zhu family.

Zhang Gui saw Ma Shiying stunned and did not move, but he also guessed Ma Shiying's thoughts, so he said: "You don't have to worry about your own future. Master Ben will write a letter to Wen Tiren and ask him to take care of you. Although this Taishi intends to go to Lushun Rongyang, it does not mean that he will really have no influence in the court, so that you, who has just made meritorious contributions with this Taishi in Liaodong, can still be promoted quickly. ”

Ma Shiying was relieved after hearing this, and said: "It's not because I'm worried about my own future, but I just think that although the Taishi suddenly wants to return power to the king, it will also make many Wenchen generals who are willing to follow the Taishi and think that the Ming Dynasty can't do without the Taishi disappointed, and from then on, they were disheartened and even complained about the Taishi." ”

"You're right. But this Taishi will have his own considerations, and he will also have arrangements for them, after all, this Taishi just wants to be honored, not really ignore them. In this way, you euphemistically ask the court to be crowned king, as long as this Taishi is crowned king, all those who follow this Taishi will naturally be promoted to one level, so they naturally don't have to complain. ”

Zhang Guiyan said.

Ma Shiying was taken aback after hearing this, he didn't expect that this Uncle Zhang would rather be crowned king with a different surname and completely cut off from the bureaucrats inside and outside the world, rather than use the power of returning from a big victory to use the bureaucrats inside and outside the world to grab more benefits for himself.

If according to the way that literati often compare themselves to beauties in order to seek the fortune of the powerful, for example, today's bureaucrats are almost equivalent to themselves as beauties, who have taken the initiative to take off their clothes and wash them, waiting for Zhang Gui to them, but Zhang Gui just held back, unwilling to be entangled by the bureaucrats in the world, and then fell deeper and deeper, until he was completely squeezed out of the use value by the bureaucrats in the joy.

Ma Shiying had to remind: "Taishi, please forgive me for being humble and blunt, it may be difficult to achieve the title of king with a different surname!" Although the vassal king of this dynasty has no real power, and the hundred officials are not worried that you will be the queen and have the trouble of separating the territory, they are just unwilling to let you easily get away from the temple with the dignity of the king. They are still waiting for you, the hard-working man, to give them a chance to flatter. ”

"If they don't want to, this Taishi will go further, not just stop at Lushun! Anyway, no matter what, Master Ben just doesn't want to play with them! I don't want to suffer this burden on behalf of Your Majesty! Let them invite His Majesty out by themselves and play these tricks with them! ”

After Zhang Gui finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves and walked out.