A scholar who revered his heart and learned asked in surprise on the spot.

And Zhen Yu shouted at Xu Kun at this time: "Xu Gongzi, are you going to hit the pillar and die now?" ”

Xu Kun didn't answer, only a gloomy face.

"Who is Luo Rufang, if you don't come out and go with us, will you really want to be a fugitive and mess with the king's law?!"

Zhen Yu then asked loudly again, dismounted, brushed aside the soldier in front of him who drew his sword and confronted him, and walked towards Xu Kun.

The gentleman didn't dare to say a word, but stepped aside.

Although he was enthusiastic at the beginning, and he had the intention of trying his best to defend Taoism, but after he saw He Xinyin's handwritten confession, he was completely exhausted.

The other scholars and gentry were the same, they all stepped aside, and only looked sideways at Zhen Yu and other brocade guards.

Luo Rufang also walked over from Xu Kun at this time: "Contemptible people are!" ”

"Mr. Kinkei!"

At this time, a scholar couldn't help but shout.

Luo Rufang waved his hand: "You can't do anything to resist the contemptible people, what's more, this is Mr. Fushan's confession of the contemptible people, what else can the contemptible people say?" ”

"I can only sigh that people's hearts are unpredictable!"

As she spoke, Luo Rufang smiled bitterly, then stretched out her hands, clenched them into fists, and said to Jinyiwei: "Put a flail on me." ”

Zhen Yu let his Jinyi guard put a flail on Luo Rufang, and put him in a prisoner car, under the watchful eyes of the doctors who listened to the lecture.

Then, Zhen Yu asked Xu Kun: "Second son, do you really want to hit the pillar?" ”

Xu Kun was asked.

After a while, Xu Kun said: "How could he, He Fushan, write such a confession by himself?" How did he suddenly become so cowardly?! ”

Xu Kun really couldn't understand this.

Since the beginning of Xu Jie, his Xu family has had a tradition of winning over famous Confucians in the academic circles, and often funded and supported the Confucians to give lectures, so as to achieve the purpose of safeguarding the interests of the entire landlord class.

For example, Xu Jie once held a Lingji Palace conference in the capital, and let Luo Rufang give a lecture, with thousands of listeners.

It's just that now Xu Jie's old man has handed over the matter of befriending famous Confucians to Xu Kun.

After Luo Rufang was dismissed, he was invited to Songjiang by Xu Kun, preparing to let him give another lecture in Nanzhi.

However, Xu Kun didn't expect He Xinyin to inform Jin Yiwei of Luo Rufang's whereabouts, and even confessed him as a person from a different party.

"He Xinyin! Even if you can't stand the torture, you shouldn't confess Mr. Jinxi and us! And at most, just confess Hu Chen and them! Could it be that his brocade guard can really find out so deeply? ”

Xu Kun couldn't help complaining, and angrily reprimanded his name.

"Why should the second son say more, isn't this obvious, he He Fushan didn't confess after being tortured at all, but took the initiative to confess, flattering Jiangling, in order to seek wealth and nobility, this person is not strong-hearted, he has no pure heart, I am really wrong."

Luo Rufang said at this time.

"That's right."

Xu Kun said and walked towards Zhen Yu: "I'll go with you, I'm going to ask him He Xinyin why he did such a shameless thing!" ”

So, Jin Yiwei successfully escorted Luo Rufang and Xu Kun away.

The scholars who came to listen to the lecture either didn't know what to say, or they just scolded He Xinyin, or discussed why He Xinyin did what he did.

"What did you say?!"

"When?"

was walking Xu Jie, who was walking in the garden on crutches, and after learning that his third son Xu Ying had been taken away by Jinyiwei, his second son Xu Kun and Luo Rufang, immediately stopped and asked a few questions.

Xu Ying sobbed: "Yesterday's incident, but after yesterday's incident, it was getting late, so I didn't dare to tell you immediately, for fear of disturbing your sleep." ”

"Go! Bring a chair. ”

The crutches in Xu Jie's hand trembled.

Xu Ying hurriedly brought a chair behind Xu Jie, and Xu Jie sat down: "You tell me about the situation specifically." ”

Xu Ying said: "It's all to blame for that He Xinyin......"

So, Xu Ying told Xu Jie what happened yesterday.

After hearing this, Xu Jie muttered to himself: "How could such a thing happen, he He Xinyin shouldn't be such a person!" What happened to He Xinyin after he was arrested and imprisoned? ”

Then, Xu Jie asked Xu Ying: "Does Ziwei have a letter?" ”

"Back to my father, no."

Xu Ying replied.

Xu Jie's brows tightened for a while: "It seems that the situation here, he Zhang Ziwei, the second assistant, is not clear!" ”

"Alas, this is the difference between those who are still in the position of the first assistant and those who are not in the position of the first assistant, as long as they are not in that position, even if they are just almost in that position, some things cannot be known."

"For example, in this matter now, it is not clear whether He Xinyin met Zhang Juzheng, or was Zhang Juzheng said something to He Xinyin in the name of the Son of Heaven in front of the emperor in the name of the emperor, or what the Son of Heaven said directly in front of He Xinyin!"

"That's what my father said."

"The point is that what happened to the Son of Heaven, we can't know."

"The inner court is now strictly investigated, not to mention the people who are planted in the palace, and the people who are installed in the Jinyi Guard have been dug up."

"It's just fortunate that we didn't directly install people, otherwise if we were found out, Zhang Jiangling would have pinched us again."

Xu Ying replied.

"There are many things, our Xu family is indeed not suitable to come forward directly, and we can't break with him Zhang Jiangling directly, so as not to provoke fire, but this also brings a disadvantage."

Xu Jie glanced at Xu Ying as he spoke: "Just like you said, we really don't know what kind of character our son of heaven is, whether he has a teacher-student relationship with Zhang Jiangling, and whether he is selfish enough to care about what kind of society and the common people?" ”

Ziwei only said in the letter that he was cowardly and smart, afraid of Zhang Jiangling but also knew how to disguise himself, but an emperor who used domineering techniques to cover his true thoughts would actually have a domineering heart? and even want to emulate Wu Zong in the future. ”

"If that's the case, it's all Zhang Jiangling's fault! He even directly stated his feelings during the feast, so that the Son of Heaven would pay attention to the military ministers! ”

Xu Ying replied.

Xu Jie poked his crutch to the ground: "I'm worried about this!" ”

Saying that, Xu Jie said again: "If the Son of Heaven is really like Ziwei, although he is cowardly but smart and has a city government, then if he is allowed to teach Zhang Jiangling like this, wouldn't it be easy to become a second Xian Temple?" ”

"Now this official residence is very similar to the West Factory, and it can be said that it is even more clever than the West Factory!"

"You say, this official residence shouldn't be what His Majesty thought of, right?"

Xu Jie asked Xu Ying as he spoke.

Xu Ying replied: "It should be, the Son of Heaven has just been married for a year, he has never been out of the deep palace, he is only longer than the hands of women, although a few eunuchs around him are knowledgeable, but they are also taught by my Hanlin Wenchen, but who will teach the skill of climbing trees to the tiger, even if the Son of Heaven wants to control the hundred officials, he should only think of setting up a western factory." ”

Xu Jie nodded: "Let's just believe that he Jiangling did it alone." ”

Xu Jie sighed as he spoke: "My father really mislooked at him Jiangling again, and underestimated his means!" ”

"Especially this time, even He Xinyin can be used by him to make a fuss, he is afraid that he is not only going to 'give out his savings to finish the year', but also to have a bigger article to do! Therefore, we have to clean up the portal, and we have to completely cut off the purpose of our desire to prevent him from continuing to reform through lectures from He Xinyin. ”

"What my father said is that this Jiangling is really powerful!"

Xu Ying gritted her teeth and said: "It's a pity to think about it now, we have already pulled seven swims into the water, and Zhang Cheng and Zhang Gonggong of the inner court are also on our side, but now they are all cleaned up." Even You Qi, who has accompanied him since he was a child, is willing to die! ”

"Who would have thought that he Jiangling would have made peace with Gao Gong a long time ago?"

Xu Jie said with a wry smile, and then said with a calm face: "However, this is also the place where I question whether the Son of Heaven is really being controlled by Jiangling, it stands to reason, according to Gao Gong's temperament, I am afraid that except for the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces and Your Majesty, no one can make him willing to forgive Jiangling." ”

"Even if Your Majesty doesn't contribute, I'm afraid that someone among the Queen Mothers of the Two Palaces has contributed to this!"

(End of chapter)