Sanyang went back to Yang Shiqi's mansion together, and after walking to the side hall and sitting down, a servant immediately poured tea and water for them.

Yang Pu took a sip of tea and said, "Everyone, what Hu Ruosi (Hu Yan) said just now is not unreasonable. ”

Yang Rong sighed and said: "But what Xie Jin said is not unreasonable, if you just look at the current trend of the imperial court's governance, it is indeed not contradictory, but the disadvantages of this change are not only reflected in education, but also in terms of education, there is also a hidden worry, that is, human favor tends to be profitable, and the world is declining." ”

"The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for the sake of profit"

Yang Shiqi took off his shawl outside, stood in place and said, "What Taishi Gong said has never been right, but this situation is like this, what should we do?" ”

Both were silent.

The tide of the times pushes these young heroes to move forward, from the heart, simple political morality, Sanyang is not resistant to the rectification of the rule of officials, but as more and more involved in the turbid dye vat of the temple, Sanyang began to gradually realize that this kind of drastic reform will inevitably harm the fundamental interests of the gentry and civil service, and once people sit in a different position, what they think in their heads will naturally be different

Sanyang has never imagined what kind of posture they would have if they came to hold the country and govern the country?

But no matter how much they ask their hearts, I am afraid that what they choose will be the path of fate, to govern the country conservatively, and to adopt unlimited indulgence and tolerance for the expansion of the gentry and civil service.

As for these things such as eliminating redundant personnel in the yamen, cracking down on the theft of state warehouses, and restricting procurement authority, I am afraid that it is impossible for them to happen.

Jiang Xinghuo dared to be the first in the world, but they didn't dare, and it was precisely because they realized the huge gap between themselves and Jiang Xinghuo in terms of administrative courage and style, and then mixed with factors such as their position, that Sanyang's mentality became so twisted.

They want to become Jiang Xinghuo, but neither their political stance nor the class itself can make a betrayal.

And the current Ming is not dominated by them.

Therefore, Sanyang, who prides himself on being a genius in governing the world, can only go with the flow in the wave of changes that sweep one after another, while feeling that the situation has changed involuntarily, while living in the boat, he never dares to jump into the water to fight the wind and waves.

As a result, the current scene of wanting to be and not being able to become, wanting to do something but not being able to do anything, can only gather and sigh.

Two words, twist.

"The tide is on."

Yang Rong smiled bitterly: "If I guess correctly, I'm afraid that tomorrow the government and the opposition will be able to quarrel immediately." ”

Yang Pu was sullen for a long time, and then he frowned and said: "Rectifying the rule of officials, it is bound to touch the fundamentals, Jin Youzi and Lu Zhen's actions today are very suspicious, it may not be intentional You must know that these regulations on the elimination of redundant personnel in the yamen have just been handed over to the Dharma Trial Temple." ”

Yang Shiqi said lightly: "Lu Zhen's motives are indeed impure, but Hu Yan's worries are not unreasonable, it depends on how to understand the current wind direction in the temple and the atmosphere between Shilin and the market, the disadvantages of valuing business and pursuing profits have started in the Song Dynasty, and it is still the case. ”

"Are we going to do something?" Yang Pu hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Is there anything we can do?"

Yang Shiqi's rhetorical question made Yang Pu speechless.

Yes, although the three of them are in the cabinet, they are in a position extremely close to the imperial decision-making circle in terms of information, and they all have innate advantages, but in terms of real power and grade, Sanyang is really a little Karami to put it bluntly.

Now that Zhu Gaochi has thought about it behind closed doors, Jiang Xinghuo in the entire temple does not say that he can do whatever he wants, but he can also say that his will can be completely up and down, what should they do?

For Hu Yan's head?

No kidding, friends belong to friends, but no one will waste their career for friends.

After pondering for a moment, Yang Rong said: "If you have the opportunity to speak, you still have to fight for it, otherwise the wind direction will change, and in this way, I am afraid that I will really lose the support of the Guozijian in the future." ”

Yang Shiqi nodded and said, "Do your best." ”

Soon after, the other two also returned home, and Yang Shiqi sat in the study, depressed.

The atmosphere within Guozijian has been changing very drastically since last year.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the status of Guozijian in the temple was very special, because Lao Zhu liked to select talents from Guozijian very much, so there were many officials from Guozijian, which led to the fact that even now, Guozijian is overwhelming in terms of quantity.

And what do the prisoners of Guozijian support?

Of course, it is to support policies that will benefit them.

These reserve officers have a different focus than the officials who are now in their positions.

Moreover, they have the enthusiasm and righteousness of young people, such as rectifying the rule of officials, this kind of thing does not harm their interests at all, and it is in line with their views, how can they not be supported?

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Events unfolded faster than anyone expected.

So much so that it is difficult to define exactly whether this is an accidental event, or just a huge explosion after the accumulation of different contradictions and conflicts after the historical process has reached a certain critical juncture, ignited by a fuse.

In the early morning of the next day, Hu Yan got up early and finished breakfast, and then came to his courtyard for a walk.

At this time, a light rain was falling in the sky, and his clothes were wet.

Hu Yan took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, and felt the coldness of the raindrops.

Spring rain is as expensive as oil.

Today's spring rain seems to have come earlier than in the Jianwen era, and the rain is heavier.

The old mother walked out of the courtyard gate: "Did you sleep well last night?" ”

Hu Yan smiled, turned around, and said, "I slept very well, why did you get up, mother?" ”

"I'm going to the temple today to pray for blessings, so get up early and prepare."

Afterwards, Hu's mother chattered again: "Let the Buddha bless my son with all the best in his career, and our family will be such a glorious ancestor of Wenqu star." ”

Hu Yan smiled bitterly and said, "It's good not to be dismissed." ”

Hu Mu was stunned.

She took Hu Yan's hand and said anxiously, "But what did you do wrong?" No, I, I have to."

Seeing that his mother was flustered, Hu Yan patted her shoulder comfortingly, and he said softly: "Mother, you go to the temple to pray, don't worry about me, you know, my son has an upright personality, and some things are not used to it, so I said a few words casually, but I didn't see what would happen." ”

"Oh, good, good."

Hu Mu looked at him suspiciously, but finally didn't say anything.

But when Hu Yan came to Guozijian on duty, he found that not only was there something, but also something was very troublesome.

When Wang Siye saw him coming, he immediately greeted him.

This person who took over as the director of Guozijian after Xun Zhan is not an outsider, it is Professor Wang Yunsheng Wang who was elected by the students of Guozijian to debate the scriptures when Jiang Xinghuo used contradictions to solve Taiji on Taiping Street.

Wang Yunsheng was originally a doctor of Guozijian Xintang, and in the Guozijian system, the top administrator was the sacrificial wine and the priest, which was equivalent to the university president and vice president of the later generations; Jian Cheng is the official in charge of administration and academic affairs of the Guozijian, which is equivalent to the director of the academic affairs office in later generations; The doctor is the director of the teaching department of Guozijian, which is equivalent to the deans of various colleges in later generations; Teaching assistants, school assistants, and academic records are the faculty members who are specifically responsible for teaching affairs.

And because of the rule that Lao Zhu set the "imperial examination must be a school", so that the Ming Dynasty official school has both the dual nature of official educational institutions and imperial examination preparation institutions, the core institution of the central government school is naturally the highest institution of learning, the local level of official schools mainly include the establishment of the government, state, and county schools in accordance with the local administrative divisions, in which the government has professors, states and counties, that is, "the built-in Guozijian to teach the world's talents, and the external prefectures and counties to educate the people's handsome". Wang Yunsheng, who is highly qualified and proficient in the scriptures, as a doctor from Guozijian, was directly transferred to the professor of Songjiang Mansion in the academic and political system, and served for a year.

"Sacrificial wine, the students are already arguing."

Wang Yunsheng looked at Hu Yan and said with a wry smile.

Hu Yan was slightly stunned and asked, "Why the dispute?" ”

Wang Yunsheng explained.

As soon as Hu Yan heard it, he knew that the news now circulating in Guozijian was taken out of context from what he said last night, and then deliberately guided public opinion and exaggerated the facts.

Taken out of context – excerpted from "Don't take it out of context".

Then Wang Yunsheng sighed and said helplessly: "After I heard the news this morning, I hurriedly went to check and found that it was caused by an anonymous letter. The anonymous letter said that the dynasty was recently going to promote the Tai students to the ranks, and the sacrificial wine objected to this. I have already collected many copies, but the students of the other halls and halls still diverted them everywhere, and in the process of circulation, they have become more and more fueled and vinegared, and the crowd has aroused great excitement. ”

He paused for a moment, then added, "In addition, I have just received a letter from Jinyiwei asking about the recent situation in our Guozi Prison, and it is said that some people attach great importance to this. ”

Someone, definitely someone from above.

And what he said at the private banquet of middle and high-ranking officials last night could be spread all over the country this morning, saying that no one here is engaged in conspiracy, even if it is a person like Hu Yan, he will not believe it so naively.

Therefore, someone must want to use this incident to incite Guozijian, the most influential public opinion position in Shilin, to achieve some goals.

So, who are they, which factions, and what are they trying to achieve?

This problem is very complicated, in the absence of accurate information, for a while, even if you break your head, you can't think of it, and it may not even be a certain faction at all, but everyone is adding fuel to the fire, and everyone is adding firewood to the burning public opinion of Guozijian, or even pouring oil.

Because Jiang Xinghuo's rectification of the rule of officials has too comprehensive impact, the previous reform was basically just a small repair of the system, as well as ideological confrontation, as well as economic actions, but now with the deepening of the reform process, it has inevitably come to the most critical issue of official governance in the field of temples.

This kind of matter involving fundamental interests is impossible for any faction, force, or stakeholder to back down.

The most subtle thing is that the Guozijian is just a department with a low level, but in the early Ming Dynasty, as the largest gathering place for scholars, it also assumed the role of the main position of public opinion, and it was also a testing ground for the wind direction of many temples.

For the conservatives who have been damaged in the rectification of the rule of officials and the elimination of redundant personnel, they hope to make trouble, even if it will push Hu Yan to the forefront and even sacrifice Hu Yan himself. These are not important, Hu Yan, a mellow Confucian, was sacrificed in the form of tragedy, which is conducive to their next counterattack.

For the reformers, of course, they also want to go one step further and push the reform to a new level in depth and breadth.

As for the officials of the Beiping Department brought by Zhu Gaochi and the gate wall, they hoped to promote the reform of the law at the same time, and take the opportunity to let Jiang Xinghuo plant a heel, and Zhu Gaochi would go back to the mountain to rectify the rule of officials, so as to get a bigger cake for them.

For those officials who are completely loyal to Zhu Di, doing something, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and watching different factions fight each other, is the most effective way to consolidate the imperial power.

All of this, so complicated, anything is possible.

And no matter which faction they tend towards, for these students in the Guozi Prison, at this moment, their sacrificial wine lord is a sinner who has betrayed their collective position.

There is only the individual who betrays the collective, and there is no collective that betrays the individual.

What's more, cutting off people's careers is a fatal thing than cutting off people's financial routes.

Therefore, Hu Yan either publicly apologized for his "inappropriate remarks" on informal occasions, or insisted on his judgment of the world style and study style, so as to be ready to bear all the consequences.

Hu Yan was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "That's someone who is fueling the trouble." ”

"Why don't you let Jinyiwei come forward?"

In order to prevent this kind of chaos, the imperial court adopted a two-pronged strategy, on the one hand, it was to strengthen Jinyiwei's monitoring of Guozijian, and on the other hand, it was not allowed to let the students of Guozijian comment on the government at will.

But today's incident, do you say it has anything to do with commenting on the government? There must be something to do with it, but more importantly, it involves the vital interests of the graduating students of Guozijian, so it is not good to deal with it completely in accordance with the regulations issued before.

"The internal affairs of the Guozijian, what did you let Jinyiwei come forward for?"

Hu Yan has no interest in this choice of escapism.

One person does things and one person does things, Hu Yan is not a person who is afraid to speak.

Moreover, Hu Yan knows very well where the crux of the problem lies.

Rectifying the rule of officials is not a bad thing for everyone.

The imperial court transferred and dismissed a large number of officials, many of whom were grassroots officials, and these vacant positions needed to be filled.

During the Jianwen Dynasty, Zhu Yunwen only held one imperial examination, that is, in the second year of Jianwen, a total of 110 Jinshi were produced.

And according to the plan, the next imperial examination will be this year, that is, the second year of Yongle Jiashenke.

But far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and these middle and low-level official positions that are now vacated, according to the temple practice of the Hongwu Dynasty, are to be used to promote talents from the Guozi Prison, and so many officials who have been promoted before are all born in the middle and late Hongwu Dynasty.

Therefore, the students who are about to graduate from Guozijian are all looking forward to becoming officials. After so many years of hard work in the national prison, isn't it just for this moment?

If this opportunity cannot be seized, then when the students of the Daming School of Administration in the next four years of education graduate, and the imperial examination begins to be examined one by one, then the opportunities of these students will be diluted as the number of competitors increases.

To put it bluntly, it is precisely because of the conditions not to squeeze the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination that these students will enter the national prison.

Therefore, for the students of the Guozijian who are not rectified, as long as they do not rectify their own fathers and uncles, they all have to say "good death", and the more vacant positions they have, the greater their chances, and the predecessors have proved this with practical experience.

Moreover, the reason why Hu Yan's remarks attracted huge opposition from the Guozi Prison was not only the issue of middle and low-level official positions, those were opportunities that were only open to the best of the Frank Hall, and the most important thing was actually the group of redundant officials that Jiang Xinghuo focused on cleaning up.

You must know that the vast majority of Guozijian students enter the six ministries and six temples after graduation, all of them start from officials with no rank, this kind of vague area between officials and officials is what the Guozi prisoners are most concerned about, if they don't clean up these redundant officials, how can they show their strength?

And Hu Yan opposed the rectification of the rule of officials from the side, that is, it really ruined the future of these students who were about to graduate.

This is also the reason why Hu Yan believes that the recent atmosphere in Guozi Prison has become more and more impure with the change of policy.

In the past, the students were still standing in line in the selection of academic factions of practical studies, science studies, and new studies, arguing with each other, and fighting fiercely internally, but when it came to becoming officials now, it was really united in support of the rectification of the rule of officials.

It is precisely because of this that Hu Yan said those words at the banquet under the influence of the atmosphere of competing for officials in the Guozi Prison and the atmosphere of competing for profit and doing business in the market.

The time is also the situation, and it is the fate that will come here.

At the beginning of the cabinet, Hu Yan was the first to stand up and oppose the reform of the law, and his reason was that it was difficult to cultivate a profit-making class by changing the law.

It was like a boomerang that hit him two years later.

As the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian, that is, the principal, Hu Yan's attitude and remarks are not wrong, teaching and educating people is indeed to be sincere and righteous.

It's a pity that he is on the opposite side of the students.

"Can you find out who wrote it?"

Hu Yan settled down and asked.

It's hard to solve problems, but it's easy to solve people who have problems.

It's hard to face tens of thousands of people, but it's easy to face a troublemaker.

The former is only Jiang Xinghuo who can convince him with his superb academic level, while the latter Hu Yan is enough to use the power in his hand to let him know what the rules are.

Wang Yunsheng shook his head and said, "It's not certain who did it yet, but there are indications that this letter came from the old students, and it can be checked, but I think it shouldn't be useful." ”

Hu Yan frowned, he thought for a moment, and said, "I'll go and meet the students first." ”

In the morning, the Guozi supervisors gathered in the classrooms and squares, and they were very excited.

There are also people who say angrily: "This time, we are asking for our own hardships and can't complain about others, only blame ourselves for not being angry at the beginning, and failed to survive the imperial examination, otherwise wouldn't it be to enter Beijing to take the exam and directly go to the second class to be a Jishi?" ”

"But. . . We are all about to finish, if this matter is stabbed to the imperial court, won't we be punished? ”

"Reprimand? I think it's the law that doesn't hold the people accountable. ”

"Having said that, it's just hateful that someone is double-faced, could it be that those of us who are disciples will hinder his future?"

"I agree with making trouble, and the court will take care of things when the court knows about it!"

Everyone echoed one after another, and for a while they were excited, as if they had forgotten how they had entered the Guozijian.

Young people are like this, as long as it is about their own ideals and interests, they are encouraged by others, it is easy to fall into this kind of blind manic state, listening to the wind is rain, and they have not yet begun to react to stress, how many examples have proved this throughout the ages? I can't even count them.

For everyone, it may be beneficial to make a big fuss, but there is no harm in being suppressed, so why not make a fuss? Only crying children have milk.

However, this excitement did not last long, when it was interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps.

Then a man came running in quickly, and when he rushed in sweaty, he said to the crowd, "Oh no! ”

The crowd hurriedly asked, "What's the alarm?" Take your time. ”

The man gasped for two breaths, then pointed out the door and said, "Here comes the sacrificial wine!" Let the doctors of each hall and hall notify the students gathered in the prison. ”

"The gate of the Guozijian is blocked! Many of the students who were going out were making a fuss, but they still refused to let them go, and even "

He raised his eyes and swept everyone around, swallowed his saliva, and continued: "There are also Jinyi guards who come to stand guard. ”

Since the Taiping Street incident, he has vaguely become a representative of the students who support new ideas, actively forming a hot air balloon research group, studying and discussing in the Science Hall, and even publishing a short academic article and appearing in Ming Pao.

Seeing the people around him, it seems that they are asking for his opinion.

Fan Weixing's mind saw the figure of a person, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, he lowered his eyes, his lips tightened, and only after a long time did he spit out a sentence: "Let's go meet Lord Sacrificial Wine and see what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd." ”

"Good!"

The west side of the country.

Hu Yan stood at the bottom of the archway of the "Frank Hall" of the Guozi Prison, looked up at the towering door in front of the Frank Hall, and muttered: "This gate has been closed, and how many of these Guozi prisoners can get out of it when they go out of it."

Wang Yunsheng, who caught up, gently pulled his sleeve and said, "Sacrificial wine, why don't you leave?" ”

Hu Yan shook his head and said, "It's okay, let's go." ”

Guozijian is a highly hierarchical school, here, Hu Yan, as the highest official, although he is a mellow posture on weekdays, but at the critical moment, he acted vigorously and resolutely, and his will was immediately implemented.

The supervisor commands the doctors of each department and hall, summons the subordinate teaching assistants, scholars, and scholars, and conducts temporary control according to the three levels and six halls.

The students of Guozijian are mainly divided into three levels, that is, the three levels of junior high school and high school, and the junior class has three halls, Justice Hall, Chongzhi Hall, and Guangye Hall; The intermediate class has two halls, the monastic hall and the sincerity hall; There is only one class in the advanced class, which is called the Frank Hall.

The main ones who are called and controlled are the spontaneous halls, that is, the students who are about to graduate and enter the official career.

Of course, there are also students who come to see the excitement, especially foreigners, who are the most afraid of big things.

Among them, there are several princes and disciples of the Ryukyu Kingdom, with Luzon students who have just come to Nanjing not long ago, probing their brains on the low wall on the side.

Ryukyu students, in fact, have only been in Daming for a few years.

There are two types of international students in the Ming Dynasty of the Ryukyus: "official students" are generally the children of the Ryukyu nobility who are enrolled in Nanjing Guozijian, and the "diligent students" are studying in the local prefectures and counties of Fuzhou.

The reason for this situation, according to the words of the Ryukyu Kingdom itself, is that "because the country is isolated in the sea, there is no school to educate talents, and there is a lecture on scriptures, although the Celestial Dynasty has repeatedly sent courtiers to the country, and there are few literate talents, and the people are not learned to dress properly, and the customs are becoming more and more perverse, so they are now sending their own tribute ships to come, and they are willing to go to Beijing to study in prison."

The Ryukyu country is very good and very sincere, the old Zhu is very happy about this, Hongwu 24 March with a stroke of the pen, the Ministry of Rites "The two kings of Zhongshan and Shannan of the Ryukyu Kingdom are all oriented, and the male nephew of the official brother of the village can be selected as the son of the country, and he will be sent back to the country to know the reason, and the writing will make him know."

The Ryukyu Kingdom is a general term for the outside world, and the internal is a divided archipelago country, but in terms of exchanges with the Ming Dynasty, the attitude is basically the same, and the old Zhu sent this order to the King of Zhongshan and the King of Shannan in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and immediately received a positive response.

In May of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Chadu, the king of Zhongshan in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and his son Wu Ning sent his envoy Wu Zhou Jiezhi and others to enter the table note, tribute horses, and Chadu sent his son Rizi every and Kuoba Ma, and the son of the village official Ren Yueci to study in the country. In December of the same year, Gengshen, the king of Shannan of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Chengchadu, sent Nandu Mei and other tributes, and sent his nephew Sangolangwei and the sons of the village officials, Shita Luwei and He Duanzhi, to study in the country.

These students were all sent by the three royal officials in the Ryukyus, and most of them were relatives of the prince and the children of Shuri nobles, such as the son of the king, the son of the king, and the son of the village official.

In addition to going back to inherit the throne, some new students have also been sent in recent years, such as after Zhu Di ascended the throne, Wang Yingzu, the king of Shannan in the Ryukyu Kingdom, sent Li Jie, an official of the village, and others to study in Guozijian.

Therefore, the Ryukyu students who were present to watch the excitement were Li Jie and He Duanzhi from the southern country of Ryukyu Mountain, and they brought the students from Luzon, that is, the eldest prince, well, now he has a new name, called Lu Gong, because the name translated from the local dialect of Luzon is too long, Zhu Di casually gave him a name of Xindaya, from Luzon, then your surname is Lu, a single name and a Gong, which is to let you be respectful and honest.

"The sake priest is here!"

As an international student who has been studying abroad for ten years, He Duanzhi speaks fluent Nanjing local dialect at this time, and he can't tell that this is a foreigner just from his voice.

"What are they, at the right time, doing?"

Lu Gong, the eldest prince of Luzon, stumbled and asked.

His official language is not good enough, but he has a talent for language, although he has only been in Daming for a few months, but he can still communicate and understand every day, well, the reason why it is said that the official language is not good, not that the Chinese is not good, is because the bulk Chinese he learned before was the Hokkien dialect of the Han people in Manila

Lu Gong, who is in a foreign country, can get the greatest spiritual encouragement during this period of time is to practice the story of "lying on the salary and tasting the gall", for this reason, Lu Gong also specially asked He Duanzhi and Li Jie if they needed to enter the palace to taste the feces of the Ming Emperor when he was sick.

Li Jie: "? ”

He Duanzhi: "??? ”

He Duanzhi and Li Jie were busy eating melons this time, so they simply explained to Lu Gong, and regardless of whether he could understand the cause and effect of this, they began to concentrate on what was happening in front of the Frank Hall.

The doctor of the Frank Hall walked out of the door, arched his hand towards Hu Yan, and said, "Sacrificial wine, most of the students have gathered." ”

There are nearly 10,000 students in Guozi Prison, and the vast majority of them are from other intermediate and junior schools, and there are only a few thousand people in the Frank Hall as a senior school.

"Hmm."

Hu Yan nodded, then waved his hand in front of him, signaling for all the students to gather in the small square of the archway.

After a while, most of the students of the Rush Hall arrived, densely packed with people, and the black pressure pressed a large area, and the effect of looking at it from the front was similar to the feeling during the flag-raising ceremony of primary and secondary schools in later generations.

"Fellow students, please be silent."

Wang Yunsheng walked up the steps, looked around at the crowd, and said loudly: "There are some rumors today, and I asked me and the doctors and teaching assistants of your hall to summon you here just to clarify in person. ”

Before the words were finished, the crowd suddenly became a mess, some were angry, some were terrified, and some were indignant.

"Please also explain why you oppose the rectification of the bureaucracy?"

"I don't agree!"

Hu Yan's face was serious, and he shouted: "Silence! ”

In an instant, the originally noisy small square gradually fell silent.

Hu Yan is an excellent teacher.

He worked in the school administration system all the year round, when he was a teacher in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, he took the teacher as his own responsibility, exhorted the students to study pragmatically, and encouraged economy, so as to change the superficial style of study in Huating, Hu Yan also personally taught to the students every day, often speaking until midnight, even if the harsh winter and heat did not stop, the local students and people were very important to him.

Because of this, Hu Yan's heartache about the change in the style of study really comes from his heart, out of his sense of responsibility as the country's prince of sacrificial wine, not out of the same consideration for the interests of the temple as those who meddle behind their backs and try to promote the flames for greater benefits.

There are such pure people in this world, who believe in the way they pursue, and are willing to pay a price that is completely unworthy in the eyes of ordinary people.

Seeing that everyone closed their mouths, they still looked at themselves with eyes mixed with various expressions.

Hu Yan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "The country has laws, and the country has prison rules, what the rules are, and how strict they are, you should all know it." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces showed hesitation.

Seeing this, Hu Yan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and continued to persuade: "A large part of you are going to become officials this year, for your urgent mood, as a sacrificial wine, as your teacher, I can understand, and today's matter, whether someone is secretly contributing to the troubles is still unknown, you are all people who are going to enter the official career, and you should also be vigilant in your heart, don't be used as a chess piece." ”

The students have a natural awe for the teacher, and this awe will not be weakened because of the immediate entry into the official career, but will be strengthened in this period, and in this kind of collective solemn occasion, once the momentum is overwhelmed, it is actually easy to weaken.

The reason why the students discussed a lot in private was that they got the news of Hu Yan's speech at the banquet last night, and they thought that the attitude of the sacrificial wine against the rectification of the government would affect their chances of becoming a leader, so they expressed their opposition.

This is a very normal reaction, and in a public opinion position like Guozijian, it seems to be noisy, but it really hasn't reached the point where it can't be controlled.

These young students, who are relatively open-minded and generally pursue progress, are very energetic, and they are so "powerful" about all issues, including the academic debates on psychology, science, and practice, as well as the debates on the principles of scientific experiments.

Therefore, under this kind of normalized quarrel, today's incident was discovered and stopped by Hu Yan as soon as possible, and he came forward to make it clear, warning the students not to be used as chess pieces, not to be used as guns, and it was over.

At this point, Hu Yan only needs to explain to the students that the news that is circulating now is just that his private views on private occasions have been taken out of context, so that they should not believe the rumors, and not believe the alarmist "facts" that have been deliberately expanded, so that the matter can be calmed down.

All the students need is an explanation that will reassure them.

And that's when things took a dramatic turn.

Before Fan Weixing and the others could say anything, Jin Yiwei came to the door.

In front of thousands of people, Hu Yan was politely "invited" away by Jinyiwei.

The reason is that Hu Yan was jointly impeached by several imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and for this reason, it is necessary to go through the investigation process according to the regulations.

This work originally did not belong to Jinyiwei, and the reason why Jinyiwei came was because the emperor ordered to protect Hu Yan himself from any accidents.

Moreover, the imperial history of the joint impeachment of Hu Yan has a special identity, which is the imperial history of Chen Ying who was born in the country.

The priest who was speaking in public was taken away in front of thousands of people, and the impact was very bad, which directly led to the public opinion that seemed to stop boiling, and directly boiled the pot.

With the bewildered faces of several international students, a strange atmosphere suddenly appeared in Guozi Prison.

Everyone realizes that something is going wrong.

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Jiang Xinghuo here had just come back from outside the city in the morning to work, and he heard about Hu Yan at noon.

"There is no statement that the dynasty was convicted for his words, and Hu Yan is the priest of the country, how to deal with the internal affairs of the Guozi prison is his duty, how did the imperial history impeach?"

"Drunken disgrace and rebellious speech."

The diesel cart is obviously a little unbelievable, which is quite outrageous when it hears it.

"The royal history has heard of it, and it hasn't been played like this."

Jiang Xinghuo rubbed his eyebrows, it was really a day that didn't stop.

"You go to work first, I'll wait for news."

"Yes, National Teacher."

The old monk's news channel is still reliable, and soon, more accurate news will come.

Yao Guangxiao pushed the door in no hurry.

"There are ghosts."

"Descend on him?" Jiang Xinghuo looked at him and joked.

For Jiang Xinghuo, although this matter is very tricky, it is not an imminent matter that burns his eyebrows, whether it is calmly taking advantage of the situation or going with the flow, he has enough confidence to deal with it, all he needs now is to fully understand the news, and then make a judgment and disposal.

"It's hard to get a little ghost."

Yao Guangxiao's white eyebrows lowered along with his eyelids.

Fortunately, the old monk did not have the habit of being a riddler, and the answer to the riddle was soon revealed.

"It should be Lu Zhen, the young secretary of Dali Temple, who instructed Dali Temple Cheng Wuzhong to collude with the impeachment carried out by the imperial history."

Yao Guangxiao handed a piece of paper to Jiang Xinghuo and said, "Take a look." ”

Jiang Xinghuo took a look at it and roughly understood.

"What about Chen Ying? What kind of attitude, without his nod, the Metropolitan Procuratorate would not have been able to go through the impeachment process so quickly, right? ”

"Chen Ying first pressed it, and then quickly passed, and went through the political secretary to bypass the cabinet and report the matter to Your Majesty, Your Majesty did not hesitate, and directly asked Jinyiwei to invite people to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to drink tea first."

Jiang Xinghuo said: "In this way, Your Majesty wants to make a big deal about it." ”

Yao Guangxiao nodded and said, "It should be." ”

He then pondered for a moment, and then said, "It may not be a good thing for us and for the Fa change. ”

"That's right, but it makes people feel uncomfortable, especially Hu Yan, who is obviously calculated."

Jiang Xinghuo still has a little bit of moral cleanliness in terms of personal morality, and it is one thing to have different opinions and positions in the temple, but now that Hu Yan is obviously involved in the conspiracy and has become the center of the storm, he is a little unbearable.

In other words, Jiang Xinghuo acts more uprightly, rarely uses selfish means, he has always felt that if he wants to do great things, then he must do the right way, if he is not forced to do it, this kind of ghost trick is better to use less.

Yao Guangxiao saw this very thoroughly, and only said: "Hu Yan has such a personality, he can't hide his words in his heart, and he believes in his way, sooner or later he will be pushed to the cusp." ”

If you talk about it from the perspective that character determines fate, there is nothing wrong with what Yao Guangxiao said.

"That's right."

Jiang Xinghuo still made some decisions in his heart, no matter what the outcome of the emergency handling is, for Hu Yan himself, he doesn't want to be hung up as a target in the end, and even suffer some unfair and inhumane treatment, if he can be protected, he still has to let the imperial judicial process and impeachment process treat him fairly.

"It's all inevitable."

Yao Guangxiao glanced at Jiang Xinghuo: "Today, it is time to cooperate with the temple in terms of ideology and public opinion, and work together to rectify the rule of officials." ”

"I know."

Jiang Xinghuo bowed slightly, and said, "When I come to this position today, I won't be soft-hearted." ”

After the three debates in the ideological circles, "Wang Ba Ancient and Modern Righteousness and Benefit", in terms of ideology, it was established that practical learning, mental learning, and physical science were divided into courts, and the imperial court took the application of practical learning as the guiding ideology to carry out the reform.

Subsequently, in terms of how to change the law and whether to change the old economic system on a large scale, after the Fengtian Palace's debate on the Ming version of the Salt and Iron Conference, it was established that the actual taxation should be used to decide whether to shift from "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business" to "the four people's foundation", and whether to change from the "sea ban policy" to "opening up the sea and enriching the country".

After a year of new economic policies, through the investigation of salt taxes, the development of overseas trade, and investment in monopoly commodities, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has become extremely rich, and after solving the most urgent problem of economic embarrassment, the reform naturally has the capital to go deep into the political field.

It is against this backdrop that this emergency occurred.

In fact, Hu Yan is just a representative of thousands of scholars who hold traditional views, and he happens to be at the node of the era when the style of study and the style of the world have begun to change, and he happens to be in the key position of the leader of the academic and political system of Guozi Priest Wine.

It's like Yao Guangxiao said - these are unavoidable.

Even if there is no Hu Yan, there will be Li Yan, and without Li Yan, there will be Wang Yan.

The reform of the law to this point is to move from ideology to economics to politics, and finally return to the ideology, morality, and atmosphere that are entangled and inseparable from it.

Establishing and guiding a correct style of work and study is also one of the key tasks of law reform.

But Jiang Xinghuo still showed some concern.

"It's too urgent. I don't know if Lu Zhen really wanted to climb up so much that he took the risk, but flies don't bite eggs, after all, someone is too urgent. ”

Of course, Yao Guangxiao quickly understood what Jiang Xinghuo meant.

"Jiang Sheng is saying that Your Majesty is too anxious?"

"Yes."

Jiang Xinghuo rubbed his eyebrows, looking a little tired.

"This matter has to be dealt with, it is not so simple, and it is not absolutely safe, the backlash of public opinion will be great, and after so many years of accumulation, how can it be reversed in a few words? I wanted to slowly guide and slowly change by boiling frogs in warm water, but right now. It's on the cusp again. ”

"Since the reform of the law has gone deep to this point, it is naturally inevitable that there will be a debate on the style of officials, the style of study, and the style of the world."

Yao Guangxiao was very calm about this.

The three debates of "ancient and modern kings, hegemony and righteousness", as well as the court debate of the Fengtian Palace, are much more difficult than the current ones in terms of difficulty.

However, in terms of breadth and influence, this controversy must have a larger scope and a more protracted impact.

"The reason is not clear, and being reasonable is not a bad thing, but the current situation is not light, and I thought that more things are better than less things."

Jiang Xinghuo seems to have been affected by the lives of the people he saw yesterday, and his mentality is even a little soft.

In fact, it is also said that everything has been relatively smooth recently, and the struggle is not so fierce, and in this environment, it is naturally different from the previous state of the majestic big rooster.

"The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, we want to have more than one thing, and some people want to have less than one thing. Some newly promoted officials are very ambitious, and it is estimated that they will definitely not give up. ”

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo's expression seemed to be a little worried, Yao Guangxiao asked, "Then what is Jiang Sheng worried about?" The situation is out of control? ”

Jiang Xinghuo returned to the topic just now and said, "I'm worried that Your Majesty will lose control and kill people. ”

"Murder?"

"The case of the two Huaiyan envoys has already had signs of such a large-scale strain, and it was forcibly persuaded by all parties."

Jiang Xinghuo expressed the concerns in his heart: "Your Majesty is originally a little anxious, and in his bones he likes to use the killing knife to cut through the mess to solve the problem, and in a few months he will go north, he has been sitting in the south for two years, the restlessness and bloodlust in his personality have only been released when he first ascended the throne, and now he is rectifying the rule of officials on a large scale. ”

Yao Guangxiao did not deny that Yao Guangxiao was more familiar with Zhu Di than Jiang Xinghuo, who had been with him for many years, and he knew very well that Zhu Di's bloodthirsty nature was indeed gradually awakening, and Zhu Di in the past two years was actually the most depressed and unlike time for Zhu Di's entire life.

Because he had just sat on the throne, in order to sit firmly on the dragon chair under his buttocks, Zhu Di had to control his nature, and when he had many choices to kill, he chose to forbear, weigh and compromise.

"Can't get out of control."

"I'm afraid it's about to get out of control now, and in order to vent his anger, Shilin will definitely use some extremely drastic means to fight."

Hu Yan's matter spread all over the capital, and many people gloated behind his back, mocking Hu Yan, and some even scolded him for deserving it.

Of course, there are also some people who have grievances for Hu Yan in their hearts, and they have quite a few complaints about Hu Yan's impeachment, and in their opinion, His Majesty the Emperor is really a bit hasty in doing this.

But there are still people who have taken direct action.

Another day passed, an anonymous post began to appear on the streets of Nanjing, and in the next two days, at a speed that was difficult for the Jinyi Guards to stop, it quickly spread among the officials of the national juzi, the national eunuch, the administrative school, the local scholars in Nanjing, and the officials of various ministries and monasteries who were preparing to participate in this year's imperial examination.

This article titled "On Zhou Gongfu's Political Sparseness" ignited the contradictions that had begun to be made public.

"Zhou Gong is an auxiliary government, and the criminal measures are not used, so you can re-educate, practice benevolent government, everyone gets what you want, and everyone is a gentleman. Cover the punishment because of the evil and use, the evil is born because of the lack of education, there is a way to raise, there is a way to teach, then there is enough food and clothing and etiquette and righteousness, the people have no evil, and the punishment will be safe? I'm no Fuji."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw this unveiling post comparable to "Continuing to Worry and Danger", only three words popped up in his mind.

- "The Demon Book Case".

The two are not exactly the same, but they are extremely similar.

The demon book case, one of the four major cases of Wanli, the ultimate product of the temple party dispute, that is, in the early morning of November 11, the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Geng, then a cabinet scholar, found a post entitled "Continuing to Worry and Danger" at the door of his house, accusing Zheng Guifei of intending to abolish the prince and ordaining his son as the prince, and not only Zhu Geng received this leaflet-like thing, which had been widely spread in Beijing the night before, from the palace gate to the streets and alleys, everywhere.

The so-called "Zheng Fucheng" means that Zhu Changxun, the son of Zheng Guifei, is the prince of Fuwang, and the book says: The emperor's eldest son is the crown prince out of necessity, and he will be easier in the future; The use of Zhu Geng as the cabinet minister is because "Geng" and "more" have the same sound, which means easier.

This book is only about 300 words, but the content is like a bombshell, set off an uproar in the capital, the people of the time use this book "words are extremely treacherous", so they all call it "demon book", after the Ming Zhaizong learned, he was furious, and ordered the East Factory, Jinyi Wei to dispatch the whole city, but the search was fruitless, and finally although it was calmed down on the surface, but the aftermath of its party struggle even directly affected the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the spearhead of "Continuing the Worry and Danger" is directed at the scholar Zhu Geng, and his dialogue is used in the dialogue, Zhou Gong in "On Zhou Gong's Auxiliary Political Sparseness", Ji Mingdan, the fourth son of Zhou Wen Wang Ji Chang, and the younger brother of Zhou Wu Wang Ji Fa, is in Zhou, so he is called Zhou Gong, and he is sealed in Qufu.

This directly forced Jiang Xinghuo to suddenly face the surging public opinion turmoil.

This is a counterattack to rectify the rule of officials, Jiang Xinghuo knows this very well, he has no way to hide, and he can't hide, only to move forward bravely.

(End of chapter)