Huang Fenglin was born in Huanggang County, Jiangxia County, that is, Huanggang City, Hubei, the Huang family is also a family in the past in Huanggang County, but Chen Xiaoyi is not good, the family has long declined, and there is no big family surnamed Chen in Hedong at present.

But Chen Xiaoyi's mother entered Hedong Pei as a widow, although she was only a concubine, she was very favored, so Chen Xiaoyi had the opportunity to study in Pei's family.

This kid has a very good head, and he never forgets it, although he followed his mother to Pei's house, his stepfather did not let him change his surname, and treated him well.

Perhaps it was because he had a complete and happy childhood, so that Chen Xiaoyi developed an upright and kind character, and became famous among the scholars in the Hedong area.

In fact, the emperor's favorite is people like Chen Xiaoyi, who are loyal and filial, and talented.

The officialdom of the Great Sui is like this, like a spider web, if you hold this end, you can connect to the other end, Huang Fenglin and the Jiangling Shen family are relatives, and the Shen family is attached to Yang Ming.

Chen Xiaoyi is more or less half of Pei's son, and Yang Ming is Hedong Pei's son-in-law.

It's so late, Chen Xiaoyi hasn't slept yet, not dealing with official business, but can't sleep with diarrhea.

When he saw Yang Ming, he was also surprised:

"I don't know what His Highness has to say when he comes to the minister's cold house late at night?"

After Yang Ming sat down, he said with a smile: "I can't talk about it, I just talk to you casually." ”

"Your Highness, please speak, the ministers will listen," Chen Xiaoyi said.

Yang Ming glanced at the room and said slowly: "Your mother is not in Jingshi?" ”

Although Chen Xiaoyi was a little puzzled by Yang Ming's opening remarks, he still replied honestly:

"A-Niang is not in good health, she can't withstand the long-distance fatigue, and she is reluctant to come to Beijing, and elderly people don't like to leave their hometown."

Yang Ming nodded: "I heard that your stepfather died ten years ago, and you sent him?" ”

"Yes, my stepfather's two sons died young, and the minister, as my stepson, was grateful for the grace of nurturing, so I took care of the funeral," Chen Xiaoyi said.

Yang Ming said with a smile: "I often hear Fang Xuanling say that you are a person of filial piety, and every year you send your money back to your hometown to support your mother, but you yourself are very poor, and your daily diet is also solved in the public school?" ”

To put it bluntly, it is the official office that eats and drinks, eating the big pot of rice in the imperial city.

"When His Highness came in, he also saw that the minister only had four slaves," Chen Xiaoyi said: "If you don't be frugal, you won't even be able to support these four people." ”

Yang Ming nodded: "In this case, you can't go back to worship your ancestors this year, so who should preside over the family?" ”

"Chen also has a younger brother in Hedong, who accompanies his mother, and is now an adult, so he can preside over on his behalf," Chen Xiaoyi said.

This younger brother of his, surnamed Pei, is the same mother as him.

Yang Ming nodded and said: "Yang is about to return to Beijing halfway and change the route to worship his ancestors, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"It's humane, but it's not legal," Chen Xiaoyi said: "If Yang Zhongshu didn't have the will to sacrifice to the Taimiao, then this matter would be understandable, but since there is a holy purpose, he can't confuse respect and inferiority." ”

Yang Ming said curiously:

So is it the law that comes first, or the human ethics that comes first? Xunzi. There is a saying to the deception: the saint, the one, the king, the one, the two, enough to be the best in the world, filial piety, Your Majesty is a saint or a king? ”

"Your Majesty is naturally a saint," Chen Xiaoyi probably guessed what Yang Ming wanted to do: "However, the etiquette law is in the front, Yang Zhongshu first overstepped the etiquette and then exceeded the law, and he should not be exonerated by human ethics." ”

Yang Ming said with a smile: "So, filial piety does you think that the law is in the front and the people are in the back?" ”

"It's not like that, it needs to be judged by things, people have five Lun, loyalty, filial piety, cowardice, forbearance, kindness, loyalty in the front, filial piety in the back, Yang Zhongshu filial piety but not loyalty, is his sin," Chen Xiaoyi said.

It seems to be a rigid goods, that is, a stinky scholar who reads the books of sages and sages and uses them to do things but is useless, the meaning of my words is already obvious, you don't want to be on the road.

You can't lift the bar with him like this, otherwise he can lift it with you for a day.

So Yang Ming nodded: "I asked Yang Yue, he didn't go to worship his ancestors, he went to Yang Xuanzong, what do you think of filial piety?" ”

Chen Xiaoyi was stunned and dumbfounded.

He is very smart, although he has a good brain, so he understands that King Qin is going to replace Li with a peach and exonerate Yang Yue.

Without waiting for him to speak, Yang Ming said again: "Don't think I'm exonerating Yang Yue, whether he went or not, I will find out, of course I won't believe his family's words, but he is not allowed to be slandered by rumors." ”

"Naturally, we need to find out," Chen Xiaoyi had already begun to break out in a cold sweat, and the warning was already obvious.

Yang Ming sighed: "Filial piety disappointed this king very much, I thought you were the most filial person, but now it seems that it is just a false name, your filial piety is filial piety, Yang Yue's filial piety is sin?" ”

Chen Xiaoyi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly embarrassed, in fact, he also knew that there was really nothing to say about Yang Yue's ancestors, passing by his ancestral grave, and going in to worship on the way, it was reasonable.

This kind of thing is a matter of turning a blind eye, but Pei Lin has already poked it out, what can you do? You can only hold this kind of behavior from the emperor's point of view.

"The minister is a commoner, and he was able to enter the government only after receiving the grace of the saint, and I hope His Royal Highness can understand the minister's hardship," Chen Xiaoyi said helplessly.

Yang Ming sneered and shook his head: "It's this king who has seen the wrong person, you haven't seen me tonight." ”

After that, Yang Ming got up and was about to leave.

Chen Xiaoyi suddenly fell into a tangle, he is a person who knows how to be grateful, without Fang Xuanling, he would not have the opportunity to become the person of Hedong County, and without the King of Qin, Fang Xuanling would not be qualified to recommend him.

In the final analysis, without King Qin, there would be no him.

So he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, please stay, Yang Zhongshu's matter, even if the minister has the heart to help, but after all, he is soft-spoken, and the other three don't let go, and I can't support it alone?" ”

Yang Ming didn't pay attention to him at all, he didn't stop his steps, and walked straight away.

This made Chen Xiaoyi very frustrated, feeling that he had completely offended King Qin today.

Yang Ming just wants to create this sense of crisis for the other party, because in this way, the other party will make a choice, if Chen Xiaoyi chooses the wrong one, Yang Ming will find an opportunity to clean him up in the future.

If someone offends him and he doesn't reciprocate, then no one is afraid to offend him.

.......

At the court meeting the next day, Yang Yue directly fought with Pei Lin in Wanchun Palace.

Yang Yue's performance made many people really think that Pei Lin was slandering him, and only a few people knew in their hearts that Yang Yue's acting skills were already perfect, whether it was true or not, you couldn't figure out others at all.

I saw him rushing into the crown in anger, blowing his beard and glaring, rolling up his sleeves and raising a few eucalyptus to smash down towards Pei Lian:

"Pei Jiazhuzi, dare to spread rumors and slander?"

"I have physical evidence, can Zhongshuyan reverse black and white?" Pei Lin hurriedly dodged, not daring to fight back.

How big is Pei Liancai? From the sixth grade, Yang Yue is the boss of the Inner History Province of the third grade, and he is also a close minister of the emperor, Pei Lin only has to hide.

Yang Ming was completely silent about this, as if watching a play, his posture caused no one to go up to persuade him.

It wasn't until Pei Lian's brain was smashed and bleeding that Yang Ming raised his hand and said:

"Okay, okay, is Yang Zhongshu lying, or Pei Lin hasn't figured it out, send someone to investigate it thoroughly, won't there be results? You two can't afford to beat each other up in the court. ”

Is it a mutual assault? This is obviously a one-sided beating, and now anyone can see that Yang Ming is favoring Yang Yue.

Only then did Yang Yue let go, saluted Yang Ming and said, "Please send someone to investigate thoroughly and return the minister's innocence." ”

"This is nature," Yang Ming nodded and looked at Yang Xiong, the king of the temple:

"Who does King Guan think should be sent to investigate this matter?"

Yang Xiong didn't understand Yang Ming's meaning for a while, and after thinking about it, he said tentatively:

"Yang Zhongshu is a positive third product, and the candidates need to be cautious, according to the system, it should be the three divisions that will check, what does Your Highness think?"

"No!" Yang Ming frowned and said: "Yang Zhongshu is responsible for the sacrifice of the Taimiao, and the three divisions will be tried, and the sacrifice will be mistaken. ”

Also, no matter how big the thing is, it's not as big as the sacrifice to the Taimiao, right? Yang Xiong understood now, so he said:

"Then I'll take care of it."

Yang Ming nodded: "Then there is King Laoguan, you are responsible for this matter, the matter was reported by the Yushitai, then the Yushitai will also send people, so Huang Fenglin will assist in the investigation." ”

Huang Fenglin also got up and said, "The minister must assist King Guan to thoroughly investigate this matter." ”

It's over...... Chen Xiaoyi, who was sitting at the bottom, couldn't help but swallow his saliva, it seemed that he had been abandoned?

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This made him panic very much.

I didn't have time to think about it, so Chen Xiaoyi also hurriedly got up:

"Minister, please help us investigate."

As soon as this person came up, Yang Yue was dumbfounded, this kid is notoriously upright, he also raised the bar with Su Wei earlier, and was praised by His Majesty as loyal and upright, if he participated, it would be bad for him.

Who knew that Yang Ming nodded and said:

"Filial piety is upright, strict laws, with your cooperation, this king is more assured."

At this moment, Yang Yue was relieved, because Yang Ming dared to nod his head, indicating that he had already done it in private, amazing, even this rigid and dogmatic nerd could make sense?

And Pei Lian, who was still very flustered, was also relieved, he thought that Chen Xiaoyi's initiative to ask Ying was helping him.

At this time, Yang Ming looked at Pei Lian, the history books proved that this person was a guy who ate inside and out, and he was unreliable.

It was he and Li Shimin who instigated Li Yuan's rebellion.

"Blood spattered in the court, what kind of system has it become? He wiped all the blood from the ground. ”

What can Pei Lin say? I could only break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach, covering my forehead, which was still bleeding, and took out the cloth towel in my arms with an aggrieved look and began to wipe the ground.

No one will speak for him, because to help him speak is to offend Yang Yue.

Facts have repeatedly proved that those who offend Yang Yue have no good fruit to eat.

On the bright side of this matter, Yang Ming will exonerate Yang Yue, but secretly, he will secretly report to Yang Guang, but he will never say that Yang Yue is going to worship his ancestors, but just add some new soil to Yang Su's tomb by the way.

This is called turning a big thing into a small one, the bright report plus Yang Ming's secret report, read the two together, Yang Guang will inevitably think that the truth should be what Yang Ming said, but it was magnified by the people of Yushitai.

Yang Ming did this to protect Yang Yue and not let his father be suspicious of him.

If you simply turn over Yang Yue, Yang Guang doesn't doubt that it will be a hell.

When you treat others as fools, you are the real fools.