The feast is over. Chang Tian, the lord of Wanping, officially became Liu Jin's daughter.

Godson-in-law Huang Yuan is under the protection of Liu Jin, and his future career will naturally be smooth.

This is a good thing for Chang Feng.

Chang Feng has been up and down in the sea for more than 20 years, and has long realized a truth. Officialdom is like a casino, with many sides betting.

On this day, Zhang Cai, the left attendant of the ministry, found Chang Feng.

Zhang Cai has been a literary friend for many years. In the past, I often came to Changfu to learn from Changfeng about the eight-strand system.

Chang Feng said with a smile: "Zhang Butang is proud of the spring breeze now!" Although Jiao Fang is the secretary of the ministry, he is still the second assistant, and he is on duty in the cabinet every day. You are in charge of the daily affairs of the ministry. ”

"You turn your hands into clouds and your hands into rain, and whoever you want to rise, you can rise. Whoever you want to lose your official hat will have to roll up and leave. ”

Zhang Cai hurriedly said: "Brother Chang, don't make fun of me. I'm here to get you on business. ”

Chang Feng asked, "Oh? What's the matter? ”

Zhang Cai said: "Officialdom has now added a new ugly rule, do you know? ”

Chang Feng said: "New bad rules? Are you referring to any official who enters Beijing and has to send money to Liu Jin to show filial piety? ”

Zhang Cai nodded: "Exactly." There is a way that the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked. This bad rule will make the corruption of officials reach the level of the end of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

"In order to curry favor with Father-in-law Liu, the magistrate will oppress the people even more ruthlessly. got the silver and gave it to Liu's father-in-law to please him. The magistrates will be even more unscrupulous in accumulating money! ”

And so on and so forth. The country will not be a country! Zhengde Dynasty is afraid that Han Shantong and Liu Futong will come out! ”

Chang Feng thought for a moment: "You're right. But Liu Jin is greedy for power and money. It was difficult to stop him from extorting bribes from magistrates. ”

Zhang Cai said: "I also know the personality of Gonggong Liu. I couldn't think of a way to convince him to abolish this bad rule. There was no way, so I came to discuss with Brother Chang. ”

Chang Feng thought thoughtfully: "Let Liu Jin take the initiative to abolish this bad rule?" Unless."

Zhang Cai asked, "Unless what?" ”

Chang Feng said: "Unless this bad rule hurts his interests!" ”

That night, Zhang Cai led Chang Feng to find Liu Jin.

Liu Jin was reclining on the bed, and the good-looking little pair Cuiyun was pinching his shoulder.

This Cuiyun is Liu Jin's new favorite. She is a young lady from a scholarly family and a civil official family.

Her father was in Baoding Mansion as a magistrate. This kind of sesame mung bean-sized official has limited money in his hand, and he can't get to the power of Liu Gonggong.

But her father is an official fan, and after thinking hard: I don't have much money to give to Father-in-law Liu, so let's give it to my daughter!

So, he gave his own daughter to Liu Jin as a food.

Although the eunuch is a rootless person. But there are ways to play that satisfy yourself. The specific method is not interesting, so I will not go into details.

In short, Cuiyun is very popular with Liu Jin. As soon as Liu Jin was happy, she promoted her father to the prefect of Baoding.

A scholar full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, in order to be promoted, he did not hesitate to let his own daughter be the eunuch's food.

How so? As Kong Hongtai said back then: "Once a scholar is promoted, he becomes an official." Good people become evil spirits! ”

Liu Jin glanced at Chang Feng: "Why are you here?" ”

Chang Feng Zhengse said: "I'm here to save you!" ”

Liu Jin frowned: "I'm not the courtesy officer who wiped the little prince's ass back then. No one dares to touch me, and I don't need you to save me. ”

Chang Feng said: "Do you know that something big has happened in the place?" ”

Liu Jin asked, "Oh? What's wrong? ”

Chang Feng asked rhetorically: "Did you let Jiao Fang set a bad rule that any magistrate who enters Beijing must come to give you filial piety silver?" ”

Liu Jin smiled slyly: "This is not for me. It was the people below who wanted to flatter me. ”

Chang Feng said: "It doesn't matter who decides it!" The important thing is that the magistrates down there are playing you like a monkey! I've put a big charge on you! ”

Liu Jin's face changed: "What do you say?" ”

Chang Feng unceremoniously moved a chair and sat in front of Liu Jin: "You have been sold, and you are still helping the number of silver!" ”

"I'll give you an analogy. For example, a prefect came and gave you five thousand taels of silver. He will embezzle bribes, extort subordinates, and oppress the people below, and get 50,000 taels of silver! ”

"Their banner of accumulating wealth is - filial piety to Father-in-law Liu!"

In other words, the money obtained by corrupt officials will only give you 10%. They keep ninety percent for themselves. ”

"They earn the big head, but all the notoriety is your father-in-law's back!"

Liu Jin was furious: "Who did this?" I killed him alive! ”

Chang Feng smiled bitterly: "The magistrates all over the world are doing this now!" Gonggong Liu is now in power. They are wantonly collecting wealth under your banner, but they can use the two capitals and thirteen provinces to give you virtue. ”

"Now the poor people all over the world think that they can't eat enough and can't wear warm clothes, it's all because of you, Gonggong Liu!"

"Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people will not die well!"

"The magistrate is lying to you and harming you!"

"The ingot of silver they sent to Beijing is a grave brick for you to tired of the tomb!"

Chang Feng's words made Liu Jin's hair stand on end!

Every traitor and eunuch of all dynasties and dynasties, even if they pretend, they must pretend to love the people like a son.

At least you can't offend the people of the whole world on the surface!

Only when the common people are safe and secure, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are separated, can their power be maintained for a long time.

Liu Jin was furious: "How dare these bastards do this? ”

Chang Feng said: "You don't know what kind of beating sex the civil officials are. As long as they can be promoted and make a fortune, there are still things in the world that they dare not do and are not ashamed to do? ”

After speaking, Chang Feng pointed at Cuiyun: "Isn't this little lady of your family the best proof?" ”

Liu Jin muttered to himself: "How did you get it in the long run, how did you get it!" I have become the one who bears the black pot for the officials of the world! ”

Chang Feng gave Zhang Cai a look.

Zhang Cai took the opportunity to say: "Gonggong Liu, in my opinion, you have to abolish this bad rule immediately. Don't let the magistrate who entered Beijing give you filial piety silver. ”

"They will give you a tael, and they will squeeze ten taels out of the people! Turn your head upside down, but put the black pot on your head. ”

Liu Jin thought for a moment and said, "Reasonable! I'll say hello to Jiao Fang tomorrow and abolish this bad rule. ”

Liu Jin turned his head to look at Chang Feng again: "I know that although you are fighting with me on the surface, you are still facing me in your heart." We've had a friendship for twenty years! ”

Chang Feng smiled: "That's nature. My own sister is your goddaughter. If the Ming Dynasty is really forced out of the Yellow Nest, the emperor will punish you, and my sister and brother-in-law will have to sit together, right? ”

Zhang Cai said: "Father-in-law Liu, Chang Shuaiye's experience is completely for your sake. ”

The two sang and harmonized, fooling Liu Jin around.

Chang Feng figured it out: the emperor wanted to use Liu Jin as a tool to suppress civil officials. For a while, no one could bring down Liu Jin. Even so, it can only guide Liu Jin to do less evil things.

To be honest, Zhang Cai is a good person. Although attached to the eunuch party, greedy for power and position. But at least he still has a bottom line for the benefit of the people. I don't know how high it is than Jiao Fang.

Chang Feng and Zhang Cai went out of Liu's mansion.

Chang Feng said: "Zhang Butang, I advise you." Liu Jin can control the court for a while, but he can't control it for a lifetime. ”

"Throughout the history books, how many of the powerful and evil eunuchs have a good death? Sooner or later, he will be ruined. You've got to find a way out for yourself. ”

"There are some things that are better planned early than later."

Zhang Cai smiled slightly: "I have found a way out." You don't have to worry about it. ”

The retreat that Zhang Cai said was Jiang Bin.

He was born in Wenxuan Shilang, and to put it bluntly, he is the big HR of the Ming Dynasty, and he is very good at looking at people.

He had long seen that Jiang Bin would sooner or later become the new favorite of the emperor's side and the biggest minister in the imperial court.

Therefore, he has begun to secretly make friends with Jiang Bin.

Chang Feng didn't ask what Zhang Cai's retreat was. He won't answer when asked.

Chang Feng said: "It's good to have a way out." That's it, I'll go home first. ”

In the next half month, Liu Jin continued the court purge.

As long as it is not a Beijing official who obeys his words, he will either be punished by the factory guard, or forced to be punished. The best result was that he was secretly demoted to Nanjing Sixth Department by Mingsheng, and although he lost his power, at least his life was safe.

The high-ranking ministers were not spared.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu Zeng Jian, to the Shi.

Zhang Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhishi.

The criminal department is still the secretary of Min Jue, to the officer.

The right deputy capital Yu Shi Zhu Qin, to Shi.

Yan Zhongyu, the right attendant of the military department, Zhishi.

Li Jie, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Zhishi.

The court is a member of the third rank or above, and Liu Jin got more than a dozen of them in one go.

In just half a month, no high-ranking official in the DPRK and China dared to oppose Liu Jin. The court almost has the surname "Liu".

On this day, Chang Feng was holding his grandson Chang Qingyun at home.

Although Emperor Zhengde instructed Liu Jin to return more than 100 Tujia robes to Chang Feng. But now the factory guard does not send him any errands.

He had no choice but to go home and pick up the baby.

Huang Yuan and Chang Ponu walked in.

Now one of the two is the third product and the other is the fourth product. It can be said that young people are ambitious and proud.

Chang Ponu took a sip of tea: "Dad, Father-in-law Liu is getting more and more out of line!" Do you know what a red and white book is? ”

Chang Feng asked, "What red and white book?" ”

Chang Ponu explained: "This is the new rule set by Gonggong Liu. Officials all over the world marched to the emperor. You have to vote for Liu Gonggong with a red uncover first, which is called the 'red book'. Then use white to expose the general secretary, called the 'white book'. ”

Chang Feng was surprised: "What? This really deserves Liu Jin's nickname 'Emperor Li'. The courtiers actually wanted two copies, one for the emperor and one for the emperor! ”

Chang Ponu said: "Yesterday, the Metropolitan Procuratorate mistakenly voted for the song. sent the white book to Liu's mansion. Voted the red book to the Department of General Affairs. ”

"Liu Jin forced the Imperial History of Zuodu to slaughter Tu Huang, and led the Thirteen Imperial Historians to his mansion to kneel and apologize!"

"Poor and respected Tu Lao Courtyard. In order to protect his subordinates from being persecuted by Gonggong Liu, he knelt in the snow of Liu's Mansion on a cold day and kowtowed more than a dozen heads! ”

Chang Feng gasped: "Liu Jin is already. Lose your marbles! ”

Huang Yuan said: "If one person gains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven." Yesterday I went to the Yamen of the Governor of Beizhili to do some errands. The Governor is my boss. But he was very respectful to me. It was as if I was his boss. ”

"Naturally, because I am nominally the godson-in-law of Father-in-law Liu."

Just then, Channing walked in.

Now, Qian Ning, like Zhang Cai, has invested in Liu Jin's disciples on the surface.

Chang Feng said angrily: "Yo? Since Liu Jian and Xie Qianzhishi, Liu Gonggong has been in power. Commander Qian never came to my house again. ”

"The sun came out of the bed today? Why did Commander Qian condescend and come to me? ”

Qian Ning said: "The handsome man killed me." I have come to you today for an important matter. ”

Chang Feng asked, "Oh? What's the matter? ”

Qian Ning glanced at Huang Yuan and Chang Ponu.

Chang Feng said: "You two go down for the time being." ”

After the two retreated, Qian Ning walked up to Chang Feng and said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Gonggong Liu ordered a few Wenmo Zongqi who were holding pens in Jinyi Wei to look through a book. ”

Chang Feng asked, "Oh? What books to read? ”

Qian Ning replied: "The "Tongjian Compilation" compiled by Li Dongyang, your family. ”

Chang Feng frowned: "What does he mean." Do you want to find fault with the book compiled by Shousuke? ”

Qian Ning nodded: "That's right." I think Gonggong Liu has the heart to get rid of Li Shoufu. Li Shoufu was meticulous, and Liu Gonggong couldn't grasp the handle. So he picked a bone from his writings. ”

As an aside, the Literal Prison is not an invention of the Ten Dusk Old Man Hongli.

All dynasties and dynasties have had literary prisons. The difference is only in the size of the word prison.

Chang Feng was silent.

Li Dongyang has endured enough. Don't bow down to Liu Jin, at least listen to what he says.

However, Liu Jin still doesn't plan to let him go?

Liu Jin's idea is: Li Dongyang has never been my friend. Shoufu should let Jiao Fang be instead of letting him be.

Jiao Fang is my most loyal dog!

Chang Feng asked Qian Ning: "Why did you tell me such a confidential matter?" ”

Qian Ning replied: "Because Li Dongyang is your in-laws." ”

"You carried it in your hand. Switching to Gonggong Liu is really a last resort. ”

"I'm sorry for you. But although I am in Liu Ying, my heart is in Changfu. I don't want to see your in-laws being condemned and degraded and caught in a place of unforeseen circumstances. ”

Channing speaks better than he sings.

Actually, this matter was Qian Ning's father-in-law, and the old fox Qian Neng instructed him to reveal it to Chang Feng.

Lao Bing's pen money can be more refined than a monkey if he grows hair. He saw that Liu Jin was flying and domineering, and sooner or later he would lose his position and lose his head.

Chang Feng persuaded Zhang Cai before to leave a way out for himself.

Qian Neng also persuaded his son Qian Ning to leave a way out for himself. The so-called retreat is the Chang and Li families.

According to Qian Ning's thoughts, it's too late to hide Li Dongyang's affairs from Chang Feng!

Chang Feng stared at Qian Ning: "You can reveal this news to me, I will receive this love." ”

"I don't blame you for taking refuge in Liu Jin. If you don't take refuge in Liu Jin, the position of the commander will definitely change. Years of hard work have been in vain. ”

Qian Ning arched his hand: "Thank you Chang Ye for your understanding." I can't stay longer. Go first. ”

After Qian Ning left, Chang Feng handed over the grandson in his arms to his subordinates. Then he commanded: "Prepare the car." Go to the Lee Mansion. ”

Li Dongyang is resting at home today.

Chang Feng came to him and got straight to the point: "Liu Jin wants to fix you." ”

Li Dongyang was stunned: "Fix me? I've had enough of him! On the bright side, I, the head of the cabinet, have almost become his vassal! Still won't he let me? ”

Chang Feng said: "He wants to find out the same color in the court." The position of the first assistant of the cabinet, he naturally wanted Jiao Fang to sit. ”

Li Dongyang said: "I am the one who is clear, and I am the head of the cabinet. And you, the old butcher of the brocade guard, are your in-laws. Your backer in the harem is my backer. ”

"He wants to frame me, I'm afraid it's not that easy."

Chang Feng said: "Have you ever compiled a book called "Tongjian Compilation"? ”

Li Dongyang replied: "Yes." ”

Chang Feng asked, "How many words is this book?" ”

Li Dongyang replied: "More than 100,000 words." ”

Chang Feng said: "Liu Jin has ordered a few general flags in Jinyi Wei to eat Wenmo rice to find fault in your book." ”

"I'm just a lifter, but I'm also a reader. I know too well that it's too easy to find a bit of disrespect or nostalgia for the past in a book of more than 100,000 words! ”

"If you really want to find fault, even the Analects will not be spared." Good has yuan, things will have' six words, you can put on a hat of nostalgia for the former yuan. ”

Li Dongyang said: "My in-laws are laughing. More than 1,900 years after the death of Confucius, there was a pseudo-yuan. ”

Chang Feng said: "With Liu Jin's current power. He said that Confucius was a native of the Ming Dynasty, and I am afraid that no one would dare to stand up and refute it! What's more, find fault with your Li Dongyang's writings? ”

(End of chapter)