After Li Zhang returned to Beijing, he immediately entered the palace to meet Zhu Youji.

Zhu Youzhu heard Li Zhang's account of the whole story, and his face was also a little unhappy: "That means that the impeachment below is not groundless, Jin Yiwei has still amassed wealth that should not belong to them and filled his own pockets?" It seems that Mu Bin, the commander, is about to come to an end! ”

The celebrant and several eunuchs were there.

When he heard the emperor say this, Xiao Jing was also surprised by how simply the new eunuch of the Admiral Dongchang shirked his responsibility.

Li Zhang seemed to be afraid of getting into trouble, so he actually "sold" Mu Bin first.

Li Zhang said: "The slave has persuaded Commander Mu and asked for details, but he doesn't seem to know much about it, some things are easy at the beginning, but they can't be cleaned up in the middle, and it's even worse to end in the back." ”

Zhu Youzhu was also a little annoyed and said, "What do you mean, I have arranged it wrong from the beginning?" ”

This is the way to shirk......

Xiao Jing was also pondering, how could he listen to the meaning, Li Zhang was still to blame on the emperor?

Shouldn't you help that Cai Guogong to settle the local affairs? Causing Jinyiwei to be difficult to do things?

"So what did you do?" Zhu Youzhu glared at Li Zhang, as if he was angry.

Li Zhang said respectfully: "Before the slave arrived, Liu Yu, the governor of Jizhen Town, had sent someone to deliver a letter to Cai Guogong, although Cai Guogong did not clearly accept it, but the matter had taken a turn for the better. The slave maid took matters into her own hands, asked Commander Mu to take out some silver, plugged the mouths of those who were doing things below, and then went to mention the matter to Cai Guogong, but Cai Guogong did not say anything on the spot. ”

"Hmph." Zhu Youzhi's face seemed to be angry, "You are quite good at buying people's hearts, that silver is not even mine, why should you be the master to deal with the people below?" ”

Li Zhang knelt down and said in fear: "It was the slave maid who was negligent, but the situation was urgent at that time, and Cai Guogong also said that he didn't want to hurt the enthusiasm of the people who did the work of Jinyiwei, so the slave and maid took matters into their own hands, and asked Your Majesty to confess." ”

"Alright!"

Zhu Youzhu was angry, but he didn't seem to be angry to a certain extent, he said coldly, "I understand that you have just arrived, and you still don't understand some rules, so I won't care about it this time." If there is such a self-assertive thing in the future, don't blame me for punishing you. What about Bingkuan? ”

At this point, Xiao Jing and the others were a little stunned again.

Emperor, what is this?

Obviously, it sounds like Li Zhang has made a big mistake, why didn't the emperor condemn Li Zhang? And just verbal criticism?

Li Zhang said: "The slaves and maids of Cai Guogong are one step at a time, and it is estimated that they will be able to enter the city before the city gate closes at sunset today." ”

"Alas!" Zhu Youzhu sighed and said, "I haven't seen Bingkuan for a long time, and I wanted him to come back early, watch a play with me, have a meal or something." Since he came back late, let him go back and rest for a day, and then arrange for him to come to see me tomorrow morning. ”

Li Zhang said: "The slave will go to pass the word." ”

"Alright." Zhu Youzhu said, "Early tomorrow morning, let Mu Bin go to the court, and I also want to hear what those who participated in his impeachment have to say." This court has to be divided into several factions, arguing all day long, all doing things for the court, which really makes me feel uneasy. ”

After speaking, Zhu Youzhu sent several people back, and Zhu Youzhu himself went back to accompany his wife and children.

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In addition to Li Zhang, the other celebrant and several others walked on the way back to the duty room.

Wei Bin said: "This Li Zhang is also strange enough, he is not reliable, he doesn't say anything in private, and he dares to take the initiative to provoke it in front of His Majesty, he doesn't know how to write dead words." ”

Chen Kuan nodded and said, "How do you think he is so reckless in this matter?" Your Majesty forgave him, didn't you think that he had just been called, and he was embarrassed to take him off directly? ”

With Chen Kuan's thoughts.

The emperor always wants to save face.

It was the emperor's whim that let a little-known Li Zhang be the chief eunuch and lead the East Factory.

"Humph!"

Xiao Jing snorted lightly, "You guys are blinded by lard." The surname Li is so cunning, if you don't break it, you won't really be paralyzed by him, right? ”

"Huh?" At this time, Chen Kuan and Wei Bin were in a daze.

Li Zhang's performance in the court just now can be described as a "disaster", which cannot be called a fledgling, but is simply a misconduct, as if he does not understand the rules of officialdom.

"You don't want to think about it, with his caution in the palace for so many years, what should be said and what should not be said, is he not clear?" Xiao Jing said coldly.

The three of them continued to move forward, but they didn't seem to interfere with the conversation.

Chen Kuan said: "Does this mean that he did it on purpose? Figure what? Want to retire sooner? ”

Xiao Jing said with some annoyance: "If he is cautious and can do everything, we don't have to worry too much, because this is just a mediocre person, or rather, whoever goes will be the same." ”

"Hmm." Chen Kuan and Wei Bin both nodded.

The qualifications of the two have always been insufficient, and there are some things that they don't see as clearly as Xiao Jing.

Xiao Jing continued: "The more he is like this, the more it shows that he intends to show weakness in front of our people, and shows that he is still young and lacks ability in front of His Majesty. ”

Wei Bin was a little annoyed and said, "Why didn't we think of this? He is just doing things for His Majesty and Cai Guogong, how high can His Majesty ask him to be? No matter how strong Li Rong is, so what? Instead, it's like this...... Maybe it's more like Your Majesty. ”

Xiao Jing said: "Not only that, but he is pretending to be a grandson in front of several of us!" The less capable he is, the more negligent and paralyzed we will be with him? But how? He did everything he should have done, and he didn't miss anything, can you say that what he did on this errand was not beautiful enough? ”

At this time, Chen Kuan and Wei Bin had nothing to say.

"Next day, that Cai Guogong is about to return to Beijing, I have been guessing that His Majesty has something important to do but has not done, but don't this is the precursor of His Majesty wanting to do something, if you want to live in peace, be honest for the past two days, it's better to treat yourself as if you don't exist, but don't let Your Majesty pay attention, otherwise you may not even be able to save your life."

Xiao Jing was warning the two, but he was like a trot, heading towards the duty room.

The two people behind also hurried to catch up.

It was as if a pressure was pressing the three of them out of breath, but they couldn't say what it was.

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……

Zhang Zhou Zhou returned to Beijing half an hour earlier than expected.

When he came back, it was still early, and Zhang Zhou didn't even rush home, but went back to the military headquarters first and disposed of some military affairs at hand, all of which involved troops from various border towns.

The towns sent troops to patrol, which lasted for more than a month, except for the Duoyanwei tribute in Jizhou Town, which was a big harvest, and the rest of the roads, including Wang Shouren's troops to Weininghai, were also unsuccessful, it can be said that the Tatars chose to be a shrinking turtle when the water and grass were vigorous this summer.

"Brother Zhang, I don't want to go back to the house, if there is nothing to do, I will find a place to settle down first and enter the palace together tomorrow."

Zhu Feng was afraid that his family would directly arrange a major event for him to get married, and when he came back this time, he was also ready to escape.

Zhang Zhou ignored him.

The two said goodbye at the entrance of the military department.

Here, Zhu Feng took Zhu Daqi and others to leave, and Zhang Zhou was also about to get into the carriage, but saw Li Zhang with Mu Bin and others in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of War.

"Cai Guogong." Li Zhang came over to salute.

Zhang Zhou asked, "Do you want to enter the palace by edict?" ”

Li Zhang said: "No, Your Majesty said that it was you who had a hard time all the way, go back to the house to rest first, and enter the palace early tomorrow morning, and you don't have to come too early, even if you come later, I think the ministers of the DPRK and China can understand." ”

"Thank you for your understanding." Zhang Zhou smiled.

Looking at Mu Bin on the side again, his face was not very good, firstly, because he was in a hurry and did not rest, and secondly, because of the affairs of Yongping Mansion, Mu Bin became a backbiter.

After Li Rong died, it can be said that Mu Bin was responsible for everything.

"Then early tomorrow morning, I will wait for Cai Guogong at the gate of the palace." Li Zhang was still respectful.

Zhang Zhou was pondering, this person looked cautious and abnormal, just to inform him of this matter?

"Someone."

Li Zhang immediately beckoned, "Send the funeral of Li Rong and Father-in-law Li over quickly." Cai Guogong, forgive me, Father-in-law Li's funeral has been being handled, these few days are the day of burial, our family still has something to do, so I won't bother you. ”

"Hmm."

Zhang Zhou heard it.

Li Zhang deliberately said this in front of him, just to show that he Li Zhang and Li Rong are of the same mind.

Li Rong's funeral was originally sent by the emperor to complete, and Li Zhang had already gone to Yongping Mansion for nearly ten days, so it stands to reason that Li Rong's affairs do not need to be handled after he returns to Beijing, so it can only show that Li Zhang's participation in Li Rong's funeral at the moment was his initiative, not the emperor's instructions.

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Cai Guo Gong's Mansion.

Zhang Zhou hadn't come back for more than a month, and when he got home, he suddenly felt tired, and he originally told Jiang Pingyu that he wanted to wait for the shower and change clothes before resting.

But when he went back, he fell down there first, and slept until the middle of the night.

The body is still tired.

"Old."

When Zhang Zhou got up, Jiang Pingyu and the other women had already fallen asleep, and only Wang Mingshan was still on the edge of Zhang Zhou's bed like a female saint warrior.

When Wang Mingshan saw Zhang Zhou getting up, she hurriedly ordered the door to let someone change the hot tea and come in.

"There's a note from the palace." Wang Mingshan handed over a thing.

Zhang Zhou took it and looked at it, it was not a "note from the palace", but an inscription written by the emperor on the imperial pen of the confession, which probably meant to tell Zhang Zhou what might happen in the coming day and let Zhang Zhou do it.

Wang Mingshan didn't know the emperor's words, so he just thought someone had written something casually and sent it over.

"It's not a big deal. You also hurry back to rest, has the child seen it? ”

"Hmm."

Wang Mingshan used to be careless, just a martial idiot, but after getting married and having children, she was somewhat worried, in Zhang Zhou's words, no matter how stupid and cute a woman is, she is also born with motherhood.

"Wouldn't it be nice that I don't have to be taken care of here? You rest early, take care of yourself at home these days, and maybe you will have to run around with me in the future. ”

Zhang Zhou suddenly felt that Wang Mingshan was still human.

Between people, this kind of companionship is very needed, Wang Mingshan sometimes does not say that there is a sense of mission to guard, but it may be that Wang Mingshan herself also needs this kind of companionship.

It's mutual.

This will make Zhang Zhou feel that in fact, the women around him feel the deepest bond to him, but Wang Mingshan, a person who has lost his mother since childhood and lacks love.

This kind of attachment is also different from the kind of you and me, but more like it comes from reason and from the heart.

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Early morning.

Before dawn, Zhang Zhou was about to enter the palace, and Liu Gui led someone to accompany Zhang Zhou to the palace.

In front of the palace gate, the ministers were still waiting to enter the palace, Zhang Zhoulai was not too early or late, after he arrived, the crowd that was still noisy suddenly fell silent, and their eyes looked over, it felt as if they were looking at an anomaly.

Zhang Zhou also knows very well that every time he comes to the court, he can almost be the protagonist.

No way.

is also because his temperament is completely different from that of ordinary ministers, and he is also a faction of his own in the court, and his faction is the most prosperous.

After Zhang Zhou arrived, Zhang Mao greeted him first and greeted him with a smile: "Bingkuan is out and about, but what do you gain?" Speaking of which, the old man misses you very much, and the grandchildren at home always say that they want to learn more from his husband. ”

"Really?" Zhang Zhou smiled, "Zhang Lun has only been studying by my side for a few days, so I can't take him as a disciple." ”

Zhang Mao said: "If you are a teacher for one day, you will be a teacher for life, and it is right for him to give Bingkuan your old age." ”

"Huh."

Zhang Zhou smiled.

But I was muttering in my heart, Zhang Lun is only ten years younger than me, why is he giving me a pension? Why didn't he die first?

After Zhang Mao greeted Zhang Zhou, a group of martial artists came over to talk to Zhang Zhoutao, while Wenchen's side only paid attention to the salute at first, and then continued their private discussion.

Although Zhang Zhou couldn't hear what they were talking about, he roughly expected that they were not discussing what was going on against him, but also about some issues that would leave him out.

In short......

This group of people didn't treat him as a minister, thinking about how to exclude him.

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Zhu Feng came very late, before the ministers entered the palace, Zhu Feng was late, and Mu Bin did not appear in the queue of the ministers who entered the palace.

to the Temple of Heaven.

After the ministers stood still, Mu Bin appeared near the door, but he was like a guard, still wearing the official uniform of the commander of the brocade guard, and beside him there was Guo Ang, the envoy of the Beizhen Fusi who had just returned to Beijing with him.

"Xie Ge Lao, borrowed it."

When he entered the palace, Zhang Zhou walked with Wu Xun, but after entering the palace gate, Zhang Zhou chose to stand in Wenchen's class.

After all, he is the secretary of the military department, and this status is also first-class among the civil ministers.

Xie Qian glanced at Zhang Zhou, then took two steps out of the way and gave up his previous position to Zhang Zhou.

Ma Wensheng next to him smiled at Zhang Zhoubao, but looking at that smile, he seemed to be ready to fight with him.

Zhang Zhou said in a low voice: "Several, let me remind you, I have done everything over there, and there is no need to argue about it anymore." ”

Hearing this, Tong Zhong was surprised for a moment and looked at Xie Qian.

Xie Qian glanced back, it seemed to say, what are you doing listening to what he says?

If you want to ponder the intentions of your political opponents, it is better to take the initiative and decide everything by yourself, rather than being controlled by others.

Just think he's farting. (End of chapter)