Liu Jin soon discovered one thing.

As long as he doesn't provoke Yan Yuan, the other party doesn't seem to bother to take care of himself.

Although I don't know what Chen Guogong's purpose is for doing this, this is a good thing after all.

As for Jiao Fang and others, he did not retaliate in the end, but the estrangement was certain.

Jiao Fang naturally knew, but he had no choice, after all, the rule of protégé and seat master had been passed down from the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, although he was not a good person, but he didn't have the courage to break it, risking the world's disapproval.

Calm was restored to the imperial court.

After carefully avoiding the conflict with Chen Guogong, Liu Jin continued to be powerful in the court.

And Yan Yuan was also staring at Liu Jin silently in the dark, the more arrogant the other party, the happier he was.

Make trouble, make trouble, be a pawn for me!

However, for Liu Jin, this is also true, which makes him uncomfortable.

For example, in the summer of the third year of Zhengde, Liu Jin received an anonymous letter in which he scolded him, and Liu Jin was furious, and immediately ordered all officials to kneel in front of Fengtianmen and not to leave.

As a result, it is needless to say that none of the nobles bought it, the Yan clan in the court, and the protégés of Chen Guogong, who did not take refuge in Liu Jin, just left one by one with their heads held high, and no one paid attention to Liu Jin.

This eunuch Liu was stunned and didn't dare to put a fart.

This naturally had a certain impact on Liu Jin's authority, after all, many officials saw it, and although Liu Jin was coercive for a while, he did not dare to provoke Yan Yuan.

Defecting to a noble like Chen Guogong is much better than taking refuge in Liu Jin's reputation, Chen Guogong is famous after all.

But the strange thing is that Yan Yuan always turns a blind eye to these people's overtures, as if he didn't see them, which makes these people very distressed, and they can only be forced to continue to endure Liu Jin's oppression.

There are also some people who are so upset that they simply take refuge in Liu Jin and fight for the tiger.

However, there were still smart people in the court, and there were also a few people who knew the reason why Yan Yuan did this.

Li Dongyang is one of them.

When sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, if the third party is too powerful, the two tigers will not dare to fight.

"Now that the eunuchs are powerful, the chaos of the dynasty, my generation of Qingliu turtle shrinks in a corner, and is powerless to resist, it is the time when the world relies on Chen Guogong you, and I hope that Chen Guogong will come forward, and I will follow you. When the eunuch was ambushed, Chen Guogong should be the first to take the lead, admired by the people of the world, and share the royal industry with us. ”

He personally went to Chen Guogong's mansion and said to Yan Yuan.

There was a hint hidden between his words, telling Yan Yuan that he and the others had been forced by Liu Jin to greatly reduce their strength, and if Yan Yuan could stand up at this time, then they would also promote Yan Yuan later to make him even better.

Yan Yuan drank tea lightly and was noncommittal to Li Dongyang's words.

"Elder Li Ge laughed, I think there are many righteous people in the court, and there are Li Gelao, Yang Gelao (Yang Tinghe), and Wang Gelao (Wang Wei) as the mainstay of the cabinet, but it is not my turn to make a move."

The rise of Liu Jin is the emperor's purge of the power of the court, and Zhu Houzhao allowed Liu Jin's behavior, of course, he also took this opportunity to satisfy his desire to have fun, but it also had the intention of taking the opportunity to suppress the civil officials.

Li Dongyang has also seen this.

Yan Yuan, on the other hand, watched the power of the civil official group being suppressed by the eunuch group, and he took the Xungui group out of the matter.

But he's not just watching, he's waiting for a good time to enter.

The essence of politics is balance, and when the power of the eunuchs completely overwhelms the civil officials, then the emperor will also realize the imbalance, and then he will "obey the mandate of heaven" and come out to clean up the mess.

In other words, the civil servants have not been suppressed enough, and it is not yet time for him to come out and end up.

It is true that there are four people in the cabinet, only one Jiao Fang is Liu Jin's person, although Liu Jin's momentum is strong at this time, but the civil officials still have considerable strength.

Li Dongyang was silent, he understood what Yan Yuan meant.

There was no point in chatting any further, so he got up and said goodbye.

And when Li Dongyang left, a person turned out behind the screen behind Yan Yuan.

The man was dressed in bright clothes, with red lips and white teeth, as handsome as a little student, it was Zhang Cai.

"Elder Li Ge is in a hurry, he is in a hurry."

He said with a smile.

"Don't be in a hurry, it seems to be calm now, but in fact, in Shilin, Li Gelao's reputation has already stinked, I don't know how many people say that he took refuge in eunuchs, and was in the company of Liu Yu and Cao Yuan, and the evening was not guaranteed."

Yan Yuan smiled, this was the biggest problem for the leader of the civil official group at present. You must know that reputation is the most important thing for Qingliu literati like Li Dongyang, even more than life.

He is not Jiao Fang, and the others don't care at all, Li Dongyang can value the name behind him, he is eager to get his reputation up.

Zhang Cai nodded, the feather fan in his hand "snapped", slapped it in the palm of his hand, and said with a smile:

"If you want to save all this, the only way is to defeat Liu Jin before he steps down, so that this Shoufu can still leave a clear name that endures humiliation."

"And now the only force that can compete with Liu Jin is us, if Li Ge Lao wants to defeat Liu Jin, he must rely on our strength."

"With this in hand, Guogong can take care of him and get what he wants."

As his confidant, Yan Yuan authorized him to listen behind the screen, and every word he said hit Li Dongyang's mind.

Yan Yuan stroked his palms and laughed:

"Those who know me are still of quality! (Zhang Caizi is still quality)"

Both laughed at the same time.

The matter of the court was over, and both of them were much more relaxed.

Yan Yuan suddenly looked at Zhang Cai as if he remembered something:

"I heard that you recently married a concubine, and it is said that you are still a famous widow in ten miles and eight towns next to Jingshi?"

As soon as he talked about this, Zhang Cai's face immediately showed a smile, and he nodded again and again, his expression was very excited.

When Yan Yuan saw him like this, he was immediately a little speechless.

This kid didn't learn anything else, but the ancients learned it thoroughly.

He recognized Zhang Cai's ability and eyesight, and in the original time and space, he tried to stop Liu Jin from embezzling and accepting bribes to save his reputation, and this time and space also became Yan Yuan's right-hand man, giving him advice.

However, Zhang Cai himself has a lustful problem, and he especially likes women.

In this regard, Yan Yuan saw that he couldn't help it, so he also went with him, but he still admonished:

"I don't care if you like widows, but you must not have delusions about married women and break up other families."

"There are so many widows in the Jingshi, isn't it enough for you kid? Marrying such a big official as you, people are also willing, how good you are to love me. ”

Zhang Cai looked a little reluctant, but seeing Yan Yuan's serious expression, he had no choice but to agree, he also knew that this matter was immoral, and Yan Yuan was for his good.

(End of chapter)