Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The seven-day public sacrifice ended successfully, but the impact it caused was like slowly fermenting koji, permeating the smell into every street in the city.

"Inheritance from generation to generation" has become a hot topic of discussion among the people in the capital. When someone privately mentions the scandal of the empress dowager in the past, and alludes to the fact that the former emperor and the present are not dragons, they will be ridiculed by others:

Have you ever seen how much the current emperor looks like Emperor Xianzu?If it wasn't for my grandparents, I would take off my head and give it to you.

The empress dowager stole people when she was young?So what, she doesn't sit on the dragon chair, as long as the son she gives birth to is a dragon.Besides, whether a woman obeys women's morals is her own man's business. In the future, she will be punished and punished when she goes to Emperor Xianzu's side.

Similar arguments gradually overwhelmed many previous rumors. Judging from the information sent back by Jinyiwei spies from various places, the situation in other prefectures is similar.

After the public sacrifice, the government issued a notice, defining the Yaoshu case as another evil deed that was taught in a vacuum to confuse the public with the intention of rebelling. So far, public opinion has clearly reversed, and it has spread from the prefectural city to the vast counties and counties.

Su Yan's strategy worked, but limited by the speed of information dissemination in this era, the effect of public opinion guidance is not immediate, and it will take a long time to cover the whole country.But at least in the capital at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the haze of doubtful dragon veins began to dissipate.

Su Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.He hopes that he can clear the sky for Zhu Jinkui, Zhu Helin and his son, and more importantly, prevent the two generations of emperors from leaving stains of orthodoxy and legitimacy in the future history books.

Zhu Helin was very happy, but the empress dowager who lived deep in Dongyuan was half-dead from anger.

——It is true to refute the rumors, but it is only to justify the blood of her son and grandson, not to clear her own reputation.When the courtiers who were sent to be the eyes and ears in the market came back, they did not dare to recount the vivid "Secret History of Princess Qin's Thirty-Year Spring Boudoir", for fear of driving her away alive.

The Empress Dowager suspected that Su Yan's plan to "dispel rumors" was to deliberately sacrifice her reputation in exchange for the credibility of the truth in the hearts of the people.So she couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to ask her grandson for an explanation.

Zhu Helin expected that she would cause trouble, so he tried every means to make excuses.The empress dowager was hit by this, and she was so angry that she couldn't afford to get sick.

When the grandmother is sick, it stands to reason that the children and grandchildren should wait on the bedside.But Zhu Helin is not the kind of person who suffocates himself for the sake of etiquette. If he can't go, he won't go. It will inevitably attract the Taoist priests in the court to carry the banner of filial piety to remonstrate.

Zhu Helin couldn't blatantly violate filial piety, and he couldn't help showing face to these Haoshou veterans, so he pinched his nose to show that he was educated, and turned around to greet the Empress Dowager, give gifts, and brought a few bowls of soup and medicine, and went back to the palace in a huff to find Su Yan. Come to accompany me for refreshments, and make complaints along the way.

Su Yan laughed out loud.

Zhu Helin glared at him: "I'm so aggrieved, you're still laughing!"

Su Yan asked back, "Why don't you smile? Not only do I laugh, you should too."

"What do you mean?"

"In this struggle for the position, you are the winner, and she is the loser. All the tolerance, compassion, and even lowering of the stance of the winner to the loser are a kind of grace, because the winner I know, the loser already has nothing." Su Yan handed him a piece of pea yellow, "Speaking of which, the more filial you are, the worse it will be for her. It also earns praises from the government and the public as "the saint's benevolence and filial piety", isn't this a very laughable thing?"

——It turns out that the emperor still has to be like this!Zhu Helin recalled his father's almost impeccable demeanor on weekdays, and seemed to have glimpsed some kind of art of being a king from it.

"Aren't you aggrieved now?" Su Yan asked with a smile.

Not only didn't I feel aggrieved, but also felt relieved.But Zhu Helin's face was sullen, and a broken line of three points of displeasure and seven points of grievance was pressed from the corner of his mouth: "Why don't you feel aggrieved? I am a good young man, and I can't sleep alone every night. You have to face your serious face again in the daytime, how hard it is, don’t you know and don’t care? Su Qing, you don’t love me at all, and you are talking about "a magnetic needle stone in your heart" and "promoting the Jade Dragon as your king" Die', it's clearly a scam!"

Su Yan pinched half of the pea yellow with his fingertips, and his face froze with a smile.

"...Master, please be reasonable. This poem is about being loyal to the emperor and serving the country. How could I have become a fraud?"

"The ancients said that 'a monarch and his ministers are in harmony, and fish and water are the same'. You are too stingy to give me the joy of fish and water. Which kind of gentleman is loyal?"

Once this young master enters the state of messing around, there is no reason to talk about it. Su Yan swallowed the pea yellow in his mouth, and said vaguely: "The debt is cheap!" He got up and left.

Seeing the other party avoiding him like a tiger, Zhu Helin's long-suppressed anger flared up, he grabbed Su Yan's wrist, and pulled Su Yan into his arms: "I allow you to go? What, want to resist the decree?"

Su Yan was bound by his arms and could not break free, and said helplessly: "Okay, enough is enough, my lord. We had a good chat just now, as long as there is no personal relationship involved, we can be like kings and ministers, so why bother to ask for it?" Troubled."

Zhu Helin showed a blatant expression: "Why can only you determine the relationship between us? You say that the monarch and the ministers are the monarch and the ministers? You say that the master and the disciple are the master and the disciple? Su Qinghe, I'm afraid you have forgotten—to say Lei Chi, you and I have crossed the forbidden line, and now we still want to pretend nothing happened, is it possible?"

He tightly grasped Su Yan's struggling arms.Su Yan staggered, and pressed his whole back on the round table, crushing the unfinished pea yellow on the plate.

Zhu Helin leaned forward and stared at Su Yan steadfastly, his eyes were like the surface of the river after a heavy rain, using the turbulent waves to hide the unwillingness, pain, fury and determination deep in the water.

He leaned over to Su Yan's ear, and said in a deep voice: "I will never forget the night in Fengxian Temple, and I don't believe that you can really forget it. You dare to swear to the conscience of the world, that night is right for you." You have no influence, and you have no feelings for me, Zhu Helin?"

Su Yan was at a loss for words.

After a while, he just said: "The appointment comes first, and the debt is settled. I have made up my mind, and you have no jokes."

Zhu Helin stared into his eyes, Su Yan moved his gaze away first.

He was ruthlessly rejected again.But this time seems to be a little different... Zhu Helin suddenly thought, what does it mean that Qinghe, who is always eloquent, failed to answer his question directly this time?

The Secretary of General Administration, the newly promoted You Tongzheng Cui Jinping is behind the desk case, sorting out the memorials submitted to the imperial court from various places.

These news from all over the country sent to the capital by "immediate delivery", together with the memoirs of officials in Beijing, converged at the Department of General Administration, the information hub and transfer station.After sorting out the playbooks, they were either sent to the cabinet or presented to the emperor in the morning.

After tearing up with Su Yan in the teahouse, Cui Jinping has been a little out of sorts for the past few days, always distracted when doing things, and suddenly wakes up after a few moments, cursing angrily: It's all Su Twelve's fault!

"Master Tongzheng!" A petty official hurried into the house, put a stack of notebooks in his hand on the table, took the top one and handed it to Cui Jinping directly, "Old Yu Ge's memorial Ben, I rushed to Beijing from Daming Mansion [-] miles away, and the officials didn't dare to delay, so I sent it right away."

Cui Jinping immediately opened the playbook, and after reading it quickly, his face changed drastically.

"Old Yu Ge was ordered to supervise military affairs, and he is leading the Beijing army to suppress the bandits in Beizhili. This time, it took eight hundred miles of express delivery. It seems that the situation is urgent. Mr. Tongzheng, do you want your subordinates to send this memorial to you immediately? cabinet?"

Cui Jinping thought about it for a second, and said, "I just want to go to the cabinet, so I'll take it with me. You stay here and help me sort out these notebooks on the table, and put them away by category."

The boss said so, and the little official was happy to save a trip, so he agreed.

Cui Jinping put the memorial book in his arms, walked out of the gate of Tongzhengsi, got into the carriage and told the driver: "Go to the Meridian Gate—"

Going in from the Meridian Gate, on the right is Wenyuan Pavilion where the cabinet ministers' offices are located.

The carriage had just driven a few steps, when Cui Jinping suddenly changed his words: "No, go to Xie Ge's hometown!"

Xie Shiyan's body, which had been hollowed out by an overdose of Rejuvenation Pills, had just begun to look a little pale recently after the doctor's careful diagnosis and treatment.They will attend the morning court on the third, sixth, and ninth day of every ten days, but at other times, most of them will rest at home under the banner of recuperating from illness, and they will not stay in the office of the cabinet very much.

Cui Jinping hurried to Xie's mansion, and after the servant informed him, he led him to see Mr. Xie Ge.

In the first sentence of the meeting, he said to Xie Shiyan: "Old and new Yuge has a memorial."

Xie Shiyan was a little impatient: "Send it to the cabinet as usual, why bother to report to the old man alone. The old man is still recuperating, so it's not appropriate to worry too much."

Cui Jinping continued: "It's about Qi Jingtang."

Xie Shiyan got angry when she heard the name: "Do you think this old man will be very keen to know what military exploits a thief boy who almost killed me with poison has done?"

"It's not a military achievement, but a catastrophe." Cui Jinping's voice was dry from nervousness and excitement, and his voice became a little sharp.

"What calamity?"

"Older Yu Ge's memorandum said that Qi Jingtang refused to listen to his dissuasion, and insisted on leading troops deep into the enemy's rear to attack Madman Liao. Now that the entire team has lost contact, I'm afraid it's a bad luck."

After Xie Shiyan was surprised, she burst into ecstasy: "God help me! This Dengzhou boy's life is over!"

Cui Jinping knew that Xie Shiyan had a feud with Qi Jingtang, and this news would surely please him, so he rushed to Xie's mansion first and told Xie Shiyan.

Xie Shiyan took the memorial and read it again and again, laughing loudly, and then stopped laughing: "The surname Qi refused to obey the order of the master general, greedy for merit, and led the soldiers into danger. Even if they survived by chance, a big defeat is enough The imperial court dismissed him and questioned him. Su Twelve, who insisted on promoting him at the beginning, will inevitably be punished for improper employment... This is really good news that kills two birds with one stone!"

Cui Jinping was startled.

He hadn't thought that Su Yan's relationship was involved in this matter. Now that Xie Shiyan said this, Su Yan...is going to be unlucky?

Xie Shiyan saw that Cui Jinping looked a little dazed, and said, "Why, are you still thinking about the poor same-year relationship with him? Cui Tongzheng, you can think about it carefully, he left a talent like you sitting on the bench, and went to What is the reason for strongly recommending that unknown boy Qi with corrupt character?"

Cui Jinping moved his lips, but did not answer.

Xie Shiyan replied: "Because Kid Qi is good at flattering horses and giving gifts."

Cui Jinping couldn't help thinking: I also wanted to give Su Yan a gift, but his servant didn't even let me in.

Xie Shiyan narrowed her small eyes and glanced at him: "Boy Qi is good at giving aphrodisiacs, and he's not bad looking."

Cui Jinping was startled again, and then an embarrassing brick red flushed on his cheekbones: "What do you mean by Mr. Ge..."

Xie Shiyan sneered and said: "It's just a matter of fact. Others don't like his style, but Su Twelve might like it very much, otherwise he wouldn't wear a pair of pants with Jin Yiwei Shen Qi. So you don't have to feel resentful because he didn't like and recommend you , should be rejoicing."

Cui Jinping could hardly speak, feeling extremely disappointed and angry.More than half of this anger was aimed at Su Yan, who disappointed him even more, and the secret part was because of the sarcasm and obscenity implied in Xie Shiyan's meaningful words just now.

After taking a deep breath to calm his mind, he said: "Whether this playbook is submitted to the cabinet as usual, please show me, Mr. Xie Ge."

Xie Shiyan walked back to the chair, and said slowly: "The memorandum must be submitted to the cabinet. Failure to submit it will be a crime of dereliction of duty. But the time for submission...It doesn't matter if it is three or five days late."

Cui Jinping also realized now that Xie Shiyan wanted to seize these few days to contact people first, and then collectively report or impeach Su Yan on the spot, and Su Yan would be caught off guard.

He hesitated.

Xie Shiyan's face darkened: "Why, Cui Tongzheng still wants to take this memorandum and go to Su's residence?"

Cui Jinping hurriedly said: "The lower officials have absolutely no such intentions, and everything will be done according to Xie Ge's elders."

Xie Shiyan nodded in satisfaction.

After Cui Jinping resigned, Xie Shiyan called his eldest son Xie Yun, and said to him, "Do you still remember the last time Dad said, 'I will manage secretly, and at the critical moment, stab him from the back to his vitals'? Now , the opportunity to stab Su Twelve has come!"