Pei Gonggui
Chapter 25 The Crime 24 · Dishonesty
Pei Jun frowned, and before he could respond, an urgent female voice sounded beside him: "Xuan'er!"
Seeing that Pei Yan had come looking for her in a panic with her skirt in hand, she took a few steps forward and pulled Jiang Xuan to her side, only then did she notice that it was Pei Jun standing in front of her, and she couldn't help but froze on the spot.For a moment, the Pei family's siblings looked at each other and were a step away, but they didn't say a word to each other until Jiang Xuan first called "Mother Concubine", pulled Pei Yan's front lapel, and whispered: "Mother Concubine, let's tell uncle, Uncle can..."
Pei Yan interrupted her son with a soft hiss, and at this moment pulled him closer, lowered her head to avoid Pei Jun's gaze, embraced Jiang Xuan with her arms around her and was about to leave, but when she bent down and stretched out her hand, Pei Jun saw There were two blue and red bruises on the part of her wrist exposed under the sleeve, and it suddenly seemed that her eyes were stabbed, and before she could speak, she frowned and grabbed her hand.
Pei Yan hissed in pain, holding Jiang Xuan with one hand, she didn't understand, so she turned her head, and when she saw that Pei Jun was staring at the wound on her hand, she immediately frowned, and hurriedly said: "This is... I got up yesterday. I accidentally bumped into the edge of the table, it's fine."
Pei Jun's grip was quite strong, Pei Yan didn't break free for a while, and they were at a small station by the river, the team had already stopped to rest, and some members of the royal family came down to enjoy the scenery of the river, so people around Gradually someone looked at the two siblings inquiringly, causing Pei Jun to frowned slightly, so he had no choice but to let go.
Pei Yan flung down her cuff to cover her wrist with one hand, and instead hugged Jiang Xuan to her shoulders with both hands. She was about to turn around and leave, but she seemed to hesitate because of Pei Jun's move. He looked at his younger brother who hadn't seen him for a long time, bit his lips and frowned before he seemed to have made up his mind, and asked: "Recently, the court affairs are complicated, and King Rui is often not in the mansion... Are you okay?"
But Pei Jun didn't leave at this time, but he just smiled at her: "I'm so contemptuous, I don't dare to bother the princess for inquiries."
After hearing this, Pei Yan's expression didn't change at all, but the eyes exposed by Jiang Xuan's neck suddenly turned red.
Her eyes are very similar to Pei Jun's, long and tailed, like a crescent moon when she narrowed her eyes, there used to be many smiles flashing in them, but now facing Pei Jun, there is only silence and avoidance.Pei Jun's indifference made her lower her head and look away again, and patted her son's back to comfort her, but her cold voice asked Pei Jun, "How many years...you have to treat me like this? "
Pei Jun sneered absurdly, pretending to sigh and said: "The princess is the status of the heavenly family, so I don't dare to take advantage of it. It's the little prince who came to his mother's family so suddenly to ask for help, which makes the minister feel terrified... Sigh, after all, the days of the palace are inlaid with gold." Daiyu, the family of the Marquis Zhongyi's family is humble, and the people are soft-spoken, so how can you help the princess?"
"You..." Pei Yan gritted her teeth as she raised her breath, she almost tried her best to hold back the tears in her eyes before she looked up at him for the last time, then turned around and left with her son in her arms.
She didn't turn her head back until she got into the car, and Pei Jun finally looked away from her tall and thin back, and when he turned around, he saw Jiang Yue leaning against the window to watch a play in the carriage he had just stepped off.
Pei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly, didn't take half a step back, and smiled without a trace of panic. Jiang Yue peeped over the curtain and listened: "Your Majesty Jin is very happy."
And Jiang Yue also opened his lips and smiled, and praised Pei Jun's venomous tongue without any shame: "Master Pei's wonderful words."
Just at this time, a short guard hurried over and bowed to Pei Jun, saying that the emperor is here.Pei Jun withdrew his smile and bowed to Jiang Yue, said goodbye, then turned his head and followed the guards to the Emperor Luan.
In order to prevent someone from assassinating, Jiang Zhan's carriage was not much different from those driving around him. It was only parked in the middle of the clan, which seemed to be guarded by the clan.When Pei Jun arrived, the guards passed the news outside first, and the curtain of the car was lifted from the inside.
Hu Li, the eunuch in the car, came down first, and Pei Jun took a step forward to get on the car. At this time, the soft and warm ambergris fragrance lingered around his nose, and as he lifted the curtain, he saw a circle of thick deerskin. , then above is the moon white winter coat wrapped in deerskin, and at the end is Jiang Zhan's pale face wrapped in the pile of leather jackets.
Jiang Zhan's smile broke out when the car curtain was completely lifted, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.When he saw Pei Jun, he withdrew his hand from the stove in his arms and handed it to him.At this moment, Pei Jun could only hold his hand and enter the carriage, but felt that Jiang Zhan's palm was very warm, but the back of his hand was still cold.
The carbon grid under the carriage was very hot. Pei Jun sat next to Jiang Zhan, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. Without saying a word, Jiang Zhan pulled out a lumbar pillow from behind and stuffed it behind him, whispering: "They are afraid that I will get sick, so they will heat it up here. If you are afraid of the heat, take off your fur robe and give it to Hu Li."
"The minister is not hot." Pei Jun smiled at him, "Why did the emperor summon the minister?"
"It's Shayan's business." Jiang Zhan took out a few foreign newspapers from the side and put them in Pei Jun's hand, heaved a long and tired face, with a bit of youthful worry between his brows: "These are all things that came to me this morning. Before leaving, Shayan's national book and battle report suddenly came from the border... I have been dizzy since just now, and I can't read it at all, so read it to me." He gave this extremely simple statement like he has done for several years. Asked, then he frowned and closed his eyes and leaned on Pei Jun's shoulder as usual, as if he was still the child who had just enthroned, sitting in the big chair in the imperial study room, leaning on Pei Hanlin's shoulder and listening to him The rise and fall of a hundred generations, and the war between spring and autumn.
According to the excerpts, there was a civil strife in the north and south of Shayan, a neighboring country. The thing was that both parties borrowed troops from the imperial court.Pei Jun remained motionless, and Jiang Zhan leaned against him. After reading the scriptures, Jiang Zhan had been silent for a long time, and when he was about to change another book, he suddenly heard Jiang Zhan say:
"What do you think? Should I borrow soldiers? Who should I lend them to?"
He didn't open his eyes, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in these words seemed to be a dream only when he was talking to Pei Jun.Pei Jun closed the notebook and thought about the civil strife in the north and south of Sha Yan in his previous life. After the court voted, he borrowed troops to the north, but he didn't expect that neither the north nor the south would win. He felt that it would be good to let the court postpone this fate, so he smiled and said: "The emperor has been in power for a long time, and there should have been a holy order. This matter should also be discussed by the cabinet and the court. It is definitely not something that a minister can decide alone."
After saying this, Jiang Zhan's voice did not sound in the warm and spacious compartment for a long time.After a while, Pei Jun only felt a slight movement of his shoulders. It was Jiang Zhan who tilted his head, suddenly opened his eyes and stretched out his hand, opened the curtain with a thin white finger, and looked out from a distance. What he said just now was just light And a small "hmm".
It was already dusk outside the window, and the curtain was opened to see the vast scenery, the long river and the sunset, if there were no surrounding vehicles and horses to encircle and soldiers to detour, they would be able to see the pale yellow wormwood stretching everywhere on the other side of the far bank when they got off the carriage. The coldness and depression that winter is late and spring has not yet risen.
"I haven't been here for three years." Jiang Zhan said, "The scenery is still the same after three years..."
He didn't continue the second half of the sentence.After a while, he put down his hands, and Pei Jun continued to read the rest of the folded papers, and gradually stopped talking, and his breathing gradually took longer, as if he had fallen asleep, until Pei Jun raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, and He only trembled his eyelashes slightly, but there was no reaction from his whole body. Only then did Pei Jun confirm that he had really fallen into a deep sleep.
Pei Jun helped him lean against the wall of the car. At this time, he carefully got out and looked back at the young and beautiful emperor. He looked at this delicate and peaceful sleeping face, and listened to the light breathing in the car. The scene, but suddenly felt a sense of nothingness with nowhere to go——
This is something he has never felt for many years.When he was really in his 20s and in the body in front of his eyes, he was once so fresh and truly full of blood and youthful vigor. You can cut this heart out and give it to someone... But Lu Yao, he took out his heart and walked to the end with an empty skin, but this heart was rotten and disappeared, he was crippled and crippled His head was beheaded, and now God gave him a complete body, but where did he want him to find a complete heart again?
He once thought that Jiang Zhan was his heart, but he was wrong.But now that he doesn't even have this mistake anymore, he almost feels that he has no heart, as if he can touch the hole in his chest that can be knocked out with empty sounds -- filled with some happy things in it. Things that should not be burdened by favors, things that should not be burdened by human feelings, made him feel like he would never feel pain or joy because of something, and finally there was only boring hate... hate, hate.
Is hateful nothingness?Or the whole life is nothingness at all, whether it is intentional or unintentional, whether it is love or hate, it will come to the end, and the physical body will disappear sooner or later. In the end, what will people gain?What can he get?
Before he died, he had said that it would be fine, and he didn't even want to live if Cao Luan saved him—it didn't work this time, why did God want him to go again?
The human world is a place of suffering, and to come again is to walk in the suffering of the place, and there is no end to it.
Pei Jun sneered inwardly, only thinking about the change of the peace and marriage in his mind, he read all the folders with Jiang Zhan without making a sound, and finally looked down at Jiang Zhan, and got off the car by himself up.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to turn around and look for Jiang Yue again, he was stopped by someone beside him, and it was the great eunuch Hu Li who held his hand and said, "Master Pei, please stay."
Pei Jun stopped and smiled at him: "Eunuch Hu, what's the matter?"
Hu Li signaled to the surrounding guards and palace people that he would leave temporarily, then pulled Pei Jun to the outer edge of the clan's carriage, sleeved his hands in the cold wind by the river, first bowed to Pei Jun, and complained with a smile : "Master Pei is really busy with your affairs, the palace hasn't seen you for a while, and our family hasn't properly congratulated Mr. Pei on his promotion!"
"It's such a small matter, why should it be worth your father's trouble?" Pei Jun supported him, and when he heard that this was related to official positions, he knew that it should be related to political affairs, so he added: "Grandpa Kuang's kind courtesy It has been delivered long ago, but it is too much—I am afraid that you have sent it by mistake."
"No, no, just be careful, Mr. Pei will be out of touch." Hu Li quickly waved his hand to blame him, and his tone was softer, "New policies are coming at the beginning of the year, Mr. Pei has to go around more In the middle and connecting the various ministries, seeing that we are going to work hard again, our family is in the palace and has short hands and feet, so I don't know how we can help Mr. Pei. In the future——if there is a place where our family can use Shangli, Pei My lord, please give us some pointers."
"I dare not dare, but if the government is too powerful to deal with it, I will ask my father-in-law to help me." Pei Jun and him spoke back and forth, but in fact he could hear it very clearly. ", but what was left unsaid was the phrase "blessed and shared", which naturally included the tacit understanding of reminding each other of danger on the same front, all of which were Hu Li's usual tricks.
But in fact, Hu Li was never on the same front as him.
They have always been two lines, belonging to official power and eunuch power respectively, but they are often twisted into one strand to bind and kill others.
Apart from the old affairs of Pei Jun and Jiang Zhan, both official power and eunuch power are essentially extensions of imperial power. Compared with civil officials, eunuchs' absolute attachment to imperial power is beyond doubt. It is Jiang Zhan's dog, and the eunuch Hu Li is Jiang Zhan's cat. They are either loyal or obsequious, all for the same benefit, that is Jiang Zhan's safety—or even the safety of Jiang Zhan's imperial power.Therefore, the alliance between the two could continue to exist in the previous life, and Hu Li would not be affected until Pei Jun died and Hu Li walked away, and the palace blood washed the servants and palace servants who had been entangled with Pei Dang. —
Because Hu Li is Jiang Zhan's cat, not Pei Jun's.The owner will not kill the cat just because the dog is dead.
But cats have a delicate relationship with their owners—it can almost be said to be: gluttonous for those in their arms, and profitable for people on the roadside.Right now, Hu Li is in power countlessly relying on the power and benefits given by Jiang Zhan, and everything must go well with Jiang Zhan, so that he can get more power and benefits; but if one day Jiang Zhan can no longer give him more, Will he still fight for Jiang Zhan, kill people and set fires, or will he be a spectator who stands on the sidelines and joins in the fun, and runs away when the timing is not right?
Pei Jun smiled and listened to Hu Li's continuation, saying that he wanted to ask the Ministry of War for an accurate answer, asking how the palace guards would be reformed after the New Deal, so that he would be able to secretly arrange the palace's net.Pei Jun responded in a low voice, and for a moment, he felt that the minions inside and outside the court really saw that the New Deal would be a fat piece of meat, even the eunuchs who accompanied the emperor would never be spared, and Jiang Zhan, who was trapped in the palace, saw it in the New Deal. The misty hope, but it was pointed out by the Zhang family to prove the way... This is really a chess game that will kill you if you take one step.
No matter how abruptly the surrounding things change, as long as the path remains the same, it will lead to the same ruined ending as many times as possible, the difference is just sooner or later.
It's settled, I just hope that all of this will end sooner.Pei Jun sighed, hearing what Hu Li said was almost finished, he patted his arm: "It's cold outside, eunuch go back and guard the emperor."
Hearing this, Hu Li lowered his hand and asked: "Master Pei hasn't come to sit in the palace for a long time, but because of that disciple's matter, he and the emperor are unhappy?"
Pei Jun paused, denying it was impossible, so he could only follow his words at this moment: "The emperor doesn't believe me, so it doesn't make sense for me to go."
Hu Li clicked his tongue, "Oh, His Majesty, he just—"
"I understand, Eunuch Hu." Pei Jun cut off his words and smiled, remembering to tell him: "This winter, the emperor has not developed a cough, but the long-distance fatigue is not easy. You should call the imperial physician to wait for you from time to time." After all, it is no better than being in the middle of the capital... Once the paddock arrives, Taiping and other ministries in the north will be there, if the emperor gets sick on the spot, our Ministry of Rites will be in trouble."
Hu Li sighed: "If you can go to the palace to accompany the emperor more often, whether it's good for the emperor to eat, sleep, or feel good, are you still afraid of bad health?" He rolled his eyes and looked at Pei Jun, persuading: "You can often Come on."
And when Pei Jun often goes to the palace, everything is arranged by Hu Li, which inevitably just adds more bargaining chips for Hu Li to exchange personnel affairs with him. After saying, "Tianxi is approaching, there will always be people around the emperor again", then bowed to Hu Li to say goodbye, and walked to the rear of the carriage.
While walking, the big river was rushing forward, but the white snow in the road was blinding his eyes, and relatives and nobles around shouted: "Rui Xue! Rui Xue!" Then Pei Jun stopped and stretched out his hand to catch it, and there were Yingying points falling on his palm. Thin snow, and the snow is no colder than the winter wind, and it will be warmed up in a moment.
When he entered the palace from Hanlin for the first time at the age of 21, there was such a snow, small and dense, like gauze woven by the thin slanting wind.The soap-clothed palace man who came flying geese from the misty gauze led him through the brick-red neat corridors, and when he turned the corner of the corridor of the Zhongqing Hall, he saw two ministers talking in a low voice at the corner outside the imperial study.
At that time, Emperor Suning passed away, the prince of the East Palace was abolished, and the young emperor Jiang Zhan was pushed to the throne by the cabinet. It is said that the young emperor is cowardly and afraid of getting into trouble, and he is afraid that he will not be able to win the position of great treasure.Such comments were circulated wantonly among civil servants and military generals, and they almost never avoided talking about them inside and outside the palace—they were not even afraid that someone in the palace would sue to expose them, because the emperor would not dare to punish them.
At this time, the two ministers who spoke were talking about this matter.
It was the first time Pei Jun entered the palace to look around, but inadvertently caught a glimpse of a small snow-white hand and a piece of soap-colored clothes behind the rockery in the pool outside the corridor.
The palace people in front were walking fast, Pei Jun didn't care, walked a few steps slower to the back of the rockery, raised his eyebrows, and saw a group of small soap-colored shadows lying on their stomachs and eavesdropping on the chatting of the ministers in the corridor.
He couldn't help being playful and suddenly said on the back of his neck: "Little eunuch, you will be punished for eavesdropping!"
This scare made the little eunuch turn back in shock, and suddenly sat down on the rock and looked at Pei Jun. The collar of the overly fat soap coat on his body was pulled crookedly by this action, revealing a large section of white hair. neck.From the neck up, there is a small palm-sized face under the brim of the big hat. Its face is icy white, like a fresh white peach blooming in the mountains, only the black eyebrows and black eyes are dotted around the outline, and its upper lip is red and scarlet, just like the tips of the petals. A touch of red on the head——
He is crying.
Pei Jun was stunned for a moment, but unexpectedly, the little eunuch in front of him was panicked by malicious abruptness just after passing by, at this moment, he glanced at the sixth-grade patched coat on Pei Jun's body, his brows were immediately stained with hostility, and he stood up and reprimanded : "It's not your turn to teach me a lesson in this palace!"
After saying that, the little eunuch ran away quickly without looking back, leaving Pei Jun still standing under the red plums by the pool, until the palace guide hurriedly turned around to look for him, then returned to his senses and followed him to the House of Internal Affairs.But the next day when he changed into the fifth-grade Hanlin mending gown and took office, he saw the crying little eunuch sitting on the golden dragon chair the day before, his eyes widened like a deer, and he knelt down and bowed to him with a secret smile. :
"The humble official Hanlin attends Pei Jun, see the emperor."
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The snow was falling even harder, and the cold wind was about to crack your hands.
Pei Jun wiped his Xuebing-wet hands on his robe casually, wiped them dry, looked at Jiang Tian independently for a while, then rolled up his sleeves and got into the carriage.Then someone got up and talked, and just closed their eyes to sleep if they had nothing to do, so they stopped and stopped until the evening of the third day, and finally arrived at the paddock.
Although the court ordered Beijing officials of the fourth rank and above to accompany them, most of the old officials such as Zhang Ling and Cai Yan were unwilling to toss about with horses and horses. Except for the royal family, most of them were young and middle-aged courtiers and military officers, and everyone was brought in by the paddock guards. In the camp, the camp is located in a piece of leeward grass at the entrance of the paddock. Before entering the paddock, it is still considered the border of the Central Plains.
This place has always been the residence of the royal family for hunting. It has been guarded and tidied up by special personnel all year round. Kuai Matong has already set up large tents of coarse cloth, and it is set for two officials to use one tent, and each clan member to use one tent. If there are family members and children, a new tent will be set up, and the tallest cowhide tent with colorful flags and streamers in the camp is naturally used by Emperor Jiang Zhan.
Pei Jun had originally planned to sleep in the same tent as Yan Yuliang, because the Minister of the Ministry of Officials was still vacant, and they wanted to talk about the personnel changes in the beginning of the year, but Fang Mingjue knew about it, and said all the way that they were not loyal enough not to take him to play, Talking all the way to the gate of the paddock, Yan Yuliang was finally afraid of his mouth, so he pulled Cui Yu and said, "Then brother, you can bear the pain and sleep with me for one night!" Then he dragged Cui Yu, who looked disgusted, to the next door, and closed the tent. Leave it to Pei Jun and Fang Mingjue.
Pei Jun had been trained by his late father when he was young, and he always packed his bags quickly. When he changed his clothes and planned to go out, Fang Mingjue was still dawdling in taking out the thick socks his wife put on, while saying that he missed his daughter. Pei Jun shook his head, grabbed the curtain and left.But as soon as he got out of the tent, he happened to see Cai Yangzheng, a scholar from one of the tents in Taiping not far away, pulling out the curtain from one of the tents, followed by the second prince's cronies.
"Master Pei also finds it strange?"
An indifferent smile sounded beside him, and when Pei Jun turned around, he saw Jiang Yue standing not far from him in sable fur, which was just black and white with the snow behind him, and the outline of his face seemed to be because of this excessive Clear and appear more straight and deep.
Jiang Yue seemed to have just come from the camp of the clan's clan in the east, so he didn't even bother to greet him, he just looked at Cai Yang walking away from a distance and continued: "Although Honglu Temple is indeed managed by Cai Yang , but why does the following affairs require him to run errands in person?"
Seeing Jiang Yue, Pei Jun felt his head ache, and smiled wryly: "Hey, it's all sealed, Prince Jin is still in the spirit of a dragon and a horse... he didn't take a rest for two days and nights, and this time he got off the car, he had to take his ministers to check case."
"I've been alone in the army for many years, this little road is nothing." Jiang Yue turned his head to look at him and smiled, "Master Pei is also in high spirits today, why not accompany Gu to investigate the case."
Jiang Yue is the only one who still needs to be praised.Bored, Pei Jun walked a few steps forward with him, stood in the open space and said, "My lord once said that Qiu Yuanzhi met Cai Yan before entering the palace?"
Jiang Yue nodded, "I'm afraid it has something to do with the change in the selection of relatives." Speaking of this, he remembered something and looked at Pei Jun: "Did Mr. Pei's new student talk about the Ningwuhou Mansion?"
"What new student?" Pei Jun smiled helplessly, "I told you last time that he hasn't entered yet, my lord." He sighed, seeing no one around, he whispered what Qian Haiqing said to Jiang. The more he said it, Jiang Yue raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You can rest assured that Qian Sheng will pick the leader alone?"
"Then why did the lord let Zhang San send Suixi to my house?" Pei Jun looked at him with bright eyes, "The big coffin in the main hall of the Zhang family is still there, and the most taboo thing is to conspire and gain power. Three, are you not afraid that Mr. Zhang will hate you?"
Jiang Yue raised his chin slightly, and raised the corners of his lips: "Then Mr. Pei is there to support Gu, and Mr. Zhang always blames you more."
"..." Pei Jun shook his head with a smile, walked to the edge of the paddock with him, and decided to talk about the current marriage.
"My lord, I don't understand. Marriage is only a "good" word for you. If you want to gain power and make troubles in the future, Taiping will be a rare help. A hindrance is also a replacement of power. Your lord You shouldn’t understand, otherwise you won’t be able to get that temple house—unless it was given to you by Taiping for nothing?”
But his tone and Jiang Yue's listening expression both showed that this was impossible.
"They want the skills of silk weaving, so they can't make it for blueprints, so they can only send them some weavers." Jiang Yue said softly, "If Taiping learns the method of silk weaving, the imperial court will export less cloth , the treasury will have less money..."
"Then you still want to change?" Pei Jun was a little amused, and for a moment he felt that Jiang Yue was not the one who wanted the court to collapse quickly, "Fang Shilang and his household department recently got in touch with the treasury of Jiufu, and the national debt is almost crazy It's hard to wait for a seal, and at the beginning of the new year, I have to break a copper coin in half, and the prince doesn't care about the silver, so he has to take care of them."
They were walking to a shallow frozen lake, Pei Jun raised his foot to wipe the snow on the ground, kicked out two small stones, bent down to pick them up.
Jiang Yue looked at him, and said calmly, "Then Mr. Pei thinks that the money sold by the common people for weaving and selling goes into the treasury, so they can really be spent back on the common people in the future?"
Pei Jun breathed out a white breath, and suddenly raised his arms, the small stone in his hand flew out, smashing a small hole in the ice far away, "Of course not." At this moment, he suddenly remembered a time when he was alone in Ye Xue When I returned, I heard the old chestnut seller say, "My lord, the people themselves know this truth. They know that they have spent their entire lives earning hard-earned money for the people above them, for the emperor, for you, and for such stupid officials as my ministers."
Jiang Yue looked at the ice surface smashed by his stone in the distance, there was black ash and icy water swaying and overflowing, and asked suddenly: "Then Mr. Pei doesn't think so, shouldn't it be?"
Pei Jun weighed the other remaining stone in his hand: "It shouldn't be, but the world has been like this since ancient times."
"It's been like this since ancient times, isn't it right?" Jiang Yue looked away from the lake and looked at Pei Jun quietly: "Then what is the purpose of Mr. Pei's strategy of all people? Isn't it for the benefit of the people?"
Pei Jun swung his arm again and threw the stone, this time the stone flew high and far, flew straight across the opposite side of the shallow lake, landed in the pale yellow grass somewhere, and could no longer be seen.
"...The strategy of all people." He patted the dust on his hands and smiled lightly, then turned his head to look at Jiang Yue with a half-smile, "My lord, none of us can survive on salary alone—there is no one in the capital." The official is, no one is clean, and I am not afraid to say this in front of you. When Deng Zhun became a disciple, he asked his ministers why the Cai clan was still standing after decades of disasters in his hometown. Even more glorious, the minister only taught him one sentence, that is, 'Because they are above, those above have power'."
"The policy of the people can be effective from the top to the bottom, and where the top is, there are not only officials but also the monarch. The affairs of the people, and finally the people, need to start from a virtuous ruler. Marsh, without assistance, then the world is competing for profit, who cares about the life and death of the people? But the ministers in the past didn't understand this, and they were always obsessed with being officials and those who exercised power, but they forgot that there are still..." He gradually lost consciousness Going on, he turned his eyes and looked at the broken ice in the distance. For a moment, his eyes fell into the bleakness of lonely memories, but the next moment they suddenly bent the corners of his eyes, and raised his eyebrows at Jiang Yue, with a rather joyful look: "Later, the minister I understand. The world has been like this since ancient times.”
"That's why...the strategy of the people like the temple house, maybe the prince can really make it in the future, but the minister can't. So the prince doesn't need to let the minister study it carefully, it is not something that the minister can do, the prince keeps it for himself Let's see." Pei Jun still smiled with the corners of his eyes hooked, nodded to Jiang Yue, only said to go back to rest and investigate the case with the prince, and walked back in Jiang Yue's silence.
Seeing that Pei Yan had come looking for her in a panic with her skirt in hand, she took a few steps forward and pulled Jiang Xuan to her side, only then did she notice that it was Pei Jun standing in front of her, and she couldn't help but froze on the spot.For a moment, the Pei family's siblings looked at each other and were a step away, but they didn't say a word to each other until Jiang Xuan first called "Mother Concubine", pulled Pei Yan's front lapel, and whispered: "Mother Concubine, let's tell uncle, Uncle can..."
Pei Yan interrupted her son with a soft hiss, and at this moment pulled him closer, lowered her head to avoid Pei Jun's gaze, embraced Jiang Xuan with her arms around her and was about to leave, but when she bent down and stretched out her hand, Pei Jun saw There were two blue and red bruises on the part of her wrist exposed under the sleeve, and it suddenly seemed that her eyes were stabbed, and before she could speak, she frowned and grabbed her hand.
Pei Yan hissed in pain, holding Jiang Xuan with one hand, she didn't understand, so she turned her head, and when she saw that Pei Jun was staring at the wound on her hand, she immediately frowned, and hurriedly said: "This is... I got up yesterday. I accidentally bumped into the edge of the table, it's fine."
Pei Jun's grip was quite strong, Pei Yan didn't break free for a while, and they were at a small station by the river, the team had already stopped to rest, and some members of the royal family came down to enjoy the scenery of the river, so people around Gradually someone looked at the two siblings inquiringly, causing Pei Jun to frowned slightly, so he had no choice but to let go.
Pei Yan flung down her cuff to cover her wrist with one hand, and instead hugged Jiang Xuan to her shoulders with both hands. She was about to turn around and leave, but she seemed to hesitate because of Pei Jun's move. He looked at his younger brother who hadn't seen him for a long time, bit his lips and frowned before he seemed to have made up his mind, and asked: "Recently, the court affairs are complicated, and King Rui is often not in the mansion... Are you okay?"
But Pei Jun didn't leave at this time, but he just smiled at her: "I'm so contemptuous, I don't dare to bother the princess for inquiries."
After hearing this, Pei Yan's expression didn't change at all, but the eyes exposed by Jiang Xuan's neck suddenly turned red.
Her eyes are very similar to Pei Jun's, long and tailed, like a crescent moon when she narrowed her eyes, there used to be many smiles flashing in them, but now facing Pei Jun, there is only silence and avoidance.Pei Jun's indifference made her lower her head and look away again, and patted her son's back to comfort her, but her cold voice asked Pei Jun, "How many years...you have to treat me like this? "
Pei Jun sneered absurdly, pretending to sigh and said: "The princess is the status of the heavenly family, so I don't dare to take advantage of it. It's the little prince who came to his mother's family so suddenly to ask for help, which makes the minister feel terrified... Sigh, after all, the days of the palace are inlaid with gold." Daiyu, the family of the Marquis Zhongyi's family is humble, and the people are soft-spoken, so how can you help the princess?"
"You..." Pei Yan gritted her teeth as she raised her breath, she almost tried her best to hold back the tears in her eyes before she looked up at him for the last time, then turned around and left with her son in her arms.
She didn't turn her head back until she got into the car, and Pei Jun finally looked away from her tall and thin back, and when he turned around, he saw Jiang Yue leaning against the window to watch a play in the carriage he had just stepped off.
Pei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly, didn't take half a step back, and smiled without a trace of panic. Jiang Yue peeped over the curtain and listened: "Your Majesty Jin is very happy."
And Jiang Yue also opened his lips and smiled, and praised Pei Jun's venomous tongue without any shame: "Master Pei's wonderful words."
Just at this time, a short guard hurried over and bowed to Pei Jun, saying that the emperor is here.Pei Jun withdrew his smile and bowed to Jiang Yue, said goodbye, then turned his head and followed the guards to the Emperor Luan.
In order to prevent someone from assassinating, Jiang Zhan's carriage was not much different from those driving around him. It was only parked in the middle of the clan, which seemed to be guarded by the clan.When Pei Jun arrived, the guards passed the news outside first, and the curtain of the car was lifted from the inside.
Hu Li, the eunuch in the car, came down first, and Pei Jun took a step forward to get on the car. At this time, the soft and warm ambergris fragrance lingered around his nose, and as he lifted the curtain, he saw a circle of thick deerskin. , then above is the moon white winter coat wrapped in deerskin, and at the end is Jiang Zhan's pale face wrapped in the pile of leather jackets.
Jiang Zhan's smile broke out when the car curtain was completely lifted, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.When he saw Pei Jun, he withdrew his hand from the stove in his arms and handed it to him.At this moment, Pei Jun could only hold his hand and enter the carriage, but felt that Jiang Zhan's palm was very warm, but the back of his hand was still cold.
The carbon grid under the carriage was very hot. Pei Jun sat next to Jiang Zhan, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. Without saying a word, Jiang Zhan pulled out a lumbar pillow from behind and stuffed it behind him, whispering: "They are afraid that I will get sick, so they will heat it up here. If you are afraid of the heat, take off your fur robe and give it to Hu Li."
"The minister is not hot." Pei Jun smiled at him, "Why did the emperor summon the minister?"
"It's Shayan's business." Jiang Zhan took out a few foreign newspapers from the side and put them in Pei Jun's hand, heaved a long and tired face, with a bit of youthful worry between his brows: "These are all things that came to me this morning. Before leaving, Shayan's national book and battle report suddenly came from the border... I have been dizzy since just now, and I can't read it at all, so read it to me." He gave this extremely simple statement like he has done for several years. Asked, then he frowned and closed his eyes and leaned on Pei Jun's shoulder as usual, as if he was still the child who had just enthroned, sitting in the big chair in the imperial study room, leaning on Pei Hanlin's shoulder and listening to him The rise and fall of a hundred generations, and the war between spring and autumn.
According to the excerpts, there was a civil strife in the north and south of Shayan, a neighboring country. The thing was that both parties borrowed troops from the imperial court.Pei Jun remained motionless, and Jiang Zhan leaned against him. After reading the scriptures, Jiang Zhan had been silent for a long time, and when he was about to change another book, he suddenly heard Jiang Zhan say:
"What do you think? Should I borrow soldiers? Who should I lend them to?"
He didn't open his eyes, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in these words seemed to be a dream only when he was talking to Pei Jun.Pei Jun closed the notebook and thought about the civil strife in the north and south of Sha Yan in his previous life. After the court voted, he borrowed troops to the north, but he didn't expect that neither the north nor the south would win. He felt that it would be good to let the court postpone this fate, so he smiled and said: "The emperor has been in power for a long time, and there should have been a holy order. This matter should also be discussed by the cabinet and the court. It is definitely not something that a minister can decide alone."
After saying this, Jiang Zhan's voice did not sound in the warm and spacious compartment for a long time.After a while, Pei Jun only felt a slight movement of his shoulders. It was Jiang Zhan who tilted his head, suddenly opened his eyes and stretched out his hand, opened the curtain with a thin white finger, and looked out from a distance. What he said just now was just light And a small "hmm".
It was already dusk outside the window, and the curtain was opened to see the vast scenery, the long river and the sunset, if there were no surrounding vehicles and horses to encircle and soldiers to detour, they would be able to see the pale yellow wormwood stretching everywhere on the other side of the far bank when they got off the carriage. The coldness and depression that winter is late and spring has not yet risen.
"I haven't been here for three years." Jiang Zhan said, "The scenery is still the same after three years..."
He didn't continue the second half of the sentence.After a while, he put down his hands, and Pei Jun continued to read the rest of the folded papers, and gradually stopped talking, and his breathing gradually took longer, as if he had fallen asleep, until Pei Jun raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, and He only trembled his eyelashes slightly, but there was no reaction from his whole body. Only then did Pei Jun confirm that he had really fallen into a deep sleep.
Pei Jun helped him lean against the wall of the car. At this time, he carefully got out and looked back at the young and beautiful emperor. He looked at this delicate and peaceful sleeping face, and listened to the light breathing in the car. The scene, but suddenly felt a sense of nothingness with nowhere to go——
This is something he has never felt for many years.When he was really in his 20s and in the body in front of his eyes, he was once so fresh and truly full of blood and youthful vigor. You can cut this heart out and give it to someone... But Lu Yao, he took out his heart and walked to the end with an empty skin, but this heart was rotten and disappeared, he was crippled and crippled His head was beheaded, and now God gave him a complete body, but where did he want him to find a complete heart again?
He once thought that Jiang Zhan was his heart, but he was wrong.But now that he doesn't even have this mistake anymore, he almost feels that he has no heart, as if he can touch the hole in his chest that can be knocked out with empty sounds -- filled with some happy things in it. Things that should not be burdened by favors, things that should not be burdened by human feelings, made him feel like he would never feel pain or joy because of something, and finally there was only boring hate... hate, hate.
Is hateful nothingness?Or the whole life is nothingness at all, whether it is intentional or unintentional, whether it is love or hate, it will come to the end, and the physical body will disappear sooner or later. In the end, what will people gain?What can he get?
Before he died, he had said that it would be fine, and he didn't even want to live if Cao Luan saved him—it didn't work this time, why did God want him to go again?
The human world is a place of suffering, and to come again is to walk in the suffering of the place, and there is no end to it.
Pei Jun sneered inwardly, only thinking about the change of the peace and marriage in his mind, he read all the folders with Jiang Zhan without making a sound, and finally looked down at Jiang Zhan, and got off the car by himself up.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to turn around and look for Jiang Yue again, he was stopped by someone beside him, and it was the great eunuch Hu Li who held his hand and said, "Master Pei, please stay."
Pei Jun stopped and smiled at him: "Eunuch Hu, what's the matter?"
Hu Li signaled to the surrounding guards and palace people that he would leave temporarily, then pulled Pei Jun to the outer edge of the clan's carriage, sleeved his hands in the cold wind by the river, first bowed to Pei Jun, and complained with a smile : "Master Pei is really busy with your affairs, the palace hasn't seen you for a while, and our family hasn't properly congratulated Mr. Pei on his promotion!"
"It's such a small matter, why should it be worth your father's trouble?" Pei Jun supported him, and when he heard that this was related to official positions, he knew that it should be related to political affairs, so he added: "Grandpa Kuang's kind courtesy It has been delivered long ago, but it is too much—I am afraid that you have sent it by mistake."
"No, no, just be careful, Mr. Pei will be out of touch." Hu Li quickly waved his hand to blame him, and his tone was softer, "New policies are coming at the beginning of the year, Mr. Pei has to go around more In the middle and connecting the various ministries, seeing that we are going to work hard again, our family is in the palace and has short hands and feet, so I don't know how we can help Mr. Pei. In the future——if there is a place where our family can use Shangli, Pei My lord, please give us some pointers."
"I dare not dare, but if the government is too powerful to deal with it, I will ask my father-in-law to help me." Pei Jun and him spoke back and forth, but in fact he could hear it very clearly. ", but what was left unsaid was the phrase "blessed and shared", which naturally included the tacit understanding of reminding each other of danger on the same front, all of which were Hu Li's usual tricks.
But in fact, Hu Li was never on the same front as him.
They have always been two lines, belonging to official power and eunuch power respectively, but they are often twisted into one strand to bind and kill others.
Apart from the old affairs of Pei Jun and Jiang Zhan, both official power and eunuch power are essentially extensions of imperial power. Compared with civil officials, eunuchs' absolute attachment to imperial power is beyond doubt. It is Jiang Zhan's dog, and the eunuch Hu Li is Jiang Zhan's cat. They are either loyal or obsequious, all for the same benefit, that is Jiang Zhan's safety—or even the safety of Jiang Zhan's imperial power.Therefore, the alliance between the two could continue to exist in the previous life, and Hu Li would not be affected until Pei Jun died and Hu Li walked away, and the palace blood washed the servants and palace servants who had been entangled with Pei Dang. —
Because Hu Li is Jiang Zhan's cat, not Pei Jun's.The owner will not kill the cat just because the dog is dead.
But cats have a delicate relationship with their owners—it can almost be said to be: gluttonous for those in their arms, and profitable for people on the roadside.Right now, Hu Li is in power countlessly relying on the power and benefits given by Jiang Zhan, and everything must go well with Jiang Zhan, so that he can get more power and benefits; but if one day Jiang Zhan can no longer give him more, Will he still fight for Jiang Zhan, kill people and set fires, or will he be a spectator who stands on the sidelines and joins in the fun, and runs away when the timing is not right?
Pei Jun smiled and listened to Hu Li's continuation, saying that he wanted to ask the Ministry of War for an accurate answer, asking how the palace guards would be reformed after the New Deal, so that he would be able to secretly arrange the palace's net.Pei Jun responded in a low voice, and for a moment, he felt that the minions inside and outside the court really saw that the New Deal would be a fat piece of meat, even the eunuchs who accompanied the emperor would never be spared, and Jiang Zhan, who was trapped in the palace, saw it in the New Deal. The misty hope, but it was pointed out by the Zhang family to prove the way... This is really a chess game that will kill you if you take one step.
No matter how abruptly the surrounding things change, as long as the path remains the same, it will lead to the same ruined ending as many times as possible, the difference is just sooner or later.
It's settled, I just hope that all of this will end sooner.Pei Jun sighed, hearing what Hu Li said was almost finished, he patted his arm: "It's cold outside, eunuch go back and guard the emperor."
Hearing this, Hu Li lowered his hand and asked: "Master Pei hasn't come to sit in the palace for a long time, but because of that disciple's matter, he and the emperor are unhappy?"
Pei Jun paused, denying it was impossible, so he could only follow his words at this moment: "The emperor doesn't believe me, so it doesn't make sense for me to go."
Hu Li clicked his tongue, "Oh, His Majesty, he just—"
"I understand, Eunuch Hu." Pei Jun cut off his words and smiled, remembering to tell him: "This winter, the emperor has not developed a cough, but the long-distance fatigue is not easy. You should call the imperial physician to wait for you from time to time." After all, it is no better than being in the middle of the capital... Once the paddock arrives, Taiping and other ministries in the north will be there, if the emperor gets sick on the spot, our Ministry of Rites will be in trouble."
Hu Li sighed: "If you can go to the palace to accompany the emperor more often, whether it's good for the emperor to eat, sleep, or feel good, are you still afraid of bad health?" He rolled his eyes and looked at Pei Jun, persuading: "You can often Come on."
And when Pei Jun often goes to the palace, everything is arranged by Hu Li, which inevitably just adds more bargaining chips for Hu Li to exchange personnel affairs with him. After saying, "Tianxi is approaching, there will always be people around the emperor again", then bowed to Hu Li to say goodbye, and walked to the rear of the carriage.
While walking, the big river was rushing forward, but the white snow in the road was blinding his eyes, and relatives and nobles around shouted: "Rui Xue! Rui Xue!" Then Pei Jun stopped and stretched out his hand to catch it, and there were Yingying points falling on his palm. Thin snow, and the snow is no colder than the winter wind, and it will be warmed up in a moment.
When he entered the palace from Hanlin for the first time at the age of 21, there was such a snow, small and dense, like gauze woven by the thin slanting wind.The soap-clothed palace man who came flying geese from the misty gauze led him through the brick-red neat corridors, and when he turned the corner of the corridor of the Zhongqing Hall, he saw two ministers talking in a low voice at the corner outside the imperial study.
At that time, Emperor Suning passed away, the prince of the East Palace was abolished, and the young emperor Jiang Zhan was pushed to the throne by the cabinet. It is said that the young emperor is cowardly and afraid of getting into trouble, and he is afraid that he will not be able to win the position of great treasure.Such comments were circulated wantonly among civil servants and military generals, and they almost never avoided talking about them inside and outside the palace—they were not even afraid that someone in the palace would sue to expose them, because the emperor would not dare to punish them.
At this time, the two ministers who spoke were talking about this matter.
It was the first time Pei Jun entered the palace to look around, but inadvertently caught a glimpse of a small snow-white hand and a piece of soap-colored clothes behind the rockery in the pool outside the corridor.
The palace people in front were walking fast, Pei Jun didn't care, walked a few steps slower to the back of the rockery, raised his eyebrows, and saw a group of small soap-colored shadows lying on their stomachs and eavesdropping on the chatting of the ministers in the corridor.
He couldn't help being playful and suddenly said on the back of his neck: "Little eunuch, you will be punished for eavesdropping!"
This scare made the little eunuch turn back in shock, and suddenly sat down on the rock and looked at Pei Jun. The collar of the overly fat soap coat on his body was pulled crookedly by this action, revealing a large section of white hair. neck.From the neck up, there is a small palm-sized face under the brim of the big hat. Its face is icy white, like a fresh white peach blooming in the mountains, only the black eyebrows and black eyes are dotted around the outline, and its upper lip is red and scarlet, just like the tips of the petals. A touch of red on the head——
He is crying.
Pei Jun was stunned for a moment, but unexpectedly, the little eunuch in front of him was panicked by malicious abruptness just after passing by, at this moment, he glanced at the sixth-grade patched coat on Pei Jun's body, his brows were immediately stained with hostility, and he stood up and reprimanded : "It's not your turn to teach me a lesson in this palace!"
After saying that, the little eunuch ran away quickly without looking back, leaving Pei Jun still standing under the red plums by the pool, until the palace guide hurriedly turned around to look for him, then returned to his senses and followed him to the House of Internal Affairs.But the next day when he changed into the fifth-grade Hanlin mending gown and took office, he saw the crying little eunuch sitting on the golden dragon chair the day before, his eyes widened like a deer, and he knelt down and bowed to him with a secret smile. :
"The humble official Hanlin attends Pei Jun, see the emperor."
……
The snow was falling even harder, and the cold wind was about to crack your hands.
Pei Jun wiped his Xuebing-wet hands on his robe casually, wiped them dry, looked at Jiang Tian independently for a while, then rolled up his sleeves and got into the carriage.Then someone got up and talked, and just closed their eyes to sleep if they had nothing to do, so they stopped and stopped until the evening of the third day, and finally arrived at the paddock.
Although the court ordered Beijing officials of the fourth rank and above to accompany them, most of the old officials such as Zhang Ling and Cai Yan were unwilling to toss about with horses and horses. Except for the royal family, most of them were young and middle-aged courtiers and military officers, and everyone was brought in by the paddock guards. In the camp, the camp is located in a piece of leeward grass at the entrance of the paddock. Before entering the paddock, it is still considered the border of the Central Plains.
This place has always been the residence of the royal family for hunting. It has been guarded and tidied up by special personnel all year round. Kuai Matong has already set up large tents of coarse cloth, and it is set for two officials to use one tent, and each clan member to use one tent. If there are family members and children, a new tent will be set up, and the tallest cowhide tent with colorful flags and streamers in the camp is naturally used by Emperor Jiang Zhan.
Pei Jun had originally planned to sleep in the same tent as Yan Yuliang, because the Minister of the Ministry of Officials was still vacant, and they wanted to talk about the personnel changes in the beginning of the year, but Fang Mingjue knew about it, and said all the way that they were not loyal enough not to take him to play, Talking all the way to the gate of the paddock, Yan Yuliang was finally afraid of his mouth, so he pulled Cui Yu and said, "Then brother, you can bear the pain and sleep with me for one night!" Then he dragged Cui Yu, who looked disgusted, to the next door, and closed the tent. Leave it to Pei Jun and Fang Mingjue.
Pei Jun had been trained by his late father when he was young, and he always packed his bags quickly. When he changed his clothes and planned to go out, Fang Mingjue was still dawdling in taking out the thick socks his wife put on, while saying that he missed his daughter. Pei Jun shook his head, grabbed the curtain and left.But as soon as he got out of the tent, he happened to see Cai Yangzheng, a scholar from one of the tents in Taiping not far away, pulling out the curtain from one of the tents, followed by the second prince's cronies.
"Master Pei also finds it strange?"
An indifferent smile sounded beside him, and when Pei Jun turned around, he saw Jiang Yue standing not far from him in sable fur, which was just black and white with the snow behind him, and the outline of his face seemed to be because of this excessive Clear and appear more straight and deep.
Jiang Yue seemed to have just come from the camp of the clan's clan in the east, so he didn't even bother to greet him, he just looked at Cai Yang walking away from a distance and continued: "Although Honglu Temple is indeed managed by Cai Yang , but why does the following affairs require him to run errands in person?"
Seeing Jiang Yue, Pei Jun felt his head ache, and smiled wryly: "Hey, it's all sealed, Prince Jin is still in the spirit of a dragon and a horse... he didn't take a rest for two days and nights, and this time he got off the car, he had to take his ministers to check case."
"I've been alone in the army for many years, this little road is nothing." Jiang Yue turned his head to look at him and smiled, "Master Pei is also in high spirits today, why not accompany Gu to investigate the case."
Jiang Yue is the only one who still needs to be praised.Bored, Pei Jun walked a few steps forward with him, stood in the open space and said, "My lord once said that Qiu Yuanzhi met Cai Yan before entering the palace?"
Jiang Yue nodded, "I'm afraid it has something to do with the change in the selection of relatives." Speaking of this, he remembered something and looked at Pei Jun: "Did Mr. Pei's new student talk about the Ningwuhou Mansion?"
"What new student?" Pei Jun smiled helplessly, "I told you last time that he hasn't entered yet, my lord." He sighed, seeing no one around, he whispered what Qian Haiqing said to Jiang. The more he said it, Jiang Yue raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You can rest assured that Qian Sheng will pick the leader alone?"
"Then why did the lord let Zhang San send Suixi to my house?" Pei Jun looked at him with bright eyes, "The big coffin in the main hall of the Zhang family is still there, and the most taboo thing is to conspire and gain power. Three, are you not afraid that Mr. Zhang will hate you?"
Jiang Yue raised his chin slightly, and raised the corners of his lips: "Then Mr. Pei is there to support Gu, and Mr. Zhang always blames you more."
"..." Pei Jun shook his head with a smile, walked to the edge of the paddock with him, and decided to talk about the current marriage.
"My lord, I don't understand. Marriage is only a "good" word for you. If you want to gain power and make troubles in the future, Taiping will be a rare help. A hindrance is also a replacement of power. Your lord You shouldn’t understand, otherwise you won’t be able to get that temple house—unless it was given to you by Taiping for nothing?”
But his tone and Jiang Yue's listening expression both showed that this was impossible.
"They want the skills of silk weaving, so they can't make it for blueprints, so they can only send them some weavers." Jiang Yue said softly, "If Taiping learns the method of silk weaving, the imperial court will export less cloth , the treasury will have less money..."
"Then you still want to change?" Pei Jun was a little amused, and for a moment he felt that Jiang Yue was not the one who wanted the court to collapse quickly, "Fang Shilang and his household department recently got in touch with the treasury of Jiufu, and the national debt is almost crazy It's hard to wait for a seal, and at the beginning of the new year, I have to break a copper coin in half, and the prince doesn't care about the silver, so he has to take care of them."
They were walking to a shallow frozen lake, Pei Jun raised his foot to wipe the snow on the ground, kicked out two small stones, bent down to pick them up.
Jiang Yue looked at him, and said calmly, "Then Mr. Pei thinks that the money sold by the common people for weaving and selling goes into the treasury, so they can really be spent back on the common people in the future?"
Pei Jun breathed out a white breath, and suddenly raised his arms, the small stone in his hand flew out, smashing a small hole in the ice far away, "Of course not." At this moment, he suddenly remembered a time when he was alone in Ye Xue When I returned, I heard the old chestnut seller say, "My lord, the people themselves know this truth. They know that they have spent their entire lives earning hard-earned money for the people above them, for the emperor, for you, and for such stupid officials as my ministers."
Jiang Yue looked at the ice surface smashed by his stone in the distance, there was black ash and icy water swaying and overflowing, and asked suddenly: "Then Mr. Pei doesn't think so, shouldn't it be?"
Pei Jun weighed the other remaining stone in his hand: "It shouldn't be, but the world has been like this since ancient times."
"It's been like this since ancient times, isn't it right?" Jiang Yue looked away from the lake and looked at Pei Jun quietly: "Then what is the purpose of Mr. Pei's strategy of all people? Isn't it for the benefit of the people?"
Pei Jun swung his arm again and threw the stone, this time the stone flew high and far, flew straight across the opposite side of the shallow lake, landed in the pale yellow grass somewhere, and could no longer be seen.
"...The strategy of all people." He patted the dust on his hands and smiled lightly, then turned his head to look at Jiang Yue with a half-smile, "My lord, none of us can survive on salary alone—there is no one in the capital." The official is, no one is clean, and I am not afraid to say this in front of you. When Deng Zhun became a disciple, he asked his ministers why the Cai clan was still standing after decades of disasters in his hometown. Even more glorious, the minister only taught him one sentence, that is, 'Because they are above, those above have power'."
"The policy of the people can be effective from the top to the bottom, and where the top is, there are not only officials but also the monarch. The affairs of the people, and finally the people, need to start from a virtuous ruler. Marsh, without assistance, then the world is competing for profit, who cares about the life and death of the people? But the ministers in the past didn't understand this, and they were always obsessed with being officials and those who exercised power, but they forgot that there are still..." He gradually lost consciousness Going on, he turned his eyes and looked at the broken ice in the distance. For a moment, his eyes fell into the bleakness of lonely memories, but the next moment they suddenly bent the corners of his eyes, and raised his eyebrows at Jiang Yue, with a rather joyful look: "Later, the minister I understand. The world has been like this since ancient times.”
"That's why...the strategy of the people like the temple house, maybe the prince can really make it in the future, but the minister can't. So the prince doesn't need to let the minister study it carefully, it is not something that the minister can do, the prince keeps it for himself Let's see." Pei Jun still smiled with the corners of his eyes hooked, nodded to Jiang Yue, only said to go back to rest and investigate the case with the prince, and walked back in Jiang Yue's silence.
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