Pei Gonggui

The next day, just before half light, the rooster crowed.Uncle Dong knocked on his clapper to wake Pei Jun up, and Pei Jun picked up Jiang Xuan and put on his clothes. He didn't care whether his nephew was awake or not, but dragged him to the front yard to practice boxing.

The child stood beside him in bewilderment, imitating him in lowering his body and striding forward. He shook his head and yawned pitifully: "Uncle, I'm hungry and I want to eat steamed buns."

Pei Jun pointed to his toes: "Separate them a bit more. Eat after training."

At this moment, the door behind Zhaobi was knocked on.Liu Jin Liuyan ran to open the door, but Qian Haiqing came in with disheveled clothes.

Seeing Pei Jun and Jiang Xuan squatting in the front yard with their legs apart, Qian Haiqing froze for a moment, rubbed his face to try to wake up, and bowed to them one after another with his tongue out: "Master Pei, please Greetings, my son." Seeing that he drank a lot of wine in one night.

"Hey, the prospective Jinshi in our mansion is back." Pei Jun calmly led Jiang Xuan to raise his hands and clenched his fists on his left and right waists, "I haven't started work yet, so I won't go home at night. Seeing that the future is You need to be busy with your affairs, so that you can flourish.”

Qian Haiqing pulled the clothes on his body awkwardly, and said embarrassingly: "The prison, the students in the prison dragged each other to eat and drink. You can't avoid it. It's better to use it as a way to accumulate contacts. I hope Mr. Pei will forgive me."

Qingyun Supervisor originally gathers dragons and phoenixes among the people. Compared with classmates, the examination is more representative of the face of each supervisor's mentor. For those who fail, the future will naturally be difficult. Therefore, the pressure of Enke is imposed on the heads of each prison student like a mountain top.For this reason, people in central Beijing often refer to Qingyun Jiansheng, who is playing around after Chunwei, as "crazy colts". Master got into trouble.

Pei Jun saw that although Qian Haiqing was drunk and sleepy, but his words were still clear and well-founded, he knew that this student was someone who knew how to avoid drinking and flattering, so he couldn't help but nodded slightly, and raised his hand to him Trick: "Come here and stand for a while, I have something to ask you."

He intended to let Qian Haiqing come and stand there, but Qian Haiqing, who was half drunk, walked up to him, squatted down and got off the horse after hearing the words.

"..." Pei Jun turned his head and looked over inexplicably, and saw that Qian Haiqing had imitated his fists and lowered his waist very naturally, and put his body in a decent position.

On the other side, Jiang Xuan was amused and laughed.Pei Jun turned his head and stared at him. He didn't bother to worry about these details, so he asked Qian Haiqing, "What happened to the Tang family?"

Qian Haiqing hiccupped in bewilderment, and together with Jiang Xuan raised his hand above his head with Pei Jun, he thought for a while and said, "Returning to my lord, Li Cunzhi, the magistrate of Wuzhou in Lingnan Road, should be entering Beijing soon."

Pei Jun paused, raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Li Cunzhi, the prefect of Wuzhou?..." Immediately thinking of it, he led Jiang Xuan to put down his arm, and asked: "The murderer Li Si that the Tang family wants to protect is this Li Zhizhou. son?"

Qian Haiqing nodded quickly: "That's right, it was Li Zhizhou who broke the matter of the Tang family misappropriating the disaster relief stock. Li Zhizhou was going to sue the Tang family, but at that time his son Li Si suddenly had a murderous case in the Tuntian camp." The case was immediately arrested because of solid evidence, and because Li Si was a martial arts student in the sixth year of Yuanguang and had already been enlisted in the army. His crime of life and death would have to be retried by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so he was escorted soon. Beijing. The incident happened suddenly, and Li Zhizhou had no response. The Tang family took this opportunity to promise Li Zhizhou that they would use the relationship between Beijing and China to save his son's life. The condition for the exchange was that Li Zhizhou would send the Tang family Keep the misappropriation of public property a dead secret, and never report it again."

"But you still wanted him to report on the Tang family, so you tried to force him to go to Beijing?" Pei Jun guessed along his words, "How did you convince him? He's not afraid of his son's death?"

"Actually, it's not like the students persuaded Li Zhizhou. Li Zhizhou's visit to Beijing is really suspicious because of the case." Qian Haiqing followed Pei Jun and Jiang Xuan to breathe out quietly, punching left and right, and then retracted, "The student is in the Tang family. When writing letters on behalf of me, I also saw letters from Li Zhizhou urging to save my son. There are indeed many letters sent to the Tang family every month. When the cause and effect came, I suddenly felt that something was wrong—the student remembered that the letter said that Li Si was sensitive and kind, and after becoming a military student, he was promoted to an officer in the camp, and he would never do such a thing of self-destruction. The student had had several conversations with Li Si in the death row, and he heard Li Si yelling that he was wronged, and listening to him detail the case was also very strange. Let me ask, why did the timing of his murder be so coincidental, just when his father noticed Tang What happens after the family misappropriates the public building?"

Pei Jun heard it very interesting, and led Jiang Xuan to turn around and punch back, raised his legs and pushed his hands: "According to what you mean, it is very likely that the Tang family made a trick to prevent Li Zhizhou from exposing their thieves. Frame Li Si and put him in prison, so that he can use this to take advantage of Li Zhizhou?"

Qian Haiqing nodded and said: "This is also the student's conjecture. Once the Tang family's matter is disclosed, they will be guilty of traitors from the same country. They must be ransacking their homes and waiting for them. If they want to cover up their crimes, they will frame someone and put them in jail, or even have them go to jail." It is not impossible to kill a person. Thinking of this, the student asked Mr. Pei to help introduce Mr. Cao, and questioned him about the case, and Mr. Cao is worthy of being a litigator. He is a little familiar with the criminal department and is in charge of exchanging documents. It is indeed suspicious. Most of them concluded that the Tang family framed Li Si and put him in prison, so if Li Si overturned the case, the Tang family would be guilty again."

Then Qian Haiqing wrote a letter with serious words, and asked Cao Luan to pass the letter to Wuzhou quickly, telling Li Zhizhou that his son Li Si was wronged by the Tang family before he was imprisoned, and the Tang family tried their best to prevent Li Zhizhou from reporting. Li Si may be trapped in the criminal and prison proceedings in Beijing for a long time. Even if Li Si is released from prison, he will be held by the Tang family forever, and there will be no peace from then on.Qian Haiqing warned Li Zhizhou not to be deceived and used by the Tang family. Only by having the courage to go to Beijing to expose him can the grievances of Wuzhou people be resolved, and his son Li Si can also be rescued.

Pei Jun strode steadily, while listening to Qian Haiqing's dictation, he raised his arm and fiddled with Jiang Xuan's little hand, telling him to hold on, and couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Good guy, you actually encouraged this Li Zhizhou went to Beijing to sue the imperial court."

Qian Haiqing said with a smile: "The rumors are widely spread, and the name is also great. The Tang family cannot easily get away and be private if this matter becomes serious. Once such a serious crime is exposed, it will ruin the reputation of Ning Wuhou and make his in-laws Cai family suffer. Heavy damage——At that time, the first position of the nine admirals will be empty, and no one will compete with Jing Zhaosi for the right to water transportation. In this way, Mr. Pei's wish can be fulfilled, and the agreement between the students and the adults can also be fulfilled. "

Pei Jun sighed, and glanced at Qian Sheng appreciatively: "It seems that it's time for me to prepare a post for accepting students?"

When Qian Haiqing heard this, his eyes lit up: "Then, student, can you call me Master now?"

"How can this be done?" Pei Jun smiled and patted Jiang Xuan's back next to him, letting his nephew stand up and raise his head, and he said to Qian Haiqing leisurely: "My master said, 'Words must be done, actions must be resolute', this is true The way of a gentleman. Since there is an appointment first, let's discuss merits after the agreement is made, Qian Jinshi."

Qian Haiqing paused for a moment, and answered "yes" lazily. Fortunately, thinking that the date of the appointment will come soon after all, he clenched his fist as if encouraging himself.

Pei Jun looked amused, and seeing that it was time to go out to court, he said in a long voice: "Get up." The three of them took a deep breath and stopped their horses, and let go of their bodies.Jiang Xuan grabbed Pei Jun's sleeve and rushed to the breakfast in the flower hall, Qian Haiqing just resigned and returned to his room to rest.

Pei Jun accompanied Jiang Xuan to eat porridge, and asked Uncle Dong to bring a bowl of hangover soup to Qian Sheng. He also heard that Uncle Dong was still coughing, so he frowned, and ordered his servant to bring an imperial physician to Dong with his brand. When the uncle saw his illness, he urged Uncle Dong to rest more and eat less cigarettes. Finally, he brought a cup of tea and put it in Uncle Dong's hand before he changed into a men's coat and went to court.

Spring has begun, and tomorrow morning, the sun has risen outside the Hall of Qinghe.

As soon as Pei Jun met with the people from the six tribes outside the hall, he was stopped by the apostles of Honglu Temple and told him that Qiu Yuanzhi had suddenly handed in a seal letter, saying that the concubine of the Taiping Kingdom was indeed seriously ill, and the matter of marriage was dropped. A group of people will set off to return to Taiping soon.

This matter can also be regarded as a failure of diplomatic relations, and it must be brought up in the court.The Honglu Temple's informant Pei Jun naturally wanted to implicate the Ministry of Rites with some responsibility, but Pei Jun only listened to it, and didn't comment at all.Honglu Siqing lost his interest, so he had no choice but to walk away resentfully, preparing to bite the bullet and bear the fault alone, not knowing that he was taking the blame for Pei Jun who broke up the marriage.

Pei Jun followed the people from the six departments to the hall, thinking that Qiu Yuanzhi was trustworthy, so he turned his head and asked the people from the Ministry of Industry in a low voice, asking them to find a few craftsmen in private to send to Qiu Yuanzhi, as soon as the promise was fulfilled, Second, it can be regarded as a complete end to this marriage, so that Jiang Yue will not be troubled anymore.

But just before he finished speaking, he didn't take two steps, but he heard Honglu Siqing murmur unwillingly behind him: "...other people in Taiping are fine, why is it that only Guoji is sick?"

The Si Cheng who was following him sighed in a low voice: "I heard their envoy gossiping, saying that our Prince Jin was restraining his wife, and they don't want to propose marriage to us in the future."

The word "ke wife" made Pei Jun burst out laughing, and quickly covered his mouth to silence, but Yan Yuliang glanced at him, and joked tiredly: "Why, I came here early in the morning after being tired for half a month in the Forbidden Garden." Zhao, are you in high spirits?" He said and looked at him with lowered eyebrows, "I'm so happy, I'm afraid it's not because I left me last night and went to find a friend?"

"It must be." Fang Mingjue quickly pointed to Pei Jun and continued, "He seems to have lost his soul when he came back from winter hunting, and he is still chatting with me about Chunhuaerqiuyue. There must be someone in his heart."

So even Cui Yu sounded funny, bumping Pei Jun's arm from the side and asked: "Who is it? Didn't you go to Zhang's mansion with Prince Jin yesterday, how can you still have kung fu at night?"

Pei Jun grabbed Fang Mingjue's ears and stared at him: "Don't listen to this monkey talking nonsense, it's nothing."

But at this time, when he walked up the stone steps in front of the hall and looked up, he saw a row of royal relatives on the right corridor had already entered the hall stage. He walked slowly for a while, and inadvertently met Jiang Yue who was hanging at the end of the royal relatives.

Jiang Yue stopped, looked at the distance with clear eyes, told Pei Jun to throw away Fang Mingjue's ears with a flick of his hands, bowed to him with his sleeves, and said with a smile: "Oh, good morning, Prince Jin."

Jiang Yue raised his eyebrows lightly, and replied: "Morning, Mr. Pei." After saying that, he looked away from the others, turned around and raised his legs to step into the palace gate.

Pei Jun trotted up the stone steps with his hands behind his back, and hurried beside him with a smile, "Why is your lord here early today?" He asked suddenly, "Did you miss me?"

Jiang Yue didn't expect him to laugh suddenly, his breath was stagnant, he immediately looked around to make sure that there was no one nearby, then he gave him a sideways glance: "It's early morning, don't mess around." Then he ignored him and just took two steps Keep up with King Tai and King Cheng, and then sit in the same row as the royal relatives.

Pei Jun suppressed his smile and stood still in the first row of civil servants.Yan Yuliang, who came with him, stood beside him, and told him about the official affairs of the Ministry of Officials:

One is Li Baoxin's proposal to join the Ministry of Officials. The cabinet has already approved it. Today, the court will send someone to Beijing for a temporary post. Once he takes office, it will mark the first communication between the Pei Party and the King Jin faction. It remains to be seen whether it will go well or not. The second is Cui Yu and Fang Mingjue's master, Shen Shangshu of the Ministry of War, who is old and weak, and is about to retire. Jiang Shilang fills in the vacancy. In this way, the post of Minister of the Ministry of War will be vacated in the six departments. This is what he and the others will discuss in the future.

As soon as he said this, he heard the supervisor of ceremonies say: "Silence." Immediately, the whip of the royal road sounded, and all the officials knelt down, swung their sleeves and kowtowed and shouted long live.The young emperor Jiang Zhan went up the stairs, folded his dragon robe and sat in the throne with bead curtains, raised his hands as usual to let the ministers lie flat, and the morning court began.

The first discussions are all trivial matters, such as the return of Taiping and his party or the preparation of the Ministry of Rites to review the papers, just pass them one by one, and then the six departments and five temples reported the internal situation one by one, and asked Jiang Zhan to listen from the throne, tap his fingers lightly, and look down from time to time Standing tall in front of the hall, Pei Jun looked unpredictable, and only occasionally made a decision, and then asked the cabinet if there was anything to do.

Pei Jun raised his head and looked in Cai Yan's direction, seeing Cai Yan raised his eyebrows and nodded to Cai Yang beside him, Cai Yang stood up holding the wat board, and said helplessly: "Report to the emperor, the cabinet has recently approved the approval of various departments. In the case of Dao and Sansi, it was found that many cases had not been delivered on time. Among them, not only some cases had not been handed over to Dingqiao in Beijing, but also several cases of Sejong Pavilion in the palace had not been handed over to various ministries for further investigation. I am bold , Dare the emperor to remind the cabinet."

Hearing the words, Pei Jun raised his eyebrows, looked at the princes seated, and saw that Jiang Yue was also looking at him, obviously both of them expected what Cai's move meant—

Naturally, it is impossible for the cabinet to ask the emperor to help urge the local case. Cai Yang's words are to invite the young emperor Jiang Zhan to put pressure on Sejongge, so that Sejongge will quickly delegate the protracted case to the third division for investigation.And the biggest case in the Sejong Pavilion in the past few years is the murder of Pei Yan, the sister of the young Fu Peijun, who killed her husband. With such an admonition, it is not difficult to imagine Cai Yang's intentions. He simply wanted to take advantage of Sejong When Jin Wang Jiang Yue of the pavilion returned to Beijing to go to court, and it was inevitable, he dug Pei Yan out of his hands by holy will, so that he could hold Pei Jun's blood relatives in his hands and restrain Pei Party.

Jiang Zhan on the throne listened to Cai Yang's words, frowned slightly, looked at Pei Jun quietly, thought for a while, and was about to speak, but heard an old voice from the last member of the cabinet suddenly said: "What the scholar Cai said is very true. "

Looking up, Zhang Ling opened his arms and said calmly, "My Majesty, the new year has just passed, and there are complicated affairs in various departments. With the new government, there are too many unresolved cases among the officials. It is really a drag." .Since there are cases to be handled sooner or later, it’s better to deliver them according to the agreed time, so as not to delay until the end and make any mistakes.”

After he finished speaking with a cold face, he seemed to be normal, but Pei Jun secretly sneered, thinking that he just stepped on Zhang Ling yesterday, and today he was really paid back in full.And Zhang Ling didn't hesitate to talk with Cai's tongue, which is enough to show his hostility towards him. Therefore, if Pei Yan goes to trial, and once she leaves the Ministry of Punishment, the situation will not be optimistic at all.

In the hall Jiang Zhan heard Zhang Ling's words, although he didn't respond immediately, but because Zhang Ling talked about the New Deal, he did weigh the importance.

The silence in the hall made all the officials deeply aware of the young emperor's concern for the Pei family, so they couldn't help but look sideways at the head of the six departments.Under Pei Junli's gaze, he was neither happy nor angry. He was used to it, and as expected, after the moment of silence passed, Jiang Zhan's answering voice sounded from the high platform:

"What the two cabinet ministers said is true. The new government is about to start, and everything is waiting to be done. The royal family should also set an example and strictly enforce the law."

As he said that, he said to the prince: "I will trouble the Seventh Emperor Uncle with regard to the case."

Ying Yan, the figure of Empress Jin Zhu moved a little, and Jiang Yue's voice came indifferently - but it was not outright compliance, but just: "Yes, Your Majesty, Gu Ding will do his best."

For a moment, Pei Jun curled his lips, raised his eyebrows slightly, and saw that Jiang Yue in the corner was looking down at the teacup in his hand. Without saying anything, the corners of his lips gradually raised into a smile: "I believe that the emperor's uncle will hand over the whole case in a few days, and I will give an immediate reply as soon as the cabinet is over."

Jiang Yue paused when he lifted the tea cover, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Pei Jun in the sixth part, his eyes were slightly hesitant, but he could only say: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Just a few questions and answers, the undercurrent surged back and forth several times, and all the officials in the palace frequently looked at Cai, Zhang, Pei, King Jin, and Jiang Zhan, and finally looked at each other without saying a word.Then, Taifu Xue in the cabinet got up, and completely shifted the conversation from the case to the New Deal, saying that restricting indiscriminate conduct and official assessment should start from the present department, and urged the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin to strictly prevent fraud in the examination of papers, and once illegal things are discovered , need to be investigated and severely punished.

Feng Jiru next to Pei Jun raised his hand to wipe his sweat, and Jiang Shilang on the far left also squinted at Pei Jun, but Pei Jun only smiled slightly at Cai Yang who was looking opposite, seeing that Cai Yang showed contempt, His expression was still extremely peaceful.

But his heart is cold——

The world is worried, there are wars in all four realms, there are many years of malpractice, and the people suffer. Even the disaster relief public property that the imperial court has delegated has important ministers and royal families who dare to take it privately, so that the refugees have no shelter and the river embankment is not repaired. Now there is a state official not far away. Qianli brought the case to Beijing to sue, and his son was wrongfully imprisoned by high-ranking officials, but the officials in the DPRK and China knew nothing about the cruel situation outside the gate of Beijing, and even lived here, greedy for personal gain , sanctimonious, doing their own thing...

Looking at it coldly, he suddenly thought of the cold world and cold hearts he had seen from south to north in his previous life. He remembered the many hardships during the process, and also remembered the meaningless insistence in Jiang Yue's mouth last night.

He understands that persistence, because he has had it before.

In the previous life, when Xue and Zhang changed their ways and failed for five years, Zhang Ling could suffer from illness, Master Xue could take the blame and become an official, and Cai could shirk responsibility, but the mess in this world always needs someone to clean it up.Faced with Jiang Zhan's heartache and the downfall of all the officials, Pei Jun had no choice but to take up the heavy burden. He stepped into the cabinet despite the world's infamy. After heavy wings——

He had thought he was turning the tide.

Back then, too, he had something that allowed him to go on.At that time, he also fought hard to protect something or someone.

But in the end? ...

The voices of people in the Hall of Qinghe were humming. Pei Jun raised his head and looked at the young emperor behind the bead curtain. He saw that the jade face under the crown was like snow, and his eyes were quiet and beautiful. At this time, his expression was focused and solemn, and he was listening to Zhang Ling's advice on legislation. Word.

Suddenly, Jiang Zhan sighed and looked back, his gaze unexpectedly interacted with Pei Jun's. Seeing that Pei Jun was looking at him deeply, his thin eyebrows twitched, but at this moment, Pei Jun lowered his eyes.

The next moment, Pei Jun looked at the three words "Jianyan Division" on the wat board in his hand, and heard Zhang Ling's words "strictly enforce commercial routes, control salt and iron" in his ears, and suddenly said:

"Report to the emperor, I have a remonstrance."