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Chapter 108 Competing to enter

Zhao Xu lay down on the bed for a while before Meng Meiren came in from outside.

Zhao Xu supported her head and watched her approach.

I just took a shower and my hair was shining, my face was pretty, my collarbone was half exposed, adding a little charm.

"I have met the official family." Meiren Meng came to the bed and bowed softly.

The palace maids at the yellow gate outside the door had quietly retreated, and only Tong Guan stood not far outside the door on duty.

Zhao Xu looked at Meiren Meng, turned over and said, "Shoulder hurts so much, come on, press it for me."

When Meng Meiren heard Zhao Xu's words, she was stunned, even though she was a little stunned.

However, she immediately pursed her lips and thought Zhao Xu was interested. She slipped her shoes on the bed and pressed Zhao Xu's shoulders.

"Yeah, get closer."

"The position is wrong, go backwards, and then backwards."

"Can't you use your strength? You sit on my buttocks."

"Okay, yes, comfortable..."

...(3,281 words are omitted here)

The next morning, Zhao Xu left the bedroom with a refreshed look, took some food, stood at the door, and said to Hu Zhongwei: "Hu Zhongwei, find someone, Cuju!"

"Hey, yes!" Hu Zhongwei responded happily. He was promoted to the escort squad with Zhao Xu not long ago.

Zhao Xu moved his shoulders and, after everyone got together, he got off the court and started kicking.

Perhaps because of his severe shoulder pain yesterday and his premature death in history, Zhao Xu decided to exercise well.

After playing for several rounds, Tong Guan led the people and brought a lot of music to the edge of the court.

Zhao Xu raised his hand and signaled for the intermission. While wiping sweat with a towel, he walked over and said, "What's the matter?"

Tong Guan brought the plate over and bowed and said, "Officials, these are all memorials about Lu Dafang, there are more than forty passages, including those in Bianjing City and those from outside."

Zhao Xu reached out, read a few books casually, and said, "Is there anything important?"

Tong Guan lowered his head and said, "There are Zhang Shangying, the left counsel Pan Hangyi, and the son-in-law Wang Shi."

Zhao Xu, the two men in front, jumped directly. When he heard "Wang Shi", his eyebrows couldn't help but jump, flipped through, and found out Wang Shi's memorial.

Zhao Xu looked at it seriously. Wang Shi was talking about etiquette in the memorial book. The general meaning was to ask Zhao Xu to be cautious in the court. Anyone who should be "proper etiquette and punishment should be conquered, and all the sages should be promising, and no one should follow it."

Zhao Xu thought about the special relationship between Wang Shi and Su Shi. Logically speaking, for Su Che's death, Wang Shi should have attacked Lu Dafang to seek justice for the Su family. But after careful consideration, Wang Shi's meaning of this memorial was to excuse Lu Dafang and ask Zhao Xu to "give up"!

Zhao Xu looked at it for a long time, couldn't help but smile and said, "It's interesting."

It is indeed very interesting. Su Shi and Wang Shi had a special relationship. The "Wutai Poetry Case" back then led to a bumpy career in Su Shi and affected his life. However, Wang Shi repeatedly argued for Su Shi in particular regardless of the special identity of the royal family. In the end, although Su Shi was released from prison, Wang Shi was sent out of the capital, wandering for many years and was able to come back at the beginning of this year.

But the relationship between the two became closer, with the deep friendship of "comprehension" and never giving up on the literati.

Now, Wang Shi spoke for Lu Dafang, which was very interesting.

Zhao Xu thought, it was the inherent valuable interests of the literati who blocked the friendship between Wang Shi and Su Shi. He put aside his personal feelings and stood in the position of "big righteousness".

Zhao Xu threw it back and looked at Tong Guan and said, "They are all in the same group. Do you think, who else can I use?"

Tong Guan knew Zhao Xu's situation very well, and still lowered his head and said, "Scholar Cai should be here today, so the government does not have to worry."

There are indeed not many people who can use Zhao Xu now. They are either Lu Dafang's people, or they have the same political beliefs as Lu Dafang, or they are just protecting themselves and truly turning to him, especially the middle and high-level officials. There are not many, which are not enough to fill the gaps in the court and stabilize the situation.

Zhao Xu wiped his sweat, looked at the memorial on the plate, and said, "Cai Bian is here, bring him to see me. These people will be registered and recorded."

Tong Guanben wanted to say that the quarrel outside was even more powerful, and he didn't know how many memoirs were on the way to come. He heard this and had to bow and respond, "Yes."

Zhao Xu waved his hand and turned around and said, "Hu Zhongwei, keep coming."

Hu Zhongwei responded loudly.

In front of Funing Hall, Zhao Xu and a group of guards were sweating profusely, comfortable and refreshing.

However, there was more and more noisy outside the palace. From the corruption case of the Sansi Yamen, the death of Su Che, Liu Shi'an was killed by a stick, Lu Dafang was imprisoned, the Secretariat was sealed, and then Zhang Dun killed Song Lian, the guard of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Zhao Xu was shot by a stick of the Zongzheng Temple. Li Gongyan... The people outside had too many excuses and kept fermenting, as if they were in a rush.

The censors followed the letters of the book, and all kinds of connections were one after another. The ministers of the court were still in control, but there were too many people involved, including various in-laws, friends, teachers and students, classmates, and other complex relationship networks in the same year. Once they started to operate, they were really huge and incalculable.

As the temporary position of prime minister, Su Song naturally cannot escape. I don’t know how many people want to trump him.

But this person is usually just a fool, and he hides early in the morning and no one can find him.

The second Xianggong Fan, who was in the "leave", also used the excuse of "leave" to express his gratitude to the guests in a closed door and declined all visits.

As for the actions behind them, who can see and guess?

Officials at all levels of officials at the three provinces and six ministries, the Censorate, etc. have turned into censors, and they have countless words to say about recent events, so they naturally have to join in groups.

Ministry of Justice.

After a day and night of hard work, Huang Shan and Ma Yan finally made a breakthrough. Seeing the evidence in front of them, they frowned, with a serious expression, but they felt relieved.

As the Minister of Justice, Huang Shan was the easiest. Looking at the confession of Qian Sheng, the former Dali Temple Minister, nodded and said, "Qian Sheng participated in the corruption case in the Sansi Yamen. He was worried that the incident would happen, and he would have misled Lu Dafang's intention, so he took the risk of killing and assassinating Su Che."

Ma Yan still had a headache and said, "It's all we can do. Keep investigating. Who knows what else will be dug out? Since Qian Sheng wants to take it, then he will take it. The two deputy envoys of the Sansi Yamen, plus Yang Wei and the Lu family's evidence, can basically be decided."

Huang Zheng was still uneasy and said, "Now, go find Cao Zheng?"

Cao Zheng, the former right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the minister of Dali Temple appointed by Zhao Xu.

Ma Yan hesitated and said, "Do it carefully and don't find any flaws for others. I'll look for him tomorrow."

Huang Shan nodded, and he felt that it was not so easy to settle.

At this moment, Zhang Dun sat down in one of the five chairs in the side room outside the Chuigong Hall, and had officially begun to handle government affairs as the "deputy prime minister" and the "shaozai".

Since the three provinces were united in the Political Affairs Hall, the temporary "prisoner" Su Song hid without seeing anyone. In the other two deputy ministers Fan Bailu and Fan Chunren were taking leave, almost all the government affairs were handled by Zhang Dun alone.

Zhang Dun was once the governor of the Privy Council, and he was just one step away from being the prime minister, so he was easy to deal with.

Chen Qi, the clan of the Secretariat, returned and fro in the Political Affairs Hall and became Zhang Dun's assistant invisibly.

It was almost noon, and Zhang Dun had done it. He took a sip of tea and looked at Chen Qi who came to deliver the memorial again, and said, "Where is Your Majesty now?"

Chen Qi put down the memorial book and said, "The Guan family had a meal for a while in the morning, and now it is in the Chuigong Hall."

Zhang Dun raised his eyebrows, paused, and said, "I met Cai You and Nan Tianyou yesterday. These two people, one is weak and incompetent, and the other is deceitful, and neither is very useful."

Chen Qi's expression changed slightly and he hurriedly said, "Gong-in-law Zhang, they are the officials' destiny, so they must not move around."

Zhang Dun glanced at him and said, "I don't mean to touch them, Your Majesty of the Imperial City Department. However, the envoy of the Three Divisions died in the Ministry of Justice, there should be an explanation, right?"

Chen Qi heard that Zhang Dun was preparing to attack the Ministry of Justice.
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