Chapter 573 Choice
After returning from the silence, Zhang Juzheng went to see Xu Jie and passed on his words to Master Xu. When Xu Jie heard that his instinct was out of the matter and did not hesitate to go through fire and water for himself, he could not speak for a long time. After a while, he asked slowly, "Don't you blame me for my words?"
"I asked him this question," Zhang Juzheng said seriously, "He told me that all the parents in the world are all bad, and even all bad teachers. No matter what decision the teacher made, it is all for the good of being a student. Whether it is understandable or not, it cannot be changed." As he said, he said with a touching look on his face: "Teacher, Cum Yan said, in order to repay the teacher's kindness, he is willing to deal with those people to the end, even if it is broken into pieces, without regrets..." When Yan came to this, tears filled Zhang Juzheng's eyes, and he said tremblingly: "Teacher, the ancients said, 'The wind knew the strong grass, and the cold saw it withered after the cold.' At this critical moment, Cum Yan stood up without hesitation. Teacher, don't you realize that, should you know him again?"
After hearing Zhang Juzheng's words, Xu Jie felt that he was wrong for the first time in his life. If he had said this in his usual life, he would have thought it was sweet words and not trustworthy. But just like Taiyue said, "The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the chaos in the country shows loyal ministers." In this kind of crisis, what most reflects a person's essence is. Silence can stand up and help without hesitation. The facts are better than words. He is a true loyal and righteous man!
'No matter how bad a person is, he will not be much...' Xu Jie sighed in his heart: 'It seems that I am really wrong.' Then he nodded slowly and said: "I am biased in the past. You can tell me that from now on, I will not do it anymore."
"Teacher, you should tell him this in person," Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "I think I will be happier when I hear this."
"Haha, too..." Xu Jie nodded and said, "I will talk to him carefully when the storm has passed."
"That's great!" Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "I finally don't have to be stuck in the middle, I'm in a dilemma."
"Haha, you..." Xu Jie shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, let's talk about serious things. What do you want me to do?"
"It was the last time," Zhang Juzheng said: "He asked you to arrange someone to write a letter to impeach the members of the Yan Party. The difference is that last time I disperse the firepower for him, and this time I disperse the teacher."
"Why do you have to do this?" Xu Jie shook his head and said, "This kind of book has almost no chance of winning. Those who are waiting for book readers will mostly be dismissal, exile, or even beheading! I don't want to see such sacrifice unless I have to..." He could not forget his student Yang Jisheng. The tragedy caused a huge psychological shadow on him and really didn't want to repeat it. In fact, his last breaking promise to silence was not entirely because he wanted to break the bridge.
"The original words of my words are that the most tolerant of many evil deeds in the world is party struggles." Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice: "Of course, the premise is to sacrifice a few officials who have obvious relationship with you. In this way, the emperor will think that party struggles will resurrect. In this way, all attacks on you will be classified by Your Majesty into the category of party struggles, so that we will not pay attention to this and let us escape this disaster."
Xu Jie listened silently and said without saying anything. Zhang Juzheng continued to persuade: "This is not just the meaning of the words, but the students also think so - now we have been forced into the corner, and it is impossible to be unscathed. In extraordinary times, we must use extraordinary tricks to reveal ourselves and seek protection!" As he said, he raised his tone and said: "Teacher, show the courage of a hero to cut off his arm! Students are willing to be the front pawn!"
Xu Mansion. The study room fell into a brief silence, and only the charcoal basin with flashing fires made crackling sounds from time to time.
Xu Jie's hands were always covered with charcoal basin. He was an old man and a southerner, very afraid of the cold. A well-maintained face was dark and dark in the flashing fire. After a long time, he asked softly: "Last time I asked you to come to Wu Shi, Dong Chuance and the others, but I didn't explain anything, so I drove them back. What did they react afterwards?"
"Oh, they all said that the Master of Ge must have a heavy responsibility to entrust." Zhang Juzheng took an iron clip and put sections of charcoal into the charcoal basin from time to time, and whispered: "But you said nothing in the end, which hit them a big blow. Everyone said that the Master of Ge is not at ease with them, so he changed his mind again." As he said that, he looked at Xu Jie and said: "They are all very sad, and hope to have a chance to prove themselves."
"The price is too high..." Xu Jie shook his head and said, "If we can't even save our lives, how can we face their relatives and parents?"
"This is their blood letter." Zhang Juzheng carefully took out an envelope from his arms and said, "Please check it out by teacher."
"Oh..." Xu Jie took it with both hands, opened the envelope, pulled out the letter paper, and flattened it, and saw sixteen big words: "Not for personal grudges, just for righteous indignation, seek benevolence and benevolence, and hope that the public will fulfill it!"
"Don't ask for personal grudges, benevolence and get the mercy..." Xu Jie said a little lost: "When did this be written? Have you seen them recently?"
"It was last month." Zhang Juzheng said: "Actually, I wrote it for me a long time ago, but I felt that the timing was wrong, so I didn't give it to you."
Xu Jie knew that during that period, Zhang Juzheng was actually disheartened by him because of his injustice to Shen Mo, so he didn't take it out for a long time. Of course, he wouldn't care about this with his beloved disciple, so he took his eyes back on the paper and said, "I'm very determined..."
"They also said that even if you don't agree, they will do this!" Zhang Juzheng said with a sigh: "Teacher, the students are willing to go with them! Impeach the Yan Party together!"
"Absurd!" Xu Jie's eyes glared at him angrily and said, "Don't forget your ambition. If you want to die before you can succeed, you can just follow them!"
Xu Jie always whispers when he heard the words and never was in a hurry. At this moment, he was so angry that he was so angry that he calmed Zhang Juzheng, shrank his neck, and did not dare to show off his power. He whispered: "Students all listen to the teacher and no longer act like heroes."
"Oh, Taiyue," Xu Jie sighed, "For a person who is determined to do great things, he must always have a righteous spirit in his heart, otherwise he will not be able to transcend his own family and look at the problem from a higher standpoint. This is right." He said with a stern voice: "But remember for me, from now on, keep your sense of justice in my heart, and do not keep it on my lips. He will fight and fight with others all day long. What is the difference between such a behavior and a reckless man?!"
Zhang Juzheng quickly received the advice respectfully and did not dare to refute at all.
Xu Jie then calmed down, stood up with the back of the chair, walked to the back of the big case, opened the drawer and rummaged through for a while, found a thick kraft paper bag, walked to Zhang Juzheng and said, "This is the material he handed over to me at the beginning. I don't know what method he used to get from Xuanda, but I have seen it, it is undoubtedly true that it is a good person! You try to pass these things to Wu Shilai and tell him that you can only impeach famous people and not impeach others, otherwise you may fail, and their situation will be dangerous."
Zhang Juzheng took it and replied softly: "I understand, let's give it to them."
"Don't go there in person, think of a way to hide." Xu Jie said.
"Now there are eyes and ears everywhere," Zhang Juzheng said: "The students' every move is stared at by them, and they do not hide anything."
"Even if you want to cover up, you still have to hide." Xu Jie shook his head and said, "It is completely different from being guessed that you gave them to them."
"Yes." Zhang Juzheng nodded and replied.
In Fangjusi Hutong, there is an ordinary young official living in an ordinary house. His name is Wu Shilai, whose name is Weixiu and his pseudonym Wuzhai, is from Xianju, Zhejiang, and is a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Jiajing. He is just in his early thirties this year and is currently serving as a clerk in the Criminal Department.
He was able to write poems and prose at the age of seven, and was known as a child prodigy. He won the title of county examinations, government examinations, and college examinations. Like Chen Silence, he obtained a small three-yuan Yuan. When he was a Jinshi, he was not very old, only twenty-five years old. However, because he did not win the Zhongshu Jishi, his career was much worse than that of the fellow villager. This year, it was the ninth year of becoming an official, but he was still a small criminal clerk and did not even get into the section chief... He was given to the six departments and was respected as the "section chief". Such officials were given to the clerks.
Seeing that he was already in his thirties and wasting his efforts and wasted his time, Wu Shilai felt helpless and often drank with his two good friends, Dong Chuance, the head of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhang Chong. In addition to the essential items such as reciting poems and essays, he naturally had to curse the officialdom [***] and sigh at the pain of the people in the world.
But the three of them were just insignificant sesame and mung bean officials. It seemed that apart from being stingy, they could only go home after drinking and eating, and then continue to have no hope and meaningless day by day.
On this occasion, the three of them gathered at Wu Shi's house to drink, until the genius seat ended in the moonlight. Wu Shi's house sent the two to the door, watched them disappear at the entrance of the alley, then turned around and closed the door and bolted it, walked into the house, ready to take a shower and go to bed.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the center of the yard, he heard a thud at the base of the south wall. Wu Shilai was a little strange, so he walked over with Yueming. When he saw that it was a bag. He felt a little strange, why did he throw the bag away from my house? He bent over and picked it up, and he was quite heavy!
It took him some effort to lift the bag into the room and put it on the table to open it. He saw a thick kraft paper bag in the middle of a ball of old clothes.
At this time, Wu Shilai's wine woke up. Looking at the thick paper bag, he felt a strong premonition in his heart that a major event was about to happen in his hands. Taking a deep breath, he cut the seal of the paper bag open, and a thick stack of paper came out. Wu Shilai looked at the file carefully under the lamp, and saw that it was recorded in detail. In August this year, Altan, the Tartars invaded Datong, and Yang Shun, the governor of Xuanda, was in charge of 200,000 border troops, consuming seven or eight out of the national treasury, but he was afraid of defeat and being punished. He saw that the people were brutally robbed by the silver and could not move. He waited for the Tartars to leave, and then sent troops to dispatch generals and started to pursue them in a pretentious manner.
When he saw that Yang Shun was afraid of the facts being leaked, he secretly ordered the soldiers: 'Searching for civilians who were evading soldiers, beheaded them to serve as the head of the Tartars, and sent them to the Ministry of War to report their merits!' When Wu Shilai couldn't help but his eyes were so angry that he roared: "You dare to be a dog thief, you are so brave!" He also saw that Xuanda Censor Lu Kai accepted Yang Shun's bribe of 7,000 taels, not only did he not report the truth, but also tried every means to help him get through the test.
"It's tolerant, who can't bear it!" Wu Shilai slapped the table and said, "Yang Shun, Lu Kai is so shameless, he is weak to the Tartars, but he takes the blame for the people! How can he keep such evil and continue to harm him!" When he turned to the last page, he saw that the font changed, but someone's message: "Not for personal grudges, but for public anger, I only impeach Yang Lu, don't ask others, and only keep the green mountains and there will be firewood."
Although the font is very strange, he knew at a glance that it was written by Zhang Juzheng, because the blood letter had not been read to others. 'It seems that Master Ge gave the order!' Wu Shilai was excited and wanted to go to Dong Chuance and Zhang Chong immediately, wanting to discuss the book with them, but it was already 30 o'clock in the morning, so he had to wait until dawn to talk about it.
Wu Shilai naturally couldn't sleep all night. He sat at the table and thought about it repeatedly, but finally changed his mind. There was a lot of danger in writing this kind of book, so why do the three of them pay together? It's better to come alone, and someone will take care of him if he is young.
Finally, I made up my mind to write a letter to those two people without hiding it! Then I took a bath and burned incense, then read the materials again, and wrote an impeachment memorial with every word like thunder!
The initiator of this incident, the Imperial College of the Ming Dynasty, was silent and muscular. He also bathed in the house and burned incense and sat alone in the quiet room, because he had to make a major choice, he had to think carefully and make a decision before making a decision.
Xu Jie thought that Lan Daoxing's affairs had nothing to do with silence. He returned to Beijing just to accept inquiries about Lu Bing's sudden death, but silence was a mute who ate coptis chinensis. He knew that there was suffering because he not only had a relationship with Lan Daoxing, but also very deep. It was just that the two parties had never contacted directly, but secretly passed the message through Lan Daoxing's apprentice.
If it weren't for Lu Bing's death that Lan Daoxing was implicated, this kind of relationship might have been hidden in the dark forever and foolproof. But now Lan Daoxing has been arrested and tortured. As long as he can't hold back and tell his relationship with him, there will be a Dongchang man who will come to arrest people. What is waiting for him will be the same fate as Lan Daoxing.
Whenever I think of placing an imperial edict, I will wake up from my sleep when I touch my forehead. When I touched my forehead, I was covered with sweat beads as big as beans. If I continue like this, I may be scared to death by myself before I can come to the east factory.
One midnight, after waking up from a nightmare again, he fell into deep thoughts. He couldn't continue like this, and he had to think about something!
It was not that he had thought of escaping from Yanjing, but in fact he had made corresponding preparations. The three fast ships were at Dagukou, Tianjin, and prepared a fast horse along the way. As long as he left the capital, he could get on the ship and escape from the sky within a minute. But until the last moment, he would not do this, because after more than ten years of hard work in this way, he would be in vain forever, and would never gain a foothold in the land of the Ming Dynasty.
Going abroad, your dreams are beautiful, but if you don’t have a knife on your neck, who would want to go that step?
After repeated thinking, Guan Jing decided not to sit and wait for death. He had to take the initiative, so he was passive and could not place his hope on Lan Daoxing alone!
In the clean room, looking at the slight sandalwood, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his silent mouth, and he said to himself: "I just made up my mind to do what I can and no longer make any more aggressive things in the future. Who would turn around and overestimate my ability again. It seems that it is really hard to change my surname."
But this time, it is not as important as before. It is related to life and death, so I have to give it a try!
After making up his mind, he quietly put on a white dress and a simple headband wrapped around his head, carried a bag on his back, and went out to get into the sedan chair.
"Sir, where are you going?" Sanchi asked softly.
"Xiyuan!" Chen said lightly, "Please see the emperor!" As he said that, he glanced at the sedan chair behind him, and smiled at the person inside, "Don't you have to tie you up this time, right?"
"I hope you can still laugh later!" Li Shizhen's usual cold voice came from inside.
Since Lu Bing's death, the imperial guards in Xiyuan have not allowed foreign officials to enter the palace. It has been six days since then. Yesterday, Li Fang finally brought a letter to Feng Bao of Prince Yu's mansion, so that he could find silence and asked him to use the imperially-given Huangyu Ruyi to bring Li Shizhen to open the gate of the forbidden palace!
The surname who was silently aware of the serious situation and also realized the opportunities contained in this crisis. If you can take this opportunity to meet the emperor, you will likely find a good way to break the situation!
However, after hearing the news, Xu Wei quickly threw it out and stopped the sedan chair and whispered: "Hasn't you ever found a suitable topaz?"
"Yes." Chen Si stared at him angrily: "Now this one can only be viewed from afar, not to be slutty."
Xu Wei looked at him guiltily and said, "Why should I take it into the palace?"
"Forget it." said silently, "This is something that I gave, how can I hand it over to someone else?" and said with a smile, "Ruyi is like a thorn in my throat. It has been stuck for a long time. Maybe I can take this opportunity to wash it off."
"What are you going to do?" Xu Wei asked anxiously.
"The mountain man has his own tricks, let's take a look." Silently said, "Get up the sedan chair!"
Chapter completed!