The winter of the tenth year of Wanli is about to pass.

Outside Wenyuan Pavilion is snowfalling.

Shen Shixing is correcting the official documents.

A few days ago, an official wrote to the Son of Heaven to return the seal book and the four generations of edicts that had been given to Zhang Juzheng before, and the name 'Wenzhong'. But this matter was opposed by the ministers of the court, who believed that Zhang Juzheng was due to the merits and faults, and the two could not be offset.

At present, the imperial court is exempted from continuing to investigate Zhang Juzheng's faults, which is already a great grace, and it can no longer be used for grace. So the Son of Heaven issued an edict rejecting the official's request to restore Zhang Juzheng's name.

But this matter is just an afterword, as far as the current imperial court is concerned, the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao's matter has come to an end, Shen Shixing, Pan Jitao, Zhang Xueyan and other former Zhang Party officials, no longer have to worry about life, for fear that one day the official will take off his black gauze hat with a concert.

As for the impeachment of ministers by the officials, it was also stopped, and after the matter of the hundred officials knocking on the court, the Son of Heaven also compromised, no longer letting the officials go, but re-emphasizing the ministers and strengthening the power of the cabinet.

Now the official turned his gun and impeached Marquis Wu Qinghou one by one.

Think about how Yanguan dealt with Concubine Zheng Guifei and King Fu in history, you can know how miserable Marquis Wu Qing's life is now.

The most difficult time, for Shen Shixing, has passed safely. Zhang Siwei also gradually handed over all the big and small matters of the cabinet to Shen Shixing, preparing to calm down the over-the-top.

However, one thing has just calmed down, and another thing has risen again, and now the hundreds of officials are attacking the law for the examination and the Qingzhang Tianmu matter.

Shen Shixing's way of governing has always been to manage yin and yang, and he is not the prime minister like Zhang Juzheng, who ruins the reputation of the world.

Now he wrote to the governors of the provinces, asking him to slow down the affairs of Qingzhang and give the local heroes room to breathe.

After writing the letter, Shen Shixing suddenly heard the sound of tree branches being piled up by snow, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "Counting the days, I will leave Beijing tomorrow, such a big snow, the road is not easy." ”

The officer who polished the ink for Shen Shixing below said with a smile: "Yes, Ge Lao, I'm afraid that the Tongzhou Wharf has already frozen with such a big snow, and it may be difficult for Lin Sanyuan to return to his hometown." ”

Shen Shixing pinched his beard and said: "You immediately let people go home and send the two fox furs that Governor Jiliao gave to the old man last year and send them to Yanchao's family." He's still sick, don't let him freeze on the road. ”

The official on duty admired Shen Shixing's delicate mind from the bottom of his heart, and said with a smile: "The elder is really kind to Lin Sanyuan, this is to send silver taels and winter clothes." ”

Shen Shixing smiled.

After saying that the subordinates went out and gave orders, Shen Jiu happened to arrive in the pavilion at this time, and saw that Shen Shixing was correcting the official documents, so he stood aside and did not dare to disturb.

Shen Shixing was sharp-eyed, and when he saw Shen Jiu outside the door, he asked, "Is it Shen Jiu?" Come on in. ”

Shen Jiu salute see.

Shen Shixing glanced at it and saw that Shen Jiu's face was full of hesitation, so he said, "Do you have something unspeakable?" How about the tide? ”

Shen Jiu said what Lin Mansion said to Lin Yanchao and Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing said: "Yanchao wants to ask the old man to find a pro-people official for him?" ”

Shen Jiu said: "Yes, Zong Haiyan said that you must experience the place and learn from it." ”

Shen Shixing listened to the pen and said: "In the past, Luo Yifeng once said, among the people, the Jinshi, the upper period Hanlin, the second period of things, the second period of imperial history, and the second period of the main thing, if you get it, you will be Xin." He regarded the state and county as obeying the order, and if the luan looked at the rotting rat, he would get it, his soul would be exhausted, he would lose his color to his wife, and even beg for relief at night. ”

"Yan Chao is the champion of today, and he is also the first of the three yuans, and he wants to seek pro-people officials, and be in the company of people and prisoners, which really makes the old man puzzled."

Luo Yifeng is Luo Lun, the champion of the Chenghua period.

What Luo Lun said was the atmosphere at that time, and the scholars were reluctant to go to the pro-people officials such as the county and the governor, and regarded them as 'rotten rats'. Once the officials were assigned to be the magistrates of the county and pushed the officials, they were all frightened, and they had no face to see their wives and children, crying and begging the court not to let them serve as pro-people officials.

Shen Jiudao: "Yes, I'm also strange, this state and county obey the order, but all officials from Jinshi are unwilling to give in, only the officials who are on the way to supervise the life can serve as officials." It is impossible for Zong Hai not to know, so I thought that Zong Hai was disappointed in his career and did not want to be in the temple, but went to the place to make money. ”

Shen Shixing waved his hand when he heard this: "Although Yan Chao is not honest as an official, he will not be so short-sighted. ”

"What does Elder Ge think Zong Hai intends to do this?"

Shen Shixing said: "Zonghai's study of deeds and merits, it is said that Confucianism and law are used together, and the old man looks at it as a closer to the Legalists." In the past, Han Feizi said that the officials of the Ming Lord, the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent to the army. Emphasis on merit is close to the saying of the Legalists, and the election of officials in the Song Dynasty has not been close to the people, so it is not appropriate to be promoted suddenly. However, we are theoretical, advocating virtue rather than merit, and the imperial court has always been heavy on ministers and light on officials. ”

"In addition, it is not easy to be a pro-people official, it is difficult to do things, there are many contemptible things, and people will scold you for doing well or not, and it is the most difficult to maintain integrity when dealing with the people and inferior gentry all day long."

Shen Jiu suddenly said, "I see. Other officials would rather live at home and wait for the court to recover, rather than take care of such tedious matters. ”

"That is, Zong Hai has this temperament. If I am allowed to be demoted from the sixth grade to the seventh grade of the county order to push the official, and then descend from the clear stream to the turbid stream, I would rather hang the crown and leave. Ge Lao, if Zong Hai is appointed as a pro-people official, won't he be able to return to the Hanlin Academy in the future? ”

Shen Shixing said: "That's not it, in the past, Xu Huating, who was demoted to the imperial court when he was against Zhang Xuan for Hanlin, also held back his anger and went to the post." ”

"Then Xu Huating started step by step from the pro-people official, moved from the official to the Tongzhi, and then moved from the Tongzhi to the deputy history of the inspection, and then returned to the imperial court to serve as the prince of the country, and finally entered the cabinet with the secretary of the ministry."

Shen Shixing said that it is Xu Jie's career experience.

Xu Jie's Tanhua and the first, when Hanlin resisted Zhang Xuan and was demoted to the position of pusher.

What a humiliating thing this is, if it were other Hanlin, he would have hung up his crown and left, and would rather live at home and wait for the emperor to change his mind one day, rather than swallow this breath to serve as a pro-people official.

But Xu Jie, who started as a pro-people official, had political achievements in every term, and finally entered the cabinet, and overthrew Yan Song as the first assistant.

Shen Shixing said: "It's just that, Zong Haishi is wronged, and Hanlin is a pro-people official. ”

Shen Jiu said: "This is also what Zong Hai repeatedly asked me to tell the elder of the pavilion, he said that even if it doesn't work, let him be a miscellaneous official." ”

Shen Shixing was speechless when he heard it.

Shen Shixing shook his head, picked up his pen and wrote a secret letter.

The secret disclosure is not registered on the number book of the Department of General Administration and the Pole Gate, except for the cabinet scholars and the Son of Heaven, others are not allowed to look at it, and it belongs to the private whispers between the cabinet scholars and the Son of Heaven.

There is a saying in officialdom that 'a thousand words in the outer court is better than a ban on secret bamboo language'.

Secret disclosure is the exclusive right of the cabinet scholars, and even sometimes the celebrant eunuchs, if they want to understand the mind of the Son of Heaven, they also have to rely on the cabinet scholars, which is the role of secret disclosure.

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