In the room, sandalwood curls up.

As Yan Song moved the position of first assistant, Jiajing finally stopped being stingy and rewarded Yan Song with the best sandalwood, and Yan Song could finally smell the long-lost sandalwood.

Yan Song sighed lightly, and no longer dwelled on this topic, but as if digging out his heart, he sighed and said: "After the old man goes, Wu Yue is in danger!" ”

"Why did Elder Ge say this?" Lin Haoran's face turned straight and asked seriously.

Yan Song took the ginseng tea sent by Yan Nian, and said seriously: "Xu Huating is not the same as the old man, he is more ambitious than me!" In order to curry favor with the emperor and my status, the old man plans to kill Yang Jisheng and Shen Lian? After a pause, he said again: "Xu Jie, he not only wants the emperor's favor, but also the support of hundreds of officials, and your father-in-law is his biggest threat!" ”

"My father-in-law has not been favored by the emperor, and his official position is not as good as Yuan Ge Lao and Guo Shangshu, why is Xu Ge Lao's biggest threat?" Lin Haoran earnestly asked.

"Wu Yuejing is a Tanhualang in Jiajing for 14 years, and his qualifications are already the deepest, and his reputation in the current officialdom is unmatched!" Yan Song flicked the tea with the teapot, raised his eyes and looked at Lin Haoran and asked, "If the current first assistant is recommended by the hundred officials, do you think it is the hundred officials who recommend Xu Jie or your father-in-law?" ”

Lin Haoran was immediately silent, Xu Jie's reputation in the future generations was good, but it was not high at the moment.

Xu Jie is not an orthodox minister, thanks to the promotion of Xia Yan and Yan Song, he returned to the power center of the Ming Dynasty, and he himself exchanged Qingci for the emperor's favor.

Especially in the cabinet for ten years, Xu Jie has always been Yan Song's follower, and often follows the emperor to carry out sacrificial activities, even if his students are in prison, they will not be rescued.

In addition, in the matter of rebuilding the Wanshou Palace, Xu Jie, in order to cater to the emperor, actually spent a lot of national funds to rebuild the Wanshou Palace, instead of persuading the emperor to return to the inner palace or move to the South Palace.

With all kinds of bad deeds, not to mention that compared with Wu Shan, who dared to admonish directly, it was already good not to be scolded by hundreds of officials.

"Whether it's because your father-in-law threatens Xu Jie's phase, or because Xu Jie's desire to win over some people's hearts, your father-in-law has already become an obstacle!" Yan Song took a sip of tea and concluded seriously.

Lin Haoran knew that what Yan Song said was true, but he still responded calmly: "My father-in-law has always been with Xu Ge's old well water, I'm afraid he can't do anything to my father-in-law!" ”

Yan Song plucked the tea lightly with the teacup, looked up at Lin Haoran and suddenly said: "Ask ignorantly, if you want to marry Hu Niu to Xu Jie's grandson as a concubine, what should you do?"

"Swords face each other!" Lin Haoran's brows furrowed slightly, and he immediately responded with obvious murderous intent.

Yan Song sighed lightly and said, "So at this point, you are far inferior to Xu Jie!" Xu Jie is a person who can achieve his goal without choosing a hand, in order to win my trust, he married his own granddaughter to my family Qing'er as a concubine! After a pause, he continued: "Don't say that the well water does not interfere with the river water, as long as Wu Yuejing is still in the court for a day, then Xu Jie's will definitely be eliminated!" ”

Lin Haoran found out that people like Xu Jie are really terrifying, Yan Shifan will scream a few times when he bites, but people like Xu Jie are making a bad move. If one is not careful, he may be stabbed.

Yan Song took a sip of tea, but suddenly said regretfully: "Back then, Xu Jie intended to marry his granddaughter to you, if you agreed, how could you have today's worries!" ”

"This ......"

Lin Haoran couldn't help but smile wryly, he really couldn't be blamed for this matter. He also knew that Xu Jie would replace Yan Song in the future, so he didn't want to take Wu Shan's boat at first, but intended to hug Xu Jie's thick thigh.

But unfortunately, the wild girl of the tiger girl asked Wu Shan's family for him and gave him a direct start. Although it was only the first step of the "Three Books and Six Rites", the sudden suspension was afraid that he would offend the Wu family, which he could not afford when he first entered the officialdom at that time.

Therefore, he pinched his nose and made Najib to the Wu family back then, and then had no choice but to formally ask for a dowry. It was by mistake that he did not set foot on Xu Jie's smooth boat, but got on the broken boat of Wushan.

Yan Song handed the teacup to Yan Nian, who was standing next to him, and said bitterly: "At present, you only have two ways, one is to surrender to Xu Jie, you take the initiative to leave the place away from the land of right and wrong, and let your father-in-law fend for himself; The second is to form a faction of its own, and try its best to form an alliance with Yuan Wei, Guo Pu and others to resist Xu Jie! ”

Lin Haoran glanced at Yan Song deeply, and finally understood Yan Song's thoughts.

Even when he returned to his hometown in Jiangxi, he gave him some eye medicine. If he and Xu Jie's real sword fight, it will give Yan Dang more respite, and even Yan Dang can benefit from it.

However, knowing this, he had to think carefully about whether to take the initiative to surrender to Xu Jie, or unite all forces to deal with Xu Jie's open guns and arrows.

Tonight's post station was more lively than usual, but with the arrival of late night, it slowly returned to tranquility.

Early the next morning, on the Tongzhou official ship wharf.

Cai Yuncheng led dozens of officials to the official ship wharf to see them off, and waited at the wharf early in the morning.

Yan Song's Zhishi and Yan Shifan's imprisonment made them face the dilemma of being leaderless. After last night's total, everyone plans to form a group and advance and retreat together to deal with the purge after Xu Jie's resignation.

Surrounded by Jin Yiwei, Yan Song's sedan chair came to the dock, which made Cai Yuncheng and others very excited.

Yan Song was not happy to send these people away, but the other party insisted on doing so, and he couldn't drive away these hardcore henchmen. In the face of these loyal subordinates, he also said goodbye to them one by one, and then boarded the official ship anchored at the dock.

"Elder Yan Ge, please take care!"

Cai Yuncheng and other officials, whether sincere or false, waved affectionately at Yan Song on the boat.

Yan Song stood on the deck, looking at the Tongzhou Wharf that was gradually moving away, but the old tears slowly overflowed, and some chaotic thoughts came to his heart.

He remembered when he was nineteen years old, when he was still a high-spirited scholar. The first time he went to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, he got off the ship from here, hoping to be named on the gold list and be able to display his ambitions.

It's just that time flies, Zhenyuan's old score.

Although the dock is still familiar, he has gone from being an ambitious young man to a retired first assistant at the age of eighty-three, after spending sixty-two years in the blink of an eye.

And now to leave here, it is goodbye, and there will be no day to return, waiting for him is the old bones buried in his homeland.

"Let's go back!"

Lin Haoran also came to the dock early in the morning to see off Yan Song, but he didn't get to Cai Yuncheng, nor did he choose to appear at the dock, and no one even knew that he had come. After seeing that Yan Song on the deck was completely unclear, he also decided to return to Beijing, intending to go back to face the more complicated political situation and Xu Shoufu after coming to power.

Yan Song's departure can be regarded as an end, but it is also a new beginning.

The city of Beijing is still prosperous.

Without Yan Song, Beijing City still seems to be like that. The people here live as usual, and the officials go up and down as usual, but the original scene of the hundred officials queuing up to see them already belongs to the Xu Mansion.