Chapter 692: Cross-examination
He was very imposing when he was shouting in the Jiangdu Palace, however, when he really stood in front of the Emperor of the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, the four princes were as quiet and honest as quails. After all, his father's gaze was like a knife, piercing his face, and the eyes of his brother and the third prince were full of reproach of hatred for iron and steel.
And the emperor's tone, even Zhang Shou heard a little complicated feelings beyond the anger: "I told you to come back, but you turned a deaf ear, but your teacher brought you back, and you bowed your head to the ear!" ”
"Your Majesty, the four princes seem to be acting impulsively this time, not only hitting Hong Shanchang on the top of the street, but also taking away those guards, so that there will be a farce that spreads all over the capital after that, but ......" Zhang Shou heard the intention of the emperor's words, and had to stand up and explain for the four princes.
After a pause, he continued: "Actually, the minister didn't want to intercede for him, because in the carriage before, he said a crooked reason in front of the minister. ”
In front of the emperor and the crown prince, he repeated the nonsense of the four princes in the carriage, and he saw that the four princes were bowing their heads deeply, and he didn't know if they were rolling their eyes, so he smiled and said: "But this nonsense, nine times out of ten, it is said to the coachman and the guards of the sharp cavalry camp outside, to be honest, the minister does not know how much is true and how much is false." ”
The fourth prince hurriedly raised his head, but when he came into contact with Zhang Shou's cold gaze, he suddenly cringed again. And when he heard what Zhang Shou said next, he became even more panicked.
"When the minister was in the palace of Jiangdu before, he claimed that he was forbidden to speak, otherwise he would be punished for a precept when he said a word, and as a result, he should have said hundreds of words on the road, and most of them were nonsense. Fourth prince, you said it yourself, should you fight? ”
"I ...... I ......"
Stammered and spit out two words, seeing that his father and brother all showed very distinct anger when they looked at him, the fourth prince finally became extremely aggrieved, and finally said angrily: "I saw that Hong Niangzi gave a letter to the third brother of the prince when I was in Ciqing Palace this morning, and I heard her say that Hong Shanchang may have to go to the book to speak for the second brother, so I am not happy in my heart, after seeing this old stubborn, of course I want to be embarrassed!" ”
"But I really saw the entourage of the eldest brother and the second brother before...... Third brother, you've seen them too! That's not the usual entourage who does chores in the other courtyard, one is the second brother's side who serves the pen and ink, called Mohai, and the other is the eldest brother's guard, who seems to be surnamed Shi! I can't be mistaken, if my father doesn't believe me, you can send people all over the city to investigate, and you will definitely find these two people! ”
Faced with such an answer, Zhang Shou was finally speechless.
The next moment, he saw that the third prince was ashamed and embarrassed on his face, as if he regretted that the exchange with the Hong family was heard by the fourth prince, he who was standing beside the emperor actually retreated to the emperor, directly lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down to ask for guilt, although he wanted to say that His Royal Highness the prince was really not cautious enough, but looking at the emperor's eyes, he decided not to speak.
Sure enough, the annoyed and angry emperor slammed the case, and then shouted at the four princes word by word: "Since you said that you have the ability to see people and never forget, then I will pick two random people for you to take a look at, and then mix them among hundreds of people for you to recognize, if you can't recognize it, what if you can't recognize it?" ”
"The ministers there are at the disposal of their father!" The fourth prince raised his head, his face looked extremely happy, "Even if you break Erchen's palm according to what the teacher just said, Erchen will admit it!" But before that, shouldn't the father first go to check the two people next to the eldest brother and the second brother? I remember that after they were dismissed, they were forbidden to stay in the capital! ”
Seeing that the emperor was choked by the four princes' breath, at this moment, Zhang Shou suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, the minister has a few words that he wants to say to the four princes alone, I don't know if he can be allowed to take him out?" ”
The emperor only felt panicked in his heart at this time, and he didn't want to raise his hand and point: "You take this kid away, whatever you ask!" I immediately ordered someone to send a few hundred people over, and I wanted to see how far this kid could go! ”
Zhang Shou hurriedly bowed down and agreed, and the next moment, he stepped forward and grabbed the fourth prince who was blue and white on his face, and then glanced at the third prince. The third prince was a little puzzled at first, but when he saw Zhang Shou pulling people out, he hurriedly stepped forward to comfort and comfort his father, who was obviously angry, but he was extremely uneasy in his heart, thinking about the four princes, and wondering what Zhang Shou wanted to do.
And Zhang Shou directly took the four princes out of the Qianqing Palace, and after wrapping the person tightly with a coat, he also wrapped one himself, and led the bear child out along the road surrounded by the white jade railing.
Until he almost reached the midpoint between the Qianqing Gate and the Qianqing Palace, he turned around and saw Ah Liu standing not far away, and dozens of steps away, Fang was the guard standing in front of the Qianqing Gate, he stopped, then let go of his hand, looked at the bear child in front of him and said: "Are you not willing to ruin your reputation, but also put the eldest prince and the second prince to death, and get rid of future troubles forever?" ”
"I didn't!" The fourth prince was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he exploded all of a sudden, "Teacher, how can you say that!" ”
"And what do you want me to say? Echo your eyes and never forget, recognize the face first? Do you think you can hide your little clever and calculating from your father? How old do you think your father is? He's been sitting on that throne for twenty-seven years, and you're playing with him like this? ”
A few rhetorical questions suddenly smashed over, and the eyes of the four princes finally turned red all of a sudden.
He had also cried in the Jiangdu Mansion before, and when he defended in front of his father, he also looked tearful, but it was all disguise, it was all acting, and the real grievances were only a few points, but at this moment he was really anxious and scared.
He subconsciously grabbed the corner of Zhang Shou's clothes, and he didn't care that he was already in tears, so he hurriedly asked, "Father won't guess it, right?" I am...... I'm just unwilling, why have they been powerful and blessed for so many years, and they have done all the evil things, and now it's just a rumor of a shipwreck, and I don't know if it's true or not, how can it suddenly become their aggrieved appearance again! ”
"I've heard it say today...... I heard that my father wants to bring the boss back! ”
The fourth prince finally stopped pretending, and directly took out the most customary title in private, "Otherwise, how could he and the people around him be in the capital!" That's right, I really didn't recognize them on the spot, someone gave me a message, I went out of the palace today to go around the place that people said, I didn't expect to really see them! ”
"They thought I wouldn't recognize them when I was in the crowd...... Phew, everyone around the eldest and second child, I engrave it in my heart, and I am always on guard against them for evil! Teacher, don't say anything to repay grievances with virtue, I don't want to hear it, I only know that the third brother almost died of typhoid fever a few years ago, because when he went to see the queen of the abolition, he was forced by the second brother to stuff a snow ball in the collar! ”
"He did it on purpose! He knew that the third brother was weak, and when the third brother was sick to death afterwards, he didn't allow me to tell my father, I didn't listen to him, I went directly to complain. The second child still doesn't admit it, everyone around him doesn't admit it, if it weren't for my father's belief in me, maybe I would have to be falsely accused of my brother after the abolition! ”
"It's because of this that I've become a complainant since then, but just because I'm eyeing everything to sue, the eldest and second can only stare at me viciously, but I don't dare to really do anything! Because my father said clearly, if I really have any problems with my third brother, then don't blame him for going crazy! ”
"So, don't say that the second child's life and death are unknown at the moment, if his death is known, I can't wait to set off a firecracker to celebrate! This kind of person, I don't want to call him second brother! He doesn't deserve to be a brother either! ”
The bear child burst out of this series of words like a cannonball, tears flew together, but the expression in his eyes still showed a fierce and peerless look, and Zhang Shou didn't know whether he should be angry or funny.
After a moment of silence, he pulled into his sleeve, wiped his big face with his only handkerchief, and threw the filthy thing to the ground.
"There is a sentence in the Analects of Confucius: Or say: 'How can you repay grievances with virtue?' Zi said: 'How can you repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue. Confucius who is a saint said so, do you think I will agree with repaying grievances with virtue? Do you see when did your teacher repay his grievances with virtue? Whoever offends me, if you can go back on the spot, you can go back on the spot, if you can't ......"
"Of course, it is a gentleman's revenge, from morning till night!"
The fourth prince suddenly raised his head, and his eyes clearly showed a light of surprise and joy, but then he was hit by Zhang Shou on his forehead.
"However, there are many kinds of revenge, if you offend you verbally, then you will ridicule each other, and if you offend you in your deeds, then you will fight back with your deeds. However, if you want to fight back with the way you do things, then you must at least hold on to the name of righteousness. For example, I asked Lu Saburo to sell the technology of the new spinning wheel to the prince at a high price, and then gave it to the emperor. ”
"Did he suffer a dumb loss? But what can he do? What can be done is to pinch your nose and invite yourself to Cangzhou to promote, what is the result? As a result, he only cared about making money, hurting the people, provoking the people's uprising, and completely pitting himself into it! Of course, Zhang Chen also pushed it. But in any case, it was he who jumped in on his own initiative, and I didn't frame him indiscriminately! ”
"You can tell your father clearly that you found out that the people around your eldest brother and second brother did not leave the capital, but were still hanging around in the capital. Wouldn't your father have sent someone to track it down because of this? And you have to blame these two people for the fact that Hong Shanchang was beaten, you said it yourself, is this a trick around the circle? ”
"Even if you are calculating others, you must have a right heart, and the strategies used in this way can catch people off guard, rather than relying solely on slander and planting, which makes people unguardable. For example, if I question again and again, you will immediately lose and lose at once, and you will have no power to resist! ”
From ancient times to the present, countless dignitaries and dignitaries have often offered this trick to spread the news, and bring down political opponents with a trick of nothing and nothing. However, if a good swimmer drowns, how many people are in turn knocked down by this trick? Of course, you're spreading rumors, but you're playing a trick. ”
"You're nine true and one false. Because as long as others find out that those two people are real in the capital, then it will be logical to think that the rest are also true, and the fake can even become true. The so-called indisputable is nothing more than this. But no matter what, others are referring to others to charge into battle, and they are behind the scenes, but what about you? Actually spread rumors himself? Are you stupid? ”
The four princes listened in a daze, only thinking that they understood, and only feeling that they didn't seem to understand.
If it were those gentlemen who taught him and his third brother, then at this moment, when they were bitterly and angrily reprimanding him for these little tricks, they would definitely warn him to be gentle and frugal, and never to play these indiscriminate tricks. But Zhang Shou told him that the tricks of the next three indiscriminate should really not be used, and if you want to play, you have to play high-end.
But in his impression, every time he was attacked, the teacher seemed to be scolding him back in person, and he had never played these high-end tricks with anyone. But it's not right to think about it, the time when the big prince was pitted, the teacher was quite cunning!
Seeing that the four princes were completely confused, Zhang Shou reached out and touched the cold forehead of the little guy, and then said lightly: "There are many calculating and shrewd people in this world, a mountain and a mountain high, I heard a little from the teachers, but I haven't learned much, so I don't like to hold back, I prefer to report immediately." I can't learn those advanced ones. ”
"What about you? is young and has a heavy mind, and I can understand the resentment that I can't wait to trample the old enemy to death for the sake of your third brother. However, why don't you think about it, the eldest and second child in your mouth is also the son of your father? ”
"When I kicked them out of the capital in disappointment, for a father, it was not only painful, but also heartbroken. So the more you mess around, the easier it is for your father to treat you as a rebel like the eldest and second son in your mouth. Your eldest brother and second brother have already made him sad once, do you want to do it again? ”
"I remember my teacher, who once sang a song to me." Zhang Shou smiled slightly, intercepted a fragment of a once popular golden song that was easy to make people mistaken, and sang softly, "When I was a child, I thought you were very spirited, and it was earth-shattering to say a word, and I will become you when I grow up." ”
"When I grow up, I will be you. Zheng Qi, I only want to ask you one thing, do you want to become the person you ever hated the most? ”
The faces of the four princes finally turned pale. That's right, he once watched the eldest prince and the second prince say a word, many people ran before and after the saddle, and many ministers smiled and flattered, he used to think that it was very spirited, very majestic, and he once wanted to become the same person as them. However, didn't that kind of big brother and second brother lose in the end? Is he going to repeat the mistakes of the past?
The bear child finally lowered his head and sobbed again: "No, I don't want to! ”
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