In May, the eyes of the vast majority of the imperial court flew far away from the Forbidden City and cast their eyes on Jiangling.

Xu Jue was far from being the first person to go to Jiangling to investigate the situation, and the earliest people in the past had already been able to spread the news back to the north.

Whether they wanted it or not, people were secretly talking about it, saying that the father of Zhang Juzheng, the old man of the court, was seriously ill and that it was difficult to save the immortals.

People gathered to give gifts to officials who might succeed them, but at this time, none of those people were stupid enough to accept them.

Chen Mu was different, he specially prepared Zhang Juzheng to send some good words, but he personally visited the door in a casual cloth robe and didn't say anything.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng knew what he was about to face, a disaster from heaven when he was about to develop his ambitions, leaving him in a dilemma and a dilemma.

Even if he is middle-aged, human nature is still unavoidable.

In fact, until the beginning of this year, Zhang Juzheng was very comfortable.

Since he was in charge of the country, the northern captives who had plagued the Ming Dynasty for a long time in military affairs surrendered, and there was Qi Jiguang, who had a tempered temper and ruthlessness, and Li Chengliang, who was greedy and used soldiers like a god in Liaodong, and the Nanyang Fleet overseas, which destroyed the country and took things like a bag, and a strong military was the foundation of the prosperous era.

Although the law did not increase the total amount of taxes, it effectively reduced the ineffective tax revenue, and the countries of Annam, Burma, and Nanyang were able to transport four million stone rice grains a year, and the empty treasury finally appeared to be full.

This year, the second son Zhang Sixiu was also designated as the first-class, second-class jinshi and first, which is a good thing everywhere.

At this time, the news that his father Zhang Wenming was seriously ill was a bolt from the blue.

My father's serious illness is already very uncomfortable in itself, and I have to consider that if something happens, my work will be affected for many years after I leave, if only that's the case - in good conscience, he has a reputation for being very considerate and caring for his colleagues over the years, even if there is something unkind, he only says it in private.

It is true that the promotion and employment of people rely on relationships or to take care of Feng Bao's feelings, and a few people and fools have been appointed, but most of the time meritocracy is also true.

Now, my father is seriously ill, and so many colleagues don't look forward to getting better, but look forward to his middle-aged loss of his father and want to let passers-by know.

When a person encounters a problem, no one really needs comfort, what he needs is to solve the problem, Chen Mu can't solve these problems, especially in the face of a middle-aged person like God, comfort is the most pale and powerless, he is more than 18,000 times smarter than ordinary people, what can he figure out by himself, and he still needs Chen Erye's comfort?

Although Chen Mu was not comforted, this was the only time since he entered Beijing in Longqing Nian that he was not embarrassed to enter Zhang Juzheng's mansion, Zhang Juzheng ignored him, he didn't care about Zhang Juzheng, he drank a cup of tea in the main hall, and he didn't leave when the host served tea.

got up and slipped to the side hall, let You Qi get some fruit preserves, ate and drank a cup of tea, Zhang Juzheng thought he was gone, and in the evening he inquired about Chen Mu and slipped to the study, and insisted on having dinner in the house, let the entourage go to the street to sell a pot of rice wine, and climbed to the courtyard rockery alone and drank half a pot, and then he said goodbye in a daze at the point of closing the city gate.

Before leaving, he howled loudly at the door of the old mansion, and he didn't know where it came from.

"Sister, you are like the Tsing Yi on the stone skin, so that there is a source of living water!"

He was almost caught as a thief by the patrol soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

The people in the old mansion of the cabinet all think that the important ministers of Beiyang are crazy - how many years have they been drunk and crazy here, and how fresh is it to sing the song of the wind and moon in front of the Cabinet University Scholars' Mansion?

You Qi, who was standing in front of the mansion, looked at Chen Mu's stumbling steps, and felt that when this turmoil passed, Jing Haibo, who had worked so hard for Chen Erye's hard work, would have to be wiped out.

On the sixth day of Chen Mu's return from Beijing to Tianjin Beiyang Military Mansion, Zhao Shizhen, Xu Wei, Xu Zhenming, and Ye Mengxiong jointly found Chen Mu in Jiguo Tower.

In the end, Zhao Shizhen said to Chen Mu, who was writing in the tower full of green silk boxes and full of birth cards: "Dashuai, you went to the old mansion and what did you say to the old man?" ”

"Say what?" Chen Mu turned around and asked rhetorically, picked up the two sentences written on the rice paper on the table, blew the ink stains that had not dried, and said, "Come, look at our two sentences, how about it?" ”

The writing on the paper is not obscure, and the handwriting is general, but the sense of independence is very high, so that people can know at a glance that it must be related to the Jiguo Tower.

It reads: The heroic spirit enjoys the sacrifice for a thousand years, and the mountains and rivers are long.

"Yo, I haven't heard that Shuai Ye has recently entered the theater, how can the Yang family ......copy all the lyrics in the script" If you don't say that cultured people hate it, don't let people pretend to be a guy, Zhao Shizhen shook his head and shook his head halfway before he realized that he had pierced the fragile self-esteem of the owner, and hurriedly raised his thumb and said very distractedly: "Write well, even if you let students write, you can't write better!" In the afternoon, I will find someone to make a plaque. ”

After that, he patted his chest and said, "Shuai Ye doesn't need to say much, the student knows that this is to be hung at the door of the Jiguo Tower, one left and one right!" ”

Seeing that the largest mechanical unit turned from cloudy to sunny, the smallest mechanical unit breathed a sigh of relief, and then was pushed away by Ye Mengxiong, and said: "Chen Shuai, the news of Shuntian has spread, Jing Haibo entered the Cabinet University Scholar's Mansion from noon, and did not go out until night, and sang two meat words in front of the mansion, and was in a happy mood, people are curious about what you and Zhang Ge Lao Mi talked about, and there are all kinds of rumors, which is not a good thing." ”

"yes!" Realizing what he was doing here, Zhao Shizhen also hurriedly asked, "What did the handsome man talk about with the elder pavilion, so happy?" ”

Chen Mu put down his pen and looked around at the eager eyes of several people.

"What are you talking about? If I say, from the day I entered the house, I didn't say anything but a sentence of nothing. Chen Mu chuckled lightly as he spoke: "Do you believe it?" ”

Do you believe it?

Xu Wei entered a fugue state at an inopportune time, Zhao Shizhen and Yue Laozi glanced at each other, looked at Ye Mengxiong, shook his head like a rattle, and raised four fingers exaggeratedly and shook it: "Four hours, four hours without saying a word, when I went out of the house, I still sang meat songs, and I also captured the soldiers and horses of the five cities for half a moment - I don't believe it, no one will believe it." ”

"That's right, I didn't say anything."

Chen Mu nodded very seriously, and counted with his fingers: "Three hours and three and a half, Chen ate three plates of candied fruit, drank two cups and four bowls of herbal tea, went to the toilet three times, and ate a good meal at night, and when he was full, he asked for a pot of Jinhua wine, and drank half a pot of himself. ”

"When I left, I drank myself happily, so I sang two words casually, who knew that the little soldiers who called the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division intercepted me, and saw that I had short hair in my waist, and I couldn't see the tooth card clearly at night, so I turned the corner and went to the yamen - I have to drink less in the future, and I will make a mistake when I drink!"