Seeing Han Yi personally going out to greet him, Sun Chengzong didn't dare to hold it up, he walked forward quickly, bowed to Han Yi and said, "Brother Lao Xiangyun personally came out to greet him, and my brother is really ashamed." ”

Han Yi grabbed Sun Chengzong's arm, didn't let him continue to salute, and said bluntly: "This is not the place to speak, Brother Kaiyang still goes back to the house with me to talk." Sun Chengzong was slightly stunned, but Han Yi also pulled him into the mansion.

Han Yi pulled Sun Chengzong into the mansion and explained the situation in the capital to him in detail. A small bridge also stopped at the entrance of the alley outside the mansion of Lu Chengyuan, the director of the Ministry of Works.

As soon as the small bridge stopped, the people in the bridge asked aloud: "But the Lu Lord's Mansion has arrived?" A man standing in front of the small bridge, dressed as a steward, bent down and carefully replied to the people inside the bridge through the bridge curtain: "I have arrived at the mouth of the alley outside the mansion of Chief Lu, my lord." ”

"Then what are you stopping for?" The person in the bridge said with some displeasure.

The steward replied more respectfully: "It's just that the alley outside Chief Lu's mansion is blocked by cars and horses, what should I do now?" ”

"Huh?" The people in the bridge agreed suspiciously, and took the initiative to lift the curtain in front of the bridge. Wang Shoulu, a member of the household department, looked at the traffic in front of him, blocking the entire alley tightly, and couldn't help but smile: "I don't want to, there is also a grand occasion in the mansion of Chief Lu." That's where I am. Xiaoliu, you take my name card and call the door first. ”

The steward, who was called Xiaoliu by Wang Shouxu, quickly agreed, and walked quickly into the alley. Wang Shou, dressed as an ordinary officer, walked off the bridge, and after instructing the bridge man to wait on the side, he also walked slowly into the alley.

Wang Shoulu bypassed the crowd and quietly walked to the side door of the Lu Mansion, Lu Chengyuan had already received the report at this time and was standing inside the door waiting for him.

After letting Wang Shoulu into the side door, the servants of the Lu Mansion immediately closed the side door, closing the noise and noise out of the door.

Without waiting for Wang Shoulu to speak, Lu Chengyuan had already bent down and saluted and said: "It made Brother Yuncheng laugh, yesterday's court meeting His Majesty entrusted Mr. Qishan with a heavy responsibility, and also the right to clean up the road, but it made the little brother's mansion lively." ”

Wang Shou returned the salute before getting up and saying with a smile: "How could this bad habit of the Ming Dynasty start today, Brother Ruyu has long expected this situation. He was afraid that there would be too many people, so he asked me to ask Brother Duan, can this Mr. Qishan talk to Brother Duan, what kind of charter is this rectification of the Dao? ”

Lu Chengyuan sighed, and did not answer immediately, but said: "It is inconvenient to talk here, Brother Yuncheng, please go into the study with me to talk." ”

Seeing Lu Chengyuan's performance, the smile on Wang Shoulu's face suddenly retracted, and he responded: "It's okay, then it's going to bother Brother Duan." ”

The two walked into the study, and after retiring from the subordinates, Wang Shoulu hurriedly asked, "What is Mr. Qishan's idea?" Although His Majesty presided over the clean-up of the Kedao with Li Kuilong, Mr. Qishan and Wen Taichang also had the right to decide. If the two gentlemen work together, then the matter of sorting out the science and road is not only not a bad thing, but also a good thing. ”

Lu Chengyuan shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid it's difficult for the two gentlemen to work together, yesterday Wen Taichang's nephew came to visit Mr. Qishan, thinking that he wanted to show favor to Mr. Qishan." But I heard from Menzi that Yao Ximeng's prayer post was intercepted by Mr. Qishan's disciple Chen Laolian, and then the worship post was also returned, and Yao Ximeng also left in anger. ”

"This, this Chen Laolian is so good at the world, so what does Mr. Qishan say?" Hearing this, Wang Shoulu couldn't help but say with some annoyance.

"How can I be the one who says right and wrong behind my back, this Mr. Qishan is just living in my house, how can I use this to separate his master and apprentice." Lu Chengyuan said with some displeasure.

Wang Shoulu immediately got up and apologized: "It's me who lost my words, and I hope that this brother is not strange." Lu Chengyuan waved his hand to accept Wang Shoulu's apology.

But both of them suddenly fell silent, quite speechless to each other. After a long time, Wang Shoulu said carefully: "The two gentlemen are not in harmony, and I can't intervene in this matter of rectification." Nowadays, the atmosphere of Shilin is very bad, and most of the officials are people who tend to be inflammatory, and I was in power in Donglin before, so these officials will be careless to please me. Now that Li Kuilong has the right to leave and stay as an official, I am afraid that in the future, Kedao will become a hall of eunuchs. Can't Mr. Qishan take a step back for the sake of Daming? ”

Lu Chengyuan said with a smile: "The people in this party are high-spirited, how can they start with two gentlemen. At the beginning, the first Xing and Yang Lian princes blindly cleared the officials from Donglin in the court, and they had to turn the Ming Dynasty into a hall of words for the party, which led to the Qin, Jin, Chu, Qi, Zhejiang and Wei Zhongxian joining forces to attack the party. This was the case in the past, and how is it different today? ”

Wang Shoulu thought about it for a long time, and finally paused and said: "I can't sit back and watch the good situation ruin, I went to see Mr. Qishan, and persuaded him with great righteousness. ”

Seeing that Wang Shou was ruthless, he was about to go to see Liu Zongzhou, Lu Chengyuan hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Brother Yuncheng can't be rash, this Mr. Qishan has always prided himself as a sage, when Wei Zhongxian's power in the court rose sharply, His Majesty of the Apocalypse wanted to entrust Mr. with a heavy responsibility, but Mr. was in power as a group of small people in the court, and the sage was left in the name of the wild, and he refused to be recruited.

The situation between the DPRK and China was so critical that the gentleman had never endured it, so why would he tolerate it today?

I'm afraid that Brother Yuncheng will go and disagree with Mr. Within this Donglin, there will be more things to do from now on. ”

"Is it possible, we are helpless to let the eunuchs in the DPRK and China watch a good show?" Wang Shoulu complained a little depressedly.

"After all, Mr. Qishan is also an ordinary man, and he must also take into account human relations. The world says that Mr. Qingjie is upright, but Mr. I am still quite protective of his disciples' relatives and friends. For today's plan, we should start from among Mr. 's disciples, although we are the same party members as Mr., but compared with his disciples, after all, we are still close and different. Let's wait for a few days, and when I find an opportunity to talk to Mr. Kou's subordinates, I can't let the remnants of the eunuchs see the jokes. Lu Chengyuan held on to Wang Shou's footsteps, and kept persuading him.

Wang Shoulu finally stopped struggling, and sat back on a circle chair made of yellow pear, "Since this is the case, then I will wait and see for a few days, if the two gentlemen are still like fire and water, how should I choose in the future?" ”

Lu Chengyuan let go of his hand and returned to his seat and sat down. After listening to Wang Shoulu's question, he only thought about it for a while, and then replied: "If you talk about the ability to make decisions, then among the three of us, Ni Ruyu is naturally the leader. In short, no matter how you choose, the most important thing is that the three of us should advance and retreat together. ”

Wang Shoulu nodded and agreed: "This is right, although this party claims to be in the same spirit, it is not monolithic. We are small and thin, and if we say anything more, I am afraid that we will be lost to everyone. ”

Seeing that Wang Shoulu accepted his opinion, Lu Chengyuan continued with a little relief: "Since Brother Yuncheng is here, I have something I want to discuss with you. Immediately, he roughly told him about Han Yi sending someone to invite Liu Zongzhou to take over for Sun Chengzong.

After Wang Shoulu listened, he was shocked: "When did this Han Xiangyun collude with Sun Kaiyang?" Although this Sun Kaiyang is also a member of the party, he has his own faction in the party, and he often does things contrary to the opinions of the party, and has never been treated well by the gentlemen of the party. And Sun Kaiyang has always hated party struggle, and in the past, he was unwilling to get involved in party struggle, so why did he take the initiative to return to Beijing today? ”

Lu Chengyuan's face remained unchanged, and he said a few words softly. After Wang Shoulu heard this, his face suddenly became ugly.

He stood up and kept walking around in the study to think, and said: "This Sun Kaiyang can't forget, and the only thing he can't let go of is Liaoshi." His Majesty's recall of Wang Zaijin may restart the plan of the Shanhaiguan Heavy City, and the Ningjin Defense Line that Mr. Sun painstakingly planned and established will be abandoned because of this. In order not to let half of his life's work go to waste, Mr. Sun naturally wants to form an alliance with Han Xiangyun. With the support of Sun Dang, Han Xiangyun naturally gained momentum. But in this way, won't we become idlers on the side of the road? ”

Lu Chengyuan also said in his mouth: "I am disturbed by this, although Han Xiangyun is a senior of the party, he did nothing when he was the first assistant, and let Wei Zhongxian suppress the party. Today, the situation of our party is very good, and it has taken advantage of the situation to rise again. If Han Xiangyun enters the cabinet again, Mr. Yushan will inevitably be blocked out of the cabinet. Seeing that our term of office is about to expire, apart from Brother Ru Yu, can you and I still stay in Beijing? ”

Wang Shoulu was dumbfounded and unable to answer. Then the two sat silent, Wang Shoulu finally said goodbye and left, before leaving the study, Wang Shoulu suddenly turned around and said: "Wang Zaijin's policy of abandoning Liao may not be wrong. He walked away.

Wang Shou's words without a head and tail made Lu Chengyuan stand and think for a long time before he came to his senses. He looked up at the sky, and then said to himself unhappily: "My generation is also a person of fame and fortune after all." ”

After returning to the palace from the Guozi Prison, and before entering the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen suddenly stopped, turned to Wang Chengen beside him and said with a pleasant face: "Just now in the Guozi Prison, I was a little angry, but I let Wang Banban be wronged, don't go to your heart." ”

Wang Chengen was still a little aggrieved when he was reprimanded by Chongzhen just now, but he quickly forgot about it. As a eunuch, it is very common to be reprimanded by the superiors, but at the level of Wang Chengen, this kind of thing rarely happens.

Zhu Youzhen's sudden comfort suddenly startled Wang Chengen. Yes, it was frightened, not moved. To serve by the emperor's side, it is natural to understand that what is called thunder, rain and dew is the truth of Jun's grace.

It is a great sin to be punished by the emperor and to have a grudge. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's words not only did not comfort Wang Chengen, but frightened Wang Chengen and quickly knelt down to plead guilty. Zhu Youzhen immediately understood that he seemed to have done something stupid again.

In this day and age, the emperor cannot be wrong. If there is a mistake, it is the fault of someone else, or the people around him. Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but smile bitterly, accepted Wang Chengen's apology again, and calmed down the turmoil caused by his apology.