At the beginning of March of the ninth year of orthodoxy, just more than ten days after Lin Cong's impeachment, a case occurred in the capital that caused an uproar, and Xue Xuan, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was arrested and imprisoned by the people of Jinyi Weibei Town.

Xue Xuan, whose name is Dewen, is called Jingxuan, a native of Hejin, Shanxi, a famous thinker, physicist, and writer in the Ming Dynasty, and the founder of the Hedong School, known as "Xue Hedong".

After Cao Duan, Xue Xuan created the "Hedong Learning" in the north, and his disciples spread throughout Shanxi, Henan, and Guanlong, and became a great sect, and were called "the crown of science in the early Ming Dynasty" and "the foundation of Taoism in the Ming Dynasty" by later generations.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's academic lineage can be regarded as two factions, one is Yangming in the south, and the other is Xue Xuan and Zhu Xue in the north, which shows that Xue Xuan has a huge influence on academics.

What is interesting is that Xue Xuan is different from other sons of the Ming Dynasty who are obsessed with the imperial examination, Xue Xuan's examination of the imperial examination is more out of helplessness and passivity.

Xue Xuan's father, Xue Zhen, served as a Confucian teacher in the local county government for many years, and when Xue Zhen served as a teacher in Yanling County, Henan, Xue Xuan was close to the age of establishment, but he still studied with his father, studied Cheng Zhu Lixue, and spread to the history of the hundred schools, astronomy and geography, etc., and was not interested in the imperial examination.

However, there was one thing that broke the process of Xue Xuan's study, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty at that time, when no one in the county where the teachings were located had been admitted to the examination for a long time, the teachings would be sent to remote areas to serve.

Out of helplessness, Xue Xuan had to obey his father's order to participate in the township examination in Henan, and as a result, he won the first name of Gengzi Xie Yuan in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Xue Xuan did not give up his studies and became a famous master of science in the Ming Dynasty, and was deeply respected by everyone.

Because Xue Xuan has a very high reputation in the court, and holds such an important position as Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he was arrested by Jinyiwei and put in prison, which caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, and no one would have thought that Xue Xuan, who has always been respected, would have an accident.

Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si knew that Xue Xuan was very famous in the government and the opposition, so he quickly gave the outside world a reason for arresting Xue Xuan.

"So guilty?" Speaking of martial arts, Li Yuntian frowned and looked at Yun Na standing in front of him, Yun Na had just inquired about the reason and charges for Xue Xuan's arrest from Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town.

"Lord Wang, according to the news from Jinyiwei, Xue Xuan accepted bribes and overturned a case of poisoning her husband that was concluded by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and helped the woman involved in the case get rid of the crime." Yun Na bowed to Li Yuntian when she heard this, and said in a deep voice, "The victim is a commander of the former Military Governor's Mansion, the woman involved in the case is his wife, and the informant is his concubine. ”

"Poisoning your husband?" The corners of Li Yuntian's eyebrows raised slightly, this was a serious crime in ancient times, and it was not tolerated by Gangchang ethics, he really couldn't imagine that a lady who was in command of the same knowledge had a deep hatred to poison her husband, let alone believe that Xue Xuan would accept bribes.

The reason is very simple, Li Yuntian knows Xue Xuan very well, because Xue Xuan is also a Jinshi in Yongle for 19 years, and he is in the same department as Yu Qian, Liu Qiu and others, but he is more than ten years older than him, and he has already passed the age of standing when he was a Jinshi.

Unlike Liu Qiu's entry into the Hanlin Academy, Xue Xuan's career began in the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and under the recommendation of Yang Shiqi, he was appointed as the Inspector of Guangdong Province in Xuande for three years, and Li Yuntian was the Inspector of the Imperial History of Huguang Province at that time, and the two had a very good friendship.

Li Yuntian remembers very well that after Xue Xuan was appointed as the governor of Guangdong Province, he was sent to supervise Huguang Yinchang, which is also known as Yuanzhou Yinchang, which has jurisdiction over more than 20 silver mines in more than 10 counties in western Hunan and has more than 500,000 people.

Because Huguang Yinchang is a huge fragrant bait, involving the interests of many parties, so for many years the lake management is chaotic, corruption has become a trend, and it needs to be rectified urgently.

When Xue Xuan took office, he knew that he had a heavy responsibility and would face huge doubts about interests, so he used the Tang poem "There are many treasures in this township, don't be tired of poverty" to police himself.

After taking office, Xue Xuan did not stay in the yamen to enjoy the blessings, but worked tirelessly to take turns stationed in the silver mines in Yuanzhou, Chenxi, Luxi and other places, inspecting back and forth, making secret visits, undertaking important cases, and reporting those who embezzled and accepted bribes one by one, dismissed from their official positions, and severely punished according to law.

It is precisely under Xue Xuan's unremitting efforts that the local prefecture and county and Yinchang are in order, and the people are full of praise, and he has not returned home once in three years in office, and he is even more clean when he leaves office.

Xue Xuan, as he said in the poem, "Mo Yan has been in the south for a long time, and he has won the love of the people and the respect of his colleagues in the officialdom with his practical actions

Li Yuntian, as the superintendent of Huguang Dao, naturally knew that Xue Xuan had a very hard time in Huguang Yinchang for three years, and the local officials Haoqiang wanted to buy Xue Xuan with money at the beginning, so that Xue Xuan was in the same league with him, but Xue Xuan sternly refused, and then coerced and lured, intimidated and framed.

Xue Xuan served in Huguang Silver Field for three years, and the local officials in Huguang made a large number of reports against him, framing him for accepting bribes, embezzling public funds, reselling mining silver, etc., and there were also officials in the court who impeached him for corruption and perverting the law.

Xue Xuan has been working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than ten years, and in the sixth year of orthodoxy, he was appointed as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple under the recommendation of Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu and others, and participated in the trial of criminal prison cases.

Based on Li Yuntian's understanding of Xue Xuan, Xue Xuan has always been strict with himself, diligent and honest in politics, and as a leader in the Ming scholar class, he will never accept bribes and excuse the poisonous woman who murdered her husband, there must be another hidden reason in this.

"Lord Wang, Lord Xue and Deputy Chief Wang of the Master of Ceremonies are fellow villagers, as the saying goes, if you don't look at the face of the monk, you can see the face of the Buddha, and the people of Jinyiwei took Lord Xue away like this, and Deputy Chief Manager Lu is inevitably too bad for Deputy Chief Manager Wang?"

Yun Na saw that Li Yuntian was deep in thought, and couldn't help but say, Wang Zhen and Lu Rong were fighting fiercely for the control of Dongchang and Jinyi Weibei Zhenfusi, and Xue Xuan's arrest may be related to the fight between the two.

As far as Yun Na knows, the reason why Xue Xuan was able to stand out as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and take up the post of Shaoqing of Dali Temple was that in addition to Yang Shiqi's recommendation, Wang Zhen also made a contribution, and finally eliminated the obstacles in front of Xue Xuan.

Li Yuntian came back to his senses when he heard this, he knew Yun Na's thoughts, Xuan was Wang Zhen's fellow villager in Shanxi, according to the ancient concept of the township party Wang Zhen and Xue Xuan must be close, plus Wang Zhen contributed to Xue Xuan's appointment as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, so Lu Rong, who is in charge of the East Factory, should be jealous.

"Who tried Xue Xuan's case by the Zhenfu Division?" After a deep groan, Li Yuntian asked quietly.

"It seems to be a thousand households named Zhao Cheng." Yun Na felt a little strange, so she replied in a coquettish voice, she didn't understand why Li Yuntian asked this question, could it be that Li Yuntian wanted to open Zhao Cheng's joints to save Xue Xuan?

However, this is obviously impossible, even if Li Yuntian wants to intervene in this case, he is looking for Ma Shun, the pacification envoy of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division, not Zhao Cheng.

"Who is Zhao Cheng in Beizhen Fusi?" Seeing that Yun Na hadn't understood what she meant, Li Yuntian continued to ask.

Today's Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division is divided into three factions, one is the deputy Zhenfu envoy Ma Shun, the other is the deputy Zhenfu envoy Zhang Dazhang, and the third faction is the deputy Zhenfu envoy Qin Yu.

Obviously, Ma Shun is Wang Zhen's person, relying on Wang Zhen to gradually climb to the throne of the pacification envoy. Zhang Dazhang is Lu Rong's person, who was originally the deputy town envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town, and had a close relationship with Lu Rong, so he was brought to serve in the North Town Fusi.

As for Qin Yu, he was Li Manshan's subordinate, although Li Manshan took a group of people with him when he was transferred to Nanjing, he had been operating in Beizhen Fusi for many years and still had many subordinates who could not take it away, so he left Qin Yu here.

In this way, the power of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division Ma Shun, Zhang Dazhang and Qin Yu were divided, of which the most powerful was naturally Ma Shun, followed by Zhang Dazhang, and the two of them fought very hard with Wang Zhen and Lu Rong behind their backs.

Qin Yu is relatively low-key, An An guards his own territory separately, does not intervene in the battle between Zhang Dazhang and Qin Yu, and Ma Shun and Zhang Dazhang will not provoke him because of Li Manshan.

Although Li Manshan's Nanzhen Fusi is not as powerful as the Beizhen Fusi, the Nanzhen Fusi is responsible for supervising the military discipline and legal discipline of Jinyiwei, and once it is targeted, it will be a big trouble.

Therefore, after Qin Yu avoided the whirlpool of fame and fortune of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfusi, Ma Shun and Zhang Dazhang did not regard them as opponents, but instead regarded them as the objects of wooing.

"Zhao Cheng is ......" was asked by Li Yuntian, Yun Na was suddenly a little speechless, she didn't know much about Jinyiwei.

"Zhao Cheng is Ma Shun's person, Xue Xuan was arrested and sent to the edict of Fusi in Beizhen this time, and nine times out of ten it is related to Wang Zhen." Li Yuntian followed Yun Na's words, frowned slightly and said, "Although Xue Xuan and Wang Zhen are fellow villagers, the relationship between the two is not too harmonious. ”

"Not alike?" Yun Na's face immediately turned red when she heard this, she believed that Lin Xin would never make such a low-level mistake, it seemed that she still had a lot to learn in the future, and then looked at Li Yuntian with curiosity, could it be that the relationship between Xue Xuan and Wang Zhen was not as good as she thought?

"Back then, Wang Zhen did make a lot of efforts in Xue Xuan's appointment as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, but Xue Xuan did not appreciate it, and his attitude towards Wang Zhen was extremely cold." Li Yuntian bowed slightly, and said to Yun Na quite unexpectedly, "Although the relationship between the two is not harmonious, it has not yet reached the point where water and fire are incompatible, why did Wang Zhen give such a heavy hand to Xue Xuan this time?" ”

In the sixth year of orthodoxy, the position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple was vacant, Wang Zhen thought of his fellow villager Xue Xuan, so he deliberately asked Yang Shiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet: "Who can be the Jingqing in my hometown?" ”

Because the Empress Dowager Zhang was alive at that time, Wang Zhen's performance can be described as decent, Yang Shiqi heard that he recommended Xue Xuan, Xue Xuan is not only Wang Zhen's fellow countryman but also Yang Shiqi's protégé, and more importantly, he has enough qualifications to serve as the secretary of Dali Temple.

Therefore, later Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu recommended Xue Xuan to the orthodox emperor as the secretary of Dali Temple, and Wang Zhen also said good things about Xue Xuan in front of the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, so Xue Xuan stood out in the fierce competition and was promoted from the supervision of the imperial history to the secretary of the Dali Temple, and became the official of most of the palaces in the capital.

After Xue Xuan took office, Yang Shiqi once told him that he had a great merit in winning the promotion of Wang Zhen, and persuaded him to visit and thank him.

But Xue Xuan refused righteously, saying: "Worship the Duke of the Dynasty, thank you for your private room, I won't do it." "I didn't receive Wang Zhen's kindness at all.

This made Wang Zhen's attitude towards Xue Xuan fundamentally change, and the relationship between the two gradually dropped to the freezing point, but they were quite restrained and did not conflict.

Because Yun Na didn't know about the grievance between Xue Xuan and Wang Zhen, she didn't connect Xue Xuan's arrest in prison with Wang Zhen at all, and thought it was Lu Rong's hand.

"You go check and see who is trying the case that Xue Xuan overturned?" Li Yuntian felt that Xue Xuan's imprisonment this time was not only sudden but also very strange, and there must be something hidden in it that no one knew, so he told Yun Na in a deep voice.

"My subordinates understand." Yun Na also wanted to understand this case, and she could learn a lot from it, so she bowed to Li Yuntian and left.

"The wind and rain are coming!" After Yun Na left, Li Yuntian groaned, and slowly groaned a little helplessly, it seems that there will be another storm in the court.