Dress to be a celebrity

This imperial decree came so urgently and ruthlessly that Ma Shangshu couldn't recover for a while.

It is common for officials to impeach these six ministers, and sometimes they themselves bribe individuals to impeach political opponents.But when they are in their positions, they naturally have a bit of a thin face in front of the emperor. They always have to stay in the middle and let them go to the table to defend themselves. How can there be someone who handed over the impeachment chapter and then asked the Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate the Ministry of War? of?

Not only did he not wait for him to defend himself, but even these people were not allowed to conduct self-examination by the Ministry of War, and they were directly convicted, and they were picked up by the Metropolitan Procuratorate!

Huan Ge just came over to confess his crimes to him in the afternoon, and said that he should deal with the matter well, and control his children in the future, so as not to embarrass him... Is this the result of his discipline?

——The Ministry of War was investigated and dealt with by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and his face as a minister was severely trampled on the ground. The grandson of Huan Shilang, who was able to enter the cabinet with the strength of him and the King of Zhou, was added the title of Imperial Envoy, and immediately became a A model imperial envoy who is upright and upright... This is the result of his handling!

Although Ma Shangshu was old, he was not young in temperament. With a wave of his long arm, he dropped a piece of writing on the desk.The left and right servants Yang Rong, Wang Ji and the four chiefs all stood in the hall to persuade my lord to calm down, and think about how to investigate and deal with these people before the Metropolitan Procuratorate comes, so that there is still something to say in front of His Majesty.

Ma Shangshu also wanted to get rid of himself first, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to get rid of himself.

Since he followed the imperial decree, he stuffed money into the chief eunuch who came to deliver the decree, asking him to say a few more good words for him, and wanted to appeal to the emperor face to face, but the eunuch did not dare to accept his money this time, only because of his King Zhou simply said "Your Majesty is furious" in face.

Your Majesty is furious, so don't give him the face of the father of the virtuous concubine, the grandfather of the King of Zhou, and must find out the evidence of his appointment of a private person...

Ever since they married the granddaughter of Huan Ge, everything in their Ma family has been in trouble. Even King Zhou has been tortured for more than three years because of the marriage. Don't you know how other nobles in the palace laughed at him.Back then, he saw that Fu Jing, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, was old and had a blunt temper, and couldn't be called to help, so he used his strength to push him back to his hometown, put the old man of the Huan family on the position of the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and let his daughter choose the princess?

If it wasn't for the fact that the concubine he chose was not good, how could His Majesty have delayed King Zhou's marriage for three years, and even lost his love for their Ma family!

Ma Shangshu was furious, he had long forgotten how he chose Huan Ge as a helping hand after thousands of choices, and how he was satisfied with his granddaughter who will not have too much power in the future.

He only cared about being sullen, but Yang Rong and Yang Shilang couldn't bear his temper anymore and took the initiative to ask Ying: "Seeing that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is about to come, if they find out about our military department, my lord and the subordinates will wait for you." They are all shameless. The lower officials are willing to share the worries of the adults, and find out who is behind the back of those military officers who are falsifying their resumes, and recommend them to take real positions at the border."

Among those people were Ma Shangshu's relatives and children, some who followed the old path of his disciples and entrusted a large sum of gold and silver to come up, and some of them were privately organized by the doctor, Yuanwailang, the chief... etc. Yes, but it turned out to be tangled and tangled, and I don't know how many people will be involved.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate didn't know who to send to investigate, but Yang Rong was cunning and ruthless. If he was asked to investigate, he must find out something that would remove him from the position of minister of the Ministry of War!

This matter can only be suppressed and figured out slowly.

He suppressed his anger, changed his face to appease everyone: "Don't be impatient, all sages, I have my own opinion on this matter."

It would be best for Huan Ling to go to Shu to plead guilty, to admit that his investigation was ineffective and that his verification was wrong, and ask the palace servants to deal with him, and then he will buy the censor to make a beautiful memorial to wash him clean; I had no choice but to leave the pawn to bail the car, deal with the chief officer and Yuanwailang who accepted the bribe, and then ask the virtuous concubine in the palace to intercede for him.

Ma Shangshu sighed deeply, and immediately arranged for his confidants to handle the documents, and ordered his family members to pass on a message to Huan Ge—this time his attitude towards Huan Ge was not as tolerant as in the afternoon, and he immediately forced him to ask his grandson to go back and express his apology, otherwise It will make Mr. Huan Ge regret it.

He sent the people out, and was about to check the files of the generals who had entrusted him to see if there were any people with their own qualifications and achievements that could be used to refute Huan Ling's memorial, but the door's report sounded outside: "Boss People, Mr. Gu, the censor of the Zuodu, led the Bingke Du Shizhong and the two Ge Shizhong to come!"

Although the status of the six subjects is low, the real power is still above the six ministers. During the annual end-of-year assessment and the triennial Beijing inspection, the ministers have to bow their heads to the reviewers when they hand in the attendance book to the undergraduates.

No matter how many arrangements Ma Shangshu made, when the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate arrived, they didn't have time to do anything, so they went to the court to greet them with a livid face, and asked them to check the files of the Ministry of War at will.

This anger was more and more added to the head of the Huan family.

Huan Ge always listened to Ma Shangshu's messenger, as if he had been slapped face to face, he was ashamed, hated, annoyed and afraid.I am ashamed that he is a majestic four assistants, but at such a young age, he is humiliated face to face by villains; I hate that Ma Shangshu will embarrass him for such trivial matters and ruin his grandson's future; He didn't care about the two relatives or his sister's identity when dealing with the case; what he was afraid of was that this matter would affect the status of King Zhou.

After all, King Wei and King Qi are not young anymore, and the empresses behind the two kings are also noble girls with titles, and if there is no accident in the selection of concubines by King Wei this year, he will be able to get married next year and start a mansion. It's also quite threatening...

Thinking of this incident, he also felt deeply uneasy, and immediately ordered someone to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to look for his grandson, and asked him to come and see him as soon as he got home—no, before he got home, he immediately went to the Imperial Academy to see him!

The cabinet office is in the palace, and it is not easy to enter it. He is also a scholar of the Imperial Academy, so it is not a bad idea to meet his grandson in the secluded net worth room at the back of the Imperial Academy.

Mr. Huan Ge gathered himself together, packed up all kinds of memorials and newspapers sent this afternoon, studied ink and spread paper to defend Ma Shangshu—and his grandson will be added soon—to defend.However, he had just been humiliated by the people of the Ma family, and he felt depressed, and his pen hung in the air for a long time, but he couldn't put it down.

Just at this time, I went out to find Huan Ling's family and came back to report that Huan Ling was already in the Imperial Academy.

Huan Ling finally had an excuse to put down his pen, sighed "he walks too fast", threw the incomplete manuscript on the table into the hot stove in the corner of the room, got up and walked out the door.

To untie the bell, the person who tied it must be asked. At least one must first ask him how he played it correctly before the imperial court. How could it make the emperor so angry.

He put away the things on the table, and on the pretext of going to the Hanlin Academy to see how the newly promoted Hanlin and Shuji scholars were studying, he left the Forbidden City, went out through the left gate of Chang'an, and went straight to the value room where he was serving a bachelor.

When I got there, it was empty and there was no one there.

He turned back and told the door leading the way: "Go and find out what happened to De Huan, and tell him to come back and see me!"

Not long after that doorman left, he came back and reported: "The young one just asked from Song Zhuangyuan that Huan Yushi had just left the Imperial Academy, and said that he was going to leave Beijing to investigate military affairs."

Why did he leave when he saw Song Shi, but didn't come to kowtow to his grandfather!

Old Huan Ge couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, he shouted and asked: "Why did he leave, didn't you tell him that I wanted to see him!"

The doorman said submissively: "When the younger one went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to look for Mr. Huan, he heard from his colleagues that he had gone to the Imperial Academy, and also heard that the old man wanted to meet him in the Imperial Academy, so he rushed to report to the old man first." ... Who knows Lord Huan has already left."

He quickly kowtowed and apologized: "Young one, I'll go and find Mr. Huan and come back!"

Huan Ge waved his hand and said: "Go home and call someone. If you see him going back to pack up, stop him immediately. If he doesn't come home, ask someone to block the city gate and not allow him to go out!" Even if he received an imperial envoy, and the official department issued him customs documents quickly, he still had to go home to pack his things, and block people first before talking!

But after the disciple arrived at Huan's house, he still didn't see Huan Ling.

The three elders and grandsons of Huan Pavilion were officials in the court, and the eldest grandson, Huan Sheng, presided over it at home on weekdays. After all, his cousin, who was in the next room, was a Jinshi examination and became a speech official, was not in the same status, so he dared not control him easily. he.The doorman came in with the elder's order to ask Huan Ling's whereabouts, but he didn't know anything about it, and only said that he "never went home, and didn't send anyone to clean up anything".

When he ordered him to send people to the two gates in the west of the city to block his cousin, he heard that Huan Ling was going to go out to hunt in the capital, but he hesitated and said, "That's the emperor's messenger, how can we stop him?"

The door is also in a hurry.

Why don't the two brothers even out their tempers?One impeached Shang Shu without making a sound, and the other just smeared it like that, and couldn't stop anyone - even if you think that the emperor can't stop you, you're not afraid that you won't be able to stop this imperial censor, the old man will be annoyed what!

That door persuaded Uncle Huan with all kinds of talk, and sent some family members to Fuchengmen and Xizhimen to stop them, but they didn't know that the Huanling people were already in the Song family, borrowing money and clothes from Song Juren and Song family brothers, and had no intention of going back. Pack your bags at home.

He himself didn't expect this book to be published, but the Holy Majesty did not let Ma Shangshu defend himself, and made a judgment without waiting for three or five rounds of quarreling with the court officials, and he insisted on investigating it to the end.

However, as soon as the imperial decree came out, he immediately understood the meaning.

Over the years, Ma Shangshu has manipulated the appointment and dismissal of the army, the money and food of the military department are unclear, and even the behavior of manipulating the prince's selection of concubines has touched the bottom line of the emperor.

Their Huan family...using him this time is not only to trust him, but also to check and balance their Huan family and Ma family. They want to dismantle these two families that are naturally used by the King of Zhou, and prevent the two families from uniting to control the government.But no matter what the holy intention is, he went out of Beijing to investigate the case this time only for the benefit of the Holy Majesty, the imperial court, border guards and hundreds of millions of people.

He bowed to the Song family father and son, and thanked him: "If it weren't for the help of Shibo and elder brother, it would be difficult for me to prepare the household items for leaving Beijing so quickly this time, and I don't know where to hire a carriage."

Song Juren was about to leave when he saw him, but he was more sad than him. He blinked his old eyes and said, "Why are you being polite to your uncle and brothers? Don't talk about how you helped us in Fujian back then. My son knocked his head on the ground, we are a family, my son travels thousands of miles, how can father and brother not prepare things for you?"

He was reluctant to leave Huan Ling, but also a little proud, and said with a smile: "Go, go, I will join the General Administration Department later, and when I meet the Councilor, I will speak for you."

Huan Ling smiled and replied: "Thank you very much, Uncle. Don't worry, Uncle, my uncle has a good temperament, and like Uncle, he is a kind and friendly person. When my grandfather was young, he didn't admire glory and benefit, and he was good at supporting the younger generation. It was just his age. When I grow up, and after the pain of losing a son in my later years, I changed my temper..."

If his father hadn't died early, his uncle was from a top-ranked family, and his children couldn't see their future at that time, his grandfather wouldn't have changed his temper in a hurry and valued power so much.

However, to the Song family, these explanations were meaningless, so he shook his head and said, "I went in a hurry this time, and I didn't have time to enter the Song family's ancestral hall. It's a pity."

Song Juren was still immersed in the sadness of parting, and he was even more choked up hearing his words, unable to speak.Brother Song, on the other hand, was more calm, and instead persuaded him: "You are in the middle of the capital, and we won't be able to wait for our family's mourning hall to move over in a while. It's better to work at the border with peace of mind. When you come back, my family will also move here. Let's Wouldn't it be happier if the whole family was reunited?"

The second elder brother Song Yun joked, "If you come back this trip and get the emperor's commendation and enter the ancestral hall with the imperial decree, my ancestors will also be honored, won't they?"

This was so encouraging that Song Juren also wiped the corners of his eyes and showed a smile: "That's right, this imperial envoy is not something ordinary people do. You are doing a good job. My old man will take the three of his brothers out of the city." Ten miles to welcome you, so that everyone in Beijing will know that my Song family nephew with a different surname is an admonishing minister who has won the emperor's commendation!"

Huan Ling fulfilled their expectations one by one, and sighed with a smile: "It's a pity that we can't wait for Shiguan'er to come back. Song Shibo, Brother Xiao, and Second Brother Yun are about to leave. I have entrusted Shiguan with family matters." Son, he has you to take care of him, I don't have to worry about anything else, but I have to ask Song Shibo to take care of one thing first."

what's up?

Song Juren had never seen him beg for anyone, so he patted his chest and said, "Our uncle and nephew are as affectionate as our own. Just say it, why bother to mention the word 'Target'."

Huan Ling made a deep salute and said: "I know that Shi Guan'er got three yuan in the examination, and he is very famous in the world. Many people beg him to be his wife. But I have a good marriage with Shi Guan'er. Whether it succeeds or not, can I ask Uncle Song and the elders will allow me to marry Shi Guaner when I come back for a few months?"