Chapter 795 There is no simple and pure happiness anymore
Chapter 794 There is no more simple and pure happiness
Qin Zhongtang arrived in a hurry and was relaxed and happy, but left in a daze and doubting life. He never imagined that Yan Shifan's bottom line could be so low.
Yan Shifan in history was famously unruly and unruly, a figure that even the King of Heaven and I could not accept. Who changed Yan Shifan in this time and space into this?
To be honest, if the person who did this was Mr. Yan Song, he would be more reasonable than Yan Shifan! After all, after Xia Yan's restoration in history, Yan Song had begged for mercy from Xia Yan.
Moreover, Qin Zhongtang knew very well that Yan Shifan must still have malicious intentions towards him, and he definitely did not really worship him.
But Yan Shifan knelt down in public, not in private without the witness of others, but in front of Gan Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and others, he knelt down in public!
According to the rules of the officialdom, if Yan Shifan openly knelt down and surrendered, as long as there was no personal hatred of life and death, such as killing his father and seizing his wife, Qin Zhongtang should have stopped.
If you continue to engage in people under such circumstances, it is a political pursuit that is despised by others. This was something that Yan Song would only do in the original historical time and space, and then Yan Song became one of the most famous traitors in history.
After coming out of the Ministry of Industry, Qin Zhongtang's enthusiasm was waning. Although he had achieved his goal of fighting for power, why couldn't he be happy?
Just like that, Qin Dewei returned home in a melancholy manner. Qin Dewei didn't even ask who was visiting, and just walked to the inner courtyard with his head buried in his head.
Then he was stopped by Zhang San, the concierge, and reported: "Today someone came to visit with an autographed letter from Mr. Feng En. He has been asked to wait in the outer study."
Master Feng's handwritten letter was of great importance to Qin Dewei, so Zhang San would specifically remind him.
Although Qin Zhongtang was not in the mood to see guests, he turned around and went to the outer study after hearing Zhang San's report.
After entering the study room, I discovered that the visitor was none other than Xu Jie, one of the four key members of the East Palace official family who visited Hua in the second year of Jiajing's reign.
No wonder there is a personal letter from Mr. Feng. After all, they are both big landowners in Songjiang Prefecture, so it is normal for them to have a deep friendship.
As for the purpose of Xu Jie's visit, he knew without asking that he must have come to seek help.
There have been so many rumors in the past two days, and anyone who is not a fool knows that the official family of the East Palace are going to be in trouble, especially the key figures who participated in the joint campaign.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the characters in the East Palace seek help from others, but what makes Qin Zhongtang puzzled is why Master Feng's letter was so timely?
In fact, there is nothing else in Mr. Feng's autographed letter, except to help Xu Jie intercede and ask Qin Zhongtang to help Xu Jie.
But now Mr. Feng has been thrown into charge of the Shipping Department in Zhejiang, which is three thousand miles away from the capital.
The joint letter to the East Palace was just two days ago. How did Mr. Feng deliver the letter asking for help to Xu Jie in time despite a distance of three thousand miles?
Xu Jie answered honestly: "Three months ago, I wrote to Brother Feng Nanjiang to inquire about the East Palace."
Phew! Qin Dewei laughed out loud unkindly.
Interrupted by the laughter of the superior, Xu Jie could only stop politely and wait for Qin Zhongtang's instructions.
Qin Dewei waved his hand and said: "I didn't expect that Mr. Feng would be asked about the temple in a serious way. It really makes me laugh! Keep talking."
Xu Jie finally understood who Feng En was practicing his good stick for, but he was a little envious of Feng En. In this world, there are not many people who dare to verbally threaten Qin Zhongtang.
Then he continued to answer: "Brother Feng pointed out that Qin Zhongtang intends to avoid the East Palace, so it can be concluded that there must be disaster in the East Palace!
Then Brother Feng attached another letter, which is the one in Qin Zhongtang's hand. He said that he had prepared a letter of pleading in advance. If something happens to the East Palace, he would ask me to take the letter and go to the Qin Mansion to ask for help."
Qin Dewei: "."
I can’t tell that Mr. Feng has also made progress. He has actually learned to predict and make arrangements in advance.
Then Qin Dewei sighed. As the saying goes, people can't help themselves in the officialdom. There are too many human factors that tie him down. For example, Mr. Feng's face is not good at the moment.
It must be Xu Jie. In history, Mr. Yan Ge was already very tolerant, but Xu Jie was even more tolerant than Mr. Yan Ge.
Even the time traveler Qin Zhongtang couldn't tell what Xu Jie was thinking at this moment. He couldn't tell whether Xu Jie would be grateful to him if he helped.
At this time, Qin Zhongtang recalled Xu Jie in history, and it seemed that he was not affected by the East Palace incident.
In the original historical time and space, Xia Yan was still the chief assistant at this time. It should be Xia Yan who was closely related to the scholars of Songjiang Prefecture and took action to protect Xu Jie.
But in this time and space, Xu Jie found himself through Master Feng.
Qin Dewei thought about it and responded: "To be honest, the emperor was very angry and regarded the behavior of the officials in the East Palace as forcing him to enter the palace!
Even the favored alchemist Duan Chaoyong was directly imprisoned because of suspicion, so the officials of the East Palace are destined to have a catastrophe."
Before he could finish speaking, Xu Jie shrank down and in front of all the guests of the Qin Mansion, he knelt down and saluted Qin Dewei and said, "For the sake of Brother Feng's plea, please save me in the middle hall!"
Qin Dewei was speechless for a long time. Is it true that soft knees are popular today? How come you, Xu Jie, are like Yan Shifan, kneeling down when you ask him to?
"It's not that I won't save you. The few people who took the lead in signing the petition have already been engraved in the emperor's heart, and I'm not sure." Qin Dewei explained.
Xu Jie raised his head and replied: "But I didn't participate in the joint signature!"
Qin Dewei: "."
You haven’t participated in the joint forced-to-be-extraction campaign, so why are you asking for help?
Also, aren't you, Xu Jie, one of the four backbones of Zhan Shifu? Why didn't you participate in the joint name?
Xu Jie replied: "I am in Zhan Shifu and I am afraid that I will be implicated. Otherwise, I would not dare to embarrass Qin Zhongtang!"
Qin Dewei finally understood that if Xu Jie did not participate in the joint petition, it would be easy to save him, and he would have no excuse to express embarrassment.
Moreover, with Xu Jie kneeling down and giving up his dignity, Qin Zhongtang would have no choice but to save him.
When thinking of this, Qin Dewei suddenly realized that among the four key members of the Zhanshifu in history, Luo Hongxian, Tang Shunzhi, and Zhao Shichun were all purged. Only Xu Jie survived, and his official career was not affected at all, and even went up to the next level.
Floors.
It wasn't just Xia Yan's help, but also Xu Jie's own "efforts".
Moreover, when others are already dead, doesn't it make Xu Jie more "unsullied"? No wonder Emperor Jiajing began to admire Xu Jie from then on, and until his death, Xu Jie's favor never faded.
After sending Xu Jie away, Qin Dewei asked the commander, Ma Er, "Master, why do I feel less happy today than before?"
After Ma Er thought deeply, "Maybe the master's status is too high today. No one dares to despise the master. Everyone has to deal with the master in every possible way, so there is no sense of pleasure in suppressing the desire to promote, let alone pretending to be a pig."
Tiger’s fun.”
Then Ma Er asked again: "Master, do you want to go back to the humble past just for a little bit of the process of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger, or suppressing the desire to be strong first?"
Qin Zhongtang replied without hesitation: "No! I'm already drunk and lying on the lap of a beautiful woman, and I've woken up to hold the power of the world. Who wants to play the low-level fun of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"
On a very unhappy day when Qin Zhongtang was being knelt down and down, there were also many people who were unhappy.
While Lord Guo Xun and Lord Guo were running around looking for new "financing" to save Duan Chaoyong's failing project, Lu Bing was not idle either and came to Jinyiwei Prison to observe the interrogation.
The emperor handed Duan Chaoyong over to Eunuch Qin for interrogation. Eunuch Qin's status was too high, so he handed Duan Chaoyong over to Xu Miaojing for direct handling.
Although Lu Bing was excluded from the interrogation work, as Lu Bing's identity, he could not be stopped from coming to observe.
This was the third day of interrogation, and Xu Miaojing didn't have any new tricks. She just asked a few commonplace questions.
To the ears of the clerk, I just felt that Commander Xu's interrogation was too perfunctory, and I don't know what the hell was going on. Or maybe Commander Xu was young and inexperienced and didn't know how to interrogate.
Duan Chaoyong was able to fool Emperor Jiajing, and his eloquence was good. He easily answered the questions he was asked one by one:
"All of Pindao's advice is only for the emperor's longevity, and he has no intention of supporting the prince to supervise the country! What Pindao has learned in his life can only be effective with the emperor, so how can he support the prince!"
"It is absolutely impossible for Pindao to collude with ministers! Maybe Pindao has some contacts with individual ministers, but this kind of relationship is similar to the relationship between Tao Tao and Qin Zhongtang!
If Qin Zhongtang and Taoist Master Tao are both innocent, how can I have any objections?"
Lu Bing said he was observing, but actually he came with the intention of monitoring, to prevent Duan Chaoyong from causing any problems during the interrogation. After all, Jin Yiwei's questioning habits were too dark.
But as he listened, Commander Lu was attracted by Duan Chaoyong's defense, and felt that he was another person worth learning from.
My biggest problem at the moment is actually my poor speaking skills, which has caused me to repeatedly lose points. So from now on, my top priority is to seize every opportunity to learn and improve.
But speaking of it, Xu Miaojing is even more unbearable than herself! Listen to what Xu Miaojing said during the interrogation, what the hell is that!
When thinking of this, Commander Lu finally felt that he was a little ahead of Xu Miaojing in some aspects.
I couldn't help but want to give Xu Miaojing a few words of advice in public, so as to appear more mature and more qualified than Xu Miaojing as a senior Jinyiwei executive.
Then Commander Lu thought that he could do it, so he stood next to the public case and called out: "Brother Xu!"
Xu Miaojing didn't seem to hear Lu Bing's call. Instead, she yawned and said boredly: "Duan Chaoyong, please continue talking about how to make fake immortal weapons to deceive the emperor?"
As soon as he said this, everyone in the execution hall was shocked. Everyone had never heard of this situation before.
Duan Chaoyong reacted quickly and denied it flatly: "This is absolutely not the case!"
Xu Miaojing stood up and said impatiently: "Come on, your apprentice Wang Ziyan has already done it!
You first colluded with Guo Xun and obtained tens of thousands of taels of silver from Guo Xun, then used the silver to refine weapons, pretended to be immortal weapons, and presented them to the emperor in the hope of gaining divine favor!"
Duan Chaoyong became a little anxious and said quickly: "This is a false accusation."
Xu Miaojing waved her hand and signaled the official school to pull Duan Chaoyong down, saying: "There is no shortage of witnesses and material evidence. It doesn't matter whether Duan Chaoyong uses his tactics or not. Let's go!"
Then Xu Miaojing remembered something and turned to Lu Bing and asked, "Brother Lu seems to have something to say to me?"
Lu Bing replied: "No more."
Xu Miaojing smiled slightly, "Duan Chaoyong was recommended to the emperor by Guo Xun. This time, Lord Guo is afraid that he will not be able to escape the blame."
Commander Lu's mind suddenly turned upside down. Guo Xun was his mentor in recent months and had been guiding him on how to expand his power and deal with his opponents. Is it going to end?
Xu Miaojing smiled slightly again and said meaningfully: "But after the guilty Marquis Guo was sent to prison, who interceded with the emperor and was released without guilt?
So Brother Lu, don’t think about Lord Guo, but think more about yourself! Brother Lu helped Guo Xun to be exonerated before, who can help Brother Lu to exonerate him this time?"
For the first time, Lu Bing felt that he was in danger.
Eunuch Qin, who was the eunuch Bingbi and the superintendent of the East Factory at that time, did not live in the direct room in the palace, but took leave to stay in an outhouse outside Xi'an Gate.
Xu Miaojing came in as scheduled and reported to Eunuch Qin: "I have already hinted to Lu Bing. If nothing else happens, Lu Bing will definitely come to the factory to beg for mercy! Either tonight or tomorrow!"
Eunuch Qin nodded and said, "Very good, just wait for him tonight."
But the two of them waited until midnight, and did not wait for Commander Lu to come. Xu Miaojing asked doubtfully: "Is it possible that Lu Bing is thinking of going to Dongchang tomorrow to beg for mercy?"
But Eunuch Qin, who has always been calculating and shrewd, couldn’t figure it out, “It shouldn’t be, with Lu Bing’s character, how could he publicly beg for mercy?
Even if he begs for mercy, he must do it in private, that's his style, I really don't know what the problem is?"
Just when Eunuch Qin and Commander Xu were losing their patience, suddenly the disciple came over to report: "Commander Xu's family came to report that Lu Bing went to the Qin Mansion! That Qin Mansion in Wugong Alley!"
Eunuch Qin: "."
Could it be that Lu Bing was really begging for mercy and just went to Qin Dewei? Is Lu Bing stupid for riding a horse?
Then Eunuch Qin turned to Xu Miaojing and said angrily: "What on earth did you imply?"
Xu Miaojing replied blankly: "I just followed the instructions of the factory owner and asked Lu Bing to think carefully about who to find to get rid of the crime."
So the consequence that Lu Bing has thought deeply about is that he can only save himself by trusting Qin Dewei? He is even more reliable than his immediate boss, Admiral Dongchang?
Eunuch Qin couldn't understand this! How did Lu Bing get his brain? Why did he think Qin Dewei could handle things better?
And Qin Zhongtang stood in the hallway, watching Lu Bing who didn't go home in the middle of the night, secretly came to the Qin Mansion, and then knelt in front of him, he couldn't understand it even more!
Who can bear the third kneeling in one day?
If Emperor Jiajing found out that Lu Bing knelt down and refused to help him find the stairs, what would the emperor think?
What makes Qin Zhongtang's toothache even more is that although Yan Shifan, Xu Jie and Lu Bing have different situations, they have one thing in common, that is, none of them are sincere!
But for various reasons, I still have to wear a mask and pretend to accept it, which is really ruining my life!
When people are at high places, they have more and more things to take into consideration, and there is no more simple and pure happiness!
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