Pei Gonggui
Chapter 46 The crime 4 · Persecution
In the middle of spring, peaches and apricots are half in bloom in Beijing, and the breeze is fragrant.The sedan chair entered South Street Avenue, and Pei Jun directed the bearers to go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He saw tourists and vendors bustling along the way, full of bustle and noise.
All the way outside the Ministry of Punishment, the bearer had already told pedestrians to give way many times, stopped the sedan chair, and saw that the gate was being guarded by a group of people gathered in front of the stone wall to read the imperial list, so he couldn't help but chased them away again. Pei Jun comes down.
The ceremonial staff who read the list at the side of the imperial list saw that the person getting off the sedan chair was Mr. Pei, the head of the Ministry of the Academy, and hurried over to say hello.
Pei Jun asked, "What list?"
The ceremonial officer said vigorously: "My lord, this is the first list issued by the court for the new policy." After finishing speaking, seeing Pei Junli briefly read the list in place, he nodded, and ordered Li to go back again, and continued to read out in a drawn-out voice:
"—From now on, the imperial court will clarify the administration of officials, put an end to indiscriminate entry, strictly enforce trade routes, and control salt and iron..."
As soon as Pei Jun stepped into the gate of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the people behind him gradually cheered up: "Okay!" If bad officials and profiteers take a good fight, the world will be better!" "Yes, yes..."
Pei Jun stopped for a while, turned his head and glanced at the crowd who were eagerly discussing the papers behind him, fell silent for a while, and then walked into the courtyard amidst the respectful invitations of the servants of the Ministry of Punishment.
Cui Yu also just arrived and is assigning official duties in the main hall.Pei Jun didn't bother him, just nodded with him first, and then walked to the inner class prison familiarly.Unexpectedly, just two steps into the classroom, there was a "squeak" at his feet, and when he looked down, it was a gray and black rat flying past, and he couldn't help frowning and said: "A few years ago, it was said that it would be repaired and exterminated. Didn’t your lords hand over the paperwork to the cabinet? Why, the cabinet didn’t approve it?”
"Responding to my lord's words, this matter of repairing prisons for prisoners...the superiors naturally didn't approve it, saying that there is no such spare money." The jailer sighed softly, and led him to the cell where Pei Yan was in, and smacked for a while. He said again: "It can be said that the national treasury has no money. How did you hear that... the class room of Dali Temple has been repaired again? Several pieces of pillars on the gate of the prison have been replaced, and the mud floor has been re-paved, so you have to ask for money. ? Even the desks and chairs of the Yushitai are new..."
Xu Xu was talking, and the two walked outside Pei Yan's cell.Pei Yan is sleeping on the stone bed, the quilt on her body is different from the one Pei Jun saw when she came back, it seems to be thinner, it has become a satin cover with small flowers, quite like that used by girls in boudoirs.A non-smoking oil lamp was placed on the table, shining brightly. Because the weather was warm, there was no copper basin with charcoal fire on the ground, but there were two brand new wooden basins, which were obviously used for fetching water for washing.
The jailer opened the cell door, Pei Jun thanked him with money, walked in, and saw Pei Yan wake up.
Pei Yan opened her eyes in a daze on the pillow, and was slightly taken aback when she saw Pei Jun, but she didn't get up immediately, and asked in a hoarse voice: "What time is it?"
Pei Jun pulled up a chair and sat down beside her bed: "It's almost time for lunch." He looked at her as he spoke, "Did you sleep well at night?"
Pei Yan stood up, nodded and said: "It's been difficult to sleep these few days. First, the weather is warm and there are mice crawling, and two more death row prisoners came the day before yesterday. They said they were wronged, and they cried for two days and two nights without stopping... It seems that I went out to be interrogated early this morning, and it was finally quiet for a while, so I hurried to sleep for a while."
Pei Jun helped her to sit up, and said softly: "Then I'll ask Lao Cui to change it for you later—"
"Don't, don't, don't." Pei Yan quickly grabbed his arm, thought for a moment, then sighed, "What a trouble."
With this pull, Pei Jun suddenly saw two newly added red scars on the back of her hand. He held it up and looked, his long eyebrows furrowed: "You were bitten by a mouse? Did you apply any medicine?"
"...How do you know it was bitten by a mouse?" Pei Yan pulled her hands back and looked at him, and seeing that he didn't answer, she raised her chin towards the table, "Mei Liu came here before and brought a lot of medicine, which has been given to me painted over."
Pei Jun turned his head according to his words, and saw that there was indeed a wooden box on the stool beside the table.He got up to find the medicine from the wooden box, lifted the lid and sat back beside Pei Yan's bed, took Pei Yan's hand, dug out some ointment and applied it to her: "It doesn't count if you have applied it. It needs to be patched up, and it can’t be broken until the scar disappears, otherwise the disease that should have occurred will recur, and it will not be cured at that time, I’m afraid the whole hand will rot, and I can’t even hold things.”
Pei Yan originally wanted to say that she should apply it herself, but her hands trembled when she heard the last sentence, and she fell silent for a while, and she only let Pei Jun apply the medicine, and finally looked at him softly and asked, "You also Come out of the Forbidden Garden, why don't you rest for two more days and come back again?"
"You think nothing will happen if you see me?" Pei Jun covered the medicine bottle and held it in his hand, looked at her with a smile and sighed, "I would like to take a rest too, but the Cai family has nothing to do with it anymore. Well. They urged Sejong Pavilion to ask for your case, and the emperor agreed this morning. Most of the Jinwang’s place will not be easy to delay. I’m afraid your case will be moved out for public trial in the next few days. You have to have it in mind prepare."
"What happens if you move it out?" Pei Yan asked.
Pei Jun covered her lower abdomen with the quilt on her legs: "Remove it out, which means that the clan has sentenced you, and they will let go of this case, and they will not be able to participate in the trial of your case in the future. All related matters are decided by the third division. And the third division does not need to look at the face of the clan anymore, because with your avoidance, it is estimated that the Jiang family will divorce you from King Rui, so that you will no longer It's a widow left by the emperor's relatives, but just a commoner. If King Jin helps Sejong Pavilion, and consider me as a young Fu when discussing matters, I won't dare to punish you for other crimes... After all The death of King Rui has been handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for investigation, so no matter what the sentence is, it will no longer be under their control, and they can't embarrass you."
Pei Yan seemed relieved, but she mentioned it again when she was young: "But if I am already a commoner, will I not be able to see Xuan'er again in the future? If they—"
"That's another story." Pei Jun interrupted her, "The important thing now is that you get out of the crime first."
Pei Yan nodded after hearing this, and asked: "You said just now that I need to make preparations, what kind of preparations?"
Pei Jun thought for a while, then looked at her seriously: "Pei Yan, what I'm going to say now, you have to remember it carefully in the future."
Pei Yan hurriedly sat up straighter and leaned forward slightly: "Okay, tell me."
Pei Jun lowered his voice and said: "Although the case has entered a public trial, on the surface it is for the third division to try for the public, but in private everyone knows that the surname of the Ministry of Justice is Pei, the surname of Dali Temple is Cai, the surname of Yushitai is Zhang, and the surname of Rui Wang's death has something to do with the Cai family, and the Cai family wants you to be the scapegoat. At the same time, the Zhang family wants to get rid of me, and I want to save you at all costs. They all have selfish intentions. Not to mention that the story of King Rui beating you before his death has spread to the public. This is a loss of face for the royal family. Most of the Jiang family's clan also want to prove that you are a liar, so that they can refute the rumors and preserve the dignity of the royal family .
"So apart from me, these three parties all want you dead, and none of them can be trusted.
"When your case reaches the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it will be interrogated by the three divisions first, and then the evidence will be presented one by one. You have to be prepared that although the Ministry of Criminal Justice will not embarrass you too much, the officials from Yushitai and Dali Temple will But people are very likely to make false accusations against you. They may falsely testify that you have had an affair with others, that you were unfaithful to King Rui, and even suspect that Xuaner is not King Rui’s own flesh and blood, saying that he is a bastard born of you and outsiders. They will Attack you with the most vicious words, make you miserable, angry, fearful, and make you lose your cool They want me to lose control of the six departments, so as to stir up everything into a pot of muddy water and pull me down... Of course, they will even use things to coerce you, make you worry, or let you spend a few days Sleepless nights, delirious, and then put doctored paperwork in front of you for you to sign... There are only two things you need to remember about this.
"First of all, if you don't have the three directors, you don't touch anything written in black and white. Even if it's your testimony, if someone reads it to you and asks you to mark it, you must not touch the paper immediately after listening. You can read some words , you must read it a second time. If you don’t understand anything, ask the criminal department to read it for you. After reading it, you can confirm that it is correct before you can draw a charge. Second, I am in everything outside. Xuaner has me, and your case also has it. Me, you only need to take care of yourself inside, and never have any fear in your heart when you are on trial. If you are really worried about saying something wrong, just don’t speak at all—and it’s best not to speak, otherwise it’s extremely difficult for someone above you to make a confession. Possibly. Remember?"
This sentence made Pei Yan startled, she nodded her head quickly, at this time Dai frowned, and asked him calmly: "Then will they torture me?"
Pei Jun said: "As long as you are still in the Ministry of Punishment, you will not. So I must not let the Cai family move you to Dali Temple, otherwise things will be difficult to control."
Pei Yan asked: "Then Ruoruo has moved there? Pei Jun, the Cai family is not a bug that can be slapped away. Just in the past in Prince Rui's Mansion, there was no one in the mansion from the housekeeper to the maidservants." One is not their eyes and ears - even if Jiang Xi lost tens of millions of taels of silver in a bet somewhere the night before, they would be able to find it for him the next morning. How do you know your current arrangement, they don't know anything? "
"It's useless for them to know." Pei Jun patted her arm reassuringly, and advised her not to worry about these things, "Anyway, they are going to be too busy to take care of themselves."
Talking about things in the officialdom is scary, Pei Jun doesn't want to talk too much with Pei Yan anymore.At this moment, he glanced at the cups, pans, and cups in the prison cell, and then at the quilt on Pei Yan's body. He smiled and broke the conversation:
"Did these come from Mei Liu again?"
Pei Yan stared at him wearily: "What do you want to say?"
Pei Jun gradually stopped laughing, looked at her seriously and said: "I just want to say, don't worry about being locked up in prison, you should also think about how you will live after you get out."
He stuffed the medicine bottle in his hand into Pei Yan's pale fingers, wrapped her cold hands with warm palms, rubbed them in one breath, looked up into her eyes and said, "Pei Yan, I know you Marrying King Rui back then was definitely not for the glory and wealth you said... But if there were any difficulties at that time, if you didn't want to talk about it, I wouldn't ask about it. Uncle Dong scolded me last night, saying that we are so born For many years, it was all my fault for trying to save face... I thought about it later, and it was true. I remembered that on Dongshou Road, Xuan'er came to catch me for the first time and said let me save you, if I could shut up at that time Hearing you say a few words, what happened later... must be different."
"Pei Jun..." Pei Yan grabbed his finger with her backhand, her eyes turned slightly red, "It's not your fault. You don't know that I—"
"But I know now." Pei Jun raised his hand to brush the tears from the corners of her eyes, and patted her face, "Okay, don't cry. It doesn't matter in the past. Pei Yan, I will definitely rescue you from prison Yes. When you come out, I will start over with you, okay?"
Pei Yan pulled out her hand, wiped her face with the back of her hand, glared at him red-eyed after choking for a moment: "What's the big deal... I can tell, you're still talking for Mei Linyu."
Pei Jun knew that Pei Yan's temper was not soft, so these words were just used to gag him so that he would not be allowed to make her cry anymore, so he took a deep breath and sighed along with her: "Hey, even if Right. But what’s wrong with Meiliu? It’s because he ran away from home back then that he didn’t have a good time. Now he’s doing well—he has houses and yards, and there are more than a dozen places in the north, south, north, and north waiting for the harvest. There are three or five tea mountains, four or five merchant ships, and there are several buildings in the capital, so which one is not making money every day?"
"It has nothing to do with money and wealth." Pei Yan justly said, "He is five years younger than me, which is not good. I am old, married, and have children, but he is upright and vigorous. 25 years old, a very good age , with his looks and wealth, what kind of lady can't he marry? How can it be worth spending time with an old woman like me?"
Hearing that she called herself an old woman, Pei Jun smiled: "That's because no matter how many ladies there are in the world, the only one he wants to marry is your surname Pei."
After pondering for a moment, he sighed softly, and said slowly: "Sister, tell me, how many people admired you in this capital city before? Let's not talk about princes and nobles, but just talk about my cronies—Mei Liu, Lao Cao, Xiao Lin, even Yan Yuliang and Cui Yu, which one of them never looked at you at home before? But, those who used to guard the door of our house, handed you love letters, wrote bitter poems, and kept swearing that they liked you All your life, people who are not you do not want to marry will still marry wives and have children in groups after ten years, but the only person who has never mentioned to you once to let you follow him is the only one who is silent. Xiang has been waiting for you for ten years. And if there are another ten years, sister, believe me...he will wait."
After hearing what he said, Pei Yan fixed her eyes on the quilt on her lap, and said calmly, "That's him being stupid. Pei Jun, you should persuade him."
"I've been persuading him for many years, how can I persuade him?" Pei Jun said seriously, "Why don't you try it yourself? Stop pretending you don't know."
Pei Yan lowered her eyes, frowned and sighed: "Okay, let's go."
"Yeah, I'm going to drive me away again when I say this." Pei Jun laughed a lot, "Okay, I'll go, can I go?" He really got up as he said this, remembering to report to Pei Yan : "When I go back today, I plan to enlighten Xuan'er. There happens to be a prospective Jinshi at home, and I can teach him to read poems."
When Pei Yan heard about her son, she immediately lifted the quilt to get up from the bed: "But Xuan'er is only six years old, isn't it a little early? I heard that Zaohui is not good—"
"You're really embarrassed to say it." Pei Jun pressed her shoulders and told her not to get up, "Isn't he called Zaohui? You go out and ask, Jiang Xuan looks like he is six years old, maybe he is six years old. A hundred-year-old little goblin is the real one. He has tossed a whole family around him all day long, and now there is an extra dog. Not only does he send me as an uncle, but even Uncle Dong is exhausted. It’s still early Press him to study, or he will have to go to the house to expose the tiles." As he spoke, he also persuaded: "You should think about him more on weekdays, and don't worry about it if you have nothing to do. When he can write ghost symbols, I will Bring them all for you to see."
After finishing speaking, seeing Pei Yan nod her head, she told her both to take care of her, and left the punishment room.
After getting into the sedan chair, Pei Jun was concerned about Pei Yan's safety, and recalled the upcoming fraud case in his memory, thinking about it with the affairs at hand, and hurried to the Ministry of Rites.
As the sedan chair passed through the market, the emperor's list promulgating the New Deal was also pasted on the wooden railing. It was bright yellow in color and stood out from the crowd.At the intersection in front of the list, several artists sang the joint drum loudly, attracting passers-by to stop and watch, those who didn’t understand still clapped their hands and applauded, and many of them watched the excitement and sang along. Street; even beggars on the street corner, when they heard a sound, they knocked on broken bowls, jingling to the beat of the drums, noisy and indistinguishable.
Pei Jun opened the window and took a look, then lowered the curtain amidst the hustle and bustle of all living beings, sighed alone in the sedan chair, and told the bearer:
"Go faster."
Three days later, Chaozhong ordered the chief and deputy examiners and review officials at all levels of the new subject to be graded.Pei Jun was also very busy. First, he supervised and cleared the scrolls, and then ordered the scribes who transcribed the examinees' scrolls and the interrogators who proofread the transcripts from the Transcript Institute under the Ministry of Rites, and sent the list to Yushitai for inspection. , was rejected five or six times before finally passing.At this point, everything is ready, just wait a few days before entering the Hanlin Academy, and go to Huiwen Hall to concentrate on marking papers.
This time, he was locked up for several days, which made Pei Jun feel a little worried.Watching Jiang Xuan reciting poems at night, he called Qian Haiqing and asked, "Why hasn't Li Zhizhou, who is going to sue the Tang family, entered the capital yet? How long have you been waiting? Could it be that the lawsuit has been suspended?"
Intercepting a lawsuit refers specifically to the event that a person who has leapfrogged to the court is intercepted by government officials to quell the lawsuit. In addition, because the intercepted person is often in danger of life, there is also a homonym for "robbing the lawsuit".Pei Jun was afraid that Li Zhizhou, who was carrying a huge case, would be stopped by the local government before he could go to Beijing to appeal, and he would be turned off halfway, so that he would not be able to sue the Tang family or move the Cai family, and would instead scare the snake away.
But Qian Haiqing said: "It's fine if Mr. Pei doesn't believe me, but can't even Mr. Cao believe it? The letter inviting Li Zhizhou to Beijing was sent by Mr. Cao, and Mr. Cao also said that he will be protected." Li Zhizhou arrived in Beijing safely, I have already reassured you. It is not easy for Kuangnan to go to Beijing, and the road is far away, and it is possible to delay for more than half a month."
"Then it should be here soon." Pei Jun trusted Cao Luan, so he made up his mind and nodded, "If I'm still in Hanlin and haven't returned when the person arrives, you can ask Mr. Cao to take him to Master Mei's building first." Stay here, take good care of yourself, and don't touch outsiders, so as not to be noticed by the Cai family."
"Okay, the students know." Qian Haiqing responded, then thought for a while, and looked at Pei Jun with a smile, "Master Pei, are you teaching students how to do things?"
Pei Jun said indifferently: "Of course it doesn't count. I am ordering you to do something." As he spoke, he nodded the account book that Qian Haiqing had just sent, "You are still receiving your monthly salary from me. Let me ask, is there anyone in the world?" Which master is going to force the students to pay money in order to beg the students to listen to the teaching?"
Qian Haiqing stuck out his tongue, knowing that he couldn't say anything about him, so he didn't mention it, he just pointed to the account book and said back to business: "My lord asked me to settle the accounts of the mansion, and I will forget it. Now the servants of the mansion The bills are all cleared, but there are a few that are not well-off. Those whose husbands are in debt, and those whose mothers are dying, most of them need money, so they don’t have much.”
"Go and ask how much you need, and ask Uncle Dong to pay them." Pei Jun closed the account, took a sip of the tea in hand, and saw that Jiang Xuan beside him had stopped reciting poems, and was looking at it with his round black eyes curiously. They seemed to be listening attentively to what they had to say, so they couldn't help being happy.
"What are you looking at? Little man, you don't understand." Pei Jun pushed the poem towards him, "Quickly memorize it, uncle will teach you to write it tomorrow, and show it to your mother when you finish it. "
Jiang Xuan scratched his scalp and looked back at the book, and made a face at Pei Jun.
Seeing this, Qian Haiqing laughed, took the penny on the table, and was about to write on the account after dipping it in ink.
"What are you writing?" Pei Jun asked.
Qian Haiqing said: "Now I have advanced the money from the treasury to the servants, so naturally I have to write it down, and I will deduct it back month by month."
After hearing this, Pei Jun put down the tea in his hand: "That's unnecessary. A few dozen taels of silver is nothing in the mansion, but it's life-saving to them, so it should be rewarded."
Qian Haiqing was stunned when he heard that, and slightly moved: "Master Pei, you really..."
"You only go to reward in private, don't make it known to everyone, and don't say I gave it." Pei Jun frowned and interrupted him, raised his hand to touch Jiang Xuan's head beside him, and sighed softly, " The human heart in the world is the most unpredictable. Those who do not get good will easily feel injustice and feel neglected; those who are helped will have low self-esteem and feel inferior. If the two phases know the situation, they will have high eyebrows and cold eyes in the future It may be hard to tell, but if you go to one place to do things like this, your mind will be different.”
Qian Haiqing listened attentively, and asked slowly, "Is it the same among officials?"
Pei Jun raised his eyebrows and asked back, "What do you think?"
Qian Haiqing silently felt that it was natural, and after thinking about it, he asked Pei Jun solemnly: "Are you teaching me how to deal with things, my lord?"
Pei Jun shook his head innocently: "It doesn't count." As he said that, he pinched Jiang Xuan's small face beside him, "I am teaching children how to be the head of the family. What does it have to do with you?"
"..." The money accountant who was ruled by the head of the family lamented and put away the account book, took his leave, and stomped out of the study.
Pei Jun smiled lightly as he watched behind him, and shook his head. When he was young, he suddenly heard a report from Liu Jin, saying that someone from the Jin Palace had sent documents.
Pei Jun immediately said: "Hurry up, bring it in."
After saying that, he got up, stood by the door and looked towards the corridor in the courtyard. After a while, he saw a short figure led by Liu Jin, hurrying towards with a wooden box in his arms.
Pei Jun groped in his pocket and took out three or five pieces of silver. He felt that it was not enough, so he went back to the desk, opened the porcelain box next to the inkstone, and took out a golden lion pen holder the size of a little finger. He was holding it, waiting to deliver something. When the person came into the room, he rewarded him casually and said a word of hard work.
Jiang Xuan called from the side: "Uncle, I also want a little lion."
Pei Jun said very perfunctorily: "No, just this one, it's all for your uncle."
Under Jiang Xuan's angry eyes, he happily opened the wooden box that was delivered, and saw a few volumes of documents in it.The first two are the case files of the Pei Yan case released by His Excellency Sejong. They should be the same as the ones that will be sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice the next morning. Among them, the judgments are very careful, and many of the Zhu criticisms have the word "Jin" printed.
Pei Jun glanced through it first, and then skipped to the end. He saw that Pei Yan was sentenced to retire from the royal family and demoted to a commoner, and the rest of the case was related to the death of King Rui, so under Jiang Yue's guidance, he was no longer sentenced by the third division. Add more knives and axes before.
Pei Jun's lips twitched slightly when he saw this, and he was grateful to Jiang Yue in his heart, but when he couldn't wait to pick up the third volume of documents, the smile on his face froze.
I saw the cover page of this document read: "Compilation of all things in the Ziwu of Taipingguo Temple."
When he opened it, there was a familiar and solemn handwriting in the middle of the title page: Jiang Yue would like to record it.
Turning back, the text is indeed the various causes and consequences of Taiping's implementation of Siziwu's policy, the reactions of the government and the people, the response to some incidents, and the follow-up assessment.There are a lot of letterheads in it, and there are many additions and deletions. Not only the implementation rules of the temple house are listed one by one, but also many national conditions and customs of Taiping are included, which seems to be convenient for viewers to compare them with the situation in the court and China in real time.
Pei Jun frowned, closed the booklet, and looked at the wooden box on the table, but saw that there was not even a letter in that box, so he couldn't help asking the sender: "Did Prince Jin send the letter? "
The messenger shook his head: "My lord, no."
"Did he ever say anything?"
The messenger shook his head again: "My lord, no."
Just when Pei Jun frowned impatiently and stared at the Chinese book in his hand again, the messenger who stood outside the door walked halfway and suddenly turned back, "Oh" and said:
"Pei, Mr. Pei, our lord seems to have... said something, but it doesn't seem to be what he asked to take."
Pei Jun quickly took out another little golden lion from the porcelain box: "What are you talking about? Think about it quickly."
The messenger stared at the gold in Pei Jun's hand, scratched his ear and scratched his cheek, and finally realized: "...Oh! The prince gave the things to the little one just now, looked up at the moon, and said... fascinated... fascinated cloud……"
At this time, Jiang Xuan over there was restless again: "Uncle is lying! There is obviously a little lion! I want it too!"
"Xuan'er, don't make trouble." Pei Jun walked up to the messenger in annoyance, stuffed the little golden lion into his hand, leaned slightly to get close to him, and said with a serious face: "Think about it, what is it? "
As soon as his face became serious, he seemed to be bluffing, and the messenger who sent the letter was so frightened that he finally shook his head and said: "Mimi-mi... the misty clouds will finally dissipate, and the moonlight is shining! That's right, the prince is Think so!"
——The misty clouds will eventually disperse, and the moonlight will shine...
Pei Jun stood up straight, waved away the messenger in a daze, and was dragged back to the desk noisily by Jiang Xuan, looking at the books on the table, his long eyebrows lightly drawn.
——"Master Pei thinks that the common people in the world need a round of moon?"
He let Jiang Xuan rummage in the already empty porcelain box, picked up the "Siziwu Jilu" on the table again, stroked the satin-mounted outer cover of the book, and frowned as he recalled when Jiang Yue was a teenager. Where did he ask him this question, and what answer did he give Jiang Yue...
Unconsciously flipping through, suddenly, he turned to a page to add, and the words in it fell into his eyes, which shocked him again:
"... If learning is in the government, it will always be in the government and not in the people. The imperial court should donate money to build people's schools, reform private schools, increase courses, so that folk schools can not only teach pen and ink, but also teach skills. , so that all the people in the world will have their own jobs..."
This handwriting is different from other places.This handwriting is no longer clear and sharp, no longer strong and indifferent, but thin, vigorous, like a knife's edge horizontally and vertically, so strange to Pei Jun, yet so familiar.
This was undoubtedly Pei Jun's own handwriting, of course he recognized it.He also knew that this was the remonstrance he had written to the officials at the court meeting when he was 26 years old. Every word and every word was for the purpose of inviting the court to broaden the education of the people and benefit the people, but in the end, it failed.
After the remonstrance was lost and invalidated, he was angry and resentful when he came out of the palace, and immediately smashed the book on the dragon head in front of the imperial steps, and couldn't help cursing: "Nonsense! Damn it!"
He still clearly remembers that when Qingliu and Cai's party walking on the other side cast him a disdainful and ironic look of pity, and when he quarreled with Zhang Ling, he was persuaded by people from the six departments After he took it away, he never knew that this document, which he had regarded as a failure for many years, would be carefully collected and framed, and even made into a collection, until today after he was reborn as a human, This compilation finally had the opportunity to be handed into his hands.
He raised his finger and stroked this page of text that was so old and missing in his memory, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he silently recited Jiang Yue's sentence "Miyun and Yuehua" in his heart, over and over again, suddenly, there was something in his heart. Something seemed to brighten up.
He closed the book in his hand, shook his head amidst the noise of the children beside him, and laughed lightly:
"Jiang Yue, Jiang Yue, you are forcing me to go back..."
All the way outside the Ministry of Punishment, the bearer had already told pedestrians to give way many times, stopped the sedan chair, and saw that the gate was being guarded by a group of people gathered in front of the stone wall to read the imperial list, so he couldn't help but chased them away again. Pei Jun comes down.
The ceremonial staff who read the list at the side of the imperial list saw that the person getting off the sedan chair was Mr. Pei, the head of the Ministry of the Academy, and hurried over to say hello.
Pei Jun asked, "What list?"
The ceremonial officer said vigorously: "My lord, this is the first list issued by the court for the new policy." After finishing speaking, seeing Pei Junli briefly read the list in place, he nodded, and ordered Li to go back again, and continued to read out in a drawn-out voice:
"—From now on, the imperial court will clarify the administration of officials, put an end to indiscriminate entry, strictly enforce trade routes, and control salt and iron..."
As soon as Pei Jun stepped into the gate of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the people behind him gradually cheered up: "Okay!" If bad officials and profiteers take a good fight, the world will be better!" "Yes, yes..."
Pei Jun stopped for a while, turned his head and glanced at the crowd who were eagerly discussing the papers behind him, fell silent for a while, and then walked into the courtyard amidst the respectful invitations of the servants of the Ministry of Punishment.
Cui Yu also just arrived and is assigning official duties in the main hall.Pei Jun didn't bother him, just nodded with him first, and then walked to the inner class prison familiarly.Unexpectedly, just two steps into the classroom, there was a "squeak" at his feet, and when he looked down, it was a gray and black rat flying past, and he couldn't help frowning and said: "A few years ago, it was said that it would be repaired and exterminated. Didn’t your lords hand over the paperwork to the cabinet? Why, the cabinet didn’t approve it?”
"Responding to my lord's words, this matter of repairing prisons for prisoners...the superiors naturally didn't approve it, saying that there is no such spare money." The jailer sighed softly, and led him to the cell where Pei Yan was in, and smacked for a while. He said again: "It can be said that the national treasury has no money. How did you hear that... the class room of Dali Temple has been repaired again? Several pieces of pillars on the gate of the prison have been replaced, and the mud floor has been re-paved, so you have to ask for money. ? Even the desks and chairs of the Yushitai are new..."
Xu Xu was talking, and the two walked outside Pei Yan's cell.Pei Yan is sleeping on the stone bed, the quilt on her body is different from the one Pei Jun saw when she came back, it seems to be thinner, it has become a satin cover with small flowers, quite like that used by girls in boudoirs.A non-smoking oil lamp was placed on the table, shining brightly. Because the weather was warm, there was no copper basin with charcoal fire on the ground, but there were two brand new wooden basins, which were obviously used for fetching water for washing.
The jailer opened the cell door, Pei Jun thanked him with money, walked in, and saw Pei Yan wake up.
Pei Yan opened her eyes in a daze on the pillow, and was slightly taken aback when she saw Pei Jun, but she didn't get up immediately, and asked in a hoarse voice: "What time is it?"
Pei Jun pulled up a chair and sat down beside her bed: "It's almost time for lunch." He looked at her as he spoke, "Did you sleep well at night?"
Pei Yan stood up, nodded and said: "It's been difficult to sleep these few days. First, the weather is warm and there are mice crawling, and two more death row prisoners came the day before yesterday. They said they were wronged, and they cried for two days and two nights without stopping... It seems that I went out to be interrogated early this morning, and it was finally quiet for a while, so I hurried to sleep for a while."
Pei Jun helped her to sit up, and said softly: "Then I'll ask Lao Cui to change it for you later—"
"Don't, don't, don't." Pei Yan quickly grabbed his arm, thought for a moment, then sighed, "What a trouble."
With this pull, Pei Jun suddenly saw two newly added red scars on the back of her hand. He held it up and looked, his long eyebrows furrowed: "You were bitten by a mouse? Did you apply any medicine?"
"...How do you know it was bitten by a mouse?" Pei Yan pulled her hands back and looked at him, and seeing that he didn't answer, she raised her chin towards the table, "Mei Liu came here before and brought a lot of medicine, which has been given to me painted over."
Pei Jun turned his head according to his words, and saw that there was indeed a wooden box on the stool beside the table.He got up to find the medicine from the wooden box, lifted the lid and sat back beside Pei Yan's bed, took Pei Yan's hand, dug out some ointment and applied it to her: "It doesn't count if you have applied it. It needs to be patched up, and it can’t be broken until the scar disappears, otherwise the disease that should have occurred will recur, and it will not be cured at that time, I’m afraid the whole hand will rot, and I can’t even hold things.”
Pei Yan originally wanted to say that she should apply it herself, but her hands trembled when she heard the last sentence, and she fell silent for a while, and she only let Pei Jun apply the medicine, and finally looked at him softly and asked, "You also Come out of the Forbidden Garden, why don't you rest for two more days and come back again?"
"You think nothing will happen if you see me?" Pei Jun covered the medicine bottle and held it in his hand, looked at her with a smile and sighed, "I would like to take a rest too, but the Cai family has nothing to do with it anymore. Well. They urged Sejong Pavilion to ask for your case, and the emperor agreed this morning. Most of the Jinwang’s place will not be easy to delay. I’m afraid your case will be moved out for public trial in the next few days. You have to have it in mind prepare."
"What happens if you move it out?" Pei Yan asked.
Pei Jun covered her lower abdomen with the quilt on her legs: "Remove it out, which means that the clan has sentenced you, and they will let go of this case, and they will not be able to participate in the trial of your case in the future. All related matters are decided by the third division. And the third division does not need to look at the face of the clan anymore, because with your avoidance, it is estimated that the Jiang family will divorce you from King Rui, so that you will no longer It's a widow left by the emperor's relatives, but just a commoner. If King Jin helps Sejong Pavilion, and consider me as a young Fu when discussing matters, I won't dare to punish you for other crimes... After all The death of King Rui has been handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for investigation, so no matter what the sentence is, it will no longer be under their control, and they can't embarrass you."
Pei Yan seemed relieved, but she mentioned it again when she was young: "But if I am already a commoner, will I not be able to see Xuan'er again in the future? If they—"
"That's another story." Pei Jun interrupted her, "The important thing now is that you get out of the crime first."
Pei Yan nodded after hearing this, and asked: "You said just now that I need to make preparations, what kind of preparations?"
Pei Jun thought for a while, then looked at her seriously: "Pei Yan, what I'm going to say now, you have to remember it carefully in the future."
Pei Yan hurriedly sat up straighter and leaned forward slightly: "Okay, tell me."
Pei Jun lowered his voice and said: "Although the case has entered a public trial, on the surface it is for the third division to try for the public, but in private everyone knows that the surname of the Ministry of Justice is Pei, the surname of Dali Temple is Cai, the surname of Yushitai is Zhang, and the surname of Rui Wang's death has something to do with the Cai family, and the Cai family wants you to be the scapegoat. At the same time, the Zhang family wants to get rid of me, and I want to save you at all costs. They all have selfish intentions. Not to mention that the story of King Rui beating you before his death has spread to the public. This is a loss of face for the royal family. Most of the Jiang family's clan also want to prove that you are a liar, so that they can refute the rumors and preserve the dignity of the royal family .
"So apart from me, these three parties all want you dead, and none of them can be trusted.
"When your case reaches the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it will be interrogated by the three divisions first, and then the evidence will be presented one by one. You have to be prepared that although the Ministry of Criminal Justice will not embarrass you too much, the officials from Yushitai and Dali Temple will But people are very likely to make false accusations against you. They may falsely testify that you have had an affair with others, that you were unfaithful to King Rui, and even suspect that Xuaner is not King Rui’s own flesh and blood, saying that he is a bastard born of you and outsiders. They will Attack you with the most vicious words, make you miserable, angry, fearful, and make you lose your cool They want me to lose control of the six departments, so as to stir up everything into a pot of muddy water and pull me down... Of course, they will even use things to coerce you, make you worry, or let you spend a few days Sleepless nights, delirious, and then put doctored paperwork in front of you for you to sign... There are only two things you need to remember about this.
"First of all, if you don't have the three directors, you don't touch anything written in black and white. Even if it's your testimony, if someone reads it to you and asks you to mark it, you must not touch the paper immediately after listening. You can read some words , you must read it a second time. If you don’t understand anything, ask the criminal department to read it for you. After reading it, you can confirm that it is correct before you can draw a charge. Second, I am in everything outside. Xuaner has me, and your case also has it. Me, you only need to take care of yourself inside, and never have any fear in your heart when you are on trial. If you are really worried about saying something wrong, just don’t speak at all—and it’s best not to speak, otherwise it’s extremely difficult for someone above you to make a confession. Possibly. Remember?"
This sentence made Pei Yan startled, she nodded her head quickly, at this time Dai frowned, and asked him calmly: "Then will they torture me?"
Pei Jun said: "As long as you are still in the Ministry of Punishment, you will not. So I must not let the Cai family move you to Dali Temple, otherwise things will be difficult to control."
Pei Yan asked: "Then Ruoruo has moved there? Pei Jun, the Cai family is not a bug that can be slapped away. Just in the past in Prince Rui's Mansion, there was no one in the mansion from the housekeeper to the maidservants." One is not their eyes and ears - even if Jiang Xi lost tens of millions of taels of silver in a bet somewhere the night before, they would be able to find it for him the next morning. How do you know your current arrangement, they don't know anything? "
"It's useless for them to know." Pei Jun patted her arm reassuringly, and advised her not to worry about these things, "Anyway, they are going to be too busy to take care of themselves."
Talking about things in the officialdom is scary, Pei Jun doesn't want to talk too much with Pei Yan anymore.At this moment, he glanced at the cups, pans, and cups in the prison cell, and then at the quilt on Pei Yan's body. He smiled and broke the conversation:
"Did these come from Mei Liu again?"
Pei Yan stared at him wearily: "What do you want to say?"
Pei Jun gradually stopped laughing, looked at her seriously and said: "I just want to say, don't worry about being locked up in prison, you should also think about how you will live after you get out."
He stuffed the medicine bottle in his hand into Pei Yan's pale fingers, wrapped her cold hands with warm palms, rubbed them in one breath, looked up into her eyes and said, "Pei Yan, I know you Marrying King Rui back then was definitely not for the glory and wealth you said... But if there were any difficulties at that time, if you didn't want to talk about it, I wouldn't ask about it. Uncle Dong scolded me last night, saying that we are so born For many years, it was all my fault for trying to save face... I thought about it later, and it was true. I remembered that on Dongshou Road, Xuan'er came to catch me for the first time and said let me save you, if I could shut up at that time Hearing you say a few words, what happened later... must be different."
"Pei Jun..." Pei Yan grabbed his finger with her backhand, her eyes turned slightly red, "It's not your fault. You don't know that I—"
"But I know now." Pei Jun raised his hand to brush the tears from the corners of her eyes, and patted her face, "Okay, don't cry. It doesn't matter in the past. Pei Yan, I will definitely rescue you from prison Yes. When you come out, I will start over with you, okay?"
Pei Yan pulled out her hand, wiped her face with the back of her hand, glared at him red-eyed after choking for a moment: "What's the big deal... I can tell, you're still talking for Mei Linyu."
Pei Jun knew that Pei Yan's temper was not soft, so these words were just used to gag him so that he would not be allowed to make her cry anymore, so he took a deep breath and sighed along with her: "Hey, even if Right. But what’s wrong with Meiliu? It’s because he ran away from home back then that he didn’t have a good time. Now he’s doing well—he has houses and yards, and there are more than a dozen places in the north, south, north, and north waiting for the harvest. There are three or five tea mountains, four or five merchant ships, and there are several buildings in the capital, so which one is not making money every day?"
"It has nothing to do with money and wealth." Pei Yan justly said, "He is five years younger than me, which is not good. I am old, married, and have children, but he is upright and vigorous. 25 years old, a very good age , with his looks and wealth, what kind of lady can't he marry? How can it be worth spending time with an old woman like me?"
Hearing that she called herself an old woman, Pei Jun smiled: "That's because no matter how many ladies there are in the world, the only one he wants to marry is your surname Pei."
After pondering for a moment, he sighed softly, and said slowly: "Sister, tell me, how many people admired you in this capital city before? Let's not talk about princes and nobles, but just talk about my cronies—Mei Liu, Lao Cao, Xiao Lin, even Yan Yuliang and Cui Yu, which one of them never looked at you at home before? But, those who used to guard the door of our house, handed you love letters, wrote bitter poems, and kept swearing that they liked you All your life, people who are not you do not want to marry will still marry wives and have children in groups after ten years, but the only person who has never mentioned to you once to let you follow him is the only one who is silent. Xiang has been waiting for you for ten years. And if there are another ten years, sister, believe me...he will wait."
After hearing what he said, Pei Yan fixed her eyes on the quilt on her lap, and said calmly, "That's him being stupid. Pei Jun, you should persuade him."
"I've been persuading him for many years, how can I persuade him?" Pei Jun said seriously, "Why don't you try it yourself? Stop pretending you don't know."
Pei Yan lowered her eyes, frowned and sighed: "Okay, let's go."
"Yeah, I'm going to drive me away again when I say this." Pei Jun laughed a lot, "Okay, I'll go, can I go?" He really got up as he said this, remembering to report to Pei Yan : "When I go back today, I plan to enlighten Xuan'er. There happens to be a prospective Jinshi at home, and I can teach him to read poems."
When Pei Yan heard about her son, she immediately lifted the quilt to get up from the bed: "But Xuan'er is only six years old, isn't it a little early? I heard that Zaohui is not good—"
"You're really embarrassed to say it." Pei Jun pressed her shoulders and told her not to get up, "Isn't he called Zaohui? You go out and ask, Jiang Xuan looks like he is six years old, maybe he is six years old. A hundred-year-old little goblin is the real one. He has tossed a whole family around him all day long, and now there is an extra dog. Not only does he send me as an uncle, but even Uncle Dong is exhausted. It’s still early Press him to study, or he will have to go to the house to expose the tiles." As he spoke, he also persuaded: "You should think about him more on weekdays, and don't worry about it if you have nothing to do. When he can write ghost symbols, I will Bring them all for you to see."
After finishing speaking, seeing Pei Yan nod her head, she told her both to take care of her, and left the punishment room.
After getting into the sedan chair, Pei Jun was concerned about Pei Yan's safety, and recalled the upcoming fraud case in his memory, thinking about it with the affairs at hand, and hurried to the Ministry of Rites.
As the sedan chair passed through the market, the emperor's list promulgating the New Deal was also pasted on the wooden railing. It was bright yellow in color and stood out from the crowd.At the intersection in front of the list, several artists sang the joint drum loudly, attracting passers-by to stop and watch, those who didn’t understand still clapped their hands and applauded, and many of them watched the excitement and sang along. Street; even beggars on the street corner, when they heard a sound, they knocked on broken bowls, jingling to the beat of the drums, noisy and indistinguishable.
Pei Jun opened the window and took a look, then lowered the curtain amidst the hustle and bustle of all living beings, sighed alone in the sedan chair, and told the bearer:
"Go faster."
Three days later, Chaozhong ordered the chief and deputy examiners and review officials at all levels of the new subject to be graded.Pei Jun was also very busy. First, he supervised and cleared the scrolls, and then ordered the scribes who transcribed the examinees' scrolls and the interrogators who proofread the transcripts from the Transcript Institute under the Ministry of Rites, and sent the list to Yushitai for inspection. , was rejected five or six times before finally passing.At this point, everything is ready, just wait a few days before entering the Hanlin Academy, and go to Huiwen Hall to concentrate on marking papers.
This time, he was locked up for several days, which made Pei Jun feel a little worried.Watching Jiang Xuan reciting poems at night, he called Qian Haiqing and asked, "Why hasn't Li Zhizhou, who is going to sue the Tang family, entered the capital yet? How long have you been waiting? Could it be that the lawsuit has been suspended?"
Intercepting a lawsuit refers specifically to the event that a person who has leapfrogged to the court is intercepted by government officials to quell the lawsuit. In addition, because the intercepted person is often in danger of life, there is also a homonym for "robbing the lawsuit".Pei Jun was afraid that Li Zhizhou, who was carrying a huge case, would be stopped by the local government before he could go to Beijing to appeal, and he would be turned off halfway, so that he would not be able to sue the Tang family or move the Cai family, and would instead scare the snake away.
But Qian Haiqing said: "It's fine if Mr. Pei doesn't believe me, but can't even Mr. Cao believe it? The letter inviting Li Zhizhou to Beijing was sent by Mr. Cao, and Mr. Cao also said that he will be protected." Li Zhizhou arrived in Beijing safely, I have already reassured you. It is not easy for Kuangnan to go to Beijing, and the road is far away, and it is possible to delay for more than half a month."
"Then it should be here soon." Pei Jun trusted Cao Luan, so he made up his mind and nodded, "If I'm still in Hanlin and haven't returned when the person arrives, you can ask Mr. Cao to take him to Master Mei's building first." Stay here, take good care of yourself, and don't touch outsiders, so as not to be noticed by the Cai family."
"Okay, the students know." Qian Haiqing responded, then thought for a while, and looked at Pei Jun with a smile, "Master Pei, are you teaching students how to do things?"
Pei Jun said indifferently: "Of course it doesn't count. I am ordering you to do something." As he spoke, he nodded the account book that Qian Haiqing had just sent, "You are still receiving your monthly salary from me. Let me ask, is there anyone in the world?" Which master is going to force the students to pay money in order to beg the students to listen to the teaching?"
Qian Haiqing stuck out his tongue, knowing that he couldn't say anything about him, so he didn't mention it, he just pointed to the account book and said back to business: "My lord asked me to settle the accounts of the mansion, and I will forget it. Now the servants of the mansion The bills are all cleared, but there are a few that are not well-off. Those whose husbands are in debt, and those whose mothers are dying, most of them need money, so they don’t have much.”
"Go and ask how much you need, and ask Uncle Dong to pay them." Pei Jun closed the account, took a sip of the tea in hand, and saw that Jiang Xuan beside him had stopped reciting poems, and was looking at it with his round black eyes curiously. They seemed to be listening attentively to what they had to say, so they couldn't help being happy.
"What are you looking at? Little man, you don't understand." Pei Jun pushed the poem towards him, "Quickly memorize it, uncle will teach you to write it tomorrow, and show it to your mother when you finish it. "
Jiang Xuan scratched his scalp and looked back at the book, and made a face at Pei Jun.
Seeing this, Qian Haiqing laughed, took the penny on the table, and was about to write on the account after dipping it in ink.
"What are you writing?" Pei Jun asked.
Qian Haiqing said: "Now I have advanced the money from the treasury to the servants, so naturally I have to write it down, and I will deduct it back month by month."
After hearing this, Pei Jun put down the tea in his hand: "That's unnecessary. A few dozen taels of silver is nothing in the mansion, but it's life-saving to them, so it should be rewarded."
Qian Haiqing was stunned when he heard that, and slightly moved: "Master Pei, you really..."
"You only go to reward in private, don't make it known to everyone, and don't say I gave it." Pei Jun frowned and interrupted him, raised his hand to touch Jiang Xuan's head beside him, and sighed softly, " The human heart in the world is the most unpredictable. Those who do not get good will easily feel injustice and feel neglected; those who are helped will have low self-esteem and feel inferior. If the two phases know the situation, they will have high eyebrows and cold eyes in the future It may be hard to tell, but if you go to one place to do things like this, your mind will be different.”
Qian Haiqing listened attentively, and asked slowly, "Is it the same among officials?"
Pei Jun raised his eyebrows and asked back, "What do you think?"
Qian Haiqing silently felt that it was natural, and after thinking about it, he asked Pei Jun solemnly: "Are you teaching me how to deal with things, my lord?"
Pei Jun shook his head innocently: "It doesn't count." As he said that, he pinched Jiang Xuan's small face beside him, "I am teaching children how to be the head of the family. What does it have to do with you?"
"..." The money accountant who was ruled by the head of the family lamented and put away the account book, took his leave, and stomped out of the study.
Pei Jun smiled lightly as he watched behind him, and shook his head. When he was young, he suddenly heard a report from Liu Jin, saying that someone from the Jin Palace had sent documents.
Pei Jun immediately said: "Hurry up, bring it in."
After saying that, he got up, stood by the door and looked towards the corridor in the courtyard. After a while, he saw a short figure led by Liu Jin, hurrying towards with a wooden box in his arms.
Pei Jun groped in his pocket and took out three or five pieces of silver. He felt that it was not enough, so he went back to the desk, opened the porcelain box next to the inkstone, and took out a golden lion pen holder the size of a little finger. He was holding it, waiting to deliver something. When the person came into the room, he rewarded him casually and said a word of hard work.
Jiang Xuan called from the side: "Uncle, I also want a little lion."
Pei Jun said very perfunctorily: "No, just this one, it's all for your uncle."
Under Jiang Xuan's angry eyes, he happily opened the wooden box that was delivered, and saw a few volumes of documents in it.The first two are the case files of the Pei Yan case released by His Excellency Sejong. They should be the same as the ones that will be sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice the next morning. Among them, the judgments are very careful, and many of the Zhu criticisms have the word "Jin" printed.
Pei Jun glanced through it first, and then skipped to the end. He saw that Pei Yan was sentenced to retire from the royal family and demoted to a commoner, and the rest of the case was related to the death of King Rui, so under Jiang Yue's guidance, he was no longer sentenced by the third division. Add more knives and axes before.
Pei Jun's lips twitched slightly when he saw this, and he was grateful to Jiang Yue in his heart, but when he couldn't wait to pick up the third volume of documents, the smile on his face froze.
I saw the cover page of this document read: "Compilation of all things in the Ziwu of Taipingguo Temple."
When he opened it, there was a familiar and solemn handwriting in the middle of the title page: Jiang Yue would like to record it.
Turning back, the text is indeed the various causes and consequences of Taiping's implementation of Siziwu's policy, the reactions of the government and the people, the response to some incidents, and the follow-up assessment.There are a lot of letterheads in it, and there are many additions and deletions. Not only the implementation rules of the temple house are listed one by one, but also many national conditions and customs of Taiping are included, which seems to be convenient for viewers to compare them with the situation in the court and China in real time.
Pei Jun frowned, closed the booklet, and looked at the wooden box on the table, but saw that there was not even a letter in that box, so he couldn't help asking the sender: "Did Prince Jin send the letter? "
The messenger shook his head: "My lord, no."
"Did he ever say anything?"
The messenger shook his head again: "My lord, no."
Just when Pei Jun frowned impatiently and stared at the Chinese book in his hand again, the messenger who stood outside the door walked halfway and suddenly turned back, "Oh" and said:
"Pei, Mr. Pei, our lord seems to have... said something, but it doesn't seem to be what he asked to take."
Pei Jun quickly took out another little golden lion from the porcelain box: "What are you talking about? Think about it quickly."
The messenger stared at the gold in Pei Jun's hand, scratched his ear and scratched his cheek, and finally realized: "...Oh! The prince gave the things to the little one just now, looked up at the moon, and said... fascinated... fascinated cloud……"
At this time, Jiang Xuan over there was restless again: "Uncle is lying! There is obviously a little lion! I want it too!"
"Xuan'er, don't make trouble." Pei Jun walked up to the messenger in annoyance, stuffed the little golden lion into his hand, leaned slightly to get close to him, and said with a serious face: "Think about it, what is it? "
As soon as his face became serious, he seemed to be bluffing, and the messenger who sent the letter was so frightened that he finally shook his head and said: "Mimi-mi... the misty clouds will finally dissipate, and the moonlight is shining! That's right, the prince is Think so!"
——The misty clouds will eventually disperse, and the moonlight will shine...
Pei Jun stood up straight, waved away the messenger in a daze, and was dragged back to the desk noisily by Jiang Xuan, looking at the books on the table, his long eyebrows lightly drawn.
——"Master Pei thinks that the common people in the world need a round of moon?"
He let Jiang Xuan rummage in the already empty porcelain box, picked up the "Siziwu Jilu" on the table again, stroked the satin-mounted outer cover of the book, and frowned as he recalled when Jiang Yue was a teenager. Where did he ask him this question, and what answer did he give Jiang Yue...
Unconsciously flipping through, suddenly, he turned to a page to add, and the words in it fell into his eyes, which shocked him again:
"... If learning is in the government, it will always be in the government and not in the people. The imperial court should donate money to build people's schools, reform private schools, increase courses, so that folk schools can not only teach pen and ink, but also teach skills. , so that all the people in the world will have their own jobs..."
This handwriting is different from other places.This handwriting is no longer clear and sharp, no longer strong and indifferent, but thin, vigorous, like a knife's edge horizontally and vertically, so strange to Pei Jun, yet so familiar.
This was undoubtedly Pei Jun's own handwriting, of course he recognized it.He also knew that this was the remonstrance he had written to the officials at the court meeting when he was 26 years old. Every word and every word was for the purpose of inviting the court to broaden the education of the people and benefit the people, but in the end, it failed.
After the remonstrance was lost and invalidated, he was angry and resentful when he came out of the palace, and immediately smashed the book on the dragon head in front of the imperial steps, and couldn't help cursing: "Nonsense! Damn it!"
He still clearly remembers that when Qingliu and Cai's party walking on the other side cast him a disdainful and ironic look of pity, and when he quarreled with Zhang Ling, he was persuaded by people from the six departments After he took it away, he never knew that this document, which he had regarded as a failure for many years, would be carefully collected and framed, and even made into a collection, until today after he was reborn as a human, This compilation finally had the opportunity to be handed into his hands.
He raised his finger and stroked this page of text that was so old and missing in his memory, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he silently recited Jiang Yue's sentence "Miyun and Yuehua" in his heart, over and over again, suddenly, there was something in his heart. Something seemed to brighten up.
He closed the book in his hand, shook his head amidst the noise of the children beside him, and laughed lightly:
"Jiang Yue, Jiang Yue, you are forcing me to go back..."
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