Zhou Zheng did not return to Zhou Ji, but returned to Zhou Mansion.
Zhou Qingli happened to stand at the door and watched some people leave.
Zhou Zheng came over and looked at the backs of those people. They should all be from the center.
Zhou Qingli said, "They are all the friends I have made over the years. If needed, they can help you a lot."
Zhou Qingli has been ups and downs in the six subjects for nearly two decades. He has no other friends, and there are definitely many supervisors, and he is a trustworthy person with similar positions, proven behaviors.
Knowing what Father Zhou meant, Zhou Zheng felt more stressed, and said, "Father, is this matter that serious?"
Zhou Qingli looked at Zhou Zheng, nodded slightly, her tone was uncontrollable, and said: "You don't know the horror of it when you first enter officialdom. Li Shi is a small inmate, an impeachment memo, and three governors. One Zuodu Yushi, one Shangshu, three servants, and nearly a hundred other officials, both large and small, were sent to prison, dead to death, guarding the border..."
Li Shi's record was indeed terrifying, and it also made Baiguan frightened.
Zhou Qingli finished speaking and said, "Go in and say."
Zhou Zheng hummed, and followed Zhou Qingli into the mansion. This matter may be more serious than he expected, and it is not so easy to deal with it properly.
In Zhou Qingli's study, two father and son sat opposite each other on a small table.
Zhou Qingli held the teacup in her hand, fiddled with the water slowly, and said: "The key to this case is not whether Shangguan Xun was wronged, but how to deal with it properly, not to make the eunuch angry, but also to the emperor and the court and the opposition. A fair word."
Zhou Zheng nodded. The appeal of the Shangguan family’s sisters and brothers is actually not important, but a decent explanation is required. The eunuch must not be dissatisfied. Otherwise, not only will Shangguanxun not be able to save the eunuch, the eunuch will use it to make trouble. , Not only Zhou Zheng, the Zhou family followed bad luck, but also had to implicate Zhou's network of relations and even greater disturbances.
Zhou Qingli's face was cold, and she looked out the door, and said, "I just contacted a few friends for my father, and I will impeach some unimportant party members of Li Shi in Suzhou and Hangzhou. I will try to divert the attention of the ruling and the opposition."
Zhou Zheng thought for a while, and said: "We must master the standards, the eunuch is prosperous, and don't burn yourself."
The eunuch party is the most terrifying at this time, unmatched, and the slightest touch may be a disaster.
Zhou Qingli put down the tea cup, looked at him, and said, "This is for the father. What do you think?"
Zhou Qingli became more and more opaque to this second son, but he gave a lot of respect.
Zhou Zheng naturally had some thoughts in his heart, but it is not suitable to say it, and said: "I will feel Li Shi's situation first, and try to find a safe solution."
A small businessman, even if he was not wronged, has never been so difficult to deal with. It just involves the word'eunuch'.
Seeing Zhou Zheng refused to say, Zhou Qingli groaned for a while and said, "There is another way, which is to drag."
Zhou Qingli's meaning is very simple. This case was only because the Dengwen drum was beaten and the emperor heard about it, and it became'important'. As long as it was delayed for a period of time, everyone would gradually forget it, and it would be over.
This is currently the most popular method of dealing with affairs in official circles. Even the military affairs often have to be delayed for a month, let alone a small case, a year or a half is considered good.
The Emperor Tianqi ignored the matter. From just sending an internal supervisor to explain it, he didn't care about it, so he just forgot about it if he couldn't turn his head.
The eunuchs will not even care. This case is too small and unprofitable in their eyes.
Zhou Zheng thought of this method in his heart. If it is delayed until next year, when the eunuch party collapses, he can use his power to vindicate Shangguanxun without any scruples.
But this kind of'waiting to change' is not his style of doing things, and there are too many variables in the future, and he needs to fight quickly to avoid long nights and dreams.
Zhou Zheng looked at Father Zhou and said frankly: "I want to deal with it as soon as possible."
Zhou Qingli was expressionless, looking at the mad second son, feeling a little complicated. For a long time, he said, "You are right. If you have anything, you must tell your father as soon as possible."
Zhou Zheng smiled and said, "I see."
Zhou Qingli didn't say any more, this second son was thoughtful, but in the big dyeing vat of the officialdom in the capital, he was still very worried, but his complexion was not overwhelming.
Zhou Zheng talked with Zhou Qingli for a while, then went back to the study on his own.
As usual, I read books and practice calligraphy, but today I can’t concentrate and my mind is a bit distracted.
Zhou Zheng sighed, put down his pen, looked out the window, for a moment, faintly muttered to himself: "After all, I can't do the so-called harmony with light and dust, no black and no white..."
Zhou Zheng understood what he saw very well, and he had his own injustices, and there was no way to confuse, fool, and act in a muddle-headed manner. If this matter is not handled properly, he will not be able to meditate and return to normal.
It was getting dark, and a sparrow stopped in front of the window, flapping its wings and flew away quickly.
Zhou Zheng picked up his pen and wrote two large characters on the paper: Li Shi.
Zhou Zheng put down the pen gently, looked at these two words, and whispered softly, "It seems that I have to risk a touch."
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Early the next morning, Zhou Zheng wore official uniforms as usual and walked into the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The atmosphere of the Metropolitan Procuratorate always seemed so strange, deserted and desolate, with an uncomfortable feeling of depression.
Zhou Zheng just sat down in the chair, Yao Tongshun stepped forward quickly, closed the door, and whispered: "Shaanxi Dao Yushi has been arrested halfway."
"Because of what?" This is the first time someone from the procuratorate has been arrested since Zhou Zheng took office, although it hasn't been a few days.
Yao Tong said: "They wrote a letter hoping that the court would recruit and pacify the troubled people, but the upheaval is getting more and more fierce..."
Zhou Zheng hummed unsurprisingly. The court went back and forth between "suppressing" the civil upheaval. Even in the Chongzhen dynasty, it was the same in the early stage. It wasn't until the later that the civil upheaval was too big that the court had to insist on "cleaning up and suppressing".
Zhou Zheng didn't care about this, and asked, "Is there anything happening in Shangguanxun's case?"
Yao Tongshun hoped that Zhou Zheng would go to the book master and fight for his fame. After all, he was a new imperial historian, but looking at Zhou Zheng’s expression, Yao Tongshun resolutely gave up, saying: "Nothing happened, Li Yushi didn’t say anything, and there was nothing on it. Confess."
Zhou Zheng nodded slightly. Obviously, the senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate didn't take this matter seriously. It was just a businessman who filed a complaint. When did the Ming Dynasty miss it!
"Have you found Shangguanxun's files?" Zhou Zhengdao.
Yao Tong said: "I found some yesterday, and the experience department is sorting it out. I will deliver it before lunch."
Zhou Zheng thought of reading the files of Jin Yiwei, the Ministry of Justice, etc., as Li Hengbing said, and said: "You are going through Situo staring at you. I want all the files, it's all!"
Just as Yao Tongshun was about to respond, a servant outside the door knocked on the door and said, "Zhou Yushi, some people say that it is Zhou Fu's Ding who begs to see him. There is an urgent matter."
Zhou Zheng has just sat down, what can he do early in the morning? Yao Tongshun looked at Zhou Zheng.
Liu Liuzhe has always done things steadily, and he will not let people come to Zhou Zheng if there is no emergency.
Zhou Zheng stood up and walked out of the classroom to the gate. (End of this chapter)