The new emperor soon announced that Shen Qiang would enter the palace, which made Shen Wen a little worried. She didn't agree to the new emperor's "subject to the country" request last time. I don't know if the new emperor will use some means to force her to submit. Unlike other people who felt that the new emperor was weak and incompetent at this time and did not understand political affairs, Shen Wen had maintained a high degree of vigilance against him since the fourth prince came to the throne. Shen Wen was deeply impressed by the behavior of the four princes during their northward journey. Shen Wen believed that a prince who was born with gold and jade was definitely not a simple person who could endure so many difficulties and obstacles. Therefore, she was at least twenty years earlier than those who commented on the "insidious", "unpredictable" and "scheming" of the new emperor.
Shen Wen asked Shen Jian, who was going to accompany Shen Qiang, to meet her, and said to Shen Jian: "You have to persuade the fourth brother, don't try to kill in the palace, it will give the new emperor an excuse."
Shen Jian nodded, but shook his head again and said: "I told him for a long time this morning about the difference between the palace and the outside, and he ignored me at all."
Shen Wen sighed: Shen Jian didn't watch Shen Qiang grow up, Shen Qiang didn't buy his account. Shen Wen then went to send Shen Qiang out in person, and said to Shen Qiang: "Fourth brother, you must not..."
Shen Qiang turned his head and stared blankly at Shen Wen, Shen Wen read the deep killing intent in his eyes, Shen Wen felt a chill in his heart, stammered and said: "Fourth brother, grandmother, I definitely hope you... grow up well..."
Shen Qiang's eyes were red, Shen Wen knew that she had said something wrong, maybe she shouldn't mention the old lady. She still wanted to say something, but Shen Qiang turned and left, ignoring her.
Shen Wen was worried, and began to think that this might be a conspiracy by the new emperor to let Shen Qiang enter the palace, kill the old emperor and the prince, so as to prevent future troubles, and at the same time, he could catch the handle of Zhenbei Hou, that is, if Shen Qiang is not pursued at this time, he will not be held accountable. If it is made public, this handle can also make my family obedient...
She knew Su Wanniang's thoughts about the new emperor, so naturally she didn't dare to tell Su Wanniang her doubts, she could only worry secretly, waiting for Shen Qiang to come back.
When Shen Jian and Shen Qiang arrived outside the palace, Shen Jian was stopped, and only Shen Qiang was admitted into the palace. Now, even Shen Jian was worried, fearing that Shen Qiang would cause trouble in the palace alone, or be killed by others. frame.
Shen Qiang was taken outside a palace, and the new emperor was waiting for him. Xindi's expression was very relaxed, but Shen Qiang kept his mouth shut and his face tensed. The new emperor signaled him: "Come with me, and meet my father, who ordered to kill your mansion."
Shen Qiang's face turned red, but Xindi didn't seem to notice, he walked in first, and said: "When you were young, I hugged you..."
Shen Qiang remained silent, his hands clenched into iron fists. They walked into a palace, it was a little dark inside, the windows were tightly blocked, and there was a stench coming from the room, Shen Qiang couldn't help holding his breath. An old man was lying on a bed in the middle of the room, half of his body was covered with a brocade quilt, but under the bed was a large basin, where there was sparse filth, and the stench that filled the room came from there. It looked like the bed had a hole in it.
The new emperor stopped when he came to the old man, and Shen Qiang naturally walked to the bedside, and there were several eunuchs standing by the bedside, and they all saluted the new emperor.
The new emperor saluted the old emperor, and asked an old eunuch, "How is father today?"
Eunuch Sun said: "Fortunately, I drank some porridge in the morning and took a dose of medicine."
The new emperor nodded, looked at Shen Qiang and said, "Father...you can't see the wind, so the windows here have to be closed."
Shen Qiang looked at the old emperor in a daze. He couldn't raise his clenched fist no matter what.
The new emperor said to the old emperor: "Father, this is the fourth son of Marquis Zhenbei."
The old emperor's muddy eyes turned to Shen Qiang, a faint grunt came out of his throat, and then his eyes rolled upwards. An eunuch next to him stretched out his hand and touched the old emperor's chest. The old emperor coughed in his throat , the eyes slowly came down from above.
Shen Qiang looked at the eunuch and opened his mouth, but he didn't make a sound. One of the eunuch's arms was empty.
The new emperor asked Shen Qiang: "You saw it, what do you want to do?"
Shen Qiang blinked, looked at the old emperor again, and slowly shook his head. The new emperor saluted the old emperor: "Father, my son will come back tomorrow to greet you." Walking outside, the eunuchs all saluted.
Shen Qiang was stunned, without saluting, and followed the new emperor like a log. Before going out, he turned his head. In the shadow, Eunuch Gu lowered his eyes and did not look at him.
The new emperor looked back and saw Shen Qiang looking back, and when he came to his side, he said, "That's Eunuch Gu, who used to be my third brother's master, and has excellent martial arts skills."
Shen Qiang opened his mouth again, but didn't say anything.
The new emperor said: "I will take you to see Prince Li now."
The new emperor got on the palace chariot, but Shen Qiang didn't want to get on the chariot, so he followed the procession to another gate of the palace. Go." Ding's servant next to him asked Shen Qiang to follow him to the palace gate, and Shen Qiang clenched his fist again.
Before they reached the gate of the palace, they heard a scream from the yard, and then there was no sound, but Shen Qiang practiced martial arts, and his hearing was excellent, so he could hear the scolding voice inside: "You bastard! Sister Churong is blind!" I have taken a fancy to such a bad person like you! I will beat you to death!... "
An old man's voice: "Don't hit the face, but hit harder, he killed so many people..."
Ding Neishi knocked hard on the door, the cursing inside stopped, after a while, the door opened, Ding Nei Shi said: "Your Majesty let the fourth son of Zhenbei Hou come to see Prince Li." The old eunuch inside led them into the door, walked around On the screen wall, Shen Qiang saw a man kneeling on the ground with disheveled hair, something gagged in his mouth, and a court lady standing aside with a very indifferent expression.
Ding Neishi hesitated and said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty said... that... Prince Li is a prince after all..."
The old eunuch replied very formally: "It was the instruction of the first emperor to make Prince Li kneel for two hours every day to reflect on himself."
Ding Neishi looked at Shen Qiang, saw that Shen Qiang was staring at Prince Li fiercely, and said: "Don't shut him up, maybe Fourth Young Master Shen wants to talk to him."
The court lady went up and took the cloth from Prince Li's mouth, and Prince Li shouted: "I am the Son of Heaven! I am the Emperor! How dare you do this, I will destroy your whole family! Come! Come!" He shouted hoarsely , Shouting so that the cobwebs on the tile trembled.
The old eunuch said: "Your Majesty is merciful, or at least the tongue should be cut."
Prince Li looked at Shen Qiang and shouted: "Why are you not polite?! I am the emperor! I killed you!..."
Ding Nei waiter hurriedly said: "Stop it! Block it quickly!"
The maid next to him grabbed Prince Li's hair and stuffed a ball of cloth into Prince Li's mouth...
When Shen Qiang walked towards the new emperor, he was a little out of his mind. He came in front of the new emperor and looked at the new emperor as if he was about to cry.
The new emperor sighed, patted Shen Qiang on the shoulder and said, "Don't feel bad, you see, they are more uncomfortable than you."
Big tears flowed from Shen Qiang's eyes, and he cried hoarsely: "Grandmother... Grandmother..."
Xindi took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and gave it to Shen Qiang. Shen Qiang used it to wipe his nose and tears. After a while, Shen Qiang had cried enough and returned the towel to Xindi. Xindi waved his hand and said, "You Keep it for use." Shen Qiang sobbed and blew his nose into the towel before putting the towel into his sleeve.
The new emperor asked Shen Qiang: "What else do you want to do?" He originally wanted to ask Shen Qiang what he wanted to do in the palace and if he wanted to kill someone, but Shen Qiang misunderstood and said: "I want to read." Nodding, Shen Qiang thought about it again, and said, "I want to worship Eunuch Gu as my teacher." The new emperor hesitated for a moment, then nodded again.
When Shen Qiang returned to the mansion that day, he brought the new emperor's will—Shen Qiang entered the palace to accompany him, and became a student of the new emperor.
Shen Wen was dumbfounded—what's going on? ! She called Shen Qiang over, asked about the process little by little, and proved her judgment on the new emperor for the first time: let Shen Qiang enter the palace, at this time people say "heaven, earth, king, parent, teacher", if you can't get Shen Qiang as the emperor As a teacher, Shen Qiang should also follow the rules of discipleship to the new emperor for the rest of his life, and he must be loyal to the new emperor, and he would never raise the butcher's knife. Since the new emperor feels that Shen Qiang is on his side, it is natural to make him as strong as possible. It is reasonable to allow him to worship Eunuch Gu as his teacher, but this makes Shen Wen feel uneasy: Does the new emperor know something
Shen Qiang soon entered the palace. Before the new emperor got married, he had been living in the new emperor's courtyard. The new emperor knew that Shen Qiang had started the killing ring in the past, and he had no scruples about the death or injury of human life, so he wanted to lead Shen Qiang to obey the law. While teaching Shen Qiang to read and write, he used the laws of the Southern Dynasty as Shen Qiang's textbook, so that Shen Qiang could familiarize himself with various codes of the Southern Dynasty. As a result, ten years later, Shen Qiang left the teacher without passing any imperial examinations, and directly entered the Ministry of Criminal Justice. start. But he is a student of the emperor, and he often goes back to the palace for dinner, who would dare to use him as a jailer? Moreover, after those prisoners knew his background, someone complained to him, and he could not do without investigating the case if he opened his mouth. Therefore, his officers quickly promoted him, and eight years later he became the judge of Dali Temple, and he was in charge of adjudicating cases and sentencing. He is stern and selfless, relying on being the only protégé taught by the emperor, he is fearless, he dares to get involved in any difficult and major cases, and he dares to get involved in anyone. He has killed countless people in his life. "Double Judgment", known as the impermanence of black and white in the world. It's just that Shen Qiang's marriage is not good, and he has been engaged many times, but the other party divorced because Shen Qiang killed the other party's relatives soon after. Later, Shen Qiang stopped asking for marriage. When he was fifty-five years old, an old monk found him and said that he had a relationship with him when he was young. Shen Qiang talked with him all night, and at dawn, Shen Qiang left with the old monk and never saw each other again... These are all things that happened many years later.
The chariots and horses from the palace came to the inn to pick up Ji Wenzhao, which alarmed the surrounding people. Everyone stood on both sides of the street, pointing to the royal carriage. Ji Wenzhao was deeply disturbed, and felt that Mr. Jiang must be a man who praised himself so much that he would be disappointed if he saw the new emperor soon.
After entering the palace, he was replaced by a palace chariot. He had never been in a palace before, and was carried to a very ordinary courtyard in a daze. An eunuch let him into the courtyard and led him into the living room. Ji Wenzhao thought he was here to wait for the new emperor to summon him, because the courtyard was definitely not the emperor's imperial study, and he certainly didn't know that this was the place where the new emperor had lived since he was born, and he hadn't moved since he ascended the throne.
Ji Wenzhao saw a young man in black casual clothes sitting at the table with a sad expression on his face. Ji Wenzhao immediately recognized Mr. Jiang who had been with him in the past, and hurriedly saluted with a smile: "Mr. Jiang! Long time no see! You are here to see me too The new emperor's?" Mr. Jiang is a relative of the new emperor's relatives, the Jiang family, so it is normal to come to see the new emperor.
Mr. Jiang smiled, and hurriedly stood up to salute: "Xiu Ming, are you here?" Then he motioned for Ji Wenzhao to sit down.
Ji Wenzhao sat on the other side of the table and said with a smile, "I thought of you on the way here! You must have introduced me, right?"
Mr. Jiang looked a little embarrassed, and Ji Wenzhao sighed: "Don't speak so well of me, if I don't agree with the new emperor, won't he blame you?"
Mr. Jiang smiled dryly: "No way."
Ji Wenzhao asked with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, are you weak? Do you have words?"
Mr. Jiang sighed: "I have lost the care of my elders, and now I have no words. Can Xiu Ming give me a word?"
Ji Wenzhao waved his hands again and again: "How can it be! If you really want to learn characters, you have to be my mentor. When are you going to the academy?"
Mr. Jiang frowned slightly, his eyes seemed to have a gleam, his throat moved, and he said: "Something happened at home... I... maybe... I can't go..."
Ji Wenzhao hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, you can go to the academy anytime, and those books won't escape. You can deal with the family affairs before you talk about it. With me here, don't worry, you can enter the academy anytime!"
Mr. Jiang lowered his eyes and sighed. Seeing that he was still troubled, Ji Wenzhao asked, "Do you remember the people from our side? My younger brother Yan Junshi?"
Mr. Jiang nodded hurriedly, and said, "Did all the traps and weapons that Brother Wen arranged at that time be used?"
Ji Wenzhao remembered that Mr. Jiang followed them to visit the ambush site, and he usually watched them study weapons, thinking that Mr. Jiang was someone of the middle class, so he said in a low voice, "Thanks to those arrangements, otherwise we would definitely lose."
Mr. Jiang also looked around and said, "I think so, but the process must be difficult."
Ji Wenzhao said: "Of course!" He talked about the process of guarding Yancheng, the thrills in the middle, and finally raised his head and smiled: "But we won in the end! Let me tell you, when I watched Beirong retreat from the city, At that time, I deeply felt that only by being a human being at this time can I live up to the next generation.”
Mr. Jiang said with admiration: "Xiu Ming is a man of great talent and strategy."
Ji Wenzhao hurriedly waved his hands, leaned over and said with a smile, "With that little brother Wen, you can't just say that casually."
Mr. Jiang also laughed. Ji Wenzhao looked at the time and asked, "Are you also waiting to see the new emperor? How long are we going to wait? Is it time for lunch?"
Mr. Jiang's smile disappeared, and he put on a sad expression again, and said to Ji Wenzhao, "Xiu Ming, are we friends?"
Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "Of course! Didn't we make an agreement when we went that way? We will play chess together for the rest of our lives."
Mr. Jiang's eyes flashed brightly, and he said, "Xiu Ming, Xiu Ming, I'm in trouble..."
Ji Wenzhao immediately became serious: "What happened to you? That's why the new emperor wants to see you? Tell me and see if I can give you an idea."
Mr. Jiang nodded, swallowed and said, "You will definitely be my friend?"
Ji Wenzhao said: "Of course! Don't worry, as long as you don't break the law and lose your conscience, I will definitely help you!"
Mr. Jiang nodded, summoned up his courage, and said, "Let's eat first!"
Ji Wenzhao hurriedly said: "How can it be done?! We still have to meet the new emperor..." But halfway through his speech, he suddenly stopped and looked straight at Mr. Jiang. Mr. Jiang also looked at him.
Mr. Jiang passed on black casual clothes, not to mention the exquisite material, and the black silk thread embroidered with cloud patterns on the skirt. Mr. Jiang looked elegant and solemn in his clothes... How could he only wear casual clothes before meeting the emperor
Ji Wenzhao stood up slowly, but the new emperor also stood up, frowned and said: "Xiu Ming! Help me! I was forced to be the emperor! I don't want to be the emperor. To be honest, I don't know what to do." How can I be different from them! Xiu Ming! Help me! Don’t let me become a scourge!"
Ji Wenzhao looked at the new emperor in astonishment, and the new emperor nodded firmly and said, "Really! Xiu Ming! I can't be the emperor! I really can't!" He pointed to his chest, "Here, there is a monster. If I sit the emperor Seriously, it will wake up and turn me into a demon, a demon who will not spare even his own children! Xiu Ming! Help me!" The new emperor had tears in his eyes: "Xiu Ming! Are you still my friend? ?!"
Ji Wenzhao choked up, and finally said, "I am!"
The new emperor nodded, and said to Ji Wenzhao: "Okay, Xiuming, then help me! I later recalled many times what we saw when we went north, and understood the truth: if a person wants to succeed, he must have a team." , we must have a common goal, we must be united, and we must treat our colleagues well. If you look at what we heard and saw in our trip to the north, we know that the country needs to change. , It means that the country is destroyed by civil unrest. It has happened repeatedly since ancient times, and it has become a rule. Those rich and powerful families do not pay taxes to enrich the country. Because of robbers and bandits, running rampant in the village. Good officials are not rewarded, and good people are not protected... If we can really change the course, rule the country according to the law, and let the people have the right to supervise the officials, it may be possible to stabilize the country and make the country prosperous and strong. can't even say..."
Ji Wenzhao said logically: "Exactly, the king of a country should not speak nonsense. Once the imperial power is shaken, some people will take the opportunity to make trouble."
The new emperor sighed: "If one is not good, the world will be in chaos. I can't open my mouth to talk about reform..." He looked at Ji Wenzhao: "But you can. You are talented, witty and courageous. Will you walk with me again? It's not going to be easy…”
Ji Wenzhao bowed deeply to the new emperor, and said solemnly: "I, Ji Wenzhao, swear that I will follow Your Majesty and help you achieve success!"
The new emperor was relieved and said, "Great! Xiu Ming, let's have dinner first, and then I'll tell you about recent events..."
When the meal came, the two of them ate. The new emperor talked about the fact that the Lu family controlled most of the courtiers in the court, that someone assassinated the third prince, that he had no key position, and that he couldn't even issue orders, etc. In the end, he was a little embarrassed Said: "Also, you said that you will help me marry Mrs. Su..."
Ji Wenzhao nodded slowly, and said: "If the assassination of the third prince was done by Lu's side, they have underestimated you. That's fine, we can't move them right now, and we must stabilize them before liquidating, lest they change. .”
The new emperor nodded and said, "I promoted the county magistrate Lu we met three times in a row, which is a signal to the Lu family."
Ji Wenzhao agreed: "Okay, the problem now is to get the support of the courtiers first, and I will go back to my teacher right away and have a good talk with him. As for Miss Su..." He came from the border, trying to figure out the new emperor all the way. Why did Xuan himself enter the palace? He didn't hear anything about the new emperor's parents, so now he wants to think about it. The new emperor waited patiently without urging him. After thinking for a while, Ji Wenzhao said, "Let the word out that we will investigate the case of Su Changting back then."
The new emperor nodded, and said with some concern: "That was more than ten years ago."
Ji Wenzhao said: "At the beginning, I was the one who investigated this matter. Although the main people are all dead, there are still relatives who can give confessions. Moreover, Mrs. Su may have evidence."
Xindi nodded again and said, "I'll ask someone to ask."
Ji Wenzhao said: "You don't want to say it, let someone else do it."
The new emperor felt that Ji Wenzhao was his soul mate, then nodded and said, "I understand."
Ji Wenzhao took Ji Yan back home the next day. He met Yan Jing and said that he had decided to assist the new emperor.
Originally, the senior official Yan returned to Beijing, and the second official Yan also returned from the border. Everyone reported the matter to Yan Jing, and Yan Jing felt that the important matter had been settled. It turned out that the fourth prince who had no background and strength ascended the throne. He needed to observe for a period of time to see if the emperor was as narrow-minded as the previous emperor or the prince. If so, he had to hide it well and not let the other party know that he had been involved in those things. If the other party is lenient, then you don't have to worry too much, since you are getting older, you can feel at ease in the academy and take care of your life.
Now that Ji Wenzhao came back, he told him that the new emperor had great vision and wanted to govern the country well. Ji Wenzhao didn't dare to say anything about system reform, for fear that Yan Jing's political views would be at odds with the new emperor. Yan Jing heard that the new emperor had written strategies for the third prince, so he asked people to find those words and read them, thinking that the new emperor could teach children, but he didn't know that he had given this title to the same person for the second time.
Soon, Ji Wenzhao was recommended by Yan Jing to join the imperial court. The new emperor received Ji Wenzhao on the grounds that Yan Jing had been reused by the previous emperor, and wanted to confer him an official title. The new emperor agreed. Ji Wenzhao visited a group of people in the capital, including the Zhenbeihou Mansion, and then left the capital to take office.
Yan Jingzhi's old and new disciples and subordinates became the arm of the new emperor overnight.
Ye Zhongshu said with emotion: "The person who can fight against the Lu family must be Yan Lao." He said to his son Ye Shilang: "The new emperor will definitely rely on Ji Wenzhao in the future, you only need to do what the new emperor asks you to do. That's it."
Ye Shilang thought that he didn't need to worry too much, but who knew that his suffering had just begun. Not long after Ji Wenzhao left, someone sent Ye Shilang a whole set of materials about Mrs. Su's father Su Changting's imprisonment, including Su Changting's blood book.
Ye Shilang knew that this was for him to stand out, so he opened his mouth and said that he wanted to investigate the case. The Lu family thought that this was the Ye family's use of the new emperor to marry Su Niangzi, and to clear her father of the crimes to retaliate against him, so he naturally tried his best interference. In the end, only the groundless false accusation against Su Changting was overturned, and his name was returned. Only the names of the officials mentioned in Su Changting's blood book were sent to prison. The head of the Lv family was also unable to file a case due to lack of evidence. But this case also greatly defeated Lu's obstruction of the new emperor's marriage to Su Wanniang. Other parties supported the new emperor, and the new emperor wished to marry a beautiful woman.
At first, Mrs. Lu thought that this case was only made by Ye Shilang to flatter the new emperor after he got married, but after this case, Ye Shilang raised three more cases. The three cases seem to be small cases: an orphan who lost his parents, Yue Ya sued the county magistrate, was sentenced to death and beheaded. A heartbroken woman sued her husband's family for killing her wife and son for her own death, but was accused of false accusation and beaten to death in the hall. One is because of disputes over the business of the tea shop. The old couple passed away one after another. After the son helped his coffin back to his hometown, he became a monk. It was not their relatives who came forward to sue, but a reluctant tea shop assistant...
At the beginning, the conclusions presented by the case handlers were repeatedly denied by Ye Shilang, saying that the case handlers bent the law for personal gain and asked for a retrial, but the weak Xindi agreed to them one by one. As a result, each case was investigated by seven or eight supervisors. Can't decide. In fact, Ye Shilang was also very helpless. Every time he gave the file to the emperor, after the emperor read it, he just said: "You let them check again." Listen, "you" is not "I", so Ye Shilang had to go to be This comes out of the rafters.
In the end, it was Sima Yan, who won the champion of Enke three years later, who played a decisive role. This person looked lonely and cold, with protruding cheekbones and divine light in his eyes. It was rumored that his family was destroyed by the famine a few years ago, and he himself almost starved to death. Those who come down can see that their lives are hard. Because of his sharp writing and advocating the effect of the law, he was named the number one scholar by the new emperor. In the golden hall, when he saw the new emperor, he burst into tears, shouted long live, knelt down in front of the hall, bowed down, couldn't get up for a long time, and was regarded as a super sycophant. The new emperor asked him where he would like to fulfill his duties. He said that the reforming emperor followed his lead, so the new emperor asked Ye Shilang to suggest an official position. At that time, the three small cases had been delayed for a long time. Ye Shilang felt that this was a newcomer, and he had not established a network among officials, so he used Sima Yan to supervise and handle the case.
Everyone thought that Sima Yan only knew how to flirt, because the emperor liked to play chess, and he even recommended himself to play chess with the emperor in the palace. But half a year later, the sponsoring officials were suspended, and Sima Yan took over the three cases. As a result, the case was closed within a year. Those who tried the case in the past, the high and low officials involved in the case, the godfather and godmother they recognized, relatives who gave false testimony, and even vouched for the criminals. The officials and the court officials who covered it up for them... were all held accountable one by one. When he was about to leave, the emperor thought that he was old, so he gave him an extrajudicial mercy, and changed the sentence to confinement in his hometown. Mrs. Lu died shortly after returning to his hometown. Later, people said that when he was dying, he left a disrespectful word about the emperor. It's no wonder that these three cases almost uprooted the Lu family's official line, important courtiers of the Lu family were all implicated in a roundabout way, and the liquidation was very thorough.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Ye family squeezed out the Lu family, and he did not hold the power alone. Five years after the new emperor ascended the throne, Ji Wenzhao entered the court, and five years later, he was promoted to the right minister. Ye, who is on the left, agrees with Chao Gang.
Ji Wenzhao proposed to use the law as a rope to regulate the behavior of officials and the people. He set out to reform the bureaucracy system, assigning judges to handle civil and criminal cases alone, and separating them from officials; popularizing the idea of ruling the country by law to the people, opening public schools, accepting children for free, having law classes from childhood, and distributing the already formed The Royal College, changed to the Royal College of Law…
These outrageous things have been resisted by many parties. On several occasions, many courtiers demanded that Ji Wenzhao be dismissed, but they actually dismissed the court or Fu Que, so Ji Wenzhao had to resign. But after a year and a half, there was naturally a fellow of the Ji family who came out of Yan's Academy, and asked Ji Wenzhao to be reinstated on the grounds that Ji Wenzhao was too talented and could not be wasted. Even Ji Wenzhao's opponent, Ye Xiang, also pleaded for him. In the end, the emperor always asked Ji Wenzhao to come back to power because of the heavy state affairs...
After Ye Xiang retired, Ji Wenzhao led the prime minister alone for fifteen years. He had several ups and downs, and was an official for nearly forty years. When the court officials congratulated him, Ji Wenzhao was rarely moved and smiled with tears in his eyes. No one knew that he remembered that many years ago, when Second Miss Shen performed her skills while drunk, he had a glimpse of the future... At that time, he was still young, The scheming Emperor Wen was still a young man who was not as weak as the crown.
When Ji Wenzhao seemed to be covering the sky with one hand, he resigned from his official position and became the dean of the Royal Law School. Throughout his life, he continued the reform of the rule of law, and finally made the court independent of the imperial court...
One day when he was eighty-four years old, Ji Wenzhao, who was seriously ill in bed, struggled to open his eyes, and saw the white-haired emperor sitting beside his bed with tears on his face.
Ji Wenzhao tried his best to smile, and murmured, "Your Majesty, are we done?"
He has cooperated with the emperor for so many years, one of them charged forward, and the other was behind to appease all parties. Fifty years later, although a constitutional monarchy has not yet been established, people have begun to rely on the law to judge right from wrong, and the power of officials has been greatly reduced .
Emperor Wen nodded and said, "Xiu Ming, it's done, thank you..."
Ji Wenzhao sighed: "You are always so polite... We... are friends... I'm getting old... Come on, before I leave, let's play another game of chess... Otherwise, I don't know when we can..." He spoke calmly Closing his eyes, the emperor burst into grief for a moment, weeping uncontrollably...
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