Cui Zhuangyuan's family has an accident again.
A well-mannered, diligent and capable official with a deep family, but I don't know why the parents' palace is a bit unlucky. The former stepmother was detained for crime, and now the father who is returning to his hometown to keep the system has made a case of corruption.
Liu Ji, Xu Pu, and Liu Jian, the three elders, looked at the love letter and Zhi Shishu written by Cui Xie overnight, their expressions were serious, and their moods were very complicated.
Xu and Liu, the two Hanlin bachelors, almost watched Cui Xie grow up - although it was only a few years after he entered the palace to give lectures and worshipped Li Dongyang as his teacher. After all, he has known each other for a long time, and he has the friendship of his master and the affection of taking him to work under his hand for more than a year.
Although both of them are extremely ethical people, they also felt that the father's fault should not involve the son, so they wanted to intercede with Liu Shoufu for him.
Before their pleas were spoken, Liu Shoufu fluttered his sleeves and said solemnly to Er Er: "Don't implicate Cui Xie! Although his father is greedy, he is not a big evil. He just asks the saint to decide, Cui Xie. But it is a heart of loyalty and love, how can it be wrong to blame this good minister for the sake of his father!"
Huh? Why did Liu Mian change his temper again
Since the new dynasty, in order to keep his position as a cabinet minister, didn't he turn from a paper-paste cabinet to a vanguard of impeachment, and should he deal with anything that should be impeached or should not be impeached or sentenced? Why is it that when it comes to Cui Xie today, he is uncharacteristically not allowed to be implicated
The two scholars never imagined that Liu Shoufu had once summed up a set of "Theory of Destiny" for Cui Xie, and they should use the honor of Shoufu to please this from the sixth grade. After thinking about it from his standpoint, in the end, he could only come up with the fact that Cui Xie was the former classmate of the father-in-law, and the teacher of the two uncles.
In any case, the first assistant also thought the same as them, Cui Xie should have no risk this time.
The two bachelors breathed a sigh of relief for him, while Liu Shoufu was more relieved for himself, and handwritten a receipt, asking the emperor to lighten Senator Cui's guilt on the basis of Cui Xie's voluntary confession and payment of the stolen goods.
The censor of the patrol case is still on the way, and the Beizhen Fusi has not yet released the result of the trial. Not long after Emperor Hongzhi came to the country, he had never seen such a reversed case. He couldn't find any examples in the previous dynasty, so he refused to settle the case in such a cluttered way. Staying in Jinyiwei's prison, he is not allowed to atone for the Ning family like this.
After approving the ink stamps, he frowned and said to the ministers: "Mr. Xi Liu and Cui Qing's memorials will be put aside for now. After the noon gentlemen have finished speaking the book, I will invite Cui Qing to come in. I have something to ask."
Immediately, a small servant rushed to the cabinet to pass a message, but was unable to call anyone. After Cui Xie handed over the accounts, presented the form, and pleaded guilty, he stayed at home to wait for the crime, and did not come to the Hanlin Academy at all.
The father committed the serious crime of punishing the apprentice, and the son's heart ached so much that he couldn't take the place of his body, how could he have the will to be an official!
Cui Xie missed his father at home, worried that he would suffer in the prison, and felt guilty for not being able to treat each other with himself. Poetry, full of immortal spirit and meaning of being born in the world, can explain a little bit of his misery in the world.
"Where is the seclusion, there are thousands of pine nests in the cloud. One path is clear and yin is combined, and three winters are green..." Seeing this poem of wandering immortals full of detachment, Cui Xie couldn't help touching Wen Si and replied to him affectionately: " Sitting alone in the empty hall, I want to sigh, and when does my old father enter the public office. Xianjun is free and easy to live in Wansong, and Qingshi Baishui is a family."
Well, this poem is enough to express his concern for his father. Anyway, Mr. Wang is not a poetry leader, and he will not dislike his poorly written poems. Maybe he will have to return him a poem "Answer to Cui Xiu's Sad Father's Imprisonment". At that time, future generations will not include his works. When compiling the complete works of Wang Shouren, his name must also be included in the title of the poem!
Cui Xie closed his eyes and silently faced this poem, imagining how later scholars would study who Cui Xiuzhuan in Wang Shouren's poems was, with a very serious expression.
The little maid who was instructed to tell him to go back to the office saw it through the window, and couldn't help but feel sad: "Master Cui is also a pitiful person. As soon as his grandfather saw his back, he was such a father to rely on, but he was questioned for his crimes. A young man who is an official, how can he still have the heart to go to the yamen."
But no matter how pitiful he was, he had to be called back to the Hanlin Academy. The emperor was waiting for him to ask questions. The eunuch shouted back Cui Xie's soul, and asked him to immediately change into his official uniform and prepare to enter the palace—it was almost noon, and the emperor wanted to ask questions before eating. It didn't matter that the people below them were hungry, but The emperor cannot be made hungry.
Hearing this, Cui Xie was quite shocked for a while.
He thought he could rest at home for two days under the pretext of his father's crime, but he didn't expect that his favor was too deep, to the point that he was called into the palace for instructions by the emperor after not going to work for a day!
He hurriedly put on his official uniform, rode on his little white horse and galloped into the palace with the servant. He rushed to the ground in such a hurry, and when he arrived outside the Wenhua Hall, the pre-noon Japanese lecture was almost over, Eunuch Gao hurriedly trotted out to pick him up, and whispered to him when they met: "My Lord Cui, why do you think so hard? Your father's guilt has not yet been determined. What is the relationship between our family and Xie Zhenfu? Isn't it just a matter of one sentence to exonerate him? Why do you rush to ask for the guilt, and everyone can't make a fuss? What about the turnaround?"
What I'm afraid of is that it's too late for the incriminating evidence, and you've spoken out.
With thousands of thoughts in his eyes, Cui Xie lowered his head and let him teach him a lesson. He didn't raise his head to look at Eunuch Gao until he stood on the steps of the Vice-President of Wenhua Palace, with a deep sadness between his brows and said, "I asked the follower. My father has gone to his family in Yunnan, and the crime of embezzlement and other crimes reported by the provincial police officer is true... I just want to return the stolen money as soon as possible, and then sell some family property to offset my father's flowers in Yunnan, which can be reduced for my father. some crimes..."
This stupid boy!
It's really not good to be an official at a young age. Just knowing how to read, you don't know anything about how to be an official and do things!
Eunuch Gao was scratching his head and scratching his cheeks in a hurry, wishing that he could split his brain, which is called the sage's words, and give him all the money-making methods of the court ministers.
It's just that the day's lecture is over now, and Emperor Hongzhi's clear and gentle voice of "Gentlemen have tea and rice" came out. When the Hanlin lecturers came out, it was time for Cui Xie to go in. Eunuch Gao didn't have time to teach him, so he could only remind him at last: "The Son of Heaven is benevolent, you should seize the opportunity to beg for mercy."
Choi Xie gave him a melancholy smile and lowered his head deeply.
When the gentlemen came down from the palace and passed by the two of them, they all glanced at this backward colleague who was standing still, shaking his head slightly, or sighing in a low voice, all sympathizing with him, who could always make a stab at the sky when he met such a man. Active dad.
Cui Xie quietly stood down the steps and watched the seniors leave before entering the side hall with Eunuch Gao and paying homage to the king.
Emperor Hongzhi ordered him to stand up and said leniently: "Cui Qing doesn't need to be too polite, I called you here today because the cabinet gentlemen wrote a letter, saying that you were ignorant of the fact that your father, the Yunnan Senator Cui Ju, was imprisoned. Resign?"
Cui Xie hurriedly took off his hat and apologized: "My father is convicted, but I am a son of man, so how can I be an official? I have been raised by my father for 20 years. I wish to dissipate all the family wealth and use my body as a substitute to redeem my father's release from prison and the Ning family."
Without saying a word, he first settled on the tone of Senator Cui's guilt, which led Emperor Hongzhi to follow his words: "A few days ago, the Yunnan Provincial Commissioner made a report that when Cui Ju was appointed as the Taoist Senator of the Qing Dynasty in Yunnan, he used the name of the Qing Dynasty to bend the law and disturb the local area. The common people, extorting local officials and barbarians, and taking thousands of taels of bribes... According to the law, miscellaneous criminals should be sentenced to death..."
Cui Xie closed his eyes with force, squeezed out a bit of tears and said, "My father has owed the emperor's favor, and the crime is unforgivable. I only ask Your Majesty to pity the father and son, and Xu Chen to atone for his father's sin..."
Eunuch Gao was about to cry too. When he tried to persuade him outside to confess his guilt, he didn't remember a sentence, it was useless at all. The eunuch in charge of the Si Lijian couldn't take it any longer, so he had to say to himself: "Isn't the matter of Senator Cui not yet settled? Maybe these are all done by the family without him, and Mr. Cui himself does not know about it!"
Cui Xie immediately knelt down and agreed: "What Eunuch Gao said is also in the mind of the minister, and the minister believes that Jin Yiwei will give justice to the minister. The minister has taken care of the family members and concubines who served with his father, who brought them from the south. The things are sealed up, please ask the emperor's decree to call Jin Yiwei to collect evidence!"
Jin Yiwei was also concerned that he was a close minister of the emperor and the teacher of his uncle, so he didn't go to their house to search directly. Instead, he collected all the evidence and evidence, which was more efficient than Jin Yiwei. If Eunuch Gao hadn't known that he had a personal relationship with Xie Ying, the repressive envoy who was in charge of the case, he would have almost thought that he couldn't wait to send this father out into exile.
The emperor Hongzhi loved him because he was loyal to the monarch. This did not hinder the court's handling of the case because of his father and son's affection. He ordered him to stand up and promised: "This case has not yet been concluded, and we will wait for the supervisory censor to collect evidence from Yunnan. Only by comparing the results of the Zhenfu Division can the final case be finalized. Now the Zhenfu Division has asked Xie Ying to manage it in an orderly manner, not the man-eating savage he used to be, and Cui Ju can't bear much suffering in it. Aiqing just works in the Hanlin Academy with peace of mind. , the case will be concluded in the future, I will give you some face..."
Cui Xie wanted to shout that he didn't need to look at his face, but he thought about the journey of the censor from Beijing to Yunnan to collect evidence, and then come back after obtaining the evidence... Well, Senator Cui still has to stay in the prison for at least half a year. Thinking about the environment of the imperial prison, I feel that the emperor's disposal is quite reasonable.
There was a slight smile on his face, like a cloud breaking the beginning of the month, and everyone could see the sincerity of that smile and gratitude.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at him with love and gratitude, and felt that their monarchs and ministers were a rare match. He instructed Eunuch Gao to give Cui Xiu a few dishes later, and then turned to Cui Xie and said, "I have high hopes for Cui Qing. , you only need to serve in the DPRK, you can't reproduce the ignorant thoughts like today."
Cui Xie agreed gratefully, took a dish of cauliflower, a dish of burnt silver buds, and a dish of dried bamboo shoots with sauce, and went back to the Hanlin Academy to continue working.
When he got home from get off work, he immediately wrote a letter to the village, telling his grandmother and two younger brothers that the Son of Heaven wanted to show mercy, and that there was Xie Ying in the Zhenfu Secretary to take care of them, telling them not to worry about Senator Cui. He had given his family a reassurance pill, but he couldn't help worrying about his father's health day and night. From time to time, he asked Xie Ying to come to his house to tell him about Father Cui's situation in prison.
With Xie Zhenfu coming and going to take care and comfort, the Cui family's life went on peacefully, but Liu Ji, the first assistant, was very restless for a while.
Cui Xie's own father was arrested and imprisoned, and the evidence was so solid that he couldn't escape his guilt. Wouldn't this offend him deeply? Although he didn't do this on his own initiative, the report of the inspector was handed over by the cabinet. Will Cui Xie interfere with him
Liu Shoufu suffered in his heart for half a year, and secretly observed the two colleagues in the cabinet and inquired about the news of Xie Ying, the envoy of Zhenfu, and the governor of Yunnan. As a result, after more than half a year, not only their people in the court were safe and sound, and none of them were demoted or dismissed, but Jingmao, the censor who went to Yunnan to investigate the case, also brought the confession and the local officials and common people who had been asked by Cui Ju for their property. Chen Qing came.
The Zhenfu envoy, Xie Ying and Cui Xie, had such a good friendship, and with the evidence from both sides, he had no intention of exonerating his father, so he sentenced a miscellaneous criminal to death according to the law!
Cui Xie's biological father was sentenced to such a serious crime, and he was still doing a good job as a pacifier.
Liu Shoufu didn't know which one was more shocking. While waiting for the emperor to judge, a thought suddenly popped up in his heart-could it be that Cui Xie's luck only protects himself, and can't protect others
Maybe so!
Otherwise, why did his ancestors specially order him not to get married, and if he did, he would destroy the family's luck? His luck may be at odds with his father. The more he suppresses Cui Ju's official luck, Cui Xie's own luck can only be better
The more Liu Ji thought about it, the more excited he became, and a slight smile appeared on his face: Cui Hanlin, this old man is helping you to have a smooth career.