Phi-Fic Chapter 701 is full attendance, I added full attendance!
Chapter 701 is full attendance, I added full attendance!
Chapter 701 is full attendance, I added full attendance!
Just as Shi Xiangyun was urging the carriage back outside Donghua Gate.
On the corridor leading to Donghuamen from Qianqing Palace, Jiao Shun was walking among the red walls and yellow tiles with frowning brows.
Because of the gradual stabilization of his position in the recent period, he has been more or less slack, and this assassination undoubtedly sounded the alarm for him, and it also made him more and more deeply aware of the cruelty of political struggle.
But this is not the thing that makes him most vigilant. What makes Jiao Shun most vigilant is the attitude shown by Emperor Longyuan when he used the assassination incident to test the emperor yesterday.
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After yesterday's assassination, Jiao Shun joined forces with the people from Dali Temple to start an interrogation. During this period, the people from Dali Temple were only responsible for interrogating the assassin. All the physical contact with the assassin, and even the execution of the sentence were all handled by Jiao Shun's personal followers, so that Make sure that assassin doesn't get silenced.
At the beginning, the assassin was very stubborn, but after going through waterboarding several times with local materials, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and confessed to the set of "salt lord hires, kills and silences" rhetoric.
How could Jiao Shun believe in such nonsense?
Leaving aside the death of Wang Ziteng, I haven't found too many doubts for the time being, and it was really assassinated by the two of them. Then they just leave if they get it, why bother to come and assassinate themselves?
Even if these two people don't know the number one favorite of the emperor, but I came here this time under the sacred order, and I am a standard imperial envoy. If they really got their hands, the court will definitely go all out to investigate to the end.
They're not so much killing people to silence them, it's better to say they're here to poke a hornet's nest!
Jiao Shun immediately pointed out the flaws, and then continued to torture and question him, but this time the assassin was bitten to death and refused to speak again, and even tried to commit suicide several times during the period.
Although Jiao Shun hadn't succeeded under his precautions in advance, judging from this stubborn attitude, this person should be a dead man specially raised by some people, and it might not be so easy to get him to speak in a short time.
Sure enough, until the official ship docked outside the Dongbian Gate, no more information could be obtained from the assassin.
In desperation, Jiao Shun had no choice but to ask the people of Dali Temple to temporarily take him back to the Yamen of Dali Temple for custody, and then went to the palace to report to the emperor.
When Emperor Longyuan heard that Jiao Shun had almost died at the hands of an assassin, he immediately became furious. He ordered Dali Temple and Shuntian Mansion to dispatch manpower to thoroughly investigate the case at all costs; : "Ai Qing, there are only you and my monarch and ministers present here, if you have someone you doubt, you may as well tell me bluntly - as long as the words are reasonable, I will not tolerate them!"
Obviously, Emperor Longyuan didn't think that the assassination of Jiao Shun was the work of officials and businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang—after all, doing so would be tantamount to digging his own grave, and there is no benefit at all.
And listening to his eerie tone, it is definitely a thought that he would rather kill by mistake than let him go.
Jiao Shun pondered for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "I don't have much clues right now, but if we infer from the idea that the more profits we make, the greater the suspicion, the ones who will kill me like this are nothing more than those who are deeply hostile to me, and the minister There is a chance to replace it after death."
"This……"
Emperor Longyuan raised his brows: "I'm afraid there are as many rotten Confucians in the court who hate you to the bone as crucian carp crossing the river."
"But there are not many who meet these two requirements at the same time!"
"Conform to both of these at the same time?"
Emperor Longyuan heard the words, struggled to change his posture, frowned and said, "You mean Chen Mingju, the division of engineering?"
Before Jiao Shun could answer, he shook his head again and said, "No, no matter what, I will not rest assured that the Ministry of Industry will be handed over to this person—that is the Ministry of Industry...not right either!"
He even mentioned two people, and before Jiao Shun opened his mouth, he denied himself.
In the end, he simply stopped, looked directly at Jiao Shun and said, "Aiqing, don't try to be tricky anymore, just speak up when you have something to say."
"I thought that..."
Jiao Shun bowed deeply, and said solemnly: "Wang Zhe, a cabinet scholar, may be suspected."
"Wang Zhe?"
Emperor Longyuan was taken aback for a moment, then blurted out and asked: "Do you have evidence?!"
After finishing speaking, he also felt that this was inappropriate, after all, what he said at the beginning was the evidence of freedom.
So he hurriedly searched for it and said: "Wang Zhe is a veteran of the two dynasties, and he has been in the cabinet for a long time, so the old disciples are all over the world. If there is no real evidence of crime, I'm afraid it will not be easy to touch him."
Although Jiao Shun made an explanation, his attitude was completely opposite to the previous one who shouted and shouted.
Jiao Shun's heart sank at that time. He really suspected that Wang Zhe was not fake, but he took the initiative to point it out in front of the emperor, and it was more to test the emperor's attitude—to be exact, it was the emperor's criticism of the so-called 'New Confucianism'. manner.
In the past month or so, while Jiao Shun was attacking Lin Daiyu, the theory of "New Confucianism" gradually emerged, and quickly became the target of public criticism. It was denounced by countless Confucian scholars, and even overwhelmed Jiao Shun and Gong Xue for a while.
After all heretics are always more hateful than heretics.
In particular, the initiator of this heresy is still a cabinet bachelor sitting on the temple - in the eyes of many people, this is clearly a naked betrayal!
Most people in the line of engineering gloated over this, wishing that the old and new Confucian scholars would fight among themselves and beat people's brains into dog brains.
A few people hope to merge with the "New Confucianism" and take the opportunity to expand the influence of the line of engineering.
Only Jiao was vigilant.
Gein's theory of "New Confucianism" just hits the current weakness of engineering.
As a visitor from later generations, Jiao Shun naturally understands that industrial innovation needs the support of a corresponding theoretical system, otherwise he only knows about it but does not know why, and what is the difference from those skills that have been passed down orally for thousands of years?
Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of engineering, he drew up the route of "industry-university-research"-that is, to promote production with the help of short-term trainees in the early stage, and to select some talented and intelligent students for further study in the middle stage, and finally reach the level of theoretical research and development.
However, the New Confucianism advocates that the best Confucian scholars who are proficient in this way conduct theoretical research, and then pass on the knowledge obtained to the New Confucianism or work-study students.
Even Jiao Shun had to admit that in terms of ability in theoretical research alone, work-study students are definitely not as good as Confucian scholars—after all, among Confucian scholars, there are many who are interested in scientific knowledge. Under the circumstances, these people were deliberately ignored and suppressed.
Now that Wang Zhe has stood up and raised the banner, it is not difficult to gather a group of "New Confucians" who have a solid foundation.
Once they gain a firm foothold in the higher level of 'research' and have the right to speak, wouldn't the engineering school that Jiao Shun worked so hard to create become a wedding dress for others?
Although there is Jiao Shun, a later visitor, he can still suppress those new Confucians in a short time.
But what if someone in his care is gone? !
So it was not for nothing that he suspected Wang Zhe, and at the same time he wanted to test the emperor's attitude towards the 'New Confucianism'.
But now it seems that the situation is not optimistic.
Emperor Longyuan is now single-minded, only thinking about carrying out his grand ambitions, but he doesn't seem to care too much about how to realize this grand ambition and who will realize it.
as far as...
I'm also happy to see someone share the 'pressure' on Jiao Shun.
Of course, those 'New Confucians' were not enough to replace Jiao Shun's position in the eyes of the emperor until they showed enough value.
Therefore, after denying Jiao Shun's accusation, Emperor Longyuan quickly unleashed his thunderous means. First, he let Jiao Shun stay in the palace, and then the Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials who had been reported by Wang Ziteng but had not yet been found out, All of them ransacked their homes and sent them to prison, and quickly sent people to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to search for the salt owl mentioned by the assassin.
That's why the capital was shaken all night, and the whole city was talking about the grand occasion of Jiao Shun's assassination.
Incidentally, Wang Ziteng also became a trending searcher - don't look at Wang Ziteng as the first rank in the dynasty, and also has the nickname of Southeast King, but his influence in the capital is far less than that of Jiao Shun, at least among the people. Is such that.
This morning, the emperor summoned Jiao Shun again, and there were many rewards besides consolation, but he never mentioned Wang Zhe's matter again.
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In the corridor of the palace wall, Jiao Shun subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of Qianqing Palace. No matter whether Wang Zhe was instigated by Wang Zhe behind the scenes, this assassination aroused the restlessness buried in his heart.
Isn't it just that literary fighting can't be changed to martial fighting?
Coincidentally~
He had this idea at the beginning of the year!
After secretly firming up his belief in continuing to strengthen the picket team, Jiao Shun strode out of Donghua Gate.
Before finishing the formalities for leaving the palace, he heard noises coming from outside the palace gate. He raised his eyes and saw many familiar faces standing a hundred steps away, most of them were first- and second-term work-study students. .
Jiao Shun hastily waved at them, and then made a silent gesture.
After all, he came out of military training, and his discipline is not comparable to that of ordinary scholars. Seeing Jiao Shun's gestures, the palace gate quickly fell silent.
After Jiao Shun finished the formalities, he was about to go up to chat with the work-student students, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Lao Xu, a coachman in Peach Blossom Lane.
He couldn't help but feel his feet stop, and at the same time, his heavy heart was also lightened.
No need to ask, there must be Lin Daiyu in the carriage—otherwise, Lao Xu would have pulled a rickshaw to pick him up.
And Sister Lin is so concerned about herself, which shows that this more than a month of hard work has paid off.
He was in a good mood for a while, and he made an impassioned speech in front of the work-student students, with the momentum of a mountain collapse in front of him without changing his face.
In this way, it naturally gained the admiration of a large number of fans.
More than a hundred people surrounded him, and it took half an hour before they dispersed under his persuasion.
When there was no one in front of the palace gate, Jiao Shun turned to Lao Xu's carriage shop.
At the moment when the car curtain was rolled up, he looked inward with a smile on his face, not wanting to meet Shi Xiangyun's slightly playful smile first.
Jiao Shun's face froze, and then he immediately put on a more surprised expression, jumped into the carriage without any explanation, hugged Shi Xiangyun into his arms, and complained to Lin Daiyu: "You are an older sister, why are you still letting her go?" Messing around? If this caused fetal gas, where should mother tell the truth?"
How about it's not easy to be a scumbag.
These two short sentences not only showed concern for Shi Xiangyun, but also placed Lin Daiyu in a higher and special position, so that she would not feel left out.
To be able to do so in an instant, I don't know how many brain cells Jiao Shun spent.
The effect was also immediate. Lin Daiyu was a bit apprehensive when she saw Jiao Shun hastily embraced Shi Xiangyun, but after hearing his seemingly complaining but actually soothing words, most of the grudges in her heart were dispelled.
Shi Xiangyun snuggled into his arms, pouted and said, "My master said that I seem to be made of mud. I'm not so delicate--instead, Sister Lin, when she heard that you were assassinated, she avoided everything. Forgot, almost collided with our team."
After hearing this, Lin Daiyu couldn't help her ears getting hot, she turned her head and muttered: "How could you say such an exaggeration."
Before she finished speaking, her hand suddenly felt warm, but it was Jiao Shun who stretched out his big hand to wrap her catkin in time.
"correct!"
Shi Xiangyun felt that the restraint on his body was a little less, and immediately straightened his body and asked: "What happened to the assassination? The master didn't get hurt, did he?"
"Ha ha……"
Jiao Shun exaggeratedly showed his biceps, and said triumphantly: "Although I am not a soldier, how can three or five thieves be my opponent? Do you know that after I took down those two assassins with my own hands, my head What does it say in one sentence?"
"What is it?"
"I asked them if they had any other accomplices. I want to beat ten of them!"
Naturally, there was no need for his family to worry about the things that had passed, so Jiao Shun made some gags and made a general statement in spring and autumn style - he didn't mention Wang Zhe's matter, he just found another excuse to perfunctory.
Both Shi Xiangyun and Lin Daiyu are first-class talented women, but they don't know much about official affairs, so they didn't hear anything wrong - if the third girl Tanchun was here, I'm afraid it would not be so easy to hide passed.
At this point, a car of people went around and went to Taohua Lane first.
Shi Xiangyun visited around with great interest, and then read Lin Daiyu's draft and Xue Baochai's reply.
Needless to say, although the ambition is not here, Xue Baochai is indeed the best among all the women in terms of detail and realism. Although Tanchun also has this insight, his weakness is that it is not plain enough to show his sharpness.
Lin Daiyu was a little embarrassed at first, but seeing her laughing and laughing like in the past, she gradually relaxed.
If it wasn't for Jiao Shun who had to go home to report his safety, how long the two sisters would have to chat.
When leaving, Shi Xiangyun dragged Lin Daiyu to bid farewell, and took advantage of the situation to propose that he would have time in the future, so he came to visit with Jiao Shun.
Although Lin Daiyu was a little uncomfortable, firstly she admired Yu Xiangyun's generosity, and secondly, she lost her temper after being entangled with her, so she had to let go.
And after agreeing to let Shi Xiangyun come to the door, she specifically proposed that she could also bring sister Xing to the door together—although she was a little ashamed to see her old friend, but since she couldn't reject Shi Xiangyun, how could she turn away Xing Xiuyan who had always taken care of her?
The two made an agreement, and then waved goodbye.
When he got back into Lao Xu's carriage, Shi Xiangyun, who had always been very lively, suddenly became tired, holding his slightly protruding belly with both hands, and leaning listlessly in Jiao Shun's arms.
Jiao Shun caressed her hair lovingly, and said softly: "I really wronged you today."
Shi Xiangyun closed his eyes and shook his head and said, "I chose it by myself - who made me hate my master, but even more so that my sister Lin didn't end well?"
(End of this chapter)