Han Xiufeng couldn't figure out why Su Shun did this for a while, but only knew that the guild hall could not be stayed anymore. After dinner with Ji Yunfei, Ao Tongchen and Wu Zhaoling, who were indifferent, he asked Xiaoshandong and Xu Jiu to pack their luggage and move to Zhiqiao Hutong overnight.

Wang Naiteng, who thought he was going to stay in the guild for a few days, was very strange, and went to "Tingyuxuan" one after another to ask why.

Han Xiufeng briefly explained the whole story of the matter, and said helplessly: "It's really people who sit at home, and disaster comes from the sky. After they make such a fuss, I won't be able to calm down in the future. Not only will I have to go to the yamen to start tomorrow, but I have to go to the Military Affairs Office every few days to walk, but I can't even go to the sacrifices that Qing Er should attend!"

"If you are really pushed to the forefront, you have to be more cautious in the future." Wang Naizeng thought for a while, then asked with a frown, "Second Master, why did he treat you like this for so many years with Sushun?"

Han Xiufeng smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't come up with a clue for a while."

Qingxian pondered: "Fourth Master, I don't think this matter is that complicated."

"How do you say this?"

"Because Fourth Master, you are no longer you two years ago. Whether you were appointed as the Tongjimai of the Coastal Defense of Songjiang Prefecture and the Supervisor of the Customs of Jiangxi, or as the Tongjimai of the South Bank of Yongding River, or even later transferred to the Tongji Department of Tongzheng, and later returned to his hometown to supervise the Eastern Sichuan League Training, they were recommended by several adults, including him, one after another."

While baking hands on the stove, Qingxian continued, "You led the Sichuan East Group to assist Hubei in assisting the fight against Changmao and the promotion of Taipu Temple Shaoqing are both the emperor's intentions, and even the emperor issued a direct order. In his opinion, your wings are hard, and you are no longer the Han Xiufeng who relied on his care and support!"

Han Xiufeng felt that Qingxian's words made some sense, but he shook his head: "How high can I be a Han Xiufeng and how far I can go in my career. Even Brother Qingxian, you know in your heart. Could he be so supreme, I wonder if he shouldn't suppress me because of this."

"Fourth Master, you are a fan of the authorities. Think about the current position of the official position, the size of the official position, the level of the level, or can you hand in a sign and beg for a visit at any time, and be able to speak in front of the emperor?"

Qingxian stared at Han Xiufeng and then said, "As far as we know, in the past six months, especially after Wen Zhongtang got sick, the emperor rarely summoned Bai Zhongtang and Peng Zhongtang. He only saw him, Prince Zheng and Prince Yi. By the way, there are also the King of Monks. You have only been back to Beijing for a few days and have met him twice. What do you think he would think?"

"..." Han Xiufeng was stunned and speechless for a moment.

Qingxian looked back at Wang Naizeng who was thinking, then looked at Liu Shanyang who looked frightened, and suddenly changed his tone: "If you guessed correctly, he was just a little uncomfortable, and he didn't really want to suppress you, because in his opinion, this was not a big deal."

"This matter is not big?" Liu Shanyang couldn't help asking.

Before Qingxian could speak, Wang Naizeng smiled bitterly, "Brother Shizhen, this is really not a big deal for Sushun. He had just killed a group of big corrupt officials and locked up a group of small corrupt officials. In his opinion, the civil and military officials in the court were either corrupt officials or mediocre officials who were just corpses. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the emperor's enactment, he used local gentry to control the quota, and poor students had no chance to take the job. He came to see the leopard, and from the small to the big, he rectified the teachers and students. In the same year, he had the same funding and helped each other, cultivated the party for personal gain, deceived and controlled, and what was wrong with recruiting power and bribery?"

"It can be frozen for three feet in a day without a cold!"

"Brother Shizhen, you and I think governing the country is like a small cooking, especially at the critical moment of external and internal troubles. The matter of refreshing the administration should be slowed down. But he didn't think so. He had to seize the day. He felt that if the Qing Dynasty was not rectified, he would die!" Wang Naizeng stood up, lifted the kettle on the stove, and helped Han Xiufeng continue tea, and said: "Compared to asking the emperor to no longer treat the Eight Banners, and taking advantage of the emperor's opportunity to reward the Fourth Master's Juren, what is the point of knocking on the civil and military officials in the court?"

Liu Shanyang was shocked: "He asked the emperor to stop the Eight Banners. Brother Yunqing, you are not kidding!"

"Can I make such a joke?"

Wang Naizeng put down the kettle and smiled bitterly: "Actually, sometimes I really admire him. He dares to say such words, and he dares to do such things. Unfortunately, he is not considering enough, and he does not think about so many Eight Banners who can neither farm nor do business. They can only plant flowers, raise birds, walk dogs, and fight crickets. What do you rely on for your livelihood without hard-core crops? Fortunately, the emperor didn't listen to him. If he really wanted to listen, I guess the people in the four nine cities would rebel."

This is the first time Liu Shanyang has heard of this. He can't help but ask: "Why does this happen, the Manchus in and outside the Beijing are still hated to death?"

"Hate, but he is powerful, and the people outside can only hate in their hearts, all of whom dare not speak out."

Wang Naizeng didn't want to go too far, so he looked at Han Xiufeng and said, "Fourth Master, I think Brother Qingxian's words make sense. Sushun must think that doing this can not only make friends with the emperor, but also helping the emperor to reward you as a juren, and taking the opportunity to attack ministers such as Bai Zhongtang, Peng Zhongtang and others. He even thought that doing this would prevent you from being 'involved' with those adults. After all, the official position of your current position is beyond your control."

"It should be." Han Xiufeng touched the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly with a bit of self-deprecating smile: "He knew that it was a great regret for me to have a bad background. He knew that the more I had not read a few books of sages like me, the more I wanted to be recognized by Shilin. I felt that I was more and more like a civil servant, and I was worried that I would turn to Lord Zhou, Lord Weng and Peng Zhongtang, so I would just take this opportunity to cut the mess quickly and cut off my idea of ​​pretending to be gentle!"

"Fourth Master, as far as I know, isn't he very good to scholars?" Liu Shanyang asked in confusion.

"It depends on who is like-minded and those who are not appreciated by talent. Not only does he treat him as a guest of honor or even as a confidant. But he naturally will not like those who are in a high position and have political views and disagreements with him."

"He doesn't like Peng Zhongtang?"

"It's not just that I don't like Peng Zhongtang, Grand Secretary Zhou Zupei, Jia Zhen, and Grand Secretary Weng Xincun, as long as I am a high-ranking Han minister, he doesn't like it. In his opinion, those adults are all mediocre officials who have no opinion and are just corpses."

"Fourth Master, he doesn't like it at all. His relationship with Chen Fuen, the Minister of War, is very different." Qingxian said with his head up.

"As far as I know, Chen Fuen's official voice is not good, how did he be activated?" Han Xiufeng asked curiously.

Qingxian knew the most about the incident in the Daoguang Dynasty. After a moment of silence, he said in a mixed mood: "Chen Fuen is famous for changing his mind, talking to others, and talking to others. He entered the center of the duty station and walked on the military machine and Zhang'a, the then foreman of the military machine, saw that he was smart and smart and capable, so he attracted him as his confidant.

At that time, the military minister Wang Ding supported Lin Zexu's request for a ban on smoking. Mu Zhanga and his father did not object at first. After all, big smoke is a harmful thing. I, the Qing Dynasty, didn't know how much money the British would earn from big smoke for a year. But later the big smoke was banned, and the British also started fighting with us."

"What happened later?" Han Xiufeng asked.

"Lin Zexu first reported that the British were not worth worrying about, and even reported victory every few days. Later, he was defeated and could not beat him, so he could only negotiate peace. Seeing Mu Zhang's reconciliation, the emperor not only agreed, but also ordered his father to discuss peace with the Western foreigners. Wang Ding, who had always supported Lin Zexu's ban on smoking, had always been in charge of war, and strongly opposed it. The situation was over, and he hanged himself, leaving thousands of words of corpse advice, impeached Mu Zhang's father to misunderstand the country, and asked the emperor to "reprimande and blame the minister."

These things involving land cenit compensation are not dared to mention, let alone discuss them.

Han Xiufeng heard about it for the first time and asked again: "What's going on later."

"It's not a trivial matter to close the house and hang yourself, and I hope to give advice to the corpse. This is not a trivial matter. It would be fine if it was reported that Mu Zhanga and his father were dismissed, and even the late emperor would become a fool. Chen Fuen happened to be ordered to handle the matter. He rushed to the Wang family in a hurry and destroyed Wang Ding's memorial. It is said that he also used both soft and hard work to seal the mouth of Wang Ding's son Wang Bing. Mu Zhanga escaped the disaster and was unscathed, but his father was dismissed for peace talks with the Western barbarians."

Qingxian took a deep breath and continued, "Since then, he has risen to the top. In the 27th year, he was transferred to the Assistant Minister of War and walked on the Minister of Military Affairs. At that time, he was only forty-five years old. A Han minister was able to enter the center of the ranks at the age of forty-five, and there were not many since the establishment of the Military Affairs Office of Yongzheng.

Later, he and Bai Wei went to Shandong to inspect the administration of the government, impeached the Shandong Governor Chong'en to lack funds and the arrest and sluggishness. After overthrowing Chong'en, he temporarily appointed the Shandong Governor for several months. After returning to Beijing, he shamelessly asked for credit and reward, saying that he was fair and honest during his time in Shandong and had no crime. The late emperor believed it, not only rewarded him with the top of his head and riding a horse in the Forbidden City, but also wrote the four big words "Qing Zheng Liang Minister" in an imperial pen!"

Such favors have never been seen since the Shunzhi Dynasty.

Liu Shanyang couldn't help asking: "Then is he a clean official?"

"As far as I know, he should collect ice and charcoal, don't respect, Nian Jing... as well as a lot of it."

Qingxian paused and then said, "The late emperor thought he was a loyal minister and a great Qing official. Later, he ordered him to go to Shanxi to inspect the administration of officials. He did not disappoint the late emperor. As soon as he arrived in Shanxi, he collected evidence of Shanxi Governor Wang Zhaochen's corruption and abuse of power, and arrested him for being punished. The late emperor even appreciated him even more. He first promoted him to the Minister of Works, and then ordered him to be appointed as the Minister of Works. After a few months, he was transferred to the Minister of Justice.

Later, the first emperor passed away and ascended the throne now.

Because of the ceasing of land and compensation, the emperor was always worried and felt that he had no face to face his ancestors. He died of depression. He left a will to not enter the Taimiao during his lifetime. This was not a trivial matter. The emperor asked for advice from the court officials, and Chen Fuen actually started arguing with Prince Yi Zaiyuan in front of the hall in front of the emperor and the ministers. It was really unruly.

Afterwards, Prince Yi was fined only half a year's salary, and he was reprimanded by the emperor and demoted to the third level to remain in office. Maybe he thought that this was a royal matter after all, and he, a foreign minister, should not be involved. Maybe he realized what it means to be a emperor and a minister. He quickly submitted a memorial to ask his mother to return home to end his retirement, and the emperor told him to get out of here."

Han Xiufeng knew something about it later and couldn't help but sigh: "Later, the emperor dismissed Mu Zhang'a's official position for the crime of "protecting the throne and greed for prosperity, hindering the wise and sickening the country." He was dismissed from his post and never mentioned it. The "Mu Party" in the court also dismissed one after another. He asked to return to his hometown to end his retirement mother, which just escaped the disaster."

"At that time, my father said that he felt something was wrong, so he deliberately quarreled with Prince Yi and took the opportunity to escape unstoppable. But he didn't expect that after six years, he actually ran back. As soon as he returned to the capital, he asked Shanxi Dao Censor Qian Guisen to submit a memorial, saying, 'Former Shangshu Chen Fuen knew his talents and was given a promotion'."

"He is Mu Zhang'a's man, how could the emperor use him?"

"Yes, it is said that Lord Wen said that the emperor was furious when he saw the memorial, and scolded him in a scattered manner, saying, "It is not something that he wants to be favored by others, and it is ridiculous that what he reported is not worthy of the position of the censor. He even believed that Qian Guisen was not worthy of the position of the censor, so he ordered him to go back to the original yamen to walk to show a minor punishment."

Qingxian took a sip of water and then said, "The emperor doesn't like him, and Prince Yi, who is highly valued by the emperor, will not like him. But a few days later, the emperor actually ordered him to be the Minister of War for the Head of the Ministry of War, and then promoted him to the Minister of War, Fourth Master, are you surprised?"

Wang Naizeng didn't want to keep his composure and said with some disdain: "As far as I know, after being reprimanded by the Emperor, he ran to Prince Zheng, Prince Yi and Sushun's house almost every day. His flattery and diligence towards Prince Zheng, Prince Yi and Sushun, and his diligence in pleasing him are really hard to describe."

"What a real man can bend and stretch!" Han Xiufeng sighed.

"Fourth Master, I don't think it's strange that he flatters and pleases the officials. What's strange is what kind of person he is, Su Shun should be very clear. He knows that he is a villain, why did he ask the emperor to use him?"

"What's so strange about this? No matter what, he has been a military minister for several years. He can be valued with recommendations. He is a master who can do anything. It is appropriate for Sushun to use him to help rectify the administration. Anyway, he is not afraid of offending people."

"But you recommend him is different from recommending the Fourth Master. What should the emperor do if Long Yan is furious?" Wang Naizeng still didn't understand.

"Did you ever wonder why the emperor would reuse Sushun?"

Han Xiufeng asked back and explained: "The emperor knew that corruption in civil and military affairs in the court was a trend, and he wanted to work hard to govern, so he valued the royal family like Sushun. Sushun asked to use Chen Fuen. The emperor knew that it was to rectify the administration of the government and would naturally be correct. The emperor knew whether it was for public intention. Whether it was out of public interest or not."

"I understand. It turns out that in the emperor's mind, Chen Fuen was still the same Chen Fuen as before."

"I won't talk about him anymore, but I'll talk about what's happening in front of me."

Han Xiufeng put down the teacup and looked around everyone and said, "I guess the emperor will receive a Guangdong memorial soon. No matter what Ye Mingchen said in the memorial or whether the emperor would believe it, we can't do nothing like we are now. Brother Yunqing, I want to trouble you to go out for a long trip to Guangzhou again. First, do what I said in the afternoon, and second, you can grasp the barbarians nearby. Yun Qijun and the others can only find out the news there. Maybe you can do something if you go there."

"As for orders, I'm ready to go and strive to set off early."

"Shi Zhen, I plan to invite you to go there too and set off with Yun Qing, but you don't go to Guangdong, but to Shanghai. Yu'er's girl is getting more and more dissatisfied. Go and help me stare and open your eyes."

"Okay, I'm going to Shanghai to see the world." Liu Shanyang agreed without hesitation.
Chapter completed!