After Cai Xianqing finished reading the letter, he immediately showed it to Ye Yongjia, leaned aside and sighed: "Enyan, this person, has too immature ideas. What he said is logically correct, but it is a pity that now it is a life-and-death party struggle, and there is really no room for logic. Talk. Indulging the enemy in this way will be detrimental to both us and him."
Ye Yongjia said: "Mr. Cai, as the saying goes, don't trust the people you trust and don't trust the people you employ. Now that you have given him the Yushitai, you must fully support him. He is just starting his official career and is not deeply involved in the matter, so he only has this naive fantasy. . Even if you give me good advice, he won’t listen. It’s better to wait a little longer, and he will understand naturally.”
Cai Xianqing frowned and shook his head: "That's inappropriate! We have to let him know our attitude. We can't let him be so lax." So he wrote a reply in person, and Ye Yongjia didn't stop him.
Lu Tingci was still at the censor's desk. When he saw Ge Mingwei leaving, he just took the reply letter and read it. Although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he knew that Cai Xianqing had always had prestige and could not be angered, so he did not dare to argue with him anymore and replied respectfully. However, Cai Xianqing was still uneasy, but because of Ye Yongjia's decision, he could not intervene in the matter, so he looked up to the sky He sighed: "After all, Tinglong's conscience is still intact and he refuses to be truly ruthless! Letting this person control his speech will definitely cause serious trouble in the future!"
"Xueshi Ge, please bring the documents I have here to the Emperor."
The shadow of Guoxiang swayed in the candlelight, and he pushed the paperwork on the table forward.
"Okay," Ge Mingwei stood in front of him and stuffed the documents into his sleeves, "What are they all about?"
The man from Guoxiang raised his eyes and looked at him: "Daily business matters are irrelevant. What is important is another matter."
"King Yi?" Ge Mingwei asked cautiously.
"Haha, that's right," Guo Xiangren smiled while stroking his hands, "I plan to let you take advantage of the time when you enter the palace to tell the emperor about King Yi's affairs."
"Then...what should I say?"
"You can understand it by looking at this," Guoxiang took out another memorial from the darkness, pointed at it and said, "This is written by Chen Libu. But don't rush to submit it. After you have an interview with His Majesty, After confirming the truth, I will hand it over to the prince in the main hall tomorrow so that all the officials will know."
After hearing this, Ge Hanlin pondered: "Isn't this... bad?"
The Guoxiang man slowly turned his head: "What's wrong?"
Ge Mingwei said: "Isn't Liang Hou just trying to show off his tricks?"
The Xiang people sneered: "This is completely Mr. Ge's overthinking."
"I have seen it," Ge Mingwei waved his hand, "The reason why you asked me to go to the court first is to secretly obtain the emperor's consent. Once the emperor nods, handing over this memorial is just a formality in the court. , Just go with the flow. King Yi didn't know anything about it, so he must have thought that it was us who were making trouble and wanted to argue. If the memorial was blocked because of this, wouldn't King Yi become a person who resisted the decree? Can't I see these conspiracies and tricks? "
"so what?"
Ge Ming replied sternly for justice: "Ge thinks that although King Yi is at odds with the prince and is married to Ye Thief, he is after all a nobleman of the royal family, not an ordinary minister, and he is different from us. If you want to provoke him at will, His relationship with the emperor made the father resent his son, and the son resented his father, and the family and country were in unrest. Isn't this the way of a minister? For the sake of righteousness, you can't use any means!"
The Guoxiang people endured their anger and thought calmly: 'This guy is a soft-spoken person, so you can never force him. Since he is pedantic and ignorant and likes to talk about Confucianism and righteousness, then I will be hypocritical for a while. '
So he pretended to be like a famous Confucian lecturer and said earnestly: "Master Ge, you only know one but not the other. Nowadays, the righteous way has been lost and Confucianism is not popular. It is the time when traitors are causing trouble in the world. We have already It is the only pure land left. If anyone slows down a step, he will be killed, and the gentleman's ethics will be destroyed. I would like to ask, sir, which is more important, the continuation of ethics, or the so-called righteousness?"
Ge Mingwei pinched his fingers and frowned without answering.
"It is also said in the classics that 'a gentleman is at ease with the world.' Even if Confucius was born at this time, I am afraid he would have to be flexible and have to use some dishonorable methods. Fierce enemies must retaliate in kind to be effective. !”
To Ge Mingwei, his words still seemed a little forced. But in his repeated struggles, he seemed to begin to doubt his previous views: 'Does doing such a thing really not violate the ethics of the sages? 'As soon as such an idea came up, he no longer rejected it. Instead, he made it more reasonable and easier to accept, carefully incorporating it into his own thoughts.
For some reason, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat at this moment, and began to have random thoughts in his mind. He even recalled the classics he had learned in the past in his mind. After making sure that this idea had a complete explanation, he was freed from the psychological pressure. The head said: "It seems that Lianghou is more proficient in these Confucian classics than I am. You have convinced me."
The man from Guoxiang felt more relaxed, and he immediately lay down on the chair and smiled softly: "Then go."
The emperor usually slept very late, and the ministers were accustomed to disturbing him at night. However, today he was actually tired and did not want to be overtired, so he summoned Ge Mingwei in front of his bed.
Ge Mingwei followed the eunuch and walked in with his body lowered, not daring to look up. His eyes were looking straight in the direction of the carpet: "I, Ge Mingwei, want to pay homage to Your Majesty!"
"Why are you here?"
"I have a few official documents waiting for approval. Please bring them together with me." After saying that, Ge Mingwei took out the official documents and held them in his hands. He watched the little eunuch take them from the corner of his eye and waited quietly for the emperor. the sound of.
"Let's deal with these matters tomorrow." The emperor looked over them several times and put them aside. "What else do you have to do?"
Ge Mingwei's heart beat fiercely, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, kowtowed hurriedly and said: "I want to advise King Yi on his affairs."
"Say." The emperor was silent for a moment, and when he said this, his tone was extremely cold.
"I thought..." Ge Mingwei was sweating all over his body. He wanted to know the emperor's face now, but the more he thought about it, the heavier his neck became, causing indescribable pain. "Since King Yi is deeply loved by the emperor, why not just tell him Let him live in the capital. Now I just say that he will stay until the first month. If he wants to change it by then, I'm afraid it won't be appropriate."
"Wouldn't that be against the king's law? I don't want to make a special case for him."
"I have a plan. I can first buy the prince a big house in the capital, give him gold and silver, and then issue an edict to seize the vassal land. If the vassal land is gone, there is no need to follow the vassal king's regulations."
Then he added: "This is just a way that I suddenly thought of. Because I was afraid of offending the foreign court, I didn't dare to talk about it publicly, so I didn't write a memorial. I hope your majesty will forgive me. If your majesty feels that this strategy is feasible, I will do it the next day. Go write a book."
"That's fine," the emperor said softly, "this policy is exactly what I want. Tomorrow morning, you will submit the memorial to me, and I will issue the decree immediately. This will save you all the verbosity and implement it as soon as possible."
