Mo Yu hurriedly knelt down: "Master, calm down, I don't know."
Fang Shihong replied in a neither humble nor condescending manner: "You are a person who dares to cruelly break your son's legs and let the emperor know how badly you were bullied by the Donglin Party. Aren't you a sinister and cunning person?"
Fang Congzhe hated it when his son used him to make excuses for breaking his leg. He was so reprimanded that he had to forcefully defend himself and said: "Wrong logic! Wrong logic! Nonsense! My father has already said that if I break your leg, you can only blame yourself." I love going out to sleep on flowers and willows!"
Fang Shihong said with tears in his eyes: "You'd better tell this to the sweet-scented osmanthus trees in the yard. They won't question it."
"Treason!"
Fang Congzhe couldn't help but cursed Fang Shihong.
Then, Fang Congzhe suddenly calmed down: "You are right, my father did recommend Gu Kunshan to be the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, but it is not what you thought! My father is just to share the worries of my father! I don't want my father to be wronged, just That’s all!”
Fang Shihong glanced at Mo Yu and did not refute his father.
Fang Congzhe also glanced at Mo Yu, then waved his sleeves and left.
After Fang Congzhe left, Fang Shihong laughed: "Mo Yu, your factory father is indeed the only person who can see through my father. You saw it just now. After I said this according to your factory father's wishes, this old man The way the guy looks at me is really different from before, I can see that he doesn’t think I’m useless like before.”
Fang Shihong felt that he had revealed his abilities in front of his father Fang Congzhe, so he was very happy.
"Youngster can also see that although the master looks angry on the surface, he is actually happy on the inside."
Mo Yu echoed.
…
That night, Mo Yu came to Wei Zhongxian and reported to Wei Zhongxian what happened in Fang Mansion during the day, and said: "Mr. Factory, this is what happened in Fang Mansion today. Please give your instructions."
"Very good, this Fang Shihong has started to hit the road. Our family will ask the Emperor for a reward on your behalf, and the Emperor will also remember you. Thank you for your hard work!"
Wei Zhongxian smiled and started talking after hearing this.
"Thank you Mr. Factory."
Mo Yu replied.
Not long after, Wei Zhongxian entered the palace.
"Your Majesty, this is the news brought by our Dongchang's spy in Fang Mansion. After you asked our Dongchang to instigate Fang Shihong to participate in the court dispute, Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan have indeed been in contact with Fang Shihong. Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan have been in contact with Fang Shihong. Quan said he would cooperate with Fang Shihong to expose the true colors of some of the Donglin gentry and compete with them for public opinion."
As soon as Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, he reported to Zhu Youxiao.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked, "Where's Fang Congzhe? Has he had any contact with Gu Bingqian and Feng Quan?"
Zhu Youxiao clearly remembered that Fang Congzhe recommended Gu Bingqian to be the Minister of Punishment in front of him, and he kept saying that he hated Gu Bingqian.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help thinking: "Is this Fang Congzhe really annoying or fake? Did he say this deliberately in front of me, but in fact he has colluded with Gu Bingqian secretly?"
"No, according to our people, Fang Congzhe has always maintained a neutral image on the surface and is very cold towards Gu Bingqian. Fang Congzhe even prevented Fang Shihong and Gu Bingqian from contacting Feng Quan. This is the transcript of the conversation between Fang and his son."
Wei Zhongxian handed over a secret memorial.
After Zhu Youxiao took it and looked at it, he suddenly asked attentively: "I asked you to secretly send people to contact Fang Shihong, which is considered to be an outreach to the peripheral personnel of the East Factory. So, did you teach Fang Shihong these words?"
"The servants all follow the instructions of the emperor to let people come into contact with Fang Shihong. Who knows how to teach him this? He can even guess who Yuan Fu recommends to be the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment."
Wei Zhongxian replied cautiously.
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "I guess Fang Congzhe already knows that Mo Yu is from Dongchang, but this is no longer important. Dongchang has other spies in his Fang family. Besides, if you want to train Fang Shihong, you must expose someone. Even if you send someone to train Fang Shihong, you don’t know if Fang Congzhe will guess that it’s my instruction.”
"My servant feels that even if he guessed it, he would not dare to admit it," Wei Zhongxian replied.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and nodded.
Then, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian: "Your Dongchang spreads some news to the outside world, saying that Gu Bingqian became the Minister of the Ministry of Justice because he followed the path of the Fang family master! As for how, let the outsiders imagine for themselves! "
In Zhu Youxiao's view, if he wanted to force Fang Congzhe to cooperate with him in transforming the Ming Dynasty, he would have to start with Fang Shihong. Therefore, he had already asked Dongchang to keep an eye on Fang Shihong.
…
"Why did the master be so cruel to Shihong just now? Don't you think he is more sensible than before? If you think about what he just said, he doesn't hate you for breaking his leg. You also know who caused him to suffer now. so."
Fang Congzhe's wife, Mrs. Liu, started talking to Fang Congzhe after Fang Congzhe came back.
Fang Congzhe said somewhat depressedly: "Do you know what he just said?"
With that said, Fang Congzhe stood up from the bed excitedly: "He wants to be the second Yan Shifan!"
Fang Congzhe snorted: "But his father won't be the second Yan Song!"
Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes at him: "Master, you don't need to lose your temper with him. You can teach him well. Besides, he also had some random thoughts because his leg was broken. It's not because of your things. If your political opponents are forcing you to get angry, why don't you get angry with them?"
"I can't teach him anymore!"
Fang Congzhe sighed, then looked around, and said to Liu in a low voice: "What I'm worried about now is that His Majesty is instigating him behind his back!"
After saying that, Fang Congzhe spread his hands helplessly and said, "How else can I teach you?"
"Ah! Does this matter have something to do with His Majesty?"
Mrs. Liu obviously couldn't see the level that Fang Congzhe saw, so she didn't understand why Fang Congzhe suddenly mentioned that this matter was related to the emperor.
"Be careful!"
Fang Congzhe said something hurriedly.
"Then if it is true that His Majesty has someone instigating my son behind his back, then what Your Majesty wants to do will be detrimental to my son. Husband, can you think of a way?!"
Mrs. Liu asked in a low voice worriedly.
"What can I do! Even if I know that His Majesty is instigating Shihong behind his back, I can't expose it. I can't let His Majesty think that I'm smarter than him, right? I can't even let His Majesty know that I have guessed it, otherwise His Majesty will Those who are dissatisfied with me will even kill me, which will undoubtedly be more detrimental to our family."
Fang Congzhe replied helplessly.
Then, Fang Congzhe looked at Zhudeng again and said: "As for what Your Majesty wants to do, I think I have guessed it. Don't worry, Your Majesty has no intention of harming Shihong. Your Majesty is the Nine-Fifth Lord. He will kill whoever he wants to harm. If you like Come blatantly, not sneakily.”
Fang Congzhe sighed and said: "Your Majesty doesn't know why, but he has been fond of Shimiao since he came to the throne, and he doesn't play according to common sense. The only difference from Shimiao is that he likes to do strange tricks, and Shimiao likes Refining elixirs.”
Mrs. Liu also became curious after hearing this: "What kind of person do you think His Majesty is now? Just be good. If not, you'd better stop being an official as soon as possible! It's not scary!"
When she thought about how her son was almost charged with murder and kidnapped due to disputes in the court, she really didn't want her husband to stay in the court anymore.
Fang Conzhe smiled bitterly: "I can't help you. Speaking of Your Majesty, I don't quite understand. I always feel that Your Majesty is very anxious. It seems to him that the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in twenty or thirty years! I really didn't expect Your Majesty. A person who has grown up in a deep palace will have such a strong sense of worry! Your Majesty has been saying many times now that if the world is in chaos, the world will be in chaos. At worst, he will return to Fengyang to carry out righteousness. Listen to this. We veterans, whenever His Majesty says At this point, I don’t know how to answer the question. It seems that the next moment, if we continue to obstruct us, His Majesty will really draw his sword on us and become enemies of each other!"
