None of the three people responded.
Wang Xijue remained silent for a long time after the three people left. The initial anger on Gu Jing Wubo's face had disappeared.
Not long after, Wang Xijue's housekeeper Wang Wu came up and said, "Master, Huang Shi'an, who went to North Korea to manage the cotton industry, is here!"
After Wang Xijue heard this, he couldn't help but think of his previous conversation with Shen Shixing, and ordered: "Let him come to see me now!"
Wang Wu bowed and said yes.
"I'll just eat my lunch here and let someone prepare an extra bowl."
Then, Wang Xijue gave instructions to the domestic slave beside him.
Not long after, Wang Xijue's servant Huang Shi'an came to Wang Xijue, knelt down and paid homage: "Greetings to the master!"
"Get up."
Wang Xijue said with a smile.
Huang Shian thanked him tremblingly, then lowered his head and waited for Wang Xijue to ask questions.
Wang Xijue asked Huang Shian with a smile: "You haven't eaten yet, have you?"
Huang Shi'an replied with a flattering smile: "Don't dare to miss the master's business, otherwise you won't have time to eat."
"Sit down and eat together."
Wang Xijue said suddenly.
Huang Shi'an couldn't help but be startled and asked subconsciously: "Master, do you want me to eat together?"
Wang Xijue nodded: "Fresh anchovies are tasteless when eaten by one person. Enjoying it alone is not as good as enjoying it with everyone!"
Huang Shi'an thanked him hurriedly, and then sat tremblingly opposite Wang Xijue, half-sit on his buttocks, and said with a smile:
"That little one is a mistake."
Wang Xijue concentrated for a while, then continued to eat fish and meat, and took the initiative to ask Huang Shi'an: "How is the cotton cloth sold in North Korea?"
Huang Shi'an was just picking up the bowl and Kuaizi. When Wang Xijue asked, he was not in a hurry to pick up the food and replied:
"Sir, the profit of each piece of coarse cloth is one yuan more than that sold in Guan Nei. The main reason is that the Liu family's cloth is sold cheaper. At present, the Busan Cotton Bank, which we cooperate with the Langya Wang family (Wang Shizhen family), has been earning one thousand yuan a year. Two more."
"Somebody come!"
Wang Xijue suddenly put down his kuaizi and gave a sharp shout.
Not long after, a family of slaves came out: "Please give me your instructions."
"Take Huang Shi'an down and reward him with fifty taels of silver!"
Wang Xijue suddenly ordered.
After hearing this, Huang Shi'an was overjoyed and hurriedly knelt down to Wang Xijue: "Thank you, Master, for the generous reward. I am ashamed to receive it!"
He was just a servant of the second-class steward of the palace, not a first-class steward, and his monthly salary was only two taels. Wang Xijue's reward of fifty taels to him was already a huge reward for him.
Therefore, Huang Shian was overjoyed.
Wang Xijue glanced at Huang Shi'an, who was wearing coarse silk on the ground, and said with a forced smile: "Go down! Come see me again in the evening."
Wang Xijue said, "Let someone set a table for him to eat."
"yes!"
After Huang Shi'an left, Wang Xijue continued to eat fish, and couldn't help but said: "Now I feel that anchovies are delicious!"
…
"Mr. Ge, it's too difficult to enjoy the people!"
"I tried it yesterday and asked my family to eat at the same table with me. I still don't know where Ouyang Wenzhong's happiness comes from. I just feel that the taste is unpleasant."
"In the past, I didn't feel uncomfortable kneeling in front of my father to perform and lecture, but to have lowly people sit at the same table in front of me. Although I have this intention, I have no sense of joy."
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The next day.
Wenyuan Pavilion.
After Wang Xijue saw Shen Shixing, he told Shen Shixing how he felt about having his slaves eat with him at the same table yesterday.
"In the end, I would rather give him a large sum of money and let him benefit from me, and set up another table for him to eat on his own, but I couldn't insist that he dine with me."
"It shows that it is still difficult to achieve the distinction between high and low!"
"I don't know how Ouyang Wenzhong managed to enjoy himself with the people, and how Tao Qian managed to drink with the farmers."
After Wang Xijue said this, Shen Shixing laughed:
"Perhaps both the public and the servant are not exempt from the common customs. The servant has tried it once and it can be done by forcing it, but I don't know where the joy will come from!"
"The only thing that makes me proud is that I realize that I am not just a person who only knows how to be superior but only talks empty words and does not know how to be humble and can't bend the rules and submit to others."
"It's completely different from the feeling when His Majesty asked me to sit down and demonstrate!"
"When the emperor gives you a seat, you feel like drinking nectar, your spirit is uplifted, and you have the desire to write down articles and poems. But when you give it to the people to sit down, it feels like drinking bitter medicine, like suppressing your own desires."
Having said this, Shen Shixing said: "It can be seen that it is really difficult to be friends with everyone as He Fushan said. It is still difficult for such an open-minded person, let alone asking for the nobles in the world."
"We can force ourselves to accept it."
"But what about the most noble people in the world? Can they do it by force?"
"So, when Pu and Bingzhong (Yu Youding) were discussing how to establish the new rites, they advocated that although the rites are for common people, they should still recognize the difference between high and low, and the new rites should focus on constructing and supplementing the new rites, clarifying the Chinese character There are differences in etiquette and law between those who have not been converted to Chinese culture, and we urge the people of the world to recognize that those who accept the transformation of the king are higher in personality than the barbarians who have not accepted the transformation of the king."
Shen Shixing explained his point of view as he spoke.
Wang Xijue nodded: "This will indeed make it easier for the world to accept."
Shen Shixing nodded: "Yes, the king and father can respect their teachers and teach them, and show them courtesy and call them masters. But ministers cannot just forget the courtesy of ministers. They don't know that kings and fathers are more valuable than ministers."
"Some people forgot about etiquette because of profit, which led to today's mistakes."
Wang Xijue glanced at the chief minister of the cabinet and said.
Shen Shixing said nothing more.
…
Snapped!
"The person behind the scenes you said is Yuan Fu, and you can't provide any evidence. How can you expect us to believe you!"
Shortly after the turmoil outside the Ming Dynasty ended, the censor Ding Cilü was taken out of the Jinyi Guard Prison and accepted the trial of the Three Laws Division.
But no matter what Yan Qing, the Minister of Punishment, asked, Ding Jilu still insisted that Zhang Siwei, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was the mastermind behind him.
Therefore.
Yan Qing and other officials of the Three Laws Division had no choice but to submit Ding Jilu's confession, and also noted that there was no circumstantial evidence for his confession.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun ordered Ding Jilu to be killed together with Wu, Zhao and other criminals. Ji Chonggong, a member of the Qianhu family of Jinyiwei, was also sentenced to death because he took bribes and watched the civil uprising.
then.
Not long after, Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, Ding Culu and others were all taken to the execution ground.
It is now April of the eleventh year of Wanli.
On the day when Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, Ding Jilu and others were executed, it was a rainy day, and the cold spring rain washed the entire execution ground clean.
As for Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, Ding Jilu and others, they were pressed down on the wet ground that morning, and their limbs and heads were wrapped in ropes that were pulled on five carriages.
Wu Zhongxing smacked his dry mouth and stared blankly at the sky. What appeared in the corners of his eyes were not only raindrops but also teardrops, and he said with grief:
"How could this be the result?"
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have resisted Zhang Juzheng's love, and it would have been better to end up like this!"
Zhao Yongxian shouted loudly here: "Your Majesty! I know that I was wrong. I really know that I was wrong!"
"Woo!"
Zhao Yongxian started crying as he shouted.
Ding Culu didn't say a word.
Only after Shu Hua, the left minister of the execution department, appeared, he shouted to Shu Hua: "Please tell Zhang Siwei that people like him are greedy for life and afraid of death, but it does not mean that everyone is greedy for life and afraid of death!"
"But don't think that by being so careless and not daring to admonish the emperor and denounce the traitors, he can escape unscathed!"
"In a world dominated by the strong, cowardly people only deserve to be bullied. Even those who actively choose to be cowardly are the same!"
"Although my father is benevolent, he will not be benevolent to such a useless person like him! I will wait for him under the Nine Springs!"
"Wait for him!"
Ding Chilu shouted and burst into laughter.
"Execution!"
Shu Hua didn't say anything, he just had a sullen face and shouted loudly when the time was up.
Immediately, the carriage accelerated, and Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, and Ding Culu were killed by the carriage.
At the same time, scholars such as Shen Tao and Qin Hongzhi who stopped taking exams and prevented others from doing so were also beheaded.
"Why not be merciful, why not be lenient in punishment? We are descendants of famous eunuchs, children of the noble clan!"
"Why on earth is this happening?!"
"Zhang Puzhou, Shenwu County! How come you are not as good as Zhang Jiangling and Fang Jiayu? Jiangling is in charge of the country, but he is not so contemptuous of the lives of scholars; Fang Jiayu also dares to fight for Yu Shifeng, you are the only one Just like paper lake clay sculptures!”
"Woo! The sky has no eyes, the sky has no eyes!"
Before being beheaded, Shen Tao and others also roared heart-breakingly in the drizzle, obviously feeling extremely unwilling.
Uh-huh!
Uh-huh!
When the sword fell, Shen Tao, Qin Hongzhi and others just trembled and struggled, until their necks broke and blood spurted out, and then they stopped moving.
When Ji Chonggong, a member of the Jinyiwei Qianhu, was beheaded, he shouted aggrievedly: "Mother, if I had known this was going to happen, I wouldn't have been greedy for the money!"
Uh-huh!
There is no use regretting it, Ji Chonggong was eventually beheaded.
For a moment, outside the Xishi archway, the ground was completely red.
Not long after, Zhang Siwei learned what Ding Chilu had said about him on the execution ground.
For a moment, he was so angry that he threw the pen he was waving on the white rice paper and cursed: "Is it necessary to have no king and no father?!"
