. After tackling Gao Gong's side, Chen couldn't breathe a sigh of relief, because in order to win Xu Jie's compromise, he still needed to take Ouyang Bijin down.
If he could surrender Tang Ruji, it was because the plot of Tang was first, 'The Yin people will be Yin'er." Although it is reasonable to be countered by him, it is reasonable. However, the respected minister of the Ministry of Personnel Ouyang Bijin, who is not awesome and old, does not bite people, and does not leave the cave, Xu Wei cannot see any hope at all.
"I can't see it, I can't see it." Xu Wei sat behind the big case, shook his head, and flipped through Ouyang Bijin's information and said, "I can't see any hope."
Chen sat in the hall, holding a knife to turn the persimmons he picked yesterday, and from the thin and even peeled peel, he could see how focused he was. After peeling one, he carefully placed it on the chopping board, where there were already hundreds of peeled persimmons neatly arranged.
Then he picked up another persimmon and was about to take the knife off again. Xu Wei finally couldn't help but say, "Don't peel it all the time? I'm talking to you, peeling, peeling, peeling, and not eating it!"
Chen put away his knife and threw the persimmon in his hand to Xu Wei and said, "Eat it."
"I want to eat the peeled ones." Xu Wei got up and walked over and said.
"No, I want to peel it myself," Chen waved his hand and said, "This is the one who makes persimmon cakes. I think it's almost done. He said to Sanchi: "Take it out and put it in a warm cage, keep the kitchen warm, ventilate and drain it every hour, one quarter of an hour, and call me two days later.
Sanchi covered the chopping board with a yarn cover and took it out.
"Stingy..." Seeing that he couldn't get any of them, Xu Wei muttered in a low voice.
The muscles and bones were loose and sore, and they looked at Xu Wei and said, "What did you say just now?"
Xu Wei shrank his neck and said, "Murmur, what did I say? Why did you let Ouyang Bijin step down?"
"Want to know?" Chen pointed to his shoulder and said, "Pinch."
Xu Wei rolled his eyes and said, "You are so strong in revenge..." He had no choice but to be even more curious, so he had to go forward obediently and pinch his arms.
Xu Wei has internal skills and his skills are excellent, which makes Shen very useful. He smiled with a distracting smile: "You just looked through his information, but didn't see any problem?"
"What's the problem?" Xu Wei remembers his good concubine, and directly recounted what he saw just now! Ke said: "Ouyang Bijin, whose courtesy name is Renfu and his pseudonym is Yue'an, is from Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, and is a brother of Yan Song. He was born in the fourth year of Hongzhi. He passed the provincial examination in the eighth year of Zhengde. He was appointed as the head of the Ministry of Rites. He was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang, the governor of Yunyang, the censor of the two Kyotos, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the minister of the Ministry of Personnel..."
A person born in the fourth year of Hongzhi, how old is this year?" Chen Ju Ci Shu said.
"I'll do it," Xu Wei calculated, "Sixteen years plus fourteen years plus forty years, it's exactly seventy."
"The Ming Dynasty law is clear, 'Officials should be 70 years old.'" He should retire after his birthday in the first month of next year." Chen said: "This is the first breakthrough."
"But the emperor can be specially ordered to stay." Xu Jie said disapprovingly: "Yan Ge Lao is 83rd during the Chinese New Year, so he still stays there." Yan Song was 70, 75, and 80 years old, and wrote three letters to "beg for bones" "This time, that time is there." Chen shook his head and said, "If there is no such thing as "but now, because of Yan Song's relationship, Your Majesty will probably not try to keep him." Chen said in a deep voice: "The last time the court recommended, Your Majesty made an exception and did not attend, and it was 80% alive, so that the power of Xu Ge Lao naturally replaced the mind of Yan's party." As he said, he spread his hands and said, "But the result revealed an ever-changing truth. When the Cabinet Auxiliary and the Minister of Personnel were family, they were invincible."
"You mean, if the emperor wants to change the strength comparison between the two sides," Xu Wei said with some clarity: "You must first take Ouyang Bijin?"
"Both." Chen nodded and smiled, "But Ouyang Bijin has made contributions but not demerits, and he was short of his time in office. There was no appropriate reason, and the emperor could not drive him away."
Xu Wei understood and nodded slowly and said, "What do you mean is that the resignation memorial of Ouyang Bijin as usual is the most appropriate reason for the emperor?"
"Not bad!" Chen nodded: "The only problem is that it is said that Mrs. Ouyang will not last the New Year. If she dies, out of sorrow, the emperor may change his attitude, appease Yan Song, and leave Ouyang Bijin's." He said with a long sigh: "So Ouyang Bijin must write a letter in advance, otherwise he will fail."
Xu Wei knew that Chen was telling the truth, and even Emperor Jiajing was very envious of this era. If she went there, Master Yan would cry and grieve and express his grief. Maybe the emperor would be soft and dilute his original thoughts.
So if you want to win Ouyang Bijin, this month is golden time. After this month, the situation will be unpredictable, and maybe there will be no chance again.
"So how can he get on: "There is obviously not the limit yet, why should I write a letter two months in advance?"
"Don't worry, I have a way.
"Chen smiled and said, "Actually, this master of the ministry still doesn't pay attention to the other side, so I'm going to start from that aspect."
"What aspect?" Xu Wei asked.
"His identity is an official." Chen said lightly: "But his hobby is not to be an official but to make sense of it."
"Oh..." Xu Wei had actually heard of what Chen said for a long time. He heard that Ouyang Bijin liked to develop various gadgets since he was a child, and his hands-on ability was very powerful. However, at that time, reading was the most important thing, so he just played in his spare time. But he didn't expect that his starting skills had come in handy...
When Ouyang Bijin governed Yunyang, the local ox epidemic was prevalent, and the ox was almost dead. The people had to use people to pull the plow and plow the land, which was very miserable. In order to solve this problem, he racked his brains and couldn't think of food and food. Later, he saw the pulleys for the people to fetch water. He found the sketch of the plowing machine left by the ancients from the information. "It was immediately developed by myself and improved in practice. The device used manpower to pull the plow through pulleys. When using it, the force of one person and one hand was enough to meet two oxes. It became an efficient and labor-saving plant, without relying on animal power, and it defeated the difficulties of rinderpest and was very popular among the local people.
Later, Ouyang Bijin's hobbies were out of control, and he realized that many things that were used for production were not promoted because people had returned to the capital and could not be promoted. They could only be used as toys and enjoyed them.
Xu Wei also knew that when Chen was a governor in Suzhou, he was also very concerned about similar Ming Dynasty. He also set up a Suzhou Research Institute to hire old technicians under excellent conditions to improve existing agricultural tools, looms and other production tools to improve the production efficiency of industry and agriculture.
Xu Wei also asked Chen Ju: ‘How effective is your research institute?”
Chen told him depressedly: "I spent a lot of money and didn't find anything that was really useful.
"Will you still play?" Xu Wei asked.
"Play, of course you play!" Chen Shu turned his mind: "Birds fly without a head, I didn't find a suitable leader. When I found this person, it was time for Suzhou Research Institute to change qualitatively!"
"Did you take him as your research director?" Xu Wei suddenly realized: "Can you do it?"
"How do you know if you don't try?" Chen Ji smiled confidently.
"Everything has advantages and disadvantages." Chen Ji sat back to the big case and sighed: "If you want to achieve your goal, I have to take action personally this time. In this way, Yan Shifan will completely hate me." As he said, he rubbed the sun in distress and said: "I'm afraid even if my senior brother Lu protects me, he will take care of me and rush back to Shaoxing."
"The price is so heavy?" Xu Wei asked in a deep voice: "Is it necessary to work hard for Xu Jie?"
"I'm not working for him." Chen smiled faintly, "but he said seriously: "The biggest potential crisis here is not Yan Shifan's hostility, but once the Yan party falls, I may be implicated."
"No way?" Xu Xiaoyao: "You have never been to Yan Song's house, nor have you agreed with the Yan party. At most, you have given gifts to them. But all the civil and military officials in the court have never given gifts to the Yan family?"
"But I can never get to know Hu Zongxian!" Chen whispered: "There are many strange-minded guys in this court. They think that Yan Party's subordinates are Yan Party, and their friends under Yan Party are also Yan Party. Anyway, as long as they are related to the Yan family's father and son, whether directly or indirectly, they are all Yan Party!"
Xu Wei was silent. He knew that Shen was talking about those censors who had a sense of justice and were extremely mad dog spirit.
"I must whitewash myself before the Yan Party falls, so that no one can fall into me!" Chen said in a deep voice: "The best way is to let Yan Shifan knock me down once, so that my identity will immediately become opposite to Yan Party..."
"But if this happens, you will not be able to become an official for one day." Xu Wei sighed.
"So what?" Chen Zi raised his eyebrows and said arrogantly: "As long as the Yan Party falls, I will make a comeback immediately. By then, I will definitely have a hundred times more reputation and a lot of value. I will be as strong as I am now, and I feel so tired!"
"When do you expect the Yan Party to collapse?" Xu Wei asked softly.
"It can be as short as one or two years, and it can be as long as three or five years," Chen said, "I can completely afford it.
"Since you have decided, let go." Xu Wei looked at him for a while and sighed, "What do you need me to do?"
"I hope you can take over the errand of the Imperial College for the Imperial College." Chen said: "Start the Sangonghuai Debate...
"Okay." Xu Wei nodded and said, "Wait until you come back."
"Haha, it's not necessarily true. What I told you is just the worst case." Chen shook his head and smiled: "After all, I have Lu Taibao under my belt. Maybe Yan Shifan can't do anything to me, so I don't have to leave at all?"
"That's best." Xu Wei nodded and said softly.
"Okay, go see the craftsmen, have you assembled that thing?" Chen stood up and said, "This time it depends on it. Uncle Tang has a spirit in heaven. Bless him, the records in the book are true..."
Ouyang Bijin is about to be seventy, and has been ill recently at home. In fact, he eats everything, and has a good health, and has no problems all over his body. Moreover, the Ministry of Personnel is conducting an inspection of middle-level officials, which involves the promotion and stay of many people. It is really puzzling that he, the Minister of Personnel, can stay at home.
In fact, this was his helpless resistance, because his nephew was too strong. Yan Shifan directly intervened in the Ministry of Personnel in the name of the cabinet. Almost all candidates and appointments from key departments must be approved by Yan Shifan. If Yan Shifan does not agree, it will be useless for him, the Minister of Personnel, nodding; if Yan Shifan agrees, it will be useless for him, the Minister of Personnel, to oppose it.
Ouyang Bijin felt that he was being imprisoned and became a puppet, and he was very angry. He knew that this was because his predecessor Wu Peng, "All officials advance and retreat, obeyed Rong Shibo, and he did not dare to be loyal and fulfilled his position." He used Yan Shifan as such a virtue. As a result, when it was his turn to be the Minister of Personnel, he still treated himself as an umbrella and did not take it seriously at all.
Wu Peng could bear it, but Ouyang Bijin couldn't stand the humiliation, but due to his sick sister, he could not find Yan Shiwei, so he could only stop going to work and express his silent protest.
Most officials don’t know about these intrigues from the upper class, so when they heard that Ouyang Butang was sick at home, they came to express their condolences. It made Ouyang be so annoyed that he would just leave behind the door to thank the guests and tinker with his favorite agricultural machinery at home.
What he has been fiddling with in the past few months is the "wooden ox and flowing horse". In fact, during the rinderpest in Yunyang, his first reaction was to restore this magical machinery recorded in history books. He wanted to use the wooden ox and horse designed by Zhuge Wuhou to replace the real ox and real horse plowing land. However, the records of various historical materials are vague and there is no time for him to study in depth, so he can only turn to the easier human ploughing machine to realize.
But the idea of ​​restoring the "wooden ox and horse" did not disappear with the end of the famine, but became stronger with the age. He even felt that if he could not fulfill this wish, he would not die.
But this thing is really difficult and has almost no valuable reference. He can only use his rest time to study it bit by bit in the small workshop in his yard. Just look at the waste pieces accumulated in the corner of his workshop, and you will know all the thoughts he has spent on this thing.
Someone advised him not to be obsessed with it, it might be just a legend. But Ouyang Bijin didn't believe it and said confidently: "The ancestors of the Southern and Northern Dynasties clashed with it perfectly restored this thing, so it must be true."
Someone also said: "Maybe it is some called "wooden ox, "flowing horses," Ouyang Bijin, but he firmly did not believe it. He said: "When the wooden ox and flowing horses move, it should be legs, not wheels. Because only legs can climb the steps on the plank road, how can the wheels work?" He also knew very well that the wooden ox and flowing horses could move, because it was just a clever internal mechanism that could amplify people's strength and be more complex and sophisticated with the "human-powered farming machine he designed.
After strengthening his confidence and setting his goals, he continued to study food. Over the years, he has achieved some success. After countless researches, he built a four-legged walking machine and made it into the shape of a horse. He can walk with his hands and hands over the shaft. The only drawback is that this walking machine does not have the function of carrying weights. Once the luggage is pressed, it will stop moving, and the problem of walking with weights has not been solved.
It is clearly recorded in history books that Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse can carry things weighing 100 or 200 kilograms, but the walking machine he developed cannot carry weights, so it cannot be called a "wooden ox and flowing horse" at all. That day, the old man got up early, got into the workshop, and was stunned at his "flowing horse, which made people worry. If he didn't make trouble, would the old man be crazy?
He was in a daze when his family sent an invitation and said, "Master, an adult invites you to visit his house to visit the wooden ox and flowing horse.
Chapter completed!