.Chapter 775: Evening Autumn

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Inside the Meridian Gate, Wenyuan Pavilion.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Chen Mo has come here after the cabinet moved back to its original location. This somewhat embarrassing fact seems to show that since Emperor Jiajing passed away, he has a somewhat marginalized status - both a student of Xu Jie and a friend of Gao Gong. Such an embarrassing identity cannot make him have a good time. It is like a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law who are incompatible. When a son and husband are often stuck in the middle and it is difficult to get along with each other, and both ends are separated.

While he was thinking about it, he arrived at the gate of Wenyuan Pavilion, calmed down and walked in. Because Zhang Juzheng led the imperial guards guarding the gate did not interrogate him, he let him in.

After entering, I saw several big locust trees in the yard, which were blown away by the west wind for days. The trunks and twisted branches were rugged, and they looked vicissitudes and clumsy. On the ground covered with stones, there was no fallen leaves, and there was no trace of dust, giving people a solemn and solemn feeling.

However, the courtyard was not quiet at this moment, and waves of angry voices came from the main hall. Seeing the silent inquiring eyes, Zhang Juzheng whispered: "It's like this every day, just get used to it." As he said, he reached out to ask for help, "Let's go to the teacher's room first." He was as familiar as if the owner here was calling the silent guest.

He faintly heard Gao Gong roaring, nodded silently, and followed him to the first room in the east wing. The door was open and there was a Si Zhilang cleaning inside. When he saw them coming in, he hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Zhang Juzheng whispered: "You are busy with yours, Shen Butang and I are waiting for Yuanfu here." He pointed to the row of pineapple wood chairs and said: "Brother Jiangnan, sit here."

Silence pushed him a little and sat down on his left.

Si Zhilang quietly retreated and left the space for the two adults.

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The cabinet was still very quiet. Although there were vague quarrels, it showed the quietness in the chief minister's room. The too quiet atmosphere made people a little embarrassed. Zhang Juzheng took the lead in breaking the silence and said, "Since Lord Shangshu took the lead, he feels pretty good, right?"

"Why don't we change?" Shen looked ahead, not even looking at him.

"That's good." Zhang Juzheng said: "Jiangnan won't know. Although you are a little troublesome, it's a while. The root of it is still on my side. The old age is in a state of terror." He said with a smile: "But to be honest, you can coax those royal families to no trouble now. All the officials in the capital are very impressed."

"It's useless to put a high hat on me. The Ministry of Rites can do it to the limit." Chen Si turned his head and looked at him and said, "The Ministry of Rites can only reason, but the key is to depend on what your Ministry of Revenue does?" No one would naively think that just by verbally speaking, he could dispel those royal families.

At this time, Si Zhilang came in with tea and said silently: "It is a good thing to reduce expenses, but the Ministry of Revenue must also do a good job of remedy." He already knew that it was under the strong promotion of Zhang Juzheng that the two regulations were able to be implemented, but since the royal family began to cause trouble, the Ministry of Revenue has stopped, which made the Ministry of Rites very dissatisfied.

"Brother Jiangnan, I'll apologize for you." Zhang Juzheng was silent at first. When Si Zhilang stepped down, he clasped his fists and smiled bitterly at the silent: "Actually, the plan was reported two months ago, but you have also seen the current situation of the cabinet. He was quarreling all day long, but all the serious matters were delayed."

"Is it the one you mentioned last time?" Chen Silent frowned.

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"I am bluntly, the time is not ripe." Chen Si shook his head slightly and said, "You can't poke this hornet's nest."

"I don't know..." Zhang Juzheng sighed and said, "The reduction of the salary only touched the interests of the royal family, and the hidden acres were investigated, but he was shocked by the horse and mule..." He said with a low voice: "I don't hide it from you. With the current situation of the government, I didn't expect it to pass. In my opinion, ten years will be the time for it to promote the world."

"I have been optimistic for ten years." Looking out the door silently, he whispered: "This disease in the world is too serious and I can't be anxious, Brother Taiyue."

"Jiangnan, if you think so, then there is really no hope in the Ming Dynasty." Zhang Juzheng's expression became dark, and then he smiled and said, "I know you are a true gentleman who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside. In fact, you are more anxious than anyone else, just don't say it."

"The time is not right, you can say more mistakes, and do more mistakes." Chen Si felt warm in his heart and sighed softly, "No matter how anxious he is, he can only endure it." He said, looking at Zhang Juzheng with a soft look and said, "Since you know that you can't get it, why do you ask?"

Zhang Juzheng whispered: "One of the way, let everyone know that this is the case, so that they can find supporters. When they are launched in the future, they will have a greater hope. Secondly, this plan actually has the greatest impact on those princes. When they see the court's methods, one is more severe than the other, and it is a sign of causing trouble. Instead, they will feel that the two "Regulations" are not so annoying... The final result is that the court takes advantage of their intentions and rejects this proposal, and they will no longer block the official implementation of the "Regulations."

"Haha, I'll be fine..." Silent nodded and smiled.

"But even if it's just a fake shot, the cabinet has a big difference. I took it out and discussed it three times, and it ended up in disagreement every time. There is no real sign yet." Zhang Juzheng sighed again: "This time Jiangnan, I will help me convince the teacher."

"Here..." Chen Si said softly, then stood up.

Zhang Juzheng also stood up quickly.

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"Teacher..." The two students saluted together.

"You are here." Xu Jie walked in with a tired face, but when he saw the two students, he smiled and said, "Sit as you like." Then, with the help of the old servant, he slowly leaned behind the big desk.

The old servant brought a porcelain cup again, and Xu Jie smiled and said, "This is ginseng soup. The young man has strong firepower, so I won't let you."

"Teacher, use it slowly." The two of them sat down and waited quietly for Xu Jie to drink the soup slowly.

After someone took the porcelain cup down, Xu Jie took the cloth and wiped his mouth, and smiled and said, "For the sake of the river work, I'll discuss it for a while."

The two of them realized why the old masters just now were quarreling... The Yellow River flooded every year and had become a major concern along the coast, so the court decided to manage the river. At the beginning of this year, the cabinet approved the Ministry of Works to repair the old Yellow River using Pan Jixun's method. However, before construction started, another water conservancy expert Zhu Heng was transferred back to Beijing. He put forward the opposite opinion - believing that to prevent the floods of the Yellow River, a new river must be opened, and it is useless to only repair the old road.

Although Pan Jixun's plan was already on the verge of being on the verge of the prime minister, he was only a backer than Zhu Heng, who had been in the prime minister's river channel for many times, so the project had to stop as soon as his senior spoke. Of course, Pan Jixun was not convinced, and he was not afraid of trouble, so he argued with Zhu Heng in the court. The two of them had their own opinions and made it reasonable, which made it difficult for Xu Jiewen to make a decision.

After a stalemate for a while, Gao Gong still spoke, formed an expert group and went to the scene to check it out. So in February of that year, He Qiming, the engineering department's supervisor, led more than 20 river experts to investigate the river and reported to the court according to the facts. On March 30, He Qiming returned to Beijing from Pei County to report: "The old path of the Yellow River is difficult to restore, and it is cost-effective to open a new river and save money, and it can eliminate future troubles. It is better to use Zhu Heng to open a new river. At the same time, he also picked up Pan Jixun's words and refused to abandon the old river.' This also left face for Pan Jixun.

Even if this was a conclusion, the cabinet proposed that the Ministry of Lishui and issued an edict to open a new river, while Pan Jixun still insisted on restoring the old path of the Yellow River, and many court officials agreed. Since then, Zhu Heng and Pan Jixun had a conflict, and the latter asserted that: "As soon as the rainy season arrives, the Yellow River breaks its mouth." Zhu Heng hated him.

On June 14, the construction of Xinhe River was not completed, and the Yellow River broke its dam in Pei County again, flooding several palaces in a row, and countless victims were flooded. Sure enough, what Pan Jixun said was fulfilled. The censors impeached Zhu Heng, thinking that Xinhe was bound to be successful. Zhu Heng was determined to mislead the country and asked for punishment.

Under pressure, Zhu Heng also resigned. Xu Jie valued this capable person very much, and of course he would not agree. He used his influence to help him suppress the censor's discussion. He also gave him the opportunity to make up for his merits and asked Zhu Heng and Pan Jixun to conduct investigations again, and to make plans to save the victims.

After the two of them took office, they commanded the breach and temporarily stopped the flood. However, the rainy season had just arrived, and the real test was still to come. After investigation, Pan Jixun boldly proposed that narrowing the river channel is really incredible. Common knowledge of river management is to widen the river channel to facilitate drainage. How could the river channel be widened? Isn’t this the old birthday boy eating arsenic and living impatiently?

Zhu Heng disagreed, so Pan Jixun told him that through observation, the reason why the Yellow River flooded year by year was that the silt content in the water was too large. After entering the plain area, the water flow slowed down and the silt deposited. As a result, the river channel rose year by year and became a river on the shore. In order to prevent floods, the river embankment could only be built higher and higher. If you are not careful, the consequences will be extremely serious.

As long as it is on site, I have a deep understanding of this. He doesn't need to say it, Zhu Heng also understands it. But Pan Jixun's focus is at the end - he said that time is too tight now, so it is impossible for us to build a dike. If we want to prevent floods, we can only open the silted river channel. As long as the river channel is lowered, isn't it more effective than building a dike?

To lower the river, you must remove the mud and sand in the river. Zhu Heng still understands this principle. But the barrier is, how to remove sand? It is much more difficult to use people to dig it than building a dike. Zhu Heng thought hard and finally realized that Pan Jixun wanted to tighten the river. It was precisely in order to increase the impact of the water that he could wash away the mud and sand at the bottom of the river to achieve the purpose of lowering the river.

Although he understood the truth, Zhu Heng still didn't dare to make the decision. He really had no confidence in the dam on both sides of the Taiwan Strait... Just think about who the Ministry of Works was originally, you will know why Lord Zhu was like this.

Pan Jixun said that this method will not damage the embankment, you just make the decision, I will be responsible for any incident.

Zhu Heng said, can you afford it? He personally inspected the two sides of the embankment carefully and pondered it over and over again, and then agreed to Pan Jixun's plan - so a miracle happened. After the river was contracted, the Yellow River not only did not break the embankment, but the river channel was indeed reduced by several feet. In addition, Pan Jixun also invented a flood discharge facility called the Rolling Dam... He chose several low-lying areas in advance. When the flood was too large, he opened the embankment and released water to reduce the pressure on the flood peak. With Zhu Heng's rich experience, he checked for shortcomings and made up for leaks and made overall arrangements. As a result, the Yellow River did not flood again this year, and it was safe and steadily reached the dry season.

As a result, Pan Jixun's reputation rose to prominence, and Zhu Heng's reputation fell further, especially after using Pan Jixun's "water-blocking and sand-floating method", the court and the people believed that Pan Jixun was right, and that Zhu Heng insisted on opening a new river was wrong.

On September 23, Wang Yuanchun, the chief of the Engineering Department, wrote a memorial to Zhu Heng and asked for the removal of Zhu Heng. At that time, He Qiming, who had supported Zhu Heng at the beginning, also changed his view, thinking that the old way could be opened and the new river was not desirable. For a moment, Zhu Heng was in a difficult situation, which made Xu Jie, who had always protected him, very sad.

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What made Xu Jie even more annoyed was that he couldn't handle it coldly, because Gao Gong was holding on to him and said that he was partial to his subordinates and was unfair, and he insisted on pulling Zhu Heng off the horse. In fact, it was because Zhu Heng had made Gao Suqing unable to come to Taiwan several times. Gao Gong was vengeful and could not let him go when he saw the opportunity.

Of course, Xu Jie refused to agree, because Zhu Heng's talent was honest and both famous in the court and the country. Xu Jie also regarded him as a backbone, how could he destroy the Great Wall by himself? So he ignored his dignity and argued with Gao Gong, but Shanghai people were no more loud than Henan people? Besides, they were two Henan people. Guo Pu and Gao Gong always spoke in unison, while Li Chunfang, although he was respectful to him, he never helped him quarrel. At most, he would persuade him without any pain, and it would be useless at all.

After such a quarrel, Mr. Xu was exhausted. He sat there for a long time before he recovered. Looking at his two students, he said meaningfully: "Uncle, I'm old, you have to take responsibility as soon as possible."

The two of them didn't know what the teacher said, so they could only say: "The teacher is always green and full of pine and cypress, and the spirit is strong. The Ming Dynasty is entirely controlled by the teacher."

Xu Jie said in a little depressed state: "The accumulation of yin and darkness cannot be determined by thin power; the turbid current is unreliable, and it is not enough to clear the rubber. It only accumulates age, but it will be useless. My generation is not good, it depends on you young people..." As he said that, he cheered up and said with a smile: "I won't say these disappointing people early in the morning, uncle, my uncle said, you came together for those royal nobles, right?"

The two nodded and whispered quietly: "Teacher, students try to comfort those people as much as possible, but if they delay, the more they will be, the more likely they will be to the end of the year."

"The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue have discussed several times, but they have not discussed Dingmao," said Zhang Juzheng. "In fact, the checkpoint is that the court is unwilling to stab the hornet's nest, but wants to save money and food. This is to make the horse run fast and stop eating grass, which is really difficult to deal with."

"But now there is no need for horses to run, nor does it mean that they don't eat grass." Xu Jie said slowly: "It's just that you give less grass. Horses can't become tigers and can't eat people. Think more, there's always a way."

"When I was in rural disaster relief, I saw such a thing... Because my neck was short and the grass had not sprouted for a long time after the solar term, I could only feed the cows with hay the next year. The cows don't like to eat hay, eat very little, and they are about to lose weight. The people who raise cattle only used a simple method to make the cows love to eat grass again. Teacher, Jiangnan, do you know what the method is?"

Xu Jie and Shen Mo have never done farm work for a day, so how could they know this? They both shook their heads and listened to him with interest: "It is when feeding cows, they do not put the grass directly in the food trough, but on the shed in the cow pen, so that the cows can stretch their necks to eat. As a result, the cows eat grass actively and eat more deliciously."

"What's the reason?" Xu Jie couldn't help but smile.

Chen Si said softly: "Taiyue's meaning should be that when the treatment must be reduced for various reasons, it is actually not very useful to persuade Huairou blindly. It can artificially increase the difficulty, make them more effort, and make this more challenging. In this way, even the treatment after the reduction can satisfy them."

"It makes sense," Xu Jie thought about it carefully, and he really thought through the people's hearts, but when he thought about it again, he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "You two are humming and haha, together I want me to agree to that."

The two of them quickly smiled and said, "Students dare not."

"I dare not do it anymore." Xu Jie looked at them and felt much better.

Seeing the teacher's face smiling, the two of them felt it was right, but Xu Jie finished laughing, but he shook his head and said, "I won't agree."

The two were stunned, and Zhang Juzheng said anxiously: "Teacher, you..."

"Take your memorials back." Xu Jie took out a copy of the thick stack of memorials on the table. It was Zhang Juzheng's "Memorials to Check the Miscellaneous Memorials", and said sternly: "If you have it, don't mention it again in the future, let alone spread it."

Zhang Juzheng took it with a loss and sat there and stopped talking.

Xu Jie's voice sounded: "Don't worry too much about the royal family. If they can't make a fuss, they should put their energy elsewhere first."

Although both of them nodded to show their understanding, Zhang Juzheng had obviously not recovered yet. Instead, he took out two memorials from his sleeves and presented them to Xu Jie: "This is drafted by the Ministry of Rites, please read it."

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