Chapter 421: A scholar dies for his confidant (Part 2)

Hu Liang had already discussed with several censors. What words should he use to ask Zhang Mao to be unable to answer. The people were convinced that if this incident happened, Zhang Mao would never be able to occupy a place among the four gentlemen of Nandu. Moreover, they would become famous in the future. (") However, with full confidence, he saw a large group of prisoners rushing forward and was completely stunned for a moment. After a while, he suddenly reacted.

It must be Zhang Mao who instructed these supervisors!

Before he could scold him, the young priest in charge bowed to the officials and then said loudly: "My lords, today we will leave the Imperial College before we can take leave. Grand Secretary Cheng does not know that it is our own decision, but the root of the matter is that we do not think that anyone maliciously slander Grand Secretary Cheng! Just yesterday, it was this lord..."

He pointed his hand at Hu Liang, then raised his voice and said, "It was this adult who brought two other people to meet Da Sicheng at the Fourth Pail Tower of the South Gate of the Imperial College. He made a fuss in public and criticized Da Sicheng for his false crimes! We can't stand it. If it weren't for Da Sicheng's obstacles, we would be afraid that we would leave them in the Nanjian to give an explanation!"

This young student had a very good eloquence. He never mentioned that someone in his slap Hu Liang, but only said that Zhang Mao blocked their impulse. Speaking of this, seeing Hu Liang's face turned blue with anger, he did not give him a chance to speak. He took a step to give way behind his back, and then said loudly: "I think if the students speak vernacularly, you will definitely not believe it. But yesterday, there were more than one student who saw this scene, so they asked them to replay the scene that day and let them debate the right and wrong!

After he gave in, four people immediately rushed forward. One of them deliberately pinched his nose and learned from Hu Liang's words: "Zhang Demao, if it weren't for Yingtian Mansion's trial of Zhao Qin's case..."

The prison student finished recounting what Hu Liang said yesterday word by word. Then a well-faced prison student immediately stroked his beard and learned from Zhang Mao's steady tone: "You three come to find me..."

After a round-trip conversation, the student who pretended to be Hu Liang learned Hu Liang's harsh expression. (") When he imitated Hu Liang's vicious look and said the last harsh words, Hu Liang was so angry that he felt so sad that his stomach and liver pain were painful everywhere, and he shouted loudly: "You... are you swearing at people!"

"You are the gentle and scum who are slandering!" The young student who gave up the place to perform this drama for the four supervisors to return to the front position. Facing Hu Liang's fire-like gaze, he pushed back without fear. "The Grand Secretariat was demoted by the court for his blunt words, and entered the Hanlin Four Advice. After being demoted to Fujian, he asked the people to open mines to eliminate bandits, and suggested that foreign goods trade to facilitate merchants and people, reduce taxes on land making in sea paint to reduce the burden on the people. After resigning from office, he taught in the village for many years. After he returned, he even managed the huge Southern Secretariat to flourish. This is a model of the scholar! What's your contribution? What's your work? Just relying on this mere verbal skill, I want to destroy the Grand Secretariat's reputation for half of his life?"

He raised his arms while shouting: "My friends and sisters, did the words and deeds of the four of them just now slander him?"

Chi Xing didn't want to be pulled here, but he saw such a huge and heart-warming scene. He was the first to echo loudly: "No!" With his voice, the students suddenly agreed, and their voices were deafening.

"Don't listen to them...Don't listen to their nonsense..."

Seeing Hu Liang's face turned pale, the young prison student said word by word: "In this important place of the tribute court, Saint Kong is famous. If we just said something about yesterday, if there is a word of false words, we will teach us to waste our lives and fail the imperial examinations for many years! If you think that our nonsense has slandered you, do you dare to swear in the name of a saint here? If you want to use the attack on the Grand Secretary to seek fame and progress, and to discipline the officialdom in this life without success?"

Speaking of this, seeing Hu Liang's lips trembling but not speaking for a long time, he shouted slightly, "Because you have a ghost in your heart, you dare not! If you are so tired that the Grand Secretary Cheng Lianxun requests to retire, there is no justice in this world! Today, we are fighting against the rules of prison, and we will reveal the hateful face of a villain like you!"

This scene was overwhelming, and most of the officials were shaking their eyes. Among the relatively young officials, some of them were infected by this scene and felt a fever in their hearts. They blurted out. (") Although this sound was immediately interrupted by a light cough from his colleagues, Hu Liang saw that the colleagues and officials around him looked at him with pity, disgust, and despise... but there was no sympathy, especially the big guys led by Zhang Fuhua and Linhan, whose eyes were terrible cold, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"No...No..."

Before he could say a complete word, Zhang Mao sighed deeply, shouted the young prison student in a deep voice, and then said in a deep voice: "It was all a little bit of mental dispute yesterday, why is this so? I said yesterday that you came to Nanjian to study, not to learn such boring activities! Before I came out, I came to report that you were inexplicably missing. I was angry and had someone to post a notice, but I didn't expect you to make a fuss here! It's my business for me to write a letter to resign. If you really want to learn, no matter who is in charge of the Imperial College, you can do a good job in articles and knowledge. You need to have such confidence!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Mao turned around and bowed to everyone: "Today was a great day, and the troubles were all because of me, an insignificant person. Yesterday, Hu Jiashi once questioned me about Pingbei Bo's affairs, but even now, I can still say with a clear conscience! Not to mention that after he entered Beijing, whether he practiced or made a war, he was actually doing it. He donated money to repair the Gongyuan Confucian Temple in Nanjing and spent all his wealth. No matter what the purpose was, it was a good deed. If he did good deeds, he would have to do good deeds, even if he did good deeds, he would not reward him, even if he did evil deeds, and if he did evil deeds, then what was the use of law and morality? I said this before, but now I still said this. If he had not taken the martial arts path, I would have been willing to accept him as a disciple!"

Before Zhang Mao served as the Nanjian Priest, he had been a left-hand judge in Dali Temple in Nanjing for many years. Nanjing officials were familiar with him. Even if his friendship was ordinary, most of them knew that this was a stubborn old man who could not be pulled back by nine horses, not to mention that most people with deep friendship respected his character. After seeing the ones just now, everyone knew that several censors wanted to seek fame by attacking Zhang Mao. Zhang Fuhua coughed lightly and said, "Demao, it's just a few shallow people who want to cater to the court, which has touched you."

Zhang Fuhua's light and shallow words made Hu Liang and others look as if they were lost. After all, Zhang Fuhua's reputation in Nanjing is even better than Zhang Mao. If this sentence is spread, don't even think about being transferred to Beijing officials, they are afraid that their career will basically come to an end. What makes them even more helpless is that Lin Han, the Minister of Personnel of Nanjing, who thought they had already drawn a clear line with Zhang Mao, also nodded.

"You are really good. We are a Nanjing official, so we are not obeying the opinions of the Central Pavilion Department. It is the most unscrupulous to follow the opinions of the Central Pavilion Department of the People! I once met Xu Xun at Demao, and no matter what the rest, he was open-minded. If he was really a treacherous person, at least I was deceived by him... Speaking of which, let's come to see this tribute court in advance today. It's contrary to the will of the saint, and it's not open enough. Since you are interrupted by your students, let's just go home! But you students should also give a good warning, otherwise they will be happy now and it will be too late to regret it in the future!"

A huge storm, and a few people said a few words to calm down. However, the aftermath of the incident affected the residences of each house that day, and it was just a few happy and sad. Xu Xun, who was temporarily living in Fu Mansion on Changfu Street, learned from Chen Lu that the scene that happened in Nanjing Gongyuan that day. Even though he was the initiator, he couldn't help but be stunned. After a long time, he came back to his senses and smiled bitterly.

A scholar died for his confidant... How could Zhang Mao repay him with such stubbornness?

"I just spread this news to the Imperial College in Nanjing as my uncle told me. I didn't expect that it would cause such a stir. Moreover, the leader was extremely smart, which was an unexpected surprise."

Chen Lu is now in charge of the Nanjing Jinyiwei. Compared to the time when he was only one name and had few people under his command, he is more authoritative and powerful. But the more he sat in front of Xu Xun, the more he felt that the world was impermanent. Such a young man who was still rare in his desire to survive was now a forerunner of the emperor's trusted minister in charge of the seal army. As soon as he arrived in Nanjing, he dared to cause such a fierce collision. It was not just a struggle for Zhang Mao, but also a struggle for himself?

Xu Xun didn't pay attention to Chen Lu's expression. After pondering for a while, he asked: "What is the name of the inspiring student who talks passionately and is who he is?"

"I am from Guixi, Jiangxi, and my name is Xia Yan, and my courtesy name is Gongjin. It is quite eloquent with Zhou Gongjin, the Three Kingdoms."

"Xia Yan...Xia Yan!"

Xu Xun was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he laughed and said, "No wonder he has such an eloquent and eloquent person. It turns out that he is this person..."

Seeing Chen Lu being surprised when he heard this, he naturally would not explain to him how he knew such a person. He paused and said, "Mr. Zhang is sincerely loving to me. He probably wouldn't have thought that this time the news was the news I exposed to those prison students... However, as long as he can keep him in the Imperial College, it is inevitable that he will use some tricks. Otherwise, with his temperament, he will still hide it from those prison students until he retires! Lord Chen, please spread this matter today, slower, more stable and more natural. In this way, someone will cause trouble for those prison students, and you must also be cautious about the comments!"

"Yes, don't worry, Pingbei Bo." Chen Lu hurriedly bowed, and then smiled, "Pingbei Bo would just call me my name in the future. I can't afford the three words "Mr. Chen."

Twenty years in Hedong and twenty years in Hexi. Although it is only two years apart rather than twenty years, Xu Xun is no longer the same as before. It doesn’t hurt to lower his attitude!
Chapter completed!