Father can be an enemy to the country

While the two were talking, the guards outside reported that Lin Fantai had come to say hello.

"Let him come in." Lao Liu was finally willing to see someone.

After a while, the guard opened the door and Lin Zhongmo came in to pay homage.

"Lin Fantai, please get up." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "I and the magistrate are both injured. Let's lie down one by one and sit down and talk."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Lin Zhongmo stood up to thank him and asked anxiously: "I wonder where Your Highness's injury is. Is it serious?"

"It's not serious, it's just polished by riding a horse," Lao Liu said with a smile: "The position is a bit complicated, so I won't show it to you."

"Your Highness is really eager for justice and a wise king." Lin Zhongmo said with emotion.

"It's quite leisurely. There's nothing I don't care about, right?" Lao Liu laughed.

"That's not what I mean. What I mean is a virtuous person. I would never dare to speak to His Highness Yin Yang." Lin Zhongmo said quickly and fearfully.

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, I'm just teasing you." Lao Liu said in a good mood: "The Daozhi County mentioned in the letter to me that if something unexpected happens to him and I want to investigate the truth, firstly, I can ask his staff Mr. Hu asked me what happened; one more thing, I can trust you, Mr. Lin Fang..."

"Ashamed." Lin Zhongmo unexpectedly looked at Dao Tong who looked like a rice dumpling, and said with shame on his face: "I am incompetent and can only sit back and watch Dao Xian brother be tortured like this. I am really ashamed of being a senior official."

"Uncle Fang is serious," Dao Tongxin said, I didn't mention Lin Zhongmo in my letter, but he understood His Highness's intention, firstly to win over Lin Zhongmo, and secondly to make Lin Fantai owe him a personal favor in vain.

He quickly continued in a soft voice: "The Chief Secretary has no control over the affairs of the Chasi Division, not to mention that there is Marquis Yongjia standing behind Xu Zengtai."

"Brother, I've made Brother Yu even more ashamed." Lin Zhongmo said with increasing gratitude: "Anyway, I'm still too rigid, but I didn't expect that they would be so cruel. The emperor dared to touch you even before he was dismissed from his position. Severe punishment.”

"They are eager to get my confession. Only if I admit that I am a group with Dao Yuan will I not be afraid of overturning the case in the future." Dao Tong laughed miserably and said, "Especially Zhu Xian, who is very close to me and Liang Zi, and he fell into Can I have a good one?"

"Yes." Lin Zhongmo nodded, half in agreement and half on behalf of Dao Tong: "The Yongjia Marquis son beat up officials in the street, led people into the Panyu County government prison, and even urinated on the screen in the lobby. A good brother threw his official hat into the river, he is really arrogant and domineering to the extreme."

"It is your Guangdong government's dereliction of duty to allow such a madman to go unpunished!" Lao Liu had already read these things in Daotong's letter, but when Lin Zhongmo talked about it, he still felt itching with hatred.

His grandma, no prince would dare to be so arrogant!

"Yes, His Highness is right." Lin Zhongmo quickly stood up to plead guilty. "The power of the Guangdong government is too weak. If you don't join forces with them, you will have to live alone. I chose the latter before, and I have also neglected my duty. Please punish me."

"You are indeed guilty. As a high-ranking official, it is a crime to eat without a corpse!" Zhu Zhen nodded heavily and said: "Isn't the lesson of your predecessor's predecessor painful enough?"

"What your Highness taught you is..." Lin Zhongmo was sweating on his forehead and flushed, and he hurriedly apologized.

He knew that King Chu was referring to Wang Guangyang, who had been demoted to participate in politics in Guangdong Province. After the Hu Weiyong case was discovered, this right-wing prime minister, who was known for lying idle, was reprimanded by Boss Zhu for "deceiving others and not being able to serve the country with allegiance and sit idly by in vain" and demoted him to Hainan.

When Wang Guangyang sailed to peacetime, Zhu Yuanzhang, who became more and more angry as he thought about it, began to dig into his old accounts and issued an edict:

"Prime Minister Guangyang has been with me for a long time. He was in the army. He always said no when asked, but in the end he said nothing. I have been with you for a long time and have never been able to bear to supervise you. When he lived in Taiwan Province, he did not offer any paintings to cure the diseases of the country's subjects. I was ordered to send an envoy to conduct reconnaissance, but he returned without saying a word. He was always tired of serving the gods and governing the people. ’

"In the past few decades, I have not had a single talented person around me. I once ordered you to govern Jiangxi with Wen Zheng, but Wen Zheng did evil and did not correct it." When I consulted, it was taboo again. I was in Zhongshu with Yang Xian. Xian was planning something wrong, but you knew it and didn't say anything. Nowadays, people are busy with their affairs and do nothing much. ’

‘You are well versed in scriptures and able to write, so you are not an ignorant person. Watch your feelings and watch the ups and downs. I wish not to say anything, but I am afraid that those who do not know will think that I am unkind, and I have given you this special edict so that you can save it. ’

After Wang Guangyang saw the edict, he became more and more frightened. The emperor even said that this was the case. Was it to make him reflect? Basically, the entire article is just five words - Aren't you going to die? !

So he hanged himself.

~~

Seeing Lin Zhongmo sweating profusely, King Chu sighed softly and said in a slower tone:

"Actually, I sympathize with Wang Xiang from the bottom of my heart. As a scholar, what I say is that when the water is clear, you will wash your tassels, and when the water is turbid, you will wash your feet. When the world is governed, it will emerge, and in troubled times, it will be hidden. But the problem is now that the water is turbid? Is it a troubled world? "

"No." Lin Zhongmo shook his head and said: "Even among the dynasties that founded the country, this dynasty can be said to have political clarity and peace for the country and the people."

"How did the country and the people gain peace? It was because the officials were restless and the gentry were not at peace. It was the emperor who controlled these two groups that led to today's situation." Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice: "As the chief envoy, you protect yourself wisely. Indulging them means inaction, so who will do the work and protect the people?"

"What your Highness taught you is that I should have stood up and not let Daozhi County fight alone." Lin Zhongmo reflected sadly: "You shouldn't always stand back and watch on the grounds that power is divided into three divisions and cannot be overcome."

"Recognizing your mistakes can make a lot of improvements. If you correct them, you will still be a good official." Lao Liu's tone became softer. Lin Fantai was the person he had planned to win over early on.

However, it was not what Daotong mentioned in the letter, but someone from the Guangzhou Shipping Department. The report submitted to him said that Lin Zhongmo, the chief envoy, was a famous official in Neo-Confucianism and cherished feathers. He had never been in cahoots with Yongjia Hou and others, and had never been with the local government. The local tyrants do not interact with each other. Although they have made no achievements, they can take care of themselves.

Even if Shibosi misjudges Lin Zhongmo, he is an actor, and Lao Liu will still pull him over. As long as he can play it out to the end... Political struggles are always about fighting one faction against another. The way to win is to make more friends and fewer enemies.

Sure enough, Lin Zhongmo was extremely smart and immediately leaned over and kowtowed:

"Thank you for waking me up in my dream with your Highness. I realize that I was wrong. I am willing to stand up for the common people and live up to the expectations of the Emperor and His Highness."

"Okay, okay." Lao Liu happily patted the bed and said, "I know that Uncle Lin Fang is a good official. You see, I am inconvenient to sit down right now, so I asked you to retrial the Daozhi County case! "

"Yes." Lin Zhongmo agreed without hesitation. With the support of King Chu, he had nothing to worry about.