Chapter 17 Section VII

Two days after Xiao Youdan's visit to Shi Yue, the Zhongshu Province of the Song Dynasty finally officially approved the candidates for military weapons supervision, and Sun Gu and Shen Kuo were both sentenced to military weapons supervision. This appointment was out of Shiyue's expectation. Sun Gu was the old man of the current emperor Long Qianying's residence. As soon as the emperor came to the throne, he became a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, a minister of Tianzhang Pavilion, and the secretary of Zhitong Jinyintai, and was in charge of memorials. upload and download.This person has a little ability, but he does not agree with Wang Anshi's political views, but has a close relationship with Wen Yanbo.But on the other hand, this appointment is also reasonable. Although Sun Gu was born as a Jinshi, he has also participated in military operations and has a close relationship with the Privy Council. This appointment expresses that the Privy Council is also interested in leading the military. On the other hand, since this candidate was personally nominated by the emperor, it obviously expressed the emperor's concern for the Military Weapons Supervision. He sent his old people to Tongzhi Military Weapons Supervision, which has a very obvious symbolic meaning.However, this appointment obviously sacrificed the interests of the new party. The new party proposed to set up a military inspector. As a result, none of the candidates for the same sentence as the military inspector was his turn. Instead, they were all his political enemies.This blow can be imagined.

When Shi Yue saw Wang Anshi at the meeting of Zhongshu Province, he didn't care at all when he saw Wang Anshi. —But when expressing their views, no one came out to express their opposition. Of course, the person most affected by this appointment was naturally another Tianzhang Pavilion attendant, Wang Xi. "This Sun Gu is nothing more than a rotten Confucian, what a big deal it would be to let him be sentenced to military weapons supervision!" Wang Yu slammed the folding fan on the ground. Zhang Hu carefully picked up the folding fan and handed it to Wang Yu. Although this kind of folding fan is sold in Bianjing, not many people use it. in hand. "Yuanze don't need to be angry. Sun Gutong was sentenced to military weapons supervision, so many things may happen."

"How to say?" Zhang Hu analyzed with a smile: "Sun Gu has always had a high self-esteem. I heard that he read it at the age of nine, so he said that he can do it. He is an old man in Yingdi. There will be friction. In addition, Sun Gu has always hated eunuchs, and is most opposed to the servants participating in the affairs of the court, so how can the military supervisor not deal with eunuchs?" Wang Yu glanced at him slightly, and said coldly: "I also hate those eunuchs meddling in foreign affairs. If Sun Gu has the guts to expel the eunuch from the military prison, then I can accept his appointment. I'm afraid he won't have the ability!"

Zhang Hu got bored, and Nuonuo said: "Yuan Ze said it is true. However, the military supervisor has a lot of abuses. Sun Gu and Shen Kuo are not honest people. Since ancient times, eunuchs have loved money. We only need to install a few small If officials go in, if they can be caught, it will be counted as eliminating harm for the country." Wang Yu then nodded.Military Weapons Supervision is a very fat place, the price is arbitrarily quoted, and the embezzlement money is tens of thousands, plus the filial piety of all local officials, it is really a great job.Both Sun Gu and Shen Kuo are not famous for their incorruptibility, so it is difficult for them to be clean and self-respecting... Just as they were thinking about it, a family member said cautiously outside the door: "My lord, someone sent you a letter."

Wang Yu asked casually, "Who sent it?" "I don't know. The man handed the letter into Xiao's hand and left. There was no name written on the envelope." Wang Yu suddenly felt strange, walked out of the study, took the letter, tore off the wax, and pulled out a piece of snow-white letter paper. As soon as he glanced at it, he shouted: "OK! OK!" and tore up the letter. , He fell to the ground hard, and his eyes almost burst into flames. Zhang Hu didn't know what was written on it, so he walked over quickly, picked up the torn pieces of paper, and put them together, only to see two lines of Tang poems written on it: "Bitter hate pressing the golden thread every year, marrying others clothes"!

These two lines of poems are of course ridiculing Wang Yu's initiative to supervise military weapons, but in the end he made wedding clothes for others.Holding the piece of paper, Zhang Hu couldn't help being stunned.After a long while, he raised his head, looked at Wang Yu, and asked leisurely, "Yuan Ze, who do you think wrote this word?" At this moment, Wang Yu calmed down a little, and said bitterly: "Who wrote this word?!" There are no secrets in the officialdom, not to mention that many people know about Wang Yu's initiative of the Military Weapons Supervision.The question is who is going to make things difficult for Wang Yu and laugh at him with Tang poetry?

A name flashed through both of their minds at the same time. But Wang Yu immediately shook his head and said, "Impossible, this doesn't suit Shi Yue's character." Zhang Hu was noncommittal, and said indifferently: "We can finally find out who it is." A few days later, Wang Yu set up a poetry society in the back garden of his home, and the prime minister's house worked in the yamen. Naturally, many celebrities from the capital came to join him.When the crowd was chanting the wind and playing the moon, when the climax was coming, Zhang Hu suddenly took out dozens of pieces of calligraphy written with Tang poems as if by magic, and everyone watched carefully, only to find that the handwriting of each piece of calligraphy was different. The handwriting of many celebrities in Song Dynasty.

Wang Yu smiled and suggested that we should test everyone's eyes and let everyone guess whose handwriting is copied in a piece of calligraphy.The one given to Ye Zuqia, the number one scholar, has a famous line from Tang poetry written on it: "Bitterly hate pressing the gold thread every year, making wedding clothes for others".The handwriting is quite immature, which is completely different from other calligraphers with their own charm. Ye Zuqia looked at it for a while, then blurted out: "The rhyme in this character is somewhat like Shi Ziming." Unexpectedly, Wang Yu's face changed immediately when he heard these words, and he exchanged winks with Zhang Hu.How clever Ye Zuqia was, all these subtle actions fell into his eyes.With a thump in his heart, he felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't help but regret secretly.

Others only heard Ye Zuqia say that it resembled Shi Yue's characters, so they couldn't help but smile at each other. Many people came forward and said with a smile: "Let me also see Shi Jiubian's characters..." Shi Yue's handwriting is poor. Shilin, the capital teacher, is quite a joke, but usually no one dares to laugh openly, they just take it as an anecdote, but most people here know that Wang Yu and Shi Yue are not compatible, so they will deliberately make fun of Shi Yue in order to please Wang Yu . Ye Zuqia didn't bother to pay attention to these people, and cursed secretly in his heart: "The yamen drill!" At that time, those who were devoted to courting the "princelings" were often ridiculed as "the yamen drill".Although Ye Zuqia didn't want to speak ill of Shi Yue, he didn't dare to offend Wang Yu, so he quietly stepped aside.Follow these people to recklessly talk about Shi Yue's embarrassing stories that have been circulated in Shilin and the public - in fact, most of these things are said by people as romantic affairs, but when they come to these people, they can't help but be tinged with malice.

Someone said in an ambiguous tone: "Do you all know how Shi Jiubian practiced calligraphy?" Then someone jokingly replied: "It's nothing more than grinding ink and writing calligraphy. What else can I do?" The man shook his head and pretended to be mysterious and said: "Shi Jiubian is a romantic and talented man, he is totally different from us. The copybook he came to was written in red by Miss Sang's own handwriting, which is extraordinary and incomparable." Immediately someone asked: "Which Miss Sang family? How did you know?" ... Ye Zuqia heard it from a distance, and cursed in a low voice: "Village cow." Although these things are not nonsense, it is always unkind to speak nonsense about a good girl like this.He didn't want to hear these words, so he walked to the side of the pond to enjoy the scenery.After standing for a while, I heard someone behind me say: "The number one scholar is very interested."

He turned his head and saw it was Zhang Hu, he quickly smiled and said, "I'm very quiet by nature, and there are so many people there, I'm not used to it." Zhang Hu said sarcastically: "Is the champion still used to Baishuitan? There are quite a lot of people there." Ye Zuqia changed his mind, and said with a smile: "I'm kidding, I teach in Baishuitan, it's the Holy Majesty's intention, and a courtier just keeps his duty." He knew that Zhang Hu was Wang Yu's henchman, but this sentence was Say goodbye to Wang Yu. Hearing what he said, Zhang Hu shook his head and said with a smile: "The Prime Minister personally recommended the champion. At the beginning, Su Shi wanted to obstruct him. Speaking of which, everyone is his own." His provocative meaning is very clear.Ye Zuqia really hated Su Shi to the bone: the glory of the number one scholar was almost deprived by him!But even so, on the surface he was not willing to offend Su Shi easily.What's more, Ye Zuqia believes that Shi Yue's future is limitless, so he is even more cautious in his actions.He only smiled slightly at the moment, and said: "I don't dare to care about these kindnesses and grievances. I just try my best to do my duty and be loyal to the emperor." Zhang Hu laughed after hearing this unsalty words, and said with a smile: "I am ashamed of the champion's mind." After that, he said intentionally or unintentionally: "I heard that Shi Jiubian has not yet Married?" Ye Zuqia didn't know what he meant by asking this, and said in astonishment: "Everyone knows about this." Zhang Hu half-jokingly said: "Since Shi Ziming's favor is mostly for the Lord, at least he is the daughter of a minister assigned by the emperor. It's really strange that no one goes to Shi's mansion to be a matchmaker." Ye Zuqia immediately relaxed his vigilance, and said with a smile: "There will be none! But everyone thinks that Ziming is not worthy of ordinary women, and generally dare not come to the door to talk about matchmaking. However, the daughters of the ruling ministers are either married or married. He hasn't reached Ji yet, so it must be because his Red Luan star hasn't moved." Zhang Hu nodded and said with a smile, "Or so." Ye Zuqia was aroused by the conversation, and said: "In my opinion, Ziming will not be able to honor the lord. The emperor must want to make great use of him. There is no precedent for a consort's captain to be greatly used in this dynasty." Zhang Hu was taken aback, but he had never thought about this, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "That's not bad. I thought Shi Ziming and Miss Sang had already made a white-headed alliance." Ye Zuqia said seriously: "It's not easy to talk nonsense. After all, Miss Sang's family is a girl from a good family. They love each other like brothers and sisters, so it's too much to cause such gossip." A trace of disapproval flashed in Zhang Hu's eyes, but he smiled and said, "That's a good statement, so it's true that Miss Sang's family wrote a copybook for Shi Ziming?" Ye Zuqia heard him go around the corner and asked about this again, his heart shivered, a feeling of uneasiness came to his mind, he nodded reluctantly, and said: "It's true. But there's nothing wrong with it." "Yes, there is nothing wrong with it." ... "Yuan Ze, it is almost certain that Shi Yue did it." Wang Yu was still a little skeptical, and said, "Just based on Ye Zuqia's words..." "Look what this is!" Zhang Hu took out a case file from his arms. Wang Yu took it and saw that it was the case of the Ministry of Education. He couldn't help being surprised: "This is a serious crime! Where did you get it? Send it back quickly." Zhang Human smiled nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, I can send it back tomorrow. Li Ding will do it well. Yuanze, please read the handwriting on it first." Wang Yu looked at it according to the words, skipped over the previous documents, and only looked at the annotations at the back, on which were written a few lines of small characters: "...This matter is very well-intentioned, but there are some inappropriate things..." This handwriting and that The handwriting of the two poems is slightly similar. Wang Yu's face sank, and he said: "This is the approval document of the workshop case, could it be..." "It's Shi Yue's personal approval document." Zhang Hu said while pulling out a few pages from his sleeve and handing them to Wang Yu. Wang Yu saw that these pages were all in red, and there were a few words on each page that were messed up. It looked like a woman's handwriting, and the paper was a little wrinkled. Discarded.He glanced at Zhang Hu suspiciously, not knowing what it meant. Zhang Hu said with a sneer, "I ordered the Deli family to buy these pages from the servants of the Sang family, and they were scrapped by Miss Sang's family when she was painting red for Shi Yue." Wang Yu hurriedly took a closer look, and saw that some of the brushstrokes were indeed similar to Shi Yue's characters, and he became more and more puzzled. Zhang Hu took out the two poems again, put the three kinds of handwriting together, and said: "The characters in these two poems, on the surface, are not very similar to Shi Yue's handwriting, but the meaning of the brushwork cannot be concealed. Its method is to conceal it. It is obviously written by Shi Yue after deliberately concealing his own handwriting." Wang Yu looked at it for a long time with a sullen face, and remained silent.After a long while, he suddenly asked: "Shi Yue and I have no enmity at all, but we disagree with each other, why should he humiliate me like this? Besides, he has no one under his command, so why bother to write a handwritten letter and leave evidence?" Zhang Hu was also stunned, thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "I don't know about that either. But I know that Shi Yue has always been a hypocrite, whether it was deliberately not to follow the imperial edict, to win the reputation of scholars, or to fight in front of Xuande Gate. Those students are really unfathomable when they play double reeds. Among the young people in the world today, you are the only one who can keep pace with him. Maybe he deliberately hit you like this. If so, he will do such things It's not surprising that it came out, and it's inconvenient for him to let his subordinates know, so as not to affect his reputation..." His analysis was originally very reluctant, but although Wang Yu said it calmly, he was already trembling with anger. Originally with a fierce personality and eyes above the top, how could he not be excited to see Shi Yue humiliating him so much?At this time, I was just suppressing the anger in my heart. When I heard Zhang Hu's words, my blood surged up immediately, and I punched the table hard. Power tactics!"