Zhang Yuan naturally understood the meaning of Chen Xi's dialect.

You feel that you have done something neat and beautiful, but in the end the source will be pursued and the contradiction will be further intensified.

Zhang Yuan said: "Mr. Shen, if you are dissatisfied with those unreasonable officials, why don't you do it yourself? I believe you knew it if Your Majesty knew about it, you would never have been ignoring this matter!"

Zhang Yuan began to defend himself. He understood that Chen Xi could not afford to be guilty now, and could only try his best to weaken the role he played in this incident.

Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and said, "If I don't take action, it doesn't mean I will tolerate them. I just don't want to intensify the conflict. Even if Your Majesty knows, it's impossible to imprison everyone. What you are doing now is to make enemies for me... Eunuch Zhang, I really thank you for thinking about the Shen family."

Zhang Yuan was frightened when he heard this. He naturally understood that Chen Xi was not sincere in thanking him, but was completely mocking him.

He murmured in his heart: "If you don't do anything yourself, I'll help you get everything done, do you blame me? Humph, if it weren't for me, those people might have started to attack your house, and you are turning against each other now!"

Even though he was dissatisfied, Zhang Yuan still gave a polite manner: "What Mr. Shen said is that our family has neglected his work, but since the person has been arrested, the matter has been decided. Teach them a lesson first... Even if they are not punished, let them calm down in the cell for a few days. Look..."

Chen Xi did not answer and said directly: "Eunuch Zhang should think about how to explain this to His Majesty... I won't give it to you!"

Before Zhang Yuan finished speaking, Chen Xi issued a direct order to expel guests.

Zhang Yuan was stunned, and then realized that it was too difficult to deal with Chen Xi now. He shook his head and sighed softly: "Our family does all this for the Shen family!"

He said beautifully, but in fact, he was out of public or selfishness, and everyone knew it.

When Zhang Yuan returned to the capital with the body of the Seal Supervisor, he naturally needed to establish his authority, and there was a good opportunity to regain his strength. This was almost a killing chicken to warn the monkey, making others dare not speak out to him again.

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Zhang Yuan captured all the people who made trouble in the Shen family and were imprisoned. This incident did not reach Zhu Houzhao's ears, because the emperor was still eating, drinking and having fun routinely, and he didn't care about anything outside the leopard room.

However, with the word of mouth among many witnesses, the capital city was circulating in a short period of time, especially the families of the prison officials. They received the news immediately and quickly found someone to find colleagues and superiors to clear the news. The news spread very quickly. In the eyes of those loyal and straight ministers, this act of arresting ministers was a replica of what Liu Jin did back then. The only difference was that Liu Jin did not say that he would directly put the person to Dali Temple Prison, but to the imperial prison.

As mentioned earlier, the imperial prison is a cell that is directly responsible to the emperor. It seems difficult and dangerous. When the Jinyiwei arrests people, it can be done regardless of the importance, but as long as the emperor says, he can be released without any acquittal. When going to the cell of Dali Temple, it is equivalent to saying that the case has risen to the legal level and there must be a conclusion.

In the eyes of most court officials, this move is very unruly and gives an excuse to attack Zhang Yuan, Chen Xi and even the emperor himself. Officials can submit a memorial to theories on whether the matter is legal, and Xie Qian will firmly speak for Li Mengyang and other prison officials.

The situation is developing. After nightfall, a large number of officials rushed to report, and many ministers chose to protect themselves and ignored them.

When Xie Qian's mansion came to the office, Yang Yiqing, the Minister of Revenue, came to inform him of the situation and learned it.

"... Zhang Yuan's reason for doing things makes sense. He was ordered by the emperor to do the job. Perhaps those people who went to the Shen family to make trouble may be left alone. How could His Majesty sit still after he knows it? It seems that he is opposing His Majesty, but he is even more opposing His Majesty's decision!"

Xie Qian spoke very slowly, as if he was analyzing the problem, but after hearing this, Yang Yiqing realized that Xie Qian did not blame Chen Xi, but pointed his finger at the Emperor and Zhang Yuan.

Yang Yiqing said intently: "Didn't the relationship between Mr. Xie and Eunuch Zhang before? Why did Eunuch Zhang come back this time with a different attitude than before, and even confront Mr. Xie in person yesterday?"

Many things can be seen from the surface.

Yang Yiqing also attended the court meeting held outside Fengtian Gate yesterday. Naturally, Zhang Yuan was indifferent to Xie Qian, which made Yang Yiqing puzzled.

Because before Zhang Yuan fell, he had a close relationship with Xie Qian and his limited ability, most of the affairs in the court were determined by Xie Qian's will. Therefore, when the people in the court knew that Zhang Yuan was the chief supervisor of the Sili, they were relieved that they felt that Xie Qian could control Zhang Yuan and that the court would develop in a direction that was beneficial to the civil service group.

But no one expected that on the first day Zhang Yuan showed up, he gave Xie Qian a warning and did not give Xie Qian any face in front of the emperor.

That makes people think that after Zhang Yuan came back this time, he fully absorbed the past experience and lessons, and no longer stood with Xie Qian, and he was very likely to have turned to Chenxi. Once the cabinet chief could not affect the seal of the Sili Supervisor, he would not have a good impression of the emperor, which means that the era of Xie Qian is about to end.

Yang Yiqing said: "The arrested officials outside the Shen Mansion were sent to Dali Temple Prison. Before coming, they inquired about the situation and learned that these people were not abused after being imprisoned. Eunuch Zhang first went to Chen Mansion to see Shangshu Chen, and then returned to the Leopard Room to report that there is no further trend at present."

Xie Qian frowned and said, "If there is any news again, it will probably be torture. Yingning, hurry up and say hello to Dali Temple. Never let Zhang Yuan's people do whatever they want."

Yang Yiqing said in embarrassment: "Grandmaster Xie, Eunuch Zhang took the emperor's order, and it is difficult to stop him from committing crimes... Your Majesty's attitude is unclear. If he decides to promote the prison, the fate will be very miserable for those arrested officials!"

Xie Qian said, "I'll go to the Three Laws now. You can watch it first, let's act separately. By the way, I'll tell Zhang Yuanrui, the Minister of Justice, no matter what he does, hurry up and go to the Ministry of Justice's office. Things can't be delayed tonight."

Seeing that Xie Qian became nervous, Yang Yiqing felt that the matter was urgent and immediately bowed and accepted the order: "Yes, Master Xie."

Xie Qian sighed, "I just asked for my life, but I ended up in the following situation. It's so sad... Forget it, I'll send someone to inform you from the Three Laws. I plan to go to the Leopard Room to see... It would be great if I could meet the saint directly, otherwise I would also like to ask someone to mention it to Your Majesty. This is wrong with me, not those Qingliu in the courts!"

Yang Yiqing felt the entanglement in Xie Qian's heart. It can even be said that the chief minister's thoughts had begun to become chaotic. He first said that he wanted to go to the Sanfa Office, but perhaps he realized that it would be useless. The Grand Secretary of the Cabinet was just the emperor's secretary after all, and it would never be possible to interfere with the emperor's decision, so he thought of going to the leopard room to meet the saint.

Yang Yiqing said: "Do you say hello to Zhihou?"

Xie Qian was stunned, then shook his head: "No need, this matter has happened because of him, so don't care about him for the time being. Do whatever he wants!"

"this……"

Yang Yiqing did not agree with Xie Qian's idea very much.

Whoever caused this incident will naturally end with whom. If Chen Xi went to meet the saint, the effect would be better. As long as Chen Xi was "magnanimous", did not care about the sins of those people, and argued with Zhu Houzhao, the emperor would not be unkind. But now Xie Qian does not want to work in Chen Xi, so in Yang Yiqing's opinion, there is only one possibility:

"Xie Ge always wanted to use this to suppress Shen Zhihou's reputation in the court, and then make Shen Zhihou, the two ministers, isolated and helpless."

Thinking of this, Yang Yiqing was very upset: "Zhihou is not a treacherous person. He has maintained great restraint in today's affairs. Why do so many people in the court want to target him? Shouldn't he persuade His Majesty to be more direct?"

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Xie Qian felt that Chen Xi was about to become a lonely man, but he did not expect that he would become a lonely man first.

After He Jian retired, there was not even a person who informed him of the affairs of the court. If Yang Yiqing had not informed him of the situation on the same day, he might not have known it until the next day.

Even Yang Yiqing, who seemed to support him in this matter, seemed not entirely on his side. He felt that Xie Qian and some people in the court were too reckless and arbitrary.

At this moment, perhaps only young young people such as Li Mengyang who were originally despised by Xie Qian, or Qingliu, would stand on Xie Qian's side and remain firm.

Xie Qian didn't care about anything else, so he went to the Leopard Room to try to meet the priest and plead for mercy, or argue with reason.

As for Yang Yiqing, he started to hit a wall after going out.

Zhang Zilin, the Minister of Justice, would not meet Yang Yiqing because Zhang Zilin was not an official of Xie Qian at all. In the Liu Jin case, Zhang Zilin was the Minister of Justice. Like his former Minister of Justice, Liu Jing, he was almost designated as a eunuch party by Xie Qian. He relied on Chen Xi's support to pass the position of Minister of Justice. He then took over the position of Minister of Justice.

Previously, Zhang Zilin had to stand with the civil servant group, but after Chen Xi returned to the court, he began to choose his position again. Now the wind was obviously not blowing to Xie Qian's side. Even if Zhang Zilin did not stand up and publicly support Chen Xi, he would not take great risks to help Xie Qian do things.

As for the Dali Temple Minister Zhang Lun and the Zuodu Censor Hong Zhong, their ideas are basically the same as those of Zhang Zilin.

When Xie Qian was in power, you were unyielding and always used the matter of the eunuch party as a means to suppress the officials of the court. Even the emperor didn't care about it, but Xie Qian was entangled. Now something happened, do you want us to help you?

Yang Yiqing asked to see Zhang Zilin and Hong Zhong, so he could only visit Zhang Lun's mansion in the Dali Temple Minister. Zhang Lun did not refuse to meet, but after meeting, he complained impatiently: "I said Ying Ning, it's already night now, what case can't be discussed until tomorrow?"

Yang Yiqing sighed: "So many officials are imprisoned, this is the top priority in the court. People are being detained in your Dali Temple cell. As a temple minister, can you sit idly by? "

"You can't say that."

Zhang Lun looked avoidant, "The person was arrested by His Majesty's Jinyiwei, but he was temporarily imprisoned in the Dali Temple Prison. I don't know what to do in the future. Even if I want to do anything, it's impossible! Otherwise, go to the yamen to find Zong Xian. Now the matter of the criminal prison is under his control, so you can find him!"

Zhang Lun refused to help, but he was not as good as Yang Yiqing in terms of official rank. The minister of Dali Temple was the third rank, and Yang Yiqing was the second rank, as the minister of the six ministries. Moreover, Yang Yiqing was responsible for military affairs in the northwest as the governor of the three sides. After entering the court, he was far above him. In addition, the Ministry of Revenue was in charge of the money bag from the center to the local government, so he was not easy to offend, so he pushed him on his hands.

The "Zongxian" mentioned by Zhang Lun is the face of Quan Yunxu, Shaoqing of Dali Temple. This person was a Jinshi in the 15th year of Hongzhi. He was the person responsible for taking Li Mengyang and others to imprison him.

When Yang Yiqing saw that Zhang Lun had no intention of helping him, he did not want to stay, so he went to Dali Temple without stopping. He thought Xie Qian had finished the meeting with the saint, but after arriving at the place, he learned from the followers that Xie Qian was still waiting at the door of the Leopard Room at this time, and it was not known whether anyone would inform the emperor.

"Shangshu Yang?"

Just as Yang Yiqing was waiting in, he saw a man coming out of the Dali Temple yamen. Yang Yiqing was going to get on his horse and rushed to the Leopard Room, waiting with Xie Qian to meet the king, but he couldn't help but dismount again after hearing this.

The lantern illuminated and the person came closer. After the other party saluted, Yang Yiqing realized that it was Quan Yunxu, the young minister of Dali Temple, who knew that he was coming, took the initiative to greet him.

Yang Yiqing said: "Zong Xian, where are the officials escorted from the Shen Mansion?"

"Everyone has been locked in a cell."

Quan Yunxu looked a little nervous, "No imperial edict has been delivered now, everything is still fine... I am afraid that the imperial edict will come in the future and will punish the people inside. Dali Temple dare not disobey the imperial edict... Shangshu Yang would have asked His Majesty to release the edict earlier..."

The court was caught off guard by Zhang Yuan's arrest of a large number of officials and was imprisoned. In addition to the collective silence of the senior officials, the officials in the middle and lower levels of the court were extremely concerned about this and generally expressed sympathy for Li Mengyang and others, especially the "young and strong" like Quan Yunxu.

Yang Yiqing said: "If someone comes with the imperial edict, you can make an excuse to delay the time unless it is Mr. Xie who comes. I just come to see the situation and then go to the leopard room."

Quan Yunxu was very surprised: "Sir Yang shouldn't go to find Shangshu Shen at this time?"

Yang Yiqing was stunned and thought to himself: "Everyone can understand this situation. Finding Zhihou at this time is the key to solving the problem, but Master Xie insisted on asking His Majesty for reasoning. Isn't this sacrificing the foundation and not distinguishing between the main and the secondary?"

Yang Yiqing sighed: "Before you are looking for Shangshu Shen, no matter who comes, you will find a way to delay and avoid torture officials. Even if Eunuch Zhang comes in person, you will find reasons to shirk. Zong Xian, you must remember!"

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After Yang Yiqing finished the explanation, he immediately went to the Leopard Room because Dali Temple is in the west of the city and the Leopard Room is in the east of the city, which took a lot of time to go on the way.

At this time, someone from the Shen family came to visit again, but this time it was Xiao Tiaozi. It was not the emperor's order, but his private visit.

"...Mr. Shen, no matter whether this matter is related to you, now everyone outside is sure that you are the mastermind behind the scenes. Who believes that Eunuch Zhang has the courage? But at that time, Your Majesty did not order people to be taken randomly, and at most a few were arrested to serve as a warning. Eunuch Zhang's move is clearly an arbitrary violation. If you don't tell Your Majesty, it will be even more difficult for Your Majesty to accept it. If there is any casualties, this dirty water will be poured on you..."

No one knows whether Xiao Twist is good or not, but his words are quite sincere.

In short, something happened to Li Mengyang and other officials, and Chen Xi could not escape.

Chen Xidao: "Didn't it say that Mr. Xie is waiting outside the Leopard's room to see Your Majesty? Why didn't Master Jie find out what to do, but came to find my official?"

Xiao Zhuozi said with a sad face: "So what if you report it all? Your Majesty will not see Master Xie. Yesterday, Master Xie had a little unhappy with Your Majesty. This time, Master Xie was probably related to Master Xie. What Zhang Yuan did now may force Your Majesty to be out of Taiwan, especially now Master Xie is also aggressive..."

Chen Xi nodded slightly: "That matter is quite troublesome..."

Xiao Taozi couldn't help but ask in surprise when he heard this, "Mr. Shen, what you meant is that you don't plan to come forward to solve the problem?"

Chen Xidao: "It's not that I don't want to come forward. I really have too much to do with me, Chen. If I go to plead with you, it may add fuel to the fire."

"But you are the only candidate. Who is more suitable to go than you? You...you..." Xiao Guozi stomped his feet in a hurry. He could not think of a reason to persuade him for the time being.

Chen Xi shook his head and said, "My father-in-law, what you see now is that I go to plead with Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will release you very well. But Master Xie would not think so. I am afraid that no one is willing to be the good person... And if I come forward, it will not be a warning or deterrent. What will those people come tomorrow? If they are captured tomorrow, will I still come forward to plead for them? What will Your Majesty think about this?”

Xiao Guozi never thought about what Chen Xi said at all. After hearing this, he was stunned. After thinking carefully, he shook his head and said, "Mr. Shen, are you afraid that this matter will be more involved?"
To be continued...