Chapter 310 I confess that I am a traitor
The carriage turned from the official road into Changping Road.

It didn't go far before it stopped.

Then Yan Shaoting and Xu Wei, who were standing on the top of Jiashan Mountain, saw a person getting off the carriage and walking straight into the fields next to them.

The carriage then continued into the town.

At the town entrance, another person got off the carriage.

Xu Wei whispered, "They are the two guards assigned to Hai Rui by Zhang Juzheng when he was in Suzhou Prefecture. Their names seem to be... Wang Chao and Ma Han."

Yan Shaoting raised his eyebrows.

"Wang Chao, Ma Han?"

There was a mysterious smile on his face.

I just don't know if there will be another dragon and another tiger around Hai Rui.

Xu Wei said, "Should we ask Zhu Qi to investigate these two people?"

Yan Shaoting shook his head and rejected the suggestion: "No need for that. Since Hai Rui is willing to take these two people with him, he must have seen it clearly."

Xu Wei thought about it, smiled, and said, "Should we send two people when he comes to Beijing this time?"

Do you really want to form an F4 for Hai Rui and Hai Qingtian?

It didn't take long.

Yan Shaoting smiled and said, "This can be done."

However, the so-called dragon-head guillotine, tiger-head guillotine, and dog-head guillotine are no longer popular in the Ming Dynasty today.

Otherwise, if Hai Rui were given this set of torture instruments again.

That really makes the story come true.

The Ming Dynasty version of the Justice.

After satisfying his own bad taste.

Yan Shaoting saw that the carriage carrying Hai Rui had already entered the town.

He smiled and looked at Xu Wei: "Let's arrange it on the roof of the library and let him go directly up."

Xu Wei was a little surprised.

The library in the Yan family's villa is 26 feet high and has six floors.

Anyone can enter the lower three floors and borrow books at will.

The fourth and fifth floors can only be entered by the teachers of the academy.

As for the top layer.

Currently, only the Yan family, Zhu Shanchang and Nie Bao, three old masters, can go up.

of course.

There is another floor underneath the library.

Then only the three generations of the Yan family, plus Xu Wei, could enter.

Even the little bird Yan Hu didn't know that there was another layer of things underneath.

Let Hai Rui go directly to the top floor of the library.

However, although.

But for Hai Rui, it was truly an honor.

even……

In Xu Wei's opinion, being able to go to the top floor of the library in Changping Villa was more honorable than meeting the emperor.

of course.

Perhaps Hai Rui did not understand the twists and turns here and the meaning they represented.

But in Xu Wei's view.

His boss really values ​​Hai Rui very much.

"To the library?"

In the academy, Hai Rui looked at Xu Wenchang, who had already been famous in Zhejiang, with a look of surprise on his face.

Although he didn't know what the top floor of the Changping Villa Library represented.

However, the existence of a library is something that only wealthy families with real background can have.

And the Yan family’s library.

Although this was his first time in Beijing, he had heard of it before.

It’s such a private place within a private place. When you come here for the first time, you can go to the top floor.

interesting.

Immediately.

Hai Rui said calmly, "Please lead the way, Mr. Wenchang."

Xu Wei smiled faintly.

This Hai Rui was also interesting. He was not at all the stubborn person as rumored.

He clearly knew that he was now the Right Junior Secretary of the Right Spring Office of the Zhanshi Palace.

His official position was far higher than Hai Rui's.

However, he did not talk about the hierarchy among officials, but only talked about the affairs of scholars.

It is more in line with the library we are going to today.

And on the rooftop of the library in the other courtyard.

Listening to the footsteps coming from downstairs.

Yan Shaoting felt a little nervous for no reason.

he knows.

This is Xu Wei and Hai Rui coming.

About meeting Hai Rui.

Yan Shaoting had imagined countless different scenarios before.

Or they might be the Yan Party that Hai Gangfeng accused of bringing disaster to the country and the people.

Or he might be scolded by Hai Rui as a treacherous and flattering minister.

Anyway.

There are no good scenes.

As for Hai Rui.

He had fantasized about meeting Yan Shaoting a long time ago.

Perhaps I would be amazed at the other person's youth, and would also wonder why this person who came from a treacherous background in the Yan Party could do such completely different things.

curious.

It is the greatest existence in his heart.

So much so.

Hai Rui had thought a long time ago that if he ever met Yan Shaoting one day, he would definitely ask him what he really thought.

But at the moment.

The top floor of the Changping Villa Library.

The two stood facing each other, looking into each other's eyes, but there was silence and no one spoke first.

Hai Rui is of the same age as Yan Shifan.

Yan Shaoting, on the other hand, looks very young.

From Hai Rui's perspective at this moment.

Yan Shaoting is indeed too young.

At this moment, Yan Shaoting also had a wonderful feeling flowing in his heart.

It was different from his previous encounters with Yan Song, Yan Shifan, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and even the old Taoist priest.

The living Hai Rui.

Standing right in front of me at this moment.

A feeling of trance.

Seeing the two silent people, Xu Wei smiled.

He walked slowly to the tea table beside him and knocked on the table with the tea set.

"Guest, Imperial Censor Hai."

"Why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea before we talk about his business?"

Then Xu Wei spoke up.

Yan Shaoting finally recovered, smiled, and bowed to Hai Rui, saying, "I have heard of Mr. Gangfeng's name for a long time. He is well-known as a writer in the southeast. It is a great honor to meet you today."

Hai Rui also regained consciousness at this moment.

His expression was stern, he bowed his hands, bowed his head and said, "Your subordinate Hai Rui greets Guest Yan."

Neither of them followed Xu Wei's advice and sat down at the tea table.

Xu Wei could only roll his eyes silently.

Yan Shaoting stared at Hai Rui, who was standing in front of him. His official uniform was faded and frayed from washing, and his skin was dark. He felt a lot of regret in his heart.

What did that sentence say?

The Ming Dynasty can do without Hai Rui, but the Ming people cannot do without Hai Rui.

Another saying is that the people of the Ming Dynasty can do without Zhang Juzheng, but the Ming Dynasty must have Zhang Taiyue.

Without waiting for Yan Shaoting to speak again.

Hai Rui coughed lightly.

He raised his head and straightened his chest, looking at Yan Shaoting with sharp eyes: "This time, I was summoned to the capital to report on my duties, which was an official mission from the Emperor. But today, before the official ship I was on reached Chaoyangmen Wharf, it was intercepted by servants sent by Guest Yan, and they asked me to get on a carriage and come to Changping. I wonder if Guest Yan was ordered by the Emperor to see me and question me on behalf of His Majesty?"

Changping Villa Library.

The atmosphere suddenly changed.

Xu Wei, who was making tea, couldn't help but stop what he was doing, raised his head and looked at Hai Rui with a frown.

This guy.

He really is as stubborn as the rumors say!

Totally unworldly!

As soon as the two sides met, he actually started to question Yan Shaoting about the incident of stopping him halfway.

A smile appeared on Yan Shaoting's face.

well.

This is the Hai Gangfeng that I know.

It's not that he doesn't care about the so-called social practices, it's just that he thinks they are unimportant.

In Hai Rui's heart, rules and people are the most important.

Under Hai Rui's scrutiny.

Yan Shaoting smiled and shook his head: "I have neither received an imperial decree nor an oral order to see Censor Hai."

"Then guest Yan has overstepped his authority today! He has openly violated the rules of the court!"

Hai Rui's words were sharp.

He did not forget to mention it again: "According to the law, I was ordered to come to the capital to report my duties. I should report to the Censorate of my department, and then enter the Huitong Hall to report to the emperor that I have been ordered to come to the capital and wait for the emperor to summon me. But guest Yan stopped me on the way, which violated the court law and involved usurpation. As the censor of the Censorate, I will file a separate memorial to the court later to report the whole story."

Xu Wei's expression became increasingly solemn.

But Yan Shaoting wanted to laugh.

This Hai Rui.

It’s really interesting!
He was going to submit a petition to impeach me, and he even said it in front of me in advance.

Yan Shaoting said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Hai Yushi has forgotten that although I am now a guest of the crown prince, I am still a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue's Zhejiang Province Qingli Division, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, a junior secretary of the Zhanshi Palace, and the director of the Changping Public Security Division."

Hai Rui said expressionlessly, "Guest Yan is a young talent. He serves as an official in the court and holds several positions. All of this is due to the emperor's great favor."

Yan Shaoting shook his head: "No, I have several duties and responsibilities. Censor Hai said that I stopped you without the emperor's order, but has Censor Hai forgotten that I am also responsible for increasing the production of silk in the southeast and marketing it overseas?"

Hai Rui was stunned.

Then he finally smiled.

"I forgot it."

Is this an admission of error?
Yan Shaoting muttered to himself.

Then he said, "If I remember correctly, Censor Hai is not only the Supervisory Censor of the Metropolitan Censorate, but also the Tongpan of the Southern Zhili Governor's Office. If so, is it wrong for me to summon Tongpan Hai to discuss the Southeast Silk issue?"

Hai Rui's face was serious, but a smile appeared in his heart.

This is not much different from the Yan Shaoting that he knows.

He is also more direct.

In front of Yan Shaoting and Xu Wei, he bowed his head and said, "Mr. Yan is not wrong, it is me who is wrong."

He was ordered to return to Beijing to report on his work.

Now that Yan Shaoting was talking about the Southeast Silk issue, he, as the Assistant Magistrate of the Nanzhili Governor's Office, naturally had the responsibility to report the matter to Yan Shaoting.

The first confrontation between the two.

It also ended with Hai Rui admitting his mistake on his own initiative.

But then.

Hai Rui said, "I have been an official in the southeast and have often heard that Yan Binke is a loyal official and has a good reputation as a royalist. But there is one thing I don't understand. I wonder if Yan Binke can help me to understand it."

"The Imperial Censor Hai will ask the truth, and I will tell you everything I know."

Yan Shaoting seemed very calm.

As he spoke, he finally sat down at the tea table.

Xu Wei, who had already brewed tea, finally poured out a cup of tea.

Hai Rui still stood where he was, but he moved his feet, turned around and looked at Yan Shaoting and Xu Wei.

He said in a clear voice: "I have been an official in Zhejiang and Nanzhili, visiting local areas and listening to the people's lives. Today, in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of our Ming Dynasty, there is exploitation and oppression everywhere, and the people's lives are becoming increasingly difficult.

"Corrupt officials are rampant in the government, and factional struggles are severe in the court. The officials do not know how to serve the court and the emperor, but only know how to do petty things while eating the emperor's salary.

Yan Binke is a minister praised by Your Majesty as being loyal and serving the country. Why is it that while serving as an official in the court, I have no good advice or suggestions to persuade Your Majesty to put things right and make the Ming Dynasty peaceful and orderly?"

This Hai Rui!

Xu Wei, who was sitting at the tea serving position, rolled his eyes again.

He couldn't help but ask: "How does Hai Yushi know that the guests have not given any good advice?"

Hai Rui glanced at Xu Wei.

His eyes flickered, and he said in a cold voice: "I have checked the court reports every ten days and have received inquiries from all parties. I have not seen any guests making suggestions, which has ensured that the government and the people of our Ming Dynasty are fair and orderly."

Xu Wei frowned.

He still wanted to speak.

But Yan Shaoting had already stretched out his hand to stop Xu Wei from saying the next word.

He turned and looked at Hai Rui.

This Hai Rui, when they met for the first time, dared to ask me why I didn't advise the emperor, put order out of chaos and restore the government.

What a tough guy!

If it were someone else, he would have beaten this guy out by now.

but.

Since Hai Rui asked.

Then just do as he wishes.

Yan Shaoting smiled and said, "I'm afraid that Censor Hai has forgotten that I am from Yanfu Lane, my ancestor was the Prime Minister of the current dynasty, and my father was the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, known as the Little Elder.

As for my Yan family, we have been impeached frequently in the past, and all the officials would say that the Yan party is treacherous and corrupt. "

His tone was calm, as if he was stating a fact.

Yan Shaoting was like facing a joint trial by three judges.

He confessed in front of Hai Rui: "Censor Hai, if you really think about it, I am a traitorous official of the Ming Dynasty!"

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