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Chapter 32 He's Not That Level

Seeing a famous scholar like Zhu Yunming, Zhang Yanling was no longer interested in knowing ordinary scholars.

Any normal scholar who knows his identity will definitely be scared away. Not to mention recruiting, even making friends will be a problem.

"Brother Cui, I have something to do, so I'll say goodbye first."

Zhang Yanling immediately stood up and wanted to leave.

Cui Yuan was surprised and said: "What is Mr. Zhang doing? He has not seen the invited scholar..."

"There is no choice. I have something to do at home and I want to go back soon."

In fact, Zhang Yanling now wants to go out and chase Zhu Yunming and get to know Zhu Yunming first. Maybe both sides have opinions about those scholars who are swaying and clawed, so they can resonate with them a little?

After Zhu Yunming was drunk and sober, he was afraid it would be difficult to get in touch.

Cui Yuan had no intention of trying to keep him. He knew that his ability would not hinder what Zhang Yanling wanted to do. He said: "Young Master Zhang had a misunderstanding with the literati on the other side. If he went out like this, he might just happen to meet them. I am afraid that the misunderstanding would be deeper by then."

Zhang Yanling sneered, "If you really don't meet me by chance, then you can only do it well."

With Zhang Yanling's current expression, Cui Yuan couldn't help but shivered when he heard this.

Judging from this, if you really meet it, it will not be a verbal theory. Don’t be Zhang Yanling with his servants and "reasoning" with those people with fists, feet and sticks.

Zhang Yanling scolded this group of people, but this group of people scolded Zhang Yanling first. With Zhang Yanling's personality, can he let it go?

"That's better... let me go out and see Mr. Zhang off? If I really meet a previous scholar, I can help explain..."

Lu Heng is the most confused one now.

I feel that every word of the conversation between Cui Yuan and Zhang Yanling can be understood, but I always feel that it doesn’t mean that when I connect it.

"Brother Lu, there is no need to bother you to send me off. Thank you for your hospitality today. I will definitely drink and say goodbye to you in the future."

Zhang Yanling ignored Cui Yuan and Lu Heng's resoluteness and went straight downstairs.

When I walked to the door, I didn’t see the scholars on the other side coming down, but the voices of talking loudly on the other side were basically gone. Perhaps this group of scholars were embarrassed in front of others, feeling dull and not even confident in speaking.

"Master, those boys on the other side are really not good. Not only do they scold you, but also scold our marquis. If you feel it is inconvenient to come forward, you can let the young men go up and beat them up and exhale them."

Nan Laise volunteered at this time.

He thought that Zhang Yanling would not continue to drink tea with Cui Yuan and Lu Heng, but he wanted to come out to settle the score with the young scholars.

Zhang Yanling ignored him and went straight to chase Zhu Yunming, but after passing the street corner, he didn't see anyone.

The men followed and chased each other, all confused.

"Master, what are we going to do?"

Nanlaise is quite big, but he obviously gets angry after running a few steps. He is afraid that his body is not as good as Zhang Yanling.

"The drunken scholar named Zhu Yunming, did you see where to go?"

Nan Laise looked at his companions behind him, staring at them one by one, obviously they didn't pay so much attention.

Zhang Yanling scolded: "Why did you raise such a bunch of waste? You know something else in addition to fighting and causing trouble all day long? Give you a task and find someone for me. If you can't find it, don't even think about getting the monthly salary in the future. I will also spit out the rewards I gave yesterday!"

These people usually show off their power, but in front of the unreasonable Zhang Yanling, they are like dogs.

Nan Laise greeted, "Brothers, listen to me, hurry up and find the one named Zhu. Those who can't find it are not allowed to eat!"

Zhang Yanling said that he would be punished if he could not find anyone, but Nan Laise actually increased his investment privately and refused to allow these people to eat. This is the essence of Zhang Yanling.

Zhang Yanling was too lazy to care about it.

When Zhu Yunming was not found for the time being, he went to Okura, the Hui merchants' merchants first. According to his thoughts, Zhu Yunming, a living person, lives in the capital, is still famous, and can still be found by people.

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Imperial Palace, Ganqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhang was meeting with the cabinet ministers and the six ministers of the ministry. The arrangements made were to reform the Ministry of Revenue.

After the morning, everyone was tired, Zhu Youzhang specially gave him a meal, allowing everyone to have dinner at Wenhua Palace first and then come back to discuss in the afternoon.

Just in the afternoon, the ministers had just returned to the Ganqing Palace and were about to start the discussion again, Xiao Jing hurriedly came back from outside, walked to Zhu Youting's ear and said a few words. Zhu Youting's face was gloomy in an instant: "Is there such a thing?"

All the ministers were confused. What happened that made the emperor so angry?

Xiao Jing took out a copy of the memorial from his arms, but he had to write something out of ordinary paper, with two copies in total, and handed it to Zhu Youting.

After reading it, Zhu Youting's face became even more furious.

"Bang!"

Zhu Youzhe slapped the table.

Tu Fei, the Minister of Personnel, walked out and asked, "Your Majesty, I don't know what happened? But the military situation in the northwest has been repeated?"

Tu Fei just replaced the late Secretary of the Secretariat Geng Yu in the first month of the year to take charge of the Ministry of Personnel. He was once the left censor of the Censorate and his status was considered high, but the Minister of Personnel as the head of the Six Ministers of the Secretariat, his prestige was still a little worse.

Zhu Youzhe said angrily: "There are people in the market who write unreasonable poems and essays to defame the Ming Dynasty. It's really amazing."

All the veterans present in the court.

They are quite familiar with the current situation in the market.

Although the Hongzhi Dynasty is remarkable in terms of people's livelihood, it does not have much control over the public opinion in the market, which also gives scholars a broad stage. These people lack opportunities for occurrence. In addition, they claim to be a bit talented and like to gather together to discuss state affairs when they have nothing to do.

Li Dongyang came out and said, "Your Majesty, the scholars from the capital gathered to discuss the matters, and the matters discussed were just to support the country. If there was any mistake in the speech, they should not be overcorrected."

Among the ministers in the court, Li Dongyang was a role model for young scholars. He always liked to make friends with young scholars.

If we talk about the opinion leader of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang is really the only one. Talented scholars are proud to be able to visit Li Dongyang, and Li Dongyang also has a high opinion of them and often speaks for these scholars in the court.

Just like this time, seeing that Zhu Youting was angry at the discussions of folk scholars, he came out to speak for those scholars, trying to reduce Zhu Youting's anger.

Zhu Youzhi said sternly: "If it's just a normal discussion, I'll just do it, see what they have written!"

Zhu Youzing asked Xiao Jing to circulate the two pieces of paper with written words to the ministers present.

After reading it, everyone realized that it was just a poem called "Silkworm Fu" and a poem satirizing the Silkworm at that time.

Usually, Zhu Youzhang did not strictly control the words of his scholars, but Dongchang still observes the public opinion reactions at any time, and never vaguely when there are major events.

The ministers present circulated it and seemed that they knew why Zhu Youzhang was angry.

When Zhu Youzhang saw that the people present were circulating, he said angrily: "You guys have also seen that these young scholars do not want to go to school, and they are all writing such poems that are not elegant, which will ruin the morale of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. Should they be considered as guilt?"

Li Dongyang said: "Such poetry is too rough and not a masterpiece. Even if it has the intention of implicitly sarcasm in the court, it is not advisable to make a big fuss."

"Mr. Li, are you too flirting with them?"

Zhu Youzhang is a student of Li Dongyang, so he naturally understands the temperament of this teacher. Li Dongyang is afraid of any grievances for any scholar who bears the name of Qingliu.

When Li Dongyang saw that the emperor's expression was not right, he also knew that these scholars had touched the emperor's rebellious scales.

The emperor was most disgraceful to others that he favored treacherous, especially the brothers Li Guang and Zhang.

Now the emperor is so optimistic about Zhang Yanling and is about to develop Zhang Yanling into a pillar of the court, but he did not expect such a thing to happen.

He was also helpless: "These people are usually condoned and cannot see the situation in the court clearly."

Xie Qian finally took the poem written by Zhang Yanling and observed for a while and said, "Your Majesty, I think this poem... is obviously cursing the worms in the court, but it seems... is cursing others again."

"oh?"

Everyone just circulated it in a hurry, and they didn't have time to read it carefully, so naturally they wouldn't study whether the poem would be hidden in the future.

Maybe they have reached their status and are reluctant to study that.

Zhu Youzhang frowned and said, "What do you mean by Xie Qing's family?"

Xie Qian returned the poem to Xiao Jing, and then put it in front of Zhu Youting. Xie Qian explained: "This poem is obviously a slanted poem, and it is written... it is like you and other maggots!"

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhang frowned even deeper.

He had previously said that the poems written by these scholars were very vulgar. If there were words like "You are waiting for maggots" hidden in it, it would be even more vulgar.

"Bastard! Such a person should take away his fame and fortune, so that he will not be allowed to go to school again from now on!" Zhu Youzhang said angrily, "Who wrote it?"

Xiao Jing looked embarrassed: "When you say that, you have not found out the exact identity of this person yet, but it seems like... a scholar surnamed Zhang who walked with the eldest princess Yongkang, seems to be unable to see the scholar who wrote "The Sinstein Fu". After echoing, he wrote this poem. Later, someone pointed out that he might be scolding these scholars..."

When the people present heard these clues, they all had an idea.

The day before yesterday, Zhu Youzhang had just rewarded Cui Yuan and Zhang Yanling to study in Hanlin Academy together. This happened the next day, which seemed like a coincidence.

Could that scholar named Zhang be Zhang Yanling?

But then I thought, no matter how vulgar the poem is, the meaning contained in it is really not something that Zhang Yanling can write. He not only scolds the borer in the court, but also implicitly mocks the scholars present. Even if Zhang Yanling studied for another ten years, he would probably not have that level.

Zhu Youzhang also looked at Xiao Jing sideways and asked, "Eunuch Xiao, is the scholar surnamed Zhang you are talking about, a scholar Jianchang?"

Xiao Jing said: "I don't know, but logically... it shouldn't be?"

After Xiao Jing heard the report from his subordinates in Dongchang, he also considered this issue, but because of Zhang Yanling's shallow talent, he quickly denied this assumption, but this matter was not verified and it was difficult for him to make a conclusion.

Zhu Youzhang was still angry before, but now when he read that poem again, he suddenly felt like he liked it.

"If it was really what the uncle wrote, the scene and the meaning of the incident would be consistent, but I have never heard of the uncle who has the talent for writing poetry and can write poems that are hidden..."

"But since this person has made those scholars crazy by writing poetry, I think they are not going to be with those scholars."

"Let's do this, Eunuch Xiao, you continue to investigate this matter. I want to know who this person is. If he is really talented and not appointed by the court, I can reward him with an official position at his discretion."

Originally, Zhu Youzhang had to hold the person who wrote the poem accountable.
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