Officials of all sizes and big and small in Nanjing were in a mess, and Ma Cheng, who was far away in Suzhou, wandered around safely. Now the plum rain season in Nanzhili has passed, but there are many typhoons, so Ma Cheng's army is still motionless outside the city and can only wait until the autumn is clear and cool in the month of the year before marching.

After nothing happened in the army, Ma Cheng naturally enjoyed leisure. In the past month, he visited all the scenic spots and historical sites inside and outside Suzhou City. Today, he brought Changqing and his confidants to Hanshan Temple to visit the stele forest.

Hanshan Temple is one of the top ten famous temples in China. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, two famous monks, Xiqian, founded Hanshan Temple. Hanshan Temple was destroyed five times within more than a thousand years. The most recent time was in the 46th year of Wanli. The main hall was burned by a fire and was restored in the second year. Therefore, the Hanshan Temple that Ma Cheng saw now was built less than 30 years ago.

Of course, Ma Cheng did not understand the historical value of Hanshan Temple. He could know the name of Hanshan Temple because he had read the popular night mooring of Maple Bridge by Zhang Ji, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. This time he went to Suzhou, he naturally wanted to see Zhang Ji's original works.

Zhang Ji's poems are preserved in the stele forest of Hanshan Temple, but the first stele written by Wang Si in the Song Dynasty has been destroyed by war. The current night mooring of Fengqiao is written by Wen Zhengming, a family member in the late Ming Dynasty. In addition to Zhang Ji's poems, there are other stele steles left by literati of all generations, such as Yue Fei, Wen Zhengming, Tang Bohu, etc.

Now Ma Cheng is wearing a lake-green robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, and a mountain and river scarf on his head. If he doesn't look at his fierce eyes, it will be like a teacher who comes to pay tribute to his past dynasties on the way to the exam.

Ma Cheng looked at Zhang Ji's poem and shook his head and said, "The moon sets, crows crying and frost is everywhere in the sky, and the river maple fishing fires sleep in the sadness. Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bells arrive at the passenger ship in the middle of the night! It's indeed a good poem!"

As soon as Ma Cheng finished reading it, there was a compliment next to him with a stinky foot on his face: "Master, the artistic conception of this poem is very good, fully expressing Zhang Ji's thoughts on traveling, his worries about his family and country, and his concerns that he has no home in a chaotic world!"

Master Xingxin, the host of Hanshan Temple who accompanied Ma Cheng to visit, looked at the person who spoke. Although this person was thick and looked like a bandit than a scholar, his words were very consistent with Zhang Ji's artistic conception.

"This donor is right. Zhang Ji passed the Jinshi exam in the 12th year of Tianbao. In January of the 14th year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. In June of the 15th year of Tianbao, Xuanzong rushed to Shu in a hurry. Because the political situation in Jiangnan was relatively stable at that time, many scholars fled to Jiangnan to avoid chaos, including Zhang Ji. On an autumn night, Zhang Ji was docked on Fengqiao outside Suzhou City. He was attracted by the beautiful scenery of the autumn night of the Jiangnan water town, which made him appreciate a poetic beauty with timeless feelings and wrote this poem with a clear and distant artistic conception."

Ma Cheng heard Master Xingxin say it, but he didn't laugh until he broke his stomach. The one who just held his stinky feet was An Zhennan, a man under Ma Cheng.

An Zhennan is an Yi person from Guizhou and is not very good at Chinese. However, after arriving in Nanzhili, he was afraid that his colleagues around him would laugh at him for being uninformed. With the improvement of his status and status, he also had to increase his level to support the scene. So he found a few scholars who failed to teach him poetry and prose. Just now, An Zhennan was able to express Zhang Ji's artistic conception, probably what his literati under him taught him, and then recited it to give him a face.

Ma Cheng held back his smile and said, "Lao An is good at his level, very good. You all have to learn from Lao An in the future.

Don’t just start to get a headache as soon as you study!”

In addition to Wang Xian'an Zhennan, there were also generals such as Tian Boguang, Gu Yong, Gu Xing, and Wang Shuang. These guys were similar to An Zhennan and were not good at studying. Now, seeing that An Zhennan was praised by the general, they were so angry that they cursed An Zhennan in their hearts to flatter their beauties.

Wang Xian is the chief clerk and also serves as the chief clerk of the army. When Ma Cheng had no time to attend class, Wang Xian taught these guys to read, so he had a good relationship with the generals in the army.

Wang Xian smiled and said, "Master, the generals have worked very hard in their studies and can remember seven or eight hundred common words!"

There are only more than a thousand commonly used characters in Chinese. It is absolutely fine to remember seven or eight hundred and everyday writing. Ma Cheng was also very satisfied. He was about to praise these guys. At this time, a personal soldier walked into the stele forest in panic and came to Ma Cheng to kneel down on one knee and said, "Master Zhang, the governor of the city, please go back to the city and discuss with you!"

Zhang Sunzhen called himself back. Is there anything good? Ma Cheng did not dare to delay. After saying goodbye to Master Xingxin, he took his men back to Suzhou City with his horse.

When Ma Cheng entered Zhang Sunzhen's three-door study, Chen Zilong was also here, and sighed with Zhang Sunzhen.

Did something happen? Ma Cheng hurried forward and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong with calling me to come back?"

Zhang Sunzhen glanced at Ma Cheng, sighed and said, "Hey, nephew, something big happened in the capital. The two new laws you mentioned have leaked the news. Now the city is in chaos. The Qingliu Censors in the court refused to let Yuan Fu go, and insisted on forcing Yuan Fu to resign to thank the literati all over the world!"

"What? Nandu knew so quickly? Who leaked the news?"

After Ma Cheng said this, he looked at the two people in the room suspiciously. At that time, there were only Ma Cheng, Zhang Sunzhen and Chen Zilong in the room. Ma Cheng himself had absolutely no leaks of the news, so it must have been the two people who leaked it.

Zhang Sunzhen was embarrassed by Ma Cheng's question. After a long time, he replied: "After you left, I wrote a letter to Yuan Fu to inform Yuan Fu. Unexpectedly, the book boy in Yuan Fu's study accidentally sent the letter to Tongzhengsi, and then the Donglin Party caught the handle!"

When Ma Cheng heard Zhang Sunzhen say this, he cursed in his heart. This old guy is really not enough to make trouble. What kind of letters do you have to write in such a thing? Can't you send a confidant to send a message to me? But what should I do now?

"Uncle, Mr. Chen, what should I do now if that's the case?"

"Now the court is in a hurry, and the whip law I originally implemented can only be temporarily stopped." After Zhang Sunzhen said that, he looked at Chen Zilong, and then continued, "But he is going to be wronged! In the morning, the governor's yamen reported that he wanted to remove the Suzhou prefect, who was among the people, and I had no choice but to discuss it!"

The governor of the Ming Dynasty did not have the right to directly appoint local officials, and all local officials in a province were under the management of the governor. Chen Zilong was a fourth-rank magistrate of Suzhou, and this was already a senior official, and even the governor could not be appointed or removed at will. Only when the governor was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel and proposed the reasons for appointment and removal, and the cabinet reviewed, the Ministry of Personnel could remove the fourth-rank magistrate.

Zhang Sunzhen just joined the Ministry of Personnel a month ago and confirmed the position of Chen Zilong as the prefect of Chen Zilong, but now he wants to remove Chen Zilong from his official position in the previous article. This is a bit ironic. However, Zhang Sunzhen has no choice. Now everyone knows the content of the letter.

The new law was decided by Ma Cheng, Zhang Sunzhen and Chen Zilong. Zhang Sunzhen was the governor, Governor Qi Biaojia had no right to deal with it, Ma Cheng was the governor of Jiangnan, and Governor Qi Biaojia could not move, only Chen Zilong was a fourth-rank prefect, so Qi Biaojia immediately attacked Chen Zilong and asked Zhang Sunzhen to remove the culprit from office.

Now Zhang Sunzhen is a clay Buddha who is crossing the river and cannot protect himself. How can he care about a small official like Chen Zilong? At the same time, it has spread in Suzhou City, and Chen Zilong, as the prefect, has no choice but to be exempted from office.

Chen Zilong has been in the officialdom for more than ten years and finally became a fourth-rank imperial hall, but now he has been removed from office. He feels very uncomfortable. However, Ma Cheng has no influence and said to Chen Zilong with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Chen, what's so great about a mere fourth-rank official? It's fine if he doesn't work! It just so happens that there is a lack of a marching senator in this army, so he aggrieved Mr. Chen to take this position first, and wait for the limelight to be the place to arrange other official positions for Mr. Chen!"

The culprit of this storm was Ma Cheng. Chen Zilong looked at Ma Cheng with a smile and had no choice but to stand up and say, "Then Zilong will follow Gong Ming from now on!"

Chen Zilong has a small official position and can be a staff officer for Ma Cheng, but what should Zhang Sunzhen do? Could it be that the third-rank governor also goes to be a subordinate of Ma Cheng? Not to mention whether Zhang Sunzhen can lower his attitude and become a subordinate of Ma Cheng, even if Zhang Sunzhen goes, there are no third-rank civil servants in Ma Cheng's army to place Zhang Sunzhen.

Zhang Sunzhen glanced at Ma Cheng and asked, "Nephew, the matter among people has been resolved, what should I do?"

Now Zhang Sunzhen has become the target of public criticism and the opposite of the entire civil servant group. He can't stay here in Suzhou, so he naturally wants to ask Ma Cheng what good way he can do. But Ma Cheng doesn't care about this. He took in Chen Zilong because he liked Chen Zilong's connections. What's the use of you, Zhang Sunzhen? He is over fifty years old and is not a famous family in Nanzhili. He has a very bad reputation. Ma Cheng doesn't want to help this guy.

"Oh, uncle, my nephew has no choice. Why don't my uncle resign first and make a comeback after the limelight comes?"

Zhang Sunzhen was so angry that he heard Ma Cheng say this, so he stood up and cursed: "Ma Cheng, you guy ran to me and cried. I was so blind that I promised to help you, but now you want to stay out of here, there is no way!"

When Ma Cheng saw Zhang Sunzhen cursing, he stood up and said, "Since the uncle said that, the little nephew has nothing to say, uncle should go and find my father! My nephew said goodbye!" After Ma Cheng said that, he pulled Chen Zilong and scolded Zhang Sunzhen without hesitating, and left the governor's yamen.

After Ma Cheng left, Zhang Sunzhen had no choice but to submit a memorial to resign. Zhang Sunzhen knew that this matter was too big, and only by taking all the responsibilities he had to take was protected by Ma Shiying. Only when Ma Shiying did not fall, Zhang Sunzhen could have the possibility of coming out again.
Chapter completed!