Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 110 The nightmare comes true! ? Forced to go to Liangshan!

Seeing that the beauty had reached her mouth, but was interrupted by Zhang Chonghui's kick, Shen Yiguan was so angry that he was about to explode!
  I thought that if I wasn't old and my hands and feet weren't very agile, I would have to go up and beat this kid up!
  "Master Shen, why are you so excited?" Zhang Chonghui walked in with his hands behind his hands and said with a kind smile:

"The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the ministry has finally arrived, and I'm here to help you."

As soon as these words came out, Shen Yiguan was stunned...

Recalling the 'last time' not long ago, what Zhang Chonghui said while holding a knife came to mind instantly...

"Opportunities for advancement? What opportunities?"

Yan'er seemed to be very interested in this 'topic' of 'entering the ministry', and no longer covered her face in shyness, and directly asked about Zhang Chonghui.

Zhang Chonghui didn't 'avoid' anything. He looked at the little girl and asked, "Do you also want to make progress?"

"Of course I do! I have always dreamed of making progress!" Yan'er blushed and was a little excited.

Zhang Chonghui nodded and praised: "In this world, it is extremely rare for a little girl to have such ambition."

Yan'er's face turned even redder after being praised like this, but she was not too shy. Instead, as if she had found a true 'confidant', she started chattering:

"Young Master, don't look at me being reduced to a land of fireworks, but my mother said that as long as I work hard enough, I can always be a performer without selling my body! When I become famous, maybe I can be as good as Master Li!

Hey, by the way, Xiaolang Junyou knows who Master Li is, right? She is the famous prostitute in the storybook "Water Margin"! By the way, have you watched "Water Margin"? I have the latest version with pictures and text. Do you want to take a look? "

The thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl was more lively by nature, and she was probably too happy. She clapped her hands in excitement, completely forgetting that the old Hanlin beside her was her 'guest'.

At the same time, Yan'er also forgot that her 'mother' had repeatedly warned her not to be too lively in front of men, but to be sad, sad, and lovable.

Yan'er said so many words in one breath and asked Zhang Chonghui so many questions. Before Zhang Chonghui could answer a word, Shen Yiguan, the guest, jumped anxiously.

After all, he is the one spending the money.

"Zhang Chonghui, I don't know what you are talking about. All in all, you and I have nothing to say! For Yan'er's sake, I finally kindly advise you to get out quickly! Otherwise, I will have people drive you away. is you!"

Shen's usual attitude was not good. After all, if 'good things' were suddenly interrupted like this, anyone would be angry. Not to mention that this is a sixty-year-old man who finds it extremely difficult to be impulsive even once...

"Master Shen, are you sure you want to drive me away?" Zhang Chonghui asked as if he was very surprised.

Shen Yiguan answered naturally: "Yes!"

"Oh." Zhang Chonghui looked indifferent and turned to leave. But while turning around, he said:

"In that case, I will go to the Shen Mansion to talk to Mrs. Shen about your 'reluctant' love with her, which is 'the order of your parents and the words of the matchmaker'!"

"Hey, eh, wait, wait, wait!!" Shen Yiguan was anxious!

Very urgent! Very urgent!
  ……

Yan'er was pushed away by Shen Yiguan, and the little girl was quite reluctant when she left.

"Zhang Xiaolangjun, you must come to me when you have time, and I will show you the "Water Margin" with illustrations!" Yan'er said, waving her little hand and blushing.

Zhang Chonghui smiled and nodded, as if he agreed.

Shen Guanyi, who was on the side, squeezed up and said with sincere eyes: "Yan'er, I want to see it too, I want to see the high official Ximen... Hey! Don't run away..."

Looking at Yan'er's back 'escaping' away, Zhang Chonghui patted Shen Yiguan on the shoulder and said 'comforting':

"Mr. Shen, forget about Ximen, I think you are more suitable to go and see 'Lu Junyi'."

Shen Yiguan felt a chill in his heart. He was lucky enough to have watched "Water Margin" and he understood it instantly.

At this moment, is he not the "Lu Junyi" who was "forced to go to Liangshan"?

……

The beauty is gone.

At this time, only Zhang Chonghui and Shen Yiguan were left in the wing.

"If you have something to say, say it quickly!" Shen Yiguang's impatience was evident in his words. He just wanted to get rid of Zhang Chonghui, the 'inconvenient' person of right and wrong.

"If you continue to have this attitude, then I won't just stop helping you." Zhang Chonghui smiled faintly, and there was something profound in his words.

Shen Yiguan rubbed his old face vigorously, took a deep breath, and returned to his usual "honest" look, where the boys in the south village casually bullied him because he was old and weak.

"Brother Chonghui! I am old and have no grievances with you. Why do you keep pestering me? Do you want to extort money? Can't I give you money? Please stop pestering me. Can you just stick to me?"

Shen's consistent tone was so 'sincere', just like a miserable old man who was 'blackmailed' by a libertine.

"Master Shen, what are you talking about!" Zhang Chonghui said with a righteous look on his face: "I'm really here to help you 'enter the ministry'!"

Shen Yiguan could no longer remember how many times he heard the word "enter the ministry" from Zhang Chonghui's mouth.

Although he really wanted to join the club, he always felt uncomfortable and uneasy after being repeatedly 'admonished' by a thirteen-year-old 'child' like Zhang Chonghui.

After all, Zhang Chonghui is currently involved in so many 'lawsuits' that anyone involved in them will be in trouble!

"Don't be afraid, Mr. Shen." Zhang Chonghui seemed to notice Shen Yiguan's worry and said proactively: "Don't worry, no Jin Yiwei is following me anymore, and no one knows that I'm coming to see you."

"How do you know?" Shen Yiguan obviously didn't believe it.

Zhang Chonghui did not explain, only affirmed: "If I say no, then it means no."

It was so certain that it wasn't that Zhang Chonghui was pretending to deceive Shen Yiguan, but that it was indeed true that no one was following him.

Zhang Chonghui didn't quite understand why the emperor didn't send someone to follow him. He probably thought he was bound to die and there was no need for it.

"Master Shen, there are only two of us here, so I'll get straight to the point." Zhang Chonghui stopped writing and got down to business, saying:
  "Master Shen, forgive me for telling the harsh truth. You are over sixty years old this year. Shen Shixing, who is younger than you, has already retired from the cabinet, but you are still in the Hanlin Academy. Even if you have accumulated a lot of experience, You’ve been saving this for too long, right?”

Zhang Chonghui's "unpalatable" "truth" directly turned Shen Yiguan's old face green. What's the difference between this and using a knife to touch up his wound?
  The words had been spoken for a long time, and Zhang Chonghui seemed to realize that what he said was unpleasant, so he added a special sentence:

"Master Shen, I am a straightforward person. I don't sincerely want to ridicule you. I am just discussing the matter. You, Master, have a lot of money, so you won't blame me, right?"

Shen Yiguan's face turned even greener. He really wanted to say something from the bottom of his heart to Zhang Chonghui: "Just shut up!"

However, before Shen Yiguan could even express his smile, Zhang Chonghui continued talking. "Master Shen, now the position of chief minister of the cabinet has passed over Xu Guo, the second minister, and has fallen directly to Wang Xijue.

I think you know Wang Xijue. He seems careless, but in fact he is sophisticated in his methods. He is no less ruthless than Gao Gong back then!

But the current emperor neither goes to court nor does he do much in governing. Once Wang Xijue takes the position of chief minister and is firmly seated, with his aloof and arrogant temperament, I am afraid that the entire court will be named Wang by then!
  Mr. Shen, as far as I know, your relationship with Wang Xijue is not harmonious, right? And as far as I know, your student Guo Zhengyu seems to be more favored by Wang Xijue, right?
  Now that Wang Xijue has ascended to the position of Chief Assistant, when the demon book case is settled by him, he will be favored by the Holy Spirit! After this, he will definitely eliminate dissidents and support those he 'values'!
  Mr. Shen, by then, I am afraid that you will have passed your 60th year and you, who was born in the last rank of Jinshi, will have to address your student Guo Zhengyu as "Ge Lao"! "

After Zhang Chonghui said this, he paused slightly. After all, he had to give the other party time to 'digest', and more importantly, he was giving the other party time to 'react'.

Looking at Shen Yiguan again, his face no longer had much of the previous anger, but more of contemplation and uneasiness.

After all, calling one's student "Ge Lao" is too cheap, not to mention that this student Guo Zhengyu is someone Shen has always hated!
  Seeing that Shen Yiguan had almost digested it, Zhang Chonghui continued to output, saying:

"Master Shen, I know you will find what I say unpleasant, but since ancient times good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and good advice is hard on the ears but good for action. I believe you understand this simple truth better than anyone else!
  I won’t say any more nonsense. I just ask you, do you still want to make progress? Do you still want to promote your "Greater Zhejiang"?

Can you still allow your fellow Zhejiang people to shoulder the responsibility of two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty with you? "

Such a "heart-piercing" question made Shen Yiguan's blood boil!

However, Shen Guanyi is already sixty years old and is no longer a 'young man' in his twenties or thirties. He has long passed the age where he can risk everything just because of a sudden fever.

Therefore, Shen Guanguan did not make a statement. He remained silent, as if he wanted to see what other tricks Zhang Chonghui could come up with.

"Are you hesitating?" Zhang Chonghui laughed, as if he looked down on the other party's cowardice, and said with a disdainful smile:

"Hesitation will lead to defeat. If you don't want to make progress, then continue to hesitate! Soon, everyone in this court will be from Jiangsu, the same hometown as Wang Xijue! Instead of Zhejiang, the same hometown as you Shen Jianwu 'people!"

Probably only Shen Yiguan can truly feel the "lethal power" of Zhang Chonghui's words.

After all, Shen Yiguan's 'ultimate goal' is to develop a 'relationship network' in the court that is 'only' for Zhejiang people. What he wants is an 'organization' that will shock future generations!
  What Shen always wants is to have a name 'exclusive' for Zhejiang people above the court - Zhejiang Party!
  "Say, what do you want me to do?"

Shen Yiguan changed his pretentious look before and became extremely serious. He seemed to be too lazy to pretend anymore.

From the 'words' Zhang Chonghui said and the 'things' Zhang Chonghui did, Shen Yiguan could see that one thing was almost certain!

Zhang Chonghui! Definitely not a 'simple' thirteen-year-old boy!
  In other words, this is not a boy at all!
  "Master Shen, this is right!" Zhang Chonghui looked pleased and said with a smile:

"Golden scales are not like things in a pond. They transform into dragons when encountering the storm. I, Zhang, have always believed that Master Shen, the only difference between you and 'transforming into a dragon' is just this opportunity!"

I still remember my surprise when I saw you from a distance in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. At that time, I couldn’t help but sigh that there were such skeletal surprises in this world..."

"Ahem..." Shen Yiguan interrupted Zhang Chonghui's 'praising'. He was already old. Although he felt a little happy when he heard such words, he still felt more embarrassed.

So after coughing twice, Shen Yiguan, whose face was full of seriousness and solemnity, asked directly:

"Let's get down to business, how can we seize this opportunity so that we can... enter the cabinet?"

Zhang Chonghui also didn't expect that the other party would "get on the road" so quickly. It seems that this old man really wants to "join the party" and even more wants to develop the "Zhejiang Party"!

Since Shen Yiguan had already taken the road like this, Zhang Chonghui naturally didn't show off. He made it clear directly:

"It's not difficult to join the ministry. The first thing is to find out the key to the problem! And the key thing now is the demon book! One of the key people is Wang Xijue!

The reason why Wang Xijue was able to return to the cabinet this time and ascend to the position of chief minister is because there are now so many evil books everywhere and the case involves a lot, but it has not yet been finalized!

At this critical moment, the emperor is faced with the dilemma of having no one available! Therefore, Wang Xijue was actually brought back by the emperor to save the situation!
  If Wang Xijue solves the emperor's urgent need, then he will definitely be favored by the Holy Spirit and firmly sit in the position of chief minister!

Once Wang Xijue is firmly seated as the first assistant, then not only will you, Mr. Shen, never have the chance to 'enter the ministry'! You might even have to be squeezed out of the Hanlin Academy by your student Guo Zhengyu! "

At this point, Zhang Chonghui was clearly trying to 'scare' Shen Yiguan, but what he wanted was such a clear-cut scare. After all, such a 'terrible' 'development' was really very likely to happen!

There's nothing scarier than a 'nightmare come true'!

Seeing that Shen Guanyuan had no intention of refuting anything, Zhang Chonghui stated his 'plan' more directly and said:

"So, the first step if you want to join the ministry is to not let Wang Xijue succeed! In other words, you can't let the demon book case end simply!
  Mr. Shen, you have been in the Hanlin Academy for many years, and you must have many disciples and former officials, and you have also made friends with many ministers from the same hometown as you are from Zhejiang.

At this point, your comrades, whether they are in Shuntian Mansion or Yingtian Mansion, you must mobilize them to disrupt this matter!
  Especially Yingtian Mansion. Although the capital of Yingtian Mansion is just a decoration, it is close to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions! As long as the news is spread over there, most of the South will know about it! "

"Wait, wait, wait!" Shen Yiguan became more and more panicked as he listened. He realized that he was walking towards something wrong and his back was already sweating. He asked anxiously:

"You...you want to make this matter bigger and bigger? If the emperor finds out about this, you will be dead!"

Seeing Shen Yiguan so worried and flustered, Zhang Chonghui sighed angrily:
  "Those who achieve great things must not stick to trivial matters! If you are looking ahead and looking at the tail before you take action, you are just like a fool! How can you achieve great things? How can you 'enter the ministry'?"

"This..." Shen Yiguan was speechless. After all, if you want to achieve something big, you really have to be brave.

Seeing that Shen Guanyi was shaken, Zhang Chonghui pretended to be 'strike while the iron is hot' and said:

"Master Shen, what are you afraid of? If you plan in advance and act later, if you act, you will succeed, and if you succeed, you will succeed! We have already planned in advance, are you still afraid of it?"

Shen Yiguan hesitated again, but did not agree immediately, nor did he refute anything. It was obvious that he was still hesitating and watching.

Zhang Chonghui was extremely satisfied when he saw this. After all, if he didn't object, it meant that the 'eight characters had been wiped out'. He directly acquiesced to Shen Yiguan's agreement to 'mobilize', and then said:

"After solving the first step, the next step is to let you 'join the ministry' and send you to 'the cabinet'!"

"Wait a minute!" Shen Yiguan interrupted Zhang Chonghui again, but this time he was not trying to refute, but said in shock:
  "No... can I be ready to join the cabinet this... so soon?"

"Otherwise? Do you think it's difficult?" Zhang Chonghui looked like he was taking it for granted, as if 'joining the ministry' and 'joining the cabinet' were just a very easy thing for him.

Although Shen Yiguan didn't believe that Zhang Chonghui could be so capable, he had to admit that he was really tricked by Zhang Chonghui...

"Master Shen, you don't think I'm bragging, do you?"

Zhang Chonghui 'again' saw through Shen Yiguan's inner thoughts, and analyzed:
  "Let me analyze it for you and say that the reason why Wang Xijue became the chief minister of the cabinet is because he solved the urgent demon book case for the emperor.

In the same way, as long as you can help the emperor solve his urgent needs, then you can also become the chief minister of the cabinet. Just tell me, is that true? "

"Uh..." Shen Yiguan was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized it and asked with some disgust:

"You mean, let me solve the demon book case for the emperor, take the credit from Wang Xijue, and use this to enter the cabinet?"

I thought that such a guess would be correct. After all, His Majesty the Emperor's "urgent concern" right now is the noisy demon book case.

Just when Shen Yiguan was thinking, "Is this what Zhang Chonghui's so-called idea was?", Zhang Chonghui's next answer made him blush!
  (End of this chapter)