Chapter 40

Zhang zanai was born as an official.

The official examination is different from the Jinshi. After the examination, the selected officials are different from the general officials who eat the salary of the monarch. After they are recruited into the public door, they are "in case of urgency, they will be used, and in case of decision", which can be regarded as temporary assistance to the officials. In general, those who would take part in the official examination were those who failed in the examination or came from humble backgrounds.

Zhang Zhe belongs to the latter.

He lost his parents when he was young. He was only raised by his widowed mother. Although he had excellent ability, he was not very proficient in Ba Gu, classics and tactics. After the official examination, he worked under Gu Chunfang, the censor of Henan Dao. He specialized in redressing injustice and ruling the law.

Gu Chunfang therefore recommended him to the imperial court.

In less than three years, because he judged a suspicious case before the imperial court, he was favored by the emperor and ordered to be punished.

But in the last life, his official career in the future was not very smooth, full of ups and downs.

Jiang Xuening thinks of it and feels astringent in her mouth.

He could have been well-known in history. He was far away from the court's tangled struggles with "straightness" and "rightness", but she was involved in it.

When Zhang Zha was promoted to minister of the Ministry of punishment, the royal guards wanted to completely control the power of punishment. However, Zhang Zha felt that the royal guards acted arrogantly and abused lynching. There was a conflict of powers between the two departments, so they were always tit for tat.

When Zhou Yinzhi was born, he took charge of the Fu Department of Beizhen.

He was determined to eradicate Zhang Zha, and Zhang Zha tried his best to take back the power of punishment and prison, and impeached Zhou Yinzhi for many times to bend the law for personal gain and corrupt the imperial platform.

The two were at odds.

Behind Zhou Yinzhi is Jiang Xuening. At that time, she was fighting against the Xiao family. She had a lot of use for Zhou Yinzhi, so at the beginning, Zhang Zha was like a stumbling block. She didn't like it.

At first, it was because of his position that he made trouble;

later, he found that he was cold faced, and it was really fun to tease him.

After all, she is the queen. Even if her words and deeds are too much, Zhang Zha can't be provoked. So in the early days, she mostly tolerated her and let her go. However, she is not a person who accepts everything when it's good. On the contrary, she is more and more aggressive.

Zhang Zha often advised her with loyal advice.

At that time, they all thought that Jiang Xuening's advice was not only stubborn but also stubborn. Until later, Xiao Shu and the Xiao family pressed each other step by step. One day, they took the evidence of Zhou Yinzhi's Gang's private bribery, and all the evidence was disclosed. They also deliberately handed it over to the Ministry of punishment for trial, leaving the case in Zhang Zhe's hands.

The former dynasty is closely related to the latter.

Xiao Shu is arrogant and aims at the Queen's position. Now that she is pregnant, she has to give birth to the emperor's son. If she is allowed to fight her own power in the previous dynasty and succeed in gaining the latter position, Jiang Xuening will be regarded as a place of no death.

After all, she fought so hard with Xiao before.

She and Xiao Shu, no matter who got the chance, will not let their enemies safe and sound.

Overnight, Jiang Xuening suddenly came to a dilemma, it seems that only the situation of being killed.

People always like to add to the cake, but seldom give timely help.

At the height of her momentum, the people gathered together suddenly dispersed like the ebb tide.

But Jiang Xuening didn't want to die.

So she chose Zhang Zha.

On that day, Shen Yu summoned several cabinet ministers, including Xie Wei, and Zhang Zhe, who was in charge of hearing the case, in the Qianqing palace. He had not finished talking about the key to the palace, so he sent a decree to let several adults stay in the palace.

Jiang Xuening then stood waiting under the long palace wall.

Her figure was covered by the shadow of the high wall.

The little eunuch who led the way, carrying a lantern in front of him, looked at the figures of the two people in front and behind him, and approached from a distance.

The man walking ahead is Xie Wei.

It was because he was so close that he recognized her at a glance. He stopped and said, "it suddenly occurred to me that you Fang's jade pendant was left in the cabinet duty room in the morning. I'll go back and get it. Let's go first, Mr. Zhang."

Then he turned and went back.

One of the young eunuchs immediately followed with a lantern.

At this time, Jiang Xuening came out of the shadow and looked at the man who stayed in the same place: "Mr. Zhang, I have something to tell you."

Zhang Zhe didn't seem to think that she was bold enough to stop him in the middle of the night.

Not to mention that today there is also master Xie with us.

He dropped his eyes in silence, had guessed her purpose, only said: "please, excuse me, Zhang Zha can't obey."

The night is deep and lonely.

One is the queen and the other is a foreign minister.

Jiang bowed his arms and let him get away, though he was afraid that Zhang Xuezheng would not leave.

Step forward, stop immediately.

She put her slender white fingers on the dark embroidery and looked up at him slightly. There was a slight trembling voice in her voice: "do you want to watch me die?"Zhang Zha is speechless.

Jiang Xuening's fingers slowly fastened. The transparent and round nails were bright red cardamom. There was a kind of astonishing beauty in the dark night. She begged him with a soft posture that she was not used to: "if the carriage turned out from the post road, you would rather break your leg to protect me; if the Tianjiao rebellion assassinated me, I was hiding in the weeds, but you were willing to take the risk to lead them away. Zhang Zhe, if you are so kind to me, can't you always be so kind to me? "

At that moment, he hung his stiff palm on his side and slowly clenched it, saying: "Niang Niang is the mother of a country, Zhang Zhe is the Minister of a dynasty. To eat your salary is to be loyal to you. It's Zhang Zha's duty to trade his life for his wife when he is in danger. However, the case of Zhou Yinzhi's party members was originally a matter of state. The rise and fall of a dynasty were all related to it. Zhang Zhe did not dare to play favoritism. "

"It's my duty..."

Jiang Xuening tugged at the corner of his sleeve robe and stubbornly did not let go. When she heard this, she laughed and looked straight into his eyes.

Just ask, "really?"

Zhang Zha finally avoided her eyes and closed them. There seemed to be a struggle hidden in the rolling Adam's apple. She said in a deep way: "if the empress thinks that I used to save her, I'm willing to be punished."

Jiang Xuening then slowly released his fingers.

The corner of the sleeve was a little wrinkled by her grasp and dropped down.

She only said in dismay: "I know Lord Zhang doesn't rub the sand in his eyes. These people in the court form cliques and engage in selfish activities, so there should be laws to punish them. But do you know what will happen to me if Zhou Yin falls? I don't want to ask Mr. Zhang to spare them for the rest of their lives, but please give me a hand and let me get through this. In the future, I will present the crimes of these people to the adults one by one, so that they can plead guilty and face the law! "

Zhang Zha is about to leave.

Jiang Xuening didn't stop him any more. He just looked at his cold back, who was about to hide in the dark, and told the biggest lie he had said in the last life: "Zhang Zhe, help me. After this time, I'll be a good man, OK

Zhang Zhe stood in the same place for a long time.

The sky is too dark, although there is a hazy moon on her head, she can hardly judge what Zhang Zhe was thinking at that moment.

All she could hear was her own beating heart.

That night, Zhang Zha finally left from under the long palace wall without saying a word.

Xie Wei, who went to get the jade pendant, didn't come back for a long time.

Jiang Xuening in the night stood to dew gas heavy, listening to the sound of the palace, just back to the Kunning palace.

Every day that followed was a torment for her.

Half a month later,

the case of Zhou Yinzhi's party members accepting bribes for personal gain was tried by the joint trial of the three departments. The news came out that half of the people involved in the case had solid evidence, and they were dismissed and exiled or beheaded according to the crime, while the other half survived because of vague evidence and contradictory statements. Some were demoted and some were reinstated.

In the process of hearing this case, he also found out something about the Xiao family's forming a party in the middle of the court, which aroused Shen's fear.

Xiao's plot failed.

Jiang Xuening's back position has been preserved.

On that day, she was really happy from the bottom of her heart. One after another, she asked people to ask when to go to court. Even Zhou Yinzhi didn't want to see her. She just wanted to stop Zhang Zhe and say something to him.

But she never expected that the person who came back to report actually said that Mr. Zhang was in prison.

She was taking up the eardrop that she wanted to hang in her ear, and it fell down and smashed to pieces.

If you can't figure it out, your heart will change.

Or, Zhou Yin is an immature wolf.

In this crisis, she tried her best to keep her power and Zhou Yinzhi. But I didn't expect that as early as when this matter was just exposed, Zhou Yinzhi weighed the pros and cons, and didn't know when he turned to Xiao and served Xiao Shu.

Jiang Xuening doesn't know whether that half of the people are really innocent or not.

She only knew that it was Zhou Yinzhi who, after the joint trial of the third division, put forward the conclusive evidence of these people's bribery for personal gain, instantly put Zhang Zhe, who had previously ruled out their innocence, in danger, and jointly impeached Zhang Zhe for favoritism and bending the law in the court, and falsely accused him of having an affair with the queen.

After all, half a life of innocence.

In the past, he was the enemy of the royal guards. Once he fell into the imperial prison, how could he get better under Zhou Yinzhi's hand? Let alone Chen Ying, the right servant of the Ministry of punishment, who was good at all kinds of torture.

Jiang Xuening did not dare to think about what kind of life he had in prison.

Also dare not think, he can think is she calculate him, after all is to get rid of him.

She only knew that only half a month after Zhang Zhe's imprisonment, her family was copied, and her mother, who had no one to take care of, was worried about the safety of her only son day and night. She was worried that she fell ill and died.

Zhang Zhe is a famous filial son.

But in prison, he didn't even see her last.

It is said that the cold faced Zhang Shilang, on the night of his mother's death, lost his voice and wept in prison.

He is honest and upright, has solved numerous cases, and has never made mistakes.Most of the people have good names.

At that time, all the judges who tried Zhang Zhe's case were afraid or unwilling to convict him, and there were many petitioners in the court. But in the end, on the third day after his mother's death, he asked the prison guards to put pen and ink on it, and then he took up his pen and wrote down the sentence of conviction for himself. He was sentenced to death and was scheduled to be executed in the autumn.

On the verdict, the court sighed.

Now looking back, I think the last time Jiang Xuening met him was when he pleaded under the palace wall that night.

I don't know whether Xie Wei of the last life did what he said?

People have been walking far under the long street covered by the rain curtain. The wind comes in from the window and blows into people's bones. Jiang Xuening slowly takes back her eyes and finally feels a bit chilly.

Then he raised his hand to help his face, but it was full of tears.

Zhang Zhe, last life, I am the queen and a bad man. I owe you a lot.

In this life, I will not be the queen and be a good man -

is it suitable for you?

"Girl, what did you see and why did you cry?"

Seeing her standing in front of the window for a long time, lian'er and tang'er all came to check, but they were shocked by the tears on her face.

Jiang Xuening but smile, took embroider handkerchief to wipe his red eye, way: "it's OK, the wind is too big, lost eye just."

She asked the two girls to close the window. When Yan Lin was tired of waiting, she took a rest on the imperial concubine's couch in the room. When she closed her eyes slightly, she felt at ease.

Only gently way: "wait for Yan to come, call me."

Two wenches all low voice should way: "good."

Can so late, Yan Shizi will come?

In the evening of the first shift √

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the second shift.