Outside the manor on the outskirts of Beijing.

Ji Gang sat in the pergola, but his eyes looked at the mountain peak in the distance: "That's the garden of Xu Jingchang, the Duke of Dingguo—I heard that King Zhao was also inside, and the cricket conference was held for twelve days, and all the sons and daughters of the nobles went, and the minimum amount to enter was two thousand taels of silver?"

"But it's not," Yuan Jiang echoed: "Xu Jingchang is an expert in fighting insects, I heard that King Zhao is also a good hand, and the crickets specially transported from Beijing have been divided into four generalissimos and eight King Kongs, all of which have been defeated by Xu Jingchang's insect king! King Zhao is not convinced, his people are all seeking to buy good insects in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and they say that they must defeat Xu Jingchang's insect king this autumn!"

"That insect is only the lifespan of one spring and one autumn," Ji Gang said: "Xu Jingchang's insect king is already a special case, he has lived for four or five years, can he survive this autumn?"

"It is rumored that there is a potion lit," Li Chun also came over and said: "Oh, serving a worm is more careful than serving the emperor! Even the mother who is given is also a thousand choices, not only the mother insect of a flower and grass insect street in Yuhuatai has been picked out, but also everywhere to buy the mother worm, it is said that King Zhao's book of insects is written, how can you identify the beauty of the worm in a thousand...... It's like a national beauty pageant, just to enjoy it for his insect king. ”

"Do you know who is the person who made the worm for King Zhao," Wang Qian, another of Ji Gang's right-hand men, also came over: "It's Zhang Sheng, the second brother of the crown princess!"

"Zhang Sheng?" Zhuang Jing said in surprise: "Is that the one who resigned from the command of Jingwei and wants to do business?"

"It's him," Wang Qian said: "He is doing a great business, running all over the country, he can bring the insects wherever King Zhao wants, this time it is said that it is free to find insects and bring insects to King Zhao, not a penny, as long as the naming right of this autumn's cricket conference." ”

"What is naming rights?"

"Who knows," Wang Qian said: "Let's just say that it is the name of this conference, what is it called'Qingyuan Autumn Insect Competition', inexplicably added the name of Zhang Sheng, what Qingyuan number, and said that Zhang Sheng arranged the venue this time, and it was not in Xu Jingchang's manor, the venue provided accommodation, singing and dancing performances, etc., I don't know what it means, Xungui's house, in the end, there are more than we can play!"

The so-called "naming rights" and "sponsorship fees" were all tried by Zhang Zhaohua and asked Zhang Sheng to try out, because Xu Jingchang, the name of the cricket conference, was too loud, and almost all the noble and upper-level people relied on this to communicate with each other.

"Zhang Sheng's business is doing it, and even the two horses have to follow behind to eat leftovers," Ji Gang sneered: "You say, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

A few henchmen couldn't help but say: "Naturally, it's a 'good thing'!"

Ji Gang turned his head and looked at the closed door in front of him with a frown: "It seems that Zhang Chang is not going to open the door - what, there is no one in the palace yet?"

"Someone went out two days ago, the crown princess should have known about it," Zhuang Jing said: "There is no reason why I don't send someone over now, could it be that the woman is shallow, and she didn't know how to come to ask the adult in a hurry, but she asked someone else!"

"She should be a smart person," Ji Gang also felt a little strange: "King Han is much more interested in her than the prince." Look at the women's army beside her, they actually won the title of 100 households, and their names are written in the book of meritorious heroes, how can ordinary people do this?"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a rider coming in front of him and said, "Governor, the emperor has a summons!"

Ji Gang nodded, turned over and got on the horse, and instructed Li Chun to continue to wait, while he flew into the palace city. He pondered that the emperor should have summoned him for the sake of Mei Yin, and he had already thought about what to say.

However, the first time the emperor saw him, he threw the teacup in his hand over. The cup of hot tea fell on the surface of his feet, and immediately collapsed, and a piece of debris brushed his eyebrows and feet, and immediately printed a bright red bloodstain.

Ji Gang immediately knelt down among the debris and listened to the emperor's words: "You have become more and more perverse!

"I ask you," said the Emperor angrily, "where have you been at ease these days?"

"The minister is investigating the case of Mei Yin, the commander of the horses," Ji Gang said, "I just have some eyebrows." ”

"I only asked you to send Mei Yin's family to Liaodong," the emperor said, "What else do you have to trace!"

"It's the third of Mei Yin's crimes listed by Chen Ying in the imperial history, and the curse of the female Xiucai Liu family," Ji Gang said: "Before, Princess Ningguo led someone to track down Liu Xiucai, but she didn't find it, and the minister immediately tracked down this person, and sure enough, he found traces, and he has been busy with this matter for the past few days." ”

"Okay," the emperor nodded, "Arrest the talented Liu, have you found it?"

"There are already witnesses to prove where the Liu family fled," Ji Gang said: "It's just that when the ministers wanted people, they were blocked." ”

"Who else dares to stop you from handling a case?" the emperor didn't believe it: "Can you really be stopped?"

"It's just because this person is a relative-" Ji Gang deliberately made a look of embarrassment, and after a while, he said: "Zhang Chang, the brother of the crown princess, although he is in the Jinyi Guard, is subordinate to his subordinates, but the ministers do not dare to enter rashly, so he can only wander outside Zhang's mansion, and send people to tell him to hand over Liu Xiucai many times, but he refuses, and the ministers have worked hard for nothing these days, and they are really ashamed of Your Majesty." ”

"You mean," the emperor said with a smile, "this escaping female showman is in Zhang Chang's mansion?"

"Yes," although Ji Gang felt that the emperor's smile was very strange and couldn't say anything wrong, he still stubbornly finished the words that had been prepared for a long time: "Someone saw Liu Xiucai go all the way into the Zhangjia Manor on the outskirts of Beijing, and the people in the manor who were caught by the minister also said that there was indeed an unknown woman who came in, and there was more than one witness, and the minister handled the case fairly——"

"Bullshit justice!" The emperor jumped up violently, pointed at Ji Gang and scolded: "I said that you are selfish and lawless, arrogant and rebellious, and harboring evil intentions, and you still call me aquemal! What Liu Xiucai are you arresting, I see that you are the head of the Qin Huai case who you can't ask for! I fought with Xue Liu for a female Taoist priest before, and I came to the palace to make trouble, and I didn't say a word to others! I thought that time you were talented, and I tolerated it, and I didn't pursue it, and I wronged Xue Liu! Originally, I hoped that you would change your mistakes and change your ways, but I didn't expect you to have no remorse, become more and more lawless, the party members formed a tie, and fought with the princess's brother for the head of Qin Huai's case, and what did you say to track down Liu Xiucai, what are you going to do this time, do you want to open Zhang Chang again?"

Ji Gang was very shrewd, and immediately recognized from the emperor's words that he had been trapped, and he didn't know who hurt him for the time being, but he knew that when the emperor determined his intentions, he couldn't forcibly defend himself - the more he defended, the more the emperor didn't believe it, the more angry he was, he could only kowtow and admit the charge of "competing with Zhang Chang for Oiran".

The emperor scolded him, but he still had to use Ji Gang, although Ji Gang lied to him, but it did not cause any radical changes, it was just a matter of jealousy, and it had nothing to do with state affairs. So the emperor finally let Ji Gang go, just beat him with this matter, and at the same time ordered him to make amends to Zhang Chang, that's it.

Ji Gang walked out of Da Nei with a disgraced face, hating and angry in his heart, who has such a ability, before he used Liu Xiucai to frame Zhang Chang, he first reversed black and white with the emperor, he calculated and calculated, and determined a candidate in his heart, and couldn't help clenching his fists.