Chapter 509: Wind and Cloud

Wang Yuxia, Li Tianchen and his entourage were instructed by Xia Xun to leave Jinling immediately and rush to Guanhaiwei, but when they arrived there, they could not immediately rescue their captured brothers. They have in their hands the acquittal verdict of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, which can prove their innocence, but they cannot directly order Guanhaiwei to release them.

Chang Xiwen, the commander of the Guanhai Guard, was not there, and he accompanied the commander of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy Division to make Luo Yu go to sea.

Shuangyu Wei is now guarded by the officers and soldiers of the Taicang Guard, and Luo Yu is not very at ease in the command of the capital of eastern Zhejiang, and Xiao Meng, the governor of eastern Zhejiang, who was sent by the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, was accompanied by Chang Xiwen, the capital of Guanhaiwei, to inspect Shuangyu Island, and they only left half a day earlier than Wang Yuxia and others.

Wang Yuxia and the others had no choice but to stay near Guanhaiwei for the time being. They are also very concerned about the current situation of Shuangyu Island, but Xia Xun has not forgotten what he asked them. No matter how mad Luo Yu and the others were, they didn't dare to massacre the people of Shuangyu Island, slaughtering a group of civilians, it would not do them any good, but if the captured Shuangyu guards were released and caused a crash in anger, it would make Shuangyu Island fall into passivity.

Therefore, after weighing the two sides, they still stayed near Guanhaiwei. It was not until the morning of the third day that the imperial court demanded the release of the soldiers of Shuangyu Island and ordered Luo Yu, Ji Wenhe and other people to arrive at Guanhaiwei.

Seeing the words of the imperial court, the generals who stayed behind in Guanhaiwei did not dare to slack off, and immediately released the officers and soldiers of the Shuangyu Guard, and returned the weapons and warships, as soon as the arrogant and unruly Shuangyu Guards received the weapons, there were indeed those who were angry and furious and immediately took revenge, and they were tortured and humiliated during their detention.

Fortunately, Xia Xun had the foresight to be here, Wang Yuxia, the third leader of Shuangyu Island, was here, and as soon as these people were released, he immediately rushed to receive them, and temporarily brought them under his jurisdiction, and under his strong suppression, he did not turn the riot into a riot.

Under Wang Yuxia's repeated explanations and strong suppression, this resentful and rebellious infantry team was finally gathered. The next day, the battleship and weapons, personnel were all handed over, they boarded their own warship, ready to return to Shuangyu Island, just opened the door of the naval division Dazhai, their fleet has not yet gone out, Guanhaiwei inspected Shuangyu Island The battleship returned, and brought a huge fleet, Taicang Wei's warships and soldiers were brought back by them.

The returning warship also brought back a shocking news: Luo Yu and Ji Wenhe, the commander of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division, both killed Shuangyu Island. It was precisely for this reason that Xiao Meng, the governor of the Five Armies who was invited to accompany the inspection, decisively took over the command and brought back all the men and horses of the two fleets of Guanhai and Taicang. The officials who rushed to issue the decree from the imperial court were stunned when they heard the news, so they had to bring Xiao Meng and other insiders back to Beijing, and the investigation was hastily concluded.

However, this news is not without benefits, at least after those angry Shuangyu Guard officers and soldiers heard the news, their anger was greatly reduced, and no one shouted against the court and became pirates again.

When the news was transmitted back to Jinling, it immediately caused an uproar again in the government and the opposition.

What's going on?

According to Xiao Meng, the governor of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, he was ordered by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to supervise the suppression of bandits in eastern Zhejiang. Two days before the incident, Luo Yu suddenly invited him to inspect Shuangyu Island together, Shuangyu Island has been controlled by the officers and soldiers of Taicang Wei since the "rebellion", and Luo Yu has never been to the island, and he is a little relieved.

In this regard, Xiao Meng naturally had no objection, he was ordered to come to eastern Zhejiang, originally to inspect, and had no right to influence the actions of the generals of the navy. Because the name of the East Zhejiang Naval Division is the Water Division, in fact, most of the guards are guarding on land, and only Guanhai and Taicang have real sea ships, and at this moment Taicang Guard is guarding Shuangyu Island, and they can only use Guanhaiwei's warships, so the two of them rushed to Guanhaiwei with their own soldiers, accompanied by Chang Xiwen, the commander of Guanhaiwei, and rushed to Shuangyu Island.

After they arrived in Shuangyu, they were warmly welcomed by Ji Wenhe, the commander of the Taicang guard, and ate some wine that night, and then went to sleep. Compared to getting up early the next morning, there was no news from Luo Yu and Ji Wenhe, at first I thought it was drunk and got up late, so no one cared, and I still didn't see the two of them get up until the third pole of the day, so Xiao Meng and the generals went to find the two.

As a result, they found that Ji Wenhe's bedroom was empty, and rushed to Luo Yu's residence, only to find that Luo Yu and Ji Wenhe had already died of anger. The two of them died very strangely, Luo Yu was holding a dagger in his hand, which stabbed deeply in Ji Wenhe's heart, but Ji Wenhe's waist knife was horizontal under Luo Yu's neck, looking like that, it seemed that Luo Yu suddenly attacked him, and Ji Wenhe fought back when he was sick, so that the two died together.

At that time, Xiao Meng took more than ten middle and senior generals of Taicang Wei and Guanhaiwei, and they witnessed all this with their own eyes, and these people were all human witnesses, which could prove what Xiao Meng said. As for why this happened, all the generals were puzzled. Now, combined with the "Tongwei case" that has been verified, it is natural to draw a conclusion, that is: Luo Yu is the mastermind who framed his colleagues, after the incident, his informant in Beijing immediately sent back the news, Luo Yu learned the news, and had the intention of killing people, so he used the excuse to inspect Shuangyu, and also pulled Xiao Meng as a cover, and rushed to Shuangyu Island. Subsequently, he secretly made an appointment with Ji Wenhe, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to lose this insider, but unexpectedly, Ji Wenhe was sick and struggled, and he was also lost.

If the conclusion of the "Tongyu case" is taken into account and this bizarre murder case arose on Shuangyu Island, it is obvious that only this explanation is reasonable. The reason why it caused an uproar was because such a thing was unheard of in the Ming army, and there had never been such a precedent, so that Zhu Di did not refrain from hinting at full attention.

At the same time, the generals of Zhu Gaochu's faction all agreed with this inference and hoped that the case would be closed, but the people of Zhu Gaochi's faction naturally refused to give up, insisting that this was a murder planned by someone, the purpose was to kill people and kill people, protect the real mastermind behind the scenes, and hope that the emperor would continue to investigate and let the case really be revealed to the world.

However, the civil and military officials of the neutral faction were no longer willing to let this scandal continue to discredit the imperial court and did not want to continue to investigate it, and they came forward one after another, agreeing with the conclusion made by the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, that the truth of the case had been revealed and there was no need to continue to investigate. With the support of the neutral officials, the faction of His Royal Highness, which had a slight upper hand, temporarily lost its advantage, and the political situation entered a stage of stalemate and equilibrium.

Luo Yu's assassination of Ji Wenhe was naturally an illusion directed by Xiao Meng. According to Zhu Gaoxu and Qiu Fu's calculations, it was planned for Xiao Meng to put the responsibility for the murder on the people of Shuangyu Island, but after Xiao Meng received the order, he made some modifications to this plan without authorization. There is only one reason, in order to take better care of yourself.

He has been ordered to patrol in eastern Zhejiang, the Tongwa case was planned by him, and he also contributed to the Tongfan case, if the death of Luo Yu and Ji Wenhe is pushed to Shuangyu Wei Cangsheng, of course, it can also achieve the purpose of killing people and destroying people, but how can it be so coincidental, but when the truth of the "Tongwei case" is revealed, the two generals who have worked hard were suddenly killed? If someone refuses to follow and continues to investigate, it will be difficult to pull him in and become a scapegoat for a higher level of discipline.

However, after he made a slight change, Luo Yu deliberately murdered Ji Wenhe, although it made the case more ugly and caused the court to suffer a bigger scandal, but he was able to take better care of himself. This can prove that Luo Yu is the mastermind, because of the incident, he had a glimmer of luck and wanted to kill Ji Wenhe, his accomplice who lost him, so as to shirk the responsibility, and the two ended up together.

Although his purpose was to protect himself, objectively he gave the whole case a theoretical basis for ending it, and won the support of neutral officials, so after returning to Beijing, he was not only not reproached by Qiu Fu, but also praised by Zhu Gaoxu.

Of course, they didn't know that behind them, there was an invisible clutch pushing their struggle to escalate, and Ji Wenhe was a member of this third party. At this point, the third-party forces feared that they would also be involved, and they were completely exposed to the sun, so they encouraged the neutral officials to support them, hoping to stop the investigation of the Zhedong Sailor scandal.

It was at this time that Xia Xun returned to Jinling.

"Young master, Mrs. is not at home, they have gone to install our family's new house, Di has been to see, what a big house, especially spectacular, the two big stone lions at the door, the two big stone lions, the two Di stacked up are not so high, the courtyard inside the yard, Di only turned half a circle and got lost. Mrs. Qi, you have to stock ...... in the pool in the backyard."

"Ogi, I'll be back later."

Steward Xiao glared at his daughter fiercely, interrupted her words, and reported to Xia Xun with a large stack of invitations: "Master, this is the invitation I received these days. Wang Juma has already sent someone to come three times, to inquire about the day when the master returned to Beijing, please come over to the house. Scholar Xie Jin has sent two invitations, inviting you to have a banquet after returning to Beijing. Master Wu Youdao, the imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, has personally come four times, and he ......"

"Oh? Has Wu Youdao been here? ”

Xia Xun stopped, smiled sideways, smiled lightly, and took the post from Steward Xiao, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is Chen Ying's land, Wu Youdao is Chen Ying's biggest competitive force, if Wu Youdao intends to show goodwill, this olive branch can be taken over and cultivated, that is his Yang Xu's mouthpiece in the imperial court.

It is better to be able to do than to be able to blow, and he needs to train his own drummers now.

Steward Xiao continued to report: "The Dingguo Mansion has also sent a letter, it is General Fuzhou Chizhong has arrived in Beijing, and now he lives in the Dingguo Mansion, and he will ...... after the Duke of Guoguo returns to Beijing."

As soon as he arrived here, a servant hurriedly came and reported: "Guogong, the imperial envoy of the Imperial Court of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Huang Zhen asks to see him!" ”

Xia Xun smiled and said: "Huang Zhen, this guy has a dog's nose, please sit in his study for a while, I'll go right away!" ”