"He is guilty of not dying." Gao Yu said slowly with a calm face: "If you want to blame, it's not someone else who you touched, but Lin Shan." ”

It wasn't until Gao Yu made his words clear at this time that the look on Steward Zhang's face was unstable.

"When Tie Da was taken in by you, Lin Shan had already left Beijing, and Tie Da had only seen his portrait...... Could it be a mistake? After a moment of silence, he spoke again, and what he said sounded as if he was still interceding for Tie Da, but in fact his slightly trembling voice already showed that he was saying this purpose, just to make himself sure of the result, so as to plan for the future.

"Tie Da was cultivated by me, and his way of doing things in this area has always been careful and meticulous to my teachings." Gao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "According to Tie Da's description of his appearance, height, and temperament, as well as his understanding of the Burning Knife Wine, Cheng can't be wrong. Tetsudai brought back the tile jar pieces and showed them to me, maybe there are some people in Kyoto who know this old product, but there is only one person who can meet all these conditions. ”

"Hearing you say that, I'm puzzled by something else." Steward Zhang said in a deep voice: "Although our understanding of Lin Shan's style of behavior is only limited to words, and the direct contact is very shallow and vague, I have always suspected that the charges on his back are as false as the news of his death ten years ago. Now it is really confirmed that the latter assumption is true, such a cunning person, like last night, since he quietly returned to Beijing, then his identity still needs to be kept secret, but why didn't he directly kill it after discovering Tie Da's tracking? ”

Gao Yu's gaze fell on Steward Zhang's face, and he didn't speak for a long time, but the expression in his eyes changed for a few moments.

Steward Zhang was a little worried by his staring, and couldn't help but speak: "You have already thought of this." ”

Gao Yu nodded and said in a deep voice: "I remember that I once chatted with a small official of the Ministry of Works. Talking about the matter of fighting mountain fires, the little official said that it is not easy to extinguish fires in mountains and forests, because there is no way to use water, and the ordinary way is to beat with sticks, but as long as the sporadic fire ash is blown by strong winds, it is still easy to catch fire again. ”

Gao Yu's words paused, and Manager Zhang's eyes lit up. Immediately after the conversation: "I heard you say this, the key point of fire fighting in the mountains and forests is to control the fire, and most of the methods will choose to cut off the isolation of the fire area and the fire-free area, in order to protect the green mountains and jungles, we must give up fighting some places that have been burned." ”

"Tie Da is on fire." Gao Yu said meaningfully: "Maybe Tie Da will not betray me as you said, but this does not mean that he will not cause me trouble in unknown circumstances, this is a passive betrayal." He escaped in a head-to-head confrontation with Lin Shan. There were obvious traces of light in Lin Shan's wine, which made me have to suspect that Tie Da ran back with a fire that Lin Shan wanted to burn our entire Gao family. ”

Steward Zhang bowed his head and said: "Lin Shan's return this time is really a bit strange, he must be doing something in Kyoto." ”

"I'm not sure exactly what he's going to do when he comes back, but one thing I do know for sure is that he's not out there doing the engineering construction he loves. When I come back, there's only one thing to do. Gao Yu sighed when he said this, and then said softly: "I'm afraid that the old Shangshu in the Ministry of Officials will not be able to withstand the action of cutting officials after Lin Shan and the emperor join forces." ”

Steward Zhang was surprised and said, "Do you want to cut officials?" If you cut it any further, there will be no one in the court. ”

Gao Yu didn't directly explain anything about Steward Zhang's concern, but just said as if talking to himself: "The emperor has always planted the seeds of suspicion in each of them for the officials left by the previous dynasty, and now that the country is gradually growing, those seeds will gradually bloom." The emperor has two fields in his heart, and one flower is blooming very brightly, but it is doomed to be fruitless. The other field is carefully prepared with time. While the field was withering, the things in the other field were just beginning to pluck the ears. ”

Steward Zhang obscuribly analyzed what Gao Yu said, and finally he shook his head slightly, and then said gently: "Ah Yu." I remember that you were the Jinshi and the first in the seventeenth year of Zhou Guangzhi. ”

"Yes, I was one of the last Jinshi last week." Gao Yu laughed twice without any joy, and said lightly: "Speaking of this, I still have some regrets. When I was admitted to Tanhua in one fell swoop, what a scenery it should be, but I didn't know that this might be because the smart people in the world knew that Zhou was going to be finished, so they chose to abandon the exam, and I chose a cheaper. If I could know in advance that this Tanhua name given by the Zhou Dynasty would make my current official road like crossing a dangerous bridge, I should really postpone the examination for a few years. ”

The empire changed its flag, and although the new army of Zhao did not immediately deal with the old ministers of the previous dynasty, and also generously let most of the officials inherit their positions, this does not mean that the new monarch of Zhao did not carve a fixed mark on them. Gao Yu has said this very bluntly just now, and the emperor's efforts to cut officials in both light and dark have become more and more clearly revealed his plan.

And this qiē information, Gao Yu didn't hide much from Steward Zhang, otherwise he wouldn't have taken Steward Zhang to this secret room to talk at this moment.

Steward Zhang, who knew these things, could naturally understand Gao Yu's fears, but he couldn't come up with any substantive opinions, so he could only comfort: "Ah Yu, you have not been an official in the previous dynasty for a long time, and your talent has contributed to the Wang dynasty, and you have climbed up little by little from a very low position, this qiē emperor has seen it in his eyes!" Isn't it possible to establish a relationship between monarchs and ministers for a long time? Perhaps these can be used as reasons for him to trust you. ”

"The product of the human heart is not clear." Gao Yu smiled indifferently, then squatted down and lifted the lid of a box at his feet, and at the same time his slightly cold voice came: "I don't know if the emperor will slowly trust me, but as early as a few years ago, I began to distrust him." I saved these things to leave a way back for myself, but at the same time, I also cut off another way. ”

The box was neatly and compactly stacked with a dozen silver ingots, and the temperatureless silver glow scorched Steward Zhang's eyes. Steward Zhang worries about the trivial accounts of Gaofu all day long, this is really the first time he has seen so many silver ingots, and the first time he has seen so much cash in this secret room.

Steward Zhang looked around at the other boxes in the secret room with closed lids, and said in a lost voice: "Those are all too?" ”

"More than 10,000." Gao Yu flipped his hand and closed the lid of the box, and sighed lightly: "I can't go back." ”

The heat in Steward Zhang's eyes gradually receded, but the bottom of his heart was filled with more and more depressing coolness. When Gao Yu was in trouble, Steward Zhang used the income from begging to raise Gao Yu for a period of time, and Gao Yu privately referred to Steward Zhang as an uncle and nephew, but Steward Zhang had a trace of father-son affection for Gao Yu.

No father expects his children to do bad things from the beginning, even if they are not good, it should be within the scope of his own permission. Extremely evil deeds have no good results, and if you do not be a great good, you must also follow the basic way of survival.

Gao Yu is on an errand in the Ministry of Officials, and if he usually accepts gifts from officials, it is still within the scope of Steward Zhang's understanding. However, looking at the accumulation of wealth in this secret room, the amount of wealth is so huge that it is already inclined to steal the country and deceive the people, which Steward Zhang cannot agree with and accept. He himself was born in a poor family, and although he suffered from the war and turmoil for a long time, which caused him to be indifferent to a certain macroscopic thought, his love of money had not yet reached this kind of almost madness.

Seeing that the emotions in Zhang Guan's affairs began to fluctuate, Gao Yu knew what he was thinking, and explained before he opened his mouth to ask: "These are all confessions from officials, I have not stolen the country and the people." ”

Steward Zhang hesitated for a moment and said, "Such a huge amount, since you have taken it in, it is also indirect......" He did not continue, but slowly lowered his eyebrows and stopped speaking.

When Gao Yu heard this, his eyes suddenly showed annoyance, but this bad feeling quickly sank down, and he said gently: "Most of the givers of the silver in this house were destroyed by the emperor's act of cutting officials, if I don't pretend to accept their good intentions, maybe I haven't done anything yet, and I will be dragged into the water by a rake before they die." ”

"I also want to do some good deeds for the court and the people's livelihood, I was going to use these ill-gotten gains to do some good deeds secretly, but now that Lin Shan has returned to Beijing, as long as his spearhead is aimed at me, I have no chance to leave. I originally carried the title of a relict of the previous dynasty, as long as there is a trace of these silver, what kind of courtier I am will be immediately fixed, and the weight of the emperor's trust in me will not even be as good as Chaolu. ”

The more he spoke, the more hoarse his tone became. When he brought up the question of faithfulness among kings and courtiers, he slowly shut his mouth again.

Taking a deep breath, Gao Yu calmed down before he continued: "The gains and losses brought to my Gao family by the previous dynasty are basically equal, and the monarch of the new dynasty has always questioned my Gao family. From the standpoint of the Gao family, I am a selfish person, and everything I do is for the Gao family. I've been working so hard before, and I'm still doing now. ”

Gao Yu's father was squeezed by his colleagues when he was an official in the previous dynasty, and after he died in a hurry, the Gao family's property was occupied by several concubines in the family. Originally, as the eldest son, it was reasonable for Gao Yu's eldest brother to inherit most of the Gao family's industry, but Gao Yu's biological mother took advantage of the fact that he had not returned home from a study trip and took the share of property that Gao Yu should have inherited.

Old lady Gao died in a hurry, and she couldn't tell Gao Yu anything in person, and the notes left in advance were also destroyed by several concubines. Not only that, when Gao Yu, who heard the news of his father's death, rushed home, he was driven out of Gaofu by the concubines for all kinds of tricky reasons before he entered the door.

Later, Gao Yu went through many hardships, and simply passed the top three in the Jinshi examination, and the palace examination went to the Son of Heaven, and he was also very smooth and sealed an official, although the power position was not large, but Gao Yu borrowed it to return to the Gao family is enough. It's just that when Gao Yu was finally able to go home, the Gao family's industry was almost wiped out by his big brother who was addicted to gambling.

In order to rebuild the foundation of the Gao family, Gao Yu's hard work is also something he sees bit by bit. So when Steward Zhang heard Gao Yu say that he was selfish so bluntly, he couldn't help but feel a little sour, although he still couldn't immediately agree with Gao Yu's behemoth act of accepting bribes, but he couldn't bear to blame him anymore...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )