Li Mao guessed many results, but he didn't expect it to be this one. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

Zhang Ning not only didn't know that Lu Dao's family was involved in the rebellion, but he never even had the family's property, money, food and property in his hands.

All he can control is the property in the private house of the family, and the money of any family's private house and the public treasury cannot be compared, and the more prominent and the older the family, the more so.

Li Mao knew that Zhang Ning's words were reserved, but he was willing to tell himself part of the truth, and sincerely asked him what to do, which was already a sign of trusting him very much.

Even if it is himself, he still has many scruples about his biological mother and cannot fully tell everything, not to mention that the two families have always been dirty, and he himself is the emperor's number one confidant.

Li Mao was also very embarrassed about what happened to Zhang Ning.

He is not a smart man, he can't think of any way to break the deadlock, and it is completely impossible to reverse the deadlock, and his greatest confidence comes from knowing the emperor's mind, or in other words, understanding what the emperor will judge when choosing a matter.

Therefore, Li Mao hesitated and asked, "Does Brother Zhang want to protect the whole family, or does he want to go further?" ”

"What if we go one step further, and what about protecting the whole family?"

Zhang Ning's voice echoed in the empty public high school treasury.

"To tell the truth, Brother Zhang's whole family is involved in rebellion, and the sister-in-law is even more after the remnants of the previous dynasty, your mansion is too deep, and it can't be cleaned no matter what. Fortunately, Brother Zhang and his sister-in-law did not participate in this matter, if they surrendered to His Majesty, they would catch these remnants......" Li Mao himself also felt that this was funny.

Where are a few of Zhang Ning's clan clean. Back then, Taishi Zhang took the whole family out of the mountain to assist the emperor, but the whole family was the whole family, not just his Zhang Tingyan.

"Brother Li also knows that this is impossible." Zhang Ning smiled bitterly, "You once told me that because you are an ordinary mediocre person, you can't kill your relatives in righteousness, nephew and wife, you both want to keep it." At the end of the day, I realized that I was not a smart person, but a mediocre person. ”

"My grandfather was a madman, and there were many people in the clan, young and old. My grandfather is huge, it seems that there are also mining gold, silver and copper mines and salt wells, my uncle said, the family has been crazy for these huge profits, the rise of the Zhang family, in addition to the dragon meritorious, my grandfather's two-sided plan is the most critical. If I surrender, my blood relatives will die cleanly, and you will be replaced by you, are you willing? ”

“…… Do evil. Li Mao had all kinds of feelings in his heart, and after the last thousand words, only these two words were turned into very small voices.

Zhang Ning didn't know that the private salt in Shu had been destroyed a lot, only the minerals had not found the core, and he had not yet noticed where there was private mining.

However, there are so many places where gold, silver and copper mines are produced in the Central Plains, and if the emperor has the heart to investigate, he can always find clues in three years at most, at least one year.

Zhang Ning couldn't die anymore in this game, and he didn't even have a chance to break through.

"If you can't enter, you can only retreat." Li Mao felt that his next words were very cruel to this man who was gradually approaching the peak of Da Chu.

"Let's draw a line."

"Draw the line?" Zhang Ning's heart sank suddenly, and his weak body trembled slightly. "You persuade me...... Throw everything behind? In this way, can the whole family be saved? ”

"I don't know what to do." Li Mao said this, but his voice was very firm. "I only know that you did this, and by the time the incident happened, at least you had an attitude. If it really happens, with me and many of your protégés and former officials in the court to save you, at least it won't cause an accident to your whole family. ”

……

He was not reconciled.

He is now more than forty years old, since he was seventeen years old, he has climbed for twenty-three years, except for three of them, he started from the release of the seven-grade official, step by step to today. Unlike Li Mao, who was born lucky, in addition to being a little smoother at the beginning, it was not as easy as others imagined.

Twenty-three years later, he stepped onto the stage of Zichen Hall and became a scholar. He was in all sides of the power of the hypocrisy and the snake, in the royal power and the family, the nobles left and right, he befriended the powerful, played with people's hearts, I don't know how much effort was made, in order to make the Yanzhou Zhang family stand in a prominent place.

And now, the young prince told him that he should retreat bravely and abandon everything?

Why is it so easy for him to say?

"I know what you're thinking. To tell the truth, at that time, when I just learned from the remnants of the Yin Dynasty in the mansion that my sister-in-law was the county lord of the previous dynasty, and my mansion was like a sieve, but there were enemies everywhere, I also thought about simply retiring with my family. The bitterness on Li Mao's face was no less than that of Zhang Ning.

"The water is so deep that it is like a swamp for all those who fall into it to be inadequate. But I am different from you, you are now a bitter master, and you have to keep filial piety, so you can retire so justifiably. And my holy grace is long, there is suffering that cannot be complained, there is revenge that cannot be avenged, and I have to carefully bury this truth for my nephew, but it is not easier to get out than you are now. ”

"Yin Chao's plan is not small, your family wealth has been lost, and there is no one to use, and now you have to worry about it, if the two parties are persecuted, you are fish and meat, and he is a knife, it is better to simply retreat." Li Mao earnestly persuaded: "According to Brother Zhang's means and ability, if you cut off your own tail and collect the things that really belong to you in the family and re-operate them, you may not be able to live again and open up a new world." ”

"Parting ...... Give up...... Self-cutting off its tail ......"

Zhang Ning's voice grew louder and louder, and a series of strange, desperate laughter suddenly erupted from his trembling teeth, as if some terrible emotion was bursting out with this burst of laughter.

Li Mao felt sorry for Zhang Ning from the bottom of his heart.

The next day.

Mrs. Cui's funeral was not a big deal, after all, she died unexpectedly, and her death was not very glorious.

Everyone knows Zhang Ning's mood at this time, except for being particularly affectionate and bringing his family members to the door to condole, most of them came alone, presented ceremonial gold, and burned incense and eulogy before leaving.

The Jiang family also sent people to come, and Jiang Daoqi took Jiang Qingsoul, the second son of the Jiang family, and his wife and daughter to come to the funeral in person. His eldest son is an official in Jinzhou, and now he is not in Beijing, and his second son is related to the Zhang family, so he already respects Mrs. Cui very much.

Zhang Ning personally greeted the door and attached great importance to the Jiang family's coming.

His family's filial piety this time must delay the marriage of the two children, his mother's filial piety has not yet passed, if he is engaged before Sanjiu, he will not need to keep filial piety for so many years.

What he wants most is to protect his children. If the eldest lady of his family marries into the Jiang family, even if the rebellion in the family is the most embarrassing, the married daughter will not be implicated, and if he can escape one of them, he will be considered to have done his best.

But Zhang Ning didn't hear Jiang Daoqi put forward the idea of letting the two children get married in advance until they saw them off, and their hearts suddenly cooled.

What does the Jiang family mean by this?

Is it difficult to want to quit your family?

Zhang Yuan watched her fiancé leave, and her crying voice became even more sad.

This is also the first time she has seen her fiancé, and she found that he is indeed as her friend Jiang Qingling said, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a long body, which is different from many men in Jiangnan, and her heart is suddenly relieved.

But when she thought that she would have to keep filial piety for several years, and when the filial piety period came out, she had already become an old girl, and it was impossible for the Jiang family not to let the second son stay away for so many years, thinking that when she married into the Jiang family, Jiang Qing's soul didn't know how many more rooms and how many red sleeves, she couldn't help but feel sad and cried that her life was miserable.

She was supposed to get married next year!

Why did she marry in a beautiful way? For the sake of that little fame, the tired mother begged her grandmother for money and caused this disaster!

She's a dead star!

Zhang Yuan cried to death, and the female relatives who came to mourn were speechless, and praised Zhang Yuan's benevolence and filial piety in their hearts.

Zhao had already learned about his own □□ from her husband, and she was crying tears, although the family members who were guarding filial piety above the mourning hall were going to cry, but it was rare to cry so sadly.

Zhang Yuan's misanthropy became heavier and heavier in a cry, and she wanted to hit her grandmother's coffin together, and while she was thinking about it, a warm palm stroked her face and wiped away the tears on her face.

"Why do you cry so much, people will always die, if the living person destroys his body for the sake of the dead person, and let others complain about the deceased, it is the biggest unfilial piety."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but raise her head when she heard these unusual words of consolation.

The old woman with a look of pity looked at her with warm eyes, her eyes full of pity and disapproval. She was followed by a gentle woman with a goose egg face, also with tears in her eyes, holding a handkerchief and wiping the corners of her eyes.

Who else would Mrs. Qiu who didn't preside over the ceremony for her?

"Old lady Qiu......" Zhang Yuan's eyes were so blurred that she couldn't see clearly. I...... I hate ...... so much."

Gu Qing shook his head, simply knelt down, and hugged the poor girl.

"Don't cry, trust me, just get through it." Gu Qing hugged the girl's shoulder and patted it down again, "When you get through it, you will find that all this is not a big deal." ”

Gu Qing hugged Zhang Yuan and unraveled it one by one......

The murder of Zhang Ning's mother began with a very shocking, but simply jaw-dropping simplicity, and then ended with an even more surprising ending, and then a heartfelt sigh.

Zhang Ning hated his uncle's outrageous behavior, even though Zhang De's expulsion was a foregone conclusion, Zhang Ning still summoned many clan elders in the family, as well as the current patriarch of the Zhang family, and announced that he would quit the Zhang family and no longer be a member of the Zhang family in Yanzhou.

No one knew what the old patriarch of the Zhang family would be willing to let go of this son who had a good career, but Zhang Ning's attitude was very resolute, and even Chu Rui personally summoned him, and this was the result.

Zhang Ning: He doesn't want to be of the same clan as his uncle anymore.

Zhang De is not the main culprit, even if their husband and wife are expelled from the clan, the children in his family are still the Zhang family, and Zhang Ning can't even stand it with his nephews and nieces.

Zhang Ning's return to his hometown this time will remove his parents from the ancestral cemetery, and half of the sacrificial fields purchased by his mother before her death will be returned to the clan, and half will become the new sacrificial fields of his other clans.

The tombs of his grandfather and grandmother will continue to be offered incense by Zhang Ning and Zhang De until Zhang Ning's three generations later, all of which will be taken care of by Zhang De's descendants.

Everyone thought that Zhang Ning, who made this decision, must be eager to put his uncle and aunt to death, but he took the initiative to fold up, saying that people cannot be resurrected after death, and although his uncle and aunt were rebellious, he still hoped that the emperor would spare his aunt from being beheaded.

Zhang Ning's approach caused a shock among many people.

There are admirers, there are ridiculers, and there are a lot of people who dare not believe it, but Zhang Ning doesn't care about it, and continues to close the door after the fold, and only receives guests who come to mourn every day, and the people next to him are all not much.

Li Mao didn't expect that once Zhang Ning decided to break the wrist of a strong man, he would break it so simply, leaving no room for himself at all.

With his current white body, it will take another six years to worry about it, not to mention that the family in Gongzhong has already been moved clean, and it is far from so simple to return to the previous prominent time. Even if Zhang Ning keeps everything and returns to the court, I am afraid that he is already nearly fifty years old, and he is now retiring so simply, it is not something that ordinary people can do.

It turns out that Zhang Ning, like Mrs. Zhang, is the same as Mrs. Zhang, once she does it, she doesn't give herself and others a chance to turn back at all.

For a while, Li Mao suddenly understood Zhang Ning's practice of giving Fang Yi a concubine.

Zhang Ning is such a person, what he does is what he does, and he doesn't regret it. It's like a boulder in the water, a green pine on the side of the mountain, no matter how you beat and blow, it's there, and it won't change easily.

Regarding Zhang Ning's unexpected move, Chu Rui naturally had all kinds of surprises in his heart.

His first reaction was that there must be something inside to Cui's death.

But he thought too much. Zhang Ning's father died early, and he has always been depressed and unhappy, Chu Rui actually deduced that Cui's and his uncle have been adulterous, or have always had emotional contacts, and then were broken by the Lu family and a series of things.

Even the money in the family was lent to the Lu family, and he deduced that the Cui family lent it to the younger uncle for personal reasons, or simply tore his face after coming back, etc.

I don't blame the emperor, he was born in everyone since he was a child, and he has heard a lot of such indecent things, and the Cui family ran too hard in the mansion, which made him think too much.

The remnants of the Yin Dynasty also controlled most of the subordinates in the front hall and backyard of the two houses, and they concealed their confessions in the Dali Temple after being tortured, and they wanted to cover up the incomplete puncture, and created this kind of illusion, just to mislead the people of the trial to think wildly, and not to continue to investigate further for the sake of Zhang Ning's face.

The most important thing is that all the evidence collected by Chu Rui is similar to the confession of Zhang De and his wife, and the excerpt from the Jiangnan secret report does prove that Zhang De's son lost at least 100,000 taels of silver in this flood, and the backlog of silver is only more.

Zhang De would never be able to take out so much silver, and the money could only come from Zhang Ning's mansion. And Zhang Ning's mansion is the Cui family in charge of the public middle school, and the Zhao family has several disputes with his mother-in-law because of the housekeeping, which all point to the Cui family and Zhang De who have the problem.

Lu is only the end point of the intensification of the contradictions.

If this is the case, it makes sense for Zhang Ning to ask Uncle Rao and sister-in-law.

If his mother did this kind of ugly thing, she was still jealous when she was old, and the three of them were all morally lossed, if they were really sentenced to be cut in half, maybe the Lu family had to confide in this matter in order to reduce the sentence, and even if Zhang Ning himself quit the clan, and there was such an ugly thing in the family, the family affairs and future of the daughter of the Zhang family should not be mentioned again.

This is the next connection, Chu Rui's sympathy for Zhang Ning is 120,000.

Whoever has such a bad thing in the family, the money in the family has been moved by his mother, and he has to sacrifice everything for the reputation of the whole family, I am afraid that he will be disheartened and unwilling to appear in front of people again.

As soon as Zhang Ning leaves, one of the most important officials in the court will become vacant, and he has always wanted to place his cronies in this position, but he has never had a chance. Zhang Ning has always been quite popular among the clan faction, and it is only natural that he can become a secretary of the ministry. He is the most suitable candidate for all his qualifications, and he has the noble in-law of the Xinguo Mansion, so he did not play with the Shi clan faction back then, and ordered Zhang Ning to take office.

Zhang Ning did not disappoint him, although sometimes the two ends are really hateful, but he is this slippery and principled character, overall, Chu Rui is still very satisfied with him.

Compared with Concubine Xu Xian, who was eager to insert the civil and military capital of the Manchu Dynasty into the family lineage, Zhang Ning, the secretary of the ministry, was not too competent.

Thinking of Zhang Ning's pitiful experience, Chu Rui still made a series of referees.

Zhang Ning's retreat from the clan is a family matter, and even the emperor's hand can't reach out to the clan. What's more, when a talent like Zhang Ning leaves the Zhang family, he dares to reuse it, and when he comes back in a few years, maybe Zhang Ning can be of greater use, Chu Rui is happy to see it, and he has no intention of stopping it.

Lu was not sentenced to be beheaded, but she was wicked and finally sentenced to be hanged and got a whole corpse.

As for what she will think under the gallows, whether she will regret it or not, it is unknown.

Zhang De was stabbed for thousands of miles and exiled to Yazhou.

Yazhou is inaccessible, and poisonous insects and miasma, the people who do not die in the road are already very lucky, and those who can get to Yazhou safely are often injured by local poisonous snakes, insects and ants, and they cannot die well.

Even if these are avoided, the temperature in Yazhou is very hot, and he is serving hard labor there, for Zhang De, who is more than fifty years old, not dying is also shedding his skin.

Everyone felt that the emperor's punishment for the first evil was too light, and the punishment for the accomplice was too severe. Only Chu Rui himself knew that he was seeking justice for Zhang Ning, so he was sentenced like this.

Zhang De's name is "De", but he lost his virtue first, and he is actually the culprit of everything. Although his wife killed someone, it was excusable, but Zhang De was extremely disdainful and sentenced to Yazhou, which was already considered a light release.

And Zhang De owes the Zhang family too much silver, which is destined to not be repaid, according to the law of Great Chu, all of Zhang De's assets will be sold to repay the debts of Zhang Ning's family. Zhang De's second son has fifty canes, and his whole family has to make up for this huge amount of money, if he can't make up for it, according to the law of Da Chu, with so much money, Zhang De's second son will have to sit in prison for at least twenty years.

Zhang De's all the properties were sold for less than 100,000 taels, even if the money put together by his four sons and grandsons was added, I am afraid it would not be much.

But being able to recover a little bit is a little bit, Zhang Ning has lived most of his life, and he can't even keep the money in the public school, which is enough to make people sigh, if a big man can't recover the debt, how can those people dare to borrow money from people in the future?

Woohoo lament, it's a pity that in order to protect Zhang Ning and himself, Zhang Tingyan's connections did not hesitate to tarnish the reputation of all his sons and daughters-in-law's younger generations.

Fortunately, Zhang Ning didn't know that the people on the other side of the Yin Dynasty were using this way to shoot the fog bomb, and the Jiang family was pushing the boat with such a fact, otherwise, I am afraid that it would be angry and cracked.

Liangzhou.

Zhang Zhi, who learned the news of his mother's death, immediately took leave and rushed to the capital with his wife and children.

Because the carriage of his wife and daughter was too slow, he left his family to protect his family, and he only took a few old family members, brought three empty horses, and galloped to Beijing.

"Dare to kill my mother-in-law!" Zhang Zhi's eyes shot a terrifying light, "I'll let your family pay for their lives!" ”