After leaving the county office, Zhu Cihong's face immediately became extremely gloomy.

He has always regarded Zhu Dadian as his right-hand man, and his status among civil officials is second only to Yang Tinglin, and now someone dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head and blatantly assassinate his henchmen.

"Even the people in the palace dare to kill, are these people panicking because there are too many people in the family?"

After Zhu Cihong returned to Xingyuan, Li Tingbiao, the commander of the Nanjing Jinyi Guard, also came, and he and a group of plainclothes Jinyi guards captured seven or eight assassins who intended to assassinate Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong was not surprised, there have been too many assassinations over the years, especially in the past month or so since he came out of Nanjing, there have been a wave of people looking for opportunities to assassinate every once in a while, and he has become accustomed to it.

After Zhu Cihong sat down in the warm pavilion next to the hall, he said to Li Tingbiao: "Tell me about the specific situation, what is going on?" ”

Li Tingbiao said: "Back to His Royal Highness, Zhu Dadian inspected the Yamen of the Caoyun Governor of Huai'an Mansion four days ago, and wanted to take the opportunity to check the affairs of Caoyun and salt affairs, but at this time, Zhu Guobi, the Caoyun Governor, left the Caoyun Governor's Mansion in Huai'an, saying that he went to Nanjing to supervise the transportation of grain, and the director of the Caoyun Governor's Mansion was not in the Yamen, but went to the Caoyun Wharf. ”

"Governor Zhu Dadian in the Caoyun Governor's Yamen swooped down, some unwilling to go directly to the Caoyun Wharf, after seeing the head of the Caoyun Governor's Mansion, this director is also very cooperative, but at this moment, I don't know who shouted, saying that it was the Nanzhili Governor Zhu Dadian who broke the way of life of many people, and now he is here to cut off their way of life.

After hearing this, the people at Caoyun Wharf were very angry, so they surrounded Zhu Dadian, and in the chaos, a person named Li Dahai came out and assassinated Zhu Dadian with a dagger.

The Caoyun Wharf was in chaos, and the officers and soldiers of Ying Tianfu finally escorted Zhu Dadian's body back, but there were still a lot of people besieging Zhu Mansion, and it was constantly rumored that Zhu Dadian was a huge greed, and it was the dog officials who brought disaster to the country and the people.

On the evening of the second day, Jing Wubo led his troops to Huai'an to take control of the situation, but Jing Wubo did not interrogate the assassin, but only protected him. ”

Li Tingbiao spoke very carefully, and Zhu Cihong probably understood what happened, and some people wanted to use public opinion to guide and transfer the contradictions to the people.

However, the more this is the case, the more it shows that there is a problem in the middle, and this matter is definitely not an accidental personal revenge, and someone must be secretly planning it later.

Zhu Cihong said to Li Tingbiao: "You personally go to Huai'an, interrogate this person named Li Dahai, and by the way, investigate the eighteen generations of his ancestors and dig out the people behind it." ”

"Command!"

After Li Tingbiao left, Zhu Cihong looked at Wu Zhong again and said, "Wu Daban, what's the situation over there?" ”

Wu Zhong replied: "Back to the master, the information received by the slave and maid is similar to that of Jinyiwei, and I am not sure who did this."

He analyzed: "Zhu Dadian first cracked down on the landlords in Nanzhili, and then strictly investigated the smuggler salt dealers, so that those people suffered the greatest losses in a few years, and now he is ready to investigate the matter of Caoyun."

Among them, there are not only the interests of the nobles, but also a large number of officials colluding with landlords, merchants, and smugglers, and the interests of these people have all been lost, and they will definitely hate Zhu Dadian very much, and they all have the possibility of doing it. ”

After listening to Wu Zhong's analysis, Zhu Cihong felt that it was still very detailed and in place, after so many years of training, Wu Zhong had matured and could be regarded as a qualified intelligence chief.

The intelligence system that Wu Zhong mastered was built by him, and all the personnel were selected from thousands of orphans, and after a long period of training in the secret base, they finally began to function as a system of their own.

Although Li Tingbiao's loyalty is proven, his Jinyiwei intelligence network is too large, and Zhu Cihong does not want the intelligence department to be dominant, so he first uses Yang Qili's Long Xiang Ye to check and balance.

However, Long Xiangye was not considered a military intelligence bureau, and rarely set foot in officialdom and civil affairs, so Zhu Cihong had to set up another intelligence network to check and balance, and naturally used Wu Zhong, who he trusted the most.

Zhu Cihong's fingers kept tapping on the tabletop, and it was getting faster and faster, Wu Zhong immediately shut up, he knew that the prince's habit was thinking about what he was planning.

Zhu Cihong analyzed in his mind the impact of this incident, as well as what might happen, and how he should deal with it.

After a while, he raised his head and said to Wu Zhong: "Send people to stare at Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, as well as these big clans in Jiangnan, Donglin and Fushe should also be secretly monitored, don't take any action first, the main thing is to grasp the situation and let them perform first." ”

Wu Zhong knew in his heart that the young master had endured it for so long, and this time he was ready to serve it in a pot.

Zhu Cihong said again: "You go and make arrangements, you are going back to Nanjing tomorrow, the itinerary is slower, just arrive before the New Year." ”

He came to the front of the hall, looked at the gloomy sky that was about to snow, and said secretly in his heart: Since you have made a move, I hope you will have as much fun as possible, and don't let this palace down!

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Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Qian Qianyi's manor.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Qian Qianyi and Wen Tiren and others failed to compete for the first assistant of the cabinet, and within a few years, Wen Tiren was imprisoned.

Until the retrial of Chongzhen's nine-year case, Wen Tiren was overthrown by Zhu Cihong and Cao Huachun, and Qian Qianyi was cut down and returned to his hometown in Changshu.

After returning to his hometown, Qian Qianyi was honest for a while, painting poems and paintings with a group of Jiangnan celebrities in his hometown, and also recruiting protégés, and occasionally going to Nanjing to visit the Qinhuai River to have fun.

Since Zhu Cihong came to Nanjing to supervise the country, Qian Qianyi and other Donglin people gradually couldn't sit still, and Zhu Cihong's series of policies caused the interests of the Donglin Party to suffer heavy losses, and it can even be said that they will be uprooted.

Not to mention that the officials of the Donglin Party were excluded from the main posts of various ministries in Nanjing, and even the gentry and merchants who were attached to the Donglin Party were suppressed to death and forced to pay taxes.

On this day, Qian Qianyi's mansion came to a representative of the Jiangnan gentry and merchants, Xie Sanbin.

Xie Sanbin was born in a wealthy family, and was an official in the imperial court, although the official was not big but very capable, he was a student of Qian Qianyi, and had a lot of relationship with Donglin and Fushe.

Xie Sanbin looked very respectful in front of Qian Qianyi, and as soon as they met, they came to see the teacher.

Qian Qianyi nodded secretly: "Although I don't serve in the imperial court anymore, this Xie Sanbin still knows the rules, not bad!" ”

After kowtowing, Xie Sanbin got up from his head, with a smile on his face, and said: "I heard that Mr. is elegant, loves calligraphy and painting, a few days ago, the housekeeper in the house found a treasure of Wang Huiji in Nanjing City, the student is only shallow, and the work of the book saint fell on me, which is really a tyrannical thing, not if it is analyzed by the collection of Mr. ”

As he spoke, Xie Sanbin put a box next to Qian Qianyi's desk and stood aside respectfully and waited.

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be overjoyed, the handwritten works of the book saint Wang Xizhi are rare things, he opened the box and saw that there were some heart-warming yellow and white things under a copybook.

Qian Qianyi's expression became extraordinarily gentle, coughed, and said, "You have a heart, come and sit down." ”