To investigate the matter of Zhou Kui's father and son, Emperor Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen's Dongchang to investigate from the beginning. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen decided to kill the chicken and the monkey, so he naturally summoned Wang Chengen.

And for Emperor Chongzhen, the matter in Zhang Mingwei's hands is far more important than the punishment of Zhou Kui's father and son, so Zhang Mingwei left the palace.

At this time, it was getting late, so he returned to Zhang's Mansion accompanied by Princess Kunxing and escorted by Zhou Yuji and his wife.

However, before this arrived at Zhang's mansion, I saw the situation from afar.

I saw a large crowd of people surrounding me, making a loud noise, and even if I was far away, I could hear some movement. In the nearby mansions, there are people looking around, obviously watching the excitement.

Zhang Mingwei looked a little strange, because he found that the place where the group of people were noisy seemed to be his door: what was going on?

Zhou Yuji obviously saw it too, and immediately called a personal guard to rush forward to check the situation.

After a while, the guards rushed back and said: "My lord, those are the prisoners of the country's eunuchs, saying that the adults are so virtuous and capable that they want to be His Majesty's husband, they are not convinced, and they are shouting to find adults to test their knowledge!" ”

Zhu Yujiao was furious when she heard this, and she actually came to trouble her husband again!

However, at this time, she remembered her identity and did not give orders on her behalf, but obediently accompanied Zhang Mingwei and listened to Zhang Mingwei's words.

Zhou Yuji listened to it and suggested on the side: "My lord, or the general will send someone to drive them away!" ”

"Chase away?" Zhang Mingwei listened, smiled and shook his head, "There must be someone behind this, and driving them away won't solve the problem!" ”

He could think of it with his toes, and he must have come up with such a trick in the court.

In short, many people in the DPRK and China are absolutely very dissatisfied with his appearance. If one move doesn't work out, another move comes again, even if it doesn't threaten his power temporarily, he wants to make his reputation first, and then make a follow-up move.

Thinking like this, Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but sneer.

He has long been mentally prepared for this, and those people will never be obedient, they will have to go through many times of blood and fire before their heads fall to the ground.

When Zhang Mingwei was thinking about it, he saw that the prisoners of the country over there had already discovered his arrival, so they swarmed over, with a fierce momentum, a bit of a "fearless and ignorant" posture.

In fact, at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, people of Xiucai's class were actually very arrogant. Making waves and disrupting the office of the yamen is simply not too ordinary.

Locally, this group of people has a lot of merit and fame, and they have been out of the category of ordinary people. Their identities have also begun to give them access to characters with heads and faces, and they have a basis for hooking up with characters in the officialdom.

And the corruption of the atmosphere at the end of the Ming Dynasty made this group of people have no scruples for the sake of profit. For example, if a new local governor wants to do something, he must win their support. If it violates their interests, it really has to do anything.

The reason for this is that most of them are locals, and the chief officials are all outsiders, which gives them a local advantage.

Second, they are familiar with the local people's conditions, and they have a group of people with interests who are involved in the situation, and they can encourage the people who know or don't know to make trouble with them, and they can make a lot of noise.

In fact, this thing was already very common in the late Ming Dynasty.

Famous ones, such as the Suzhou Civil Rebellion, were also these people who took the lead in making trouble with the eunuchs sent by Emperor Wanli, and even burned the yamen, killed people, and so on. Then, there was the "Tombstone of the Five" by Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, which was his famous work and made him famous.

Not famous, that's more. According to historical records, there have been incidents in many places in the south where the students expelled the county officials and captured the county government.

At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, this was the case. Many local magistrates did not dare to offend them, so naturally they could only collude with them, and what they did only represented the interests of their part of the people. The interests of the imperial court and the interests of the common people are naturally gone.

Of course, it will eventually evolve like this, not to say how open Daming is and how free speech is. But behind them, there are reasons why the squire bureaucracy is behind the back, conniving. In the final analysis, it is still an entanglement of interests!

For these, Zhang Mingwei, a professional household in the late Ming Dynasty, naturally had studied and knew about this situation. At this time, when I saw a group of prisoners coming to make trouble with me, I knew what was going on!

Generally speaking, it is a very troublesome thing to be entangled by these prisoners.

Just like in front of you, these prisoners use the excuse that Zhang Mingwei has the ability to be the emperor's husband, if you shout and kill them like this, not only will it seem small, but it will also be untenable in law.

Believe it or not, if you move these prisoners, as soon as the news spreads, it will attract more prisoners to make trouble. And after it spreads to the locality, the prisoners in various places will also shout and kill Zhang Mingwei, although physical destruction cannot be done, but it can make Zhang Mingwei's reputation stink. Obviously, Zhang Mingwei is for the country and the people, but he can move with his pen and talk about it, so he said that Zhang Mingwei is a traitor who brings disaster to the country and the people!

Moreover, those people behind them will definitely jump out to accuse Zhang Mingwei of impeachment, saying that he is controlling these prisoners and not giving people a chance to speak, and then they will control the government and bring the Ming Dynasty into the abyss of ten thousand catastrophes. Well, any hat can be buttoned up.

Zhu Yujiao doesn't know about this, but Lan Tianbao comes from the local area, so she naturally knows it. After he heard Zhang Mingwei's words, he hurriedly echoed: "What the master said is extremely true, this group of people is very difficult to deal with!" ”

After speaking, he gave a general account of the situation in a few words. Then he said to Zhang Mingwei with a worried face: "Master, why don't you stay away for a while, and then go back and find out who instigated them to come?" ”

Zhou Yuji didn't expect this kind of thing to be so complicated, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his head. I thought in my heart, fortunately, I am only a general, and if I don't worry about these things, I won't have a headache or die!

Zhu Yujiao was also worried, so she persuaded her: "Sir, why don't we go back to the palace first, report this matter to my father, and let my father deal with it?" ”

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he immediately shook his head and smiled: "If I hide from them, believe it or not, they will be even more arrogant." This group of people should be cured! ”

When Zhu Yujiao heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't help asking, "Does Mr. have a way to deal with them?" ”

At this time, she immediately remembered that the prince's brother said that the gods went to the oil pot before, and such a strange thing was solved by Mr. casually. Then dealing with these prisoners, or others will have a headache, but Mr. maybe!

Thinking so, she looked at Zhang Mingwei's eyes with a little reverence.

Zhang Mingwei didn't answer their words, but just drove his horse forward and greeted the prisoners who were coming with great momentum.