Chapter 57: Undercurrent

"Smack~" A slap fell heavily on Liang Gu's face, and Xue Li looked at Liang Gu like a dead man. Not daring to look at Xue Li, Liang Gu knelt on the ground and lowered his head and did not dare to move.

"Shen Lian left Zhenjiang for two days, don't you know?" Xue Li said coldly.

"Back to the young master, I know about Shen Lian's patrol, but he went to see the resettlement of the victims, and I don't need to bother you about this." Liang Gu hurriedly said.

"Not necessary? Do you know? Xue Li kicked Liang Gu to the ground and said fiercely: "How can there be any victims in Zhenjiang?" You're also a head catcher now, please open your dog's eyes and take a good look, are there still victims in Zhenjiang? Is he Shen Lian the prefect of Zhenjiang or the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Do you need to go to Yangzhou to see the victims? ”

Liang Gu was shocked, Shen Lian went to Yangzhou? Recalling Ling Yun's harmless smiling face, Liang Gu gritted his teeth a little, he was deceived. Liang Gu got up and knelt down again, and slammed his head on the ground: "Please forgive the young master, it was the villain who neglected to overlook, and the villain will go back and stare now, and he will not dare to make such a mistake again." ”

Glancing at Liang Gu with some disgust, Xue Li said coldly: "Just as I believe in you, from today onwards, I will not leave Shen Lian's side an inch, and if there is any abnormality, I will report it immediately." ”

"Yes, yes, young master, thank you for your kindness." Liang Gu hurriedly said.

"." Xue Li didn't want to see this person at a glance now, and he made a decision in his heart that after he brought down Shen Lian, he would kill this person as soon as possible.

In Zhenjiang Mansion, Shen Lian looked at Ling Yun standing under the hall and said, "How is Lianggu doing during this time?" ”

"Lord Hui, I asked you once a few days ago, but the little one has already replied to him according to your instructions." Ling Yun said.

Shen Lian nodded, glanced at Ling Yun, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, your family has also been hunting fast for generations, your grandfather was the first god in Jiangnan back then, was he wronged under me?" ”

Ling Yun smiled bitterly when he heard this, his grandfather is powerful, and his own family is indeed a fast catcher family, but these are all in the past, the Ling family is now just a small family, and it has long lost its prestige in previous years, not to mention the position of catching fast that he inherited from his father, if it wasn't for Lord Shen Lian to come, I am afraid that he would have been swept out of the house by Feng Ning a long time ago, and he would still be the head catcher like now.

"My lord, your subordinates gave this opportunity to you, how could you be wronged." Ling Yun said.

"Don't look down on yourself, Liang Gu I don't say that you also know what kind of goods you are, now there is an opportunity, would you like to give it a try?" Shen Lian asked.

Ling Yun was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up, he naturally knew the details of Liang Gu, Lord Shen said that he must take Liang Gu, and the family behind Liang Gu was not easy to deal with, since Shen Lian dared to do this, he was naturally very sure.

"My subordinates are willing to go to the soup for the adults." Ling Yun said.

Shen Lian nodded and ordered: "During this time, you pick a few reliable people to collect evidence of Lianggu's past crimes in Zhenjiang first, and I will stabilize him here first." Remember not to let the people of the Xue family find out, I will only give you one month, are you sure? ”

Ling Yun thought for a while, nodded and said, "My subordinates will do it." ”

"Be careful on that road, don't talk about it to anyone." Shen Lian instructed.

Ling Yun was ordered to leave the house, and when he walked halfway to Liang Gu, he happened to meet Liang Gu who came back, seeing that his forehead was red, he wanted to know where he went, and secretly pouted, Ling Yun stood on the side of the road and saluted: "I've seen Liang Zhutou." ”

Liang Gu looked at Ling Yun with red eyes, and he couldn't wait to tear the person in front of him with his hand, and said coldly: "Ling Zhutou, good ability." ”

"What does Liang Zhutou mean?" Ling Yun looked at Liang Gu suspiciously, but heard Liang Gu sneer: "Ling Zhutou, be careful when you go out, it's been a lot of chaos recently, don't have any accidents." ”

Ling Yun frowned, but still said, "Thank you Liang Zhutou for your heartfelt advice, but Lord Shen is looking for you, so you better hurry up." ”

Liang Gu snorted coldly and walked towards the middle hall. Ling Yun looked at Liang Gu's departing back and sneered, "Let's let you be rampant for a while." ”

Liang Gu straightened his clothes and straightened his hat, and then slowly approached the middle hall, saw Shen Lian in the batch of files, stepped forward and saluted: "My subordinates pay a visit to Lord Shen." ”

Shen Lian looked up at Liang Gu and said lightly: "Liang Zhutou, what are you doing these days?" ”

Liang Gu was stunned, he had nothing to do every day, but he couldn't say that he was idle, so he had to say: "It's nothing busy, just some trivial things." ”

Shen Lian put down the file, looked at Liang Gu and said, "It's just right, something happened to Ling Zhutou's hometown in the past few days, and he just took leave from me, I am short of people around me these days, you come to me." ”

Liang Gu was stunned for a moment when he heard Shen Lian say this, and then thought in his heart: "I still think about how to follow Shen Lian every day, and someone handed me a pillow when I didn't want to fall asleep." ”

"Subordinates are at the disposal of adults." Liang Gu hurriedly said.

Shen Lian smiled secretly, knowing that Xue Li couldn't rest assured that he was sending such a fool to his side, what did Xue Li think? Do you look silly yourself?

"You prepare first, there will be someone from Yangzhou after a while, it is said to be a fresh face, the official has to make some preparations, what is the specific matter, I am instructing you." Shen Lian said.

Liang Gu secretly wrote it down, nodded and said, "Yes, my lord." ”

The person Shen Lian said was the person who was about to start the review of the state capitals, and the people Yang Tai recruited from all over the country, all of whom were from innocent backgrounds. Yang Tai originally planned to go according to Lin Yuan's plan, but later felt that since he did it, he would do it thoroughly, it was impossible for Yang Tai not to cultivate his own people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for so many years, otherwise he would not have been stable in the official seat for so many years. In addition, the Zhang family and several families worked together, and forced them to make up a team of hundreds of people.

Starting tomorrow, these people will go to the counties under the names of the thirteen prefectures in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to start the review, but there are still some things to do before this, today except for Shen Lian, the prefect of Zhenjiang, the top governors of the state capitals have arrived at the Yangtai Mansion, and they have received the news that they have something to discuss.

On Yang Tai's mansion, standing behind the screen and looking at the people in the lobby, Yang Tai and Huang Xuan glanced at each other, straightened their clothes, and walked out slowly, everyone got up and said, "I've seen Lord Governor, Lord Qincha." ”

Yang Tai nodded and said, "Sit down." Everyone sat down and looked at Huang Xuan beside Yang Tai a little strangely, these two had never met in the past, what happened today? Although I felt strange in my heart, I still quieted down, and planned to hear what happened today.

"There are two months and this year is going to be over, I want to say that everyone is still in Yangzhou, so I called to get together, a lot of things happened in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, fortunately, there is everyone working together, so it didn't make a big mistake." Yang Tai said and looked around at the prefects who were seated again.

"Thanks to the emperor's blessings, the victims of the disaster in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have also settled down, but this embankment breaking case has been investigated for three months now, and there is still no progress, and the saint has issued several edicts asking for a thorough investigation, and we can't fail to react at all, you think about how to investigate this case." Yang Tai's words made everyone frown, it was not that they didn't want to investigate the embankment breaking case, it was too wide-ranging, and they didn't know how to start, and there was no way to drag it out until now. Now that it has been raised, it seems that Jingzhong is putting pressure on it again.

Cheng Ji, who was sitting on the side, looked at everyone, thought for a while and said, "My lord, didn't the imperial court have already been played before, and the main cause of the embankment breaking case was caused by the big autumn flood this year?" We have thoroughly investigated several river supervisors who had the accident, and there is nothing dissatisfaction in Beijing. ”

Yang Tai glanced at Cheng Ji and didn't say anything, and then Song Yang, the prefect of Shanyin on the other side, also said: "Lord Cheng is right, you also know about Lord Huang, but now the capital is saying that we are not good at investigating the case, what can we say?" ”

Huang Xuan glanced at the two people who spoke, and snorted coldly in his heart, It's what happened under your rule, you ask me? Yang Tai spoke at this time: "Lord Cheng, Lord Song, you know much more about this matter than me and Lord Huang. ”

Yang Tai was really tired of talking nonsense with these people who didn't know the current affairs, so he simply went straight to the point. Everyone in the room looked at Yang Tai, the usual good man, with some consternation, and couldn't believe it, this was clearly aimed at Song and Cheng.

"What do you mean, Lord Yang?" Cheng Ji squinted and said.

I saw Yang Tai pointing at Cheng Ji and sneering: "Lord Cheng asked well, what do I mean?" In the seventh year of Qide, you were promoted from a county to two levels, and served as the prefect of the Huiji Mansion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang University, and in the eighth year of Qide, the central government began to repair the embankments along the Jiangnan Province, which cost countless amounts of money, and it should have been solid, but it was not thought that in three years, an autumn flood flooded 15 counties of Jiangnan Province, of which the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, you will be the most affected by the Jifu. What are you doing when people are displaced? ”

Before Cheng Ji could refute, Yang Tai walked up to Cheng Zhang, grabbed Cheng Zhang's arm and raised it, Yang Tai sneered: "Look, look at Lord Cheng's hand." ”

Everyone subconsciously looked at Cheng Zhang's right hand, and saw a ring and a wrench on his finger. It's nothing, but Cheng Zhang's ruby ring is really a bit eye-catching.

"Master Cheng, please tell me, how can you bring such a valuable thing with you to the prefect who earns less than two hundred taels a month. Is a river supervisor so bold? Yang Tai paused and looked at everyone: "Master Cheng is a four-year jinshi in Qide, this should be a pair of hands holding pens to ask for the people's lives, but look at it, does he still hold a pen in this hand?" After speaking, he looked coldly at the paralyzed Cheng Ji. Song Yang on the other side was too scared to squeak.

"Someone." Huang Xuan shouted, a team of armor soldiers walked in, everyone's eyes shrank, what is this for? I only heard Huang Xuan say: "Take Cheng Ji and Song Yang down and take strict care of them." ”

Song Yang was stunned, and Cheng Ji also came back to his senses at this time and shouted, "Yang Tai, why did you arrest me?" I am an official of the imperial court. I'm going to play the court! ”

Cheng Zhang's voice gradually drifted away, and everyone now dared not say much, for fear that if they didn't pay attention, they would catch fire. Yang Tai returned to his seat at this time and said: "There is evidence that Cheng Ji and Song Yang are greedy for Mohe money, and the official gave them a chance, but they did not repent and colluded with grain merchants in the two places to embezzle the disaster relief grain money, and then they will be slowly interrogated." But adults should also be careful. ”

Everyone was awe-inspiring, and hurriedly stated that they would never do such an angry thing. Huang Xuan looked at the ugliness of everyone, and only felt a little uncomfortable, there were a few clean ones here.

"Well, it's not up to you to say whether it's clean or not." Yang Tai waved his hand, and then said: "From today onwards, I will send teams of three people to check the accounts in various places, and I will bother you to stay in Yangzhou for a few more days, and then go back afterwards." ”

The officials were shocked, this is a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, which of their hands and feet is clean, so they have to find something to do, but they can't find a reason to refuse now, and the guards outside the house are afraid that they will be arrested as long as they take a step.

Yang Tai ignored everyone and got up to leave, he also made up his mind this time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been completely rotten, the information sent by Liu Qingshui these days has made him feel heartbroken, is this Jiangsu and Zhejiang still the Jiangsu and Zhejiang of the Great Zhou?