The plainclothes servants tried to explain, saying that adding the content of the will without permission was a false transmission of the holy decree, which was a felony, and Zhang Xunpress was no matter how bold he was, it was impossible to tamper with the holy decree.

However, this is the territory of the Qian family, far away from the location of the Jingshi, and the explanation of the Fan Soldier is useless at all, but it has attracted questions about him, because it is a northern accent.

There were some emotional people who surrounded them one after another, just looking at the posture, as if they were going to move roughly.

The plainclothes servants had no choice but to show their waist cards to deter these people. Then, when he explained again, those people ignored him, and it was clear that when he said it, others didn't believe it at all.

There was no way, so the plainclothes servants had to return immediately and report the situation to the stall head Jiang Dong.

As soon as his words fell, before Jiang Dong could speak, the other Dongchang officials couldn't help it, and immediately shouted angrily.

"What a big boldness, is it possible that they still dare to do something to Dongchang?"

"These southern barbarians, I don't think you need to be polite to them, just arrest them!"

"Yes, go to the street, whoever dares to talk nonsense and deliberately slander will be arrested!"

“……”

As a member of the East Factory, he has ever been treated like this. Basically, every Dongchang fan is very angry.

Seeing this situation, Jiang Donggang wanted to say something, but saw Zhang Pu preemptively say: "Never!" ”

"How?" When the Dongchang Fan heard this, he was a little puzzled, and couldn't help asking, "When this time comes, will the patrol still have to protect these people?" ”

The other soldiers also wanted to speak, and looking at their expressions, it was obvious that they were a little dissatisfied with Zhang Pu.

However, Jiang Dong has been in contact with Zhang Pu for a long time, and knows that this one actually hates this side very much, but he still says so, so there must be his reasons.

Therefore, he interjected and said, "Shut up, let Master Zhang finish speaking!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Pu couldn't help but glance at Jiang Dong gratefully, and then said solemnly: "Jiangnan is different from Jingshi, relatively speaking, Shilin's power is greater here. Don't forget, the Suzhou tax rebellion in the Wanli period scared the eunuch Sun Long sent by the emperor to flee from Suzhou, and many of his subordinates were killed! ”

"What?" When you heard this, you were very surprised, and asked with a look of surprise, "Is it difficult, do they dare to do anything to us?" ”

Zhang Pu listened, thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be right now, but if the situation continues, no one knows what will happen in the end?" ”

His words are somewhat authoritative. So, after he finished speaking, the room fell silent. No one could have predicted that things could be serious.

After a while, Jiang Dong spoke first: "That's good, I'll contact Nanjing immediately to see if I can send more people over?" ”

The factory guard is in the capital, and there are still branches, and there are people. There is a situation here, as long as you go to ask for help, it must be action.

When Zhang Pu heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, this matter should be done as soon as possible." As for Changshu's side, it is not appropriate to add more stimulation at present, and it should be stable! ”

When Jiang Dong heard this, he immediately began to arrange manpower and went to Nanjing to ask for help.

From beginning to end, whether it was him or Zhang Pu, they didn't mention the Changshu County Ya, because they all knew that the people of Changshu County Ya could not be used by them at all. If there is a conflict, it is completely estimated that there will be troublemakers.

So, in the next few days, Zhang Pu suddenly said that he was too busy these days, a little tired, and not as diligent as before.

This matter soon spread to Qian Qianyi, who was hiding in the shadows, and when he heard this, Qian Qianyi sneered and said: "Zhang Pu'er, you already know the old man's methods!" ”

Hou Fangyu on the side was also very excited, as if he had won the war, and said happily to Qian Qianyi: "As soon as Mr. Yushan makes a move, it is naturally enough for that Pu Xiaoer to drink a pot." According to the students, he is afraid that he will run away in disgrace! Haha......"

Qian Qianyi heard this, but sneered: "Rushing to the old man to make trouble, how can you let him leave easily!" ”

"What does Mr. Yushan mean?" Hou Fangyu listened and asked a little puzzled.

I heard Qian Qianyi's cold face and said hatefully: "Go on, don't stop!" ”

Hou Fangyu heard this, thinking of the humiliation he had suffered in the Autumn Moon Pavilion, so he immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, I finally have this opportunity, how can I let him get out easily!" ”

So, under their secret instructions, Zhang Pu wanted to slow down the situation first, but it did not go as he wished, and a storm continued to brew.

Seeing this, Jiang Dong was a little worried, so he suggested to Zhang Pu: "My lord, I think it's better to avoid the limelight first, at least when the reinforcements from Nanjing arrive, we will come again!" ”

"No!" When Zhang Pu heard this, he immediately shook his head and said, "One blow, then decline, and three exhaustion." The more difficult things are, the more they cannot dampen their spirit and boost the morale of others. Moreover, we represent the face of the court and the emperor. If we retreat like this, we can't explain it, but let these people get an inch, and those people behind them will add fuel to the fire, and it is likely that the emperor's rectification of the government this time will disappear like this! ”

At this time, Zhang Pu had unconsciously stood on the emperor's side, thinking about how to carry out the verification of the preferential exemption limit of the gentry and the collection of arrears. It's not that he's enlightened, but his opponent is over there, so he's naturally going to stand on this side.

Jiang Dong frowned when he heard that Zhang Pu was also reasonable.

Zhang Pu thought for a while, and then said slowly: "In this matter, the official will definitely not be mistaken, it must be Qian Qianyi's old thing who is making trouble behind his back." Here in Changshu County, it definitely can't be used by me. If you want to be faster, you can only ask for reinforcements nearby. ”

When Jiang Dong heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he immediately said: "It seems that the adult's mentor is in the next county, and his reputation is not low compared to Qian Qianyi, if he comes forward, this matter will be easy to do!" ”

When Zhang Pu took the exam, Zhou Yanru was the chief examiner, and according to the practice of this era, Zhou Yanru was Zhang Pu's mentor. What Jiang Dong is referring to is him, and now he happens to be in the township, in Yixing County, Suzhou Prefecture, next door.

Hearing this, Zhang Pu hesitated for a while.

To be honest, he didn't actually think that Zhou Yanru would help him, because from all indications, it was speculated that this teacher actually didn't welcome his arrival, especially the fact that he was ordered to do an errand.

However, if we want to alleviate the current crisis as soon as possible, we can only call for help nearby.

Zhang Pu remembered that when he was in Chongzhen for ten years, he also wrote to intercede for Zhou Yanru. Or there is still some friendship. Therefore, he agreed, and immediately wrote a letter to someone to send it quickly.

This time, the Dongchang official was not allowed to send the letter, because it was a neighboring county, and the recipient was a local celebrity, so it was handed over to the county government officer. It's just that there is an explanation, and there must be Zhou Yanru's reply, so that there is no fear of the county government officials making trouble.

Another purpose, in fact, is to tell Qian Qianyi behind it, it's almost enough, otherwise Zhou Yanru will come in a while, and he will be a character who is about as famous as you.

Sure enough, as Zhang Pu expected, his letter was first delivered to Qian Qianyi.

After Qian Qianyi read it, he sneered, and casually threw the letter to Hou Fangyu, who was waiting on the side, and said disdainfully: "Zhou Yanru's side, how much less grain land than the old man can it be?" The old man expected that after this letter passed, Zhou Yanru would only hide and say that he was not at home, do you believe it or not? ”

As soon as he heard that Zhou Yanru's grain field would not be much less than Qian Qianyi's, Hou Fangyu was immediately relieved, and immediately complimented Qian Qianyi: "Even if it is in the face of Mr. Yushan, then Zhou Yanru will not dare to get together with Zhang Puxiao'er, if it is not good, he will reprimand him." In fact, if you want students, why don't you let Zhang Pu'er go to Suzhou Mansion first? Ha ha! ”

When Qian Qianyi heard this, he also laughed. The surrounding officials are either friendly with him Qian Qianyi, or they are like him Qian Qianyi, and they can't tolerate Zhang Pu'er really having to investigate those two things thoroughly.

So the letter was sealed as it was, and it was sent to the people. At the same time, the two laughed at Zhang Puqian's poor donkey skills!

I heard Qian Qianyi say confidently: "In this Nanzhili, the old man is here, who dares to help Zhang Pu'er!" ”

Hou Fangyu heard this, and was about to continue the compliment, when suddenly a rich family member hurriedly entered, and said to Qian Qianyi: "Master, there is a letter from Yangzhou Mansion, the new Lord Yang of the Left Capital left Yangzhou Mansion and did not go to Nanjing, but came here!" ”

"What?" When Qian Qianyi heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "Then Yang Tinglin is actually coming to Changshu?" ”

"Going down the river, it's likely to come to Changshu." The family said again.

When Qian Qianyi heard this, he couldn't help but say with hatred: "It's really a ghost!" The old man tolerated him again and again, did he really think that the old man was afraid of him? ”

"So what do we do?" Hou Fangyu listened and hurriedly asked.

At the critical moment, he experienced too little, so that his mind was often blank, and he had to ask Qian Qianyi.

This time, Qian Qianyi glanced at Hou Fangyu and didn't speak, just put his hands behind his back and turned to leave. Not long after, a Qian Mansion steward left in a hurry and rushed to the Yangtze River.

What they didn't know was that almost at the same time, Lu Jiude, the new eunuch of Nanjing, had already rushed to Nanjing to take up his post by order.

When the six departments and Jiuqing who accompanied the capital saw him coming, they all discussed giving him a pick-up, but who knows, this Lu Jiude has not been in contact with these civil officials at all. Instead, he immediately began to inspect the barracks and straighten out the defenders of Nanjing.

In this regard, many people are very surprised, is this Lu Jiude missing a string in his brain or what, now that the thieves have been exterminated by the emperor, why do you want to reorganize the army so diligently? Could it be that being a prison soldier is an addiction?

They naturally didn't know that Lu Jiude was on the orders of Emperor Chongzhen, and he was prepared to come to Nanjing first to control the army, just in case.

Let Zhang Pu and them do things, how could Emperor Chongzhen be wishful thinking that this matter would be smooth sailing. The riots in Suzhou are easy to remember.

At that time, the Wanli Emperor sent mine supervisors to various places to collect taxes, and on the side of Suzhou Prefecture, because tax evasion was too rampant, the already low commercial tax revenue continued to shrink, so that other silver was borrowed to make up. At that time, Sun Long, the eunuch sent by the Wanli Emperor, had to crack down on tax evasion.

The local Huang Jianjie, Tang Xin and others attached themselves to Sun Long and proposed to tax the silk weaving industry, one for each machine, and three dollars in silver. This should mean three pennies a year in taxes, which is a fairly reasonable proposition.

However, just such a thing suddenly broke out, storming the yamen, killing Huang Jianjie and others, and robbing the squire Ding Yuanfu who lent money to Huang Jianjie. Sun Long was so frightened that he hid in Shen Shixing's house for two days, then fled to Hangzhou by boat, resigned from his job as a taxman, and never went to Suzhou again.

In fact, at the beginning of this popular uprising, even when the civil uprising was the most ferocious, as long as the local government was dedicated, it would be absolutely impossible for this situation to occur in the important town of the imperial court, and it could be suppressed in minutes.

However, the local government did not care at all, and it was simply perfunctory. Even Zhu Xieyuan, who had just been promoted to the deputy envoy of the Sichuan Provincial Prosecutor at that time, begged him for help and asked him to quell the riot, but he said that "the soldiers oppose the use of troops to suppress the rebellion on the grounds that "the soldiers are the ones who resist foreign invaders", and the mob finally succeeded.

As a result, the officials of the feudal territory in various places said that it was the emperor who sent the eunuchs to collect the mining tax and extort the tyranny that caused the Suzhou civil uprising. In this way, the Wanli Emperor finally had to remove the local mining tax eunuchs.

Based on the lesson of this incident, Emperor Chongzhen specially transferred Lu Jiude, who had experience in leading troops, from the three major battalions, and told him to rectify the army after he arrived in Nanjing to prevent a possible popular uprising.

This time, he will not be like Emperor Wanli, if he really wants to make something like Suzhou again, he will definitely not be soft.

However, for the time being, or for a long time to come, no third person will know what the emperor meant. Lu Jiude will also rot in his heart, and if there is really something that asks him to lead troops to quell the rebellion, he will also say that it is his own intention. After all, he is the eunuch guarding Nanjing, and he has the right to deal with emergencies in the south.

Therefore, without the knowledge of the outside world, for the town guard eunuch to rectify the army, the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu and the Nanjing Garrison, who also have jurisdiction over the army, did not care much, after all, in terms of real power, it is still a little bigger to guard the eunuch, you know, the eunuch is the emperor's henchman.

On this day, on the Yangtze River, an official ship really went down the river. On the bow of the boat, an official in a big red scarlet robe, accompanied by his subordinates, was watching the scenery of the Yangtze River. This person, needless to say, is Yang Tinglin.

He was in Yangzhou Mansion, and he felt that the perpetrators of the arson case had suddenly been caught, and he felt that something was wrong. Then as soon as I understood, I found that Qian Qianyi had hurriedly returned to Changshu County. At this time, Zhang Pu's letter was also delivered.

Feeling the seriousness of the situation, he immediately made a decision and immediately rushed to Changshu County.

He had experienced the war against the captives, so he didn't care at all, so he was ready to follow the will of Emperor Chongzhen and escort Zhang Pu's side.

He was looking at the scenery when suddenly, an exclamation was heard.

Yang Tinglin turned his head to look, and his face suddenly changed with fright.