Li Yang was speechless under the excitement, and Zhao Yan did not urge, and after a while, Li Yang's mood stabilized, and then he continued: "After the thief broke in, he first asked people to tie up the students and insiders, and then told Gu Yuche that there were many people outside, I am afraid that the matter of the Sun and Grandson Hall was exposed, but don't be afraid, the secret passage of the clean room is quite secret, as long as you move the furnishings in the house a little, no one can find it."

After the students and insiders were put into the hole by them, Gu Yuanche also went down the hole. There was no light in the cave, and the students didn't know how long it was, maybe it was two or three minutes, maybe it was half an hour, the hole was discovered by the old man, and the students and insiders were rescued.

This Gu Yuanche is mad and ambitious, and he also asks the master to make the decision to cut it with a thousand knives, and the students will feel guilty. ”

Zhao Yan didn't pay attention to Li Yang's last sentence, but asked Li Yang's wife, Li Liu, "Li Liu, what your husband said is the truth?" ”

Li Liu's eyes were already crying and swollen, but she was already beautiful and lovely, but at this time, the pear blossoms were more and more cute under the rain.

"Back to the eldest master, the slave's sentence is true, it's just ...... Just ......"

Seeing this, Wang Shuang couldn't help but shout angrily: "Above the court, how can you be allowed to swallow and vomit, and if you have something to say, you can say it quickly." ”

Li Liu glanced at her husband, and then plucked up the courage to say: "It's just that the slave family didn't sleep well last night, and when he was half-asleep, he didn't know where to get out of the person, claiming to be a child immortal, and gave the slave family a pill, saying that it was a seed elixir, and it could take effect after eating, but the slave family was groggy after eating it, but I don't know what happened later, but the clothes on the slave family woke up intact, and the thief did not succeed, and I hope that the master will see it." ”

Zhao Yan smiled bitterly in his heart, have you been violated, how can I find out?

This Li Liu is obviously afraid that his husband will misunderstand that he has been defiled by others, so he will have these last few sentences, but Li Yang said that he saw that the yin thief was lying on his wife and wanted to misbehave, obviously he did not succeed, Zhao Yan did not want to take care of other people's family affairs, and it was important to do the right thing now.

"Gu Yuanche, Yun Neng, everyone has stolen goods, do you two have anything to say?"

Monk Yunneng was like a dead face, and when he was below, the scribe of the torture room had already interrogated him, the evidence was conclusive, and he was not easy to quibble, in order to avoid torture, he poured beans into a bamboo tube and told him about the things he had done over the years, and then signed and detained.

At this time, in this public court, even if Gu Yuanche next to him looked at him fiercely, Monk Yunneng only ignored it, but 1510 told him all the things he had done under Gu Yuanche's bewitchment over the years, the most important of which was the matter of the descendant hall.

According to the monk Yunneng said, every time a couple comes to ask for a child, he will ask the monk to take a good look at the woman's appearance, if the woman is young, beautiful, and healthy, then he will agree to her request for a child, and then in order to make a fool of himself, he also requires the couple who ask for a child to fast and bathe, and then can stay in the clean room behind the descendant hall.

After the couple who asked for a child moved into the clean room, in order to reassure the couple who wanted a child, they would deliberately let the husband sleep in the outer room. When the middle of the night is the time when people are most asleep, then Yun Neng or other monks will go into the inner room through the hole in the ground, and then feed the woman a pill, if the woman finds out and asks, it will be said that it is a seed elixir, but in fact it is a sweat medicine, so that the woman can naturally do whatever she wants after falling asleep, and because the woman is already asleep and cannot resist, the husband who sleeps outside will naturally not find out.

After Monk Yunneng finished speaking, everyone inside and outside the public hall was already dumbfounded.

It took a while for someone to react, and then they began to scold: "Fart, you dead thief bald liar, Lao Tzu killed you......"

There are people who have a hot temper who have begged for a son in the Sun and Sun Hall, and they can't hold back their anger, and they plan to cross the crowd and beat Yun Neng Monk out of anger, but this is a minority, and most of the people who have come to Sun Sun Tang to ask for a son are angry in their hearts, but they don't dare to say it, otherwise the neighbors will know that they have raised children for others for a long time, so where will their faces go?

Zhao Yan slapped the shocking wood again and again, and said that he was quiet, and Wang Shuang led the officials to start maintaining order, and finally made the public court quiet again.

"Yun Neng, you said that you and the monks below do this mysterious thing on weekdays, so why did Gu Yuanche go last night?"

Monk Yunneng didn't look at Gu Yuanche, he didn't want to be punished when he was old, so he simply broke the jar and said: "Gu Yuanche is only interested in the woman who was introduced by him to ask for a child, as long as he introduced it, he will notify the old monk in advance, and then wait until the night to get into the tunnel to act." The old monk knew that his sin was extremely evil, and he didn't dare to ask the lord for forgiveness, but only asked for a happy death, and asked the lord to fulfill it. ”

Zhao Yan didn't pay attention to Yun Neng's request, he looked at Gu Yuanche, who was pale, and asked, "Gu Dianshi, are you guilty?" ”

Gu Yuanche raised his head to face Cao Fang's little eyes full of anger, he suddenly laughed twice, stood up proudly and said to Zhao Yan: "Zhao Zhixian made a decision and then moved, without revealing a trace of tone during the period, which is really admirable." Yes, I did everything, and I have enjoyed a lot of beauties in the past few years, even if I die today, it's worth it. ”

Later, Gu Yuanche's voice changed, and he said: "However, in the next thought, it should not be extinct, Zhao Zhixian is only a weak crown and the first Dengke, and it has become Xinningzhi County. ”

Isn't this person crazy? Everyone present exchanged heads and talked about it.

Zhao Yan saw that Gu Yingche was clear and clear-eyed, and he didn't look like he was insane, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "What does Gu Dianshi mean by this?" ”

Gu Yuanche laughed and said, "After today, Zhao Zhixian will naturally know." ”

Zhao Yan laughed and ignored him.

At this time, the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, and after reporting this case, it is bound to alarm a large number of people, Gu Yuan's body is the history of the county government, although it is not in the stream, but it also represents the face of the court, but now it is doing this unethical thing, those bigwigs in the court, including the emperor Zhu Qiyu, will not easily let go of this person, and there is a high probability that he will betray Ling Chi, commonly known as a thousand cuts.

The case was tried clearly in front of everyone, the human and material evidence was complete, and there was nothing wrong, Zhao Yan immediately announced that he would put a prisoner in prison, and then he would play the imperial court, if there was no accident, except for a few young monks in the pagoda temple, the rest of the monks would be beheaded after the autumn.

Zhao Yan originally wanted to isolate the case for trial, but the pagoda temple has a great influence in the entire Baoqing Mansion, if it is seized at will, it may arouse public anger, and there are many people who participated in the search of the pagoda temple at that time, and it is difficult not to spread what is found, so he can only make it public, at least the interpretation is in the hands of the government, so as not to be passed on by word of mouth and make more gossip.

This case is bound to cause some turmoil in Xinning County, Zhao Yan asked people to post notices to appease the people, and then let Gu Yuanche's home be sealed, and a total of nearly 10,000 taels of money was obtained, his wife and children did not know the evil things Gu Yuanche did before, but they shared weal and woe with Gu Yuanche, Zhao Yan could only send them to prison first, and then wait for the court to decide.

A total of nearly 40,000 taels of silver were found from the pagoda temple and Gu Yuanche's house, which was definitely a huge amount of money at this time.

Although this batch of silver itself is mentioned in the song, but the specific amount is not mentioned, who will not use the Spring and Autumn penmanship, and a few four words of silver can be confused, this batch of silver is taken from the people of Xinning County, and it is best to take it from the people of the people.

The county school should be repaired, the social science should be built, the city wall should be repaired, the road leading to the state government should be repaired, the road leading to the county seat in the villages and towns should be repaired, and those posts in the county can also be reclaimed by hiring people......

Zhao Yan smiled, this batch of silver can be regarded as a solution to his urgent need, and then he can show his strength, and when Xinning County is almost transformed, and the lives of the people have improved, he can lie in the county government and wait for death, but will this be a bit unambitious?

When he was in a reverie, Wang Shuang came in a hurry, and as soon as they met, he said: "Master, more than a dozen people came outside the yamen, and the leader said that he was King Min and asked the master to meet him." ”

Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment, and secretly said Could it be that King Min knew that Gu Yuanche had been sent to prison and came to Xingshi to ask for the crime? But he knew the news too quickly, he had just closed the case in the morning, and he arrived in the afternoon, why did a small county official history make him pay so much attention?

"What about Master Cao? Let him receive him on behalf of the official first, and the official will go to change his clothes. ”

Wang Shuang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Master Cao has gone to prison." ”

Cao Fang and the concubine once went to the Pagoda Temple to ask for a son, everyone in the county government knows about this matter, now that the Pagoda Temple has fallen, Gu Yuanche, the person behind the scenes, has also been found out, Cao Fang was deceived and was angry with Lu Nature, he even had the heart to kill Gu Yuanche with a knife, but he was not such a courageous person, so he could only go to prison to humiliate and humiliate Gu Yuanche out of anger.

Zhao Yan wanted to know what Cao Fang was doing in prison, but he didn't say much, but went back to the room to change his official uniform and came to the front hall of the county office.

There was a middle-aged man in brocade sitting in the hall, he looked a little thin, his face was pale and pale, and at first glance it was caused by excessive wine.

Seeing Zhao Yan walk out from behind the screen, the middle-aged man coughed and asked, "You are Xinningzhi County?" ”

There were more than a dozen guards in armor in the hall, each with a sword, and they looked a little evil, but most of these people were injured, and they were busy applying medicine to each other and bandaging their wounds.

"This official Xinning Zhi County Zhao Yan, since Your Excellency said that you are His Royal Highness King Min, I don't know how to prove it?"

The middle-aged man had a good temper, and he was not annoyed when Zhao Yan questioned his identity, he took out a small seal of a golden turtle button from his arms and handed it to Zhao Yan: "This is the seal letter of this king." ”

Zhao Yan took a closer look, although he had not seen the seals issued by the imperial court to various princes, but he could be photographed with his own official seals, the two came from the same source, and many details were the same.

After returning the seal letter to Zhu Huixuan, the king of Min, Zhao Yancai arched his hand and said: "The lower officials have seen His Royal Highness the King of Min, I don't know what advice His Royal Highness has to come?" ”

Although the princes and princes of the Ming Dynasty have a noble status, they have no real power, similar to the rare birds and beasts that are captive by the imperial court, as long as you don't make trouble, I will raise you well, once you make trouble, then kill you, over time, except for the officials with ulterior motives in the small department, most of the officials are not very birdish vassal kings around the country, even if they meet, they only maintain superficial respect.

Zhu Huixuan smiled bitterly, he was carried all the way to Xinning by these guards, but he still didn't figure out the situation until now.

"Zhang Hu, you can talk to Zhao Zhixian."

A guard hugged his fists and promised, and then said succinctly: "Last night, King Guangtong and King Yangzong suddenly attacked, and united with the natives to capture Wugang Prefecture City, Yuan Zhizhou was shown to the public, and the road to Baoqing Mansion City has been blocked by it, I can't wait, so I have to escort His Royal Highness King Min to Xinning overnight." Please Zhao Zhixian quickly summon the people to strengthen the city defense, and the lowly fear that the rebels will follow here, which is not good for His Highness. ”

Zhao Yan was shocked when he heard this, Wugangzhou City was breached, and Zhizhou Yuan Yu died?

In April of the second year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xuan, the fourth son of Minzhuang Wang Zhu Huixuan, the fourth son of Guangtong Wang, and Zhu Huixuan, the fifth son of Yangzong, the two united with the local people to support 30,000 troops to gather the crowd to rebel, and the half moon indirectly captured Wugang City, Suining City, Jingzhou City, and then the rebels marched to Xinhua, the number of rebels at that time had reached 80,000, and the world was shocked after the news came out.

The imperial court ordered Wang Lang, the squire of the military department, to come to the governor of Huguang military affairs, and ordered the general Li Zhen and the general Liang Yao to lead their officers and soldiers to quell the rebellion.

In May, in the city of Changsha, the bigwigs, including Wang Lai, the governor of Huguang, the political envoy of Huguangbu, and the Huguang Metropolitan Division, gathered here to discuss the suppression of the rebellion.

The governors of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were not exactly the same, the biggest difference is that the governors of the Qing Dynasty were permanent official positions, while the governors of the Ming Dynasty were not fixed official positions.

The governor of the Ming Dynasty was selected from the scholars and servants in the imperial court, and the original intention of setting up the governor was to let them solve some tricky things, by giving them enough power, so that they could coordinate various resources, try their best to calm the situation, and when the matter was dealt with, the position would be abolished.

Wang Lai sat on the main seat of the hall, and under him sat Jiang Gao, the political envoy of Huguangbu, and Li Chengzong, the secretary of Huguangdu, respectively, and several generals stood in a row under the hall.

Glancing lightly at the hall, Wang Lai twisted his beard and said, "Since the people have arrived, let's start, take the map." ”

After taking the map, Wang Lai first glanced at Li Chengzong, the division of Huguang Capital, and then said to a middle-aged general: "General Liang, where are the rebels now?" ”

Liang Yao's face was dark and his figure was burly, he took two steps forward and stood by the map to introduce to everyone: "The rebels have now gathered nearly 90,000 people, divided into three locks. Among them, the largest one has more than 50,000 people, and is now entrenched in Xinhua City, which has just been captured by it, and the other one has about 30,000 people, scattered in the cities of Wugang, Suihua, and Jingzhou, and the last lock is only 2,000 people according to the report of Tanma, but for some reason it has been entrenched outside Xinning City for half a month. ”

Wang Lai nodded, and asked again, "Where are Zhu Huixuan and Zhu Huixuan?" ”

Liang Yao replied: "The last general has not yet had time to report, it is said that these two people, as the leaders of the rebels, should follow the large army, but Tanma said that these two people are outside Xinning City. The two thousand of them hovered outside Xinning City for half a month, neither attacking the city nor withdrawing their troops, which is really incomprehensible. ”

Li Chengzong, the commander of Huguangdu, and Jiang Gao, the political envoy of Huguangbu, glanced at each other, and then said to Wang Lai: "Commander, this ...... Xia Guan may know why these two people are hanging out outside Xinning City. When Xinning Zhixian sent people to ask Sun Da, the prefect of Baoqing, for help, he said that King Min was now sheltered in Xinning City. ”

Wang Lai glanced at Li Chengzong in surprise and said, "Didn't the performance of Sun Da, the prefect of Baoqing, say that Wugang Prefecture has all fallen?" Xinning County is so close to Wugang, and it is a subordinate county of Wugang, can it still be spared? ”

Hu Guangbu's political envoy Jiang Gao snorted and said, "Originally, we also thought that Xinning had been occupied by the rebels, after all, the first to be occupied by the rebels was Wugang Prefecture City. But who would have thought that Sun Da, the prefect of Baoqing, didn't send anyone to verify it at that time, so he panicked and let people go to the tune. ”

Wang Lai nodded, and said without blinking: "The rebels started in Baoqing Mansion, no matter what, he doesn't want to continue as the prefect of Baoqing, so let's put him in prison and wait for the court to deal with him." ”

After a pause, Wang Lai asked again: "Who is Xinningzhi County?" ”

Jiang Gao said: "The name of Xinningzhi County is Zhao Yan, who has only been in office for less than two months, and it is said that he was an editor in the Hanlin Academy before. ”

"Oh." Wang Lai thought about it for a while and suddenly realized, "It turned out to be this person, and the official had heard of his name." ”

The rest of the people looked at each other when they heard this, secretly thinking that this Xinning Zhixian had some background, and even the military department squire knew him.

"Li Dusi, General Liang, General Li." Wang Lai shouted, and said: "The three of you are all good soldiers, how to quell the rebellion now, do you three have a charter?" ”

Li Chengzong said first: "Xia Guan thinks that our army should first solve the rebels in Xinhua City, attack the city as the bottom, besiege the city is the best, if you can lure the rebels in the rest of the cities during the siege, you can break them one by one, even if you can't, it will not get in the way, just wait for the siege for many days after the rebels in Xinhua City are naturally unstable, our army will besiege three more and one, and wait until the rebels in the city have no ambition, and they can win in a battle." ”

General Li Zhen said: "Ten will be surrounded, five will be attacked, and multiple will be divided, our army is only 50,000, and the rebels in Xinhua City are also 50,000, how can we surround it, otherwise we will lure it out of the city for a decisive battle?" ”

Li Chengzong glared at Li Zhen and said, "I think you kid is stupid to read the military book." Most of the rebels are natives of the mountains and wilderness, although they are brave, but there are no rules, only when the march fights and fights in peacetime, if they fight on the flat ground, they are naturally far from our opponents, but they are like loaches as soon as they enter the mountains and forests, and it is not easy to find them. If we lure them out of the city for a decisive battle, our army can win it, but the sky and the earth are big, and our army is short of manpower, how can we prevent those routs from escaping into the mountains and forests? ”

Li Zhen scratched his head, Li Chengzong not only has a bigger official position than him, but also his clan uncle, so even if he is scolded as a fool, he can only admit it.

Although Wang Lai is a soldier in the army, he has not really commanded the army, he felt that what Li Chengzong said was reasonable after listening to Li Chengzong's uncle and nephew, but he looked at the chief soldier Liang Yao and asked, "What does Liang think of the general soldier?" ”

Liang Yao said: "Li Dusi is right, our army's combat strength is far superior to the rebels, and the most important thing is to prevent the rebels from escaping into the mountains and forests, but the Zhu Huixuan brothers are the leaders of the rebels, and the last general thinks that he should first send a brigade of partial divisions to capture these two people, as the saying goes, the thief captures the king first, as long as these two people are caught, the rebels will have no backbone, and their military spirit will inevitably collapse." ”