"We are ordered to arrest Lu Zhonghe, the imperial governor of Shaanxi, and as a soldier of the imperial court, you should immediately put down your weapons and don't be disturbed!"

As soon as Wang Yangming arrived in Shangzhou, he immediately sent troops to surround Lü Zhonghe's residence.

There are soldiers in the patrol, so at this time, Wang Yangming had to take out the holy decree first to announce the will to the patrol Yu Shi Lu Zhong and the officers and soldiers under his command.

Seeing this, Lu Zhong and the officers and soldiers under his command had no choice but to obey, after all, although there were soldiers in the imperial history, they were also given by the imperial court, and the imperial history did not actually control the power of these officers and soldiers.

However, Wang Yangming, as a civil official, knew that Lu Zhonghe was also the imperial history of the place on behalf of the Son of Heaven, so he naturally saved some face for Lu Zhonghe.

Wang Yangming did not directly lead the troops to rush in, but asked people to give Lu Zhonghe a post first in accordance with the rules of officialdom.

Lu Zhonghe naturally didn't dare not see Wang Yangming, so he indifferently asked Wang Yangming to come in.

When Wang Yangming came in, he saw Lu Zhonghe eating, and the meal was extremely simple, just two steamed buns and a plate of vegetarian dishes, plus a bowl of white porridge.

Wang Yangming couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "Lu Xun is very frugal and honest, and he eats so simply!" ”

"I don't dare to be honest, and the official is not greedy for anything, as for eating, but I used to eat like this in the past, why, when Mr. Wang came to take the official, could it be that the official committed the crime of greed?"

Lu Zhonghe, the inspector of the imperial history, laughed, and seemed not to be afraid of Wang Yangming, took off his official robe directly, and pointed to the patched clothes: "Lu Mou was born as a concubine, his family has been poor since he was a child, and the people of the Quannai tribe have been living on the help of the whole Nai tribe, and he has always adhered to the ancestral teachings after studying as an official, only for the people, and does not harm the heavens and reason. ”

"Lu Xun may be an honest official, but he may not be a mediocre minister, Wang came to take you today, it is for several villages in Sanyuan County to be slaughtered by Tartars, Lord Lu as a Shaanxi patrol, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the blame, so the court issued an order to take you into Beijing and interrogate you strictly! And raid the house to find out! ”

Wang Yangming took out the holy decree and showed it to Lu Zhonghe.

Lu Zhonghe immediately slapped the table: "It's unreasonable!" You will search now to see if Lu has evidence of collusion with the Tartars, and evidence of harm to the people! ”

"In this way, Wang is welcome!"

As Wang Yangming spoke, he glanced at Yang Mao, the commander of the Absolute Sound Guard, and Yang Mao immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to rush in and began to search Lu Zhonghe's residence.

And Lu Zhonghe continued to eat lightly.

After a while, Yang Mao came back and reported the search results to Wang Yangming in sign language.

"What, nothing suspicious?"

Wang Yangming couldn't help but feel quite surprised, and hurriedly ordered in sign language: "Search again!" Including where his staff and family live! Don't let it go! Forms, articles, scripts, documents, and notices have all been brought to me, and I will read them all! ”

Saying that, Wang Yangming continued to chat with Lu Zhonghe: "Lu Xunzi is really not afraid of danger, this time several Zhuangzi in Sanyuan County were slaughtered by Tartars, and even the guards with the prince were not spared, isn't Lu Xunzhao surprised, didn't he investigate?" ”

"This steamed bun is good, very sweet, Bachelor Wang can taste it", Lu Zhong and Gu left and right said about it, and they seemed unwilling to be put into it by Wang Yangming.

But in fact, Wang Yangming had already suspected through his previous words that Lu Zhonghe might really have something to do with the case of the villagers being slaughtered, because, after he read out the will, Lu Zhonghe actually directly said what Wang Yangming wanted to find out for Wang Yangming, in Wang Yangming's opinion, it was obvious that Lu Zhonghe knew very well what he was going to do and what he wanted to investigate.

After Wang Yangming finally confirmed that Lu Zhonghe had no incriminating evidence around him that could be used to punish the crime, he said: "In this case, I will escort Lu Xun back to his hometown in Shanxi, if there is no evidence of guilt in his hometown in Shanxi, Wang will personally avenge Lu Xun!" ”

As he spoke, Wang Yangming ordered: "Come on, take Lu Xun away!" ”

And when Lu Zhonghe, the inspector of the imperial history, saw that Wang Yangming was going to take him back to his hometown in Shanxi and meant that he would go to his hometown to investigate, he immediately became anxious: "Wang Shouren, what do you want to do!" You are just a minister of Hanlin, and even a minister who was promoted to Hanlin by flattering the emperor, what qualifications do you have to detain me and dare to raid my house! ”

"Just by the decree of the officer!"

Wang Yangming said.

No matter how much Lu Zhonghe struggled, no matter how much he scolded Wang Yangming, he couldn't stop Wang Yangming who acted on orders in the end

When Wang Yangming took Lu Zhonghe to appear at Lu Zhonghe's house in Shanxi, he saw that the entire Lujiazhuang was like a city, with brick houses rising and grain piles everywhere.

However, the difference is that this place has now been surrounded by officers and soldiers sent by Wang Yangming in advance.

As soon as Wang Yangming came to Lu Zhonghe's hometown, he began to order the officers and soldiers to raid it, and soon all kinds of land deeds and land deeds were seized from the households of the Lu clan, as well as a large number of granaries, which can even be said to be piled up like mountains, many of which are still new grain.

Wang Yangming also checked the land deed and land deed at the same time, and couldn't help but say to Lu Zhonghe: "Lu Xun, the population of your clan in the household department is only a few hundred people, why does it look like there are no less than a thousand people here, no less than 10,000 houses, and no less than 100,000 stones of grain at a glance, these land deeds and land deeds are thousands of hectares, don't you say that you are a concubine, and your family has been poor since childhood, why are your Lu family so rich now?" ”

"Those are all family property, not Lu's property!"

Lu Zhonghe said.

"One hundred and fifteen hectares of fertile land in Turtle Bay in Sanya Village! Zhoujiakou has 800 hectares of fertile land! …… These places were all places that had been sacked by the Tartars...... And all of these! They are all the fields of Yansui, Guyuan and Shaanxi Xingdusi, how did they get into the hands of your Lu family, even if it is a family property, you Lu Zhonghe can't escape the collusion with the Tartars to embezzle the people's land! ”

Wang Yangming was the director of the Military Election Department of the Ministry of War, and he remembered very well the reports that the local officials reported to the Ministry of War that those places were looted by the Tartars, and Lu Zhonghe naturally couldn't hide it from him.

At this time, Lu Guizu, the patriarch of the Lu clan, was also escorted over, and when he saw that the officers and soldiers of the court came to raid his house, he also knew that it was Lu Zhonghe who committed the crime, and he was anxious to clear up the relationship with Lu Zhonghe, and he didn't cry: "This big man is far away! These are all obtained by Lu Zhonghe, and they are said to be dedicated to the people of the clan, but we don't know that these are embezzled by him! ”

Now that the people in the clan have also sold Lu Zhonghe, plus Wang Yangming has also come up with empirical evidence, Lu Zhonghe has no confidence, and knelt directly in front of Wang Yangming, crying aggrievedly:

"Master Wang, I didn't dare to ask for a single acre of these fields, and I didn't dare to ask for a stone of these grains and food, they all took them and sold them to the Tartars for money, otherwise they wouldn't be able to raise so many maids and slaves!

If you don't believe me, I'm all for the people! They asked me to do this, because I have been given everything by my people, and I have to repay them! But I'm very thrifty, I'm afraid that I'll be found out that I'm not honest, and I'm afraid that I won't be promoted! If my people hadn't asked me to do this, I wouldn't have dared and I wouldn't have wanted to! ”

Wang Yangming was too lazy to care about the relationship between Lu Zhonghe and the Lu clan, and directly escorted Lu Zhonghe and all the people of the Lu clan and the confiscated family property into Beijing according to the will.