Empress Dowager Wan glanced at her lightly and said, "What? What do you think is wrong? ”

Where did Yingyi dare to say what she really thought in her heart, she hurriedly replied: "No, the slave didn't mean that. The slave maid was just thinking, so much gunpowder, I'm afraid I can't get it out for a while! ”

Empress Dowager Wan looked at her jade armor and said, "Isn't there a lot of gunpowder in the Ministry of Industry?" It's not hard to figure out some! ”

Ruoqiu said on the side: "But the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is not our person, I'm afraid I won't be able to get so much!" ”

"Who said it was going to pass him?"

Ruoqiu's eyes rolled, and she hurriedly said: "The slaves and maids are all confused, isn't the second son of the Pingyang Royal Mansion on an errand in the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Empress Dowager Wan hooked her lips and smiled, ordered Ruoqiu to take the pen and paper, and then wrote a decree on it, and said to her: "You go and give this to Shi Fengyu, and tell him how much you use, how much you will return in the future, and you must not let people find out that it is less!" "Shi Fengyu is the elder brother of Shi Fenglan, the lord of Evergreen County.

When planning these, Empress Dowager Wan always thought of the lives and interests of the Wan clan, and did not care about the lives and interests of ordinary people. In her eyes, the lives of ordinary people are like ants.

Ruoqiu took Yi Zhi and was about to leave, when Wan Delin stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, what if those people reveal my affairs tonight?" ”

When Empress Dowager Wan heard this, she glared at him fiercely, "If this is the case, then God is going to kill you, and the mourning family can't take care of you!" ”

Wan Delin saw that the Empress Dowager Wan had made up his mind, and he had no choice but to go back to his house. After he returned, the butler immediately handed him a letter, and when he opened it, he saw the words on the envelope, and his face changed greatly, "What about the person who sent the letter?" ”

The butler replied, "After the man delivered the letter, he left!" My lord, but what happened? ”

Wan Delin replied coldly: "It's okay, you go down, I'm going to go out of the house!" ”

After he finished speaking, he went to the Eight Immortals Residence in the city, and the shopkeeper looked at the people, and immediately stepped forward and asked, "Does the guest officer stay in the hotel or eat?" ”

Wan Delin asked: "Has anyone decided on the Tianzi Yaju?" ”

The shopkeeper replied: "It's decided, you said that you want to wait for a guest surnamed Wan, are you surnamed Wan?" ”

Instead of answering him, Wandlin said to him, "Do you remember what that man looked like?" ”

"That guest is tall, thin, a little dark, and has a very generous shot!"

After hearing this, Wan Delin thought to himself, robbing me of so much gold and silver, isn't it generous to make a move? "Take me to Tianzihao Yaju, I am the guest surnamed Wan."

The shopkeeper took Wan Delin to the second floor, and the rooms on the second floor were separated by eight screens, and the guests did not interfere with each other, which was much cleaner than the first floor. After making a pot of tea for Wan Delin, the shopkeeper left.

The letter Wan Delin received at the house said that if you don't want me to make your corruption public, you can wait for me in the Eight Immortals Residence Tianzi Private Room!

After a while, a thin and tall man walked in, and after seeing Wan Delin, he arched his hand at him and said, "Lord Wan, it's been a long wait!" ”

The tea in Wan Delin's hand spilled at once, and he said to the man, "You robbed me of my dart?" ”

"Not bad! Precisely! However, Wan Daren has been an official for several years, and he has been greedy for so much gold and silver, which really makes me admire! What's even more powerful is that Master Wan even found someone to kill my brothers, if he hadn't been prepared, I'm afraid that he would have died at this time! ”

Wan Delin was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to attack, so he had to say: "As long as you don't tell this matter, the gold and silver will be given to you, and the right is to make a friend!" ”

The man said, "Ten thousand people have a noble status, how dare we climb high!" ”

Wandelin touched a nail that was neither soft nor hard, and said, "Then what do you want?" ”

"I heard that Lord Wan has a very good relationship with the emperor and the Empress Dowager Wan, and he will soon be appointed as the secretary of the Criminal Department!"

Wandelin couldn't take his words and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

The man smiled and said, "My evil fire cult takes it as its mission to believe in the fire god and cleanse the sins of the world, but it was judged as a cult by the government, and it also sent people to arrest several of my brothers, and now they are still locked up in the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion. I wonder if Wan Daren can release them? As he spoke, the man put the teacup on the table, and continued: "As long as Lord Wan releases them, I will not only be able to return the ten boxes of gold and silver of Lord Wan, but also tell you who is behind you!" ”

His words made Wan Delin very moved, but he was still a little embarrassed and said: "But the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen is not under my control, and it is still difficult to release people, you have to give me a few days to make arrangements!" ”

"No problem, five days, how's that? I'm waiting for news from the Lord Wan in my house in the west of the city! ”

"Good! I'll let your brothers go!" "Actually, Wan Delin didn't really want to release the people of the Evil Fire Sect, he just wanted to delay time, as long as it was past tonight, none of the people of the Evil Fire Sect would be able to escape!

It's just that their words have already been heard by the people in the next room. When a straight-faced man heard this, he said angrily: "What a reason! ”

Another person sitting next to him said, "Lord Jia is angry!" ”

"This Wan Delin has only been an official in Jiangning for a few years, and he is greedy for ten boxes of gold and silver, but this official department says that he is honest and honest every year, and he is deeply loved by the people, which is really ridiculous!"

"Lord Jia is not a nephew who doesn't know who this Wan Delin is, even if he embezzles a hundred boxes of gold and silver, the officials will not write the slightest bad in the assessment book!"

"The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, what is the difference between him and Liu Jin back then?"

"Alas, there's no way around it!" Yang Nan sighed, and then patted Jia Fa's shoulder, "You just pretend that you haven't heard anything!" ”

"No, how can that be? As the left deputy capital of the imperial history, this official is responsible for impeaching hundreds of officials and identifying wrongs for the governors, how can he know that someone is corrupt, but sit idly by? "Jia Que is a bright and upright person, and he is in charge of unfair matters, because he has been an official for 30 years, and he is only a third-grade official, far inferior to Yang Nan, who is a jinshi in the same year as him.

After he finished speaking, he was about to leave, Yang Nan hurriedly stepped forward to grab him, and he said to Yang Nan: "You and I have been friends for many years, and I know my temperament and temperament, don't stop me again!" ”

Yang Nan replied: "It's not that I stopped Lord Jia, it's really that Lord Jia doesn't have any evidence, so he goes to write a recital, and His Majesty won't pay attention to it!" ”

"How can there be no evidence? This is what I heard with my own ears! ”

"Master Jia, don't you know that hearing is false, seeing is believing? If Vandlin denies it, what should you do? ”

Jia Mo listened to the reason, so he asked, "Then what do you think?" ”

"I've already asked Ngawang to follow that Cultist, as long as we know where they are hiding, and find those ten chests of gold and silver, everything will be easy! As for those dart masters, I will help Master Jia. ”

After hearing this, Jia Mo said, "Lord Yang means that those dart masters and the Evil Fire Cultists are human witnesses, and those ten boxes of gold and silver are physical evidence?" ”

"That's right! I believe that after this person's evidence and material evidence are all there, His Majesty will have to bring Wan Delin to justice! ”

After the two finished talking, Ngawang returned, and he said to Yang Nan and Jia Fa, "Lord Qiyu, I have found the hiding place of those Evil Fire Cultists, which is in a mansion in the west of the city!" ”

Yang Nan thought for a moment and said to Jia Fa: "Lord Jia, I heard that Yin Weicheng of Jingzhao Mansion is looking for the whereabouts of those Evil Fire Cultists, you can tell him this clue, and he will definitely look for it." ”

"Okay, since that's the case, without further ado, I'll go, Lord Yang will leave!"

After Jia Que left, Ngawang said to Yang Nan: "My lord, do you want to hurry up and inform the prince, so that they can hurry up and prepare!" ”

"Okay, let's go!" After Yang Nan finished speaking, he put down a silver ingot on the table and left.

Wei Cheng didn't dare to slack off after receiving the news from Jia Que, and hurriedly took the yacha of Jingzhao Mansion to the mansion in the west of the city. However, after entering, he did not see the figure of the Evil Fire Cultist, but found ten boxes of gold and silver in the flower hall.

Jia Mo took the golden gold leaf and sneered: "Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, there are more than 100,000 gold and silver here!" ”

Wei Cheng looked at the gold and silver, and asked puzzledly, "Dare to ask Lord Jia, where have those Evil Fire Cultists gone?" ”

"I guess they knew someone was following them, so they fled!"

"And what about these ten boxes of gold and silver?"

"These are all the things that Wan Delin, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, has embezzled in Jiangning in the past few years!"

When Wei Cheng heard the news, he was shocked, and he said, "Wan Shilang, how is this possible? "If he had known earlier that the gold and silver belonged to Wan Delin, then he would not dare to come here with ten dares.

"How could it not be? This is what I heard with my own ears! Come on, carry all this gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty Palace! Jia Fa said.

"What are you going to do?"

"During Wan Delin's official period, he was corrupt, I want His Majesty to know and punish him!"

"No! The imperial court has a rule that everything seized in Kaifeng City must be sealed in the Jingzhao Mansion, and no one can take these things away without His Majesty's will! Wei Cheng said as he said in his heart: "Old thing, if you dare to give me a set, I won't let you have a good time!" ”

"You ......" Jia was angry, but he was helpless, he was just a third-grade official, and he was in name only, and he didn't even have a single soldier under him, otherwise he wouldn't have relied on Wei Cheng. But now Wei Cheng is obviously embarrassing him. "Okay, I'll go into the palace to ask Your Majesty for your will, during this period, you take care of things, if it's one point less, only you ask!"

"Good!" After seeing Jia Que leave, Wei Cheng hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair for him and hurried into the palace.

When he left, all this fell into the eyes of Ye Xuemei and Gongliang Yuzhi at the corner of the alley on the side.

"Do you guess he entered the palace to see the imperial brother or the queen mother?"

Ye Xuemei sneered: "No matter who you go to meet, you can't save Wandelin!" ”

"How can they solve the game you laid out with your own hands? It's just that you know the queen mother's temperament better than me, and now that she has noticed you, in case this matter is revealed, then you ......"

"I know the prince is worried about me, but there's no other way, is there?"

As the two men said this, they walked side by side on the ground paved with green mud and stones, and there were lilac wildflowers blooming on the side of the road, and from time to time there was a burst of fragrance.

"Do you think this is the fatal blow to Wandlin?"

"I've got a big gift for them!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you think that for so many years, among the people of the Wan clan, only Wan Delin has been corrupt? In fact, such people abound. The Wan clan has the support of Emperor Song and the Empress Dowager Wan, and has done evil over the years, occupying good land in various places, and robbing women from good families, and the people dare not speak out! What are the ten boxes of gold and silver in Wandelin in comparison? ”

"Why hasn't anyone played it for so many years?"

Ye Xuemei shook her head, "Could it be that the prince has forgotten about Wu Ming?" Everyone knows what's at stake, but who dares to play it? ”

"In the past, I only knew about things buried in the army, and rarely asked about the court, but I didn't expect that there was so much darkness in the middle...... "The more he knew, the more disappointed he was in the court.

"Actually, I knew about this matter a month ago, when I asked them to investigate the Wan clan. Wan Delin's matter is just one of them, there are two things in total, and I have already arranged for them to go to Beijing to sue the emperor! With that, she bent down and plucked a wild flower on the side of the road, and ripped off the flower discs one by one, and continued: "We can only win if we remove the minions of the Wan clan one by one, and then replace them with those who have the heart for us and the ability!" If there is no accident, after Wan Delin is removed, the person who will replace the Shangshu of the Criminal Department should be Yang Nan. When the time comes, let him write a book to recommend Wu Ming to Beijing, which can be regarded as fulfilling the prince's previous promise! ”

Wei Cheng sat in a sedan chair, hurried to the Ming Dynasty Palace before Jia Fa, and after telling the whole story in detail, he waited for Gongliang Rongruo's response.

At the beginning of the period, Gong Liangrong Ruo was still listening to the review and review, and after listening to these, he twisted the wolf pen in his hand and thought carefully.

Not long after, the palace people outside the door came to spread the word, saying that Jia Que was coming, saying that he wanted to see His Majesty.

Gongliang Rongruo was speechless, and Xiao Shunzi beside him hurriedly said: "Go back to him, just say that Your Majesty is taking a nap!" ”

The palace people walked out in response, and Wei Cheng asked Gongliang Rongruo on the side, "Your Majesty, those ten boxes of gold and silver are still temporarily held in the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, and the lower officials are afraid that if those gold and silver are really Wan Daren's, what should I do?" ”

Before Gongliang Rongruo could speak, the palace man who had gone out earlier came back, and he said to Gongliang Rongruo: "Your Majesty, the slave returned to Lord Jia according to the words of Chief Manager Shun, but Lord Jia insisted that he would wait for Your Majesty!" ”

When Xiao Shunzi heard this, he said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let the slave go back to him!" ”

Gongliang Rongruo said: "No need, let him wait if he wants to!" ”

Seeing this, Wei Cheng said, "Your Majesty, do you think this matter was deliberately slandered by Jia Yushi?" ”

Gongliang Rongruo shook his head and said, "Jia Fa's temperament is understood, he can't do this kind of thing!" ”

"Your Majesty said yes!" Wei Cheng said, and said, "Then what does Your Majesty plan to do next?" ”

"You go with me to Ningshou Palace to see the Queen Mother!" With that, he and Wei Cheng walked out of the Xingde Hall together. There are doors in the front and back of the Xingde Palace, so I am not afraid of encountering Jia Fa.

When the two came to Ningshou Palace, Empress Dowager Wan was taking a nap, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but be surprised for a while, she had already arranged everything, just waiting for those explosives to be detonated at night, but she didn't expect that such a thing would go wrong!

Gongliang Rongruo said to the Empress Dowager Wan: "Did the Queen Mother know about this early on?" ”

Empress Dowager Wan replied: "Delin told the mourning family, and the mourning family reprimanded him severely, and he also promised the mourning family that he would not do such a thing in the future!" As for the ten chests of gold and silver, they will be regarded as ruined wealth and disaster! Empress Dowager Wan said this, after all, Wei Cheng was in front of her, and she couldn't say it too carefully.

"That's what the Queen Mother said! Does the queen mother think that her son should see Jia Fa? ”

"Jia Fa is the imperial history of the left deputy capital, and he has the position of supervising hundreds of officials and supervising all provinces, so it is natural for you to go to see him!"

"But what if Naja Rafa mentions ten chests of gold and silver?"

Empress Dowager Wan turned her eyes to look at Wei Cheng and said, "Are there any ten boxes of gold and silver with Delin's name written on them?" ”

Wei Chengdao: "I never wrote! ”

"Isn't that right? Since Jia Fa said that these were corrupted by Delin, then Delin can also be said to be that he slandered him. ”

After Wei Cheng heard this, he echoed: "This Jia Que really doesn't know what to do, and he doesn't look at who Master Wan's nephew is!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan said to Gongliang Rongruo in a cool voice: "People like this who don't know how to advance or retreat, and don't distinguish between good and bad, staying in the court will only do bad things!" What did the emperor think? ”

"My son knows what to do!" Gongliang replied.

After Wei Cheng and Gongliang Rongruo left, Empress Dowager Wan said to Ruoqiu on the side: "The mourning family always feels that someone is planning this matter behind their backs!" ”

Ruoqiu's eyes rolled slightly, "Could it be Jia Yushi?" ”

"He doesn't have that ability yet!"

"Who could that be?"

"The mourning family can't think of it, maybe the mourning family is too worried!" While the two were talking, they heard the palace people coming, saying that Wan Delin was coming. Empress Dowager Wan summoned him into Ningshou Palace. After seeing the Empress Dowager Wan, Wan Delin said with a relaxed expression: "I don't know why my aunt called her nephew?" ”

"The mourning family looks at you with relaxed eyebrows, but what happy event has you encountered?"

"My aunt didn't know, someone sent me a letter today, saying that she wanted to meet me at the Eight Immortals Restaurant. So I went, but I didn't know that the person I was going to meet was actually a member of the Cult of Fire. He made a deal with me, saying that he wanted me to release the members of the sect who were being held in the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion, and I agreed! And promised them five days! For five days, they will be peaceful, but after five days, they will be gone! ”

Empress Dowager Wan looked at him and sneered, "So, the mourning family should praise you for being clever?" ”

Wan Delin heard that the tone of his words was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Auntie, what's wrong?" ”

Ruoqiu on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly said: "Today, Lord Wei went to receive a report from Jia Yushi, and went to the mansion in the west of the city to arrest the cultists of the Evil Fire Sect, but the building was already empty, and only your ten boxes of gold and silver remained!" ”

"How so?" Wandlin was shocked!

"How does the mourning family know? Jia Fa is ready to impeach you! If you knew it was so troublesome, the mourning family shouldn't have helped you! ”

What Wan Delin was most afraid of was that the Empress Dowager Wan would leave it alone, so he quickly knelt down and said to the Empress Dowager Wan: "Auntie, you can't see death without saving it!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan was also angry for a while, how could she really ignore Wan Delin. After easing her expression, she said: "Tell the mourners what happened after you left the palace, and don't pull a word!" ”

Wan Delin hurriedly told the Empress Dowager Wan everything that happened after leaving the palace. Empress Dowager Wan lowered her head and looked at her skirt and said, "This matter was relayed by Wei Cheng to the mourning family. The mourning family listened to him, this matter seems to have been told to Jia Que by yourself! ”

When Wan Delin heard this, he hurriedly shouted, "Auntie, it's too late for my nephew to cover this matter, how can I tell others!" At this point, he thought for a moment and said, "Unless, unless the wall has ears!" ”

As soon as Empress Dowager Wan heard this, her anger increased greatly, and she stood up suddenly, "You are so confused, such a big thing, why don't you take a look at anyone around in advance?" ”

"My nephew saw that there were not many people in the restaurant at that time, and he thought that there should be no one, so he didn't check!"

Empress Dowager Wan laughed angrily, "Does the mourning family also think that you will be fine?" ”

"Auntie, you must not ignore your nephew! It was the nephew who was careless for a while, but after this incident, the nephew really didn't dare! He kept kowtowing to the Empress Dowager Wan, and his forehead was red and swollen on the floor!

Under Ruoqiu's persuasion, Empress Dowager Wan gradually lost a little breath and said: "This matter has been troubled by the emperor, and the mourning family is not very easy to interfere with. However, as an official of the imperial court, Jia Fu has no evidence, and he can't do anything to you! ”

Wan Delin hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you aunt for getting along!" However, the nephew thought that after this incident, Jia Mo was no longer suitable to stay in the court! ”

Empress Dowager Wan looked at him and smiled coldly, "What's the matter, you're not happy?" ”

"My nephew doesn't dare, my nephew just thinks that since Jia Que is in the food of the king, he should be loyal to the king, and he doesn't take His Majesty and his aunt in his eyes like this, it's really hateful!"

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Wan raised her eyebrows and said, "Okay, don't you know that little bit of caution about the mourning family?" Don't worry about this matter, the emperor will do it! ”

After Wan Delin heard this, a smug smile appeared on his face, Jia Que, what can the third-grade official do? offended the people of the Wan clan, and none of them ended well!

Jia Mo had been waiting in the cold wind for more than an hour, and at this moment, the autumn wind swept away the yellow leaves on the ground, blowing through his thin clothes.

This is, an attendant hurriedly walked over, and after seeing Jia Fa who was standing, he whispered to him: "Lord Jia, Lord Yang asked the little one to come and tell the adult that those dart masters were found in the Sifang Inn!" ”