Chapter 734: Caught off guard

After completing the matter, he returned to the Yamen of the Political Department from the Shibo Mansion, and Zhang Yue learned about the official documents from the capital and the writings of Gu Xingzu, the Marquis of Zhenyuan. He was not surprised that the city boss mentioned Li Wenchang to write a book, after all, judging from the previous dealings, this was a dead stone, and it was impossible to make this person not speak. Fortunately, although there was a lot of trouble in the court for a while, after all, the matter of opening the sea was decided by Zhu Di, the emperor of Yongle, and Ningbo Bosi has also gained a lot in recent years, so in the end there was no big turmoil. However, what does Gu Xingzu, Marquis of Zhenyuan, mean by this!

He discussed with Xiang Shaoyuan and a group of political senators for a while, and finally Xiang Shaoyuan, who was old and respectful, personally wrote the text, and Xu Tao, who participated in politics on the left, explained the details of the previous matter, and then ordered the messenger to be sent to Guangxi quickly. As soon as the people left, Xiang Shaoyuan reminded again: "Lord Zhang, there is chaos in Guangxi, and it has always been the Marquis of Zhenyuan who has been conscripted, compared to the late Xia Guogong, he is still more ruthless with soldiers." This time, he quelled the rebellion of Qin Gongwang and others, and killed more than a thousand people in one go, which should not be underestimated. ”

"Thank you, Lord Xiang, for the reminder."

Entering his own official house from the inner door, Zhang Yue's brows were naturally tightened. He didn't plan to make a drastic move, but someone who didn't know each other and didn't know how to restrain himself would tease his bottom line again and again, and if he stood by and watched, he would be sorry for his conscience. Moreover, he has dealt with a lot of nobles in the capital, these people's joys and anger are often on their faces, and they don't know how to play yin, who would have thought that Gu Xingzu, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, would quietly sacrifice such a killer move!

"Daddy!"

Hearing two crisp sounds, Zhang Yue came back to his senses and found that he had entered the house. At this time, it was his own pair of children who came up to salute, and on the circle chair in the center was his father Zhang Zhuo. He smiled and nodded at Jingguan and Sansan, and stepped forward to greet his father, and then asked, "Why don't you see the three of them?" ”

"Amber is taking care of the autumn marks, and the spirit rhino is also together. As for your mother and your daughter-in-law...... On the birthday of Mrs. Li Dushuai, your mother brought your daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xiang, to congratulate her. Because you're so busy all day long that your feet don't touch the ground, it's not a big deal for you to worry about, so they didn't tell you, and I asked someone to prepare a gift, which is almost enough. You are a provincial political envoy, although you don't need to meet anyone, but the chief official of the capital department and his family have birthdays and funerals, including the personal contacts of his subordinates, and your daughter-in-law has paid attention to them one by one. ”

Zhang Yue thought that if he was far away from the capital, he would be able to get rid of those endless birthday feasts and endless funerals, but at this time, listening to his father counting the necessary entertainments one by one, he couldn't help but have one head and two big, and sighed again: "I have a lot of official entertainment these days, but I don't know that my mother and Wan'er are also inseparable." ”

"Your mother is just doing it occasionally, after all, there are not many times when she needs to come forward, Li Dushuai is one level higher than you after all, so she went with her. She was the most impatient with this kind of occasion, and complained for a long time when she left in the morning. ”

Zhang Zuo remembered Sun's graceful but awkward appearance when he went out at that moment, and he smiled dumbly for a while. originally planned to let the nurse take the child down, but thinking that Zhang Yue didn't have much time with them all day long, he only told the nurse to step back and leave this pair of little guys, so he asked: "I have already contacted the matter of Foshan Town, what did Father-in-law Zhang say?" ”

Zhang Yue concisely relayed Zhang Qian's words, and explained the two pieces of news he had just gotten after returning to the Ya, and then said with a wry smile at the end: "A wave of unsettled waves has risen again, this Li Wenchang's matter can be put aside for the time being, he is a lowly official and a small city secretary, and he is also a righteous man and a gentleman, at most he will persevere. However, the official document from the Marquis of Zhenyuan is clearly to exert pressure on this, if I insist on investigating the Xu family's crimes, could it be that he plans to take this from the head and bring the troops over? This is simply ridiculous! ”

"Daddy isn't angry......"

Zhang Yue, who was angry, suddenly felt a soft hand rubbing his chin, and was stunned for a moment. When he looked down, he saw that his daughter was blinking at him, and he remembered that he had just sat on his lap with Sansan in his arms. Supporting her to do a good job, he suddenly found that Jingguan was sitting motionless on the small pestle like a little adult, and he felt a little funny.

Zhang Zhuo also saw the appearance of this pair of little guys, so he smiled slightly and said: "This is your daughter-in-law's rules, Jingguan is no longer small, not to mention this memorizing poems and reading words, but sitting skills need to be practiced." As for Sansan, she is still young, but she is very good at observing words and feelings, and she often comforts your mother when she is a little unhappy on weekdays...... Speaking of business, the matter of the Gu family of Zhenyuan Marquis, I have heard a thing or two from Mu Yuma. ”

The founding of the People's Republic of China and the Jing Nan are added together, and the noble family of the Ming Dynasty is naturally very impressive. Outsiders often recognize the level of the prince and the time of the separation, but insiders know that the level of the title and the importance of the grace are different. Gu Xingzu is a second-generation nobleman, and his grandfather is a subordinate who did not participate in the war much after being annexed, and he was originally only in the last position among the princes. But Guizhou has always been guarded by the Gu family, from top to bottom, almost all of them are officers in various guards, and now the imperial court does not want to have another family like the Mu family to guard Yunnan forever, so Gu Xingzu will accompany the escort to the north in the last years of Yongle.

After explaining this, Zhang Zhuo took a sip of water and continued: "Gu Cheng's ninth son, the eldest son died early, Gu Xingzu attacked the title again, and the rest of the people are just the official positions of the commander and even thousands of households, etc., but because Gu Cheng left his ancestral teachings, the whole family is still living together, most of them are in Guizhou's various health offices and thousands of households. The imperial court wants to adjust not just one Gu Xingzu, but the entire Gu family, so the wealth outside Guizhou is naturally extremely important to Gu Xingzu. The Mu family actually occupies no less than tens of thousands of hectares of land in Yunnan, and most of them do not have land deeds, and the Gu family is the same in Guizhou. If you go back like this, not only will you lose a lot of fields at once, but what will you do with the food, drink and chewing of the whole family in the future? ”

Zhang Yue unconsciously hugged his daughter tightly, and then breathed a long sigh of relief: "I see, in his opinion, I am not only cutting off his financial route, but also their way of life...... Sure enough, it was a ruthless hand, and he beheaded all the more than 1,000 people below Qin Gongwang, which probably cut me off from thinking about confrontation. As long as he has a confession in his hand, he can justifiably go to Guangzhou to ask for guilt! ”

He suddenly put down Sansan, stood up again, and said coldly, "People say that I kill people without mercy, and I am a butcher and a head, but he, a military general who has really experienced the battle array, is not afraid of these at all." Compared to my order to kill, his chopping off is the head of more than a thousand people, and I am nothing compared to him. I'm afraid he also wants to tell me that if it is better than killing, I am far inferior to him ten times and a hundred times! ”

Zhang Zhuo was silent, Zhang Yue stood silently, and Sansan had already run to the side of Jingguan with a smoke, as if frightened, looking at the two adults who suddenly stopped talking, and their faces became very terrifying. And Jingguan let his sister drag the corners of his clothes, looked at this and that in confusion, tilted his head and thought for a while, and suddenly coughed hard. This crisp voice suddenly broke the silence in the room, and Zhang Zhuo and Zhang Yue's father and son suddenly woke up, only to see a pair of golden boys and girls looking at them with innocent faces.

"Keeping them originally wanted you to get closer to the children, but now it's good that you are murderous in front of them!" Zhang Zhuo beckoned Jing Guan over, and said with a smile, "What a clever child, you know when to wake us up!" Okay, your dad is in a bad mood today, you and Sansan are going to coax him! ”

Seeing that Jing Guan nodded and ran over with Sansan, his ears were full of immature children's voices, and Zhang Yue only felt that the mood that had been corrupted at first gradually calmed down. glanced at Zhang Zhuo gratefully, it was difficult for him to put on his father's majestic stand, his face was much softer, and he actually hoped that this moment of warmth would never end.

Early in the morning, the front of the yamen of the Guangzhou prefect was lively, and the streets of the prefecture were full of people who came to see the trial all day long. Although the person was taken by Zhang Yue on the Caiyun Tower, it stands to reason that the political secretary can ask about this matter directly, even if it is handed over to the secretary, but after going around, this matter still fell to the prefect's yamen. Governor Li had the intention to let Lu Tuiguan come forward to go to the top, but yesterday the three divisions of the yamen sent someone to send a message, saying that the chief officials of the capital division, the domain division, and the division of the division would all be present, and even the eunuch Zhang Qian of the city would come in person. As a result, he had to play in person, and the original fear of being used as a scapegoat was much lessened.

Although it is not the hottest time in Guangzhou, there are many people, and everyone is close to their backs, which is naturally hot, and there are not a few pushing and shoving each other. Because there were many people watching the excitement, the officers who were ordered to come to play the pressure were naturally sweating profusely. These men with whips shuttled back and forth between the streets, but every missing head was a headless whip, and their mouths were all shouting incessantly.

"Stand back, or don't blame Lao Tzu for being whipped! There are a lot of big people here today, and if you startle those big people when the time comes, it won't be as simple as a whip! Fuck you're still squeezing forward......"

After scolding for a while, seeing that there were still crowds of people pouring in at the corner of the street, this old oilman who had been doing errand work for more than ten years couldn't help but sweat profusely, and the whip in his hand was even heavier by two points. With this lesson, the people in short shirts died down, but there were still countless people looking at the government and the streets.

"It's coming!"

With the sound of an errand officer, the originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent under the pressure of the errand officer. Suddenly, all the officials from the prefect of Li's mansion downward, the Tongzhitong judge, and other officials all left the yamen and stood neatly on the stone steps at the gate. They didn't wait long, and all they could hear was the sound of horses' hooves. I saw more than a dozen horsemen turning into the alley at a gallop, and almost in the blink of an eye, they were reining in front of the yamen.

After a shout, a dozen men dressed as soldiers neatly rolled their saddles and dismounted, and one of them quickly ran to the front of the first horse, holding the reins with one hand. At this time, the commander who was on the horse made Li Long jump off the horse. Carrying a horsewhip, he squinted his eyes and looked at the four words of the Guangzhou government on the main gate, and immediately nodded reservedly to the officials of the government who came forward.

Li Long, who rode a horse, showed his true qualities as a military attaché, and arrived closely followed by Zhang Yuexiang Shaoyuan's sedan chair, followed by Zhang Qian, the eunuch of the city, and Yu Liang, the envoy of the inspection. Zhang Qian's belated arrival no one dared to say anything, but Yu Liang, who was at the bottom of the three divisions, lagged behind, which inevitably made the officials of the government mutter.

Working in the morning and hearing cases in the afternoon, this is the rule of taking care of official affairs. The noon hall starts at the beginning of the hour, and it is already three o'clock in the morning, so it is naturally the time to prepare for the ascension. Since all the officials who came today were Shangguan, the main gate of the government and the instrument door were wide open, and along the spacious corridor inside the instrument gate, everyone could clearly see the public hall on the platform from the outside, and those with good eyesight could even see the water and fire sticks in the hands of the two rows of errands. It's just that the hottest topic at the moment is how Xu Zhengping, who is on trial this time, will be sentenced.

Just when some people said hanging, some said that it was at most a board, some said that it was a flail, and so on, there was a sudden commotion at the west end of Fuyuan Street, and there was even a miserable howl of an errand servant in the middle. The onlookers were surprised that the originally very bright Xijiekou archway was suddenly blocked by more than a dozen people riding tall horses. Before people could react, there was also a group of people blocking the entrance of Dongjie. Faced with this strange situation, the crowd of onlookers quickly quieted down.

So, when they came on a horse, and when they got off their horses at the gate of the palace, the officers who carried whips at the door to maintain order immediately surrounded them. Just when a young and vigorous man rolled up his sleeves and was about to come forward to question, the middle-aged man who came down immediately didn't look at them, and said coldly: "Where is the prefect of Guangzhou?" Ben Jue is in person, so they don't know how to greet him? ”

The inconspicuous word Benjue suddenly stunned a group of officers. After a long time, an old man stepped forward and respectfully crossed his hands and saluted, and then asked cautiously: "My lord, please forgive the little ones for not knowing Mount Tai, may I ask you ......?"

"Benjue Town Yuanhou, come to Guangzhou Mansion on business!"

As soon as he heard the three words of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, not to mention the various servants, even the people around him were taken aback. Looking at the plain stone blue robe and ordinary fast boots on the middle-aged man who claimed to be the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and his appearance without any momentum when knocked, although the errand officer who asked the question still didn't dare to believe it all, he didn't think that others would go to the door of the government to pretend to be a noble, so he only felt his head swell for a while. Turning his head to look at the public hall in the depths of the mansion, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, turned his head back and was about to explain, but unexpectedly, the middle-aged man next to him, who claimed to be the Marquis of Zhenyuan, had already strode past him and walked towards the gate of the mansion.