What do you want?

Yuan Yuan said with a wary face.

People are married women!

She then added.

Yang Qing asked her to invite Liu Ru to come to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion to play in her spare time, saying that since the tragedy of Hou Fangyu, those celebrities have not dared to come to the door, for example, Bian Yujing could have been seen, but he has not seen it since, poor Wu Weiye is still vegetative! I don't know if they ever saw each other again.

Don't talk nonsense, am I that kind of person? She's running for thirty!

Yang Qingyi said rhetorically.

Yuanyuan thought about it, but he wasn't so worried.

After all, Liu Ru is not a concubine, she is officially married by Qian Qianyi, Yang Qing can't rob it as openly as robbing Li Xiangjun, the latter can rob casually because she is a prostitute after all, but it would be crazy to rob someone's wife openly. What's more, at this time, Liu Ru is twenty-nine, Yang Qing should not be so greedy, but she still doesn't know that her godmother is over forty years old, and she hasn't been let go.

So what did you mean by inviting her?

Yuan Yuan said suspiciously.

Xie Xuelong handed over the old man's recital!

Yang Qing said meaningfully.

Xie Xuelong resigned.

After he beheaded the so-called five gentlemen, he immediately went to the old man to tell the old man......

Although the Donglin Party does not want to do this.

The current structure of the cabinet is mainly due to Chongzhen's legacy, and it is because of the distribution of interests during the temporary covenant that the Donglin Party has won five seats, but in the case of Yang Qing's control of the princess and the right to appoint cabinet ministers, Xie Xuelong's resignation will give Yang Qing the opportunity to intervene in the criminal department. But Xie Xuelong obviously cherished his reputation more, Yang Qing forced him to sign and behead the execution of the five rebels with a confession, and then the Donglin Party will go all out to publicize their grievances, which will make him discredited. And it is difficult to say that the propaganda of the Donglin Party with his signature is justified, after all, everyone knows that he is the chief general of the Donglin Party, and he and Yang Qing jointly played the beheading of these people, so how can the Donglin Party say that it is so innocent?

In the end, Xie Xuelong could only resign.

This shows that he was threatened by some kind of last resort, and although the five gentlemen were eventually beheaded, he resigned to apologize to the righteous people.

Then the selection of the new secretary of the criminal department will become the focus of struggle.

There are also two other squires in the Criminal Department.

Zuo Shilang He Shishou.

This old guy is a genuine veteran of the Donglin Party, he is a native of Jiangshu in Danyang, when Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong were still in Donglin Academy, he followed him. Originally, it was Chongzhen's household book, but before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he had already returned to his hometown, and after Chongzhen crossed to the south, of course, he was reactivated as an old minister of.

Yao Sixiao, the right attendant behind him, has much less qualifications, this is a native of Yangzhou, a jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen.

But he is also a cadre of the Donglin Party.

When the military department gave the matter, he dared to scold Yang Sichang.

After all, Xie Xuelong has been in control of the Criminal Department for two years, and after Chongzhen crossed to the south in order to win the support of the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he promoted a large number of officials of the Donglin Department and originally retired Jiangsu and Zhejiang people, and these people want to completely replace a department with their cronies, and two years is enough. Then it is useless for Yang Qing to replace himself with his cronies, these people can easily put Shangshu in the air, since Yang Qing does not need to waste a valuable talent, it is better to continue to throw it to the Donglin Party to maintain the current pattern of the cabinet, and at the same time stabilize the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As long as the cabinet pattern remains unchanged, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will fight with him without breaking, and what he wants is also fighting without breaking, and gradually trap the latter to death in the struggle.

Then give them a sweet date, and get the much-expected sage of the water too cold to the cabinet to be the secretary of the criminal department.

Anyway, the water is too cold, and I've never been honest.

Instead of letting him hide behind the scenes, it is better to pull him to the forefront, how can he make a mistake if he does not come to power? If he doesn't make mistakes, how can he be beaten? If you don't hit him, then how can you ......

Well, Marquis Yang definitely doesn't have any special thoughts about Liu Ru!

Yuanyuan looked at him suspiciously.

"You don't believe me?"

Yang Qing said.

"I always felt like you had a conspiracy."

Yuan Yuan said very frankly.

"It's getting more and more unruly, it seems that you haven't used the family law for this time, and you're itching your ass again!"

Yang Qing said.

Then he flipped the circle over and pressed it down on the table in front of him.

The latter laughed and exclaimed, and then there was a tearing sound of clothes behind him, and at the same time, Li Xiangjun also pushed the door and walked in, looking at her who was slamming forward on the table in amazement, and the pretty face turned red and quickly retreated......

"Stand!"

Yang Qing said.

"Just there watching."

He said majestically.

Li Xiangjun looked at them in shame, but after all, he still didn't dare to withdraw......

The appointment of the new secretary of the criminal department stunned the government and the opposition.

Qian Qianyi!

Zhang Guowei and others, who were originally going to have a vicious fight with Yang Qing, and who wanted to stop him from stuffing the eunuchs into the purity department of the Criminal Department to pollute this purity department, were directly confused, they never thought that Yang Qing would actually appoint Qian Qianyi to be the secretary of the Criminal Department, so is this guy brain-pumping? Didn't he know what Qian Qianyi's identity was? Chongzhen deliberately didn't use it at the beginning! Why did he actually use Qian Qianyi?

"This is Hedong-kun, right?"

Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, Yang Qing looked at Liu Rui with a smile.

"The Qian Liu clan has seen the Marquis of Zhongyong!"

Liu Ru saluted.

She was married by Qian Qianyi, so she can call herself so, but the Qian clan actually doesn't recognize her identity, they don't think that a prostitute is qualified to be the wife of the water that is too cold, this is just that the water is too cold and confused to make her happy, and it does not have any legal effect. So after her death, she was still buried alone according to the treatment of a concubine, and the water was too cold to be buried with the original wife who died early. At this time, Liu Ru is twenty-nine years old, and it can be said that she is very familiar, although she is not as beautiful as Zhang Yanyan, she is not too inferior, especially compared with the extravagant Zhang Yan, she is more poetic and bookish.

"Marquis Zhongyong?"

She said cautiously.

"Ah, I have heard the name of Hedongjun for a long time, and I was shocked at first sight, and I was a little distracted, Hedongjun forgive me! Hedongjun, please take care of yourself, you and Yuanyuan love sisters, in the future, you will treat this humble house as your own home, my door is open for Hedongjun at any time, at this time, there are still some mundane affairs, please forgive me for not being able to accompany you! ”

Yang Qing said.

With that, he stepped into his carriage.

Immediately after that, the two-horse four-wheeled sedan carriage started, and Liu Ru watched the Marquis of Zhongyong leave, and then walked into the Hou Mansion with Yuanyuan.

Yang Qing looked back at their backs, lowered the curtains contentedly, and then continued to move forward with his eyes closed. I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was a scolding voice from the leading brocade guard outside, and he immediately opened his eyes and raised the curtain......

"Mr. Bi, is this John Tang?"

Yang Qing looked at Bi Fangji in the middle of the road and said.

There is also a middle-aged ghost guy standing next to Bi Fangji, who doesn't look very white, plus he is dressed in Daming clothes, and his beard is relatively thick, which looks not much different from the people of Daming. The Portuguese have long been strung by the Moors and cannot be regarded as white at all, so they say in Europe that the Chinese are also Caucasians, and the Tatars are yellow, which shows that they also have a very clear understanding of their skin color.

"Your Excellency Marquis, I would like to explain ......"

John Tang said.

"I don't want to hear your explanation."

Yang Qing interrupted him.

"You spread rumors to slander my reputation, and I am the marquis of the Ming Empire, a cabinet minister, I could have dealt with you more harshly, but because of your credit for helping the first emperor cast the cannon back then, I can give you a preferential treatment. Settle the problem with a fair duel, in the usual way of you Europeans, with weapons of your choice, on the walls of the Treasure Gate, and I can guarantee that if I die in a duel, you will not be punished in any way. ”

He continued.

Immediately there was an exclamation all around.

After all, this is too unbelievable, as a loyal and brave marquis, if you dare to slander him, you can just let Jinyiwei go to prison, why use this way to risk yourself?

Especially when the opponent is still a ghost.

But it's going to be exciting.

Bi Fangji is well known in Nanjing, he has been active in this area for decades, everyone knows that these ghosts are spreading their gods, and they are the guests of many scholars and doctors in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even Zaifu like Xu Guangqi back then believed in them. He even spread some of their so-called miracles among the people, such as being baptized by him and eliminating all diseases, and a small church was built in Nanjing, and there were nearly 1,000 believers who were clearly baptized in Nanjing, not counting the believers in Wuxi, Jiading, and Songjiang. And Zhongyong Hou himself is Taoist, although he is not a Taoist, but he does advocate the Taoist mythological system, with Haotian God as the supreme god, which he clearly said, and his miracles were also promoted by Taoist priests as immortal law, saying that he was a disciple of immortals.

Then this duel is the duel between the immortal disciples of Taoism and the propagators of the faith of the ghosts......

It's a battle of myths!

"Your Excellency the Marquis......"

John Tang still wanted to speak.

"Shut up, you're not qualified to speak, you say I'm a demon, and I say you're a demon! In the end, who is the demon will be solved by a duel, I believe that Haotian God is the supreme god, and you believe that your god is the only god in the world. But there must be only one supreme god in this world, is it our Haotian God or yours, then let us solve it with a duel, it is your and I who die, and you can freely preach in Daming in the future, it is ours that you die, and all the missionaries are expelled.

Tell me now.

Do you dare to duel? ”

Yang Qing said.

John Tang looked at him sadly.

"Your Excellency, Marquis, I accept your invitation to a duel."

He said slowly.

This is no longer a duel between two people, this is a battle of faith!

"Pick a weapon!"

Yang Qing said majestically.

"Pistol."

Tang Ruowang took a deep breath and said.

"Fifteen days later, on the wall of Jubaomen, I will take fifty pistols for you to choose, or you can prepare your own!"

Yang Qing said.