、、、、、、、

In the Huguang Governor's Mansion, Zhang Shuming was worried about the stack of confessions. His instinct has always been to make a decision and never be ambiguous, so after the previous secret fold was sent, he secretly instructed the sergeant to monitor the so-called wind watcher. Although the envoys appointed by the emperor are all in micro service, it is difficult to distinguish, but after all, there are still tokens as evidence, and this fake goods do not know how to get involved with several officials such as the prefect of Wuchang, and now he is extremely arrogant, and even he, the governor, is not in his eyes.

Zhang Shuming has been in Lianghu for more than ten years, and he has received several times for the imperial court's envoys, but he has never seen such a bold person. Just three days ago, he ordered the trapping of the two servants of Cheng Jia, hoping to get some truth out of their mouths. Unexpectedly, these two people were extremely neat, and hundreds of rounded up sergeants were actually taken down by them after dozens of people were injured, not to mention, after torture, the two insisted that they were palace guards. If it weren't for the waist card being identified by Zhang Shuming, I am afraid that they would have been fooled. Rao is like this, Zhang Shuming is still worried in his heart, after all, they are playing the banner of the imperial court, and they have changed to another governor, I am afraid that they will not dare to be so arbitrary.

He remembered the secret fold he had sent to the capital on a fast horse earlier, and his brows couldn't help frowning again. It's been eleven days, and there is no news at all, and the emperor's mind is as unpredictable as fog. He was shaking his head and sighing, when he heard a shouting sound from outside the door, and then a little guy rushed in, looking nervous and said, "Lord Qiqi, that Lord Cheng is here!" ”

Zhang Shuming's face suddenly turned pale, he never thought that an imposter would dare to break into the Governor's Mansion so arrogantly. He stood up. straightened his clothes, and then sneered: "The official is waiting for him, and he has come to the door!" Come. Arouse the officials of the Governor's Palace, and let them cheer up. The official wants to see what he is capable of! With that, he went out with his hands in his hands, and the doubts in his heart had long been cleared. After all, he, Zhang Shuming, once received the emperor's secret edict, and no one would come to supervise unless it was a special order. That Cheng Jia stared at him tightly, obviously with other plans.

Cheng Jia sat in the guest seat with a calm face, but there were turbulent waves in his heart. After his two servants disappeared, he knew that things had changed, and he had asked Xu Jian, the prefect of Wuchang, and others to search for them in vain, so he already vaguely felt that his trip to the two lakes was a great mistake. However, by now, he has no skills, not to mention that Zhang Shuming will definitely send someone to strictly monitor his behavior. Even if he escaped, the shadow image will definitely circulate. Thinking that his net worth and life were all in the hands of others, his heart became heavier and heavier. He had already received the order from above, and he was actually asked to pretend to be an imposter and wait for Zhang Shuming's real offensive action. At that time, as long as the news spreads, the hot governor of Huguang will definitely be dismounted. However. Little did he know that in other people's plans, he was nothing more than a pitiful outcast.

He rubbed the gold medal given by the emperor in his sleeve, and his heart had fallen into the bottomless abyss.

Enke High School, the king trusts, however, the next thing is not to add an official to a knighthood, but step by step into such a situation, and now I feel sorry for it when I think about it. However, his confession was still in the hands of others, so he had to be driven.

Zhang Shuming observed in the side hall for a while, and then stepped into the main hall leisurely, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Lord Cheng to come to visit today, and I missed the distance, this official is really lazy!" Although he said it politely, he behaved casually, and sat down on the throne with his head bowed.

"I don't know what Lord Cheng is about?"

Cheng Jia had already stabilized his emotions, and snorted coldly: "If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, why should Master Zhang ask knowingly?" You ordered someone to take down the personal guard of the official, what kind of rule is this? This official is an envoy appointed by the emperor himself, how dare you be so bold and reckless, do you regard the monarch's authority as nothing? ”

Zhang Shuming laughed when he heard this, and he didn't seem to take the other party's reproach to heart. Suddenly, he stopped laughing and said coldly: "Master Cheng, what you said is too much, why does this official want to arrest your people?" Where's the proof, huh? ”

Cheng Jia seemed to have calculated that Zhang Shuming had this question, waved his hand and summoned an entourage, signaling him to answer. I saw that the entourage was also very clever from the little servant, and he cleared his throat and said: "Lord Zhang, Xiaodi is the long-term entourage of the prefect Lord Xu, and he was ordered to go to Lord Cheng to spread the word that day, and later when he went to the city on a business trip, due to coincidence, he found that the sergeant of the superintendent was rounding up two people, and he was curious and took a look, but he didn't expect it to be Lord Cheng's personal guard. Speaking of this, he closed his mouth knowingly, this is a confrontation between two big people, and it has nothing to do with him.

Zhang Shuming didn't expect Cheng Jia to have this trick, and his face suddenly became even more ugly. However, at this moment, he didn't care that the emperor's will had not arrived, so he slapped a few cases beside him fiercely, and shouted: "Cheng Jia, this is you forcing this official to decide!" You pretended to be an envoy of the imperial court and accepted bribes from officials of the two lakes, do you think that this official really has no evidence? The official of your bag has sent someone to investigate, and there are 200,000 taels of gold and silver tickets. Not to mention that you don't have any official documents and certificates from the imperial court there, even if you are really an envoy to watch the wind, with the evidence of your crimes, this official can also take you down and punish you first! ”

Cheng Jia never expected that Zhang Shuming would suddenly reveal this, and was about to ridicule each other when he heard a deep voice from outside the door. "Master Zhang said it well, the envoy is to inspect various places by the emperor's order, if he dares to accept bribes, the governor can naturally take him down and ask for the crime!" In the middle of the words, two figures appeared in the hall, both of them were in civilian clothes, but their demeanor revealed a trace of officialness, and they spoke without scruples.

Cheng Jia didn't know where the two came from, so he stared at them fiercely, and then got up and said: "Okay, I didn't expect that Master Zhang's ability to spew blood is not small, and the official is considered to have been taught, so you are waiting for impeachment!" After that, he wanted to brush his sleeves away, but the two people who had just appeared in the hall stopped him left and right, and the angry Cheng Jia didn't care about any grand etiquette, so he raised his foot and kicked the two of them, and shouted in his mouth: "Who are you waiting for, you dare to block the way of this official?" ”

Zhang Shuming was already happy, walked forward in a few steps, and said deeply: "Thank you Lord Liao and Lord Zhang for helping, this fang pretended to be an envoy of the imperial court, accepted many bribes, and committed a great crime!" Now that the emperor has appointed two adults to come, it is tantamount to a rain from heaven, and the lower officials are relieved. Although he hadn't been to the palace a few times, he had worked the emperor's eight guards, so he recognized Liao Suiqing and Zhang Jinrong at a glance.

Cheng Jia felt that the general situation was not good, he never expected that he would meet the envoy by chance, and he thought that the answer just now had been listened to by the other party. Thinking of this, he didn't care about any orders from above, and directly took out a seal from his sleeve, "Don't listen to his nonsense, the two lords don't listen to his nonsense, the lower officials are not pretending, this is a seal issued by the emperor himself, and it is definitely not a fake!" As he spoke, he took out an official document from his underwear, "This is also Lord Shangmi, if you don't believe it, you can check it yourself!" ”

The three of them were stunned by this sudden change, and Zhang Shuming felt a bang in his head. Since Cheng Jia's previous actions were very different from those of the real envoy, and he had never produced the official seal, he suspected that the other party was a counterfeit. Coupled with the fact that the emperor strictly ordered the governors to visit and investigate the impersonation, his suspicions were even heavier, and he sent people to search secretly several times, and found a huge amount of silver tickets, but he never found anything like the official documents of the imperial court, so he was on the secret fold. Now that Zhang Shuming saw Cheng Jia suddenly reveal his identity, he immediately realized that he was afraid that he had fallen into a trap.

Liao Suiqing and Zhang Jinrong glanced at each other, and their surprise was overflowing, but the two of them had been ordered by the emperor before they left, so they had already inquired about the news in the city, and even sneaked into the post house occupied by Cheng Jia in person, and they were also suspicious of this person. Liao Suiqing stretched out his hand to take the seal and the official document, but only glanced at it and threw it back.

"Master Cheng, no matter whether you are true or not, what Lord Zhang said before is not the slightest fallacy. What's the deal with that huge silver ticket in your bag? Also, as an envoy to watch the wind, you must not reveal your identity unless there are special circumstances, this should be the emperor's will, you blatantly hand over officials, don't you know that this is a violation of the will? Liao Suiqing asked a series of questions in one breath.

Cheng Jia couldn't imagine that the other party was so ruthless, and wanted to open his mouth to plead, but he couldn't say anything. Those silver tickets were sent from above a while ago, saying that they were the reward for this trip, and he put them away in a moment of confusion, and he didn't think that Ying Jing'er was ironclad evidence. As for the handover of officials, there is no way to do it, if it is not, how can Zhang Shuming think that he is an impostor? However, now, he has ten mouths that he can't speak clearly, and he has completely lost his direction. In a haze, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and he fell to the ground after two scratches.

The three people present were shocked, but after reacting, they found that Cheng Jia had died of anger. Zhang Shuming thought of the two people who were still in prison, and hurriedly took Liao and Zhang to investigate, but unexpectedly they also bled to death in prison. Seeing this scene, Zhang Shuming was certainly shocked and inexplicable, but Liao and Zhang also felt that the matter was serious.

After searching all the bags and post houses of Cheng Jia and his servants, Zhang Shuming and others found the belongings of the previously murdered Guanfeng envoy. However, Cheng Jia's view of the style makes the identity unquestionable, why would he do such a stupid thing? Although Zhang Shuming was puzzled, Liao and Zhang were also very worried, but after the three of them discussed, they hid the inside story and ended the case with the reason that the murderer who had previously killed the Guanfeng envoy had been caught and died. Of course, in addition to this, the three of them also have their own secret folds.

At the end of February of the fifteenth year of Yufeng, Feng Wuxian issued an edict, in the name of Huguang Governor Zhang Shuming's meritorious visit to the murderer, and added the title of imperial history of the right capital. At that time, He Weitao of the Criminal Department was ready to retire from his old age, and officials in Beijing and Central China thought that Zhang Shuming was the most popular candidate to take over this position. Lingyun Zhiwei Without a Trace Volume 10 Shengping Chapter 29 Confusion