Song Shen shook his head and sighed: "Since you and Song Ji are good friends, there are some things I don't have to hide from you, you also recognize it, the real name of the person surnamed Chen is actually Hu Feiwei, he is Hu Weiyong's accomplice against the party, and he is a wanted criminal in the imperial court." Our family originally saved him out of pity, but now he threatens me that if my Song family doesn't give him 50,000 silver, he will go to the yamen to denounce me, and the crime is that I harbored the rebel party. ”

Yi Cuizi was taken aback when she heard this: "What? Fifty thousand, isn't he a scoundrel blackmail! This bastard, you are upright, don't be afraid of such villains, I will testify to you, although this lawsuit is fought with him. ”

Song Shen looked very embarrassed: "You don't understand the current situation, at the moment, anyone who is involved with Hu Weiyong, no matter who he is, no matter how much he has made great contributions, whether he really participated in the rebellion, or he is innocently implicated, the end is the same, for the emperor, it doesn't matter whether he really participated in the rebellion, it is the real goal to purge these meritorious ministers, so if I am denounced by this surnamed Hu, I am afraid there will be no chance to explain, and the end will definitely be to raid the family and destroy the door." ”

Yi Cuizi listened: "You mean, to escape this catastrophe, you must give him money?" ”

Song Shen nodded.

"My Yi family is willing to contribute 20,000 yuan to help Lord Song tide over this difficulty." Yi Cuizi patted his chest and said.

"I don't have anywhere to get the other 30,000." Song Shen's expression was a little embarrassed, this Yi Cuizi was a little unreasonable, and he actually refused to go all out.

"You mean, let me out for 50,000?" Yi Cuizi looked a little excited: "My lord, 50,000 is a huge amount of money!" ”

Song Shen nodded sympathetically.

Yi Cuizi hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind, and also made a condition: "At least a six-rank official." ”

"What? Six products? Song Shen, in turn, was frightened by Yi Cuizi's conditions.

Yi Cuizi nodded: "Yes, Liupin, the amount of 50,000 yuan is too huge, the little nephew sent a letter to the family asking for so much money, if there is not enough reason, my father will definitely not pay this money." ”

Song Shen also felt justified when he heard it, so he hesitated and nodded in agreement, thinking that Yi Cuizi had other requirements: "Please Lord Song write an IOU by hand, and I will send the IOU back to my hometown together, my little nephew I spent a bit lavishly before, and I often asked my family for money, and my family didn't believe me anymore." If I just write to ask for this money, my father is afraid that I will spend money indiscriminately, so he may not give me this money. But if he had shown him the IOU, his father would have believed it. ”

Song Shen felt justified and nodded in agreement. Yi Cuizi continued: "The IOU is written like this, the six-rank official Yi Cuizi's family business is difficult, and after Song Ji is the guarantee, Song Shen lent him 50,000 yuan of Daming treasure banknotes, and after fifteen days, the six-rank official Yi Cuizi will all be returned. ”

Song Shen didn't understand why he wrote it like this at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized the deep meaning of this, he fulfilled the promise of the six-rank official, and the money could be in hand, if he didn't become a six-rank official, then there would be no six-rank official Yi Cuizi, and people wouldn't have to give money.

The next morning, before dawn, Song Shen went out, he did not go to the yamen, but went directly to the house of Liu Shendu, the priest of the country, Song Shen stayed in Liu Shendu's study for most of the day, and did not return to his house until the afternoon. ”

Yi Cuizi smiled and touched his arms, "The letter has been written, and it can be sent back with the IOU at any time, but I don't know how Lord Song promised to do it." ”

Song Shen looked at Yi Cuizi, he suddenly seemed to have something wrong, and felt that it was a mistake for him to promise Yi Cuizi the sixth grade official, but the matter had come to this point, there was no turning back from the bow, so he had to go forward, although he felt uncomfortable, but he still breathed a sigh of relief and said: "In a few days, Liu Shendu will make up for you to be an assistant teacher of the Guozijian, and the grade is from the sixth grade, which is enough for you to go home and shine on the lintel." ”

When Yi Cuizi heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and smiled: "I'll send the letter away." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little annoyed in the past two days, before the government and the opposition had a lot of grievances about Hu Weiyong's case, in order not to hurt his authority, Boss Zhu used the most common and instinctive method in the history of human evolution~ Throwing the pot, Xia Zhao reprimanded Jinyiwei, and put the black pot of Hu's case on Jinyiwei's head, and Jinyiwei commanded Mao Xiang to arrest him, I thought that after cutting off Mao Xiang's head, and then letting Jinyiwei rein in for a while, the resentment of the government and the opposition would gradually subside, but since Mao Xiang was arrested, After Jin Yiwei was ordered to keep a low profile, another problem followed: Zhu Yuanzhang had no channel to grasp the secrets of the government and the opposition and the direction of public opinion.

This is unacceptable to Zhu Chongba, who has been controlling everything all his life, which makes Boss Zhu realize again that if he wants to master the secrets of the courtiers and completely control the court, he still has to rely on Jinyiwei, and he is now inseparable from Jinyiwei.

I want to let Jinyiwei do things like before immediately, I still have concerns, because I just killed a Jinyiwei commander not long ago, and I know that the world reprimanded Jinyiwei for taking power and self-respecting, and now I still have my words in my ears, and it didn't take long to reuse Jinyiwei, which is a bit of a suspicion of slapping myself in the face, so on this issue, Boss Zhu, who has always been decisive in killing and never hesitating in his life, has been repeatedly entangled for a long time.

Just when Boss Zhu was hesitating, on this day, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard sent Jiang Huan a secret report, after reading the secret report, Zhu Yuanzhang angrily slammed the secret report to the ground, and he was still angry after falling, he stepped forward, looked at the secret report on the ground, gritted his teeth and stomped a few hard. Immediately stood in place and stared at the secret report on the ground in a daze, generally in this situation, the palace people who were waiting on the side did not dare to come forward to persuade and clean up the chapter, because it has always been who goes up and who is unlucky.

His anger could not be suppressed, anger gushed out of his eyes, his hands were shaking, he tried to grab a knife, he hated to cut this man with his own hands.

At this moment, a low-level palace man outside the door walked in trembling and came to Zhu Yuanzhang, not even daring to breathe, pinching his throat and reporting: The prince asks to see him outside his palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang whispered angrily: "Pick it up and let him come in." ”

Zhu Biao walked into the hall steadily, Zhu Biao is a person who follows the rules, after entering the hall, he is not in a hurry to move forward, but kneels at the door of the hall and salutes, "Minister Zhu Biao see Your Majesty." This is another characteristic of Zhu Biao, as long as on slightly more formal occasions, Zhu Biao calls himself a "minister" rather than a "son", and his courtesy and caution are the same as his teacher's prince and young master Song Lian, and he has always won Zhu Yuanzhang's praise.