During the Laba Festival, another heavy snowfall fell on Sijiu City, dyeing the entire imperial capital of Beijing into pure white, and blocking many roads.

But even so, many civilians left their homes and walked through the snow into the streets, just to get a bowl of Laba porridge from the temple or some large households.

This Laba porridge is not only much thicker than a general porridge soup, but also adds a lot of ingredients such as red beans, lotus seeds, etc., not only more full, but also tastes quite good, naturally won the love of ordinary people, especially the poor people at home, after all, it is not only the rich and noble families who can live in Beijing, but also many ordinary people who can barely make ends meet. Eating a big bowl of Laba porridge is also a very important thing for them.

In the past few years, Wei Chengbo's Lu family has also set up porridge sheds in general with several other mansions on the side, and put several large pots of laba porridge that had been purchased two days earlier and had been properly cooked this morning to the outside to greet the people who came to ask for porridge, and this year will naturally be no exception.

Since the beginning of the porridge around the beginning of the day, more than 100 people in thin clothes have gathered in front of the Lu family, and then the team has grown to a total of 300 people, which is much more lively than a marquis' mansion and a Shangshu mansion on the side, so that the families of the two families around it are still in their hearts.

It's just that there are too many people in front of the door, which will also cause some trouble, for example, at this time, when a young official in a green robe wanted to come to the door to ask for a meeting, he was stopped by this long queue. After a long period of hard work, he came to the door of the Lu Mansion and handed over his name thorn, saying that he had something important to ask to see Wei Chengbo.

The Lu family's men glanced at the other party's slightly shabby cyan official robe a little strangely, and then handed the other party's name thorn inside and handed it over to the stewards for disposal. In the past, most of the people who could come to the door were Jinyi guards, or officials above the fourth grade, and the dress like this one was indeed too low-level.

However, to Menzi's surprise, after a while, Lu Ming, the third steward, personally came out to welcome this inconspicuous petty official. This made Menzi surprised but also a little lucky, fortunately he didn't make things difficult for the other party, otherwise he might have to suffer.

The little officer in the green robe was soon taken to the living room with the earth dragon and warm as spring, and saw Lu Jin, who was slowly drinking Laba porridge with a bowl. After seeing him come in, Lu Zhen took his hand and ordered a bowl of laba porridge on the coffee table: "It's freezing outside now, you can also come to the bowl to warm up, don't be restrained." ”

The little official hesitated slightly, then thanked him, picked up the bowl and snorted and ate laba porridge. To tell the truth, he really didn't eat when he went out early this morning, and he ran for a while, and he was already hungry in his stomach, and the smell of Laba porridge naturally made him unable to resist.

It wasn't until he watched him finish drinking the porridge that Lu Zhen smiled: "Deng Jing, you are a scholar in the cabinet, and it stands to reason that you should be in the palace at this time, why did you come to my mansion?" It was precisely because he saw that the official position left on the thorn was a member of the Zhongshu House that he let him see him in person.

As an extremely important institution in the center of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet naturally cannot only have a few auxiliary ministers and scholars, and many large and small affairs actually have to be handled with the help of the minor officials below, and this scholar is the most important official among them. For example, the cabinet ministers are the emperor's secretaries, and the Zhongshu Sheren are the secretaries of the cabinet members. So although he is only a petty official in a green robe, his status is really not low.

"Back to Wei Chengbo, Xia Guan happened to be at home today, so he didn't have to stay in the palace." But even so, Deng Jing was still trembling in front of Lu Jin, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

Lu Zhen nodded, but he was not in a hurry to speak, just waiting for the other party to continue to say his intentions. Deng Jing didn't sell anything, and then broke his identity: "In fact, Xia Guan has always been in front of the elder of the pavilion, and today he also came to ask Wei Chengbo for help on his orders." ”

"Huh?" Lu Jinwei glanced at the other party with some surprise. This fact is a little weird, with the relationship between himself and Yu Qian, even if the other party really wants to help himself, he can directly send a servant from the palace to pass the word, so why go around in such a circle and let the officials below come?

Deng Jing immediately saw Lu Jin's doubts, so he explained: "Because this matter is related to Dongchang, Yu Ge Lao doesn't want them to find out, so he will let the lower officials come to the door at this time." After all, the lower officials are lowly and low, and they are not easy to be noticed by the eyes and ears of the East Factory. ”

"What is it that makes Lord Yu so embarrassed?" Lu Jin's face suddenly became solemn, and he asked in a serious tone. General problems can be easily solved in Yu Qian's capacity. But now looking at the other party's meaning, it is obvious that the matter is quite serious.

Deng Jing did not rush to answer, but glanced at several Lu family subordinates in the hall, and his meaning was self-evident. Lu Zhen immediately understood, waved his hand and ordered: "You all go down." ”

After several Lu family members withdrew, Deng Jing apologized and said: "Uncle forgiveness, it is really Dongchang's eyes and ears all over the capital, and I have to guard against it." ”

"Maybe there may be Dongchang eyes and ears elsewhere in the capital, but my Lu family ...... Hum! Lu Zhen said disdainfully. This is not arrogant, Lu Jin, as the commander of Jinyiwei, naturally has this confidence, after all, the East Factory has just restarted, and there is a huge gap between Jinyiwei and Jinyiwei in terms of manpower and strength.

Deng Jing didn't argue with Lu Jinduo on this matter, and immediately got to the point: "Does Wei Chengbo know that in the two days before yesterday and yesterday, two directors of the household department were suddenly taken down and detained by Dongchang?" ”

Lu Zhen nodded unexpectedly: "I've heard people mention that the people in Dongchang are really hard these days, and many officials have fallen into their hands because of various crimes." However, because their official positions are not high, and Dongchang can also come up with relevant evidence later, you have no way to take them. ”

"Exactly. In fact, Yu Ge Lao was still happy to see this before, after all, some officials have done too blatantly over the years, and it is difficult to punish their crimes under the protection of officials and officials. But this time it was different, because those people in Dongchang were obviously doing it for a purpose. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The two heads of the household department who have just been taken down by them are in charge of local finances, and it is naturally impossible for there to be innocent people in such a rich and important position. That's it, the only problem is that they also have the details of many accounts and official transactions in the three provinces of Zhili, Zhejiang, and Shandong. Once Dongchang asks some clues from them, and then sends people to search for other clues, it is very likely to lead to a big case that is as widely implicated as the Hongwu Dynasty Guo Huan or Kongyin two cases. Deng Jing said, his face had become a little ugly.

Not only him, but even Lu Zhen also changed color and gasped. The two cases of Guo Huan and Kongyin were implicated in the Hongwu Dynasty at that time, and officials killed batch after batch, and their influence is still in the court to this day. In the final analysis, these two cases are related to Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption and overkill.

Now, if Zhu Qiyu is bewitched by Dongchang and is really imprisoned, not only those officials involved will not be able to escape justice, but many people who are forced to be involved are afraid that they will also suffer. And this is not the most serious, what is worse is that Dongchang is holding on to this matter, if they continue to fight or even wronged the officials of the DPRK and China in order to establish their authority, then the entire court will be in danger, and the current prosperous situation is likely to be overturned.

This is not alarmist or unfounded, with the ugliness covered up under the clothes of this prosperous world, as long as it is really revealed, things will be out of control, and no one knows this better than Lu Jin. After all, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he had already mastered many secrets, but he didn't announce them.

He naturally had some concerns about this, but Dongchang, who was bent on reviving himself and impressing the Son of Heaven, might not think so. They were only born by relying on the imperial power, and they were even farther away from the officialdom, so they would not show mercy to their subordinates, and they would stop at the point.

After understanding that this might be a storm in the Ming Dynasty, Lu Zhen couldn't help but feel a chill hit him even in the warm room, and after a while, he came back to his senses: "People have fallen into the hands of Dongchang, you don't want to call me Jinyi Guard to come to the door to take people, right?" "This is obviously unrealistic, and it is impossible for Jin Yiwei to do something that completely angers the Son of Heaven for those officials.

"Yu Ge Lao means that he hopes that Jinyiwei can keep some people in the future, at least not let them fall into the hands of Dongchang. As long as these people are no longer in their hands, Dongchang will not be able to produce any substantive evidence. Deng Jing hurriedly explained.

"But who are they, do you have a list?" Lu Zhen hurriedly asked.

Deng Jing immediately got up, came to Lu Jin's side, leaned over and said in his ear the names and current official positions of several people. Lu Zhen listened quietly, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes. This Yu Qian really acted cautiously, and in order to make a decision, he didn't even leave half a note, and everything was dictated by Deng Jing. In this way, it is difficult for even the people of Dongchang to grasp anything.

But on the other hand, it can also be seen how jealous it is of the East Factory. You must know that he is an important minister of the cabinet, and he does not dare to be an enemy of the East Factory, does this mean that there is no one to control the East Factory today?

Of course not, Lu Zhen smiled in his heart, it was just a group of clowns jumping off the beam. However, the matter in front of him should not be ignored, so he said with a straight face: "I have written down the names of these people, you go back and tell Yu Ge Lao, these people and my Jinyi Guard will definitely protect them and prevent them from falling into the hands of Dongchang, please rest assured!" ”

"Then there will be Lao Wei Chengbo." Seeing that he agreed, Deng Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief and happily replied.