Qian Yiai, who fell from the second uncle to his son-in-law, was fighting with Zhao Mengguan's sworn friend here in the Jinyi Wei Yamen, but he was very anxious about his errand, and it was already afternoon, and it was getting dark after the delay.

After greeting the stewards of the brocade clothes and guards, Qian Yiai said to Zhao Mengguan: "Father-in-law, you look at my business... ”

Zhao Mengguan, who was called by his father-in-law, was very comfortable, and he took out his waist card and handed it to a thousand households beside him: "The third child, you are in charge of the edict, you go to it in person!" ”

The thousand households called the third child are called Zhang Sanfeng, of course, not the Zhang Sanfeng in Wudang Mountain at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Laosan's father was a brocade guard in Dongguan back then, that is, a temporary worker who was not in the compilation. However, Lao Zhang was young and handsome, and was recruited by Zhao Mengguan's father as a son-in-law. Therefore, Zhang Sanfeng's eldest brother and second brother are surnamed Zhao, and only Zhang Sanfeng himself, with the grace of Mrs. Zhao, took his surname Zhang. So this Zhang Sanfeng is Zhao Mengguan's nephew.

As the only male member of the Zhang family, Zhang Sanfeng naturally succeeded his father as a brocade guard, and later with the rise of his uncle Zhao Mengguan's status, he became the most powerful Shangzhong Qianhu in Nanzhen Fusi.

Zhang Laosan heard what his uncle said, and quickly took the waist card, and then took Qian Yiai to the Jinyi Guard Prison outside the North City.

This Zhang Laosan is in his thirties, and he is Miss Zhao's cousin, and he is very curious about the son-in-law that his uncle is looking for. In Zhang Laosan's heart, his uncle has always doted on his cousin, why did he allow his cousin to be a concubine to the guy in front of him for no reason, you must know that the cousin has just reached the age of fifteen, although he has reached the age of marriage, but he does not have to get married.

Zhang Laosan looked at Qian Yiai, and said, "Brother-in-law, dare to ask your brother-in-law who is the county magistrate of that county?" Zhang Laosan heard his uncle say that Qian Yiai was a county order and should be a scholar, but his cousin was also a little aggrieved when he went to be a concubine for a seven-grade sesame official. Zhang Laosan, as one of the 14,000 households in Jinyiwei, is not as good as an ordinary county order.

Qian Yiai smiled and said: "This official has been in charge of Shangyuan County for four years under the emperor's personal order, and he has not advanced an inch to really disappoint His Majesty's grace!" ”

Zhang Laosan was shocked when he heard Qian Yiai say this, Shangyuan County is one of the two counties attached to the capital, and it is not important. What shocked Zhang Laosan was that this small county order turned out to be a special decree of the emperor, so the relationship between this brother-in-law and the emperor must be unusual.

Zhang Laosan asked tentatively: "Brother-in-law, are you the county order of the emperor Tejian?" This honor is amazing! ”

"Hehe, it's okay! The sister of the main official is the emperor's concubine, so the emperor cares more about the official! ”

Jin Yiwei is the emperor's house slave, Zhang Laosan heard Qian Yiai say this, and immediately knew who the young county commander in front of him was, it must be the son of Qian Ge Lao, the younger brother of Qian Guifei in the palace, the prodigy who was admitted to the examination at the age of fourteen, Qian Yiai.

The Qian family is a first-class scholar clan in Nanzhili, and Zhao Mengguan's daughter is not to mention being a concubine, but to be a girl in a room for Qian Yiai. Zhang Laosan didn't dare to speak much after knowing Qian Yiai's identity, and rushed to the edict with Qian Yiai.

When I came to the gate of the edict prison, a wrestler guarding the door had already gone in to report that Zhang Sanfeng, the chief officer of the Jinyi Guard, was here.

The superior came to the prison, and the thousands of households here hurriedly opened the middle door and welcomed the leaders to inspect the work. The official who manages the edict is also a thousand households, but his thousand households are far worse than Zhang Sanfeng's fourteen thousand households. It can be seen from the wearing that Zhang Sanfeng is wearing a flying fish suit given by the emperor, and the thousand households in front of him are only wearing the ordinary green brocade clothes of the Ming military attaché.

This Qianhu stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Jinyi Prison guards Qianhu Wang Dan, I have seen the third master!" ”

Zhang Sanfeng nodded, got off the horse and said, "Get up, today this official is under the command of Jinyi Wei and the military order of Zhao Mengguan, come to inspect Jinyi Prison, take me away!" This is the waist card of the same acquaintance, you can check it! ”

That Wang Qianhu hurriedly bowed down and said: "How dare you dare to be lowly, please ask the third master to go in and talk about it!" ”

In order to reduce the power in the hands of Qian Lide, Emperor Zhu Hongsan assigned the edict to the management of the Nanzhen Fusi after Zhao Mengguan came to power. This Wang Dan is Wang Xian's younger brother, so Zhang Sanfeng didn't dare to be careless, and said with a smile: "Wang Qianhu, one yard is one yard, let's check the waist card!" ”

When Wang Dan heard Zhang Sanfeng say this, he didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly ordered someone to take out the photocopy and check the waist card of Lord Tongzhi.

After the inspection, Wang Dan said with a smile: "It is indeed the waist card of Lord Tongzhi, please let the third master in!" ”

Zhang Sanfeng nodded, and walked into the gate of Jinyi Guard's Prison with Qian Yi's love.

Wang Dan looked at the young man behind Zhang Sanfeng and asked, "Third Master, who is this person?" ”

"Oh, this is the son-in-law of Lord Tongzhi, I heard that this official came to inspect the edict, and if you want to come over to see the freshness, Wang Qianhu won't allow it, right?"

Jinyiwei Prison is an important place in the country, so naturally unrelated outsiders are not allowed to come in to watch, but Zhang Sanfeng said that this young man is Zhao Mengguan's son-in-law, and he seems to be very favored, Wang Dan thought about it or don't offend Zhao Mengguan for this little thing.

"It's no problem for the coquettish of the same lord to want to see this!" After Wang Dan finished speaking, he took more than a dozen low-level officials belonging to the edict prison and accompanied Zhang Sanfeng to start the inspection.

Wang Dan took out the list of prisoners and asked, "Third Master, where to start first?" ”

Jinyiwei's edict is divided into three levels: heaven, earth and man, and the Tianzi cell naturally detains the ministers of this court, and you can't enter this place if you don't wear a red robe. The dizi cell detains middle- and low-level officials below the fourth grade, while the herringbone cell is simple, and some people in the rivers and lakes and reactionary sectarian associations are imprisoned.

Zhang Sanfeng flipped through the list and said, "Let's look at the Tianzi Prison first!" After all, there are important ministers of the DPRK and the central government imprisoned here, and if there is anything missing, you and I can't afford this responsibility! "What Zhang Sanfeng said is not unreasonable, the people imprisoned here are all political * criminals, although they look unlucky now, but who knows that the emperor was happy that day, these unlucky ministers immediately turned over and became the first assistant. Therefore, the prisoners in the Tianzi cell are the strangest place, as long as there is no emperor's personal decree to move the punishment, they are generally locked in the cell and ignored.

Half a month ago, the biggest position in this place was the first assistant Ma Jiyuan, but the emperor quickly released him, and now the people who are imprisoned here are the officials of the Yongli court who were captured by the emperor in Yungui, and the most prominent here is the second assistant Qu Shiyun of the Yongli Dynasty and Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Liangguang.

After the master and apprentice were escorted to Nanjing in the fourth year of Shenwu, many of their protégés and former officials came to visit, and everyone meant that the two of them would know the current affairs, after all, now that Emperor Shenwu was in a good situation, don't do any useless resistance. But the master and apprentice are very stubborn, and the people who come to see them are all scolded and bloody, even Qu Shiyun's teacher Qian Qianyi returned in defeat, so over time, no one cares about them.

Zhu Hongsan treated the two well, each in a separate cell, and allowed their families to visit. Zhang Tongchang didn't say anything, his hometown is in Jiangling, Huguang, but Qu Shiyun is a big family in Changshu, Suzhou, although the family is not as rich as the teacher Qian Qianyi, but they still have a small property, so the two have not suffered much in prison in the past two years.

Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but write letters to these two people, so they still knew a little about the current affairs of the imperial court. At first, Qu Shiyun thought that Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang still had more than 200,000 Western troops left, and no matter how he said it, he could divide Yungui. But who thought that Zhu Hongsan would capture Guizhou in less than half a year and drive the 20th army of Emperor Yongli to Yunnan, Qu Shiyun was even more depressed after learning the news.

Today, the master and apprentice were leaning against the wall and were talking in detail, when the cell door opened, a group of people came in, and they saw that they were dressed as Jinyi Guard officials.

Qu Shiyun has been imprisoned for two years, and he has long been numb, no matter who comes, he just closes his eyes, and you can say whatever you like. So today, Qu Shiyun also closed his eyes, no matter what people outside said.

These people who came in were Zhang Sanfeng and his party, Wang Dan took the roster and came to cell No. 1 first and said: "Third master, here is the puppet Guiwang court assistant Qu Shiyun, where is the puppet Guiwang court deputy assistant Qu Shiyun, where is the second place to be imprisoned Zhang Tongchang, the governor of the puppet Guiwang court and Liangguang, where is the No. 3 cell detained... ”

Zhang Sanfeng nodded after hearing this, and asked, "How is it?" What are they saying these days? ”

Wang Dan said in a low voice: "Back to the third master, others are easy to say, it's this Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang who are not good at talking, every time the court sends someone to say surrender, they are scolded back by these two people, so that no one has come to visit them for several months now!" ”

"Humph! This kind of die-hard doesn't care about him, as long as they don't let them commit suicide, and let the big guys in the DPRK and China have a headache for the rest! ”

After Zhang Sanfeng finished speaking, he left the Tianzi cell with a group of brocade guards, and the officials of the edict prison all followed behind Shangguan and patted on the back, and no one paid attention to Qian Yiai, who followed at the end, so Qian Yiai deliberately slowed down and stayed in the Tianzi cell. Of course, there are still cell bosses in the Tianzi cell, but they all saw this young man and Shangguan coming together, and no one dared to care why he came to the end.

Qian Yiai saw that those brocade guards had walked out of the big guys, and the cell bosses in the cell also went out* to lick their cheeks, and now only himself and a group of prisoners were left in the Tianzi cell.

Qian Yiai walked quickly to the door of cell No. 2 and looked inside, there was an unkempt man sitting against the wall, his hair and beard had been glued together, and he couldn't tell who it was.

Qian Yiai heard outside the door that Zhang Tongchang was being held in cell No. 2, so he stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Is it Zhang Beishan inside?" ”

After a long time, the man inside said slowly: "It's Zhang, who are you?" ”

Qian Yiai listened to that person, and it turned out that this was Zhang Tongchang. Qian Yiai said happily: "Brother Beishan, the younger brother Changshu Qian Yiai, Qian Qianyi is the father!" ”

The prison was originally very quiet, but as soon as Qian Yuai's words fell, a roar came out from the cell next to him: "Qian Qianyi's son? Go and tell your father that the old man has broken off with him, and let him die of the heart to persuade him to surrender! ”