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Li Hongyu and Fang Yun, Lu Kun and several fellow scholars from Huguang in the 47th year of Wanli sat around the wine table and chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere was warm and cheerful.

Because Li Hongyu was busy with affairs after returning to the capital, it was not until today that Fang Yun, Lu Kun and others had the opportunity to pick him up.

It is worth mentioning that in ancient times, the Qinglou was not only a place for fun, but also an important social place, so both high-ranking officials and scholars and scholars liked to gather in the Qinglou.

Fang Yun and Lu Kun and others are frequent visitors in the Qinglou because they work in the capital, and they all have familiar girls, Li Hongyu is much inferior to them, and the girls in the Qinglou don't know that the suave boy in front of them is the young master of Daming.

Of course, Fang Yun and Lu Kun and others will definitely not show Li Hongyu's identity, so the girls who accompany the wine still think that Li Hongyu is the son of a big family in Huguang and an old friend of Fang Yun and Lu Kun and others.

Although it was rumored that Li Hongyu was romantic, with countless wives and concubines in his family, Fang Yun, Lu Kun and others knew that he was not a person who messed with flowers, so they didn't bother to find a girl to accompany him to drink, so they randomly picked a girl with excellent looks and appearance in the Qinglou where they drank.

The girl saw that Li Hongyu was handsome and chic, and explained that Fang Yun and Lu Kun were such officials, so she had the intention to make friends and used all her skills to charm Li Hongyu, but unfortunately Li Hongyu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and had no intention of kissing Fang Ze at all, which made the woman feel quite disappointed.

"Brother Boxian, how is Wu Yangchun's case going on?"

While talking and laughing, Li Hongyu remembered something, and couldn't help but ask Fang Yun, since Fang Yun was involved in this matter, he must know the case very well.

"The Criminal Department has convicted three major crimes, one is to murder his younger brother Wu Yangze's father and son, and embezzle Wu Yangze's family property; One was because the account killed the butler; There is also a conspiracy to obstruct the restoration of the three major halls, all of which are capital crimes. ”

Fang Yun couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, and said to Li Hongyu helplessly, "I really can't shirk favors, so I'm looking for you, I hope you can save his life." ”

"The restoration of the three major halls has been prepared since the time of Lord Wanli, and now they want to let the imperial court harvest wood from Yungui for their own selfish interests, which is really hateful!" Li Hongyu frowned when he heard this, and then said with a sneer.

He didn't care whether Wu Yangchun murdered his younger brother Wu Yangze's father and son, and whether Wu Yangchun killed the housekeeper, these things were all private matters in his opinion, so they were not within the scope of his duties, and wanting to prevent logging from Huangshan endangered the interests of the royal family, which could be regarded as a crime of defrauding the king, which he could not tolerate.

"In fact, he is just a chess piece, entrusted by the family to change the matter." Fang Yun smiled helplessly, if it weren't for the fact that it was difficult to push the favor, he wouldn't have intervened in this matter, but it shouldn't be too difficult to just leave Wu Yangchun alive.

"Let them give them some more money, now is the time when the court needs money, and only in this way can he spare his life."

Li Hongyu knew that Fang Yun was also forced to be helpless, and the relationship in society was too powerful, so he said after a while, the Wu family is not rich, so let's break the wealth and eliminate the disaster.

"Okay, I'll get the word out by then, we've already built the bridge for him, and it's none of our business whether they take the money or not."

Fang Yun immediately laughed when he heard this, raised the wine glass in his hand and saluted Li Hongyu, if Li Hongyu opened his mouth, then Wu Yangchun's life would be saved.

Speaking of this Wu Yangchun is really unlucky, Huangshan Wu family is the largest timber merchant in She County, but also a big salt merchant, Hui merchants used the early Ming Dynasty "open the law" to get involved in the salt industry, and gradually became a strong salt merchant in the Ming Dynasty.

She County is the location of the Huizhou Mansion, which can be described as the base camp of Huizhou merchants, and Wang Wenyan, who was involved in the Xinjiang sealing case and made Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou die in the edict prison, is a native of She County, and the Wu family is a local wealthy family, and its strength can be seen.

It is worth mentioning that during the Jiajing and Wanli periods, the Wu family made two huge donations to the anti-Japanese military expenses, each time there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which can be said to be due to the Jiangshan Sheji, for which the imperial court gave it several official positions in the Nanjing Yamen, both fictitious titles and real positions, to show the royal favor, so that it was able to set foot in the official and business worlds.

The experience of the Wu family is very representative in the Ming Dynasty, because those big businessmen donated money to the country, so in exchange for the false title or dereliction of duty of the imperial court, forming a huge network of relationships in the two worlds of officialdom.

This is also why it is said that the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty represents the interests of local merchants and landlords, because their interests are originally one, which can be described as both prosperity and loss, so that it is difficult for the imperial court to collect commercial taxes.

Originally, the wood of Yungui was used in the restoration of the three major halls, but after the Donglin Party was suppressed, some officials proposed to collect wood in the Huangshan area for the three major halls project, Wei Zhongxian felt that this move was very good, so he replaced the wood of Huangshan.

The local merchant Jia Haoshen in Huangshan was greatly disturbed after learning of this, so he recommended the Wu family to deal with the matter, and the Wu family then sent Wu Yangchun, who had a lot of status and status in the family, to handle the matter, and Wu Yangchun then arranged for someone to go to Beijing to pay bribes, in order to cancel the decision of the imperial court to purchase timber in Huangshan.

It should also be Wu Yangchun's bad luck, there are two enemies of Wu Yangchun in the capital, one is the adopted son of his younger brother Wu Yangze, and the other is the son of Wu Yangze's housekeeper.

Although Li Hongyu did not know whether Wu Yangchun's first two major crimes investigated by the Criminal Department were true, Wu Yangze's adopted son was imprisoned because of Wu Yangchun's report, saying that he had plotted to seize Wu Yangze's son's family property, and then Wu Yangze's seven-year-old son died, and Wu Yangze's family property belonged to Wu Yangchun.

In addition, Wu Yangchun's housekeeper is indeed dead, but it is said that he died of a violent illness, and these two things are facts.

Later, the housekeeper's son became a petty official in the capital after gaining fame, and Wu Yangze's adopted son went to him after completing his sentence, and the two originally thought that revenge was hopeless, but they didn't think that Wu Yangchun would send someone to the capital at this time to cancel the logging in Huangshan.

The township party in the capital is the most important relationship, and the people sent by Wu Yangchun naturally went to ask people from Huizhou to help after they arrived in the capital, and this circle was not big, but the results reached the ears of the two, and the two of them stabbed the matter out as soon as they saw the opportunity coming.

Originally, this matter was not a big deal, but it was just a bribe, and this kind of thing was happening every day in the capital.

But the timing of Wu Yangchun's dispatch was not right, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was trying his best to suppress the Donglin Party and the local forces dependent on the Donglin Party through Wei Zhongxian, so the Wu family suddenly became a bird, Wei Zhongxian seized this matter to take the Wu family to knife, and Wu Yangchun was unlucky.

Therefore, the Wu family's case was not simply bribery, but Wei Zhongxian's blow to the local wealthy clans who were attached to officialdom, and strengthened the centralization of power from the central and local governments.

As a result, Wu Yangchun's house was raided, and other branches of the Wu family and related people involved in the case were punished and fined a large amount of silver.

After Wu Yangchun's accident, the Wu family once spent a lot of money to save him, but no one in the capital dared to accept the Wu family's money.

Li Hongyu felt strange when he heard the Huangshan case, he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian to make a big move for such a trivial matter, but after thinking about it, he was relieved, it must be Wei Zhongxian who took this opportunity to suppress those local wealthy families who were close to officialdom.

Now that the Huangshan case has come to an end, the relevant people involved in the case have been duly punished, and Wei Zhongxian's goal has been achieved, so it is not difficult to release Wu Yangchun, and it can be regarded as a pacification of the local wealthy families.

It was precisely after seeing through the key that Li Hongyu got involved in this matter, after all, Fang Yun's face he would definitely have to give, if he hadn't been forced to helpless, Fang Yun would not have come to open this mouth to him.

Hearing that Li Hongyu promised to save Wu Yangchun's life, the girls who were waiting for everyone to drink at the scene couldn't help but secretly glance at each other, showing a look of surprise to each other, but they didn't expect Li Hongyu to boast about such a sea mouth.

Qinglou is the most well-informed place in the Ming Dynasty, so the girls in Qinglou naturally know about the Huangshan case that has caused a lot of waves in the capital.

As far as they knew, it seemed that no one in the officialdom dared to get involved in this case, but they didn't expect the suave boy in front of them to agree, which really surprised them, and they didn't know why this boy was so confident.

Just when the girls were secretly guessing Li Hongyu's identity, there was a sudden commotion in the corridor outside the door, as if someone was running and chasing, and the situation seemed a little chaotic.

"Quick, catch that little girl, I'm going to kill him today!"

Soon, a man's angry voice came, "Dare to stab Lao Tzu with a knife, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up!" ”

"Zhang Muen!" Hearing the man's voice, Fang Yun's brows immediately furrowed, and he recognized the other party's identity.

"Zhang Muen?" Li Hongyu is relatively unfamiliar with this name, presumably not a powerful person in the capital, but looking at Fang Yun's appearance, the two seem to be not on good terms.

"This Zhang Muen was originally a ruffian scoundrel in the capital, originally called Zhang Hu, and later he didn't know how to get in touch with Jinyiwei, and became a dog of Jinyiwei's Beizhen Fusi, renamed Zhang Muen, who was cruel and domineering, and many officials in the capital were troubled by him."

Fang Yun's face sank, and he explained to Li Hongyu coldly, "Because of the Jinyi Guard's support for him, no one in the capital can touch him." ”

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, his face was not shocked, he immediately understood what was going on, I am afraid that this Zhang Muen was deliberately helped up by Wei Zhongxian to trouble the officials of the Donglin Party, in order to suppress the Donglin Party, and he was a chess piece in Wei Zhongxian's hands.

The reason is very simple, if you are reasonable, Wei Zhongxian will definitely not be able to talk about those civil officials who are full of poetry and books and eloquent, so at this time he will have to use some extraordinary means.

At this moment, the door of the private room where Li Hongyu and the others were located was suddenly pushed open, and a young man in white with a somewhat messy clothes and an extremely handsome appearance broke in in a panic, looking a little frightened.

Since Li Hongyu and Fang Yun and the others had a private party, his guards were not on duty in front of the door, but went down to drink, and the security in the capital was still very good.

"Brother Li, save me!" When he inadvertently noticed Li Hongyu sitting at the wine table, the young man in white couldn't help but look happy, and his eyes were ruddy and ran towards him.

"Brother Li?" Li Hongyu was slightly stunned when he heard this, and looked at the white-clothed young man who became a little stunned, in his impression he didn't seem to know the other party, but the other party obviously knew him.

Fang Yun, Lu Kun and the others were also surprised, and looked at the scene in front of them in surprise, they naturally saw that the young man in white knew Li Hongyu, otherwise how could they recognize Li Hongyu at a glance.

(End of chapter)