Zhu Hongsan is the Emperor of Zhongxing, although he can't do what Zhu Yuanzhang said (in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't do it in the early stage, and only regained power after the purge), but those landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang did a little too much, so much so that Jiang Yueguang and others couldn't intercede for them at all, so Jiang Yueguang and Li Zhicai bowed down to accept the order.

Today, Zhu Hongsan purged the local forces of the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, but he did not punish the old monks of these parties in the court, and Zhu Hongsan also opened up the net, released Qu Shiyun, and appointed him as the governor of Liangjiang, the most important feudal official in China.

Jiang Yueguang and the other pavilion elders went out of the palace, and they should go home when they should go home, and they should be on duty, and they were busy with their own things. Jiang Yueguang had something in his heart, so he deliberately took a few steps back, came to Li Zhi, who was the last in the pavilion elders, and said in a low voice: "Lord Li is also interested in talking tonight?" ”

Li Zhi knew that Jiang Yueguang had come to form an alliance with him, but this was also in Li Zhi's arms. Although Li Zhi is not from Guangdong, he has been an official in Guangdong for more than ten years and has a deep relationship with the Guangdong Party. At the same time, Li Zhi also served as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in Zhoushan for several years, and had friendships with the main anti-Qing factions in eastern Zhejiang, so Li Zhi can be regarded as the spokesperson of the Guangdong Party and the Zhejiang Party in the cabinet. Over the past year or so, Ma Mingyuan has dealt a lot of blows to the Guangdong Party and the Zhejiang Party as the first assistant, so Li Zhi has long wanted to find foreign aid, and today Jiang Yueguang said this Li Zhi was very happy.

"Brother Yan invites, of course the younger brother will go to the appointment!" Although Li Zhi and Jiang Yueguang were about the same age, there were people above Jiang Yueguang back then, and they were even more Qian Qianyi Baoju during the Hongguang period as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University.

Jiang Yueguang nodded and said: "Okay, I heard that there is a good Cantonese restaurant in Goldfish Hutong on the edge of Xianliang Temple in Dongcheng, and Brother Yu is waiting for you there tonight!" ”

"Okay, please rest assured, see you or leave!"

Jiang Yueguang and Li Zhi left the palace after discussing it, and went to Dongchang Hutong along the imperial city, where Qu Shiyun was imprisoned.

Dongchang Hutong is where all the big and small officials are frightened by the East Factory, but the East Factory is just a foreigner screaming, the full name of the East Factory is the East Detective Factory, and the official name of the chief eunuch is "Qin Cha Admiral Dongchang Official School Office Eunuch", commonly known as the factory governor or the superintendent, and now the factory justice is the big eunuch Li Chengen next to Zhu Hongsan. However, Lao Li has to accompany the emperor every day, so the master here is Li Chengen's godson, the deputy factory governor Li Gan.

Dongchang is close to the imperial city, and it is still a place to kill people, so naturally there are no idlers to hang out here, so the few fans guarding the door are quite idle.

Today, the gatekeeper is idle and drinking tea in the gatehouse, and is seeing a green tweed eight-lift sedan chair turned out of the alley, the imperial court has a system, this kind of sedan chair can only be used in addition to the official and a few dukes, and there are only a few in the whole city of Beijing.

Fanzi knows that a big man is here today, but the East Factory is not a cabinet, not a thousand-step corridor, what are such big people doing here? Although Fanzi was suspicious, he didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly came out and knelt on both sides, kowtowed to the first stall and said, "Dare to ask that adult to visit our East Factory?" ”

Jiang Yueguang was born in the Donglin Party, and he was naturally opposed to the Dongchang in charge of the eunuch, so he snorted when he heard the stall say this, picked up the curtain and walked out, and asked, "What about Li Gan?" Let him come out to see the old man! ”

Although Jiang Yueguang is not recognized by the head of the stall, the four-clawed red python robe worn by Lao Jiang is still recognized, this kind of dress, coupled with the green sedan chair, the identity of this old man is about to come out!

Don't look at Dongchang's ruthlessness towards the offending officials, but he still doesn't dare to be presumptuous to the elders. Jiang Yueguang may not be able to deal with big spy leaders like Li Chengen and Qian Lide, but it is still easy to clean up your small stall.

The stall head hurriedly kowtowed: "Please wait a while, the little one will go in and ask my deputy factory supervisor to come out!" ”

Jiang Yueguang snorted, stood at the door and waited, and after a while, a middle-aged eunuch in his thirties came out, who was Li Chengen's eldest godson, Li Gan.

Li Ganke recognized Jiang Yueguang, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask An and said, "It turns out that Jiang Ge is here, and the slave is polite here!" ”

Jiang Yueguang didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he stood directly at the door and said, "Father-in-law Li, the old man is here to pick up Qu Shiyun from prison today!" ”

Li Gan was stunned when he heard Jiang Yueguang say this, he hadn't received the holy decree yet, how could he dare to let the Qin prisoner out of prison without the emperor's order?

Li Gan's eyes rolled and asked, "Lord Jiang, the slave hasn't received the news, so I really don't dare to let Master Qu out of prison!" ”

"The old man has just come from the emperor, and His Majesty has issued a holy decree to release Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang from prison, you shouldn't have received news here!"

Li Gan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Jiang Yueguang say this, since Old Man Jiang said this, there must be an emperor's holy decree, this is easy to do. Although Li Gan is not afraid of Jiang Yueguang, but Old Man Jiang is the old man of the Cabinet, and he is still in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Imperial Historical Tower, so it is really difficult to make Old Man Jiang anxious.

"Lord Jiang, you see that we really haven't received the emperor's holy decree here, maybe the inner prison is a little slower, otherwise, Lord Jiang, please move inside and wait for a while, and the slave will send someone to the inner prison to urge, and when the holy decree arrives, let Lord Qu come out!" Lord Jiang, you see, the slave is just a small eunuch in charge, please Lord Jiang don't make it difficult for the minion? ”

Jiang Yueguang heard that this was also the case, he was a little anxious, maybe the holy decree had not yet arrived, anyway, he had never entered the East Factory, so it was better to go in and wait for a while.

Jiang Yueguang nodded after listening, raised his feet and entered the gate of the East Factory. Li Gan hurriedly sent someone to the inner prison to urge the holy decree first, and then followed Jiang Yueguang to accompany him.

Although the name of the East Factory is scary, it is just an ordinary yamen on the outside, no different from the large and small yamen all over the capital, and there is a two-meter-long signboard hanging on the pillar at the door, which reads "Qinban East Investigation Factory". Walking into the front is an archway, three meters high, with four golden characters written on it, flowing for centuries, I heard that these four words were written by Zhu Di back then, I don't know if it's true.

After the archway is the main hall of the East Factory, the main hall of the ordinary Yamen is the seat of the chief official in addition to the shadow wall, and the words such as "Mirror Hanging" and "Zhengda Guangming" are hung behind, but the main hall of the East Factory is not here, facing the shadow wall is a portrait of Yue Fei, with four big characters on it "Loyalty and Righteousness".

Jiang Yueguang This is the first time to enter the East Factory, and he has heard the layout inside the East Factory before, but when he saw with his own eyes that the notorious East Factory actually hung a portrait of Yue Fei, he couldn't help but ridicule: "Lord Li, your East Factory really lives up to these four words!" ”

Li Gan also came out of the inner study hall, how could he not understand Jiang Yueguang's words, but Li Gan couldn't afford to provoke the cabinet elders, these old guys were standing behind them one by one, not to mention that he was the deputy director of the East Factory, and even his godfather Li Chengen had to deal with it carefully.

Li Gan pretended not to understand, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is exactly the portrayal of our Dongchang, loyal to the emperor and righteous to the hundred officials!" ”

Hearing Li Gan say this, Jiang Yueguang sneered in his heart, you factory guards are still righteous to hundreds of officials? How did Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang get in?

The main hall of Dongchang is to hear the case, so naturally it cannot receive Jiang Yueguang, so Li Gan let Jiang Yueguang go to the second hall and set up tea here to sit together.

Dongchang is just outside Dong'anmen, not far from the palace, and the little eunuch sent by Li Gan will soon return.

The little eunuch came to Li Gan and said: "Godfather, the ancestor has a word, the emperor has a holy decree to let Qu Shiyun and the two of them, but there are not only Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang on the holy decree, but there are other prisoners to deal with, so the inner eunuch sent the holy decree to the Xing Department, and the ancestor said, let us release Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang first!" ”

Hearing that there was such a thing, Li Gan let out a sigh of relief, quickly stood up and bowed down and said, "Okay, please Jiang Ge Lao later, the slave will go and invite the two adults out!" ”

Dongchang's edict prison is not as big as Jinyiwei's edict, and soon Qu Zhang and the others were escorted up, but it seems that these two people did not suffer, but their expressions were a little sluggish, and the prison clothes on their bodies were in tatters.

This is the second time that Qu Shiyun has been in prison, he used to squat in Nanjing for two years, and now he has been squatting in Beijing for three months.

Qu Shiyun thought a lot in the past three months, and he regretted very much that he surrendered Zhu Hongsan in Guangxi back then, it was better to be martyred at that time, and it was better than being humiliated now.

When Li Gan came to mention the two of them, Qu Shiyun thought that the faint gentleman was finally going to attack him, but he followed Li Gan to the second hall of Dongchang, and when he entered the room, he saw Jiang Yueguang sitting in the middle.

Jiang Yueguang is seven years older than Qu Shiyun, and Jiang Yueguang is still a close friend of Qu Shiyun's teacher Qian Qianyi, so Qu Shiyun still respects Jiang Yueguang very much.

When Qu Shiyun saw where Jiang Yueguang was sitting, he quickly bowed down and asked, "Yan Jigong, why are you here?" ”

Jiang Yueguang saw that Qu Shiyun was so embarrassed, stood up and helped Qu Shiyun and said: "Qitian, the old man came to pick you up from prison, Your Majesty has let you out!" ”

Qu Shiyun listened to Zhu Hongsan, the faint monarch, let himself out, and blurted out and asked, "That faint. Before the word Jun came out, he was interrupted by Jiang Yueguang and said: "Qitian, thanks to the emperor's favor, your case with Beishan is closed, and the emperor also appointed Qitian as the governor of Liangjiang, and Beishan will take over as your governor of Jiangsu!" ”

Qu Shiyun heard Jiang Yueguang say this, and he didn't recover for a while, he was still waiting for death in prison just now, but he didn't think that he would become a feudal official in less than half an hour.

Jiang Yueguang saw that Qu Shiyun was stunned there, and he didn't plan to talk about it in detail here in Dongchang, after all, all of them were from Dongchang, and if anything inappropriate fell into the emperor's ears, it would be a big deal.

"Qitian, don't mountain, you go back to the house with the old man first, freshen up!" After Jiang Yueguang finished speaking, he arched his hand and said to Li Gan: "Thank you Gonggong Li this time!" The old man has taken his leave! After Jiang Yueguang finished speaking, he pulled Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang out of the East Factory.