These Jinyi guards not only beat his brothers Qin Zhan and Jing Jie, but now they don't even let go of the innocent Xiaoyuan.

Fang Yuan was furious, and took a few steps forward to push Li Da away, protecting the terrified Xiao Yuan behind him, "Li Da, I swear that it is necessary for your life!" ”

Li Da squirmed his lips, and in the face of Fang Yuan's vicious threat, there was still timidity in his eyes.

Tian Hongyu looked the little beauty behind him up and down, and said with a smile, "Xu Hua is really generous, no wonder Fang Zongqi dared to intercept Chen Yuanyuan, who entered the palace, for the sake of this woman." ”

Li Dazhi hid beside Tian Hongyu and flattered, "This woman has too many secrets, why don't you send it to the father-in-law's mansion and be interrogated by the father-in-law himself?" ”

Tian Hongyu's eyes popped out of two fine lights, and he said in a loud voice, "It should be tried, it should indeed be tried." ”

Arrest Xiaoyuan and go to Tianfu, then send the sheep into the tiger's mouth, and it is inevitable that Tian Hong will be humiliated. Tian Hongyu's thoughts were already clear to Fang Yuan, and he wanted to use the obscene humiliation of Xiaoyuan to avenge Fang Yuan for taking away Chen Yuanyuan.

Fang Yuan clenched his fists in anger, he was already furious, staring at Tian Hongyu deadly, "Tian Guozhang, I just want to share the victory with you, but you insist on fighting me to the death?!" ”

Tian Hongyu's gaze met him without giving way, and he sneered.

With Tian Hongyu's support, the dog-legged Li Da's courage grew again, and he hurriedly stood up to protect the master, "Fang Yuan, what kind of thing are you, you are also worthy of talking to the country's father-in-law about life and death, and none of the people in this courtyard can escape today." Someone came, all of them were sent to prison! ”

As soon as he gave the order, several brocade guards rushed forward and tied up Fang Yuan, who still wanted to resist, and arrested him along with Xiao Yuan.

"A hundred households with a small brocade guard, such a big majesty!"

Cao Huachun, who had been silent in the room, suddenly pushed open the door, walked out, walked slowly among the crowd, and said sarcastically, "Let you be a brocade guard for a few more days, I'm afraid you won't even be in the eyes of the celebrant supervisor, right?" ”

This was the first time Fang Yuan had seen Cao Huachun's appearance clearly, with gray hair, about sixty years old, and although there were wrinkles on his face, he was so pale that he was completely bloodless.

It was less than five years since Zhang Xingcheng, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, had already returned to his hometown on leave, and he couldn't see Cao Huachun's identity, but when he heard Cao Huachun's voice be shrill and soft, he casually called Jinyiwei the commander of the command, and his instinctive intuition told him that this person was probably the eunuch of the inner court, and Fang Yuan was nominally Fang Zhenghua's righteous son, and it seemed that the master of ceremonies was involved.

Li Da of Baihu saw that his boss Zhang Xingcheng had a solemn look on his face, so he shrank back knowingly.

Tian Hongyu and Cao Huachun were old acquaintances of the Xinwang Mansion back then, and when Tian Guifei entered the Xinwang Mansion, it was also through Cao Huachun that he recognized Cao Huachun at a glance, and he was shocked in his heart.

Cao Huachun is a close eunuch who took care of Emperor Chongzhen's growth, similar to the relationship between the Emperor of the Apocalypse and Wei Zhongxian in the previous dynasty.

Cao Huachun's sudden appearance this time caught Tian Hongyu off guard.

Tian Hongyu's astonishment flashed, and there was still a smile on his face, "It turned out to be Gonggong Cao, who said goodbye back then, and I haven't seen him for five years, but I didn't expect Gonggong Cao to be old and strong, and his complexion is very good!" ”

Cao Huachun piled up the eunuchs as if he was entertaining, and said to Tian Hongyu, "Compared to Tian Guozhang's high spirits, it is absolutely inferior." A small Jinyiwei general banner, if he really commits a crime, just hand it over to Jinyiwei for interrogation, and it is also worth Tian Guozhang to come to the door in person? ”

Tian Hongyu said with a smile, "Although this Fang Yuan official is small, the crime he committed is not small, and the origin is not small, not only is Fang Zhenghua's righteous son, but he can also move Cao Gonggong to intercede for him." ”

He repeatedly wanted to test the relationship between Fang Yuan and Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun squinted slightly and said, "Fang Yuan is not guilty, and it should be interrogated by Jinyiwei. ”

Tian Hongyu was stunned, and was about to answer, when Cao Huachun's gloomy voice continued to sound, "Zhang Qianhu, Li Baihu, are you on the orders of Luo Yangxing in this search?" ”

Cao Huachun's famous Jinyiwei has still heard of it, and he has at least promoted the current eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the Zhangyin, and the eunuch Fang Zhenghua.

His appearance is to represent the celebrant and the celebrant.

Zhang Xingcheng of Qianhu decided in an instant that in the current situation where the wind direction is unclear, he still has a ray of leeway, and he can't do everything too much, and said respectfully, "Father-in-law Cao, it is an order from the Fusi of Beizhen." ”

Cao Huachun said slowly, "Is there an edict from His Majesty, or an edict?" ”

Zhang Xingcheng was shocked by his momentum, and said hesitantly, "This, I received a document from the Beizhen Fusi, not His Majesty's edict and oral message. ”

Cao Huachun scolded sharply, "Since you don't have Your Majesty's edict, you dare to arrest people indiscriminately, who gave you the courage?" ”

Zhang Xingcheng, who was grabbed by Cao Huachun on the handle, looked at Li Da and did not dare to speak.

Cao Huachun said again, "You can seal the gold and silver first and hand them back to the Jinyi Guardhouse, Fang Yuan, and the people in this courtyard!" After His Majesty has issued an edict and an oral edict, he will dispose of it. ”

Fang Yuan secretly admired Cao Huachun's vision, and saw through at a glance that Jinyiwei did not come to the door this time without Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree, but did his own business and ran errands for Tian Hongyu.

Zhang Xingcheng was silent, and the order he received was not to arrest Fang Yuan and go to the prison to ask for the crime, but to search for gold and silver, count the amount and report it to the Beizhen Fu Division. Since there was no explicit order from above, and Cao Huachun, a respected old eunuch in the palace, was in front of him, he secretly looked at Tian Hongyu and signaled that he could no longer forcibly arrest people.

Today's sudden killing of Cao Huachun made Tian Hongyu's plan to take the opportunity to retaliate against Fang Yuan fall through, if he forcibly made a big deal again, Jinyiwei would no longer cooperate, so he could only withdraw his troops first, anyway, Fang Yuan had five capital crimes on his body, but he died early and died one step later.

Tian Hongyu smiled and said, "Since Gonggong Cao wants to protect him today, let's not arrest anyone first, and wait for His Majesty's holy judgment!" ”

Zhang Xingcheng of the thousand households ordered Li Da to lead twenty brocade guards to remove all the 35,000 taels of gold that were found, and in order to leave a way back, he returned less than 60 taels of gold from Fang Yuan's house and 1,000 taels of silver from Cao Huachun.

He also asked Fang Yuan's courtyard to be surrounded, and he couldn't let anyone go out, so he took a group of brocade guards back to Beizhen Fusi to report.

Fang Yuan became a prisoner under house arrest in a blink of an eye, if it weren't for Cao Huachun's appearance, it is estimated that he would have been arrested and sent to prison at this time.

Thinking that Qin Zhan and Jing Jie, who were arrested and sent to prison, didn't know how many sticks they would have to suffer, he was angry and hateful, but he was helpless and sat in the courtyard dejectedly.

The frightened seventh sister-in-law couldn't move for a long time, and she didn't know what trouble Fang Yuan had caused.

Xiao Yuan has seen some of the world, she suppressed her fear a little, took a cup of hot tea and handed it to Fang Yuan, "Childe, let's drink tea first to suppress the shock!" Childe is a good person, a good official, and he will be fine. ”

Fang Yuan took the tea she handed over with a blank face, drank it in one gulp, looked sideways at her immature face and said, "Xiaoyuan, you and your seventh sister-in-law still rarely show up, no matter what happens, you can't force yourself to stand up for me, understand?" ”

Xiao Yuan's eyes were slightly red, but she still nodded, and helped her seventh sister-in-law, who couldn't walk, back to the room.

Before returning to the capital, Fang Yuan's judgment was that Tian Hongyu had a bad reputation, and there was ironclad evidence of corruption in his hands, so he couldn't move the Jinyi Guard and the Master of Ceremonies, so he could only suffer this dumb loss.

However, this turmoil is obviously far beyond Fang Yuan's previous estimates.

Tian Hongyu actually colluded with the Donglin Party, and the other party originally launched an overwhelming attack, and even Jinyiwei changed the direction of the wind and seized Fang Yuan's gold.

Today, it is only with Cao Huachun that he came forward to temporarily save the day, but the five capital crimes imposed on him by Tian Hongyu are like the sword of Damocles hanging over his head, which may make him die at any time without a place to be buried.

How to break the game?

The only way Fang Yuan could think of was to meet Emperor Chongzhen and clarify the facts in person. Of course, although Chongzhen is diligent in government, it is not easy to see him, and he must count on his father-in-law Fang Zhenghua to arrange it.