Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see all the officials of Guangzhou Prefecture come out to greet him, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't be polite. ”

The officials of Guangzhou Mansion were very disgusted with Zhu Hongsan except for Feng Ziyong, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not look at the personnel, but there was still this bit of integrity, so they got up after hearing Zhu Hongsan say this.

There are more than ten high-grade officials in the prefect's yamen, and more than half of them are scholars, and when they saw Zhu Hongsan, the prince of the clan, swaggering out to play, they all glared angrily. But the chief officer Feng Ziyong didn't say anything, and they couldn't speak, so they stood behind Feng Ziyong one by one without saying a word.

The other officials bowed to Zhu Hongsan, that is, Li Fugui had to kneel down three times and bow nine times, and shouted that the king of Chu was a thousand years old. This disgusted the other officials.

Yu Shilong, the governor of the Guangzhou Mansion in the front row, frowned, turned around and said dissatisfiedly: "Lord Li, you don't want to be embarrassed, you still want the dignity of the court officials." ”

Yu Shilong knew that this Li Fugui was the old man of Governor Feng's mansion, and he also knew that Feng Ziyong's backstage was extremely hard. But seeing that Li Fugui was so shameless, he couldn't help but ridicule him.

Li Fugui is a small official, a serious turbidity, and he is not going to deal with these officials who are from the Qingliu Branch. This is still the usual Feng Ziyong's maintenance of Li Fugui, otherwise Li Fugui would have been squeezed out a long time ago.

Li Fugui also knew that these guys couldn't look down on him, so he wanted to hug Zhu Hongsan's thighs even more. But today Yu Shilong ridiculed Li Fugui in front of everyone, and he really couldn't get off the stage.

Li Fugui smiled and said, "Lord Tongzhi said that the face of the imperial court has been lost in the north by you scholars. Li Fugui is talking about the ugly things done by those scholars after Li Chuang occupied Beijing in April, which has already spread throughout the southern officialdom in the past six months, and Ruan Dacheng took the opportunity to get the case right, and the reputation of the northern scholars has long been stinky in the south.

This Yu Shilong is a native of Shuntianfu in Beizhili, but he has been an official in Guangdong since Zhongdi and has not returned home for more than 20 years. Today, when I heard Li Fugui ridiculing himself, his face was full of anger, and he was just about to speak to reprimand Li Fugui.

Feng Ziyong, who was at the front, heard the quarrel behind him, turned around and said, "Enough, is there any physique, the king of Chu is here, and I will talk about it later." ”

Yu Shilong is still very convinced of Feng Ziyong, because Feng Ziyong is stronger than him in terms of ability, qualifications, age, and backstage, so he doesn't dare not listen to Shangguan now.

Seeing that there was no movement behind, Feng Ziyong said to Zhu Hongsan: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, let you see the smile, please enter the ya." ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything, just glanced at Yu Shilong with great interest, and then entered the mansion with Feng Ziyong.

The sedan chair of Zhu Hong's three wives was led directly to the back house, where Feng's self-used wife Feng received her.

After entering the house, Feng Ziyong introduced Zhu Hongsan to the prefect's second official, and the others sat with Zhu Hongsan for a while before going out on the grounds that they were busy with official business. There are only three people left in the house: Zhu Hongsan, Feng Ziyong, and Li Fugui.

Feng Ziyong was just about to ask Zhu Hongsan what he was doing in Guangzhou, when someone outside came in to report that the eunuch Cao was coming to see the king of Chu and was outside the door.

Feng Ziyong frowned, their scholars and eunuchs were born to be two opposing classes, and just about to say no, Zhu Hongsan on the side said, "Let him come in, I happened to look for him." Feng Ziyong saw that the King of Chu was speechless, and it was difficult to say anything.

After a while, a middle-aged man in his thirties came in from outside, with a very great appearance, a height of 1.8 meters, and wore a red dragon robe (python robe, Zhu Hongsan didn't recognize). When he entered the house and saw Zhu Hongsan sitting in the middle, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Cao Fang, the eunuch guarding the town of Bosi in Guangzhou City, has seen the master. ”

As soon as this eunuch spoke, Zhu Hongsan heard that this was a eunuch, and if he didn't speak, he would be a middle-aged handsome guy. Feng Ziyong on the side is also a handsome guy, with three locks of ink hair, and he can deceive some ignorant girls. But this Cao Fang is not inferior to Feng Ziyong.

Zhu Hongsan looked at it for a long time and said, "Get up." That Cao Fang dared to get up. Cao Fang was originally the godson of Cao Huachun, the great eunuch of Beijing's Imperial Horse Prison, but Cao Huachun's dogskin dumping in Beijing almost scared Cao Fang to death.

Eunuchs are different from literati, if the literati are not good, they can retreat to the mountains and forests, and they can also mix the title of a gentleman. But the eunuch has only one end, and that is death.

After Cao Fang learned that Cao Huachun was unlucky, he immediately sent 200,000 taels of silver to the celebrity in front of Hongguang, Han Zanzhou, the chief eunuch of the celebrant and the chief eunuch, which was all his net worth.

However, what reassured him, Han Zan Zhou accepted the silver and asked him to continue to stay in the place where the crotch of the oil pants was in the city. Cao Fang was also very distressed when he gave away 200,000 silver, and his five or six years of hard work were all in vain. I don't have any offspring, and only when I see this white silver can I have a little comfort in my heart.

When Cao Fang heard that the king of Chu from Huguang was exiled to Dongguan, he had a plan, but he knew what kind of goods these clans had, so it was better to use the name of the king of Chu to collect a batch of silver, so as to make up for his shortfall. That's why he ordered the people below to start collecting taxes in the name of the king of Chu.

Originally, he thought that the imperial court was strict with the management of the vassal king, and the forces out of the city had to be declared, so there should be no problem for him here. Even if the king of Chu knows about it, he can't do anything to himself.

But today Cao Fang received news in Yamen that the king of Chu had come to Guangzhou and had a conflict with the people of the city at the dock. Cao Fang was frightened enough to hear the news, he was a eunuch and a servant of the royal family. If his godfather Cao Huachun is still powerful, then naturally he doesn't have to be afraid of an idle prince, but he is now walking on the ice, and it is not a good thing to offend another prince.

So Cao Fang inquired about the whereabouts of the King of Chu and hurried over to apologize. On the way, he thought about all the reasons, everything was on Zhang Tiju, as for Zhang Tiju's life and death, it had nothing to do with him.

After Cao Fang heard that Zhu Hongsan asked him to get up, he quickly stood up and cried: "Chitose, the minions didn't manage the people below well, they actually went out to collect taxes behind the minions in the name of Chitose, and the minions must discipline them strictly after they go back." ”

After Cao Fang finished speaking, he looked up at Zhu Hongsan, and found that the three people in the room were all looking at him with stupid eyes, and Cao Fang didn't know why, his performance was right? What's wrong with that place?

Zhu Hongsan looked at the handsome eunuch and said, "Old Cao, you really don't know about this matter?" ”

"Yes, Chitose, the minion doesn't know anything about it."

"That's good, I don't know the best."

Cao Fang thought to herself, I won't say I know if I kill me anyway, what can you do with me as an idle prince?

At this time, a person came in outside, covered in blood, who was Zhu Hongyi who went out to do errands.

Zhu Hongyi came into the house and hugged his fists and said, "Lord Wang, my subordinates have completed their tasks and are here to restore their lives." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Zhu Hongyi, you tell this Cao eunuch how it is." ”

When Zhu Hongyi heard this, he began to recount what happened in the house. Zhu Hongyi led his men to Zhang Tiju's home, and under torture to extract a confession, Zhang Tiju said that all these things were done by the eunuch Cao Fang. Cao Fang is the big leader of the Guangdong branch of the White Lotus Sect, and he has subsidized the White Lotus Sect with all the money he has made in the city.

This remark frightened Cao Fang into her pants, and the room was filled with a smell of feces and urine.

Li Fugui frowned when he saw the king of Chu, and hurriedly went to open the window for ventilation.

When the fresh air came in, the smell in the room was better, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "Lao Cao, how is it?" What else is there to say? ”

Cao Fang never expected that he would be able to find out about the White Lotus Sect by borrowing the name of the King of Chu, and this King of Chu was too vicious. Cao Fang understood the attitude of the imperial court towards the White Lotus Sect, and there was no letting go of the mistake.

Cao Fang didn't care about the on his pants, climbed in front of Zhu Hongsan, hugged Zhu Hongsan's legs and cried: "Lord Wang, I just used the name of the prince to get some pocket money, I really didn't fornicate with the White Lotus Sect!" ”

Zhu Hongsan covered his nose and asked, "How can that Zhang Ju say that you are the main culprit?" ”

"He farts, the slave he falsely accused for his own life, please see it!"