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“…… In order to reassure Liang Kefan, the person sent by Jixiang also clearly told Liang Kefan that in the emperor's secret reply to Jixiang, it was clearly said that Lord Futai, you have no hope of taking over as the governor of Huguang, and the person who will replace Hua Zhitai as the governor will only be a full man. So Jixiang asked Liang Kefan to be calm and not impatient, and when the Manchurian governor took office and suppressed you, he would find a way to ....... ”

At the beginning, Wu Chaoyue didn't pay much attention to Zhang Dejian's report, and he was still reading the official document while listening, but after hearing this passage, Wu Chaoyue raised his head and interrupted: "Wait, the auspicious person said that the emperor has a secret reply to Jixiang, saying that I can't be the governor of Huguang?" The one who took over the flower table must be a full man? Can you confirm this? ”

"Yes." Zhang Dejian nodded and replied, "The few jailers we bought were hiding in the dark and could hear clearly. The stakes are very high, and the lower officials have confirmed them separately. ”

Hearing this report, Wu Chaoyue still didn't think deeply for a while, but couldn't help but feel disappointed, and said secretly: "It seems that there is really no chance, the wild boar skin family has been able to poison China for more than 200 years, and it is really not without reason, we Han people really look at it closely." ”

Seeing that Wu Chaoyue didn't speak again, Zhang Dejian continued: "The auspicious person wants Liang Kefan to wait patiently, and after the new governor takes office, Jixiang will join forces with the new Manchu governor to rescue him from prison and exonerate him." Also, the auspicious person explained to Liang Kefan, saying that if he needed anything in prison, he could directly tell the prison guard Zhang Gaonian, and Jixiang would make arrangements. ”

After reporting the auspicious movements, the genius spy Zhang Dejian reported to Wu Chaoyue the movements of Li Qinggu, the envoy, saying that when Li Qinggu interrogated Liang Kefan and the maid, he really gave priority to the confession of the maid and determined the case as a rape case, deliberately convicting Liang Kefan of the crime to the heaviest first, and then signaling that Liang Kefan could atone for his crimes by exposing others, but it was a pity that Liang Kefan was not fooled, and insisted that he was tempted by the maid to go to bed, at most it can only be regarded as *** Didn't mention a word about auspiciousness.

When Zhang Dejian continued to report, Wu Chaoyue was even more absent-minded, just thinking about how to deal with the situation that the governor and the political envoy were full of people in the future, and it was somewhat strange why Emperor Xianfeng would tell Jixiang directly in the secret annotation, saying that he was not the governor? also said that the person who replaced the old fox must be a full man? While curious about the contents of the secret fold, Wu Chaoyue suddenly flashed an astonishing thought in his mind, and said secretly: "If I can get that secret fold, what will it be?" ”

With this idea in mind, when Wu Chaoyue thought about it further, he soon found that if he could get this secret fold and make it public, there would be three advantages for him, the first was to anger the Hubei soldiers who had just been treated unfairly not long ago, and make them even more dissatisfied and hateful to the Manchu court! The second is to directly kill the ill-intentioned auspiciousness, so that he will never have a chance to fight back and take revenge.

The third point is the most important, once this secret fold is announced, the ugly face of the suspicious Han people is completely exposed, and the Xianfeng Emperor must be self-ashamed, and when the time comes, Wu Chaoyue only needs to give the Xianfeng Emperor a little step down, for example, to help the Xianfeng Emperor to say that the secret fold is fake, then the Xianfeng Emperor in order to cover up the ugliness and whitewash, it is very likely to change his mind again, let Wu Chaoyue take over as the governor of Huguang on the spot, so as to prove that the secret fold is a forgery, and the Xianfeng Emperor will never have any suspicion to guard against the Han people.

"How do you get your hands on that secret fold?"

Wu Chaoyue's first reaction was to send someone to steal, but after careful consideration, Wu Chaoyue immediately dispelled this idea - not to mention that the secret fold is very important to any official, and the possibility of stealing is very small, even if he really steals it, how can he explain the source of this secret fold?

At this time, because he hadn't seen Wu Chaoyue speak for a long time, Zhang Dejian, who had already made a report, coughed, first pulled Wu Chaoyue back to his senses, and then asked respectfully: "Dare to ask Lord Futai, but what else do you have to order?" ”

"Continue to monitor Liang Kefan closely, I want to know his every move." Wu Chaoyue casually ordered, and suddenly his heart moved, and he hurriedly asked Zhang Dejian: "By the way, you seem to have said just now, if Liang Kefan has any needs in prison, who can he talk to?" ”

"Warden Zhang Gaonian."

Zhang Dejian hurriedly replied, and took the initiative to add: "Xiaguan knows this Zhang Gaonian, before Changmao broke through Wuchang for the first time, Xiaguan was the head catcher of the prefect's yamen, and he was the deputy warden of Wuchang Prison, and he had a lot of dealings with him, so he barely had a little friendship. ”

"Great!" When Wu Chaoyue heard the great joy, he hurriedly ordered: "Then you personally go out and secretly contact Zhang Gaonian, and tell him clearly that no matter how much silver the auspicious person gives him, you will give him double!" ”

"Understood." Zhang Dejian nodded without hesitation, and then asked, "Then Wu Futai, what do we want Zhang Gaonian to do?" ”

"What do you want him to do, I haven't figured out the details yet." Wu Chaoyue shook his head, and then ordered: "For the time being, just ask him to tell you the details of Jixiang and Liang Kefan's secret dealings, and then tell him that as long as he listens to you and helps you, after this matter is over, you will thank him again." ”

Zhang Dejian agreed, hurriedly went down and acted according to the order, and after Wu Chaoyue thought about it for a while, he quickly called his absolute henchman Zhao Liewen, and first told Zhao Liewen about the existence of the secret fold, and then told Zhao Liewen that he wanted to get the secret fold in his hands and asked Zhao Liewen to help him think of an idea. As a result, after Zhao Liewen heard it, he immediately gasped and said, "Weiting, your courage is too big, right?" Do you dare to do such a thing to slap the emperor in the face? ”

"Of course, I won't be stupid enough to make this excerpt public in person, so that the emperor can't get down the steps." Wu Chaoyue premeditated and said: "I want to get this excerpt, first, I want to see what the content is, and second, I want to borrow a knife to kill people, and borrow someone else's hand to poke this excerpt out." ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue also added: "At that time, even if there is no way to kill people with a knife, pinching that thing in his hand is equivalent to pinching the lifeblood of auspiciousness, so that he does not dare to be too presumptuous." Otherwise, if the imperial court really sends another Manchurian governor, and joins forces with Jixiang to take charge of the soldiers and money, our life will definitely not be easy. ”

Hearing that Wu Chaoyue was reasonable, Zhao Liewen also started his brain, and pondered for a long time before saying: "If you just want to get that excerpt, there may be some hope." ”

"Tell me, what's the solution?" Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked.

"It's very simple, you personally went out to put pressure on Li Qinggu, under the pretext that you lost too much face, and asked Li Qinggu to deal with Liang Kefan quickly and let out a bad breath."

Zhao Liewen replied: "Then, we can deliberately leak this news to Liang Kefan, who is locked in prison, by bribing Zhang Gaonian, and also use Zhang Gaonian's mouth to say something to Liang Kefan about how rabbits and dogs are cooking, throwing pawns and protecting cars, and also reminding Liang Kefan that it is difficult to rely on the words of big people, and for their private interests, even their parents can sell them." In this way, Liang Kefan will definitely ask to meet the auspicious person again under fear. ”

Then it's simple, when Zhang Gaonian went to report to Jixiang, he asked him to deliberately add a sentence, saying that Liang Kefan must see a copy of the excerpt to feel at ease, and the person who wants auspiciousness must take the excerpt to Liang Kefan to see for himself. And Jixiang already knows that you ran to Li Qinggu to put pressure on you, and you must believe it, and it is very likely that you will really bring that excerpt to the prison to make Liang Kefan feel at ease, and if we want to get that excerpt again, it will be easy. ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded again and again, and after carefully deducing for a while, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked: "If Ji Xiang is cautious and doesn't let people take the excerpt to the prison, and the flaws are revealed in the conversation with Liang Kefan, isn't it immediately exposed?" ”

"Comfort Pavilion, you can only gamble." Zhao Liewen replied helplessly: "That's a secret fold, unless you have a holy decree to copy the auspicious home, otherwise there is absolutely no second way to get this secret fold, so although this method is not foolproof, it is the only way you can hope to succeed at present." ”

"And." Zhao Liewen added: "After the leakage, Jixiang will never dare to make a noise, it is already a felony to leak the content of the secret fold, not to mention the leakage of such an important secret fold content, borrowing a hundred guts from his auspiciousness, he will definitely not dare to publicize this matter, even if he does not dare to mention this matter in the emperor's secret fold, he will only hide it in his heart and hate you even more." ”

"Regarding this, anyway, you have offended him by using hooligan means to rectify Jixiang, the relationship cannot be eased, and you don't have to worry about a lot of debts, I don't think you will mind."

"One more thing." Zhao Liewen continued: "After leaking the stuffing, Liang Kefan will also understand that he knows too many auspicious secrets, and he is even more afraid that Jixiang will kill him, and it will be much easier to pry open his mouth to get the evidence of auspiciousness." ”

After thinking about it for a long time, he really couldn't find a better way to get the secret trick, so Wu Chaoyue also made up his mind and agreed to adopt Zhao Liewen's idea, which was not very safe, and at the same time sent someone to Zhang Dejian to give an order, asking Zhang Dejian to increase the price of buying Zhang Gaonian to three times, and buy Zhang Gaonian at any cost.

The old colleague still has a little friendship, Zhang Dejian's action to buy Zhang Gaonian of the Yamen Prison in Zhentai is of course very smooth, after the three hundred taels of silver of the white flower are put in front of Zhang Gaonian, Zhang Gaonian, who only received one hundred taels of silver from Jixiang, immediately changed his master, knelt in front of Zhang Dejian and sang conquest, swearing that everything was obeyed by Zhang Dejian's orders.

After confirming the success of the first step of the plan, Wu Chaoyue, who had been waiting impatiently, ran to the Yamen of the Zhan Si and lost his temper in public, using the excuse that his face was too big, and forced Li Qinggu to sentence Liang Kefan quickly. As a result, Li Qinggu was also happy, and while promising to do his best to meet Wu Chaoyue's requirements, he also gave Wu Chaoyue a surprise - on Liang Kefan, the errand officer of the Yamen of the Zhensi Department inadvertently searched for a list, and several names on the list were also marked with the names of some Hubei Liguan, which seemed to be Liang Kefan's proposed candidate for the supervisor of Lika.

"Did you investigate the people on this list?" Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked.

"Lord Huifutai, I checked." Li Qing Guyin replied with a smile: "All of them are related to the staff and cronies of Ji Fantai, and the fattest Jiayu Liguan is missing, and his name is Zuo Bao, and he is the nephew of Zuo Ruizuo, the chief of staff of Ji Fantai. ”

"Well done." Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed, patted Li Qinggu's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Go all out to open a breakthrough from these people, even if these people's mouths are pried open, they can continue to touch them." ”

Li Qinggu smiled and promised, and looked at Wu Chaoyue with a cruel smile. At the same time, the news that Wu Chaoyue ran to the Yamen to exert pressure was naturally quickly sent to Jixiang, so that Jixiang immediately raised his vigilance and did not mention it.

Then, of course, Zhang Gaonian went out, taking the opportunity of inspecting the cell, Zhang Gaonian deliberately told Liang Kefan the news that Wu Chaoyue had found Li Qinggu to exert pressure, and he was very sympathetic to Liang Kefan who was worried that Liang Kefan might be in a catastrophe this time, I am afraid that Jixiang would not be able to keep Liang Kefan, and kindly reminded Liang Kefan that the promises of big people are generally unreliable, and they can do anything for their own interests. Finally, Zhang Gaonian also listed several examples of what happened in this prison -- in order to silence the accomplice lackeys forever, the officials spent money to buy the jailers to press the sacks of the accomplice lackeys.

Zhang Gaonian's words scared Liang Kefan, who was already a little timid, into a disillusionment, and he knew that Jixiang's nature was by no means a moral gentleman, in order to survive, Liang Kefan of course immediately begged Zhang Gaonian to bring a message to the auspicious person, asking Jixiang to send someone to visit him again, and give himself a word. Zhang Gaonian agreed, and immediately stabbed the news in front of his old friend Zhang Dejian after he got out of prison.

The most critical step has arrived, in order to let Zhang Gaonian die hard, Wu Chaoyue, who has always been stingy, took out another two hundred taels of silver and handed it to Zhang Dejian, and asked Zhang Gaonian to deliberately add that sentence when reporting the letter. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue asked Zhang Dejian to make a promise to Zhang Gaonian, as long as he cheated out the excerpt and helped Zhang Dejian get the excerpt, he would give Zhang Gaonian another 500 taels of silver.

"Malegobi! The net is open, the bait is also thrown out, whether you can do that thing, it depends on whether you can be fooled by auspiciousness! (To be continued.) )