While Cui Chengxiu and Wu Chunfu were busy defending Yu Zhigao's exoneration, Sun Yueling and Fang Yichen were not idle, and in order to successfully rescue Liu Duo, they had decided to use the extraordinary means of bribing the eunuchs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This thing seems a little inferior, but in fact it is just a common method in officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is an extremely common behavior. At that time, there were many party disputes in the imperial court, and sometimes officials were demoted, dismissed and other punishments.

After all, Fang Yichen was also an official who had served in the court, how could he not understand this truth, so as soon as Sun Yueling mentioned this matter, even though he was a little unhappy, he could only accept it silently. In fact, he also knew very well in his heart that this was the only way that could be done, even if it was not so above board, he could only try it at this time.

However, Sun Yueling thinks a little differently from him, in his opinion, since the eunuchs can ignore the law and discipline to frame them, why can't they give bribes and gifts, the enemy has not played cards according to the routine, if they are still the same, they will fight those eunuchs who have no bottom line.

And throughout the Ming Dynasty, those famous ministers and good generals who were admired in later generations were really two-sleeved and single-minded for the country? When Xu Jie's family property was five times that of the traitor Yan Song, when he was the first assistant, Qi Jiguang gave Zhang Juzheng a gift full of carts, but this did not affect the extremely high evaluation given to them by later generations, because although they were greedy for it, they used most of their ill-gotten wealth to govern the country and train the army, so even if their bodies were flawed, it still did not affect their merits.

Now Sun Yueling thinks like this, since Xu Jie and Qi Jiguang can do this, of course they can follow suit. Besides, this time it was the eunuch who framed him first, so don't blame him for being unscrupulous.

He handed over this matter to Yan Nantian to do, Yan Nantian has been dormant in Beijing for many years, and he has a wide range of contacts, so it is most appropriate for him to complete this matter. Yan Nantian really lived up to his expectations, and after three days of procrastination, he finally got on the line with the old faction of the eunuch party.

In the secret lair, when Yan Nantian returned the news to Sun Yueling, he was overjoyed, he couldn't imagine that Yan Nantian's work efficiency was so high, and he hurriedly asked: "But you got in touch with the second assistant Feng Quan?" ”

Yan Nantian shook his head and said: "Feng Quan's official is in a high position, and the person sent by his subordinates has never been able to see him, but he has met his confidant, Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry. ”

"Wang Shaohui?" Sun Yueling was slightly surprised when he heard this, and said, "It's him?" ”

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Fang Yichen saw that his expression was different, and he couldn't help but ask.

Sun Yueling shook his head and smiled, "It's okay, just talk about it." Looking at Fang Yichen, he continued, "When I was serving as an envoy in Fujian, this person was still the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but I didn't expect to jump so quickly and become the head of the six heavenly officials. ”

Fang Yichen snorted coldly and said, "Which of these thieves who slandered Wei Gelding didn't rise to the top one after another?" ”

Sun Yueling nodded and said: "What you said is right, this person imitated "Water Margin" and made "Donglin Point General Record", listed all our Donglin people on it, and presented it to Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of power, so as to gain the trust of Wei Eunuch, which can be regarded as ingenious!" ”

Fang Yichen frowned and said: "This person has always hated Donglin, and now that we have found his way, is it a little sick and rushed to the doctor?" ”

Seeing that Fang Yichen was still a little angry, Sun Yueling laughed and said, "Now that Nantian is here, why don't we let him finish his words?" Turning his head, he motioned for Yan Nantian to continue.

Yan Nantian bowed slightly, and continued: "The person sent by his subordinates saw this Wang Shaohui and told him about rescuing Liu Duo, and Wang Shaohui has promised to come forward to help. ”

"How much silver does he want?" Fang Yichen asked anxiously.

Yan Nantian stretched out three fingers at him, and Fang Yichen was surprised: "Thirty thousand taels? ”

Yan Nantian shook his head and said, "It's 300,000 taels." ”

"What?" Fang Yichen shouted, "This is obviously a lion's big mouth and a lot of fortune for others." "300,000 taels is really a lot of money for him. You must know that at that time, the price of selling officials and lords was only worth 100,000 taels of silver for a prefect, and 30,000 taels of silver for a general soldier, and now Wang Shaohui wants 300,000 when he opens his mouth, which is simply greedy.

Sun Yueling said lightly: "Does he know who is the person who said Xiang for Liu Duo?" ”

Yan Nantian said: "Don't worry, Wang Shaohui doesn't know that person is from our Fenghua Society, only that he is the intermediary entrusted by Liu Duo's family." ”

Sun Yueling said: "That's good. Now that the mere 300,000 taels of silver is a drop in the bucket for him, he doesn't take it to heart at all, and says to Yan Nantian, "Tonight, you will prepare the silver and send it to Wang Shaohui's mansion, so that he can rescue Liu Duo from prison as soon as possible, and I am afraid that something will happen at night!" ”

Yan Nantian nodded in response.

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In the next few days, as Sun Yueling expected, after Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry, received their silver, he immediately found Feng Quan, the second assistant, to intercede for Liu Duo and asked him to come forward to protect Liu Duo from harm.

Feng Quan is actually a very talented person, otherwise he would not have been awarded the second assistant by Wei Zhongxian at the age of thirty-two, the reason why he hated the Donglin Party was because his father was impeached and removed from office by the Donglin Party, and the other is that when he served in Dali Temple, he was harassed by Gao Panlong, a good Donglin boss with Longyang, so he spared no effort to fight against the Donglin Party after being reused by Wei Zhongxian, and was brave to be a pioneer.

In fact, although Feng Quan hated Donglin, but seeing that Donglin was defeated in the struggle of the imperial court, and the political enemies of the year fell and died one by one, he was already relieved in his heart, and he also restrained himself from Donglin, unlike before, he had to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and it was precisely because of this that Sun Yueling tried to rescue Liu Duo through his way and break the current predicament.

Feng Quan is certainly talented, but he is extremely greedy, misconducted, and has different political views from Cui Chengxiu and others who want to kill Donglin, so he is deeply jealous of Cui Chengxiu, and he can't drive him away from the center as soon as possible and replace him with himself.

Now Wang Shaohui came to intercede for Liu Duo, and after some discussion with Feng Quan, he thought that this matter was okay. Liu Duo was innocent, but Ni Wenhuan was framed by Ni Wenhuan for personal vendettas; Second, Liu Duo's reward is very rich, if you don't regret it; Sanlai Zheng can use this to knock Cui Chengxiu and his gang to let them know who is in charge of affairs in the court and who is in the cabinet to decide.

Soon, a document stamped with the cabinet seal was sent to the Yamen of the Fusi in Beizhen, Xu Xianchun was surprised after receiving this letter from the cabinet, Liu Duo was a key prisoner who was personally nodding and imprisoned in the edict by the nine-thousand-year-old factory duke, and now the cabinet actually issued a letter asking for release, is he letting go or not letting go?

After some weighing, Xu Xianchun chose to release him, the reason is very simple, Liu Duo is Ni Wenhuan's key person, Wei Zhongxian is just bewitched by Ni Wenhuan, and he may not be bent on putting him to death. Now the second assistant of the cabinet, Feng Quan, wants him to release people, although there is no indication from Wei Zhongxian, but he may not know about it, he doesn't have to offend Feng Quan because of this matter, why not release Liu Duo first to see the after-effects, even if something happens, it can be said that he Feng Quan meant, and it has nothing to do with him Xu Xianchun.

Thinking of this, Xu Xianchun immediately ordered someone to release Liu Duo from prison and sent someone to report this matter to Dongchang.

Outside the gate of the Imperial Prison, Liu Duo, the prefect of Yangzhou in coarse cloth, stood by the street, looking up at the sky, the sun was shining in the sky, and the hot and humid Imperial Prison was simply two worlds.

Just as he was sighing with emotion, he suddenly heard someone on the corner of the street shouting him, shouting: "Lord Liu, Master Liu." ”

Liu Duo turned his head and saw that a man in blue was running towards him, but he didn't know him.

Liu Duo looked around, and after confirming that this person was calling himself, he couldn't help but be surprised: "You are ......"

"Congratulations on my release from prison, the little one is here to greet him." The man didn't wait for him to finish speaking, so he interrupted his words, and stretched out his hand to support his body, and pointed to a small sedan chair parked not far away, "Please get on the sedan chair, let's go back, Mrs. is still waiting for the master in Zhihua Temple." ”

Liu Duo was suspicious in his heart after hearing this, but he experienced officialdom, and there was still such a calm effort, so he remained silent at the moment, and said lightly: "Okay, let's go!" With that, he walked towards the sedan chair.

This is a sedan chair carried by two people, and after Liu Duo sat in it, the sedan chair man lifted the sedan chair. Liu Duo lifted the sedan curtain, and saw the man walking slowly with him, and the direction of this trip was not Zhihua Temple but the outer city of Jingshi, so he asked, "Who are you?" Where are we going? ”

The man smiled and said: "The little one is a subordinate of Lord Lang Fang of the Late Military Department, and today I am specially ordered by my master Fang to greet Lord Liu, and take Lord Liu to go and talk to him." ”

"Sure enough, it's our brother!" When Liu Duo heard him say this, he finally put his mind at ease. Before being imprisoned, he had asked his subordinates to go to Jingshi to find Fang Yichen and ask him to find a way to rescue him from prison, and now Fang Yichen really lived up to his expectations and rescued him from the edict.

In fact, he was pretentious and upright all his life, with clean sleeves, he was not afraid of eunuchs, even if he died in prison, he was not afraid, but he died in such a daze, he couldn't help but feel a little unwilling, so he found someone to ask his friends in the court to help, and now although he has been deprived of his official body, at least his life is still there, Liu Duo sighed in his heart and slowly lowered the sedan curtain.

The sedan chair went out of the inner city, through the streets and alleys, and finally stopped outside a house.

Under the guidance of the man, Liu Duo entered the house, first bathed and changed clothes, and then met his best friend Fang Yichen in the back room of the house.

"Thank you, Brother Fang, for saving me!" Liu Duo saw Fang Yichen and hurriedly thanked him.

Unexpectedly, Fang Yichen smiled and said, "Brother Liu, it is not me who saved you, but someone else. He pointed behind him.

Liu Duo raised his eyes and saw a person slowly turning out behind the screen, wearing a green shirt, plump and handsome, with a clear face, and a short beard under his chin trimmed neatly, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Lord Sun? ”