"Strict investigation, strict investigation, who is so lawless that he dares to assassinate my Qincha. Ｅ．” In the imperial study, when I got Wang Fang's information summary today, the first thing I saw was the news of Lu Hanqiang's assassination in Changzhi.

The assassination of Chin Cha is a serious contempt and violation of imperial power, and this kind of thing will never be tolerated.

"Wang Chengen, you will send a scout to me now to strictly investigate the place of Changzhi, I must know who assassinated Lu Aiqing as soon as possible, I will deal with it strictly, is this worth it?"

At this time, the cat-like Wang Chengen only opened his mouth, but he did not accept the holy decree.

"Wang Chengen, what do you mean?" Chongzhen was furious, turned around and stared at Wang Chengen, gritted his teeth and said, "Is it also your share in this assassination?" ”

When Wang Chengen heard this, he knelt on the ground with a bang, and knocked his head on the stick: "Wronged, long live, the old slave and Lu Banyu are living and dying together, how can they assassinate Lu Banyu?" Wronged. ”

Chongzhen thought about it, it was impossible for Wang Chengen to assassinate Lu Hanqiang, he was confused, so he kicked Wang Chengen, who was kneeling on the ground: "Then what are you still kneeling here?" Why don't you send out a scout to solve this case? I want to be fast, no matter who is involved, I will be strictly tried and will not be treated leniently. ”

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground and sat motionless for a long time.

"Do you want to resist the decree?" Chongzhen roared angrily again. The fact that his relied on minister was assassinated in broad daylight is intolerable and intolerable, and this is rare in the 200 years of the dynasty, and this must be strictly investigated.

"However, the old slave is only responsible for the red ticket according to the will of the saint, and I have no right to investigate the case." Wang Chengen raised his head and looked at Chongzhen with an innocent face.

"You" Chongzhen pointed at Wang Chengen for a long time, and then he could only put down his finger in despair.

Yes, now there is no Jinyi Wei East and West Factory, and now if you want to investigate the case, you have to count on the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, where to arrest the fast push officials, according to the current administrative efficiency, if you want to find out, it is simply unrealistic.

Chongzhen was depressed, and suddenly remembered the benefits of the Jinyi Wei East and West Factory, after all, he was his own house slave, and he was still handy in doing things, but he remembered who made him helpless? It was still Donglin, and the evil feeling towards Wenchen in his heart at that time was much stronger.

The literati mislead the country, and the generals are afraid of death, which is the portrayal of the current Ming Dynasty, and it is also the embarrassment of Chongzhen now.

But in a blink of an eye, I still have a commercial bank intelligence department, this department is already skillful under the rectification of Wang Fang and Wang Chengen, and they have no right to arrest people, but the investigation is no problem, so he shouted to a small eunuch, "Go, send an edict to Wang Fang, and give me a ten-day order, and I must find out the behind-the-scenes instructions for the assassination of Lu Banyu, if I can't find out, hum." After Chongzhen thought about it, he could only hum, because he also knew that there might be a bit of a conspiracy here, and it would be a little difficult to let a cloth-clothed king investigate, if he said the way to punish him, he was a golden mouth, and he would punish his most intimate retainers, and he would really be a little unable to do it.

The current Wang Fang, in Chongzhen's eyes, is definitely the most loyal retainer.

The little eunuch hurriedly left the palace and ran to the headquarters of the trading house to deliver the decree. This is also a familiar road, and when he entered the Huitong Pavilion, he didn't need anyone to guide the way, nor did he put a shelf in the palace, so he directly entered Wang Fang's Intelligence Department, and saw Wang Fang in the pile of information handed over from all over the country, with more than a dozen people busy with his hands.

Now all the members of the firm are full of spirit and energy, especially after Lu Hanqiang punished an official who ate and drank for nothing and cut off his butler's head, he has a stronger sense of belonging to the firm, so he is more attentive to collecting intelligence, so there are more and more information summaries every day.

At this time, the little eunuch went directly into the hall and stood at the door of Wang Fang and shouted: "Wang Fang has received the order." ”

Wang Fang was stunned for a moment, immediately put down the pen in his hand, sorted out his clothes and quickly came out from behind the table, and came to the little eunuch in front of him to kneel down, but the little eunuch picked it up, he came to preach the decree this time, it was an oracle, but he didn't dare to let the big red man in front of the emperor kneel, "Our family came to preach the emperor's edict this time, you just stand and listen." ”

Wang Fang immediately bowed his hands and listened carefully.

"The emperor ordered the king to find out the murderer of Lu Banyu within ten days, if he can't find out, hum."

Wang Fang was still listening respectfully, and after two hums, there was no follow-up, so he raised his head inexplicably: "No?" ”

"Nope." The little eunuch spread his hands.

Wang Fang smiled, not surprised at all. Then he walked back to the table, picked through the drawers, took out the largest bag of silver, and handed it to the little eunuch with a smile, who was smiling happily.

Now, almost every day, there are eunuchs sent by Chongzhen to pass the decree, some have something, and some just come to ask, so the king has prepared three kinds of silver bags such as large, medium and small according to the severity of the will, which has also become a benefit for the eunuchs.

One gave naturally, one received the frankness, after receiving the silver bag, the little eunuch smiled and said to Wang Fangtou, "Long live heard what you reported, very angry, so I hurriedly passed down the message, but I see that Long Live has a black face, but I don't have a little blame for you, haha, Mr. Wang, it seems that you are getting more and more appropriate in Long Live's heart, and I will pull more and more of our family in the future." ”

Wang Fang was humble again and again, and then called a small servant to accompany this diligent little eunuch to the front restaurant for a good meal.

Looking at the two backs who went happily, Wang Fang shook his head lightly, and said secretly in his heart: "The emperor's gaze is still shallow." ”

He had already received a letter from Lu Hanqiang, and he specially asked to suppress this matter, but his father rushed to it in anger for a while, and as a result, in front of the little eunuch who came to get information, he poked the news out, and this was the result. Thinking of his father, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Why do I have such a father." ”

Now Wang Shilang is a proud mess, in the military merits and spoils that have just come up in Shanxi, the emperor personally mentioned the point, let himself be the coveted Zuo Shilang, become the absolute second-in-command of the household, as long as one step, he can sit on the first chair of the household Shangshu, once he becomes a scholar, you can enter the cabinet, when the time comes, the cabinet will appear the second lonely party figure, the first cabinet of the lonely party party, has just been promoted by the Ministry of Industry Zuo Shilang to the Ministry of Labor's own comrade Zhao Zhao pulled out the jackpot, But that kid is still sensible, and he has to ventilate with himself first about everything, this is the scenery.

This time, Wang Shilang did not have a little high style and brightness in the promotion of military merits, and the four top promotions ordered by the emperor himself, after requesting Lu Hanqiang, gave the four successive positions to his own party, according to the principle of stepping up and queuing, almost forty people in the Lone Chen Party were promoted, which was a complete victory.

And the result that made Wang Shilangle happy the most was that his grandson also got the status of a hereditary hundred households, and he also got the companionship of a great grace future prince.

Reading with you, referring to Lu Hanqiang's steps, that will be the hope of the Zhongxing Wang family in the future. So, now as long as Lao Wang is not in the court, he takes this five-year-old grandson with him wherever he goes, and at the same time let the children get the education of officialdom in advance, he also gets countless envious eyes, of course, Donglin personnel only have jealousy and hatred.

Inside and outside Lu Hanqiang's small courtyard, there is a feeling of being heavily guarded now, when Lao Wang came with his grandson, Liu Tao of the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division was saying goodbye to the third uncle in front of Lu Hanqiang's gate.

Lao Wang, who got off the sedan chair, pulled Liu Tao over and asked in a low voice, "I instructed you to arrange people to protect the old lady at twelve o'clock, how about the matter?" ”

Liu Tao immediately nodded and replied: "Don't worry, my lord, I originally moved my own Jia to Lord Lu's house as a neighbor, and this time I got the news of my adult's assassination, I sent additional people as soon as possible, you can see." Pointing around, Lao Wang followed his finger and looked, on the left side of Lu Hanqiang's courtyard, a newly opened teahouse, a shopkeeper, three guys no longer greeted guests in the house, but they were all outside, looking at Lu Hanqiang's door like a doorman, as if their only guest was there.

And there is also an extra grain store on the right, and the guy with a big waist and a round waist is even more eyeing Lu Hanqiang's family, and there is an additional sentry box in front of the Terracotta Division, in which the five soldiers of the Terracotta Division are full of hostility to everyone who passes by in front of Lu Hanqiang.

"The neighbor on the left of Lord Lu's house is my house, and on the right is Huang's only home, and this kid has also hired ten nurses."

"What about the back?"

"Later, hahaha, look at it now, there are homeless beggars lying all over the place, I guarantee that you don't even have a place to put your feet, but don't worry, my lord, I am given according to the salary of five dollars of silver a month, and there are five masters there, I am given according to three taels of silver, once there is merit, I will reward him heavily."

Lao Wang nodded with satisfaction, but suddenly remembered something: "By the way, the one opposite"

"My subordinates understand, that is our future wife of Lord Lu, according to the current words, that is our future mother, baby, if you don't go to the probe now, I promise to rush up immediately Ten big men will fight you can't find the north, quack."

"It cost a lot of money." Lao Wang nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at Liu Tao with slanted eyes. "People in the public family naturally have public expenses, but the people you hire can't go through the public accounts, which will bring trouble to Lord Lu."

Liu Tao straightened his chest, "My lord, Lord Lu is kind to my family, and the business house has made me earn a lot of money, my father said that all this silver is counted in my head, and I will definitely not leave a little bit of Donglin's bastards for Lord Lu, this is also my chance to repay Lord Lu." ”

patted Liu Tao's shoulder with satisfaction: "You have done a good job, you are affectionate and righteous, but this time Lord Lu has promoted dozens of people from our Lone Ministers, and Lord Lu will not accept gifts, so these people are worried that they have no chance to repay, I am saying, the safety of Lord Lu is also the safety of our Lone Ministers Party, therefore, I will go back to have a meeting in a while, and we will go out together with these envoys." ”

Liu Tao also had to be modest, at this time, Lu Hanqiang's door hurriedly walked out of Steward Zhang, stood on the doorstep and looked out, and saw the old Wang and Liu Tao muttering here, hurriedly ran down the steps with the corner of the robe, and then gave it away from afar, "The third uncle saw the sedan chair that seemed to be Wang Shilang, and reported it to the old lady, and the old lady hurriedly asked me to come out to greet him, Wang Shilang, go in quickly, the old lady is about to talk to someone." ”

Wang Shilang laughed with a glorious face, "The labor steward personally greeted him, it's an honor and honor." The two of them exchanged politeness.

As soon as Liu Tao came out of it, he didn't go in anymore, said goodbye, and was busy with his own affairs, so under the guidance of Steward Zhang, Wang Shilang took his little grandson and stepped into Lu Hanqiang's courtyard.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw that in front of the main hall, Mrs. Lu was already waiting there, and she hurriedly took her grandson to step forward and bow down, and then pushed her little grandson out and knelt down and kowtowed to the old lady.

A little guy with a pink carved jade voice kowtowed milkily and called grandma, at that time, the old lady was not able to see her teeth, and she was no longer willing to let go of her hands in her arms.

The jade pendant is small, but seeing that the old lady likes it, Lao Wang is even more happy, and he is determined to bring this beloved grandson every time he comes next time.

At this time, the moon slave placed refreshments under the tree in the yard, and Wang Shilang, who was almost seventy years old, personally helped Mrs. Lu, who was just fifty years old, to sit down, so the two of them chatted about family life, while watching Xiaoya with two puppies and Wang Shilang's grandson running crazy in front of and behind the yard, and they were having fun.

After a period of small talk, the old lady seemed to ask casually, "Lord Wang, I see that in the past few days, Lord Liu Tao and Lord Liu have been making so many things in my courtyard, and they are all like great enemies, is there any safety for my son Hanqiang outside?" ”

Lao Wang sighed in his heart, did the old lady know something? Peeking in, I saw that the old lady didn't seem to have much to worry about, so she deliberately relaxed and said, "Lord Lu also has correspondence on weekdays, and everything is going well, but I am worried that I am not at home, and there is an unsightly mess like Niu Er, so I ask our brothers to help take care of it, of course Wei Ma has to do a good job of the things entrusted by the brothers, as a result, this Liu Tao is too dog-legged, so he will make this matter bigger, the old lady can rest assured, everything is fine." ”

After saying this, he quickly changed the topic, looked at the little girl who was having fun and his grandson, and sighed softly with regret, "It's a pity that Miss Zun and my grandson are different generations, otherwise I must have a family relationship with Brother Hanqiang, how good it would be." ”

There was a grunt behind him, and when he turned his head to look, it was the shopkeeper and the third uncle who were struggling on the ground.