Liu Zheng and Chen Qing and the four Han generals drank from three o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the afternoon, during which Liu Zheng once again told everything after the arrival of the victims, this time he did not tell the story, but took advantage of the drunkenness of these people to hold a complaining meeting, and told a lot of bitter and non-existent things about how hard they worked, how they rolled it out, how they resettled the victims, how they were not trusted by the prefect, how they were made difficult by the prefect, how the prefects of the counties below arranged their own rebellion, and so on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Listening to Chen Qing and the four Han generals slapped the table and shouted that they would go to slaughter Wang Jiabin and the magistrate below, Liu Zheng persuaded him for a long time before he comforted him, and when he was persuaded to stop, Liu Zheng started the silver offensive again, and said to Chen Qing that 100,000 taels of silver were given to Chen's husband, and he gave Chen Qing 20,000 silver alone, and asked him to say a place, and he personally sent someone to send it.

Chen Qing really has no place to settle, he is the little eunuch next to Chen Zeng, he has no power and power, there is no house at all, Liu Zheng rolled his eyes and said to Chen Qing with a smile, it's okay, I will send someone to Beijing to buy you a foreign house, and then put all the money in the house and save it for Gonggong Chen.

This made Chen Qing very happy, and immediately dragged Liu Zheng to worship the handle, Liu Zheng did not dislike it, and asked the shopkeeper to take the guys in the store to prepare an incense case, and come to a chicken head to burn yellow paper to play out of Taoyuan to tie the knot, but he carefully instructed the shopkeeper in his ear, no need to really prepare, just drag the time.

When the four Han generals heard that Liu Zheng not only wanted to give Chen Qing 20,000 pieces of silver, but also to buy him a house in Beijing, their eyes immediately turned red.

Liu Zheng naturally saw this scene in his eyes, and waved his hand with a smile, several generals Liu also had a silver coin to give here, 10,000 taels of silver per person, also because it was inconvenient to carry, he sent it directly to Chen Qing's outer house, and when the generals returned to Beijing, they went to get it.

At this moment, the four Han generals were also happy, and then Liu Zheng began to open up again to persuade the wine, and after a few rounds, these four people drank and floated, and after a few rounds, these people were all left at the bottom of the table.

When all these people got under the table, the smile on Liu Zheng's face disappeared, and he snorted slightly, and then ordered the shopkeeper to ask the guy to carry these to the inn to rest.

After Xiao Er and his men carried away the drunk and unconscious Chen Qing and the four Han generals, Liu Zheng took Wei Boyuan to the mansion.

"Old man, Chen Qinglai said to us today that it is a great thing, not only can we clear our identity as a thief, but also set up a line with Chen Zeng, the end of this line is not Chen Zeng, nor the emperor, but the imperial concubine in the palace!"

Wei Boyuan was surprised when he heard Liu Zheng's words: "Virtuous nephew, do you mean that Zheng Niangniang, who is very favored by the saints?" ”

Liu Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, it's that Zheng Niangniang, my purpose is to catch her, as long as we serve her well and make her happy and satisfied, we have no worries about anything, even if Chen Wenwu in the court says that I Liu Zheng is a thief, as long as this imperial concubine says that I am not, then the emperor will believe that I am not a thief!" ”

Wei Boyuan was a little unconvinced, Liu Zheng saw Wei Boyuan's expression and smiled slightly: "Old man, you don't know how much the emperor loves the imperial concubine Zheng, if you want to compare her to Daji, and compare the emperor to Shangxuan, that's a bit too much, but you can compare her to Yuxi, I think our emperor is very willing to tear all the silk silks in the world to make her laugh." ”

Of course, Liu Zheng's analogy is excessive, the real imperial concubine Zheng is a talented woman who is a little fresh and has a bit of literary atmosphere, and our Ming Emperor Wanli Ye loves this, and none of the three thousand beauties in the harem can compare with his imperial concubine in this aspect.

Wei Boyuan has also heard about the current saint's favor of the Zheng family, and he even knows some about the reason why the emperor has not been in court for so many years, so he was silent all of a sudden.

Liu Zheng suddenly thought of Wei Boyuan's embarrassed face in the face of the four Han generals, so he asked: "Old man, I see that you seem to have some dislike for those Han generals, why is this?" ”

When Wei Boyuan heard this, a touch of pain appeared on his face, and after a while, Wei Boyuan said as if he had made an incomparably huge determination: "Your brother, who is also my eldest son, used to be a general of the Han Dynasty, but he was framed by a traitor and created the poisonous hand of Jinyiwei, alas, my son's life is miserable!" ”

After saying this, there were tears in the corners of Wei Boyuan's eyes, Liu Zheng didn't expect this to be the case, and he was silent for a while before he spoke: "Old man's mourning, don't worry, old man, I will avenge my eldest brother!" ”

"Alas, forget it, it's all over, don't mention it!" Wei Boyuan waved his hand, and then suddenly thought of something and asked Liu Zheng: "Virtuous nephew, you said that there are two things to do in Qingzhou City, Chen Qing here, we can deal with it, but what about the other one?"

"The other thing I'm going to tell you next!" Liu Zheng carefully organized the language and said, "Old man, do you remember the women we exchanged for food!" ”

Wei Boyuan was slightly stunned, and then said, "Remember!" Aren't you all put together and let them make clothes for our soldiers? How? What happened to them? ”

Liu Zheng sighed and said: "This matter is not big, but it is also said that it is not small, and it is not good to make trouble, it is really a mess!" ”

Wei Boyuan was curious: "What's wrong?" ”

"Since we changed them out of the city, didn't we find a place to place them alone, before the city gate was opened, they have been staying there very quietly, in addition to washing the clothes for those single craftsmen, it is in a hurry to make military uniforms, but soon after the city gate was opened, there was chaos, almost all of these women have never left their families since they were children, so they miss their families very much, and we are very loose in management, thousands of women are watching more than a dozen old women, and many women secretly run home!"

Speaking of this, Liu Zheng sighed again: "The matter is with these women, and it sounds bloody!" ”

Wei Boyuan understood a little more when he heard this, after all, the reputation and reputation of women are very, very important in this era.

Liu Zheng continued: "The women who didn't run found those who ran back secretly, we didn't treat them well, and their families and neighbors didn't look at them differently, so more and more women secretly ran home!" But the day before yesterday, a woman who ran home secretly died! ”

"This woman was hanged, the reason, it's very sad to say, she has a marriage contract with the neighbor's eldest son, and the two of them also grew up as childhood sweethearts, and before the marriage contract, the two secretly made a private decision for life! When the woman went home, she went to her lover with joy, thinking that he would be as anxious as she was in that situation, but unfortunately the reality was too cruel! ”

"Not only did she not gain a worry and expectation from her lover, but she also didn't see half a point of joy on her lover's face, but she saw indifference and disgust......"

"It didn't take long for rumors to spread in the neighborhood that she had been ruined outside the city, and the more unruly the rumors spread, the more unruly they went, and the rumors reached the ears of the woman's family......

"Alas!" Wei Boyuan sighed hatefully and said, "People's words are terrifying! This is a tricky matter, if one is not done well, all the women who return home will be implicated! ”

"It's tricky indeed!" Liu Zheng nodded and said: "But it's not impossible, although the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan, it is better to block it, but this thing must be blocked, not only blocked, but also blocked quickly, blocked from the source, pinched from the source, and cut the mess quickly, another reason why I led the troops into the city is for this, I want to let those rumors know how fast the knife in my hand is!" ”

The expression on Wei Boyuan's face changed rapidly several times, and finally turned into a helpless sigh, he really didn't have any good way to deal with this kind of thing, and he couldn't come up with any good way to face this matter by anyone, so he planned to let Liu Zheng go!

The two of them soon arrived at the mansion, Liu Zheng didn't have the door of the mansion at all, he looked down on these so-called literati, there is a saying that Xiucai's rebellion failed for three years, these people wanted to make him Liu Zheng's rebellion is impossible, at most it is to block him.

Liu Zheng thinks that Wang Jiabin in the Fu Yamen and his scholars and scribes, the best way is to break it with force, if you want to make a fuss, then good, I will directly drive the knife to your neck, I see if your neck is hard or my knife is hard.

lit up the soldiers and horses he brought, found the official Mao Fei, and asked Mao Fei to lead his people along the avenue and go straight to the family who had the accident.

When Liu Zheng arrived with the soldiers, these people were startled by the sound of horses' hooves and wanted to run, but unfortunately both ends of the alley were blocked by the soldiers, and when they saw that they couldn't run, these people scattered to both sides of the road and knelt on the ground trembling.

Liu Zheng also ignored them, and let Mao Fei lead him directly into the woman's husband's house, the family's surname is Zhou, the head of the family is a butcher, the family is quite wealthy, and there are many children, three sons and two daughters, and the eldest son who has a marriage contract with the dead woman is named Zhou Ning.

Liu Zheng's way of entering the door was a little rude, the door of the family was kicked open by the soldiers, hearing the movement, a middle-aged fat man in his forties came out of the north room, and knelt down with some fear after seeing Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng stood in the middle of the courtyard, his left hand on the handle of the waist knife, and only glanced at Butcher Zhou and said, "Why am I here today, you know in your heart, you have three sons, and it doesn't matter if you die one!" ”

Butcher Zhou, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled violently in his heart, kowtowed in panic and cried: "General Liu, you can let my family Ning'er go, he is young and ignorant, please, you have mercy, let him go, please!"

Liu Zheng snorted softly and said, "I let go of your son, so who will let go of the dead woman?" ”

"General Liu, Xiu'e's death really has nothing to do with my son, it's really ......"

Liu Zheng didn't bother to listen, waved his hand and said: "I'll give you two choices, either your son dies, or your whole family dies!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Butcher Zhou was anxious, and crawled forward on his knees for two steps, thinking of Liu Zheng approaching, but the soldiers brought by Liu Zheng immediately came out and put the knife on his neck.