The White Lotus cultists who had been ambushed in advance in the north and south of the river were lured by false instructions to rush to Taixing, and Li Qiu, Huang Gonggong, Huo Chonglou and others dispatched troops to round up, interrogate the captured White Lotus cultists to dig deep and investigate carefully, and report all kinds of situations to the imperial court.

Chen Wangmo is completely downfall, although the court discussion to deal with such a serious case can not be made overnight, Yangzhou and the Beijing division of the document exchange also has a process, the official edict of the imperial court has not yet come down, he has been very interested in paying the official seal trust to the Caoyun Governor Li Qiu to take care of it, and he himself will not go out according to the criminal official system, waiting for the court to investigate.

Qincha, who was still staying in Nanjing, made Liu Yiru learn the news, and Baba rushed to Yangzhou, but the first news he heard after getting off the sedan chair almost made him faint with anger: Li Qiu, the governor of Fengyang, the governor of Caoyun, and Huang Gonggong, the deputy envoy of the lieutenant official, used the excuse that the situation was urgent at that time and it was too late to inform Nanjing.

It is conceivable that when the Jingshi Imperial Court saw that the name of Liu Yiru, the envoy of the Qincha, was missing from this concert, the little emperor and Zhang Xiangye must ask: "Liu is a genuine Qincha, why is there no name on the chapter that handled the theft of Caoyin?" ”

Feng Baotieding, the eunuch who has never dealt with Liu Yiru, replied: "Liu Qincha has been staying in Nanjing and has not moved his nest, and the case is all handled by our lieutenant deputy envoy Huang Gonggong, Huo Sifang of Dongchang and Jinyi Wei Qin Lin, our family feels that this Liu is old, and it is okay to use the pen, but I am afraid that I can't bear it myself......"

Come on, I will live in Nanjing for the rest of my life, don't think about returning to the center of Beijing!

Liu Yiru slapped his thigh, so angry that he couldn't even speak, but who told him not to come to Yangzhou when the case was committed? I had no choice but to hurry up and go to the Taoist chapter, zigzag and twisted to blow that I was commanding the right thing and employing people properly, although I did not personally handle the case, but the whole situation was under control, and I am currently appeasing the place and handling the aftermath...... Fuck, you can't even fool yourself with this nonsense! Liu Yiru had no choice but to be a dead horse doctor, send the chapter, and pretend to be loyal all day long, but in fact, he didn't do any bullshit.

People from all walks of life revolved around this case, some of them immediately wanted to go up to heaven and listen to Jane in the emperor's heart, and some saw that they were ruined, waiting for the dismissal and investigation, or sitting on the cold bench.

However, Qin Lin, who was giving orders in a majestic manner a while ago, was idle, and according to his words, "The interrogation of grassroots disciples is such a thing as no technical content, just let Lao Huang and Lao Huo do it, I'd better rest more!" ”

Look at this guy's cowhide coaxing, partial to Li Qiu below, what Yangzhou prefect, Jinyi Weiqiu Baihu and other large and small officials will come to ask for his opinion if they make the slightest progress, ask for instructions early and report late, not to mention how modest they are - they all feel that the fall of Chen Wangmo has a lot to do with this master, don't look at the person who is just a small Jinyi Wei deputy thousand households, even the chief military officer of Pingjiang Bo Caoyun can be brought down, and he is even equal to the young lady of the Jiangling Prime Minister's Mansion, who dares to underestimate him?

At first, Qin Lin also saw him, but then he was overwhelmed, and when these officials came again, they said with a straight face, "My head official went out to meet guests." ”

What kind of guest will this guy be?

The size of the Cao Gang!

Tian Zongjia and the following Cao businessmen regard Qin Lin as their reborn parents, if it weren't for Qin Lin to recover Cao Yin, Chen Wangmo would have forced them to death long ago.

If you live for a lifetime, you have to tell a story about your kindness, and besides, I heard that this lord has the means to reach the sky, and he has a deep relationship with the Jiangling Prime Minister's Mansion.

The Pingshan Hall in the Daming Temple in the northwest suburbs of Yangzhou is a famous garden built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Cao Gang feasted Qin Lin here.

In front of the hall, the ancient vines are intertwined, and above the open hall of the hall, the plaque of the three big characters of "Pingshan Hall" is hung high. The hall is an open hall with five rooms. There is a stone platform in front of the hall, which is called Xingchun Terrace. The front of the stage is surrounded by a railing, and under the fence is a deep pool, and there is a special interest after the bamboo thousand poles are repaired in the pond in winter.

Overlooking by the railing, "the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, before the arch threshold, if you can climb it", fly on the imminent and seem to be flat with the hall, the name of Pingshan Hall is located here, it seems to be the famous sentence of the poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty "outside the river flow heaven and earth, the mountains are in nothing" into a picture, showing in front of people's eyes.

There is a big round table of golden silk nanmu on the hall, the table of the lion fairy fighting sugar, the food is extremely exquisite, the wine is the Qionghua dew brewed by the mountain spring water of Daming Temple, the aging of 30 years, the color is like amber.

Seven or eight maids are all delicate and lovely southern beauties, with light makeup but a natural charm, one by one wearing flowers and butterflies, holding a golden pot to pour wine for the guests.

Qin Lin sat in the chief, and the bottom left was a group of wealthy businessmen and giants led by Tian Qiye, and the right was the local gentry led by the prefect of Yangzhou, Gui Muguang.

Everyone was staggered, and the atmosphere at the banquet had been three or four points at this time, I don't know if it was really drunk or drunk, Tian Qiye's red sandalwood face had swelled into a dark red, and he raised his glass and said:

"General Qin is not only the reborn parents of my Tian, but the 100,000 people in the Cao Gang are also grateful to Dade, Tian doesn't know how to be hypocritical, anyway, in the future, Chief Qin will say a word, the surname Tian and these brothers under his hands, the water comes and goes, which one dares to frown without eggs in the crotch?"

Tian Qiye was originally a big man who had been in the top position for a long time, and he was a businessman and an official, but this time he was involved in the struggle between the imperial court and the White Lotus Sect, and he reluctantly discovered that in fact, people even swallowed themselves, and they were just appetizers!

If it weren't for Qin Lin's efforts to protect and recover Caoyin to eliminate the chaos, the Cao workers would have been really instigated by the White Lotus Sect to rebel, and the end of him, the chief armor, would be Ling Chi's execution and beheading!

"Mr. Tian is overrated," Qin Lin raised his glass and took a shallow sip of the wine glass.

Tian Qiye drank all the wine in the cup with a red face, in his opinion, Qin Lin, a big man who is simply in the emperor's heart, is willing to raise a glass and touch his lips to give Tianda face.

"A little bit of thin etiquette is not a good thing, it's just the intention of Tian and his friends, General Qin must not refuse!" Tian Qiye spoke, lowered his head, and was very embarrassed to give out a "thin gift", a sandalwood box.

Is this a blatant bribery? Qin Lin took it with a smile, as far as he knew, there were basically no officials who were really dismissed because of economic problems in this era, and the Qingliu civil officials who were born in Jinshi were all Bing Jing and Tan Jing who openly accepted protégés, and they did not shy away from taboos in the officialdom.

The sandalwood box is not big or small, and all the officials below the Yangzhou prefect Gui Muguang are quite greedy when they look at it, knowing that the gift given by the Cao Gang this time is by no means a small amount.

Unlike other guests, Qin Lin opened the gift on the spot, and when he opened the lid, he saw a stack of tickets paid at the Nanjing Wanyuan Commerce Bank Shop, all of which were 1,000 taels of denominations, and the thickness of the pinch knew that it was around 100 pieces, so it was 100,000 taels of silver.

Hiss - the hearts of the officials present are pounding, 100,000 taels of silver, the balance of the Ming Dynasty treasury for a month and a half, if the donors buy the book from the Cabinet of the Seventh Grade, they can buy sixty or seventy in one go!

However, it is also appropriate for the Cao Gang to make such a big move, if it weren't for Qin Lin, they would have to pay 500,000 Cao Yin, and it is very likely that they will be labeled as colluding with the White Lotus Sect.

Qin Lin slapped the silver ticket with a smile, and deliberately said half-jokingly and half-seriously with the officials led by Gui Muguang: "Didn't Tian Qiye embarrass this official?" If you accept it, all the adults will participate in it, and the lower officials are afraid of the old system of Grandpa Taizu's peeling of the skin and grass; If you don't accept it, I am a little reluctant in my heart after all. ”

The Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period and the Ming Dynasty of Hong Wuye are almost two dynasties, where is there still a saying about peeling the skin and grass? All the civil officials thought that Qin Lin was joking, and some people secretly muttered to themselves that this person was very good at solving cases, but he was a mallet in terms of human feelings, and he never looked up the gifts in front of the giver.

The prefect of Yangzhou alone returned to Muguang as a well-behaved person, and when he heard the flavor of Qin Lin's words, he immediately turned his face and said with a stern face:

"General Qin's efforts to fight the king's affairs and defeat the enemy, this time to quell the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect demon bandits, it is no different from a bloody battle on the battlefield, not only the Cao Gang is grateful, but the people of Jiangnan are also exempted from the catastrophe, and the lower officials have to thank General Qin for the people under their rule, who dares to participate? Moreover, Xia Guan is also a good friend of Tian Zongjia, I saw him suffering a few days ago but couldn't rescue him, so I regret it......"

Tian Qiye snorted in his heart, and secretly said that it is okay if you don't fall into the well in front of Chen Wangmo, what rescue can't be done, what the hell!

The officials of Yangzhou were immediately awakened by the admiration of the light, and immediately said that the 100,000 Cao workers also regarded General Qin as the Buddha of ten thousand families, and this idea of silver tickets was given to the people and the captains of the brocade clothes, not privately, what could not be received?

Some people even said that if Qin Lin resigned again, he would have failed the hearts of the Cao Gang, and if the Cao workers were resentful, the aftermath of the White Lotus Sect's instigation of the rebellion would not be settled, and maybe there would be branches.

Therefore, for the well-being of the people in Jiangnan and the Jiangshan Society of the Ming Dynasty, Qin Lin had to accept this silver.

A white-haired old magistrate even took out a dead admonition, and Zi said that Shiyun came out, saying that if Qin Lin didn't accept this money, it would simply be difficult to get along with the sages of the past dynasties.

"Since this is the case, this official will be disrespectful," Qin Lin smiled and handed the silver ticket to the waiting fat man Lu and told him to accept it.

Lu Yuanzhi couldn't cry or laugh when he looked at this scene, and said in his heart that Brother Qin was not an official in Yangzhou, and he didn't care about this group of local officials, so why bother to pinch them in his words? Let's go back to Nanjing and take care of the Yangzhou officials?

is the paragraph just now, quite like Zhao Gao on the stage pointing to the deer as a horse.

As everyone knows, Qin Lin has his own plans, and he has to do a career in Yangzhou!

The Cao Gang also prepared gifts for local officials, and Tian Zongjia didn't understand why Qin Lin wanted to hold these officials down, but since it was made public, he simply asked the maid to take out the gifts for the adults and distribute them.

The local officials of Yangzhou smiled one by one, although the amount of gifts compared with Qin Lin was too light, but which one had the courage to compare with this big Buddha? The theft of Caoyin, the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, the magistrate will be unlucky, and now he is not only innocent, but also has a meritorious role in quelling the rebellion, and finally has the silver to take, isn't it all thanks to Qin Lin?

The sound of sycophants broke out again, the officials from the literati were very elegant, and the quotations were vague, but Qin Lin didn't understand it very well, and only used chopsticks to pick up vegetables to eat.

In the end, it was Gui Muguang to see a few clues, and said a lot more popularly: "Qin General Jian is in the emperor's heart, and it goes without saying that he will rise to the top in the future, and the reason why Xia Guan and Tian Zongjia chose to set up a banquet in Pingshan Hall is because Ouyang Wenzhong Gong (Ouyang Xiu) of the Song Dynasty likes this place the most, and often lingers here, and then Mr. Ouyang officially lives in the Great Song Dynasty, from beginning to end, the court is Wenzhong, and it is really a perfect generation. ”

This time, Qin Lin drank all the wine in the cup with a smile, but this guy who laughed with a thief, stared at him and was cold, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't quite fit the character with the nickname "Wenzhong".

"That's right," Tian Qiye suddenly left the table, bowed respectfully and said: "The villain and the general merchants in the gang are grateful to General Qin, if it weren't for General Qin, the little ones would have already died in a broken family, plus Cao Gong and his family also regard General Qin as a Buddha of ten thousand families, so they set up a shrine next to the Twenty-four Bridges, I wish you a high marquis for all generations!" I didn't dare to speak clearly to General Qin in advance, and I hope to forgive my sins. ”

Qin Lin touched his head, and said in his heart, could it be that I have the potential to be a god stick? Why did you set up a shrine in Qizhou and an ancestral hall in Yangzhou?

Thinking of the famous brother in the Ming Dynasty who liked to build a shrine for himself, Qin Lin suddenly felt a chill: Nine thousand years old, nine thousand years old, eunuch party, eunuch party!

He smiled and asked, "Isn't it a lot of money?" ”

Tian Qiye said with a straight face: "No matter how much it costs, it's just a little gratitude from the little ones." ”

Qin Lin was slightly drunk and patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, worshipping this official is more zero than worshipping the God of Wealth, and you will be able to earn it back soon, hahahaha......"

Tian Qiye smiled brightly on his face, but he wondered in his heart, General Qin is a captain in brocade, I heard that he has a pencil business, but that thing doesn't have much profit, saying that it is a bit to let 100,000 Cao Gong and a number of general merchants make a fortune? ――

The officials in Yangzhou did not participate in Qin Lin, only those who have been caught in their brains will commit this stupidity, and there are not too many people who can be officials of the imperial court.

But someone did play him.

When Wang Shiqi rushed from Nanjing to Yangzhou to report the news, Qin Lin was still in a hangover, and the two maids came to call him, and he called Xuanxuan in his mouth on the left, and hummed Qingdai on the right.

Hearing that Wang Shiqi was visiting, Qin Lin was a little surprised, this person was originally one of the four sons of Jinling, and his father Wang Shizhen was Ying Tianfu Yin and the leader of the literary world, he and Liu Huzhi, Gao Panlong, and Gu Xiancheng were mixed together with several waste materials, and there was still a conflict with Qin Lin before, but later it seemed that Wang Shiqi was a little alienated from those three, and he was not like Liu Huzhi and Qin Lin.

What did he come to Yangzhou for?

Qin Lin drank a cup of sobering tea and walked to the outside hall, Wang Shiqi said a few words, and then looked around: "I have confidential things to tell General Qin." ”

I didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so Qin Lin also introduced Wang Shiqi into the study.

Wang Shiqi said straight to the point: "General Qin, you have been sued!" ”

Tell? Who would dare to sue me? Don't want to live anymore? Qin Linden wanted to kick Wang Shiqi out.

Wang Shiqi hurriedly said: "General Qin, please look at this recital, you will know that the little brother has not lied. ”

Qin Lin took the chapter and flipped it over, and immediately brought his brows together-the person who wrote the chapter was none other than Wang Bengu, the left capital of the Kyoto Inspectorate!

Two days ago, the Jinyi guard system came to the news that Wang Bengu withdrew the Nanjing Jing guards and horses who protected him, and transferred the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to act as the guards, Qin Lin didn't care when he received this news, after all, he had fully grasped the evidence of Wang Bengu's crime, and this guy was a toothless tiger at all, and he could only scare people, but he had no ability.

It can even be said that just waiting for Zhang Juzheng to move in Beijing, there must be a holy decree to deal with this person, dare to collude with the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain of his own country, and kill Wang Zhi, a maritime merchant who is willing to help the Ming Dynasty exterminate the true Japanese, whether he knows the true identity of Shimazu or not, whether he is deceived or knowingly committed it, causing ten years of Japanese rebellion and the sacrifice of 100,000 soldiers and civilians along the coast, such a serious crime must be punished canonically!

So Qin Lin didn't pay attention to him in a hurry, just waiting for the imperial court to come down and clean up this guy, but who would have thought that he would actually participate in Qin Lin?

Wang Bengu is a guy who hides very deeply, and most people think he is a Qing official, but they don't know that the Yellow River and Xingtai have encountered big floods in the Wanli years, and the vicinity of Shunde, the capital city, has become a Ze country, but the disaster of the Yellow River is more serious.

When Wang Bengu found out, he was afraid that the flood would flood his own farmland, so he immediately wrote to Emperor Wanli, suggesting that the people be mobilized to deal with it quickly. The emperor mistakenly regarded the word "yellow water" in Wang Bengu's compromise as "the Yellow River", and immediately instructed the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to raise funds and organize personnel to control the water.

As a result, the flood in Wang Bengu's hometown was controlled, but the real flood of the Yellow River was not treated, and the victims were everywhere and suffering everywhere...... Unexpectedly, Shilin actually regarded a small section of the river in Xingtai that was governed, that is, the section that Wang Bengu repaired for his own family property, as his merit in controlling the water!

How unreasonable!

This time, Wang Bengu jumped out again, he accused Qin Lin of colluding with Wang Zhiyu's party and the Japanese invaders, Caoyin was simply stolen by the Japanese invaders, Qin Lin would only help them speak after being bribed by the Japanese invaders, as for the things such as appeasing Jin Yingji and opening the sea to trade, they are all nonsense, and only Han Jian, who took bribes and betrayed the country, was willing to do this...... After Qin Lin saw it, he was so angry that he threw the piece to the ground, and said in his heart, this guy is too penny to kill people, and it will be spread, and the masses who don't know the truth still don't say that I, Qin, am a Han annihilation, and Wang Bengu is a hardcore Qing official who asks for the people's life?

However, how did this piece get into Wang Shiqi's hands, and why did he come to report it?

(To be continued)