Chapter 235 All kinds of superlatives
Shu Bangru, the commander of Jixi County, learned from Cheng Wenlie that there was a confusing so-called fire in the Hu family's old house at night, and that there was Wang Fulin among the people who visited in the evening before, so he immediately couldn't hold his breath. He has suffered too many losses at the hands of Wang Xiaoxiucai, and the most frustrating thing is that every time it seems that someone opens the net and hits it directly. So, instinctively, his hairs stood on end, and he slapped the table hard and stood up in annoyance.
"What the hell is going on, what is that Wang Fulin doing in Longchuan Village?"
"Perhaps...... It has the same meaning as the prefectural honor. Cheng Wenlie also didn't dare to underestimate Wang Xiaoxiucai at all, so he didn't hesitate to speculate on the other party's purpose with the worst intentions. As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Shu Bangru's face showed an expression of being about to kill.
"This county has been assigned to Jixi, and he still has to compete with this county, is it unbearable!" After Shu Bangru scolded, he looked at Cheng Wenlie again and asked in an extremely unkind tone, "What did Hu Songqi say before?" He hadn't paid a penny of summer tax and autumn grain for five years before, no, Hu Zongxian was still there in the previous years, but I was afraid that the Hu family would not pay it even more, since he had already promised you, and he also knew that the county was completely kind, he shouldn't have been pulled over by Wang Fulin so soon, right? What's more, you said it all, Hu Songqi went to Xingshi to ask for guilt. ”
"This ......" Cheng Wenlie hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to tell the truth, "I don't think it's too optimistic, the county is better to plan for the worst." ”
Shu Bangru's face suddenly turned blue. Although he is said to be a top three, there are special exceptions to the top three jinshi, and he may not be able to stay in the museum. You can't be a Beijing official. But it doesn't matter if he didn't stay in Beijing. But he didn't even get the county order, and in the end he was reduced to being a pusher, which was already very miserable, this time he was abandoned by Duan Chaozong and sent to a poor mountain and bad water like Jixi, so it was easy to catch a seemingly good opportunity, and he was robbed of it, why was he so unlucky!
What surprised him was extremely unexpected. After Cheng Wenlie poured a basin of cold water on his head, he continued to speak: "If the county lord really doesn't give up, the student has one last way. It's just that if this method is used, if it fails to be effective, I am afraid that the county will not be able to stay in Jixi, or in Huizhou. Because now that the case is clearly overturned for Hu Zongxian, the county is afraid that he will not be able to compete with others, so there is only one way. is holding Hu Zongxian and can't overturn the case. Of course, this is against the will of the people. It is several times more difficult than the previous plan of the county honor. ”
Seeing Shu Bangrudeng's complexion changed greatly, looking at himself like a madman, Cheng Wenlie himself knew that his method was a little crazy, but he didn't dare to disobey the driving force behind him, and at this moment he still lowered his voice and said: "Actually, the student didn't dare to be so wishful thinking and go against the general trend, just because the student learned that the Huiningchi Taidao sub-patrol who had originally come to She County, that is, the news of Qian Guan's departure." The new Huiningchi Taidao sub-patrol is the deputy envoy of Zhejiang according to the inspectorate, Wang Ruzheng, and Wang Observation. ”
"Wang Ruzheng? This name sounds a little familiar......" Shu Bangru frowned, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly widened his eyes, "Is that the former supervising imperial history Wang Ruzheng?" ”
"The county respects good memory." Cheng Wenlie smiled and said with a flattering face, "Such a person can still remember." ”
Since Shu Bangru knows such a person as Wang Ruzheng, of course he understands that if there is the person in the world who does not want Hu Zongxian to overturn the case, then it must be Wang Ruzheng. It was this person who copied a lot of letters from the Hu family that Hu Zongxian had communicated with Yan Shifan and Luo Longwen, as well as the so-called Hu Zongxian's own holy decree, and put Hu Zongxian to death. When Hu Zongxian wrote a book to defend himself in the prison, he gritted his teeth at Wang Ruzheng, saying that he had made great achievements, and he had always been hated by the officials, and even exposed that Wang Ruzheng had received bribes. However, at this time, the Yan Party has been uprooted, and behind Wang Ruzheng is Xu Jie, how can Hu Zongxian succeed?
But in the end, Wang Ruzheng was released from the supervision of the imperial history to Zhejiang as the deputy envoy, and he has not moved his nest in the past few years, and there is no hope of returning to the dynasty, it seems that the grade has been upgraded, but the trend of rising and falling is already obvious, can such a person really help himself?
"You let the county think about it, think about it again."
Cheng Wenlie didn't dare to exert too much pressure, in fact, he himself knew how crazy this was. Fortunately, Shu Bangru should think that his master is under his refuge, so that he will not be liquidated by Wang Shangning and the eunuchs of the five counties, if Shu Bangru really falls, he will definitely not end well, and he should not think that he has other intentions. However, as soon as he retreated to the door, he only heard Shu Bangru's voice behind him.
"Send someone to Longchuan Village to inquire about the news first, and then make a decision when you understand the situation over there."
Many people stayed up all night. Some are excited, some are relieved, and some are impassioned...... But Wang Fulin, who had been running around for two days, was idle. The matchmaking work he should do has been completed, and the rest of the organizational work, naturally, some people come forward and even roll up their sleeves to fight.
Cheng Naixuan patted his chest on behalf of the Cheng family, but unfortunately he was sent a drudgery by Mrs. Xu to go to Xixinan and Nanxinan to lobby the Wu family. Wang Yingjiao and others undertook the task of going to Wuyuan to contact people, and now that they are backed by the government, the confidence of the three of them is suddenly much greater. As for Duan Fuzun and Ye Xianzun, they need to work out an official framework for this matter.
This night, because the Desheng Gate was closed, everyone couldn't go back, and the old lady Xu had to let people clean up the rooms and place the guests. As for Ye Junyao, he was directly taken back to the mansion by Duan Chaozong to live, and it was obvious that he still had something to say. And Wang Fulin didn't care that there was a second master Xu who was very unfriendly to him in this Xu family's mansion, he fell asleep and had no dreams all night, and in the end, if someone knocked on the door outside, he might be able to sleep until noon.
Yawning, he got out of bed and opened the door, and when he found that the person outside the door was actually Mrs. Xu herself, this sleepiness stopped all of a sudden. He swallowed back a yawn that came to his lips, and then asked helplessly: "Old lady, why don't you do this thing yourself?" ”
"Knowing your hard work, my old man originally planned to be sympathetic to you and let you sleep for two more hours, who knew that Shu Bangru, the commander of Jixi County, came to the city early in the morning, rushed to the morning hall of the mansion, and bluntly sued Hu Songqi for not paying the summer tax and autumn grain for many years." Old lady Xu was angry when he said that, and when he saw that Wang Fulin hurriedly let him in, he said angrily, "We have few people in Huizhou, so there are many people who go out to do business, and there are few businessmen, and there are not a few people who do everything possible to pay less taxes, but this Hu Songqi, he actually relied on the protection of Mr. Merlin's unjust death for two terms, and he didn't pay a single cent of taxes!" It doesn't matter if he pays some and owes some! ”
Xiaobei overheard Hu Songqi and Cheng Renqing talking before, and only heard half of it, so Wang Fulin really didn't know that Hu Songqi still had such a handle in Shu Bangru's hands. He raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked at Old Lady Xu and asked a little puzzled, "Is Shu Bangru just to sue the Hu family, or did he bring something else?" What about Hu Songqi's attitude? ”
When the news came just now, Hu Songqi finally admitted that there was such a thing, although he was hesitant. But Shu Bangru didn't know that it was an old account that the veteran of the household had calculated, and Li Luoli actually calculated 1,500 taels of silver, Hu Songqi was entangled until the end, and gave the old man a clear sentence, he said that when the Hu family was raided, almost all the family property was gone, and more than 1,000 taels could not be taken out at all! ”
"What a superb!" Although Wang Fulin has long hated Hu Songqi as a person, he can be said to be deeply disgusted at this moment.
Need? The first time Old Lady Xu heard the word "best" to describe people, he was stunned for a while, and he tasted the disgust revealed under the words, and the originally bad mood suddenly became even worse.
"That's right, it's the best! A thousand taels of silver, it's not like everyone can't make it up, but I'll tell you the truth, I really don't feel happy to fill the hole for this kind of person. The purpose of the old man's life is to never do anything that is not pleasant, even if it is for Mr. Merlin, I don't want to break this precedent! So, I'm an angry old man who can only come to you and see what you have in mind. ”
The old man is a lot older, will he really not have a good way to deal with the best? It's just because for Hu Zongxian's sake, it's not good to go too far, so he just used his notoriety of Wang Xiaoxiucai. I'm afraid that Wang Yingjiao's three guys won't be able to bear the old man, and he will tell the original story of how he dealt with Hu Songqi yesterday, and the old man will beat him again.
Wang Fulin understands this truth very well. He glanced at the old man, and finally said helplessly: "Okay, let me be this wicked person." ”
Old lady Xu smiled at the time: "Okay, good!" Fu Lin, you really talk about righteousness. Looking back at the matter of this year's autumn grain in Xu Village, I promise to do it in person, and I will send it to your charity shop to exchange for silver. By the way, the rice industry guild you tossed out seems to be preparing to leave you alone. Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province has a poor harvest this year, and the price of rice is high, and they are ready to sell all the rice they have collected to merchants at a high price, just hiding it from you. You don't have time to do this right now, I need to warn you. ”
For such news, Wang Fulin was not too surprised. He pressed the grain merchants to set up a rice industry guild, and then he didn't do anything, and Ye Qinglong's little shopkeeper couldn't keep busy at all, and it was natural for those people to hide what they tossed. Thinking that he had asked Steward Xie to pick a safe person to go to Hangzhou a long time ago, and carefully made such a big deal, he couldn't help but smile and blink.
"I don't know if there is a news that Hangzhou is flooded with Huguang rice at this time, and the price of rice has fallen by 30% in response, what is the attitude of the merchants who collect rice over there?"
Old lady Xu immediately laughed, gave a thumbs up and praised: "One sentence can defeat 100,000 soldiers, good!" ”
Wang Fulin humbly snorted: "How can you be so scheming as old lady Xu?" Hu Songqi's side, I'll deal with him, and as for other things, there's Old Lady Lao Xu. (To be continued......)