On the second day after Wujin went to Pingjiang County to protect Cheng Chen Zhi in the imperial history, Gao Heng, the servant of the Criminal Department, arrived in Weiyang County, and the two court officials arrived at the same time, which really disturbed the officialdom of Donghai County, which had just calmed down.

Gao Heng, the squire of the Criminal Department, is also a native of Jiangning Mansion, a fellow villager with Uncle Shen, and his father once served as the housekeeper of the Shen family, and his career also has a great relationship with the Shen family.

In the short five years that Empress Shen went from a noble concubine to a queen, Gao Heng soared to the top, from the chief of the criminal Cao to the county lieutenant, and then served as the county Sima.

This time Gao Heng came to Chuzhou to inspect, mainly because Shen Guifei was promoted to the queen, plus the king of Chu built a mansion, double happiness was coming, His Majesty the Emperor of the Daning Dynasty issued an order to favor Chuzhou and amnesty the prisoners of Chuzhou, Gao Heng was ordered to announce the order of amnesty for prisoners in Chuzhou.

Gao Heng came by land, escorted by more than 100 soldiers from Jiangning Mansion, and at noon, Gao Heng's carriage arrived at the north gate of Weiyang County.

At the gate of the city, a group of officials such as Shi Xuyuan, the magistrate of Donghai County, Sima Zhao Jiehao, and Beijia Huangfu Qu have been waiting for a long time.

Since the battle between Hu Cao and the head of the curtain came down, Xu Yuan has become very low-key, although he is a long history, he is standing at the end, his expression is a little gloomy, and he has obviously lost weight.

The functional official corresponding to the Criminal Department is Jun Sima, that is, Zhao Jiehao, he has been busy with the marriage of his eldest son in the past few days, so he has not dealt with the arrival of the waiter of the Criminal Department.

But Zhao Jiehao is not nervous, he is very familiar with this Gao Heng, when Zhao Jiehao came to Donghai County five years ago, he was initially the county lieutenant of Weiyang County, and he was promoted to the county Sima two years later, and at that time, Gao Heng was the county lieutenant of Jingkou County, Danyang County, so he gambled well.

Every time he came to Weiyang County on an errand, Zhao Jiehao would take him to the third floor of the Huangji Gambling Hall at night to play flower gambling, which belonged to the kind of friendship that has gambled together and prostituted together.

But in just a few years, Gao Heng has been promoted from a county lieutenant to a waiter in the Criminal Department, and he is only a county Sima, which is called 'It is better to have a good backstage than to cast the right child', and the backstage is hard!

Today, in order to leave a good influence on Gao Heng, Zhao Jiehao not only changed into a new official uniform, but also removed the long knife that hung on his ass all day.

Seeing the carriage slowly coming, Zhao Jiehao hurriedly greeted him and bowed deeply, "Sima Zhao Haojie of Donghai County see Lord Gao!" ”

There was no sound in the carriage for a long time, and Zhao Jiehao couldn't stand there with his waist bowed, and he couldn't help scolding in his heart, "Damn, does the dog look like a dog when he wears a hat?" ”

He still remembers the ugliness of Gao Heng being teased by the girl when he drank flower wine, and he still remembers that when Gao Heng lost all his travel expenses and lent him money to go home, he vowed to repay himself, and now he is actually putting on an official show in front of him.

"Oh! It turned out to be Zhao Sima, and I haven't seen him for a long time. ”

The voice in the carriage was very soft, obviously a bit of a tone, Zhao Jiehao couldn't believe his ears, the original Gao Heng was a broken voice, and he liked to howl on the street when he drank alcohol, how did it become this tone.

He didn't dare to think about it, and hurriedly agreed, "It's a humble position, and I'm here to greet Master Gao." ”

"Hmmm! Excuse me. ”

Zhao Jiehao finally stood up straight, he only felt that his waist was sore and painful, and he could barely straighten up, he scolded again, but his face was still respectful: "Please go into the city to rest!" ”

In the carriage, Gao Heng was secretly proud, he liked this feeling of returning home the most, everyone had a higher status than him, everyone was arrogant to him, and he was high, but now, everyone lowered his eyebrows in front of him like a grandson, and he liked this feeling very much.

In fact, it is not necessarily a good thing to know too much about the leader's **, especially the indecent leader**, now Gao Heng belongs to such a kind of leader, seeing Zhao Jiehao reminded him of his many embarrassing past, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

This discomfort made him unable to remember the slightest benefit of Zhao Jiehao, but reminded him of Zhao Jiehao's various things that offended him in the past.

He had borrowed five taels of silver from Zhao Jiehao, and he had made an appointment to return it when he came to Weiyang County next time, but he had only been back to Danyang County for two days, so he wrote a letter to urge him, but for only five taels of silver, he made a fuss in Danyang officialdom, and he made himself lose face, hum! This time I came to Viyan, and if I had the opportunity, I would like to teach him a good lesson.

At this time, Gao Heng pulled up the curtain of the car, revealing his mediocre face, a round face like soybeans, a small nose and small eyes, less than forty years old, dark skin, and he knew at a glance that he was a child of a small family.

Gao Heng turned his eyes and saw Huangfuqu and Xu Yuan, but he didn't see Su Hanzhen, he asked strangely, "Didn't you Su Tingshi come?" ”

This is the main purpose of his coming, to see if he can catch a certain handle of Su Hanzhen, and then impeach, to a certain extent, Gao Heng is now the minister of the Qincha.

Zhao Jiehao hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Back to Lord Gao, it just so happened that Yushi Chen Zhongcheng also came, he came from the waterway, Lord Su and Zhang County Ling went to Huating County to greet Chen Zhongcheng in the morning, let me apologize to Lord Gao." ”

Gao Heng and Su Hanzhen are officials of the same level, and the assassin is directly responsible for Xiangguo, and it has nothing to do with the Criminal Department, so it doesn't matter if Su Hanzhen comes to see him or not, it's just a courtesy.

When Gao Heng heard the words 'Chen Zhongcheng', he couldn't help but pause, "Which... Chen Zhongcheng? ”

"It's Lord Cheng Chen in the Imperial History."

"Chen Zhi!" Gao Heng's face suddenly became gloomy, he didn't expect Chen Heimian to come, that was the person Uncle Shen hated the most, he sneered in his heart, the prince obviously sent Chen Zhi to fight him, very good, then they will see!

Gao Heng glanced at Xu Yuan again, and saw that his lips moved, and there seemed to be something unspeakable in his eyes, so he nodded, "Okay!" I'm a little tired, so I'll stay for a while. ”

He gave Xu Yuan a look, and the carriage slowly entered the city.

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Gao Heng lives in Qiupu Garden, which is the place where Weiyang County entertains VIPs, and is a small garden in the south of the Yangtze River that is exquisite and elegant, just near the north of the city.

Gao Heng had already stayed, he sent Zhao Jiehao away, leaving only Xu Yuan alone in the room, although Gao Heng couldn't help but want to find a woman, but he didn't dare to delay Uncle Shen's business.

Gao Heng sat on the chair of the Huanghuali Taishi, playing with the teacup of the official kiln in his hand, he blew the tea foam, took a sip of tea, and slowly asked Xu Yuan, who was sitting below, "Xu Changshi, you should know what I want to ask you!" ”

Gao Heng has no knowledge, but he is extremely cunning, and the adaptability of officialdom is even more first-class, just a few years after entering Beijing, the tone of speech, the speed of speech and the subtlety of speech have been deeply rooted in the essence of officialdom.

Xu Yuan has been very low-key these days, on the one hand, it is true that the competition of Hu Cao's chief affairs has failed, which has hit him very hard, which makes him very frustrated, and he is in a bad mood during this time, and he ignores many government affairs.

On the other hand, on the second day after Huangfu Weiming took over the head of Hu Cao, his financial power was hollowed out, and the monthly financial and tax expenditure report that should have been placed on his desk was placed on Su Hanzhen's desk, and some expenses and taxes and silver that should have been signed by him were also signed by Su Hanzhen.

This is the important surname of the head of Hu Cao, all the important documents in terms of finance and taxation are sorted out by the head of Hu Cao, and then he will submit it to his superiors, and now, Huangfu Weiming only submits it to Su Hanzhen, and no longer gives it to him, which means that the most important financial power of Donghai County was taken away by Su Hanzhen.

Xu Yuan's heart was full of fear and worry, he didn't know how to explain to Uncle Shen Guo, but Uncle Shen repeatedly told him that no matter what, he wanted to keep the financial power of Donghai County, this power was very important, and it was even related to whether he could defeat the prince in the end.

Now that he has failed, will Uncle Shen Guo let him go?

He had been worried for many days, but what should have come would still come, and now Gao Heng was asking him.

Helpless, Xu Yuan had to admit his defeat, he sighed, "Su Tingshi is very strong, I haven't been able to fight him, and I have the trust of Uncle Shen." ”

"Why, can't you even take a little head of Hucao?"

Gao Heng's face sank, a little unhappy, he was a servant of the Criminal Department, a high-ranking official of the imperial court, he would never take such an unpopular official as the head of Hu Cao to heart, in his opinion, appointing a head of Hu Cao is a gesture, this is originally Xu Yuan's purview, he actually lost, it can only show that this Xu Yuan is too incompetent.

"Then how do you want me to explain to Uncle Guo? Is this a simple sentence, with a burden? Is that okay? Lord Xu! ”

Xu Yuan bit his lip, of course he had to explain, how could he admit that he was incompetent, he also repeatedly looked for reasons after the failure, the main reason was of course that Guan Xianju's talent was indeed not as good as Weiming, from the perspective of fairness.

But this power struggle has nothing to do with fairness, and he can't report this as a reason to Uncle Shen, he must have a reason for Uncle Shen to spare him.

He sighed, "Lord Shilang, the failure of this competition is due to the fact that the Emperor Fu Qu has extraneous branches, and the originally simple appointment was complicated by him, but in the end, Su Hanzhen seized the opportunity. ”

Xu Yuan felt that he was telling the truth, the failure of this battle for the head of Hu Cao was largely due to Huang Fuqu's greed, originally before Su Hanzhen came in the future, he could use his authority to directly appoint the head of Hu Cao, but it was this Huang Fu Qu who refused to live or die, in order to make more money, he came up with a way for the six major families to compete, and united Zhao Haojie and Zhang Rong to put pressure on himself, so that he was forced to agree, this responsibility should be borne by him.

In fact, Xu Yuan originally agreed to compete among the six major families, to a large extent, because he underestimated the enemy, he thought that it was an ironclad matter for the Guan family to take over this household, and he didn't want to offend Huangfuqu and the other three for this matter, so he agreed.

But now that someone needs to take responsibility, of course he has to push the responsibility to Huangfuqu, which is also the normal thinking of ordinary people, the responsibility is someone else's, and it has nothing to do with himself, even if he is responsible, he has to do everything possible to wash it off.

Gao Heng looked at Xu Yuan for a long time, and finally he shook his head, "I don't think things have reached the worst yet, please Lord Xu don't say failure too early." ”

Gao Heng's understanding of Uncle Shen Guo is far greater than his understanding of the Criminal Department, Uncle Shen Guo only needs the result and not the process, he only cares about whose hands is the financial power of Donghai County? It seems that it will not work to put the blame on Huangfu Qu, otherwise there is no need for him Gao Heng to come to Donghai County.

"Lord Xu, I will stay in Donghai County for a few more days, how to explain to Uncle Shen, you can think about it yourself!"

Looking at Xu Yuan's back, Gao Heng's eyes narrowed, he only came to Weiyang County to assist, not to take responsibility.

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