The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but don't underestimate the inconspicuous scribes, they often know a lot of inside information, but they are afraid of the pressure from above, and they dare not say it casually.

The Yan family has been in charge of the government for more than ten years, and the household department is almost their family's treasury. Tang Yi looked at Zhou Qihua with a smile, like a bad uncle holding a lollipop.

"You have two ways, either you will be honest and tell everything you know, or I will send you to Jinyiwei, naturally someone will take out all the silver you have embezzled over the years, which one do you choose?"

Zhou Qihua swallowed hard and frothed, and asked cautiously, "Is there a third one?" ”

"Phew!"

Tang Yi smacked him hard, grabbed the list, and strode outside. This frightened Zhou Qihua, he pounced and hugged Tang Yi's thigh.

"Lord Tang, Master Tang, spare your life, spare your life! The younger one has a high grandmother, and the younger one has a child who can't walk, and if the little one dies, the whole family is doomed. ”

Tang Yi raised his foot and kicked Zhou Qihua to the side, and sneered: "I still know that I miss my family and want them to live, so you can tell me honestly!" ”

Zhou Qihua opened his mouth, and his facial features gathered together painfully, becoming a big bun with a thin skin and eighteen folds. He took two more steps to his knees, a handful of snot and a handful of tears.

"Lord Tang, what do you want the little one to say, the little one is just a small shrimp, how can you know how many things!"

It's still slippery, it's really a piece of hob meat.

"The surname Zhou, this official has been in the yamen, and he knows you people best, some of the little officials are indeed sesame mung bean-like characters, earning a little money, and being deducted seven times and eight times. Pathetic. But some small officials, although their status is low, but they have great power in their hands, and there are some things that the big masters can't do, they can solve them with a word. ”

Tang Yi is by no means a joke, if he has been in the public business, he must have a deep understanding. There is no shortage of such examples in the Ming Dynasty. For example, Gu Xiancheng, the founder of the Donglin Party, as a member of the Ministry of Officials, left and right the scholars of the Ministry of Officials, and even the candidates for scholars, which can be called the best demon in the officialdom.

In contrast, Zhou Qihua is not enough to see.

"A person who casually embezzles eight thousand taels doesn't know anything, do you believe it yourself?" Tang Yi said sneeringly: "Zhou Qihua, I'll give you another chance at the end." If you are still obsessed and stubbornly resisting, I can only send you to Beizhen Fusi, they have their own 10,000 ways to make you speak. ”

"Don't!"

Zhou Qihua is really afraid, Beizhen Fusi, that is the living eighteenth layer of hell, let alone a small official like him. Even if the scholar goes in, he will put you at the mercy of noodles. Not to mention, there was a heavenly official of the Ministry who died in the edict prison in front of him, and Zhou Qihua fell to the ground with goosebumps all over his body when he thought about it.

"Master Tang, you are always discerning, and the little one is afraid of you, just ask what you want to ask." Zhou Qihua sighed. "But the little one wants to ask you for a guarantee."

"Say."

"Don't say it's small." Zhou Qihua said with a bitter face: "If you are not polite, you can't fight the old Xiaoge, how powerful the old Xiaoge is, he dares to be greedy for any money, and he levies taxes privately." False accounts, even the prince's money can be deducted, it's not that no one has been impeached, but what happened to these people, it's not that they are dismissed one by one, they are dismissed from office, they are beaten by the court staff, and they lose their heads, in fact, the small ones are not without conscience, who is not admired by loyal ministers and filial sons, but there is only one guy who eats, if he loses it, he doesn't know if he can grow it in the next life......"

Zhou Qihua babbled about himself, seemingly talking about himself, but in fact he was admonishing Tang Yi and letting him go, what was surprising was that Tang Yi nodded and seemed to really listen.

"Zhou Qihua, if you tell the truth, it won't be difficult for the official to do it for you, go out."

"Get out!?"

Zhou Qihua's excited voice changed, and he said in his heart that this person was still aggressive just now, why did he become a tiger in a blink of an eye? He was still stunned, Tang Yi sneered, "What, you still don't want to?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Zhou Qihua cried with joy, hugged his head and ran outside.

"Wait." Tang Yi threw the list away and said lightly: "Take it, and do less immoral things in the future." ”

Zhou Qihua was really moved at this moment, picked up the list, formed a ball, opened his mouth and swallowed it, choking and rolling his eyes.

"Lord Tang's mercy is engraved in the heart of the little one's life!" Saying that, he kowtowed and fled in embarrassment.

Tang Yi looked at his back, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, why didn't Tang Yi ask, could he give up? Of course not, but he has found a breakthrough from Zhou Qihua's words.

Zhou Qihua said that the prince was detained, which made Tang Yi suddenly remember one thing.

It's also ashamed to say that Tang Yi has seen a historical material in his previous life, saying that Yan Shifan was so rampant that he detained King Yu, the third son of Jiajing, that is, the future Emperor Longqing, so that King Yu had to search the mansion and scrape together 1,500 taels to Yan Shifan, so that he got the arrears, Yan Shifan, this guy is also big-mouthed, and when he meets people, he says that the emperor's son will also give him silver, who dares not to bribe him.

I'm afraid no one would believe that a courtier would blackmail the prince, but that's the case. The main problem is also the famous proverb - two dragons don't meet!

As the son of Jiajing, in addition to being able to look at his father from a distance in the ceremony, at other times, he can only play to the emperor through his courtiers, but the strict party controls the government again, and Yan Shifan is rampant and extremely smart, he bets that the ministers dare not speak for the vassal king easily, you must know that Tang Shunzhi was because of the visit to the prince, and as a result, he lost his official position and went home to study. Therefore, in the eyes of others, the unattainable and noble prince has become a big boss of prestige when he arrives at Yan Shifan, and he wants to use King Yu to show his strength and maintain the unity of the Yan Party. As for that bit of money, it really didn't look in Yan Shifan's eyes.

However, Yan Shifan has calculated a lot, but he didn't count that there is a guy who is bolder than him, if you want to brush the prince, Lao Tzu will brush your little pavilion elder!

Although he has not been in contact with Jiajing for a long time, he can't stand Tang Yi's good observation and experience in his previous life.

In Tang Yi's view, today's Jiajing is no longer the same as twenty years ago, like an ordinary old man, he began to crave family affection, and he treated the only remaining two sons with a cold exterior and hot inside.

How so?

In fact, from Jiajing's attitude towards Tang Yi, it was revealed that unconsciously, this Daojun Emperor treated the young and excellent Tang Yi as a nephew, otherwise he would not have accepted him as a protégé of the Son of Heaven. If you treat outsiders like this, how will you treat your own son?

Throughout the afternoon, Tang Yi pretended to watch politics and study, chatted with the officials of the household department, and obtained news about Yuwang, and when he summarized all the news, he came to a conclusion, Yuwang's baby is really pitiful!

Yuwang Zhu Zaigao is Jiajing's third son, his mother Du Kangfei fell out of favor in her early years, and even took Zhu Zaigao to be unwelcome, but Jiajing's first two sons died soon after establishing the prince. The suspicious Jiajing believed more and more in the nonsense that the two dragons did not meet, not only did he not establish a prince, but he was not even allowed to mention it.

Although King Yu is the only surviving eldest son of Jiajing in name, he also has a younger brother Zhu Zaizhen, King Jing, who is only one month younger than him.

As the so-called good people are bullied, without the love of his father and the emperor, and the cowardly King Yu has even been deducted from the most basic money, and it has been three years and only half of it.

And last year, in the earthquake, Yuwang's Mansion also collapsed a lot of houses, and the officials of the household department ran to the palace and Yuwang said that the state was nervous, so the gate could only be repaired first, and the inside would be repaired as soon as possible.

Zhu Zaiyuan, who was half of the little white rabbit, actually agreed, but just changed two doors for him, and then painted them again. From the outside, it is a tall and majestic prince's mansion, and as for the inside, even the ordinary rich are not as good as ......

Things like this are joked by the Beijing officials.

But Tang Yi was the only one who found that this was the best excuse to attack the arrogance of the strict party.

Tang Yi was thinking about how to make a move, and someone sent an invitation to invite Tang Yi to Zhao Wenhua's house for a banquet.

Tang Yi's eyes lit up, and he said that if he wanted to eat ice, he would hail, and the opportunity would come. Tang Yi readily agreed, didn't even change his clothes, got into the carriage, and came to the Tianguan Mansion

When I arrived at the mouth of the alley, the carriage couldn't get in, it had been blocked by the sedan chair and the carriage, the one wearing the big red robe was in the middle, and the one in the blue robe could only lean on both sides, dense turns, and there was no place to put your feet.

Tang Yi couldn't help but sigh, it was really a heavenly official, and it was bound to be difficult to reach the sky when he saw him!

He was hesitating, when suddenly a magnificent and wide carriage came from behind, all decorated with gold, and pulled by three red horses of ordinary color, and in the distance was a capitalized "moat"!

When the carriage arrived at the mouth of the alley, it lifted up from the curtain of the car, and a fat white face poked out, and after a glance, he scolded: "What the hell did Zhao Wenhua do, he didn't even have a way in, what kind of guest did he invite?" ”

At this moment, a housekeeper hurriedly ran over, nodded and said flatteringly: "Elder Xiaoge, the master has ordered, your carriage should go through the back door, he is waiting for you in the living room!" ”

When Yan Shifan heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning, and the boss in his heart was unhappy, since Zhao Wenhua became a heavenly official and supported Jingcha, he was not as deferential to himself and his father as before, in normal times, he was already waiting for him like a dog, it was really an official's temper!

Yan Shifan was in front of everyone, and it was not easy to attack, and suddenly saw Tang Yi standing at the back of the team, and there was a smile on his gloomy face.

"Isn't this the champion of the princess, Yan is polite." Yan Shifan took a few steps in front of Tang Yi, took his hand cordially, and said with a smile: "I have long wanted to talk to the champion prince, not long ago, the champion prince clearly distinguished right from wrong, and saw through the conspiracy of Li Mo's old puppet to slander the king, so that the old puppet was submissive, it is really happy, very happy!" ”

Yan Shifan laughed heartily, but Tang Yi snorted angrily, it was obviously Li Mo who you raised, and now he is pushing it on my head, do you want to ruin the reputation of the young master?

Tang Yi suddenly laughed loudly: "It is the duty of a man to punish adultery and eliminate evil, Xiao Ge Lao, I am not talented, I will impeach you tomorrow, you have to be prepared!" (To be continued.) )