But after Li You threw Lu Shangzhi into prison, he couldn't help but sigh that the popularization of new things always takes time... Ordinary people know about the county government and the government, and they know that they are looking for a complaint from the imperial history of the city, but they still don't know about the five city governors' yamen.

That Lu Shangzhi came from the Dajia family, and he was much more informed about the affairs of the government than ordinary people, but he was still confused when he entered him, and he didn't understand where he went.

is still the same sentence, there is a long way to go, Li You encouraged himself and went home.

In this hourly Yongfang, where every inch of land is valuable, the Li Mansion occupies a small area, and the five-room wives and concubines are very crowded to live in. Fortunately, in order to save space, the former owner set up an attic in the back side yard, which can be stuffed into two rooms at the same time. Upstairs Cheng lives, downstairs is Ma's residence.

At this moment, the night is getting deeper, and the curtain hangs low in the inner room downstairs, isolating the cold wind of late autumn outside, so the house is as warm as ever.

Li You leaned on the low collapse, staring ahead with his eyes, his brows furrowed slightly, obviously deep in thought.

The little concubine Ma knelt on the thick blanket under the collapsed edge, facing the couch, and kept kneading the old man's legs to relieve his muscles and blood.

And in his contemplation, Master Li subconsciously reached into Aunt Ma's neckline, rubbing aimlessly on her back, feeling the delicate and soft skin like satin. In fact, the master's hands are a little cold, which makes Aunt Ma not so comfortable...

The curtain moved slightly, and a good-looking beauty head poked in from outside, it was Aunt Cheng upstairs, who called softly: "Master? ”

Li You raised his eyes and responded: "If you have something to say, come in and say!" ”

Cheng Saiyu's little lady entered the house. He was very aggrieved and said: "Master, today's affairs, the slave family really doesn't know anything about it." When I heard my brother tell me, I realized that the shameless thing surnamed Lu actually ran to the master and talked crazy. The master wants to believe him, and the slave family is really wronged to death. ”

Li You asked suspiciously, "Has he seen you?" ”

"The slave family went to my sister-in-law. Later, the surnamed Lu also came to celebrate his sister-in-law's birthday. The sister-in-law grabbed the slave family and said that they were all very close relatives, so there was no need to pay attention to these many customs and etiquette. So I asked the slave family to accompany her and introduced her. However, the man surnamed Lu went out again for some reason, and later heard that he ran to the master and went crazy. ”

How it sounds. It's like Cheng Lu's instigating his cousin to pursue Cheng Xiaoniang? Li You felt a vague grasp of something.

There's a key issue here. Lu Shangzhi seems to be an ignorant fool, but Cheng's uncle's wife, that is, Cheng Lu's family, does he know about his Li You's share?

Li You asked again: "Today, in front of you, did the Cheng Lu clan talk about the master and my share?" ”

"My sister-in-law didn't mention the master at all, it's really boring." Aunt Cheng was very depressed about this.

Today, Miss Cheng went back to her parents' house, and it happened that her husband also went with her to save face, so she planned to show off Li You to satisfy her little vanity. Unexpectedly, the sister-in-law didn't say a word to her husband, and called Miss Cheng full of showmanship. But there is nowhere to speak...

This is a bit of a cover, Li You's mind was bright, and he immediately judged the situation. If an ordinary woman who hasn't seen each other for a long time has a chance to meet and talk about family things, it's hard not to mention her husband and family? Then today's hostess Cheng Lushi avoided talking about it, which seems unusual.

The relationship between himself and the Cheng family was indeed not big at the beginning, and only the eldest princess, Wang Qinian, Qin Sile, and Lu Sangongzi each knew a thing or two. In the end, the matter of the Cheng family only changed hands between him and the eldest princess, and the little lady Cheng was also given to him directly by the eldest princess, so not many people knew about the situation.

Coupled with Cheng Laozhang's deliberate low-key morality, it is naturally becoming more and more unknown. In these years, women are not taken seriously, and their sense of existence is very poor, and many people estimate that they may not even know that Cheng's father-in-law has a daughter.

But that Cheng Lu has already married into the Lu family, so he should be different from outsiders. However, it has been deduced that it doesn't matter whether Cheng Lu knows or not, the important thing is that she doesn't know what she does, and Lu Shangzhi, who doesn't know whether to live or die, really doesn't know, for Li You, this is enough. …,

With a preliminary judgment, Li You asked again: "Listen to your brother, your sister-in-law Cheng Lu and Lu Shangzhi seem to be cousins and brothers, and the previous generation is just uncle and brother?" ”

"Yes, I heard that the shameless thing surnamed Lu belongs to the Lu family's room, and the sister-in-law of the slave family is from the second room of the Lu family, so it is indeed a cousin."

Li You said a few words of comfort and sent away Cheng Xiaoniang, who couldn't sleep well for fear of falling out of favor. Then I secretly pondered, could it be that today's thing is the bloody mansion door-style infighting?

From the point of view of conspiracy, in order to compete for the family business, the people in the second room instigated the people in the big house to anger the powerful officials, so as to achieve the purpose of killing people with a knife, which seems to make sense logically. And the level of scheming has also reached the skill of his Li You Sancheng...

Inspired by the ticket number in his previous life, he felt that the opportunity was rare, and he was interested in creating a silver number as a family foundation a hundred years in advance, and once again fell into deep thought, if it was really the infighting between the children of the Lu family, could he make some benefits from it? The Lu family has a big account bureau, maybe it is in front of the ticket number.

Aunt Ma suddenly shook Li You gently, interrupting his thoughts. Facing Master Li's hesitant gaze, Aunt Ma said worriedly: "The slave family didn't come this month's menstrual affairs, I don't know if it's..."

"That's good." Li You said overjoyed. At present, there are too few sons, the family business is incomplete, and he is in a rising period of getting bigger and bigger, if Ma is really pregnant, of course it is a happy thing.

But while Master Li was overjoyed, he also remembered that the big house that was so empty and childless so far, and now Mrs. Liu was even more stressed.

But said that at the same time, in the old mansion of Peng Ge outside the gate of Xi'an, Peng Shi, a scholar of Jianda, wore civilian clothes and went to the study to meet guests. In fact, he was very unhappy, and at his age, he had always paid attention to health, so he had to go to bed early at night when he had nothing to do.

Peng Ge's old man was about a young man, and his appearance was very ordinary, although he was richly dressed, he had a humble attitude. This person is Lu Zhaojie, the contemporary head of the Lu family, a well-known Western merchant in Beijing, and Lu Shangzhi is his fifth son.

When Peng Ge was still in the household department, the Lu family helped a lot, and they have helped each other for decades, and they have a great relationship. Therefore, Lu Dayuan, a commoner in the outer district, is also qualified to rush to Pengfu overnight to visit, which is of course for the fifth son Lu Shangzhi.

After listening to Lu Yuanwai's words, Peng Ge asked rhetorically: "Are you sure it's Li You?" ”

"It's not wrong, the Cheng family personally admitted that the person who captured Wu'er was Li You, that is, the famous Li Caizi Li Tanhua. I really didn't expect that there was such a character behind the Cheng family. ”

Peng Ge said with a blank face: "Your son, who is it bad to provoke, to provoke Li You?" Now that Li You has served as the governor of the five cities, he has been opened by the Holy Grace and has the power to punish him, and when he is about to exert his strength, your son is just running into it. With Li You's Bing, if someone is arrested, he will be tortured. ”

Lu Dayuan exclaimed: "My son has not committed any crimes, and Li You is just detained, but there is no reason to torture him!" ”

This is really a layman, Peng Ge Lao scolded impatiently: "Who said it is unreasonable? Do you understand his reasoning? When a new official takes office, even you don't know the purpose of his official position, and who knows what the Governor Yamen of the Five Cities is doing, and he doesn't need to set up a banner? When the new government is opened, what cases can be judged and what punishments can be imposed, and he doesn't need to make rules?

Your Lu family is not unknown, and you are also well-known in Beijing, so you took the initiative to hit the door, who will you clean up if you don't clean up? After cleaning up you, the news will naturally spread in the market. ”

Elder Peng Ge probably felt that his words were a little excessive, his tone softened a little, and continued, "Of course, it is absolutely forbidden to abuse punishment and harm innocents, and the court is not blind, and there are fewer officials who have been dismissed and reprimanded for brutality?" With an old man here, your Lu family doesn't have to worry. ”…,

Lu Yuanwai hugged his fists and said: "How is it good, please ask the elder to show me." ”

Peng Ge Lao thought about it slowly, he felt that this might be an opportunity, and he needed to think about it carefully.

Li You is indeed a difficult person, and at present, if various official means are used, Li You can be said to be almost invincible, at least at this time.

He has meritorious deeds, holy dependents, gold books and iron coupons, help and backers, even if the political struggle in the court fails, the consequence is nothing more than to lose these. But he himself is still a big tree imperial history, and he is still Jiangzuo Li Tanhua, maybe because of the sadness of failure, his fame is even greater.

Through the matter of the Lu family, Peng Ge Lao suddenly triggered some kind of inspiration, and Li You, who seems to be invincible, also has shortcomings!

In the civil service of the dynasty, most of the time the most important thing is the diploma, with the corresponding diploma qualifications to advance, the role of character is often the icing on the cake. But Li You is an alternative, and all kinds of prestige are the foundation of his establishment. Otherwise, with Li You's conditions, sitting in his current position, he would have been overwhelmed by the impeachment recitals that swarmed in.

Everyone needs fame, but no one is as extremely dependent on fame as Li You, nine out of ten officials in the world have no prestige, but if Li You loses his prestige, it will be a disaster. Therefore, fame is not only the foundation of Li You, but also his shackles and weaknesses!

Every time Li You is suppressed in the court, the greater the pressure, the greater the rebound, in fact, the medicine is not right at all, and the salary at the bottom of the kettle is the best policy!

For Li You, the villain, he always has the feeling of throwing a rat and not being able to use his strength when facing the enemy, so let the smaller people fight with Li You in the ring now, fight poison with poison, and see if Li You can use his strength!

You Li You have someone to support you, and the old man often can't help it, but what can you do with the Lu family with the support of the old man? Peng Ge said secretly.

It's interesting when more and more people discover that a righteous and eloquent and talented man is actually a brutal, unkind, insatiable vulgar scumbag...

Thinking of this, Elder Peng Ge smiled and instructed Lu Zhaojie: "Don't panic, find an opportunity to go outside the palace and beat the drum!" ”

For Peng Gelao, attacking Li You at this time may not have any political benefits except to save face.

But now he is regarded as an old man who occupies the position of secondary assistant and so on, and the successor plan has also been abolished, what can he do if he wants nothing more? It's a cool word! (To be continued)