Xu Liang thought for a while, and then laughed dumbly.

Lu Chengyuan is still too young, too simple, and he was blinded by lard to be stupid enough to impeach Father-in-law Wei.

Who is Grandpa Wei? The 9,900-year-old grandfather of the current dynasty, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, the eunuch of the admiral of Dongchang, and the veteran of the three dynasties. Up to the six cabinets, down to the local governors, there are the disciples and grandchildren of Gonggong Wei everywhere, the power leans towards the government and the opposition, and the Ming Dynasty is an absolute boss.

After the new emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, it was not that no one impeached Gonggong Wei. As early as the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, Yang Suoxiu, the deputy capital of the Inspectorate, had impeached Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Li Yangde, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and others, and then Yang Weiyuan, the imperial secretary of Yunnan, also wrote to impeach Cui Chengxiu for embezzlement and smuggling. Although the two did not directly impeach Wei Gonggong, Cui Chengxiu was Wei's number one sworn friend, and impeaching Cui Chengxiu was equivalent to impeaching Wei Zhongxian, and Chongzhen reprimanded him.

And on September 28, the saint also specially issued an edict to give Wei Liangqing, the nephew of Wei's father-in-law, an iron coupon to avoid death.

Every sign shows that the saint still favors Gonggong Wei.

Now Lu Chengyuan wants to engage in speculation and impeach Father-in-law Wei, isn't he looking for death?

After Xu Liang figured it out, he threw the letter aside and continued to wait wholeheartedly for Uncle Gan's reply.

On this day, Xu Liang took two family guards and wandered around the city again. After eating noodles at a food stall and ordering a pot of tea, he was sitting at the tea stall and staring around at the young woman on the street, when he suddenly saw a group of seven or eight people hurrying down the street with white cloth bags in their hands, and then hurriedly ran over again.

Xu Liang was secretly surprised, and saw three people running in front of him with bags, Xu Liang hurriedly got up and grabbed the young man who ran last, and asked curiously: "This big brother, what's going on in front of you?" What are so many of you doing with bags? ”

The young man's face was full of anxiety, and when he saw Xu Liang pulling the corner of his clothes and not letting go, he said anxiously: "You don't know yet, more than a dozen rice shops in the city have released news at the same time, and the rice noodles will only be sold for the last three days, and the market will be closed after three days." Saying that, the young man broke free of Xu Liang and hurriedly ran over.

Xu Liang was stunned, he heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and the owner of the tea stall also ran out with two cloth bags.

Xu Liang felt that this was unusual, called the guards, and followed the crowd to see what was going on.

I rushed to the largest grain store in Zhenyuan City, and saw that there were three long queues in front of the store. Someone kept coming back with cloth bags to join the team. The men, women, elderly, and half-grown children in the line looked nervously at the front of the line, as if they were afraid that they would run out of rice to sell when it was their turn.

Xu Liang saw a wooden board standing next to the door of the store, with some words written on it, so he squeezed to the board to take a look.

Someone in the line shouted, "Hey, how can you cut in line?" Buy rice and go to the back to line up honestly. ”

Xu Liang smiled: "I don't buy rice, I just go to the front to see what is written on the board." ”

"If you don't buy rice, why are you running to join in the fun?" The man shouted in surprise. At this time, someone next to him whispered something in the man's ear, only to see that the man's eyes shrank when he heard it, most likely because he knew Xu Liang's identity, and muttered something in a whisper, but he didn't dare to say more.

Xu Liang squeezed in front of the wooden board, stared at it, and saw that the wooden board was written in ink: "All rice noodles, in the last three days, will be sold out and closed!" Xu Liang was surprised and pulled over a shopkeeper next to him and asked, "Little second brother, this grain store is selling well, why is it closed?" ”

The shopkeeper recognized that the person in front of him was Xu Liang, the former governor of the county, and once ordered the Lou Ji grain store to be dragged to the county jail for a while, thinking that Xu Liang was no longer the county governor of the town, he felt very happy at the moment, snorted from his nostrils, rolled his eyes, and said in a weird manner: "Master Xu, the small one is just the guy in the store, you should ask the owner about the closure, how can the small one know?" ”

Xu Liang touched his nose and was unhappy, seeing the appearance of this little second nostril facing the sky, he didn't bother to worry about such a foolish person, walked out and returned to the street, and was thinking of going elsewhere to see, when he heard the old man who bought two small bags of rice next to him sighed while walking back: "Alas, the price of rice has risen so high, where can we ordinary people afford to eat." ”

Xu Liang stopped him and asked, "This old brother, how much is the rice you bought?" ”

The old man was full of sadness, looked at Xu Liang and shook his head and said: "Half a month ago, the old man came here to buy rice, or two cents a catty, today the old man heard the news that the rice shop was going to close, and hurried over, the price of rice has actually risen to six cents a catty, alas, it was originally estimated that he could buy fifty catties but now he only buys more than ten catties......

As he spoke, the old man shook his head and walked away helplessly.

Xu Liang was stunned, the price of this rice has risen too fast, and it has actually risen three times in half a month. Later, Xu Liang looked at several other rice shops, and the situation was similar, and there was also a queue in front of the store to grab rice. The price of rice is high and low, but it is basically above Wuwen.

Xu Liang suddenly realized the severity of the problem, hurried to the county office, and walked to the door of the county office, suddenly remembered his identity now, and it was inconvenient to enter the county government in such a grand manner, so he asked a guard to enter the yamen to report the situation to Huang County Cheng and He, and he rushed back to the Xu Mansion first.

In Xu's house, Tietou also got the news early, and asked people to buy thousands of catties of food from the store early in the morning. When Tietou saw Xu Liang, he also said vigorously that the price of rice in Zhenyuan was too expensive.

Xu Liang was puzzled, it was no accident that all the grain stores in Zhenyuan City were about to close at the same time, and there must be a black hand behind it. Xu Liang's first thought was the owner behind Lou Ji Rice Shop, a while ago, the shopkeeper of Lou Ji Rice Store didn't get a bargain in the hands of Huang County Cheng, most of them annoyed the owner behind him, and the Lou family wanted to seek revenge.

But this qiē is still just Xu Liang's speculation, and at the moment, he ordered people to pay attention to it in the dark, and thought of countermeasures at the same time. After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly realized that I was no longer the county governor of Zhenyuan, why was I so worried?

The next day, the price of rice rose to more than eight cents, and there were even more people who went to grab rice, and the whole city fell into a panic of grabbing rice and grain. Zhenyuan County Cheng Huang Dao Zhou and Dian Shi He Cheng specially called several grain store shopkeepers to the county government to inquire about the situation and discuss countermeasures.

At the tense moment of the whole city, Xu Liang received a reply from his uncle Huang Weizhong. After reading the letter, Xu Liang's heart was half cold, and he was even a little frightened.

Lu Chengyuan, the county governor of Jianchang, seemed to be right, and soon after he impeached Wei Zhongxian, he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Industry, but as soon as the goods arrived in the capital, he struck the ground while the iron was hot, and impeached Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the military department, and Wei Zhongxian, the commander of the East Factory.

Chongzhen's hand is used, even the blind can see that the emperor is going to do something to Gonggong Wei, and everyone in the backbone of the eunuch hall is in danger. Officials from all over the country have folded up one after another, wanting to clear up their relationship with Wei's father-in-law. Huang Weizhong is now a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect himself, where is there any spare time to take care of Xu Liang's affairs. However, Huang Weizhong proposed a proposal to Xu Liang in the letter, and if he wants to pass this hurdle safely, it is better to draw a clear line with the eunuch party and Wei Zhongxian as soon as possible.

Xu Liang really wanted to cry without tears at this time. Originally, he was not very willing to have anything to do with the eunuchs, and it was Huang Weizhong who wanted to pull himself into the gang. Later, he was forced to take over the errand of the Yunshan Wei Gong Ancestral Hall. When outsiders see that they are close to Huang Wei and others, most of them will think that Xu Liang is a eunuch, and in the eyes of the eunuch boss, Xu Liang is not even a supernumerary.

Now Emperor Chongzhen raised his butcher's knife to deal with Wei Zhongxian. The eunuch building is about to collapse, and even a member of the DPRK and the central government like Huang Weizhong is trembling, and it is difficult to protect himself. What about Xu Liang? Located in the northwest, there is no foundation for the foundation, there is no connection for the connections, there is no one in the capital, and the local snake Han Wangfu has offended the local snake, and now he has been dismissed from his post, how can he get through this situation?

Xu Liang was in a panic all day, and when he woke up at night, he was worried that someone from the capital might break into the house one day and arrest his family. The next day, a hundred guards were dispatched from the Inspection Department to guard the Xu Mansion solidly, and there were dense sentry posts inside and outside the Zhenyuan City to monitor the suspicious characters entering and leaving the city gate.

Seven or eight days later, Xu Liang received another letter from Ge Qiao.

Xu Liang unfolded it and couldn't help but be stunned.

The letter said: Before Lu Chengyuan, the magistrate of Jianchang County, was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Industry, he abolished the Jianchang patrol battalion subordinate to the Jianchang County Ya. Xing Zhongshan, Xu Qing, Liu Ge, Hu Xiaoyong and others who stayed in the patrol camp have nowhere to go now, and they have already taken their henchmen to go to Zhenyuan.

This is really a broken house that happened to rain overnight, and the leaky boat encountered a head wind. Xu Liang himself is still too busy to take care of himself, where is there still a job to place this group of people from Jianchang?

Unless the Shaanxi Command Department finds a place to settle it. With a hope of one in 10,000, Xu Liang asked people to prepare a generous gift and went to Pingliang Mansion to visit Pingliang Prefect Hong Chengchou, but he was closed, Hong Governor went to Chang'an Governor Yamen a few days ago and has not returned, and the entire prefect's Yamen is immersed in a panicked atmosphere, and the officials in the Yamen are all in a hurry, and even the Pingliang Tui official who had a relationship with him did not have a smile when he saw him. Xu Liang was dismissed that day, but this benevolent brother kept telling that Governor Hong admired Xu Liang very much.

Xu Liang returned to Zhenyuan disappointed.

After a few more days, the bad news came one after another.

First, Qian Yuanyu, the head of the Ministry of War, impeached Father-in-law Wei, and a few days later, Shi Gongsheng, a member of the Criminal Department, also wrote a letter to impeach Father-in-law Wei.

On October 26, Qian Jiazheng, a prisoner of Guozi, impeached Wei Gonggong for ten crimes, Qian Jian was extremely hard and scolded extremely fiercely, saying that Wei Gonggong "ran out of the bamboo in the South Mountain, it is not enough to write his treacherous case, and it is difficult to wash away his sin!" ”

The nine-thousand-nine-hundred-year-old grandfather Wei Gonggong was finally defeated. On November 1, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Holy Decree dismissed Gonggong Wei from his position in the palace, and ordered him to be sent to Fengyang to see the tomb!

After three dynasties, the grandfather of countless officials, the former bigwig of the court, collapsed with a bang.