Wu Zhen cut off the blacksmith and blacksmith of the iron factory to help, and seeing that Li Xin did not fight back, he felt that Li Xin had exhausted his donkey skills, so he became bolder. If the iron factory was just to make Li Xin unhappy, then he stretched out his hand to the military salary that should have been allocated by the Nanjing Treasury to the Three Guards, and it was already obvious that he was on the neck of the Three Guards.

It's not fun for the soaps to rob the people's homes just now, because they are all poor haha, and there is not much oil and water to fish. However, there was much to be done about the food and wages that were transported to the barracks, and the cart that had just left the treasury was pulled into the backyard of the governor's yamen after only turning a corner.

And in this process, the soaps have done everything they should do. Wu Zhen made a brief report to Zhang Fangyan on this matter, but he didn't know that Zhang Fangyan was faintly dissatisfied with Wu Zhen's move.

"It's enough to give Li Xin a warning, the people in the army can't force him too much, if even their salaries are cut off, it will be difficult to guarantee that they won't get up to make trouble without food. Warnings are warnings, but you have to grasp the degree! ”

Wu Zhen was full of disapproval of this, "The Three Guards have millions of stone of grain, and the lower officials have cut off the military rations supplied by Nanjing, so they can't eat their own grain!" ”

The two people had a discordant speech, Zhang Fangyan closed his eyes tiredly, and Wu Zhen felt that he was bored and hurriedly said goodbye. Out of Zhang Fangyan's bedroom, he heard that the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry came to the door to ask for food, and a group of soap officials did not dare to stop him.

Suddenly, Wu Zhen was furious, "For you to eat and wear, is it given for free?" Whoever dares to let a person in, tomorrow none of you will be used! ”

"Big man, it's not that the villain doesn't stop it, Xiong Shangshu is an official, and the villains are the people, just in case, if there is a good guy, the villains will die!"

"A bunch of waste, there is an official, where are you afraid of him? Let's go, let's go! ”

Wu Zhen sneered three times, and immediately rushed to the courtyard behind the governor's yamen, and sure enough, he saw Xiong Mingyu standing there directing a dry soap to break in, and then he strode up to stop it. And the soap subordinate below him also became more courageous because of the person who supported him, as if the owner of the vicious dog came to his side, and his barking became more and more fierce.

"Xiong Shangshu, what do you want to do by breaking into the governor's office?"

Xiong Mingyu's face was gloomy, "What are you doing?" The food of the Three Guards is supplied once every seven days, and if it is not available today, it will be out of food tomorrow, and there will be chaos, will you bear it? ”

"What's wrong? It's your turn to worry about this, right? When did the hand of the Ministry of Engineering stretch out so much? This has always been an errand for the military department! ”

Wu Zhen sneered at each other, and put the Nanjing Ministry of Industry Shangshu in his eyes, as long as the military report of Jiangxi's defeat was submitted to Nanjing, Li Xin would see that it would be finished, and then this Xiong who sold himself for glory would lose his backer. He had already planned to take the opportunity to turn over his case of embezzlement of ink again, so that he would completely get out of Nanjing officialdom. Therefore, with these plans, how can you put this Shangshu, who is about to end his officialdom career, in his eyes?

Facing the aggressive Wu Zhen, Xiong Mingyu smiled instead, pointing at the arrogant Wu Zhen, "Very good!" Don't blame the old man for not reminding you, leave a line in everything, and I want to see you afterwards! ”

"Eh, the official didn't mean to be wrong, is Xiong Shangshu begging for mercy?" Wu Zhen teased and mocked Xiong Mingyu to his heart's content.

After Xiong Mingyu said the sentence just now, he ignored Wu Zhen, who had gone completely crazy, and left with the soap subordinates, anyway, his goal had been achieved, since Wu Zhen was in a hurry to send him to death, why should he be a good person in vain?

How many people who have gone against the Marquis of Zhenyu have ended well so far? Looking at Wu Zhen's villainous face, he only silently looked forward to it in his heart, that day would come soon, and it was really a bad sight to let such a promising Zhongshan wolf bark in Nanjing City.

drove away Xiong Mingyu, Wu Zhen became more and more proud in his heart, and said to the soap beside him smugly: "How? What happened to Shangshu? Say drive away, drive away! You have all written it down to the official, this is the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, not some cats and dogs can come in casually! Do you understand everything? ”

The soap subordinates finally saw the power of this old man Wu today, and they were convinced, and they threw themselves to the ground. At the same time, they are secretly happy in their hearts, with such a hard backer, it is much easier to earn back the silver that is missing from the soap job.

For several days in a row, the soap subordinates of the governor's yamen were arrogant in the city of Nanjing, and for a time there was a great posture of chickens flying and dogs jumping. Even the officials who have always been interested in Zhang and Wu can't stand it, and Wu Zhen has gone too far.

All the soldiers of the Three Guards who walked alone in the city immediately rushed up to investigate and loot, and the Three Guards and even Ying Tianfu and the Yamen of the Governor of Nanzhili maintained extraordinary restraint in this regard, and did not react to Wu Zhen's aggressiveness. Seeing this, some officials who were still uncertain stood firmly on the side of Zhang and Wu.

At the same time, Wu Zhen planned to persuade Zheng Sanjun, the head of the household department in Nanjing, to support him, but he didn't even get in at the door of Zheng's mansion. But there are also people who feel that something is wrong, Wu Zhen is only afraid that he will attract fierce revenge, because Li Xinqi is not as weak as he appears at the moment, even if he still has three points of courage to coerce people, not to mention this town marquis who is almost ready to be revenged?

Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, is a representative of this idea, and he also learned from Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing Household Department, and began to say that he was not sick, and no matter how Wu Zhen asked to see him, he closed the door to thank guests.

Wu Zhen successively touched soft nails in Zheng Sanjun's mansion and Gao Hongtu's mansion, and he was unwilling, so he could only secretly scold these two old foxes for being wall grass and falling with the wind. It seems that Shao Hualong will not regain control of the military power in Nanjing, and these treacherous and cunning old foxes may not be willing to stand on their side with all their hearts, no, they are on the side of Zhang Gelao. It's just that Zhang Gelao's illness is getting worse and worse now, and he is really afraid that he will be sick like this.

Wu Zhen suddenly thought of a clever plan, that is, to incite public opinion in the city and force Li Xin to send troops to rescue the Taiping Mansion, so as to continue to divide the power of Li Xin's three guards in Nanjing, and in this way, the success rate of expelling Li Xin will also be greatly improved.

If he wanted to successfully control public opinion in the city, the most concise and effective means was the "Gazette", so he sent the book office to take the official document to the newspaper hall in Jiuzixiang, and ordered it to be published and distributed, and the newspaper must be published early tomorrow morning.

As a result, the scrivener soon came back in frustration, and the official document he had held when he went there was not a letter.

"Fuzun, Mr. Nan Lei of the "Gazette" newspaper has a very hard tone, and they will not print this kind of official document assigned by the Governor Yamen. Also, let the villain bring a message back to Fuzun, saying that it was for you, you died of this heart! ”

Wu Zhen had long expected that Huang Nanlei might not be willing to obey, and he had already made up his mind to deal with it.

I only heard him snort coldly: "I don't know who will die!" ”

On the same day, dozens of soap officials from the Governor's Yamen rushed to the Tendon Lane and took out an official document stamped with the bright red Governor's seal, and one of them announced in public: "The Gazette has spread rumors and disturbed the morale of the people in the city. ”

After the reading, there was an uproar in the newspaper hall, they never imagined that revenge would come so soon. It must be known that Mr. Nan Lei has always had the Marquis of Zhenyu and Sun Butang to make decisions for him, but now the Governor Yamen is so arrogant.

"What about Huang Zongxi? What about Huang Zongxi? "The soaps searched the "Gazette" newspaper inside and out three or four times, but they couldn't catch his shadow? The soap who took the lead was a little angry, and couldn't help but because he couldn't catch Huang Zongxi, and because the newspaper hall of the "Bulletin" was not as good as a small rich family, they quarreled back and forth, except for the engraving paper and special ink, which was worth nothing at noon. Fortunately, several young people in Confucian shirts had jade pendants hanging around their waists, and these wolf-like soaps snatched it up as their own, and it was barely empty!

Everyone in the courtyard dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and they were not willing to tell Huang Zongxi's whereabouts to these vicious dogs and jackals.

Although Huang Zongxi was not caught, the newspaper was closed, which could be regarded as a punishment for not cooperating with the governor's yamen, and at the same time, it made people draw pictures and send an official document to Huang Zongxi's sea capture. However, the matter of mobilizing public opinion will continue, and Wu Zhen does not believe that without Zhang Butcher, he will have to eat hairy pigs. He organized well-written bookstores overnight, copied hundreds of copies of the articles he personally wrote to force Li to aid the Taiping Mansion, and distributed them free of charge in the morning after dawn.

Wu Zhen didn't believe it, the "Bulletin" was ten cents a piece, and he gave it away for free, but no one could read it? At noon, he felt that the heat was almost over, and decided to personally go to Shili Qinhuai to investigate the field and see how Shilin responded.

The governor's yamen was only three streets away from this prosperous place, and Wu Zhen soon hugged him to the incomparably prosperous ten-mile Qinhuai in the past. Even if it is a little deserted due to the defeat of Taiping Mansion, it is still several times better than other streets.

But what fell into Wu Zhen's eyes and ears was neither angry public sentiment nor turbulent discussions, but the ground rolled up the broken white paper with the breeze from time to time, and after the funeral procession passed, the ground was full of messes.

Wu Zhen stepped on one under his feet, he leaned over to pick it up, and his face suddenly turned pale, isn't this exactly the text he ordered the secretary to copy overnight? He asked himself if the words were sharp, and every sentence was pointed at Li Xin's death hole, why did the people of Shilin disdain this? He felt that his pride had taken a hit, but he couldn't show it. I can only order hatefully: "Go, pick up all the papers all over the ground!" ”

He didn't want his articles to be scattered all over the streets and trampled by thousands of people. Suddenly, an old man in a long robe leaned over and picked up a piece of hand-copied paper from the ground, blew it carefully, and dusted it with his hands.

Wu Zhen was moved in his heart, there are always people who cherish words, so he wants to go up and talk to him. But I saw that the old man folded the wide rice paper in half, wrapped it in the dry goods he carried in his left hand, and walked away.