Zhao Ta hated and loved Lu Xiaoyao and the others, and killed them, but it was a pity that they had a lot of ability, and if they didn't kill them, they were afraid of raising tigers. He understood that although he relied on 'advanced weapons' to deter them at that time, these guys were bold, they dared to do anything for money, and if they didn't get it right, they would get themselves into trouble, and then they killed Huang Jingchen's old friend this time, if they didn't say it from Huang Jingchen, once he found out, there would be a dislike between the two people, which was not beautiful, so Zhao Ta decided to make things clear, whether to kill or stay or let Huang Jingchen decide.

"Uncle Huang, you said that since the matter was done secretly, but who leaked the news and used the characters and officials on the rivers and lakes to hunt them down and uproot them, could it be that Cai Xiang wanted to kill people and kill them?" Zhao asked again.

"It won't be him, Yemen is a sect on the rivers and lakes, and the people in the court and the local people have a lot of connections with them, and they spend money to do something shady with them, so Cai Jing uses them just to cover people's eyes, and Yemen's 'reputation' has always been very good, and assassins often break off their own failures, and they have never leaked their employer's information." Huang Jingchen quickly made a judgment, "Yemen was chased and suppressed this time, the problem should be themselves!" ”

"Uncle Huang, how do you say this, is it infighting?" Zhao Ta was a little confused, and Huang Jingchen's statement was beyond his judgment.

"It should be both, someone has teamed up inside and outside to calculate them!" Huang Jingchen looked at Zhao Ta and then said: "Lord Wang, think about what the Imperial City Division is, that is the emperor's eyes and ears, Cai Jing can't and dare not get involved, but now the people of the Imperial City Division are involved." And there are only a handful of people who can make the Imperial City Division move, can the prince imagine who it is? ”

"It can't be Yang Jian, right? They can do it in the palace, someone must do the internal feedback, cover and cooperate with them, and he is the only one who can do these two things! Zhao Tan said while thinking.

"Hehe, the prince's speculation is right, it is Yang Jian, the chamberlain in charge of the medicine depot and the tea delivery in the palace are all dead and unknown, but no one has tracked down, and if such a big thing happens, he is the only one who can hold it. And I heard that Yang Jian has been very close to your distant uncle Zheng Juzhong recently..."

"Why is there still something about him here?" Zhao Ta felt that his brain was a little short of oil, and he couldn't keep up with the speed, this matter had already involved the two top leaders in the palace and the court, and now he had pulled this royal family in.

After he was relegated to Hangzhou, he wanted to make a comeback, and the emperor listened to Niangniang's words the most, so Cai Jing entrusted Zheng Juzhong to mediate and allow him to know the position of the Privy Council. After Cai Jing was restored, he did recommend him to the emperor, but at this time, he was stopped by Niangniang because he was a relative, and this position fell into the hands of Zhang Kangguo. ”

"Then Yang Jian doesn't want to kill Zhang Kangguo and leave the seat to Zheng Juzhong, right?" Zhao Ta only knew that Cai Jing Fuxiang had made a contribution, but he didn't expect that there would be so many twists and turns here.

"I don't know how he calculated and discussed with Cai Jing, but I think no matter how bold Yang Jian is, he doesn't dare to blatantly interfere in state affairs, but it is a fact that the emperor is increasingly dependent on Cai Jing. I guess Yang Jian chased and suppressed the night gate because he saw that Lu Xiaoyao was actually used by Cai Jing, and he was suspicious, one was afraid that he would use the night gate to threaten himself, and the other was worried that the matter was not secret, so he simply wiped them out, but to uproot a secret sect, the easiest way is to find an internal response... ”

The rest does not need to be said by Huang Jingchen, Zhao Ta also figured it out, Yang Jian had already secretly bribed the people in the night gate at this time, found out their traces, and immediately after Lu Xiaoyao's assassination was successful, he arranged for people to constantly reveal their whereabouts and station, attracting the people they had offended to chase and kill, and the officials were fishing in troubled waters, taking the opportunity to encircle and suppress the rudder of the night gate, which could be used and killed, and the largest killer organization on the rivers and lakes was brought under his own door.

"This old man is really an old oilman in officialdom, an old conspirator, he sees these things so thoroughly, if he doesn't understand the general trend of events, he really can't coax this old guy!" Zhao Ta sighed in his heart Fortunately, Huang Jingchen was his own person, so he saved a lot of worry and let himself understand that the situation in the court was so complicated, "Uncle Huang, then according to your meaning, how do we deal with these two people?" ”,

"Look at it, since they are desperate and temporarily succumb to us, if they are willing to be loyal to us, the prince can get a help, if there is any dissent, it will only take a little effort to kill them, if the prince can trust this matter, leave it to me, I will let Junzi keep an eye on them secretly!" Huang Jingchen replied after a moment of silence.

"Uncle Huang, don't you want to avenge Zhang Zhi's Privy Council?" Zhao asked.

"Hehe, the prince is worried about my personal vendetta!" Huang Jingchen said with a smile, "Zhang Kangguo and I do have some friendship, but they also use each other, now that he is gone, I also rushed back to Beijing to put incense on him, which can be regarded as repaid, and if the knife kills people, you can't count the account on the knife!" ”

"I'm a gentleman with the heart of a villain, don't blame Uncle Huang!" Zhao Ta's heart was broken by Huang Jingchen, and he poured a cup of tea for Huang Jingchen with embarrassment and said.

"Isn't the prince a villain?" Huang Jingchen took a sip of tea and said, Zhao Ta was stunned, and suddenly thought that he was just eight years old, of course he was an out-and-out 'villain', he looked at Huang Jingchen who couldn't help but be handsome, Huang Jingchen also looked at the embarrassed prince, and the two conspirators, one big and one small, couldn't help but look at each other and smile!

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The villagers who were repairing the canal outside the house were ignorant, they just saw that there were more idlers wandering outside the village, and the men were still busy on the construction site, at most telling their wives and children to close the door and be careful not to let the thieves steal their hard-earned money.

There were only two heavy snowfalls this winter, and after the spring the weather became warmer, and there was not much rain, and seeing that a spring drought had formed, the wheat in the field was the time to pull out joints, and it was time to water them, so the tenants begged the head of the village to talk to the steward, and delayed two days to put some water from the reservoir to water the fields.

Zheng Fu and the others discussed it, and felt that it was related to the harvest of the tenants who had worked hard for more than half a year, and the two-day work would not delay the construction period, so they agreed to use the half-repaired dry canal to irrigate the fields, and water all the wheat fields in each village.

The canal has been basically excavated, is being reinforced and leveled, and the resumption of work began after the completion of the water transmission, but everyone did not expect that after water soaking, a section of the canal with soft soil suddenly collapsed, and the six strong men who repaired the canal inside were all buried underneath, although after hard work, it still caused the tragedy of two deaths and three injuries.

"Zheng Fu, kneel!" After listening to the report in the council hall, Zhao Ta turned around the hall anxiously with a pale face, and suddenly turned around and shouted to Zheng Fu, the chief steward standing on the side, and the stewards standing on both sides were stunned, but they didn't expect that the prince, who had always been kind to his subordinates, would suddenly get angry.

"Second Master..." Zheng Fu couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart when he heard this, others didn't know, but he knew the details of the prince of the Dao, and knelt down with a low cry.

"Zheng Fu, let me ask you, do you know about the water delivery of the canal?" Zhao Ta pointed at him and asked.

"Second master, the little Zhilu Dao, I ordered the water to water the fields!" Zheng Fu replied honestly.

"Okay, since it's your order, then after the water is delivered, you can send someone to check the soil quality changes of the canal!" Zhao asked again.

"Second master, I... I didn't, I was negligent! Zheng Fu lowered his head and replied.

"Hehe, you were negligent, you said it lightly, you asked for two lives with one sentence, two men lost their lives in a blink of an eye, there are a few more fatherless children in the world, two more broken families, you are guilty!" Zhao Ta said with a sneer.

"The villain is guilty!" Zheng Fu kowtowed.

"Okay, you still have responsibility, since I handed over the matter of damming and repairing the canal to you, now you have to take responsibility for what happens, otherwise I can't explain to the dead people and their families, now I remove you from the ministry of the chief steward, a fine of one year, and a heavy responsibility of twenty boards, can you be convinced?"

"The second master did the right thing, the villain didn't dare to complain in the slightest, just ask the second master not to expel the villain from the house!" Zheng Fu threw himself on the ground and said with red eyes.

"Yours go and stay and talk about it!" Zhao Ta waved his hand, and the two guards came up and dragged him out, "Who is in charge of supervising the section of the collapsed canal?" He asked again.

"Second master, yes... It's small! A little steward who walked out of the crowd was already trembling and kneeling down without waiting for Zhao Ta to speak.

"Do you see changes in the soil, signs of landslides?"

"Second master, the little ones saw it, but the strong men all wanted to dig a little more and make more money, and the small ones wanted to repair it faster, so as not to miss the construction period and delay the second master's major event, so they didn't stop working!" The little steward replied. ,

"Hmph, you can say it well, I think you are careless of human life, and you want to please me in a hurry, you are the most damned person who deceives your superiors and subordinates..." Zhao Ta snorted coldly and said.

"Second master, spare your life, the little one is also for the house..." When the little steward heard this, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, and let out a loud cry of sorrow, he knew that the prince wanted to kill him, but it was as simple as crushing an ant to death.

"Get out, drag him down and lock him up for twenty boards first, and deal with it together!" Zhao Ta said with some disgust, he looked at the rest of the stewards again, his eyes swept over, and everyone bowed their heads one after another, "Zheng Lu, you first act as the chief steward, responsible for the affairs of the construction site, and the others should take this as a warning and let you stay on the construction site, not just supervise the work of the strong men, and then come out of this kind of thing, be careful and wait!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone replied in unison, and they were all relieved, they were all afraid that the prince would hold them accountable again.

"Zheng Lu, you pass the word, the salary of the injured strong man during the recuperation period has been doubled, the medical expenses are all paid by the government, and they have been exempted from the tenant rent this year; The deceased will be given a pension of 30,000 yuan, and all the expenses such as burning and burial will be borne by the government, and each family will be given 20 acres of land as the capital of their family's future life! Zhao said.

"Yes, I'll do it right away!" Zheng Lu agreed, and immediately arranged for someone to do it.

Seeing that everyone had left, Zhao Ta sat down weakly, "Second master, these are all accidents, don't blame yourself too much!" Jianxi poured him a cup of tea and handed it over and said.

"See, you go find me a plain suit, I'd better go with them to the casualties' homes to have a look, this matter is generally to blame for my lack of arrangement, otherwise this kind of thing would not have happened!" Zhao Ta said with a sigh.