The sky gradually darkened, and people came one after another in front of Sihailou, Duan Fei sat proudly in the first place, Su Rong sat behind him, holding a roster of flowers, and ticking a name when he came to meet him, this hand saw that those soldiers were not afraid - fortunately, we came, as soon as the time passed, Duan Fei immediately asked Su Rong to accept the booklet, and shouted: "Open the table, serve the food, everyone will not get drunk tonight!" ”

The wine and food were sent up like a stream, Duan Fei picked up a big bowl, and said to everyone: "Today's brother was ordered to take over Jinyiwei, forced to offend a lot of helplessness, brother hereby respects everyone a bowl of wine to make amends, after drinking this bowl of wine, everyone is a brother, I have taken care of the past for everyone, the past is not to blame, the emperor asked me to clear the edict, everyone has recently restrained a little, don't make trouble for me, otherwise I will be ugly in the emperor, and I will make the troublesome guy suffer more when I come back, do you understand?" ”

"Understood, don't worry, sir!" Hua Ming, Wang Zuo and others took the lead and replied violently.

Duan Fei nodded with satisfaction, raised the sea bowl and said, "!" ”

Thirty or so thousand households plus the people brought by Duan Fei sat at a total of five tables, Duan Fei toasted next to the table for another round, six bowls of wine drank down, his face was red and white and red, soldiers and ruffians like to drink bold people, everyone saw this new boss drinking so much, the suspicion in their hearts gradually faded a lot, and then they were burned by alcohol, everyone let go of their hearts, drank happily, loudly ordered drinking, and even took the sea bowl to find the new commander to drink together, wanting to pour him down.

Although there was harmony in front of him, Duan Fei was still a little gloomy in his heart, there were a total of fifty-three thousand households on the roster, and today even Huaming and they only came thirty-six, and there were seventeen who did not come, deducting those who were sick and arrested, and eleven more, and then deducting those who were out of town or had a job tonight and could not come, and four were simply not faceless, although the number of four thousand households was not much, but it was a banner, which meant that there were still many people who did not obey him, the new commander, Don't look at the people present who have come to toast Duan Fei, but at least half of them are extremely reluctant, as long as Duan Fei himself makes something wrong, they promise to defect as soon as possible.

But it's nothing, Duan Fei believes that he can control the situation, not to mention that he still has a backhand, isn't it easy to rectify these big-headed soldiers?

After three rounds of drinking, these people left the table one after another, and the rest of them were all determined to follow Duan Fei, or they were caught and had to take refuge in them, Duan Fei saluted them with a bowl of wine again, and said: "Everyone eat and drink to their heart's content, if the wine and food are not enough, ask the store to continue, brother, I have to go to the leopard room to meet the emperor, and report to the emperor about taking over Jinyiwei today, so I can't accompany everyone to continue drinking, everyone is free." ”

In the leopard room, Zhengde was pillowing on Liu Guifei's lap and watching "Water Margin", when he heard that Duan Fei was coming, he yawned and said, "This kid, can't you come earlier?" When is it...... Pass him up. ”

After Duan Fei came up to visit, he saw that Zhang Rui was not by Zhengde's side, but presumably Zhengde still had Zhang Rui's eyes and ears by his side, so he said: "Your Majesty, the minister was ordered to take over the Jinyi Guard today, and there is something important to report. ”

Zhengde waved his hand, and the maids and little yellow doors standing and waiting on both sides retreated, and even Liu Guifei wisely chose to avoid them, leaving Duan Fei and Zhengde in the room, Zhengde asked, "What happened?" ”

Duan Fei replied: "Your Majesty, the minister was ordered to take over the Jinyi Guard today, and found that the corruption of the Jinyi Guard is serious, from top to bottom, it is rare not to frame and extort the people, the rich and even the officials, among which there are many bloody cases, just the initial investigation has exceeded at least fifteen lives, and the Jinyi Wei Tongzhi Gu Tengla gang formed a faction, connived at his subordinates to be evil, and was quite dissatisfied with the minister's command of the Jinyi Guard, the minister sarcastically said a few words to him, he actually returned home angrily and vomited blood and fell, and his Jinyi Wei Yi Yuanning and Fan Rong took the opportunity to gather people to make trouble, At that time, the situation was about to erupt, and the minister immediately decided to arrest the two of them and the other three who took the lead in making trouble. ”

Zhengde smiled slightly and said, "How did I hear that when you took office, you were arrogant and domineering, and you sent Beizhen Fusi and Liang Heng to prison without any evidence?" Then he assassinated Gu Teng to vomit blood and fainted, and when the two puppets were aggravating their bosses, they framed them for rebellion and arrested them? ”

Duan Fei's eyes widened, and he said with an extremely surprised expression: "Who is this who is deceiving the emperor with nonsense?" The emperor dared to swear to the sky that every word was true, there was no lie, the emperor, this is Zhu De's testimony to me, as well as the confession obtained by the minister today, please take a look at it, although the minister has not had time to verify them one by one, but these cases are conclusive, I believe that at least half of them are extremely credible, and the minister is sure that he has never caught the wrong person. ”

Zhengde took it and looked at it, and there was no special reaction, it seemed that these things had been expected by him, Zhengde threw the things back to Duan Fei, and said: "Baiguan has been constantly attacking one factory and one guard, naturally it will not be groundless, I sent you to take charge of Jinyi Wei precisely to find out these unjust cases, you let me retreat, is there anything more important to report to me?" ”

Duan Fei said: "Your Majesty, the minister does have some things that he wants to discuss with the emperor in private, the emperor, the minister feels that it is not appropriate to make a big move against Jinyiwei at present, and he should grasp the big and let go of the small, and severely punish the first evil and lenient accomplices and those who make small mistakes, in addition, although Gu Teng killed the Guanglu Temple Shaoqing Kuai Wei family many years ago, but this is a private vendetta, and it is difficult to verify over time, Gu Teng has no great evil since then, the official residence is three products, and he is good at winning people's hearts, if he is brought to justice, I am afraid that it will cause criticism, and the minister feels that it is better to let him resign himself, As for Yi Yuanning, Fan Rong and Liang Heng, there are many murders on them, and their evil deeds are monstrous, and the ministers think that it is difficult not to kill them, and the people are angry! ”

Zhengde smiled: "You think about it quite properly, but Gu Teng's case really can't be clarified?" And will he obediently resign and go home? Wang Qiong gave you this errand today, I didn't think about it at the time, and when I thought about it afterwards, I found that this matter was not easy to handle, Wang Qiong, this old thing, his head turned very fast, fortunately, you didn't disappoint me, I heard Zhang Rui say that you punched Gu Teng and stepped on Liang Heng, and you caught Yi Yuanning and Fan Rong with your hands, not to mention how happy you were. ”

Duan Fei put down his mind and said with a smile: "Thank you for the emperor's compliment, the minister relied on the emperor to support the minister, the emperor is already very happy if he doesn't blame the minister for messing around, as for that Gu Teng, if the emperor wants the minister to investigate, the minister will find a way to find out about him, but this kind of case has been going on for a long time, the witnesses and evidence have been buried, and it takes a lot of time to investigate. It is better for him to send someone to pretend to be a robber on the way home and rob him of most of the stolen money he has looted over the years, which makes him feel distressed and want to die. ”

Zhengde said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Yes, this is a good idea, but it's a pity that I can't go out of Beijing at will, otherwise I will personally rob him, a big corrupt official...... Well, robbing money is not enough, if he really killed so many people, wouldn't God have no eyes if he didn't die? You still check it casually, if you are fifty percent sure, just send him on the road by the way, hehe, this is called the way for the sky......"

Duan Fei was dumbfounded, as the old saying goes, you don't watch the Journey to the West, you don't look at the Three Kingdoms, men don't look at the Water Margin, women don't look at the West Chamber, that's right, the emperor in front of him loves to mess around, and now he sees the Water Margin, which is full of robbers, it is even more amazing, there is such a robber emperor in the Ming Dynasty, I really don't know whether to be lucky or have a headache, fortunately, Duan Fei originally planned to do this, and the two monarchs and ministers are simply a perfect match.

After Zhengde vented for a while, he sighed and said: "The heroes of Liangshan can rob it if they have no money and no food, but I have to use money everywhere, but who do I want to rob it?" Do you want to send you to Jiangnan to kill a group of corrupt officials? ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that the minister wants to discuss with you, which is related to this silver. ”

Zhengde turned his face and said, "I want to ask me for silver?" No, I'm poorer than anyone, you can go to Zhang Rui if you want silver. ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister is not here to ask you for silver, but is going to send you silver, Your Majesty, since the treasury is empty and you can't easily raise taxes, why not come and open up sources and reduce expenditure?" ”

"Open source and reduce expenditure?" Zhengde sneered: "I have thought about it a long time ago, and the ministers of the court have been thinking about it, it is easy to throttle, I have halved the expenses of the harem, but it is difficult to open source, what do you have any ideas." ”

Duan Fei said with a smile: "Your Majesty, those ministers in the court have been imprisoned to death by the Four Books and Five Classics, and they can't think of a way to make money if you want to make money. ”