Cai Jiu, as Cai Jing's confidant, immediately opened the letter when he heard this, his eyes swept over the letter, and he quickly frowned, obviously the news in Liang Zhong's letter was not a good thing.

Cai Jing, who put down the teacup, noticed the change in Cai Jiu's expression, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "What, could it be that something happened to Liang Zhongshu?" ”

Liang Zhongshu, as a chess piece planted by Cai Jing in the local area, still plays a very important role for Cai Jing.

As the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion, Liang Zhongshu is obviously an extremely important chess piece, not to mention that Liang Zhongshu is Cai Jing's son-in-law, one is in the local area and the other is in the center, which can be said to echo each other from afar.

If something happened to other officials who were attached to Cai Jing, maybe Cai Jingjing would not take it to heart, but an important existence like Liang Zhongshu was still quite valued by Cai Jing.

Cai Jiudang even presented the letter to Cai Jingdao: "Master, the matter is not a big deal, but the birthday gang prepared by Liang Zhongshu for the master was robbed by thieves when he passed through Yuncheng, Shandong. ”

Cai Jing took the letter and glanced at it, casually put the letter on the coffee table and said: "Liang Zhongshu has always been cautious, but he never thought that he would be so negligent in this matter, doesn't he have any effective manpower?" The birth gang escorted by the dignified government can be robbed by someone. ”

After venting between the words, Cai Jing had already learned from the letter that there were as many as 100,000 birthdates that had been robbed, and so many birthdates were not a small number for Cai Jing.

Don't think that Cai Jing will swallow all these birth gangs, he is just using the name of the birth gang to collect money for today's official family, otherwise, how dare he Cai Jing make any birthday gangs, he is really not afraid that today's official family will punish him.

Just like the Huashi Gang that made a lot of noise in the south of the Yangtze River was started by Zhu Mian, such a big movement, today's officials are neither deaf nor blind, whether it is Dongchang or Huangcheng Division, there is information about Jiangnan.

However, Zhu Mian was like the king of Jiangnan who exploited the people in the land of Jiangnan, and made a lot of money with the help of Huashigang.

The land of Jiangnan mentioned that Zhu Mian wanted to eat Zhu Mian alive, but he didn't know that if Zhu Mian hadn't dedicated a large amount of wealth to Zhao Ji, how could a single Zhu Mian dare to be so lawless and scourge the land of Jiangnan.

In the final analysis, everything is because of the permission of the Son of Heaven, so there are names such as Huashi Gang, Birth Gang, and so on.

Cai Jing pondered for a while and said, "Cai Jiu, what do you say about this matter?" ”

Cai Jiu glanced at Cai Jing, his triangular eyes trembled slightly, and he said: "Master, the East Factory and the Imperial City Division have the responsibility of supervising the world. ”

Cai Jiu just mentioned Dongchang, even if Cai Jingdang understood Cai Jiu's intentions, he was nothing more than handing over this matter to Dongchang to handle.

Everyone knows that the relationship between Cai Jing and Chu Yi is not to deal with, but it is precisely because he does not deal with it that he has to hand over this matter to Chu Yi to handle.

If Dongchang can find the Birth Gang, then it is fine, but if he can't find the Birth Gang, he can completely refer to Chu Yi in front of the Son of Heaven.

Brushing his beard, Cai Jing bowed his head slightly and said: "Serve the master to change clothes, I want to enter the palace to meet the official!" ”

In the palace

Zhao Ji, who is full of merry, is writing wildly at this time, I have to say that although Zhao Ji is a little worse as the son of heaven, but the artistic attainments of that body are few people.

Yang Jian, who was serving on the side, saw Zhao Ji put away the pen, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the towel from Xiao Huangmen's hand, and while taking the brush in Zhao Ji's hand, he offered the towel.

And Liang Shicheng, who was standing next to him, saw that Yang Jian served Zhao Ji properly, but he did not step forward to fight, but carefully helped Zhao Ji to sort out the silk paper, and said with a look of admiration: "Your Majesty's pen power is becoming more and more sophisticated, even if it is not worse than the book of the Holy Wang Xi." ”

Although he said that he was very confident in his calligraphy, but when he heard Liang Shicheng praise himself like this, Zhao Ji still said very modestly: "Although my calligraphy is not bad, it is worse than Wang Xizhi......

As he was talking, he heard a burst of laughter, and several people looked up and saw Cai Jing striding over in an official uniform.

Cai Jing stepped forward and saluted Zhao Ji, and Liang Shicheng saw Cai Jing coming, his eyes lit up and pulled Cai Jing and said: "Cai Xiang, come and see, Your Majesty's calligraphy attainment, is it not as good as Wang Xizhi?" ”

Cai Jing stroked his beard, looked reserved, stepped forward and stared at Zhao Ji's calligraphy for a long time, and the expression in his eyes changed.

Seeing that Cai Jing was so solemn, even Zhao Ji, who didn't pay much attention to it, couldn't help but be attracted by Cai Jing's attention, and looked forward to Cai Jing's evaluation.

Exhaling a breath, Cai Jing turned around and saluted Zhao Ji, and then said: "Your Majesty's calligraphy is unique, self-contained, even if it is not worse than Wang Xizhi, he will definitely be famous in history and praised by future generations!" ”

Cai Jing's words are not an exaggeration, Zhao Ji is indeed famous in history, but more because of mediocrity, burying the great mountains and rivers of the Northern Song Dynasty and leaving a name in history.

Being praised by Cai Jing like this, Zhao Ji was naturally in a very good mood, and after washing, Zhao Ji said to Cai Jing while taking the tea: "Cai Qing is entering the palace to see me at this time, is there something important in the court?" ”

Don't look at Zhao Ji living in the palace and letting go of the power to Cai Jing and others, but this does not mean that Zhao Ji knows nothing about the affairs of the court.

Knowing that if Zhao Ji is willing, no matter how big or small the affairs of the DPRK and China are, they will be known to Zhao Ji, so Zhao Ji never worries that he will be overshadowed by the officials below.

When Cai Jing heard this, he hurriedly said to Zhao Ji: "Your Majesty, the minister's birthday is approaching, and the minister's son-in-law Liang Zhongshu prepared some birthday gifts for the minister, but he was robbed by a group of thieves on the way to escort the Jingshi. ”

Hearing Cai Jing say this, Zhao Ji couldn't help but be surprised: "What, there is such a bold thief, if I remember correctly, isn't Liang Zhongshu for me to supervise the Daimyo's Mansion?" From the Daimyo's Mansion to the Jingshi, it is the heart of my Great Song Dynasty, and there will be thieves and robbers in such an important place? ”

Cai Jing Zhengse said: "The minister also thinks like this, the minister's birthday gift is nothing, but the Daimyo's Mansion is such an important place, from the Daimyo's Mansion to the Jingshi, it is the key place of my Great Song Dynasty, and there can be absolutely no problems in this heartland, but there are thieves and thieves, and the minister does not dare to be careless, so I specially ask Your Majesty to dispatch people from Dongchang to strictly investigate this matter." ”

Zhao Ji couldn't help but glance at Cai Jing, but Cai Jing looked at Zhao Ji with a straight face, as if to show that he had no selfish thoughts.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Ji nodded slightly and said, "It's okay, I'll send an order to Chu Yi and ask him to take someone to find out where this gang of thieves came from." ”

Cai Jing said: "With Chu Yi to bring someone to go, the minister can rest assured." ”

Zhao Ji pointed at Cai Jing, shook his head with a smile and said, "You, you......"

However, for the open and secret battle between Cai Jing and Chu Yi, Zhao Ji saw it in his eyes, but he would not stop it, but was happy to see it, if Chu Yi and Cai Jing really stopped fighting, Zhao Ji would be worried.

As long as the two fight, then he can be high up, in the middle, and hold everything in his hands, without worrying about being united and becoming a puppet emperor.

Yang Jian, who saw this scene, opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, this matter clearly showed that Cai Jing was designing Chu Yi, but the Son of Heaven knew that he had no intention of stopping it, which meant that even if he opened his mouth, he could not change the mind of the Son of Heaven.

As a favorite minister by the side of the Son of Heaven, Yang Jian naturally knows when to say something, since it can't be done, then everything will conform to the Son of Heaven, at most, he will inform Chu Yi of everything, and let Chu Yi be careful.

The speed of the imperial court was still quite fast, and the Son of Heaven made a decision here, and soon a messenger eunuch conveyed the will to Dongchang.

In the East Factory, Chu Yi looked at the Holy Decree that was put aside, with a little smile in his eyes.

Chu Yi was indeed a little surprised, he didn't expect Cai Jing to push this matter to Dongchang.

Of course, Cai Jing's intentions and Chu Yi couldn't be clearer, it was nothing more than wanting to make trouble for Dongchang.

Lin Chong and Yang Zhi looked at Chu Yi with anger on their faces.

Although these things are also under the jurisdiction of their Dongchang, if they really talk about it, in fact, it should be the responsibility of the local government to arrest the thieves, and only if the local government is unable to arrest them will they go to the Binghuang City Division or Dongchang to hand over the case.

But now that the local government has not transferred the case, Cai Jing directly bypassed the procedure and handed over such a case to them through the Son of Heaven to Dongchang for investigation.

Regardless of whether Dongchang can solve this case or not, Cai Jing's meaning against Dongchang is obvious.

Although it is not the first time that Cai Jing has been targeted, everyone is mentally prepared, but when they really received the holy decree, the atmosphere was still very high.

Whether it is Guan Sheng or Xu Ning, or Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Hu Yanzhuo, these people have a loyal heart, and they are still quite loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, but it is precisely because they are in Dongchang and have too much contact with the news, these people can see through the mediocre face of today's officials better than many people.

Whether it is favoring Cai Jing's treacherous appearance or conniving at Zhu Mian's scourge of the land south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that since Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, the situation of the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be getting worse and worse.

If you can't get in touch with these, then it's okay, but Guan Sheng, Lin Chong and others were able to contact these through the news channels of Dongchang, so they were naturally quite disappointed today.

"Admiral, we ......"

Chu Yi waved his hand and said: "It just so happens that Ben Du also wants to go out for a walk, since he Cai Jing wants to see Chu's jokes, then Chu will go for it." ”

While speaking, Chu Yi looked at Lin Chong and said: "Lin Chong, you are stable by nature, and you have been by the Governor's side for the longest time, and you are also in charge of the affairs of the East Factory. ”

Lin Chong took a step forward and saluted respectfully: "Although the Admiral can rest assured, Lin Chong is sure to be optimistic about Dongchang for the Overseer, and is waiting for the Overseer to return." ”

Xu Ning, Hu Yanzhuo, Guan Sheng and others couldn't help but puff up their chests one by one, they naturally hoped to be able to accompany Chu Yi to the land of Shandong, but the few people present were not fools, Chu Yi obviously wanted to leave others to assist Lin Chong, and it was impossible to take everyone away, so among the few of them, someone must stay, and it was up to Chu Yi to be selected.

"Xu Ning, Hu Yanzhuo, the two of you will stay to assist Lin Chong."

was named by Chu Yi, although he was a little disappointed in his heart, but the two of them still respectfully accepted the order.

As for Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, and Yang Zhi, they were happily named by Chu Yi, packed their things, and went to Shandong with Chu Yi.

Here, Chu Yi and his party have not yet left the Jingshi, and the news has spread all over the rivers and lakes.

You must know that over the years, Chu Yi's reputation can be said to have become synonymous with a big traitor with the efforts of Cai Jing and others, even if it is not much worse than Cai Jing, Zhu Mian and others.

Although I don't dare to say that everyone shouts and beats, there are many people in the rivers and lakes who can't wait to pick off Chu Yi's head to make a name for themselves.

Of course, not only Chu Yi, but even Cai Jing, Zhu Mian and others are also the targets of many people in the rivers and lakes who are keen to assassinate.

Even if he was in the Jingshi, Cai Jing was protected by elite guards every day, and even so, Cai Jing was assassinated more than once.

Chu Yi hid in the East Factory and did not come out, but according to what Lin Chong and Xu Ning said, there were no less than a dozen waves of people in the rivers and lakes who secretly watched the East Factory.

Today's Great Song Dynasty martial arts are mostly hot-blooded people, especially those who were born in the rivers and lakes in the fallen area, and they have transferred their hatred for the incompetence of the imperial court and the inability to recover their hometown to the so-called traitors such as Cai Jing and Chu Yi.

Chu Yi led the army to encircle and suppress the Murong clan, and it can be said that everyone knows about it in the rivers and lakes, and it was also that battle that brought Chu Yi into the sight of countless people in the rivers and lakes.

For those people in the rivers and lakes, North Qiao Feng and South Murong spread all over the world through their mouths, and they can be said to be the representatives of the people in the rivers and lakes.

However, the Murong clan, as their representative, was unexpectedly destroyed by the imperial court, which naturally deeply stimulated these people in the rivers and lakes.

Although some people in the rivers and lakes know that the reason why the Murong clan was destroyed was completely self-inflicted, Murong Longcheng made a big fuss in Jingshi, and the Murong family intended to revive Dayan, no matter which one it was, it was understandable for the imperial court to exterminate the Murong clan.

But in addition to a very small number of people in the rivers and lakes who know about this kind of secret, how many people know about the Murong family's schemes, and these people will only regard the Murong family as their idol. And the destruction of the Murong clan can be imagined to inevitably make many people in the rivers and lakes hostile to the imperial court.

As the executioner who destroyed the Murong clan, Chu Yi of course became a veritable traitor.

When the news that Chu Yi left the capital division and was about to go to Shandong, for a while, the huge rivers and lakes were boiling, and I don't know how many people in the rivers and lakes were gearing up, eager to slash Chu Yi's head to make a name for themselves.

From Bianliang City to the Daimyo's Mansion, the road is full of dangers.

At this moment, on a carriage, Yang Zhizheng sat opposite Chu Yi with a solemn face, looked at Chu Yi who was holding a scroll and said: "Admiral, if we leave Beijing this time, if we go to the Daimyo's Mansion, we will have to pass through the Red Pine Forest, Yeyundu, Baishawu, Huangnigang, Umbrella Mountain, Peach Blossom Mountain, Erlong Mountain, Purple Mountain and many other bad places!" ”

Chu Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard these familiar place names: "Oh, what's so dangerous about these places?" ”

Yang Zhizheng said: "Before leaving, my subordinates transferred the news collected by Dongchang about many dangerous places on the road between Bianliang City and the Daimyo Mansion, among which these places are the most, and it can be said that there are strongmen entrenched in every place. ”

Glancing at Chu Yi, Yang Zhi couldn't help but show a worried look on his face and said: "Lord Admiral, the news of our departure from Beijing was deliberately leaked, so many people are eager to kill Lord Admiral to make a name for themselves in the world, and his subordinates are worried about ......."