Wang Shouren is indeed a person with a heart, in the past few years in the governor of southern Jiangxi, although it is far away from Nanchang, but Wang Shouren has been paying attention to King Ning's every move all the time, and what Zhu Chenhao has done in Wang Shouren's grasp is much more detailed than what the Nanchang Jinyi Guard Yamen reported. Although Song Nan knew that this would be the case, the blind behavior of the thousands of households in Nanchang Mansion still made Song Nan angry.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have found that King Ning has many contacts with the local officials in Nanjing, Jiangxi, and Anhui, and they have very close contacts with each other, and most of them are leading officers with military power; I wonder if these things are true? As the governor of southern Gansu, you hold two guards and horses in your hands, so you must have received special courtesy from King Ning. I don't know what King Ning's intention is in doing this? ”

"Grandpa Guo, since you asked this question, how can you not know what King Ning's intentions are? Most of the military and political dignitaries around Jiangxi were guests on the throne of Ning, but Shouren was not among them, and the governor of Jiangxi, Sun Suisun, never participated in his banquets and gatherings, and did not accept the gold and silver beauties presented by him, which disappointed the grandfather of the country. ”

Song Nan sighed and said, "Lord Wang, don't blame me for speaking straightforwardly, of course I know that Lord Wang and them are not all the way, otherwise I wouldn't have come to visit today and discuss the plan with my lord." Sue me, what did Zhu Chenhao do in Jiangxi? Why does the outside world call him virtuous and never hear about it? ”

Wang Shouren smiled and said: "Take people with soft hands and eat people with short mouths, although I don't know how to evaluate Zhu Chenhao in the excerpts played by Jiangxi officials, but it is conceivable that there must be so many people who sing praises and praise him as a sage and a king, and I am afraid that there is not even a word of slander." Not to mention the things he did in Jiangxi. ”

"What did he do?" Song Nan asked.

Wang Shouren stroked his long hair and said slowly: "King Ning took advantage of Nanchang by skill, occupied all the fertile land around Nanchang Mansion, monopolized the trade of rice, tea and salt in Jiangxi, and made countless fortunes. Have you reported these things? ”

Song Nan shook his head slowly and said: "In recent years, there have been rumors, and what the Nanchang Jinyi Wei Qianhu Yamen reported is not very clear, it seems that there is a problem with the Jinyi Wei Yamen in Nanchang." ”

Wang Shouren smiled and said: "I'm not surprised at all, although the Jinyi Wei Yamen of Nanchang Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the adult, but it is under the jurisdiction of the Ning Wangfu, if the adult thinks that your yamen is a monolith, it is too naïve." ”

Song Nan sighed and said, "What else?" These alone are nothing, and it is not a new thing for local feudal lords to accumulate wealth and occupy fertile fields, and this matter is actually not a big deal in the final analysis. ”

Wang Shouren said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo wants to know some shocking news, okay, Shouren will tell you some shocking information." Wang Zhe, the right-hand capital of Jiangxi, died violently last year, presumably the grandfather of the country must not know what happened; It is no wonder that at that time, Grandpa Guo was in full swing with the Tartars in the northwest, and he would not have noticed the death of a little imperial history; But I know that Wang Zhe's death has another hidden meaning. ”

Song Nan didn't know who this Wang Zhe was at all, and he was also a member of the civil officials, and even if an ordinary civil official died, Song Nan would not take it to heart even if he knew about it, but listening to Wang Shouren say this, it was obvious that this matter was extraordinary.

"Could it be related to King Ning?"

Wang Shouren said sarcastically: "Grandpa Guo's hands and eyes are all over the sky, but in the sphere of influence of King Ning of Nanchang Mansion, he has become deaf and blind. Wang Zhe died violently after returning from the banquet in King Ning's mansion, although the body was soon buried, but his family leaked news that Wang Zhe's face was black before his death, and he was poisoned. ”

Song Nan said in horror: "You mean that King Ning invited him to a banquet, and then openly poisoned him?" How dare he do it in broad daylight? And what is it for? ”

"For what? Wang Zhe wrote to King Ning about embezzling fertile fields and collecting money, but the court did not react to this matter, but King Ning got the news, so he poisoned him, isn't this reason sufficient? ”

Song Nan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, was so bold that he had reached the point of openly killing local officials, which showed that within the scope of King Ning's mansion, King Ning was already a soil emperor.

What is even more surprising is still to come, Wang Shouren's fierce news continues: "Jiangxi Deputy Inspector Hu Shining wrote a letter to impeach King Ning for being a trouble in Jiangxi, and King Ning accused him of bewitching the public and arrested him in prison. Under the pretext that the case was complicated, Hu Shining was not escorted to Beijing, and Hu Shining is still detained in the prison of Jinyi Wei Yamen in Nanchang, and he does not know whether he is dead or alive. ”

"Nanchang Weidu commanded Dai Yisu not to be good friends with Zhu Chenhao, and once reprimanded Chenhao in person for having different ambitions, and the bandits in Poyang Lake were rampant last year, and they were repeatedly ineffective, and King Ning then played his collusion with the lake bandits, Dai Yi was beheaded in prison, and the whole family of 16 people was regarded as bandits, and none of them were spared."

"Nanchang political envoy Zheng Yue Yushi Fan Luo once privately talked about the establishment of King Ning's palace, saying that it was improper and the etiquette was not in accordance with the law, and King Ning learned that a few days later, two court officials were pulled out of the yamen by unknown people and beaten violently, and suffered death threats. The two officials had to leave Nanchang as a last resort, and the place where the official office was located was unable to perform their duties, do you say it was a big joke. ”

“……”

Wang Shouren's narration one after another, the more Song Nan listened, the more frightened he became, although he knew that King Ning's generous appearance was the appearance, but he never expected this person to be so domineering, so it seems that the jurisdiction of King Ning's Mansion has become a country within a country, and Zhu Chenhao can kill and take it in his own small kingdom without scruples, which sounds a little incredible, but since Wang Shouren said it by name, it must not be a lie.

"Grandpa Guo has stood firm, in addition to the above, I have a bigger secret to tell you. Ning Wangfu has accumulated countless wealth, and there are transactions in Guangdong and Fujian, nominally buying and selling cotton, linen, grain and other businesses, do you know what you buy secretly? ”

Song Nan said in a hoarse voice: "According to my investigation, he also bought leather armor and gold and iron things there. ”

Wang Shouren sneered: "Finally, your brocade guard yamen still has some ability, he bought leather tent gold and iron, the use is self-evident, it is necessary to build leather armor weapons, and also with the feudal merchants to buy a firearm called the Franc machine firearm, although the purchase is all parts, but there is an assembly mechanism in Nanchang Mansion, day and night lights are not extinguished assembly and building. Is this what a prince should do? ”

Song Nan gritted his teeth and said: "This guy has ill intentions, and it is almost a foregone conclusion." ”

Wang Shouren said again: "Do you know what is the reason for the endless bandits in Jiangxi? Poyang Lake bandits, Ling 11, Min 24 and other 500 lake bandits; more than 100 people such as Yang Qing, Li Fu, and Wang Ru, the thieves of southern Gansu; more than 200 people including Li Zhen, Zhou Boling, and Wu Sanba, the leaders of the lead mountain bandits; Even some mountain people and bandits in Guangxi, mountain bandits and sea bandits in Tingzhou, Zhangzhou and other places in Fujian Province have colluded with him, and the reason why these bandits have been repeatedly suppressed is that King Ning intervened in them; Provisions, ventilation and reporting. Nanchang Weidu commanded Dai Yi to suppress the bandits halfway and was stained as colluding with the bandits, and his actions were known to the bandits in advance, how could there be a reason not to fail? Afterwards, the bandits released rumors that Dai Yi had received their silver taels, and this was the so-called Dai Yi colluding with the lake bandits, which must have been unknown to the grandfather of the country. ”

The shock in Song Nan's heart is indescribable, Zhu Chenhao is not only bold, the intention of colluding to protect these bandits and gangs is self-evident, this is to collect local armed forces for his own use, and these bandits are his death squad at a critical time; Bandits are rampant, coupled with the power of Qingwangfu, this is one of the reasons why Zhu Chenhao can dominate one side and the local officials are silent. Whoever dares to talk too much, I'm afraid that Zheng Yue will be pulled out of the yamen in broad daylight, beaten and then expelled, and then pushed it all on the bandits.

And the reason why Zhu Chenhao is crazy about accumulating money and stealing is that he urgently needs a large amount of silver taels, not only to support the expenses of these bandit armies under his protection, but also to purchase a large amount of armaments and materials, which are very expensive things.

The current situation is that the actual situation is much worse than I imagined, and the results of the investigation by Hou Dabiao, Sun Xuan and others are also a drop in the bucket, only limited to the skin, after all, it is an external investigation, and it is impossible to go deep inside. Nanchang Jinyi Wei Yamen has not reported the slightest about King Ning's affairs, obviously Nanchang Jinyi Wei Qianhu no longer belongs to himself, a big problem is that since the Fusi of Nanbei Town privately investigated King Ning, he must have asked for the assistance of Nanchang Jinyi Wei Qianhu Yamen, that is, if Nanchang's Jinyi Wei Agency has become Zhu Chenhao's minions, then his secret investigation of Zhu Chenhao will definitely be known by King Ning.

This city is difficult, he secretly exposed his old bottom, but he was silent, seeing that he was also as hot as ever, thinking back to meeting him during this time, Song Nan was sweating all over, Zhu Chenhao was too calm.

But Song Nan still has a huge question in his heart that has not been answered, since Zhu Chenhao is so high-profile in Nanchang, and Wang Shouren also knows so much, why does no one show what he has done to the court? If Zhengde knew about this, how could he have expressed it, and how could he not have expressed it at all? He was also shocked that day, and the emperor was shocked when he heard it, Zhengde didn't seem to be acting for himself, obviously he didn't know what Zhu Chenhao was doing, that is, he didn't receive any music about what Zhu Chenhao did in Jiangxi.

Song Nan threw this question to Wang Shouren without hesitation, Wang Shouren smiled and said: "I knew there was such a question, but I couldn't answer you, this matter is not only you, I also feel strange." How could it be that no one played this, even I myself played it several times; Jiangxi Governor Sun Sui played seven times before and after, but did not get a response once, and as officials outside Beijing, we had neither the right to meet nor the right to go to the court, so we could only play this matter with a recital. The strangeness of this matter still requires Grandpa Guo to explain my doubts. ”

A flash of lightning lit up in Song Nan's heart, and he basically understood why things were so weird.