"One-two...... Pull! ”

"One-two...... Pull! ”

On October 15, the ninth year of the Apocalypse, with the change of seasons and the arrival of the Xiaoice Season, even in southern areas such as the Chengdu Plain, the temperature began to plummet.

In later generations, the degree of October was only the addition or subtraction of the temperature of a coat, but in this era, whether it was a peddler or a pawn or a wealthy official, everyone wore cotton clothes.

On the bank of the Minjiang River, the boats coming and going are pulled by the slender man, and the boatman is paddling the oars upstream.

On the bank of the river, perhaps due to the improper operation of the boatmen, a boat of 500 materials ran aground on the beach, and many people took off their cotton clothes in the cold winter and walked around to push the boats on the river.

A pair of feet were buried in the mud, while the people on the boat were holding on to the edge of the boat, watching the slender men push the boat hard.

"The people are afflicted, ......"

In a word, if it is ordinary, it may make people think that this person cares about the people, but at this moment he is standing on the boat, watching the slender men pushing the boat, but he has a feeling of not eating minced meat.

"It's moving! Come on! ”

After a long time of hard work, the boat finally slipped from the river beach into the river, and the slender men were excited one by one, and at the same time they ran towards the shore with rolling and crawling.

Perhaps because they were afraid of getting their cotton clothes dirty, they hastily washed away the mud from their bodies with the biting river water, so they put on their cotton clothes and trotted with the boat all the way, and only when the boat was completely safe did they begin to pull the rope.

This kind of hard work can often be exchanged for more than ten yuan in a day, even if you have just waded through the river, it will be at most twenty yuan.

But even so, the slender men still laughed and pulled the boats, just because they felt that they were already very happy.

Perhaps in their opinion, in Sichuan under natural disasters, if you can have a job, you have already won ninety percent of the people.

Of course, the reason why they are so happy is that in addition to having a job and a salary, there are naturally other things.

"It's really ...... for this group of people to be so happy when they earn more than 20 dollars a day"

On the side of the road, more than a dozen people dressed in black escorts (clothes belonging to half-arms) rode on the backs of donkeys, looking at the slender man who was pulling the boat, and felt quite emotional.

This group of people is naturally Lu Wenzhao, Shen Lian and other Jinyi guards.

As for Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru and other civil officials, they sat in the dragged boat, lamenting that the people's livelihood was not easy, and at the same time, they enjoyed the service of manpower.

Of course, Lu Wenzhao, Shen Lian, Lu Xiu, and Lu Xian are not Qinggao, but they feel that the boat ride is too shaky, and if they go ashore and ride a horse, Wen Tiren and others can't catch up, so naturally they can only ride a donkey.

"They're not happy because of these twenty ......"

Sitting on the back of a donkey, Lu Xiu glanced at the slender man on the shore before explaining:

"Sun Chuanting swept most of the gentry in Sichuan, although he made a lot of trouble for His Royal Highness and the imperial court, but he also swept out millions of acres of land."

"According to the return of the Supervision Department Jinyiwei, who arrived in Chengdu first, Sun Chuanting probably swept out more than 9 million acres of military and civilian land, and in order to prevent someone from encroaching on it, he also released the news early to equalize the land."

"In this field, the people of Sichuan can almost divide two acres per person, and after calculation, one household can divide more than ten acres."

"Coupled with a few more rains after this autumn, the drought in eastern Sichuan has been extinguished, do you think they can be unhappy?"

Lu Xiu said the joy in the hearts of the people, while Lu Xian looked at Shen Lian and Lu Wenzhao in front of him.

Shen Lian's expression was wooden, as if his mind was not here, but Lu Wenzhao was calm, turned his head and ordered:

"Take advantage of this opportunity to put the brocade guards in the southwest in order."

"Yes!" Everyone was holding the reins on the back of the donkey, and Lu Wenzhao also began to ride the donkey slowly.

They still have 30 miles to get to the ferry, then change to a small boat and walk 100 miles along the Fu River to Chengdu.

The Fu River is not as wide as the Min River, in the Ming Dynasty, the widest part is only 100 meters, the narrowest point is only 50 or 60 meters, and the river is not deep, so the speed will be slower.

"These Wenchen are pampered and pretentious, if we had ridden a horse, we would have arrived in Chengdu Mansion a long time ago."

Lu Xiu said in a respectful manner, and Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but explain:

"They are not hypocritical, if they are hypocritical, in fact, it is the same in a carriage."

"They took the boat because the people above told them to go slower."

Saying that, Lu Wenzhao simply made things clear.

It is true that the impact of this incident created by Sun Chuanting is very bad, but to put it bluntly, the cause of this incident is also because the gentry of Chengdu Mansion have done too much.

The reason why the local gentry rebelled against the imperial court was also to show their energy, and they did not expect the imperial court to really kill Sun Chuanting.

The gentry could see it, so naturally they would not forcefully ask Gu Bingqian, Shi Fenglai, Yuan Keli and others to punish Sun Chuanting.

The gentry didn't say anything, Gu Bingqian, they naturally wouldn't have nothing to do.

Zhu Youzhen was uncomfortable between the people and the imperial power, and they were also uncomfortable between Zhu Youzhen and the gentry.

The top has to deal with Zhu Youzhen, saying that he doesn't want to find trouble, and the bottom is afraid of face and wants to explain to others, so he behaves toughly.

It's just that this kind of toughness is in the mouth, in fact, they all want to drag out time and drag things out.

The common people were prone to forgetfulness, and so did the gentry.

Sun Chuanting's incident, if it drags on for a month longer, more people will forget about it.

Therefore, before leaving, Gu Bingqian and the others had already informed Wen Tiren and them, telling them not to rush to Chengdu.

It is precisely because of this that they chose the most time-consuming ship to rush and spent so much time detouring.

Otherwise, if they took the Yangtze River into the Tuojiang River, and then rushed to Chengdu by carriage at Longquan Mountain, they would basically be able to arrive in Chengdu in early October, and they could try Sun Chuanting, Liu Yuyou, and Pan Shiliang in mid-October by collecting criminal evidence.

Now that they have delayed the time to mid-October, when they arrive in Chengdu, they can use the excuse of collecting Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang's crimes to delay the time.

Drag it out until the winter moon or the wax moon, and then the gentry of the world have long forgotten most of this matter.

At that time, the trial will be held slowly, and the trial will end in the busy time before the Lantern Festival and after the New Year's Day, and no one will pay attention to Sun Chuanting by then.

Therefore, Wen Tiren and they seem to be happy, but in fact, all three of them are human spirits......

"These ministers have too many eyes."

Lu Wenzhao's explanation made everyone suddenly enlightened, and they couldn't help but be a little happy when they sighed at Wenchen's methods.

What Sichuan eucalyptus proves is that in addition to the national policy of the imperial court to be corrupt and opposed, there is also a rule hidden underwater.

That is, as long as His Royal Highness King Qi wants to protect it, no one can move this person.

Sun Chuanting is like this, and they are even more so.

Therefore, they can't help but complain about the thousands of households in Sichuan who do not report what they know and unite with corruption.

"Commander, what should I do about things here in Sichuan?"

Shen Lian asked Lu Wenzhao, obviously wanting to sweep Sichuan away, and Lu Wenzhao's mind was bigger than his.

"The students of Yanshan have failed to take the exam more than 140,000 this year, and they have practiced in Yanshan for five years, and they can enter Jinyiwei."

Lu Wenzhao said eloquently: "I have asked Li Ruolian and Cui Yingyuan to recruit 20,000 Jinwei. ”

"This time, take this opportunity to change the Jinyi Guards in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, especially the three thousand Jinyi Guards in Sichuan, and all of them will be abolished!"

Lu Wenzhao was not shocked on the surface, but he was more anxious than anyone else.

Although he is an old man who has been with Zhu Youzhen all the way, the corruption problem of Jinyiwei has not been interrupted since he took over Jinyiwei.

Seven years ago, it was good to say that because of the lack of manpower, there was no way to massively dismiss the brocade guards and replace them with new people to exchange blood.

But this problem has changed since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after Zhu Youzhen transferred 20,000 Yanshan students to Jinyiwei.

In the seven years since the Apocalypse, there have been problems in disaster relief in various places, and now there is a big eucalyptus outbreak in Sichuan.

All kinds of eucalyptus are involved in the corruption of Jinyiwei.

There are more than 90,000 people in Jinyiwei at present, and they have to take away more than 2 million taels of silver from the imperial court every year.

At present, except for the North Town Fu Division, which is in charge of military intelligence, there has been no problem, and the South Town Fu Division can be said to have been in constant trouble.

Although Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything harsh afterwards, Lu Wenzhao knew very well that if he couldn't rectify Jinyiwei this time, then Li Ruolian or Lu Jianxing, these two people would most likely take his place.

As for him, after all, he is an old man who has followed him all the way, and it is estimated that he will be awarded a knighthood and a loose rank, and then arranged for retirement.

Lu Wenzhao is only forty-five years old and in the prime of life, how can he be willing to be treated as a waste and stay in the capital for retirement?

Therefore, he is not ready to return to the capital in a short time, even if he does not alleviate the corruption problem of Jinyiwei, he has to let Zhu Youzhen see that he is busy below.

One Beijing and six provinces in the north, Lu Wenzhao handed it over to Cui Yingyuan, and he was responsible for the inventory of one Beijing and ten provinces in the south.

If Cui Yingyuan can't even do this little thing, then the commander of the Nanzhen Fusi should also be replaced.

Thinking of this, Lu Wenzhao looked at Shen Lian, Lu Xiu, and Lu Xian.

Although these three people can, if they can, Lu Wenzhao would rather promote a ruthless person like Yang Huan to the position.

This is not to say that Yang Huan is better than them, but that the three of them are more suitable for the Supervision Department.

"After the inspection of Sichuan, we inspected one province and replaced Jinyiwei in one province."

Lu Wenzhao finally explained the purpose of his trip, and then slowly moved north with the brocade guards.

"Whew...... This land of Bashu is much colder than Jiangnan. ”

Compared with the predicament of Jinyiwei, Wen Tiren and the three of them are actually facing many problems that are difficult to deal with.

While Lu Wenzhao and the others followed the fleet north, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru also stood on the deck, exhaling a mouthful of white mist and watching the river scenery with a sigh.

Li Banghua, as Donglin, although he is also a capable official and a human spirit, he still maintains most of Donglin's problems, and the party fights against different people......

Therefore, it was naturally impossible for him to chat with Wen Tiren of the Zhejiang Party and Zhou Yanru of the Gu Party, but to rest in the boat.

His rest created an opportunity for Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru to be alone.

The age difference between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru is fifteen years, Wen Tiren is five out of fifty, and Zhou Yanru is only forty.

The two of them both belong to Hanlin, and basically the next cabinet ministers are their group.

Speaking of which, although the personalities of the two are very different, they are almost the same.

Historically, these two people realized what Chongzhen's character was, so they didn't corrupt or form a party to confuse Chongzhen, in order to ascend to the cabinet.

The difference is that Wen Tiren has a thorough understanding of Chongzhen's character, while Zhou Yanru is still a little behind.

Wen Tiren knew that Chongzhen hated corruption and formed a party, so he could immediately split from the Zhejiang Party.

Zhou Yanru is a little less conscious in this regard, although he does not form a party, and he also knows that Chongzhen liked Donglin at the beginning of his accession, but his mistake was to recommend Donglin officials.

During the Chongzhen years, there will be no reward if things are done well, and if things are done badly, they will lose their black yarn hats, and if they lose their lives, they will have to take the blame.

A mediocre person is like a toad, poke it and move it, but if you don't do it, it's good, and if it's good, you're meritorious.

Zhou Yanru thought that he could please Chongzhen by recommending Donglin, but Chongzhen thought that he was attached to Donglin, and was also dismissed in the end, but Wen Tiren died well, but Zhou Yanru was given death.

Although there is a lord like Chongzhen, anyone who comes has to die, but people like Zhou Yanru are people who can squeeze into the center of power in any dynasty and generation, even so, he still can't play Wen Tiren.

If there is anyone in the late Ming Dynasty who fights for power, these two are either the first or the second, Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying have to be ranked behind them.

These two people can understand the current situation during the Chongzhen period, and naturally they can understand the current situation even better.

They all know that the current emperor doesn't care about party disputes, and Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi who cares about party disputes, doesn't care about the party affiliation of officials, so in the face of such a superior character, Zhou Yanru chose to directly rely on the original Qi Wang Party.

He thought that the Qi Wang Party could stick tightly to the King of Qi, but he didn't want the Qi Wang Party to become a grass on the wall under the interests, so he turned his head into the "Gu Party", and he became the next cabinet minister cultivated by the "Gu Party".

It can be said that Zhou Yanru is now repentant, if he was young, he would directly choose the Yanshan faction.

It's just that now he is forty and not confused, so he can only follow Gu Dang to the dark.

Compared with him, Wen Tiren saw it more thoroughly, he had long known that the Qi Wang Party was essentially a group of wall grass, and his natural identity as a Zhejiang native made it understandable to stay in the Zhejiang Party for a long time.

If Zhu Youzhen doesn't like the Zhejiang Party, he will naturally quickly cut through the chaos and divide it quickly, but at the moment, the Zhejiang Party is only the second party in the temple, and with the rise of Yanshan, it may become the third party, so that the Zhejiang Party will be safe.

Wen Tiren sensed his means and goal from Zhu Youzhen's move, that is, whichever party is big, he will do something to which party.

At the beginning, the Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun and Five Party Alliance was dominant, and his strength was weak, so he needed to support Donglin to deal with the Five Party Alliance.

When the five-party alliance collapsed, and without waiting for Donglin to chase and fight the five parties, Zhu Youzhen stood up to contain Donglin, resulting in Donglin's dominance, but it did not eat the strength of any party.

Subsequently, the emperor supported the eunuch party, united the remnants of the five parties to deal with Donglin, and defeated Donglin step by step.

Seeing that Donglin was about to be annihilated, Zhu Youzhen stood up again, and under several means, the five parties jumped back, the eunuch party was instantly defeated, and Cui Chengxiu and others are still in Nanzhou with the natives.

Later, the five parties were annihilated and absorbed by the Zhejiang Party, while Donglin survived.

At this time, the Qi Wang Party was dominant, and the Yanshan faction rose rapidly, and Zhu Youzhen immediately began to self-examine, and the anti-corruption beat the Qi Wang Party and the Yanshan faction bitterly.

The Qi Wang Party decisively gathered around Gu Bingqian and became the current Gu Party, while the Yanshan faction did not oppose the water, but in Wen Tiren's opinion, they would be corrupted sooner or later.

In this kind of political situation where there are people above and people below to surpass, Wen Tiren can stay in the Zhejiang Party with peace of mind.

entered the cabinet as a small party, and when the time comes, he will choose how to operate based on the attitude of the two brothers, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao.

In short, how he wants to go, he knows better than anyone else in his heart that self-preservation and seeking power is what he wants.

When necessary, the Zhejiang Party is just a stepping stone.

At this point, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren have unprecedentedly consistent personalities, and the party is just a stepping stone for them.

Therefore, when Li Banghua couldn't talk to them, the two of them chatted kindly.

"Sun Chuanting has meritorious service in loving the people, and it is not wrong to kill the gentry, but if he breaks the rules of the court, his resignation is already a serious punishment......"

After all, they are all people who can be selected as officials, Zhou Yanru's appearance is very good, a one-foot long beard hangs down on his chest, his face is white and his eyes are like torches, plus he is thin, at first glance it looks like a clean official.

Compared to him, although Wen Tiren next to him was a little fat, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a long beard, and he looked like he was jealous and hateful.

In general, the two of them don't look like traitors, and even when they see them for the first time, they think they are clean officials.

It is not difficult to explain why Chongzhen believed in the two so much in history, and why these two people were able to jointly govern for nine years in the seventeen years of Chongzhen, when ministers were frequently replaced.

Zhou Yanru stood by the river and said these words, if they were heard by the people who didn't know why, they would really be grateful to him, thinking that he was saying good things for Sun Chuanting.

However, they are all thousand-year-old foxes, and Wen Tiren has long seen through Zhou Yanru's thoughts.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Yanru understood from the protection of Sun Chuanting by the King of Qi and the emperor at the Huangji Gate that it is best to judge Sun Chuanting to go to the real power, leave the Sanjie and Wuxun, and let him go home comfortably to rest for two years.

Therefore, what he said just now was a discussion to satisfy the emperor and the king of Qi.

Wen Tiren smiled on the surface, but actually saw his thoughts clearly.

However, his idea coincided with Wen Tiren's thoughts.

At this stage, he is unwilling to offend Donglin, nor does he want to offend Sun Chuanting, the popular man in front of King Qi.

Therefore, since Zhou Yanru has picked the head, he can naturally instigate Zhou Yanru to cling to Zhou Yanru and let Zhou Yanru say this verdict.

"This is naturally the best, this matter, the old man and the jade rope have the same opinion, so the jade rope will collect and announce the verdict at that time."

Wen Tiren expressed his attitude, and he still had the same attitude as himself, which made Zhou Yanru very useful.

In his opinion, the problem of Sun Chuanting's matter lies in Wen Tiren.

The four chief officials of the Sixth Division are Zhou Yanru, as well as Wen Tiren of the Zhejiang Party, Li Banghua of the Donglin Party, Lu Wenzhao of the Jinyi Guard, and Li Yongzhen, a celebrant and eunuch sent by the emperor to watch.

Needless to say, although Sun Chuanting has no party, Li Banghua and Sun Chuanting have a good personal relationship, so he naturally tries his best to protect Sun Chuanting.

Lu Wenzhao didn't need to say much, although he couldn't express his position directly, he also wanted to protect Sun Chuanting in his heart.

Now that Zhou Yanru wants to protect it, Wen Tiren also agrees, so only Li Yongzhen, who is the celebrant supervisor, is left.

Although Li Yongzhen is the person who is the celebrant supervisor, Sun Chuanting is still Zhu Youzhen's person, unless Li Yongzhen has a problem with his brain, it is impossible to offend Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, so ......

"Sun Chuanting saved ......"

Zhou Yanru was much more relaxed, because as long as he didn't offend Sun Chuanting, he wouldn't offend King Qi, and he wouldn't offend King Qi, and even help King Qi, so when he ascended the pavilion, the probability of success would be much greater.

Zhou Yanru's thoughts were the same as Wen Tiren's, so protecting Sun Chuanting made them all feel relieved.

It's just that Sun Chuanting's matter was resolved, but Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang's matter was not.

The two belong to the Gu Party, and logically speaking, it is impossible for Zhou Yanru to sentence them to death, on the contrary, he has to protect them.

But he also knew that Sun Chuanting wanted these two people to die, and Gu Bingqian wanted them to live.

In this case, if Zhu Youzhen expresses his position, then he will not offend anyone no matter how he handles it.

But Zhu Youzhen did not express his position, which made him have to come forward to guarantor.

Because Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, Gu Bingqian would default to saving him, and if Gu Bingqian wanted to save him, it meant that Zhou Yanru would also save him.

Needless to say, Li Banghua will definitely sentence these two people to serious crimes with his party's character of fighting against differences.

As for Li Yongzhen, eunuchs, as long as the silver is used properly, the two of them can live, and Lu Wenzhao probably wants the two of them to die, because they are involved in the corrupt eucalyptus of Jinyiwei.

In this way, four judges and one bystander, two of them want Liu Yuyou to die, and one is neutral, so Zhou Yanru must be pulled to Wen Tiren's side to protect Liu Yuyou and the others from dying.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yanru also smiled and said:

"This Sun Chuanting is saved, then there are only more than 600 officials of all sizes such as Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang."

"In this eucalyptus, in my opinion, Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang have only been in office for one year, and there is a high probability that there is no problem, and in a year's time, the two of them are afraid that they have not even figured out Chengdu County and Huayang County."

"Hmm......" Wen Tiren echoed with a smile, but he was very disdainful in his heart.

"I mean, Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang were demoted six levels in a row, and the remaining 600 or so officials were all exiled to Nanzhou...... How is it? ”

Zhou Yanru discussed with Wen Tiren with a pleasant face, and when Wen Tiren heard this, he also nodded kindly:

"Naturally, this eucalyptus will be done according to what you said about the jade rope."

"Thank you so much......" Zhou Yanru breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground completely.

Once Wen Tiren expresses his position, then Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang will not die immediately, as long as they do not die immediately, or do not die in the hands of Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru's career will not be affected.

As for whether they die after that? What is he doing with Zhou Yanru?

In short, as long as Sun Chuanting is kept, he will have merit!