East Plant.

Since the reconstruction, located next to the Dongchang General Administration next to the Donghua Gate, everyone in Beijing is afraid and fearful, and ordinary people passing by here will unconsciously speed up their pace.

There are also many self-proclaimed feng shui masters, saying that the feng shui here is not good, so there is always a gust of yin wind, if you pass by too many times, after a long time, you will suffer.

As a result, the outer street of Donghuamen has gradually become sparsely populated, and the nearby pavilions are also crowded, and the guests are not as good as day by day.

On this day, Yu Qian dressed neatly, came to the gate of Dongchang, listened to the hair-making screams faintly coming from inside, and sighed heavily.

After all, Dongchang is not another place, and the guards in front of the door are all murderers, although they saw that the person who came was the military department of the imperial court, they were also very arrogant to stop it.

"Dongchang General Administration, idlers are not allowed to enter!"

"Yu Shaobao doesn't have to leave again, otherwise it will be difficult for me to wait!"

Yu Qian said quietly: "I came this time to visit an old friend. ”

"Dongchang is not a prison of the Criminal Department, whoever wants to come can come! Doesn't Yu Shaobao know that my East Factory prohibits visits? The stall in front of the door said.

The two sides were at a stalemate, but there was a sound of footsteps coming from within.

"Oh, what kind of wind blew Yu Butang over?" Wang Cheng, the commander of Dongchang, who was dressed in a python robe, came to the door and scolded the stall head in public.

"Blind your dog's eyes, even Yu Butang dares to stop you!"

The head of the stall hurriedly retreated: "The factory supervisor forgives the sin, and he will no longer dare to be humble..."

"Get out!" Wang Cheng scolded sharply, and then smiled kindly: "Yu Butang came to me, I'm afraid it was to visit Wang Hong, the left waiter of the household department, right?" ”

Yu Qian nodded and said, "I'm just here to visit, I don't have anything else to do." ”

Wang Cheng rubbed his hands and sneered: "Yu Butang also knows the rules of the imperial court, since the establishment of Taizong, only people enter my Dongchang Prison, and no one has ever come out. ”

"As for visits, there has never been such a case!"

"It's not that the governor is stopping me, it's just ......"

Yu Qian sighed, turned around and left.

Wang Cheng didn't expect this military secretary to be so upright, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand and called: "Yu Butang is the minister of the imperial court, and he has no selfish intentions. ”

"That's it!"

"This governor will make an exception for Yu Ministry, please come in!"

Yu Qian turned around and glanced at Wang Cheng, and silently entered the door, seeing this, the servants next to him were all dumbfounded, wondering, what happened to the ruthless factory supervisor in the past today.

Wang Cheng took Yu Qian all the way down, passing through the cells of many imprisoned officials, but Yu Qian just followed, without even looking at it or asking.

Soon, the two arrived at the Tianzi cell where the felons were held.

After many days of not seeing the light of day, Wang Hong's eyes had long lost their former brilliance, and when he first heard someone coming, he was still very scared and curled up in the corner.

But when he saw the person wearing a Tsing Yi official uniform, a fierce spirit suddenly stepped forward and held the cell door tightly.

"Tingyi, you're here to save me!"

Tingyi is Yu Qian's word, and the familiar scholars at this time call each other the name of the word to express the meaning of friendship, and Yu Qian and Wang Hong are even more so.

Soon he found that today's Yu Qian was a little frightened.

Yu Qian didn't have the joy of reuniting after a long absence, nor did he care about Wang Hong's scars, but just asked: "Gongdu, do you know the Shandong sand and gravel merchant named Tao Jinghong?" ”

Looking at this scene between the two, Wang Cheng secretly relieved himself.

Then he turned his head slightly, and glanced at the stall head on the side, and the stall head received the instruction and quickly turned around and left, not knowing what to arrange.

"You..."

"Yes, you colluded with the sand and gravel merchant Tao Jinghong to embezzle ink and control mercury in Shandong, and I now know everything." Yu Qian said coldly:

"In vain, I still regard you as a confidant, Gongdu, you are a lake...!"

Wang Hong let go of the prison door, took a few steps back, and shook his head incessantly: "Tingyi, you don't know the temptation of those things. ”

"Sometimes, you just need to nod your head, say a word, or put a few words on the document, and you have everything you want."

"Tingyi, you don't know the feeling that you can have everything easily......"

"Look at yourself, what kind of is you talking about?" Yu Qian's face was full of disbelief, and he said angrily: "Are you still the court official who I valued heroism and integrity at the beginning, and was upright and outspoken!"

"Where is your original integrity?"

Wang Hong sneered and looked at Yu Qian: "Do you know how I've come over all these years?" Do you think anyone can endure decades of poverty like you? ”

"I'm a human being, I'm not an animal, I have a wife, I have a wife and children, I have studied hard for many years, seeking an official position in the court, in order to live a life of poverty?"

Yu Qian also saw that the current Wang Hong was no longer the original Wang Hong.

He shook his head and sighed: "You have changed, you have completely changed, you are now the same as those people, you value yourself, not the world!" ”

After speaking, Yu Qian turned around and left.

"I thought you were here to save me today, but I didn't expect that even you would be so ruthless." Wang Hong laughed to himself, leaned against the wall, and shouted almost like crazy:

"Let's go, let's all go!"

"You go like this, and treat all the vows you and I made outside the city as donkey livers and lungs!"

Hearing this, Yu Qian paused and turned his head slightly: "The one who made the oath with me at the beginning was the prince who had the world in mind, dared to lead the people to kill traitorous ministers in the palace, and dared to go out of the city to fight to the death with Wara. ”

"And now, you're just Wang Hong, the left waiter of the household who is greedy for money and afraid of death."

After saying this, Yu Qian didn't look back, and resolutely left.

Wang Cheng stood aside, listening to the argument between the two, the whole person was very surprised, until Yu Qian went up, he still stood in place, and he couldn't forget it.

It wasn't until the stall head next to him reminded him again and again that he suddenly came back to his senses.

"Factory Supervisor, Yu Shaobao has left."

"Oh, let's go..."Wang Cheng blinked, his first reaction was to look to the left, and asked, "Is everything that the governor ordered you done?" ”

The head of the stall hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, the factory supervisor has all done all the lowly duties, and today's conversation will not spread half a sentence, and it will all be recorded in the eucalyptus." ”

"That's good, immediately play Your Majesty, don't leave a word behind, how to deal with today's conversation, all listen to Your Majesty's orders."

Wang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the cell, looked at Wang Hong, who was lost and depressed, and said, "I knew now, why bother in the beginning?" ”

"Shao retains the name of eternity, do you think it is the same as people like you?"

Wang Hong didn't reply, and lay motionless on the haystack, as if he was really dead.

"Factory supervisor, now that the human and material evidence is complete, the Shandong sand and gravel merchant called Tao Jinghong was handed over by the Beizhen Fusi yesterday."

As he spoke, the stall head looked at Wang Hong in the cell and asked, "What should we do with this thief?" ”

Wang Cheng was also a little strange that Beizhen Fusi would actually hand over this Tao Jinghong to Dongchang, so he sneered and said: "Escort Tao Jinghong to Xishi to be beheaded, send a team of people out of Beijing, and go to Shandong to copy the Tao family." ”

"This Tao Jinghong is so treacherous and greedy, there must be a lot of family wealth!" The stall head smiled and said, his face full of impatience.

Wang Cheng glared at him and said, "The brothers will take what they should take, but if anyone dares to take more of those who are handed over to the inner treasury, Bendu will chop off his hand!" ”

The stall head hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the brothers are measured, the inner library is Your Majesty's internal money, and now the East Factory can be restored, it all depends on Your Majesty, how dare you have bad intentions." ”

"Hmph, it's good to know." Wang Cheng then looked into the cell and muttered: "As for this dignified thief, I am not in a hurry to deal with it, and this governor will go to the palace and ask to see Your Majesty." ”

"You send the physical evidence to the Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that they can all see how this person, who is known as Qingliu, embezzled the money for the treatment of mercury one by one."