When he walked back to his room, Fang Muxian had already figured it out.

He took it easy.

"Liuyi, Wuli and Qilian have already left the house?"

"Godfather, they're all out."

Fang Muxian nodded: "You go to Dazhong, and after you break your business today, you will leave the city in disguise and go to sea from Tianjin Wei." ”

"Godfather, what's wrong? Then you ......"

"I still have a task, you go to find my second brother." Fang Muxian said calmly, "Wuli and Qilian know what to do, you and Dazhong still have time, I can delay it for a night." ”

"Godfather......

Fang Muxian interrupted him: "Don't be a mother-in-law, go and prepare." ”

After saying that, he opened the cabinet in the room and began to sort out the various account books and letters in it.

Whether it's the worst case or not, some of the things that we have only started to do this year have already had an effect.

In the next stage, we will have to wait for the three fires added this year to slowly ignite.

As for their own safety...... If the young emperor really wants to do anything with him, it will be a good thing.

In the end, it doesn't have to be me, this is why Fang Muxian is calm.

On the side of the household department, Fan Ting has already gone back.

As soon as he returned to the household, he was called to him by Yang Tan: "What about people? ”

Fan Ting was a little strange, because Yang Tan didn't seem to be doing other official business, as if he was just waiting for him to summon people back, and he seemed to be in a hurry.

“…… When the lower official arrived at the Hou Mansion and saw the steward Fang Muxian, he said......"

Fan Ting reported the experience, only to see that Yang Tan's face was a little bad, and he asked carefully: "If you are in a hurry, the next official will go to the Hou Mansion and wait for the Hou Ning Hou ......to come back."

Yang Tan frowned and shook his head: "No need." ”

Since this is the method that has been decided, it must be enough to spread the word.

He thought for a moment and said, "Go down." ”

Fan Ting saluted and left respectfully, and Yang Tan stood up: "Prepare a sedan chair and go to Cui Zuojun's mansion." ”

Is it just to scare the snake?

But that person would be so smart?

In the Jinyi Health Office not far away, Luo An has been sitting behind the desk, checking the short messages coming back from everywhere.

"It's not even five days today, is it? What kind of guests did the Shouning Marquis Mansion entertain in the past three days? ”

"Every five days, the Hou Mansion goes to Zhuangzi outside the city to transport fresh vegetables, and now it is indeed only three days, and the Hou Mansion has not had many guests."

"How many times has that silk shop been temporarily closed like this in the past three months?"

"There were four times, August 27......"

Next to Luo'an, there are two former ministers of the Qiandi who returned to Beijing with Empress Dowager Jiang in September and were transferred to Jinyiwei.

They have a special job that compiles the information that has been accumulated before the "Pomegranate Blossoms" campaign.

While listening, Luo An looked at the news from the throats around the Hou Mansion of Shouning: I didn't see Fang Muxian leave the Hou Mansion.

In that silk shop and the Hou Mansion, there is a secret passage?

He frowned: The most important thing is still this Fang Muxian.

Although the Marquis of Shouning is not in the mansion, can he directly break into the mansion of this extremely sensitive national relative?

"Probe!"

Luo An still decided to just spread the net as the original plan of the operation.

If according to what Wang Zuo said, they did a clean job, some of the previous clues pointed to Qian Ning and Jiang Bin.

After doing so much and leaving no evidence, I think it's a fluke, right?

Wait for him to leave the house to do business.

Outside Beijing, Zhang Heling personally went to Tongzhou to receive a batch of silver and goods from the south.

In order not to make trouble, he had to withdraw from some of the official stores of the imperial store before, and Zhang Heling took the lead in cooperating. If it was last year, how could he be? But now, although there are still many family members who are resisting slowly, Zhang Heling knows that he is different.

But some of the trading houses in the south are serious business, right?

Zhang Heling is just here to receive this year's dividends, as well as the filial piety of some people in the south - he is now a little less money than before.

The New Year is approaching, and Fang Muxian also suggested that he be willing to be more willing this year and have more relations with some officials in Beijing.

Now, the Hou Mansion family is escorting a large convoy close to the city gate.

Outside the city gate, there are two people in the Hou Mansion who have been waiting here.

Seeing Zhang Heling from afar, one of the two went to the city gate first to reply to the first report.

The other waited for a while before greeting him: "Master Hou! Master Hou! ”

Zhang Heling showed his face from behind the curtain of the carriage and tilted his head to look: "Siyi? ”

"Master Hou!"

The man in his thirties walked to the side of the carriage and said in a low voice, "Godfather asked me to wait outside the city." Master Hou, godfather said that His Majesty is already looking for him. ”

Zhang Heling, who was sitting in the carriage, immediately changed his face, and then looked at him vigilantly: "What did you say?" This Hou Ye didn't understand. ”

"I don't understand either, Godfather's original words, this matter is very important, Master Hou, you will know it as soon as you hear it."

Of course Zhang Heling knew, but he wasn't sure if Fang Muxian's godson knew.

"What happened today?"

"Before noon, the household department went to the Hou Mansion, saying that it was still short for Kangling to supervise the construction, and three transcripts should be used for the Hou Ye's seal."

Zhang Heling remembered what Fang Muxian had said before: The matter of Kangling's supervision has been completed with the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry.

"Do you want this marquis to go in person?" He thought of a possibility, and his heart was pounding.

"Godfather said that it is best for Hou Ye to return to Tongzhou before he excuses himself, and wait for Godfather to explore the truth first."

Zhang Heling glanced at the city gate in the distance, and his heart beat faster.

Everything was as usual inside and outside the city gates, and there was no appearance of an accident.

Can you bet?

Zhang Heling was very scared, and scolded Fang Muxian in his heart: Didn't you say that no matter how much you investigate, you will only find out that it is Qian Ning and Jiang Bin who are responsible for the party?

“…… Root...... This Hou Ye suddenly remembered that the accounts were wrong. He didn't have time to think about it in a hurry, "Turn the horse's head and go back to Tongzhou!" ”

After going, regardless of 3721, first find a boat to go south, and then find a random place to dock and hide to see the situation.

What if?

At this moment, Fang Muxian also got a reward.

He was very confident that Zhang Heling would be too scared not to return to the city, and that would be enough.

"Erxin, go and meet Hou Ye. Take him with you, hide as much as you can, and hide as long as possible! ”

There was a funny smile on his lips, and no one would have thought of acting like this.

"Wild Notes", a fire in the Rijing Gate, two knives and four arrows in the southeast inexplicably, it is time for him to light the last fire by himself.

You should feel that even if you are extremely smart and vigilant, you should have a big plan and must spare your life, right?

That's wrong!

"Godfather!" The middle-aged man had tears in his eyes.

"It's enough for me to do these big things in my life." Fang Muxian smiled, "He Siyi sees the opportunity to act, if the situation is not right, leave him with a useful body and go to sea to find my second brother." Don't worry, just looking at the silence in the city now, it means that either I'm just worrying too much, or I don't want to cause chaos. As long as you go out of the city, there will be a way, godfather believes in you. ”

The middle-aged man knelt down and kowtowed a few times, wiped his tears and turned around and went out.

Fang Muxian began to tidy up his clothes, and after he combed his hair slowly, he looked at his appearance in front of the bronze mirror.

Then, he Shi Shiran went out, like a middle-aged scholar who was leisurely wandering around, and looked at the shops here and the pedestrians there from time to time with a smile on his face.

All the way to the vicinity of Chengtianmen, there was still nothing.

But he knew that there should be many people staring at him.

If Shou Ninghou didn't enter the city and suddenly returned to Tongzhou, there should be someone staring at him.

But it doesn't matter, it's all the same.

The Marquis of Shouning is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and the emperor is the nephew of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and he was elected by the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Embarrassing, right?

Thinking of this, Fang Muxian was even happier.

Shouning Hou and Jianchang Hou have been in charge for so many years, how many things has he Fang Muxian been involved in?

Tobe? Fang Muxian looked at the household in the distance with disdain, but instead stood by the Jinshui Bridge outside Chengtianmen, where officials came and went, and there were people staring at it all the time.

Then, he solemnly and solemnly straightened his sleeves, bowed and bowed, straightened his waist and shouted loudly: "Fang Muxian, the steward of the Hou Mansion of the sinner, has a lawless deed!" ”

From the moment he stopped there and began to prepare to salute, Luo An, who was secretly paying attention to him, and Lu Song, who was on the tower of Chengtian Gate, changed their faces.

But it would take time for their people to rush over, and Fang Muxian's shouts had already resounded in the vicinity of the Six Ministries, Five Mansions and Chengtian Gate.

The sun was already setting in the west, and suddenly a chilling storm suddenly appeared in his emaciated figure, sweeping away.

……

Fan Ting trembled and looked at Fang Muxian, who was escorted to Jinyiwei, he didn't dare to boldly walk out of the door to see the excitement, but Fang Muxian actually found him, smiled at him, and nodded slightly.

…… Your mother, Fan Ting retracted his head, drenched in cold sweat, and his face was pale.

Do you want to go back and settle down after the duty? Although he was not implicated, he was just doing business, but what if?

! What the hell is going on?

This question hovered in the minds of many people, until Liubu Jiuqing and Cui Yuan appeared, telling them to do whatever they wanted, and go home as usual after being on duty.

But that's the steward of the Marquis of Shouning's Mansion! What kind of lawlessness did he have to come out of, or did he kneel outside the Chengtian Gate?

After the ministers of national policy came out to appease the people's hearts, they walked back to the Chengtian Gate, doesn't it mean that something big happened?

But the curfew has not been declared in the capital, and the city gates are still open!

Half a year has passed since the excitement of the vassal king's succession, and it's not over yet?

But in the imperial study, the monarch and the minister were relaxed, and their expressions were strange.

The very ceremonial kneeling made the monarch and ministers feel funny at this time.

"If I have determination with the secretaries, the officials and people of the capital will have determination." In the Zhongyuan Hall, Zhu Houxi said, "Although it is indeed very unexpected, it is becoming more and more obvious now: the more Fang Muxian deliberately does this, the more it proves that there is no strong collusion." His purpose is just to create confusion of suspicion. ”

Doubts also hung over the heads of the ministers of national policy, and Cui Yuan said: "Shouning Hou hurried back to Tongzhou, don't you care?" ”

"Don't care, does he dare to make trouble? Isn't Jianchanghou still in the city? Zhu Houxi's face was strange, "Let's take a look at what this Fang Muxian wants to do first." ”

Jiang Mian said solemnly: "The minister has a guess. In the past few months, it seems that there has been a fire everywhere, since the traitor just hopes that I will be in chaos, these things start from the conspiracy, and the thief prides himself on being a yang scheme. ”

Several of them nodded in agreement, and then looked at the emperor with complicated expressions.

"Elder Jiang Ge, tell me."

Now everyone was waiting for Luo An to present the content of Fang Muxian's surrender, but as soon as Jiang Mian opened his mouth, it seemed that the content of his presentation was not important at all.

"The matter of the Rijing Gate, whether Shouning Hou knows it or not, it doesn't matter." Jiang Mian sighed, "At that time, His Majesty was reluctant to succeed to the heir, and the first time he looked at the court, he was sharp, Yang Ge Lao cried and admonished, Mao Cheng degraded the officials to the people, and the monarchs and ministers seemed to be in the trend of fire and water. The fire of the Rijing Gate was born on the night of a thunderstorm, although it can be used as an excuse for natural disasters, but since it is not intended for His Majesty, he naturally hopes that the court will be in chaos. Looking at his head outside the Chengtian Gate today, this thief has the will to die, and he is not afraid of His Majesty's anger and thorough investigation, but he is afraid that he is looking forward to a thorough investigation. ”

In the final analysis, Empress Dowager Zhang's identity is transcendent.

"I don't mean that Your Majesty is extremely serious." Mao Ji also opened his mouth, "Later, in front of the Empress Dowager Cishou, there was no deficiency in the morning and dusk province, and the court gradually stabilized. However, His Majesty asked Fuguo, Qian Ning and Jiangbin cases to have twists and turns, and pursued Yu Zhongwugong, Wang Shilang dissected the scriptures at the feast, and the undercurrent arose again. When Zhang Fujing went south, His Majesty ordered the officials of the world to discuss the sea, and the thieves thought that they had found a good opportunity, and took advantage of the occasional killing of officials in the southeast because of enmity. The person who relied on it was that the murder of officials had to be investigated, and the southeastern officials and gentry were already panicked because of the dispute over knowledge, the worries of the new law, and the change of the sea ban. ”

Yang Tinghe shook his head helplessly: "The same is true for the court, since the southeast incident, the ministers and others have also had a lot of scruples. The thief thought that this was a conspiracy, and it was indeed stormy since His Majesty was in the ascendant. ”

Zhu Houxi listened silently.

Wang Zuo and Zhang Zilin's secret report, several of the nine murders in the southeast, the deliberate killing of officials, judging from the signs, really seem to be done randomly, with only one purpose: to make up the numbers in a short period of time, and it seems that the southeast is about to explode.

Take advantage of the worries brought to the southeast by the new law, the sea ban, and the controversy over the science of mind and science, and stir up trouble. Only such a large-scale killing of officials, the imperial court cannot ignore it in any case. The facts of the case are difficult to investigate, and it will take a long time to investigate. The longer you check, the tighter your nerves become.

"And today, once summoned, the thief directly provoked Shou Ninghou to return to Tongzhou, and then went out to Chengtianmen for the first ......" Wang Qiong's face was strange, "This Fang Muxian is really determined to die early, one link after another." Seemingly...... The matter of the Rijing Gate, Shou Ninghou is afraid that it is really inseparable. Your Majesty, it's hard to do. The frightened bird, that Shou Ninghou is for life, I am afraid it is extremely difficult to be gullible, can he transfer troops to arrest him? ”

So the tangled point returned: Empress Dowager Zhang's identity was transcendent.

"It can be seen that political integrity and status do not match, and how harmful it is."

Many people looked at the emperor with complicated expressions: It's all this time, you are still ridiculing this, are you really going to change the ancestral system after the election of the concubine next year?

Isn't the matter at hand enough to be troublesome?

Zhu Houxi smiled: "I don't know how many people have been assassinated in ancient times, since I am the emperor, I am only afraid and will inevitably encounter it in this life, and I will not lose my mind because of this." But if Shou Ninghou is really so stupid, how can the Empress Dowager Cishou not know the general situation? In fact, many problems often have to be solved by open communication. Although I still don't understand what this Mu Xian is trying to do, I finally know that he has not secretly gathered unimaginable power, so what's so terrible? ”

After a pause, he became more serious: "After I ascended the throne this year, the new atmosphere of the government may be unsettling, so I have given the thief a chance. However, as long as there is a new atmosphere in the government and government, it will eventually make some people uneasy and harm the interests of some people. The good news now is that I understand this, and the secretaries know that I do. The reason why it seems to be stormy is nothing more than the background of the succession of the vassal kings and the old and the new. After the change, it will gradually settle down. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Houxi's expression was slightly sad: "If there is no Yuan Shi, I am afraid that the situation today is quite different." ”

Yuan Zonggao was seriously ill, and when he heard the emperor mention him, Yang Tinghe was also silent.

If Yuan Zonggao hadn't vouched for himself in the lobby of the Criminal Department, so that Wang Qiong and others could still serve as Jiuqing despite their crimes, the matter would have gotten out of control at that time.

And if this national policy meeting cannot be successfully established in the future, without the increasingly different speaking and deliberative styles of the national policy meeting, will there be the current state between the central monarch and the minister?

I'm afraid this is the only point that Fang Muxian missed. After all, at the national policy meeting, many things, especially the process, basically did not leave the imperial study.

If the center is not chaotic, Daming will not really be chaotic.

Yuan Zonggao has made great contributions!

At the same time, the young Son of Heaven also promoted the formation of this situation because of his extraordinary courage.

Although only temporarily.

After all, the new law is only waiting to see the effect in Guangdong, and after all, there is no sign of the study of mind being widely promoted.

After all, this matter is related to the fire of the Rijing Gate, the safety of the emperor, and the bottom line.

Yang Tinghe stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the traitor's confession is not important. The Marquis of Shouning did not enter the city, and the minister went to Jianchang Houfu. ”

Zhu Houxi nodded: "Hard work elder." ”

There have been so many inexplicable things in the past few months, and now there is only one question left: What did Fang Muxian want to disturb the Ming Dynasty by taking advantage of the various changes brought about by the emperor's accession to the throne?

It certainly wasn't going to be what he came up with.

He would only splash all the dirty water on Brother Zhang Heling and even on Empress Dowager Zhang.

So for now, the likelihood of subsequent turmoil is becoming less and less.

Because Fang Muxian didn't know what the state was at the national policy meeting.

The ministers of national policy who came to confirm the situation and the attitude of the Son of Heaven also nodded: "Your Majesty, since this is the case, the ministers should not all stay in the palace, so as not to disturb the officials and people in the capital." ”

"In the opinion of the people, is the Ganzhou mutiny a coincidence?"

Wang Shouren hesitated for a moment, and then said, "The minister thinks it's a coincidence. As the Great Heavenly Official said before, mutinies in border towns are often ......"

If you can meddle in the border army, what do you do stupidly come out and turn yourself in?

Zhu Houxi put his mind at ease.

So maybe it's crooked, and when Fang Muxian thinks that he has provoked a crisis in the Quartet and is complacent, one action makes him willing to jump out and use himself to burn the last fire?

I thought it was another character like Yao Guangxiao, and it was scary before.

Seeing Yang Ting and them leave one by one with peace of mind, Zhu Houxi looked at Huang Jin: "I haven't wasted half a year after all, right." ”

"Your Majesty swallows the sky, and the ministers are salty. The traitor is like a clown jumping off the beam without knowing it, which is ridiculous. ”

Zhu Houxi thought about the danger of the past six months, shook his head and said, "He is still very powerful. ”

Under normal circumstances, if he was just a real young emperor and came to Beijing with no foundation to ascend the throne as emperor, those actions would still be very powerful.

So the question is, how did the original Jiajing do it?

No...... It should still be the practice that he started before and after he ascended the throne, giving him a chance and making him feel that he has won hemp.

He is no longer the original Jiajing, so Daming also has a new wave.

It's as if there is a fog in the place where the vision is opened, and some things become more and more conspiratorial the more you look at them.

In fact, this is the norm: no matter how much the emperor has eyes and ears, he also relies on the information in front of him to make decisions.

No wonder the emperor has been suspicious throughout the ages.

What now? Zhu Houxi felt a little outrageous, in the past few months, he has mobilized a lot of energy.

Even if you open half of the whole map, it is really not easy for the emperor to deal with all kinds of information and emergencies calmly every time.

Those who dare to let the bullets fly first for a while have great concentration.

Zhu Houxi secretly warned himself, and his attention returned to the farce in front of him.

The original Jiajing Dynasty, what kind of chaos was provoked by these people?

Since there is a high probability that the mutiny has nothing to do with him, then they have some strength in the southeast.

Wouldn't you? Zhu Houxi, who opened half of the whole picture, thought to himself.

Thinking about it like this, he became extremely disgusted with Fang Muxian.

(End of chapter)