A true warrior has always dared to face the bleak life and dripping blood.

There is no doubt that Xie Jin is such a warrior.

- He has completely transformed.

Not only let yourself be bloody, but also let others be bloody.

As soon as he arrived in Huai'an Mansion, Xie Jin began to arrest officials involved in the "assassination of the Qin Cha and conspiracy against the rebellion" in the government, and transferred it to Fengyang, the central capital, and ordered the participating officials to bring the shackles to confess their guilt.

Subsequently, under a "inadvertent" interrogation, an official of the government admitted that he had dealings with some merchants, including a Yangzhou merchant named Liu Fuchun.

Following this line, Xie Jin arrested and interrogated Liu Fuchun with lightning speed and the jingle of the bell, and Liu Fuchun confessed everything he could in a panic.

"What are you doing?"

At three o'clock in the morning, Dian Shi was sleeping in the green building, several brocade guards broke into the door, and the woman next to her was so frightened that she screamed, and then after seeing the clothes of the comer, she quickly got dressed and fled the scene.

The history of the canon was very calm: "What are you waiting for?" Don't you know that this official is in the office? ”

A few brocade guards were happy, led by a burly brocade guard wearing a silver-threaded flying fish suit.

"Ordered to take people, don't work, please come with us!"

Dianshi bluffed and said slightly: "What did I do wrong?" Why arrest me? ”

"If you make any mistakes, you will naturally know when you go back with us, this matter is too wide, you are not the only one, take it!" The brocade guard said coldly.

"Don't come here! Put"

As soon as he finished speaking, a few fingers pressed his skull and pressed his entire head against the edge of the bed.

Immediately afterwards, the other two brocade guards stepped forward and pressed Dianshi's legs, making him unable to move.

Immediately, Jin Yiwei tied his whole body with hemp rope, not even letting go of his toes.

At this time, Dian Shi probably felt that disaster was coming, and finally stopped hiding it, but scolded angrily.

"Guys. You bastards"

Dian Shi struggled: "Quickly let go of this official and this official is the imperial court."

One of the brocade guards sneered: "How old are you?" Also worthy of the word 'imperial court'? ”

The Jinyi guard at the head no longer paid attention to him, and only ordered the rest of his subordinates: "Carry it out!" ”

Then the history was carried on all fours like a pig, step by step out of the green building, and disappeared at the end of the street.

Soon, the history is taken to a mansion.

The leading brocade guard threw a key to his subordinates, opened the door, and put down the history.

"Let's go in and wait!"

"Where is this?"

"You'll know when you see an acquaintance later." The brocade guard replied coldly.

After hearing this, Dian Shi suddenly felt a chill down his spine, as if he had fallen into an abyss, the muscles in his body were also tensed, and his heart was pounding wildly.

After a short time, several more officials were brought over, judges, and wardens.

"Wronged!"

Some people came in, still shouting for grievances.

"Wronged?" Zhao Haichuan, who came in, sneered, "The treasure money found from your house, the evidence is conclusive, the human and material evidence is there, and you can still be wronged?" ”

"Someone must have framed them and put those treasures in our house."

A short, stocky, lewd-looking man flatly denied it.

"Humph! Still dare to quibble? ”

Zhao Haichuan snorted coldly, and shook out a Daming treasure banknote from his sleeve, and this treasure banknote coated with a special potion suddenly showed a dark pattern in a certain place in the sun.

When I saw these treasure notes, at this moment, the history of the classics finally understood.

It turns out that all this is a set up bureau today, and someone has already arranged a trap and prepared it for them!

He was sure that he would never escape.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

"Damn Liu Fuchun! How dare you harm me! The warden hated.

——————

"What? A large number of middle- and lower-level officials in the yamen were taken away by Jinyiwei? ”

In the study of the capital transfer envoy, Shi Youmin, who was wearing an official robe, showed a trace of surprise after listening to the report of his henchmen, and immediately frowned and confirmed: "Is this serious?" ”

It's not that Shi Youmin doesn't believe in evil, but the sentence he asked repeatedly, it was just a subconscious move, the purpose was just to give himself more time to think, and he used this trick with his colleagues on weekdays, but now he is indeed a little at a loss.

The confidant's subordinate respectfully announced: "It's true, today a Jinyi guard came to the door with a confession and evidence of accepting bribes, it was a businessman who admitted that he couldn't bring out the salt, and was forced to bribe the officials of the salt farm, and he told the matter clearly, or the documents taken out of our yamen!" ”

"This businessman, is it the Liu Fuchun who came a few days ago?"

"Exactly!"

At this time, Shi Youmin suddenly thought that Liu Fuchun might be Jinyiwei's person!

He wanted to say, "It's not for people to star, why don't you report it earlier", but when the words came to his lips, it became "Someone dares to accept bribes?" ”

Shi Youmin was furious, kicked the chair over on the spot, and said sharply: "Even if the Jinyi guard is not caught, the official will also severely punish these moths!" ”

The henchmen watched the performance of this capital envoy, but they could also keep up with the rhythm.

"All the transfers make the adults calm down a little."

The henchman hurriedly comforted, and then continued: "Although someone has exposed what these people have done, this matter is just the statement of some bystanders, and it is impossible to determine what is going on for the time being. ”

Shi Youmin clenched his fists, stared at his subordinates with a gloomy face, and said hatefully: "As the capital transfer envoy, this official naturally can't sit back and watch this kind of thing happen, this case The official personally assisted Jinyiwei, and he couldn't let go of any of the people who should be caught, understand?" ”

Hearing the last three words, Shi Youmin bit him very tightly, and his henchmen naturally understood what was going on.

Nothing can be let go, this is obviously to let him quickly destroy the possible evidence and block the clues of Jinyiwei's investigation, the last time he faced the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the salt yamen passed the test like this.

If there is some evidence in the hands of some people, it is really impossible to destroy. That can only make him commit suicide in fear of sin.

"Yes!" The henchman's subordinate immediately arched his hand solemnly, turned around and left in a hurry.

——————

At the same time that Xie Jin came to Huai'an Mansion with bloody evidence, Yang Xuan, the prefect of Huai'an, who had been running back and forth for several days, finally came back from Fengyang, the capital of Zhongdu.

Unlike the previous panic, this time Yang Zhen was full of confidence, because he had received the guidance of a heavyweight on this trip, this person was Fengtianjing's difficult to push the Cheng Xuanli Wuchen, the special Jin Ronglu doctor, the Zhu Guo, the Marquis of Longping, the holder of the voucher (commonly known as the "Danshu Iron Voucher"), and the Caoyun governor Zhang Xin, who could avoid two deaths, that is, Zhu Di's "Enzhang".

Because of the reason why Mei Yin had previously stationed 100,000 second-line soldiers in Huai'an Mansion, after Mei Yin was escorted back to Nanjing, most of these soldiers and horses were included in the sequence of Shandong's reserve army, and a small number were integrated into the Huanghuai Capital Command Department and Caoyun troops on the spot.

Caoyun is a fat difference, this is well known, and the big fat shortage can naturally only fall on the fortunate people, there is no doubt that Zhang Xin is such a person.

Zhang Xin, like Li Jinglong, Xu Huizu and others, is a member of the Huaixi military aristocratic group, but he can't fight his father, his father Zhang Xing was just a pawn when he followed Lao Zhu to raise troops in Haozhou, and he didn't have the savior of Gu Cheng, so he fought in the south and north for many years, and when Hongwu opened the country, he was only the commander of Yongningwei of Xuanfu, a not small, but definitely not a big four-rank official.

Zhang Xing met a young man who was about the same age as his son during his tenure in Xuanfu, and the family had a good relationship with this young man, but little is known about this past, well, this young man's name is Zhu Di.

When Zhang Xing died, after Zhang Xin inherited his father's position, he was transferred to Guizhou, fought under Gu Cheng, performed well, and entered Zhu Yunwen's eyes, when Zhu Yunwen was in the Jianwen Dynasty, in order to cut the domain, he ordered Zhang Xin to be the commander of Beiping, Zhang Xin received the will of the imperial court, and then took his wife, mother and two sons from Guizhou to Beiping in a hurry, and after getting the secret edict given to him by Zhu Yunwen, he finally understood the purpose of being transferred to Beiping - to monitor Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was suffering from "madness".

Isn't that a coincidence?

When it came to June of the first year of Jianwen, Qi Tai, one of Zhu Yunwen's Wolong and Phoenix Chicks, captured the spy sent by Zhu Di to the capital to inquire about the news, and the spy couldn't help Qi Tai's punishment, and admitted that Zhu Di was not crazy, and he pretended to eat pig or something, which made Zhu Yunwen forced to speed up the pace of cutting the domain, and issued a secret edict to the military and political dignitaries in Beiping, ordering the arrest of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and this letter made Zhang Xin worried, and he couldn't hide his panic when he returned home, his mother asked him, Zhang Xin was pure filial piety, and said it truthfully, And his mother has known Zhu Di for many years, and regards him as her own nephew, so she immediately persuaded Zhang Xin to tell the truth and help King Yan.

This "listening to my mother's words" not only brought the Zhang family ten generations and two hundred years of wealth, but also allowed Zhu Di, under the planning of the old monk and Jin Zhong, to order Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other 800 warriors to capture the nine gates of Beiping at night, and then started the four-year battle of Jingjing.

Compared with his father Lao Zhu, Zhu Di still attaches great importance to feelings and is willing to share the glory and wealth with the heroes, so after the political envoy of Huang Huaibu was allocated last year, he entrusted Zhang Xin with the post of Caoyun Governor established with it.

Unlike the submissive Huang Huaibu political envoy who was recommended by Zhu Gaochi, Zhang Xin is the emperor of the earth who covers the sky with one hand in this realm, and he basically grasps the transportation, salt affairs, and the army with one hand.

And it was with Zhang Xin's point that Yang Zhen had confidence.

When the two met again, their moods were very different.

In the evening, Yang Zhen was brought into a special room.

"Smack!"

The room's oil lamp lit with a crackling sound, reflected on his tired face.

After a while, the door opened, Shi Youmin stepped in, and he saw Yang Xuan, who was obviously much calmer.

"I've seen all the transfer envoys!" Yang Zhen stood up and saluted respectfully.

Although he is a parent official, Shi Youmin is the first person who deserves to be in this realm, he is half a level lower than Shi Youmin in terms of position, and Shi Youmin can be above him on any occasion.

Shi Youmin waved his hand and said, "Sit down." ”

"Thank you, Lord Transporter." Yang Zheng sat back in his chair.

Shi Youmin pretended to be ignorant and asked, "I heard that Yang Fujun has been sick for the past few days, is he getting better?" ”

The so-called "illness" is naturally the excuse that he personally went to Fengyang to meet Shangguan, and the other meaning is that the problems they are facing together today are solved.

Yes, there has never been any empathy in this world, at first Shi Youmin didn't care, because the fire didn't burn on him, and only local officials were suspected of plotting to assassinate Qincha.

But now it is different, a large number of middle- and lower-level officials of the Yamen have been arrested, and these people are all officials who actually carry out salt affairs, which is very different from the previous Metropolitan Procuratorate only operating on high-level officials.

Yang Zheng just wanted to speak, but Shi Youmin said again: "Have you ever seen Zhang Gong?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Zhen subconsciously wanted to speak, but immediately realized that something was wrong, looked up at Shi Youmin, and his title changed again.

"When did Lord Shi find out?"

"What do you say?" Shi Youmin sneered.

Shi Youmin's subtext, of course, is what happened in this place, how many of them are that I don't know?

Anyway, even if Shi Youmin does not have enough connections in the center, he has been in business for nearly ten years.

In fact, Liu Fuchun's matter, Shi Youmin received the news from the time he first arrived, but this kind of similar businessman came to pick up the news of salt, there are too many, and after a little check of Liu Fuchun's origin, Shi Youmin knew that this was a native Yangzhou businessman, this time he wanted to make a fortune, so he no longer paid attention to it.

Yang Xuan's trick can fool others, but in front of Shi Youmin, an old fritter who has gone through vicissitudes, he looks extremely naïve.

The political envoy of Huang Huai's political envoy department, like Huang Huai, is the descendant of the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi, who hides in the yamen every day and sees the head and the tail, this matter can't stand him, even if it is a little involved, it will definitely be protected by the eldest prince, and Wang Yuanshan, as the deputy of the local faction, was taken down by Xie Jin at this time, I am afraid it is also in line with his heart.

is really involved in salt affairs, except for Yang Zhen and Li Heng in Huai'an Mansion, these people from the two Huai Salt Farms, and Zhang Xin who covers the sky with one hand above them, what hints did Yang Zhen get when he went to meet Zhang Xin, and what else could make him show diametrically opposite attitudes?

In Daming, every year, some people disappear inexplicably, some people are implicated in something, some people die unexpectedly, and they are usually called abandoned children.

Even if it is a scarlet robe like Yang Xuan, at a higher level, it is just a chess piece that cannot be involuntarily, and if Yang Zhen really can't give up, then naturally Xie Jin will not do it himself, because there are still chess players who still need this chess piece.

In Shi Youmin's view, even Zhang Xin, the governor of Caoyun and the Marquis of Longping, is not qualified to be the highest level of chess players, and all his achievements today are just relying on the credit for changing history in the past and the emperor's favor.

Even if this chess piece is wrong, even if there are some crimes, as long as it is not a major crime of treason, then the emperor will not do anything to Zhang Xin in order to show it to the world, after all, people have two gold medals on them to avoid death.

Although it is said that the gold medal for avoiding death depends on the emperor if it doesn't work, but since the emperor recognizes it, nothing will happen to the letter.

But Zhang Xin will not have an accident, it does not mean that Yang Zhen, who he controls, will not have an accident, this short-term sense of security is completely illusory.

And Zhang Xin, the governor of Caoyun, had a conflict with the salt envoys of the two Huais, so Shi Youmin did not take Zhang Xin's line.

But Shi Youmin was not panicked, because he had already made some moves in the center, as long as he could calmly cut off all the clues that might implicate him as he did in the face of the sudden attack of the Metropolitan Procuratorate last time, then he would naturally be safe.

Because the corruption in salt affairs alone could not be found on him, and he himself was not involved in the case of the alleged assassination of Qincha.

So, even if it seems to be on the cusp of the storm now, it is actually relatively safe.

When Shi Youmin revealed the identity of the other party's "chess piece", Yang Xuan's face became a little gloomy.

Yang Zhen is not a fool, he can do it to the prefect, of course he knows what is going on in the temple, nothing is guaranteed, he swears to you today, and he can stab you twice tomorrow, but after all, he has served Zhang Xin for more than a year, and he is not less filial piety on weekdays, and he asks himself at a critical moment, Zhang Xin should still protect him.

How so? It can only be said that people at some point only want to see what they want to see and listen to what they want to hear.

"It's come to this, if you feel that you can be safe and sound, then there is no need to visit me again, to put it bluntly, don't you still have a bottom in your heart?" Shi Youmin no longer concealed it, and said to herself.

"Then Lord Shi will have a way to pass the customs safely?" Yang Xuan hesitated for a while, he had Zhang Xin's assurances on his side, but he also wanted to hear the other party's thoughts.

"Nothing clever, a strong man breaks his wrist, but it's more ruthless."

After that, Shi Youmin whispered a few words to him.

After a while, Yang Zhen hesitated and replied: "This is feasible, but."

"Hehe, good! That being the case, then please bother Lord Yang to do one thing. Shi Youmin smiled faintly.

Yang Xuan's expression eased slightly, nodded and asked, "My lord, please speak!" ”

Shi Youmin's lips squirmed: "I want you to forge a false confession." ”

"Master Shi means to frame Li Heng?!" Yang Zhen was shocked.

Shi Youmin nodded: "Yes, this false confession is ironclad evidence for Li Heng's conviction!" ”

Li Heng is already an outcast, and he is charged with plotting to assassinate Qincha, accepting bribes, and even colluding with local officials and businessmen, and everyone else can go ashore in danger.

"But Li Heng is not a fool, he." Yang Zhen immediately realized that the problem was wrong.

"Li Heng is already in a coma."

At this moment, Shi Youmin suddenly popped out a sentence, and it was this sentence that made Yang Zhen startled.

Li Heng was in a coma, under the strict control of Jinyiwei, and he was tried in Yangzhou Mansion, how did Shi Youmin know?

Shi Youmin dusted off his collar and said lightly.

"Just write, I have a way to make him die."

"But. . . This is a great sin of the Nine Clans, if it is exposed, we will all suffer! Yang Zhen was worried.

"Don't worry, I've made arrangements, as long as you do what I say, I guarantee that you'll be safe, but if it happens, you and I have to finish the game." Shi Youmin's tone was calm, but it revealed a suffocating murderous intent.

Looking at the resolute expression on Shi Youmin's face, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time before he spoke: "Lord Shi, do you really want to take such a big risk?" ”

"Under the nest, how can there be eggs? You just have to do it with confidence. Shi Youmin said solemnly.

Seeing Shi Youmin's confident look, the worries in Yang Xuan's heart gradually dissipated, anyway, it was a knife horizontally and vertically, so it was better to gamble!

If the bet is won, the head and the black gauze hat on the head can be saved.

Yang Cheng agreed to Shi Youmin's plan to break his wrist and left.

And after Yang Zhen left, a subordinate walked in.

Shi Youmin handed him a secret letter that he had just written: "I want you to send this letter to Chef Hao." ”

"Where is Chef Hao now?" The servant took the letter and asked.

Shi Youmin thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know for the time being, but he usually stays at the butcher in the East Market." ”

"Want to eat raw meat?"

Shi Youmin nodded: "Yes, don't cook it, be sure to kill it, and wash all the blood and water." ”

——————

East Market, a remote alley, is where Chef Hao lives.

At this time, Chef Hao had already changed his clothes, his face was flushed, and he looked very happy.

Outside the house, there was a cauldron, and a firewood was burning under the cauldron, which was boiling red.

"Hurry up!" Chef Hao shouted.

"It's coming~" There was an answer from outside.

Then I saw two young men coming from outside, carrying a whole pig.

Cook Hao glanced at the pig and ordered, "Bring a few pieces of cloth and wrap them up, so that they won't be contaminated with oil smoke." ”

After a few moments, the place around the cauldron was cleared.

Then several more apprentices poured buckets of steaming different liquids into the cauldron one after another.

"So little?"

Chef Hao looked at his apprentices suspiciously, they were half a bucket every time, why did they become fewer today?

"Master, there's still a bucket out of stock." An apprentice reminded.

Chef Hao patted his head, walked through the "forest" with air-dried meat of dead animals, and passed through the knife room of various butcher knives and kitchen knives, and came to a place.

Sure enough, there was a bucket of blood, Chef Hao suddenly smiled, and hurriedly brought it out.

Then have the pig put in the pot and cover it.

At this time, a horse-drawn carriage stopped in front of the alley.

"Chef Hao, what are you going to do tonight?"

"Hehe, you don't know that! Today we are going to slaughter a pig, I heard that it is very fat, and I will definitely have a big meal tonight. ”

"Hey, hey, you need to prepare more wine, this kind of thing happens once-in-a-lifetime, haha......"

The servant said with a smile, and then handed him a letter.

"Going to give birth."

Chef Hao received his greasy apron in the front pocket without moving, and then came to the room where the blood bucket was carried just now, and unfolded it to see.

There are only a few words on it.

"Chef Hao, I want to eat mutton (Yang)."

Sacrificial seedlings "I was a thief at the end of the Ming Dynasty"

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