After the small banquet, as soon as Haitang returned home, she had just finished seeing her grandmother Ma, and she didn't bother to go back to the house to change her clothes after leaving the upper room, so she went straight to the east wing to find her brother Haijiao, and told him the information she had just heard from Zhou Wenjun.

The reef rejoiced. In the past few days, he has also tried to find a way in private, asking about the identities of the two military attaches sent to Chang'an by the capital, but unfortunately there is very little information he can hear. It was the little sister who played and chatted with the eldest lady of the Zhenguo Mansion, which brought him a surprise.

He hurriedly took out a pen and paper, wrote down the names of the two people that his little sister had heard, and then tried to recall the information related to these two people in his previous life.

Haitang sat on the side of the kang and still sighed: "I didn't expect to be such a person when I returned home." No wonder, they are the in-laws of the Wu family, and they never hurt their muscles and bones after the Wu family's accident, but they were just exiled to the place, and they are still a flourishing official family, but when the Wu family was in a difficult situation, they never asked them for help. Once upon a time in Guazhou, I often heard my cousin and uncle talk about the past with the exiles, and I never heard anyone talk about returning home, because they had betrayed them and were no longer their own. ”

The Gui family has such a mother's family, and it's not that they don't know what they have done, but they still have the cheekiness to beg the Zhou family to help them return to the capital, which is too thick-skinned. She gave birth to Wu Qiong and saved Wu Ke's life, which is certainly a credit to the Wu family. But this credit is not enough to support her to put up a fight in front of the Zhou family, right? She obviously has a request for others, how can she dare to be so arrogant? What is her confidence?

Haitang muttered two sentences, but the reef head was not raised, and replied casually: "No matter what her confidence is, I am sure that she is daydreaming." Anyway, in my previous life, I had never heard of any returning ladies and survivors of the Wu family. Even when I got home, I didn't hear anyone talk about it. I guess they are stumbling on the local ground and completely defeated, right? ”

Haitang said: "Actually, they are people from the capital, if they really want to return to Beijing, they can resign." Isn't the old mansion still there? There will never be homelessness. It's just that they are obviously reluctant to pursue their careers and want to make a comeback, so they will stick to their official positions. I heard Sister Wenjun say that when the second elder died, the returning brother did not even return to his hometown in the capital to keep filial piety, but stayed next to the mother's house of the eldest wife for three years to keep filial piety, just in order to please the Yue family, after the filial piety was full, the Yue family used the power of the Yue family to recover.

"This kind of person is an official fan, he is willing to do anything in order to be an official, and the people who said that he wanted to send Wu Ke and Wu Qiong to the Sun family back then should also be them, right? It's a pity, this kind of behavior is just a petty official, if you want to be promoted, who doesn't dislike the officials in charge of personnel? Loyalty, filial piety and righteousness are not occupied, and even their reputation is stinky, if they are really promoted, what do those gentlemen who flaunt benevolence, righteousness and morality think? ! ”

If you return home and take refuge in the Sun family, with the Sun family as a backer, it is not difficult to be promoted, but it will not last long. It's a pity, I don't know if they have been hostile for many years, they can't pull their faces to hug the Sun family's thighs, or they are so useless that even the Sun family can't look down on them, after all, they just don't reach the shore at both ends.

Haitang also wanted to find out where Mrs. Gui's confidence came from, but Haijiao didn't talk about the interest of returning to his family at all. He pointed to the names of the two people on the paper and said to the little sister, "I remember these two people." Among them, Tu Rong of Jinyiwei is still more familiar to me. Because in his previous life, he was the one who became the commander of the Jinyi Guard in the last years of Emperor Deguang. When the new king succeeded to the throne, he still sat firmly in that position, and he did not move until I died. ”

Although he is just a small spy at the bottom of Jinyiwei, he deals with the most small military attaches at the grassroots level, and it is rare to know even a thousand households, but he can still hear some news about the supreme leader of Jinyiwei.

It is said that this Tu Rong was born as a commoner, and he relied on his own skills to gain a firm foothold in Jinyiwei and slowly rise up. He was favored by a noble family and married the daughter of a side branch of the family, but he did not rely on the relationship of the Yue family to rise to prominence. It is rumored that it is because he offended the relationship with the Sun family that he has not been able to rise.

He really made a fortune after the emperor recovered from a serious illness. No one knows how the emperor noticed him and why he trusted him so much, anyway, in just a few years, he went all the way from Jinyiwei to the commander of the fifth rank to the commander of the fourth grade, and then from the commander of the third grade. When Emperor Deguang was close to dying, he became the commander of the Jinyi Guard, responsible for cooperating with the old Tao Yue of the New Pavilion, supervising the hundred officials, and suppressing the officials of the old faction of the Sun Pavilion. After the new monarch succeeded to the throne, he continued to sit firmly in the position of the supreme governor of Jinyiwei and assisted Tao Ge Lao in maintaining order in the imperial court.

There is not much negative news about him, and Jinyiwei's internal evaluation of him is very disciplined, attaches importance to the law, and is fair. During his tenure in charge of Jinyiwei, he paid attention to the need for empirical evidence in handling cases, did not advocate severe torture, and there were many fewer unjust prisons, but there was no possibility of overturning the case if it was decided.

In general, this person has a good reputation, is more fair, and has old grudges with the Sun family, so he will not help the Sun family frame the Zhou family. The emperor would send such a person, presumably he didn't want to fight with the Zhou family anymore. As long as Tu Rong proves the innocence of the Zhou family, the emperor will regain his trust in the Zhou family and let the Northwest Frontier Army become a powerful force in his hands again.

When Haitang heard this, he asked Haijiao: "In this way, can the Zhou family rest assured?" No wonder I see that Sister Wenjun has not been worried about the people coming from the capital at all, presumably the Zhenguo Mansion has learned the news of the people who have come, and she has confidence in her heart? ”

Haijiao didn't dare to be so optimistic: "Although this person has always had a reputation for fairness and rules, he will never tolerate mercy when it is time to be ruthless." The new monarch trusts him because he has the merit of supporting. But Emperor Deguang trusted him because he was loyal, even at the cost of killing his son. ”

Haitang was taken aback: "Kill the son with your own hands?!" ”

Haijiao nodded: "His eldest son is a greedy and lustful gentleman, and he is stupid, and he easily fell into the trap of the Sun family." Sun Yongbai of the Sun family was still in Jinyiwei at the time, and threatened him with the handle of his eldest son to do things for the Sun family. He refused, and stabbed his own son to death with a knife on the spot. Sun Yongbai was frightened by him, and he didn't dare to provoke him anymore, and later asked for a transfer, so as not to continue to work with him. ”

Sounds like a ruthless person!

However, according to Haijiao's statement, this Tu Rong is more fair, and attaches importance to the law, he should be an upright official, how can he raise a greedy and lustful son?

I don't know much about the reef in this regard: "It seems that the old man in the family spoiled his grandson, right?" I don't know. No one in Jinyiwei dared to gossip about him. Even if these people under us can't hear and talk a few words in private, they won't laugh at the family affairs of the commander. ”

It can be heard that Tu Rong has a lot of power in Jinyiwei.

Haitang thought for a while and said: "Since this person talks about the rules, is loyal to the emperor, and is not a member of the Sun family, as long as the emperor does not want to turn against the Zhou family, he will not secretly make trouble in Chang'an." It's just that...... The Zhou family is loyal to the imperial court, but it does not mean that there are no problems within the Northwest Frontier Army. In addition to the careful thinking and small actions of some generals in private, the Zhou family itself employs people and acts, in fact, there are also violations......"

Reef nodded: "Indeed." If the court doesn't investigate this kind of thing, once it is investigated, the border army will have to eat and hang, and the Zhou family will not be able to please it. "He has been in Jinyiwei for so many years in his last life, and he knows very well how many crimes the Zhou family is accustomed to in the eyes of those who are interested. It's a pity that others are soft-spoken, and they are really powerless about this kind of thing.

However, he reminded his cousin and the old military master that it could still be done.

Haitang looked at Haijiao's expression and asked, "Then what is the origin of the other military attaché?" seems to be the henchman of the Marquis of Yingchuan. ”

(End of chapter)