However, this also has side effects. The bad relationship between Ji Gang and the prince is also related to the existence of Zhang Yong, the prince's brother-in-law.
"Be careful of Zhang Yong and Wang Xian getting together." Zhuang Jing said worriedly.
"Master Zhuang, you must be too careful. Zhang Yong has long been a useless person after raising flowers, walking birds, and playing with women. He still dares to stand out? I, Old Wang, will take care of him." Another fierce general under Ji Gang called out
Wang Qian shouted angrily: "I will go to his house for dinner tonight and ask him to be careful with me."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Go if you want. Don't use my name." Ji Gang glared at Wang Qian, but acquiesced to his idea and said seriously: "Now the seat of Fusi in Beizhen is a brazier.
, otherwise Zhu Liu wouldn’t have left so happily. He didn’t have any good intentions in recommending Wang Xian. It’s partly because he is disgusting with you, but he also thinks that Wang Xian is unlucky.”
"The Governor is right," Zhang Chun nodded in agreement: "I heard about the fire outside the Meridian Gate. The emperor gave it to Wang Xian and gave him a deadline of three days to solve the case." He couldn't help laughing and said, "In three days,
He can't even find the door of the Zhenfu Division, so how can he solve the case?"
Everyone laughed strangely after hearing this, but Ji Gang's face soon darkened, and the laughter stopped abruptly. Zhang Chun asked cautiously: "What's wrong, ancestor?"
Ji Gang seemed to have something to hide, and after a while he slowly said: "Don't be so damn careless, keep an eye on him, and be careful of capsizing in the gutter."
"Yes, ancestor, don't worry," everyone assured them, patting their chests.
"Let's go where we should." Ji Gang usually likes to be lively, but today he felt that the chaos was very annoying. The birds and beasts that were busy chatting with each other scattered in all directions. In a blink of an eye, only Zhuang Jing and Ji Gang were left in the hall, both of them were the same.
The face is serious.
"Is the Governor worried?" Zhuang Jing was also a scholar and was highly respected by Ji Gang. He discussed all confidential matters with him, "What about the fire?"
"Yes, originally if Zhu Liu took over the case, everything would be easy to talk about." Ji Gang frowned and said, "But Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway. Who knows if Wang Xian, who is as smart as a ghost, will see any clues?"
"It shouldn't be the case. The fire scene has been cleaned up. How else can he investigate?" Zhuang Jing said slowly: "Besides, we didn't set this fire. How much imagination does he have to connect with us?"
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"But those damn Koreans ran away," Ji Gang's brows furrowed even more tightly, "Now we can't hunt them in a big way, they are always a hidden danger."
"The governor is worried that they will fall into Wang Xian's hands, right?" Zhuang Jing said: "It doesn't matter, Wang Xian is just a foreigner, but our spies are located in every corner of the capital, and we will definitely find them before he does."
"Well, step up the search secretly and make sure not to expose it." Ji Gang said depressedly: "At this juncture, we can't let anything go wrong again."
"Are the Governor worried about the Emperor's attitude?" Zhuang Jing asked again.
"Yes." Ji Gang stood up. He was a typical Shandong man. He was extremely tall and stood very imposingly. At this moment, his angular face was full of worry and he said: "This time it is obviously...
The King of Han's problem has been dealt with by me." Just now in front of his disciples and disciples, he looked like he was in control. Now that there were no outsiders, he revealed the worries in his heart. He said angrily: "It doesn't matter how loyal you are as a slave.
, after all, you can’t escape the fate of killing the chicken to show the monkey.”
"Why is the governor so worried?" Zhuang Jing said: "No matter how dissatisfied the emperor is with the King of Han, he cannot punish him now. Otherwise, will the world laugh at him?"
"Oh?" Ji Gang was so smart, he said straight away: "You mean, the emperor is punishing the King of Han now, which proves that the matter in Shanxi is related to the King of Han..." He said with a mocking look: "If the world knows, the emperor
The King of Han whom I love the most is actually cutting off my father’s food supply. Why don’t you laugh to death at the emperor’s blindness?
"That's right." Zhuang Jing twisted his beard and said with a smile, "So if the Emperor doesn't punish the King of Han now, it doesn't mean that the King of Han will be fine. Likewise, just because the Emperor gives the Commander-in-Chief a punishment, it doesn't mean that the Commander-in-Chief will be fine."
"Well, what you said makes sense." Ji Gang nodded in approval: "However, the emperor's visit also made me secretly alert. When the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead, and the lackeys are cooked. Mao Xiang and Jiang Xian
His fate is a lesson for me." Mao Xiang and Jiang Xian were Ji Gang's two predecessors. They both set off major cases during the Hongwu period. The former created the Hu Weiyong case, and the latter investigated the Lan Yu case. They became famous for a while.
Ji Gang was not inferior to today's. But in the end, they were both executed by Emperor Hongwu and became a scapegoat to quell public anger. Ji Gang's path was very similar to that of the two. He was obtained by purging Jianwen and rebelling against the party, and constantly eradicating dissidents for the emperor.
Today's power. But now, seeing the chaos in the country, the old party of the previous dynasty has also disappeared, and Ji Gang has a feeling that it has no use.
For ordinary generals, they can store their swords and guns in the treasury, release their horses to Nanshan, and enjoy the rest of their lives as a rich man. But Ji Gang knew very well that there was no way for someone like himself, who had to bear countless infamy for the emperor, to leave the field safely, because
He still has a final use value - that is, to bear infamy for the emperor. This has been clearly realized to him since Chen Ying was executed a few years ago.
It was also from then on that Ji Gang was no longer the cruel official who only knew how to kill people for the emperor. He began to plan more for himself. Only then did he move closer to the King of Han. His temperament also became more gloomy and suspicious, and the emperor could not do anything.
Every move he makes will arouse his fear and suspicion...
"It's no use just worrying. There will be a way to reach the mountain." Zhuang Jing comforted his lord: "After all, the emperor is still a nostalgic person, and he still trusts the governor. Even if there is such a day in the future, we will not be like Mao
Like Jiang Xian, he has no power to resist."
"Yes, we still need to strengthen our strength," Ji Gang nodded and sighed irritably: "It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone else." If he said it again, it would be a big deal, and the two of them stopped talking in a tacit understanding.
Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. The prince is worried about moving the capital. The King of Han and Ji Gang are worried about the emperor's attitude. Wang Xian is worried about the fire outside the Meridian Gate. Time is tight and he has no time to go to Beizhen Fusi.
After taking a look, he took people to Yingtianfu Yamen.
The fire scene on Yuqian Street has been completely cleaned. If it weren't for the blackening of the ground, it would have been impossible to tell that a fire had burned here last night. Therefore, a very important step after the fire - the exploration of the site - was gone.
Meaning. Now we can only hope that Yingtian Mansion, which has cleaned up the mess, can provide something of value.
In fact, it would be more appropriate to wait for the imperial edict to come down before going to Yingtianfu Yamen, but time was so tight that Wang Xian couldn't wait to complete the procedures. Otherwise, by the time he got the edict, it would have taken three days to go to Yingtianfu Yamen.
Wang Xian asked someone to take his newly written name thorn to pass the name. The official of Yingtian Mansion took a look and saw that the title read, "The emperor ordered Fu Si of Beizhen to be the king of Fu." He couldn't help being shocked. He turned out to be the leader of Fusi of Beizhen.
But then I thought, isn't the leader of Beizhen Fusi Master Zhu Liu? When did Wang Zhenfu show up? But they still knew what was going on. When they saw Wang Xian wearing the uniform of a fourth-grade military attaché, they hurried in to pass.
He then asked him to have tea and wait in the concierge.
After a while, a fifth-grade civil servant came out and said that Mr. Fu Yin wanted to invite him. Yingtian Mansion is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and Fu Yin's level is the third grade, which is much higher than the fourth grade like Pu Tongfu, and his status is much higher than the latter.
, and all the successive governors were the emperor's confidants. The current Yingtian governor Xue Zhengyan is a minister whom Emperor Yongle trusts very much, and he is also famous for being non-partisan, euphemistically called a lonely minister.
Now this lonely minister, who was about forty years old and had a stern face, stood at the door of the living room, nodded to Wang Xian with a smile, and invited him to come in and take a seat. After serving tea, Wang Xian said with a smile: "I thought your Excellency would think that I am
I'm pretending to be here, I'm going to arrest you."
"With an identity like Mr. Wang, there is no reason to pretend." Xue Zhengyan said with a faint smile: "I must have been ordered by the emperor to come to inquire about the fire case last night."
"Master Fu Yin is really good at predicting things." Wang Xian easily flattered him. He found that he really had the potential of a chameleon. Without much effort, he transformed from a living bandit in Shanxi to a hypocritical and polite official in the capital.
"Miuzan, I just happened to see you enter the palace." Xue Zhengyan said honestly: "Sir came in such a hurry, it should be the emperor's deadline to solve the case."
"Yes." This frank and sharp Xue Zhengyan actually made Wang Xian feel a lot of pressure. This pressure was equivalent to that given to him by King Jin, and it was something Zhang Chun had never made him feel.
"Thank you so much, sir," Xue Zhengyan said with a smile, "I can hand over this burden."
"Please be patient with Mr. Xue," Wang Xian said sincerely: "Xiaguan didn't even touch the door of the Zhenfu Division. The Holy Order has three days to solve the case. Without Mr. Xue's full help, Xiaguan would never be able to do it.
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"Haha" For Ying Tianfu Yin, the biggest headache is Beizhen Fusi, because the powers and responsibilities of this yamen actually overlap with that of Yingtianfu, and it also has the power of independent arrest and trial, so it often infringes on Yingtianfu. Now.
Wang Xian actually asked for help from Yingtian Mansion, and Xue Zhengyan was happy to be a favor and smiled at Wang Xian: "Since your Excellency said this, Yingtian Mansion will naturally not stand idly by."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Xue. I will be richly rewarded when I come down from the official position." Wang Xian said, cupping his fists.
"It's your job, no need to be polite." Xue Zhengyan said with a smile, thinking that Juren's background was different, and he was much easier to deal with than Zhu Liu. But I wonder if he would still be able to see Wang Xian's bandit side in the future.
Such remarks.
"Excuse me, Mr. Xue, have you surveyed the fire scene last night and this morning?" Wang Xian asked.
"Of course we need to conduct a detailed investigation before we can clean it up." Xue Zhengyan said: "If the fire scene had not been in front of the Meridian Gate, the cleanup would not have been so hasty."
Wang Xian heard something in his words, frowned slightly and said: "Xue Gong first said to conduct a detailed investigation, and then said that the cleanup was hasty. Did he mean that he found some doubts?"