When Zhao Laiyu came to the study room in the county government office, Zhao Hongrun was still looking at the invitation sent to him in the name of the Wang family of Zhengcheng.
Since Wei Jiao, the chief of the imperial clan, did not stop him, Zhao Laiyu came to Zhao Hongrun on crutches, glanced at the invitation, frowned slightly, and then "hummed" twice.
"Do you have any suggestions?" Zhao Hongrun asked casually.
Zhao Laiyu chuckled a few times, used crutches and came to a chair nearby. After sitting down, he said slowly: "I suggest you still use your serious injury as an excuse and decline politely."
"Do you think I can't defeat the Wang family of Zhengcheng?" Zhao Hongrun asked with some surprise.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Laiyu smoothed the wrinkles on his sleeves and said slowly, "I think you will mess things up."
Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed.
Yes, both Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Laiyu could guess why the distinguished guest from the Wang family in Zhengcheng came this time.
It is nothing more than trying to resolve the conflict between Zhao Hongrun and the Anling Wang family.
But since Zhao Hongrun has decided to use the Anling Wang family to scare the monkeys, will he let it go so easily?
In this case, the worst outcome would be to fall out with the Zhengcheng Wang clan member on the spot.
Zhao Laiyu's suggestion was to let Zhao Hongrun delay for a few days until King Yong Hongyu in Daliang sent his people to let King Yong deal with the Wang family of Zhengcheng and offend the Wang family of Zhengcheng.
"But the trick of the king personally visiting your Zhao family and being attacked and injured has been seen through by the nobles in the city... If we delay at this time, wouldn't it make the nobles in the city mistakenly think that the king is afraid of the Wang family in Zhengcheng?" said
At this point, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said in a deep voice: "I finally took control of the situation, but I don't want anything to go wrong again."
Hearing this, a strange look flashed in Zhao Laiyu's eyes, and he reminded, "Can you hold it in?"
Zhao Hongrun curled his lips and snorted softly: "If you can't help it, just help King Yong move the East Palace!"
"..." Zhao Laiyu opened his mouth, then smiled bitterly and shook his head.
After a while, he hesitated and asked: "Hongrun, how are those boys...in prison?"
The boys he mentioned were his grandsons, the third son Zhao Chengzhi, the fifth son Zhao Chengjiong, the eighth son Zhao Chengtang, the tenth son Zhao Chengcan, and the thirteenth son Zhao Chengxun.
These five grandsons of Zhao Laiyu were imprisoned in the county jail this morning by Zhao Hongrun under the name of Zongwei Zhou Pu as suspects in the Gong brothers case and the county warehouse deficit case.
The purpose is very simple, it is to let these young masters who have been pampered and feel good about themselves in the past have a taste of prison and dampen their spirit. If anyone disobeys or makes noise in prison, I believe that Zhou Pu has received Zhao Hongrun's instructions.
, I will definitely "serve" these gentlemen well.
And these were all entrusted to Zhao Hongrun by Zhao Laiyu.
There is no way, Zhao Laiyu's three sons are not capable people, so Zhao Laiyu can only place his hope on his grandsons.
This is his deal with Zhao Hongrun.
"Hmph!" After hearing this, Zhao Hong snorted and said calmly: "A few little guys were very arrogant, but after Zhou Pushang gave them a few mouthfuls, they finally calmed down."
Zhao Laiyu's wrinkled old face trembled slightly, and then asked again: "Where is Cheng Xun?"
It has to be said that among the five grandsons, Zhao Laiyu valued Zhao Chengxun the most.
When Zhao Chengxun was mentioned, Zhao Hongrun's eyes flashed with something strange, and he said with great interest: "According to what Zhou Pu said, that boy seemed to have noticed something. He was very peaceful in prison and quite aware of current affairs...
Even if Zhou Pu deliberately provoked him, he would just pretend that he didn't hear it."
"Hmm." Zhao Laiyu's eyes continued to show approval when he heard this.
After all, his private dealings with Zhao Hongrun were not revealed to those grandsons. When the Zongwei led the Shang Shui Army to arrest people at the Zhao family's house in Anling again, everyone thought it was him, Zhao Laiyu, and
Zhao Hongrun's negotiation failed, so that the two sides completely broke up with each other.
In that case, if Zhao Chengxun can still see something, it means that this child's talent is very good.
"It doesn't matter, even if you can see something, the environment in the prison can also temper the mentality of those boys... As long as they don't become disabled, let Zhou Pu do it!"
"...You are so cruel." Zhao Hongrun glanced at Zhao Laiyu with a nagging glance, but he also understood that Zhao Laiyu's grandchildren had already been spoiled by their father and uncle. If he didn't use a little more cruelty,
Those boys will not be obedient.
"What should you do with your eldest daughter-in-law?" Zhao Hongrun asked abruptly.
As if he had expected Zhao Hongrun to ask this question, Zhao Laiyu stroked his beard and said coldly: "This woman sided with the Wang family, instigated Wen Lin, and almost caused the death of my Zhao family. Such a womanly family, let her stay."
What are you doing? I have asked Wen Lin to write a letter of divorce and drive him back to the Wang family."
...You are so cruel, this old guy.
Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself and said casually: "Aren't you afraid that Zhao Shisan (Zhao Chengxun) will hate you?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Laiyu glanced at Zhao Hongrun and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, I'll just spend the money and bring it back when the time comes. As long as you don't interfere, Hongrun, I'm still a bit confident, so I won't let my daughter-in-law of the Zhao family suffer."
Reduced to the frontier as a prisoner... This woman is probably a good person, so it would be a good idea to use this incident to wake her up."
Huh?
Zhao Hongrun felt that his handling of the Wang family seemed to have been seen through by Zhao Laiyu.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not a big deal that Zhao Laiyu can see through this kind of thing. After all, the Wang family is also Ji's surname. Even if Zhao Hongrun wants to kill chickens to scare monkeys, he won't kill them all. At most, they will be sent to the army and sent to the army.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun changed the subject and said: "You can double the share of the county warehouse's shortfall. Don't make it difficult for me. As for the Gong brothers, you are not the main culprit anyway, so you don't need to pay attention to it."
Zhao Laiyu nodded. Although filling double the shortfall would be a huge expense for the Zhao family, which was not even wealthy, Zhao Laiyu didn't care.
After all, with Zhao Hongrun's acquiescence, they organized a caravan to go back and forth to Sanchuan a few times, and all the losses were recovered. What's the big deal?
Furthermore, he could also understand why Zhao Hongrun punished the Zhao family so harshly. If not, how could Zhao Hongrun have an excuse to punish the Wang family and the other nobles in the city?
"When you look back, remember to take care of things up and down in the court... If some gossip spreads, it will eventually be bad."
After leaving a few words, Zhao Laiyu left the study on his own with a cane.
Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes at this: He is not a three-year-old child, how could he not even know about such a thing?
After all, this old guy just came to inquire about the situation of his grandsons in the county jail.
Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun picked up the invitation on the table again.
Immediately, he ordered Wei Jiao, the chief of the imperial guards, and said: "Wei Jiao, order people to prepare horses."
"Yes!" Wei Jiao lowered his head and clasped his fists.
Zongwei Zhou Pu was left to continue to guard the county jail and continue to teach Zhao Chengxun and others. Zhao Hongrun led Wei Jiao, Lu Mu, Chu Heng, and Mu Qing on horseback to the Wang family's mansion.
Along the way, Zhao Hongrun couldn't hold back his laughter, but when he arrived at the main house of the Wang family, he couldn't hold it in anymore and his face was filled with smiles.
Why?
Because the shops under the Wang family's name, including their main house, were all smashed up a few days ago by Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao, Yan Mo and Yan Lingbing, who took the opportunity to smash them up, so that now it seems that this house
The mansion belonging to one of Anling's leading wealthy aristocrats looks so miserable.
He actually boasted that he would destroy my porridge factory... Hey!
"well done!"
Zhao Hongrun whispered in approval.
Beside him, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed sinisterly a few times.
Immediately, he got off his horse and knocked hard on the door of the mansion.
“Bang bang bang”
"Who?!"
An angry shout came from inside the mansion, which made Wei Jiao feel vaguely familiar.
Not long after, a servant opened the mansion and took a look outside.
When he saw Wei Jiao, the servant screamed strangely, his face full of horror, and he subconsciously wanted to close the door.
Unfortunately, he was not as strong as Wei Jiao, and Wei Jiao pushed open the door of the house.
"You...you..."
The servant who fell to the ground was seen covering his slightly swollen left face with his hand, looking at Wei Jiao with eyes full of horror and fear.
This person... looks so familiar.
Wei Jiao stared at the servant for a long time, and then he suddenly realized: This person was not the same person that day when he and Yan Mo came to smash up the main house of the Wang family, because he spoke unharmfully when opening the door for them, he was killed
Just punch the servant who was knocked unconscious on the ground.
"Don't worry, I won't hit you today."
Wei Jiao smiled and took out the invitation from his arms, threw it at the foot of the servant, and said lightly: "Go and report it."
The servant picked up the invitation and looked at it carefully, and then timidly said: "My master has given instructions that whenever His Highness Prince Su comes to attend a banquet, he can directly enter the house... Everyone, please."
After that, he ran into the house, running very fast, as if he was afraid that Wei Jiao would catch up and knock him out again.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun had already stepped into the house.
Zhao Hongrun visited the main house of the Wang family once when he first arrived in Anling. At that time, he only thought that the carved beams and painted pillars were very particular. But now, it was as if it had been hit by a tornado. The rockery was smashed and the flowers and trees were destroyed.
Pulling it up, there was a layer of yellow stuff floating vaguely next to the pool passing by.
What on earth was that thing? Zhao Hongrun didn't want to look into it carefully and hurried past.
He was just stunned in his heart: compared to Shen Yu, Wei Jiao was more ruthless and more damaging.
Following the route in his memory, he walked towards the house. After walking for a while, Zhao Hongrun suddenly saw several people walking towards him.
Wang Zan, Wang Xun, and Wang Lun, these three brothers look alike and are quite easy to recognize.
But Zhao Hongrun didn't recognize the well-dressed young man walking in front of the three of them.
And just when Zhao Hongrun was secretly guessing, he saw the young man in rich clothes walking up to Zhao Hongrun, cupping his hands and saying with a smile: "The Wang family of Zhengcheng, Wang Quan, I have long admired the reputation of His Highness Prince Su."
Wang Ting...
Zhao Hongrun bowed his hand perfunctorily in return. (To be continued.)