Eight hundred and nineteenth chapter thieves incident
Wen Ji shook his head, "My son never talks to me about the affairs of the DPRK. He joins the army from the press office and has many secrets. He must keep it secret. I can understand his difficulties, so I never embarrass him. But Brother Pei said I know something about this matter. It is said that the King of Jin wanted to select his successor from the officials of the Hedong family in order to seek balance."
Pei Chen suddenly became interested and asked with a smile: "But what did Bo Yue tell you?"
Boyue is the head of the Wang family, Wang Hong, and the five brothers of the Wang family. The eldest brother Wang Wei is famous all over the world. The second brother Wang Jinye has been promoted to the prime minister. The third brother Wang Huang once served as the governor of Jingzhou. He died of illness last year. The fourth brother Wang Hong was before the Jingyuan mutiny. As the guest of the third-grade crown prince, Lao Wu Wang Zuo originally served as the prefect of Taiyuan, but now he has been changed to the governor of Jin. He has been slightly demoted. This is related to the seven serial robberies that occurred in Taiyuan last September. The merchants suffered heavy losses. So far, there are no Catch the thief.
As the prefect of Taiyuan, Wang Can took direct responsibility and was demoted to the governor of Jin.
Considering the Wang family's status in Hedong and the status in the entire Tang Dynasty, Wang Hong had the highest reputation for entering Chang'an as prime minister.
Of course, Wenxi's Pei family is not weaker than the Wang family at all. Pei Yan, Pei Kuan, Pei Mian, and Pei Zunqing are all prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty. They have just declined in recent years, so Pei Chen wants to take advantage of this opportunity to revitalize his family. The Pei family's momentum.
Wen Ji is very clear about these relationships. He knows that the Pei and Wang families have always been in competition, and the Wen family and the Pei Wang family have a very good relationship. Both of them want to find out the details of each other through themselves.
This really made Wen Ji feel embarrassed. He was silent for a moment and said, "I think instead of guessing here, you should wait and see what happens. News will come in the next few days."
Pei Chen's expression changed. As expected, Wang Hong was also inquiring about his situation.
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Pan Liao's residence is located in Jing'anfang. It is an official residence covering an area of 20 acres. It belongs to the first level among the Jin prince's residences. The residences of the seven counselors are all similar. Although Xue Changshou resigned as counselor, as long as he knows If the title of a political official is not cancelled, and his official rank is not lowered, his treatment will not be reduced.
Some things are also interesting. Pan Liao had two families in Hexi. Liangzhou was a formal family. His wife gave him three boys, two girls and five children. Later he went to Zhangye to serve as an official, but his wife did not come with him. He had another child. The two lived in the outer room for ten years, and the outer room gave birth to two children for him.
Originally, the wife and the wife were sworn enemies and never met each other. They both vowed to kill each other if they saw each other.
But as Guo Song's career grew bigger and bigger, when the capital was moved to Taiyuan, Pan Liao's wife and his wife actually reconciled on their own initiative. Even Pan Liao didn't know when they met or when they reconciled. Knowing that they arrived at the new house in Taiyuan in the same carriage, the seven children were also very familiar with each other, and it was impossible to tell that they were not brothers and sisters who had grown up together.
A house of twenty acres in Chang'an is enough for a big family to live in. Pan Liao's old mother is still there. She is over seventy years old and is still in good health.
The eldest daughter was married in Taiyuan, to the son of Wei Nan, a doctor of Confucianism in Taiyuan. The eldest son Pan Xiao took the Zhongming Jingke Examination the year before last and became the chief registrar of Qinyuan County in Qinzhou. He also married and started a family at the beginning of the year. His wife is The daughter of Li Lue, the Xuanfu envoy to Xingtai in Hexi Province, she was married since childhood.
When Pan Liao became the governor of Ganzhou, Li Lue was the governor of Liangzhou. The two of them once served in Guzang County, Liangzhou, one as the county magistrate and the other as the county magistrate. Their friendship was forged at that time. .
Pan Liao is Guo Song's most capable right-hand man. His current position is equivalent to that of the right-hand prime minister. He has to deal with all kinds of things every day. It is really hard. It is almost dark when he returns home every day. In the past two days, Pan Liao has been responsible for leading the drafting of the imperial examination plan. It has been particularly hard.
It was very late when I got home.
The carriage slowly stopped in front of the mansion. Pan Liao got out of the carriage, went directly into the mansion, and returned to his study. He was really tired and needed to go back to the study to relax.
Pan Liao was influenced by Guo Song and also liked jade. In fact, everyone in the Tang Dynasty was very enthusiastic about jade, and every man wore jade around his waist. However, Guo Song liked seed jade, and others didn't care. Many of the jade was Xiu jade from the Central Plains.
Pan Liao liked jade, and all kinds of utensils carved from jade, such as vases, tea cups, screens, etc. When he got home, he would play with the jade, read for a while, and then rest and sleep.
Pan Liao came to his inner study. The room was brightly lit, the incense burner was lit, and a faint scent of sandalwood could be smelled outside the room.
Pan Liao was confused. This kind of sandalwood was very expensive and he never used it. How could there be such a fragrance in the study?
After leaving the room, Pan Liao was stunned. The incense burner was actually placed on his desk, but it was not the Panlong bronze incense burner he usually used. It turned out to be a jade incense burner, about one foot and five inches high, made of a whole piece.
It is carved from sapphire. The upper handle is a vermilion bird, which is lifelike. The upper part is hollowed out and you can see the bronze gall inside. This sapphire vermilion incense burner weighs at least forty or fifty kilograms. At first glance, it is a very precious jade incense burner.
At this time, his wife Zhang came in with a cup of tea. Pan Liao quickly asked: "What's going on with this incense burner?"
"This was sent by someone from the Wei family. They said they missed the master's fiftieth birthday and specially made up for it as a birthday gift!"
It's just nonsense. Three months have passed since my fiftieth birthday. How can I still receive birthday gifts? Besides, I was very low-key when celebrating my birthday. I didn't notify the outside world at all, and I didn't hold a banquet. I just had a meal together with the whole family.
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The only birthday gift was a piece of mutton-fat seed jade given to him by the King of Jin, and other birthday gifts from two in-laws. No other gifts were accepted. Why did the Wei family give him gifts for no reason?
"Why do you want to accept this thing?" Pan Liao asked dissatisfied.
Mrs. Zhang said with an aggrieved look: "I didn't want to take it, but the other housekeeper said that the master knew about it, so I accepted it. If I had known that the master didn't know, I wouldn't have accepted it at all."
"Is the incense inside also a gift from the Wei family?"
"No, the incense was given to the old lady by His Highness Prince Jin last time. The old lady was reluctant to use it, so she asked me to give it to the master, just in time to try this incense burner."
"Take out the incense quickly, pack the stove and send it back to the Wei family."
"I know, I'll find someone to move it right away."
Just as Zhang was about to leave, Pan Liao stopped her again, "Wait a minute!"
At this moment, Pan Liao suddenly understood that Wei Huan must have wanted to seek the position of counselor, so he wanted to open a gap through him, and asked him to give His Highness the King of Jin a few kind words.
Why doesn't Wei Huan give up? Du You told him last time that it was impossible to appoint him as prime minister. He is now reluctant to serve as counselor. With his ability, it is almost enough to serve as governor.
Pan Liao knew that Wei Huan was narrow-minded, so sending him back like this would be a slap in the face. Even if the grudge is settled, he must use a safe way to handle the matter. In the end, both parties will not lose face, and he will not be
People laugh at you.
Pan Liao was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his hands. What method would be better?
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Early the next morning, Wei Yingwu, the new Jingzhao Yin, received a report from Wu Wenzheng, the magistrate of Wannian County, that there might be a thief in Pan Liao's mansion, and asked Wei Yingwu to go and take a look for himself.
Wei Yingwu was really puzzled. If there was such a thing as a small thief, did he still need to go and check it in person?
However, Wu Wenzheng's tone was a bit vague. Wei Yingwu felt something and decided to go and have a look in person.
Wei Yingwu was only in his early fifties, when he was in the prime of life. He had previously served as the governor of Suzhou. Because Sun Yingrong, the imperial censor, failed to ask for a bribe, he impeached the court for indulging in wine and delinquency and neglecting government affairs. In addition, Wei Yingwu had previously written a poem to ridicule the eunuchs for taking power. The Song Dynasty
Feng and others had always held a grudge. After the censor impeached him, Song Chaofeng took the opportunity to remove Wei Yingwu.
Not long after Wei Yingwu returned to Chang'an, Guo Song, who had always admired him, appointed him Jingzhao Yin, which was also a response to Jingzhao Wei's.
Wei Yingwu rushed to Pan's mansion in Jing'anfang. Pan Liao had already gone to court. Pan Liao's second son Pan Fang received Wei Yingwu.
"Reporting to Lord Wei, at midnight last night, the servant noticed a black shadow on the wall. He shouted and the shadow fled in panic."
"Since the shadow has escaped, will the property be lost?" Wei Yingwu asked again.
"Reporting to the envoy, not only was there no loss of property in the house, but strangely, the shadow also left a large object. My father suspected that the thieves had stolen other people's property, so he left it in my house in a panic."
Next to him, the county magistrate Wu Wenzheng also said: "Because the case is a bit strange, the county government has not filed a case. I specially asked you to come and take a look."
Wei Yingwu became even more confused and asked: "Where is the left object?"
"In the living room, please come with me."
Pan Fang took Wei Yingwu to the living room, and saw a sapphire incense burner placed on the living room table. Wei Yingwu's heart clicked, this incense burner looked so familiar.
He stepped forward to take a closer look and recognized it. It was indeed the owner's purple-gold sapphire stove. Under the reflection of the purple-gold gallbladder and sapphire, the lit cigarette curled up in purple color, which happened to correspond to "the sun shines on the incense burner and produces purple smoke."
That poem has always been the owner's favorite thing, so why is it in Pan's house?
Wei Yingwu looked at Pan Fang's calm expression, and then at Magistrate Wu who looked like it had nothing to do with him. He suddenly understood that Pan Liao was trying to find a way to return the incense burner to the Wei family!
Wei Yingwu secretly scolded his eldest brother for being reckless. He didn't have much friendship at ordinary times. How could he rashly give such valuable things to others? Would others dare to accept them?
"Then what's your father's attitude?" Wei Yingwu asked Pan Fang.
"My father wants Wei Shijun to return the incense burner to the owner as soon as possible. The owner must be very anxious. It is best for Wei Shijun to take it away now."
Wei Yingwu had no choice but to tell the county magistrate Wu Wenzheng: "You stay and continue to investigate the matter of the robbers, and I will find the owner."
He waved his hand and said, "Take it away!"
A strong government servant stepped forward and picked up the incense burner and went out. Wei Yingwu said to Pan Fang again: "Please tell your father that nothing happened. Please don't worry about it. I will come to visit you again after the case is settled."
Wei Yingwu left in a hurry, and Wu Wenzheng asked with a smile: "Mr. Pan, do we still need to continue investigating this case?"
Pan Fang also smiled and said: "My father means that since there is no loss, there is no need to file a case, which is a waste of manpower and material resources."
"Okay, I'll take my leave. If you need anything, please contact the county government in time. We will do our best to help."
Wu Wenzheng also handed over his hand and took the people away. He was like a mirror in his heart, fearing that the incense burner was related to the Wei family.