Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 589 Someone Paniced

"I've admired the great name of Bachelor Lu for a long time, but I'm only lucky to meet you today. It's really a blessing for the officials and others!
In the past ten years, the bachelor has commanded thousands of horses and troops with the posture of a literati. He has been strenuous and sharp, charged into battle, and crossed the land in the north of the Yangtze River.

This kind of ability to go out and enter the prime minister is no less than that of the famous officials in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It is rare in the 200 years of my emperor's Ming Dynasty, and it is indeed a model for my generation!

Bachelor, please accept the salute from the lower officials! "

On the Water Transport Wharf of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, after the imperial guards of honor were spread out, Lu Xiangsheng, wearing an imperial bullfighting uniform, stepped on the wooden plank from the boat to the ground. After taking a look at his appearance, he bowed solemnly again. Behind him, all the chief officials of Songjiang Mansion and Shanghai County also bowed their hands and fell to the ground to express their admiration for Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng and his party took an official ship along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal south to Hangzhou, and then arrived at Songjiang Prefecture along the waterway from Chang'an County to Shanghai County.

"Your mansion is too famous. What Lu did was just doing his duty as a courtier.

It is a time when Shenzhou is in turmoil, and since we eat the salary of the heavenly family, we should serve the emperor.Just like now, although the sea is clean and the rivers are clear on the surface, there are still thousands of people who need to be nurtured; and Taicang lacks money and food, so that countless hungry people are in trouble every day.

Therefore, helping those in need will become the next important task of our courtiers.I hope that your house and all of you can work together with the imperial court, think more and more, and overcome the difficulties together, so that Taicang will be full as soon as possible, so as to comfort my emperor's heart of worrying about the people! "

Faced with Xie Ruyun's kind words, Lu Xiangsheng was not moved at all, but turned back with a light tone and pointed words, which made everyone in Songjiang Mansion feel embarrassed.

"Yes, yes, the scholar is right. We are herdsmen on behalf of the heavens. Then we should take the well-being of the sage and thousands of people as our own responsibility. We should be an official and a place to benefit one side, so that there will be no more hunger and cold in the world as soon as possible." A poor person, this is how he will live up to the entrustment of the Holy Majesty! Hehe!"

Xie Ruyun forced a smile and spoke in an official tone, and then invited Lu Xiangsheng to get on the sedan chair and go to Songjiang Prefecture, more than ten miles away, to rest for a while. Unexpectedly, Lu Xiangsheng declined on the grounds that he was not used to treating people as animals.

Immediately afterwards, a former soldier of Lu Xiangsheng in the army, who later voluntarily followed the general who had settled down in Lu's mansion and became a general's guard, led Wu Mingji over. The war horse, Wu Ming Jixi Lvlu, who understands human nature, raised his head and neighed, squinting at Xie Ruyun and others, as if urging them to hurry up and lead the way.

Lu Xiangsheng's argument of not treating people as animals made everyone in Songjiang Mansion even more embarrassed.Some people have been cursing secretly in their hearts: I didn't raise the official sedan chair, so how did you become a human being as an animal here?You have been on the battlefield for ten years, and you have learned a lot of bad things from those rough soldiers. Now you are a cabinet minister, and you are still proud of riding a horse.

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng acting like this, he made it clear that he didn't want to get close to everyone in the Songjiang Mansion. When Xie Ru was unlucky, he was also secretly vigilant: this person surnamed Lu was not a good person this time, and he took a chicken feather as a pawn this time. Ling Jian's behavior, could it be that he wanted to cause some trouble in the Songjiang Mansion?
But because of the huge difference in status, Xie Ruyun didn't dare to write the anger in his heart on his face.

He bowed his hands at Lu Xiangsheng and stepped forward, walking to his official sedan chair. The bearer leaned over the sedan chair, Xie Ruyun bent down and lowered his head to get into the sedan chair. The guards of honor cleared the way in front, and the eight-carrying sedan chairs began to sway towards Songjiang City, followed by Lu Xiangsheng's imperial guards of honor.

When all the guards of honor were lined up, Lu Xiangsheng urged the horse to walk forward, and the four families would ride horses to attend to the left and right. Other imperial envoys and local officials also took cars and cars, and a group of people walked along the official road to Songjiang Prefecture. .

Around midnight, after more than an hour of trekking, a group of people arrived in Songjiang City under the curious crowd of passers-by.

People from the Songjiang Mansion sent Lu Xiangsheng and his party to Songmeiju, the largest inn in the city. Xie Ruyun and others planned to return Lu Xiangsheng to the mansion after he settled down, and arrange to clean up the dust in the evening, but they were directly taken away by the inn. The minister stayed.

"A bachelor coming from a long distance should be extremely tired. It stands to reason that he should wash up and rest. Although a bachelor is dedicated to serving the public, there is no need to rush for this moment. The lower officials have already arranged a welcome banquet for the bachelor. We will wait for the evening banquet After drinking, can we talk tomorrow?"

Xie Ruyun, who went to greet him early after receiving the news, felt uncomfortable.

He is used to being pampered and pampered in the daytime. Today, he traveled back and forth and waited for several hours. Now he feels exhausted. Responded in a dissatisfied tone.

"When I was hunting bandits in the deep mountains of Huguang in the morning, it was not uncommon for me to stay awake for several days. I just took a boat to the south without losing any strength, and I didn't need to rest and wash at all.

As for the indirect wind banquet at night, forget it.Thinking that there are still countless people in the world who are in urgent need of food for life, even if the table is full of delicacies from mountains and seas, this official is really hard to swallow. Songjiang is full of kindness, and this official appreciates it. Next, let’s talk about my responsibilities for going south this time! "

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng was still indifferent, Xie Ruyun and the others had no choice but to put their minds aside, enduring a strong sense of discomfort and quietly listening to the cabinet minister continue to explain.

"This official came here for two reasons.

First, after the incident of attacking and killing officials at the wharf in Shanghai County, the Holy One was furious and shocked the whole court.The Holy Majesty has designated this as a case of treason, and ordered that the case must be solved as soon as possible, the perpetrators and the mastermind behind the scenes will be brought to justice, and justice will be given to the victims! "

Lu Xiangsheng's slender eyes looked around at the crowd, and the murderous intent revealed in his eyes made everyone present shudder, and even made some people's hearts jump suddenly.

"Bachelor, isn't it a little too much for the Holy Majesty to define this matter as treason? Jiangnan has been in peace for more than two hundred years, and it has always been a peaceful scene of singing and dancing. I have never heard that anyone is dissatisfied with the court. I'm afraid there is no way to talk about the heart of rebellion.

From the point of view of the Songjiang Mansion, this incident was purely accidental, and the government office report also generally believed that the possibility of a civil uprising was relatively high. If it was charged with such a crime, it might cause dissatisfaction among the people and eventually lead to prosperity. Unreasonable turmoil in a rich land, this may not be the blessing of the country! "

After hearing that the emperor defined the attack and killing of officials as treason, Xie Ruyun felt panicked for no reason. After forcing his mind, he cheered up and opened his mouth to defend.

Xie Ruyun knows that as long as it is designated as treason, it means that the imperial court can use all means to arrest and torture all suspicious persons. Jin Yiwei Songjiang Qianhu's current rational solution to the case will become an unrestrained melon implicated.According to the means of these demons, Songjiang Mansion will face a bloody storm, and countless people will be implicated in this unilateral purge.

"The lower official agrees with the words of the lord of the government, but the characterization of treason is too exaggerated. Tens of millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River, adhering to the gentle and pleasant temperament of the Jiangnan water town, have never liked to fight with others, let alone dare to commit such a big rebellion thing.

As for the attack on officials that day, it is very likely that a small number of people did it out of righteous indignation. The two sides lost their hands and killed them by mistake during the dispute. They regretted it afterwards, but it was irreparable, so they fled overnight.

It is even more impossible to talk about the behind-the-scenes instigation that the bachelor said.

The ancestral home of the bachelor came from Changzhou Prefecture. You should know that the southerners used to put the word profit first, and everything they do in daily life is based on profit. The construction of the dock by the imperial court has nothing to do with others.
No matter the gentry or the people in Jiangnan, their hearts have always been to the imperial court, and they donate more than millions of money and food to the imperial court every year.In terms of taxes alone, my prefecture of Songjiang pays more than that of Shaanxi province.

The imperial court should pay more attention to the offerings from various places, rather than wanting to use small mistakes to determine the place, so it is a dignified move! "

　Thanks to a little sword fairy for continuously rewarding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)