The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

"What's the reaction from Fujian now," Zhang Fan asked.

"My lord," Wang Meng immediately told Zhang Fan of the news, "After this suicide note was obtained by Wen Ruchun, the right minister of Fujian, Mr. Wen is now stepping up his investigation."

This Wen Ruchun is really an outlier to be the right chief envoy of Fujian. He did not rely on playing tricks and accepting bribes, but on the truth, and climbed to this position step by step by relying on his political achievements. No, but it can be regarded as one of the few, but the name is Wen Ruchun, and his temperament is just the opposite. The suicide note was taken by Wen Ruchun before those people had time to do anything.

After this Lord Wen found out, he started a thorough investigation in a rage, and the matter became a big mess for a while. The officials below knew that if this matter was not handled properly, they would lose their heads, so they all united and resisted with both soft and hard methods Wen Ruchun's subordinates, but this is a good one. The incident even alarmed He Kuan, the governor of Fujian. He Kuan has been diligent in his duties and prudent in hearing lawsuits since his official career. Even Emperor Jiajing, who is the most critical, has praised him many times. Now that something like this happened in Fujian, how could He Kuan not ask.

As a result, ordinary people who don't know what happened can see a large number of soldiers walking on the street all day long. However, although Wen Ruchun and He Kuan are the top leaders of Fujian's military and government, they can't enter and leave official residences like Zhang Fan's Jin Yiwei. As easy as going to the toilet, He Kuan's army is at most acting as a deterrent, "inviting" officials who may be implicated to "drink tea and chat", but without evidence, they cannot send people into the residences of those officials In addition, those officials have already unified their statements, and they have always said that the businessman who committed suicide wanted to frame a "good man" or "that man committed suicide because he was insane, so his words are not credible" and so on. They used clichés to prevaricate Wen Ruchun, but there was no evidence to refute these words, which made the two very depressed.

After Zhang Fan heard this, he began to think. If this incident happened here, beside him, he would definitely not let go of such a huge opportunity. He would definitely send his factory guards to collect strong evidence immediately. However, Zhang Fan never thought that such a thing would happen. The order given to his subordinates before was to let them collect evidence in secret, and they must not act rashly, so as not to startle the snake. What happened, but it is not enough to eradicate all the corrupt officials in Jiangnan, and because of his own order, those people did not act immediately, and now the officials in Fujian will definitely be more careful, and hide the evidence that was originally hidden. One point, it will be even more difficult.

However, Zhang Fan did not intend to give up. He asked Wang Meng, "Who is leading the team in Fujian?"

Wang Meng didn't even think about it, and said directly: "It's a Baihu named Zhang Yong. My lord hasn't seen him yet."

"How is this person?" Zhang Fan asked, he knew that there were quite a few people in Jinyiwei who were rich in private pockets, and they could even get along with those who were supposed to be monitored by them for money.

Naturally, Wang Meng knew the meaning of Zhang Fan's question, so he hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, my lord, Zhang Yong served in the same army as Humble, and was a corporal commander of Humble. He has been rescued no less than three times, but he was injured once in a fight with Tartar, and when he recovered from the war, the war was over, so he joined the Jinyiwei."

"Born in sorrow and dying in peace, people will change," Zhang Fan said slightly with a sigh.

After Wang Meng heard his words, although he didn't show any displeasure on his face, he still said righteously: "My lord, I dare to guarantee my life with my life. Zhang Yong will never be fooled by gold and silver like those cunning villains. "

Zhang Fan shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't believe your words, but I don't believe him. Your knowledge of him is only on the battlefield. I also believe that you will not deceive me about this. From this point of view Yong is indeed a good person, but there are a few of those in Jinyiwei who are really clean, "

"This..." Wang Meng didn't expect Zhang Fan to say that, so he hurriedly said, "My lord, the humble official, and Liang Chao are all like this." what kind of people.

"That's right, you two are indeed like that, otherwise I wouldn't have let you two get so close to me," Zhang Fan said, "How many of the Jinyiwei guards with more than ten thousand people are the same as you two, Wang Meng, I understand you, even if I don't need to find someone to check you, I understand you, if I ask you to do something, you will definitely go without saying a word, but let you have any thoughts, but you won't. It's my reassurance against you," Zhang Fan paused, and continued: "As for Liang Chao, he is more sophisticated, I also had someone check it out, and I know that his family has been working in Jinyiwei since his ancestors, and he never takes sides. The reason why Liang Chao is believed to be because the responsibility to Jinyiwei has been flowing in the blood of their family for more than 100 years, and he has accepted this teaching since he was a child, "

Zhang Fan's comments made Wang Meng feel relieved, but what he said next made Wang Meng a little nervous: "But this Zhang Yong, I haven't seen him, and I haven't checked him, so I don't know what kind of person he is, but You have to know that this Zhang Yong has not seen you for more than ten years. After so many years in Jinyiwei, you must have encountered the matter of collecting money and giving money, but over the years, although you have not done so, but I also accepted this practice. Do you really think that Zhang Yong, who lives in a corner of Fujian Province, can resist this temptation.

"I know, you may be thinking that there are so many Jinyiwei, and there are as many people with problems as stars in the sky. Why do I want to hold on to Zhang Yong? The reason is very simple. I want him to do one thing now, to investigate and deal with those People, and now is the time to turn against these people and see if they can find out any clues. If he really colluded with those officials and let go of some clues, wouldn’t it ruin my big business, "

Wang Meng became silent when he heard Zhang Fan's words. He knew that Zhang Fan's words were reasonable, but every time he thought of the scene of helping the seriously injured himself back to the barracks from the pile of dead people, he felt a little uncomfortable. It's hard to believe that with Wang Meng's paranoid character, if someone else said this, he wouldn't even think about it, but now that Zhang Fan said this, Wang Meng began to mutter in his heart.

After a long time, Wang Meng said: "I understand your concern, I take back what I said earlier, but now that the situation is urgent, and my lord is here, it will take too long to order someone I trust to go to Fujian, I'm afraid everything will be checked It’s not coming, for the current plan, my lord can only order Zhang Yong to carry out this matter.”

"Oh," Zhang Fan sighed, and said, "This is the only way to go now, you go and pass the order."

"Yes," Wang Meng said, looked at Zhang Fan with a complicated expression, and then turned and left.

Looking at the figure of Wang Meng leaving, Zhang Fan also sighed a little. No one can blame this incident, only blame the officialdom, this world is like this, Zhang Fan lived in the era of civilization and technology in his previous life. era, but Zhang Fan can only see the progress of science and technology, while social civilization in his eyes is just constantly regressing. In ancient society, people still pay attention to etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, and the people are very simple. Even in the officialdom, intrigues are only in the However, 500 years later, the society has become like that, cheating and abducting seem to be extremely glorious, and so are the common people. Zhang Fan lived in a modern civilization that was worse than this feudal ancient times. Although the person who came here didn't agree with this kind of thing, he couldn't believe it anymore. This might be the so-called old people's hearts.

Zhang Fan thought about this, and suddenly felt that he was looking for trouble. He is now in charge of the official position of the commander of Jinyiwei. What is Jinyiwei? A synonym, even in the original history, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the meaning of the "golden signboard" of Jinyiwei has not been depreciated.

Zhang Fan felt that he might be the most useless commander of Jinyiwei since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As the most tyrannical state violence agency in the Ming Dynasty, he actually cared about other people's feelings when he acted. Thinking of this, Zhang Fan was a little dumbfounded and helpless. However, it is impossible for him to let go of this tenderness from his previous life so immediately. He even found that he hated this kind of personality that was born of weakness and inferiority in his previous life, and wanted to change this kind of personality immediately, but it was not just a touch. And just.

"Mediocrity," Zhang Fan said mockingly in his heart, and then temporarily put aside these thoughts, he still had important things to do before him, and then called Liang Chao over.

"My lord," Liang Chao went straight to Zhang Fan and bowed his hands, and said, "My lord Qianhu has sent someone to send an order to Fujian. I don't know what your lord's order is for you to call the humble officials."

"Go get ready, I'm going to Fujian," Zhang Fan said.

"But my lord, this time my lord is touring the south of the Yangtze River on behalf of the emperor in name, how should I inform Fujian of my humble position," Liang Chao asked.

Zhang Fan had already thought about this question just now, and said: "Just now that many seagoing ships are returning home, I'm going to check the coastal defenses at various important places along the coast, in case the Japanese pirates take the opportunity to come and plunder,"

"I obey, my lord," Liang Chao acted vigorously, turning around and leaving immediately after receiving the order.

"Looks like there's going to be another storm," Zhang Fan muttered to himself,