marquis of jingan

Chapter 384 Little Emperor's Ambition
Fan Dongcheng's appearance was really pitiful.

He was locked in the ancestral hall for a few days without eating, and only ate some tributes on the table to satisfy his hunger. He barely maintained his physical strength, but in two or three days, he had almost exhausted his physical strength and described it as a mess.

After Zhang Jian ordered someone to carry him back to the county office, he turned around and saw the haggard Fan Qian standing behind him.

Master Fan's complexion was already a little gray. He looked at Zhang Jian, was silent for a long time, and then cupped his hands and bowed: "Jiangdu Fan, send my greetings to the old man."

Zhang Jian was taken aback for a moment, then smiled dumbly, shook his head and said, "Master Fan, my grandfather doesn't know anything about Jiangdu."

With a calm face, he said: "Zhang is only performing his duties, today's matter has nothing to do with my old man."

Fan Qian smiled miserably: "There is no old Xiangguo, the county lord may not be able to stay in Jiangdu now."

This sentence is true.

For local snakes like the Fan family, among other things, it couldn't be easier to drive away a county magistrate.

Zhang Jian smiled slightly and said, "Master Fan said this, if the Fan family didn't have a Fan Jiming, then the county wouldn't have to be so troublesome today."

"Besides, if the Fan family can really pass on their poems and books to the family and pass on their morals, it will not suffer from this today."

After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands calmly: "Master Fan, do you have anything else to say?"

Fan Qian exhaled deeply.

"The old man sends the county honorable."

"No, Master Fan should rest at home."

……

The action of the county government was still very fast. They began to arrest people in the evening, and by noon the next day, the three parties involved in the Chen Qing case, Fan Dongcheng, Luo Maocai, and Ma Jun who had just returned to Jiangdu, were all arrested. He was caught and detained in the county prison, awaiting retrial by the imperial envoy.

And this afternoon, Shen Yi also brought his wife back to Jiangdu from the academy. The young couple are at the time when they are inseparable, wishing they could stick together for twelve hours a day.

After returning to Jiangdu, Shen Yi received a document from the county government asking him to cooperate in handling the case.

He was asked to go to the Jiangdu county government in two days to retry Chen Qing's case.

Besides this document, there was another person waiting for Shen Yi's return at the Shen family.

Shen Yi recognized it at a glance. This person was Zhou Mingzhu, an eunuch in the palace. He usually worked with the eunuch Sun Jin. It could be understood that he was Sun Jin's right-hand man.

That is, the people sent by the palace.

Since he was sent by the palace, Shen Yi naturally had to be more polite. He slightly bowed his hands to the eunuch Zhou, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Zhou is not in Jiankang Nafu, why did you come to Jiangdu?"

Eunuch Zhou's status in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not high, and even Sun Jin has to respect Shen Yi, so he naturally did not dare to be too presumptuous, so he immediately stood up and bowed respectfully to Shen Yi: "My servant has seen Shen Sizheng."

After saying this, Eunuch Zhou took a cloth bag from the table behind him, and there was a thick stack of documents in the cloth bag.

He handed the document in front of Shen Yi, and said: "Shen Sizheng, this is from the palace, and I want you to write it in the next issue of the mansion newspaper. If it is not convenient for you to go back to Jiankang, the servant will wait here." You write it and take it back to Jiankang."

Shen Yi looked at these documents and couldn't help frowning: "So many?"

He gave a wry smile, and said, "Eunuch Zhou, before returning to Jiangdu, I have finished writing the mansion newspaper for the Chinese New Year. Why do you have to write the mansion newspaper again now?"

"Back to Sizheng."

Eunuch Zhou was young and had a good attitude. He lowered his head and said, "Eunuch Sun said that it was Mr. Gao's representative, and it was urgently added to the December Mansion Newsletter. He said it was very important. You must write it yourself, Sizheng." .”

Shen Yi sighed helplessly.

The Mansion News Agency obviously has many writers, why can the palace find them when they go home and get married?

Thinking of this, he glanced at the cloth bag thoughtfully, and asked, "Eunuch Zhou, what are these documents?"

Zhou Zhu quickly bowed his head: "I haven't read it, what is the specific content. Si Zheng, you will know after reading it yourself."

Shen Yi nodded, and said silently: "Then please trouble my father-in-law to stay at my house for a few days. I will see what to write first, and let my father-in-law take it back to Jiankang after I finish writing."

Zhou Zhu shook his head: "Si Zheng is newly married, and his servant is filthy, so don't disturb Si Zheng, so as not to pollute Si Zheng's new house. The servant has already found an inn. After Si Zheng has finished writing, just send someone to inform the servant. .”

Hearing this, Shen Yi couldn't help being secretly surprised.

This Zhou Zhu, like Sun Jin, is a Qing... um... Qing eunuch?

After a few polite words from the two of them, Shen Yi sent him out.

After sending Eunuch Zhou away, Shen Yi returned to the living room, looked at the cloth bag, and shook his head slightly.

Originally, he was going to the county government office to meet the three old friends at night, but now he might have to delay for some time.

At this time, Lu Ruoxi brought hot tea up, she looked at Shen Yi, and asked, "Husband, have the people in the palace left?"

Shen Yi smiled dumbly: "How does Madam know that she is from the palace?"

"Qing'er said it."

Lu Ruoxi said with a smile: "She said she could tell if it was a eunuch in the palace."

Shen Yi picked up the cloth bag and said with a smile: "I've already left. It was sent by the report department of the residence to urge my husband to work. There is nothing wrong."

With that said, he carried the cloth bag back to his study, and then took out a thick stack of documents from the bag.

These documents piled up together, probably a foot and a half high.

Shen Yi was patient, took out the first document at the top, and opened the first page.

There are several lines written on it.

In March of the first year of Hongde, it is recorded in Haizhou.

"On the ninth day of March, more than ten pirate ships landed, and there were about a hundred Japanese pirates. They attacked more than ten coastal fishing villages and killed more than two hundred people..."

"March [-]th, the bandits committed another crime and injured more than [-] people in our country of Chen..."

"On May 21, the bandits landed in Yongjia and injured nearly a hundred of our people..."

"July eleventh..."

"The fourth day of September..."

"September nineteenth..."

This first booklet records that the Japanese pirates attacked Taizhou and Yongjia in the first year of Hongde. This year was particularly serious. In just one year, nearly [-] people died at the hands of Japanese pirates.

In addition, during this year, the Japanese pirates also dealt with seven or eight large merchant ships.

Shen Yi frowned, finished reading this booklet, took a deep breath, and opened the second booklet.

"The second year of Hongde..."

"Three years of Hong De..."

……

"Seven years of Hongde."

Shen Yi roughly looked through these documents first. All the documents recorded the evil deeds of the Japanese pirates in recent years, and only recorded the events of Hongde's years.

It is impossible for the Japanese pirates to say that they only started doing evil during the Hongde period, so these are only part of the crimes of the Japanese pirates.

but…

Shen Yi put down the last document, took a sip of tea with difficulty, and slowly closed his eyes to calm himself down.

After a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at the documents.

What does the emperor mean by showing him this?
Or... what did the emperor want him to write?
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, and then a flash of light flashed in his mind.

Yes…

The emperor wants to flatten the Japanese.

Pingwo needs some public opinion to build momentum, and he sent these things to Shen Yi just to let Shen Yi build momentum for him, or for the imperial court.

Shen Yi's brain was spinning rapidly.

The emperor didn't punish the Japanese early, and he didn't suppress the Japanese later, but at this time...

His real purpose may not be to fight against Japanese pirates, or maybe not to completely suppress Japanese pirates...

Shen Yi looked in the direction of health, his eyes were a little lost.

Is the emperor...

Want to train a new sailor?
　I will get married in more than half a month. I have been busy with a lot of things recently, and the update may not be stable. Please forgive me! !I try my best to maintain three shifts...

　　
　
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