Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 336
Zhang Zhe went straight into the county government office with a wine pot, and the government officials with white cloths tied around their waists all knelt down subconsciously when they saw Fei Se.

The person in charge of welcoming guests at the second gate was an old soldier beside Chen Yushuang, one of the two people left to her by her grandfather.It was also because of the protection of these two old soldiers that Chen Yushuang was not killed.

When the old soldier saw Zhang Zhe, he was startled and hurriedly saluted.

Geng Liang came up and said softly: "Master Zhang, the old friend of County Magistrate Yue, the new magistrate of this county, come to worship."

The old soldier suddenly became agitated, and he almost shouted loudly with a crying sound.

"Master Zhang, the prefect of this county, come to worship~~!!!"

This announcement made everyone in the mourning hall look towards the door.

Chen Yushuang was kneeling in front of the spirit with blank eyes, almost lost her soul, and was supported by the two nuns behind her.If she didn't have to take care of the one in her stomach, she wouldn't be able to eat anything these days.

She doesn't regret marrying Yue Tang at all.

When she was caught by Zhang Xinzhi and sent to Yue Tang, Yue Tang never treated her as a prisoner, and even arranged for a servant to take care of him, but she was not allowed to leave the county office.After Yue Yu passed, she also gradually began to think about Yue Tang, who was like a warm man. Yue Tang also liked to talk about making friends with her, and even wanted to let her go secretly for a while.

Everything in her married life went as she wished, and Yue Tang's love for her did not weaken at all, but just when she was happy to conceive, a terrible disaster came.

Her husband was stabbed to death, and her best friend was also killed and then took the body away. If it weren't for the death of two old soldiers of her grandfather, she would almost go with her.Who is the enemy, she knows very well!She also knew the crimes of the enemies, but unfortunately she didn't have any evidence in her hands at the moment.

She has been looking forward to the arrival of Zhang Xinzhi for the past few days. Her grandfather is handling secret affairs in Wu State, so she can only hope that her husband and friend, the new highest political officer of the county, can avenge her!

When the old army's excited report sounded, Chen Yushuang suddenly felt that the sky was much brighter.

Zhang Zhe entered with wine, and Chen Yushuang recognized him at a glance, it really was him!Zhang Xinzhi is finally here!
"Sister-in-law, my condolences!"

"Zhang Xinzhi~! Can you avenge my husband for this~?"

Zhang Zhe did not avoid Chen Yushuang's earnest eyes, but asked calmly.

"But the Fang family?"

"It's the Fang family! His family forged official credentials and took over [-] mu of fertile land without even spending a penny. Unfortunately, there are thieves around my husband, and the younger sister of the Cai family has also been killed, but now there is no evidence! Zhang Xinzhi , do you trust me?"

"Sister-in-law, don't be in a hurry. What do you need those evidences for? The Fang family's energy is probably focused on this matter now. I don't know how many ecstasy arrays have been laid out in the past few days, just waiting for Zhang to jump in by himself."

Zhang Zhe went forward and lit three sticks of incense for Yue Tang, and bowed three times before saying the latter sentence.

"I never like to fight on the battlefields arranged by others, so I have a seven-point advantage, and then there will be less than three points left. Madam sister-in-law can wait and see today, maybe I will be able to win the next family!"

Tears poured out of Chen Yushuang's red eyes again, and she bowed deeply in return.

Only then did Zhang Zhe open the wine jug, and he made half a respect before the funeral, and usually drank the rest by himself.After taking a sip, he burned a string of paper money in the brazier, and the whole mourning hall fell silent again.

Until Master Cao and Judge Du rushed over.

"Du Bian, the magistrate of Zhaoyang County, the lower official (Cao Lingwen, chief secretary of Xiushan County), pays his respects to Master Tongzhi!"

"Hehe, it turns out that Lao Cao is here, come here, and you burn a few skewers for Brother Yue too." Zhang Zhe ignored Du Bian, but greeted Cao Lingwen with a smile, "In case Lao Yue blames you for not being an official. Burn too much!"

Cao Lingwen's eyes turned red when he heard the words, he hurriedly bowed his hands, and then stepped forward to take the string of paper money in Zhang Zhe's hand.

Zhang Zhe dispelled all Cao Lingwen's worries with just one sentence, and Zhang Xinzhi made the decision for them!
But Du Bian began to sweat faintly on his back. He didn't expect that the No. [-] scholar had such a distinct personality, and he began to regret why he had to rush to see this immediate boss.

"Master Du?"

"I don't dare to be an official! Please show me, my lord."

"I heard that everyone in the county is waiting for me at the north gate, but Mr. Du is in a hurry to come to Xiushan to handle errands. Maybe there is some big case that needs to be dealt with urgently?"

Du Bian was so frightened by this sentence that he almost cried out.

"No, no, yes! There is a huge case." Du Bian looked up at Zhang Zhe, and saw Zhang Zhe's smile, but there was no warmth in this smile, "It's, it's Yue My lord's case~! I also heard that my lord is coming, so I am in a hurry to get on with my errands, and I want to understand the interrogation so that I can answer my lord."

"Master Du is conscientious and conscientious. He really is a model for the officials of Manjun County in Zhaoyang." Zhang Zhe just walked around Du Bian, but seemed to forget to ask him to get up. "What is the background of Master Du?"

Du Bian hurriedly replied: "The lower official was born as a scholar, and was later recommended to be an official. It has been 20 years since then."

"Oh?" Zhang Zhe let out a surprise on purpose, and then softened his tone, "That's also from a scholar background, get up!"

Du Bian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly got up, while thinking to himself: This number one scholar really has the most orthodox thinking of a scholar, but he will give preferential treatment to scholars.

"Since Mr. Du is a scholar, do you know how my writing style is in Zhaoyang?"

Start chatting now?

Cao Lingwen and Chen Yushuang looked at each other suspiciously, but Du Bian was eager to get close to Shangguan.

"Reporting to my lord, when Zhaoyang belonged to Wu, the style of writing was weak, so we had no choice but to speak out. After the restoration, the imperial court treated the people equally, and a lot of good seeds have been produced in the past two years!"

"Hmm~!" Zhang Zhe nodded with satisfaction, "That's good, that's good!"

Just after Du Bian's vigilance relaxed a bit, Zhang Zhe suddenly asked again: "Hey, I remember last year when Enke was restored, the counties were also rewarded with a government examination. What good articles did this county produce?"

Du Bian was very familiar with flattery, so he smiled coquettishly: "My lord is the best in the world, what article dare to say a good word in front of an adult? In this county government examination, some boys speak nonsense and dare not make a fool of themselves in front of an adult."

But Zhang Zhe looked at Cao Lingwen who was burning paper.

"Old Cao, are there any good seedlings in this county?"

As soon as Cao Lingwen looked up, he saw Du Bian's jealous eyes. It was because he was jealous that he was called "Old Cao" by the superior, and it seemed that Cao Lingwen was closer to Mr. Zhang.

"Returning to my lord, there are a few people in the county school who are willing to endure hardships. When lord Yue is around, he often praises them."

Hearing Cao Lingwen's words, even if Zhang Zhe was certain in his heart, he sneered to himself, well, I know.

"In the six counties of Zhaoyang County, except for Xiushan, the other five counties are all in charge of the county magistrates. Only brother-in-law was born in the second best of the dynasty and was born in Wu, except for Liu Laotong who lived in Jiangbei and did not come to take office. Judgment, Brother Yue and Mr. Tuiguan are the only seven-rank officials in this county. Now that Brother Yue has passed away, I am deeply distressed. Since the third-ranking official in this county passed away, and he is also a good friend of this official, this The official would like to invite all the officials who are waiting for me at the north gate of Zhaoyang to come to Xiushan to express their condolences!"

Zhang Zhe patted Du Bian on the shoulder: "For this errand, please trouble Mrs. Du to make a trip!"

"It's my honor to be an officer!"

Seeing Du Bian go out, Zhang Zhe restrained his smile and said something to Cao Lingwen.

"Master Cao!"

"The subordinate is here!"

"Move Brother Yue's table number plates to this mourning hall."

Everyone looked at Zhang Zhe in surprise.

"My lord, why is this?"

"My official thinks Xiushan is good. It happens that brother Yue died in the county and there is no one in the county. My Tongzhi yamen is set up here."

Cao Lingwen was overjoyed immediately, if Tongzhi's yamen were located in Xiushan, all officials in the county would have a higher status in the county.For the resources in the county, Xiushan County can also sell a lot.

The reason why Zhang Zhe wanted to set up his yamen in Xiushan County was firstly because Xiushan’s wharf was there, secondly because he could immediately take over Yue Tang’s team, and thirdly because he deliberately did it for Xue Xiong to see.

Xue Xiong, the third-rank guard general, is the highest officer in the county. Although everyone has some friendship, Xue Xiong will feel more at ease if his colleague is not staying in the county.Moreover, the Fang family has been operating in the county for several years, so he doesn't like to play chess with others on the battlefield that others have set up long ago.

"Prepare the guard of honor for this official. Today, this official will go up to his brother's mourning hall."

Cao Lingwen's heart trembled, he didn't know what kind of medicine Zhang Zhe was selling, but it was obvious that Mr. Zhang didn't call all the officials to pay Mrs. Yue's condolences.

Zhang Zhe entered Xiushan at the dawn of the morning, around the end of Mao (seven o'clock), and arrived at the mourning hall at the beginning of noon (eleven o'clock).The officials who were waiting for Zhang Zhe outside the county gate met Du Bian with a hair full of sweat at the end of the hour ([-] o'clock in the afternoon).

Du Bian jumped off the horse panting.

"My lords, my lord Tongzhi did not come directly to the county seat, but went to Xiushan to express my condolences. My lord Tongzhi asked my subordinates to pass on a message, and all my lords are invited to go to Xiushan to express my condolences."

These officials had just eaten some snacks, and although they were complaining in their hearts, no one dared to show it.Immediately, those who rode horses and those who sat in sedan chairs rushed to Xiushan twenty miles away.

Du Bian came to a sedan chair on horseback, and Fang Chaoli was sitting in the sedan chair.

Fang Chaoli was shocked when he first heard Du Bian's message.He was crushed on the matter of Xiushan, people and vehicles going north in the past two days were all stopped by the traps he set up, and they were waiting to get Wei Po's statement, and let the news go across the river together.

But how did Zhang Xinzhi know that Yue Tang was dead?
"The lower official thinks that something is wrong with the Caoqiao Station!" Du Bian turned his eyes and thought, "Maybe it's someone who got drunk and made a mistake. But don't worry, my lord, no one at the Caoqiao Station knows the truth. There are also my own people there, and I must not involve adults."

"Oh?" Fang Chaoli did not let go of his thoughts, but instead asked about the conversation between Du Bian and Zhang Zhe, and asked repeatedly three times while walking.

"He only asked about Wenshi? Didn't he mention my Fang family?"

"Indeed, I didn't. I saw that Mr. Zhang was young, and he didn't look like someone with a city mansion. Moreover, his literary talent is really shocking. I came to Zhaoyang this time. I should know that I don't understand government affairs and civil affairs, so I only asked Do you have any good seeds for reading? I am afraid that he wants to leave his literary name in Zhaoyang, and there will be more literary associations in the county in the future!"

Fang Chaoli didn't make a sound, but called the third brother Fang Chaozhu who was following behind, and Du Bian saw that the two of them wanted to talk, so he beat his horse and left first.

The two brothers discussed halfway, and the third party said to Zhu Shen.

"He wants to hold a literary meeting, let him hold it a hundred times or a thousand times! But if he meddles in the government affairs of the county, he will let the people below fool him a few times. If he is cold-hearted, he will probably be annoyed. Only now Xiushan Things are not easy, Li Gao didn't go to Wei Po that night, and hundreds of county soldiers can testify. If you really can't get a confession of the surname Wei, you can't spare his life!"

"This time, Zhang Xinzhi said that all the officials in the county were called to Xiushan. It happened to be a time of misleading people. You asked the second child to make arrangements secretly. First, something happened around the county government, and the county soldiers and government officials were attracted to protect Zhang Xinzhi, and then sent people. Went to the county prison and learned about Wei Po." Fang Chaoli asked Fang Chaozhu to remember each sentence, and finally reminded him, "I am afraid that the wife surnamed Yue knows something, and today I will join a few people to coax Zhang Xinzhi back. Juncheng, you let the second child's people do it overnight! There are two good skills around that woman, let the second child use more brains tonight."

"Brother, don't worry, I will personally go with the second brother. It happens that we are detaining those Nanyang boats at Xiushan Wharf. I will also deal with it this time. The surname Yue is gone. These Nanyang cloth merchants are not allowed to be rounded by me." !"

Just when the officials were rushing to Xiushan, in the unfinished county palace, Xu Qian solemnly took over the royal decree from Sanqi, and carefully inspected the waist badge of the Lanxiu palace envoy.

Although he knew Sanqi very well and knew that he was the most trusted servant of the Zhang family, he still went through the process step by step.

In fact, he did it for the deputy leader Han Dagong. After all, he didn't know who Zhang Sanqi was, and he had to borrow the guards of the palace as soon as he came to the door.

Xu Qian handed over to Han Dagong the prince's letter, the waist badge of the Lanxiu palace envoy, and the post with the Tongzhi seal.This guy really took a closer look.

Zhang Sanqi met Xu Qian's eyes.

Zhang Sanqi: Old Xu, you can't do it, the chief can't control the deputy commander?

Xu Qian rolled his eyes: he comes from a better background than me, if I make a mistake, the deputy commander will probably laugh at Da Ya.

Han Dagong checked for a long time, but found no problems.

There is nothing wrong with the prince's edict, let them obey Zhang Xinzhi's secondment; the identity of the messenger is no problem, with the badge of the Lanxiu palace envoy, he is qualified to deliver the prince's edict to them; It is also very simple and no problem.

"The lower official agrees, the upper official decides!"

Han Danian handed everything over to Xu Qian, and both Zhang Sanqi and Xu Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

The back door of the palace opened, and hundreds of palace guards rushed out.Xu Qian led forty riders directly out of the city gate and rushed towards Xiushan, while Han Danian and Zhang Sanqi rushed to the Xuejuan Yamen in the county with the rest of the guards.

There is no academic judge in Zhaoyang County now, and Liu Tongpan is in charge of all the affairs. In fact, Fang Chaoli is in charge.

Most of the palace guards came from the Luanyiwei family, and they walked with their nostrils facing forward. A few yamen servants couldn't stop them at all.Zhang Sanqi held the document stamped with the great seal of Tongzhi, and took away the names and addresses of the top ten candidates in the government examination last autumn, and even took away the original examination papers and transcripts of the ten of them.

Zuo Xuesi, who was in charge of learning and judging yamen affairs, also went to Xiushan. Although all the officials were terrified, they didn't want anyone to take away these terrible files.However, the person who came was holding the document of the new co-prefect, and dozens of vicious palace guards were beside him, so he could only let people take away the things tremblingly.

As soon as Zhang Sanqi turned around and went out, some officials fainted from fright, which meant that disaster was imminent.Someone was about to go out to report the news, but there were several guards from the palace watching at the front and back of the xuejuan yamen, and there were also a few guards from the palace on horseback circling around the xuepan yamen, but no one could get out!

After leaving the Xuejuan Yamen, Han Danian divided the forty palace guards into ten groups, and each group rushed to different directions with a document of acquaintance and a name and address.

"Although Mr. Han and Mr. Tongzhi haven't masked each other yet, Mr. Tongzhi's method is very good, hahahaha," Han Danian gave Zhang Sanqi a thumbs-up.

Master Tongzhi actually wants to "invite" the top ten in the government examination last year to "literary meeting" in front of Master Yue's soul!
Han Danian happened to know one of the top ten, he was the third son of the Liu family in the county, and he actually passed the No. 5 exam this time.

"Ahahahaha, then Liu Xiong can take the No.5 exam! Then Lao Han, I can also try to be a scholar."

(End of this chapter)