Rule over Ming Dynasty

In front of the Su Mansion, the golden sunshine fell on Feng Zhong, the prefect of Suzhou, who was wearing a fourth-grade official uniform, adding a bit of righteousness to this upright Suzhou prefect.

"on!"

Su Songbing prepared Chu Jian as if he was Feng Zhong's yes man, but knowing that Cheng Xin could not fall into Wang Yue's hands no matter what, he immediately waved his hand.

"Yes!"

Chen Bing's soldiers in front of the door were already at war with each other. They ignored Su Bonian who was trying to stop him and were about to enter this small Su Mansion.

"You...you are so lawless, do you still have a superior in your eyes?" Su Bonian was so angry that his face twisted when he saw that this group of people was trying to break in.

I thought that by revealing his identity as a member of the Jinyi Guard Qianhu and displaying Wang Yue's flag, the other party would not dare to break into his Su residence. However, this group of people actually took action directly.

Although he had already known that Suzhou Magistrate Feng Zhong and Jiangnan Company had been collaborating for many years, he was still very angry when he saw them acting like this.

At this time, some soldiers hurriedly came to ask for help: "Master Chu, they want to break out from the back door, please send people to support immediately!"

"Don't let them escape, and don't let them take Cheng Xin away!" Hou Haotian's eyes flashed with panic, and he gave instructions directly.

Su Song prepared his troops and said that Chu Jian seemed to be Hou Haotian's subordinate, and immediately led his men to the back door.

Even Feng Zhong didn't think there was anything wrong with obeying a young master, but he got back into the sedan immediately because he wanted to go and catch the person who was trying to escape with Cheng Xin.

Of course, the most important thing is to rescue Cheng Xin. Although it is not clear whether Su Bonian's words are true or false, Cheng Xin cannot be allowed to fall into Wang Yue's hands no matter what.

Su Bonian was thinking about the Su family's only seedling, and was about to lead the Jin Yiwei and the Su family's servants there, but his sleeve was pulled by the butler next to him.

"Let go of me, my master. My sister is the imperial concubine Jing. Don't you want to live?" At the back door of the Su Mansion, Su Qubing struggled angrily.

Just now, Su Qubing and the nursing staff wanted to break out from here. Although they defeated the two minions who were ambushing here, they were quickly surrounded by people coming from behind.

"Sir, we have captured them all!" The leading general reported excitedly when he saw Chu Jian approaching.

Chu Jian glanced at Su Qubing, who was already tied up, with disdain, then pointed at the trapped man and said, "Why don't you quickly untie Mr. Cheng?"

Several soldiers stepped forward and untied the man seemingly neatly.

"Who is he?"

Feng Zhong, who caught up behind him, saw the rescued young man and asked with confusion on his face.

"Master Fu, isn't he Mr. Cheng?" Chu Jian was dumbfounded when he heard Feng Zhong ask this question.

Feng Zhong's eyes rolled, and he immediately slapped his thigh heavily and said, "No, we fell into the trap of trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"

At this time, while most of the people at the gate of the Su Mansion were led to the back door, Wang Ye led the people to rush out, and with the help of Su Songnian, he was about to grab the carriage and leave.

Due to the rush of time, the two parties could not communicate too much, so some important information could not be transmitted. Now they plan to take Cheng Xin and flee here immediately, and then hide in Suzhou City to investigate secretly.

"Haha... You little tricksters like you, do you really think you can deceive me?" Hou Haotian came back again, looking very proud of himself.

Among the students of the same class at Nanjing Imperial College, although he was indeed not a candidate for the imperial examination, he was recognized as a smart person and seemed to be a natural chess player.

Not only did he work with Zheng Jie to promote the establishment of Jiangnan Trading Company, but he was also responsible for his father's promotion to the position of Zuo Shilang in Nanjing, and he was known as Xiao Zhuge.

Huh?

When Su Bonian saw Hou Haotian who suddenly came back from the attack, he had already heard about Hou Haotian's intelligence, but he still couldn't help but look down on this young man from the household minister's family in Nanjing.

"These are all prisoners of the imperial court, let me capture them all!" Hou Haotian said with a wave of his hand, not treating himself as an outsider at all.

The officials present didn't seem to think there was anything wrong. They pounced on Wang Yu and Song Cheng as if they were Hou Haotian's thugs.

"Master, hurry up...save my master!" Cheng Xin's servant who was accompanying him noticed Cheng Xin wearing a hood and shouted excitedly.

Su Bonian saw his men retreating continuously, and couldn't help but kick his men on the butt: "Trash!"

Woohoo...

Cheng Xin, whose mouth was stuffed with linen, dropped his hood to the ground. When he saw that his good brother Hou Haotian had come to save him, he excitedly called for help.

"I told you earlier that we couldn't be locked up in the Su Mansion!" Wang Yu saw that they were caught alive, and couldn't help but turned to look at Song Cheng in distress and complained.

Song Cheng's expression was as usual, but when he saw Hou Haotian, who was commanding Songjiang Prefecture's yamen and Su Song's soldiers, his eyes flashed with surprise.

In the capital, even Liu Ji's son keeps his tail between his legs.

Who would have thought that in this place, just the son of a small Nanjing household minister, could directly command the personnel of two important yamen.

"Those two are the murderers, take them all down!" Feng Zhong and Chu Jian rushed back and issued orders from a distance.

Su Bonian's people were originally greedy for life and afraid of death, but now that they saw Feng Zhong and Chu Jian's men returning, they already knew that there was no way to save their lives.

When Song Cheng saw Cheng Xin being snatched away, he also knew that everything was caused by God's will.

"He's far worse than my grandfather!" Wang Yu looked at Song Cheng with extremely complex eyes and said to himself when he saw such a bad latent plan.

You know, my grandfather sneaked into Yangzhou Mansion.

Not only was it successfully discovered that the private salt farm was a smokescreen, but it was also discovered that the Gao family was involved in transporting silver and dividing the stolen goods. In the end, they went deep into the tiger's den to obtain evidence of corruption among salt officials, and then staged the Yangzhou massacre of hundreds of officials in one day, which will go down in history.

On the other hand, Song Cheng's lurking plan this time was a complete mess, and he couldn't even hide anyone.

"Cheng Xin, are they causing trouble for you?" Hou Haotian stepped forward and asked with great concern when he saw that Cheng Xin was successfully rescued.

Cheng Xin touched his sore forehead and said angrily: "Brother Hou, these two murderers almost killed me, I will never forgive them!"

"Of course!" Hou Haotian had already noticed the two strangers, and said with a fierce look in his eyes.

He built the Jiangnan business name not just to make money, but to integrate the forces of the entire Jiangnan, not only to resist the imperial decree, but also to control the entire Jiangnan.

Now two foreigners dare to kidnap important members of their Jiangnan Company. They are simply seeking death and provoking the authority of their Jiangnan Company.

"Come here, capture these two!" Chu Jian nodded heavily to Hou Haotian and said without mercy.

Su Song's soldiers are all wearing light armor and are well-trained soldiers. It is natural to take down the group of people who are trying to help Song Cheng and Wang Yu leave.

"Su Bonian, I advise you not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise you won't blame me for being unkind!" Feng Zhong rushed back and immediately put pressure on Su Bonian.

Su Bonian knew that the plan to break out of the siege had gone bankrupt, and now his son fell into their hands again: "Feng Zhong, let go of my son!"                                                                                                                                                                                                                            for.‐‐. did not know. When Cheng Xin saw Su Qubing being escorted over, he said fiercely.

The corners of Hou Haotian's mouth raised slightly, but he looked at Su Bonian and said, "Su Bonian, if this young master's prediction is true, you made up the story about Mr. Wangge, right?"

At first he was still wary, especially because he couldn't let Cheng Xin fall into Wang Yue's hands, but he gradually realized that this incident couldn't be such a coincidence, and it was more likely that Su Bonian made up an excuse to save his son. .

After all, the reason why Cheng Xin fell into the hands of those two outsiders was because of his jealousy with Su Qubing at Zhaiyue Tower yesterday, and he was finally arrested out of revenge.

If Cheng Xin is really the person Wang Yue named, not to mention that it should not go through Su Qubing's hands, and people from the Imperial Guard will be sent directly.

Feng Zhong was also a smart man, so he immediately reacted: "Su Bonian, fortunately Mr. Hou is here, otherwise I would have been deceived by you!"

"What do you want?" Su Bonian didn't expect that his little trick would be seen through, and he immediately said with a serious face.

"Come here, take all three of them back to the Yamen. We will interrogate them!" Feng Zhong said with confidence when he learned that Wang Yue was not involved.

Su Bonian only had a single seedling, and he suddenly blushed and said, "Prefect Feng, if you dare to touch my family to cure the disease, I will go to the capital to kill you!"

"Su Bonian, it's true that you are the father of Concubine Jing, but Master Feng is not someone you can mess with!" Hou Haotian looked at the angry Su Bonian and said with a clear head.

Magistrate Feng was not only an out-and-out civil servant with a formal background, but he also had another identity.

His daughter is Prince Ning's concubine. Since Princess Ning has no son, the identity of Prince Ning has now fallen to Feng Zhong's grandson Zhu Chenhao.

Even if this lawsuit reaches the capital, not to mention that Feng Zhong has the support of the civil service group and Prince Ning, and that Concubine Jing may not be favored in the palace, it is naturally unlikely that the fault will fall on Feng Zhong.

Su Song prepared his troops and Chu Jian glanced at Wang Yu and Song Cheng, seeming to be winning, and said: "I advise you to be restrained obediently and avoid the pain of flesh and skin!"

"Take them all away!" Feng Zhong no longer worried about Su Bonian and immediately waved his hand.

"This is the Holy Apostle!"

It was at this moment that a loud voice suddenly sounded.

Imperial decree?

Feng Zhong, the prefect of Suzhou, and others couldn't help but be surprised, but their hearts skipped a beat.

As soon as he caught his eye, he saw Wang Yu holding a bright yellow imperial edict high in his hand, which looked particularly dazzling in the bright sunshine.

In this era, there is almost no such thing as false imperial decree.

Not to mention that the cost of counterfeiting an imperial edict is very high, and counterfeiting an imperial edict is a serious crime that will harm the nine tribes, so usually no one dares to do such a thing.

It just made them very puzzled. They were obviously two ordinary strangers. Where did they get the imperial edict in their hands?

Wang Yu was standing in the north, facing the people in front of the door and said loudly: "Everyone listens!"

"The magistrate of Suzhou welcomes the decree!"

Although Feng Zhong, the prefect of Suzhou, and others had doubts, they still knelt down to welcome the imperial edict.

Wang Yu opened the bright yellow imperial edict in his hand and immediately read it aloud: "The emperor is destined to carry the emperor, and the edict says: Song Cheng, the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, has been in office for four years. He has repeatedly solved strange cases and has achieved outstanding governance... He is now promoted to the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The governor shall respond to the sky, and all the officials shall be dispatched by him, and he may be exempted from the post. I admire this!"

With the reputation and political achievements that Song Cheng has accumulated over the years, being promoted is actually a matter of course.

Although the Shuntian Prefecture Yin appointed by Song Cheng was a third-rank official, and the current deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was also a third-rank official, it was a big step to be able to level up the officials from the local government to the capital.

"Song Cheng? Song Qingtian?"

"They say Song Qingtian has a dark face, and he really deserves his reputation!"

"After a long time of work, it turned out that Song Qingtian came to our Suzhou!"

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The people present were actually more or less aware of Song Cheng's reputation, and even knew from secret channels that it was Shuntian Prefecture Yin, but they never expected that Song Cheng had secretly come to Suzhou City.

However, compared with the ordinary soldiers or cadres who were full of surprise and curiosity, the Suzhou magistrate Feng Zhong and Su Songbingdao Chu Jian who were present were despairing.

"how so!"

Hou Haotian, who was just complacent about his intelligence just now, was completely stunned. He never expected that he was the dignified Governor Yingtian. At this moment, his whole head was buzzing.

Although he was very smart, he not only found the place where Cheng Xin was hidden, but also saw through Su Bonian's tricks, but he seemed so powerless in the face of absolute power.

"What are you watching me do?" Cheng Xin was about to leave, but suddenly asked in confusion.

When Wang Yu saw that his identity had been exposed, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Come here, take down Cheng Xin!"

Whether it was the Suzhou government officials or Su Song's soldiers, the personnel of the Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were obediently giving in when faced with the menacing attack.

"No... you can't do this!" Cheng Xin saw that he was caught again and suddenly felt a warmth in his crotch.

Originally he had escaped, but he was not happy for a few minutes before he fell into the hands of Song Cheng again, and the other party turned out to be the famous Song Qingtian.

Song Cheng turned to look at Feng Zhong and asked seriously: "Prefect Feng, if you don't cooperate with Mr. Wang Ge, you won't even rob the governor's suspects, right?"

"Don't dare!" Feng Zhong didn't care about Hou Haotian's eyes this time, and shook his head like a rattle.

Song Cheng's face straightened up, and he immediately said in a stern tone: "You two ignored Nanzhen Fusi, and now you are being sent by a young master. I'm afraid you have even forgotten whose salary you are receiving? Someone, please tell these two The governor has taken off your lord's hat, and I want to investigate the officialdom of Suzhou!"

Huh?

Wang Yu originally thought that Song Cheng was unreliable, but suddenly he discovered that Song Cheng was somewhat similar to his grandfather.

"You... you can't do this!" Feng Zhong immediately resisted when he learned that Song Cheng wanted to take off his black gauze hat.

Song Cheng had already received the imperial edict from Wang Yu and said with a serious face: "Feng Zhong, is it true that there is no king in the south of the Yangtze River, and are you really going to resist the edict and disobey it?"

As soon as these words came out, the officials including the Suzhou government officials all turned to look at Feng Zhong.

Although they have always obeyed Feng Zhong's orders, if Feng Zhong really wanted them to resist and disobey, then they would never be able to obey. Openly confronting the imperial court now is a dead end.

"I dare not lower my rank!" Feng Zhong glared hatefully at Hou Haotian who encouraged him to come to rescue Cheng Xin, but he had no choice but to follow the truth.

No one expected that Song Cheng, the governor of Yingtian, had just taken office and not only arrested Mr. Cheng, who was responsible for the trouble, but also took off the hats of two of the most important officials in Suzhou City. (End of chapter)