serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 83
It's the hottest time of the day.

There was no wind, Shuntian Fu Yin knelt upright outside the gate of Qianqing Palace, motionless.

In the distance, some officials who entered and exited Wenyuan Pavilion watched from a distance while shaking their heads and sighing.

Everyone felt sorry for this unlucky Governor of Shuntian.

There are many powerful and high-ranking officials in the capital, and if you are not careful, you will offend people. When you do big things, you have to look left and right, for fear of offending the nobles, and your career will be in danger.

This Governor of Shuntian was the most unlucky person since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. First, he was demoted to one level and retained because of the disaster victims' rioting on Ningrong Street in mid-April. He was fined half a year's salary.

It finally stopped for more than a month, and several family members of Xungui's military were kidnapped again, but fortunately they were successfully rescued in the end.

Just when everyone was secretly rejoicing that the turmoil was about to end, another fire broke out in Nancheng, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

It is said that among those burned to death were important figures named by the emperor.

It's really a person sitting at home, and the disaster comes from the sky.

No, the unlucky Governor of Shuntian could only honestly come to plead guilty.

Shuntian Fu Yin's shoulders and back were completely soaked, and sweat poured down his face.

Elder Yang Ge appeared, sighed silently, walked to Shuntian Fu Yin's side, and said: "Go back, if you continue like this, your life will be in danger!"

Shuntian Fu Yin just shook his head, still kneeling there, but his waist can no longer be straightened.

Elder Yang Ge sighed compassionately: "Go and kneel in the shade, and the old man will intercede for you."

Shuntian Mansion Yin was stunned for a moment, and then said decisively: "No! I can't implicate the old man."

At this moment, King Zhongshun walked over with his helmet in his arms, glanced at Yin Shuntian, and asked Elder Yang Ge: "What's the matter?"

Yang Ge thought for a while, and then told King Zhongshun what happened yesterday.

A gleam of light flashed in King Zhongshun's eyes, and he asked again, "Who was burned to death?"

Elder Yang Ge shook his head: "I don't know, but it should be related to yesterday's kidnapping case."

King Zhongshun asked, "Is the emperor busy?"

Elder Yang Ge: "Your Majesty summoned the Chief Assistant, the Second Assistant, Niu Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and Jia Boye from the Yongwei Camp to discuss matters in the study."

King Zhongshun snorted coldly, "I mean, it turns out that someone threatened His Majesty!"

Elder Yang Ge: "Lord Zhongshun, be careful with your words!"

King Zhongshun raised his head: "Am I wrong? Or did Yang Ge always think that His Majesty is embarrassing innocent officials?!"

Elder Yang Ge didn't answer, suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps, he turned his head to look, and Dai Quan came over.

Dai Quan said as he walked, "Why are you kneeling here in the hot weather? Don't you know what to do?" He arched his hands to Elder Yang, "Old Ge."

He smiled at King Zhongshun and said, "Your Majesty, come in quickly, His Majesty is waiting."

King Zhongshun pointed to Shuntian Fu Yin and asked, "How did he deal with it?"

"Dispose of it? Of course it must be disposed of!"

Dai Quan smiled deliberately, and then said loudly: "The Great Zhou has laws, whichever one you break will be punished. If you don't reflect on your own mistakes, what is it to kneel down here? Do you want to force the palace?"

Shuntian Fu Yin's heart was shocked, and he kowtowed again and again: "The guilty minister dare not!"

"Then you still can't get up." Dai Quan said this sentence coldly.

Yin Shuntian was startled, he understood a little, kowtowed again, and then stood up.

Dai Quan: "Go back and make an apology, and ask for a three-month fine."

Shuntianfu Yin was so wronged that tears almost came out.

Dai Quan changed his tone and said softly: "Your Majesty knows that you are an upright official and your family lives in poverty, so you specially took out 1000 taels from the internal treasury to subsidize your family."

Having said that, he took out a bank note from his sleeve and handed it to him, "How about it, don't you feel wronged now?"

Looking at the banknote in his hand, the face of Shuntian Fu Yin was dripping with sweat mixed with tears, he plopped down on his knees, kowtowed again and again, and said in a trembling voice: "The sinful minister kowtows to His Majesty for his grace!"

A smile appeared on Dai Quan's face: "Get up, Your Majesty wants you to go back and have a good rest for a day. In the future, you will work hard for the court."

Shuntian Fu Yin: "Observe the order." He kowtowed again, then got up with difficulty, turned around and walked towards the Meridian Gate.

Looking at the back of Yin Yuanqu in Shuntian Mansion, Dai Quan nodded with satisfaction, and said to Elder Yang Ge: "The chief assistant and the second assistant still have to discuss matters in the upper study room, and Wenyuan Pavilion will exhaust Yang Ge."

Then he turned to King Zhongshun and said, "My lord, please!" Then he gave up his hand.

Beijing Jingwang Study Room

Shui Rong was sitting in front of the desk, flipping through a stack of letters, which were brought back from the Cao Gang stronghold.

The housekeeper stood aside and flipped through an account book, and his face changed as he looked at it.

Shui Rong: "What's wrong?"

Butler: "There is an account of 10 taels recorded on it, which was withdrawn by Yang Kaiwu in March last year."

He paused at this point, "If I remember correctly, Yang Kaiwu met people from the Military Weapons Bureau."

Shui Rong took the account book and looked at it, pondered for a moment, and asked, "You mean, Yang Kaiwu bought the blueprint for the self-generated firecracker from that old guy?!"

Steward: "Very likely."

Shui Rong stood up, no wonder Yang Kaiwu took the risk to go to Beijing. It turned out to be for this purpose, his face suddenly became serious, and he turned to the housekeeper: "Where do you think Yang Kaiwu will build the self-generating firecracker?"

The butler thought for a while and replied, "Baoying."

"Bao Ying?"

Shui Rong sneered, "Make a new account book." After saying that, he left the study.

study room

Although the Cao Gang failed to obtain criminal evidence, it has been confirmed that the Cao Gang has a different heart, so it has to be guarded against.

Emperor Jianwu summoned Song Chengliang, Zhang Shangwen, Niu Jizong, and Jia Hu to discuss how to guard against the Cao Gang and ensure the success of the grassland war.

Zhang Shangwen's suggestion to directly dispatch the army to the south to destroy the Cao Gang was rejected by everyone with one voice.

As long as the imperial court transfers the army away from Gyeonggi, the Manchus and Mongols will immediately go south to close the customs. At this time, the two Huaihe Rivers must not be chaotic.

Before the discussion came to a conclusion, King Zhongshun came back.

He briefly reported the results of the trip to the emperor, heck, there were no results, it was all a loss, over a thousand cavalry from the [-]-step barracks were killed and injured, and even King Zhongshun's beloved horse was beaten to death by the remnants of the Salt Gang.

King Zhongshun was very unhappy that Zhao Yi, the general soldier of Datong, led the army to fight and was in charge of the arrangement of food, grass and military supplies.

When he heard that Jia Hu was commanding the Yongwei Battalion to fight alone, King Zhongshun immediately shouted: "Your Majesty, I am not inferior to anyone in single combat, and I am better than Jia Hu in terms of marching troops! Why can he?"

"War is no joke!"

Jia Hu interrupted him unceremoniously, "The king of Zhongshun, the army is fierce and dangerous, he is not a child playing house, on the vast prairie, there is a 10,000+ army, how to arrange troops, how to search for the enemy, how to judge Do you understand the enemy's situation and the arrangement of food and grass routes?!"

Having said that, he took a step forward and bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, it is a big taboo not to say that it is a taboo to change generals just before the battle. Just talking about the King of Zhongshun, he is not bad to be a general, but far from being a commander."

Before the words fell, King Zhongshun rushed over, grabbed Jia Hu by the collar with one hand, and raised his hand to slap Jia Hu: "If you dare to question this king, you are worthy? You are just a yellow-haired boy"

Jia Hu didn't hesitate, just kicked over. After all, King Zhongshun was born in the army, "kick, kick, kick", staggered three or four steps backwards and stabilized his body.

When King Zhongshun took this kick, he was startled and angry, rushed up with red eyes, swung his fists, and the wind of the fists made a whistling sound.

Just from the sound of punching, it is enough to judge the hatred in King Zhongshun's heart.

Jia Hu took a few steps back to dodge his attack. King Zhongshun immediately made another punch. After the punch was delivered, the middle door opened wide. Jia Hu seized the opportunity and rushed forward suddenly, with his right shoulder It hit King Zhongshun's chest hard, and the huge force directly knocked King Zhongshun away.

Jia Hu jumped forward and kicked King Zhongshun hard on the chest.

The strong impact made King Zhongshun dizzy, his chest seemed to be out of breath, before he recovered, he was kicked hard again, and then fell heavily to the ground, only to feel a turmoil in his body, With a sound of "Wow", a mouthful of blood was spit out.

Suddenly, Song Chengliang, Zhang Shangwen and Niu Jizong stood aside.

Hearing the sound of fighting in the hall, the on-duty eunuchs and guards hurried in and were stunned.

Dai Quan came back to his senses, looked at the crowd rushing in, and waved his hands: "It's none of your business, just wait outside!"

Everyone was relieved and retreated.

At this moment, King Zhongshun got up: "You son of a bitch. I will kill you"

Jia Hu didn't speak, and stepped forward directly, bluffing King Zhongshun back a few steps, Niu Jizong hurried over and pulled Jia Hu back.

King Zhongshun still had red eyes: "Jia Hu! We will each bring 1000 people outside the gate of Yongding, regardless of life or death!"

Emperor Jianwu was furious, and shouted: "Presumptuous! This is the upper study room! Do you still have this emperor in your eyes?!"

Song Chengliang, Zhang Shangwen, Niu Jizong and Dai Quan quickly knelt down.

Jia Hu and King Zhongshun were still staring at each other closely.

The blue veins on Emperor Jianwu's forehead were constantly beating. He slapped the imperial case and shouted: "Come here!"

A team of guards ran in.

Emperor Jianwu pointed with his hand: "Put them in the clan mansion!"

All the guards were stunned.

Niu Jizong was anxious: "Your Majesty."

Emperor Jianwu's face sank, "Do you want to resist the edict?"

All the imperial guards were startled, and hurried forward to take Jia Hu and King Zhongshun out.

(End of this chapter)