But the bright moon shines on the ditch

Not long after, a group of people passed by on the official road in Anhui Province.

Having suffered the loss of the bandits earlier, the postmen did not dare to be careless. They opened the door and took a closer look. This team was different from the stragglers composed of bandits. The rapid march of about a thousand people was actually orderly and well-dressed. Wearing uniform armor and helmets, holding weapons, walking in neat steps, with serious faces and unsmiling faces.

It can be seen that it is an orthodox army.

Looking further ahead, the vassal flag of the Prince's Palace is hung high on the head of the ceremonial guard.

The upright figure sitting astride the maroon horse at the front was clearly Yuan Zhaoan. At this time, Yuan Zhaoan had to rush back every two steps, wishing he could immediately put on his wings and fly to Jingdezhen.

He prayed anxiously, hurry up, hurry up, even if he just takes one step into the city, maybe he can save her from the fire and water?

After all, after all, she would risk her own life to do that disobedient thing, so she must be extremely anxious, right?

To talk about this matter, we have to go back to the Queen Mother’s birthday.

Due to the constant chaos in the north and the banditry going south, the Queen Mother was unwilling to make any arrangements. The Emperor had no choice but to comply with the mother's wishes and hold a family banquet in the back garden and invite some of his ministers to join in the fun.

Gift lists from various places had been sent over a long time ago, and the Queen Mother had seen them all, but she was a little curious about the Guanyin porcelain presented by Jiangxi. For no other reason than the imperial porcelain pearls and jade first came first, and Jingdezhen also gained a reputation for its imperial porcelain. Huizi gave me another congratulatory gift, and it was ceramics, so I couldn't help but put them together for comparison.

So the emperor specially asked people to bring the Guanyin porcelain over so that everyone could join in the fun.

Yuan Zhaoan is a descendant of the royal family, how can he not be present at his aunt's birthday? Because the Guanyin porcelain was Liang Peiqiu's handiwork, he couldn't help but take a few more glances. However, the moment the red hijab was lifted, he realized something was wrong.

There are usually two types of images of Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara, one is a standing statue of Avalokitesvara with forty-two arms, and the other is a seated statue of Avalokitesvara with forty-eight arms. However, the one in front of you is a seated statue of Avalokitesvara with forty-two arms.

It's equal to four different things.

This is disrespectful!

This is definitely not a mistake Liang Peiqiu would make. I remember that when my mother went to seek help from the Avalokitesvara statue, she didn’t understand the key points, so she explained a lot. She mentioned the forty-two hands and the twenty-five existences, which included the three realms of desire, form, and formless realms to form a thousand. The meaning of Hands and Thousand Eyes was so detailed that when he listened to it as a layman, he felt that she had studied Guanyin porcelain deeply.

At that time, my mother wanted a seated statue of Avalokitesvara so that it could be enshrined in the small Buddhist hall in the inner house, but she couldn't let go of the forty-second-hand Qianji. The two discussed Buddhism for a long time.

What's more, this Guanyin statue blends Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist cultures, which is a dangerous signal for the Queen Mother who strongly supports Chinese culture.

Sure enough, before he could make any reaction, the Queen Mother's face sank.

Thousand-Hand Guanyin was worshiped by Zhengchun Tantric Buddhism in its earliest days. It was introduced to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty and was deeply integrated into Tibetan culture. Therefore, Tibetan Buddhism is highly respected in the Central Plains. This is understandable, but in recent years, it has not During the period of peace and prosperity, the national destiny was gradually declining. At this time, Han culture played an important role.

To put it bluntly, promoting Han thought is more conducive to advocating the unification of the country and the unity of countries, especially regarding religion.

Even if it was the Thousand-Armed Guanyin that could cure all diseases, the Queen Mother did not hesitate at all and immediately swept it away with her hands to prove her determination to admire Han culture to the end. Seeing this, Honglu Temple, the Ministry of Rites, and the officials attending the meeting were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.

However, as the porcelain statue cracked, something hidden in the embryo was exposed.

Yuan Zhaoan felt that something was wrong from the beginning. He kept staring at the statue, repeating the words forty-two, twenty-five, thousands of hands and eyes, all kinds of sufferings. Suddenly he rushed forward with a lunge, his face close to the statue. Go to a certain place and observe carefully, then crush the porcelain clay, dig out and piece together pieces of extremely thin parchment paper that is almost the same color as the porcelain clay, and form a lawsuit with the bloody fingerprints of a hundred people.

The lawsuit mentioned that in order to embezzle Wending kiln, Sun Min collaborated with Ju Jiu, the owner of an underground bank, to dig pits for aragonite, causing him to lose all his family wealth and be unable to fight for the No. 1 kiln in the world.

Out of personal grudges, Sun Min also ordered Ju Jiu to bribe Zhang Wensi, fabricate an unjust, false and wrong case, and kill Jiangxi hero Xu Yourong. Afterwards, when Xu Yourong's son Xu Zhiliu traced the details of that year, he repeated his old tricks and used An Jiu to kill Xu Zhiliu, and also killed Zhang Wensi, Wang Jin, Ju Jiu and others who participated in the matter.

For more than ten years, Sun Min took advantage of his position and collaborated with officials at all levels to embezzle millions to tens of millions of Wanshou porcelain, winter porcelain, summer porcelain and other imperial silver. His private treasury was equal to half of the national treasury.

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If the emperor did not have a very concrete understanding of the so-called "Jiangxi native emperor" before this, then after half of the treasury appeared, he was completely sober.

At this time, all complaints to higher levels have to be moved to the back. The first thing to verify is the authenticity of this complaint.

Yuan Zhaoan had been to Jingdezhen, and he was ready to talk about all the evil deeds of An Shijiu. In order to offset Liang Peiqiu's guilt to the greatest extent, he made the situation as exaggerated as possible, including a thousand-acre private house beyond the regulations, privately raising government soldiers, colluding with bandits to cause chaos, etc., which made the emperor furious.

Since ancient times, there has been little true love between emperors and powerful ministers. What's more, in the current national crisis, I have been living a miserable life, and those local slaves have gone so far as to cheat the emperor and ignore him. The crime deserves death!

In just these few words, the emperor had become deeply disgusted with Sun Min and all the Jiangxi officials including An Jiu, and the little compassion he had just felt towards his senior companion had all disappeared.

The emperor was not a fool and knew how serious this matter was. Fortunately, it happened in the inner garden, and most of the people present were descendants of the clan and important officials of the court.

It's a matter of the country, the country, the country, and he knows the importance of it. He points to it one by one, and the implication is obvious. Anyone who leaks a little bit of news, be careful of the head on your neck! So on the same day, the secret message sent to Guangdong and Guangxi and the governor-general who was ordered to investigate were all on the road in a hurry. Because Yuan Zhaoan knew something about Jingdezhen, he was allowed to go with him.

At present, he and the governor were divided into two groups. He went straight to Jingdezhen to capture Anjiu, while the governor and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi surrounded Nanchang Mansion.

However, as soon as he entered the territory of Jiangxi, the news came that An Jiu was surrounded and killed. Along with it, the little god of Anqing kiln took the lead in exposing the evil deeds of the eunuchs and was in danger.

Yuan Zhaoan's eyebrows were beating fast. Without hesitation, he clamped the horse's belly tightly, threw off his arms, and ran towards Jingdezhen.

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On the other side, Sun Min has been waiting for news from Beijing.

This time, he did not expect Guanyin Porcelain to please the Queen Mother and gain a chance for him to return to Beijing. He only hoped that Guanyin Porcelain would pass by quietly without causing any disturbance. At that time, one by one, he would calculate the total ledger with them.

However, before the letter came from Beijing, news of a strike and uprising in Jingdezhen spread.

Because there was no one in Jingdezhen to make the decision, Xiao Xiao was given the opportunity to cause trouble. This was not the first time that Jingdezhen had caused trouble. He didn't take it to heart and casually sent the prefect of Raozhou Prefecture to suppress it. Unexpectedly, within a few days, News of An Jiu's death came.

The eunuch died as soon as he died, but before he died, he made a wild and inflammatory statement, which was extremely inflammatory and caused unrest in all the houses. Now there are a lot of private kilns and porcelain shops that are trying to stir up trouble in the dark.

And at this time, the people who went to Taohua Village to investigate came back. They found no trace of Xu Zhiliu, but they found a gangster who participated in the operation that day.

The gangster said that after the canyon was washed away, Qin Fanghu led a large number of troops to pursue Xu Zhiliu, but Xu Zhiliu reminded Qin Fanghu that the one who broke out was the real Jiangxi official.

There is no need to lie about this matter. Qin Fanghu can figure it out with just a little thought. In terms of age, to the naked eye, Sun Min is more like a high official than Xu Zhiliu. What's more, how can a high official be left behind? The reason why the official rushes out first? So Qin Fanghu immediately turned around and chased Sun Min, leaving his second-in-command to deal with Xu Zhiliu.

The men led by the second-in-command chased Xu Zhiliu all the way to the depths of the canyon. Xu Zhiliu knew that there was no way to retreat and voluntarily surrendered. He also said that he was young and was not an official. He was clearly an aide under a high-ranking official and was used to distract him. It's just their attention, killing or not killing is of little use.

They were all green and rough, had not read any books, and did not know how to play tricks. Xu Zhiliu instigated the friendship between the second-in-command and the eldest brother in just a few words.

Along the way, everyone who was harvesting saluted the eldest brother Qin Fanghu, but when it was the turn of the second-in-command, they always looked down upon him.

Second child, second child, who wants to just be the second child?

The second-in-command had some resentment towards his eldest brother. When he saw that his eldest brother was going after the biggest official in Jiangxi, and there was no chance that his credit would be stolen by him alone, he couldn't sit still. Xu Zhiliu said that he had a solution and was willing to work for him.

Although the second-in-command was not stupid, he could not resist the temptation of being the boss and was coaxed to let him go. Unexpectedly, Xu Zhiliu took advantage of him and killed him.

Once the leader died, the team that was originally a ragtag group became like a piece of scattered sand.

Xu Zhiliu's few remaining dead men escorted him all the way out of the siege until they died of exhaustion, and Xu Zhiliu's whereabouts were lost.

Later, I heard that Qin Fanghu was shot and killed, and the bandits ran away and dispersed. Naturally, no one pursued what happened in the canyon that day.

After this delay, Zhou Qiguang was rumored to be dead.

It doesn't matter if Zhou Qiguang is dead, but if Xu Zhiliu is still alive, that's the big worry.

When Sun Min learned about this, he thought about all the tricks that had been done to Jingdezhen that day. He couldn't wait for a moment, and he couldn't even take care of Guanyin porcelain. He was about to gather people and deploy throughout the province to capture Xu Zhiliu. Unexpectedly, before he left the house, Sun Min Just surrounded.

He knew everyone who came, from Guangdong and Guangxi, from the Governor's Mansion, they were all sent by the imperial court.

At that moment, a vague shadow flashed in Sun Min's mind.

That was a woman he had never met and never paid attention to.

If today's events were all caused by Guanyin Porcelain, then that woman would be the culprit. A woman, actually a woman? Sun Min never expected that half of his military career would be destroyed at the hands of a woman.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

As the generous but sad laughter spread outside the high walls, Sun Min rebelled.