Emperor Yongzheng

Chapter 36 Defrauding Yinzhen's Stabilization
Jiangxia Town was reduced to ashes overnight, and a day later, the secret letter was delivered to the Lama Temple by fast horse.Yin Yinxiang and Wu Sidao Wen Juexingyin discussed in secret all night and felt that it was impossible to hide this matter from Yin's eyes and ears. The most important thing at the moment was to stabilize the eighth prince.Otherwise, once the secretly built private files are burned to the ground, there won't even be any clues.Therefore, after snoring for two hours, Yin washed up as usual and went to Yuqing Palace to see the prince. When he came down and left the palace, it was almost noon. He went straight out of Donghua Gate and came to see Yin in person.

"Fourth brother is a rare visitor!" When Yin saw him, he knew that the night owl came into the house and came for everything. He welcomed him into the study with a smile on his face, offered his seat to serve tea, and said, "Just came from the prince's place? What news?"

Yin took the tea, took a sip, and said: "I just came down. I was feeling depressed. I was going to take a walk around Tongzhou, and I passed by you. Yesterday, He Zhuer came to my house to lend you a book. I heard that you have a heartache. Have you committed a crime?" He said, looking at Yin with a stern look, and then said: "What he said is scary, but it seems irrelevant to you. The old thirteenth gave me a pack of jujube and yellow celery tea a few days ago. It nourishes the stomach and soothes the spleen. I don't need this kind of medicinal tea. I'll bring it to you tomorrow." Yin smiled, and while listening, he guessed Yin's purpose. He leaned over and said, "Tell Fourth Brother to worry about it. I'm sick. It doesn't matter. But you know, I'm in a difficult situation and don't want to see anyone, so I can only put on a pretense to avoid the door and thank the guests." "I know." Yin nodded, "Everyone has a hard time to recite these days. My errand is also It’s getting harder and harder to serve. After the New Year, I have to learn from you and study behind closed doors. What a joke—Is Prince Yong so easy to bully?”

"Huh?" Yin raised his eyebrows, "Fourth brother is so proud!"

Yin sighed and said: "Do you know this person Feng Shengyun? He is the Zhejiang vassal introduced the year before last, and the one who was promoted to the governor of the river last year!" Yin shook his head and said: "I have heard of this person, it turns out he is the eldest brother He also had an affair with Third Brother, but I have never met him. Why, are you going to beat him up again?" Yin muttered: "Where! You have definitely saved the crown prince! This dog is here Luoma Lake was trying to catch Fang Bao, but he was bumped into by Wan Sui Ye, who got into serious trouble. It was also found out that Fang Bao had cheated a river to earn 10 taels of silver. All kinds of cheating made Wan Sui angry to death. If Zhang Tingyu hadn't stopped him, he would have died at that time. The law has been rectified. I don’t know why our stupid master, or who he listened to, led Zhang Shizhi to deal with the case of violating Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and he was only exiled for three thousand miles. I am so angry that I have nothing to say!"

"Oh!" Yin covered the cup with both hands and muttered, "There is no death penalty for offending the Holy Emperor. Long live wants to kill him because he is corrupt and despicable. How can you avoid the important and take the easy? The prince is confused." Yin said coldly: "This is clear, but it is not necessarily true to say that he is 'confused'. According to my thinking, I originally planned to bribe more than 100 officials, and there was no official in the border area among them. I still feel that it is not enough to shock the world. Long live for us I took one, and the meaning in the question was self-evident. But the prince wanted to reverse the priorities, and the list was confusing. He wanted me and Old Thirteen to do it, so I withdrew without saying a word. Good fortune, no matter what Whose person is he? I have to kill him!" Only then did Yin realize that he came to the house to talk to him face to face to kill Feng. Yin smiled and said: "The person named Feng is not my disciple, and he will not do anything. It hurts. In fact, even if my disciples do bad things outside, I will never protect them. If fourth brother encounters such a person in the future, I will deal with them severely, which will also help to improve my brother's reputation."

After listening to this, Yin seemed to be in a better mood. He shook his head and said with a smile: "It's really frustrating... Sometimes I really want to shave off these ten thousand troubles with a knife, and only six of them will be pure and my heart will be at peace!" Yin also smiled and said: " The fourth brother believed in Buddhism, so he had this idea. Just talk about it, do you really want to imitate Emperor Wu of Liang and sacrifice your life to become a Buddhist? Oh - how is that Fang Bao now? When something happened to him that year, we still kept him alive, why did we meet him again? Long live?" Yin got up and walked around, casually looking at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall. After a long time, he said: "I don't know much about this matter. I heard that Fang Bao scolded Feng Shengyun, and long live incognito happened to be there, so he heard it. , the person surnamed Feng wanted to arrest someone, and that's what caused the incident. Fang Bao has now gone to the study to wait on you, you will naturally know if he comes to Beijing if you ask him."

"Really?" Yin was so surprised that he almost stood up, "Why didn't I see the imperial edict? It wasn't mentioned in the newspaper!" Yin said nonchalantly: "I saw it written in Zhang Tingyu's letter to the prince. Fang Bao was not appointed an official, but was appointed prime minister in white clothes. I'm afraid he has been like this since the middle Tang Dynasty, right? This is an anomaly!" Yin muttered and said: "That's true. Even Li Mi, who worshiped the prime minister in cloth clothes, was still appointed an official, long live it. You can really think about what people have not thought about, and what travelers have not done!" Seeing Yin standing at the door and thinking in thought as if he was about to say goodbye, he smiled and said: "Fourth brother, don't leave, he will hit the noon clock immediately. It was also a coincidence that Zhuangzi went up. I got one pair out of more than a dozen pairs of bear paws. No one barked, and we had a few drinks together. We had both bear paws and fish, which is rare even for our emperor who is full of bells and pans."

Yin walked around again and said with a smile: "My meal has been prepared. I can't compare with Lao Shi Lao Shi San and the others, and I can't stand the smell of meat. I'm fasting this month, and I won't eat meat. Nian Gengyao gave me a letter, He said that he showed filial piety to me, but I had nothing to say. I wrote back and said: It is better not to show filial piety to me! He went to Nanjing to meet Long Live after me. This is not the rule of being a slave! In Jiangxia, he also said that he was enshrined in the palace of Yuqing. , wiped out a girl named Liu, Zhuangzi, and even killed your disciple named Ren Boan with one blow! People's hearts are not ancient, the world is declining, and such a wild slave is really helpless! "

"Ren Bo'an is dead?!" Yin's face suddenly became extremely pale, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of relief, but Liu Badu had stored more than [-] taels of silver for him in Jiangxia, and all of it fell into the hands of Nian Gengyao. , he couldn't remain indifferent, thinking about it, he was already a little confused.Yin secretly laughed in his heart, but seemed to ignore it at all, and said: "The prince said that Ren is dead. He was on an errand. I am not angry with him. He killed my brother's disciples without even saying a word to his master. He is the emperor again." He's the prince again, so he started it all by himself. What's the point of this? I'm thinking about whether to renounce his nationality. He's originally a Han, and you call Ansheng a Han. Anyway, he's a bastard with no royal laws!" After saying that, he lifted his feet and left.

Yin accompanied him to see him off, but he didn't know what he was feeling in his heart. He had no time to sort out the messed up clues, and paced to comfort Yin: "Fourth brother is in a bad mood these days, that's why he thinks like this. It doesn't matter to me. Ren Boan has never been a person who abides by the rules. I have escaped him a long time ago, and I have nothing to do with him. Even Nian, you can't be angry. He is not worthy of it. When you come to Beijing, you can ask him face to face and give him a few words. . The Han people are keen on fame, and they don’t have many good things. All you need to know is what you know..." He escorted Yin all the way out of Yimen before he stopped and said loudly: "Fourth brother, come again!" He turned around and told the family members waiting at the door: "Go. My name is Master Shi, and Kuixu, Wang Hongxu and Aling'a will be here soon!"

Gou'er and Kan'er received an errand from Yinxiang. The two little devils had a discussion that night, and went to the ghost market early in the morning. They didn't know what to buy. They hurried back to Lama Temple and asked Gao Fuer for help. .Because it was all on an errand, without further ado, Gao Fu'er assigned more than a dozen capable servants in Ermen to their command, and even chased them out to warn them: "Be careful, I'll go later!"

"Yes!" Gou'er agreed, came out with Kan'er, smiled and said in a low voice: "Look at him like a bear, and teach me! Stupid bastard, last time I rode out on that chrysanthemum green horse, the one who fell on the head The big bag is still black and blue!" Kan'er's heart is far more shrewd than a dog, because he is two years older and has read more and more, although he still looks confused, the city is getting deeper and deeper.Although he and Gou'er were in the study together, and Gou'er's mind was devoted to falconry and teasing the dog, he had already learned a lot of characters, and he was able to explain even the "San Zi Jing".Hearing Gou'er talk about Gao Fu'er, Kan'er only nodded and said, "I know, Juhuaqing told you to tame it. If you tell it to advance, it means to retreat, if it says to retreat, it means to advance, and if it says to stop, it means to run, right? Now, what's wrong with you? We've grown up year after year, and we have to think about serious things, like Dai Duo can make a top, why can't we?" The dog patted the back of the head and said with a smile: "It's useless to be half a year older than you! I can't stop my playfulness. For some reason, when Fourth Master forces me to study, I fall asleep—" As he was speaking, he turned a corner and walked out of the Moon Cave Gate. I stepped on that girl's foot, and squatted down in pain, crying "Ouch".Kan'er smiled and said, "Isn't this Sister Cui'er? I haven't seen you for two years, and I dare not recognize her anymore!"

The dog also smiled, and looked carefully at Tweety: the moon white jacket, wearing a green onion waistcoat, because he let his feet down, a pair of half-sized bow shoes were hidden under the shirt, and the black temples were set off by the oval face and the smoke. Eyebrows, dizzy smiles and a radiant look, really look like a slim water garlic.For some reason, Gou'er's heart moved, and he blushed. He smiled dumbly and said, "Sister Cui'er is born like a grown-up. Although they are all in this courtyard, the family is like a sea, and they can't even see each other. If I met him somewhere else, I might have just bumped into each other and passed by!" Tweety was embarrassed by him, so she glanced at Kaner and said, "That's right. Apart from serving Fujin, drinking ginseng soup and breastfeeding, I don't go out of my way— ——" Just as she was talking, a big girl flashed her face and shouted: "Tui'er——Fu Jin is calling you!"

The two of them stopped talking and walked quickly out of Lao Qihua Gate. They saw the Wanyong Pawn Shop at Chaoyangmen Canal Wharf.The pawn shop has a small facade, with three wooden balconies facing the street and the screen wall of the Eighth Prince's Mansion facing each other, just a stone's throw away. A greeting from one side can be heard from the other side.The courtyard behind the pawn shop is very large, with dozens of rooms, and the back is close to the canal. Things that have expired can be disembarked from the back door and transported to the south for sale, which is indeed very convenient.Kan'er saw a dozen servants from Prince Yong's Mansion pretending to be idle men, having tea and talking under a tea shed in the west of Zhaobi. Knowing that everything was ready, he nodded to the dog and entered the pawn shop, and asked loudly at the high counter. : "I have a piece of silver cake, should I use it? I want to exchange it for some copper coins!" After saying it twice, the superior raised his head and said, "Take it and take a look!"

"That's it." Kan'er raised the silver pancake with a frowning face, "My master is sick, and I'm waiting for the medicine to make money. Hurry up!"

The court minister took the silver cake and carefully looked at it again and again. The surface of the cake had a heart-to-heart silver tendon, the honeycomb was fine and white, and there was silver frost on the side. It was an authentic piece of Taizhou foot print, and said: "Nine to eighty percent , be Liuguan!"

"Footprints!"

"I know it's foot prints, it's a rule." Chao Feng said coldly, "It's like this all over the world. Is it right?"

Kan'er swallowed a sigh of relief, and said: "Our master is not a poor man, so he lives in Shuangpailou, preparing for the exam, and the family's money has not been paid, so you can be a few more..."

"Is it appropriate?" Chao Feng asked impatiently, holding a silver pancake in his hand, intending to throw it down as soon as he answered.Kan'er was so miserable that before he could speak, the dog rushed in and said, "I've searched all over the pawn shop, and here you are! Eighth young master sent money from his family, it's not appropriate, and that footprint has to be jewelry for young mistress!" As he spoke, he took out two ingots from his bosom, rushed to the court and said: "These are two Jining ingots. The young lady said in her letter that there are 80 taels in total. The young master said that it is so big that it is not easy to use. You can weigh them and exchange them for silver coins. I'll give you five cents, okay?"

Without thinking, Chaofeng threw the silver pancake back to Kan'er, took the ingot from Gou'er's hand, looked at it briefly and put it on the basket. One basket was actually 88 taels. He was so happy that he said, "Five cents of silver." It's a bargain for you, poor people who are out of town, so I'll change it for you. Sigh... I'm afraid five cents of silver isn't enough to cut off the scab!" After saying that, he cashed in another 80 taels of silver and handed it to Gou'er. , Gouer and Kaner went away chatting and laughing.The pawnshop was happy with Fengzheng, and an old man next to him said: "Mr. sir, have you seen the quality of the ingot? One of these two hozens is called Gui Bu Chuan and the other is Gui Death Ghost. Everyone who goes out of Xizhimen knows this. I saw them both just now. There is a man in the tea shed chattering secretly, don't let me fool you, right?" The court official was startled, and quickly took the ingot and took a closer look. The tender head was shining with green silver light, with green edges, very similar to Jining Yuanbao is of good color, but the glaze has no green air.Knowing that he had been deceived, he hurriedly went to the scissor bench and clamped it. He sat down skillfully and the scissor cut off with a "bang" sound. The whole truth was revealed. It was wrapped with lead tires!Chaofeng's face immediately turned pale, and his voice changed: "I'm 30 years old and I'm talking to you!" He then asked the old man: "Where did you see them talking?" "Over there!" The old man pointed to the tea shed to the west and squinted. Eyeing: "They didn't leave! This... this is so bold!"

Chao Fengteng jumped off the counter and looked through the door, only to see Gouer Kaner and a group of people gesticulating, talking and laughing. He was furious and shouted inside: "Li Zaixin, come out to greet the front door. Tell shopkeeper Liu, I Be humane, the thieves are outside! Tell some guys to follow me!" The old man hurriedly said: "Don't say that I said it, don't say it! Alas...you are not serious!" He slapped himself with a "slap" and hurried away.The imperial servant, with two or three fellows, rushed out like a hungry wolf and went straight to the tea shed!
"Your grandma, little bastard!" Chao Feng lifted the dog who was beaming and talking, and pushed each of them up, "I didn't even ask about the appearance, but I dared to trick people today! Where's the money?" The dog rolled He got up, put his hips on his hips and cursed: "Fuck you eight generations of ancestors! Why did you hit someone?" As he spoke, he rushed forward, and the two of them fought together.Immediately, a large circle surrounded the inner and outer third floors to watch the excitement.

Kan'er winked at Mo Xiang, a servant in the study who was pretending to be the Eighth Young Master. Mo Xiang coughed, shook his fan and said, "Let go! Let go! What kind of etiquette is this? If you have something to say, speak slowly, what's wrong?" Chao Feng Grabbing the dog with one hand, he stared and asked, "Who are you in the crotch? Mind your mother's business!" Kan'er said, "Keep your mouth clean, this is our Eighth Young Master!"

"Eighth Young Master? Eighth Master and Wang Baye are also loose!" Chao Feng shouted furiously, because he told everyone in the street how the two of them had fooled him just now, and then took out the broken ingot to show them: "You guys Look, you look! The two amount to 80 taels, let them abduct them! This is at the foot of the imperial city, in front of the emperor's chariot, dare to play with this ghost! Send you to Shuntian Mansion, and clamp you to death with sticks!"

Mo Xiang wanted to pass two ingots, weighed them in his hands, and said: "My family is a famous eunuch in the south of the Yangtze River, how can such a thing happen? Besides, this silver is not like the two ingots given by my wife. Take a look, I look like a Sick and poor?——Dr. Cha, do you have any scorpions? Look at it, the weight seems to be wrong..." "Yes!" Dr. Cha repeatedly agreed to take out the scorpion, in front of everyone Said, his face suddenly sank, looked at the two people, none of them could afford to offend, he mumbled for a while but didn't dare to speak.An idler watching by the side looked refreshed, jumped on his feet and shouted: "88 taels! This son of a bitch's worship is no fun!"

"beat!"

The dog yelled, and there were dozens of people from the palace's family Ding and passers-by. They surrounded the three court servants with no heads and no face, and they beat them badly, causing the three of them to roll around on the ground. The shopkeeper—come quickly! This is a group of thieves who want to grow seedlings!" Kaner watched carefully, and saw a crowd of about forty or fifty people coming out of the door of the pawn shop. They didn't count carefully, but they all retreated , and then saw a man in his 40s wearing a bright red-colored robe, a buttoned vest, a pair of crystal sunglasses on his eyes, and a betel nut purse flashing out from his waist. He turned around and said, "Don't come out!" As he spoke, he walked over and asked, "What's the matter? Is there anything I can't say properly? Is there no room for reason at the feet of the emperor?" A large group of people gathered around to watch the excitement, pointed at him with a whip and said, "Go and have a look!" Seeing that he was so powerful, everyone hurriedly moved away.In a blink of an eye, Gao Fuer saw Mo Xiang, Kan'er and Gou'er were giving him winks, jumped off the horse, and slapped Gou'er in the face!

"Okay! So it's you three again! I searched all over Xizhimen, but I didn't find any ghosts of you, so I tricked you to the gate of Baye in Dongcheng! This is really the sky's net, and it turns out that the well also fell into the barrel at times. !" Gao Fuer cursed viciously, and waved his hand, "Take it down, and hand it over to the fourth master!" Shopkeeper Liu was worried that no one would help him, seeing Gao Fuer's subordinates going around frequently, he couldn't help but frame Mo Xiang and the others When I got up, I felt relieved, and asked with a bow: "May I ask your surname, Taifu? Is it congratulations from the fourth master's mansion?" Gao Fuer nodded, and said with a suspenseful face: "I am Gao Fuer, the housekeeper of the fourth master. Last time I bought more than 20 catties of fake ginseng from these little bastards, this is the famous 'Jingxi Santai Sui', there is no such thing as fun! Who are you?"

"Oh, the little Liu Renzeng is the shopkeeper of this Wanyong pawnshop. The owner is not here, so keep a front door. If you don't guard against it, you will be deceived by these three little thieves." Eight taels of silver..." Because he gave a general idea of ​​what happened just now.That Chaofeng was all rotten, his head and face were black and blue, and he was crying on the side: "...it's not Gao Ye, the villain can't tell clearly even if his mouth is all over."

Gao Fu'er listened with a smile, and said: "Master Liu, but Qiaoer, I have something to do with you today. It's really a fate!" Then, he patted Shopkeeper Liu on the shoulder, and turned to tell his servants: "You guys wait here, and you will be rewarded when you go back. ——Let’s go, the shop says go!”

"Then...Okay, please!" Although Liu Renzeng was cautious, he was confused by Gao Fuler's chain buttons one after another. He hesitated for a moment, gave up his hand, and respectfully led Gao Fuler in. Pawn shop backyard.Gao Fuler walked slowly while picking his teeth. When he looked carefully, he saw dozens of houses, some of which were locked, and eighteen people dressed as masters were checking accounts in a large living room with account books and other things. There was no difference, so he smiled and said: "I didn't expect you to be so grand inside despite your humble appearance!" Only then did Liu Renzeng feel that it was inappropriate to bring this person in. He hurriedly let Gao Fuler into the accounting room, poured tea and said with a wry smile: "This is Ren Bo'an Ren. How can I be so rich with my property? - Master, if you have anything to ask me, I will do it for you."

Gao Fuer took a sip of tea, took out a piece of paper from the boot leaf and handed it to Liu Renzeng, "Look at this." When Liu Renzeng took it, it read:

Forty strings of large coral beads, large mirror with two sides, 24 large pieces of amber, fifteen pieces of medium-sized woolen fabrics, eight pieces of woven gold, large velvet blanket, four collars, bird feather satin, four pieces of literary fine woven fabric, fifteen pieces of gold self-ringing clock, two A large glazed lamp, ten borneols, 34 pounds of gold-inlaid small box, an emerald inlaid with precious stones, Ruyi, three ivory ships, a gold-inlaid flower sword, five platinum Maitreya, a gold-inlaid Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara, a fine pony gun, and seven pieces.

"These are all tributes!" Liu Renzeng took a breath and asked, "Could it be that the Lord is short of money and wants to take it quietly?"

"Where did you come up with?" Gao Fuer giggled, "I'm so poor that I don't dare to touch fourth master's needles and threads! No one in the world knows his old man's temper? He even has the time to peel me when he is angry! These objects are It was Lord Long Live who rewarded Fourth Master. It was originally stored in the warehouse behind Xihua hall, but it was stolen half a month ago. It was reported to Shuntian Mansion long ago. Up to now, even a thief has not been caught. Fourth Master is afraid that Long Live will find out. , Angry and anxious, ordered to come down, Shuntian Mansion wants to investigate, I also want to investigate, catch this thief, I have to deal with it myself! Tell me to notify all pawnshops in the city to see if the stolen goods have been sold. "

Liu Renzeng felt relieved immediately, and said with a smile, "I don't have any here. We never dared to accept such pawns. If you don't believe me, Mr. Gao, I'll show you the pawns in your warehouse." A dutiful businessman." Gao Fuer smiled and stood up, "Who has the time to look at each warehouse? There are more than 100 pawnshops in the capital!" Said and left.Liu Zengren delivered it to the door, and just said "Master Gao is ready to go", but Gao Fu'er stood still and said, "You put that list away, and if someone comes to pawn it, I'll know if you report it on a flying horse. I'll give you the 1000 taels of silver." You five hundred. The fourth master wants to interrogate this thief himself, and he is trying to express his anger, so we don't want to make him unhappy." After saying that, he left.

Liu Renzeng waited for him and rushed to Prince Lian's mansion without stopping.Because Yinzheng and Aling'a were talking in the study, a little guy like him didn't dare to disturb them, so he stood at the door and waited.After waiting for half an hour, Aling'a resigned, and then heard Yin said: "You just pretend that you don't know about Feng Shengyun's case, don't get involved. The prince has proposed a marriage of three thousand miles, long live Lord Zhu approved it." , scolded the Ministry of Punishments to pieces, and even Zhang Shizhi of the Han Dynasty criticized him, saying that he was a man who was seeking fame and reputation - he had already been cut in half. Let's just stand aside and watch." When he turned around and saw Liu Renzeng, he asked: "What's the matter with you?" Liu Zengren hurriedly kowtowed in greetings and explained in detail what had just happened.

"Well, you did a pretty good job." Yin stroked his shaved head and thought for a long time. He really couldn't think of anything strange about the encounter between Wanyong Pawnshop and Si Age's Mansion, so he said: "Something was lost in Fourth Brother's Mansion. I have heard about it. If someone sells stolen goods, you just need to tell Yong Mansion. You have to be careful with those things to make sure there is no leakage. All my handwriting will be burned. I think you are a very knowledgeable person, so easy to deal with. Go ahead and Ren Bo'an's errand may be assigned to you!" After saying that, Liu Renzeng waved his hand and bowed hurriedly to exit.

(End of this chapter)