Song Yi

Chapter 507 Canonization of Hang Wang
The next day, Long Xuanwu came to Changshengtang in person to announce the result of the case, and posted a notice on the wall next to the gate of Changshengtang, about Jin Ruhai's family murdering his wife and framing Du Wenhao, the purpose of course was to rehabilitate Du Wenhao .

This notice is affixed with the seal of the county magistrate.

In order to ease the relationship between Du Wenhao and Hezhi County, Long Xuanwu also deliberately said in front of Su Changsheng and others that he represented Hezhi County to rehabilitate Du Wenhao and restore his reputation.

Therefore, everyone in Changshengtang thought that Du Wenhao had regained the backing of Hezhi County.There is a lot of awe for Du Wenhao.

In fact, this conspiracy failed, and even killed Jin Ruhai, the God of Wealth of Hezhi County, and Hezhi County felt more resentment towards Du Wenhao in his heart.

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a few days later.

On this day, Du Wenhao was seeing a doctor in the front hall. Xu Huaqiang walked in quickly in casual clothes, and whispered in his ear: "My lord, there are people from the palace, and the imperial edict is going to be delivered. Where do you think the order will be received? We don't have any." Tell them you're here."

Du Wenhao said: "It's where they live. Are they living in the post station in Hangzhou Yamen?"

Xu Huaqiang smiled: "The post station is a little too simple, and the eunuch passing the decree is Eunuch Ning who is next to the Empress Dowager, so Zhizhou arranges the most luxurious inn in Hangzhou near the Yamen, at the West Lake Inn."

"Eunuch Ning? Old acquaintance, it's not convenient here. I'll go see him."

Du Wenhao said something to Su Wanrou, and followed Xu Huaqiang out.

Walking out of a road, seeing no one following him, he boarded a prepared sedan chair, and several guards pretended to be bearers, and escorted him to the West Lake Inn.

Xu Huaqiang ordered to stop when he was a hundred steps away from the inn, and said to Du Wenhao in a low voice: "Eunuch Ning said that this edict will be delivered in secret, so I want to see you alone, so as not to disturb too many people."

Du Wenhao nodded, "Okay, then you guys wait here, I'll go up."

He walked quickly to the West Lake Inn, and walked in.

The two guys stopped him and looked him up and down.Seeing that he was only wearing a rough round-neck gown and looked like a poor scholar, he rolled his eyelids and said, "What are you doing? Hurriedly rushing in, you can come to this place too?"

"I'm looking for someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

He suddenly remembered that he forgot to ask Xu Huaqiang which house Eunuch Ning lived in, so when the guy asked him who he was looking for, he couldn't answer.

"go out!"

The servant pushed him, but he couldn't move, another servant quickly called out: "Well, you bastard, come here to play wild, right? Don't open your dog eyes to see, this is the West Lake Inn, the best inn in Hangzhou , You won’t be able to live here for one night with the money you’ve earned all your life, you know, get out before I break your leg.”

Du Wenhao remembered what he said before, don't disturb other people, so Du Wenhao didn't make a move, and said patiently: "I really came to find someone, and he lives here with you."

At this time, a person in charge downstairs came over, and he had heard the commotion here, and after coming up, he said to Du Wenhao without saying a word: "The people who live here, you can't curry favor even if you sharpen your head. This is embarrassing. If you don’t get out, you will be beaten first, and then your legs will be broken and thrown out, believe it or not?”

Du Wenhao got angry, although he said don't make trouble, Keshi can bear it or not, he sneered at the moment: "I'm still embarrassing, you can take a look."

The person in charge suddenly slapped Du Wenhao with a round slap.

As soon as he moved his hand, Du Wenhao's leg moved first. He kicked him in the air and flew more than ten steps away, and fell on a table, crushing the table with a click.

There are still some people eating in the lobby, and those who come here to eat are all glamorous and rich people. I have never seen this kind of scene before, I just screamed in fright and ran around.

When they were fighting, when they saw the chubby butler flying over, the people at the table had already fled in all directions.The food on the table that was crushed by the steward was scattered all over the floor, but fortunately no one was hit.

The two guys were taken aback, they didn't realize that the other party was a master, but they rushed up screaming strangely, one was stepped on by Du Wenhao, and the other was picked up by him, and he landed on the second floor like flying through the clouds. There was a bang, and the dust fell down.

A few guards with knives rushed down from the second floor, and said sharply, "Who is playing wild here?"

Du Wenhao just wanted to show his prestige, but he didn't want to hurt others, so although the person in charge fell in a mess, he didn't get hurt.Pulling the dishes on his body, he ran over shaking his fat body.

He watched the guards with knives rushing down from the upstairs, and he had a backbone, and shouted at Du Wenhao: "It's just this poor scholar who doesn't have eyes, and dares to cause trouble here. My lord arrests him and kills him."

When several guards with knives rushed down, they were stunned for a moment. They were Ouchi guards, of course they knew Du Wenhao.

Because Du Wenhao is the inspector of the three Yamen capitals, and the Ouchi guards are his direct subordinates.These few are the personal guards beside Eunuch Ning, and they are very familiar with Du Wenhao.

He took a breath when he saw it, and quickly inserted the half-drawn knife back with a slam, clasped his fists with both hands and bowed to the end: "So it's sir, the villain has no eyes to offend you, sir, please forgive me."

The manager was stunned, and said: "You guys, what's wrong with you, this poor scholar is making trouble, why don't you arrest him?"

A guard slapped him round, causing him to spin around on the spot, and two of his teeth fell out.

Pointing at him, he said, "We still need you to teach us how to do things? Get out of the way, this is our distinguished guest, and you dare to do anything to him. Now, chop off your own hand!"

The steward was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed to Du Wenhao for mercy.The two fellows were so frightened that they crawled over and kowtowed, knowing that they had encountered a stubble. These vicious guards from the capital respected this scholar so much, and they didn't know what kind of top existence it was.

I actually wanted to slap someone in the face before, even one hand was light, but how could they be willing to chop off their hands, so they just kowtowed and begged for mercy.

A guard pulled out a knife and was about to grab the manager in charge and chop off his hand. Du Wenhao waved his hand and said, "Forget it, those who don't know are not guilty. It's just that in the future, don't look down on people. You should still treat customers with basic respect."

The manager's forehead was swollen, and he kept apologizing: "Yes, I don't dare anymore, I will remember my teacher's teachings."

A guard respectfully said to Du Wenhao: "Our master is waiting for you upstairs. Didn't he tell you that you mentioned a place, and the master is going to visit you? Why did you come to the door in person, which caused this misunderstanding."

Du Wenhao smiled and said: "Forget it, I will exercise my muscles and bones, and it will be the same when I come here."

Several guards hurriedly surrounded Du Wenhao and went upstairs, one guard kicked the steward who was still kneeling, pointed at the three of them and said: "If you say a word about today's matter, I will cut off your dog's head, do you hear me?" ?”

Only then did the three understand that this person not only had a very high status, but was also extremely mysterious, and even his whereabouts had to be kept secret.The three hurriedly agreed, saying that even if their tongues were bitten, they would not dare to utter a word.

Going up to the second floor and entering a luxurious upper room, a guard has already rushed up to report.The entire second floor has been under martial law, and there are guards controlling it. All irrelevant guests have been cleared away, and only the eunuch who passed the decree from the capital lives.

As Du Wenhao walked forward, he saw an old man wearing a round cap with wrinkled face coming out of the luxurious upper room. It was Eunuch Ning.

When Eunuch Ning saw him, he immediately smiled, stepped forward and bowed to Du Wenhao, and said in a low voice: "This old slave pays homage to the lord!"

Du Wenhao saw that his waist was almost bent to ninety degrees, and he looked at himself with a crooked face, like a monkey, and couldn't help being a little funny.

But this is normal, Du Wenhao was very familiar with him before, very close, but at that time Du Wenhao's status was only a high-ranking official of the second rank who was in charge of the three government offices.Eunuch Ning is the most favored eunuch around Empress Dowager Gao, and Du Wenhao often needs him to mediate from him to deal with some matters, so the two parties are more of a cooperative and equal relationship, at least psychologically.

But now it is different, Du Wenhao has become the King of Hang, the prince is a relative of the emperor, and he has become his master, the psychological value has completely changed.Of course, he also made a 180-degree turn and wanted to call himself a slave, instead of treating Du Wenhao with an equal attitude.

Du Wenhao nodded and said, "Go in and talk."

Eunuch Ning respectfully agreed, followed Du Wenhao half a step behind, followed him into the room, closed the door with his own hands, made a cup of fragrant tea for Du Wenhao himself, and then stood there with his hands down.

Du Wenhao glanced at him and said, "You sit too."

"You are the prince now, there is no place for an old slave in front of the prince."

"Okay, my brother, don't be so polite. Besides, you are the eunuch delivering the decree, representing the queen mother, please sit down."

Only then did Eunuch Ning pay for his crime, and he sat on the round stool with half-drawn buttocks, bowed his waist, and looked at Du Wenhao very respectfully.

Du Wenhao frowned, and said, "Why are you just looking at me? Didn't you pass the decree? Hurry up."

"The imperial decree was announced at the canonization ceremony. The queen mother said that you already know the content, lord, that is, you are canonized as the king of Hangzhou, and the land is Hangzhou. The officials and people in Hangzhou are all under your control. The promotion and dismissal of officials in Hangzhou are all up to you. Don't follow you Those who give orders will be executed directly, without reporting. The case you decide will be finalized, even if you are sentenced to death, there is no need to report to Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment. Also, half of Hangzhou's tax revenue will be used as your prince's salary."

Du Wenhao smiled: "This is more than what the Queen Mother told me earlier."

"Yes, but there is one more thing the Queen Mother said. Your identity as King of Hang will be kept secret for the time being, and your identity will not be revealed until a year later. Only the highest official of the Liangzhe Road can participate in the meeting with you when the imperial decree is read out, and you must be strictly Keep it secret. All senior officials who know your identity must keep it strictly confidential, otherwise, if one person shows up, all officials who know your identity will be dismissed from office and punished.”

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "It's so strict, it seems that the Empress Dowager doesn't want to stimulate the old party too much."

(End of this chapter)