Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1135 "Blessing"

It didn't take too much trouble to arrest Li Pengju.

Previously, Guo Yiyu's scruples about him would not be scruples about the Li family, not himself.

On the other hand, Li Pengju, although he didn't resist, was full of arrogance.

Thinking about it in his heart, even if Guo Yiyu had the courage to bring him back to the Yamen today, he would obediently send him out later.After all, it doesn't matter whether the Li family is in the province or in the capital.

Guo Yiyu had the support of the chief envoy, and he wanted to teach the Li family a lesson.

Even knowing that Li Pengju's two elder brothers are also in the officialdom, he is no longer as timid as before.He stood up for Tang Zhiyu, and if the Li family dared to make a fuss, they would not give Tang Zhiyu face.He wished that the Li family would be tougher at this time, and cause some troubles, which would bring his relationship with Tang Zhiyu closer.

After being an official for more than a year, Guo Yiyu has understood that the competition in the officialdom is not about knowledge and ability, but about backing.

It is because he has no backing, although he spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to find a county magistrate, but he was restrained by the local gentry when he went to the local area.

As Tang Zhiyu's backer, he has firmly established himself, so he is naturally full of confidence.

What Cao Yong was curious about was the woman pretending to be a ghost.

After all, a woman is weak, and it is definitely not an ordinary person who can climb over the wall and enter the hospital as light as a swallow.Moreover, knowing that he is facing an official, he can sing and compose very well, which shows that he has no fear of the official.

In order to prevent the other party from escaping, he talked to Tang Zhiyu and assigned several people to watch the front and back doors of Li Pengju's house.

The Li residence in the west of the city is only the residence of Li Pengju, and the old man of the Li family lives in the north of the city.

Li Pengju had just been brought to the yamen here, while the grandfather of the Li family had already got the news and brought a few nephews to the yamen in a carriage.

When Guo Yiyu avoided seeing him, Mrs. Li realized something was wrong.After asking the reason and knowing that his son was sued because of the restaurant, the old man of the Li family felt bad.

Knowing the power of the Li family, he dared to hand over a pleading paper to the yamen; if Guo Yiyu changed his attitude, the other party would not be a weak person.

Although Mrs. Li had donated his fame, he was only able to show his prestige to the common people, and had no right to interfere in the government affairs of the county government.

While he asked people to find the county magistrate to speak, he also sent people to go to the guard to find his son-in-law.

Where can I find someone from the county magistrate?

The county magistrate had already been brought to him by Tang Zhiyu, and his disciples had already testified that after he left the county government office last night, he went to Li Pengju's restaurant.

The county magistrate was a veteran official for many years, and he was the most naughty. When he saw the Dongchuang incident, he immediately picked himself out, and he was afraid of being responsible, so he didn't dare to bite Li Pengju.I just said that I met an old friend last night, drank a few cups, and accidentally leaked the news of the chief envoy's arrival at the wine table.

As for the consequences of the leak of the news, it has nothing to do with him.

Tang Zhiyu would not immediately become a county magistrate, as long as he heard this sentence, it was enough to prove that everyone's deduction was correct and Li Pengju was not wronged.

In Li Pengju's charges, in addition to the one of "blackmail by taking advantage of power", another one was added, "colluding with assassins and spying on the government office".

Five hundred inspectors have already arrived in Jinghai City.

Cao Yong ordered Liang Chuanfu to take fifty supervisors and followed the Yamen servants to surround Li's house and arrest the "female ghost".

He was also betting on luck, the few places where Li Pengju often appeared were not suitable for women to show up, and it was more likely to be in Li's house.

Among the dozen maidservants, maidservants and concubines, that handsome-eyed woman stands out from the crowd and is very conspicuous.

When Liang Chuanfu asked about her background, she was also vague. After testimonials from several servants in charge of the house, it was known that she was Li Pengju's guest and had lived in Li's house for a while.

This woman was not a docile person. Seeing that something was wrong, she wanted to flee, but was stopped by Liang Chuanfu.

Even though she is very skilled, usually three or five people can't get close to her; but Liang Chuanfu is a warrior who has been on the battlefield after all, so he took this woman down very easily.

In the overnight trial, Li Pengju, although he is usually stubborn, cannot bear the charge of "colluding with assassins and spying on the government office".

If it was normal, this charge would not be so traumatic; now that the chief envoy is staying at the county government office and pleads guilty to this charge, who knows what will be waiting for him.

The official word is two mouthfuls, if it is crooked, and he is given "collusion with assassins, assassination of local officials", then his life will be in danger.

Choose the lesser of two evils, and instruct people to go to the county government to stage a "female ghost" farce, which will not be a matter of life or death.

Compared with this, the restaurant's blackmail of 150 taels of silver is nothing.

Li Pengju thought clearly in his heart, but he was unwilling to speak easily. After all, he had a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that his father and brother-in-law would find a way to get him out.

However, when he came up, he was stripped of his silk clothes and beat twenty blows, which made Li Pengju dare not take any chances.

Li Pengju wasn't too sure about the identity of that woman, she was a disciple of a Taoist friend of his, and she had some martial arts passed down from her family.

Tang Zhiyu dealt with Li Pengju's matter, and Cao Yong didn't take any time off, so Liang Chuanfu took five hundred supervisors directly to Tianjin Weiwei.

The thousand households in the institute are the son-in-law of the Li family, Qin Gang.

He had received the news and went back to the city to deal with his brother-in-law's affairs, but he was stopped outside the yamen.Hearing the news of the person coming from the guard, he hurried back to the guard again.

Qin Gang failed to achieve both simple soldiers and military training.

He thought of the remoteness of Tianjin Wei, so he was reluctant to give up his empty salary.

Regarding the "Jian Bing" item, he nominally streamlined dozens of old and weak soldiers. In fact, he took hundreds of acres of official land from the Jinghai County Government in the name of these people.These old and weak soldiers became his tenants.

The military training went through a formality, and everything in the guard remained as usual.

Liang Chuanfu is an old man in the army, and he knew it at a glance after looking around in the guard.

Cao Yong already knew from Guo Yiyu's mouth that Qin Gang pretended to be an official, and asked Liang Chuanfu to take the supervisor to the guard, just to verify it again.

For this result, he was very disappointed, but helpless.

He didn't stay in Jinghai any longer, he talked to Tang Zhiyu, left him fifty supervisors, and took the rest back to Qingyuan.

Before returning to Qingyuan, he sealed Yongzheng's seal and mentioned what Jinghai and his party had seen and heard.

Land mergers in local townships are serious, the gentry exercise power, officials obey others, and military training is very difficult.

Cao Yong knew that it was definitely not just one or two people like Qin Gang who were thinking about dealing with them. When people came from Beijing in June, some military officers might be dismissed at that time.He submitted the papers in advance, and also reported one or two before the imperial court, so as to save time from involving more military officers, and he was suspected of controlling power.

After returning to Qingyuan, Cao Yong saw from the mansion newspaper that Russia had violated the frontier, and the general of Heilongjiang led musketeers to resist foreign humiliation. In the last two battles, the court sent people to re-demarcate the border with him.

"Why is it not peaceful..." Cao Yong thought hard, but he couldn't think of any wars in the Yongzheng Dynasty.

After all, in his previous life, he didn't study Qing history, and he only knew a rough idea of ​​the historical events in the Kang-Qian period.

Both Song Hou and Jiang Jian are looking forward to Cao Yong's return, because Yongzheng has ordered the governors of the world to discuss how to deal with Nian Gengyao, and each has his own opinion.

This is not a hint in the past memorials and approvals, but a blatant imperial decree.

Even if Cao Yong has no intention of making trouble at this time, he still has to think about how to play.

If at this time, Cao Yong pretended to be stupid again, maybe he would arouse the emperor's anger.

Nian Gengyao was very powerful, and the old relatives of the Nian family were all over the officialdom, especially the famous "Nianxuan" in the past two years, which made the Northwest officialdom become Nian Gengyao's talk.

With the resignation of Nian Gengyao, I don't know how many people followed him.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is not easy for Cao Yong to offend Yongzheng in order not to impeach Nian Gengyao.

"Nian Gengyao's arrogance and rudeness are well known in the world, so just write a few sentences based on this." Cao Yong thought for a while and said.

As for exposing Nian Gengyao's detailed "crimes" and giving him all kinds of hats, I leave it to others.

Not to mention the enemies that Nian Gengyao offended in the officialdom, but the court and local officials who came up with Nian Gengyao's lap. There is no need for others to add more weight, Nian Gengyao is already a crime of death.

Cao Yong rushed back to Qingyuan before the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Shi and Chu Yu were the happiest.

In addition to the family reunion, there was also good news from the capital that Elder Sixteen had a son by the end of April.

"Bless the Bodhisattva, Aunt Sixteen has finally come to the end of her hardships." Chu Yu and Shiliu Fujin were about the same age, and they had a good relationship among relatives, so they were very happy for it.

Cao Yong knew that the sixteenth elder brother was looking forward to the landing of this son-in-law, and he was also happy in his heart.

But Chu Yu thought of another thing, but felt confused: "Two days ago, Erniang wrote a letter, mentioning that Uncle Sixteen will accept Fujin at the end of the month. Aunt Sixteen added a son to the palace. It is a meritorious service. Why did Sixteen Uncle wants to accept Fujin at this time?"

"Oh?" Cao Yong was surprised when he heard that.

Brother Sixteen was flirtatious when he was young, but in recent years he has grown older, and has become less attractive to women.In the past two years, Tai Fujin of the Wangfu wanted him to accept Fujin many times, but he didn't let him go. In the end, he just added a concubine Fujin.

"Maybe it's Tai Fujin who launched the attack?" When mentioning Tai Fujin, Cao Yong also followed suit.

Chu Yu shook her head, and said: "Probably not. If Uncle Sixteen was willing to submit to Tai Fujin's arrangement, he would have brought Fujin into the mansion long ago. Er Niang said that this matter was weird, and there were rumors that Uncle Sixteen asked to marry him himself. It is from the side Fujin, and it is said that it was given by the emperor. Anyway, accepting the side Fujin at this time is very embarrassing to Aunt Sixteen. Uncle Sixteen is also true. If nothing else, just say that Aunt Sixteen died young My child, Uncle Sixteen should also protect one or two."

She is also a wife and a mother, and when she mentioned this matter, her tone was somewhat complaining.

Cao Yong listened, but his heart moved, thinking of these transactions in Qingyuan City.

At this time, it happened that the sixteenth elder brother was bestowed with a side Fujin, which seemed to be Yongzheng's style.

If the sixteenth Fujin occurred before the little elder brother was born, and if it harmed the offspring in her belly, I was afraid that the sixteenth elder brother would be angry and sad; after the little elder brother fell to the ground, it would not be a big deal.

Because of the distance, he and Chu Yu didn't know each other yet.Elder Sixteen's "good luck" is not the only one. After Elder Sixteen's son "baptized three times", the four maids bestowed by the palace have been sent to Prince Zhuang's Mansion...

(End of this chapter)