Chapter 34: Break out of the scheme
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"I heard from someone in Yuehonglou that Chen Tong was a grain supervisor sent by the Jingxi South Road Administration to Tangzhou. He heard that he was a regular visitor to Yuehonglou, Biyang City."
Liu Qiong'er was afraid that Xu Huai would not know the many details in the court, so she patiently explained,
"Gu Fan, the governor of the Jingli Preservation Office, left Beijing as a direct scholar in Guanwen Hall, and was not under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. However, the General Secretary was responsible for the affairs of soldiers and civilians in the southwest of the Beijing Prefectures and counties, and had many affairs and officials.
, and the generals and military officials stationed in the Imperial Army under their jurisdiction have an inseparable relationship with the Privy Council. When they go to prefectures and counties, the military officials usually serve as civil officials, but the inspectors and inspectors who are controlled by the inspectors and inspectors.
However, it belongs to the Wuchen Sequence, and the examination results are directly controlled by the Privy Council. Chen Tong's official rank is not high, but the transfer of food and fodder from Tangzhou for the imperial guard stationed in Southwest Road in Jingzhou is a fatal misfortune that countless people yearn for, and is not ordinary people
It is not surprising that he has a relationship with Privy Councilor Cai Ying. The local elders and chief clerks are responsible for collecting grain and taxes and transporting them to designated locations. Compared with the long journey of Bianjing and the lost
The military block of grain and fodder directly to the imperial guards stationed on this route for food, which is undoubtedly the most labor-saving person, so Chen Tong is also a person deliberately flattering to the local clan gentry!"
Those who are willing to spend a few taels of silver to Yuehonglou just want to find Liu Qiong'er to have tea can brag a few words and claim to be a clear stream.
Liu Qiong'er was much more familiar with the people in the court, prefectures, counties, and even various unspoken rules of the officialdom than Xu Huai imagined.
As the grain supervision officer stationed in Tangzhou by the Strategic Department, Chen Tong was able to get along with the local clans and the Privy Councilor Cai Ying, which was not unimaginable.
Xu Huai can understand these rules, but he doesn't understand many specific details in the world.
Xu Wuliang sat on the threshold like listening to the heavenly book, and said in a gull:
"When your father was alive, he said that Xu Wufu was not enough to rely on. I just went to Muma City to see it. Except for hiring a few foreign-named staff from Huaiyuan Town to guard, everyone else had returned to Yuhuangling early in the morning.
Wu Ji, Xu Wukun, these damn guys, were your father carrying them back from the dead pit, but he followed Xu Wufu like a dog, and his heart was already blind! It must be this person named Chen Tong behind the scenes
Instigating Xu Wufu, the dog guy, wanted to sell Xu Wujiang to the bandits. But what I can't understand is, if Xu Wujiang and the others were killed by the bandits, how could they be implicated in Wang Bing? They did this just for
Just kill Wang Bing, why don’t you feel tired if you go around such a big circle? Deng Gui didn’t let go before, but when Xu Wujiang and the others died, Deng Gui would let go. Isn’t it understandable?"
Xu Huaidu saw Chen Tong's letter to Deng Gui with his own eyes. Of course, Liu Qiong'er could figure out all of it and explain it to Xu Wuliang:
"There is nothing to be said. Judging from Chen Tong's letter to Deng Gui, Deng Gui was unwilling to bear the blame for the accidental death of the king under his eyes and nose, so he had to arrange for the Wushu, the troops of Xu Wujiang, and the others to die.
Then he would be transferred to another place because of his ineffective bandit suppression. The inspection commissioner's epidemiological investigation was directly controlled by the Privy Council, but he would be subject to the control of the prefectures and counties after taking office. Once Deng Gui left, Cai Ying
Then he could directly intervene and arrange a direct subordinate to serve as the inspector, and finally this person took over the blame for Wang Bing's death in the bandit. Cai Ying had a dead soldier under him, so it was natural to find someone to bear the blame.
. And everything happened in Huaiyuan Town and had nothing to do with prefectures and counties. Of course, the magistrate Chen Shi, the magistrate Cheng Lunying and others were happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb."
"His uncle, killing someone to play tricks is much more complicated than scheming iron." Xu Wuliang spat and spitted down the corridor.
"Because what they want to kill is not ordinary people - they want to kill people and block the leisurely mouths of all the people in the world, how is it easy?" Liu Qiong'er sighed.
"What should I do now?"
Xu Wuliang lost his grace and followed the army, and of course he knew that the military order was as good as a mountain. Without the support of his clan, Xu Wujiang lost the greatest support of his conscience and refusal.
It was fine if Xu Wuliang didn't listen to Liu Qiong'er's analysis. After hearing what Liu Qiong'er said, he was so numb and had no idea what to do.
"I heard that Xu Wujiang is quite heroic. He will not sit down instead of death, right?" Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai and asked.
"No matter how heroic you are, what can you do if you encounter this suddenly?" Xu Huai sighed.
"You have already dragged me into the fire pit, don't hide it from me." The rabbit was anxious and biting people. Liu Qiong'er didn't believe that Xu Wujiang would surrender and believed that Xu Huai had something to hide from her.
"Would you like to follow us back to Yuhuangling?" Xu Huai asked Liu Qiong'er.
"You are going back to Yuhuangling? What are you going back to do?" Liu Qiong'er asked.
"If Uncle Seventeen had not been honestly guarding Qingxi Village, he came out rashly and was ambushed by bandits outside Qingxi Village and could not see the body. Miss Liu thought Deng Langjun believed it or not?" Xu Huai asked.
"What, Xu Wujiang and the others are going to be a bandit?" Xu Wuliang stood up in shock and asked.
"In Deng Gui and his friends' chessboard, no matter how you die, you have to jump out if you want to live." Xu Huai said.
"Will others fall into trouble with Xu Wujiang? Are they not afraid of dragging down their wives and children who stayed in Yuhuangling?" Liu Qiong'er asked in disbelief.
Xu Wujiang led more than 20 Wu soldiers to guard Qingxi Village. Most of them were from the Xu family or had different surnames who joined the Xu family. They only followed Xu Wujiang's leader in the inspection office, but Xu Wujiang really wanted to take these people to become bandits.
Liu Qiong'er suspected that the Wushu might have scattered, or they might have grabbed Xu Wujiang and escorted him back to the inspection of the inspection.
I really think I live a happy life of drinking and eating meat with big mouthfuls!
Since ancient times, who has not been desperate to lick blood at the edge of the knife?
Another extremely important point is that in addition to Xu Wujiang's successor Su Di, Xu Wujiang's own parents, brothers and nephews, as well as many Xu Wushu's family's young families are still in villages near Yuhuangling.
In the current governments, there is no need to pay attention to "one person does things and one person does things". As long as you suspect, you have the power to arrest Xu Wujiang and other wives and children and parents to jail for temporary detention.
Even if you take your family as a hostage and force the bandits to surrender, it is a normal operation.
The prisoners who are waiting for trial or other prisoners in prefectures and counties are punished every year, and two or three out of ten people die of hunger, cold and sickness. Since ancient times, this is called "death of death" and officials will not hold them accountable.
It’s okay if the vicious and extremely evil people are cold-blooded and ruthless, but most of the martial soldiers under Xu Wujiang are ordinary people, and they are familiar with the affairs of the yamen. How many people dare to sit and watch the family and be taken to the yamen for questioning?
"My father was buried in the name, and the villagers only had suspicions after my father and Uncle Wu Liang returned from Jingsheng Army. They did not implicate their family, nor did they implicate their clans," said Xu Huai, "One more,
This is also the reason why we are going to Yuhuangling. Uncle Seventeen will convince everyone that their wife and children in Yuhuangling are young and will receive secret care from Uncle Wu Liang and many others, so don’t worry too much.”
"Even if you can deceive for a while, can you still hide it for a lifetime?" Liu Qiong'er was deeply suspicious.
Even if Deng Gui and the assassin did not have secret communication, Xu Wujiang and more than 20 martial soldiers were kidnapped or killed by the Hutouzhai thieves, and there was no one even a body. Will Deng Gui and the prefectures and counties believe it?
I want to die and disappear without seeing the corpse, really think the government is a decoration?
As long as they have doubts about Xu Wujiang and their actions, they have the power to arrest his family and ask about the case. How can Xu Wujiang appease the military soldiers?
"It's not a deception, but a must!" Xu Huai said, "I say that, Miss Liu is still willing to go to Yuhuangling with us?"
"..." Liu Qiong'er asked in shock, "Why are you two fighting with Xu Wufu?"
"Xu Wufu would never dare to admit that he colluded with Deng Gui to arrange for Xu Wujiang and others to die, so no matter how the government questioned it, he would have to bite Xu Wujiang and others to death and die of the corpse. He has the responsibility to protect everyone's little family.
You are not disturbed by the government, and you even have to help you get pensions from the government!"
Xu Huai said,
"Whenever the clan encounters a bandit incident, he asks his clan members to donate grain. In addition, the autumn training, he usually pays more food and taxes. When he encounters bandits attacking the village, he also fights with the clan members. Every time there are casualties and injuries, no
It’s not a clan member—the government wants to come and detain people. As the leader of the clan, Xu Wufu, if he takes office and takes office, detains innocent people, how can he convince the public?”
"If the government sends a large group of troops into Yuhuangling to arrest people, can't Xu Wufu put everything on the government?" Liu Qiong'er asked.
"Yes, other Xu clan members are reasonable. As long as Xu Wufu does his best, they will no longer be harsh on Xu Wufu, and no one will dare to stand up and fight against the official," Xu Huai said with a smile.
, "But, isn't there anyone who doesn't understand the truth, a 'silly guy'?"
Liu Qiong'er understood what Xu Huai meant. Xu Huai continued to pretend to be stupid, which was actually a threat to Xu Wufu not dare to openly hand over a "sharp blade" that Xu Wujiang and others had. He felt that even if it was dangerous, he could not.
Said it must not work.
Liu Qiong'er asked again: "Where is Mr. Wang? He also agreed to such an arrangement?"
"We did this and did not tell Mr. Wang, but at this point, we could not take too much into consideration!" Xu Huai said.
He had told Liu Qiong'er before that Wang Bing's position was not exactly the same as theirs. He did not even tell Lu Xiong about this. All of this was after Lu Xiong left last night, and he and Xu Wujiang,
Xu Xin'an thought about the solution he had discussed after a night...
"I think this matter will be done. Xu Wufu is so shameless that he handed over Xu Wujiang and his family. I stabbed him in the eyes with a white knife!" Xu Wuliang said fiercely, "If you don't talk about anything else, we will go immediately
Yuhuangling!”
"We can't leave now. Yesterday's plan was too hasty, and there was no time to prepare for us. There is still too much uncertainty here. First of all, we can't confirm whether everyone has been persuaded by Uncle Seventeen and need to wait.
Only with clear information can one set off.” Xu Huai said.
"When there is a clear message coming to the military camp, why would Deng Gui let you go with Di Niang?" Xu Wuliang said anxiously.
"We have discussed that if Uncle Seventeen has not sent anyone to make excuses to return to the military camp after nightfall, it means that they have escaped and hid in the deep mountains," said Xu Huai, "At that time, I will sneak out with Aunt Seventeen again."
In the military camp, we rushed back to Yuhuangling overnight after we met, and we didn’t want Deng Gui to send a quick horse to chase him!"
"Someone saw you enter Deng Gui's residence. Will it be too dangerous for you to return to the military camp at this time?" Liu Qiong'er asked worriedly.
"If Deng Gui doesn't go back, then Deng Gui will be suspicious, and then Aunt Seventeen will find it difficult to get out. I will go back later. Which eye of Deng Gui will look down on me, a 'silly guy'?" Xu Huai said with a smile.
The "he" in the eyes of others is the best disguise, not to mention that he has sang a double act in the official position, so he will shift his attention to Tang Tiande.
Even if Tang Tiande went to Deng Gui's house to steal silver, it sounded unlikely, but it was even more convincing than Xu Wujiang's arrangement to go to Deng Gui's house to steal secret letters!
Chapter completed!