The five hundred and second chapter follow the vine (two)
Hongyun Inn, the guy took the servant's reward of copper coins and took a pot of hot water diligently. He wanted to take the opportunity to enter the Tianzi room, but he couldn't say that he could meet the owner and get more rewards, but he was guarded by the door. The two tall and powerful guards stopped him and could only leave embarrassedly.
When the guy went downstairs, he happened to have a cover with Shen Rui who came with Wu Yan, and couldn't help but take a look.
Coincidentally, this Hongyun Inn is not a business from someone else's house, but a shop under the Lu family's name. It's just that because there is no public statement, not many people know about it.
The Lu family is the second largest surname to the Chen He family in Songjiang Prefecture, and has a connection with Shen Rui.
This guy was born to the Lu family. He once went to Xilin Zen Temple with the young master of the Lu family. He met Shen Rui when he was young, so he vaguely felt familiar.
With a little curiosity, the guy turned around and saw the two guards in front of him let go. Shen Rui followed the servant into the Tianzi room, and words like "teacher" came out.
When the two guards saw the guy sneaking, they immediately stood up and said with a look. The guy hurriedly accompanied him and said carefully: "When you see a foreign guest coming, the villain asked if you want snacks?"
One of the guards snorted coldly and looked at the guy up and down.
The guy just felt cold all over his body, and his thighs couldn't help but tremble.
He waited until another guard waved his hand and the guy left like a flying man.
The shopkeeper downstairs saw the clerk going downstairs in a panic and frowned and scolded, "What are you doing? You're so big, you're unstable at all!"
The guy wiped a cold sweat, leaned forward and lowered his voice, "Uncle Second, who is the guest of this type of heaven? How do you protect such a fierce and evil spirit? And the scholar who just went up, and the nephew looked so familiar. ”
It turned out that this guy was the nephew of the shopkeeper, so he got a good job greeting from Tianzifang. Unfortunately, he was in his teens and was just a time when he was active and curious, so he had to talk more.
The shopkeeper has been paying attention to the guests in the room that day for most of the day. The group looked like two scholars and servants, and at first glance there was nothing strange about them. They could protect each of them, not like the southerners. The servants and the managers responded and spoke more of their official words; in addition, they were generous and only brought them with them. Li, without cars and horses. These people were far-farers coming by boat, and most of them were guests from the north.
As for the name, the shopkeeper only heard the servant mention "My Master" and "Mr. Zhang". Because the servant came to book the room first, the two masters came back after the second half of the time. The shopkeeper happened to be not in the outer hall, and No real owner was seen.
The shopkeeper twisted his goatee and thought about the identity of the two guests of Tianzi, and then he heard the clerk continue, "The scholar is only sixteen or seven years old, but he is young. His nephew listened to him and spoke official words, Guantianzi guest room. The master in the room is called 'Teacher'."
Just now, Shen Rui and Wuyan came in. The shopkeeper also looked at him a few times and felt familiar. Shen Rui had been mourning in the Xilin Zen Temple in the Lu family. The shopkeeper was a small manager of the Lu family at that time, and brought people to the Xilin Zen Temple to send festival gifts. , met the young Shen Rui.
After hearing what the guy said, the shopkeeper thought about the young children of various major families in Songjiang. He gained fame and fame of scholars. He was sixteen or seventeen years old and was studying and speaking official language outside, and he couldn't help but think of someone.
The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted the guy and asked him to go out to inquire where the servant was going to hire someone just now.
After a while, the guy got the news and came back: "Second uncle, that guy just went to Shenjiafang and came over to Shenjiafang. It turned out that the scholar was from the Shen family, so it was not surprising. The top scholars of the Shen family all gave out two of them. What is a teenage scholar?"
The shopkeeper knew that the outstanding children of the Shen family in Songjiang were all in Beijing, and those who stayed in Songjiang were nothing. There were two teenage scholars before, namely, Chen Jin, the top scholar in the current academic year, and Chen Zhu, the third wife of the Shen family, was the Shen family. They are all scholars in their teenage years, but now they are not in line with the young man just now.
"Is it that Young Master Chen?" the shopkeeper said to himself.
The guy was confused: "Second uncle, who is that Young Master Chen?"
The shopkeeper ignored it and whispered: "You stared at the Tianzi Room quietly, and wrote down any movements. I'll go back to find the master..." After the explanation, he got up and left in a hurry without waiting for the client to answer. go.
The guy just felt that he was stupid, but he also felt his uncle's solemnity. He became more and more curious about the guests in the Tianzi Room. He was just scared and dared not walk to the second floor at will. He stood behind the cabinet and looked eagerly Looking at the stairs.
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Second floor, Tianzi room.
Shen Rui has met Wang Shouren and his students, and has also met Zhang Yong, one of the famous "Eight Tigers". Although his writing in history is not as good as Liu Jin, he is the inner person that Emperor Zhengde trusts the most. One of the officials was not only the Imperial Office and other internal yamen, but also the 12th Regiment Battalion and the General Shenji Camp in the future. Finally, he was the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, and was a civil and military official among the internal officials.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Zhang Yong has a little less feminine than other internal officials. If he hadn't had a pale face, he would have looked similar to other middle-aged men.
Unlike Liu Jin, another big companion next to the little emperor, Zhang Yong hoped that the little emperor would be less naughty and devote himself to the government. Because the little emperor was obsessed with Shen Rui outside the palace, Zhang Yong was somewhat worried, fearing that "birds of a feather flocked to each other." ", Shen Rui is also a naughty person. Unexpectedly, he was mature and steady, and was too much more than his expectations, and his impression immediately improved by three points.
In addition, Shen Rui has been from later generations, she has never seen anything, so he naturally looks at the internal officials, neither despised nor flattered. This attitude made Zhang Yong's impression of him better and better. Wang Shouren praised Shen Rui for saying "famous master and high disciple".
Shen Rui noticed Zhang Yong's kindness to his teachers and students, and also realized that Zhang Yong and his teacher were quite harmonious, and there was no tension between eunuchs and civil officials. Therefore, he did not avoid Zhang Yong and directly gave the He family to him. He took out the account book and handed it to Wang Shouren with both hands: "Teacher, this is the account book provided by the second master of the He family. It contains the illegal act of the prefect of Songjiang."
Shen Rui proposed He Xisheng, so he naturally did not want Zhang Yong to misunderstand that the Shen family was "out of hands and eyes" in Songjiang. Perhaps it was because he had a long grudge with the prefect of Songjiang.
Wang Shouren took it and frowned, and handed it to Zhang Yong.
Zhang Yong stopped after reading the first page, but he was furious and laughed: "Why don't our family know that the mere magistrate Songjiang is qualified to offer a birthday gift to the East Palace!"
It turns out that the first page of this account book is that Zhao Xianzhong just took office in August last year and asked for bribes from several wealthy businessmen in Songjiang under the pretext of Qianqiu of the East Palace.
Last year's Eastern Palace was the current emperor. Since Zhang Yong was the confidant of the new emperor, he naturally could not stand the discount on the name of the new emperor to make money.
Zhang Yong looked down and found that there were many different names, and after a few pages, it was estimated that there would be tens of thousands of taels of silver. The other page numbers had not been read, so it was obvious that the sum total was a considerable number.
Zhang Yong closed the account book and sneered: "I heard that he was a disciple of the old master Li Ge, but that's it! It's said that "three years of Qing magistrate, there were 100,000 snowflakes in the snow." This unclear prefect had 100,000 in less than a year. Two!"
Wang Shouren was not good at commenting on Zhao Xianzhong, and only asked Shen Rui: "What did the He family give this account book? According to the information I have inquired in the past half day, although the He family is a Shen family in-law, this time the Shen family was sued by the prefect's yamen, and the He family did not have it. Helping.”
Although there were only three people in the room, Shen Rui still looked around and then at the door, looking cautious.
Zhang Yong looked at Shen Rui's little face tense, as if he had encountered a big secret, and couldn't help but laugh: "Don't worry, Brother Chen, the Jinyiwei guards are guarding outside, they are all trusted by the families."
Of course, Shen Rui was not really so nervous, but just played a young man who had just heard of "shocking events".
After hearing Zhang Yong's words, Shen Rui still didn't speak and looked at Wang Shouren for help. He waited for Wang Shouren and nodded, and Shen Rui whispered: "The He family is afraid. They realized that the "Japanese turmoil" in Songjiang was not the Japanese pirates who came to the shore. , but someone pretended to be "Japanese pirates" and went to the city to plunder money!"
"What?" Zhang Yong frowned and said, "Who was the one who was causing trouble? What clues could he find?"
The last emperor passed away in May and the new emperor ascended the throne. What I fear most during this time of succession of the throne is unstable place.
Because Wang Shouren had already speculated on the road before, Zhang Yong was not surprised by the bandits pretending to be Japanese pirates. But what was different from Wang Shouren's idea was that he still felt that the bandits did not have the courage to go ashore to rob, and most of them were pirates, so they would Behave without any scruples.
The Ming Navy has long been abandoned. If it were a pirate, it would be powerless to suppress the bandits. It was mostly because of "thunder and raindrops". But if the land bandits dared to act like this, it would be no different if they rebelled, and they would have to send troops to wipe them out.
Shen Rui replied: "After the 'Japanese pirates' came ashore to rob, the He family and the Shen family were robbed. The young people were fine, but the old people, after the early Japanese riots, realized that something was wrong, and those 'Japanese pirates' were not like. The Japanese acted slightly and took some military style. In addition, in order to prevent the "Japanese pirates" from returning, the He family and the Shen family sent people to track them along the coast. The ships were initially sailing towards the port. But he turned back that night. The Songjiang side received news and was very alert to prevent the "Japanese pirates" from entering the city again. Unexpectedly, the ships did not stop in Songjiang, but entered the direction towards Neijiang... After that, they hid in the day and walked at night, and finally entered Taihu…”
These words are naturally half true and half false, but they just happened to match Wang Shouren's previous guess, so Zhang Yong had no doubts and his expression became solemn.
"The soldiers and bandits colluded with each other?" Wang Shouren frowned and said, "But this is too bold! The late emperor is kind and there is no need to deduct military pay in the court. Why is this the case?"
Shen Rui was not good at talking nonsense and connecting the vassal kings thousands of miles away with the "soldiers and bandits" in Taihu Lake. He had to say bitterly: "If it were really a soldier and bandit, it would be fine, but there would be a huge disaster hidden..."
"Is it possible that someone preaches in Songjiang?" Wang Shouren said.
Since the Ming Dynasty opened its country, it is not surprising that the people who rebelled through religion have risen one after another.
"If it's a fool, it's better!" Although he did not discuss with Chen Li, in order to avoid future troubles and to involve King Ning, Shen Rui said with a bitter face that Chen Zhu met King Ning.
As for the fact that it is Ning Wang's identity, in addition to the description of his age and body, one or two "proofs" must be added. Even if Chen Zhu is hateful, he is the Shen family. If he really wants to define him as "rebellion", then the Shen family Others are inevitably questioned. Chen Zhu becomes a fool who is deceived, and then he is frightened and regretful.
As for the second master of the He family, he stopped halfway through the "robbery" of the Shen family. He also discovered that there was something else in the chaos in Songjiang. King Ning arranged for someone to win over the branches of the He family, which made the He family afraid, so he joined forces with the Shen family.
As for the other witness that King Ning made an advance arrangement in order to plunder the Fucai of Songjiang, he was Yan Juren who took the initiative to defect to Zhao Xianzhong half a year ago...