Chapter 85: Wang Yu and Two People Make a Decisive Attack
The Xiao family and the Shen family didn't listen to him, which made Chen Zhi very angry, but it also left him helpless. In the end, the relationship between the three families was equal. They just communicated with each other and discussed things with each other. There was no one who ordered or directed whom.
affiliation.
But Chen Zhi knew that the noise coming from the court was by no means groundless. This time it was likely that it was something big and unstoppable.
The elder of the clan, Chen Shuda, was considered an old minister loyal to the emperor. He would send a letter back almost every year, warning the family to be more honest and not to cause trouble.
"Chen Shi!"
The more Chen Zhi thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he immediately shouted the butler's name.
A short man in his forties bowed and walked into the hall.
"Master of the house."
"Go to Xiefeng Mountain and tell Yu Kui to leave immediately and not to go down the mountain this year!"
Chen Shi asked in confusion: "Master, is there a reason?"
"What reason do you want?" Chen Zhi stared at him coldly.
Chen Shi said solemnly: "Master, Yu Kui is not from our Chen family. I am worried that if there is not enough reason, he may not agree and will cause trouble instead."
Hearing this, Chen Zhi nodded and paced back and forth.
"That's right, I was careless. Tell Yu Kui that the imperial court has sent people south to investigate. It will be soon. If he continues to stay there, his life may be in danger."
"Yes." Chen Shi bowed and stepped back.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Zhi summoned several accounting clerks and confidants, and they all came to the secret room of the house.
"What are the instructions from the master of the house?"
Chen Zhidao: "This time the imperial court sent people to investigate south, there may be a serious danger. The seven boxes here contain the registers that have been used to bribe officials from various states, as well as some of the land. You guys are my confidants. Immediately
Take this thing out and burn it!"
"yes."
Chen Zhi was so careful that he did not even dare to ask the servants in the palace to do this matter. He wanted to deal with the Chen family head and tail without anyone noticing, so that the court could not get hold of it. Bribing court officials was not considered a thing in the first place.
He went to college, but if the court found out why he bribed officials, it would be enough to kill the entire Chen family.
In an open space, Chen Zhi's confidants carefully gathered the evidence together and looked at each other, but no one made a move first.
"Burn it," one of them urged.
"Yes, burn it." Another person urged.
"burn!"
One man gritted his teeth, took out the torch from his sleeve, and was about to light the torch when he was shot dead on the spot by a hidden arrow.
"who!"
The other people suddenly became panicked.
At this moment, dozens of strong men rushed out and took control of the situation in just half a stick of incense.
"What a coincidence." Wang Gui clapped his hands, a proud smile appeared on his face, looking like he had a chance to win.
Are you investigating the case? Of course you have to investigate it quietly. Who would go south to investigate in a big way?
"Wang Zuocheng has a good plan." Yu Yongning, the governor of Anzhou, came out and said with a smile.
"Thanks to your cooperation, you also have merit this time." Wang Gui smiled and waved to the guards, who quietly left with the heartbroken Chen family confidants.
"Please." Wang Gui stretched out his hand.
"Please." Yu Yongning said politely, then stepped forward, kicked open the box, took out a volume of books inside and flipped through it.
"In the third year of Zhenguan, Yunmeng ordered Zhang Ming to collect two hundred yuan."
"In June of the third year of Zhenguan, the governor of An collected money of 30,000 yuan."
‘Zhenguan.’
Yu Yongning read more than a dozen books in a row, and cold sweat made him tremble all over. The farthest one was in the ninth year of Wude, and the most recent one was in the tenth year of Zhenguan. In other words, in more than ten years, Anzhou and Jingzhou
Basically all the officials I worked with had received money from the Chen family.
On the other side, Wang Gui looked at the book and angrily threw it into the box.
"These guys, they are dead this time!"
Yu Yongning asked in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, do you really want to get to the bottom of it this time?"
How many people will this involve?
The Chen family alone is enough to cause an earthquake in the Jingzhou area, not to mention the Xiao family and the Shen family.
Wang Gui said in a deep voice: "Yes, besides me, Yu Zhining has already gone to Jiangnan Road."
Hearing this, Yu Yongning understood. Even his younger brother was involved in this matter, which meant that the emperor was really prepared to completely rectify Jingxiang and other places.
"Do you want the Chen family to take control immediately?"
"Of course, we must control it immediately." Wang Gui said.
At the same time, Xiefeng Mountain.
"Mr. Yu, you must not go down the mountain this year, you must not!" Chen Shi advised earnestly: "My master said that the court will strictly inspect this place this year. If you go down the mountain, it will be very dangerous!"
Yu Kui is in his forties this year. He once worked under Lin Shihong, but he was just average and not considered a top figure. Therefore, after Lin Shihong died, he took advantage of the chaos and returned to his hometown to farm. But people, get used to another kind of life.
, it would be difficult to go back to the past. Yu Kui was like this. Asking him to pick up a hoe and plow the fields was simply more painful than asking him to commit suicide.
Therefore, he went back to his old job and worked as a robber in the mountains. Because of the Chen family as a partner, he didn't have to worry about being able to rob, let alone the government to arrest him. Several times, the government sent people to Xiefeng Mountain to suppress bandits.
, it was all because of the Chen family's tip-off that Yu Kui escaped. In return, he often helped the Chen family kill those who were displeased, or merchants from the north.
The merchants in the north are extremely rich.
"How did he know that the court was going to investigate?" Yu Kui scratched his hair and asked.
Chen Shi was speechless, how could the head of the family tell him such a thing.
"Mr. Yu, our two families have cooperated many times, how can we harm you? This time is really unusual, you must not take risks," Chen Shi said.
Yu Kui laughed and said, "It's the same thing every year. Every day they shout that the court will send a large army to destroy us, but so far there isn't even a hair. You guys think too much."
After the words fell, the other robbers in the room burst into laughter. They were all licking blood on the tip of a knife, and many of them had rebelled before, so they didn't take what Chen Shi said to heart at all.
Seeing this, Chen Shi was about to persuade him, but he saw a robber crawling into the house.
"Oh no, many officers and soldiers are coming to kill us!"
Xiefeng Mountain is not very high, nor is it very steep, but the mountain is covered with mixed trees, jungles, and thorny barriers, which is very suitable for hiding the robbery route.
When Yu Kui learned that officers and soldiers were attacking the mountain, his first reaction was not to run, but to fight back!
In terms of terrain, he is much more familiar with the terrain than those officers and soldiers. He is confident that he will eat this group of officers and soldiers. As for whether it will attract the imperial army after eating it, there is no need to worry. Anyway, the Chen family will help him deal with the aftermath.
It's only fair that you do the dirty work for them and they clean up the aftermath for you!
"Bald man, you guys, be careful."
Yu Kui and dozens of brothers had just squatted down and gave an order when a hidden arrow shot over and killed the "bald man" he called on the spot without even struggling.
Under the dim moonlight, with trembling hands, Yu Kui realized that something was wrong. He leaned down, crawled over, and carefully touched the arrow inserted in the chest of the 'bald man'.
"This is a crossbow arrow!"
Yu Kui's heart felt cold. He had rebelled before and knew that this kind of crossbows were generally sharp weapons in the military and would never appear in the hands of local officers and soldiers.
In this case, the opponent is the army!
Buzz!
After a period of strange sounds, screams sounded one after another.
Yu Kui's scalp became numb and he quickly rolled along the ground and ran away.
This is not the way officers and soldiers fight at all, this is clearly the way the army fights!