"What did you say?"

When Wanli heard the news, he couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately pointed at Zhang Whale and said, "This matter must not be transmitted to the capital." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Wechen has already sent someone to deal with it before, but ......." Zhang Whale paused and said depressedly: "I'm just afraid it's too late, then He Taoguang sent a secret letter to Beijing before hanging himself, and now who this secret letter is in has not yet been clarified." ”

"Secret letter? This... How good is that? ”

Wanli slumped on the dragon chair and muttered to himself.

At this moment, a eunuch came to the door, bowed, and said, "Your Majesty, Shen Shoufu and Dongge Wang University Scholars ask to see you." ”

"So fast." Wanli looked panicked, waved his hand and said, "No, no, I am sick today, and no one is seen." ”

Soon after the eunuch left, Zhang Cheng hurriedly came to the house, first glanced at Zhang Whale, and then gasped slightly: "Your Majesty, the big thing is not good, and many officials have just played to impeach King Lu for conniving at his subordinates to force the court officials ......" ”

Wanli didn't wait for him to finish, and said: "Okay, okay, I know everything, now I have to find a way to deal with it." ”

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Whale glanced at each other, and they were silent.

In fact, this kind of thing has not happened in the Ming Dynasty, and it has happened many times, more outrageous than this, if it is usual, they deal with this kind of thing, it is really familiar, the problem is that it happened at this time, the first two days Wanli said so wonderful in the court, under the pretext of corruption, the success of the establishment of the prince was postponed.

Now it's embarrassing.

Either deal with this matter fairly, if you want to protect King Lu, then it will naturally involve the country, Erzhang also knows that Wanli must protect King Lu, even if Wanli doesn't want to protect it, the Queen Mother is still sitting behind, and the Queen Mother is very fond of King Lu.

This Empress Dowager Li is a character who plays with Zhang Juzheng, although she is still in power in Wanli, but no one in the court dares to underestimate this Empress Dowager.

But Wanli is even less likely to make concessions on the matter of the crown prince.

It's really what you're afraid of.

Wanli said anxiously: "Why don't you make a sound? ”

Zhang Cheng said: "Your Majesty, for the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to take down all the officials involved in order to calm the anger of the people." ”

Wanli frowned, and suddenly said, "Factory Chen." ”

Zhang Whale immediately arched his hand and said, "Weichen will do it." ”

After Zhang Whale left, Wanli said to Zhang Cheng: "Immediately order the Criminal Department to investigate this case and take down all the officials involved." ”

He wanted to abandon the car and protect the commander and put all the blame on the officials involved, and he just hinted that Zhang Whale took the first step to control those officials, so that they could carry everything down, and they must not be involved in King Lu.

This decree went down to calm the anger of the people for the time being, after all, the emperor also said that he would investigate, and the criminal department immediately launched an investigation into it.

But the speed of fermentation of things is much faster than Wanli thought, and they are still investigating over there, and this side is flying like snowflakes to the celebrant supervisor.

Because you don't have to look into it.

It turns out that this Luwang Mansion has been built for three years, and it has not yet been completed, and the advance alone is 600,000 taels, which shows what a big project this is, and there is really so much oil and water in it that it is unimaginable, and in the past three years, the economy of the entire Weihui Mansion has been dragged down.

Those officials who supervised the project, in the name of this project, extorted money everywhere, most of the magistrates of Weihui Mansion chose to transfer to the people, forcing many local people to flee from Weihui Mansion, and He Taoguang, the magistrate, was more upright and unwilling to add burdens to the people, but he did not dare to offend King Lu, and when the money of the government was finished, he took his own money to pad, but his little money was not enough, and he even sold his house, and finally he could only be forced to hang himself.

It's just that before He Taoguang committed suicide, the officials dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, but now that the matter has been exposed, they don't care how much, this law does not blame the public, and this secret performance began to be sent to the capital, not only Weihui Mansion, but also Hejian and Daimyo Mansions.

These two mansions are halfway between Beijing and Weihui, and they are also victims.

However, did King Lu really have no idea about this?

It's impossible, this guy is also more greedy, and he has a virtue with his brother, and he takes the lion's share of the money he gets.

Soon, it was found on King Lu's head.

The ministers immediately demanded that King Lu be severely punished, and demanded that the construction of King Lu's mansion be stopped immediately.

Wanli was also more ruthless, gritted his teeth, stiffened, and began not to meet the minister, not to watch the folds, I don't know, I don't know anything.

He can't give in to this matter, one is his younger brother and the other is the prince, this is his bottom line.

However, this provoked public outrage, and none of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were vegetarians.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are the same enemy, you said it in a high-sounding manner last time, and trained us to be bloody, and now it is your brother's turn, and you begin to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Dare to love all this is to delay the canonization of the crown prince, not to really rectify the rule of officials, even if Shen Shixing, a peacemaker, is resolutely on the side of the civil officials this time, he knows that this matter cannot be appeased, a little careless, not to mention the first assistant, I am afraid that my life will not be saved.

Wanli was so anxious that he didn't want to think about it, could he investigate this corruption and bribery?

He has more shit on his own ass than anyone else.

This addiction is cool, but retribution will come soon.

At this time, Guo Dan didn't know about it, this kind of transmission from the court to the people, it will take some time, this guy is still busy dealing with the signing of the contract with the household department, but this time it is much faster than the last time the cotton nail was sold, he is pursuing simplification as much as possible, telling everyone, I am a tool man, I am not an auditor, I am a reckoning.

From the contract he drew up, it can be seen that he did not say that the tooth shop was all contracted, but set a few prices, ranging from fifty taels to three hundred taels, in other words, I will count as much as you give, more and more, and less and less.

This is much better than the Ministry of Household expected, at least the initiative is completely in his own hands, and it can be seen that Guo Dan really doesn't want to contract this matter.

Under this premise, the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

Households.

"This contract is not signed for the time being."

Song Jingsheng walked out of the back room and said to Guo Danyan, who was waiting in the lobby.

Guo Dan was stunned for a moment and said, "My lord, why is this?" ”

Song Jingsheng sneered: "Why, don't you know in your heart? ”

Guo Dan was puzzled: "The grass people don't quite understand. ”

Song Jingsheng said: "If you don't understand, go back and figure it out, now that we're going to work, where are you going." ”

This change of face made Guo Dan a little incomprehensible.

Although he didn't give him a good look before, the conversation was relatively smooth, why did he suddenly change his face before signing the contract.

What's going on here? Guo Dan faintly had a bad feeling, but since the other party had already issued an eviction order, he naturally wouldn't stay here with a cheeky face, so he bowed and walked out.

"Guo Dan."

As soon as he came out of the imperial city, he saw Liu Xinmou coming over.

Guo Dan was slightly surprised: "Why are you here?" ”

Liu Xinmou said with a solemn face: "I came specifically to find you." ”

Guo Dan looked at Liu Xinmou suspiciously.

Liu Xinmou said: "Just half a day ago, an official from the Criminal Department went to the racecourse to investigate, and asked us to suspend the opening of Marseille, and at the same time, the new racecourse must also stop. ”

"What?"

Guo Dan exclaimed, and hurriedly asked, "What is going on?" ”

Liu Xinmou glanced left and right, and said in a low voice: "Let's go to the car and talk about it." ”

got into the carriage, and Liu Xinmou informed Guo Dan of the matter of the Luwang Mansion, as the gossip king of the capital, he couldn't hide this matter from him.

"What does this have to do with me?"

Guo Dan's face was full of anger, and he waved his hands excitedly and said: "They are looking for Your Majesty and King Lu, why did they come to me, and I didn't provoke them, it really makes sense." ”

Liu Xinmou smiled and said, "Do you want them to help you scold a few more words?" ”

"You're the smartest."

Guo Dan glanced at Liu Xinmou in embarrassment.

Of course he knew in his heart why the other party would come to target him, he was very depressed about this, this was really not afraid of god-like opponents, just afraid of pig-like teammates, he also wanted to scold Wanli a few words, but he didn't dare, he hoped that those officials would help him scold a few more words.

"Oops! What a headache! ”

Guo Dan rubbed his forehead and asked again, "How serious do you think this matter is?" ”

Liu Xinmou only said: "I'm not an official, how can I know, but I heard that King Lu and Princess Lu have been called to live in the palace by the Queen Mother." ”

“.....！”

Guo Dan was stunned for a while, and said in a panic: "It's not so serious, right?" ”

This is obviously because he was afraid that King Lu would be in danger, so he asked him to live in the palace.

Liu Xinmou said: "I thought you knew better than me. ”

Guo Dan was dumbfounded.

Speaking of this, it really has something to do with him, that is, he suggested to Wanli that he use corruption to delay the canonization of the crown prince, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating, this time it was really a big trouble.

And he can have today, it is all because Wanli is secretly supporting him, otherwise, it is impossible for him to do this with a businessman, he has offended many people, and now Wanli is difficult to protect himself, and those people will naturally not let him go.

In fact, many people also want to take advantage of this to put pressure on Wanli.

This is also a big drawback in his strategy, his strategy is to cling to Wanli's thighs, and other than that, he doesn't care about anything, so once Wanli is in trouble, he will inevitably be implicated, he just didn't expect that the other party would move so fast.

After a while, he suddenly said: "I have to go to the palace, you go back to the racecourse first, whatever they do, as long as it doesn't hurt people, anyway, the race hasn't started yet." ”

Liu Xinmou said: "But once the construction of the new horse farm stops, those businessmen will definitely come to you." ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "I know this, so I have to go into the palace to find Your Majesty." ”

Liu Xinmou said: "I think it is difficult for Your Majesty to take care of you now. ”

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "You are wrong, I am here to protect Your Majesty." ”

“......。”