Chapter 266: Thunderball

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning.

The people of Pingtou have to get up early in the morning to start the day's livelihood, and the big families can't sleep until they wake up naturally - the subordinates who are responsible for sprinkling and sweeping and buying get up early in the morning to work, and the subordinates who serve the master are also very vigilant, and they get up to clean up and serve when the time comes. Even the masters of each house and courtyard are rarely blessed to sleep lazy, some need to get up early to go to court, some need to get up early to greet their elders, some need to get up early to study, and some need to get up early to take care of things...... The early morning in Zhang's house is also busy.

Zhang Yue has always had the habit of getting up early, and early this morning, after he washed up, he went to the courtyard in front of the study to practice martial arts with Peng 13 for half an hour, and then read books in the study for half an hour. Estimating that it was time for his grandmother Gu to get up, he went to the North Courtyard to say good morning again, and then went back to his room for breakfast, and then Zhang Zhen came to ask for homework. After a busy morning, before he had time to catch his breath, there was a legend outside that the butler of the British Mansion, Rong Shan, asked to see him.

When he rushed to the front study to meet the guests again, he found that Rong Shan's face was full of exhaustion, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange. When he heard that the other party had gone back and forth to Xuanfu in four days, and noticed that people were walking with a little limp, he didn't know that this trip was a huge consumption, and he was grateful. Hearing Rong Shan repeat Zhang Fu's words, he hurriedly thanked him solemnly.

Rong Shan galloped back and forth all the way, and the oil skin of the double strands had long been worn out, and he still felt a faint pain at this time, but seeing Zhang Yue's actions, he couldn't help but hurriedly avoid it and didn't dare to suffer: "Young Master Yue, the little one is just acting on the orders of the lady, this is all a job, you didn't kill the little one!" ”

"Uncle Rong, you have been running back and forth to Xuanfu for four days to carry messages, and you have worked hard, of course I should thank you. Actually, if the lobby boss has a message, just send someone to let me go to the British Mansion, you really don't have to go this trip yourself, you should have a good rest at home first. ”

Hearing Zhang Yue say this, Rong Shan couldn't help but feel that this trip back and forth was worth it, so he smiled and said: "Although the little one is old, he can still survive it." The little one just came back early this morning, and it was the lady who ordered him to come here first to see the young master, so that he could tell the master those words earlier. Madame is very happy this time, she didn't react before, but now she often can't sleep well at night, but she is thirsty and sleeps tight during the day, so even if you go to the British Mansion, it is difficult to see Madame, it is better to run this trip with a small one. ”

After thinking for a while, he relayed the words that Zhang Fu had told Mrs. Wang in advance, and explained that Xiyu had already started to do it, so that Zhang Yue could prepare. He was so tired that when he had said all that had to be said, he took his leave, and stumbled a little when he went out. Zhang Yue hurriedly ordered Lian Sheng Lianhu outside to help him, stood at the door and watched the people leave, and then returned to the study.

Although Rong Shan's implication was that he didn't have to go to see Mrs. Wang, he couldn't be cheeky and didn't show anything if he inherited such a favor from others. He picked out a piece of antique Chengxintang paper from the box, and studied an inkstone himself, and he picked up the pen and started writing. After writing the first hundred bows, he sealed them again, went to the treasury to find the housekeeper Gao Quan, and selected a few of the local products that Lingxi and the others brought back from Shandong, and sent them to the British Mansion with the letter.

Just two days later, Zhang Yue received the holy order at home—although he was mentally prepared, the impact of the official decree was very different from the one Zhu Di had said lightly. Zhu Di took the lead in just a sentence of great punishment and murder, but the document that came with the holy decree listed in detail 423 people to be executed, and there were more than 300 people on the border. The only thing to be thankful for is that the people he took out in the name of guilt were not guilty, but that was amazing enough.

The eunuch who announced this time was not Zhang Qian, but Lu Feng, the young eunuch who had previously summoned Zhang Yue into the hall in the Liang Palace. He had a few pockmarks on his forehead, and the duck's voice was sharp and bright. After saying this, he said with a smile: "Lord Xiao Zhang, you are a Qincha this time, our family was sent by the emperor, plus 500 soldiers from the Beijing camp to accompany you, and when you pass through Jinan Mansion, you will also investigate and deal with the crime of dereliction of duty and negligence of the political secretary." I heard that if it weren't for the people of the political secretary this time, Lord Du would not have been imprisoned in Jinyi, and this time it was just a good breath for Lord Xiao Zhang. ”

Last time, he claimed to be small, but this time he called himself our family, and there were both reminders and hints in his tone, Zhang Yue still didn't understand that this Lu Feng was just an ambitious master. remembered that Yuan Fangcha had sent a message before, and remembered that Zhu Di had sent someone to build the East Detective Factory, that is, the notorious East Factory, he naturally had some plans in his heart.

There are some things that have to fall on Lu Feng, who is young but has just jumped from the fourth rank of the imperial prison to the left young eunuch!

Because he was acting on the orders of the saint, Zhang Yue had already packed his bags before, so Lu Feng said that he would leave immediately, so he immediately asked his subordinates to send all the suitcases and cages to the carriage, and after entering to bid farewell to his grandmother Gu, he set off with Lu Feng on the horse. Compared with the last time he left Beijing with the Meng family, this time the pomp and circumstance can be described by a crooked poem - leaving Beijing in an earth-shattering manner, and being ordered to kill people and carry out the order.

Because it is now Liu Sheng who is in charge of the Beijing camp, and Mrs. Wang has found Liu Sheng's wife according to Zhang Fu's words, so the soldiers of the Beijing camp who accompanied him this time will naturally not have any old and weak or sick people, all of them are first-class warriors, archers, firearms, soldiers, etc. When the group boarded the ship in Tongzhou, the coolies on the dock were all shocked to see such a group of murderous soldiers, and they even forgot to unload the helpers of other ships, and they were relieved until the three official ships left.

Because of these three official ships, the grain ships and other boats on the canal were delayed for a while before they approached the dock one by one, and all the boats were talking about those fierce soldiers of the Beijing camp. On a boat that was docking, Du Juan stood on the bow deck with her mother Qiu Shi in her arms, and it was not until the three distant official ships were out of sight that she reminded her loudly: "Mother, let's go into the cabin and pack our things." ”

"The person on the bow of the ship should be Yuanjie, I can't be mistaken." Qiu Shi didn't retract his gaze, but stood there frowning, "Count the days, it's only been less than a month since Yuan Jie returned to Beijing, doesn't it mean that he is also guilty, why did he suddenly leave Beijing?" It's all to blame that we have been delayed in Jinan Mansion for so long, there are really many people in this world, and there are few people who send charcoal in the snow, and those people have used those dirty methods, and they are almost going to pick up our luggage! ”

Du Juan sighed secretly in his heart - his father, the right-hand political envoy, should be alone, and those officials of the political department actually thought that he was pinching everyone's handle and hit their mother and daughter with his idea. If she hadn't racked her brains to try to get out, it would have been difficult to leave Jinan Mansion. However, who would have thought that it would be so easy to return to Tongzhou, and actually watch Zhang Yue leave in such a big battle?

What's really going on in Beijing?

Zhang Yue didn't know that he and Qiu's Du Juan's mother and daughter passed by, and the official boat went down the canal, and the road was not fast. Although he is not a swaggering character, Lu Feng, who is passing, is very proud. During the Hongwu Dynasty, the iron law that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics, but since this dynasty, there were Zheng He and Zhang Qian, and then other great eunuchs were ordered to go out of Beijing to do business, and the eunuchs in the palace all regarded going out of Beijing as a first-class fat difference. Coupled with the fact that he had faintly heard a rumor before, the mind of the drill camp was even more lively.

If it is really a fat shortage of the eunuch, the leader of the East Investigation Factory, then the power and determination in the future will be comparable to that of the commander of the Jinyi Guard! According to his thoughts, stopping all the states and counties along the road is a declaration of the authority of the Son of Heaven's close attendants. However, this hot charcoal-like mind shattered Zhang Yue's fluttering words.

"Father-in-law Lu, let's not talk about these external officials for the time being, there are countless people in the capital who are staring at us."

Although it is the nature of eunuchs to love to show off, since Lu Feng has the mind to sharpen his head and climb up, of course he is not a stupid person. Knowing that it was not cost-effective to be sued at this time, he immediately extinguished the evil fire in his heart. Even if there was no relationship with Zhang Qian, just because Zhang Yue was the nephew of the British duke, and only because of the five hundred soldiers in the Beijing camp, he didn't dare to ignore Zhang Yue's words, and he had to be careless and attentive along the way.

Zhang Yue saw people's hot faces pasted up, so he naturally wouldn't let go of this great opportunity. So, when the official ship arrived in Dongchang Mansion, the relationship between the two changed from peaceful to familiar.

Although Zhang Yue is only the sixth grade, he is the fourth grade, but Lu Feng still gave in when he got off the boat, and saw that Zhang Yue insisted on not going first, so he got off the boat first with great satisfaction. Finding that there were only a few officials who came to greet him, he was extremely angry, and his right hand hidden in his sleeve couldn't help pinching the holy decree, and he had confidence in his heart.

That Lord Du almost uprooted the White Lotus Sect bandits in the first year of his arrival, but not only did these people not notice the clues, but they even fell into the well afterwards, pointing out that the emperor was really such a foolish faint monarch? Last time, King Han was assassinated, and the officials fell one after another, and this time it should be the turn of these guys!

Zhang Yue, who was slightly behind, caught a glimpse of Lu Feng's small movements, confirming the guess of the leader. What he wanted to do was to kill people, but he didn't say that he wanted to go to the political secretary to verify any crime of dereliction of duty, thinking that this was a task specially assigned to Lu Feng. Along the way, he got along with this Lu Feng a lot, and he made a little trick to find out the other party's roots.

Nowadays, there is no good government of the Xuande Dynasty to teach eunuchs to be literate, and Lu Feng is illiterate like most eunuchs in the palace, and it is much easier to control and influence such a person than to control a literate and reasonable person.

Just as he thought, Lu Feng, who had been ordered to do things as soon as he had power in hand, did not have so many scruples at all, and after arriving at Jinan Mansion by land, he immediately took out the holy decree - not so much to look at it as to carry it - and proudly dismissed a total of seven officials from Zuobu political envoy Zhang Hai to the political councillor and below. But this time, unlike Zhu Di's angry dismissal of the judges, the new batch of officials appointed by land arrived at the Jinan Post House the day before, which was just a thunderbolt.