At the beginning of June, outside Kaifeng Mansion, wildflowers were gorgeous.

The rainy weather has passed for many days, the summer sun is sprinkled all over the Kaifeng Prefecture, and all kinds of wild flowers on both sides of the official road that cannot be named are blooming, colorful, and beautiful.

The temperature during the day is a little hot, but it is relatively cool compared to the heat of later generations, and it does not affect the hurry.

Further on, you can see the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion.

The city walls, which have fallen into disrepair for a long time and have collapsed in many places, reveal an inexplicable sense of vicissitudes in the sun. It stands in stark contrast to the most prosperous city in the world it guards.

The official road is as lively and crowded as ever, with cars and horses flowing endlessly, creating a vibrant scene.

Wu Haogu led the horse and walked slowly with Su Shi, looking very low-key. This is not its own Jiehe Commercial Market, but Kaifeng Mansion! Even if he is Song Huizong's number one henchman, he can't forget the truth of being a low-key person in this city - especially the fire in the northern camp of Zhoubei before, it is by no means so easy to end!

After hearing about the fire in the military camp in Guancheng County, Wu Haogu admired Gao Yu's good methods on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also knew that this basket was not small!

Of course, he didn't mean to blame Gao Yu at all. Since he is fortunate to be close to the villain, he must have the means of the villain. When it is time to frame a traitor, it must not be soft. Otherwise, the villain will not be allowed to eat alive for the traitor?

However, framing is framing, and it is still necessary to be low-key - this villain is a harmless and kind villain, innocent......

"Da Lang came back this time, can he arrange for relatives and friends to greet him?"

Su Shi has now called Wu Haogu "Da Lang", and the relationship between the two parties can be described as intimate, at least on the surface.

"There is no arrangement," Wu Hao Gudao, "It takes too much energy and time to usher in the send-off, and the younger brother still has a lot of things to do in Kaifeng Mansion." ”

Su Shi smiled, "Haha, I didn't call anyone to greet me." ”

He has no real power, and his father is unlucky, who will come to pick him up at the official pavilion outside Kaifeng Mansion?

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "It turns out that the second brother (Su Shixing's second) also likes to be indifferent, and the younger brother has a place to go in the west of Kaifeng Mansion, near Jinmingchi. It is a very quiet and elegant yard, and it is also planted with various flowers, and now it is time to bloom. In this way, it's better to wait for the second brother to settle down, and then come to stay, we can enjoy the flowers and drink, and it can also be called an elegant thing, what do you think? ”

The house he said was near Jinmingchi, and it was purchased by Pan Qiaolian according to Wu Haogu's care with the money from the inner account room - although Wu Haogu was not optimistic about the real estate in Kaifeng City, he was still willing to buy some land and real estate within the planned Qionglin Palace City. In the future, when the Qionglin Palace City is built, it will be stable to sell it several times.

In addition, the real estate near Jinmingchi and Qionglin Palace are the villas of wealthy bureaucrats in Kaifeng Prefecture, which are usually very elegant, and can also be used by the Sumen brothers to live in when they enter Beijing. He invited Su Shi to go to "live a little while", in fact, he invited him to live there for a long time.

Wu Haogu warmly invited, and Su Shi, who had just arrived in Kaifeng Mansion as an official, was also worried that there was no suitable place to live, so he agreed to come down.

The two made an appointment and were about to separate, but they heard someone shouting: "Wu Dalang!" ”

Wu Haogu followed the sound and looked at it, only to see a tall and thin young man wearing a white robe, wearing a Dongpo scarf, and his face was full of acne, walking quickly. When he got closer, Wu Haogu recognized that this person was originally a cousin of his own, named Wu Haode, who was recommended by Henan Fuxue to come to Kaifeng Mansion to take the Taixue exam. When Wu Haogu left Kaifeng Mansion a few months ago, he only arrived, and he lived in the martial arts mansion in Kaifeng Mansion.

"You're thirty?" Wu Haogu was a little strange, "Why are you here?" ”

Wu Haode came to Kaifeng Mansion early, naturally to "make up classes" in Kaifeng Mansion Chengnan Academy, which has a higher level of education, and to prepare for the entrance examination of Taixue Waishe at the end of the year.

At this time, he should be studying hard in the academy, why did he run out to play?

"Sure enough, it's Da Lang!"

Wu Haode stepped forward and sang a fat song: "It's the second brother who knows that you are going back to the city today, and asked me to go out of the city and wait, so you don't enter the city first, go to the Pear Blossom Courtyard and wait for him." ”

"Jiro asked me to go to the Ewha Villa?" Wu Haogu was stunned when he heard this, "What's the matter?" ”

Wu Haogu had lived in the Pear Blossom Courtyard for a long time when he was in Kaifeng Mansion, but when he came back from other places, he must first go to the martial arts mansion in the city to meet his father and little mother, and he had to enter the palace to face the saint the next day, so he must enter the city to live.

"It's Lu Benzhi who died!"

"Lu Benzhi is dead?" Su Shi, who was smiling on the side, interjected, "Can't you?" Even if he is sentenced to death, he will have to be reduced by one or two degrees, and at most he will be assigned to Salmon Island. ”

"Suicidal!" Wu Haode said, "Before he died, he stabbed blood in a letter, saying that he would bear it with all his might, and he also shouted grievances, saying that there was another shady scene in the fire in the military camp in the north of the state, and asked for a thorough investigation." ”

"Huh!?" Su Shi's face immediately changed greatly, "What a ruthless method!" ”

Wu Haogu turned his head to look at him, and Su Shi lowered his voice and said, "There are many people here, not a place to talk." ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "The painting immortal temple not far in front is my place, and I will go there to sit." ”

"Okay."

The group soon arrived at the painting immortal temple, and now Guo Jing, who has become a Taoist priest, is also painting the immortal temple today, and when he saw Wu Haogu coming, he immediately asked the little Taoist priest to close the Taoist temple, prepare wine and food, and invited Wu Haogu, Su Shi and Wu Haode into the back hall of the Taoist temple.

Before the tea was served, Guo Jing asked anxiously: "Da Lang, do you know that Lu Benzhi committed suicide by taking poison in Yushitai Prison?" ”

"Inside the Imperial Prison?" Wu Haogu didn't frown, "Did you commit suicide or was you killed yourself?" ”

"Suicide?" Su Shi chuckled, "It's all at this time, Dalang, you still have the heart to joke." ”

"How?" Wu Haogu twisted his eyebrows, "Second brother, don't you think this matter is strange?" ”

"What about weirdness?" Su Shiyi waved his hand and said, "Can you still go to the Imperial Shitai Prison to investigate the case?" ”

What is Goshidai? That is the yamen that the prime minister is afraid of, even if someone commits suicide in the Yushitai Prison, it will not be Wu Haogu's turn to check it closely!

Moreover, Wu Haogu is not a bitter master, he is Lu Benzhi's enemy, and it is not his turn to cry out for injustice!

"yes!" Guo Jing also nodded and said, "Da Lang, now that the wind direction in Kaifeng Mansion has changed, it is said that Lu Benzhi is the great filial son who received on behalf of his father...... Calls for a thorough investigation of the fire in the military camp in the north of the state also rose. ”

"Who's talking about it?" Wu Haogu frowned.

Su Shi took the question and said with a wry smile: "Who else can there be?" It is the Xining traitorous party (new party). Da Lang, you are smart, and people are not stupid! I'm sure you can guess that the fire in the military camp in the north of the state was set by you......"

"Why me?" Wu Haogu had a feeling that he couldn't wash himself by jumping into the Yellow River, "I really didn't let you do it!" ”

"That's okay," Su Shi said, "They have a big mouth and a small mouth, and this sewage has to be poured on you."

Do you know the clear stream of things? It is the right to speak and discuss politics! This power is in the hands of the readers, and if they want to pour sewage on you, you can only bear it. ”

That's the right to speak!

Basically, the disarmed scholars and doctors relied on monopolizing the right to speak and sharing the world with the king!

Wu Haogu was not high enough before, and he did not seriously offend the interests of any punk group, so he had not learned the power of Qingliu's discussion.

And this time, because the "filial son" Lu Benzhi committed suicide, the new party, which was originally passive, got a chance to use the ultimate weapon of the scholar - the mouth cannon - to fight back!

……

On the afternoon of the day when Wu Haogu arrived outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion, in the capital hall where the Privy Council was in peace, the right minister Zeng Bu had just arrived. Zeng Bu was nominally here to discuss with An Tao about the upcoming trial of the government military system, but as soon as the idlers left, he talked to An Tao about the arrangement of the "mouth cannon battle".

"Zixuan," An Tao said, "Is there any good news over there for Uncle Guo Ming?" ”

Uncle Guo Ming is Guo Zhizhang, the newly appointed governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, and he is urging the Kaifeng Prefecture to thoroughly investigate the arson case in the northern camp of Zhoubei these days.

"Nope." Zeng Bu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "How could there be? Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an, and Gao Yu are not so easy to catch the handle. ”

"It's not really leaky, is it?"

Zeng Bu smiled: "How can there be a thing in the world that does not leak?" It's just that the situation of the three of them is too big, and they can cover up the leaking water.

However, when the situation is big, there will inevitably be many loopholes! As long as Kaifeng Mansion makes efforts to investigate, a bunch of problems will be found sooner or later. Even if they can't find out their relationship with the fire in the northern camp of the state, they can still make Qingliu Wuyi smear them as traitorous villains. ”

Zeng Bu is worthy of being a master of party strife, and after mastering the right to speak, he will not stick to one point at all, and will attack in an all-round way, so that the opponent is tired to deal with it.

Zeng Bu paused, and then said: "As long as Wu Haogu is smeared as a traitor, even if the official family protects him, Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli, the two righteous gentlemen, will definitely stay away from him." When the time comes, we'll be able to defeat each of them! ”

The power of the official family of the Song Dynasty was very great, but it was far from reaching the point where the Qing Dynasty could cover the sky with one hand. Wu Haogu is now coaxing mainly because Zhao Ji, Han Zhongyan, and Fan Chunli are protecting him together.

Of course, the reason why Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli, who have nothing to do, are still very arrogant is also because of Wu Haogu. Therefore, if the new party wants to win, it must first separate the gentleman from the villain.

And to achieve this goal, you have to rely on mouth cannons to spray!

Zeng Bu said again: "Cai Jing and Wu Haogu have always been very close, and this time he will definitely go to Wu Haogu for help...... Wu Haogu can turn stones into gold, as soon as he makes a move, it will inevitably make the matter of demolishing and rebuilding the military camp in the north of the state profitable, and when the time comes, let the imperial history and the Tai students go to the impeachment together! ”