Jinyiwei's power in Chengdu is deep-rooted, after all, this can be regarded as their base camp, if this kind of place is infiltrated by enemies from all sides, then it is possible that people will directly raid and disrupt Chengdu Mansion, and the army will be unstable, and the Ming Dynasty will be finished.

So after two hours of investigation, the target was locked, and there were suspicious people in the homes of the scholars who had newly moved to Chengdu Mansion, so Qu Songjin led the army to immediately surround the gates of these families.

They walked out of an old man in his seventies, dressed gracefully and luxuriously, with an extraordinary bearing, and bowed his hand to Cheng Xiaolian: "The old man moved to Chengdu Mansion, and he has not visited His Highness yet, and I hope His Highness will include the rudeness." ”

The old man recognized Cheng Xiaolian's identity at a glance, and never mentioned that the mansion was surrounded, but said that he did not come to visit, as if Cheng Xiaolian brought troops here because he did not give Xiaojing silver.

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Dare to ask the old man's honorable name?" ”

"I don't dare to be honored in front of Your Highness, old Lu Yulin."

"Mr. Lu, I didn't come today to embarrass you, you can come all the way to Chengdu Mansion, I am very happy, it proves that you have a great heart, but if there are any indiscriminate people in the mansion, I need to remind you that this is Chengdu Mansion, not Jiangnan, and spending money may not be able to settle everything."

Lu Yulin slowly raised his head and stared at Cheng Xiaolian: "What does Your Highness mean by this?" ”

Yang Youcai next to him sneered: "Just now, His Highness was assassinated on the street, and now you understand why the army is besieging your mansion gate." ”

Lu Yulin's face was first shocked, and then a disdainful smile appeared: "If His Royal Highness trains the army, it will be short of tens of thousands of taels of silver, and our family can still get it." Lu An, go to the house and take 30,000 taels of silver for His Highness's military salary. ”

Cheng Xiaolian pouted: "Lu Yulin, I have been treating each other politely since I arrived here, but you have put on such a posture, do you think I am a person who lacks silver?" ”

Lu Yulin snorted: "Then I don't know what His Highness means, we have come all the way to Daming, and now if we suffer this kind of unexplained grievance, even if we don't say anything, can Your Highness stop the mouth of the world?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "Whether it's true or not, you will know it after a search, Lu Yulin, you get out of the way, and my people will go in and search." ”

Lu Yulin snorted: "The house is heavy, there is no conclusive evidence, how can you say that you can search?" ”

Yang Youcai sneered: "If there was conclusive evidence, we would have killed it a long time ago, and we still need to talk nonsense with you?" ”

"Then ask this general to go back and find conclusive evidence before coming to me for trouble! Otherwise, you will kill me on the streets of Chengdu Mansion, I want to see if there is a royal law in this Ming Dynasty. ”

"Which one is looking for the king of the Ming Dynasty?"

An old man suddenly came out of the crowd, Cheng Xiaolian glanced at the person who came was Gu Yanwu, and he strode up to Lu Yulin: "Is it that you are looking for the king of Daming?" ”

The arrogance on Lu Yulin's face was gone, and only a look of humility remained: "Mr. Tinglin." ”

"Hmph, tell me, what is the crime of assassinating the great tomorrow?"

"The sin of the Nine Clans."

"If the people in your mansion are not involved in this matter, there are dozens of scholars who have moved from Jiangnan to Chengdu Mansion, why do they want to trouble you. If the people in your house are really involved in this, it is better to hand it over as soon as possible and get rid of it, and then blindly shelter you, and finally implicate you, think about the young children and old mothers in the family. ”

Gu Yanwu was originally teaching in the academy, but suddenly heard the news that His Royal Highness was assassinated in Chengdu Mansion, and hurriedly threw down the book and rushed here, he is now full of hope that Cheng Xiaolian is on him, but he can't afford to lose, and when he walked halfway, he heard that His Highness was fine, but he just led the army to surround the door of a scholar's family, and hurried over, who knew that he saw such a person who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Now the Manchu court treats the literati in Jiangnan quite well, because the country is not stable, and they still need the support of these people, so even if Gu Yanwu and they don't become officials, they secretly do some other things every day, Kangxi turns a blind eye and lets them go, anyway, Xiucai rebelled for ten years.

This developed the unique arrogance of Jiangnan literati, but if Cheng Xiaolian did not appear, their good days would be coming to an end.

As soon as Gu Yanwu came out, Lu Yulin immediately became a head shorter, so Yang Youcai took people into the mansion. All eyes were fixed on the front of the mansion to see what was going on.

Gu Yanwu walked up to Cheng Xiaolian: "Your Highness is not injured." ”

"It's okay, a false alarm."

At this time, there was a sudden exclamation from the door of the mansion, and it didn't take long for Yang Youcai to pull a dead man out: "The surname is Lu, your family is very powerful, not only has a crossbow arrow hidden in his body, but also has poison in his mouth, once he misses and is caught, he will take poison and commit suicide." Speaking of this, he raised his eyebrows: "This is not the dead soldier cultivated by your Lu family, right?" ”

Lu Yulin can't hold his breath anymore, once he can't get rid of the relationship, as Gu Yanwu said, their family's lives are in danger.

"Luan, come and see, where did this dog slave come from!"

Lu An stepped forward and looked at it carefully: "Master, this is the righteous Jiang Yong we met when we were in Lianghu, he was going to sell himself to bury his mother, but the master gave him silver, and he came here with the master." ”

Yang Youcai smiled: "Everyone is dead, whatever you say when you open your mouth, just such a person is hiding in your house, you don't know, and he is blocking the door to prevent us from searching, if you want to say that there is no connection, I am afraid that a three-year-old child will not believe it!" ”

Lu Yulin looked at the murderous Yang Youcai and looked at Gu Yanwu with a help-seeking eye: "Mr. Tinglin, please help me say a few words, you know what I am, I have always been committed to Daming, otherwise it would be impossible to come all the way to Daming, this is really wrong." ”

Gu Yanwu snorted: "Let's have a good memory in the future, at such an old age, I have to rely on the old and sell the old, and I almost sold the whole family." Saying that, he turned his head: "Your Highness, this Lu Yulin is indeed not a two-faced person, his family still has a large area of land in the south of the Yangtze River, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to go here." ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Since Mr. Gu has spoken, then I have nothing to say, but several other mansions have not yet 。。。。。。 ”

Lu Yulin hurriedly stood up: "Your Highness, although you search, we have nothing to say." ”