Promoted with Liu Lingyu was also Lu Sizhen, who finally got his wish and was promoted to the Shanxi Provincial Inspectorate and became a third-grade senior official in a row. This should have been an unexpected joy for Lu Sizhen, but he was already in a state of interest. Zhang Sizhi's confession was smashed, not only did he fail to turn the case of Zhang Shi's murder of his wife into an iron case, but even his own son was involved, and now his life and death are uncertain.

It is very likely that his only heir has died at the hands of the Mongolian Tartars, not to mention a Zheng Sanpin according to the inspection envoy, that is, let him go to Beijing to enter the cabinet, rank as a scholar of the palace, and exchange it for a lively son? He had been trying his long-cherished wish for many years, but there was such a price, which he never expected anyway.

For several days, Lu Sizhen had no intention of taking care of the affairs of the Inspectorate, and handed them all over to a few cronies who were picked up by him to deal with, and he hid at home and kept praying and sighing every day. On this day, the Lu Mansion, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly became lively, and the number of visiting dignitaries and public servants who had been summoned suddenly increased, and they were all people and things that Lu Sizhen could not refuse.

Just now, the family came to report that Liu Lingyu, the new political envoy of Shanxi, had come to visit. Lu Sizhen frowned twice, the two of them had already turned from allies to targeting each other due to some conflicts in Lu Huizhong's handling of them. Judging by the current situation, this person's visit must be a weasel greeting the chickens for the New Year, and there is no kindness.

But after all, he is a dignified political envoy of Shanxi, and this bit of face still has to be given, so I have to go to meet him for a while, but I want to see what important things this person has, and I must come to the door in person.

As soon as Liu Lingyu saw Lu Sizhen, he seemed to have never had a contradiction, his posture was not high, his attitude was easy-going, he didn't say anything, he also brought four gifts, the gift list was handed over to the steward to take away, and there was a good greeting, and the two people sat down as guests.

The family brought tea, and Lu Sizhen picked up the tea bowl and drank the tea without saying a word, he was waiting for Liu Lingyu to speak. Sure enough, Liu Lingyu still couldn't hold his breath, "Brother Junnian, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not, but today I finally figured it out, and I still have to say that I want to listen to it with Brother Junnian." ”

Lu Sizhen sighed, put the tea bowl back on the table at hand, and listened carefully to what Liu Lingyu was going to say.

"Linglang's matter, Liu has also heard about it, the world is impermanent, Brother Jun Nian still asks for condolences, but there is a reason for this matter, the initiator, Brother Jun Nian plans to let him go?"

I saw Lu Sizhen's face twitching, and his voice was dumb, as if he was talking to himself, and he seemed to be questioning: "The initiator, should he be held accountable, who should be investigated, and how should he ......be investigated?"

"Of course, it must be investigated, how can such a big feud not be avenged? The initiator is naturally Li Xin behind Zhang Shi, if he hadn't protected his subordinates, how could there have been a jury verdict, if it wasn't for a jury verdict, Ling Lang would not have been involved, and that field service team was proposed by him, and it was attacked by the Mongols in his territory, and it is difficult to say that Lu and Zhang did not use dirty means to ......"

"Say no more!"

Liu Lingyu became more and more excited the more he spoke, and still continued: "How can you not say it? Now that Brother Jun Nian is in the important position of the envoy, and Liu is also in the position of political envoy, it is a good time to eradicate the hegemonic warriors. Brother Jun Nian, you have a great revenge, and you regain real power, wouldn't you kill two birds with one stone, killing two birds with one stone? ”

Speaking of this, Lu Sizhen suddenly stood up, took out a piece of letterhead from his cuff, and threw it straight in front of Liu Lingyu. Liu Lingyu took it in confusion, spread it out and looked at it, his face suddenly turned from white to red, and then from red to black, holding the letter, as if he was holding a piece of red-hot iron, and he couldn't throw it away.

"Lord Liu is kind, Lu Mou understands it, but the news of the dog has come back, not only is he not dead but also has a small gain, General Li has already sent the military report asking for merit to the Beijing Division, you say, Liu is not good to make a fuss again, right?"

"This, this, this ......"

Watching Liu Lingyu leave with a wolf face, Lu Sizhen felt very relieved, this guy insisted on killing his relatives for his own promotion and fortune a few days ago, and now the villain has no ambition, it is really a matter of relief.

On the eve of Liu Lingyu's visit, Li Xin had already written a letter in detail about the matter and sent a special person to send it to the mansion, which could be regarded as a kind of reward for his cooperation with the general military mansion. Compared with cooperating with a villain like Liu Lingyu, Li Xin is a kind person, not only did he fall into the ground, but he was not held accountable for all the previous acts that were not conducive to the General Military Mansion, and this open-mindedness and kindness alone made him comfortable and admired.

On the other hand, when Liu Lingyu encountered a problem, he immediately turned his face and asked him to dispose of his son in exchange for his promotion and wealth, that is, he wanted to sacrifice Lu Huizhong, which made Lu Sizhen feel unforgivable. It is precisely because of this that he almost completely fell to Li Xin.

On the banks of the Saibei Haliutu River, Lu Jiu finally let Jiexiu go and returned to the Uzhumuqin Department. He believes that what Jiexiu said at the moment of life and death is the truth, and only this statement can connect all kinds of unbelievable things that have happened recently, and make a reasonable explanation. Nine is not far from ten.

In the future, sooner or later, he may still need this person, but he just doesn't understand why as a Han Chinese, he would willingly take refuge in the Mongols, but calculate his own people.

The cavalry battalion was stationed at the Haliutu River and did not return to the town guard because he had to wait for someone.

Finally, in the middle of the night, the man he was waiting for came.

In the military tent, Lu Jiu complained that he was late, but the man smiled and said: "If you come late, you will have a harvest of late, and this time the little brother can get an amazing news!" ”

The person who came was Gu Shishi, who was in charge of intelligence work, and because of the big matter of the Xuanfu this time, he personally came to command. Lu Jiu and Gu Shishi had already established a deep trust in the previous battles, and they didn't care about his verbosity, they only urged him to tell the amazing news.

"It's also a coincidence, the younger brother was going to go out of Zhangjiakou Fort to find Brother Lu, but suddenly encountered a group of suspicious people coming from the north, and they also accidentally exposed their horses' feet, and the hat on their heads was lifted, revealing a shaved iron scalp, and a small rat tail on the back of the head was visible."

"Is it Jiannu?" Lu Jiu lost his voice.

"That's right! It was Jiannu, they disguised themselves as merchants, and entered Zhangjiakou Fort to rest, and the younger brother felt that they could follow in! But I didn't want to find a person in the fort. ”

"Who is it?" Gu Shishi always likes to pause and deliberately sell a pass when it comes to the key points, Lu Jiu urged him to speak quickly with dissatisfaction.

"Who else could there be, who else could there be besides Fan Yongdou?"

Lu Jiu's heart was shocked, it seems that things are really not as simple as they understand now, Fan Yongdou and his people not only bought the ministers of the DPRK and China, but also hooked up with the Mongols, but these are not enough to explain their various actions of painstaking and material resources.

Gu Shishi sped up his speech and continued: "So, the junior brother boldly guessed that Fan Yongdou had done so many things, and the mastermind behind it was actually Jiannu, the slave chief Taiji!" ”

Lu Jiu also nodded again and again, "It makes sense, Brother Thirteen has also guessed that there is the shadow of Jiannu behind all kinds of incidents, but there is no solid evidence, and now it seems that this speculation has really been confirmed!" ”

"Not only that, but there is another thing that Brother Lu definitely didn't expect, Jiannu sent silver to Fan Yongdou, and the junior brother roughly estimated that there must be more than thirty or fifty thousand taels!"

"Silver?"

"Yes, send silver! Fan Yongdou seems to be very short of silver recently, and he has borrowed a lot from many merchants at high interest in Xuanfu, but the gap seems to be very large......"

Lu Jiu suddenly remembered that Jiexiu, also known as King Lobsang Gyaltsen, had told him that Fan Yongdou had gone to great lengths to transport the 200,000 taels of silver he had stolen into the side wall to give to Zhang Sizhi. And he mistakenly snatched back 80,000 taels in the dry river of the Xiyang River, thinking that the gap in silver should be caused by these 80,000 taels. It's just not clear, Fan Yongdou knows now that it was the Three Guards who did this.

Gu Shishi listened to Lu Jiu's description, struck with both palms, and sighed: "This makes sense, it is said that Fan Yongdou has a large amount of grain that was detained by Jingying in Juyong Pass, I think the amount of silver he sent is insufficient, and the old guy is dissatisfied!" I really didn't expect Brother Lu to make a windfall when he first arrived in Xuanfu. Hey, those who transported the silver don't know what Brother Lu should do? ”

"Pressed back to the guards with the silver!"

Gu Shishi slapped his thigh when he heard this.

"Brother Lu is careless, if someone leaks the news, I'm afraid that I will startle the snake and ruin the general's big ......"

Lu Jiu was stunned and looked at Gu Shishi dissatisfied, "Do you want to kill them?" Hundreds of lives, how can they be killed if they are killed, nonsense! ”

Gu Shishi was disapproving, "To do great things, you must be informal, and the kindness of Brother Lu's wife is like enough for our general!" ”

Lu Jiu reprimanded: "To be serious, your task this time is to cooperate with the actions of the Three Guards and find out the action plan of Fan Yongdou and Jiannu. So Lu Jiu told Fan Yongdou about the conspiracy to gather grain in Xuanfu, and then colluded with the Mongols to break Xuanfu and rob the grain. Gu Shishi gasped when he heard this.

"Good thief, if you don't do this, you will find an opportunity to assassinate this person!"

Lu Jiu shook his head again and said: "Don't act rashly, ruin the general's plan, your task is to figure out their plan, don't make trouble!" ”

……

The news of Hong Chengchou's entry into the palace to face the saint soon spread from the Forbidden City to the officialdom of the Beijing Division, and many people took this matter as a sign of the emperor's attitude towards Hong Chengchou, and they were discussing it in private, and Hong Chengchou was likely to be reactivated.

The emperor has newly promoted a group of young officials, these people feel that they are favored by the Son of Heaven, so they must be loyal to the Son of Heaven, and share their worries for the Son of Heaven.

After the news spread that Hong Chengchou was about to be activated, there was one person who was very unhappy, and that was Zhang Sizhi, a cabinet scholar!