Chapter 161: The Ancestor's Aftermath
The two carriages stopped in front of the palace, and the news of Wang Fen's attack immediately spread throughout the palace, and the entire palace immediately entered tension.
The carriage behind was Lao Huang's carriage, and his guards were only five people, although only three of them were involved in the battle, but this became the last straw that crushed the assassins, scared the assassins away, and then escorted Wang Fen back to the palace.
Lao Huang did not enter the house, in the face of Gong Xiu's thanks, Lao Huang was very generous and frank, he told Gong Xiu that he was just at the right time, and out of suspicion, he came to help, although you and I fought each other, but Wang Fen came to negotiate, and my Hanhai Trading Company would not do such a despicable thing.
Gong Xiu was very politely grateful to Lao Huang for his help, and regardless of the anger of the royal family on the side, he sent Lao Huang and them away, and then urgently recruited a doctor.
Wang Fen fainted when he saw Lao Huang, and when he woke up, it was already evening, and Gong Xiu and other core figures of the Wang family in the imperial capital were around.
"Report to my ancestors that I was attacked and wounded, Wang Shan was bribed, and Wang Ding was killed with me, and Wang Ding died in battle to cover me. ”
Wang Fen's body was tied into a zongzi, looking at Gong Xiu and saying with difficulty, Gong Xiu nodded silently, thought about it and said: "Don't worry, I will deal with it, I will let Peng Juan and Hu Chun serve in the room, and Wang Qin is in charge of the outside of the house, and Zeng Sheng has been notified and asked him to rush back as soon as possible." ”
After hearing this, Wang Fen thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Wuguang is in charge of the courtyard, and Wang Qin assists." ”
Gong Xiu nodded without the slightest hesitation, looked at Wang Fen, Wang Fen had fallen asleep tiredly, his injury was not as serious as it looked, on the way, Lao Huang had already given him a life-sustaining pill, a life-sustaining pill went down, with his current injury, he had already healed.
Gong Xiu conveyed Wang Fen's order, and the entire palace moved, but Gong Xiu strictly forbade revenge, and all deployments were mainly defensive.
Lao Huang returned to Liufu, and also ordered to strengthen the vigilance, and the city and the city entered a state of alert at the same time, Liu Tong was very puzzled, he heard Wang Fen's last words before fainting.
"The old ancestor has made a move!"
"The ancestor of the Wang family will never admit defeat so easily, a person who can even kill his own son, do you think he will easily admit defeat?"
Of course, Liu Tong would not think so, but this matter was not done by their Hanhai Trading Company, Wang Fen is still alive, and he can prove that all this was not done by Hanhai Trading Company.
"If you think like this, you think of that old thing simply," Lao Huang habitually showed a hint of ridicule, as if to say, your kid is still a little tender, Liu Tong has long been used to it, and he doesn't care.
"Everything has a purpose, the shopkeeper is still in Yangzhou, we are negotiating, why did he choose to do it at this time?
Liu Tong was stupid, he didn't think of these questions at all, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and couldn't help but ask: "What goal does he want to achieve?"
The big head was also listening attentively on the side, Master Huang smiled, and asked the big head: "Test you, you can talk about it." ”
The big head pondered for a moment, and said cautiously: "Teacher, I don't know if it's right, I think that old guy wants to use the power of the official family to create an assassination case of Wang Fen, and then buckle the basin on our heads, and use the power of the court to deal with us." Lao Huang nodded with satisfaction, and Chong Liutong reproached: "How many times have I told you, you have to use your brains more, don't think you can fight, what is the most powerful thing about the shopkeeper, not how advanced his cultivation is, but, he is very good at using his brain, every time he fights, he will choose the battlefield in advance, and try to collect the other party's intelligence, including cultivation, martial arts advantages and disadvantages, and even personality, there are several wives at home, all have to collect, find out the shortcomings, and do it against his shortcomings, so the talent of the shopkeeper is invincible." ”
Speaking of this, he paused: "The big head is right, this time that old thing is probably the idea of fighting the imperial court, hmph, the stakes are big enough, even his own son has gambled."
This time, it's good that Wang Fen didn't die, so there was a big loophole in the old thing's plan, but these things are quite unreasonable. ”
After Lao Huang finished speaking, he entered the house, and immediately reported today's events to Liu Han, who was far away in Yangzhou, Liu Tong grinned at his back, patted the shoulder of the big head, turned around and walked out of the yard, the big head also grinned, and there was a bit of smug in his expression, but this trace of strickenness disappeared immediately, he honestly followed into the house, picked up the book and began to look.
Lao Huang is actually not worried about the power of the imperial court, one thing he is very sure of, the imperial court now needs Hanhai Trading Company, and the palace also needs Liu Han, and now is not the time to unload the mill and kill the donkey.
Besides, Liu Han is the master of the Nine Rank Grandmaster, and there is a hidden immortal gate like Qingxu Sect behind him, and he takes 10,000 steps back and says, Hanhai Trading Company has no Austrian aid in the court, and Xue Mi is the biggest help, even if he is not in the court, Lao Huang also knows that Xue Mi is now deeply trusted by the emperor;
Up to now, Lao Huang admires Liu Han's vision and layout very much, since he stepped into Liangzhou, it has only been four years, and it has only been more than three years since he arrived in the imperial capital, and he has established a strength in the government and the opposition that is enough to fight against a thousand-year-old family like the Wang family.
Hanhai Trading Company is like a small and hard core, stuck in the throat of the Wang family, unable to swallow or spit out.
However, Lao Huang's heart was not as relaxed as it looked on the outside, thinking of the letter, he felt that the old ancestor was a little helpless, and he wanted to take risks.
But how can you stop him?
Lao Huang didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he handed over the letter to the internal guards? This is obviously impossible, one is that the timing is wrong, and the other is that the meaning of this letter is obvious, but it does not mean that the Wang family wants to rebel.
The alliance of Taizu can be interpreted in a variety of ways.
The emperor can give an explanation, the vassal king can give an explanation, and the scholars can give an explanation.
After thinking about it for a long time, he decided not to move for the time being, but he still had to report this matter to Liu Han, and he wrote a letter to Liu Han.
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At the gate of the imperial capital, there was a blatant assassination, and it was also the family of the gate lords who assassinated, and it spread throughout the entire imperial capital on the same day.
The imperial capital shook.
Assassination, simple, brutal, but very effective, in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, there have been many assassinations, but openly at the city gate, with such a large-scale assassination, in the eight hundred years of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are only a few times, these only a few times, all of them are palace coups, all of which lead to subversive changes in the court.
The next day, the impeachment notes flew to Shangshutai like snowflakes, and the ministers of Shangshutai couldn't help but sigh when they took these impeachment notes.
More than half of the targets of impeachment point to Shi Luoqian, the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture, who is now acting as Jingzhao Yin, but a few are directed to Hanhai Trading Company, but these few have a very high reputation in Shilin.
"This Zheng Kai, who is so old, is still so impulsive. Pengzhu coldly put a piece of music on the case, and Shangshutai was a centralized office, each person had a case, and the case was full of notes.
Pan Lian glanced up at him and said calmly: "In the past two years, the security of the imperial capital has become more and more broken, this Hanhai trading company is just a businessman, and it is so bold and reckless, Lord Zheng is right, there is a crime of business disorder, and the court should be severely punished." ”
"Master Pan said well, the court has a law, a businessman is so bold and reckless, disrupting the court system, the court should punish him. Zuo Chen said and wrote a comment on a notebook, Peng Zhu was slightly stunned, Zuo Chen would actually support Pan Lian, he got up and came over, and picked up the music that Zuo Chen had just approved.
"Chen Ding Xuan is for the collapse of public order in Beijing, and please confiscate the Hanhai Trading Company to collude with bandits. Seeing the head, Peng Zhu understood, but he still looked down, Ding Xuan listed the murder cases that have occurred in the imperial capital in recent years, as well as the collapse of the Fengyu Building, thinking that Xiao Yu, the head of the Fengyu Building, is still on the run, and is taken in by the Hanhai Trading Company, after the Hanhai Trading Company entered Beijing, it bullied the market, endangered many businesses, and destroyed the business order of the imperial capital.
After reading it, Peng Zhu couldn't help but gasp, Ding Xuan's writing is very good, this article is written with great emotion, and it is terrifying to read.
The edict drafted by Zuo Chen was to instruct the Tingwei Mansion to raid the Hanhai Trading Company and arrest Liu Han, the owner of the trading company, which was unexpected.
Peng Zhu didn't attack immediately, but thought about it and picked up this book and said: "Lord Zuo, whether the Hanhai Trading Company has violated the law has not been verified by Yousi, and it has not been discussed in Shangshutai.
Zuo Chen put down his pen when he heard this, and looked up at him: "Master Peng, what the old man did is for the people of the world and the safety of the imperial court, and now the troops are just around the corner, and the Yellow River waterway is particularly important, if it is in the hands of a businessman, isn't this the lifeblood of the world in the hands of a businessman!"
Zuo Chen's voice was fierce, and Peng Zhu shook his head: "This is wrong, how can the waterway of the Yellow River be in the hands of the Hanhai Trading Company, the imperial court has a water division in the Yellow River, and there are still several passes along the river."
In addition, the fleet of the Hanhai Trading Company is responsible for transporting grain to Yongzhou and Bingzhou, and the raid of the Hanhai Trading Company at this time will cause chaos, which will then affect the dispatch of troops to the outside of the Saiwai, and this responsibility can be afforded!"
Zuo Chen was slightly stunned, this was what he didn't expect, there is no concept of state-owned enterprises in this era, whether it is Caoyun or transporting grain to Yongzhou and the state at this moment, it is a ship that hires people.
"What's so difficult about this," Pan Lian interjected at the right time: "It can be handed over to the Cao Gang, in the past, the Cao Gang was responsible for the Cao Gang and had hundreds of ships, which could completely meet the needs of the imperial court." ”
Peng Zhu sneered in his heart, the emperor would never agree to the Cao Gang returning to the imperial capital, he sneered coldly: "In this way, that is not the Yellow River waterway handed over to the Cao Gang again!
"This is different," Pan Lian didn't care, and said with a teacup: "The Cao Gang is recognized by the imperial court, they are responsible for transporting Cao grain, for more than ten years, there has been no mistake, the origin of this Hanhai Trading Company is unknown, is he Tubo in my Great Jin Dynasty!"
Peng Zhu said lightly: "It's okay, Liu Han is from my Great Jin Dynasty, General Qiu Yunqiu has verified it, and his business in the Western Regions has also been confirmed, and the most important thing is that neither Ding Xuan nor Zheng Kai has real evidence, and he is convicted based on speculation, which is inconsistent with the laws of the imperial court, and the lower officials are resolutely opposed." ”
Today, Shang Shutai is just the three of them, Pan Ji is not in the imperial capital recently, but went to Taiyuan, Bingzhou, to supervise the preparations for sending troops outside the fortress, Gan Tang is responsible for the complicated logistics work in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Qiu Yun is sick and closed.
Pan Lian frowned, things are about to enter the nearest normal again, Peng Zhu has to play alone, since Peng Zhu entered Shang Shutai, Shang Shutai has gradually escaped his control, this has happened many times.
The split of Shangshutai is an absolute good thing for the emperor, especially now, the five auxiliary ministers are appointed by the first emperor, they occupy Shangshutai, and the proposed instructions have a great binding force on the emperor, and now Pengzhu has come in, Shangshutai's opinions cannot be unified, and the emperor's power suddenly becomes greater.
Pan Lian looked at Peng Zhu with a gloomy expression, and did not try to convince the other party, because he had tried many times, and each time he failed, so he didn't do it now.
"We must drive this black sheep out of Shangshutai!"
When Pan Lian picked up the pen, he made up his mind in his heart, he would never allow Shang Shutai to get out of his control!
(End of chapter)