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  Chapter 1428 Xin Zijuan Shocking Horror

   "Zhou Dan pays homage to Master Feng." The person who came was Zhou Dan, the housekeeper of Zhongshun Palace. Feng Ziying had met several times, and he was still familiar.

   "Your Majesty Zhou, you are welcome, we are all acquaintances, why did the prince think that he asked you to come to the mansion today, but because of last night?" Feng Ziying asked him directly without being polite to him.

Zhou Dan was also full of emotions in his heart. He knew that this son was not a treasure in the pool before, but he was promoted so quickly and created the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Today is not what it used to be. In the past, Feng Ziying was just a scholar in the Imperial Academy, but today he is He is already a fourth-rank member of Shuntian Fucheng.

"My lord, there was a commotion in the capital last night. The lord is old, and he didn't sleep well, so he didn't sleep well. So the lord arranged for an official to come to see the lord early this morning, and wanted to understand the situation." Zhou Dan also felt embarrassed. You only started arresting people last night. You came early this morning to ask about the situation. You are not the Ministry of Criminal Justice or the Metropolitan Procuratorate, let alone the cabinet or the emperor's order. What is this visit?

Feng Ziying smiled meaningfully, "If it's just some poor sleep, it doesn't matter, it's just some corrupt officials trying their own methods for petty gains. Shuntian Mansion is also ordered to investigate and deal with it. It's still in progress today. I don't know. What kind of situation does the prince want to know?"

Zhou Dan smiled wryly, and after pondering for a while, he said: "My lord, I'll just say it directly. The prince has nothing to do with this matter, but the prince of the Fengyu grain store has half of the shares, and the shopkeeper of the grain store is also an old acquaintance of the prince... "

Feng Ziying rubbed her chin, and after thinking for a while, she said, "My lord came to ask, if I speak nonsense, I'm afraid it will hurt the friendship between the two families, but if..., how about this, Mr. Zhou, you go back and report to the lord, this case is the emperor's responsibility." Watching it personally, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also supervising it, Captain Long is assisting the Shuntian Mansion, so I can only say that within the scope of my ability, I will consider it, other..."

  Zhou Dan was a little busy, "My lord, the manager of Fengyu Grain Store is the concubine's brother-in-law of the prince. If it falls into the hands of Long Jinwei, it will be inevitable..."

"If he confessed the truth, how could he suffer flesh and blood?" Feng Ziying knew Fengyu Grain Company, which was also one of the few major grain merchants with deep collusion with Yu Tongcang, but the main thing was that Mei Xiang took office after Yonglong two years later. , it seems that there are quite a lot of stories here. King Zhongshun is optimistic about King Lu?

  Zhou Dan was really anxious, "My lord, you should know the relationship between these grain merchants and Tongcang. This is an old practice for a decade or two,..."

   "Old practice?!" Feng Ziying raised her voice a few degrees.

Zhou Dan was startled, and hurriedly got up and bowed his hands to apologize, "Your official made a slip of the tongue. This is a bad habit in the past. Even if there is no Fengyu Grain Company, there are other grain companies. In fact, Fengyu Grain Company is not the largest company. Over the years, Fengyu The grain business was only in those few years, hey,...so..."

  Zhou Dan hesitated to speak, hesitating, "But this digging to the root, isn't it going to cause a lot of trouble?"

Feng Ziying gave Zhou Dan a cold look, "Lord Zhou, be careful, this is assigned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Someone in the Governor's Mansion of Water Transport committed suicide for him, countless people's black hats fell off, and countless people died in tears in the prison of the Ministry of Justice in Nanjing." Washing your face, the emperor is furious, and the sky is full of turmoil, even if there is a violent storm, and there are knives in the sky, then we have to investigate and find out."

  Zhou Dan was so blocked that he couldn't speak, and he sighed after a long time: "Then how can I reply to the prince?"

  Feng Ziying didn't make it difficult for the other party. After a pause, she said in a deep voice, "Just say that I know."

  Zhou Dan's eyes lit up, he hesitated and said: "My lord, the lord and you have a special relationship, Mei Xiang, hey, you should know..."

   "I know, isn't it King Lu and Concubine Mei?" Feng Ziying said casually, "Could it be that Captain Long didn't know, so he wouldn't report to the emperor?"

  Zhou Dan nodded with a wry smile. This move meant that no one could hide it from anyone. It wasn’t the Shuntian family that was handling the case, and Captain Long Jin, who even made an exception and dispatched the Beijing camp. How could the emperor not know?

   "Understood, my lord..."

   "After these two days are busy, I will go to visit the prince." Feng Ziying raised his teacup.

  Sent away the people of King Zhongshun, Feng Ziying stroked her forehead in deep thought.

  A food store is definitely not going to make King Zhongshun so interested, so what if it is a concubine's brother-in-law?

   King Zhongshun has seven or eight concubines, many of whom have given birth to his sons. There are new concubines every year. Does he care about this?

   It's no small feat to get the butler into action.

  The housekeeper of the palace is a real official, no more than other servants.

Knowing that this time is a time of great attention, people who enter the Shuntian government office will be scrutinized by spies from all walks of life outside the government office, and will naturally spread to the emperor, the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but Prince Yizhong still has no hesitation Zhou Dan was sent here.

  Just because of money matters, King Zhongshun wouldn't be so nervous, so what about Mei Xiang?

   Now he is just a seventh-rank official, and he has nothing to say about King Zhongshun. The only possibility is that Mei Xiang may have a close relationship with Concubine Mei Gui.

   Didn't you mean they were just distant cousins? So what else is wrong here?

   Or the white gloves of Concubine Mei Gui? Money catcher?

King Lu is now very powerful and has already overwhelmed King Fu and King Li. This made Concubine Su very nervous, and the eldest son, King Shou, was also a little lonely during this time. For some reason, Concubine Xu led Shou Wang I begged to see the emperor twice, but was called back and refused.

  Of course, King Fu and King Li didn’t dare to touch bad luck, but I heard that King Lu and the underage King Gong went to ask for an audience, but the emperor met him, and it is said that he also tested their studies.

   Is it because the emperor is dissatisfied with the studies of several older princes, so he took this opportunity to beat them?

Feng Ziying hasn't figured out the joints here, but there is no doubt that King Lu is the most favored now. It is said that there are rumors in the palace that King Lu is the most like the emperor when he was young. There are a large number of people suffering and hurting.

From Feng Ziying's point of view, the person who came up with this idea didn't realize that it was a double-edged sword. Although he gained some favor from the emperor, he managed to draw everyone's hatred and anger onto Concubine Mei Gui and King Lu. , including Prince Gong and his mother, Concubine Guo, who are still very popular with the emperor.

If the emperor is in the prime of life and in good health, this is a good move, but if the emperor is in the current physical condition, King Lu is only fourteen years old, and Concubine Mei is only in her thirties, and she will be in the palace with Xu, Su, Guo and others Fighting, I don't know if I have this ability.

  Of course, there are people behind Concubine Mei. Although Prince Gong is young, there are still people who are willing to bet. What if? Wouldn't he become a Lu Buwei? Who can explain this kind of thing clearly?

  Just as the housekeeper of Zhongshun Palace left, Baoxiang came to report again, and Niu Chuande, the bull of Zhenguo, came to pay a visit.

  Niu Chuande? Feng Ziying didn't have much impression of the Niu family, Niu Jizong, Niu Jizu, and Niu Jixun. He had met them all. It should be the figure of the next generation.

  But is Niu Jizong so unscrupulous?

  Feng Ziying was a little puzzled.

   Isn't Niu Jizong very low-key these days, rarely appearing in Beijing?

  Last year, the Mongols invaded the Xuanfu army and performed poorly. The Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were extremely angry.

It's just that the war in the Southwest and the defeat of the Guyuan Army, the emperor was cleaning the Beijing camp again, which caused a shock in the capital, especially the reaction of the Wuxun family, and the establishment of Huaiyang Town here is creating an uproar, the court did not have much I didn't have the energy to deal with this matter, so I dragged it down.

  Niu Jizong is also very knowledgeable. For the past six months, he consciously hid in Datong and Taiyuan, trying to make the court forget himself.

Not to mention, it seems to have some effect. At least the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have not had time to ask the Xuanfu Army's dereliction of duty last year. Now that he has made such a thing, Niu Jizong should thank himself, at least for a while Everyone's focus will be on this again, and he will be safe for a while.

   At this time, the Niu family dared to appear in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion. Wasn't this intentional to attract the attention of the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for the Niu family?

   "In classical Chinese, where did Niu Chuande come from?" Feng Ziying asked casually.

   "Niu Jixun's eldest son is now a tribute student in the Gongyuan Academy. It is said that he has passed the examination of scholar.

Wang Wenyan still knows these Wu Xun families quite well, like a few treasures. This is also because the Jia family accounts for two of the four kings, eight lords, and twelve lords, and his own Dong Weng is inextricably linked with the Jia family. some.

"Is there still a need to donate an official? Isn't the eldest princess going to ask the emperor for everything? At least she has the status of a scholar, and the emperor will not be stingy with giving one." Feng Ziying smiled, "Then see you Well, anyway, you don’t have to worry about the bills, and you don’t bite if you have too many lice. You have to come when you come, so you can take the opportunity to hear their countermeasures and intentions..."

Wang Wenyan really admired the ease and ease of his Dong Weng. After doing such a big thing, the whole city was terrified. Countless people ran out at night, and there were also countless people looking for news everywhere. Even the prefect Wu Daonan took the initiative to avoid it. Far away, I don't want to get involved in the muddy water here.

  He is good, sitting in this government office, never rejecting anyone who comes, and treating each other calmly, is this too confident, or is it true that the ignorant are fearless?

  I'm afraid they are not, but they are confident and have countermeasures.

   "Oh, by the way, Wenyan, is there any news from Yaoqing?" Feng Ziying asked.

"Not yet, but please rest assured, my lord, Yaoqing has done things safely and has never made a mistake in so many years, this kind of thing is a piece of cake." Wang Wenyan was very relieved of Wu Yaoqing, "And didn't your lord leave some words for these people? As long as you're not too greedy and dissatisfied, you'll be fine."

   "I have to be careful. The reason why the emperor and the household department agreed so readily is because they still look at the money." Feng Ziying smiled wryly at herself, "What is this?"

  (end of this chapter)