Fu Song

Chapter 393 Someone Has To Be Responsible
Tao Hongyuan carried a watering can and was carefully spraying water on an Eighteen Scholars plant. These days, the weather has been fine and sunny, but correspondingly, there has been a lot of dust. The leaves of this famous camellia plant , but a lot of dust fell on it. At this moment, the clear water flowed over the blades, firstly leaving a series of marks on the blades, and then the entire blades appeared emerald green.

There are a lot of camellias in the garden, but there are not many famous ones like the eighteen bachelors.

The steward Tao Zheng hurried over, bowed his head and said, "Scholar, Fu Canjun is here again, kneeling outside the mansion, saying that if the bachelor doesn't see him, he will kneel and die outside."

Tao Hongyuan picked up the small shovel and carefully loosened the soil for the camellia without even lifting his eyelids.

"Bachelor?" Tao Zheng called again.

Tao Hongyuan stood up, threw the shovel, and walked into the house: "If he wants to kneel, he can kneel. If he wants to die, he is up to him."

"Bachelor, he doesn't look good when he kneels outside like this, and if he starts talking nonsense." Tao Zheng hesitated to speak.

Hearing Tao Zheng's words, Tao Hongyuan turned his head to look at him, and said with a sneer, "What does he want to say?"

Tao Zheng's heart shuddered, and he bowed down: "The villain understands, so the villain will go and drive him away."

Back in the study, Tao Hongyuan's expression was no longer as calm as before. He sat at the desk, picked up his pen, and wanted to write a few words to calm down his still agitated mood.But I picked up the pen, but I didn’t know what to write, until a big ink blot fell on the fine rice paper, like throwing a pile of shit on a beauty’s face, my mood suddenly became worse, and I fell heavily. The pen was thrown on the table.

Never thought that things would turn out like this.

Hu Mao's trip to Yongzhou now seems to be a failure among failures. I am really confused. How can I agree to let Hu Mao do such a thing?

Didn't you consider the possibility of failure at the beginning?

Careless!

If you are not careful, you will lose the whole game.

Now that Cen Zhong pulled his posture, and came all the way to Guizhou without any concealment.

This solicitor, since he took office, is going to visit his pacifier for the first time.

Presumably his mood at the moment must be very beautiful.

Hu Mao was captured, Ruan Qingzheng was arrested, and the entire Jimi Prefecture in Yongzhou was taken down by Cen Zhong. He knew very well what these heavy news one after another meant to Tao Hongyuan.

Everything about him has been exposed in front of Cen Zhong.

He came to Guizhou to have a showdown with himself.

What he wants, now it seems, is also clear at a glance.

Officialdom is such a reality.

A few days ago, all the officials on the entire Guangnan West Road saw themselves like a mouse seeing a cat, but when the news from Yongzhou came, the officials at all levels of the government in Guizhou immediately asked for leave Well, those who sue the sick sue the sick, almost half of the chief officials are not on duty.

And this is still polite.

For those who are not polite, they have already sent their confidantes to meet Cen Zhong on the way.

This is sure that he is going to be defeated!
Sighing heavily, Tao Hongyuan knew that he was about to be defeated.

But those guys who think they are going to be unlucky, I am afraid they will also be disappointed.

Cen Zhong really wanted to put himself to death, so he wouldn't come to Guizhou with such fanfare. He only needed to hand over the things he had in his hands, including Hu Mao, Ruan Qingzheng and others, and he would will fall into the abyss.

But he came to Guizhou.

This is to be exchanged with oneself.

Cen Zhong's mind is very clear that he underestimated him in the past.

If he really wants to hand over these things, it will immediately become a major case that shakes the world. If he wants to investigate this case clearly, he must have a gentleman from the two mansions sit in charge, and Yushitai will be mobilized.

But in this way, what else can Cen Zhong gain?

As the person concerned, he said that he must not go to Wutai to sleep. As for him, even if he didn't enter Wutai, he still had to wait for the higher-ups to ask questions at any time in Bianliang, right?

This is not what he wants.

That's why he came to Guizhou eagerly!

Isn't it just for yourself to put on this posture?He wanted to tell himself, let's talk about something, don't break the jar and make everyone's faces look bad.

Now, we can only talk!

It's just that I'm really not reconciled!
Leaning back on the chair, with his eyes closed, Tao Hongyuan thought about how he could try his best to get more benefits for himself.

Hasty footsteps sounded, and Tao Zheng left and returned.

"Bachelor, the army has entered the city, and the Qingyuan army is back!"

"Huh?" Tao Hongyuan sat up straight all of a sudden. "Qingyuan Army?"

"It's the Qingyuan Army. The leader is a battalion general of the former Qingyuan Army, named Wang Qinian, and the other is Cen Zhao's confidant, Liu Yiguo, a one-eyed dragon. Now the whole city is a little flustered , these two men each led a battalion of soldiers and marched into the city first!" Tao Zheng said tremblingly.

Tao Hongyuan nodded, but stood up.

Well, there is nothing to talk about.

Cen Zhong further clarified his attitude to himself.

For myself, some just accept it.

Well, let's see what conditions Cen Zhong set for himself!This person is a smart person, and he would not delay his big business because of some small things.

Which is more important, the other party should be very clear.

Tao Hongyuan didn't say a word, but he understood it in his heart.

I am already a dog in the water, and beating myself up may give me psychological pleasure, but it will not bring me any real gains. Instead, it will greatly affect what Cen Zhong wants to get next.

"Open the middle door and ask Da Lang to meet Cen Zhao on my behalf!" Tao Hongyuan said with a sigh.

"Bachelor, don't you go to greet him in person?" Tao Zheng asked in a whisper.

Tao Hongyuan shook his head: "I'm sick, seriously ill, so naturally I can't go outside to greet you. Da Lang will explain all this clearly to the other party."

Guards of honor lined up, gongs sounded to clear the way, warriors guarded from left to right, amidst the mighty sound of clearing the street, the crowded crowd on the street hurriedly avoided to both sides, looking at the person in the middle who was clasped forward and back in awe, wearing a purple robe officials.

Wearing a purple robe represents a high-ranking court official above the third rank.

Guizhou is the administrative seat of Guangnan West Road, and it can be regarded as a place where high-ranking officials gather.But in normal seasons, the most seen are officials in red robes, and more green robes.

In fact, there is only one purple robe, Tao Hongyuan, the appeasement envoy.

For Guangnan Xidao, Zipao Tao Hongyuan is the sky of this land.

But now, another purple robe came, younger than comforter Tao, and seemed more murderous.

Look at the warriors surrounding him, wearing armors, those armors are not new at all, some are still bumpy, some even have cracks, but it is precisely because of this that the cold air is even stronger. daunting.

I heard that this envoy has been in Guangnan West Road for a year, and he has cleaned up all the rebellious and unruly Jimizhous. Few people go to Yongzhou, but according to the merchants, there are many people killed there. , Blood flowed like a river.

And the name Cen Zhong can stop children crying at night there!

Looking today, although he looks very dignified, he is still very handsome, good-looking, and quite bookish.

Smiling all over his face, he looked left and right, nodding his head from time to time to signal to the people.

Above the restaurant, a middle-aged man was holding a wine glass, looking at the back of Cen Zhong who had just walked past from the open window, his face was full of disappointment.

"Hey, after exhausting all the tricks, it still fell into an empty space. On the contrary, I missed the lives of all the family members of the Fu family!"

He tilted his neck and drank the wine in the glass.

"Brother Zhou, you can't blame us. Mr. Zhao has always been reasonable. We have done our best. There should be no problems with the planning, but the key lies in the failure of those big soldiers!" The other person also looked angry. .

"Mr. Zhao is right. Cen Zhong really colluded with Xiao Cheng. Otherwise, where did he get such excellent soldiers, horses and armor. This time our failure is very likely to give Cen Zhong a chance Guangnan Xidao has suffered a great loss. Zhao Gong will not say much, but His Royal Highness King Chu is not a generous master."

The two sighed.

After a while, one of them said in a low voice: "Brother Zhou, the Fu family is at the end of their ropes now, and Tao Hongyuan's intention of throwing them out to take the blame is too obvious. Let's set fire to the Fu family to send someone to assassinate them. What if we succeed? ?”

"It's not like we didn't send people to assassinate before, what happened?" Zhou shook his head and said, "And the Fu family has been targeted for a long time now, there is still a chance to send people out."

"We can send people to pretend to be paying family members."

"Fuyu!" The man surnamed Zhou said: "It's okay if you get it, what if you miss it? If someone falls into their hands, do you think they will keep their mouths shut? At that time, His Highness, Mr. Zhao and others will be trapped. Then we are really unable to survive, and going back now, at most, it is not a case of ineffectiveness."

"Yes!" The man nodded.

"Notify our people that anyone who has appeared on the bright side should be evacuated, and the rest will go into hiding. Without orders, nothing can be done." The man surnamed Zhou said: "I don't want us The people in Qianzhou, like those in Qianzhou, were caught and beheaded one by one by them one by one. The Federation, the Federation, is it really a business federation? Soldiers have soldiers, hehe, if you say that you will keep your own place, I’m afraid you don’t believe it yourself.”

"Will Cen Zhong really replace Tao Hongyuan? His Royal Highness the King of Chu and Mr. Zhao will not just watch this happen?" The man asked a little disconvinced.

"Hmph, above the officialdom, there are rules above the officialdom. At this point, I can't stop it." The man surnamed Zhou sighed and said: "Otherwise, he wouldn't be risking his troops to encourage that Fu Changrong Help Tao Hongyuan, mobilize troops and horses to solve the problem. In the words of Mr. Zhao, this has already fallen behind, not to mention losing now. Let's go, let's go after drinking this glass of wine, next, Cen Zhong is definitely going to clear Guizhou and even Guangnan West Road, we have met the Fu family, if we stay here, we won't be able to please."

After drinking the wine in the cup, the two walked out of the restaurant, led the horse, and left the city gate like this, and walked away.

But when Cen Zhong went to the south of the city to appease the envoy's yamen, the Fu family's mansion in the west of the city was already surrounded by soldiers and horses, and the leader of the team was the stern-faced Wang Qinian.

This is the first task that Cen Zhong entrusts to Wang Qinian.

It can also be said that it is a voting certificate.

The army broke through.

In the Fu family's mansion, all the chickens jumped up immediately.

But at this moment, Tao Hongyuan and Cen Zhong were sitting opposite each other in Tao Hongyuan's inner study in the pacifier's yamen.

Without too much nonsense, Tao Hongyuan directly handed a copy of the already written booklet to Cen Zhong, saying: "You have a look at it, if you think it's okay, I'll send it out immediately."

Opening the booklet, there are many articles full of praise for Cen Zhong. At the end, Tao Hongyuan revealed to the officials that he had reached the point of exhaustion due to years of hard work and ill health, and there was no capable person before. Coming to guard the southern gate for the official family, he can only do his best. Now that he has Cen Zhong, he can relax and beg the official family to let him go home to retire and enjoy his old age.

"Tao Gong's writing is first-rate, I admire it!" Cen Zhong chuckled, and handed the notebook back to Tao Hongyuan, "May I ask where Tao Gong is going next?"

"I'm going to Jiangning. I bought a house and some properties there a few years ago. I've lived in the south for a long time and I'm used to it. I'm not used to it when I go back to the north!" Tao Hongyuan said.

Cen Zhong shook his head and said: "The lower officials still suggest Tao Gong to go back to Bianliang. Although Jiangning is good, it is not the place for you to stay!"

"What does this mean?" Tao Hongyuan changed color.

"Tao Gong, you have crossed the line!" Cen Zhong said with a smile: "When you sent Hu Mao to deal with me, you have already crossed the line. Do you think you have a place to stay in the south? I am For your own good, go back to Bianliang! If you are in Jiangning, if you are bullied in the future, others may blame me on my back, saying that I am dealing with you, a narrow-minded evaluation, I I don't want to."

Tao Hongyuan took a few breaths, but there was nothing he could do.

"Then the Fu family?"

"Don't Mr. Tao want to intercede for them?"

"My Erlang's wife is the daughter of the Fu family."

"The water thrown by the married daughter is nothing more than that." Cen Zhong "There must be someone who is responsible for the mess of Guangnan West Road these years. And once these things are all Let him stand up, Tao Gong thinks, is it worth interceding for them?"

Tao Hongyuan was dumbfounded.

The prerequisite for him to escape unscathed is to blame everything on the Fu family.Over the years, I have been doing things through the Fu family, and the Fu family has also relied on their own power to get the wind and the rain in Guangnan West Road. Now, it is finally all in vain.

Cen Zhong was laughing at himself, at this time, he was still hypocritical.

Tao Hongyuan's face turned red for no reason.

(End of this chapter)