Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 346 344 - Be careful everyone will burn!
What happened to Wang Duqian?

Cao Xiaoman frowned deeply.

In the military yamen of the Ming Dynasty, the highest place in the locality is the commander of the capital. Among the officials, there is one commander of the capital of the second rank, two commanders of Tongzhi from the second rank, and four commanders of the third rank. And a number of low-level officials are distributed among the subordinate departments' Experience Department, Judgment Department, and Prison Department.

From the configuration point of view, it seems that the commander of the capital is the same in the Dusi Yamen. Not only is he not the first or second in command, but he is not even the third in command.

But the problem is that this Dusi yamen is not an ordinary yamen, it is the yamen that governs all the large and small guards in the jurisdiction, and it will be placed in the provincial military headquarters in future generations.

As for the capital like the whole Daming, there are only a few dozen at full strength, so those who are of the third rank are all in command. No matter who they are, they can not only be counted as a figure in the capital, but also a big boss in the local area. The kind of boss who can shake the place by stomping his feet.

Directly copy the manor of this kind of character?

Yao Qing's courage is really big enough.

Seeing Yao Qing's serious expression, Cao Xiaoman kept thinking.

Speaking of which, he is really not afraid of offending Du Commander. During the Jingnan period, he fought with Zhen Wu, not just one or two Du Commanders. What about Ping An, Sheng Yong, Xu Kai, and Yang Song? Didn't he just hit him as usual, and he didn't see that they had more arms and heads than ordinary people.

After Jing Nan, let alone Cao Xiaoman, the governors of the five armies' governors' mansions, who can talk, are not one or two, like Zhang Wu, Xue Lu, etc., there is no commander in the head The titles of Qian Shi, especially the governor of the right army and the left, Zhao Guogong Zhenwu, are not much different from his own brother.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that if he went back to Zhao Guogong's mansion that day, the old lady in the mansion would call him over and talk about him as a nephew for a while after she knew about it.

And where is the Mansion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies?
Those are the five major regions.

The boss of one of the war zones is the boss he has followed since the [-]th Five-Year Plan. Under such circumstances, would he be afraid that everyone in one place will command?

joke.

But he is not afraid of offending, Gui Gui is not afraid of offending, it does not mean that he is a small guard who knows everything, so he can ignore all commanders. After all, he is not Zhen Wu, nor Zhang Wu and Xue Lu, his identity With his status here, it is doomed to rely on his strength alone, and it is not an easy task to bring down a commander.

It's not difficult to copy a manor that everyone commands, and he dares to copy it, but what happens after copying it?

What if the stolen food and grass were copied out on the spot?
Who can prove that this incident has something to do with Commander Du?
Who can prove that these grains are the grains that were stolen from the official warehouse?
Ok.

Even if there is evidence, the evidence will disappear artificially.

Cao Xiaoman is not the kind of person who lacks knowledge. He clearly knows how much energy a commander has in the local area. If the commander wants to suppress this matter, as long as no one above is serious, it is absolutely easy, and even Will make this thing a little splashy.

Seeing that Cao Xiaoman didn't reply for a long time, Yao Qing frowned, "What? You said you weren't afraid just now, but now you're worried again?"

Cao Xiaoman rolled his eyes.

This Yao Qing may be really good at it, but Yao Qing's understanding of the command of the capital is still low.

Cao Xiaoman sighed and said, "I can directly lead someone to copy that manor, and I'm sure there will be no leaks, but what about after copying?"

"Convict." Yao Qing said.

"Are you and I alone guilty of the command? They really made them anxious. I'm afraid that both you and I will be killed."

"How dare they?"

"Why don't they dare?" Cao Xiaoman asked back.

Yao Qing opened his mouth and gradually became speechless, yes, ordinary people dare to splatter three feet of blood when they are cornered, but if the commander is cornered, how could the court order the officer not be able to kill him.

After half a sound.

Yao Qing murmured: "Then let them do whatever they want?" His tone was extremely lost, and his whole body felt a touch of loneliness, as if watching the villain's freedom, the justice in his heart was wronged and sent to prison.

People who can distinguish between black and white and hate evil like hatred, don't want to see bad people live well. This kind of person has been torturing himself all the time, and never persuades himself to learn to let go and be confused.

"There's no need to be so pessimistic." Cao Xiaoman said suddenly.

Like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, Yao Qing immediately became agitated, his eyes brightened, and he asked with strong expectation, "Is there anything you can do?"

Cao Xiaoman shook his head and said, "This matter only depends on the two of us appointing it to be useless, and there must be a big shot in Jinan to take over the place."

Yao Qing was paralyzed again, lost and said: "Where do I know any important people, but if I do, I won't be able to become a prefect just now with my achievements."

How could Cao Xiaoman expect Yao Qing to know important people.

At this moment, he grinned and said, "Unfortunately, I just met."

"You?"

Yao Qing glanced at Cao Xiaoman suspiciously, and then said while thinking about it: "I remember, you once said that you were from the Jingnan Army, but with your level, you can know any important people, even if one or two are What about colleagues and friends at the command level, they can still manage our Shandong?"

After finishing speaking, Yao Qing looked at Cao Xiaoman with a strange expression, curled his mouth and said again: "What kind of expression is this, is it possible that I still underestimate you?"

Cao Xiaoman nodded seriously.

Yao Qing almost couldn't help laughing, he couldn't help but snorted and said, "Come on, you are from the Jingnan Army, but do you still want to tell me that you know His Majesty or Zhao Guogong? Tell you , I fucking know each other too, but who do they know us? Is it possible that they will come to Jinan to support us? What a joke."

"This is really not a joke."

Cao Xiaoman lowered his head and took out a piece of carefully folded letter paper from his sleeve, handed it to Yao Qing and said, "I really know the Duke Zhao you mentioned."

"You know a fart."

Yao Qing complained casually, and at the same time took the letter paper Cao Xiaoman handed over, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

Cao Xiaoman grinned and said, "Letter from Mr. Zhao Guogong."

letter?
Yao Qing was taken aback for a moment, and the next moment his eyes rolled to the sky.

Zhao Guogong wrote to Cao Xiaoman?
What a joke.

Who is Zhao Guogong?

At the entrance of the street next door, is it a poor scholar who writes letters for others?
How much money can I exchange for one?
Yao Qing didn't even think about it, and immediately retorted: "This is a letter from Zhao Guogong to you? Heh, Zhao Guogong will write to you again? Do you want to listen to what you said again? Return to Zhao Guogong, as long as you say something Lord, I might believe you, but you really dare to challenge Zhao Guogong and say, if this is really Zhao Guogong's letter, I beg you to give me the letter so that I can frame it as a family heirloom when I go home."

"It's not necessary to frame it. His handwriting is not good-looking. If you frame it, he will definitely become angry." Cao Xiaoman said truthfully.

"Hey, you'll climb up at my word."

Yao Qing said something, and then focused on the content of the letter, he just glanced at it briefly, and couldn't help complaining: "Don't say it, this word is really fucking ugly. "

Then, he pursed his lips and began to read: "My younger brother, I'm going to Liaodong on a business trip. I'm passing by Jinan this time, and I plan to take advantage of the trend to rest in Jinan for two or three days. I plan to arrive in Jinan in early May, and I will stay with you at that time." At home, tidy up some rooms for me, and then prepare good wine and food for me, you know my taste, if it is not the right taste, I can't beat you to death..."

While reading, Yao Qing couldn't read any more. He looked at the final inscription, the word Zhen Wu, and lost his mind for a while. After a while, he raised his head and looked at Cao Xiaoman in shock.

"Really...really...is Zhao Guogong?"

Ordinary people who dare to pretend to be Zhao Guogong.

Cao Xiaoman smiled and said, "Why did I lie to you? I received the letter a few days ago. Didn't you see that my house is cleaning up the courtyard?"

"No, how did you know Zhao Guogong? It doesn't make sense." Yao Qing was particularly puzzled.

The level difference between Zhao Guogong and Cao Xiaoman is too great, they shouldn't know each other.

Cao Xiaoman was not interested in explaining so much to him, so the conversation turned to the real matter: "Anyway, I really know Zhao Guogong, and I believe you have seen it, Zhao Guogong will arrive in Jinan in a few days, and then I will ask him Stay in Jinan for a few more days, use his name to shock Jinan up and down, so that everyone will not dare to act rashly."

Speaking of this, Cao Xiaoman looked at Yao Qing and said, "When no one dares to move around in Jinan, you and I will search the manor, and then we need you to come, but I need to explain to you in advance, Once this matter disturbs his old man, there is no possibility of getting it right. Either you dig out the monstrous case and restore the city of Jinan, or you accuse him of false accusations and need your life to be involved in this matter. , now it's my turn to ask you, do you still want to do this?"

"Do it." Yao Qing said firmly, without the slightest hesitation.

However, at the next moment, Yao Qing tried again in disbelief, and asked Cao Xiaoman questions one after another: "Do you really know Mr. Zhao? Is this letter really given to you by Mr. Zhao? You wouldn't do it on purpose." Write a letter to lie to me, and also, are you sure Zhao Guogong will really support you? You don’t even care about sweeping the faces of other people in the capital for you? "

Cao Xiaoman couldn't help rolling his eyes, and didn't answer Yao Qing's series of questions, but just said: "Since you have made up your mind to do this, then this matter is settled, and when Zhao Guogong comes, I will talk to him When it comes to this matter, you'd better be prepared in advance, so that you don't get beaten up by others and kill yourself."

"You don't have to worry about that. If I can't produce any definite evidence, you can ask Mr. Zhao to cut off my head."

Yao Qing was very confident about this matter, but he said again in a blink of an eye, "However, are you sure you can speak well in front of Zhao Guogong?"

Cao Xiaoman was speechless: "Whether it works or not, you will know clearly if you don't see it then."

His relationship with Zhen Wu, sometimes Cao Xiaoman really doesn't know what to say, it will inevitably give people the feeling of boasting, or make people feel that he is showing off his relationship with Zhen Wu.

But the problem is, the relationship between him and Zhen Wu is indeed very close, like brothers.

He was sure that if something happened to him, Zhen Wu would definitely come to save him regardless of everything, and he also dared to block all the swords attacking Zhen Wu regardless of his own safety.

This is also verified by facts, at least many of the scars on his body are the knives he blocked for Zhen Wu.

Afterwards, Cao Xiaoman perfunctory Yao Qing a few words, suppressing Yao Qing's curiosity.

When Yao Qing was not entangled in how Cao Xiaoman met Zhao Guogong, the two began to discuss the details of how to catch all corrupt and perverted people. In the end, the two decided that before Zhen Wu came to Jinan City, Cao Xiaoman would send People secretly followed Yao Qing's clues and inquired deeply.

But I didn't expect that Yao Qing's previous actions of secretly inquiring would arouse the other party's vigilance, so when Cao Xiaoman sent someone to investigate further, he didn't pay attention for a while, and directly shocked the other party out.

On this day, Cao Xiaoman and Yao Qing were still discussing things at his home.

Uninvited guests came to the door suddenly.

Cao Xiaoman asked Yao Qing to wait in the room while he went to the front hall to entertain the guests.

In the front hall.

Cao Xiaoman looked at the stack of treasured banknotes placed in front of his eyes, and Cao Guyu who was bundled and brought over by the other party, the light in his eyes flickered indefinitely.

Cao Guyu is one of his cousins. After he came to Jinan to take office, the family needed trustworthy people to take care of him, so he called him from his hometown, and Cao Guyu was the person he sent to investigate the other party's illegal activities.

Now being tied up and sent back, it is self-evident what the other party means.

Cao Xiaoman first helped Cao Guyu untie him, and then let him go down,

Subsequently.

Cao Xiaoman looked up at Wang Quan, the son of Commander Wang Du, and asked knowingly, "What... do you mean?"

After Wang Quan took a sip of tea, he said calmly: "Commander Cao, don't get me wrong, this person is for you. As for the money, there is no other meaning. I just want to make friends with Commander Cao. I hope that Commander Cao will stop indiscriminately inquiring about things that should not be known, this is a good thing for us."

Ah.

interesting.

Carrots and sticks.

Give both kindness and prestige, plus temptation.

No wonder it was able to make such a big mess in Jinan City.

Cao Xiaoman smiled, as if talking to himself, "It's just to make friends, so it's worth so much money from you?"

Wang Quan also smiled at this time and said: "Commander Cao was joking. Ordinary friends are naturally not worth so much money. What is valuable is Commander Cao's trust. Besides, I have always been the most generous to friends who trust me. Friends trust me. , It’s reasonable for me to donate money to my friends.”

Is it reasonable?
Cao Xiaoman didn't know.

But Cao Xiaoman didn't want to take the money, so Cao Xiaoman firmly pushed the money back, saying: "Friends can be made, trust can also be given, but the money, Mr. Wang, let's take it back, as for you sending my cousin back , I miss you about this."

"It's not appropriate to do things like this." Wang Quan looked at Cao Xiaoman dissatisfied.

Cao Xiaoman just looked at Wang Quan, showing no sign of changing his mind.

Wang Quan's eyes froze.

"I advise Commander Cao to accept it. If you don't even accept money from your friends, how can you make your friends believe that you trust your friends? You must know that many things in this world are easy to cause misunderstandings, and once there are misunderstandings, there will inevitably be accidental injuries. , Look at this time, your cousin was arrested by me."

"accidental injury?"

Cao Xiaoman twitched his mouth contemptuously, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, next time I will make people careful and try not to let you accidentally hurt, but as for the money, it's still the same sentence, if you don't accept it, you will definitely not accept it."

"So Commander Cao is determined not to accept it?" Wang Quan also suppressed all the smiles on his face, and looked at Cao Xiaoman seriously.

Cao Xiaoman nodded, as if he didn't feel the looming threat from Wang Quan at all, he just smiled with interest, and asked again: "I actually want to know, how many people in Jinan City have taken him?" Unconscionable money from your family?"

As soon as these words fell, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became a little colder.

Wang Quan said in a deep voice, "Commander Cao, what do you mean by that?"

"Nothing interesting." Cao Xiaoman said flatly, "There are some things that everyone knows very well."

Wang Quan took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Commander Cao, there are indeed some things that everyone knows, but you must also understand that you won't be able to stay in Jinan City for long. When you have enough qualifications, sooner or later you will If you want to leave, why do you want to make everyone unhappy in this short period of time? And the money has no other meaning, and there is no need for Commander Cao to do anything, just let Commander Cao take care of his ears and mouth. , such a good situation between you and me, does Commander Cao have to destroy it? What's more, you are not the parent officer of Jinan City, so you, a soldier, still want to interfere everywhere?"

Cao Xiaoman sneered in his heart.

If you are not a parent officer, can you not uphold justice for the people of the whole city?
He knows that many people may choose to turn a blind eye and close one eye, not to do the thing that asks for trouble. After all, they will not take responsibility and still have a share of money. What a good thing, but he It's different. In Zhen Wu's words, they conquered the world in all battles to make the world better, not to benefit themselves.

What's more, he is now able to confirm that the Wang family is corrupt and perverting the law!

"The ears and mouth are my own. I can tell what to listen to and what to say. I don't need Mr. Wang to remind me."

Wang Quan's face darkened.

He said coldly: "Commander Cao, let's not talk about whether you can catch my family's handle. Just saying that you really think that with Zhao Guogong as the backstage, you can sit back and relax? Be careful that everyone will die together."

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(End of this chapter)