Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 44

Yang Jinshui's heart suddenly became confused.I don't know whether to be happy or worried.Long Yan was furious because Shen Yishi went to buy fields under the brand name of the Weaving Bureau. Thanks to the fact that he was not in Hangzhou at the time and was protected by Lu Gonggong, he saved his head.Now Jin Yiwei has come to arrest him, but things suddenly turned upside down.Not only did Shen Yishi not go to buy fields, but he also went to disaster relief under the name of the Weaving Bureau!When the palace found out about this, the emperor's face was saved from top to bottom, which should be a joy.But what I reported at the time was untrue.How do you say this?Also, why did Shen Yishi do this?As Zheng Bichang said, if there is no grain, can the fields still be bought?Changing rice into mulberry would not be in vain!
Thinking of this, he couldn't figure it out. His instinct prompted him to seize other people's handles so that he could get out of this sudden change. Soon he remembered the incident of the disaster victims in Chun'an, and if he didn't allow this incident, he would is the cause.So he had some confidence in his heart, and said to Zheng Michang: "There must be a reason for everything, right? Well, why did Shen Yishi go to give away all the food?"

Zheng Michang: "Everything he does is in his heart. How do we know what he thinks? Eunuch Yang, you must call Shen Yishi back immediately and ask him carefully."

Seeing that he was still so tactful up to this time, Yang Jinshui lost face: "Master Zheng, our family doesn't understand what you said. Shen Yishi escorted the grain ship to buy fields, and you, and Master He, personally delivered the goods on the pier. Yes. He didn’t show you anything at all?”

"God is above! How did he show us the slightest bit of wind." Zheng Bichang swore.

"Then you don't know that there are lanterns from the Weaving Bureau hanging on every boat?" Yang Jinshui approached Zhonggong.

When Zheng Michang heard his question, he became vigilant: "The boat belongs to the Weaving Bureau, and what kind of lanterns they hang is beyond our local government's control."

Yang Jinshui was so bored in his heart, and at this moment he was determined to get rid of the person in front of him and He Maocai who hadn't come yet!Of course, he had to take it step by step, so he pretended to be thinking and asked, "So what happened to him when he arrived in Chun'an?"

When asked the truth, Zheng Michang didn't dare to reveal the matter of Tongwo, so he pretended to think: "What happened..."

Yang Jinshui: "Didn't you say that the disaster victims in Chun'an were connected to the Japanese? They were originally scheduled to kill people on the sixth day of June, but were held down by the new county magistrate of Chun'an, saying that there was a grievance. Master Zheng didn't know about this?"

Zheng Michang: "I know about this. The victims of the disaster in Chun'an did buy grain from Japanese pirates. That Hai Rui held up the matter with the excuse of not having a statement or filing a case file. The intention was to resist the imperial government's national policy of changing rice to mulberry. Said Shen Yishi was not allowed to lend food to them because he was afraid of triggering a civil uprising."

"It's a bit plausible." Yang Jinshui elongated his voice, "That is to say, if there was no such thing, Shen Yishi would use the brand of the Weaving Bureau to buy the fields of the victims?"

Zheng Michang was taken aback: "What's the brand... I really need to ask Shen Yishi carefully about this."

Yang Jinshui couldn't bear it anymore, and stood up all of a sudden: "Master Zheng, Zheng Zhongcheng! I'm telling you the truth now. If Shen Yishi used the brand name of the Weaving Bureau to buy fields in the first place, it is obvious that he is going to the emperor. Splashing dirty water on his face! Whose idea? I can't tell if the palace will send someone to find out. If he went to the disaster relief under the brand of the Weaving Bureau in the first place, it would put gold on the emperor's face. But it can be changed to Is Sang still doing it? Who forced him to do it? Shen Yishi is not dead, I can always ask."

Zheng Michang was stunned, until this moment he really knew that this matter was a dead move from the very beginning.Seeing Yang Jinshui's face now, his eyes turned black again.At this moment, the scene of Gao Hanwen falling down in the lobby of the governor's office suddenly appeared in his mind, and then he himself fell down like a pile of firewood, and he didn't know anything.

Yang Jinshui was shocked at first, and then looked at him on the ground: "Play dead! You can't hide from playing dead!"

After saying that, he put down Zheng Michang, and turned back to the bedroom by himself.Seeing Yang Jinshui come in, the four guards put down their chopsticks and stood up again.

"Stop. Sit, sit." Yang Jinshui greeted and sat down.The four Jin Yiwei also sat down again.

"Drink, keep drinking." Yang Jinshui picked up the wine glass, but his hands trembled slightly, and the wine overflowed from the mouth of the glass.

Who are Jin Yiwei?Immediately felt that Yang Jinshui's complexion was not right.

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "What's the matter? Did the surname Zheng get mad at the father-in-law?"

Yang Jinshui slowly put down the wine glass again, his hands trembling uncontrollably: "It's not just anger, brother fell into their hands this time."

"What?" After hearing this, Jin Yiwei put the wine jar on the table and looked at Yang Jinshui.

The other three Jin Yiwei also put down their wine jars and looked at Yang Jinshui.

Yang Jinshui: "Brothers came to Zhejiang this time to arrest people because I reported to my ancestors that they bought the victims' fields cheaply under the brand name of the palace. I probably heard the wind and knew you were here. Now they suddenly Played a flower gun, and lent the grain to the two counties affected by the disaster. The matter of buying the land is gone, but I have become brothers. I deceived my ancestors, and my ancestors deceived the emperor. They are not guilty now. It is impossible to let the ancestors ask the emperor for sins. If you want to arrest, you can only arrest me."

The four Jin Yiwei looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment, they all looked at Yang Jinshui again.

Yang Jinshui sat there in a daze: "The emperor and the ancestors entrusted me with the big business of Suninghang weaving. In order to share the worries of the emperor and the ancestors, this year I worked hard to negotiate a business of 50 pieces of western silk. I want to be tricked by them..." As he spoke, a few drops of muddy tears appeared from the corners of his eyes.

At this moment, Yang Jinshui's accompanying eunuch walked in: "Godfather, that bastard is still lying there pretending to be dead, I must ask godfather to see him."

Yang Jinshui looked at him slowly: "What is he going to do with me before he lets go?"

The eunuch who accompanied him: "He said that he is a great official of the imperial court, and he was humiliated by his godfather today. He's a scholar who can be killed but not humiliated. Ask godfather to give him an explanation."

Yang Jinshui: "It's just that I want to take the blame for him, you tell him, tell him to simply send soldiers from the governor's yamen to arrest me..."

"Play this trick for us!" Jin Yiwei slapped the table and turned to look at the accompanying eunuch, "Where is the man surnamed Zheng?"

Accompanying eunuch: "Wearing a second-rank court dress, lying in the living room."

The other three Jin Yiwei also patted the table and stood up.

Another Jinyiwei: "What a big official in the frontier! There are fewer green fur turtles in Yongding River than his number. It's not blind to bully people to the weaving bureau!"

Another Jin Yiwei: "Zhengchou can't catch anyone. Just relying on him to bully the people in our palace and disrupt the emperor's mission, we can catch him first."

The other two Jin Yiwei looked at their heads: "Catch it!"

Jin Yiwei pondered for a moment: "After all, he is the governor of a province. We can't arrest him since he has nothing to buy fields. But he wants to look at us and play us like this. That's stealing fruit from the coptis tree. — Asking for trouble. In this way, we will meet him first." Then, he said to the accompanying eunuch: "Excuse me, lead the way."

The accompanying eunuch: "Adults, please."

The four royal guards followed the eunuch out of the bedroom and into the living room.I saw Zheng Michang's resolute face at this moment, lying upright on the brick floor, looking at the roof.

The four eunuchs who had been punished by the mandarin ducks were waiting for him at the side.

The fat eunuch held a bowl in his hand, and the tall eunuch also held a bowl in his hand.

Fat eunuch: "Master Zheng, it's a big deal, your body is important. You have to drink some ginseng soup and ginger soup."

Zheng Michang only looked at the roof and ignored them.

Fat eunuch: "It's not the end of you lying down like this all the time. You still have to take care of such a big Zhejiang."

Zheng Michang looked slowly at the fat eunuch standing on the left: "Call Yang Jinshui."

Fat eunuch: "It's all out of anger, why bother?"

Zheng Michang stopped looking at him again, and moved his eyes to the roof.

"Why, can't you get up?" The accompanying eunuch walked in.The four eunuchs quickly stood up and stood with their hands down.

The accompanying eunuch walked to Zheng Bichang's head and knelt down: "Lord Zhongcheng, Eunuch Yang asked me to bring you a message."

"Say." Zheng Bichang kept looking at the roof.

Accompanying eunuch: "Eunuch Yang said, this time he has given in. But you still don't let him go. If you really pursue it, he beheaded the first family. You don't have a dozen sons to raise."

Zheng Michang's face turned purple again: "It's unreasonable! Now you say that I can't let him go... You tell him, look at me like this and ask me to leave, and then put all the crimes on me, why don't you send someone now? Cut off the heads of my whole family!"

The accompanying eunuch: "You are always an official in the frontier. Without the emperor's edict, who would dare to touch you? But now there are a few people who want to meet you. After meeting them, you will know what to do." Speaking of this, stand Get up: "Brothers, Mr. Zheng said that he wants to meet you."

Zheng Michang was stunned, and couldn't help looking towards the threshold, only to see a few pairs of muscular feet wearing linen sandals, stepping in from the door.Then, those iron pillar-like legs stood on both sides of his body.

Zheng Michang was a little surprised, his eyes slowly moved up, and he saw the knee-length black robe and the blue belt around his waist. Suddenly, his eyes showed panic.

There was a sign hanging on a belt, and it was impressively engraved with "Beizhen Fusi"!
The other three belts also had signs on them, with "Beizhen Fusi" engraved on them impressively!
Zheng Michang looked up with panicked eyes, and saw those people with tall shoulders and slightly spread fingers, like a few eagles with their wings slightly outstretched, ready to spring up to catch their prey, and their eyes were more like the eyes of an eagle. stared at him coldly.

Trembling, Zheng Michang put his hands on the ground and wanted to get up.

"No price." Jin Yiwei's cold voice sounded, "It's cool on the ground, lie down more."

Zheng Michang shook his hand and sat there again.

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "Didn't Mr. Zheng want to ask Eunuch Yang for an explanation? We just came from Beijing to ask for an explanation. Do you want to sit here and talk about it, or get up and go to the governor's office?"

Zheng Michang's eyes became dark again, he felt dizzy for a while, and immediately closed his eyes again, sitting there trying to calm his mind, and after a while, he slowly opened his eyes, and looked at the eunuchs standing aside: " Excuse me, give me a hand..."

The accompanying eunuch: "That's it. Come, help Mr. Zheng."

"That's right!" The fat eunuch and the skinny eunuch walked over, each helping him up.

Zheng Michang knelt down when they helped him halfway: "Chen Zheng Bichang, governor of Zhejiang Province, respectfully greets Sheng An!"

Jin Yiwei stood there at the other end: "Sheng Gong'an."

Zheng Michang kowtowed, and stood up with the support of two eunuchs: "Please invite a few imperial envoys to the Governor's Yamen, and the officials will answer one by one."

Jin Yiwei thought for a while and nodded.

Four chairs were placed side by side under the south window, and four Jinyi guards sat there with their backs facing the window.Zheng Michang sat in the middle of the room facing Jin Yiwei.In this way, the light outside the window just shone on Zheng Michang's face, and his eyebrows were fully visible.The faces of the four Jin Yiwei were dark, and Zheng Michang couldn't see their faces clearly.

After talking about picking up some things that can be used to cleanse himself without making people think they were set up for him, Zheng Michang stopped and looked at Jin Yiwei.

The expressions of the four Jinyiwei were still submerged in the darkness and could not be distinguished clearly.

"The lower officials have said everything that needs to be said." Zheng Michang swallowed, "You can ask Eunuch Yang, the lower officials have been working in Zhejiang for so many years, as long as it is a matter in the palace, has there ever been a time when they have not done their best? This time, some people are really causing trouble, and their intention is to defy the imperial court's national policy of changing rice to mulberry. Please tell Eunuch Yang, don't misunderstand."

"You can say these things yourself." Jin Yiwei said on the other end, "I will ask you a few words now, and you must answer truthfully."

Zheng Bichang: "Excuse me, please."

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "Shen Yishi escorted the grain ship with the sign of the Weaving Bureau, do you and He Maocai know whether he is going to buy fields or provide disaster relief?"

Zheng Michang became nervous again, thought for a while and replied: "I really don't know."

Jin Yiwei: "You didn't ask?"

Zheng Michang: "The weaving bureau is under the management of the palace, and Shen Yishi is under the management of Mr. Yang. It is really difficult for the lower officials to ask."

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "What do you mean, if you buy the land, Eunuch Yang should be responsible for the crime?"

"That's not what it means." Zheng Michang hurriedly replied, "Eunuch Yang was not in Hangzhou at that time, so the guilt should be a burden."

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "Now that Shen Yishi has donated all the food to the disaster, he is not guilty. But at that time it was under the guise of buying fields, what about this matter?"

Zheng Michang stood up: "These lower officials don't know anything, and the servants will know everything when they ask Shen Yishi."

Jin Yiwei sneered at the other end: "What is Shen Yishi? It's worth our attention! We were ordered to arrest the official. Now that Mr. Zheng said so, you have no fault at all. Then we have to arrest Yang Is the father-in-law back on a business trip?"

"Business!" Zheng Michang was in a hurry, "Eunuch Yang was not in Hangzhou at the time, and he was not at fault."

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "First it was to buy the land, then it was disaster relief, and it was rushed to the palace for [-] miles, which made the Long Live Lord very angry. Now you say that you are not at fault, and neither is Eunuch Yang. The court has been scolded from top to bottom. You are shameless, can the court afford to lose this face!"

Zheng Michang understood at this time that if he did not plead guilty, he would not be able to pass this level anyway, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Since the superior officer said so, the subordinate official will write the memorial of the apology now."

Jin Yiwei: "Aren't you innocent? How do you write this memorial?"

Zheng Bichang: "I'm the governor of Zhejiang, and Eunuch Yang is not here. If something like this happened in Zhejiang, I'm also guilty of negligence. I wonder if it's okay to write like this?"

Only then did Jin Yiwei stand up, and the other three Jin Yiwei also stood up.

Jin Yiwei: "Then write it out as you said. Remember, we are handling this case, and all memorials must be handed over to us first, and we must hand them over if they want to."

Zheng Bichang: "Remember. I will write tonight."

Only then did Jin Yiwei walk up to him, put a hand on his shoulder, and Zheng Michang shivered.

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "I say a few words, you have to remember."

Zheng Michang: "Please tell me when I'm on business."

Jin Yiwei: "The first sentence, don't tell anyone about our coming to Zhejiang."

Zheng Bichang: "The lower officials dare not."

On the other side of Jin Yiwei: "Second sentence, to be an official, you must be smart, but don't be too smart. If you are too smart, the heavens will accept you."

Zheng Bichang: "The lower officials understand, the lower officials understand..."

"It's good if you really understand." Jin Yiwei put his hand away, "Let's go."

Zheng Michang stood there alone, as if carefully smacking Jin Yiwei's words.

It was obviously arranged on purpose. From the first door to the second door to the corridor of the bedroom, red gauze lanterns were hung everywhere, and each lantern had the three characters of "Weaving Bureau" reflected on it. It shines red in the sky.

Yang Jinshui's accompanying eunuch led Shen Yishi all the way from the front door of the back house.

(End of this chapter)