Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 435
"Your Highness, the Duke of England is here." Liu Jin came to Zhu Houzhao's side and said.

Glancing at Zhang Ji beside him, Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "It seems that Ben Gong guessed correctly, and Ben Gong won the bet."

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao waved his hands and said to Liu Jin, "Let them in."

Zhang Ji quickly said: "His Royal Highness is wise and powerful, and I am far behind."

Zhu Houzhao accepted this flattery directly, because there was no way to take it back.But seeing Zhang Ji's worried face, he sighed and said, "Families in this era are also very difficult to deal with."

Not long after, the British public Zhang Mao walked in from the outside.

Liu Jin followed behind and came straight to Zhu Houzhao's side, and then said in a low voice, "Your Highness, the Duke of England has brought a person. That person is kneeling outside now, and he seemed to have been beaten before he came, with injuries on his body."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, this was already within his expectations.

No matter what it is, as long as the British government is involved, the British government Zhang Mao must give himself an explanation, that is to say, they must hand over someone, but it is difficult to say who it is.

Asking Liu Jin to step down, Zhu Houzhao signaled that he knew about it, but this is all he can do for the time being, and he can only pretend that he doesn't know. He has to see what the Duke of England has to say before making a decision.

"Minister Zhang Mao, see Your Highness the Crown Prince." After seeing Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Mao hurriedly saluted.

Zhu Houzhao laughed himself first, and said in a very gentle tone: "Why do you have to do this, the Duke, I have already said that, the Duke does not need to salute when you see the Palace. Come and give me a seat."

Zhang Mao didn't dare to be negligent, His Royal Highness said so, if you really dare to do this, the end will not be much better.You can't take the words of the emperor's family too seriously, if you really take it too seriously, then the time of death is not far away.

"Returning to His Royal Highness, the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers must not be neglected. This is the way of being a minister, and it is also the way of being a king." Zhang Mao said with a serious face.

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao's face turned serious, and he said respectfully, "I have been taught."

"Don't dare, I just express my feelings, and I hope His Highness the Crown Prince will forgive me." Zhang Mao said with a smile.

Then he sat down and said, "The six gates built today by His Royal Highness is a major event in the capital. After hearing this, I was overjoyed. With six gates in the capital, it must be safe and healthy."

Zhu Houzhao nodded. He knew that Zhang Mao was looking for something to talk about, but he couldn't answer this topic by himself, so he had to go round and round.

So Zhu Houzhao laughed and played Tai Chi with Zhang Mao, but he didn't bring up the serious matter.

Zhang Ji on the side looked at the two people talking in a foggy manner.

His Royal Highness is not in a hurry, he can understand, but isn't the Duke of his own country in a hurry?

Since you are in a hurry, just say it straight, what are you doing here?
It seems that the time is almost up.Zhang Maocai said, "I came here today to plead guilty to His Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback for a moment, and then he said with some hesitation: "Where did the Duke come from? According to my palace, the Duke's family has been peaceful during this period, and it seems that nothing has been involved in it. Everyone stay safe."

"A few days ago, my father talked with me about this matter, saying that the Duke of the state taught his children well and managed his family well. At that time, I thought so deeply, and even asked my father for a reward. How could this be an apology? But Has someone bullied you into the Duke's mansion? Or have my subordinates done something to offend the Duke?"

"Please also speak bluntly, my lord, I have always helped my relatives. If it is really someone close to my lord, don't worry, my lord will definitely give an explanation to my lord."

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Zhang Mao was grateful, but he was about to cry in his heart.

The more His Royal Highness said that, the more difficult it would be for this matter to pass. At the same time, he scolded Zhang Heng for being an idiot in his heart and provoked His Royal Highness.

You must know that no matter if you are honored or honored in the court, if you can not provoke the prince, you will definitely not provoke him.

But it's fine in my own house, and I ran into the muzzle of a gun, which is simply extremely stupid.But it's a knife vertically, and a knife horizontally, and the knife in my own family can't be avoided, so just be more generous.

Even if it is cut and shrunk, the knife will have to be endured by oneself, so simply let His Royal Highness cut the knife openly.

This cut made His Highness the Crown Prince comfortable and happy, so it would be better than cutting and shrinking.

"There's something wrong in the family." Zhang Mao sighed and said helplessly.

"The Zhou family found Chen's house today and said they were investigated by the six doors." Zhang Mao said helplessly.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "The Zhou family? What Zhou family?"

After hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Liu Jin's face remained unchanged.

Zhang Ji was shocked.Just now His Royal Highness and the Duke were talking about this matter, but now they pretend not to know?If you know that you are present, His Royal Highness is not afraid of revealing the details?
But Zhang Ji thought about it later, would he dare to show it?
If I dare not, what is His Royal Highness afraid of?
Zhang Mao didn't change his face. He had already guessed that His Royal Highness would do this. What he said just now was just a test to see whether His Highness wanted to deal with it lightly or severely.

If it was handled lightly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not have asked back just now.Now that His Highness the Crown Prince has asked back, it means that there is no room for discussion on this matter, and it must be severely punished.

"This Zhou family is a salt merchant. They have some contacts with the minister's family. They also handle some of the family's business on weekdays. To tell you the truth, the family has a large population. If you don't manage a little of these things, you may not be able to live. " Zhang Mao said helplessly, with a bit of aggrieved expression on his face.

This is how a crying child has milk, you can't pretend to be submissive, you have to be wronged.In addition, when you admit your mistakes, you can't hide it, and don't cover it up. You have to stand at attention when you are beaten, and you have to talk about the miserable things.

"The minister asked Zhang Heng to approach him. This Zhang Heng is the nephew of the minister. I have been pampered and pampered by him all these years. I didn't understand anything, so I got involved in it. The Zhou family said that they partnered with him to make salt. He agreed to the business. The Zhou family brought salt over, and he let the family shop sell it, and he has made a lot of money in the past few years. But this time, something happened to the Zhou family, and he went to the house and said that the salt was illegal. If you help him, your nephew will be implicated."

"Although the minister's nephew is cowardly, he can't succeed in military affairs, but he is loyal to Daming and His Majesty. After he heard this, he immediately reported to the minister, saying that His Royal Highness said that there was something wrong. Admit it, if you are beaten, you must stand at attention, please bring him to His Highness the Crown Prince to confess your guilt, and deal with him as you like."

"There is only one thing, His Royal Highness, please severely punish the Zhou family. This kind of person is a moth of the Ming Dynasty, and he deserves to die." Zhang Mao spoke loudly. After speaking, he lifted up his clothes and walked to the middle, directly kneeling on the ground.

"His Royal Highness, I dare not intercede for my nephew. I only ask His Royal Highness to punish the Zhou family severely, and tell these cunning people that the nobles of Ming Dynasty know that they are loyal to the emperor and Ming Dynasty, and let them avoid such crooked thoughts. Warn the latecomers. The minister's nephew will accept any punishment."

Zhang Ji on the other side was dumbfounded when he heard this, His Royal Highness pretended not to know, but the Duke of his own country was just talking nonsense.

Who did not know what the whole thing was like?

The salt field is actually owned by the British government, and the Zhou family is just a worker.Even if there is indeed a sale of private salt, it is impossible for the British public not to know.

Because if the British public don't know, without their family covering you, you can't do this at all.

In other words, that Zhang Heng was not wronged at all, and he also said that he had made some money. Zhang Ji also knew that it was a family business, and it was entered into the public account. As long as there was a slight fluctuation, someone in the family would know.

In the end, no one knew, so it can only be said that Zhang Heng swallowed all the money into his stomach.

In other words, the Duke of the State was talking nonsense about the whole matter, and all the mistakes were blamed on the Zhou family. This was actually revenge against the Zhou family.At the same time, it is also telling other people, don't think about calculating our family, otherwise you can't afford the end.

Zhu Hou looked after Zhang Mao.

Zhang Ji can figure out some things, so he can figure it out even more.

You can tell by Zhang Mao's appearance, he doesn't know the whole thing at all.

The dignified British government.Naturally, there is no need to engage in private salt, because the salt field belongs to their family, and it is really not worth it for such a small profit.

So Zhang Mao should have been fooled, not by the Zhou family, but by his nephew.

It's just that you come to yourself, you can't say that.So all his crimes were attributed to the Zhou family, so he stepped on the Zhou family directly in the mud, and it was difficult to not die.At the same time, everyone is warned not to think about their own family, otherwise this will be the end.

At the same time, letting his nephew come out to take the blame, to put it bluntly, is to give himself an explanation.

I can deal with it as I want, but it is still safe, and the responsibility is all given to the Zhou family, and the responsibility of his British public is not much.

It mainly depends on whether you recognize it or not. If you recognize it, then this matter will be like this; if you don’t recognize it, then this matter will not be like this.

But Zhang Mao also knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would recognize him, so he dared to say that.

The old guy is stinky and shameless, Zhu Houzhao cursed in his heart, but he stood up quickly, walked in front of Zhang Mao with a smile on his face, stretched out his hand to help him up, and then said quickly: "Why is the Duke so embarrassed?" Is that so? Since your nephew was deceived, I will naturally not punish him, as the saying goes, those who do not know are not guilty, so I will not do such foolish things."

"However, what is the specific situation of this matter? I don't know yet, and further investigation is needed. I don't know if the Duke's Mansion has any evidence in this regard. If there is, you can show it and investigate this case as soon as possible."

Don't pursue your nephew any more.But he threw himself into another big pit.Zhang Mao was a little dumbfounded, but he knew that this matter would not be so easy, and His Royal Highness would not let him go easily, and he probably had been waiting for him to get in for a long time.

The whole matter should have been initiated by Lin Pan, and His Royal Highness followed suit, but he didn't know who was going to be buried.

It seems that I should be the one who was buried, but when it will end up, I don't know.

However, Zhang Mao quickly said: "The minister's nephew is outside. After the people from the Zhou family talked about it, he also found out that something was wrong, so he still knows something."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said with a smile: "The Duke really understands righteousness. There is no rumor about this matter, and no one knows. I didn't expect the Duke to be aware of this matter. The six doors here are just checking. There was a murder case at the Zhou family, but I didn’t expect there to be a case of selling illegal salt. Now the Duke has not only noticed it, but also exterminated relatives righteously, it’s really a standard of the country.”

"I don't dare to be a minister." Zhang Mao said quickly, feeling even more bitter in his heart.

His Royal Highness, this is a showdown. To put it bluntly, he asked himself to shoulder the matter this time, picked Lin Pan out, and also picked himself out.

The whole thing was discovered by my own family, and then I reported it myself.Although there is only one Zhou family who came out now, there must be more than one Zhou family, and not only one honorable person, but other people must be involved in this matter.

What does this mean?This shows that His Highness asked himself to be a whistleblower, which is the job of offending an acquaintance.This is the punishment His Royal Highness gave to his family, Zhang Mao felt a little uncomfortable, this is another job of offending people.

But at this time, it's okay for Zhang Mao not to agree. If he doesn't agree, it's not the matter of these things themselves.His Royal Highness asked you to offend others, but you don't want to offend others, so what do you want to do?Obedient obedience is king.

"I understand." Zhang Mao said with a bow.

Zhu Houzhao nodded in satisfaction, and then said to Zhang Ji beside him: "I'll leave these cases to you, check it out carefully, don't let me down, you can ask British Duke if you have anything."

"I understand." Zhang Ji said hastily, he also saw something, and his family saved this matter.

Of course, it was only to protect Zhang Heng, not the Zhou family. Instead, he kicked the Zhou family, telling him to die quickly, and the attack was quite precise and ruthless.

His Royal Highness pushed the boat along with the flow, and made this matter completely bigger, involving all the people behind.Pushing myself out now is nothing more than letting myself handle the case, and there is no way to quit.

Zhang Mao on the other side was even more bitter, and asked Zhang Ji to handle the case. As a result, I reported it and our family members investigated the case, making it seem that the whole case was caused by our family members. It's strange that people criticize it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mao felt a little pain in his heart. How did things become like this?

But he didn't dare to speak at this time, he could only listen carefully.

Zhang Mao glanced at Zhang Ji, and had no choice but to cooperate with him to complete the case; if the case was not done well, he would not be able to afford it, and Zhang Ji's future would be ruined.

At this point, there is no other way to choose, and it's all because of Zhang Heng, that trash.Zhang Mao scolded in his heart.

"Okay, you guys go, handle the case well, don't let me down." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)